The Youth Blog

Take some time out of your packed schedule. You definitely wont repent it. These classics are sure to give you just the break you needed.

 1. REBECCA- DAPHNE DU MAURIER

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”.

Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ is an evergreen classic. ‘Rebecca’ will continue to haunt you long after you have turned the last page over. The beauty of Rebecca lies in the first person narration of an extremely touching thriller. Wondering what I mean by a touching thriller? This emotional story suddenly takes the most thrilling turn you could ever imagine. The story unfolds many mysteries. But the one you are left with is the identity of the narrator. All you know about her are her feelings, her tumultuous thoughts, her insecurities, jealousies and her story.. beautifully told.

2. MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS- GERALD DURRELL

This hilarious autobiographical account takes us to Corfu, a Greek island where Gerrald Durrel spent four years of his childhood between 1935 and 1939. Durrel’s narration of his family comprising of his widowed mother, diet-conscious sister Margo, gun- crazy Leslie and Larry together with their various pets on and off the house does more than just tickle your funny bone.

 3. SMALL MIRACLES : Extraordinary Coincidences from Everyday Life- Yitta Halberstam and  Bernie S. Siegel

This small book will bring in a lot of positivity into your life. A collection of real life ‘miracles’ this book will bring in the wonder and beauty of coincidences that make us wonder whether there is a higher power looking over us. A must grab to keep away everyday blues or brighten up the lining of a dark cloud.

Milun Tesovic, the co-founder of Metrolyrics.com was awarded the Global Student Entrepreneur Champ award. He is doing a management degree in Entrepreneurship at the Simon Fraser University. Metrolyrics.com was the first website to start offering a huge database of legal, licensed music lyrics. At the time, it was launched Milun Tesovic was just 16-years old. He is a young entrepreneur. This years, that is 2009 Global Student Entrepreneur awards were held in Kansas City, Missouri

Like all good business, Metrolyrics was launched as a product that the audience requires. This is what Milun Tesovic said,

“There were a lot of places where music and video games were available, but what I saw was music lyrics wasn’t that well represented. So I made a quick script with my own code and started a database of music lyrics. … It cost $9 a month to buy up the domain.”

This means that Metrolyrics started with a capital investment of $9 only. Amazing. Metrolyrics serves a very high number of visitors, 36 million unique monthly visitors, 100 million monthly page views, and is currently the 3rd largest music property in North America. The most recent achievement for Tesovic is that AOL music provider has tied up with Metrolyrics to be the official lyric service provider.

And what was his passion behind starting Metrolyrics?

“When I was 15, I knew that after I got my driver’s license, I wanted a decent-looking car,” he said. “I had my own hosting company (on the Internet), and then I started analyzing where a lot of people go on the web.”

And he did fulfil his dream. See photo.

Gary Neville

Gary Neville, club captain of Manchester United, made it clear to the young guns joining ManU that they’ll have to sweat it out themselves and get better.

 Gary Neville, the rare “one club man”, said that neophytes should not expect any help from older players, as his own lot didn’t get much help from the older pros.

 “It’s a tough place, this one,” said he. “You don’t get too much said to you by the senior players, to be honest. You have to do it yourself.”

 His remark is being seen as an attempt at overhauling the young players now joining ManU, and an effort to make them tougher players and to secure a future at Old Trafford. In a disguised threat to Chelsea, he said, “We’ve got to position ourselves better come January and February – because that’s when the real charge starts.”