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Learning to Read Music 🎶at Home

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The Beginning:  🎷 Everything has a beginning. It’s not fair to buy a musical instrument and leave it in your house for long time without playing it. In order to play a musical instrument, I will suggest you learn how to read music. Since my student life in UK, I wanted learning to play a music instrument. I bought quite a few musical instruments while I was studying. However, I ended up with Piano (Keyboard) despite the price of this music instrument much higher than that of other musical instruments. However, since we had been keep moving from one place to another, I did not have proper chance to play this instrument. The Yamaha Keyboard was boxed and stored in a paid storage place in Feltham and Bracknell for long time. After moving to Reading, Berkshire, we moved all our stuffs into our flat. Even though the piano is brought to our flat, I did not start learning the instrument until recently. Why learning reading Music? 🎶 Before learning to play the piano, I rea...

The Rise of Emoji 😇

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The Beginning: In late 90’s when a Japanese Telecom company  NTT DoCoMo first started the mobile phone internet system, since then pictogram has begun its journey. Now many celebrities’ even politicians also use Emoji in their social media account to communicate with people. Emoji is sets of two Japanese words. ‘e’ means Picture and ‘moji’ means Character . Initially there were not many emoji characters available but competition in the telecom sector during 2000s let the colourful glyphs spread very rapidly. It is expected that, in 2023 there will be about 3491 emoji characters available to use.  Who Does Sanction the Emoji? ✋ California based Unicode Consortium specifies the international standard across modern digital computing and sanctions all emojis that are used in the technology world. By 2022 they have sanctioned 3460 emojis and many more to sanction in the coming years. Unicode Consortium is made up by mainly American multinational corporations and consis...