Hi kids!
Let’s talk about misunderstandings today. Misunderstandings can lead to all kinds of silly repercussions. Here is an example:...
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Cover Story: Self-shaping
A teacher is an individual that sparks intellects, makes subject-matter come alive and causes students to pursue knowledge on their own. As teaching is a multi-disciplinary art, a dedicated teacher is...
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CUSTOMS: A sweet tradition
The sun shines mercilessly. The hot weather restricts many people to staying indoors where the weather is cooler. But outside in the scorching heat one can spot from afar a Sabeel,...
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EXPERIENCE: A visit to Khori Gardens
It is certainly because of my school that books and book reading has not only become my hobby but a passion. It all started when we were told to read a...
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Story Time: The real genie
“What is your wish my Lord?” Wow I was amazed at the sight! A genie stood in front of me. He just came out of the lamp I was rubbing. Just...
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Story Time: The rose
One day as I went upstairs on the rooftop of our house, I spotted a pretty rose amongst our rose plants. But as I bent forward to touch it, I heard...
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Story Time: The Silk Cushion Inn
In heaven, on a cloud, was the Silk Cushion Inn. So beautiful was it that no words were sufficient to describe it. The Silk Cushion Inn had the softest, most tender,...
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Country Hopping: Myanmar
Myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia, bounded northwest by India and Bangladesh, northeast by China, southeast by Laos and Thailand, and southwest by the Bay of Bengal....
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Opinion Corner: Whose favourite are you?
BEING the youngest one at my home makes me the darling of every single member of my family. And even if I weren’t the youngest, I could still be sure about...
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Book: Dragon book of verse
After poems of the Jack and Jill variety, there is a dearth of poetry appealing to children until they are usually made to take it up again in junior school. Oxford’s...
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Movie: Jungle book 2
Like all other Disney animated movies this one too is simple, straightforward and easy to get involved and fall in love with. The Jungle Book 2 is a follow-up of a...
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Music: Drama songs
The album kicks off with Fuzon singing their ever-popular Saagar which really is an ideal song for beginning an album. The song appeared in serial “Jab jab dil mile” and leaves...
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Web Site: World geography
Knowledge about world geography is very essential for students. www.worldatlas.com is a website that will give you extensive information about world geography along with maps of the world. If you want...
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CD Review: Nakatomi Plaza
Where first-person shooter games are concerned, we’re often promised new and fanciful things such as enhanced graphics and new gadgets. Die Hard 3 Nakatomi Plaza tries to recreate the events from...
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On Air: Showbiz today
Here is a show that has it all. Be it sizzling gossip, Hollywood and Lollywood block busters, smashing music hits or the face of the week. Faisal Qureishi and Nida Khan,...
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Miscellanea: Inter-school debate
The Beaconhouse School System, Clifton Campus, hosted an inter-school debate on Feb. 21. Schools from Hyderabad, Bahawalpur, Sadiqabad and Rahim Yar Khan all took part in the competition....
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SPORTS UPDATE: Americas’ Cup
GENEVA: Cow bells clanged and champagne flowed on Sunday as Swiss boat Alinghi won sailing’s Americas’ Cup for a European nation — and a landlocked one at that — for the...
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Weekly Update: Jackson goes to Baba
LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson once paid nearly 100,000 pounds for a “voodoo curse” to kill director Steven Spielberg. In 2000 Jackson attended a voodoo ritual in Switzerland where a witch doctor promised that Spielberg, music mogul David....
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Quiz: Fishy business
1. Which is considered to be the most venomous family of fish in the world?
2. Which is the slowest moving marine fish?
3. Which sense is most important to a shark when hunting its prey?...
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Quotes
* I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.— Helen Keller
* God doesn’t call us to be successful. He calls us to be faithful.— Albert Hubbard....
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Mail Box
NOT so long ago, the condition of our transport system, specially our buses, was so bad that people would think twice before getting on a bus. The buses were so dirty and stuffy, taking a ride in one was more of an inconvenience...
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Poet''s Corner
Spring
Spring is a season
Which provides a good reason
For us to play
Even in mud and clay...
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