Hawi’s Year End

Why are modern-day kids so dumb?

There is absolutely no doubt that the quality of in school training being given to students today has fallen to deplorable standards. Just take a look at the world around you. I came across a survey that said that one in every five student studying in the third grade had access to a cell phone. By the time the students reach their fifth grade, only one in every five student does not have access to a cell phone. This is a staggering figure.

Internet + Education = Dumber kids

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Why we ought to keep on complaining!

Last week I was disgusted to open up an email from a friend. Let me start again, it’s early…I opened up an email from a friend which disgusted me. Nothing to do with my friend’s lovely personality of course – this was more to do with what she was complaining about. And trust me, she had every right to complain. If what had happened to her had happened to me I’d have been in a rage in an instant!

The story went like this: she had ordered some pvc banners for her company. A simple enough thing that she had done countless times. Now, in the past she had always followed her order up with an email listing what she had ordered, including dimensions. This time she had not, and it had all turned out to be a disaster…

at the end of her email she wrapped it up nicely by saying how the firm had finally relented and offered a full refund…

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Inequality in all its forms

I was on a website looking at Stansted transfers, when I saw an awful advert for steak. One thing that amazes me in this world is how people can justify to themselves the way in which they completely disregard the lives of some animals, yet they would practically defend others with their own life! There is a huge disconnect somewhere when someone values the life of a cat above all other things, because it is their own pet, yet they are willing to be part of the murder of hundreds of other animals each year. Why do humans think that they have the right to decide which lives have value and which ones do not?

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Playing Doctors And Nurses Is A Serious Game

The world is in a right old state. Economies are crumbling, the Euro looks like it’s going to go belly up any day now and jobs are being lost everywhere on a daily basis. In the UK it feels something akin to trying to play tennis with only one hand. You rush for every ball that sails over the net, but it’s becoming harder and harder to return it. Both the army and NHS have had their budgets cut or ‘redistributed’, but be assured that hope remains.

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Long Hair for Girls

I was playing with my niece in the park and my poor sister almost went ballistic when she wiped her muddy hands across her head. My niece is three and very cute, my sister should be a feminist. What is going wrong. I took my sister aside to try to have a serious chat with her about why she felt she needed to keep her daughter so clean and tidy when she was having fun. Her answer gave me another clear option for saving the world.

Little girls are happier is they wear their hair short

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Road Rage-One Thing I Want To Banish From The Planet

This is one thing that I want to get rid off before the year ends. The tendency of drivers to behave like maniacs on the road is plain stupid. Sure, people get ticked off by their bosses or get dumped by their partners. Spouse cheat and kids don’t give respect. What is the point of taking it all out on the accelerator? People drive at top speeds and end up crashing into each other. What is more, they get out of the vehicle and try to manually kill each other, something that the vehicle failed to succeed in.

Why? What purpose does this serve? Everybody feels ashamed at the end of the day when they realize that they have behaved like a complete prat in front of others. Sure, we like to tell ourselves that the other person has behaved like a bigger prat. However, there is a voice inside you that says – ’What were you thinking?'

If I had my way, I would use metal tins and keep banging them together until those shouting at the top of their voice on the road would shut up. That, in my opinion, is the best way of tackling this silly phenomenon. Not only does it create aggravation in society, it also makes us safer drivers fear taking the vehicle out on the road for spin.

That is the worst part of the entire deal. The fools end up going home and pretending as if they are happy. The rest of us have to pay for the nonsensical behavior of some drivers on the road.

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Plastic Bag Revolution

I hate plastic bags. They’re a total pain. Why?

As follows:

1) They will last forever. Not good for the animals when they end up in the sea choking them to death, is it?

2) They are wasteful: wouldn’t card or paper be a better material? They also cover just about everything in a supermarket.
3) The process of producing them creates all kinds of toxic fumes and vapours which are absolutely rubbish.
4) We’ve become addicted to them, which means that now, we EXPECT all things to be made out of this material. Yes it’s versatile and yes it’s adaptable but does that mean it’s really the best thing to use? I don’t think so.

So, with all this in mind, I am no longer going to use plastic bags at all. Never. That’s right people, I said NEVER!

Is this a good thing? Well, maybe it’ll inconvenience me a bit, but basically I think it is a good thing. It has to be. Okay, so there’s not much I can do to rid the world of plastic bags on my own, but in time, and using social networking, I aim to completely change the way we live.

Who knows? It’s a crazy idea but it just might work, or so I like to think.

Another good thing about bags getting the boot is that, and here comes a poem, other plastic goods might follow suit. If you ask me that’s pretty bloomin'fanstastic. It means that all kinds of things like banner stands might start changing for the better and companies might make more things out of environmentally sound material. Great!

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Healthy not huge

I’m just getting back into going to the gym, after a long time of lazing about on my backside doing no exercise and eating lots of cake. It was when I tried to play football with some mates the other week and ended up a wheezing, sweating mess – with all my supposed friends standing around and laughing at me – that I decided something had to be done.
I’m taking it slowly at first. A bit of swimming, bit of time on the exercise bike and the rowing machine. Now that we’re getting some pleasant spring evenings I’ve even been known to strap on the sweat bands and go for a quick jog. But soon I know I will have to go into the gym and make an appointment for the one thing I am really dreading – my personal training appointment.
I’d happily go without, to be honest, and just muddle along doing my own thing, but the gym bosses insist that everyone has an introductory session with a member of staff so that they can familiarise themselves with all the machines and to “get the most” out of the equipment and their gym membership. I’ve been through one of these sessions before, and somehow got myself talked into doing loads of weights and signing up for the torture that is also known as spinning classes. I was only a few minutes away from being offered huge jars of whey protein and some steroids, I reckon!
Can’t gym staff accept that some guys just want to be fit? That we don’t all want to look like Arnie in his prime. I’d love to go to one of those women-only gyms (not for that reason) where they just let you work out at your own pace, rather than all that grunting and free weights that seems to be encouraged among us blokes….

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To Quit Or Not To Quit

Many people are fed up with their jobs. The nearly three million unemployed in the UK though might have something to say about that though. So when does it get to the point that your job has become so unbearable that you need to leave. I’ll try to offer some rounded advice as well as my usual rant to prevent you from getting depressed or angry.

First the advice bit: you should never quit your job without having something already lined up to take its place. Whether that be another job, a plan to move abroad or travel or time to start studying for a degree you should always try and have a plan. Notice I used the word ‘try'right after the word ‘always’. Whilst it is sensible to have a back up and an alternative to take over once you’ve given your boss the finger, it is not always essential.

Sometimes you can become so beaten down in your job that you become too afraid to jerk yourself out of it. You feel like you need some kind of Mac Antivirus to reboot your systems and get you back into the swing of life. If you are in that kind of situation then it can become okay to hand in your notice without having a back up plan ready. It is not always easier to look for a job whilst you’re working. In fact trying to find a job whilst you’re working can become wholly depressing as you’re usually knackered and de-motivated. What better motivation is there then the threat of poverty? I’ve seen people quit their hell hole jobs and move into something they’ve always wanted to do in life, just like that (mimes clicking his fingers).

So by all means try and be sensible and have an alternative, but if you really are stuck in a rut and are miserable then do yourself a favour and give yourself whatever kick you need to get back to your life. It’s your only one at the end of the day…

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How to slip under the radar

There must be something about my face or my body language that makes me look suspicious. How else do you explain the fact that I always – and I mean ALWAYS – get pulled aside by the security chaps at airports. Sometimes it’s just for an extra swipe with the plastic thing, but every now and then (including one very scary moment at Tunis airport) when I actually get taken into a whole separate room for a confusing conversation in pidgin English about my intentions. I feel like a guy asking a father for permission to marry his daughter…
Maybe they check all the people who have bought a worldwide roamig sim card before going on vacation. I used to think that this was just a really good way to get a cheap deal on international calls, but having seen The Wire on TV maybe it’s actually the way that drug dealers operate and that’s why I always get pulled over by security.
I know these guys have a job to do, and I really didn’t mind the first few times it happened, but now it’s getting to be a bit of a drag. With all the travelling I do, I can’t imagine how much of my precious time I’ve wasted sitting in airport offices looking at my watch in case I miss my flight! I’ve actually taken to allowing an extra 30 minutes for my flight in anticipation of all the extra hoops I’m going to end up having to jump through. Guess I’ll have to start practising looking sweet and innocent if I want to get through air travel a bit quicker in the future…

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