Showing posts with label happy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Where to be born in 2013


Warren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right country, the United States, at the right time (1930). A quarter of a century ago, when The World in 1988 light-heartedly ranked 50 countries according to where would be the best place to be born in 1988, America indeed came top. But which country is the best for a baby born in 2013?

To answer this, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of The Economist, has this time turned deadly serious. It earnestly attempts to measure which country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ahead.

Its quality-of-life index links the results of subjective life-satisfaction surveys—how happy people say they are—to objective determinants of the quality of life across countries. Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life matter too. In all, the index takes 11 statistically significant indicators into account. They are a mixed bunch: some are fixed factors, such as geography; others change only very slowly over time (demography, many social and cultural characteristics); and some factors depend on policies and the state of the world economy.

Sunday, 18 May 2014

Happy - Pharrell Williams


It might seem crazy what I'm about to say
Sunshine she's here, you can take a break
 I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space 
With the air, like I don't care, baby by the way 

Because I'm happy 
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof 
Because I'm happy 
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth 
Because I'm happy 
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you 
Because I'm happy 
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do

 Here come bad news talking this and that 
Yeah, give me all you got, don't hold it back 
Yeah, well I should probably warn you I'll be just fine 
Yeah, no offense to you don't waste your time Here's why: 

Because I'm happy .......

Happy, come on, bring me down
Happy, come on, bring me down
My love is too high to bring me down
Come on, bring me down
I said bring me down
Come on, bring me down
My love is too high to bring me down
Come on, bring me down
I said:

Because I'm happy .......