It is the story of every housewife. Wake up every morning, make breakfast, pack lunches, get the kids ready for school (the hardest job), and send everyone off to their respective destinations. Even after all this, for a stay at home mother the work doesn’t end there. Rather, it just begins after everyone is [...]
Have you ever felt like the distance between your home and office has increased overnight? The traffic, the crowds and the same boring roads every day, make this commute a true challenge for our wits. No matter what kind of transport you are using, it is not easy to sit through this journey.
Some people like [...]
Gourmet cookie delivery can help you spread the luck of the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. After all, everybody is Irish on March 17th, whether your ancestors were born in Ireland or not. And shamrocks are part of the tradition… even if they’re decorating a giant fortune cookie.
If you’re planning your St. Paddy’s day feast [...]
If you have leather cow boy hats you would agree with me that it is extremely difficult when it comes to cleaning them. An air compressor or a vacuum cleaner can take care of the dirt by blowing it away, but what about stains?
Stains can be taken care of by stain repellents or hat cleaning [...]
It is the job of an advertisement to make its product sell. If this is the case, it is only natural that they are going to present their products in an admirable light. Same is the case with leather. But how does the customer differentiate between genuine products and fake, cheap ones tried to be [...]
The thought of men bothering about the color of their shirt, chafing over chapped skins, or pondering the designs of shoes, would have been disconcerting to a lot of old school descendants. But that was before the entry of ‘the metro sexual man’ into the fashion lexicon.
This is a man who ‘dresses up’———quite literally. He [...]
Manga is basically a kind of graphic comic, originally written in Japanese and then translated to English. Manga has found considerable popularity in the markets of America as they are quite different from our traditional American comics.
We being Americans usually perceive that comics are meant for children. But the trends are changing with the introduction [...]
How do you pronounce the words ‘can’ and ‘women’ in Chinese?
If you are conversant in English, chances are that you would pronounce them the English way. Unfortunately, the proper pronunciations happen to be quite different. The word ‘can’ is pronounced in a manner similar to ‘chan’, and ‘women’, ‘wuo mern’.
It is, therefore, helpful if you [...]
Those who are familiar with Western cultures know how many things are treated as taboo. Superstitious people will go to any length to avoid certain things that their culture considers as harbingers of bad luck. It is the same all over the world. Go to any part of the world and you will find, irrespective [...]
It is a sad fact of life is that we often complain more than we say anything positive and we don’t tend to show our affection and devotion to the ones we care about until a loved one is gone. It doesn’t have to be that way; in fact, there are numerous methods that we [...]
