Category: Living
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Here’s Your Chance To Get Away (Stay)
Taking a break does wonders for your physical and mental well-being. Even without taking on a spa package at the hotel we stayed at because it was, how you say it, frikkin’ expensive, the knots in my neck and upper back dissolved after one full night’s sleep (it came back after my son insisted on…
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#$*%&! Who Say We Not Happy?
A fortnight ago, mrbrown and myself visited Tekka Market. It is a happy place though you’d normally think otherwise. It’s hot, noisy, smelly and gets really crowded at peak shopping hours. So what makes people at Tekka happy? Is it because that venerable wet market has resisted the tide of change and retained its Hokkien…
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A Healthy Rivalry Gets Serious
I have to admit I haven’t been faring too well with food choices lately. I have a penchant for junk food at rehearsals and script meetings, and the recently completed Kumar show probably saw me put on a couple of kilos because of the curry puffs, fried chicken and other assorted fried foods. A post-show…
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Competition Is Good For Health
I’m glad the little “Healthy Rivalry” campaign that mrbrown and myself are doing for HPB is making people interested in what we’re eating (and cheating) for our daily meals. More importantly, people have also gotten interested in what the Healthy Lifestyle Index is about. The HLI is a very simple survey about health and wellness,…
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Rivals In Health
So mrbrown and myself took HPB’s Healthy Lifestyle Index, and he’s beat me 7 to 6. But that’s cos he’s got like 20 bicycles and I’ve got one that I seldom ride. OK, of course there are many other factors involved. Put a bit of fun into it, pick a rival and do the HLI…