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Most girls who win the Nokia face of Africa are quite perplexed by the turn of events as skinny girls are not considered beautiful in the African culture. The ugly duckling becomes a swan overnight.....

One of my favourite movies is called 'Pay It Forward'. For those of you who haven't seen it, here is the summary care of http://www.imdb.com/ "Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother's alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of something to change the world and put

Hahaha friday again!! These weeks are flying dear i say it but xmas is not to many months away... Monday i had my meeting with my traniner and yes we worked on my abb's. And i can tell you they are there... She gave me some exercise's to work on. The great thing about it is that i can do them at home.

Tuesday i felt like my tummy was full and i had not eaten!! My so call abb's where so sore. I

Wow its Friday already!! This week has been super busy at work and at home.  I got to the gym on Monday and my trainer showed me the circuit.  This looks easy but when I got on it I felt that I was a fish out of water!! There is so many machines and so many things to change on them..... I am very short and have to change everything to fit me JUST!!  Some of the machines I have to sit right on

Well I was all ready to head of to the gym.  Had eaten tea with the family and it was time for me to pop out to the gym.  Then I started to get the questions from my very noisy 7 year old.  Why do you have to go to the gym mum? Are you fat mum?

I just explained that mummy needs to get some fitness to keep up with her!  She said I could start to do jump jam at school with her! So it looks like I

Ok so I have decided that its time to get some fitness!! Turning 30 this year I have notice that I can not run around after the kids as much as I used to.  Also that mummy tummy is not getting any smaller!! So I decided to join a gym.  I have 5 mouths to get my fitness to somewhere where I feel better and have more energy.  Here is my journey...

 5th Aug 2008

I walked into the gym thinking OMG

A typical day at our office is always anything but....One of todays topics of converstaion was 'Who would we turn lesbian for?' My answer Kim Kardashian sooo hot!! I am totally hetero but that girl could shake her titties (everytime I hear that word I fall around on the floor laughing)at me anytime she chooses.  Some of the other offerings were Katherine Heigl, Miss Venezuela and then theres

Everyone at work thinks I am mad. Maybe I am, but there is method to my madness. Let me explain. At the end of last year, I forgot my little African Violet plant and left it on my desk for two weeks with no water. I know... terrible of me! When I came back, the plant was dead as a dodo. I figured there was no harm in popping some water on it and trying to nourish it back to life. There was some

Hello everyone,

Over the weekend I was very lucky to visit a retreat centre called Te Moata which is about 10 minutes out of Tairua (on the Coromandel).  So what I want to talk about today is my experience there and what l learned. 

The first thing I noticed being at Te Moata is how quiet it is there.  It has been ages since I have ventured out of the city and I had forgotten what it was like to

Hello everyone,

Today's inspiration starts with one of the verses of the Tao Te Ching.  Tao meaning "the way", Te as "the shape and power" and Ching meaning "book." This very ancient book of 81 verses was written by Lao-tzu in around the 6^th century BCE.  It is regarded by many scholars as one of the wisest books ever written. 

This is the 8^th verse as taken from Dr. Wayne Dyer's book ‘Change your