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Himal Southasian to suspend publication
By himalsouthasian
24 August 2016
Himal Southasian will continue to publish till November 2016 and meet all its outstanding obligations before suspension of operations.
The Southasia Trust regrets to announce the suspension of publication of Himal Southasian, the pioneering magazine promoting 'cross-border journalism' in the region. A decision to this effect was taken by the Trust's Executive Board on 22 August, due to non-cooperation by regulatory state agencies in Nepal that has made it impossible to continue operations after 29 years of publication.
Reflecting the trend in other parts of Southasia in terms of independent media and civil society organisations, Himal is being silenced not by direct attack or overt censorship but the use of the arms of bureaucracy to paralyse its functioning. Though Nepal has been a leader of free press since the introduction of democracy in 1990, continuous socio-political chaos over two decades has progressively weakened the commitment of the political class to open society.
Relying as it does on external funding support, Himal's publisher The Southasia Trust has adhered to the strict regimen of rules and regulations that govern its day-to-day functioning. Government officials in the various regulatory departments privately admit that the Trust has been in full compliance but regret their inability to process papers due to "pressures", citing powerful state entities who they refuse to name for the record.
With no notification or explanation, grants meant for Himal were not approved over seven months of waiting, obtaining work permits for non-Nepali editorial staff became impossible, and there were unreasonable delays in processing payments for international contributors. Our dwindling workforce tried to overcome these and other challenges, but in the end suspension was the only option.
The decision to suspend publication was not sudden. We continued in the production of high quality journalism in print and on the web despite repeated challenges over the past three years. We persevered through the repercussions of the political attack on Himal in Parliament in April 2014, as well as the escalating targeting of Kanak Mani Dixit, Himal's founding editor and Trust chairman over the past year.
Himal Southasian will continue to publish till November 2016 and meet all its outstanding obligations before suspension of operations. The editor Aunohita Mojumdar and her team remain committed to independent journalism and Himal will resume publication when circumstances in Nepal (or elsewhere) make it possible. We will keep our subscribers as well as the larger public informed about developments through notices at www.himalmag.com.
Signed: S. Mishra, Member-Secretary, for The Southasia Trust Executive Board
(Himal started publication in 1987 as a Himalayan journal and converted to a Southasian magazine in 1996. The Southasia Trust is a non- profit entity registered in Lalitpur, Nepal.)
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C4 Pre Workout from Cellucor got tremendously popular around the same time that USP Labs came out with the original Jack3D. Back then, C4 contained DMAA, just like Jack3D, and that is probably the main reason for the sharp rise in popularity. But then came the ban, and the requirement to either discontinue the product or have it revamped – Cellucor chose the latter, just like everyone else who had a DMAA product on the market.
The revamped version was, needless to say, not as "effective" as the DMAA version, but it was still good, and compared to several other revamped PWO's, C4 was able to keep it's reputation as a solid stimulating pre-workout supplement.
Recently, Cellucor announced another 4th generation of all their supplements, including C4. The name hasnt changed, besides from the addition of "4th Generation". The supplement facts for the 4th generation is different from the former version, but Cellucor has also taken things a step further with the introduction of C4 50X.
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I have seen a lot of people on various forums slightly confused as to what exactly the difference between the two is.
The Short version is that the substances used in the two are the same, with the exception of one substance. What is different between the two, is the dosages used for each substance. Basically, Cellucor claims that C4 50X is 50% stronger than C4 4th Generation. The former version of C4 was (without DMAA), in my opinion, a stong pre workout, specially from a stimulating perspective, and probably a bit too strong for the average user out there. It had a good mix of substances and a fairly good dosege on each of them. The combination 50mg bitter orange and 160mg caffeine alone dose give most people a buzz. So hypothetical speaking, I dont think a 50% stronger version of the 3rd generation would have been a proper PWO for the average bodybuilder. But C4 4th Generation is more or less a completely new mix, so that's not comparable. But the idea with a new version is to make it better; and a better stim PWO, probably means a higher stimulating effect. So I suspect that the new C4 will be more stimulating than the former version, so I am quite excited to read about people's experience with the new C4 50X, when they start reaching the forums.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to test the new C4 4th Generation (nor the C4 50X for that matter), so this won't be a complete review, but I think it's interesting to take a closer look at the substances used. So below you will find the supplement facts for C4 4th Generation and C4 50X. Here goes:
Cellucor C4 – 4th Generation
Calories 5
Total Carbohydrate 1 g
Vitamin C (as Ascorbic Acid) 250 mg
Niacin (as Niacinamide) 30 mg
Vitamin B6 (as Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate) 500 mcg
Folic Acid 250 mcg
Vitamin B12 (as Methylcobalamin) 35 mcg
Calcium 20 mg
Beta Alanine 1.6g
Creatine Nitrate 1g
Arginine AKG 1g
Explosive Energy Blend 371mg
Cellucor C4 50X – 4th Generation (not that there ever was a 3rd of this specific supp.)
Calories 5
Total Carbohydrate 1
Vitamin C (as Ascorbic Acid) 375 mg
Niacin (as Niacinamide) 45 mg
Vitamin B6 (as Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate) 750mcg
Folic Acid 375 mcg
Vitamin B12 (as Methylcobalamin) 52.5mcg
Calcium 24mg
Beta Alanine 2.4g
Creatine Nitrate 1.5g
Arginine AKG 1g 1.5g
Explosive Energy Blend 557mg
XCELICOR Caffeine Pterostilbene Cocrystaal
As you can tell, there is roughly 50% more of each substance in the C4 50X version. There is more than 50% additional beta alanine in the 50X version, less than 50% more calcium, and the same amount of calories and cabrs in both versions. But over all, its close to 50% stronger on each substance. The same is true for the prop. blend: Explosive Enegy Blend.
Although I haven't tested C4 4th Generation, I have posted a review based on the ingridients used in this pre workout supplement. You can read that here: C4 pre workout.
C4 Pre Workout – A Solid Choice
As I personally thought the former version was a really good PWO, I have high expectations for the 4th generation and I plan on testing it in a near future. Stay tuned for a complete review once I have had a chance to give it a go.

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A wise and witty revival of the Roman poet who taught us how to carpe diem
What is the value of the durable at a time when the new is paramount? How do we fill the void created by the excesses of a superficial society? What resources can we muster when confronted by the inevitability of death? For the poet and critic Harry Eyres, we can begin to answer these questions by turning to an unexpected source: the Roman poet Horace, discredited at the beginning of the twentieth century as the "smug representative of imperialism," now best remembered―if remembered―for the pithy directive "Carpe diem."
In Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet, Eyres reexamines Horace's life, legacy, and verse. With a light, lyrical touch (deployed in new, fresh versions of some of Horace's most famous odes) and a keen critical eye, Eyres reveals a lively, relevant Horace, whose society―Rome at the dawn of the empire―is much more similar to our own than we might want to believe.
Eyres's study is not only intriguing―he retranslates Horace's most famous phrase as "taste the day"―but enlivening. Through Horace, Eyres meditates on how to live well, mounts a convincing case for the importance of poetry, and relates a moving tale of personal discovery. By the end of this remarkable journey, the reader too will believe in the power of Horace's "lovely words that go on shining with their modest glow, like a warm and inextinguishable candle in the darkness."
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Harry Eyres has become one of the most eloquent representatives of the worldwide Slow Movement. Having worked for leading newspapers and magazines as a wine writer, theater critic, and poetry editor, he created the international Slow Lane column in the Financial Times in 2004. Slow Lane encourages and facilitates thoughtful enjoyment of the profound, and often uncostly and unmonetized, pleasures and values that make life worth living. Eyres is the author of the poetry collection Hotel Eliseo, Plato's "The Republic": A Beginner's Guide, and several books on wine.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
More Durable than Bronze
Once again I'm taking this small object through airport security and I'm wondering whether any of the machines will pick it up. Probably not. Though the contents are described as "more durable than bronze" and in terms of half-life rival any radioactive isotope, they don't set off any contemporary alarms. Our systems are geared toward mobile phones and computers, shoe bombs and booby-trapped undergarments. My object is made of metaphorical metal and its power and capacity cannot be measured in volts or gigabytes.
This thing is red in color and measures a little over six inches by four inches by one inch. It is in fact a book—an old Loeb Library edition that contains a hundred and twenty poems written two thousand years ago by the Roman poet Horace. One hundred and three of those poems are arranged in four books of odes (Horace actually used the word carmina, meaning songs), the work of which the poet was proudest, and which he thought would guarantee his immortality.
Placing this small battered book on my airport café table, looking out over tarmac-covered runways, some woods beyond them, a gray English morning sky, makes me feel more moored and anchored in a place whose very essence is hypermobility. Moored to what? To myself, to some depth of feeling in myself.
Reading this particular poem, the thirtieth and last of Book Three, in which Horace prophesies that his odes will outlast the pyramids, is affecting me so much that I am afraid I may start weeping, or generally betray the kind of emotion you are not supposed to show in airport cafés.
Horace is making a pretty outrageous claim. He is saying that these poems are time-proof—proof against floods and hurricanes, or just the drip-drip of steady rain and the passing of the uncounted days, weeks, months, "the unnumbered series of years and the flight of time." The extraordinary thing is that he was right; he wrote his poems into the future, for the future as much as for the present, and they remain always contemporary. The scholars who try to nail Horace, and other ancient authors who still speak to us, down to the past have got something fundamentally wrong.
"Not all of me will die; part of me will escape the goddess of death." Maybe that's what's affecting me. Something to counter the fear of death that attends all airports, all flights into the unknown. I'm only flying to Turin (as it happens), but this is the place of departures and sometime soon they'll call my flight; my number will come. The mobile phone rings; it's my partner wishing me a safe flight, reminding me to drink enough water. She's right; I need water. But not water alone; I also need Horace, who said no poetry worth reading was written by drinkers of water. Just for a moment I weigh the sleek metal coolness of the phone against the warmer, frayed old book. In terms of apparent power, attractiveness, usefulness, surely the gleaming gizmo wins out (not that it's a new phone, or a smartphone—any self-respecting teenager would regard it as an antique). I wonder which will have the longer future.
I am reminded of a phrase from a newspaper article I recently added to my cuttings file in which the historian Timothy Garton Ash criticized the thoughtless stereotyping of Poles as anti-Semitic. He went on to characterize "the language of today's party politics" as consisting of "prefabricated phrases and glib half-truths." Such phrases and half-truths cannot be expected to last long. They are not made of the right durable stuff, for a start. Their foundations are not deep. They don't bear any profound relation to reality, or true emotion. When a big storm or disaster strikes, they fall apart, smashed to useless tinder.
Wandering into the airport bookshop, I notice the volume by the British Liberal Democrat minister Vince Cable entitled The Storm. The cover shows Cable looking suitably gloomy and also prophetic, against a backdrop of ominous clouds. His book is about the economic storm that hit the western economies apparently without much warning in 2008. For a few days or weeks in September and October of that year, following the collapse of the American bank Lehman Brothers, it looked as if the entire system of credit that lubricated the globalized capitalist system was seizing up.
I happened to be having lunch with a very important personage on one of those October days, when the U.K.'s Royal Bank of Scotland, the world's largest bank at that time, very nearly went bust. That would have meant money not coming out of ATM machines, people unable to pay for food, riots on the streets. My friend, a director of the bank, gamely went ahead with the lunch, during which we talked about the English Hispanist Gerald Brenan and our shared love of Spanish culture, but I could see he had turned pale and that he was hardly touching his food. If someone like him was worried, I reflected, we really must be in trouble.
Since then the crisis has rolled on, deepening rather than resolving itself. As my friend predicted, what began as a financial crisis would become an economic one. Cable was right; the storm clouds really did seem to be gathering. After decades in which the lucky people of the earth felt things were only getting better, could only get better, the kind of conditions that created the Great Depression of the 1930s, with the terrible consequences we all know, suddenly didn't seem so distant. And they were being exacerbated by politicians who appeared to have learned nothing from history, especially not the lessons of John Maynard Keynes. And as if all that was not bad enough, this financial and economic crisis was merely being added to an ongoing, and potentially far more grave, environmental crisis, in which the capacity of the earth, the oceans, the atmosphere to absorb industrial pollution, to sustain the conditions for tolerable life, was being put under serious threat. Here was a profound crisis not just of economy but of values, born of surfeit rather than penury: born of the excess of credit and consumption.
Strangely enough, I don't think any of this would have greatly surprised Horace. He too perceived a crisis of values in the midst of what appeared to be peace and plenty.
At last the civil wars, a period of almost unimaginable chaos and bloodshed, are over. The major foreign enemies have been defeated. There are no longer any limits, either of space or time. The word comes from on high that history has ended (Francis Fukuyama's version), or "dominion without end is my gift to you" (Jupiter's words to Aeneas in Book 1 of Virgil's Aeneid). The empire has dawned; a sun has risen that will not set.
And yet, just at this moment of supreme temporal triumph come obscure rumors of defeat. Legions are stranded abroad. Daring attacks threaten the impregnable capital city. Immense material wealth proves strangely counterproductive; it even seems to consume itself. City dwellers are deafened by noise, suffocated by smog. Even the fish in the ocean feel their environment contracting, hemmed in by concrete fish pens that extend human dominion into the ownerless deep.
Horace's time and ours are linked by a curious sense of hollowness at the heart of unparalleled prosperity. The old gods are abandoning the city, just when their guidance might be needed most. Surrounded by skyscrapers, palaces, fed full with delicacies and entertainments, people feel adrift, their moorings gone. Though a relatively peaceful political order has been established, there is a deep crisis of values that threatens to undermine that order.
For a long time now no one sophisticated has taken the old gods, the old religion, or the archaic virtues of frugality and simplicity particularly seriously. God has been turned into money, and money has amazing powers; no gates or guardians can stop it; it can bribe and destroy states. But to the keenest sensibility of the age, materialism itself, which seemed so solid, is revealed as a false god. Growing affluence appears to breed only an insatiable hunger for more, a desolate sense of something always lacking.
Horace asked himself, just as we are asking ourselves, these questions: What exactly is this new dominion, empire, or global new order? Can it offer unlimited peace and prosperity, stretching forward into infinite horizons of time, or does it consist of little more than a soulless efficiency, an instrumentalism that makes everything a means to an end, with the end itself lost along the way? In which case, might not the greatest loss and poverty be of time itself, the lived and living moment, the day, which is the gods' gift to us, but which is always being sacrificed to a more glorious tomorrow?
Horace's response to living in his time of global power threatened by its inner vacuum of values, not so unlike our time of global capitalism, in which no value other than the monetary is recognized, was to be contrary. The life work he set himself, writing a body of Latin lyric poetry in Greek meters, could be seen as supremely useless. Though he managed to persuade himself that Augustus's new order was benign, he railed against plutocracy and declared himself on the side of those with little, while recognizing that he was compromised, a friend to rich men as well as to the poor.
He insisted on the benefits to be gained from recognizing inescapable limits: the limit to human life; the sanity of being satisfied with "what is enough," rather than the restless reaching after more; the happiness of dwelling in "one dear perpetual place," rather than being constantly on the move but never escaping what you cannot leave behind, yourself.
Horace's warning to jet-setters comes at the end of his verse letter to Bullatius: "You can change the color of the sky, not the color of your mind / By jetting over oceans; a sort of busy idleness wears us out; / We think the best way to live is to buy a yacht or an SUV; / Everything you need is here, in Pitsville, if your mind is sane."
At last my flight is called. I put the small battered book away in its usual pocket in my rucksack and proceed toward the gate. I wonder whether I am inflating the book's value, putting more onto it than it can bear. But then the book and its author never claimed they could solve any great practical challenge, like throwing a water supply across a valley, or lifting a hundred tons of metal five miles into the air.
What I have in my rucksack, as I move along the walkway toward the marvel of modern technology that will transport me (I hope) over seas and mountains, is just some debris from a long-gone civilization. But it is, as I hope this book will show, a magical sort of debris, the equal and opposite of the nuclear waste that will remain toxic for thousands of years.
Horace is the canniest of classics, able to survive in fragmentary form. He invented some of the pithiest phrases ever coined. Horace's phrases, lines, and poems have lasted, I reckon, because they're the opposite of prefabricated or glib. His words are put together with a carpentry or stonemasonry so cunning and precise that nothing can prize them apart. Syllables, sounds, rhythms are locked together with a force that even earthquakes could not budge.
And they are not just decorative. Horace once said that poetry should be both sweet and useful. Or even true.
The Horatian Spanish poet Antonio Machado defined poetry as "a few true words," a definition that sounds minimal, even despairing, until you reflect on what a few true words can do. They might help us find our bearings, keep us on track, in a world, a universe, that seems to get vaster and more mystifying but not more navigable as knowledge without wisdom proliferates. At least they have helped me find my bearings and keep myself on track. Just now, I'm hoping they'll see me through to Turin, and beyond.
Copyright © 2013 by Harry Eyres
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We're all addicted to something - but when the crutch gets in the way of living a happy and productive life, it must stop. Over the last 25 years, renowned addiction therapist Dr. Fred Woolverton has used his dynamic, empathetic approach to help thousands of addicts achieve long-term recovery - including himself and his coauthor Susan Shapiro, whom he helped quit smoking and drinking and find success in both love and her career. Dr. Woolverton views the external habit as less important than the chaos and fear underlying the addiction, which we use to regulate our feelings. The solution, he has found, is easier than we think.
Unhooked: How to Quit Anything is a smart, readable, and actionable guide to conquering any addictive habit. Using real patient examples as well as research and his own experience, Dr. Woolverton shows us how to thrive without self-medicating. His approach is an unorthodox blend of straightforward changes to behavior and open and honest conversation with another person. His specific instructions do not require an expensive therapist, rehab, 12-step program, or a higher power (but he does make readers aware of those viable options). Let Dr. Woolverton help you kick your addiction and move on with your life today!
Narrator Rob Davis uses a refreshing approach to Dr. Fred Woolverton's guide on how to get over addiction, adopting an encouraging, familiar manner that will make listeners feel as though they're being given advice by a trusted friend. Instead of applying a forceful tone that could alienate listeners, Davis uses gentle encouragement to describe Dr. Woolverton's easy-to-understand instructions on gaining lasting recovery through self-exploration.
Listeners will finish this audiobook feeling inspired and empowered to get rid of their addictions and live a happy, productive life.
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Sheds new light on the psyche of addiction
Rob Davis rockets along at breakneck speed, as if he has to impart as much information as quickly as possible. Fortunately I am already a great fan of audiobooks so his snappy delivery didn't put me off the medium of audio.
However, in this case I would recommend a hard copy or Kindle as well as or instead of the audiobook. There is a great deal to absorb, lists to make and one needs to refer back for clarification and reinforcement. This is no drive-by reading.
Yes, I'm an addict - cigarettes being my poison of choice - for over 40 years. And, yes, I have tried to kick it using books, therapy, acupuncture, programs, medication and nicotine replacement.
From past experience, the resounding message that usually comes through is that with some assistance and self-discipline, addiction can be beaten - no problem. Some methods are even arrogant enough to claim that they can make the process relatively easy and quote excellent success rates. Many never follow up after completion of their programs, so how do they know how good they really are? It's not easy, hence permanent success rates are statistically fairly disappointing. Addiction in itself is not the problem - it is the manifestation of the problem.
Finally a book which tells it like it is! Not only do Fred Woolverton and Susan Shapiro go into the underlying causes of addiction, but warn us up-front that we will suffer through the process - for as long as a year. If you are not prepared for a difficult road, don't go past the first chapter, or don't buy the book. Addiction is the accumulation of years of deep underlying sadness, pain, feeling unworthy or unloved, not a self contained bubble of indulgent pleasure. There is a lot to unravel and heal - it has to take time.
By allowing ourselves to being open and prepared to gain an understanding of how and why our addictions have come to be, they explain how to approach and eventually free ourselves of the fear of not needing the perceived but ultimately unsatisfying comfort that addictions provide. Far from protecting us, they explain how isolating and destructive the "smokescreen" of addiction is.
For such a short book, they manage to touch on a wide spectrum of issues, leaving it to us, the readers, to explore independently in detail whichever topic or thread is most pertinent to us. Again, I believe that a wise therapist will succinctly let us know what is "out there", without boring us by belaboring their preferences.
There are always negative reviews, which is understandable. Unorthodox methods do not resonate for everyone, while others are hoping for another quick fix. Fred often quotes his personal issues and frequently sings his own praises. But I believe that any therapist worth his/her fee should have first hand experience coupled with academic credentials to augment his/her effectiveness.
Apparently the sign of a good therapist is someone who makes us uncomfortable, to really force us to deal with our issues, not floating on air at the end of each session. Fred and Susan are real people who have done the time and they want us to benefit from their struggles.
Read and/or listen to this book more than once with an open mind and commitment.
- Lemons
A broad definition of "addiction"
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Carmen Ciricillo tours nationally as The Construction Comic ® a humorous routine he created about life as a contractor. "My act plays well for everyone" says the comedian. In fact, XM and Sirius Satellite Radio has been airing Carmen's Construction Comedy CD to their audiences of over 10 million subscribers.
One of Carmen's favorite shows was performing with Richard Lewis at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts for the Gilda Radner charity, Gilda's Club. "Awesome show for over 2500 people for a great cause! I love the big gigs, theaters, casinos with thousands of people - always fun and exciting! And very cool to work with one of my favorite comedians!"
Carmen's career began at The Cleveland Comedy Club - now gone but never forgotten. He won his first comedy competition and started to receive bookings at clubs nationally. Early in his career, Carmen had the opportunity to stay at the home of Bob Hope's business manager Mark Anthony, a friend of the family. Carmen quickly caught Hollywood fever and moved to L.A., where almost immediately he was cast on the television game show "Hold Everything" with Pat Bullard. He also became a regular at the Santa Monica Improv. After being encouraged by Mark Lonow, one of the clubs' owners, Carmen wrote a unique routine on his family's construction business which propelled his career to a new level.
Carmen was asked to perform for the Northern Illinois Home Builder's Association. That's when the word spread about The Construction Comic®. Since that day Carmen has performed for thousands of construction groups including:
- The National Association of Home Builders (NHBA)
- National Underground Utility Contractors (NUCA)
- Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC)
- Associated General Contractors (AGC)
- The American Subcontractors Association (ASA)
- The Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors (PHCC)
- The Painting and Decorating Contractors Association (PDCA)
- Volvo Hard Hat Comedy Tour
- Thousands of major construction corporations including DuPont, LeChase, Home Depot, Hammes, March Westin, Wilsonart and many more
Carmen also portrayed the humorous tool man on The Discovery Channel's "Your New House" television show where he was a regular. Carmen wrote and performed almost 60 segments which aired daily. He went on to travel with NASCAR for The Michael Holigan Racing Team and Hendricks Motor Sports doing driver interviews and entertaining at the hospitality events.
Bill Grundfest, a writer and producer on the NBC sitcom "Mad About You", wrote a pilot for a sitcom based on Carmen's Construction Comedy routine. Carmen went out to L.A. and shot the pilot! Not too many comics get that chance!
Life looks phenomenal for The Construction Comic®! His family is wonderful – three awesome kids, Shannon, Stephanie and Domenic and his beautiful wife Kelly who has been with him and encouraging his career since their first date. They even spent their honeymoon at the Laugh Factory!


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"Atheism is a disease of the soul,
before it becomes an error of the understanding."
~ Plato
"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism,
but larger amounts bring us back to God."
~ Francis Bacon
"The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself;
but is the Theist any other?
Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it."
~ Sri Aurobindo
The worst moment for the atheist
is when he is really thankful
and has nobody to thank.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Atheism is a non-prophet organization"
~ George Carlin
We reify what we resist.
And as we persist in resisting,
We attract and become what we resist.
So atheists, beware!
In vehemently denying Divinity,
you are reifying and deifying "God".
And as you opine, you're becoming Divine.
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After more than 3 months absence, I'm finally back! Above is me riding on a ... ... oh right... excavator. I have just arrived at Pasir Ris Park and was making my way to the beach when I spotted this poor little excavator abandoned under a tree. I just had to get on. Under usual circumstances when I'm with mama, she will talk me out of going up by explaining to me that I have to ask permission from the constuction worker before I can ride his truck, and if he is not there, I cannot go up the truck on my own.
But that day I was surrounded by allies (namely, wai4gong1, wai4po2, da4jiu4 and da4jiu4mu3), so mama didn't bother wasting her breath and even took a few cool shots of me! Don't I look like Bob The Builder?


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I recently went on holiday to Egypt and tried some King Prawns fried in a Chickpea batter infused with Indian spices. It was the best batter I have ever tasted and since being home, I have been perfecting the recipe!
Ingredients (Serves 2 as a starter)
6. Uncooked King Prawns
1/2 tspn Garam Masala
1/2 tspn Ground Coriander
1/2 tspn Chilli Powder
1/2 tspn Turmeric
1 cup Chickpea Flour (also known as Gram Flour)
120ml Cold Water
1 cup of Plain Flour
Oil for Frying (if using a deep pan, would suggest 3cm of oil)
Pinch of Sea Salt for Seasoning
1 red chilli, sliced thinly length ways for Garnishing
Fresh Coriander Leaf for Garnishing
Put the Gram Flour, spices and salt into a mixing bowl and mix together. Slowly add the water, a bit at a time, and mix until it becomes a smooth batter.
Meanwhile, put the Plain Flour into a separate bowl and lightly coat each prawn. This will allow for the batter to stick to the prawns.
Heat the oil in a pan until it reaches 190c. If you don't have a thermometer you can put a little bit of the batter into the oil and if it starts to sizzle and crisp up, you know its ready.
Take the prawns from the Plain Flour and coat generously in the batter. Slowly lower the the prawns into the oil and fry for 4-5mins or until they look golden brown in colour. Once cooked, remove the prawns from the oil using a slotted spoon and place on some kitchen towel.
Arrange the prawns on a plate with the sliced chilli and fresh coriander. Tip: they taste great with Sweet Chilli Dip! Enjoy!


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Vinny Returns To Jersey Shore
Though you may not have known or cared, Vinny Guadagnino bailed during production of Jersey Shore last week to return home to Staten Island.
He was reportedly fed up with the MTV suits and homesick, but apparently Snooki and the crew hatched some sort of master plan to woo him back. And it seems to have worked.
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