Chicken A La Carte by Ferdinand Dimadura

How fortunate most of us are, to have food served readily on our tables hot from the stove. And yet some of us have often taken the food for granted. We have often reminded our young ones to be grateful for the food served to them and yet most of us are guilty at time for taking it for granted too.

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Is Swine Flu ‘The Big One’ and Prevention

A prominent expert on global flu outbreaks, with the University of Minnesota, Michael Osterholm said, “What makes this so difficult is we may be somewhere between an important but yet still uneventful public health occurrence here — with something that could literally die out over the next couple of weeks and never show up again — or this could be the opening act of a full-fledged influenza pandemic.”

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Strangers are family you have yet to come to know

Strangers are family you have yet to come to know

Many years ago, someone told me that strangers are friends you have yet to come to know. It was an ‘aha’ moment back then. How true isn’t it? ‘Stranger’ becomes a temporary word used to describe someone we do not know by name. If we know the name of a person, that person would become an associate or an acquaintance or in a more intimate term – a friend.

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Earth Hour 2009 Signifies a New Start

Earth Hour 2009 was a resounding success. According to Earthhour.org, “… over 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries, hundreds of millions of people have “voted earth” in the world’s…

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Bloggers Unite for World AIDS Day on December 1st

December 1st is the World AIDS Day 2008. There was a TV series being produced in Singapore, in conjunction to the World AIDS Day 2008 on December 1st. In the…

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