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Having a terrace on your house gives you many advantages. Whether it be summer or winter, you can enjoy having a terrace in both of the seasons. When it is winter you can light a fire and enjoy the natural heat, and in summer you can relax and feel the fresh air. Some people even make their terrace into a garden, which also looks beautiful and gives you a fresh feeling. The terrace consists of grass, flowers, table and chairs.

It may seem harmless enough. After all, the focus of the gossip may never hear what’s being said behind his or her back. But it actually creates its own set of problems that most perpetrators fail to overlook.

• Gossip is inherently negative. Gossipers relish reporting on others’ shortcomings but ignore their areas of strength.

• Gossip creates anxiety and suspicion. Although friends and co-workers may laugh about the derogatory comments aimed toward another person, they inwardly fear being the next victim of the attack.

• Gossip wastes valuable mental resources. Each of us has a finite amount of emotional energy at our disposal. When we choose to direct those mental energies toward backstabbing another person we have less to use for more constructive endeavors.

• Finally, gossiping provides a poor role model. Moms and dads who cringe when their children poke fun of other classmates think nothing about making snide remarks about those very same students’ parents.

Of course, the art of gossip is a multimillion-dollar industry. Professional gossip mongers build their careers keeping us posted on the plastic surgeries, divorces and fashion faux pas of our favorite movie stars. And even though we may slip the current edition of People magazine into our shopping cart, few of us would choose to label ourselves as full-fledged busybodies.

Pssst. Did you hear about my neighbor? I can’t believe what she did. But I guess it serves her right for all the trouble she’s caused her kids. She’s just so selfish and inconsiderate, it’s no wonder that this happened. Why, I remember when …

Ah, yes. Gossip. It’s the age-old pastime of making derogatory comments about people when they are out of earshot. The hostile remarks tend to focus on folks we know the best and interact with most often. And they are accompanied by a sense of judgment and superiority over the target of the barbs.

Gossip extends beyond the neutral act of sharing information because it is caustic and condescending in nature. For example, reporting that a friend had an automobile accident last week is news. Adding that you’re not surprised because he always drank too much and that you can understand why his wife left him is gossip.

It even differs from assessing someone’s performance. I may not recommend a particular house painter because I found him to be unreliable and difficult to work with. But I’m not making negative statements about his personal life that are irrelevant to his house-painting skills.

No, gossip is its own special form of seemingly safe aggression toward an acquaintance that momentarily boosts the perpetrator’s morale.

A farmer in Somerset (England) has made his Jaguar run on rotting apples. 52-year-old Henry Hobhouse fills his two underground tanks full of apples and then collects the methane produced from them as they rot. The car works perfectly fine and its cost to run is 40p a litre, which is exceptionally cheap as compared to prices in today’s time. Henry now plans to install two small methane-making plants at his farm.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is one singer who I have listened the most and I just cant imagine this world without his qawwali’s as he is one singer who can just hypnotize you with his voice. Sad that he is no more and I think I was as shocked as his very close relatives when the news of his death spread It was really hard for me to believe that he was no more, its been a few years now and his music still rocks.

There are a few singers who try to imitate his style but none of them come even close to him. The year he died he was due to go to Toronto for a concert and I had bought the ticket 5-6 months in advance as that would have been my first chance to see him perform live. But is was unfortunate due to his death, all I can say is that he is very much missed by the whole world.

Another 39 days until the cricket world cup, although it is a big event i dont seem to see any excitment or anything happening. Has cricket lost its importance in sport or is everyone just waiting for the right time. If this was the football world cup people would have starting preparing and talking about it non stop months before the start of it. At the moment in India I havent seen anything or heard anything mentioned, but what I definatly know is that I sure am excited about the world cup and am looking forward towards all the matches especially the India matches, as I am an Indian after all. I will have my India t shirt ready to be worn when the matches start and will be cheering on India all the way

As being a female Indian/Asian full time worker and that too working abroad can become difficult. I used to work 37.5 hours a week and travel an hour to and from work. I used to wake up at 7am and get ready by 8am, used leave home to get to work by 9am. My work used to finish at 5.30pm and by time I would reach home it would be 6.30pm. When you have worked all day you sometimes just want to sit down and relax, but for an Indian female it was time to cook dinner. I used to go into the kitchen and prepare the dinner and sometimes at the same time get lunch ready for the next day. Between 7.30pm and 8pm dinner would be ready, and by the time dinner was eaten and kitchen cleaned it would around 9pm. After this there’s only about an hour or so left to relax or watch TV, but that too would go into washing clothes for the next day tiding the odd places up, and buy the time it was to go to sleep I would be shattered and the bed would feel like heaven. I personally think that men should help out in household duties just a women does, its not only the women who lives in the house but the man does too and he should equally share the responsibilities.

The film Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna was a brilliant film, but some people in India had criticised this film and said that Karan Johar should not have shown that two married people fall in love and in the end be together.

The story is simply about two married couples and the man from one couple and the women from the other couple fall in love, sleep together and also tell their partners that they had done this. Their partners in return tell them to leave them and both couples are separated. In the end the two which fell in love meet up again and decide to be together.

What I don’t understand is why people had an objection to this, as things like this happen in real life and no one seems bothered then, so why be bothered when it is shown in films. What the public cant face is reality which was shown in the film, people have got to face facts and reality and if it is shown on TV or in film they should not object.

No matter where an Indian is they have to poke their nose into other peoples business. Whether they live in India, UK America or Canada an Indian is not an Indian unless they know about another business or shall we say knows all the gossip of the town. What someone will do it point their finger at another person and say things about them, and that too bad things, but in reality wont know what they are really like, I mean they could be 10 times worse than that person. The worse thing is when they something about someone’s daughter or son, do they themselves know what their own kids are up to. Indians really need to get out of this habit, then maybe others will do things as they wish without having to worry what people will say.

Education in England is not as good as it is in India, if you ever see the education in India, it will make you think that students or teachers in England don’t take education as serious as they do in India. Unlike Indian where students can’t go into the next year without having to pass the current year exams, students in England don’t go through this. No matter what their grades or marks are in an exam they will still go ahead into the next year. Regarding exams they don’t start until your 13 years of age in secondary school, before this time maybe at the age of 11 you may have small tests but apart from that nothing else. Studies are not as pressurising as in India which I personally think is a down point.