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Auction of Titanic ticket

 

 

Titanic sank 96 years ago.  A third class passenger ticket of this ship was sold at 33,000 pound at an auction in Southwest England.  It was a part of collection of Lillian Asplund, one of the survivors who was 5 years old.  He was on board along with her parent and four brothers. 

 

So whenever something becomes old and it has historic value, it is auctioned and fetches a high price!!  Do you have anything to auction? J

 

Check out your child’s videogame collection!!

Videogame has become a multi-billion dollar industry.  There are a lot of videogames meant for the adults also.  Previously videogames were meant for children but now with the evolution of the multimedia and animation technology, the adult citizen are using videogame for their entertainment also.  So it is advisable for the parents to see what their child is playing with whether it is meant for adult or children, because videogame industry is adding adult content to call all strata of the Gen-X.

 

So guys and gals, lets check out some of the hot videogames in the market right now!!

 

PLAYBOY MANSION:  It gives you the chance to live Hugh Hefner life as well as produced Playboy magazine.  This game is rated 'M' for mature players and contains alcohol as well as nudity.

 

SCARFACE:  THE WORLD IS YOURS:  Graphic profanity during gameplay, adult-themed gory scenes, explicit discussion of sexual humor and drugs.

 

LEISURE SUIT LARRY SERIES:  The game follow Larry's escapades as he convinces a variety of young nubile women to have sex with him.

 

SINGLES:  FLIRT UP YOUR LIFE:  You play two characters move them into an apartment, and work on their relationship while keeping them happy.  Contain adult themes and strong sexual positions.

 

BMX XXX:  The game is speckled with crude humor and nudity.  It allows the user to create riders as topless women in underwear bottoms and unlock full motion video clips of strippers in action.

 

PANTY RAIDER:  Players fire green goo at female characters, dissolving their outer clothing, and photographing them for aliens. 

 

GRAND THEFT AUTO:  SAN ANDREAS:  A mini-game of stimulated intercourse was left in the game's programming but disabled.  It popped up on the internet.  Games also includes visuals of scantily clad strippers and prostitutes, encourages sex and contains graphic language and highlights drug abuse.

 

The above games being full of ADULT CONTENT, so the parents are advisable to look into their child's entertainment stock and see whether anything like the above mentioned games are there or not.  These games create a wrong impression on the young mind making make a freak or might distort the normal mental development.  It might also turn them into adult beings in future with perverse minds and it might also affect the future life of their family also.

 

 

 

 

Natural Love of Languages

Some people love to learn language.  They go to institute and enroll in a language course where both written and spoken form of that particular language is taught.  A British Indian student amazed his teachers by learning to speak 10 different languages.  Arpan Sharma is a 10-year-old boy who lives in Oldbury, West Mids.  He has a lot of lot of interest in languages.  He taught himself the following languages:

  1. French.
  2. Spanish.
  3. German.
  4. Italian.
  5. Swahili.
  6. Mandarin.
  7. Polish.
  8. Thai.
  9. The difficult language Lugandan of Uganda.
  10.  Hindi.

 

The boy has learnt Hindi also from his parents.  It has been reported by Daily Mirror of London.  Richard Lynn, headmaster of Blue Coat School stated that Arpan is a language genius.  He listens to the exact pronunciation of a word from a language and can repeat it perfectly.  He learnt this language using CD ROMs.

 

In fact in my life, I started learning Hindi first when I was in St. Thomas Church School at Howrah Maidan.  There were a large number of Hindi-speaking boys and girls.  First the language was strange to me when I was admitted in class 2.  I then listened to my friends speaking.  I heard them speak the Hindi and just tried to guess the meaning.  First my friends used to laugh when they saw me looking at them surprised.  Then they learnt that my problem.  I gradually picked up the language as time progressed.  First one or two words, then phrases and then sentences.  Then a time came when I started learning the language as my third language from 7 and 8 classes.  I studied the languages and attended classes in my school.  I loved Hindi.  I  was proud that I was learning a language which is primarily a language of my own land.  I felt proud of this language.  I studied so well in one term of my three term exams in class, that I scored 72 out of 100 in Hindi.  It was a scoring language with simple questions in exam.  Our teacher wore a spectacle and he is lean and thin and tall.  But he used to teach us well! 

 

After my graduation in Anthropology in Bangabasi College in Kolkata, I studied French language.  I got interested to study French from my father who also learnt French in his student life.  I enrolled in Alliance Francaise, which is quite a reputed institute in Kolkata.  It has branches in 4 metropolitan cities in India.  Students who get trained and get the highest degree in Alliance Francaise, Diplome Superior go to France after an All India Competition and get a teacher's training to teach the language in Alliance Francaise itself.  I enrolled the course of first eight months.  It is called "Neveu Un."   I studied the language.  They taught us to write and speak the language.  French is a language where the whole world is divided into masculine (in French "masculin") and feminine (in French "feminine").  They use the same alphabets of English but their pronunciations are different.  Overall it is quite interesting to learn this language.  The spelling of the adjective gets different, in fact the adjective becomes plural when the noun becomes plural.  There are also regular and irregular verbs whose conjugations you have learn by heart!  The regular verbs have a pattern but there are irregular verbs whose conjugations if not known you cannot write or speak!  So this language is a precision language where a small fault might land in trouble while speaking or writing.  Besides there are different accent signs, three signs are used here; "accent aigu", "accent grave" and "accent circonflexe."  In all the language is interesting to study.

 

Learning language can be a wonderful hobby just like music and coin collection.  It is rather more absorbing and brain storming as you go on learning a difficult language, you brain works more and you get more pleasure in learning something and memorizing sounds and words not used in your society.  Some people may discourage you and this discouragement comes primarily from parents who tell you not to go for fruitless pursuits.  Career oriented courses are always recommended by parents.  It is good but if you have an established career, you can chase your dreams and do something YOU LIKE!

 

Hobby less world!!!

I often find that people lack any absorbing hobbies nowadays.  My hobby is interacting with people, playing synthesizer, reading English books and magazines, creative writing, and stamp and coin collection.

 

Not only we need work to live our lives, we also need something beyond work….an absorbing hobby!

 

It can be anything from reading literature to drawing and painting, playing musical instruments.  Some peoples passion of hobbies are worth appreciating. 

 

I have been playing synthesizer since I was in class 2.  I took tuition under the guidance of Tarak Roy and later I was taught by the reputed musician V. Balsara.  I love playing and love to play in front of my visitors.  I never thought music will be my bread and butter! But I took it as an absorbing hobby.  It became my friend when I felt depressed!!!

 

Stamp collection and coin collection came when I was doing my graduation in anthropology in Bangabasi College.  I collected old coins whose price is low and I also collected old tickets of buses.  I love the past and love to preserve it for the future to see!!!

 

Creative writing is something that comes spontaneously to me and I write often when I feel bored.  I love to share my past and present experience.  I love to talk about recent science inventions and also my personal opinions on different topics.