The Learning Process

There're many psychological definitions, flowcharts and diagrams to illustrate The Learning Process.

But for me, learning is the fact of increasing our knowledge coupled with applying whatever we've learnt in real-life situations.

How many times have you tried really hard to remember some complex mathematical formulae just to use it on the day of exam and forget all about it afterwards?

Studying just for the sake to clear out your exams ain't call studying... well, not that exams aren't important! But my point is, learning should be a fun, creative and innovative activity... Not the thought of being stuck in a classroom and checking your watch every 5 minutes wondering when the lectures would get over!

"Grades do not measure intelligence & age doesn't define maturity."

How to be a better person?

What does your facebook posts say about you?

What’s on your mind when you’re posting something on facebook? Well, depending on your moods, your facebook posts can be divided into irritating posts and non-annoying posts.

Non-Annoying Post- These can be funny or informative.

Funny Posts:

Informative Status Update:

1. Traffic jam at Pheonix.

2. No school today due to torrential rainfall.

Annoying posts

There can be many reasons for posting an annoying facebook status. The main reasons are:

1. Forging your image

2. To induce jealousy

3. Attention craving

4. Narcissism

1. Image Forging- The user wants to change the perception his facebook friends have towards him.

• Yayy! I passed my first semester exams!
• Guess who finally got her driving licence? :D
• Thank you Krista for the amazing day <3 nbsp="">
• Off to Buddha Bar tonite!
• Seemingly, you can now clear your engineering exams drunk :P

Statistically, only 10% of your facebook friends care about what you post! Consequently, 90% don’t give a damn whether you’ve cleared your papers or where you’re going to spend your weekends!

2. To induce jealousy

• Post picture of your new car/apartment/girlfriend
• Hawaii here I come!

I guess facebook is  the place where you can make your friends/ex-es envious of your life!

3. Attention Craving

• ... is cleaning my room!
• What a horrible day!

Some people use facebook cos they’re feeling lonely, but that doesn’t mean you need to post any shitty thing that is happening in your life every minute!

Now, some users would just look at the comments without responding to any of it, and he even likes when ppl are commenting. Others, would eventually elaborate what hap on that day. And there are others, who would continue keeping on the mystery until he’s got many likes and comments…

•  Thank you @blaah @blaah @blaah @blaah for everything you’ve done. All these years of bla bla bla and bla…

This type of user would tag his friends for every little unimportant things!

4. Narcissism- The user likes to brag about his thoughts, his life...

• Pizza!
• Off to KFC, then the beach, then home…
• It's raining!!!

There’re some people who just as soon as they’ve reached somewhere they would update their status:

• I’m having coffee @some_place with @some_people

Seriously, what are you trying to show when you’ve checked in at some place? If you really were having fun, you would not be updating your status simultaneously. I guess facebook was created to be used when you don’t have anything to do, and not to be used as a personal diary!

Before facebooking it*

• I just finished my dissertation!

You finished your paper, so wat? Do you need a medal?

• Posts some news happening around the world: war in that country, presidential election in that country, statistics on global warming, football matches score...

We’ve got newspapers and news websites for that!

• Publishing some quotes from Einstein, Buddha, Jobs, Gates…  

Ok fine you find a post inspiring, and you think by sharing it with your friends, your friends would become more motivated? You want to inspire them, do something inspiring, don't use others quotes! Some people just post these things to craft their image; they want people to see how inspiring you are!

In a nutshell, there're different types of facebook users and somewhere even we've published annoying fb posts!

Here are some other facebook-related post that you might like:

http://velocity93.blogspot.com/2011/08/type-of-facebook-users-status.html

http://velocity93.blogspot.com/2011/05/effect-of-social-networking-sites-on.html

http://velocity93.blogspot.com/2013/08/mood-swings-due-to-facebook.html

lhttp://velocity93.blogspot.com/2013/01/facebookpersonal-diary.html

Just a little 'womanly' thought...

Women have been facing sexual discrimination since the early ages, and even if today they are allowed to vote in some countries, they are still not considered to be equal to ‘men’.

Nowadays, in our so called ‘modern society’, some women still do not have the right to go to school. It’s as if women were put on this planet only to reproduce, to stay at home and cater for the needs of his husband and children.

Furthermore, women have been depicted as being ‘sex-objects’.  In most porn movies, it is the woman who is being dominated and treated like a sex-slave. Not only virtually, but all around the world, sex crimes and rapes are on the rise.

What excuses do men have? She was not decently dressed? She was walking alone at night?

Due to these narrow-minded people, women are more afraid of going out, to do whatever they want to do; they are being deprived of their Rights. Rights to be free! Rights to express themselves! Rights to lead a normal life like any normal ‘man’.

It’s high time we start changing our mindset about women being the weaker sex but rather considering them as equal counterparts. Small acts  when multiplied by millions of people can change the world :)

“A woman brought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one!”

Grandmas’ training to be Solar Engineers in India

In a little village in the state of Rajasthan in India, there exists a college, Barefoot College, active since 40 years already.

In this college, most of its students are grandmothers from the Least Developed Countries of the world (Asia, Africa & the Pacific Islands), who had left their families for a 6 months training to become solar engineers.

Objective of the College: Train exploited poor rural inhabitants to become self-independent women and live with dignity and self-respect (Equality of Women)!

After obtaining their diploma, they would take homes the solar lanterns they’ve built and use their newfound knowledge and skills to help in the development of the villages from where they’ve come from.

The college works under the Gandhian Principle:

Finally, at night, most of the children gather around a big solar lantern and the college provides night schooling to these children, since during the day they have to help their parents in the fields.

Self-Descriptive Image

Sometime a single picture can convey soo many messages:

Are you grateful for what you have?

How many times do you halt your busy schedule and appreciate what you have? There are many things we should be grateful for, but nowadays, we take most of these things for granted.

"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives." -John F. Kennedy

When I was a kid, I took almost everything for granted, but as I grew up, I learn to enjoy every little thing that life could offer.

Take education for example… Here in Mauritius, school is compulsory but some people don’t realize how lucky they are to be literate; some people might think that being educated is part of their basic Rights, but, it is more likely to be a gift, an opportunity, a privilege…

“An attitude of gratitude brings great things.”  -Yogi Bhajan

There are tons of things to be grateful for: your life, your family and friends, your health, nature, technology, to be able to read this post right now… some people don’t even have a decent place to live and here you are, at your desk, using a PC or cell with an INTERNET CONNECTION!!!

 “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” - Cynthia Ozick

Have you ever noticed the more you get familiar to someone or some situation in your life, you are more likely to take it for granted? Sometimes, we ought to give more attention and show more gratitude to these things…

Be more thankful for this amazing world we are living in... Even if sometimes you are going through a tough time, remember there's always tons of reasons to be grateful for in life.

One day before exams...

What do you do one day before exams?..

Relax cos u already studied ealier and yu just need to quickly go through your notes??

Well...

Personally, I wait for the last minute to revise & every fckin time I'll be askin myself the same questn: "Why didnt i start studyin earlier?"

Has it ever occured to you to do all the dumbest, random stuffs the eve before exams rather than actually studying?

I mean only during the exams week, we will want to watch all our favorites tv shows, painting your room, painting your nails, play games, clean up the house, bath your pet, SLEEEEP, procrastinate...

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1 week before exams --> XD

4 days before exams --> :D

2 days before exams --> :)

1 day before exams --> :S

Night before exams --> :(  :'(  :@ :@ !!!@@@ :'(

Every fckin time!!!