What are teenagers reading?

Parents say: all teenagers do is watch TV, listen to terrible pop music & complain about school.
Well, parents are right to some extent. Our questionnaire shows that teenagers are spending on average 80% of their free time listening to music or watching TV. But the questionnaire also shows that 72% of teenagers are reading for pleasure every week.

Parents say: teenagers don't read any more!
Again, parents are right to some extent. Children don't buy many books after they reach the age of 11. After that, children spend a lot on videos, cassettes & posters. They don't spend very much on books.
But the questionnaire shows that teenagers are reading a lot of magazines! In fact, 40% of children from 13 to 19 spend money on comics & magazines.

Parents say: teenagers only read rubbish!
Parents are probably not completely right. According to our questionnaire, teenagers are buying a variety of magazines, many of them health & fitness, the environment & popular science. They are also becoming more critical of comics & teen magazines. They feel they are growing out of this kind of reading.
But they say that they don't have time to read long novels. They can't get interested in them. & yes, they prefer videos, films & going out!

Welcome to South Australia

South Australia has wonderful sights. Sounds & tastes! Adelaide, the capital city, is full of colour. There are over 30 kilometers of sparkling white beaches for you. Shopping is an excellent activity for all visitors to Adelaide. The city has some very interesting stores. Rundle Mall in the center of the city is a major shopping center. Normal shopping hours are Mon-Thurs 9 am to 5.30 pm, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm & Friday nights until 9 pm.
Adelaide has got hundreds of restaurants. From cheap bistros to formal restaurants & Adelaide's Mediterranean climate is prefer for eating out of doors in the pavement cafes.
Adelaide is fun to explore. There are many parks around the city center & gardens with many unusual Australian plants.
After dark, Adelaide is lively with pubs, rock & jazz music.
Adelaide is also a city for lovers of history-it's got many excellent museums, including the South Australian Museum & the Art Gallery of South Australia. Both on North Terrace.
Welcome to South Australia & enjoy your holiday!

English saying & their meaning

1-A chain is only as strong as its weakest link:
When you are working with other people, everyone has to help each other. When one person doesn't do the work well, the whole thing is not so good.

2- The best things in life are free:
Things like love & friendship are the best things in life, because you can't buy them with money.

3- Least said & soonest mended:
It's best not to talk too much about a problem. Don't say any thing & you can solve a problem more quickly.

4- The sooner the better:
Don't wait. Do things quickly.

5- The best kind of advice is no advice at all:
Don't give advice to other people. They may not like it.

6- The first step is always the hardest:
It's often hard to start doing something, then it gets easier as you do it.

7- The worst may never happen:
Be optimistic; expect good things to happen, not bad things.

8- An empty vessel makes the biggest sound:

Because someone talks a lot, it doesn't mean they are very intelligent. Stupid people often talk a lot of rubbish.

Asian food

From a visit to three Asian countries, one thing is clear: the Asian diet is now more westernized. The traditional Asian food-eaten three times a day-is rice. But now there are also meals of wheat products, such as toast for breakfast & milk products.
Asian supermarkets now have a long list of Western foods such as breads, cakes & biscuits, snack foods, tinned goods & fizzy soft-drinks, pasta (wheat noodles), breakfast cereals, butter, cheese, lamb & beef.
But most striking is the large number of milk products. Milk products traditionally aren't part of an Asian diet-many Asians actually allergic to milk. But there are now ads on TV for milk, according to the ads, is 'modern', middle class & healthy. At a supermarket in Ampang Park, Kuala Lumpur, there is a shelf, four meter long, for milk in tins.
In one Bangkok supermarket there are more than a dozen different brands of milk drinks, from strawberry to pineapple flavour. In a typical supermarket in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand (population 1.2 million), there is fresh milk & flavoured long-life milk in mini cartons. There are also fruit yoghurts in pineapple, orange & lychee flavours.Unfortunately, there are now more Western diet-related diseases.

That's one Hard Worker!

1 Bob Smith, my assistant programmer, can always be found2 hard at work at his desk. He works independently, without3 wasting company time talking to colleagues. Bob never4 thinks twice about assisting fellow employees, and always5 finishes given assignments on time. Often he takes extended6 measures to complete his work, sometimes skipping coffee7 breaks. Bob is a dedicated individual who has absolutely no8 vanity in spite of his high accomplishments and profound9 knowledge in his field. I firmly believe that Bob can be10 classed as an asset employee, the type which cannot be11 dispensed with. Consequently, I duly recommend that Bob be12 promoted to executive management, and a proposal will be13 executed as soon as possible.Addendum:That idiot was standing over my shoulder while I wrote the report sent to you earlier today. Kindly re-read only the odd numbered lines.

Fear of death/life after death

1-How do you feel about it? I think it is usual for every one & it is excellent for good people & dangers for bad & crimind people. Crimind people think this life is better than that life but clever people think this life like prison.

2-Are you afraid of death & if you are, where does it come from? A bit because probably I do crimes.

3-There will be something after life. But what? A place for bad & crimind people & a place for good people.

4-Rebirth? Yes but it hasn't redeath.

5-A kind of paradise? Yes I say it is just for good people.

The Internet

Its history
The Internet started in the 1960s. The United States Department of Defense started it because they wanted a computer network to help the American military. In the 1970s, scientists worked on it. Then in the 1980s, telephone companies made it possible to communicate on the computer network in many more countries. An international computer language was born & the Net went worldwide.
What can it do?

You can use the Internet for many things. You can shop for a car or a house; you can plane a vacation; you can watch a video; you can read an Australian newspaper or Japanese magazine; you can buy books & CDs from North & South America; you can play chess with a partner in Moscow; or you can just chat with people from all over the world. The list is endless.

Sydney

Sydney has everything you want in a city. It's beautiful, it has old and new & old buildings, there are fantastic beaches, & the food is delicious.
The best times to visit are the spring & fall. In the summer it is very hot. Sydney has the famous bondi beach. People go swimming, surfing, windsurfing & sailing. For nightlife, there are a lot of clubs on Oxford Street.
There are cheap hotels in King's cross. A room is about $50 a night. There are international hotels in the center. Here a room is about $150 a night.
There are restaurants from every _Turkish, Lebanese, Japanese, Thai, Chinese & Vietnamese.
Australians eat a lot of seafood_ it's very fresh.
Sydney has theaters & of course, the opera house. The best stores are on Pitt Street.
Go to the harbor. There are beaches, walks, parks, cafes & of course, the wonderful bridge.There are fast trains & slow buses. The best way to see Sydney is by ferry.

Burger Queen

Yesterday was Mary Alston's birthday. She is 109 years old, she is the oldest person in the world. And she only eats junk food.
Mrs. Alston had a party with 6 generations of her family. Her daughter, Jenny Morgan, who is 85, said, "My mother loves chocolate, and eats only popcorn, pizzas, and Burgers.
She never eats fresh food. She says she doesn't like it."
Mrs. Alston lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was born on a farm in Pennsylvania, and worked as a teacher. In 1915 she married James Henry Alston. He died in 1983.
Her granddaughter, Annie who is 65, said, "Grandma gets up everyday at 6 o'clock, and goes to the hairdresser every Friday."
Annie asked her grandmother what she wanted to eat on her birthday. Mary said, "I'd like a cheeseburger and fries!"

A man meets a genie. The genie tells him he can have whatever he wants, provided that his mother-in-law gets double. The man thinks for a moment and then says, "OK, give me a million dollars and beat me half to death."

love mean...........

love is the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen
love is something silent
but it can be louder than anything when it talks
love is afraid of losing you

Punishment in heaven

three friends die and go to heaven. The first guy gets handcuffed to one of the ugliest girls there.''Why?'' he asks.St. Paul replies, ''When you were nine you killed a bird with a stone.'' The same happens to the second guy. He asks why.St. Paul replies, ''When you were nine you killed a bird with a stone.'' The third guy laughs at his friends and says, ''Thank God I didn't do anything like that.'' He gets handcuffed to the prettiest girl in heaven. The other two guys ask, ''Why?''''Because when she was nine she killed a bird with a stone.''