المقال: Three Things
Three Things
Three Things
for When the World
Feels Like Too Much
A facial that costs nothing. A recipe you'll make twice. And the show that will make you forget what you were stressed about.
May in the UAE has its own particular flavour of exhaustion. The heat has arrived ahead of schedule, the news is relentless, and the calendar has somehow filled itself before you noticed. If this sounds familiar — this issue is for you. No ingredients to find, no equipment to buy, no effort you don't already have. Three small things that work. A face, a bowl, and a sofa. In that order.
The 20-Minute Facial
No appointment. No mask. Just your hands, a clean face, and twenty quiet minutes.
The most underrated skincare tool you own is your hands. Everything else — the tools, the devices, the sheet masks — is optional. What actually moves the needle on stressed, puffy, tension-filled skin is manual lymphatic drainage: guiding the fluid that accumulates in your face (from stress, from screen time, from the heat) toward the drainage points in your neck and collarbone, where the body can process and remove it.
It sounds clinical. It feels like a spa. And once you do it properly — just once — your face will look different enough that you'll wonder why you ever paid someone else to do it.
"The lymphatic system has no pump of its own. It waits for you to move it. Ten minutes is enough to completely change how your face looks in the morning."
Follow the arrows — always outward, always toward the collarbone at the endAvoid this routine if you've had injectables or fillers within the past 3–4 weeks, have active inflammation or rosacea, or are running a temperature. If you have a gua sha tool, use it in Step 4 after warming up the skin — hold it at 15–45 degrees and use the same outward-and-downward directions. If you don't have one, your hands work just as well. What matters is the direction, not the tool.
The Bowl You'll Make Twice This Week
Korean-inspired. 20 minutes. Tastes like you spent longer.
The most viral comfort food of 2025–2026 isn't complicated. It's rice bowls. Specifically, the Korean ground beef bowl — a five-ingredient weeknight dinner that keeps appearing on feeds because it actually tastes as good as it looks, takes under 20 minutes, and is built from things most UAE kitchens already have. We've adjusted it slightly — a little less sweet, a little more ginger — because the Gulf palate appreciates warmth.
You can make this vegetarian with minced mushrooms or crumbled firm tofu. Both work beautifully. The hot honey drizzle at the end is optional but strongly recommended — it's the detail that makes people ask for the recipe.
- 400g ground beef (or minced mushrooms)
- 1½ cups jasmine or short-grain rice, cooked
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp honey or brown sugar
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger, grated
- ½ tsp chilli flakes (or more)
- 2 eggs
- 2 spring onions, sliced
- Sesame seeds
- Hot honey or chilli honey, to finish
- In a bowl, mix soy sauce, sesame oil, honey, chilli flakes, and half the ginger. Set aside.
- Heat a pan over high heat. Add the beef (no oil needed) and break it up. Let it sear without stirring for 2 minutes — you want caramelisation, not steaming.
- Add garlic and remaining ginger. Stir for 1 minute until fragrant.
- Pour the sauce over the beef. Toss to coat and cook another 2–3 minutes until the liquid reduces and clings to the meat.
- In a separate pan, fry the eggs in a little sesame oil — runny yolk is the move here.
- Build your bowl: rice, beef, egg on top. Scatter spring onions and sesame seeds. Drizzle with hot honey.
The yolk breaking over the beef is the moment. Don't skip it. A quick cucumber side — thinly sliced, tossed with a little rice vinegar and sesame — cuts through the richness perfectly and adds the gut-health element that's everywhere right now. Make it while the beef cooks.
The Show to Watch Right Now
For the evenings when you need to be reminded that people are mostly good.
There is a specific kind of television that doesn't just entertain — it actually makes you feel better after watching it. Not distracted. Not stimulated. Better. Ted Lasso is perhaps the most reliable example of this that television has ever produced. And right now, with Season 4 arriving on August 5, there has never been a better excuse to start from the beginning — or to revisit it if you've already been there.
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An American football coach with no knowledge of soccer is hired to manage a struggling English Premier League club. That's the premise. What it becomes is something else entirely — a show about kindness as a radical act, about choosing to believe in people even when the evidence suggests you shouldn't, about the quiet heroism of showing up fully for the people around you.
Ted Lasso won the Emmy for Best Comedy three years in a row. It has 13 Emmy Awards total. Critics ran out of superlatives for it by Season 2. And yet none of that captures what it actually feels like to watch it on a difficult evening — which is something close to being held. It is warm without being saccharine, funny without being cynical, and emotionally intelligent in a way that almost no television manages to be.
Season 4 sees Ted return to Richmond to coach a women's football team — taking on his biggest challenge yet, with the season's theme built around leaping before you look and taking chances you never thought you would. It premieres August 5, weekly until October 7. Which means May is the perfect month to start from Episode 1 of Season 1 and arrive at August ready.
"The show that makes you want to be a slightly better person. Not in an annoying way. In the best possible way."
If you're in the mood for something shorter — a single evening, something beautiful rather than comforting — Midnight in Paris (2011, Woody Allen) is the film we keep returning to in May. A man walks alone through Paris at midnight and finds himself transported to the 1920s — Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Picasso, Gertrude Stein. It's about nostalgia, creativity, and the seductive lie that another era would have suited you better. Visually gorgeous, quietly funny, and over in 94 minutes. The kind of film that makes you want to book a flight to Paris, or at least open a good book. Available on most streaming platforms.
May is not the time to push through. It's the time to be deliberate about rest — to choose, consciously, twenty minutes of silence and serum over another hour of scrolling. The face, the bowl, the sofa. That's it. That's the whole prescription.
We'll be back next month. Until then — we hope the heat becomes beautiful instead of oppressive, and that you find at least one evening this week that belongs entirely to you.
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I tried the recipe and licked my fingers afterwards🫶
Natalia
Thanks for interesting facts and notes😉👍
Olga Pastushyna
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