Some may know the more time goes on, the more I despise going out at night - drunken idiocy and alcoholic drinks everyone pretends to like isn't my idea of a good time. But maybe if some things changed I would be up for it... like...

• If they sold Lichidos. A blend of cognac, vodka, lychee and peach essences, with some guava... Mmm. Kind of sounds ( Read more... )

So I was stupid and didn't bring my camera with me when I went to Circo Massimo this past Sunday to watch the World Cup finals. It was quite an experience. Damn having to go to work on Monday and not being able to stay out! But yes, the flag waving, football kicking, chanting, jumping, fireworks setting atmosphere was incredible. Pity I didn't get ( Read more... )

Another house-gadget based post, I'm afraid, I can't get enough of kitchen gadgetry. My future kitchen will be awesome. With a heatlhy dose of Orange.

So I found this website, Authentic, a company based in Gütersloh (Germany, I believe) making stylish but simple household items.


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Some amazing and yet unsettling footage can be found here, watch a chair collapse and reconstruct itself.


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A cute range of products that add colour to the home,


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I've been creeping onto Short Sharp Science recently, through following some links off my friend chashiineriiya, and found this last week, which really fascinated me.

There's now more evidence linking mental illness to the season of your birth. A new study of nearly 30,000 suicides shows that people born in April, May and June are almost a fifth more likely to ( Read more... )

Ah, just finished my last exam last night at 18:30. Promptly gorged on KFC (hey, I deserved it), watched a Leslie Nielsen film (old school). Today, I'm off to be exfoliated (whatever that entails) and just bum around town really :) I'm not ecstatic about the end of exams (we'll see how I do), but definitely relieved. It's been a very rigid wake ( Read more... )

I'll have you know that this is going to be very image-intensive.

Found a wonderful site, Wrapables, which sells alot of around the house things with a twist.


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