As usual, still awake and working. Hopping from one website to another. Can you live with that? I'm used to this since... for quiet some time now... While listening to one of my favorite band  "The Calling", the band that sang the hit song "Wherever You Will Go" and while creating some accounts to various websites, I came across with this very interesting ebook as it was featured on the site. Kinda old but I still downloaded it. It is entitled "25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself". 


Here are the simplified version of the ebook, well, it's too long to put the whole content, right?

 

  Care as if it’s your own

  Do your daily work with passion!

  Build strong relationships

  Dream BIG !

  Set the right expectations

  Ask for help

  Celebrate small victories

  Set higher standards

  Know your values

  Pursue right memberships

  Help people help themselves

  Be a reader

  Plan by outcomes

  Think Long-term

  Embrace uncertainty with ease

  Ask the right questions

  Engage with a coach

  Be relevant

  Get back on your feet FAST !

  Lead a volunteer effort

  Balance Innovation and Continuous Improvement

  Learn to sell

  Learn systems thinking

  Walk away from free

  Influence the influencers

 Gotta finish reading this one. Bye for now. Ciao




Credits

Check the Blog of Rajesh Setty for the elaborated version.

You can also get the ebook here

I'm about to sleep and I stumble to this blog post. I really find this one very interesting.

Since the 10th  century,  Butuan  appeared to have been in good relations with  the Srivijayan Empire. Being  located on the coast of Mindanao,  balanghais are  often docking at the Butuan bay keeping good business  between the local  people of Butuan and traders from the neighboring empire.

I was blog hopping when i bumped into this very hilarious and humorous article that intales a story of an elephant who has been been snap by a crocodile. Well, the story goes like this.

Once upon a time there lived a little elephant in the far, far away jungle. But this little elephant was not a good boy, and he was never listening to what his mother was telling to him. His mother always tell him : ” Be careful where you are going and don’t wonder around, because the jungle is not the safest place to be!”, but he didn’t care a lot about what his mother’s talking.

And, then one day he went to the river and the crocodile caught him and snap his trunk. The little elephant tried to run away, but it was to late, the crocodile already got him. He started to yell, and good thing was that his mother and father heard…not only they heard the little elephant’s screaming but all the family did, so they all run to the rescue, and saved little elephant.

Description: If you are bored and want to find the real fun thing then the right action game would do the task for you.

When you are in a mood to find the real fun and exciting thing and action in your life then the right Action Games are the thing which you should get. It is always fun to play games in which you take the charge as the hero of the game and have to save the world, the girl or the treasure. It can be about anything and you would love every part of the game. There are many different kinds of Action Games which you can easily find in the market but you should be careful while choosing the game for yourself. You should first try to see the preview of the game before purchasing it so that you do not have to get disappointed after the purchase. The Action Games allow you to bring some extra action to your life. This would make your more energetic and enthusiastic about the things.

There are different kinds of games that include different types of actions. There are some games in which you just have to fight with the villains or vamps while in others you have a certain task to complete. You are on a journey and have to save the world or some other creature. You can also find some imaginative and unreal creatures in most of the Action Games which are enough to give you the kind of entertainment you are looking for. You can fight the world easily and safely too with the help of playing such games.

When it comes to greeting people in Italian, there are certain nuances you ought to bear in mind. While a simple ‘Hi’ or ‘Hello’ is sufficient in greeting someone in English (even someone like your priest), in Italian, this depends on how well you know the person and the relationship you share. The difference is basically in the formal and the informal usage.

Keeping it Casual:
In interacting with friends, close family members, people of the same age group, peers, shopkeepers, etc., casual is usually the way to go. ‘Ciao’, pronounced, chow, does the work of saying a casual hi/hello in Italian. However, using this casual form of greeting with everyone is not suggested, especially the elderly. What might come as a surprise to you is that ‘Ciao’ is also used as a casual term to say ‘goodbye’. Yes, the same word to say ‘Hello’ and well as ‘Goodbye’.

Going the Formal Way:
If you are to learn the Italian language as a part of your school’s curriculum, the standard form of greeting you will encounter is, ‘Buongiorno’, pronounced, bwon-JOR-no. This literally translates into ‘good day’; with ‘buon’ meaning good, and ‘giorno’ meaning day. ‘Buongiorno’, by the way, can only be used to say hi/hello and not goodbye.

In continuing to use the same format, this greeting changes with the time of the day it is used. In the late afternoon or evening it is more apt to say, ‘Buona sera’, which translates to ‘good evening’. In the morning, you will still say, ‘Buongiorno’.

Bear in mind, who you’re interacting with makes an important difference in the term you should use. For example, you really would not want to be saying ‘Ciao’ to the Pope if you chanced upon a meeting with him.

Other Variations:
As you travel to different parts of Italy, you will notice local differences when it comes to people greeting each other. In the southern part of the country you are more likely to come across the term ‘Salve’, pronounced sal-ve. ‘Mandi’, pronounced mahn-dee, is a Friulian term; and ‘Bona die’, pronounced boh-na dee-ah, is the Sardinian way of saying hi/hello.

The Physical Aspect:
Remember that native Italians are rather prone to using physical greetings when saying hi/hello. This can come in the form of a handshake in between men, and a kiss on one or both cheeks when it comes to women. When it comes to men and women interacting with each other, this depends on the relationship they share. For instance, relatives, irrespective of their genders, generally greet each other with a kiss on both cheeks.

Once you’re comfortable in using these terms to say Hi or Hello in Italian, you can take the next step and try incorporating more words to make the greeting more personalized. For instance: learn how to say ‘Ciao Bella’ next, and use it with the ladies (it simply means hello beautiful).

Understand that learning Italian is not as hard as it’s often made out to be. Start with the basics, get your pronunciation right, and practice regularly. A great thing is the online sphere has opened up a large variety of learning resources for you to choose from, and this will only help in your learning this language.