Hmm… looks like everything is turning reality show these days. This one is a bit controversial in my humble opinion or what we normally put as IMHO. What do you think?

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*Ad: Hilton Head rentals is a nice place to head to.

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I’ve been wanting to be able to keep my bananas fresh and without any bruise marks. I’ve tried a few ways like using soft cushioning for it, keeping it cool by placing it in the fridge and stuff. However, my banana just don’t seem to stay fresh. And the first method put some stress on some of my bananas that bruise marks will appear and eating it does not give you much pleasure compared to the first peel.

So what I did was a very simple DIY project. I have seen this hanging bananas in some other stalls and the roadside. Since I did not have much resources, I have to be a McGyver of sort. I hang my bananas using a telephone cable and an aroma therapy stick that hasn’t been used for quite a while. The result? Satisfying? Now my bananas stays fresh and easy to peel. Just grab one and pull. It’s that easy! Yummy!

You should try it too.

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If you are into Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz or Brazilian Jazz you may be familiar with the name, Antonio Carlos Jobim. I really dig his music. The video on the right featured Jobim with Andy Williams jamming and stuff. Some info as per Wikipedia about Antonio Carlos Jobim:

Jobim’s musical roots were planted firmly in the work of Pixinguinha, the legendary musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in the 1930s. Jobim was also influenced by the French composers Claude Debussy and Ravel, and by jazz. Among many themes, his lyrics talked about love, political repression, betrayal, and especially about the natural beauties of Brazil, like the “Mata Atlântica” forest, birds like the Matita Perê, and his home city of Rio de Janeiro.

One of his songs sung by Astrud Gilberto made a sensational hit especially in the US and internationally. In fact a key event in making Jobim’s music known in the English speaking world was his collaboration with the American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, João Gilberto and Gilberto’s wife. The song was entitled “Girl From Ipanema”.

The story goes that Jobim and his buddy Moraes would be chilling out in this “Veloso” bar-café and that the girl by the name of Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now Helô Pinheiro), a fifteen-year-old girl living in Montenegro Street of the fashionable Ipanema district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil would stroll past the popular cafe on her way to the beach everyday. Pictured here is Helô Pinheiro in her later life.

Oh she did become a Playboy Playmate in 1987 and another time in 2003! Well, you can do anything if you’re the Girl from Ipanema!

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Since I work in a contact center, I do subscribe to a few contact center newsletters etc. Today I read something rather interesting, or is it just me? He he… Well the Indian government has commissioned a Delhi contact center to operate a helpline for calls on sexual health. Maybe we should have one too huh? What you reckon?

But knowing the number of prank calls we received at our contact center, such helpline may experience double the amount here in Malaysia.

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