Lydia's Weekly Lifestyle blog is for today's African girl, so no subject is taboo. My purpose is to share things that may interest today's African girl.

This week's contributors: Lydia, Pépé Pépinière, Titi, this week's subjects: Kid Super Fashion presentation 2025, Pantita Thai Restaurant, Sunday evening football news, and World's knowledge

Kid Super Fashion presentation 2025. When it comes to fashion that encapsulates creativity, imagination, and a touch of the whimsical, few names resonate quite like KidSuper. Founded by designer Colm Dillane, KidSuper has consistently pushed the boundaries of fashion and what a runway should be. He created a tornado inside his fashion show. Kids supers fall winter 2025 show at Paris Fashion Week was a multi-sensory spectacle that merged fashion with performance art through an installation artist Daniel Wurtzel who created an indoor tornado as the show centrepiece. The collection showcased Columniland's signature eclectic style through diverse pieces including Patchwork jackets upcycled telephone bagels and tailored wear while also featuring major collaborations with Vape and Wild Side Yoji Yamamoto. A Kaleidoscope of Colours and Textures: KidSuper's 2025 collection was a riot of colours and textures, reflecting the playful spirit of childhood. Dillane's inspiration drew heavily from the idea of a world where imagination reigns supreme. The runway was filled with oversized silhouettes, vibrant prints, and unexpected fabric combinations that seemed to dance under the bright lights. From pastel hues to bold primary colours, each piece told a story, inviting viewers to step into a fantastical realm where anything is possible. Opera singer Ekatarina Shalajova's performance amplified the show's theatrical elements. This experience reinforced Kids Super's reputation for pushing creative boundaries in fashion presentation. In a world where fashion often takes itself too seriously, KidSuper reminds us that the essence of style lies in the joy of creation. As we look forward to what the future holds, one thing is for certain: KidSuper will always be a brand that celebrates the playful spirit in all of us.

Pantita Thai Restaurant (Peter Ala Adjetey Avenue, Labone, Accra) was good enough for us for a quiet Valentine's dinner. To be on the safe side we had made a reservation weeks earlier, but most tables were empty. Neither were there red heart balloons hanging from the ceiling. It suited us, love is all year round, not just on the 14th of February and a nice quiet dinner was all we wanted. We had a Thai omelet with onion (really nice, a surprise dish), grilled beef salad, tofu (a sort of soya milk cheese very popular with Asians), chicken black pepper (refreshing), grilled marinated beef with spicy rice powder sauce (very luxurious), and of course rice, steamed plain Thai sticky rice, nicely served in a small basket. A very satisfying meal with quality food, attentive service and reasonable pricing for what we had. They have a very extensive menu and we'll have to go at least 5 more times to get the general feeling of it. And we will.

Sunday evening football news at +233 Jazz and Grill Bar. I am not one of these football freaks who have bought a grave at a cemetery that has the form of a football field, or who post that they will commit suicide if their favourite club loses, after all, football is only meant as an advertising platform, and personally I think it is funny to see 20 grown up men running after a ball as if their lives depended on it, and being prepared to injure each other in the process. But after a nice weekend, it is relaxing to watch some sports reporting on the goals of that weekend, whilst having a drink and a kebab or so and to see 15 to 20 goals and misses in an hour, whilst normally you spend almost 2 hours just to get 2 or 3 goals or so. +233 Jazz and Grill bar (Dr. Isert Street, North Ridge, opposite GBC, Accra) is an ideal place for this; they have a huge outside screen, and Sunday evening is nicely quiet. But I feel sorry for the goalkeeper. Some of these balls can simply not be stopped; that goal area is quite big and the man is not a cat. If the ball gets through the entire team of 11 players loses, and he is the bad man, if he stops the ball no one really talks about it. And what is the role of the goalkeeper anyway? To stop the ball. Hey there, no one would watch football if all goalkeepers would stop all balls. Ayeeko for keepers who let balls through.

World's knowledge: We've always tried to gather all the world's knowledge in one place, and the great library of Alexandria (Egypt), founded about 300 years before the birth of Christ (BC) at one time contained more than 700,000 volumes (at that time handwritten documents), covering things like mathematics, astronomy, medicine and literature. But somewhere around 230 years BC, it burned down. Then in the year 130 AC, it suffered an earthquake (legend has it that half of Alexandria then disappeared into the sea), and around the year 270 AC the Romans destroyed whatever was left, so far for unclear reasons. Timbuktu today has its own library with 400,000 manuscripts, and under King Mansa Musa about 25000 students were residents at its universities. Meanwhile, the Chinese were developing their own library, which at its heyday was about 6 times more extensive than the complete Encyclopedia Britannica and came in printed form, before the Europeans had figured out how to print. They handed this encyclopedia over to the Italians around 1400 AC, from where Leonardo da Vinci could take over and later be called a genius. (They also handed over a sufficiently detailed map of the complete world, allowing Columbus to “discover” America about 80 years later.) The problem with these big libraries of course, is that the index alone is almost an entire library. But in 1998, Google started connecting all the existing websites through the internet and came up with search engines. And a bit later they started scanning any book they could lay their hand on, and had developed machines that could do the scanning and software that could “read” printed text. Today, the game is “who has the best search engine” to dive into all these stored data so that you can simply write “ how to boil an egg”, and you get a detailed, not always correct answer. And out of nowhere, the Chinese have shown themselves again and have overtaken several AI search systems. (The USA claims it is spyware rather.) We haven't seen the end of all this, or let's say we are just at the beginning. All these data, all that information, is stored in data centers (rows and rows of interconnected data cards), which consume huge amounts of energy for processing and cooling. IT will soon consume 10% of the world's energy, and that includes your “likes and smileys”. So the big ones like Google, Facebook and Amazon are starting to build their own energy supplies and asking for licenses to build nuclear reactors. And tomorrow? Will they even ask for a license?

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