Garbage of New York

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure...we’ve all heard that line before. And usually only 2 things come to mind when I hear someone say it – either the man’s talking about his grand collection of crap or he’s talking about a relationship. But never in my wildest dream did I actually think or see that phrase taking to life literally until Justin Gignac came along with his eccentric idea about boxing garbage ( I don’t mean those things that no one really has a need for but actual ...

10 things to Reduce, Reuse & Recycle in your Kitchen (Contd)

Continuing from yesterday, here are the other 6 items you can green from your kitchen:

5. Coffee Grounds
Coffee is safely assumed to be a must in any normal household (it’s a generalisation, not implying that you aren’t normal if you don’t have any at home) and that generates pounds of waste grounds each month. So instead of letting it all go to the landfill, why not use it in your garden. Coffee grounds make great fertilizers and are excellent for rose bushes.

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10 things to Reduce, Reuse & Recycle in your Kitchen

Reduce, reuse and recycle. Those are the simple and golden rules of green living. Yet when people think of saving the environment, it has to be through huge acts such as volunteering to clean up wildlife after oil spills. But fact of the matter is, oil spills don’t happen every day (thank goodness!) and they aren’t exactly the main contributors of pollution or deterioration of nature either. The real problem lies with our daily lives and how we are insensitive towards the knowledge ...

Recycling Spectacles

Let us face facts, the modern society of today and our youths do not have great vision. Children as young as 5 are walking around with spectacles powered to 300! I’m not an expert on the matter and by no means an eye specialist but I think that’s pretty severe vision deterioration for a child. But that’s quite beside the point I’m trying to strike out here today.

The idea here is that many people need vision correction or vision aid. It’s a worldwide epidemic in its own right and that just means thousands of people across the globe wear spectacles. And what was ...

Plant Love - Colours for your lips

Take a peek into a woman’s handbag and chances are, 9 out of 10 times you are going to find a tube of lipstick amongst some many other colouring tools. And as important as cosmetics has become in the lives of the fairer sex today, lipstick has made its’ mark as a basic foundational need in the cosmetics family. Women generally own some ‘colour’ with the most common being lipstick.

And often enough these luscious lip colours come packaged in the most amazing tubes – plastic tubes ...

7 deadly sins against Nature (Contd.)

Completing the set, here are the other 5 deadly sins against green:

3.    luxuria (extravagance which later became the infamous lust)
I suppose lust is one of the most popular sins of the seven, often linked with obsessive or excessive thoughts and desires of a sexual nature. But the fact is, the sin is actually about the excessive/impure love for something that leaves you in capable of having clarity of mind and rationality of actions. Green ...

7 Deadly Sins against Green

The first time I ever heard about the seven deadly sins was sometime during Catholic Education. The next time I truly appreciated it was when it was made the heart of a powerful yet disturbing movie starring the gorgeous Brad Pit! But as much as the movie ‘Seven’ depicted the culpability and vulnerability of our society to the cardinal sins, it is not the first time it has become a theme in art. In fact since the 14th century, the 7 deadly sins were a popular theme amongst artists which gave rise to beautiful artworks that held ingrained in them  reminders of "SALIGIA" ( A mnemonic of the ...

Strum a green note

Music, you’ve heard all the sayings about it, how it heals the soul, united the world, transcends barriers of land and culture. Everyone loves music, it has a way as Berthold Auerbach puts it, “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

The world over, people recognise it and indulge their precious children into music through one form or another; they send them for musical instrument classes or vocal training. Now amongst the most widely adopted instrument is either the guitar or the piano and the one thing these two ...

Reflections in the Mirror

Everyone measures success differently. Some people boast of riches, others boast of a healthy family...but at the end of the day the fact is sometimes we just don’t see our true reflections. How we define success is not in fact absolute, but instead it is based on perception and justification (to make it even less reliable, it is our own).  

But the truth is, there is a way to truly see ourselves for who we are and it is as simple as merely looking into a mirror and seeing what stares back at us.  

Mirrors are captivating, regardless ...

Repurposing your pantyhose

I guess you could say I’m a bit old school because I firmly believe a pair of pantyhose is required to complete a lady’s dressing. But aside from the ‘protocol’ reason, pantyhose do serve other functional purpose:

They give anyone the impression of silky smooth legs – they hide any scars and blemish you may have not to mention the dreaded orange peels
They protect your legs against the chills
They protect the inner soles of your shoes and thus give them a longer life span

Now it really depends on the individual ...