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Cellulite and Leg Hair, Cheap Maintenance

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Sunday January 31, 2010
Category: Cherish
A conversation whilst in the locker room today: Me: “Honey! I have cellulite! LOOOOK!” Him: “No, you don't. Hey, what did you do? Remove hair from your legs?” Me: “What did you do? Grow hair on your legs? LOOK! Cellulite!” Him: “Yeah, I put ...Read More

Hook a Guy & Keep Him – Lessons from The Bachelor

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Sunday January 24, 2010
Just when I thought Jake the Bachelor has questionable sense of women, he impressed me by sending the exact two girls I was rooting for to go home, home. Bravo, Mr Pilot. Although I am very delighted with what hope Ryan ...Read More

Baking ain’t no therapy but cheesecake suppresses frustration

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Friday January 22, 2010
Category: Food
Ever heard the saying that baking can be therapeutic? While I guess it is a very individual therapy and what works for one might not work for the other (haha! What’s new?), I have always known that baking could never ...Read More

Smooth, Silky Hair with One Wash!

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Thursday January 21, 2010
Category: Beauty, Hair
One wash and my hair is already silky smooth. After my rant/review of horrible TRESemmé shampoo, I threw out those black bottles and tried a new shampoo. While it is still premature to release the name and do a review of ...Read More

Get Dandruff, Coarse, Tangled Hair with TRESemmé: A Product Review

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Wednesday January 20, 2010
Category: Beauty, Hair
I am seriously very frustrated with the state of my hair. It is all shiny and healthy looking on the surface, but deep beneath these deceiving black locks are locks of hair that are so tangled they create a net-mesh ...Read More

Flying Without Wings – The Real Meaning

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Tuesday January 19, 2010
Category: Cherish
Tonight, I finally understood what “Flying Without Wings” means. Despite being an ace literature student, I never got the actual meaning of that metaphor! Flying Without Wings, a song made famous by popular Irish boyband, Westlife, had its metaphor lost to ...Read More

Calm Nerves with Paint Therapy

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Sunday January 17, 2010
Category: Beauty
Staring at my feet this morning because I have nothing else better to do, it occurred to me that I haven’t seen my toenails in a long time. Not that I have a huge belly that prevents me from seeing my ...Read More

Women are Better Than Men

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Friday January 15, 2010
Category: Creative
In my little publishing project, besides writing the content and laying them out complete with photographs and illustrations, I also had to get them mass produced, trimmed, folded and saddle stitched. A complete DIY project, Eli helped me with the post-press ...Read More

How to Juice a Citrus Fruit

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Thursday January 14, 2010
Category: Food
Intrigued by how my nanny used to juice an orange, I set out on a quest to get my hands on one such manual juicer. To my delight! Mom had a similar less-orangey juicer sitting in the depths of a ...Read More

Effective and Engaging Writing

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Friday January 8, 2010
Category: Reflections
I am painfully aware that my writing as a 16-year-old (about the time I first started daily blogging) was more effective and engaging than my writing today. All these years of research papers and journalism has tucked and trimmed my ...Read More