Wonderful news from CNN... South African Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee,  just won the right to be eligable to compete at this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing after sport's highest court backed his appeal against a ban imposed by athletics authorities. Judging by the photo above, you'd see nothing but determination... running through his life.  He's been a double amputee since he was a baby.  Nothing makes him give up, he runs on shock-absorbing carbon-fiber prosthetics that resemble bent skis -- earning him the nickname "Blade Runner." He's been running with those blades for a long time, this man ...

Water me please

This is wise living. I keep picturing this scene from Music and Lyrics where Hugh Grant (playing an 80's singer Alex Fletcher) hires Drew Barimore (as Sophie Fisher, who plays as plant caretaker) to water his apartment plants.  Obviously, Alex doesn't care less what time his plants are fed and just keeps it for the "girls" so to say. Well, for the Alex Fletcher's out there, here's a terrrific idea to consider.  While I myself would take on any Sophie Fisher over this gadget, chances may be too slim to find one... even by accident. Your ...

Sleeping counts a lot

During my school days my teacher would always catch one of my classmates sleeping during lecture. I kid you not, and I know you have fond memories that are alike. Sleep is important, it recharges the body with needed "idle" time. Muscles flex and contract the whole day and they just need to be put into "neutral" position. When the body says you need a shut-eye, it is hard to resist. To avoid embarrassment of being caught sleeping at inappropriate times follow these suggestions: - set a schedule - exercise - avoid ...
If you’re wondering why sexual perversions are happening left and right, front and back and every which way in the world today, why we have such a hideous sexual predator as Austria’s Josef Fritzl, one of the clues is staring at you right now. Well, it’s not Miley Cyrus’ fault. Definitely not. This 15-year Disney megastar has simply been used and abused by people around her. Why didn’t her parents object? Who is his right senses would ask a 15-year-old girl with a wholesome public image, who is the darling of kids as young as five or six years ...
Austria … Julie Andrews, “The Sound of Music.” That was before. Now, what comes to mind more easily when one thinks of Austria is Josef Fritzl, the Grandfather of Incest. This devil of a man raped his own daughter for 24 years beginning when she was just 11 years old, kept her prisoner in a windowless cellar for the same duration of years, and sired her six surviving children, according to Austrian authorities. Fritzl confessed to imprisoning his daughter Elisabeth in the cellar beneath their two-storey house in Amstetten, Austria, and DNA tests showed that indeed the 73-year-old devil had ...
Want to go on a shopping splurge without paying even a single cent? You can try this: Print a copy of the Yahoo news page linked in this blog. Now, go to the mall, shop till you drop, and then go to the cashier. Tell the cashier, “You take my breath away with your beauty.” As the stunned cashier asks for your money or your credit card, show her instead the copy of the news page you printed. This is because the news in that page says that “paying people a compliment is as good as paying ...
A Filipina has just conquered Britain with just the power of her voice. So powerful and beautiful and enchanting was her voice – that fully complements her personality -- that she got the nod of even the most discerning and hard-to-please music judge in the entire planet, Simon Cowell. The Filipina is Madonna. No, she’s not the Material Girl, far from the image of the former American enchantress. She’s Madonna “Mado” Decena, a 32-year-old mother from the Philippines who’s one of the favorites to bring home the crown in the top-rating British popular talent search show “Britain’s Got Talent.” Last April ...
You probably thought that babies are the happiest people on Earth because they’re innocent and have no sense yet of the many problems inherent in life. I thought so, too. Ah, those innocent angelic faces of babies. They must be the happiest people alive. It turns that this isn’t so. According to the latest research on the subject, the oldest people in society are the happiest of them all. Surprised? You thought that with all their wrinkles, arthritis and all other body pains they’re suffering from, the oldies will sulk their way to their own grave? "The good news is that with ...
Sleeping Beauty must have been a shapeless, ordinary-looking fat woman before she took off for her legendary trip to Dreamlandia. But when she woke up after almost an eternity of sleep, ah … most of her fats were gone and her beauty awoken as well! This new version of Sleeping Beauty would in all likelihood get the support of a group of researchers in France who found out recently that extra hours of sleep at night could be the key to shedding excess weight and fighting obesity. "More sleep could be the ideal way of stabilizing weight or slimming," said neuro-scientist ...
If you’re a guy and you can’t remember where you place your wallet, don’t worry, you’re just having a bout of anxiety perhaps or maybe getting older – no big deal. But if you’re a guy and you can’t remember your wife’s birthday, either you have a serious problem with your wife or with your own mind. So, you could either go to a marriage counselor or a doctor, as the case maybe. A new study showed that men are more likely than women to have problems with memory and other thinking skills, symptoms considered to be an early stage ...
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