SCENT SYSTEM – Who Scent You?
The present fusion of fragrance and their accompanying cute, hot bottle designs appear to be getting BOLDER and even more DARING than ever.
The present fusion of fragrance and their accompanying cute, hot bottle designs appear to be getting BOLDER and even more DARING than ever.

Will the release of Aung San Suu Kyi actually bring new hope for political dialogue and the end of prolonged and inconclusive political struggle in Burma?

At the tender age of 14, I developed an unusual appetite for sex that did not cease until recently at 25. My friends tease me and often say I have the mentality of a man when it comes to sex…There were not enough HIV commercials to scare me from fulfilling this sexual appetite; nor did the thought of pregnancy.

Never did the Brothers Grimm or The Arabian Nights tell tales of beautiful princesses who gave it all up for love and a bungalow in Kent. Then again, these stories were written long before Stephanie Benson was born.

Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting is barbaric. Few subjects can make my face contort in horror, nor make my blood boil with anger, than FGM/C. There is no reason for it.
My dressing for this Kenyan wedding was mild compared to those who had come in jeans trousers, they told me. And I could learn a thing or two, said my West African companions, on how to be ‘truly African’ and stop living in my modern ways.
Anyone who knows me will tell you, I loathe urban fiction. The genre might be selling and filling bookshelves at major stores, but I just can’t get past the lack of substance in many of these books. However, I needed to see what all the hype was about Precious (based on the novel Push by Sapphire).

For me, giving up work to be a full time mum is certainly not an option I am willing to consider. So is my attitude selfish? Possibly. Is it healthy? Well, let’s face it, it keeps me sane.