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If the first dating works out, you'll be going on future dating with this person. Spending a lot of money on the first dating will make it more difficult to impress him/her later on. |
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Money can't buy Happiness. Even if you are well-off, going on an inexpensive first dating ensures that your partner comes back for you, not the money. |
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Women love to celebrate anniversaries. They even like to re-create important dating by doing the same thing again. If the first dating with your wife was a $150 dinner, that can be a costly event to re-create when you have 4 kids. But if you went on a picnic or met at a small cafe, it's easy to relive that special moment. |
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I begin the year by interviewing two particularly interesting -- even confounding -- specimens for a weekly newspaper column I write about New Yorkers and their dwellings: Reiko Gomez, an interior designer who practices feng shui, and her husband, Peter Kaplan, a trader and financial advisor. |
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Having recently moved, old mattress and all, into an apartment in the East Village, I'm curious about what sort of a prescription Reiko might give for my new habitat. |
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Reiko arrives at my apartment one Friday afternoon with her lo pan, a compass that functions sort of like a sextant does for a celestial navigator. Its readings help feng shui practitioners arrive at an equation that is the energetic blueprint or diagnosis for you and your Home. |
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"That's a poison arrow," she says, alarmingly. "Not so great for health. Cover it." Cover it? A massive steel beam wrapped in 75-year-old plaster? |
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She is not helping the situation, either, as she has just fixed up her children's 25-year-old babysitter with one of her own discards. |
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Tattoos used to be the colouring of soldiers, sailors, mafiosi and punk rockers. About ten years ago, they became fashionable. The lower-middle classes started taking them up. |
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It is true that blondes have more fun. I used to be one! Most people on the planet are dark. A non-blonde with blonde hair looks 'interesting'. |
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