“You have reached your destination!” We eagerly long to hear this message from our trusty Waze application. This consoling congratulatory robotic notice manages to make up for the wasted time in the twists and turns of horrendous traffic. The advent of such helpful applications like Waze,...
“Happy New Dash!” Wouldn’t this be a great catchy greeting for the New Year? I bet it could easily start a cyber-trend gaining a few hundred (maybe a thousand!!!) hits and likes? Nah!!! I don’t think so. It might even cause more confusion and bewilderment. So, let’s...
Enter the hashtag! Nosebleed: “It is a metadata label extensively used by social networks and microblogging services. It helps users to fish concrete topics and trends within the vast oceans of the internet.” Due to its widespread use over the internet, hashtag was finally added to...
In our fast-paced and changing world, do-it-yourself resources are almost indispensable. They fill up bookstores, and the Internet abounds with self-help and do-it-yourself kits, manuals and video tutorials. The range of topics these DIY sources cover is the universe of man’s basic needs: personal, social, economic...
Life is filled with hellos and goodbyes! Normally, goodbyes are more difficult to say. Especially when we are saying bye to family, special friends, and childhood classmate, etc. And the hardest goodbye is for someone who leaves this life for the next. It is a common...
Man has a strange reaction towards fear. It naturally is something he avoids and flees from, but at the same time, he looks for it in many forms of entertainment (i.e., movies, novels and long-running TV series). The entertainment industry has not wasted time in...
Part 2 of 2 How can one overcome addiction to pornography? Addiction, according to Webster’s Dictionary is “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming”. The key word here is enslaved. It means something that impedes...
More and more people are no longer smoking because they are more aware of its hazardous consequences on one’s health. Today, however, many are unaware of a new health threat that could be as dangerous as smoking: prolonged sitting down. Many of us may not...
The man was simultaneously entranced and bewildered at what his eyes caught at the other side of the street. As a foreigner, he was prepared to witness stranger things and practices in a tropical setting unlike his own. What he saw, however, wasn’t something out of...
A mother came to me saying that she was amused how her son asked her if he could “do sorry” for something wrong he had done. “I immediately corrected his wrong grammar, Father,” she explained. “Oh, did you? And what did he say?” I asked. “But Father told...
