Third Culture Kids (abbreviated TCKs or 3CKs or Global Nomad) "refers to someone who [as a child] has spent a significant period of time in one or more culture(s) other than his or her own, thus integrating elements of those cultures and their own birth culture, into a third culture".As part of its Intelligent Nation 2015 program, the island nation will be able to boast of countrywide Wi-Fi coverage in a few months, Bill Chang, executive vice president of wireless service provider SingTel, said in a recent interview.
"At the end of the year, Singapore will be one mega hot spot," he said. "They are breaking Singapore into three regions and looking at ways to maximize coverage."
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a Pakistani immigrant, struggles to drag his heavy cart along the streets of New York to his corner in Midtown Manhattan. And every morning, from inside his cart he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. He is the worker found on every street corner in every city. He is a man who wonders if he will ever escape his fate. The Swiss-German production Das Fraulein (The Young Lady) is the story of an encounter between the three immigrants, who settle in Switzerland.
Logo is a simple but powerful programming language for children devised by Seymour Papert, Danny Bobrow, Wally Feurzig and others at MIT and Bolt Beranek & Newman in the mid 60s. Even though it is refreshingly simple like one of its ancestors JOSS, it also has many of the powers of its other ancestor Lisp.
Another normal day amongst the hustle and bustle on Quetta Starbase 0926 In orbit around Faisalabad Prime, Robostani Droid rD54 has a special delivery for His Owlness. I'm not going to tell you what it is but it could be the Cybordyne Key of Pandora's Westernization that has unleashed the all consuming assimilating Businessborg across half the known galaxy for the last 800 million years. Recently recovered on Asteroid Rrbion 320 in the rings of Planet Zathoron 12B by the Interstellar Rebel Alliance and Pakistani Starfleet Command it is believed that if the key is brought back to the Unihivematrix Core Prototon Backbreaching System Regulator the Businessborg could be disabled for good releasing all lifeforms from the commercializing grip of the Businessborg's Pop'o'Brainwashing vision linkage.
Oh what is the secret!
You can never make a proper shawarma at home... but there has to be a way... i must discover the secret to the recipe when I go back home this summer.
Thar she blows!
"Maa ki dua Janat ki Hawa!"
An Indian version of Celebrity Big Brother will come with a ban on "hanky panky," producers say. "Participants will be told to keep their hands to themselves," a spokeswoman for production company Endemol India told BBC News.
"India is a conservative society and is not ready for the raunchy scenes that so characterise the programmes in the West," she continued.
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Since when are Indian television veiwers not used to seeing any 'hanky panky'. God knows all I see sometimes is channels full of hankering and pankerenese.
Moutamarat has announced that Dubai will host the first Global Design Forum in the region from the 3rd to the 5th of February 2007. On its first year, the event will focus on Industrial and Urban design as well as on the connections between Design, business and creativity.On its first year, the event will focus on Industrial and Urban design as well as on the connections between Design, business and creativity.
The official programme will have two main platforms; a forum for international and regional Designers, urban planners, experts and businessmen and Design Lounges geared towards free interaction among participants and business networking.
In addition, the role of Design will be celebrated through a series of exhibitions and installations in Dubai to show the impact of Design to the general public.
'Business leaders understand that Design is more than making things look beautiful,' said Khalid Al Malik, senior vice-president of Knowledge and Industry of Tatweer and member of the UAE Design Advisory Board.
Sometimes I remember remembering things without actually remembering the thing I think I am remembering. It’s as if there is this flash of color and smell of emotion right before the world turns dark again. The important thing to remember while tiredly treading through is to stand straighter and follow through with your shots.
I have to remember…
to draw while having coffeetop conversations and remember though your hands and not my mind.
to imagine the ball going in when shooting hoops.
to walk while speaking
to stop
The idea of a Darfur-related video game came from mtvU, the music video giant's network for university students. The network has an ongoing campaign to raise awareness of the situation in Darfur. But last October, executives decided that they wanted to add a new component, something that would hopefully increase the level of student activism.
Zolaykha Sherzad and Isabella Ghidoni held a fashion show in Afghanistan the other day. There's a whole article on the Beeb about how amazing an event it is. Is it though? Why is it amazing that women of any culture would be interested in the lastest and greats "looks" that would be available to them. The assumption that if you wear burka that you cease to care about how you look seems as if it requires a certain naivity. What they fail to realize is that fashionable clothes aren't worn to attract men as much as they are to show off to other women. At least that's my theory.
London's second-generation Asians are given the "Trainspotting" treatment in this slang-driven first novel, about four "desis" ("our own word for homeboy") who fight and preen in the backwater borough of Hounslow. Jas, the teen-age narrator, was a "dickless khota" before being taken under the muscled wing of the self-styled gangsta Hardjit, and his painstaking efforts to emulate his cohorts' "rudeboy finesse" are related in illuminating detail: facial hair should look "drawn on with a felt-tip pen" and riding in a Beemer requires staring "out the window like some big dumb dog with a big slobbery tongue." The incessant blend of boyish patois and text-message speak ("we had 2 call Davinder b4 we left dis place, innit") is captivating, but the plot becomes overwrought and absurd when the boys stumble into the world of high-stakes crime. <link>
The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council is a multi-stakeholder council that is working to improve access to employment for immigrants in the Toronto region, so they are better able to use the skills, education and experience they bring with them to Canada.
This is the Nationless Mobile Home. I have recently picked up one of these 'chrome' bags because it is going to serve as my mobile home while I am in Europe this Fall. Its is big enough for my essentials. Clothes + Cash + Camera + Notebook + Sillystring. On the plus side it is weatherproof, theftproof, incredibly comfortable and of course, stylish, but it doesn't make you stand out like a sore thumb. You want to stay low key. Blend in all chameleon-like. On the down side, it has no toilet, no shower, no clean sheets, nor a place to rinse a toothbrush. It does make a nice pillow though.
Preamble
Water is the ultimate fuel no matter where we find ourselves. When we are stripped to the essentials, besides air, water is our most precious resource. It powers our body, our mind, and its serenity sooths the spirit. What is interesting is it's processes for creating electicity.
Hand gestures mean many different amusing things in different cultures. One amusing one that I know off involves trying to get a snaping noise while pushing a fist through the other hand. I don't dare mention what it means but you can attempt a guess. Anyhow here's a really indepth article on what thumbs up and thumbs down gestures mean in different cultures.
A National Charity of the Design and Construction Industry created by the Society for Design Administration.
Here's an interactive map of the casulties in iraq. It's an interesting way to summarize a war. Like watching death in fast forward.
"This new mode was not a matter of script metamorphosing into living forms which are also readable letters, but of using script to delineate such forms. Seldom had the flexibility of the Arabic alphabet been so tested.
Presenting and fostering the artistic accumulation, creativity, and dynamism in Turkey has been the foremost mission of Istanbul Modern.. Istanbul Modern is dedicated to protect and showcase the artistic production within the modern and contemporary art scene. With this purpose in mind, it is Istanbul Modern’s desire to become an institution that determines the artistic agenda, provides education, imparts love for the arts, and reaches the masses with its dynamic and polyphonic environment.
Nine million refuges around the world. Maybe the cool flashiness of their website will cause you to come to their aid. It worked on me. Or maybe it's just that I prefer online donations to the pushy street evangilizer trying to steal a minute of my time for the environment. Damn you tree huggers. Don't you care about the kids without footballs!
It's always been a dream of mine (and a secret reason behiend this blog) to become a travel writer. Perhaps I've read too much Bill Bryson and Anthony Bourdain but it simply seems like the most amazing job of all. You get paid to wander around the world and all you have to do is commit to paper how you feel about it. O if Ionly it were as easy as that. Maybe I can get a tv show like Micheal Palin. ; )
