Archive for June, 2006

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Marie Forleo's new book Makes every man want you

The first chapter of Make Every Man Want You: How to be so damn irresistible you’ll barely keep from dating yourself, is a revised edition of a previous ebook by Marie Forleo. The book title alone is more irresistible then most books of this nature.and suggests a very upbeat author. Yes, Marie happens to be [...]

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Badboy on Life Rules for Men

1) Girls Will Not Make You Happy
Happiness is inside YOU, not in other people… or stuff that you need to buy. That is exactly society wants you to think; to look outside yourself to others or things you need to buy for your happiness. But this can only bring temporary happiness. Most girls out there [...]

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

How to use Social Proof to improve your Dating

Robert Cialdini wrote a book called Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion. One of the core principles in this book is “Social Proof”. Wikipedia defines it as “is a psychological phenomenon which occurs in ambiguous social situations when people are unable to determine the appropriate mode of behaviour. Making the assumption that surrounding people possess more [...]

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Why You're Still Single by Evan Marc Katz

There’s no way around it: dating today is tough. And once you have a few bad experiences under your belt, old habits set in, undermining self-esteem and the confidence to plunge back into the dating scene. The authors of Why You’re Still Single seek to remedy these dating doldrums, attacking the problem from the [...]

Monday, June 19th, 2006

On Being a Lady

This is from the Napoleon Hill Foundation’s Thought of the Day, “Margaret Thatcher once observed that being powerful is like being a lady: If you have to tell others you are, you aren’t. Truly great leaders gain respect by the way they conduct themselves, not by the loudness of their orders. You gain respect by [...]

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Meaning of my name Ramon

Number of Ramon – 7 Bearers of this baby name are odd persons of saturnine temper. They are often philosophers and mystics at heart. They tire easily of a bustling and hasty life, love to think all alone and hate light-mindedness. Quite often they are devoid of commercialism and a thirst for comfort. Having keen [...]

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

2006 Star Trek Minicon in South Africa

Today I attended my 2nd Star Trek minicon in Johannesburg, South Africa. The minicon is hosted annually by Science Fiction South Africa. I’ve been a memeber since 2004 and attended a few of their events. Its a small group and the people are very friendly and on the shy, introverted side of life. That’s to [...]

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Online Dating: Is True Love Just a Click Away?

In part three of this three-part series, two FOXNews.com reporters try their hand at Internet dating (click here to read about their blind dates and here to read about their speed dates).
by Cassie Carothers and Michael De Dora Jr.
Cassie is a 26-year-old news editor from Ohio looking to for someone who can laugh at himself [...]

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Speed Dating: You Can’t Hurry Love … or Can You?

Two FOXNews.com reporters tried blind dating (click here to read about their blind dates), speed dating and Internet dating in their search for love — all in the name of journalistic research, of course. Cassie is a 26-year-old news editor from Ohio looking for someone who can laugh at himself and lives in the moment. [...]

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Are parents still stopping you from having a girlfriend?

There are a lot of young men who find it difficult to go out and meet new girls on days when they have a quarrel with their parents. There are also a lot of older men who can go out easily and have success. Why is that so?
The behaviour taught from father to son carries [...]