Face The Fact

Lets share some facts I got from Varsity Voice.

• In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was 'hotter'. He then recreated Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook. Ever heard of Facemash somewhere? Yes, it's The Social Network everyone. Hands down.
• Facebook has over 600 million active users with more than 35 million users update their status each day.
• The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
• More than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded on Facebook each month. That's no surprise, for the fact that Facebook-ers love marketing themselves.
• Facebook was ranked third in the top 100 searches of 2009, just behind Youtube and Google. Sex and porn rounded out the top five searches. The survey was conducted among the children under 18.
• Not only beating MySpace traffic, Facebook also managed to swap the second-ranked site overall in the US behind Google.
• Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook. I'm pretty sure we'll be catching up to them in no time. Soon fellas, soon.
• If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest country in the world, after China and India.I guess the population would revolve around us. Ha.
• The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales warned that Facebook and Myspace can lead children to commit suicide because such sites encourage teens to build transient relationships and dehumanise community life.

Source : http://facts.randomhistory.com?interesting-facebook-facts.html

We Speak Multiple Languages

And we are proud to be Malaysians indeed, aren't we? Everywhere we go, we use Bahasa Melayu(BM) as our medium of communication. Be the conversation verbal or non verbal, BM will always be our ultimate option to be used - well at least for most of us. Because we are heavily influenced by our first language, we are not aware of the large amount of misuse of English in our country. Lets take a look at this one.

The line at the bottom of the board says ‘ALL ARE WELCOME’, when it 

is supposed to be written as ‘ALL ARE WELCOMED’.

First and foremost, this is an example of a passive voice.  The sentence above is in a simple present tense form, and as for the passive of the simple present tense, we have to use verb-to-be (am/is/are) + past participle. In the sentence 'ALL ARE WELCOME', are is the verb with welcome supposedly functioning as the past participle. What can be pointed out here is the tense form of the word welcome. It is a MUST to use past participle whenever it comes to passives. The past participle for the word welcome is welcomed. Hence, the right way to write the sentence would be 'ALL ARE WELCOMED'.The active voice would sound like this ; The church welcomes everyone. In addition, welcomed is categorized as bound inflectional, since the suffix -ed is used rather to indicate the changes in tense form. 
On top of that, in terms of agreement, the verb are agrees with the subject all, mind the plural form. In fact, the form of the verb can also be described in terms of tense as well. This would be much interesting since we are playing with the verbs. Well, the verb welcome here plays the role in changing the tense form. In this case, welcomed has become the past participle, but if we change it into the active voice as in the church welcomes everyone, then of course welcomes will be in simple present tense. Sentence structure-wise, the sentence does not agree with the SVO at first, but if it changes into all are welcomed, then all will become the subject, are will be the linking verb and welcomed functions as the complement.

*SVO : Subject Verb Object

There are many other mistakes spotted on the signboards, free advertisements, and even label on the goodies. Learning the right way to use English brings no pain. As we showered much love for our mother language, we should respect others too.

Coffee break now :)

Snow-Flakes-Not

It's the scalp flakes people.

                                      

This is you, feeling dejected and dispirited

And now you're suffering from psychological depression. 

crap I forgot to bring along my towel.what to do now?

Eventually you blamed yourself for what you've been going through.

girl please, go comb your hair at least. hey, she's a left-handed-interesting.

 

Dandruff sure tires one out. Almost everyone has suffered from dandruff. There are various advertisements on TV, promoting the shampoo brand and the shampoo girl and stuff, that is the power of marketing. They keep saying the product is proven to be effective by the experts, but still no excellent result can we expect upon - well at least for me. I've tried several products and it only heals for a while. I'm not surprised at the final result by any means. Note that it could be the wrong way of using the products. Of course the blame is to be put on one self at the very end of the day. Dandruff is considered as a disease when the scaling is noticeable and the scalp gets itchy, despite the fact that it is a normal psychological process.

How to get rid of dandruff

These are the do's of dandruff care.

• Let the hair dry naturally after bath, that is no blow drying right after. Make sure you have toweled off the excess water properly.
• Wash your hair daily - with shampoo used on alternate days in the beginning, and once or twice weekly as to maintain the progress.
• Take dandruff-fighting dietary supplements. Eat a well-balanced food, avoid snacks, get enough sleep and exercise regularly.
• Brush the scalp hair firmly with a soft natural bristle brush. The hair should be brushed from scalp outwards for it will prevent the oil from remaining on the scalp where yeast likely to multiply.
• Be sure to rinse thoroughly after washing, as the shampoo residue can lead to dandruff forming and skin problems.
• For mild cases, shampoo powder with camillea seeds is recommended.

Moving on to the don'ts 

• Do not wash hair intensively, for it will irritate the scalp.
• Do not use ordinary soap to wash your hair. It does not function to cleanse the scalp and hair. It will only aggravate the situation.
• Do not consume alcohols, fried and oily food.
• Use anti-dandruff shampoos once or twice a week. Excessive use will be too harsh on scalp care.
• Avoid dyes on scalp hair as well. The normal resident bacteria of the scalp which keeps away the yeasts will be destroyed by dyes and harsh shampoos.

 Lets take a good care of our hair and scalp from now on. One Americano here :)

A Sip of Coffee

Hello people. I'm still new to blogging. This blog is specially created for educational purposes. LAME I know. I may ramble a little, because I'm cool like that because I'm no better at learning, but sharing information won't do any harm right? Feel free to have a coffee break with me. Sorry we don't have tea here :)