Air travel isn’t usually a whole lot of fun. Sometimes waiting for hours for the next flight can be really boring and people basically find it the most difficult part of a trip. But these layovers can be really interesting and exciting if one knows to utilize this time in a proper and efficient manner. In fact these layovers can be the most exciting part of one’s trip. Let us find out the ways by which one can easily spend time during airport layovers.

1. Chat with a Stranger.

Travelling is all about making friends and getting to know about experiences of different people. Chatting with different people at the airport bar, in the lounge room or in a restaurant could lead to a short conversation and by having conversations one can definitely learn about travelling experiences of various people.

2. Leave the Airport for Sightseeing.

Airports of places like Amsterdam (Netherlands), Sydney (Australia), Chicago (USA), and London (GBR) etc offer fast and affordable transportation to the city centre which allow the passengers to take public transport and explore the cities. Spending half a day in sightseeing can be really exciting and time can pass away very quickly.

3.sleeping

Sleeping during the layover is a very good idea but it again depends on number of factors. Finding a quiet place in a crowded airport can be really troublesome but most of the airports have proper designated sleeping sections or lounge rooms for the passengers to relax. So sleeping can be a good option during the time of layover.

4. Work Out.

People who are fitness conscious can definitely find it easy spending time during a layover. They can hit the gym or they can practise yoga and meditation as most of the international airports have gymnasium and mediation centres. A few minutes of deep breathing and stretching are a fantastic way to get one’s blood flowing after a flight. If the airport does not provide gymnasium facilities then the quite corner of an airport lounge can be useful for meditation.

5. Get a Room.

People generally prefer to sleep during layovers but are shy off in sleeping in public. So hiring a room for a day which can be called as short term lodging is definitely a good choice. Many top international airports like Heathrow (London), Schipol (Amsterdam) have accommodation facilities in the terminals. A standard cabin can be taken on rent in order to get rid of the layover time.

6. Play an Instrument.

Playing an instrument like guitar can really entertain others as well as yourself. If one is extremely talented then he/she can entertain others by showcasing the talent. It will definitely help getting rid of layover time and can save others from their momentary boredom.

7. Trying out different Cuisines.

People can definitely try different cuisines in various places of the world. This is the thing I would definitely want to do during layovers. Different places have different cuisines and trying out various cuisines can be really exciting for a foodie. People can try out food stuffs at the stalls available in the airport or can browse the internet to find out the best places for food in a particular city. This is the most exciting thing to do.

8. Going to the Chapel.

After getting off from a plane one would definitely want to spend some time in a quiet and peaceful place but it is difficult to find one in a crowded airport. So the Chapel can be really useful. It’s usually a non denominational peaceful space set aside for prayer, meditation but one just needs to keep laptop and phone away from it.

9. Heading to the Clubhouse.

One of the most exciting features about travelling is the multitude of clubs one can belong to. Airports offer a multitude of options when it comes to loyalty programs and with them come the airport club houses. Airport lounges today not only provide coffee and sandwiches but are also well equipped with wine cellars, spas and beauty parlours. These clubs can really help passing the time out.

The more I live,

The more I learn,

The more I know life is not fun.

The more I think,

The more I speak,

The more I got the angry heat…

The more I lie,

The more I hide,

The more I got the truth beside…

The more I care,

The more I do,

The more I know good me and fake you…

The more I love,

The more I hate,

The more I apologize for my mistakes…

The more I believe,

The more I trust,

The more I got backstabbed too much…

The more I have,

The more I want,

The more I loose in every dawn…

The more I wish,

The more I pray,

The more I find no worries in my way…

The more I jealous,

The more I burnt,

The more I got tough scars in bunch…

 The more I travel,

The more I explore,

The more I got best people on the floor…

The more I beat,

The more I get,

The more I left behind my threats…

The more I cried,

The more I tried,

The more I fall and let them stand high…

The more I appreciate,

The more I win,

The more I got and the people grin…

The more I fight,

The more I bleed,

The more I made conditions extreme…

The more I leave,

The more I stay,

The more I put bad thoughts at bay…

The more I write,

The more my nights become bright,

The more I enlighten myself with light…

The more I wonder,

The more I am surprised,

The more I wish my life in height…

The less I will demand,

The more I will smile,

The more I will brightly shine…

The more I will give,

The least I will take,

I will make my life a sweet fruit cake…

The life seems to me a hurdle,

It goes on with the difficult puzzles,

I believe I will make it glow,

Life is this what I know  !!

Aphra Behn was a British playwright, poet and fiction writer from the Restoration period. She was born near Canterbury in 1640. Behn wrote numerous successful plays such as ‘The Forc’d Marriage’ (1671), ‘The Rover’ (1681) etc. Her novel Oroonoko which is a story of an enslaved African prince is considered as the foundation of the rise of novel in the 18^th century. Her works reflect a brilliant period in the history of English literature.

The five interesting facts are:

1. FIRST NOVEL WRITER

She wrote one of the first novels in English but it is considered as an early novel because the rise of novel actually started in the 18^th century in a clear cut manner. Her first novel was Oroonoko which is a true history of an African prince who is sold as a slave. Since Oroonoko is short i.e. only around 70 pages it is excluded as a proper novel. Her novel has been termed pioneering for the depiction of the institution slavery as cruel and savage.

2. FIRST EPISTOLARY NOVEL WRITER

Aphra Behn’s “Love letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister” is considered as a precursor of the epistolary novels in the 18^th century such as Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in 1740. This novel was written in the form of letters and was published in three volumes in 1684, 1685 and 1687 and represented a complex interaction between the protagonists.

3. GOVERNMENT SPY

Behn met and married a Dutch merchant named Hans Behn who unfortunately died due to plague. However it is assumed that the marriage may have been made up because widows were more respected than single women in that era. Thus, after the death of her husband, her fortune worsened and in 1666 she was summoned into the service of King Charles II as a spy in the war against Holland using the code name Astrea. She was also in debtor’s prison in 1668 but was released when someone pay her debt. It was at this stage that Behn resolved to support herself by adopting writing as a profession.

4. FIRST WOMAN WRITER

She was the first woman professional writer which was a very tough job at that time to earn living especially for a woman without any financial support. During Restoration period, she was most famous for her lighthearted plays of love and cavalier seduction such as The Curious Husband, The Dutch Lover etc. She competed in equal terms with men and never concealed the fact of being a woman; as a result many were outraged as they thought that she lack femininity. She experimented first person narrative and circumstantial realism in her famous short novel, Oroonoko. The complexity of the novel makes her a fore bearer of later woman writers in the 18^th century. Also she was the first woman writer to be buried in a cloister at Westminster Abbey, though not actually in poet’s corner.

5. VIRGINIA WOOLF’S APPRECIATION

Several novels of Aphra Behn were equally criticized and appreciated in 18^th and 19^th century. She found reprieve in 2oth century when sexual standards were relaxed and people were more interested in women writers. In “A Room of One’s Own”, Virginia Woolf wrote, “All women ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it is she who earned them the right to speak their minds”. The best place to explore her work is her famous play “ The Rover”, a Restoration comedy and her short novel Oroonoko which represented Behn’s huge contribution to English prose fiction.

Google!!!! The favorite pastime as well as the great savior. I guess everyone knows the value of Google. And Google images just adds flavor to our search. You can’t imagine the beauty of Google images. Just a suggestion, whenever you are bored, just look for beautiful images in Google images, and it’s my guaranty that you won’t believe your eyes. So does the following list. These are some of the pictures trending in Google on 2015. I am sure you won’t afford to miss it.

1.Charlie Hebdo

It’s a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics and jokes. The magazine has been the target of two terrorist attacks, in 2011 and 2015. Both were presumed to be in response to a number of controversial Muhammad cartoons it published.

2.Lamar Odom

He is a famous basketball player. He was trending in goggle because of the whole drama related to his wife Khloe Kardashian and his health related issues like coming out of coma and speaks. The year was lot of happening for him.

3.Jurassic World

This movie made a lot of chaos in 2015 and was super hit. It justifies the demand oh its image in Google

4.Paris Attack

I guess everyone knows about the incident took place in Paris. People are connected to this city. That’s why it looked for, for so many times.

5.Furious 7

This movie is the sequel of fast and furious 6 or fast 6. The movie was remarkable as it has witnessed the final film appearance of Paul Walker.

6.Fallout 4

It is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda game studio and published by Bethesda soft works. The fifth major installments in the fallout series, the game was released worldwide on November 10, 2015.

7.Ronda Rousey

She is ranked the #1 female bantamweight fighter of the world as per the ultimate fighting championship.

8.Caitlyn Jenner

She revealed her identity as trans-women in 2015. She is an Olympic decathlon winner in 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics.

9.American Sniper

This is a 2014 American biographical film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Jason hall.

10. Agar.Io

It’s a massively multiplayer action game created by Matheus Valadares. It’s a smash hit game which gained popularity in 2015.

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was one of the greatest men across the world, Dr. Kalam has done wonders throughout his career. Dr.Kalam had showered some pearls of wisdom on entrepreneurship and we highlight some over here:

Once Abdul Kalam’s professor gave some words to him  and he followed them throughout his life and is also what he suggests to young entrepreneurs.

The world has many developing countries and few developed countries. What is the difference between them?

A developed country has to make a market in a competitive way to different countries to be as developed country. The developing country also makes market to other countries in a competitive way to get transformed into developed country.” So in both cases, Competitiveness is the common thing.” mentioned by Dr. Kalam.

While talking about entrepreneurship, he said- Profit with honesty leads to sustained growth. How is it possible? We need to have the National ethics for sustained growth and peace.

Where is it going to start?

• The nation needs to have ethics in all its tasks, for great economic prosperity and peace.
• If the nation is to have ethics; society has to promote ethics and value system.
• If society is to have ethics and value system, families should stick to ethics and value system;
• If families have to get evolved with ethics and value system, then the parent should have inbuilt ethics.
• Parental ethics come from great learning, value based education, and a creation of the clean environment that leads to righteousness in the heart.

There is a lot of things can learn from the life stories of this great scientist, who is also respectfully called as the “Missile Man of India”, because of his great contribution towards India’s successful missile development programs.

• Be entrepreneurial:

Kalam once said, “My message, especially to young people is courage to think differently, to invent, to travel the unexplored path,  to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that every young people must work towards. This is my message to the young people.”

He believed that entrepreneurship should be joined as one of the courses in India

• Be a leader:

  

“Who is a leader?

“The person who we called leader must have the vision and passion. Should not afraid of any problem. Instead of afraid, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with honest.”

He inspired leadership by example. During the1980s, to allocate funds for aerospace projects under his directorship, despite the Union Cabinet’s disapproval he was able to convince Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India. These projects were instrumental in the growth of India’s space research program.

• Be a dreamer:

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

True entrepreneurs dream big and then work towards turning their dreams into reality.Under Dr. Kalam’s leadership, The  Union Government a budget of Rs. 388 crores were sanctioned for the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP) Under Dr. Kalam’s leadership. The program started in 1982-83 and run for 15 years. Under this program, the western world restricted access to any technology that which will help India with its missile program. Undaunted, Kalam worked with the dream program and this helped India successfully to develop critical technology, indigenously.

• Be tenacious:

“Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success”.

After becoming a pilot with India Air Force got shattered, that tasks then young Kalam accepted an opportunity with the Ministry of Defence. He convinced himself that much better opportunities lay ahead.

• Be ready to push the boundaries:

“There is no such thing as an impossible deadline”

Entrepreneurs that tasks should be complete with strict deadlines in a “succeed or perish” environment. The key is to apply oneself and work towards a solution.

 As a young student at MIT, Kalam was told by his professor to recreate an aircraft design from the scratch or lose his scholarship. Moreover, he was given only 3 days to finish a job which ideally would have taken weeks. With determination, he came up with a design that won him accolades from the same professor.

• Be responsible:

“Don’t pretend to be a candle, be a moth. Know the power hidden in serving.”

As entrepreneurs, we lead teams. Leading teams can be challenging. They should share success and at the same time take responsibility for failure.

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, you will find yourself in a new great and wonderful world.”