You may have heard about toning belts from those late night infomercials but not all of them do what they claim. There is one however that seem to be gaining in popularity and that is the Flex Belt Abdominal Toning Belt. This belt is said to be the most advanced around and a devise that is very effective in toning the abdominal muscles. With the Flex Belt users are able to exercise their abdominals whenever they want and wherever they (more…)

Tough start to the day. I meet my client and her son who was recently expelled from school. They’ve had an argument and she is threatening to have him put in care. I know this is just anger and she doesn’t mean it. We visit his new school, the person we meet with seems clinically depressed. Not a good start, but it’s only a temporary measure. I tell the boy if he makes another mistake, he’ll have me to deal (more…)

Dear diary, I do not know why I write these silly letters: nobody but me ever reads them, and sometimes I feel as though you are my only friend. Never the less, I shall record now what happened at the farm today. My fifteenth Monday in the real world after graduating…

Back home, as I feel I must write, to keep the memory alive, the farm is the opposite of the farm here: there is a nice farm boy who (more…)

If you were a billionaire, would you spend a ludicrous amount of money on a piece of art? Let’s face it, this portrait by Picasso is not exactly an amazingly good picture, is it? You can find this sort of thing in just about any art gallery in the country; with something like this it is merely the name you are bidding on.

I wonder what Pablo himself would have to say about it. He’d probably have a damn (more…)

OK, heart breaks are often equated with teenage trivial issues. But this is where a lot of people are wrong. The pain of a heart break can only be understood by those who have actually gone through it or are going through it. At that point, the magnitude of it cannot be described as triviality.

I was one of those skeptics, who always dismissed off heart breaks as one of those silly things. Through out school and college life, my advice to friends going through break ups would be "There are many fish in the sea". This was probably because I had never been through a similar situation myself. We learn, only when we experience. There can be no greater teacher than experience.

It was only when I found myself in such a situation, at the ripe old age of 27 (pardon me here, but I always thought heartaches were childish stuff, so 27 is ripe old for that) that I understood how truly devastating a heart break can actually be. Yes, I had my heart broken…and all the silly advices that I would give to my friends in teenage years felt like mockery. I could finally comprehend the depth of this one word. It was literally as if my life felt as if it was over. There was a real physical pain in my heart. yes, I swear I could literally feel my heart pain. I would get up in the morning and think why I had woken up. All day, I would just sit and stare in air, lost in my own thoughts. I became a complete wreck. My friends couldn’t recognize me. This depression and emotional upheaval went on for one whole year.

I never thought I could ever get out of it. It was the pits. But everyone told me that I would eventually come out of it, because time is the greatest healer. I never really did believe this.

But now, with another year going by I am happy to say that I am finally out of that phase. Yes, it took a lot of counseling, pep talks, enrolling in activities etc to get over that. But what I want to say to all the people, nursing a broken heart, is that I can totally relate to you and your pain. I know what you are going through. But you too, like me, will get over it one day however unbelievable it sounds. This is what my experience has taught me. You too, will leave this tough phase behind. It is just a matter of time. Have faith!
And finally before I go, a bit of exciting news for you all, I have decided it was about time to just get it over with and book the appointment to get that tattoo that I had gotten when I was a teenager removed. It has been annoying me for far too long, evidently I have grown out of that whole defiant stage now. However, I was looking on the page for laser tattoo removal brentwood and I don’t actually know if it will look better afterwards, some of the photos are a little bit questionable! What do you guys think is more shotty, a chinese symbol or a faint outline of one

Sat-Navs are incredibly useful things… most of the time.

Yesterday I went to Leeds. I had never been there before, so I borrowed a Sat-Nav from my friend. He set it all up for me with the address that I wanted and showed me the basic controls. It was the first time that I’d used one, but I was reasonably confident that I would be okay.

I set off on my journey and everything was going fine. Every now and (more…)

It seems almost as if technology is going full circle sometimes. I can remember, as a child, the huge amount of excitement when there was a film shown on television in 3D. Everyone was bowled over by just how realistic everything became if you sat and watched a specially filmed programme whilst wearing cardboard glasses.

There were also a couple of movies that I went to see that were in 3D. The one that sticks in my mind was, ‘Jaws: (more…)

I was wondering today why it is that we have to sleep. You have maybe never thought about it before or perhaps you think it is just a common sense case of us having to ‘recharge our batteries’. But if it is solely for purposes of rejuvenation then why does it need to take such a long time? I can fully charge my mobile phone or laptop within a couple of hours yet we take a lot, lot longer…

Have (more…)

I was wondering today why it is that we have to sleep. You have maybe never thought about it before or perhaps you think it is just a common sense case of us having to ‘recharge our batteries’. But if it is solely for purposes of rejuvenation then why does it need to take such a long time? I can fully charge my mobile phone or laptop within a couple of hours yet we take a lot, lot longer…

Have (more…)

I wonder why it is that we all place so much importance on buying our own house?

In other European countries most of the population just rent an apartment but in England we seem intent on owning our house, flat or bungalow. I’m not sure why this is really. If we decide that we want to actually buy our home then it automatically creates several problems. There is the constant worry of whether or not we are going to (more…)