iDosing

                I am quite sure that not many of the readers would not even have heard of such a term leave alone knowing what it is. This term came into prominence after there were many reports of children getting hallucinations after listening to these 'digital drugs'.

                Its a free legal drug that can be downloaded from the Internet. A person can iDose by finding a dark room, sitting motionless and putting on headphones and listening to repetitive tracks that are downloaded. By doing so the person is taken to transcendental state. Time taken for this varies from person to person. Many researchers fear that this forced modification in mood can lead to harmful after-effects and addictions. The users so far have experienced a definite change in their moods though......

Sneak Peek into the world around us: Moncompu - Travel review

Sneak Peek into the world around us: Moncompu - Travel review

Animal Astrologists

This football world cup has been popular more for off-field issues than the action on field - From vuvuzelas to animals predictions . To be very frank action on-field has been quite poor which has given more boost for these extra-curricular activities. So far there has been three 'popular' animals astrologists.


                                     The most popular "PAUL -  THE OCTOPUS". This weird octopus has been putting up predictions from the time of EURO 2008. It had correctly predicted all of the Germany matches them except for the final against Spain. It has so far correctly predicted all the matches in world cup and has gone with Spain for the finals.

 

 Another animal that has captured the imagination is "MANI - THE PARROT" .  It gained popularity after Singapore leading newspaper featured an article on how the parrot has correctly predicted the semis line-up in the world cup. The parrot owned by a roadside vendor of Indian origin is now getting 10 customers per hr compared to 10 customers per day earlier. The parrot has gone with the Netherlands for the world cup finals.

You can watch the video of the prediction here http://www.zoofs.com/v/zF1YgIgozZE

I found a third animal astrologist too recently - "SIMON THE PSYCHIC KITTEN". Not very sure of the credibility of the source though. The kitten too has gone with Netherlands in the finals.

So it has been 2-1 in favour of Netherlands from the animal astrologists. Lets all wait till Sunday to see whose finally comes up as winners of WORLD CUP. 

P.S. You can read my blog-post on VUVUZELA here http://travesal.blogspot.com/2010/06/vuvuzela.html

Germany's "Foreign" Team

This is some really interesting fact that I found recently. 11 of the German team members in the football world cup are not originally from Germany. If the goalkeeper too was foreign Loew could have fielded full-fledged 'foreign' team :)

Klose - Poland
Podolski - Poland
Ozil - Turkey
Kadira - Tunisia
Boateng - Ghana
Gomes - Spain
Kakou - Brazil
Trokovsky - Poland
Avago - Nigeria
Sedar Taski - Turkey
Marko Marin - Yugoslavia

Now that what you call a "FOREIGN" team :)

Textaphrenia

                           I read about textaphrenia in a newspaper article today morning.Thought I would just put in a blog-post on what it is.Textaphrenia is thinking a message had arrived when it hadn't, while textiety is the anxious feeling of not receiving or sending text messages.
                          Textaphrenia is a disorder created in heavy texting addicts.For all those people who have are addicted to SMSing please take into consideration the fact that just like mobile radiation heavy texting can also lead to problems related to mental health. A recent study in Melbourne came up with some alarming conclusions. The study into youth communication habits identified the risks teens face from texting excessively every day, and the symptoms included anxiety, insecurity, depression, low self-esteem and "repetitive thumb syndrome". 
                        For all the advantages MOBILES have brought with it there has been increasingly heavier number of associated problems :(