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Here are some drawings which I drew recently using my Mom's old eye makeup. Hope you like them. Thank you. This is a girl I drew. I made it with a pencil first and coloured it using eye shadow.  The one below is a Japanese girl. Does it look like one?  I made it the same way, first, a pencil sketch and then filled it in using the eye shadow. I used a dry paint brush to apply it. A Japanese Girl Materials I used Above is a picture of the Materials I used: Some old Eye  Shadow, a pencil, a dry paint brush, and also an  eraser (not shown in the picture).

Hello Readers! This is a project I made on Scratch in December. I would like it if you see it. Click the green flag on the upper right hand to begin. Use arrow keys to go to the next slide. Here is a link of the project on  Scratch :  http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/40176488/ To know more about Scratch , read my Website Review on Scratch . Thank you

In the 21 st century, when the use of social media is on its peak, a child making his\her blog to share his\her writings and other work with the world is definitely something to appreciate and encourage. So, how can we encourage young children to keep on blogging? It takes just a few words of encouragement in the form of a comment to make a young blogger happy. I recently got to know how many people visit my blog. At a program a couple of months back, several people told me that they regularly visited my blog and read all my writings. My Dad had told them about my blog. I was really surprised; I  didn't  think that anyone other than my immediate family and close friends visited my blog at all. I said; “Really? I had no idea! How would I know that you’re visiting my blog? You should comment on it, so I’d know.” (By the way, I  didn't  get any comments from those people even after telling them this) So, my point is,  you've  got to ...

Hello everyone, I read this sonnet some days ago, and I really liked it. It's a Shakespearean Sonnet, with fourteen lines, and ten syllables in each line. I kept thinking about it and repeating it continuously in my head, and I finally decided to put it on my blog. I found it here . It is written by Scott Ennis, a sonnet writer. He has written loads of sonnets. He turned the fourteenth glass and said, “Begin.” and I had fourteen minutes left to live; and I had fourteen unrepented sins, and fourteen people whom I would forgive, and fourteen unread books upon my shelf, and fourteen loves I knew I’d loved in vain, and fourteen dreams I’d kept within myself (the fourteen I’d most wanted to explain.) But fourteen minutes quickly passed away. I filled my pen with fourteen drops of ink- the fourteenth glass had offered one delay; and fourteen final grains retained the brink. This sonnet flowed like fourteen final breaths- the fourteenth line, the fourt...

Here is a sonnet I wrote on 'Chess'. It's my first sonnet, hope you like it. And by the way, I've broken the rule of putting ten syllables in each line. I didn't know we had to and I had already written the whole sonnet before I found out the syllable restriction. I'm just posting it here anyway, but I promise to share a perfect sonnet soon! Chess is a wonderful game It causes you to think It isn't at all slow and lame And is over before you can blink It makes you think mathematically And you learn from different situations You have to use your brain, totally It's been played around for generations White is the opponent of black Black is the opponent of white There's plotting and killing between the white and black It's all a great big fight! But more than anything, chess is a challenge Where you have to show your revenge

These are the answers I wrote of some questions that were shared in Thinkers' Club. This is also shared on Thinkers' Club's blog , but I'm sharing them here too, because they are detailed answers that took me a long time to write. What is the role of tone and facial expressions in our communication? Our tone and facial expressions have a very important role in our communication. If a person really means what he or she is saying, their tone and facial expressions would match their words. For example, if I’m persuading someone to do something, my tone would be determined and I wouldn’t look angry or bored. But if I’m pretending to be nice to someone I actually hate, my fake smiles might even be detectable and my tone could even give the game away. Is it possible for a person to be fully responsible for his\her tone? In a way yes, and in another way, no. I think our tones depend on our mood and feelings at that moment. A person may sound unintentionally ru...

This is a painting I made on Canvas.  Actually, this is the first canvas I ever painted. I first drew on it with a pencil, then painted it with Acrylic Paints. Hope you like it. :)

Here's a piece of writing by me. The topic is taken from an O level past paper of English Language. Do electronic forms of communication, for example emails and texts, make writing letters unimportant now? What is your opinion? Give examples and reasons to support your view. I agree with the opinion that electronic forms of communication have made writing letters seem unimportant in today’s world. Like always, people move towards the easier and more convenient options, so with the arrival of technology, people are beginning to forget how they used to communicate with loved ones living far away in the past. One reason for moving on to electronic forms of communication is that it’s fast. If you post a letter today, it would take at least two till three days to reach its destination while an email or text message hardly takes a second. Also, emails and most social networking sites are free while sending a letter through post costs money. Another reason is that the p...

I recently visited this website called www.lumosity.com  and I think it's a great website so I'm writing about it. This website is about developing and training your brain through various brain games. There are five categories; Speed, Memory, Attention, Flexibility, and Problem Solving. When you first sign up, they ask you some questions about you to know about your brain. They are based on what are your strong points and what you need to develop. Then, according to your answers, they recommend  the  games. You will get a score according to your progress and you will see yourself improve. You can play many games for free, but to have complete access to the whole site, you have to pay a fixed amount of money per month. I think this is a good chance to develop yourself according to what your brain needs. Besides, these games are better than the usual computer  games.

Here are some pictures I drew on Paint. They aren't brilliant or perfect, but I'm sharing them because these pictures are some of the best I ever drew on Paint and I like them. A Rainbow An Ice Cream Toothbrush and Toothpaste A Heart

This is a review about a Museum I had written when I was on a trip to Muscat. It was a cool and windy day on 12 th January, 2014. We had decided to visit a Children’s Museum in Muscat. My sister, Zainab, had read about it on the Internet and everyone was eager too visit it. We had woken up at around 9:15, and by the time the whole family was out the main door, it was 11:43. We walked to Al Qurum Park, which is not very far where we were staying. Al Qurum Park is a huge and beautiful, well-maintained natural park. We went inside and started walking straight forward. One end of the park opens towards the Children’s Museum. It took us around 35 minutes to reach the museum which was a dome shaped building. The walk was long and tiring, but once inside the museum, we could realize that the long walk was worth it. In the museum, we were greeted by Arab women. Baba bought tickets for us all, and then we started looking at the experiments. The museum was a Science one. The ac...

My father gave me some questions about Positive and Negative Thinking and asked me to write down my answers for them. I am sharing them here with my answers. What in your opinion is positive thinking? Positive thinking is looking at each situation positively and not losing hope. What in your opinion is negative thinking? Negative thinking can be called, in my opinion, ‘Jumping to the worst conclusions’. It can also be thinking critically of others. What are the factors that make us negative? The factors that make us negative can be negative feelings like jealousy, hate, and envy. There can also be some wrong acts that we did in the past, like backbiting, that can make us negative. What are the factors that make us positive? Being satisfied and happy, and when all our needs are fulfilled can make us positive. Situations when it is REALLY hard to stay positive:           When someone betrays me         ...

I wrote this article for Thinkers' Club. It is also published on it's blog along with the research work of many other members.  Please visit:  http://www.thinkersclubonline.blogspot.com/ To travel by using the help of stars, I think we need to understand the stars first. We’d need to know which star appears when, which stars are moving, and which stars can help us find the way. (This whole subject is called astronomy). Once we can understand the stars, we can travel by their help. For example, if I have to go to a certain place by the help of stars, first, I’ll have to locate which star is directly above the place I want to reach. I can travel by following that star and reach exactly the place below that star. I read a book called The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and in that book, caravans are crossing the huge Egyptian desserts with the help of stars. Although that was just a story, people do actually travel by the help of stars. In fact, sailors use stars as t...