Friday 26 June 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#71)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 
This week’s five facts:

1. Men sweat up to twice as much as women.

2. Fetuses don't develop fingerprints until 3 months' gestation.

3. Someone who weighs 150 pounds on Earth would weigh a whopping 354 pounds on Jupiter.

4.  IKEA consumes 1% of the Earth's wood supply every year.

5.  A group of cockroaches is called an intrusion.

Friday 19 June 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#70)


Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. 

This week’s five facts: 

1. At the center of every raindrop is an impurity such as dust, clay or soot. It is almost impossible for raindrops to form from pure water.

2. The opah, or "moonfish", is the only known fully warm-blooded fish.

3. The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

4.  A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

5.  Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

Friday 12 June 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#69)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. This week’s five facts:


1. 1 in 10,000 people have their internal organs reversed or "mirrored" from their normal positions.

2.  Crying makes you feel better, reduces stress, and may help to keep the body healthy.

3.  The Harry Potter series were the most banned books of the century in the U.S.

4.  There's a Cereal Cafe in London where you can eat hundreds of different kinds of cereals from around the world.

5.  A knork is a combination of a knife and a fork.

Friday 5 June 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#68)




Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts. This week’s five facts:


1.  New Zealand bans all advertising on TV on Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and ANZAC Day.

2. Dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand pointing.

3.  Cats can swallow and digest their food without chewing it.

4.  A group of zebras is called a "dazzle".

5. It would take a snail nearly 4,575 years to circle Earth .




Wednesday 3 June 2015

Guest Post: The Thing About Social Media



Okay. We all know what social media is. We use it for school, for wasting time, and other nonsensical shenanigans, right? Today, I’m gonna be talking about my experiences with social media, as well as my advice regarding this broad topic.

Social Media enables everyone to connect with others through different networks with different platforms. Some makes use of only 140 characters to share stuff, others use pictures and text and friend requests. It’s hard to define Social Media as something constant—since it changes with every update, like, share, or reblog.

It’s pretty safe to say that Social Media is useful to us. We use it everyday! May it be for academic purposes, for research, or just for reminiscing past friends, Social Media offers a way to do all of those.  In fact, I myself have reconnected with my classmates since we were in Kindergarten. I’ve seen their change from the awkward, nose-picking children I knew, into the great people they are now. I’ve contacted my classmates from Grade 1, who were now staying in the United States.

Social Media can revive those past connections, and even establish new ones. Making new friends is now easy. Just click a button, and wait. Then you can start talking about your mutual interests, and that relationship soon blooms into an online friendship that will last for some time. Of course, that’s not always the case. Some people become “friends” on Facebook or anywhere else, without actually wanting to talk to each other even virtually.

The speed it takes for someone’s update to appear on your feed is astounding. That’s why it’s easy to spread news on Social Media. Many people with troubled cases involving missing friends/family, or persons requiring donations use this in order to inform the mass of what’s happening. And it works. Here in the Philippines, the authorities help those in need as fast as the post appears on their timeline.

Of course, the world we live in is a big two-sided blade. There may be limitless boundaries on the good things Social Media can do, but there are also numerous adversities that it can inflict to us.
Perhaps the greatest of these, for me, is privacy. Sometimes, Social Media can be a pain in the arse when it comes to your personal space. When you forget that your post wasn’t on “private”, or when you post something on the wrong site, the results might be disastrous to you. When you put it out there, it’s OUT there. It can be shared and reposted to other sites. It’s as if Social Media takes ownership of whatever you posted as its property, and you can never take it back.

I’ve experienced this, actually. Enter 7th Grader me, clueless of how to use Social Media. On the first year of highschool (7th Grade is considered first year), I really, really disliked the seniors. They were rash, naughty—generally not nice. So I did something careless. I logged on to Facebook, typed “The seniors are good-for-nothings”, and clicked post. That was the biggest mistake in my life, but I don’t regret it. I voiced out my opinion, and they reacted like children. They swarmed outside our classroom, and when I came out, they hugged me. I know, isn’t hugging a nice thing? In that instance, no. I felt every bit of humiliation they’d intended. Of course, we were counseled, and everything went back to normal, but I’ll never forget that glorious passive-protest that I’d done.

The only rational advice I can give to everyone out there is to be responsible. Think before you post. And I mean it. Think of how you phrase your words thrice. Choose your friends, your followers, et cetera. If you want to be undercover, use incognito. It won’t hurt. All there is to it so to be responsible of your actions, keeping in mind what would happen after you do what you wanted. That’s all.

Be good.

Author - Raffy Perez

Monday 1 June 2015

June Giveaway: Get organised with a Notebook [INT Ends: 30/6/15]






It's the start of the month which means it's time to kick start a new (international) giveaway! Since you guys liked the notebook giveaway so much last time, this month I'll be giving away another journal in case you missed out last time and still want an opportunity to get organized. If you want to be in with a chance of winning then enter below.


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Goodluck!