Wednesday, December 30, 2015






Almost six weeks ago, I was browsing at Barnes and Noble to find a book on “Dummies for a new blogger”. This is the best thing about Barnes and Nobles, they have such a nice extension of Starbucks within, as I was settling down with my book, I had a young kid across me reading about “Space”. I confidently asked him- what do you want to become when you grow up? Without taking any further time, he quickly responded I want to be You Tuber and shoot videos. His response did not surprise me, today You Tube has become like an incredible hulk, which stores and streams millions of videos, music and movies in mostly all the languages.

Lately we have noticed a significant rise jump of new video bloggers popping out each day. They post videos on everything ranging from make up, shopping, cooking, pranks, reviews on tech gadget, traveling and so on…I myself learned some home DYI’s, make up tricks and Italian cooking from the video bloggers.

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Monday, December 28, 2015

Three T ’s approach- absolute necessary for Teenagers!


Recently, I stumble upon a website known as www.studentdebtcrisis.org and I read few of the thousand sickening stories posted on the website, student ending up with paying 63k with interest from 28k; paying almost close to 9% interest. As I scroll through some more, my heart was sinking and my eyes were popping out. In just few other clicks on Google, I again read few more mind-boggling stories about kids coming out in public to sue parents for not paying their college tuition bills. Most of the students were in a quicksand situation- some desire to return their degrees, some experienced students were not getting any jobs and some were simply signing up for two jobs just to pay out their student’s debt. The outcome of all the stories were, kids were hoping if parents taught them value of money and budgeting in their early days.

These stories are not common in the United States, according to CNBC- the numbers are staggering: more than $1.2 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, 40 million borrowers, an average balance of $29,000, (http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/15/the-high-economic-and-social-costs-of-student-loan-debt.html)

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