The shrimp's heart is in its head.
Ants never sleep
The human brain is 80% water
An olive tree can live up to 1500 years
Cleopatra married two of her brothers
Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China
Roosters have to extend their necks in order to crow
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room
In Korea and other East Asian countries, the age of the person is counted from conception and not physical birth
Butterflies smell with their feet
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"
Australia is a major exporter of camels.
Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.
The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin
The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
nerd poem 01..one of my fav poems.
nerds love poetry and this is one of my favs,its called home:
I climbed the hill to find it,
if it wasn't at home;
it must be on the hill,i thought,
but it wasn't there.
I climbed the mountain to find it,if it wasn't at home or on the hill;
it must be on the mountain,i thought,
but it wasnt there.
I swam accross the river to find it,if it wasn't at home,on the hill or on the mountain;it must be in the river,i thought,
but it wasn't there.
With my feet aching,heart bruised and spirit crushed.i swam back accross the river,crossed the mountain,climbed down the hill and headed home.
I got home as the last of the midnight candles flickered out and there it was;
twinkling with the sparkle of a million stars.
The treasure i had travelled all over to find had been home all this while just waiting for me to open the eyes of my heart.
written by ifeanyi ogbo.
I climbed the hill to find it,
if it wasn't at home;
it must be on the hill,i thought,
but it wasn't there.
I climbed the mountain to find it,if it wasn't at home or on the hill;
it must be on the mountain,i thought,
but it wasnt there.
I swam accross the river to find it,if it wasn't at home,on the hill or on the mountain;it must be in the river,i thought,
but it wasn't there.
With my feet aching,heart bruised and spirit crushed.i swam back accross the river,crossed the mountain,climbed down the hill and headed home.
I got home as the last of the midnight candles flickered out and there it was;
twinkling with the sparkle of a million stars.
The treasure i had travelled all over to find had been home all this while just waiting for me to open the eyes of my heart.
written by ifeanyi ogbo.
Monday, February 8, 2010
diary day 01
its 2:00am on the first day of January and I'm up in my room.me and my family just got back from church and somewhere down the stairs,i can hear my sisters laughing their heads off,having a sister is a pain in the arse but having two sisters is a pain in the arse,head,back,ears...everywhere and what could be so funny by this time of the day?,i ask myself.did they just discover a 2 minute magic cure for acne or are they just happy to see the new year....probably the latter.i ought to be happy too,its the first day of the year,firecrackers and bangers are going off everywhere..I'M ALIVE...yeah im happy(but why is there this hollow feeling inside of me)
i readjust my glasses and focus on the papers in front of me.i'm trying to write my new years resolutions but i'm having second thoughts considering the fact that i broke all of last years resolution just five days into the new year.this are my proposed resolutions for last year:
1.become a vegetarian
2.learn to speak french
3.learn to speak igbo(my traditional dialect)
4.be nicer to my sisters
5.plant a tree everyday
6.stop being a nerd
7.stop having crushes on random people.
WHAT WENT WRONG
now here is what went wrong,how on earth did i think i was going to survive been a vegetarian in this house where meals without meat would be like a jay-z video without girls in it.the first meal of the year was fried rice and roasted chicken(and boy was the chicken grinning up at me),i tried to resist but it was hard so i decided to taste the chicken and i promised myself that it'll be the last but here i am today the biggest customer of chicken republic,i eat chicken almost everyday.
i tried learning to speak french,i even enrolled for classes but after two classes(on the 3rd and 4th)i always found an excuse for skipping classes.i love french but i'll learn it when i'm 20(i promise)
my igbo classes were also a flop for my dear teacher(my good friend chidi)couldn't even say "i'm hungry" in igbo,our igbo sounded so english.it was like a blind man telling a deaf man how big the white house is.
i really tried to be nicer to my sisters but.....(its a long story).i love my sisters dearly but mom could they go on an holiday somewhere far away forever.
planting trees.i got the idea from a documentary about global warming and afforestation and how gloom will befall us if we dont plant trees.i did plant trees,(does planting bean seeds count as planting trees)..um,i think i'll continue this year.
stop being a nerd(my sister told me this).my reply:when u stop looking like a cross between a spider and aunt gwambadoogoo from the central african village district,i'll stop being a nerd.
crushes get you crushed so i decided to stop having crushes on random people until the new neighbour knocked on my door....
yeah,so u can see last years list was a flop,so i'm gonna make my new years list filled with more long term goals..so here are my new year resolutions
1.find God.
2.find happiness
3.find love(not crushes but love)
4.find amanda(i'll tell u more bout her shortly)
5.find myself.
6.find something new.
i can hear my sisters still shrieking downstairs and from them i get my motivation for my seventh resolution:
7.sell my sisters.
my facebook friend just asked if i've ever ridden a zebra in my backyard...i mean aren't animals everywhere in africa,he asked..i really couldnt answer this question..i might live in africa but i've never seen a giraffe,not to talk of a zebra even when i go to the village(country side)..the only wildlife i get to see are soldier ants and birds...most of the animals now live in a zoo or wildlife parks/conservation areas/game reserves....i think i need to visit a wildlife conversation area and get to ride on that zebra,my new year resolution 8.
more of my diary coming soon.
i readjust my glasses and focus on the papers in front of me.i'm trying to write my new years resolutions but i'm having second thoughts considering the fact that i broke all of last years resolution just five days into the new year.this are my proposed resolutions for last year:
1.become a vegetarian
2.learn to speak french
3.learn to speak igbo(my traditional dialect)
4.be nicer to my sisters
5.plant a tree everyday
6.stop being a nerd
7.stop having crushes on random people.
WHAT WENT WRONG
now here is what went wrong,how on earth did i think i was going to survive been a vegetarian in this house where meals without meat would be like a jay-z video without girls in it.the first meal of the year was fried rice and roasted chicken(and boy was the chicken grinning up at me),i tried to resist but it was hard so i decided to taste the chicken and i promised myself that it'll be the last but here i am today the biggest customer of chicken republic,i eat chicken almost everyday.
i tried learning to speak french,i even enrolled for classes but after two classes(on the 3rd and 4th)i always found an excuse for skipping classes.i love french but i'll learn it when i'm 20(i promise)
my igbo classes were also a flop for my dear teacher(my good friend chidi)couldn't even say "i'm hungry" in igbo,our igbo sounded so english.it was like a blind man telling a deaf man how big the white house is.
i really tried to be nicer to my sisters but.....(its a long story).i love my sisters dearly but mom could they go on an holiday somewhere far away forever.
planting trees.i got the idea from a documentary about global warming and afforestation and how gloom will befall us if we dont plant trees.i did plant trees,(does planting bean seeds count as planting trees)..um,i think i'll continue this year.
stop being a nerd(my sister told me this).my reply:when u stop looking like a cross between a spider and aunt gwambadoogoo from the central african village district,i'll stop being a nerd.
crushes get you crushed so i decided to stop having crushes on random people until the new neighbour knocked on my door....
yeah,so u can see last years list was a flop,so i'm gonna make my new years list filled with more long term goals..so here are my new year resolutions
1.find God.
2.find happiness
3.find love(not crushes but love)
4.find amanda(i'll tell u more bout her shortly)
5.find myself.
6.find something new.
i can hear my sisters still shrieking downstairs and from them i get my motivation for my seventh resolution:
7.sell my sisters.
my facebook friend just asked if i've ever ridden a zebra in my backyard...i mean aren't animals everywhere in africa,he asked..i really couldnt answer this question..i might live in africa but i've never seen a giraffe,not to talk of a zebra even when i go to the village(country side)..the only wildlife i get to see are soldier ants and birds...most of the animals now live in a zoo or wildlife parks/conservation areas/game reserves....i think i need to visit a wildlife conversation area and get to ride on that zebra,my new year resolution 8.
more of my diary coming soon.
nerd music 01
why do i like owl city?...is it because of cute sounding song titles like vanilla twilight,strawberry avalanche,umbrella beach,hot-air baloon,fireflies,meteor shower?....or is it the feathery voice of adam young?.....or could it be the wonderful simplicity of their lyrics?...is it that wonderful electronic/alternative/synthpop sound?..hmmm...sometimes you find the answers in the questions.
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