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Water me please

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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 solution… THE THIRSTY LIGHT

A simple gadget that addresses a simple need.  It tells you when you need to water your plants.

It has a Drypoint digital circuit that continuosly monitors conditions and tests the moisture level in the soil once per second. It’s simple to use too, because it has no gauges or complicated readouts, just a blinking light telling you to add water.

Gossip and Slander: Verbal Cannibalism

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I used to have strong notions against women from my country marrying men from another country. I would always second-guess their motives, and I had such a bigoted notion about interracial marriage. Today, I came across this article, and I was struck about a couple of things about my culture that had been disappointing me lately, and I am struggling to overcome.
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Your Body is a Wonderland

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You’ve worked hard, lived hard, played hard, loved hard & ran the marathon in bright successful colors.  By the time you pause and wonder what you have through the years, you’d see an old old buddy needing, IF NOT, wanting your attention.  That’s your body!

By this time, your body is about to put you ON HOLD.  And chances are you may not enjoy the victory of a long life. 

Spas tend to be classed in two extreme ways – either cheap and cheerful (and you can think of the eerie hole-in-the-wall outlets in malls or as an appendage to a derm clinic or a health gym) and there’s the ultra deluxe (spas rated as “five stars”.  Sadly, there is no middle ground to rest the majority.  In Asia, there are some other “spa attractions” that features the blind, the old & the “hilots” (but that’s another story).

Hongkong features these five star spas as “boutique spas”, it is harder to believe that HongKong is offering such upon entering the flagship retreat on Arbuthnot Road.  An instant sense of calm melts away the last traces of outside commotion. The little touches, which include Indian custom-made brass-plated doors and bowls, Japanese glass sculpting, Balinese water features, Thai Buddha statues and piped music in each treatment room, certainly add to the inviting ambience too.

Oh you haven’t heard how you could just float away the hours, giving your body the attention it has NEVER… NEVER… had all these years.  Indulge in their signature treatments, such as the two-hour luxurious Cappuccino Awakening Wrap, followed by a Deep Calm Massage and Exotic Rose Milk Jacuzzi Bath. They highly recommend the massage, which concluded with a spine-tingling combination of scalp massage and hair stroking. Talk about saving the best for last.

Sense of Touch…The Boutique Spa
LG/F The Ovolo, 2 Arbuthnot Rd
Central
Tel: 2869 0939

www.senseoftouch.com.hk

It’s getting hotter and hotter and even Antarctica is melting

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Oops, there goes a huge chunk of ice splattering on the shores of Antarctica, the world’s frozen butt.

Don’t worry, don’t worry – the huge ice continent is not about to melt completely to raise sea levels around the world to “Waterworld” heights.

So, you can safely get down from your roof now. And, no, there’s no need to consider living in a “Yellow Submarine” even if you’re a Beatles fan.

On Tuesday, March 25, 2008, British scientists revealed that chunk of Antarctic ice about the size of Scotland suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk.

The 160-square-mile chunk of ice in western Antarctica started breaking last Feb. 28. The part that eventually broke free last Tuesday was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, perhaps even more than a thousand years.

It’s easy to guess the culprit: Global warming of course (No, not global bulging, although that, too, could break off the Antarctic ice if all the world’s fatsos go there and put their weight around).

British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughan said although it’s natural for icebergs to break away from the mainland from time to time, last Tuesday’s ice disintegration was unusual. Vaughan said the collapse is similar to what happens to hardened glass when it is smashed with a hammer.

The rest of the Wilkins ice shelf is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice and scientists fear that it too may collapse.

Vaughan had predicted the Wilkins shelf would collapse about 15 years from now. The part that recently gave way makes up about 4 percent of the overall shelf, but it’s an important part that can trigger further collapse, he said.

There’s still a chance the rest of the ice shelf will survive until next year because this is the end of the Antarctic summer and colder weather is setting in, he added.

Scientists said right now they are not concerned about a rise in sea level from the latest event, but say it’s a sign of worsening global warming.

Such occurrences are “more indicative of a tipping point or trigger in the climate system,” said Sarah Das, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

“These are things that are not re-forming,” Das said. “So once they’re gone, they’re gone.”

Well, at least Santa Claus can still make Snowman at the top of the world in the Arctic – if the ice there would hold just a little bit longer.

Photo credit:
The satellite photo above was released by the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. It shows the Wilkins Ice Shelf on March 6, 2008 on the Southwest Antarctic Peninsula as it begins to break apart. (AP Photo/ National Snow and Ice Data Center, NASA)