Eating to Live or Living to Eat

This video made me think. Are we eating to live or are we living to eat.

La surconsommation

Treatment to Insensitive People

Recently, I've read a post by Felis-domestica-licious here that mentions on friends that the she would unfriend on Facebook. What caught my attention was this:-

*update*

This case no. 3 bests all cases: a university friend died in a workplace accident. Friends offered condolences on FB. One persistent agent wrote something like: this is the outcome of not having sufficient insurance coverage: your loved ones suffer when mishaps befall you.  Contact me to review your insurance policy.

Unfriend! There’s no other way!

How much more insensitive can a person be? A person died and all she (the post was made by a she, a friend to felis-domestica-licious) knew was to advertise her services? Did she mean she could defeat Death with her insurance policy? With this in mind, when anything happened to the FB persona, I suggested to felis to advertise the following:-

Ramblings - 24th Dec

First, I'm going to congratulate a friend of mine on her 26th Birthday!
Happy Birthday Elaine!
Life is short, with so much suffering around the world, natural disasters, war, hunger, flooding, earthquakes, crimes happening every other day...so every birthday is definitely worth congratulating.

Now to the main point.
Life is short, sometimes I wonder, are humans born to be selfish? Taking care of our own priorities first before anyone else even people closest to you? Are there actually people who care about others first before themselves? Some crave popularity and neglect people on their side, not  realizing that sometimes those on their side get hurt? I've seen a lot of these happening lately and I wonder if myself is to blame? It makes you reflect back but I guess these things are part of the world / part of life and as long as one is happy with his own life and actions, the rest doesn't matter. Maybe the last sentence actually and totally envelopes the concept of human selfishness?

It's nearly X'mas - 22nd Dec

Ah. It's nearly X'mas again. (Christmas is an archaic language in the year 2999, see Futurama S2E17). Anyways it's the time of the year where everyone gives or receives gifts and maybe just give but no one gives back, but anyways I've started to make resolutions for next year, hopefully they'll be achieved.

Even though it was supposed to be a time for joy and merriment, but it saddens me though that some of my fellow bloggers have abandoned their blogs. Some cannot be blamed due to political pressure, some due to lack of time, some due to lack of interest from the community, hence lack of readers. To many it was hoped that the blog can help them generate money, but to me, I just write whenever I like without caring for money or anything.

But well, this year has been tough and I hope next year would be better. One of the first resolutions I have in my mind now would be to update this blog with anything, at least twice a week. Hopefully everything will run smooth and readers will increase!

Happy Fathers' Day !

Happy Father's Day to my Dad!

May everything go smoothly for you!
And be happy always.

HAPPY FATHERS' DAY!

HD 5850 With NF-M2PV motherboard - 26th March

It's been a while since I last posted on this blog and so, I've decided today to make a couple of postings to continue the life of this blog (although I doubt that many people actually read it) but anyways, changing to a HD 5850 is relatively easy but in a mother board like NF-M2PV, there maybe problems arising.

The Sapphire HD 5850 looks like the image below:-

It is a great card actually, running at approximately 50C when idle and 60+C when on load. BFBC2 is nor playable with High settings without a lot of lags. The thing is that, the installation process was not smooth at first considering that the motherboard is a Abit NF-M2PV where the PCI-e slot is being blocked by the chipset cooler at the rear of the card slot. The Abit NF-M2PV board looks like the image below:-

As you can see, the horizontal orange slot is the PCI-e slot, and in the right (black passive cooler) is for the chipset. The cooler was too high and was blocking the GPU's rear. The solution was indeed fairly simple, replacement of the cooler. Fortunately, all you need is to obtain another chipset cooler which was having a lower depth than the one shown, recommended is a Abit Fatal1ty board chipset cooler like the one shown in the image below which solves the problem:-



Having done so, the Power Supply Unit would then have to be replaced. The PSU that can be used is the Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus 650W. In contrary to what most reviews say, the Cooler Master PSU is quite a moderate unit and it is able to power a HD 5850 unlike what most people on the Net say. Although, I would complain on the low 120mm PSU fan speed which does not do much in transferring heat from the case to the external areas.

Straw Pudding - 1st March

I found this in a coffee shop / eating place in my kampung, Jerantut.
(Credits: My Brother who took this photo)

Who wants some "Straw Pudding"? (Actual:- Strawberry Pudding)

Chap Goh Meh - 1st March

Yesterday marks the end of Chinese New Year celebrations for the year 2010. I'm sure after yesterday (meaning today), Chinese around the world would have made resolutions to continue working hard and hopefully  this year would bring them lots of wealth and better health. This year, for me, bring lots of hopes and wishes (which I won't reveal here) and of course, I hope all or maybe some of them would be fulfilled. In terms of angpows (red packets), this year everyone has been very nice and the amount was almost double of last years, even from the latest recession, which is good to know that Malaysia was not that bad....

Anyways, what marks the end of CNY is the Lantern Festival (not associated with Mid-Autumn Festival) where lanterns and lights are all lit up and temples are usually full with decorations. I remember watching in a Stephen Chow movie on ancient Chinese times where there will be sort of a night festival in the nearest city square where there will be games and such. The husbands would "compete" among themselves to earn lanterns for their wives. Accordingly, husbands who get the biggest and most beautiful lantern for their wives would generally mean that he loves his wife very much. Not too sure how much of that is true.

Which reminds me of a another customs today in the modern world. Not sure whether is it practiced anywhere else, but here in Malaysia, on Chap Goh Meh day, the single-ladies would go to a place where there's water which is where she will throw mandarin oranges with their contact and names written on it in hopes that some nice guy would pick it up. It is hoped then that would turn into a happy ending story.

Come to think of it, I sure won't mind any of these 'oranges'
come floating to me in form of comments for this article. I think it's about time.

Well, anyways, Happy belated CHAP GOH MEH and wishes for a great year ahead!

Boom De Ya Da - 26th Feb

Suddenly felt like posting this song up:-
Boom De Ya Da song from Discovery Channel



I Love the Whole World!

Possible Cancer Treatment? - 23rd Feb

Got this from an email on possible cancer treatment, and thought I might share it with anyone interested (The English is not too perfect though, but understandable) :-


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Actual case studies, very important, please read patiently and pass this on..

Even if you have read this before, you should re-read this, especially the list of acidic and alkaline foodstuff , best to read several times and remember..

Please read this article in full patiently, it will be helpful to your health.More than 30 years ago, a Mr Zhang who worked in the public sales department of a Taipei Brewery, participated in the brewery overseas study selection examination, and passed with flying colours.Before going overseas during the physical examination at a public hospital, it was discovered that he had a lung tumour the size of a child's fist, and therefore was unable to go overseas to study.

The greatly disappointed Mr Zhang had always been suspicious that the diagnosis was wrong.. So he went to another hospital for a check-up, the result confirm that previous diagnosis was not in error.For the youthful and healthy Mr Zhang to be stricken down with such a terminal illness, in his despair, he rang his old classmate who at the time was Taidong County Government, Huangsun County Mayor's secretary, Mr Wei.Mr Wei rushed to Taipei during his rest day on a Sunday to see Mr Zhang..Mr Zhang discussed with Mr Wei in detail his despair and pessimism, and entrusted his friend regarding his affairs after his death. Coincidentally, Mr Wei was a good friend of Dr Lu Geling, who was in  charge of the Maijie Hospital, 1945-55, and specialized in the clinical research into cancer cases.
He immediately suggested that Mr Zhang go to see Dr Lu for treatment. At first, Mr Zhang said he preferred not to see anymore doctors, so as not to add further to his misery. But Mr Wei told him that he had telephoned Dr Lu before to seek his advice and arranged an appointment. Mr Zhang felt obligated and went with Mr Wei to meet Dr Lu..

When Dr Lu met with Mr Zhang, Dr Lu said: ' Mr Wei is a friend and introduced you and I to get to know each other. This is destiny. Thank you. Let me ask you do you know why is cancer referred to as  terminal illness? Both Mr Zhang and Mr Wei did not know how to answer.

Dr Lu explained: 'There are only two approaches taken by humans to treat cancer to-date. The first is to destroy the source of the disease. The second is to increase the capability to fight the disease.
But the strange thing is that, whether we use Cobalt 60 or other drugs to destroy the cancer cells, before the cancer cells are killed, the good cells are destroyed first..On the other hand, no matter what nutrients or supplements we use,  before the good cells have a chance to absorb them, the cancer cells have taken them up and it simply speeds up the growth of cancer..

Therefore both approaches are doomed to failure, that is why cancer is terminal.

Dr Lu continues: 'Human beings are most clever, they have successfully landed on the moon. But why is it no one ever questioned the above two approaches for treating cancer  which are nothing but self defeating dead-ends, and try to seek a third avenue?

When I was conducting clinical research in Majie Hospital , I had many opportunities to work with and being helped by many colleagues in the Hospital. I discovered that the blood tests of 100% of the cancer patients showed that the blood samples are acidic.

Those Buddhist monks and nuns who are long term vegetarians and live very close to Nature, their blood are prevalently weakly alkaline and amongst them, there has yet to discover any cancer cases.

Therefore, I boldly concluded that under weakly alkaline condition, cancer cells are not able to grow, or even to survive.Mr Zhang, I would suggest that starting from now you reduce your intake of the acidic meaty  dishes..Take more of the alkaline food. In addition you can take green algae and soup made from water chestnuts with skin, modify your physical condition, and try seriously to have a regular life style which is close to Nature;

If you can manage to stay alive for five years, you should have no further problem. I wish you the best of luck.'Mr Zhang followed Dr Lu's suggestion and seriously altered his eating habits.
Every day, he ate  green algae, drank chestnut soup, be optimistic and did an appropriate amount of exercise, and went back to the same public hospital for a check up. It was discovered that not only that the tumour did not increase in size, on the contrary it showed signs of shrinking, and surprised the hospital staff conducting the check-up as a miracle.. Five years later, the tumour had shrunk to such a state as to almost disappear..

After almost 40 years, presently Mr Zhang's health is totally normal, and living a very pleasant life. Following Mr Zhang, a Mr Chen Tianshou, who was previously Head of the General Administration of the Taidong Provincial Hospital , was similarly diagnosed with lung cancer.

When Mr Wei heard of this, he told Mr Chen of the experience of Mr Zhang, and Mr Chen started to follow the instructions of Dr Lu to change his physical condition. The outcome was that he was able to recover fully from the cancer, just like Mr Zhang.

At that time, Mr Lu and his family have emigrated to the United States . After the two cases, he returned to Taiwan and met up with Mr Wei.Mr Wei told Dr Lu about the experiences of Mr Zhang and Mr Chen, and suggested that let the two of them detailed their experiences to Dr Lu in person, so that Dr Lu could publish a report on his self cure body conditioning method.

Dr Lu very humbly replied:
'I am too old, besides, I do not have any clinical records of the outcomes. I would ask that you tell your friends and relatives, if they are agreeable, then please continue this experience and spread the words

One should take care of oneself but should also be caring about others, 85% of cancer patients have acidic in their physical condition.
***      Blood of healthy persons is weakly alkaline in nature, with a pH of about 7.35 to 7.45
***      Babies' blood is also weakly acidic
***      As adults mature their blood becomes more acidic in nature
According to a study of 600 cancer patients, of their bodily fluid, 85% of the patients are acidic Therefore, how to maintain the weakly acidic nature of our body is the first step for moving far away from diseases.

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Acidic physical conditions manifest itself in:
1. Skin without lustre2. Athlete's foot
3. Feeling tire even with very little exercise, and feeling sleep the moment one gets on to public buses
4. Easily out of breath going up and down stairs
5. Fat and with lower stomach protruding,
6. Move slowly and movement lethargic
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Why does the body physical condition turn acidic?  

1. Excessive intake of dairy acidic food

a) meat, dairy products, eggs, beef, ham, etc are acidic foodb) taking too much acidic food will cause the blood to become acidic and viscous, difficult to flow to the end of blood vessels, leading to cold feet or knee, stiff shoulders and insomnia.c) When one is young and strong, taking suitable quantity of meat is appropriate, but older people it more suitable to have a diet which are primarily vegetables ...

2.. Irregularity in the pace of life will cause the body physical condition to become acidic

a) Irregular pace in life will lead to mental and physical stressb) According to statistics, people who sleep late are more likely to have cancer than normal persons, by as much as 5 times.
c) Human beings originally lead a life with regular tempo in this world, it is not possible to store up sleep or food and not possible to change the order of living by mixing up days and nights.
d) Human organs are controlled by the autonomic nerves, and during day time it is mainly sympathetic nerves activities, and at night it is mainly the parasympathetic nerves which are functioning, If this order is disturbed and reversed, then diseases will result.

3. Emotion over tensed
a) Civilised society brings stresses
b) Job related or mental stressesc) A person suffers mental stress, when the stress is removed and the person relaxes, sometimes this may lead to death, referred to as the syndrome of imperfect adrenal cortex function.

4. Physical Stress
a) Before any operation it would be necessary to check to see if the renal cortex does function normally. If the adrenal cortex is lacking, or if the stress imposed by the operation exceeded the ability of adrenal cortex to cope, it could lead to death or other undesirable impacts.

b) If it noted that  patient's face is puffy, it would be necessary to inquire in detail the patient's medical history and medication status, for patients taking adrenal cortical hormone, extra care should be exercise when administering acupuncture.

c) Stress due to physical labour or exercise in excess, whole night card games, driving etc should be avoided as much as possible

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Appendix: Acidity/alkalinity of Common food stuff

1. Strongly acidic food: egg yolk, cheese, cake make with white sugar or persimmon, mullet fish roe, dried cod.
2. Mildly acidic food: ham, bacon, chicken meat, squid, pork, eel, beef, bread, wheat, butter, horse meat etc
3. Weakly acidic food: white rice, peanut,  , oil fried tofu, sea weed, clam,
weakly alkaline food:  red bean, radish, apple , cabbage, , tofu etc.
5.  Mildly alkaline food: dried radish, soya bean, carrot, tomato, banana, orange, pumpkin strawberry, egg white, dried plum, lemon, spinach, etc.
6. Strongly alkaline food: grape, tea leave, grape wine, kelp sprout, kelp, etc. Especially natural green algae which contain rich quantity of chlorophyll are very good alkaline health food, but tea should not be drunk in excess, and best to drink in the morning.

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Hope the article helps!

Realization - Part 3 - 11th Feb

Chinese New Year is just around the corner and at this moment, it's only a couple (3) days away. Before today, I'm sure many Chinese have been sending festive cards to their relatives, friends, business relations, long-lost related people, neighbors, and of course, loved ones. While we send these cards, rarely do realize the importance of a society, a society or group we sometimes take for granted and instead we scold and question their effectiveness when our cards don't arrive to their designated destinations.

This group of people is also known as the Postman.
Well, look at the picture below and I'll tell you why:-

Imagine that you've to deal with twice or triple or quadruple of this amount of cards every day.
( thestar.com.my says that the Postal service has to deal with about 1.2 mil cards each day)

We sometimes forget that they're also human too, can get tired, can make mistakes and can be frustrated with the seemingly endless amount of work over a couple of days. Well, my point is that, let us all think about the things that we took for granted all this while and think of it and cherish them during Chinese New Year!

University Students These Days - 29th Jan

In UM, there is a rule of conduct on how to dress for lectures and classes in the university, as the same with most public universities in the country. Among them includes that there will be no short pants allowed. In my class today there was a student wearing short pants, so, as class demonstrator or in fact the "lecturer" in-charge of the tutorial class, I notified him of this at the end of class with this conversation:-


(Note:- That's not me in the picture, neither am I female)

Me:- Hey, do you know what are you wearing today?
Student: No, what? (Acting Innocent)
Me:- Well, you're wearing shorts...I don't want to see it again next week ok?
Student:- Ummm (With that "Huh?" Look)....Ok.
Me:- You got any reasons for wearing shorts?
Student:- Well, I got no reason to wear long pants as well......
Me:- Rules are rules....(Inside:- What The? No reason?!?!)

It just occurs maybe the guy thinks he's studying in UM, makes him the top of the world, kinda like a snobbish kid with no respect for the institution. Well, if he knows what to do, so do I......

2009 iPad vs 2006 iPad

Well, Apple Inc. has just recently launched their new product, iPad which is sort of a multi-use for gaming, Kindle-like ebook reader device, web browsing, emails etc. In fact, it's more like a giant iPod.Here's some pictures of the new device:-

BUT anyways, did you know that iPad actually existed way before, in the year 2006?
Here's a video that says it does:-



I pretty much laughed hard on the video. Kinda weird that Apple would take a name that simply reminds people of the "other kind" of pads.

Gigapixel photos - 17th January

Let me ask you a question:- What is the highest resolution camera available now in the market that you can think of? 15 MP? 30 MP? or maybe 100 MP?

Well, the thing is that, high resolution cameras would definitely generate a more detailed and clear picture / photo and in the photo itself, all sorts of things and details that we'd never knew of, would appear. Sometimes, embarrassingly, even unwanted minor blemishes or wrinkles on the skin may appear (especially focused on by the feminine gender). The images with a higher resolution, would definitely be less likely to appear blur and instead be totally sharp even to the most minuscule detail. My point is, in a photo, there is only so much a human eye can see and capture.

How about if the camera has a resolution of 17 GP or even 26 GP?
That's approximately 1000 times or more resolution than the current available market cameras. Imagine that! 1000 times sharper and you can zoom in to see even dirt or microscopic details (maybe even the cells or membranes in the eyes of person....). The thing is, this photo or picture actually exist!

Well here are two videos on the 17 Gigapixel Photo and the 26 Gigapixel photo:-


17 Gigapixels Panorama - Site = Here



Well, my first words after seeing these photos:- Oh MY God! Amazing!
Now I wonder where I'd put my camera? I've got a 100 Gigapixel photo to make.

Kenny Roger's - RED day 14th January

Well, it is the first post for the year 2010, and therefore, I would first wish all readers a very very happy new year! Yesterday it was (R)oger's (E)ating (D)ay or RED at Kenny Roger's restaurant where they were having a promotion. I guess quite a number of people saw that promotion advertisement and when we were there at the restaurant there already quite a number of people making a line at the restaurant in 1Utama.

Here's the promotion advertisment:-

Frankly, I've never eaten Kenny Roger's before this and I thought that I might give it a try since they're having this promotion where if you wear anything red, you'll be able to get another quarter meal for free if you order a quarter meal (which is worth RM15.90). Price was a factor before this but with this I don't see the harm trying as I went with my brother, one person has to only fork out approximately RM 9 with the service tax and all added up. Besides the chicken, you can choose 3 side dishes from a number of variety.

Here's the meal itself:-

Black Pepper chicken with corn, aromatic rice and fruit salad

 Black Pepper chicken with potato salad, mash potatoes, and macaroni with cheese

Overall, I would say that the chicken is quite tender, the side dishes are tasty while the service is considerably quite friendly. My only complaint is that none of the food are hot or at least warm and the sauce is rather too little to fully enjoy the whole chicken with it. Furthermore, it was supposedly black pepper sauce but the black pepper taste just wasn't there. Although, if they do have this promotion again, I would definitely go back there.

Merry X'mas and a Happy New Year 2010 - 31st Dec

Year 2009 will come to an end soon, at this time now, there's only another 15 hours and 19 minutes more to go. This year has been a pretty so-so year for me, with me starting my Masters in Uniersiti Malaya, with me starting to develop my website, a couple of relatives weddings and numerous new things in my life. Well, at the least I'm grateful that this year, there hasn't been any rough rides like the ones I had in 2006. Year 2006 was one of the worst years I've faced so far but yet I do not want to discuss about it any further. Well, as it is customary to make resolutions for the new year 2010, here are my resolutions for the new year:-

1> Complete and get my website running.
2> Complete my Masters in the first half of the year
3> Take effort to discover "the other half"
4> Buy myself a new graphic card for my computer
5> Buy myself a used but still working car

Hmm...well, that's all I can think of at the moment, but I think they're relatively achievable. Looking back at this year, it seems that this year was not really much of a year of achievements, I had not really accomplished much this year and therefore, I hope that the resolutions I made will be the accomplishments that I can talk about again this time of the year next year. The New Year eve celebration will probably be spent with relatives and family with not much parties and stuff.

Anyways, although I know its a little belated for christmas, but heck:

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND 

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

The Limits of a Human Voice - 28th Dec

I'm not sure if any readers out there actually remember the movie: "The Fifth Element" starred by Milla Jovovich and Bruce Willis on a mission stop Armageddon of the whole Earth in the distant future setting. Well, what I would like to highlight here is the opera scene by the blue alien diva or named as Miss Plavanaguna. Well, if you don't remember, here's the video (the focus here is last digital voice part, starting at 3:25 ):-



Now, that sure sounds like electronic synthesizers voice. It was thought at the time that it was not possible to sing them humanely and therefore the electronic voices were added at the time. But look at the following video of a girl singing the same opera, but only the last part where it sounds like synthesizers in the movie.



When I first watched this video, I was thinking that this girl would have screwed up at make herself look silly but in the end I was totally awed by her supreme voice prowess. This video has definitely proved that the human voice hasn't actually reached it's true potential and there's more than meets the eye in the human race.

Blood Type Personality - 22nd Dec

Often, I'm being told that the blood type of a person may somehow reveal a little bit on the personality of a person, which is according to the Japanese. Well, I for one would believe that the personality of a person largely depending on his / her environment or condition the person was raised. But what about children? I'm sure that their personality is not yet fully developed and therefore, somewhat is assumed to be the more "pure" form of personality. The Japanese did in fact conduct a small unofficial test with kindergarten kids on the relationship between personality and blood type. Here's the video:-



I wonder how much of it is true?

Rev-Up Contest - 21st Dec

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Serj Tankian Orders Coffee - 10th Dec

For people who listens to System of Down music or heck, listen to Serj Tankian's singing, the video shows how he would sound like when ordering a coffee at Starbucks. I laughed really hard at the video. It's really funny and combines some of Serj's voice singing in the clip:-