My Favorite Musician

 Do you like to listen to music? Acually, I always listen to music when I study. Especially Eric Clapton who is my favorite musician. I love listen to his music, The first time I heard his music was in high school. English teacher played 'Tears in heaven' to make us practice listening. When I heard that song I felt comfortable. Since then, I play his song when I studying or reading.

  He has a lot of good songs and I like most of his song. I think his best song is 'Tears in heaven'. This song is kind of pop ballad (using guitar). It made in 1992, when I born. This song has a story, that is tragedy. In 1991, he has a son Coner who only 4 years old. One day, suddenly his son fell off from roof and died. He was really desperating, missing his son. He composed for his son. After a year Eric Clapton launch a new album. That album ranked billboard and got 3 prizes. And he also has many great song likes 'Change the world', 'Wonderful Tonight'. I recommnad you try to hear his songs. I'm sure you also like his music.

My Career Journey

    Once I graduated from the College of Science in King Saud University, division of Mathematics back in January 2007, I started looking for a job as a teacher since I like teaching. Luckily, I found a vacant position in one of well-known intermediate schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and I took it.  I started teaching from the day that I was appointed in, and what a surprise! I always looked at teaching as a comfortable profession where all what the teacher has to do is standing and explaining simple rules and math principles compared to what I have learned in the college. Unfortunately, this was not the case when I was confronted with the realty. Teaching requires a lot of patience, skills, and efforts as well as love and here I mean that you need to love teaching in order to be a good teacher, otherwise your life will be miserable. Anyhow, after teaching for couple of months I realized that teaching is not for me and I cannot afford spending an extra moment of my life in that field; so I decided to resign and rest at home for a couple of months. After resting at home for almost a month and thinking about my next step and what should I do other than teaching, an idea came to me. Why should not I start a home business? I am good at baking and there are not so many professional females bakers in Saudi Arabia and in Riyadh in particular. Then, this idea became even stronger in my mind when I saw Martha Stewart's show at that moment I realized that such a project is not only feasible but needed as well, and this was my first step in the right direction. So I bought all the material needed and participated in small exhibition for females entrepreneurs and distributed free samples of cookies and cupcakes for the attendees as well as my business cards and this was the start for me. Thereafter, people started to know me and place orders for cookies and cupcake something that I could not handle alone so I asked my cousin to help me by answering the calls and taking the orders. My business expanded and I made logo for my products ''Miss Cookies''. However, I was forced to suspend my business since I got engaged since I have to travel to be with my husband. Being away from my country will not deter me from proceeding in this path that I chose for myself. Here,  I will seize every single moment to learn and enlighten myself with new and brilliant ideas and who knows what the future holds for us.

My favorite musician

Do you like listen to music? Acually, When I study I always listen to music. Especially Eric Clapton, he is my favorite musician. I love his music, The first time I heard his music was in high school. English teacher played 'Tears in heaven' to make us practice listening. When I heard that song I feel comfortable. After then, I play his song when I studying or reading. 

He has a lot of good songs. I like most of his song. But the best song is 'Tears in heaven'. This song is kind of pop ballad (using guitar). It made in 1992, when I born. This song has a story, that is tragedy. In 1991, he has a son Coner who only 4 years old. One day suddenly his son fell off from roof and died. He was really desperated, missing his son. He composed for his son. After a year Eric Clapton launch a new album. That album ranked billboard and gets 3 prizes. And he also has many massive song likes 'Change the world', 'Wonderful Tonight'. I recommnad you hear his songs. I'm sure you also like his music.

17.JUN. Alice

My Dream of Obtaining a Patent

 

                    I always think that if the determination is present, we will get what we want. Since I began PhD in 2009, I always dream to obtain a patent. A patent is a property right for an invention granted by a government to the inventor. I started thinking about choosing a new and useful topic for my thesis. I decided to choose a topic in nanotechnology, because it is a new and interesting field. Nanotechnology refers to the study of compounds of 100 nanometers or smaller in one dimension. I chose the subject "Biosynthesis of nanoparticles by marine macro-algae and their medical application" and I carried out many experiments. Through those experiments , I have reached a new method for preparing nanoparticles. To protect my idea, I have made ​​a request for filing a patent at the European Patent Office to give me the right to prevent others from making, using, or, selling the invention without my permission. This month, on the June 5, 2012, my patent application has been filed. Now, I'm waiting for the results and I am confident that with persistence we can achieve any dream.


                                                                                                                                             By Nouf   

My Stories

                                          Oh My Goodness, The Lobster

      I grudge having to the lobster. When I went to Los Angeles. I went to "The Lobster" for dinner. "The Lobster" is lobster restaurant. I ordered a 3oz grilled lobster. I thought, it was $32. But, When I saw a receipt. A grilled lobster was $96. I could not understand. I saw menu again. At the time I could understand, why it is $96. Because,  a grilled lobster is $32 for "per oz". so $96 for 3oz. It was too expensive. I thought, I bankrupted. That's bad experience. Oh My Goodness, The Lobster!!! 

                                              Shooting Guns

      I went to shoot guns on last wednesday with Ryoga, Daisuke, and Reza. That was amazing!! Because, it was first time. In Japan, we can shoot guns everywhere except for the police and Selfe-Defense Forces. So, I really wanted to shoot guns. I shot rifle, shotgun and handgun. Their impact are very strong and heavy. I did not exactly shoot. I thought, I need to practice more. One day, I want to say "My hobby is shooting guns." That was a dream come true story.

                                                      My Favorite Movie
        My favorite movie is "My Blueberry Nights". This movie was made in 2007.
The movie was the debut of Norah Jones as an actress. And also, starred Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. The movie's introduction is; The first stage is NYC. A young woman parted from her boyfriend. And then, she is searching journey for what is love. Next she goes to Memphis, and also she goes to Las vegas. I did not know, the move which Memphis is stage. The movie's sound track is great sound. I love these music. I am impressed by this movie.


Thank you for reading.   ーTakashi

My Favorite Movie

My name is Sungran Lee. I want to talk about my favorite Japanese animation movie we called Japanimation. My favorite movie is My Neighbor Totoro(となりの トトロ). Totoro is a monster, who lives in a forest and only children can see him. Someday two girls who are Mei and Sazki moved in to a country yard where Totoro lived. When Mei was cleaning her house, she found strange things and followed them so she met Totoro. And then they have experienced a lot of strange things. One day, Mei had corn that she wanted to bring to her mother who was in a hospital. So she went to her mother; however, she didn’t know where the hospital was. Eventually, she lost her way but Totoro found her and brought her home with his friends. Whenever Mei and Sazki need his help, Totoro helps them.

I have a reason to like this movie. Totoro is a true friend. Whenever their friend needs help, they help and stay with them.

by Sungran Lee

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