A boozing culture

How was your weekend? “My weekend was quiet” is not a “Kool” answer. Surely I need something like “hammered”, “hangover”, “party”…That’s what is expected or otherwise, people would tell you “Get a life, mate!”.
Well, one should not be surprised to see that Britain is a boozy country. Their statistics show that 60% of the population [...]

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Most wanted woman

This is what I found on my holidays last week in a beautiful town by the beach. I think this is the most sensible advertisement that I have ever seen.

Mr Material is looking for his Ms Right:

Good Woman
Must be able to cook
Clean
Gut fish
Dig worms
Have a nice boat
Have a prestige car
Please send your photo of car [...]

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Tough + Sweat = Fit (???)

Last Friday, BBC had an interesting article about Health concerns. It’s read: “Exercise ‘must be tough to work’! ” Sounds hard, isn’t it? After years and years of research, now they have concluded that an easy, gentle exercise (such as ‘a mere stroll to the car park’) might not be enough to keep you [...]

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Job hunt – a mental game

Yes, it is a mental game. Mental, I mean a Crazy Mind Game. It’s a game between the employer and the candidate. I’ve been in these two positions. The game is always the same.
And here’s my conclusion: It’s just a matter of who’s more desperate!
Ideal case:
If the company is having good reputation, rewarding jobs, good [...]

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Take as many holidays as you want

The free London business newspaper City A. M. published last Tuesday that the consulting firm Ernst & Young is to implement a scheme so its employees can take as many holidays as they want. Forget about 20 working days. If you want to take 30, do so. 40? No problem. That’s a good place to [...]

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When a Kiss Is Not Just a Kiss

Kissing a girl is a nice thing, hmmm… unless it is with a girl with higher education than yours!
Girl with physics Ph.D.:
“Well kissing is relative. You can kiss me with respect to me or with respect to you. First define how you are going to kiss. You can kiss me by treating [...]

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English culture – flattering culture???

I didn’t know much about English culture before I’m here. I was told that Englishmen are polite, frank, have good sense of humour and so on. But I’ve never heard anyone say that they should be famous for flattering…
G’morning, beautiful.
How are you today, gorgeous?
You o’right, lovely?
…
How can one answer these questions without being blushed? Well, [...]

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Oops… they did it again!

In my previous post, I mentioned how “pro” a supermarket in London is with their pricing & promotion. I thought I grabbed a precious and unique moment.
Now I’m so disappointed but I have to admit: it’s not that “precious”, you could catch the same strategy of marketing on their shelf again: customers have to pay [...]

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NewsAlert!

Panic gripped the streets of London this morning when patches of sky took on an unusual blue colour and a ball of fire appeared above the city. The phenomenon, known as ‘The Sun’ and commonly found in Mediterranean countries, unleashed a terrifying heat and brightness upon the capital, causing many pedestrians to take off their [...]

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Working hours – are you really working?

I’ve just bumped into this article, I find it quite amusing.
60% of the employees in the survey sample admit that they do not work full hours as they should. An average of 2 hours is lost. Of course, they had tons of personal things to sort out in working hours.
Not surprisingly, the top wasting [...]

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