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How would you want to be served with artful coffee lattes such as these?

Coffee Latter Art or simply Coffee Art refers to the practice of making artful designs and patterns using espresso and frothed milk in a cup of coffee. It takes a great skill, patience and numerous practices before one can expertly come up with such an art.

More Coffee Art masterpieces can be found at Weirdomatic.

You might have heard a lot of times already about the research study on cleanliness comparison between a kitchen sink and a bathroom sink. Odd as it may sound but according to the study, kitchens are dirtier than bathrooms when it comes to bacterial contamination. The “Hygiene in the Home Study 2009″ held in Egypt exposes that, internationally, 90 per cent of kitchen cloths, 46 per cent of kitchen sinks, 38 per cent of bathroom sinks accounts the majority of the total bacterial count in most of the households. Wet and damp kitchen cloths and sponges harbor bacterial growth that is why it is imperative that the kitchen should not just be mere “cleaned”. It should be disinfected in the same frequency that we do on our bathrooms. We must regularly wash our hands especially before preparing the meal or cooking our food, and most importantly, dispense old cleaning cloths and replace them as often as possible to prevent from attracting bacterial growth and infestation.

With this study, people’s notion about bathrooms dirt may be changed. Especially with luxurious bathroom suites such as those from betterbathrooms.com, people might even lounge longer in the bathrooms now. They might even prefer doing their daily routines there like sleeping and dining.

Coffee addicts out there, be sure to drop by at Greenbelt 3 and 5 on October 13-26, 2009 and join as the Philippine Coffee Board celebrates the annual coffee festival, entitled “Coffee Origins, Discovering The Philippines’ Best.”

Familiarize yourself with different coffee types grown from the small towns and private farms of the region. Overflowing coffee for FREE from different roasters and processors all throughout the event so get ready for a one of a kind caffeine-high experience.

For more information about this event as well as other events of the Philippine Coffee Board, check out what’s brewing on their website.

There are surely lots of romantic ways to propose. But if you are a guy and can’t accept a “no” for an answer from the girl of your dreams, the best time to do it is with a full stomach or just before dinner. Here’s a sure ball set of tips on how to stage a romantic proposal dinner.

1. Think of the perfect spot to stage the proposal at. Of course, take into consideration your significant other’s interests and tastes. For example, if she’s a movie buff, holding it in a theater would surely be a hit. I know of one who created a special video of his proposal lines then it was shown right before a movie they’re about a to watch.

2. Plan her most favorite food for the engagement meal. This is actually a common sense not unless you want to spoil her mood and the proposal consequently.

3. Have someone serve the dinner, that is, if you aren’t a great cook. Cooking and serving it by yourself makes the dinner even more special.

4. Set the mood with proper lighting. Line up her pathway or your dinner space with tea light candles and rose petals.

5. Music sets the mood to the highest romantic level.

6. Plan where to keep the ring prior the proposal. It may be served on a silver tray at the end of the meal or for some, they make arrangements with the waiter to submerge the ring on the ice cream. Just be cautious and alert enough though to pop out the question as soon as she finds it or about to put a serving to her mouth.

7. Setup the Hidden Camera very carefully and discreetly. You wouldn’t want to send off hints about your impending proposal or leave her confused and wondering what the video documentation is all about.

8. Rehearse what you will say in your proposal. Or better yet, just be yourself so you don’t stutter and say the darnest thing that could spoil the proposal.