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Warning: Many links ahead. #SorryNotSorry :P I'm quite overjoyed that Suede has a new album . While I'm not buying music and music magazines like I used to, I think the teenagers today should have access to the great music I enjoyed growing up. So I'm happy that Ash, The Prodigy, and later on Muse, are still making music. I like: Ash, Islands 2018: Did Your Love Burn Out? , Is It True? The Prodigy, No Tourists out 2nd Nov 2018, first single: Need Some1 Muse, Drones 2015: Dead Inside reminds me of Duran Duran's Wild Boys , hehe! The members of my number one band, Blur, are still active. Graham Coxon has announced his first solo American tour ! I wasn't exactly thrilled with Blur's The Magic Whip, but I still bought it on iTunes to support it. Gorillaz's new album, The Now Now is a bit out there. I mean Humility is way too Californian. I prefer the previous Humanz although I only bought Submission and Let Me Out . After reading Suede's articl...

I recently posted a couple of comments on Facebook that surprisingly gathered a lot of likes. Since it was a closed group, I thought I would share them here. The OP was: " Please share a simplicity tip that you wish everyone knew because it has helped you a lot. " Use your gadgets until they spoil or become obsolete.  Eat well with everything in moderation, at the table, and take your time, so you'll know when you are full and should stop eating.  Put in effort to know your loved ones and spend more time with them, especially the older folk, you'll miss them when they're gone.  Read a book, and keep reading it if you like it, otherwise move on; there are too many books to read in one lifetime.  Pray, even if you don't think God's listening or believe in Him. Don't dress to impress others; dress to feel good about yourself as you go about your day, because your smile is always your best accessory.

Some time ago, a FB friend posted this article: Why 'Don't Worry About Money, Just Travel' Is The Worst Advice Of All Time ; to which I added a comment: "I love travelling, but the more I travel, the more I find it a lie. At the end of the day, you go home. You face the same four walls you call home. There's the same job, the same commute, the same friends, the same enemies, the same problems; you're stinking broke and can't wait to travel again. When you do travel, you feed some of your money into that tourism machine. You bought some bangles at a village that might provide a paltry meal for a family. A lot of it is manufactured. You can never help the people you want to, like the road-side stall Aunty selling flowers in New Delhi. No matter how well I take a photo of some scenery, it can never replace the magic of the place when you're there. Looking at the picture again just makes you sad, because you're not there and the people you're with...

I was almost followed just now. I alighted at my usual MRT stop and boarded one of the usual buses. After the first stop, a man sat directly opposite me. A quick glance into his eyes and I got the feeling that he's up to no good. Then he shuffled his hands near his groin. I refused to look there and focused my attention on the bus bell/beep beside me. My stop was the next one. When the bus was mid-way between the 2 stops, he still didn't press the bell, so I pressed it. He got up from the seat to get to the door, so I put my fears aside for a moment. I got down after him and waited for him to walk ahead of me. I walked up the road, pretending to look for the next bus. He pretended to look at the bus numbers and kept glancing back at me. That's when I knew for sure that he was up to no good. To let him know that I was suspicious of him, I walked down the road, on the tarmac, when it was clear, putting a good 2 metres between us. Then I walked my usual fast pace and k...

Another programme I caught recently is The A-List Diet with Celebrity Food Doctor , Ian Marber, on Discovery Home & Health. The two episodes I caught were both women. After 10 weeks, the first one lost a stone or 6.35kg, and went from 44% to 43% body fat. The other who was just 21 years old, lost 5kg and went from 39% to 37% body fat. They were most happy when out shopping and realised they had lost a dress size or two :) The A-List Diet consists of 2 parts. The first is a 7-Day Detox that will also help to shrink the size of your stomach: "it consists of a lot of soups, and does away with simple carbs , stimulants (caffeine and alcohol) and saturated fats . Afterwhich, if you can survive without tea and/or coffee, you follow the 10 Principles : Eat protein along with complex carbs. Stay hydrated by drinking 6 – 8 glasses of water. Eat a wide variety of food. Eat a little food often, or a small meal every 3 hours. Eat breakfast; I can't stress how important ...