Something I love about being in Seoul and Osaka is how natural it is to walk everywhere. Both cities are beautifully set up for people to live without a vehicle. Read more
If you have a laundry dryer with a vent that blows hot air and lint outdoors, about once a year, it's a good idea to have it thoroughly cleaned. Buildup of lint in a drying vent is a real fire hazard, and significantly diminishes drying efficiency.
To do the job properly, you can use a simple dryer vent cleaning tool like this one:
Lie face up and take both arms in full circles along your sides, keeping your arms and lower back flat on the surface you're lying on. Take your time working through any areas that feel tight. Read more
In Canada, car theft is on a seemingly exponential rise. The most common way that cars are being stolen is via signal capture from key fobs that allow for remote start-up of the engine.
An inexpensive way to prevent this type of theft is to keep all of your key fobs in a Faraday box, which blocks the signal that thieves try to pick up on from outside to start your car. Faraday boxes are relatively inexpensive and are widely available. This is the one that we use at our home:
Begin with your feet a little wider than shoulder-width apart and gently drop down into a comfortable squat. Allow yourself a few seconds or more to sit in this position to stretch your hip capsules. Read more
A while back, I stumbled upon the following priceless commercial that aired in Malaysia over the Chinese New Year holiday several years back. Most of it is painfully familiar to Asians of my generation and I'm guessing to many from other cultures as well. The closing scene never fails to leave me with a heavy lump in my chest.
I hope you have a chance to enjoy this lovely look at some of the different types of success that we can experience in this world: Read more
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
