Reflections through Cyberspace

Happiness is not just the absence of pain; it is also the capacity to learn from and heal your pain.

A banner with the ending of Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince has been hung over a road in Shropshire.
It appears to be a prank and it has now been removed because it was deemed to be unsafe for the motorists.
Full article here

Was reading about J.K.Rowling and came across these facts about her biography…
1. Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born on July 31st, 1965, in ChippingSodbury, Gloucestershire. She has one sister, Diana, who is two years younger.
2. At one time her family lived next door to two children, Ian and Vikki Potter, and Joanne and Diana often played [...]

I received a letter from FEMA with a registration form to apply for the major areas I would like to specialise in during Part II of my course. The options are as follows:
- Banking and Finance- Economics- Management- Public Policy- Accountancy
From next year the subjects I will be studying are all new to me. First [...]

Breaking News - unconfirmed reports of an explosion on the underground and an incident on a bus.
Is London being attacked again??
Read more here

At the moment here in Ghadira something is happenning:) At around 9am this morning, I heard a helicopter and went out in our balcony to see what’s happening, although helicopters going round the bay is quite normal at this time of year. There was a yacht at sea and the helicopter was going round it. [...]

Since I’ve got a resit next September I have to start studying again
Usually I only study a few days before exams but this time I cannot leave it till the last minute because of work and also because I don’t want to do the same mistake again and study the day before, which [...]

I was reading skynews and came across this article about the world’s tallest man, Xi Shun, from Mongolia. He is 7ft 8.95ins (2m 36.1cm) tall.
According to the editor of the Guinness World Records, he is not the tallest man ever. In fact, the tallest man was Robert Wadlow, who measured 8ft 11.1in.
Unbelievable!
Read full [...]

Since I will be on my own all winter I decided to take up a challenge and do something. Not that I don’t have anything to do with University and all the work it entails, far from it:) But it will be interesting to have something else to do just because you choose to do [...]

I am currently reading a book, The Hard Sell, which is about the techniques used by pitchers to sell their products at the market.
It is written by two sociologists and it is an account of their studies on the language and lessons of market selling. Their studies started by coincidence, after their encounter with a [...]