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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Life is too short for us to sit and stare...
Hi all,
Been lying low a while...obvious reasons, no time, too busy to blog, too many assignments, so much housework (no maid remember), taking care of family...shucks...I just found out today my friend lost her mum a couple of weeks back and I didn't know...what kind of friend does that make me? So sorry Lu. My deepest condolences on your loss.That really made me think. once again...in one of my sojourn moods...life is fragile...like my son said, life is like a coin, once you use it, it's gone. With mum not so mobile now...what next? I still believe I should do what is right and able to as long as she is still with us. watched the video my friend Zu put up on FB. I think I read the poem sometime back but to see it depicted visually, it really hit me...yes life is fragile.
We were young once, we have grown, have families of our own...and as we age..we forget sometimes...that our parents age too. they won't be around forever...and then yesterday, I read the papers of the the reporter who succumbed to a heart attack. Then I found out, he was the father of my daughter's schoolmate...she was affected, so were her friends. To lose a love one, a father, a mother, any family member or friend, it is still a loss, felt by all in different capacities.My sympathies again at another life lost. We can say all we want but nothing, no one can be replaced at least not in the hearts of loved ones.
I want to be able to live my life as I see fit, do my work well before I retire (if they let me...) . But these days, the thought of retiring early is quite attractive, why bother with office politics, why bother with all the inequality at the work place, the unhappiness, the cronyism that is practised quite openly? As they say, if you don't like it, just leave...ya I wish I can have that option. Unless I win the lottery, can't see myself retiring anytime soon. What with two kids in university and another in her final year at school...not anytime soon. But then again, this is my own life, one can make of it as one chooses. I have already lived half a century, I consider my self lucky to have lived thus far. It has been good so far, I have no major complaints...if I did, I need only look at those less fortunate and that would stop me in my tracks. maybe that's the way we should live, just remember that we are lucky where we are...as soon as we wake up (that's a good sign, some people don't), we should consider the day as a new and clean plate...it's how we are going to paint it. So once again, I will live my life for myself and family and not to cater to other's whims and fancies, the order of the day is still there, work is work but this life is ours and we should live it to the fullest in our own way, without being dictated by others. So friends, life is too short, we have no time to sit and stare...cheers.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
11 Public Places with the Most Germs
1. Handrails
2. Elevator buttons
3. Grocery cart handles
4. Restaurant menus
5. Money from a cash register
6. Light switches
7. Salt and pepper shakers in restaurants
8. Salad bars
9. ATM machines
10. Exercise equipment
11. Water fountain handles
Makes you nervous, doesn’t it? Relax. It takes just a little common sense and attention to protect yourself from public germs. Here are ways to keep germs at bay:
Handwashing. Always wash your hands before cooking, eating, or inserting your contact lenses. Wash your hands after cooking, using the toilet, petting an animal, handling garbage, blowing your nose, or coughing or sneezing into your hand. It doesn’t matter if you wash with regular or antibacterial soap as long as you do a thorough job.
Use hand sanitizer. Alcohol-based sanitizers that require no water are among the greatest health inventions of recent times. They’re efficient at killing germs, whenever and wherever you encounter them, without the need of water or towels.
Keep hands away from your face. No matter how many times you wash them, if you are in public, your hands will pick up germs. Germs will quickly enter your body if you rub your eyes or nose, stroke your chin, or touch your lips.
Avoid the communal candy bowl or cookie jar. Given that only 67 percent of people who say they wash their hands actually do, and that only a third of those people use soap, you can imagine what’s lurking in there.
So...watch where you put your hands and where you go...
The Top 7 Sleep Killers — And How To Solve Them
By Stephanie Booth
It's three in the morning, and once again, you're staring at the ceiling as your mind races. Not being able to nod off when you want to is agonizing. And you're not the only one with the problem: Two-thirds of women report trouble sleeping several nights each week.
So what's keeping you up? Read on for the factors, habits, and behaviors that have been killing your sleep, then the simple fixes.
Related: When Stress Keeps You Up At Night
SLEEP KILLER 1: Light Seeping into Your Room
Even slivers of light — the kind that sneaks in through a crack in your blinds or the blueish glow of a computer monitor left on — can keep you awake. "Light signals your brain to stop producing melatonin, the hormone that regulates your sleep and wake cycles," says Shelby Freedman Harris, PsyD, clinical psychologist at the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore Medical Center, in New York City.
The solution: Get black-out shades, chuck your digital clock for one without an LCD display, shut off your computer before turning in — whatever it takes to make your room pitch-black, suggests clinical psychologist Michael Breus, PhD, author of Beauty Sleep. If light still gets in, consider wearing an eye mask to bed.
Related: 5 Major Health Issues That Affect Woman Today
SLEEP KILLER 2: An Erratic Meal Schedule
Not having a set time for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day makes it tough for your body to know when to send out sleepiness signals. "That's because your internal body clock, which tells your system when to sleep and when to wake, relies on cues from the environment, like mealtimes," explains Breus. If these cues vary greatly from day to day — say one night you have dinner at 8, then the next at 10, and then on the third day at 6 — your system has trouble keeping track of time and knowing when to start winding down, he adds.
The solution: Stick to a routine meal schedule each day, even on weekends, as much as you can. B vitamins help regulate sleep patterns, so eat foods rich in these nutrients (like whole-grain cereals, nuts, broccoli, and potatoes).
Related: 7 Ways to Fall Asleep When You Feel Wired
SLEEP KILLER 3: Your Evening Second Wind
It's a common scenario: After feeling draggy all day, you're suddenly struck with a burst of energy at night. Of course, it's hard to resist taking advantage of this jolt, so you decide to organize your closet or pop in a workout DVD, for example. Then when it's time for you to turn in, you're too wired to doze off.
Here's what's probably triggering it: What feels like a surge in energy could really be a rush of anxiety prompted by increased production of the hormones cortisol and adrenaline, which your system pumps out when you're sleep-deprived, says Breus. Using this hormone rush to further stay awake makes you feel wired at first then, ultimately, even more fatigued, he adds.
The solution: Try hard not to give in to that hormone-fueled anxiety surge, or use it to do something relaxing — like reading a good book — that doesn't cause you to put off going to bed at a decent hour.
SLEEP KILLER 4: Your Beauty Routine
Beware of what you put on your face and in your body before turning out the lights. Certain scents, herbs, and spices encourage your brain to wake up, not shut off. One example: peppermint. Scrubbing your face with a peppermint skin wash or brushing your teeth with a peppermint toothpaste can keep you awake, says Harris. Eucalyptus- and rosemary-scented products also amp up your alertness.
The solution: Save the energizing scents for the morning, when you need that extra help to get going. In the p.m., "use a mild toothpaste and lavender-scented face wash or body lotion, since lavender has been shown to cue your body to slow down," says Harris.
Related: 10 Weird and Wacky Beauty Facts
SLEEP KILLER 5: Your Menstrual Cycle
Ever notice that sleeplessness seems to strike just before your period? Blame a natural dip in the hormone progesterone — which helps you sleep soundly — during your preperiod week, explains Kathryn A. Lee, PhD, a nurse researcher who specializes in sleep disorders at the University of California at San Francisco.
The solution: Anticipate a monthly inability to snooze so you won't let it get you frustrated and irritated, and use the time to tackle projects you otherwise have no time for.
Related: 5 Foods That Make Your Period Happier
SLEEP KILLER 6: Drinking Late at Night
Alcohol is a depressant, and a drink before bed can relax you enough to fall asleep easily. Unfortunately, the sleepiness probably won't last. "Alcohol is metabolized quickly, and once it's out of your system, your body experiences withdrawal symptoms that can interrupt your sleep," says clinical psychologist Anne Bartolucci, PhD, president of Atlanta Insomnia and Behavioral Health Services.
The solution: Plan for last call to be about four hours before you think you'll be going to bed so your body has time to metabolize the alcohol completely and the resulting withdrawal symptoms won't disturb you.
Related: 7 Surprising Habits That Are Giving You Belly Pudge
SLEEP KILLER 7: Your Expectations
Though eight hours is the average amount of sleep most adults need per night, lots of people need even more, while others can function perfectly well on six, five, or even four hours. "But if you sleep for longer than your body requires, you'll have trouble falling asleep or keep waking too early in the morning," says Bartolucci.
The solution: Figure out how much sleep you truly need by hitting the hay and waking up sans an alarm for a week. If, toward the seventh day, you find yourself waking after seven hours, then that's probably your number.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor: A look back at the legend
During her 79 years, Elizabeth Taylor --classic beauty, serial monogamist, Oscar winner, AIDS activist -- captivated the world with her big-screen roles and her real-life dramas.
Born in Britain, Taylor and her American parents moved to Los Angeles at the age of seven, and became a bona fide star by age 12, with her starring role in the classic 1944 film "National Velvet," one of a whopping 50 movies she'd appear in over the next four decades.
Though the actress was praised for her beauty and acting prowess, and landed two Academy Awards over the course of her career, as well as an honorary Oscar in 1993, in later years she was better known for her tumultuous personal life thanks to her string of fiery romances and mostly failed marriages. Her first one to Conrad Hilton at age 18 seemed to set the stage for the rest. It ended after just one year, in 1951, well before divorce was casually accepted. Just one year later, Taylor wed English actor Mike Wilding, with whom she would have two sons.
Taylor would have eight marriages over her lifetime, but none as controversial as her fourth to singer Eddie Fisher in 1959. Her third husband, producer Mike Todd -- who was 25 years her senior -- had died in a plane crash just a year prior. Not only had Fisher and Todd been close friends, but Fisher was married to fellow actress -- and Elizabeth's own pal -- Debbie Reynolds, and the couple had two young children together (one of which was "Star Wars" actress Carrie Fisher) at the time he started up his affair with Taylor.
Said Taylor of the romance: "[Eddie] and Mike had been good friends and it seemed natural we should try to comfort each other for our loss ... In hindsight, I know I wasn't thinking straight. At the time I thought he needed me and I needed him. The press made much of Eddie's leaving his wife, Debbie Reynolds, but Eddie and Debbie's marriage was in trouble long before I hit the scene."
Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher.Courtesy Everett CollectionElizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.Mirrorpix/Courtesy Everett Collection
Taylor and Fisher's marriage set off a media firestorm ... and so did their divorce. Four years later, she met the man she'd eventually call her "second great love" (with Todd being the first), legendary actor Richard Burton. The two met on the set of "Cleopatra" in 1963 and, by the next year, both had divorced their respective spouses to marry each other. Once again, the public was infatuated, especially after the two divorced a decade later, married each other again in 1975, and then divorced yet again after just a year. Over the course of their marriages, Burton and Taylor shared the screen 11 times, including the 1966 film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," for which Taylor won her second Oscar. In a recent interview with Us Weekly, Taylor revealed that "Woolf" is the film she was most proud of.
As she stepped back from acting in the 1980s, Taylor jumped into other endeavors. It was the AIDS-related death of good friend and one-time co-star, actor Rock Hudson, that prompted Taylor to get involved in something that would become hugely important to her for the rest of her life, HIV/AIDS charity work. Long before it became the politically correct thing to do, Taylor became involved with the AIDS Project Los Angeles in 1984. She later joined the board of directors of the National AIDS Research Foundation in Los Angeles, and the two charities eventually merged to form the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), a group that has invested more than $300 million in AIDS research globally since 1985. "I will not be silenced and I will not give up and I will not be ignored," Taylor said of her AIDS advocacy.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor leaves Buckingham Palace after receiving the honour of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II, May 16, 2000.Anwar Hussein/Getty ImagesThe screen legend speaks out for her favorite cause at amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS benefit during the 56th International Cannes Film Festival in France on May 22, 2003.Scott Gries/Getty Images
Taylor also founded her own AIDS Foundation to help other organizations provide direct care to those suffering from the disease, and remained one of amfAR's most public faces, even speaking on World AIDS Day at the United Nations. It was, however, a simple handshake that may have made the biggest difference of all.
In 1989, Taylor was photographed shaking hands with an HIV/AIDS patient in a Bangkok hospital. The photograph made headlines throughout Southeast Asia. According to amfAR, "At least in that region, [that photo] probably did more than any other single event to quell fears about touching people with AIDS."
Dame Elizabeth Taylor with director David Lynch, Sharon Stone, and Sir Elton John at amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS Gala in Cannes, 2002.J. Vespa/WireImage
Though Taylor ultimately died of congestive heart failure, she experienced brushes with death multiple times throughout her life -- she nearly lost an eye and a leg, and had two serious bouts of pneumonia which required a tracheotomy and a ventilator. She was plagued with health problems her entire life and suffered from back pain dating back to when she fell of a horse during the production of "National Velvet." Her 20 surgeries over the years included two hip replacements and a hysterectomy.
The star also battled alcoholism, which landed her at the Betty Ford Clinic twice during the 1980s. During her second stint there she met the man who would become her last husband, construction worker Larry Fortensky (quite a switch from the husband who preceded him, U.S. Senator John Warner). The couple married in 1991, when Taylor was 59, at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. Taylor and Fortensky, who was 20 years Taylor's junior, split five years later.
Taylor with her great friend Michael Jackson at his 30th Anniversary Celebration at Madison Square Garden in NYC on September 7, 2001.Kevin Mazur/WireImage.comThe multi-talented star debuts just one of her many fragrances from her Jewel Perfume Collection at the Metropolitan Club in New York on September 20, 1993.Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com
Though the public spotlight might not have shone quite as brightly on Taylor during her later years -- her weight gain, diet books, and marriage to Fortensky became late-night fodder -- she continued to lead an active and varied life. She launched a series of super successful perfumes, continued her AIDS work, was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth, and became close friends with Bel-Air neighborMichael Jackson, saying the two first forged a connection over having child stardom in common. Taylor was devastated after his death. "My heart... my mind... are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common we had such loving fun together," she said in a statement.
The classic star also had no trouble moving right along with the times. In 1994 she played Fred Flintstone's mother-in-law in the big-screen version of "The Flintstones," later made a few sitcom appearances, and, in 2001, joined Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and one-time nemesis Debbie Reynolds in the tongue-in-cheek TV movie "These Old Broads," which was co-written by Reynolds' daughter Carrie Fisher.
Taylor poses for a cast shot with her "These Old Broads" co-stars, Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, and Joan Collins. The 2001 TV movie was her final onscreen role.Everett Collection
Last year the self-confessed "Law & Order" fanatic even held a vote via Twitter to name her latest perfume. Her fans named it Violet Eyes, after the vivid-hued eyes that helped make Taylor famous in the first place.
May she Rest in Peace.
Eizabeth Taylor dies at 79...
Hollywood Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies
Elizabeth Taylor, the English-American actress who became a star at age 10 and an icon by the time she was 30, died Wednesday.
A publicist told The Associated Press that Taylor died of congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital. She was 79.
Taylor hadn't made a movie in years — and she had spent decades raising millions of dollars for causes including HIV and AIDS — but to most anyone born before 1975, she was always the woman who was Cleopatra, the legendary beauty with a famous weakness for jewelry.
The world first got a glimpse of that oval face, those dark arched eyebrows and those deep blue-violet eyes when she made her movie debut in There's One Born Every Minute — a 10-year-old with shoulder-length hair and lashes so long a makeup man thought they were false.
Lassie Come Home was next, with Roddy McDowall and that collie whose name was in the title. But it was the role of a young English girl with a passion for horses — in the 1944 film National Velvet— that won Taylor the hearts of moviegoers.
From there on out Taylor was an integral part of MGM's stable of young stars, working alongside other child actors including Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien. It was glamorous, yes, but as she suggested in the 1974 film That's Entertainment, it made for a bittersweet childhood:
"I was 10 years old when I first came to MGM, and I spent the next 18 years of my life behind the walls of that studio," she said. "[I was] a young girl growing up in that strange place, where it's hard to recall what was real and what wasn't."
Taylor's teen years are recorded in films like Father of the Bride, with Spencer Tracy, and Little Women, opposite Peter Lawford — not to mention Cynthia, in which the 15-year-old Taylor, playing a sheltered teen, received her first screen kiss.
She grew into womanhood opposite some of Hollywood's biggest leading men. Director George Stevens cast the 17-year-old Taylor opposite Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun, and five years after that film's release she appeared with James Dean and Rock Hudson in Giant, the sprawling, three-hour adaptation of Edna Ferber's Texas epic. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof paired the 25-year-old Taylor with Paul Newman — and earned her a second Academy Award nomination.
Her first had come the year before, for Raintree County, and her first Oscar win would come for 1960's Butterfield 8, in which Taylor starred as a loose-living New Yorker who thinks she's found love at last — with a lawyer who married for money. Her second statue would come six years later, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee's lacerating portrait of domestic warfare among the academic set.
'Bigger Than The Movies'
In the years that would follow, Taylor seemed to embody the phrase "movie star." Her life, full of success, personal tragedies and multiple marriages, played out in the headlines and on the covers of magazines.
"Elizabeth Taylor was launched by the movies but became bigger than the movies," says Peter Rainer, past president of the National Society of Film Critics. "What she had was this kind of star presence that was part and parcel of her private life, and there was just no way to separate out the two."
Indeed, the public watched bemused as the woman who loved diamonds went to the altar eight times — with a Hilton hotels heir, with an actor and a producer and a singer and a construction worker, with a man who'd soon become a U.S. senator and twice with Richard Burton, the Welsh actor with whom she co-starred in Virginia Woolf, and with whom she first became romantically involved in 1963 on the set of Cleopatra, when both were still married to others. She had made a million dollars for signing on to play the Egyptian queen — the first star ever to earn a 7-digit paycheck — and before the legendarily troubled film shoot was over, she and Burton had became the couple the Hollywood press couldn't get enough of.
'She's Out There ... And She Never Stopped'
In the 1980s, though beset with her own illnesses and addictions to painkillers and alcohol, the Hollywood icon took up the battle against an emerging disease called AIDS. Taylor went on to raise more than $100 million as co-founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, and to launch her own AIDS foundation focused on patient care. Author, playwright and activist Larry Kramer credits Taylor with exhibiting a kind of courage that few others showed during that time.
"What's so remarkable about it is, so few people use their gift, their intelligence, their celebrity for the sake of humanity like this," Kramer says. "She's out there, this beautiful woman, and she never stopped."
For her philanthropic efforts, Taylor received a humanitarian award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1992. A Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute soon followed.
"You made me realize how much I do miss it," the largely retired star told that AFI audience in 1993. "But my life is full and good; it has taken so many twists and turns, and I have grown into what I do now wholeheartedly."
Plagued by health problems for much of her life, Taylor continued to extend a sense of humor and strength to others, never hesitating to share her own fears and vulnerabilities with the world.
Asked why she appeared in public with her head shaved after a brain-tumor surgery, she told an interviewer that maybe others would see the picture — and say, "Hey, if she can get through it, so can I."
In October 2009, after a Twitter posting announced her trip to the hospital for a heart-valve procedure, she followed up with another tweet: "Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate."
NPR's Trey Graham contributed to this story.
12 things about tea your local dim sum restaurateur won't tell you
Master Leung Ka-Dong has been working at Ying Kee Tea House for almost 40 years. "What type of tea do you usually order when you eat dim sum?" asks Ying Kee Tea House Master Leung Ka-Dong "I usually order white hair peony because my family always orders it," I reply. "Did you know that almost all restaurants mix their white teas with black to add flavour and colour?" he says. No, I did not know that. I did not know that it's only in the recent 50 to 60 years that white, green and pu-erh have become Hong Kong 's most popular teas either. With a richer economy, Hong Kong people stirred away from simple black teas from India and Sri Lanka and began to enjoy tea for various health reasons or collect pu-erh tea like wine Thanks to Master Leung, who has worked at Ying Kee Tea House since the early 1970s, I now know a little more about how to appreciate Chinese tea. Here are 12 things he told me about tea that no restaurateur would have: 1. Never drink tea on an empty stomach Always drink tea during or after a meal. Our stomachs are acidic and tea is alkalizing. Acid and alkaline combined have a bloating effect. |
2. Drink white tea if you are a smoker
White tea is really good for the lungs and throat, so it is especially beneficial for smokers.
A cup of white peony tea helps clear all the phlegm in our throats and cures coughs.
3. You won't be able to tell the quality of white tea by its colour
Most restaurants mix white peony tea with black tea to add colour and flavour because customers generally prefer tea that tastes richer and looks darker in colour.
Pure white tea itself has hardly any flavour or colour compared to other teas.
4. Only fine dining Chinese restaurants serve screw shaped green tea
Genuine screw shaped green tea is the highest grade of green tea and the most expensive. At Ying Kee Tea House, it sells at HK$5,067 per kilogram (HK$380 per 75 gram bag). Produced only in Jiangsu Province Dong Ting Mountain , it's also the rarest green tea in China , producing only about 1,000 kilograms a year.
It must be consumed fresh, within a year after picking the tea leaves. Screw shaped green tea of higher quality is best consumed within six months even. If it is tasteless, solvent or extremely bitter, that means it has already gone bad.
But while it is certainly expensive, screw shaped green tea has a very particular taste that not everyone may like. Even when it is fresh, it tastes more bitter than other teas.
For all those reasons, screw shaped green tea is only served at fine dining Chinese restaurants, usually at hotels.
5. Treat pu-erh tea like a digestible detergent to flush all the grease away
Always pair oily food with pu-erh tea. Dim sum, no matter steamed or fried, contains lard. When you eat shrimp dumplings, there is always a piece of fatty pork in there to add flavour and fragrance.
Pu-erh tea helps you rinse all the grease from the food out of your system. It aids digestion, blood circulation and lowers cholesterol levels.
If you don't have detergent at home, boil some pu-erh tea and use it to wash your dishes. It's like a digestible detergent.
6. Sweets go best with green tea
Sweet food is best paired with tea that is more bitter. Loong cheng green tea helps moderate the sweetness of desserts.
Like pu-erh tea, drinking green tea helps lower cholesterol levels and break down fat.
But while most teas are best brewed in boiling hot water, green teas like screw shaped green tea and loong cheng only need to be brewed in water that is about 75 to 85 degrees. If the water is too hot, it will be difficult to maintain the same fragrance in the second brew.
7. Teh kuan yin goes best with spicy food
Spicy foods are best paired with teh kuan yin because it has a bitter sweet effect. If you ever visit a Chiu Chow restaurant, they always serve teh kuan yin tea with their spicy dishes.
Plus, Chiu Chow city borders Shantou city and Fujian province, which is known for harvesting teh kuan yin leaves.
8. Fried food goes best with white tea
Basically, any type of fried or deep fried food goes well with white tea. In Chinese medicinal terms, fried food is considered dry hot.
White teas like white hair peony help release body heat.
9. Smell quality
Aside from pu-erh tea which is almost odourless, quality tea should always give off a fragrant smell.
If you can't smell the tea or see that it is very solvent, then it has probably expired.
10. You won't be able to find good pu-erh tea at dim sum restaurants
It is simply not cost-efficient. Pu-erh tea is like wine. The longer you store it, the richer it becomes. Storage for at least three to six years is optimal.
Regular pu-erh teas served at restaurants have generally been modified during the fermentation process to reduce storage time. By doing this, they lose whatever fragrance and flavour they originally had.
Good pu-erh tea should look very smooth and deep red in colour, not black like regular pu-erh tea.
You can also test the quality of your pu-erh tea by the stain it leaves on your cup after drinking it. If you see a stain surrounding the rim of your cup, that means you are drinking regular or low quality pu-erh tea. If your cup is left with no stain after consumption, you are drinking pu-erh tea of high quality.
11. Teh kuan yin, daffodil and oolong are all the same at dim sum restaurants
No matter which of the three you order, dim sum restaurants will serve you low grade daffodil tea. All three teas come under the same oolong tea category, yet they are very different in flavour.
Teh kuan yin tastes more clear and fragrant. Oolong is stronger and more solvent. And daffodil is the purest of them all.
12. The best moments of tea enjoyment are when you have time
Drinking tea is a matter of mood. And when I talk about mood, it mainly has to do with the condition of time.
You've probably heard many rules about tea, from water temperature to colour. But at the end of the day, drinking tea is a very personal experience.
Some people like their tea boiling hot while others like theirs lukewarm. Some may like theirs stronger than others. So it's all about time. We need time to brew that perfect cup of tea.
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