What a day... what a day... Adrenaline has been rushing through my body for the past 12 hours...

Orthodoxi won over Fastlink, who are by the way last years champions, and it was a great game, they got the lead in the final minute...

Colts won over the Patriots to make it to the Superbowl for the first time with Peyton Manning... who ever said that Manning wouldn't make it to the Superbowl and as the commentator put it 'you have witnessed one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history'...

And finally Phoenix won its 13 straight game!!!

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
I love sports.....

You know what… I just realized that i like Kaliji (gulf) music... A song just played on TV and I was singing with it (Ok more like hum), I was like.... when did I start liking that song

So I'm adding kaliji music to my list of music genre that I like...
Ok to think about it, I have a weird list, Metal, Rap, R&B, Rock, Alternative, Heavy metal and Kaliji...

Nice mix huh

It's funny how you don't realize the value of something until you have lost it...

I just came across this picture, and i love it... its amazing.. really simple and to the point

Us 'tall people' look down on you 'short people' and you short people should look up at us as role models... :P

See we are the ones who break our necks looking down at short people... so their is more effort on our side :D

And the best thing is what made me search this image was a group that is titled: "I ain't tall, you just think im tall cause you short"

Damn i love being tall....

Thanks to Acid fog's photoshopped images
'http://acidfog.blogspot.com/2007/01/lebanese-flag.html', I have been 'inspired' to post my first and only photoshopped image, the only one I have ever done... This was done almost a year ago and took me ages... It's just joining two layers together... Not hard huh? guess again

I'm proud of it :p

OK, there is no asteroid in collision coarse with earth or anything, that's another story. I recently noticed that mankind, particularly men, have this urge of crushing things… It's like when you're driving in your car and you see a Pepsi can on the street; you deliberately ride over it, just because you want to feel the pleasure of crushing it, and you even look at the rear view mirror to see if your attempt was a success .Or when you are walking and see a smoke packet on the floor, you step on it.

When people build a LEGO set, in the end they crush it to the floor, not disassemble it piece by piece, but literally break it down. Kids always have a habit of following ants and stepping on them or crushing them with there fingers. Yeah how do you think they got the phrase 'wont hurt a fly' its because people pick on smaller things and those who don't, made a statement created for them. Exactly the same reason bullies bully on smaller targets... because they can.

This is why wrestling became so popular, because violence runs in our blood. Men love seeing people get their ass kicked, that's even why men stand around people fighting and start cheering :D. (Or Nizar in your case boxing :P)…

It's not only men even women sometimes… but I can't think of ways when women do appreciate violence, other than when my sister goes crazy and hitting start running after me :D

You tell me...

"DO NOT put any person in this washer"
"Never use a lit match or open flame to check fuel level."
"Don’t try to dry your phone in a microwave oven."

These are the top 3 winning entries in a contest done by Wacky Warning Label Contest run by an anti-lawsuit group in the United States. Some of the labels are just hilarious.

>> For external use only - on a set of curling tongs.
(What kind of dumbass would use this internally?)

>> Caution: Do not spray in eyes - on a container of deodorant.
(I think people figured that out from perfume)

>> Do not use orally - on a toilet cleaning brush.
(Probably because you shove it down a toilet)

>> Caution: Remove infant before folding for storage - on a pushchair.
(They wouldn't like that, now would they)

>> Do not iron clothes on body - on an iron.
(Go buy an ironing table)

>> Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly - on a Superman costume.
(Try if you can of the fifth floor)

>> Product will be hot after heating - on a supermarket-bought dessert box.
(Next time don’t ask for it to be heated)

>> Do not attempt to stop the blade with your hand - in the manual for a chainsaw.
(Might loose a finger or two)

>> Warning: May contain nuts - on a packet of peanuts.
(Noooohhhh!!!!)

>> Do not use orally after using rectally - on a thermometer
(Wouldn’t do that if I where you)


I think, companies have thought of every possible way in order to avoid a lawsuit by some idiot.

Read the article by 7DAYS NEWS

Thanks Sami

Picture from Arenas's Profile

I know a lot of people don't follow the NBA, but I just had to write about Gilbert Arenas playing in the Washington Wizards. This guy is great, and in my opinion, although people acknowledge him but he is still highly an under-rated player.

Arenas is the perfect example for the 'no pain no gain’ statement, this dude works really hard, and it sure has paid off. His father (who was his coach at high school) was tough on him and told him "You suck. You’re not good enough for this team! You can sit over there and be my assistant coach”, he was a second round draft pick and had no one support him. He plays with the number 0, which reminds him of the number of people that believed in him. He practiced and became one of the best players in the NBA, and almost made the US team for the world cup but was cut because he had some kind of injury because of excess practice. After getting cut, he went back into the gym and spent most of the summer there, developing his game.

What I like about this guy is that he is down to earth, when he made the All-Star team last year, he started jumping up and down, and last month when he won player of the month, he was so happy that he through a party. He said that he’s not going to hide it like other players do, he wanted it so bad and he expressed his joy after winning.

He actually looks up to other players in the NBA who are better than him. Not players like Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson, but recent players like Kobe Bryant and Lebron James.
“I give him all the respect in the world. He is the No. 1 player in the league,

I just got up from watching The Illusionist... this movie is great, a must see for everyone. The twist is unbelievable.I don't want to get into the details of the movie, just watch it and see.

I just wanted to post the Top Menu Screen of the DVD I just saw, its hilarious, i mean this dude translated the DVD and placed his number on the screen, how confidant would you feel to hiring this guy.

First of all, the big obvious, The best 'CHABTER'... again with the 'P' 'B' dilemma, i could get it when you pronounce it but typing it is something else (remember this dude is selling his services to translate movies)

Second of all, there is a best chapter in a movie? what, they actually select a chapter and award it as the best chapter in the movie...

Look at the bright side, at least it was a good copy

Oh yeah, if you havent seen Lucky Number Sleven, you should as well

later....

Photo by Al ghad newspaper

I noticed recently that weather really affects the activity of people living in Jordan. For example, when it starts to rain slightly, everyone starts to rumor about it, oh it’s going to rain heavily soon, or why did the winter have to start this week. Its like they have no clue if this is going to stay as a few drops of rain or pour down they just assume. And that’s not wrong, ya3ni every one assumes that as long as it started to rain it’s going to keep raining. But what irritates me that most is when it does start to rain heavily, the whole country goes in slow motion, they start going 15 minutes earlier because they don’t want to speed and because they know there is going to be heavy traffic. And the problem is that you can’t speed in Jordan as the roads don’t allow to speed and traffic builds up because everyone thinks the same thing and starts to move slower than usual. Being cautious is one thing but freaking out from some raindrops is another, the car wont slide of except if you take one hell if a turn.

However when it starts to snow, that’s another story. The whole country is put on hold. The snow doesn’t even reach an inch and people stop going outside and stay in their houses, school and work are off, everything shuts down. Outside sometimes it snows all day and that doesn’t even delay classes, they get accustomed to it. Here they make a huge fuss, start playing videos of people playing with the snow and play ‘talj talj 3am bitshati il dina talj’ (snow snow the world is raining snow) for god knows who. I do get joyful when it snows but after an hour or two, its just gets annoying.

That’s just how I feel…. How about you

Everyone keeps saying that you should get involved in some kind of sporting activity, might be good for the brain, it stimulates your nerves, increases your blood flow and decreases your fat... I've heard each and every one of those reasons and even some are true and some even a 9 year old can tell are not. But what irritates me most is when someone says its really healthy… I feel like standing up and shouting in there face; “its not all that healthy”. Maybe in short run, but when its a profession, I don't think so.

I play basketball so I could only comment on that, playing basketball in the long term is really bad for the body, I know a lot of people of my age and older, who had serious injuries due to playing basketball. By the time you end your carrier, your knees are screwed up, ankles barely move and probably have one hell of a backache. Some player who are my age already have messed up knees, ankle, or backs. In my opinion, excess play of basketball also degenerates the muscles, they’ve just been used for so long.

After every single game, whether friendly or official; you end up having your ankles or knees killing you, and your not even injured or haven’t done a whole load of work. Of coarse this after a whole lot of stretching.

Further more, when a player gets injured, its more likely a long term injury. Especially when your in Jordan, cause when you get injured they let you rest for a while and then push you back in, before your even fully heeled. I could say that 6 out of 12 of the players on my team are injured with long term injuries that haven’t healed yet.

I heard that soccer players like basketball, also suffer from bad knees and ankles. Golf player suffer from bad waists and shoulders, and so do tennis players. These are the only other sports that I know of.

This is my opinion, what do you think?

I know almost every one has seen this video, but I cant resist but posting it... it's so creative and well done.... so MATRIXY

You always see these ping pong dudes play on tv and you think they are crazy becasue you can barely see the ball and they can consentrate so well as to hit it back... this might explain some of them :P

Allen Iverson of the 76ers has been traded to the denver nugget.

more on this later... i got to sleep

Tagged by Roba to list the things "you did for the first time in 2006″

Long list but here are a few that would remain in my mind:

• Graduate from school, and received a high school diploma
• Joined the Orthodoxi club basketball team.
• Go to Egypt, more specifically Sharm Il Sheik
• Go to Lebanon
• Get arrested; for driving without a license
• Get a license
• Enroll in University
• Start my blog
• Sang karaoke

Tagging anyone who comments on this post

Today was my first registration in JU on computers. Luckily my brother came along, and he helped me with finding subjects and class numbers. Everything was going well, I found all the subjects that I wanted, except for one which was a long shot. As the clock ticked 9:00 my registration officially started, I started filling out the subject numbers, and then suddenly the computer freezes and a pop up starts flashing telling me that my account has been frozen and that I should check the admissions office.

We call the technician and tell him that I had no debts ion university because it's the first semester and they won't enroll me if I had any. So he tells me to check with registration. I go there and the immediately tell me to go to admissions at 'Insaniah'. Just so you know, Insaniah is at the other end of university and a trip there would take you a minimum of 20 minutes, and that’s when you walk fast. So we walk as fast as we can to the admissions office. We go in and they start shifting us from window to window until the last one tells us that we have to go to the head of admissions. We hurry there and then it takes him 5 freakin minutes to type in my number and then he just opens my profile, clicks on a button and lets me know that I can go register now.

I take a look at the time and its 9:20 and my registration, which is currently on the other side of campus, ends in 10 min. My brother realizes the dilemma and tells me to start running for it, because if I miss out on this time ill have to get rescheduled and the subjects might close by then. I take his advice and I start literally running as fast as I can towards the pc center. Running between people, jumping over stuff anything, just to get there in time, and the whole way I'm thinking that I have a game today I shouldn’t be running. I reach the center at 9:25, go upstairs push the door open, insert my number incorrectly 2 or 3 times because I am in a hurry, go to the registering screen, type everything in and save it just in time. I turn around and I see my brother slamming the door open, his breathing rate is off the charts and he was actually ran after me. He has not run in 2 years and tells me that never again will he run that much again.

What a day, they blocked me for no reason, just did it. And I almost missed out on my classes because of that. Thank god it worked…

I don’t know if this is true or not, but I just heard that Saudi Arabia is going to follow Jordan's footsteps and change their weekends to Fridays and Saturdays instead of Thursdays and Fridays at the start of 2007… Now that wasn't a reliable source but it would be great. For one, the nice TV programs that are scheduled on Saudi Arabian weekends will switch to ones that are the same as ours. Another thing is when you travel between countries you wont have that complicated weekend feeling.

And oh yea, that bank thingy where they can make worldwide money transactions 4 days a week instead of the 3 they currently have.

Cant think of any thing else....

On Wednesday night, I read on Yahoo that their was a meteor shower later that night, you can spot up to I think 60 shooting stars per hour. So I read that and was disappointed, "ah here goes another phenomenon that I missed". Later on I read that their will also be another one on Thursday night, but still say that it would probably only be visible in the States.

However, you should see the look at my face when my young bother says that he just saw a falling star at about midnight. I instantly stare up at the sky, hoping to spot one and there it was another shooting star. I go home make most of my family standing outside and we all start staring up at the sky.

The funny thing was, that everyone who passed by thought that we are this crazy bunch of people and kept asking us what we were looking at and then they start watching the sky as well to spot one or two… After almost 30 min of looking upwards and breaking your neck; I've seen about 8, including one large one, and guess what it was worth it.

Recently while walking in Share3 Il Nawar (vulgar street) in JU, I came across this:






Their was a group of guys who are ‘Zefing’ a dude who has just graduated. Ya3ni for Gods sake go have a party, make a couple of toasts, maybe a present or two. But to walk in the middle of university, shouting cheers of joy is just…. Nawari

And to make things even funnier, the family name of the dude they were cheering was ironically the same as the family name of one of my friends who was standing there, watching them applaud on. The reaction on his face when they cheered his family name was priceless.

I'm thinking of doing the same thing when I graduate. :P

As I was going through the news paper, I read that this dude who plays karate has recently won a sliver medal in the Asians Olympics currently being held at Qatar... My first reaction was great we got another silver medal, that should put our names back on the charts.

. (Image from alghad newspaper, sorry couldn't find a better one)


But then I take a closer look at the image…


The dude is wearing sandals at a freakin medal awarding ceremony, that not only did he participated in but also won second place… ya3ni for Gods sake wear some shoes like every one else out there, it really isn’t that hard just slip them on…

Seriously, at a time where you should look at your best and at a time were most of Asia is supposed to be watching; you wear sandals and not any sandals, but ‘abul 2usba3’ (the one with the large toe sticking out)

What a way to represent Jordan......

They always keep telling us that you got to work hard to earn money. Well i guess there is another way, just accept money from a stranger who sent it by email and vwala... Your a millionare.


"Dearest in the Lord Baker,

My name is Mrs Roes Ebigbo nationality of Kuwait. I am married tolate. Mr James Ebigbo who worked with Kuwait embassy in IvoryCoast for nine years before he died in the year Octorber 2004. We were married for twenty years with a child. He died after a the illness
that lasted for long four days. Before his death we were both bornagain Christians. When my late husband was alive we deposited the sum of $10 Million(ten Million U.S. Dollars) with one of good banks here in Cote d'Ivoire,Presently, this money is still with the bank. Recently my Doctortold me that I would not last for the next three months due to my cancer problem. Though what disturbs me most is my stroke,

Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to church or better still a Christian individual that will utilize this moneythe way I am going to instruct here in, I want a person or church that will use this fund to churches, orphanages, research centres and widows propagating the word of Godand to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I have a child that will inherit this money but my son can not carry out this work only because i and my late husband decide to use some of the money to work for God and live some for our son johnsen to have a better live,

our son is just 19 yearold now and been grow up in africa, he have low mentality and my husband´s relatives are not Christians and I don´t want my family hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I don´t want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking this bold decision,I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going to. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I want your telephone communication in this regard because of my health because of the presence of my family relatives around me always , I don't want any of my husband family relatives to recieve this money. With God all things are possible.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Finance/bank. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will empower you as the new beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my shepherd. My
happiness is that I live a life of a worthy Christian.Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for a church or Christian individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated here.

Remain blessed in the name of the Lord.
Mrs Roes Ebigbo"

Dont you just love when good luck just falls in your lap, its even better than finding 10 JD in your pocket. So $10 million, how should i spend them. A new car, maybe a new house... what do you thinks, the best answer will get 10% of this money .

Did you ever have that feeling were you think that you believe you can fly or do what ever you want to... No I'm not talking about getting high, I'm talking about one that involves your senses. Perhaps the feeling you get when aroma of something you adore, or the touch of a fabric that you love, maybe the view of a seen that takes your breath away, or the taste of something that you enjoy, even the sound of calm relaxing music. The feeling that makes you relax and hyper at the same time, were you want to sleep and stay up. The one that as soon as you feel it you don’t want to let go, but still want to so that you can feel I again. Ever had that feeling?

Well no kidding, one of the things that gives me that feeling is the taste of Hot Chocolate when you’re cold…. Cant get enough, just makes me want to stand up and run around myself. Ah what a feeling…..

Two night ago, the pc asked me if i would like to update to Windows Media Player 11, so I thought sure what harm could it do... Well guess what, it did do harm and lots of it. It turns out that it needs Windows Validation, and apparently 'I may be a victim of software counterfeiting'. First of all, I'm a victim of this counterfeiting, I've been fooled once, why should I pay for it again. Secondly, I've had this pc for over 6 years, why should I validate it now, give me a three month chance and then stop my activities.

Again I say no harm done, just uninstall it. Well, once more I am a bad judge of issues. The windows isn't uninstalling it, even from the add/remove program file... I keep trying and still no use. I even try to install older versions, but it says that there is a newer version on the pc so it can’t install that one.

I even go to the extent of faking the validation or cracking the WMP, but nothing works, even followed the step by step process on some pages were it has worked with dozens, and to my luck its not working with me.

I spent all of last night trying to fix it and to no avail. The fact is my brothers and I have all our media listed in WMP, and we are music addicts. when they found out that it doesn't work I got the shouting of a life time.

Some one find me a solution….

I don’t know what to say about Emad Hajjaj, he is just astounding. I mean the way he delivers his message is brilliant, he uses funny comic characters (the typical Jordanian man) to distribute that message to his audience, and the viewers don’t despise him for any lame or harsh drawing or video that he does. He always delivers his idea at the right time in the correct medium. The message could be informative, caricaturized or just some day to day events that occur.

In my opinion he is one of Jordan’s treasures that should be looked after and appreciated.

What do you think of his work?

A tag is a tag, and when you get tagged, you just got to answer.

Tag rules: Grab the closest book to you, open page 123, scroll down to the 5th sentence, post the next 3 sentences on your blog, name the book and author, then tag 3 people.

"The look on Marjorie Tench's face was one of absolute shock. 'I'm stunned. did I hear correctly? As president, you would act to abolish this nation's space program?"

Deception Point, Dan Brown

By the way Roba, you just ruined part of the book... thanks :P

Still do not know others to tag.....

I recently received an email with the following attachment, i thought it was hilarious. Ya3ni come on some of these are just undo able.

Here are a few "stunts" that only women can preform... (not all)
P.S. the Golden winner really need a standing ovation IMO

10th place goes to:



9th place goes to:


8th place goes to:


7th place goes to:


6th place goes to:


5th place goes to:


4th place goes to:


The Bronze medal goes to:


The Silver medal goes to:



The Gold medal goes to:

No offense to Women at all, even the email says "not all". I just thought this is hilarious, some are ridiculously funny. I would like to give some the benefit of the doubt, but lets get real, women in general suck in driving, ya3ni most of the time when you’re driving and someone suddenly cuts in front of you, it either a cab driver or a woman driving the car. Then when you beep your horn at her she starts shouting at you as if it was your mistake.

But to tell you the truth, if this was the Top 10 Men Accidents, it will be filled with destroyed cars and much worse cause of speeding. Therefore I'm not saying men are safer driver, on the contraire, but they are mores skilled ones.

As I was flipping through my Calculus book , I came across this following phrase:


".... Thus, if you find our ensuing discussion of 'E-&' proofs challenging, do not become discouraged: the concepts and techniques are intrinsically difficult. In fact, precise understanding of limits evaded the finest mathematical minds for more than 150 years after the basic concepts of calculus were discovered."

It like telling you: don’t be discouraged, calculus has baffled ‘the finest mathematical minds’ we don’t expect you to understand it. It’s not like you having a hard time understanding the previous paragraph is a coincidence, no we don’t expect you to identify with it any way, because lets get real, you aren’t the brightest person in this crowd. Just read through the rest of this book and convince yourself that you understand it.

Discouraged!! for Gods sake understanding the previous statement "encouraged" me that I might actually understand the damn subject. This little note of yours really benefits students, just mess the dude up will you. I mean I'm pretty good in math in general, but when it comes to calculus, I just blank out, especially when they teach it in Arabic. What’s even more "discouraging" is that the book is named Calculus, not math, which means that for the next couple of years I'll face the same obstacles.

I guess I'm just not one of ‘the finest mathematical minds.’

I just realized after reading 'So now I am officially a JP Citizen' by SimSim (how does it feel to be a sanfour once more?:P), that not only am I a Sanfoor at JU but also a Sanfoor in Jordan planet.... what else should I join while I'm at it?

Here are the basic rules of Dabka that everyone should know:

1. If by any chance a dabka starts, you MUST join the group
2. The first person is the lead dabeek, he is usually the most skilled or at least thinks he is
3. The last couple of people are usually the beginners who know nothing of dabka and just want to join the group. These types of dabeekeh should be kicked out or shot
4. The is no one official type of dabka, each person knows a different kind, and the type of dabka is decided by the lead.
   
5. Join hands with the person nearest to you and start imitating the moves of the person in the lead (usually identified as being the first person wiggling his hand and might be carrying a handkerchief)
6. There is no need to follow the beat as long as you go with the flow
7. If you cant keep up get lost, don't just start walking around in circles.
8. If in any way you can't keep up or feel to tiered and you want to stay within the group, you can stand in the middle of the circle and wave your hand at the leading person (as illustrated in the video above)
9. If you are watching the dabka and not part of it, you MUST start clapping vigorously, this identifies that you do not know how to 2udbok but you still would like to be part of it.
10. The rate of the dabka will start to increase with every stomp. You should accelerate along side them and so does your clapping rate
11. The dabka circle is some kind of sacred circle, under no circumstances can it be broken
    
12. The dabka does not end until another non-dabkable song is played, or the whole group has lost the rhythm and there is no chance it'll be revived
    

WARNING: Dabka is similar to a fast train, there is no stopping it. If by any chance someone comes in front of the dabeekeh or falls in between he will get run over. Keep all children in sight and at least 2 meters away from the dabka motion as it is hazardous to the safety of your child.

NOTE: Constant sweating, lack of breath, heart attacks, headaches, road marks and getting hit by mistake are normal symptoms of dabka. Just ignore and keep moving unless symptom develops into a chronic stage. Then stop udboking and sit your ass down.

This same scenario keeps happening to me over and over again. I wake up; take a look at the sky to find it sunny without a single cloud in the sky. I say to my self before I go to uni, ah a sunny day, so by the time its noon, it’ll be freakin hot. Thus I decide not to wear a jacket as I leave the house. I notice that the weather is extremely cold, but still I assume it’s going to be hot by noon. So I shake of the coolness and get in the car. Big mistake, to my surprise at noon the weather is still cold and I’m freezing my ass off. I start searching for a sunny spot to stand in, but I don’t find any cause JU is filled with tall ass trees and they keep blocking the sun away.

The next day, I notice it’s sunny again. Therefore I go like, haha I'm not getting fooled again so I take a jacket. And by noontime it’s so hot with the jacket on, but the jacket is too heavy or annoying to carry; so I keep it on. Seriously there is no good solution for such a weather, and most likely you’ll end up sick.

Now I am noticing the effects of global warming, ya3ni we’re in December and still you cant spot a single cloud in the sky, last year it was showering rain and people were all in their homes trying to warm their hands. Seriously it’s getting worse by the year.

December 10th is Human Rights Day, there is a Human Rights Day Writing contest for children 8 - 18 years old on Human Rights and Poverty.

Here's the deal:
"As you know, the United Nations celebrates the International Day for Human Rights on 10 December. This year’s theme is Human Rights and Poverty. To mark this day, a writing contest for children and youth between 8 and 18 years old is being organized throughout the world with entries in any of the six official UN languages. The entry, one page only (maximum 800 words) should be e-mailed to cyberschoolbus@un.org before 10 December 2006.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could widely disseminate the following information to your counterparts, schools, NGOs working with children and youth, public libraries to motivate children and youth to participate to this context and to suggest ways to fight poverty as a matter of obligation,
as a human right.

Background:
More than one in six people in the world live in poverty – that is, less than $1 per day. But poverty is not only about having no money. It is also about not having the materials and resources to fulfill a person’s basic needs – it is about human rights.

Eligbility:
To enter the Human Rights and Poverty writing competition, participants should:
1) Be between the ages 8-18 years old
2) Send their entry by e-mail to cyberschoolbus@un.org with the subject header “Human Rights Day 2006”

Topics:
The participants can choose one of the following two topics to write about:

1) Pick one article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and use an example from real-life to illustrate how the violation of this rights is a consequence of living in poverty. Participants are encouraged to include any suggestions they may have on how poverty can be reduced so that this right is not violated;
2) .Pick one article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and use an example from real-life to illustrate how the violation of this right can cause poverty. They can include any suggestions they may have on what can be done to protect this right so that it does not lead to poverty.

I stumbled across this article when I was surfing the net, which I found pretty interesting. Its states how the names of some of the most famous brands in the world.

"Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server -- thus, the name Apache.


Apple Computers - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.

CISCO - its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.
Google - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders,Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'.

Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.


HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation (by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi).

Microsoft - coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (acronym for: One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison)


Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say 'dry' (asit was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root 'xer' means dry.

Yahoo! - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos."

The way apple was named is hilarious. I mean come on, you named your brand after a fruit, and it became one of the most successful brands worldwide. Alright, I'll name my brand 'Bic' after my most frequently used pen manufacturer.

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To tell you the truth, I am a big ass chocoholic. I go around eating 6-8 packs of chocolate per day, doesn’t mater what kind as long as it is chocolate. One of my favorite chocolate brands is galaxy. When you have a bite of galaxy you feel as if you taste the pure taste of chocolate, cause other brands have peanuts or butter or any kind of add on. Whereas galaxy, the only have chocolate, some times with those rise crispy or caramel but they emphasize more on the chocolate part.

Today while eating my daily dose of chocolate I read something off the bag that made the taste of the Minstrels better:

“Surrender to smooth and creamy GALAXY® milk chocolate captured in crispy shells”

In my opinion the new design of galaxy after re-branding is much better than the old boring design. It makes it more chocolaty...