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People think having the ability to speak another language is cool.  Well, it is cool, but they just don't realize the amount of work that is spent in order to be fluent at a different language.  Admittedly, there are many advantages in being able to speak other languages.  Nowadays, people who are bilingual, have more job opportunities.  When a friend of mine went to work in Korea, I told her while you are there, you should learn another skill.  I encouraged her to study Korean language, which she did.  She studied earnestly, until she became almost like a native speaker,  By the way, she stayed for almost six years in Korea, working different odd jobs.  Until one day, she saw in the Internet, one BPO hiring a CSR who can communicate in Korean or Hanguk.  She saw it as an opportunity.   So she searched some more openings and she found out that it is not just one BPO, there are more BPOs looking for Korean speakers.    ...

I got so impressed with the production of the movie that's why I'm writing a good review of it even if I have not read the book itself. THE BOOK THIEF  (2013) Cast: Sophie Nelisse, Geoffrey Rush, Rudy Steiner, Ben  Schnetzer Director: Brian Percival  Synopsis: The Book Thief revolves around the life of Liesel who was adopted by a childless German couple at the break of World War II.   The tough situations she had to suffer made her turn into reading books and created that desire in her to share them with others and eventually, even sharing her own stories of despair and triumphs with others.  Review:   The movie has a unique format because the story unfolds from the perspective of Death. In the story, Death is relating how he chooses his victims, so to speak, however, since it was the World War 2 era, Death was very relevant and everywhere. His first victim was Liesel's brother and the story becomes complicated after that.   This is p...

peoplemaps.com S tress, it is the number one cause of illness and disease and our lifestyle is the culprit why stress has taken residence in our system and our day would not seem to be complete without it.  It just became a part of our r-o-u-t-i-n-e.  We nurtured it, until it developed and now, it's full-grown.     How did we get here?  Here is a short passage that I got from one of the letters that was sent to me by Silva Mind Control Group .  Read on, for it speaks of nothing but the truth only.  It is quoted from Carlin. Society has given us wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.  We spend more time, but have less.  We buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses, but smaller families. More degrees, but less sense.  More experts, yet more problems.  More medicine, but less wellness.  We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get to...

photo from: blogs.scientificamerican.com Being fit does not only mean in a physical sense but it also be in the emotional, mental as well as social sense.  In other words, fitness should be holistic and a person should be fit in all aspects of his being.   A person's mind holds a lot of potentials to effect the realizaton of his dreams, desires and objectives in life and one way of keeping the mind fit and healthy is by meditation.  This is aside from exercising the mind in order to keep it more sharp and active by engaging in activities that provoke the mind to be used to its potential.  Meditating has a lot of positive effects to ones well-being and this is the principle behind The Silva Mind Control Method.  A method of disciplining the mind which supports using meditation in order to enhance  the capacity of a persons mind.  By arriving at the alpha level, a person's creativity is developed further and this could lead to achieving his goals ...

As we grow older, we gradually forget things.  Even our short-term memory becomes weaker.  We forget the activities that we did that day.  We also forget where we placed an object or an item.  When we meet a familiar face on the street, we can't put a name on her or him.  It creeps slowly that it becomes embarrassing sometimes and sometimes dangerous.  I know of someone who was cooking rice but was in a rush to leave because of an appointment, and he forgot to turn off the stove.  The stove went on burning for over 30 minutes or close to an hour that the rice started to burn.  More minutes passed and still the stove was on, the rice started to really turn brown and then black.  The house started to smell of burnt wood.  Fortunately, the other people in the house were able to smell the burning rice and got up in time before the entire content of the pot becomes pure charcoal.  Fortunately, there were other occupants in the house,...