Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Dog Trouble

 DOG TROUBLE!!



      When I was younger, around seven years old, I had an incident with a golden retriever. It truly is a funny story but at the time it did not seem like it. My family and I were at a gathering at my uncle's house and it just happened that they owned a dog. All the younger kids were playing with the dog and to be fair, the dog was very friendly. Still, not once did I go close to it because I was extremely frightened. 

       I decided to enjoy the little get together and to ignore the dog. Soon enough had I forgotten about the dog when it was time to leave, so I went around and said goodbye to everyone. Of course that was the day when I had decided to wear mini high heels and given my age, I wasn't very good in them. I turned around to leave and out of nowhere the big golden retriever started towards me. My first thought was to get away from it. I was about to start running but there was a small brick wall in front of me, it was about a foot and a half in height. I tried to jump over it but somehow my heel managed to get stuck on it. I fell on my head and hit a clay flower pot. 

     I was rushed to the hospital because I had cut my forehead open and I was bleeding a lot. I got five stitches that day. Later when everything had passed, my mom told me that I had broken the flower pot. All I could do was laugh because all of that had happened only because I was afraid of a dog. The dog had been running towards me because he wanted to play and I freaked out, and as a result I now have a scar on my forehead. It isn't very noticeable but if you look hard enough, you can always see the scar on the top of my forehead close to my hairline. That will always serve as a reminder of how dogs, heels, and I make for a recipe of disaster.


Sunday, August 25, 2013

News and More News!

Meet North West! This adorable baby girl is the daughter of celebrities Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. She was recently born and many were curious as to what the baby looked like. No pictures had been posted until this Friday, when her grandma Kris Jenner posted a picture on Tweeter for everyone to see. Questions as to why Kim's mom chose Tweeter rather than Facebook to share the baby's first picture are a hot topic, but the real question is, who does baby North West resemble most, mom or dad?

Are you the type of person that uses Google to answer most of your questions? If yes, then you might want to pay attention. Just last week Google reported a one to five minute outage in most Google services including search and it seems to have caused a great impact. According to GoSquared's real time tracking, pageviews around the world dropped a considerably 40% during this outage and after it, there seemed to be a spike as is shown on the graph above. This goes to show that people everywhere seem to rely on Google most often than not to answer their everyday questions. 

After a cobra bit a 55-year-old Nepalese man while he was working on his rice paddy, the man chased the snake down and bit it repeatedly until it died.
About a year ago, a 55 year old man from Nepal was bitten by a Cobra and after he was treated and survived, he decided to bite back. Salmo Miya, the Nepali man, caught the snake that had previously bitten him and as an act of revenge, he bit the snake to death. This is certainly something you don't see every day and luckily he did not face any charges for killing the snake. 

On August 23, 2003, Kenyan vice president, Michael Kijana Wamalwa, died in London. Fifty nine year old Wamalwa was being treated in a London hospital, where he was reported to have died of kidney failure. The news of his death shocked the African nation and saddened those who knew him, including president Mwai Kibaki.
In the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, two athletes were tested positive for marijuana. The drug was found in urine tests of two unidentified athletes and the chairman of the IOC medical commission refused to reveal their identities or sports.