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Let's talk about suicide

Let's talk about suicide

I read some motivational books recently that were very insightful and gave useful tools to live a better life. The self-help book catalogue is huge. Everyone wants to improve and get better in life, everyone wants to live up to their potential and be free to be their true self..

  • Why mountains matter

    I was driving down State Highway 1 last week on my way to the Promised Land (Hamilton) and as I was driving I saw two men dressed in suits standing on a railway line staring up at the mountain.

  • The radio that broke my heart

    If you\'ve read any of my articles before, you probably would have picked up on the fact that I have a lot of pet hates.

  • The inflation of sauce

    The only thing more Australian than a meat pie is paying an extra 50cents for some measly little bit of tomato sauce to put on top of it. As a Tradesmen I know my pies, I have had too many to count already in my 13 years as a painter.

  • The changing face of Formula 1 Motor Racing

    If you look at the sporting revolution over the past fifteen years, it\'s not hard to realise that professional sports has morphed from a game to a business, a powerful industry that earns billions of dollars of revenue worldwide each year.

  • Lessons from Robin Williams' death

    News of Robin William\'s death spread quickly around the world and there was an immediate outpouring of sympathy (and unfortunately personal attacks on his family) as Williams was remembered for the years of entertainment he gave many generations.

  • Are we self-medicating our struggles away?

    \"I\'m just...I\'m overwhelmed. It\'s all too much...I can\'t keep doing all this. I can\'t...it\'s all just too much.\" That voice. Those words. They\'re too familiar.

  • Meeting an old friend again

    I still remember when I went to Malaysia in 2006, having grown up in China for all my 19 years; and this totally different and new country brought a great culture shock.

  • Take your head out of that cloud of numbers.

    Press releases with trillions of figures, statistics and decimals are the bane of any journalist\'s existence. The unspoken rule is that, without a justifiable reason, a news story should never have more than two numbers quoted. The reason for this is that a reader never takes in the numbers – they might raise their brow or linger on the figure, but in a few seconds will move on.

  • The names of Jesus in the Quran

    The topic of finding out how the Quran views Jesus a very interesting topic. The Quran teaches some interesting views on who Jesus was, how He was born and what He taught.

  • The curse of being good-looking

    Intro – do Good looking people have a hard time?

  • Schoolgirl Striptease: A nation in shock

    DISGUST OVER SCHOOLGIRL STRIPTEASE. As far as headlines go, those in the business will know they don\'t get much better than this!