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Unless you live in a secluded castle in the Malaysia countryside, chances are good that you have neighbors. Greeting new neighbors soon after they move in is a great way to make them feel comfortable and introduce them to the community. Whether you live on a leafy suburban cul-de-sac or in a high-rise building downtown, you can take simple steps to help new neighbors feel welcome.

Instructions

Step 1:
Form a welcoming committee. Ask your friends in the community to join you in greeting your new neighbors. Include people from a variety of professions, backgrounds and age groups. Your new neighbors will value the different perspectives.

Step 2:
Bring “welcome” gifts that help alleviate the stress of moving. A heat-and-serve meal, restaurant gift certificate or nice bottle of wine would be a perfect present.

Step 3:
Compile a list of useful names and phone numbers for your new neighbors. Include everything from doctors’ offices to grocery stores, from elementary schools to pizza parlors.

Step 4:
Offer to help with small tasks. Your new neighbors might need help carrying in a few boxes or they might appreciate

Tips & Warnings

• Don’t approach your new neighbors the second their moving truck pulls up. Give them a chance to become accustomed to their new home.
• Keep in mind that not everyone feels comfortable around strangers. If your new neighbors seem shy, don’t press the issue. Greet them with a casual, “Hi,” and then let them go about their business.

Getting ready to be interviewed in less than 24 hours? Here are most common questions asked by your future boss:

1. What are your long range and short range goals and objectives, when and why did you establish these goals, and how are
you preparing to achieve them?
2. What specific goals, other than those related to your occupation, have you established for yourself for the next 10 years?
3. What do you see yourself doing five years from now?
4. What do you really want to do in life?
5. What are your long range career objectives?
6. How do you plan to achieve your career goals?
7. What are the most important rewards you expect in your business career?
8. What do you expect to be earning in five years?
9. Why did you choose the career in which you are preparing?
10. Which is more important to you, the money or the type of job?
11. What do you consider to be your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
12. How would you describe yourself?
13. How do you think a friend or professor who knows you well would describe you?
14. What motivates you to put forth your greatest effort?
15. How has your college experience prepared you for a business career?
16. Why should I hire you?
17. What qualifications do you have that make you think that you will be successful in business?
18. How do you determine or evaluate success?
19. What do you think it takes to be successful in a company like ours?
20. In what ways do you think you can make a contribution to our company?
21. What qualities should a successful manager possess?
22. Describe the relationship that should exist between a supervisor and those reporting to him or her?
23. What two or three accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction? Why?
24. Describe your most rewarding college experience.
25. If you were hiring a graduate for this position, what qualities would you look for?
26. Why did you select your college or University?
27. What led you to choose your field or major study?
28. What college subjects did you like best? Why?
29. What college subjects did you like least? Why?
30. If you could do so, how would you plan your academic study differently? Why?
31. What changes would you make in your college or University? Why?
32. Do you have plans for continued study? An advanced degree?
33. Do you think that your grades are a good indication of your academic achievement?
34. What have you learned from participation in extra-curricular activities?
35. In what kind of work environment are you most comfortable?
36. How do you work under pressure?
37. In what part-time or summer jobs have you been most interested? Why?
38. How would you describe the ideal job for you following graduation?
39. Why did you decide to seek a position with this company?
40. What do you know about our company?
41. What two or three things are most important to you in your job?
42. Are you seeking employment in a company of a certain size? Why?
43. What criteria are you using to evaluate the company for which you hope to work?
44. Do you have a geographical preference? Why?
45. Will you relocate? Does relocation bother you?
46. Are you willing to travel?
47. Are you willing to spend at least six months as a trainee?
48. Why do you think you might like to live in the community in which our company is located?
49. What major problem have you encountered and how did you deal with it?
50. What have you learned from your mistakes?

No matter how long your laptop runs on battery power now, you’d probably like to extend that runtime. Tony Salinas from Dell and Herman De Hoop from HP share with us 5 tips:

Tip #1 Power down the display

“You can often yield up to ten minutes of battery life per level of brightness lowered,” said Salinas. DeHoop added that lowering the brightness “may give you as much as an extra hour of runtime.” In addition, lowering the screen resolution and color depth decreases the workload on the GPU, thus extending the battery runtime. You can change these by going to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Display and clicking the Settings tab. Disabling extra features like ClearType fonts and fade effects will cut down on the CPU’s power consumption. You can find these in the Control Panel under System/Advanced/Performance Settings/Visual Effects.

Tip #2 Turn off unused devices

Both of our gurus mentioned disabling unused devices. Many new notebooks provide a hard-wired On/Off switch for the Wi-Fi radio for this reason. Beyond that, you should go to the Control Panel, select System/Hardware/Device Manager, and disable the Ethernet adapter, infrared transceiver, and Bluetooth radio (if your notebook has one). It was designed for mobile devices, but having Bluetooth enabled actually consumes quite a bit of power.

Tip #3 Decrease hard drive activity

To minimize the frequency with which your hard disk has to spin up to access data, Salinas recommended defragmenting your hard drive regularly. This optimizes the placement of data on the drive so that it can be found more quickly. You can find the Disk Degfragmenter in the Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools menu. Beyond that, he advised optimizing Windows’ paging file, which is an area of the hard drive that serves as virtual memory whenever your RAM is full. To change it, go to the Control Panel and click through System/Advanced/Performance Settings/Advanced/Virtual Memory Change and set both the initial and maximum paging file size to 1.5 times the capacity of the installed memory.

Tip #4 Disable startup items

Startup items load into memory every time Windows boots up, which causes other open applications to spill over into virtual memory and adds to the CPU load. You can disable the startup options by opening the associated programs and going to the Options or Preferences menu. You can also remove them from the Start/Programs/Startup folder or by clicking Start/Run, entering C:\MSCONFIG, and clicking OK. Select the Startup tab and clear the checkbox beside any unnecessary background items, like qttask (QuickTime).

Tip #5 Condition the battery

When you purchase your notebook, charge the battery to 100 percent, discharge it completely, and then fully charge it to 100 percent again to help the battery remember exactly how much electrical charge it can hold. From then on, you’ll never need to completely discharge the battery again, but always make sure when charging it that you let it reach 100 percent. DeHoop told us to “remember to plug in the AC adapter (or dock/port replicator) whenever you get a chance. Most notebooks will recharge quickly.” Salinas had another tip for your batteries: “Keep them cool. Exposure to high temperatures can be a battery’s worst enemy,” he said.

Using the kitchen sponge to clean the table, the dirty counter and possibly the stains on the floor can add bacteria to the surface you are trying to clean. Even sponges that appear clean can contain thousands of bacteria per square inch. To avoid harboring germs, yeast, and spores in your sponges, clean them at least every 3 to 4 days using one of the following methods.

Steps:

Daily Maintenance Between Deep Cleans

1. Remove any remaining food scraps from the sponge.
2. Wring out the sponge as much as possible and place aside where it can dry completely. (Bacteria love moisture.)
3. Avoid cleaning the cutting board with it, especially if the cutting board has been used for raw meat.

Microwave Method (requires that your sponge does not contain metal)

1. Wet the sponge completely and do not allow it to dry.
2. Put it into the microwave, and set it for at least one minute. According a study by the USDA, microwaving for one minute significantly lowers bacteria counts and populations of mold and yeast more than other methods. Researchers have also discovered that after microwaving for two minutes, more than 99% of all the living bacteria will be dead.
3. Remove and let cool before using. Caution: Squeezing the sponge before cooling can cause severe burns.

Dishwasher Method

1. Place it into the utensil compartment of the next wash and dry cycle. Allow it to remain for the entire wash and dry cycle.
2. Remove it after the washer stops. The sponge will now have 99.9998% less bacteria on it.

Soak Method

1. Use this method if you don’t have access to a microwave or dishwasher, since soaking is less effective than the other methods, but better than nothing. A U.S. government funded study found that these common methods kill only 37% to 87% of bacteria.
2. Make a solution of 10% bleach.
3. Soak for 3 minutes.
4. Remove and rinse.

Tips:

• Instead of your sponge, use other materials to clean up raw juices from meat. Paper towels work well, but it may be more economical and environmentally responsible to use a separate dishcloth or washcloth.
• Use cloth kitchen towels to clean up day-to-day spills and messes on countertops, floors, and tabletops. You will save money on paper towels and lengthen the sanitary life of your sponge.
• Replace the sponge regularly. Buying a sponge labeled as germ-resistant can lower the amount of bacteria in your kitchen by 99.9%.
• If you need to kill all spores (rather than just bacteria) microwave the sponge for 5 minutes. Be careful to make sure it is still wet, though, as the sponge can catch fire or melt.
• When finished using the sponge, squeeze it thoroughly and allow to air dry completely between uses. Bacteria will die in a dried sponge. You can alternate between two sponges to allow for longer drying time and you can lean the moist sponge against backsplash or dish liquid bottle to allow for better venting/drying.
• After microwaving the sponge, the steam and humidity produced inside the microwave loosens food particles and stains. Use a paper towel, dishcloth or washcloth after removing the sponge to effortlessly wipe away microwave stains!
• Add lemon juice or non-ammonia lemon kitchen cleaner to bleach solution to help cut the bleach smell. Using a scented bleach is also an option.

To use rinse with cold water when finished

• Try using a dishcloth instead. Once you’ve used them long enough to dirty them, or you’ve used them to clean raw meat spills or the floor, you can just throw them in the washing machine with your regular laundry and grab a clean one. They last years longer the sponges.

And another classic example on how you can cut your fingernails (applicable to your foot nails as well).

And you have grown the nails to a certain extend that it looks ugly and accumulates dust and dirt.

You can get this from almost departmental stores or hypermarket.

You not need to have a degree to do this.

Turn the top over.

And hold it like this.

With extreme care, make sure you didnt cut your flesh with this, put the nail cutter close to your nails.

A more close-up.

And here’s when you done it!

1. Sherlock Jokes

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep.

Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.”

“I see millions and millions of stars, Holmes” replies Watson.

“And what do you deduce from that?”

Watson ponders for a minute. “Well,

	Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets.
	Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo.
	Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three.
	Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow.
	Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe.

But what does it tell you, Holmes?”

Holmes is silent for a moment.

“Watson, you idiot!” he says. “Someone has stolen our tent!”

2. Nasa Jokes

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300°C.

The Russians used a pencil.

3. Family Jokes

Two guys are sitting on a bar stool. One starts to insult the other one. He screams, “I slept with your mother!” The bar gets quiet as everyone listens to see what the other weasel will do. The first again yells, “I SLEPT WITH YOUR MOTHER!”

The other says, “Go home dad you’re drunk.”

4. Turtle Jokes

A turtle was walking down an alley in New York when he was mugged by a gang of snails. A police detective came to investigate and asked the turtle if he could explain what happened.

The turtle looked at the detective with a confused look on his face and replied “I don’t know, it all happened so fast.”

5. Baby and Mother

A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That’s the ugliest baby that I’ve ever seen. Ugh!” The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!”

The man says: “You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I’ll hold your monkey for you.”

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