NUTRA Gycemia Tea -- WTF Shopping Moment: Yes. Perhaps. No. Who knows

This product is sold as a tea to help control blood sugar by using plants traditionally known for that purpose: bitter melon, cinnamon and fenugreek. This explains the name Glycemia and, I guess, the...

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WTF Shopping Moment: Rude AI

 We are all excited but scared about how AI is taking the world by storm. I like AI capabilities to offer us a first-point summary of topics that I'm looking up. Well, that was till today. I was...

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WTF foodie moment 11: Orange Burger Patty

I see a sign of Wagyu beef burger patties at a popular butcher place in a popular market. They look a bit orange. I ask a 60+ female attendant:>Do the patties have any condiment?>>>>>No>...

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WTF Foodie Moment 10: Egg and Ice Latte

(The guy at the café approaches and asks me what I am going to order. I want one of their  breakfasts, but with an added egg. ) An added what?  > An egg. A what?  > An egg. A...

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WTF Foodie Moment 8: The Gift

I received this email from one of the community managers of a review site in my city. It sounds good. But is it good? Is it innocent? Below the real, but edited, emails.  (...) I’m So-and-So,...

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WTF Foodie Moment 6: Tough guys

--> I am having my lunch break. -->  A bunch of tough-looking long-bearded guys arrive. They look tough. They look like a new wave of breaded bikies with a sprinkle of poshness.  --> They order.  --> They go outside.  (I am sure they are going to order something tough,...

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WTF Foodie Moment 5: Morcilla Breaky

--> I am seating on a sunny Sunday, at one of my fav cafes. I have ordered the Morcilla Breaky. --> A couple arrives and seats next table. Their table is separated five centimetres (literally) from mine. --> My meal arrives. It looks Yum! I start eating. It tastes yummy. --> He...

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Beseech Sculpture (Leederville, Perth WA)

T Town of Vincent's Administrative and Civic Centre Grounds  Corner between Loftus & Vicent Sts Leederville, WA 6007 "Beseech" aka Big Blue Head, is a 3-metre high blue concrete sculpture...

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Answers to the Liebster Award

Lee from the blog Coffee Couture was kind enough to nominate this blog for a Liebster Award. It requires of the nominees posting 11 random facts about themselves as well as answering the questions...

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Stickers in Street Art

The area surrounding the "Fresh Provisions" supermarket in Mount Lawley seems to be, since ever, a heaven for graffiti, stencil and sticker artists. I always pay attention when I walk by this area, and there is always interesting, cute and creative material. However, the examples showcased in the slideshow...

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The Gallery of WA's Exhibitions Lighting

Every time I visit one of the paid exhibitions at the Art Gallery of WA, I leave wondering why the Art Gallery people seem oblivious to what I call fatal flaws in an exhibition. We leave in an isolated...

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Yoko Ono

Years ago, a friend of mine passed some of Ono's records on to me. He always thought that I would like her music and her. Since I did not like her public persona, I did not listen to her music until...

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Fashion Magazines' Beauty Advice - 3

Final words, after the first and second entries on this topic. A confession - I do love some luxury beauty products -especially make-up- advertised in fashion magazines, mostly because of the glamorous...

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Fashion Magazines' Beauty Advice - 2

Despite the ever-growing Beauty sections in fashion magazines and normal newspapers, most of the beauty secrets that work long-term and make you beautiful outside do not need of advertisement....

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Fashion Magazines' Beauty Advice - 1

If you are into fashion magazines and you purchase or browse them regularly you might have noticed three facts that make of our delight less passionate.   FACT NUMBER ONE. Most magazines seem...

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Good Service - 3

One of the things I have noticed lately is that, as soon as the staff spot you taking a picture of the food, the staff's behaviour changes dramatically and the service improves remarkably, while the...

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Good Service - 2

"Was everything OK?" "How was everything?"  Have you ever been asked this sort of question in a restaurant?  I find them a bit intimidating, and it is never going to work with customers...

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Good Service - 1

hos·pi·tal·i·ty 1. Cordial and generous reception of or disposition toward guests.2. An instance of cordial and generous treatment of guests.How many people, business owners and staff working in the...

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Musing About: Perth Street Art-2 (Perth WA)

1.  It might be because I live close to the CBD and I move in central suburbs, but I rarely find proper graffiti beyond name tagging and stickers. I grew up in a place that hidden corners and...

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