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Book Review: 10% Happier by Dan Harris

This book was introduced by "The Minimalists" during their podcasts, "006 - Tuesday".   Later on, as I was browsing through the library books, I found the latest book by Dan Harris. When I noticed this, I searched for his earlier book, '10% Happier' and found it.  This book is a mediation for beginners guidebook, story of how Dan Harris got into the meditation practice.

Dumpster Diving (DD) Most bazaar finds

When dumpster diving, you may find interesting stuff as you salvage through the green and blue trash bins and any items people left at the void decks.  The most bazaar finds that I found was... a  Live 11-inch Freshwater Stingray.  This is the sting ray that I found (now in my 3 ft tank)

Book Review: The Writer's Diet by Helen Sword

When I was looking for a “small and slim book” to improve my writing at the library, I chanced upon this book “The Writer’s Diet” by Helen Sword. This book will help stimulate your writing, supercharge your verbal fitness and streamline from your prose. It focus on five topics and each topic provides a simple explanation with a few training exercises at the end of each topic. Below is the short run through of the five topics (Extracted from the book):

Freegan: How I became a one!

Freeganism is an alternative lifestyle philosophy based on minimizing consumption by recovering wasted goods like food or merchandise. In short, reduce the desire to buy new or upgrade stuff, live with what you have and be happy with what you already have. Then after dwelling further into it, I noticed that it includes two interesting activities, dumpster diving, and sharing and/or giving stuff away. Image of Oscar, who likes trash