Random Facts About Dreams

• Every human dreams. There are huge amounts of individuals who can’t recall their fantasies when they wake up, however regardless they get them

• Human creatures put in generally around 6 years of their lifetime imagining

• Sometimes we dream outside of our REM rest (Rapid Eye Movement)

• Thousands of years back, the Egyptians were the first to make a fantasy word reference in 4000 B.C.E

• We generally spend around 1/3 of our lives dozing

• People who experience the ill effects of an identity issue need dream action

• Our brains have a tendency to be way more dynamic when we rest, than when we’re alert

• Humans have a tendency to have around 3 to 7 fantasies a night. We dream around 2 to 3 hours in an entire night

• 90% of the fantasy is lost the first moment we wake up

• Men have a tendency to dream about men more than ladies, and ladies dream about individuals of both sexes

• Drug withdrawal can result in more extreme dreams. Individuals who additionally quit liquor and smoking knowledge heavier dreams and bad dreams

• You can clear dream for up to 30 minutes if prepared legitimately

• It’s difficult to dream when you’re wheezing

• Babies don’t long for themselves until they achieve the age of 3

• More ladies than men experience a sensation that this has happened before in their fantasies (eg. you have been in the fantasy in the recent past)

• People who experience Sleep Paralysis hear voices and see outsiders in their rooms

• Nightmares happen more to children than grown-ups

• Blind individuals dream. Their fantasies are sound-related on the off chance that they were conceived visually impaired. On the off chance that they got to be daze at an early age, despite everything they long for what they recall

• Did you know around 100 000 drivers a year accident going all through slumber in their autos

• Thousands of individuals experience the ill effects of slumber apnea in America

• Men get erections in their REM slumber and ladies have an expanded blood stream to their vaginas

• You can decipher more than 5000 fantasy images

The World of Badminton

About

In badminton, you need to be fast and swift. It is played with equipment called rackets and shuttlecock on a wood, dirt or even just a grass ground. The court of a badminton is a smaller version of a tennis court. Badminton was first developed in Battledore and Shuttlecock.

Playing the game

When the player serves , it is already the cue that the game has started. Each one on the other side will hit the shuttlecock with the net of the racket and not letting it touch the floor. Or else, the other team or player wins.

Strategies

The objective of the game is to be able to win it by making through the required number of points which is making the opponent make mistakes. One way, is letting your opponent hit the shuttlecock so hard that it will reach the outside of the lines of your side of the court. Another is not being able to hit the shuttlecock which means hitting it on the floor. Another is holding the net. Last but not the least, holding the shuttlecock with any parts of the body.

Basic Strokes

Overhead shots can be done by hitting the shuttlecock literally above your head. Underhand shots are thrown below the person’s waistline. If you hit it on the right side, it’s called forehand shot. On the other side, it is called the backhand shot. If you are left handed, you will always substitute the left for right. Serving should be done right. And if you want to win, use a smash or kill shot for a finishing move. There are also useful auxiliary shots. These are the hairpin and cross court net shots. You can also mix them. One example is the round-the-head shot where it looks like a forehead but it’s actually an overhead backhand shot.

Here is an example of a badminton match(single and men division):

Cool Apps for Kids

Are your children bored and constantly complain of having nothing to do? Want to just relax after a hard day at work without having to invent new ways to entertain your kids? Well now you don’t have to! Here are some of the most popular apps for kids that will keep them busy for hours!

Helicopter Taxi

If your kids are into flying and transportation, Helicopter Taxi is a must-have app. This app uses augmented reality to simulate a helicopter flying across the room, with your children as the pilots. By moving the device around, your kids will spend hours flying wherever they wish, just watch out they don’t crash!

Cut the Rope

Quite an oldie but still a goodie, this brain-teasing, addictive app will keep your children at bay for an eternity. Feed the cute green monster by solving puzzles to get the candy into his mouth! With hundreds of different levels with varying levels of difficulty, even you might have fun with this one! Just don’t be annoyed if they ask for help, it’s even challenging for us adults!

Plants Vs. Zombies

Everyone’s heard of this one. Despite the violent-sounding name this game is suitable for kids of any age. The goal (as you can guess) is to defeat the comical evil zombies threatening your backyard with the power of plants! With 50 levels, each increasing with difficulty, this game will keep your kids, and maybe even yourself, entertained for days.

American Museum of Natural History: Dinosaurs

Every kid loves dinosaur’s right? This educational application will fascinate and teach your kids about almost any prehistoric creature. With over 800 dino photos to tap through, each containing its own valuable info, your child will be a palaeontologist in no time! This is a must-have app for any avid dinosaur lover.

Road To Happiness

New Year means it’s a new beginning for you. February is nearly coming but it’s not too late to make a new year resolution. And that is to be Happy. Wanna know interesting ways to make yourself happier and making this year fulfilling?

Enjoy every moment

Don’t be such a hurry always! If your school starts at 7:30, make room for exercising and stretching time. Enjoy the morning breeze before you rush to the cold shower and be in a hurry in everything. Choose happy and stop worrying.

Be Honest

“..Even if others cannot, even if others will not and even if others are not”. You don’t need to make excuses not to be honest ( not if someone’s life is endangered, though). You also have to be honest to yourself. Do not let the society tell you what to do with your own life and the path you will be taking. There isn’t a single road map given for everyone.

Befriend Your Friends

If you spent more time on computer games and online stuff and you left your friends out, you should probably make time for them more rather than imprisoning yourself in the four corners of your room. Befriend them again, do things together.

Live Your Own Purpose

You were not sent to Earth to follow a group of crowd and doing things like the way you want them to do. Of course, you can do everything you want in life as long as you are not inflicting pain to other people that surrounds you. It’s not impossible to dream.

Forgive people

If you fail to sent away the grudge of a person who you really hated a long time ago, maybe it’s time for you to let go and forgive everything. You will feel a relief in your heart as you take away the feeling of grudge.

Popular Children Hobbies

Aside from playing with other children, they also have other hobbies. In school, they always promote them to be able to improve necessary skills for child’s development. They will not only have fun but also discover things by themselves. Here are the most interesting and popular hobbies of children nowadays.

Collecting

Collecting artifacts like coins, dolls, toys, magazines, books and etc. has been alive since the idea was invented. Even though some kids collect gadgets, there are still people who collects things in their environment even rocks and mail stamps. Not only the kids will like it but also the parents.

Gardening

It maybe expensive but it is also a relaxation. A child will know how to give life to a plant that also promotes life to out world. It will not just stay in their childhood but grows through time with the plants. They will not just help beautify their place but also contribute to the world’s environment.

Telescope

Stars and other spacial things are hard to see using naked eyes. Therefore, some children buy telescopes and put them near a window. They will not just see fake green glow-in-the-dark lights but will actually see stars that are up in the sky. Children’s minds stretches and expands and make adventure through this fun activity.

Sports

Schools should always promote health through students buy doing sports activities like basketball and soccer. It’s a natural choice for playful kids. It is also beneficial to a child’s confidence, teamwork and health.

Music

Aside from playing video games, A lot of children knows how to play the guitar, piano, violin and even sing and dance. There are art schools and workshops where professional teachers teach them what they want to learn and improve them as they grow up. Music can be a form of expressing our feelings and emotions.

Most Famous Video Games of All Time

Playing video games have been an interesting hobby not only for guys but also for women. Through the past years, there were a lot of video games invented according to the interest of the people. Video games even make a lot more money than gadgets. Here are the most popular of them.

Sid Meier’s Civilization

It is a front runner of every 4X category: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate. It’s a kind of strategy game that was originally made for MicroPose in 1991. The goal of this game is to be able to create and empire that will exist until the end of time. It’s like Sims City that needs management skills of the players. Over 8 million copies have been sold.

Need for Speed

If you are talking about the most successful racing video game of all time, Need for Speed has distributed over 100 million copies to costumers last October 2009 and still growing until today. Need for Speed has even a movie. It was published by Electronic Arts. The players loved the speed of the car, the advanced graphics, number of car options, sound effects and real time car-racing encounter.

Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong Country emerged in 1994 and sold more than 9 million copies since then. It placed top two of the best-selling SNES game of the history. For the first time in gaming history, Donkey Kong Country was able to use pre-rendered sprites that creates a 3D effect that everyone loves nowadays, especially for movies. All of its graphics were made from Silicon 3D graphics, and it was insurgent during that time.

Pac-Man

Everyone knows about the Pac-Man, the big yellow circle-shaped character who eats ghosts. It maybe one of the oldest that was developed 1980, it’s still popular today among teenagers. It’s easy to play using your courser. It is the most famous and highest-grossing video game of all time. It even generated more than a billion dollars after 20 years of its release.

Best Toy Stores

What do kids love? That’s right, toys! And if you want to see a LOT of them, you need to visit these stores around the world! You will be reading interesting stuff too. Who would do nothing for these amazing toys?

FAO Schwarz, New York City, USA

This toy shop was made famous when there was an instance when Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia made a movie inside this mega store located at the 5th avenue. During the scene, they were playing on a giant keyboard. You can still see it when you visit the store and if you want to buy it, it will really cost 250, 000 bucks. There are a lot of huge stuffed toys of animals like dogs, cats, lions and many more, you can also adopt a doll on their center and even buy candy!

Toys ‘R’ Us, New York City, USA

The biggest toy shop in the whole world can be found in Times Square, New York City. Not only the building is large but also the toys and the things you will see inside. You will be able to look up 18 meters high to see the top of their big Ferris wheel, which is actually working. They also have a Barbie doll house that is two-story WHICH is set for human-sized dolls. If you are not afraid of dinosaur, you can check out their massive LEGO T-Rex that makes roaring sounds.

Hamleys, London, UK

Hamleys can be located in several parts, internationally. However, the most famous one is the store located in London, UK. The store has seven floors filled with a lot of toys you could not imagine. Even the staff and guides are dressed in costumes of your favorite characters. You can even try some of the toys they are selling.

LEGO Stores, Berlin, Germany

Obviously, the store, by its name are selling LEGO. There are no less than 50 LEGO establishments around the world. However, this store has been considered with the best design and formation of lego. You can even learn how to make formations out of them.

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Types of Dances

Hip-hop Dance

Hip-hop was was once a street dancing until it evolved it what known as hip-hop culture. In this kind of dance, there are a lot of routines commonly breaking, popping and locking. They were believed to be invented during 1970s from dance groups in the US. These moves are constantly closest to the ground when performed.

Tap Dance

Tap dance, by its name, is a kind of dance where you use your feet to making tapping noises. These creative sounds are caused by the metal plates glued to the balls and heels of the shoes. There are specific kinds of shoes used in this dance. Because of this, Tap dancers can also be called musicians by making rhythm. Originally, tap dance came from different kinds which are mostly African American dancing.

Belly Dance

Typical known as the traditional west asian dance. Sometimes it can be called the Middle Eastern dance or Arabic dance in the West. It is called belly dance because most of the time the belly is being used during performances. The hips are also an important aspect. Shakira is one of the famous belly dancers.

Ballet

During the fifteenth century, both countries France and Russia developed the dance to be able to transform a perfomance to dances that can be portrayed during concerts. The dance developed in France and Russia and evolved from performance dance to concert dance. If you plan to learn it, I’ll tell you it won’t be that easy. You need to take years to be able to master it and attend ballet classes. Many girls even are enrolled to these programs. Performances are choreographed and sometimes accommodated by orchestral music.  It is also compared to aerobatic movements.

Salsa

There are a lot of ballroom dances in the world and Salsa is one of the most popular. This partner dance originated from Cuba. Yet, it can also be danced as a solo. Salsa dance has also been known for pairing with Latin American Music. You can dance it with random movements or can be practiced as well.

Iconic Superheroes: Part 1

Brave people who have amazing abilities that fight villains and save the world are called superheroes. Most of these superheroes came from comics. These are just 5 of them which are recognized worldwide. Learn interesting facts about them.

Superman

Also known as Kal-El, he was sent to Earth as an infant after planet Krypton was destroyed. On Earth, he was known as Clark Kent named by an American Family who adopted him. As he knew about his abilities, he defended the mankind with all kinds of threats and maintaining truth, justice and peace.

Abilities: super strength, hearing , vision, speed, breath, ventriloquism, hypnotism and stamina, mental powers, invulnerability and flight, healing, multilingualism,

Weaknesses: magical and poisonic effects, Kryptonite, Red Sun Radiation, Lead(for x-ray vision), solar energy exhaustion

Spider-Man

Behind the mask, Peter Parker was once a normal teenager until he was bitten by a radioactive spider that gave him powers similar to a spider like making a web. After he regretted not being able to  save Uncle Ben on time who died, he realized that his powers have responsibilities and that is protecting people from harm.

Abilities: Spider Phsiology, Spider Senses, Wall-Crawling and Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, equilibrium and  reflexes

Weaknesses: Spider-Sense Disruption, Anti-Venom’s Proximity, Ethyl Chloride, Bad Luck

Wonder Woman

Only woman making on the list, she was a daughter of Queen Hippolyta on Paradise Island that were filled with female amazon warriors. She was not just a hero but a princess, ambassador and a warrior. Her poweres were granted by the Gods Of Olypmus and she chose to live in the United States to protect peace and justice.

Ablities: Super strength, speed, agility, reflexes, senses, stamina and endurance, flight, superior hand-to-hand combatant, healing factor,divine wisdom, great beauty,  magical weaponry (indestructible bracelets, Lasso of Truth, Tiara and a magical sword)

Weakness: Piercing weapons, bound gauntlets and lasso of truth

(Part 2 will be on the next post)