The Express Tribune hi five - November 24

e n u b i tr THE

EXPR

ESS

T

NE R IB U

, NO

VEM

u want to What do yo u grow up? yo be when PAGE 2-3 r Light up you artwork PAGE 4 ct Troll doll inse PAGE 5 facts Cool gorilla PAGE 6

Your Proofness: Sarah Munir Master Storyteller: Sundar Waqar Creativity Analysts: Amna Iqbal, Essa Malik, Jamal Khurshid, Samra Aamir, Talha Ahmed Khan, Munira Abbas and Umar Waqas

BER

24, 2

013

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 24, 2013

2

Hi light

Most children aspire to become doctors, teachers or bankers when they grow up. This may be because these are the most common careers we hear of or may be our parents may be a doctor or teacher and therefore we think they are the best. However, there are a lot of exciting and well-paying careers that you can take up. You might be too young right now to decide what you will be but you can surely explore some options according to your interests and abilities. Say, you are really good at drawing and painting and though becoming an artist is not very common, if you love drawing more than doing math or writing then maybe you should talk to your parents and start looking up art schools so one day you can be a successful artist. Let’s take a look at some unusaul careers that you can take up if they interest you.

Do you secretly borrow your father’s camera and take photos? Do you enjoy capturing moments and telling stories through photos? If photography is something you love and want to take up as a career then you should ask your parents and definitely go ahead. The number of photographers is increasing in Pakistan, each taking unique photos of their life and view of the country. It is a creative and fun career. And you can never run out of things to photograph. You could look up photography courses in Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi.

Who doesn’t love good food? If you are interested in cooking or baking and help your mom whip batters and watch her cook may be you could take culinary courses and become a chef. A chef gets to chop the vegetables in the fascinating ways they show on TV shows and learn how to cook great food. May be you could open your own restaurant?

But if cooking or baking is something you love to do, you should take up culinary courses from now. Muneeze Khalid offers classes for children and you can always look at Junior Master Chef videos for inspiration.

Imagine the vast open sea is your workplace, and an open-plan office. Hundreds of meters under water you can explore your surroundings to your heart’s content. Swimming with fish surrounding you, exploring underwater life and teaching others how to dive is your job. If you love water and are curious to find out what lies beneath those blue seas you might want to consider becoming a professional scuba diver. You may have heard of scuba diving instructors teaching in places like Phuket in Thailand and as far as Hawaii, and thought of it as a crazy yet exciting idea. Well, if you are serious about an underwater professional life, you can make it happen with training and certification from institutes like the Karachi Scuba Diving Center. It’s a lot of hard work but if it has been a lifelong dream then you’re sure to enjoy it.

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 24, 2013

3

Hi light

Do you love to travel and explore different places? Do you dream about climbing mountains and bungee jumping off peaks? If you are adventurous, good with people and like to learn about history and culture you could become a travel guide. Travel trip leaders are the guides, interpreters and managers of groups of tourists traveling to domestic and international destinations for a variety of reasons. Some travel guides engage in low-risk activities, such as walking tours or easy road-biking trips and taking groups to historical monuments and heritage sites. While others take groups on adventure sport excursions, including activities like kayaking, surfing, mountain biking and bungee jumping. If you are not into dangerous activities then you can just choose to be a tour guide for historical monuments or special destinations in your country. It is an exciting job which allows you to explore, learn and travel but you need to be wellinformed about your destinations and willing to take risks. If you are interested you can start off by taking tours with Adventure Tours Pakistan.

What if the space was your office? Imagine if e floating through the stars and landing on the ace moon was your job and you travelled in a space shuttle. And that shiny silver space suit was your ue? uniform. Wouldn’t that be a dream come true?

Astronauts are scientists and adventurers who work in space. If you are hard-working and understand the challenge and risks involved, after adequate training and courses you could become an astronaut.

But you need to understand that you are required to do a lot of other things as well and not everyone is sent to the moon or in the space.

Contacts Karachi Scuba Diving Center: (021) 35340595 Adventure Tours Pakistan: (051) 2260820 Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture: (021) 35861040 Muneeze Khalid: 0321 8423157 Anam Salon: 0321 2825051

Do you sneak in your mother’s dressing room and paint your face with her lipsticks and blush-on? If you love dressing-up and apply make-up on all your friends when they come over and want to grow up to become a make-up artist you definitely could. Applying make-up is an art, not everyone can do it and becoming a make-up artist is a great profession. You can even open your own salon. A lot of young and talented make-up artists are emerging in Pakistan and you could be one of them. A lot of salons are also training and giving courses teaching you how to apply make-up better. You can always attend them and get better at this art.

What would you like to see in Hi Five? Send an email to hifive@tribune.com.pk and let us know!

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Activity

4 Recycled Box Art

Supplies needed: •A tissue box •Paper •Pencil •A thumb pin •A torch

Step 7

Ayesha Mehmood teaches you how to recycle and light up your artwork.

Step 1

Step 2

Take a piece of paper and cut it in the size of your tissue box base.

Step 4

Did your art work light up?

Step 5

Step 6

Use a pencil to draw anything on the paper. We drew a mosquito as shown.

Now carefully use the thumb pin to make holes in the drawing.

After drawing with the thumb pin remove the paper from the box.

Close all the lights and place the torch under the tissue box.

Want to watch a video guide for this?

Log onto Toffeetv.com and check out the activities section!

Step 3 Stick the paper on the base of a tissue box.

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny news from across the globe!

Best batman Do you remember reading in this column last week about the five-year-old cancer patient who got to become Batkid for the day? Well, he has been labelled as the ‘best Batman ever’ as three actors who have played the iconic part sang his praises.

Miles Scott, who is fighting leukemia, got the opportunity to fight and defeat The Riddler and Penguin in parts of San Francisco as it turned into Gotham City especially for him. Having successfully saved ‘Gotham’, Miles has now received the ultimate praise from Batman himself. Christian Bale, who was the last man to play the role in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, told a local newspaper: “I looked on the news and I saw this headline and thought, What’s that?

And I saw all the pictures of him running around and saving people.

It’s so touching. … He must have been bewildered!” Michael Keaton, who played Batman in the first two films more than 20 years ago, added: “It’s the cutest thing in the world.”

Ben Affleck, who is preparing to take on the role of Bruce Wayne in the Man of Steel sequel, also had kind words for young Miles. “Batkid. Best Batman ever,” he claimed. Miles special day was made possible by the Make-a-Wish Foundation. METRO.CO.UK

Purple Palace From the outside it looks like any other house but a closer inspection, will definitely surprise you. Hidden behind those four walls is a decoration job like no other. Enter the house and all that can be seen is the colour purple. From purple-coloured carpeting to purple sofa covers and curtains, the entire house is purple. The four-bedroom house, which is clearly unique, is located in Hillingdon, Middlesex.

Describing it as having a family-inspired design, the estate agent also says that the home has been maintained to a high standard. Carpet has been laid throughout the property, including on the kitchen floors and up the side of the bath tub. Outside, there are only very small hints of what is contained behind those secretive doors, with small potted purple plants carefully placed in the garden. According to the estate agent, who refused to give any details of the seller or discuss the listing, a potential buyer is already lined up — presumably one who loves purple. Would you want to live in such a house? METRO.CO.UK

World wide weird

5

Vow

We have heard a lot of odd news but marrying a Ferris-wheel is the oddest. Love-struck Linda Ducharme married the giant theme park ride she likes to call Bruce last year and has since renewed her vows. The bizarre ceremony was filmed by a US channel Logo TV. Turns out Ducharme is not the only one who’s married a non-living thing. The show showed a man who married a tree and another who married a pillow.

Remembering the moment Ducharme first set her eyes on the Ferris-wheel, she told the station: “I got this weird feeling I can’t explain. My heart was pounding as we went up the platform and got on the ride. I felt like I was being taken by this ride.”

Earlier this year a woman married this ‘stunning’ 600-year-old French bridge. Odd right? METRO.CO.UK

Troll insect A strange insect that looks like a Troll doll was discovered in a South American rainforest. This odd-looking insect which resembles a fuzzy-headed Troll doll toy has got scientists scratching their heads. The 7mm long creature has hair-like feelers sticking out of its rear and orange dots on its body. It was discovered by a team of US-led researchers in the South American rainforest. They believe its closest family is probably the nymph. Dr Trond Larsen from Princeton University, said: “I have spent hours searching drawers of nymphs to compare it to other species, but have only been able to narrow it down from 16 to four.” METRO.CO.UK

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Did you know?

6

Word Origins School Bus Have you ever wondered why school buses are yellow and not red, blue, green or any other colour? School buses are the primary mode of student transportation in some countries and while your school bus may be any colour, you must have seen that they are always yellow in cartoons and movies. It wasn’t always that way. In 1914, with the popularity of automobiles, Wayne Works moved on to buses. This allowed students to get to school faster and they didn’t have to walk anymore. Initially, in these buses students would sit facing inward rather than toward the front as they do today. With time, the school bus underwent a series of standardistaion. A “California top” design, the rounded roof of the bus, patented by Gillig Bros was widely used, but parents were still worried about safety and there was interest in standardising the way that children got to and from school. Thus, in 1939, Dr Frank Cyr organised a conference in order to develop school bus standards. The result of the conference was 44 national standards for school buses being developed. One of these standards was school buses should be “national school bus glossy yellow”. The colour was chosen because of its attention-grabbing qualities. It gets noticed faster than any other colour. Studies have shown that humans notice the colour yellow 1.24 times faster than another eye-catching colour, red. Yellow is also particularly visible in the early morning and evening light, when school buses usually operate.

The hope was that people would see the colour of the bus quickly and know to slow down and be mindful of the children on board. Similalry, you may have noticed traffic police wear yellow jackets for the same reason.

How to say ‘close the door’ in different languages Azerbaijani Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Filipino Finnish French Haitain-creole Indonesian Italian Portugese Spanish Swahili Turkish

: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

Qapını bağlayın Tancar la porta Zatvoriti vrata Zavřete dveře Lukke døren Sluit de deur Isara ang pinto Sulje luukku Fermez la porte Fèmen pòt la Tutup pintu Chiudere lo sportello Fechar a porta Cerrar la puerta Funga mlango Kapıyı kapatın

Cool facts There are only about 700 mountain gorillas and they live high in the mountains in two protected parks in Africa.

Lowland gorillas live in central Africa.

An adult male gorilla is called a silverback because of the distinctive silvery fur growing on their back and hips.

Each gorilla family has a silverback as leader who scares away other animals by standing on their back legs and beating their chest!

Young male gorillas usually leave their family group when they are about 11 years old and have their own family group by the age of 15 years old. Young female gorillas join a new group at about eight years old.

Gorillas are herbivores. They spend most of their day looking for food and eating bamboo, leafy plants and sometimes small insects.

Adult gorillas can eat up to 30 kilograms of food each day.

An adult gorilla is about one meter tall to their shoulders when walking on all fours using their arms and their legs.

A gorilla can live for 40 — 50 years.

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 24, 2013

7

Fun & games

Notable Entries for the Liberty Books Card Competition

Alishba Yaseen

Class: V

Fatima Ahmar

Class: V Ammar Imran

Arham

Hamnah Amir

Hassan Ashraf

Class: V

Age: 4

Class: V

Class: V Syed Maazia Kashif Age: 9

Hiba Uzair

Mariam Nouman

Abiha Raza Winner

Class: V

Age: 9

Class: V Sarah Nauman

Class: V

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Notable Entries for the Liberty Books Card Competition

Hussain Emad

Maham Asif Winner

Class: V

Fizza Azeem

Manahil

Yakoot Malik

Class: V

Mahnaz Mir

Age: 8

Rania Saqib

Class: V

Age: 12

Class: V Nabiha Sharif

Rohim Haroon

Class: V

Class: V

Class: V

Javeria Azeem

Age: 10

Marwa Ahmad

Age: 8