One advice on getting your country out of recession: Spend!

Why Spend? Why not save? Income is scarce, jobs are being cut, we need to batten down the hatch and survive the storm! Really?

Let us examine first why the economy is in doom and gloom…

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NZ Shops and Supermarket are to charge for plastic bags. This has been done by Pak’n'Save since about 10 years ago although they never said anything about saving the planet. I was always under the assumption that they are only trying to help pushing the prices down.

Now suddenly all other supermarkets (FoodStuff ones) and The Warehouse decided to charge 10c per plastic bag, with the loud gong sound of “saving the planet”. Would you believe that?

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I don’t normally watch Korean TV drama, or any TV drama for that matter. And I particularly hate soap operas that go on for years without any ending. But this particular one caught my attention.

Love in Heaven (or Dear Heaven, ????? / Ha-neul-i-si-yeo) is an 85 1-hour episode Korean SBS TV drama broadcast between September 2005 to July 2006.

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Okay, I’ve been too lazy to post anything here and I deserve a kick in the head. Will try to do better from today. My apology.