Here We Go Again

INXS - Strangest Party

Welcome to the strangest party baby
It's like we're staring at the sun
Everybody's got their invitations
Hopin' that you're gonna come yeah
These are the times
Times
These are the crimes
Crimes
What are we waiting for
What are we hating for

You're part of the solution
Or part of the problem
You're gonna have to dance with one
You're giving up on
The future honey
I'll count you out of having some

Here comes the rain
Yeah here comes the rain yeah

These are the times
These are the crimes
What are we waiting for
What are we hating for

Wash away the rain yeah
Into the blue sea yeah

These are the times
These are the times

Dyscalculics Count Too...

Spread The Word:

What is it about:
Source at Dyscalculia Forum Dot Com

The Basic Facts
Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability in mathematics. Dyscalculia is a word you use to describe when people have significant problems with numbers - but still have a normal or above normal IQ. It seems that no dyscalculic has problems with math alone, but also struggle with problems being able to learn to tell time, left/right orientation, rules in games and much more. Also, there are more types of dyscalculia, and all types demand specific learning methods aimed at the specific problem.

Is Dyscalculia A Real Thing?
Dyscalculics say it is. Teachers say it is. WHO and DSM say it is.

How Common Is Dyscalculia?
According to UK studies done by Gross-Tsur, Manor and Shalev in 1996, 6.5% are dyscalculic. According to studies done by Lewis, Hitch and Walker in 1994, 1.3% are dyscalculic while 2.3% are dyscalculic AND dyslexic - that means that according to this study 3.6% of the World's population are dyscalculic.

That gives a total of between 3.6 and 6.5% of the World's population. And again: That means, according to these two studies, that between 216 000 000 (two hundred and sixteen million) and 390 000 000 (three hundred and ninety million) people are dyscalculic - if we say that there are 6 000 000 000 000 (six billion) people in the world. No international study has been done on how common it is.

"You Can If You Want To!"
Probably followed by "and if you try hard enough". This is a typical remark from teachers and parents to motivate the student - and although it can be meant in the BEST way possible, it is not true when it comes to dyscalculic students. The thing a dyscalculic wants most in this world is to be able to understand those numbers. Dyscalculics need different learning methods, in every aspect of the assignment. Dyscalculics are able to learn how to calculate something one day, only to discover that the information has been forgotten the next day. In other words programs like Kumon, where repetition is a major part of the teaching methods seem to have no result for dyscalculic students - they forget. Through different learning methods aimed specifically at the student and his/her version of dyscalculia can have great results.

Simply Red

I have tons of favourite songs.
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And those are songs I really care for.
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That take me and bring me to places I've been, often making me smell the presence of certain people that bear the spirit of the song.
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Those are songs that stay in a playlist on the most visible spot on my desktop.
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And that are never ever ever removed from my portable music player.
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If you know me you should already know that songs and I come together.

Some of my very favourite all-time-in-love-with songs can be found here with their respectfull videoclips, stolen shamelessly from youtube.com
http://community.livejournal.com/lip_sing/

There are though a certain number of songs that are worth more due to their videoclips.
Those I used to search for with years, equipped with my remote control and an empty videotape.... Oh, the good old days :)

Now there is youtube and a lot of apps like it, that grow more and more each day and make my stalker abilities .... well vanish.

But I am not really complaining, because the next song is now just a keyword away.
And it is Simply Red's wonderfull "The Air That I Breathe" which has one of my top 3 favourite videoclips EVER.

Maybe because I've seen it only once and it made a huge impression on me. The scene with the fish just won me years ago...

Beautif song, beautiful videoclip...

Enjoy:

In my mind....

I aways found it funny how my life is directed on the ideas I have about certain things. Thinking about why I always get the "end-of-August-depression" I realized I have a weird perspective of how the calendar year "looks like", that most people don't.
Take a look at it.



I am going to quote the image:

1. Notice how the first four months are sorted backwards - starting January from top right to April to top left. I am not sure where this came from, but I guess it originates from an effort January to stay closer to December. It may seem weird they way it looks now, but if you try to imagine May through August on the left side, you may get the idea of “cyclic” perspective.

2. May through August are the best months, because it is summer and I live by the sea. They are separated on the right part, to signify they are special months. I tend to look on them as a single “month” although May is not par ot of the summer season. It all flows from May to August.
Notice how this is not true for the first four months - they don’t “flow” into one another and in my mind there is a distinct border between them. That border is there for September through December, too, but to a much, much smaller scale. It is not there for the “summer part”.

3. The end of August has always been too hard for me, cause there is a huge gap between it and September, as you may see. I always feel as something is about to crash and burn. There is a really distinct, and often painful line between August and September.

4. There is a lot more to be said for the way I see the calendar year, but these should be the 3 major points.

I also have weird ideas about other everyday things that most people don't tend to notice. I guess it is based on my pretty damn good visual memory that sometimes gives my mind a hard time...

I find it amuzing...

... how some applications think they are smarter than they actually are.

The classic example is everybody's favourite Microsoft Word, which manages to re-define "annoying" everytime someone, somewhere uses it.

Next in my list is ICQ, which denyes my right to have a taskbar on top, rather than on the bottom of my desktop.

Last, but not least is Firefox, which I use for years and its super-intelligent phone add-in, that thinks it can recognize phone numbers. Of course, it can't. Take a look:

Depeche Mode

It's mid-August. Every year by the time mid-August knocks on my door, three things are due to happen:

1) I am feeling sad, cause the summer is about to be over.

2)

I wish for a white Christmas, like the ones I used to know.....

... I want it to be cold, snowing... And I want a Christmas tree, preferebly with a cat that plays with the toys :)

3) I want to be home alone in my dorm and organize a Depeche Mode party for all my friends.

.... And when I say every year, I mean.... every year well, Numero 3 only for the last 3 years, but it still counts. Usiually on point 1 I am totally helpless and as a result for a few days I am as gloom as a thunder cloud and impossible to talk to. Point two leaves me clueless too - I'd often find myself with a bunch of old magazines with beautiful Christmas tree suggestions, and tons of promises to myself along the lines of "next Christmas will be REALLY pretty"... Needless to say those promises last until mid-September.

Number three is more complicated. Usually what I can do is wait till I go back to my dorm (meaning mid-October) and organize that party myself. It hasn't been done so far, mostly because although my friends listen to Depeche Mode, most of them don't know more than 10 of their songs. And usually like about 3 or 4.... *blargh*

And it's about time I got all three. Including the "Depeche Mode" mood. The worst is I just saw that there will be a Depeche party in a local club. It is bad, because most of my friends won't be in town at that time, and whoever is in town.... well, let's just say I don't have any hopes anyone would come with me on that party.
I bet I'll just get a bottle of rum and just listen to Depeche Mode at home, which is like 0,00000000000...00000000001-th of what I actually want to do.

Cathing up

I know it is silly, but I decided to (really) keep two of my "blogs" the same, just with the language difference. So a little catching up is needed.

First of all, I happily share with you my greatest masterpiece so far (insert irony somewhere in between the last few words) - I made it to 4rd year! Big congratulations for me, and I actually managed to (almost) get the best of it... It's official - I am OLD!!!!

I thought of leaving livejournal, cause I don't really feel I have anyone out there. This here is not a personal thing. The other is. If I have a personal thought to share, I'd probably do it there or on a white sheet of paper. Livejournal was for my closest friends to share and discuss thoughts in not-real time. Nowadays they are all away from LJ and we get to discuss things in not-not-real time. So no need of sharing them in LJ, really. I've had some great moments there, but it doesn't look like it should go on. Dunno... Maybe.... One day, who knows.

And last but not least - I hate it when the summer is about to end. Like in mid-August. *blargh*
But I am happy now and I shall not let anything ruin my happyness. Even people who think the world has been created for them and it's everybody else's role in life to serve them and generally be inferior to them. *sigh*

.... I guess that's it.


p.s. This is NOT a place for personal thoughts. If you want some - contact me.

Hello World

Never really liked first times. Especially when it comes to first "hello" posts. Besides I never really made a first source code that says "Hello World", so sue me.:)

BUT it is true that I haven't done it in a loooong time and I should remember what it used to be like. Back in the old days I think it was something along the lines of "Another dinosaur bites the dust"...

Anyway, it seems that wherever I go I kinda gather interesting people around me. The last time even I got surprised of the beautiful result. To be honest so many people were around I got the rush of running away. and that explains why I am here...

Side note - I shall try to keep the Bulgarian and the English versions of this.... "thing" ... generally the same, let's see how good I shall manage to do it. :)


That's all folks...

Hello World