The Magic of Daylight Saving Time

What do you normally do with your extra hour in Autumn when the clocks go back? Do you savour the hour on Saturday evening or on Sunday morning?

See, me, I’m a Saturday evening kind of girl. I like to take that extra hour the night before because I don’t really see how it works in my favour the following day. I have kids, and even if I was a fan of lie-ins, I wouldn’t be able to do that for very long. Besides, I go to worship on Sunday mornings. I’m up early anyway.

On Saturday evenings before the clocks go back my husband and I gleefully go around the house changing all the time pieces. We do this just after 11 p.m (even though the change doesn’t officially come into effect until 2 a.m) because somehow, this gives us a false impression that we’ve cheated time in some bizarre way.

For the next two days or so he – my husband – will be saying, ‘but your body thinks it’s an hour earlier so we should do this or that.’ I don’t think of it in that way at all. Do you? Once Saturday night is gone, the magic is gone for me.

I’m already planning what to do with my extra hour tonight. I’m going to make sure it does not involve anything with a laptop perched on my lap. There will be no Facebook, no Twitter, no StumbleUpon, no Blogging.

When you see me next, I would’ve had a leisurely extra hour doing something just for me. How about you?

And how do you remember if the clocks go backward or forward? Someone (an American) once told me this and it stuck; ‘Spring – forward. Fall (Autumn) – backward.’ Easy, right?

Is Kanye West Dead?

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After the incident at the 2009 Video Music Awards ceremony when Kanye West barged on stage during Taylor Swift’s speech, many of her fans may have felt like they wanted him dead. Yesterday it seemed their wish was granted.



When the news surfaced of his death in a car accident, the Internet ballooned in a flurry of excited Google searches. Even Twitter added fire to the rumour with RIP messages emerging as one of the trending topic, until Kanye’s girlfriend, Amber Rose retaliated with tweets of her own.


This is yet another celebrity false-death rumour, and this particular one has come at a time when West has just released a short film called, ‘We Used to Be a Fairy Tale’ (with his song playing in the background, no doubt) watch it here.

 In the film, incidentally, Kanye pulls something looking like a teddy bear that’s lost its fur, crossed with an elderly rat/weasel thing from his belly, and gives it a knife to kill itself. It does after some deliberation and head twists. In addition, California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has just signed a new bill to ensure the safety of people undergoing cosmetic surgery. This bill is to be named after Kanye West’s mother, Donda West, who died following elective surgery. This new bill requires the potential patient to undergo a mandatory physical examination before going under the knife.

All in all, it's great to hear that Kanye West is alive and well. It's not appreciated however, when fans and family have to put up with this kind of false rumour. I'm sure it must have been a very stressful time for them.

So, what else have you heard lately?