These gift ideas should be considered if you would like to give the man in your life something more memorable and unique on his special day; go to his favorite shop and pick up a gift card; throw him a surprise barbecue party; get sentimental and collect greetings from friends and family; ask his friends [...]
When one speaks of fashion, different cultures are known to follow different styles. One such prominent style existed few centuries ago. Famous by its intriguing name, the gothic style is back. Even some modeling agencies are known to promote the style. If the trend continues, it will not be long when almost every modeling agency [...]
If you want to have fun with your fashion statement one technique that never fails is to go back in time at least 50 years. Through the miracle of television re-runs they are still running the old shows from those years and so you don’t have to guess what they were wearing. By watching the [...]
Is it possible that a kilt can become a modern fashion for men? Over fifty designers, currently promoting this fashion trend, want to have their way and make the kilt the hottest “new” male fashion item to hit the runways in many decades. To create a new fashion out of something as ancient as the [...]
Silat refers to a collection of martial arts from Southeast Asia. Silat was developed in a region where tribal warfare, hunting were common activities. Tribes fought over property, trade routes and even engaged in cannibalism. Tribes also fought as a group in ways that enabled them to catch large animals. They would wait for an [...]
NOTE REGARDING BUDDHA Please note that in the various schools of Mahayana (the ‘greater vehicle’) Buddhism (which includes Tibetan Buddism, Chinese Ch’an and Japanese Zen, etc.) most of the Buddhas mentioned below are recognised. Theravada (or Hinayana, ‘the lesser vehicle’ ~ the Buddhism of Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma) Buddhism just recognises Sakyamuni (and perhaps [...]
It has long been customary to mark holidays with flowers, either as decorations or as gifts. However, there are some occasions for which the pairing of flower and holiday has more significance than many know. Most of us realize that Valentine’s Day is an chance to express love with flowers. It is the biggest season [...]
Who can remember when night wear used to be worn in bed, rather than in broad daylight to nip to the supermarket for a loaf and a bottle of plonk? Of course, nightwear still is worn in bed too, but it’s quite different from what was worn in decades gone by. Whereas now an oversized [...]
It’s very easy to conjure up images of men’s fashion from the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties. But the nineties? What was that all about? In a way, it was a time when men’s fashion became rather conservative and slightly masculine. There was no room for flouncy ornamentation or attention-grabbing decadence of the previous decades; [...]
The guitar in its various forms has to be the instrument that has made itself welcome in the most diverse array of musical styles. Its distinction is that unlike the stringed instruments of the violin family, it is fretted, meaning that very precisely pitched notes can be played without requiring millimetre-perfect fingering as the gap [...]