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Nip Tuck

Lately, I've been having more and more conversations regarding cosmetic surgery. With the rising number of people electing to go under the knife and the increased social acceptance of plastic surgery, I guess it's only natural that we start to wonder how a certain tweaks here and there could improve our appearance. Would you ever have cosmetic surgery? If so, what kind (assuming money was no object)? I admit it: I've gone under the knife. I've had Asian blepharoplasty (more commonly known as the Asian double eyelid surgery) back in 2000. And I don't regret it at all. I've always had small eyes - had kids tease me in my younger years, and was very self-conscious of it. It was actually my parents who suggested that I get the surgery. At...

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SK-II Air Touch Foundation

I had read in last year's August issue of InStyle and the September issue of Vogue about a new foundation that SK-II was releasing: the Air Touch Foundation. A description of the product from the SK-II US website: At a touch of a button, the amazing ionisation technology delivers foundation one particle at a time for a most precise and natural coverage. When the ioniser is switched on the positively charged micro foundation particles are instantly attracted to the negatively charged micro particles on the face, covering the skin in a single, even and precise layer – no mess, caking or streaking. In addition, Air Touch Foundation is formulated with SK-II’s seemingly miraculous ingredient, Pitera, and moisturising agents to provide skin caring benefits and hydrate skin. Both InStyle and Vogue had...

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Don to Earth

One of the many blogs I subscribe to is Get Rich Slowly, a personal finance site written by a man who was successfully able to dig himself out of major debt and want to help others do the same. Today, he posted a link to Don To Earth, a "blog written by a 93-year-old-man. There’s more to wealth than money. Health, long life, and happiness are more important, in my book. This is awesome." Fascinated, I checked out Don's blog. Don is the third oldest blogger in the world. His entries are filled with wisdom and advice that can only come with age. Some of them are downright bittersweet, and a few even brought tears to my eyes. And reading his blog...

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Sony Ericsson M600i Review

When I first watched Casino Royale, I instantly became transfixed by the smartphone used by Vesper Lynd in the movie. Since I had been in the market for a new phone, I decided to bite the bullet and purchase an unlocked version from eBay. Being a gadget/techie geek, I had done some pretty extensive research before making the decision to purchase the phone. The phone's OS, UIQ3 running on top of Symbian 9.1, is still fairly new (well, not that new...

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Thursday Next

Can I just say how much I love the Thursday Next books? I think this may be about the tenth time I started the series again, yet I still find something new and amusing every time. An excerpt from Wikipedia: Thursday Next is the protagonist in the series of novels by Jasper Fforde. Thursday is an agent with the Swindon SpecOps department 27, the Literary Detectives or LiteraTecs, which means she investigates cases that seem rather bizarre but are perfectly normal in this parallel world such as illegal book trafficking, bootleg poetry etc. Thursday lives in a parallel late-eighties, where England has been fighting the Crimean War for more than a hundred years with a Russia that still has a Tsar, there is no United Kingdom, Wales has become the "People's Republic Of...

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