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This is a short story; inspired by the movie "Memento". A young woman tries to learn about inspecting and maintaining the parts of the family car . March 05 "Hon, why don't you pick up (daughter's name) from the school, today?" he said as he threw the keys. The game was on that day. February 09 The electrical system change went smoothly. "Wow. This is some expensive equipment you are installing," said the Technical Manager as he walked towards the female customer. "I don't understand why someone like you would want a faster car" The woman in her late 20s was surprised by his voice. She smiled, "Someone like me," before adding, "...actually, this is my husband's car." September 02 She spent the afternoon at a workshop downtown. The people were friendly. "Madam, this system change should make the vehicle go from its normal to an average of 75 kmph." "Thank you" s...

Koi wa Ameagari no You Ni (After the Rain) is a manga and anime series which received it's live-action adaptation treatment in 2018. Image Courtesy: IMDB The story follows a 17 year old girl who is in love with a 45 year old man. Before you get appalled and close this blog in angry-shock, I will let you know that the story is very heartwarming and cute for such a dramatic and sensitive theme. Regardless of the story matter, this article discusses how the live-action adaptation of the anime has some of the best selection of actors to bring the animated characters to life. Also, the criteria for judging the adaptation is not only acting skills but also how much the actor resembles the anime character they are potraying. 1. Yo Oizumi as Masashi Kondo Yo Oizumi is an actor of very high range, experience and calibre. He plays the perfect balance of an overworked manager in his mid 40s; doing his best to coordinate his team of workers at Café Restaurant Garden.  His ...

Are you a parent? No? But you will be. And when you have a child, he or she will take your smartphone or whatever holographic equivalent to a cellphone they have in 2035 and... they will play games with it. So, here's an article to help the parents of the late 2010s understand what games their children are playing. 4. Clash of Clans Ah! The game of timing. When I say timing, I mean timing one's entire life and livelihood around this game. In Clash of Clans or "CoC", you play as a giant godly being who has control over a small village (or a large village) in the middle of a clearing in a forest. You play as a "literal" god who has to micro-manage everything in this so-called village. You take control of fire breathing dragons, ink squirting minions, gold stealing goblins and cannon fodder barbarians in this online game of domination and destruction. But for an appropriate amount of destruction, there has to be a certain amount of construction. So, ...

The rules of Hazaar Hazaar is a card game played competitively  between four players. All the cards in the deck are shuffled and dealt so that each player gets 13 cards. The players then, arrange the cards in highest order in hands of 3, 3, 3, and 4. The hands are dealt turn-wise, and the player with the highest card rank in that hand, wins. Cards having a value of 10 and each face card above 10 is worth 10 points i.e. King, Queen, Jack, Ace and 10. All of the other cards are worth 5 points. A benchmark is predetermined e.g. 2000 points. The first player to reach that amount of points wins. How to win one hand using three Aces Some more rules: The person who loses an entire round i.e. the person who gets the lowest points in that round - has to deal the cards for the next round. This is your opportunity to cheat. First, count three cards from the top and insert and Ace. Place those cards into the deck from the top. Second, count six cards from t...

As of today, there seems to be no definitive cure for the coronavirus (COVID-19), although they say that research is underway., However that does not mean that there is nothing we, the ordinary people, can do to control the spread of this disease. Preventative measures are present, and such methods have proven useful in disease prevention in the past e.g. H1N1, avian flu etc. This is my story of how I accidentally discovered a new method to abuse drugs. It started with the mask An industrial mask, please - that is how I described the item I was shopping for at the agricultural machinery and utilities shop in my home district. I bought the mask quite a while before the outbreak. This was because I study in the agricultural course, a course which involves dust, dirt and pollen. So, I was quite glad to get my filthy hands on a good quality mask - so happy, that I didn't notice that the metal piece on the nose part was not aligned. Masks are actually a good buy, regardle...

Nine students and a teacher are kidnapped and locked inside a building. They are not allowed to leave the building, and any attempt to do so results in the death of the participant. Every day at 3:00 p.m., the participants gather and vote off one member to be killed. Every night, two of the participants who are designated as "werewolf", execute one of the other participants. Killing Curriculum - Jinro Shokei Game is somehow worse than Jinro Shokei Game The main character Let's talk about Niina. He is a main character who has no reason to live. Not just in the death game that they are playing, but generally no reason to continue his life at all. He is portrayed as a shy, depressed, possibly homosexual person who is constantly bullied by his peers. That is not even the biggest deal with this main character. Note that Killing Curriculum - JSG is the prequel to Jinro Shokei Game. So, we have a suicidal main character who tries to get killed for two whole ...

"When the rate of a process is dependent on a number of factors, the rate of the process is determined by the pace of the slowest factor." This law is used to explain limiting factors for photosynthesis in Class 10, and again in Class 12. Let us say, for example, that the deciding factors are light, soil nutrient, water and carbon dioxide. In the textbook, we are taught to assume that all factors besides carbon dioxide are at sufficient levels. Now, because all the factors are ideal, appropriate, adequate, photosynthesis will occur. But what if carbon dioxide is not adequate? What if it was limited, i.e. simply not present in the appropriate quantity. Therefore, the overall rate of the process will depend on carbon dioxide. No matter how much more light, water and soil nutrient there are, the overall rate or speed at which the process occurs is dependent on carbon dioxide. Unless the availability of  CO 2  increases, the process will not occur any faster. ...

Anyone can die at any time; Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) is compared to be the 'Game of Thrones' of anime. Here are our picks for the most horrifying deaths in the series up to season 3. Beware of spoilers. Also, this list looks at which deaths are gruesome and awful to watch and does not consider the emotion of the deaths i.e. the sadness associated with the loss of a character. 8. Alma Episode: Season 3, Episode 3 - Old Story In order to maintain Rod Reiss's familial history a secret, Kenny kills Historia's mother, Alma, using a dagger. All the while, Historia is made to watch as her mother bleeds out on the ground. This death is plain murder and horrifying to watch. 7. Marco Bodt Episode: Season 1, Episode 13 - Primal Desire, the Struggle for Trost, Part 9 Marco discovers Reiner and Bertholt speaking about "their titan" and "hard work making the hole". He chastises the two and tells them to focus on the mission. However...

We are the people on the internet. Our job: provide information to all who access the internet. How that information is used depends entirely on the user. If you are a student, the use of these means to cheat is entirely up to you. If you are an invigilator, you may be happy to be aware of these methods that students use to cheat in their exams. Also, why are you reading this blog, don't you have exam papers to make, or correct? Now that that is out of the way. Here are seven methods used to cheat in exams. 1. The Synthesis Risk:                ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Usefulness:      ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ Materials needed: Pencil, a good memory. Here is the situation; do you have an exam, say Maths or Chemistry, on Friday? Do you have easier exams such as English or IT from Monday to Thursday? This is what you can do. In the four earlier examinations (Monday to Thursday), you take some note...