Mind Soup

MIND SOUP : So today, October 15, is Blog Action Day 2010 . The theme this year is water . As I live in a country where water is theoretically abundant, I, as many other Lebanese, may not feel the urge to conserve water or use it wisely. But as I watch TV and read bloggers posts from other countries, I have become more aware of the critical water situation the world is facing. After enrolling as a blogger against hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme and engaging more into the world blogosphere, I was shocked to know that around 4.500 children die daily from water related diseases and that a almost a billion people on Earth don't have access to clean and safe drinking water ! Since then I realized that there are so many things with our water consumption in Lebanon. We take hour-long showers, flood our houses to get them cleaned, stare at the open faucet while brushing our teeth, and use excessive amounts of water to irrigate our flowers and plants. But the most un...

1. The first thing that you should already know is that it is OK to cry. 2. Examine what had happened, and ask yourself WHY?. Don't think that it's your fault . You have to make a point to yourself that this situation is not entirely your fault - or maybe it's not your fault at all. Thinking about the reasons why it ended can make it much clearer to you that it takes two people to start a relationship, but just one discordant person is enough to end it. It may also help you avoid many missteps in the future if you can identify areas where you contributed to the demise of the relationship. 3. Don't rethink your decision . If the breakup was your decision, keep in mind that only thinking about all the good times you had with your mate may cause you to forget the reasons why you broke it off. By the same token, try not to second guess the situation if the decision to end things was not yours. It's very common to romanticize the good parts of the relationship, conv...

Here's another article from the same website. It is really important to me to save money on meals, because I'm a college student who mainly depends on mom's cooking and fast-food places. This article is mainly a humorous way to give you (and me) ideas on how to economize! Too bad there isn't a decent kitchen here in the dorms, the plates that I cook back home kick ass.. really!! So here goes the article: Mr. Cheapie takes his frugal living tips to the restaurant. by David Leonhardt Mr. Cheapie is here with his super-charged budget-cutting frugal living tips. One of the biggest wastes of money is restaurant meals. You can cook a meal at home for about 2 cents a plate. Just put leftovers in the microwave, and Presto! Those same leftovers cost a lot more at a restaurant. They call it "the buffet", and they sell it to you for $10.95. Consider also the steak dinner that costs, say, $7 at home. At the restaurant, you pay $13.95 for the same meal. Or, if you want fan...

So I found this blog site called thehappyguy.com and this guy has really interesting and humurous articles that I think you should read. So every once in a while, I will be posting some of his articles here on Mind Soup. Now this article caught my eye, because, as some of you might know, I am the hugest fan of cheesecake. This article is not bad itself, hehe. So here goes: Parenting is tough enough, without having to follow a recipe. This pumpkin cheesecake recipe was written for parents like you. by David Leonhardt NOTE: This article is humorous, but the recipe is real...and real good!!! Whoever writes all those fancy cookbooks has never been a parent. To begin with, the pages are never spill-proof, almost guaranteeing that somewhere in the middle of mixing ingredients, Little Helper will spill something and cover up the remaining two ingredients listed. This means that parents must learn to improvise. Some would suggest that the very thrill of cooking is experimentation. So what’s ...

It's been a while since I blogged, so here's my 5 cents of the day: It is really bizarre how we get people into our lives and believe that we are really aware of the persons they are, and suddenly… this image simply fades away in a split of second. It takes a lot of effort to trust others and when we trust them, we trust blindly. but then again, every person is hiding behind a mask carrying a mysterious and a totally different person within. Whether they are friends or lovers, they are always not the people we thought they are… somehow and in some way this hidden person appears…This reality leaves us cynical, doubting every single person we meet. This reality makes us not only wiser but also extremely cautious and... hurt. The fact that we trust others so blindly and then finding out that they are not who we thought they are, hurts, deeply hurts… we give all what we have and from the bottom of our hearts and then we realize that this person is even appreciating…after exhausting...