My wife is a big fan of the Clarins skin-care brand. I am not really a skin-care person and I feel a lot of their claims are over-marketed, positioned and bent-reality to be believable. But, hey, she is my wife, and I doubt she is going to change her mind (I have tried).
So whenever we stop by on…
I don't know much about Lady Gaga. I have listened to a few of her songs and been impressed, entertained and shocked by her music videos. I also have no idea whether she is respected by the people she works with, if she is a strong "communicator" or has good "EQ". But that doesn't really matter…
During my recent trip to Taiwan, my old and beat-up Olympus camer finally broke. The lens fully extended and stayed locked there.
I have already paid once to have this camer repaired a few years back, so I am not especially exited to do the same a second time. Instead, why don't I just make su…
We are living on the 10th floor of an apartment block here in Singapore and moving a 3-Meeter tall christmas tree that is half-dead and shedding half a bucket of pine-needles with every shake requires a unique kind of social edict.
If we just drag the tree from our house to the first floor dum…
I have been wondering if there is any time-benefit to the shoving onto a train often seen here in Singapore. After some math and a day of counting train-trips, I ended up with these calculations.
Taking Turns:
Avg 10 Seconds - time for the last passenger to exit a train when no-one is trying to get …
Here in Singapore there is an interesting q / line cutting found at every train-stop. People wait for a train in a mass around the train-doors instead of in a proper line or q. When the doors open, the people inside the train have to shove their way out against the boarding passengers. Those same ex…
Hollywood is full of stereotypes: Women are Weak, Men are Strong, Germans are Criminals, Native Americans are Gods, Geeks always get Hot Girls, the list goes on and on. For every new blockbuster movie, there is always conflict about what the movie "represents". If Hollywood creates a movie about a m…
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