Sports Kings

So far at the Olympic Games, I happen to fancy two male athletes currently making their mark in the book of world records. Their outstanding show of excellence in their respective exhibitions made their fans really dumbfounded in amazement.

Without further ado, as I know the eyes of the entire universe are set on them now, I give you The Great Swimmer, The Pool Shark, The Baltimore Bullet winning a total of eight gold medals and breaking all world records,



and The Great Tennis Player, The Gladiator, The King of Clay, and most of all World Number 1 winning five Grand Slam titles.



Michael Phelps and Rafael Nadal. The world's greatest athletes, sports kings at its finest. They make the Olympics so much more spectacularly interesting to watch.

Almanacs

April 17, 2008

The other day I was browsing through the new titles in National Bookstore when I saw 2008 almanacs. It's been a long time since I last bought an almanac.

Almanacs always give me a sense of awareness with the world I am part of. It updates us about achievements and awards in the field of medicine, sports, entertainment, politics and science. It is practically an entire set of Encyclopedia Britannica incorporated into one fast-find concise source. Many more topics are featured in an almanac such as trivia on people, world records, events, facts and figures for every nation in the world, its religion and culture.


Moreover, the thing I like most about almanacs is the maps. When I was in elementary, my siblings and I used to memorize the capitals of the world. My mother bought a big globe display in the living room then which looks exactly like this.

That said, the almanac still remains to be the fastest way through world facts and figures.