So, when in Amsterdam, be sure to watch your weight, coz, it may so happen that you walk into some bus shelter to catch your route-bus and have to walk off embarrassed!

Yes, these days the bus shelters in Amsterdam comes with weight announcers. For all those who are unhappy about their body weight, you dare not sit on the bench in the bus shelter.

But, if you seem to be an optimist, these bus shelters fitted with weight meters can be a reminder, cuing you if it’s high time you shed some extra pounds.

Sweden’s Icehotel has surprises galore for the eager globetrotter. An Arctic holiday indeed remains incomplete without a visit to the Icehotel in Sweden. From ice bars and ice chapels to ice spas and ice suites, everything is carved in ice here, not to mention the glasses used for drinking!

Chocolate is not just another luscious comfort food, but it indeed is an excitingly evoking aphrodisiac that can play its part well to get your man into mood! A news or not, this revelation is sure to boost up the commercial of Chocolates, at least among the females, on age no bar basis.

Tried and tested, almost yes and vouched by a zillion plus, right from enjoying the true passion of a Valentines evening to those anniversaries and special nights, the fame of this aphrodisiac chocolate is all flying high. Thanks to the master brain of the sensible Kiwi businesswoman, the favorable mix of Chocolate and Tongkat Ali, a herb found in South East Asia identified for its power to stimulate the development if male sex hormone.

Drinks, hot or cold, you have your online bartender to help you with! 

Whether it’s a booze party or a formal dinner get-together, now you needn’t worry about what drink to serve and probably how to mix it! 

Last weekend it was my boyfriend’s birthday and he had called a few of my friends and his for a booze party at home, well needless to say, comfortably putting the task of arranging everything on me. Well, it was his birthday and I probably couldn’t say no. Everything from decoration to food was something I could handle with ease, but drinks!!! That wasn’t probably my cup of tea, could be because I am a non-drinker or just coz I was so damn sure that I am gonna terribly spoil the drink by playing the bartender. But I call it luck, when I accidentally bumped into this site called ExtraTasty.com – an online drink recipe site. 

With the Super Bowl Championship game just around the corner, it is time to plan and proceed to throw a perfect SuperBowl party!

 Wish I was born as a Chinese then I could have got the privilege to celebrate New Year twice! Yes, when the world all over has long stepped into the New Year 2009, the Chinese is still awaiting to embrace the same, with great pomp and fervor. The Chinese communities spread across the globe, will celebrate the Chinese New Year today, the 26th of January, 2009, amidst baroque lantern displays, parade, dragon dance and more in a very fascinating and colorful ambience.

So it’s time for the lovers around the globe to brainstorm, to seek and find ways to deeply impress and get their valentine floored with the deadly and exciting gifts they choose. Valentines Day roses, dates, gifts all have become a niche, but as it is said, there are still ways of doing things differently and standing to gain your dear ones love.

So if you have a taste for something a little offbeat, well, here are a few tips to make your choice of that perfect Valentine’s Day gift a lot easier.

So are you busy getting into the host’s shoes, preparing stuff for the weekend house party? For a lot of reasons, drink recipes, whether alcoholic or non-alcoholic, adds lot of fun to the whole occasion. And if you have mastered the not many ventured into art of mixing & serving great drinks then the fun doubles and you can be rest assured that the invitees too are having a great time at home. 

Here are a few tips meant to make your next house party a great success, at least with respect to drink recipes, like mixing and serving cocktails, mixed drinks, frozen drinks etc. Also, there can be no better way to rise upto popularity among your peers and colleagues than mixing your own signature drink! 

First and foremost, keep in mind the golden rule – never compromise for anything less than fresh, chilled ingredients and so is with the glasses you use. 

So the first African-American has sworn into power and Obama fans world wide, especially those in the US, are looking for ways to celebrate the long awaited change. Foodies like me have taken to celebrate this joyous occasion by cooking Obama’s favorite food and what I have zeroed into is the traditional chili, also known as the Cowboy Chili. 

Once I happened to visit one of our neighbors and there a little old lady, who was a Hispanic, served me this very traditional and tasty cowboy chili – although there are a lot of variations to this style chili (and I believe this is Obama’s favorite cowboy chili recipe), but as always, I have to admit that old is gold! 

Working out together to reach out weight loss goals!

Gaining weight is so damn easy, but losing it the way we want can be rather taxing and strenuous, especially when we are to fight it out all alone. Diet buddy comes as a savior for many who sham their diet regimes, coz of laziness, loss of time, boredom and the like. So when you get tired of fighting your weight loss regime all by yourself that is where diet buddies make their entry. 

However motivated we are, at times it so happens that we struggle to reach for a hand, a company, a good support system to get through the tough times. The same applies to  while taking those lone walks, when choosing what to eat and what not, while engaged in non-eating activities and so on.