Pounds, Peso’s And Pals

A very thin lightweighted but flexible travel pal is very handy when you step out of your door. No matter if it’s for a walk around the block or for crossing continents. But make use of it with modesty. Even this one has its limits. And if it happens it won’t move the required banknotes out of the wall: don’t chew on it!

Sugars, Salts And Sins

A journey starts with a first step. The road to a quick weight loss isn’t much different. For both counts: being really determined and willing to take that first step brings one closer to that day of departure. To know one’s final destination is good, but being too focused leaves you partially blind. Not very handy being on the road. Two things one shouldn’t forget to pack: regularity and modesty. Get enough sleep. Don’t skip breakfast. Move a lot, but move away from soda’s and too salty food. Sugars and salts will slow one down. But be generous with fruits and vegetables. And be generous to yourself: to eat things you like isn’t a mortal sin. Enjoy those moments, postpone, keep chewing on it. Don’t be in a hurry. That final destination can wait another day.

Cloud Nine Is Fine, And Mine?

I got some ingredients for a splendid weekend here. A number of clouds is one of them. Then there’s room for imagination, energy and a twist of naughtyness. And a pink dress that takes one’s breath away. Mine for sure.

There’s A Good Rub

When natural things get clothed with difficult or unknown names I wonder why that is and get curious. It might give me a fresh look at old familiar things. From another perspective, so to speak. Only recently I tried to give a hint to half the world population to think more sexy to become more sexy. An attempt to introduce a healthy natural male enhancement. For obvious reasons I wasn’t able to measure the rate of success. The thing is that in those days my eyes got caught with one of those exotic names; chlorophyll. The name sounds horrible, but it’s more or less to plants and trees what blood is to humans. It obtains energy, stimulates growth and the supply of oxygen. Ingredients I think very useful. With the help of a good additional rub they’ll be sufficient to end up in Cloud Nine this weekend.

A Film With A Flush

It was a Tour de Force to find something pleasant related to the previous post. But here it is. A clip with the most classic film scene with a sewage system as location. Indeed, strange things can run around beneath the surface of what we see. Lifelines can end in there. But it’s enjoyable to watch this film all curled up and having dry feet, to feel some nitty gritty obstacles flushed down.

A Tool For Intestines

Piece of art or an engineer’s pride is how I called it earlier. A hidden treasure of any big city or a lifeline that many a metropolis on this earth falls short of, is another description. It’s still the one and same thing though, and all billions of us are blessed with it: our colon. Like those urban drainage systems regurlarly get constipated by human carelessness and need a rescue operation, it's our own intestines that might need a same Tour de Force, like colon cleansing detox, to get things running smoothly again. With a bit more attention and a slight change of habits it all would go down more naturally.

The Control In Cockpits

I might be on board of one of those big birds again by the end of this month. That’s a save margin with Xmas: pilots won’t have got their presents yet. Kinect Xbox’s, lacking a controller, being unwrapped might damage a few items indoors without much more harm done than a black eye, airfields are a different pitch.

Kinect Knots My Brows

You can’t please everyone. But when you launch an ‘entertainment machine’ such as the kinect xbox and within a fortnight you sell a million copies, you’re doing well, if you ask me. But, then again: I’m not a gamer. There’s a stiff competition that will make this barrage a long and exhausting one. So, you might say it’s not a simple game-set-match for Microsoft. I myself won’t bat an eyelid, but maybe it might knot the brows. A detail like this might tip the balance and will decide who wins eventually. Till a next game hits the pitch, of course.

Shine On You Cute Diamond

A rough uncut black diamond from Malaya here. Priceless. Although I’m some time in Kuala Lumpur now, I’m glad with the subtitles. Then again: who really needs subtitles facing so much irresistable charm? It seems a clip from about 7 years ago, I hope she still wears that smile.

Black Sheep Budge For Black Diamonds

The upcoming of a best friend’s wedding has made me walk around with a special focused eye for everything that’s related with the occasion. This particular wedding I’ll very likely won’t be able to attend. But knowing her all too well, she’ll go for the traditional diamond ring. Good for her. I myself have never been charmed by the idea of wearing one. Call me the black sheep of the family, if you like. But black diamond rings made for sure an impact on me. Real diamonds as they are and not some fancies as I was thinking in all my innocence, they make the less traditional but perfect piece of jewelry, even suitable for men, that I would say yes to.

A Fashionisto's Foozle

It’s not just women who can end up in trouble while shopping. Even for men temptation might be ‘hang around’ in some corner. And sometimes it’s not an overloaded bag but a very flimsy nothing that shows an entire mall who you are. Or, what they think you are, and give them something to talk about being back home again.

Pills And Pockets

Like the shopping for the best offers in fancy highstreets or online might turn into unnecessary overloaded bags and overdrafted bank accounts, looking for the best weight loss pills might make you end up in a similar way. For some reason both are too appealing for a number of people to pass unharmed, no matter how stuffed wardrobes or medicine cabinets at home already are. At least the good thing of clothes is you always can start wearing them, swop them or give them away to charity, having been a good choice or not. Weight loss pills won’t fit any pocket, except the manufacturer’s.

From Nine To Dive

Oh brother, whatever printer/copier you might be looking for, it surely isn’t one of these machines. I’m not sure how many lifes a copy-cat has, but this guy’s number should be close to 9 at the end of a working day like this one. He surely must have had a dive or two to save his neck?

A Purposeful Impression Of Printers

Does size matter? At first glance, according the brother printers site, it doesn’t. Till they come up with some simple but clear outlined figures. Show that size does matter, but very likely the right choice even more. To scan the people who’ll make use of it, and their specific needs, will help you to label it the right choice. And as always: that choice will be right when you made up what you’re looking for, having seen the in’s and out’s. Got it in print, so to speak.

Bride, Broom And Other Brood

Angels in trees are not present here. Divine dresses might be. I’m not thrilled of the choice for the wedding jewelry. A bit too stinging to me. And magic is there, although as black as the night. I wonder what was on the menu and what kind of thank you card one can think of after having survived this bliss.

Divine Dresses And Darn Diets

With Halloween outfits washed, folded nicely, and with Santa who must be working unholy hours to get things prepared and finally in the chimney, the time of year with magic in the air has started. I’m not sure about you, but being adorned with pretty nearly bridesmaid dresses those cute little angels hanging in Xmas trees always make me think they’re a kind of messengers, cupids if you like. Perhaps I’ve seen too many Disney? If so, I’d better keep a strict diet the next two months, not just concerning food alone but films as well. That sounds close to a resolution for next year already. And I better stick to it, or else I won’t fit a bridesmaid dress by April. If I’m around, that is. Darn.

Make One’s Mark To Mail

A clip that shows how a few cuts and pastes can change something we all know well into something totally different (and more personal).

Notes For The Nonce

In this fibre-glassed fast (inter) changing and rather particular anonymous world the moments to get real personal seem to have become rare. Some traditions of the old days aren’t appreciated or are simply forgotten. Although, there are things like personalized note cards that still give the feel and the opportunity to make use of. You might mail, twitter or call someone to show your appreciation or that you care, but it won’t stick that long. For about one buck or less a piece it might.

(sup)Pressed And Pushed

It’s been some time before I could find an elevator clip again that’s worth to push the button, but here’s one. There’s no ‘I Spy...’, no faul play, but there’s the issue of privacy and one-in-the-crowd you always have to reckon with. A queer party member with a pestilent influence.

Too Tacky To Tail

The thin wall between reality and fantasy can be proven even thinner than a leaf of shame. And might be blown away as easily. It doesn’t have to be a bad thing, this mixing, it might even be fun. But how disturbed you have to be to make use of a cell phone spy? This with the assumption we’re not all on the paylist of some secret service or detective agency. What happened to the right of privacy? I can only recall one country that might have used this device on a grand scale, if it had been available. Luckily the Berlin Wall came down and the possibility of several millions of people spying each other didn’t get as far as in history books. In the chapter about facts that nearly happened.

Bullock’s No Bollocks

Out of some old cardboard box, I borrowed this clip. Gets me a bit blue of envy: there’s an immigration-officer, but also a contract for grabs if only getting married with some a hundred-carat-cutie. There are worse ways, trust me.

Careers And Carats

While I’m visiting unexpected corners of Malaysia in anticipation of an official paper called labour permit, one of my dear friends dropped me a mail that she’s looking forward to get her marriage lines in April next year. I’m not sure whose excitement is the biggest. It must be hers; looking for Wedding Jewelry in fancy shops, or among your inner circle for that one gorgeous piece of family jewel can’t be beaten by any paper signed by some immigration officer. And isn’t a marriage license the best possible personal contract of a lifetime?

Wheels Of This World

Wheels of this world haven’t brought me to the park for a stroll or picnic, yet. I’m a bit busy and can’t find the time to be online for a long time. But I found this almost elegantly made clip. I wish you all happy rides this weekend. In some park, or any other nice place.

From Toys To Triplettes To Tanks

Give an Italian a number of wheels and something to sit in or on: nine out of ten he’ll surprise you with something slicely out of the ordinary. And very often more elegant. Being curious as ever, but not knowing the difference between a pushchair and a pram, Peg perego made me look again. Hard to ignore: those ride-on toys that made me wish to be born in the late 1990’s. I read somewhere that newly born babies can’t see very well, but maybe they can smell luxury if that surrounds them? Breath taking was the Triplette, not just the looks, but for sure the weight: 25 kilo’s, and its length of 1.69 m, longer than myself. The idea alone to have a stroll in the park with such a pushchair -yes, I know the difference now- (or perhaps it’s a tank after all?) instantly burns calories.

To Foster Fun Is Forgivable

The guy in this clip has done a great job. Loads of effort here. Prepared a date in the minute detail. With lots of tasteful extras. All ingredients working, with no doubt. In the end though, he’s exposed to have exaggerated a bit. Still some inches of improvement left for next time.

Shamelessly Sexy

I read various magazines and newspapers, or at least have a glance at them. But I can’t recall ever have laid eyes on male enhancement reviews. Till now. And what strikes me is that the published experiences go hand in hand with diet pill reviews. The same bulk of hoaxes. A piling up of names of very vague ingredients. The same dangerous side-effects. The same naive hope by so many people. The same few real working options. Dear people, dear men: take it from me, use your common sense, be frank and hold on to loving fun. Makes you shamelessly sexy. Be satisfied with the hard and soft facts, every inch of it.

Malayan Model For Misery

Speaking of bricking up bodies: Malayan Misery, I might call this. Don’t ask me the number of calories for this one, it must be as high as the Petronas Towers! If your stomach is up for it: there’s another sloppy joe clip that shows how it was prepared. Special attention for the waste.

Beware For Waste

Aren’t we all a bunch of sloppies? And aren’t we all paying the price for it? Being aware of this, or not, we continue to block and pollute every artery of this planet and, even closer to home, of our own body. To dump (plastic) waste is silting up even parts of oceans, so I’ve to understand. Bricking up our own body system (think of pores of the skin) leads to things like adult acne medication. Both are signs of sloppyness. And that’s a shame, because both are unnecessary. To restore takes much more effort than to prevent. Such a waste.

A Choir Of Comrades

To be lambs or lions, one thing we almost all can’t be is a choir boy. And I’m not just talking gender here. But maybe we’re all part of one big choir, six billion strong? Follow the tune? I don’t know how much calories the singing of this ‘Lion Sleeps Tonight’ takes, but I hope these boys will be able to stretch a leg afterwards.

Lamb Or Lion?

Let’s try the rough cut for once. Unless you get yourself half butchered, you can’t lose a lot of weight in two shakes of a lamb’s tail. Those pounds of fat you got there, and want to shake of, are there and remain there, unless you’re prepared to take in some hard figures first. Let’s take a fatburner like Lipofuze. It claims it makes it possible for you to lose, roughly, a pound a day. It’s estimated that to lose a pound it takes 3.500 calories. I’ll give you a few 1-hour exercises and the number of calories that gets burned if you do, and the total amount of hours to burn those 3.500 calories. All roughly, remind that.

Lying down or sleeping: 90 calories, 40 hours
Walking (2 mph): 200 calories, 17.5 hours
Swimming (crawl, 20 yards/min): 300 calories, 11.5 hours
Scrubbing Floors: 450 calories, 0.8 hours
Aerobic Dancing: 550 calories, 0.6 hours
Circuit weight training: 750 calories, 0.45 hours

Impressive figures. Hard ones too. Two questions: do you think a pill can do that for you? Are you a lamb or a lion?

Typography That Tingles

On my search for a suitable follow up, a needle in a haystack sometimes, I found this clip. Not what I had in mind, but when the regular path doesn’t bring the answer, a detour might. For some reason watching this clip gives me some idea what happens when a virus or the like attacks a human body.

Search For Suspicious Signs

After having seen NCIS on tv last night I wondered where police work ended and the medical world came in. Very likely I won’t be able to break down and seperate the matter. Although I suspect this isn’t the daily search for the needle in the haystack in any hospital, or police laboratory for that matter, the facilities that are available at such places are pretty impressive. To cough up with a for instance can be a painstaking but not impossible task. Like in NCIS, out of a long check list and a possible diversion or two, the outcome will be there. May it be a needle or a trace of a tiny asbestos fibre.