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		<title>Green Tea Facial Scrub</title>
		<link>http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/2010/03/green-tea-facial-scrub/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making your own green tea facial scrub is just as easy as making a toast. All you have to do is go to your kitchen to get the ingredients and mix them up! This natural facial scrub will help to detoxify, exfoliate and soften your skin. The ingredients is made up of 3 elements &#8211; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="font-size: xx-large;">M</span></strong>aking your own green tea facial scrub is just as easy as making a toast. All you have to do is go to your kitchen to get the ingredients and mix them up! This natural facial scrub will help to detoxify, exfoliate and soften your skin.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2642" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DSC00214.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p>The ingredients is made up of 3 elements &#8211; <strong>white sugar</strong>, <strong>green tea</strong>, <strong>honey</strong> (you can have your own choice for the 3rd ingredient). <span id="more-2641"></span></p>
<p>The very first step is to boil some water and make a cup of green tea (either using green tea leaves or teabag). Just pour about 1/3 of boiling water to the cup. If you are using tea leaves, then you may want to just add in 1 teaspoon of it. For teabag, just use 1 packet. Then, let the tea cool down for about <strong>2 minutes</strong> so that it&#8217;s in <strong>luke warm</strong> state.</p>
<p>Second step, add 2 tablespoon of white sugar into a bowl.</p>
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<p>Third step, add 1 tablespoon of green tea to the sugar, mix is slightly. Add another 1 tablespoon of white sugar evenly to the mixture and mix well.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2644" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DSC00216.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p>Forth step, add 1 teaspoon of your own choice of ingredients to the green tea scrub. At this point, I added honey. Mix well and it&#8217;s ready to use!</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2645" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DSC00218.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p>What to choose for the choice of your 3rd ingredient?</p>
<ul>
<li>Honey &#8211; to moisturize</li>
<li>Lemon &#8211; to cleanse</li>
<li>Yogurt &#8211; to soothe</li>
<li>Baby oil &#8211; for nourishing effects</li>
</ul>
<p>Use a cotton pad to absorb the scrub and apply it on your face. Massage your face gently with your fingertips in circular motion. After 1 &#8211; 2 minutes of exfoliating your skin, it&#8217;s time to rinse it off with <strong>luke warm water</strong>.</p>
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<p>Lastly, use the remaining green tea. Pour it to the cotton pad and pad it on your face as a toner. Apply moisturizer for best effect.</p>
<p>Check out this video by <a href="http://bubzbeauty.com/" target="_blank">Bubzbeauty</a> for a more detail tutorial on how to make your own green tea facial scrub!</p>
<p>Video:<br />
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<p>Summary:</p>
<ol>
<li>3 tablespoon of white sugar</li>
<li>1 tablespoon of green tea (water)</li>
<li>1 teaspoon of your own choice of ingredient.</li>
</ol>
<p>Who says you need to spend a lot to get expensive facial products to detox your skin? Try to make your own green tea facial scrub today! ^_^</p>
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		<title>Japanese T-Shirt Folding</title>
		<link>http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/2009/04/japanese-t-shirt-folding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among all the house chores, I hate folding clothes the most. It&#8217;s time consuming and tiring. Now, our family don&#8217;t hire any house maid like we previously used to. Cherry and I didn&#8217;t feel any difference when the maid is no longer available until we have to do our own laundry. Too lazy to do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Among all the house chores, I hate folding clothes the most. It&#8217;s time consuming and tiring. Now, our family don&#8217;t hire any house maid like we previously used to. Cherry and I didn&#8217;t feel any difference when the maid is no longer available until we have to do our own laundry. Too lazy to do the laundry especially the folding part. Ended up my room become very untidy. There&#8217;s a chair in my room, but it was filled with clean, dry clothes (several batches) which need to be folded.</p>
<p><img src="http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb237/xiaoyenzi2/personal/DSC04034.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Meanwhile, there was another full basket of dirty clothes waiting to be washed (using the washing machine, of course).<span id="more-1759"></span></p>
<p><img src="http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb237/xiaoyenzi2/personal/DSC04035.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Usually, 7pm after work, I will stay at Orange&#8217;s place till 11pm. When I reached home, I feel so tired and lazy to do all the folding job. But I really can&#8217;t stand the untidiness of my room, so I told Cherry that I will go back home straight away after work to do all the tidy job. Both of us really dislike to fold clothes, so we picked a movie to watch while folding the clothes.</p>
<p>I suddenly remembered a T-shirt folding method which shown to me many years ago. But I had forgotten the method. Cherry and I agreed to pause the movie and search for the method in YouTube. Yea&#8230;we got the video. It&#8217;s definitely a great tip to fold your clothes!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s known as the Japanese T-shirt folding.</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s another demonstration with English explanation.</p>
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<p>We were very excited and we tried out. This is the outcome.</p>
<p><img src="http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb237/xiaoyenzi2/personal/DSC04038.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Practice makes perfect, the more we fold with this method, the more beautiful the results are! Now, folding clothes has become a very interesting chores for both Cherry and I. We enjoy &#8220;playing around&#8221; with the clothes with the Japanese T-shirt folding method.</p>
<p>Try out today and let me know how you think about this fun and interesting way to finish up your laundry work in the comment section below.</p>
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		<title>Windows Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I&#8217;m going to tell you a little more about the Windows key on your keyboard. (yes, for Windows users of course!) You must be thinking that this key seems a little extra since you can use your mouse to click on the Start menu. In fact, the Windows key has several functions available when [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/windows-key.jpg" alt="" hspace="5" width="300" height="225" align="left" />Today, I&#8217;m going to tell you a little more about the Windows key <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1392" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/windows-logo.jpg" alt="" width="24" height="21" /> on your keyboard. (yes, for Windows users of course!) You must be thinking that this key seems a little extra since you can use your mouse to click on the <strong>Start menu</strong>.</p>
<p>In fact, the Windows key has several functions available when combine with certain keys.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1392" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/windows-logo.jpg" alt="" width="24" height="21" /><br />
Windows Key : Functionally equivalent to clicking the Start button on Windows Taskbar</p>
<p>Read on to find out more on how you can make full use of the Windows key.<span id="more-1390"></span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1392" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/windows-logo.jpg" alt="" width="24" height="21" />+ Tab :  <strong>Cycles through the open programs through the taskbar.</strong> I don&#8217;t think this is very useful, as I prefer Alt + Tab.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1392" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/windows-logo.jpg" alt="" width="24" height="21" />+ E  : <strong>Opens the My Computer window for browsing disks and files.</strong> In other words, it&#8217;s a shortcut key for opening Windows Explorer.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1392" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/windows-logo.jpg" alt="" width="24" height="21" />+ M : <strong>Minimizes all windows</strong>.</p>
<p>Shift + <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1392" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/windows-logo.jpg" alt="" width="24" height="21" />+ M : <strong>Cancel minimization of all windows.</strong> Undo the above mentioned minimize action.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1392" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/windows-logo.jpg" alt="" width="24" height="21" />+ R : <strong>Activates the Run dialog.</strong> You don&#8217;t have to click on the Start button and look for the Run function.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1392" src="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/windows-logo.jpg" alt="" width="24" height="21" />+L : <strong>Log off Windows.</strong> An easier shortcut to logoff!</p>
<p>Are you a Windows user? Do you already know you can do those with the Windows key? Try out now, if you haven&#8217;t. ^^</p>
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		<title>24 Hours a Day is not Enough!!</title>
		<link>http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/2008/09/24-hours-a-day-is-not-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Apple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the post title suggested, this is what I feel lately. I spend 9 hours a day in the office, 2 hours in Orange&#8216;s place, that left 13 hours for me. Deduct 7 hours of sleeping time, I left 6 hours. After changing my job, I go to bed around 12am and normally wake up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like the post title suggested, this is what I feel lately. I spend 9 hours a day in the office, 2 hours in <a href="http://www.kelvintco.com" target="_blank">Orange</a>&#8216;s place, that left 13 hours for me. Deduct 7 hours of sleeping time, I left 6 hours. After changing my job, I go to bed around 12am and normally wake up at 7 or 8am. I don&#8217;t even have time for my blogs! I miss out so many great posts from those blogs that I&#8217;ve subscribed to. I don&#8217;t have the time to communicate with my friends from the blogosphere like I used to.</p>
<p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/xiaoyenzi/avatar/onion/a_onion3.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>So, in order to make me feel better (with my blogs), I wake up around 6am to do something with my blogs and community. My friend asked me &#8220;Is blogging that important for you?&#8221; Yes, it&#8217;s addictive. Or perhaps I have put in so much effort in the blogosphere which makes me feel that this is the place to <a href="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/2008/09/a-bushel-of-apples/">express myself</a>, to be myself. And not to forget, my plan of gaining some extra income.</p>
<p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/xiaoyenzi/avatar/onion/a_onion1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/xiaoyenzi/avatar/onion/a_onion2.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>I used to spend a lot of time in blogging during my previous working hour, because most of the time I&#8217;d be free and I was provided with a good Internet connection and a good performance computer. Now everything changed. <a href="http://www.xiaoyenzi.com/2008/07/exhausted/">My office computer sucks like hell</a>. I can hardly do anything with the &#8220;Ice Age&#8221; computer. Not to say surf net, just by doing office job with the @#$!@#$%@#$% computer already can kill my patience and makes me feel like sleeping&#8230;<span id="more-1064"></span></p>
<p>My dream is to become a problogger. But this is not as easy as it sounds. A lot of measurement and planning have to be done before turning into a problogger. I cannot quit my job because the little amount of my blog income can&#8217;t even cover my daily expenses. I want to build up my community and other necessary stuff to get loyal readers and of course be able to update fresh contents regularly. With such little time to manage my blogs, I feel that my dream is fading.</p>
<p>Blogging to me, is a pleasure not a burden. I&#8217;m just running out of time every time I do a blog post, reply comments, upload files, read blogs, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>I read a very <a href="http://www.netbusinessblog.com/how-to-become-a-problogger-from-a-pastime-blogger-part-wrap-up/" target="_blank">useful article</a> which I think every blogger (problogger-wannabe) must read. Here&#8217;s some quote from Roy, the author:</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><strong>Do not</strong> publish ads in the first there months.</li>
<li><strong>Do not</strong> write a post unless you really have something to say and write a post that would have reference value.</li>
<li>Network with other bloggers in your niche.</li>
<li>Work for links &#8211; get some one way links for your blog to improve the page rank.</li>
<li>Offer full feed to your visitors and do not forget to add email subscription option too.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>It makes me feel a lot better when I see this sentence: &#8220;Do not write a post unless you really have something to say and write a post that would have reference value. <strong>You do not need to write everyday &#8211; don’t even try it.</strong> The reference posts would develop the reader base for your blog and term you as a new serious blogger in the block.&#8221;</p>
<p>In fact, I have a lot of pending posts need to be done, I have many things to share, but I&#8217;m just lack of time&#8230;.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><small>Off topic: Learned a new phrase today. So there&#8217;s a sickness call <a href="http://www.footsmart.com/C-Night-Splints-20.aspx">Plantar Fasciitis</a> &#8211; it&#8217;s a painful foot condition in the heel and arch area.</small></p>
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