Friday, April 24, 2009

In time of reccession...

In time of recession, do what for business? Don't crack your head on that, let Jacquelyn Corbett Cyr lead the way with this slideshow.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

The three Gates Of Wisdoms.

Varoujshared another meaningful story on Slideshare.

SENIOR CITIZEN FUND

An opportunity for senior citizens in Selangor to reduce the burden of bearing escalating funeral expenses by their descendants by registering for "“Mesra Usia Emas’’ fund.

Procedures can be read off Bukit Gasing State Assemblyman, Edward Lee's blog.

Read on the same subject in Bahasa on eHomemakers where they also provide link to copy of the form.
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From My InBox:

Let's not miss this piece of news. For families with senior members
above 60 yrs old, they are entitled to apply for the fund. Terms and
conditions:
1. person must be 60 yrs old and above.
2. must be born in selangor or KL before 1 Feb 1974
3. must reside in selangor for at least 15 years

For more detail, check with your local state assemblyman or call
03-5544 5578/ 03-5544 5579.

Pls keep this community updated on the matter from time to time.

Read the story in full here -

The Star Online > Central
Tuesday November 11, 2008

Programme for senior citizens

Want to be a published writer?

Professor Baker shares what you can do to have your work published.

Water Therapy

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Tax System Explained

From My InBox:

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.

"Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20." Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes.
So the first four men were unaffected.
They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men? The paying customers?

How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?'

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.

So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings)
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28% savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $15 instead of $18 ( 20% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free.
But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $ 20,"declared the sixth man.
He pointed to the tenth man," but he got $10!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a Dollar, too.
It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!"

"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth man and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him.
But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, this is how our tax system works.

The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction.

Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.
In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Georgia

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.

For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

What Chefs do when they're bored

From My InBox:

What Chefs do when they're bored? I think it's more like what chefs can do if they are creative.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK!

No harm giving this a try. Someone commented in an email to me:

But the virus will not necessary start from top to bottom approach as it might start from bottom to top. In addition to that, virus could just initialise other subsystem or another delivery program to perform this (not using outlook express, outlook or thunderbird).

Read this article for more information.

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/quickfix.asp

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From My InBox:

HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK!

I learned a computer trick today that's really ingenious in its simplicity.

As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads

straight for your email address book, and sends itself to everyone in there,

thus infecting all your friends and associates.

This trick won't keep the virus from getting into your computer, but it will

stop it from using your address book to spread further, and it will alert you

to the fact that the worm has gotten into your system.

Here's what you do:

First,

open your address book and click on 'new contact,' just as you would do if

you were adding a new friend to your list of email addresses.

In the window where you would type your friend's first name, type in 'A'.

For the screen name or email address, type ' AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA '.

Now, here's what you've done and why it works:

The 'name' 'A' will be placed at the top of your address book as entry#1.

This will be where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends.

But, when it tries to send itself to AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA ,

it will be undeliverable because of the phony email address you entered.



If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address),

the worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected.

Here's the second great advantage of this method:

If an email cannot be delivered, you will be notified of this in your In Box

almost immediately.



Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an email addressed to AAAAAAA@AAA.AAAA could not be delivered,

you know right away that you have the worm virus in your system.

You can then take steps to get rid of it!

Pretty slick huh?

If everybody you know does this then you need not ever worry about

opening mail from friends.

Pass this on to all your friends!!!

The 90/10 Principle

From MyInBox:

Monday, April 20, 2009

Team Hoyt - Dick and Rick Hoyt

Can you beat this love?

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From My InBox:

Remembering Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler may not be a Nobel Peace Prize winner but she will always be remembered for what she did because Varouj had taken time to share her deeds in this slideshow.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Know Your Self

Are you on the right life path? Ammir Saif shares why it is important to know yourself. With the help of Maslow's theory that there are five basic need which we aim to satisfy, find out how many of these needs your job and lifestyle fulfill.

Traveling? Check out WuTravel.com.

Have you heard of WuTravel.com? It's a travel site with its base in Singapore.

It is a solution to my holiday headache. I no longer have to spend so much time searching the web for a hotel with a good enough rate to take up. I just click on link to the country I am traveling to and I will find a long list of hotels to pick from. So making last minute reservation for hotel rooms is no longer a problem and there are currently hotels from 17 countries on their listing.

And if you are someone who loves to travel but have to put your holiday plans on hold because you have not saved enough for the trip, it's time to start blogging if you have not done so.

That way you can join WuTravel.com affiliate program to earn some commission.

And don't keep this opportunity to yourself. WuTravel.com, will reward you for inviting other sites to join their affiliat program.

So, bloggers, what are you waiting start clicking to get your own affiliate code. If you have to spend some traveling, try to earn some to cover cost at WuTravel.com.

Good luck.

Friday, April 17, 2009

The World's First Flying Hotel!

From My InBox:

Wow, the flying hotel and largest helicopter in the world, Cool! The
Hotelicopter is modeled on the Soviet-made Mil V-12, of which there
were only two prototypes ever made. The Hotelicopter Company purchased
one of these prototypes from the Mikhail Leontyevich Mil helicopter
plant in Panki-Tomilino, Russia in 2004 and have been engineering the
world's first flying hotel ever since.

"The Hotelicopter features 18 luxuriously-appointed rooms for
adrenaline junkies seeking a truly unique and memorable travel
experience.

Each soundproofed room is equipped with a queen-sized bed, fine
linens, a mini-bar, coffee machine, wireless internet access, and all
the luxurious appointments you'd expect from a flying five star hotel.
Room service is available one hour after liftoff and prior to
landing." The Hotelicopter is due to fly maiden journey this
summer(June 26th) with an undisclosed price...

If you have interesting? There is three fly tour.
Inaugural Summer Tour - 14 days (Friday, June 26th, 2009 - Friday,
July 10th, 2009)
California Tour - 14 days (Friday, July 17th, 2009 to Friday, July 24rd, 2009)
Bay/Jamaica, European Tour - 16 days (Friday, July 31st, 2009 to
Sunday, August 16th, 2009)
Check out see more pics.
the spec:
Dimensions Length: 42 m (137 ft)
Height: 28m (91 ft)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 105850 kg (232,870 lb)
Maximum speed: 255 km/h (137 kt) (158 miles/h)
Cruising speed: 237 km/h (127 kt) (147 miles/h)
Original Mi Range: 515 km (320 mi)
Our augmented Mi Range - 1,296 km (700 mi)

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

What is the hardest thing to break?

If you ask me, the hardest thing to break is a mother's love for her child. No matter how much you have hurt your mother, she will still love and care for you. What do you think?

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What is the hardest thing to break?

People come up with all kinds of ideas, such as this:

Diamonds are hard to find but not hard to break.

What is the hardest thing to break then?

The answer is: H A B I T

If you break the H, you still have A BIT. If you break the A, you still have BIT. If you break the B, you still have IT .

Hey, after you break the T in IT, there is still the 'I'. The person, at the end of the day, is the root of all the problems. Cute?

Now, I know why HABIT is so hard to break. Its destiny is in its name. The word itself.

THE ART OF BEING ASSERTIVE

Like to get things done your way? Don't be dominant. Be assertive. Check out what Thiagarajan Sivasankaran has to say about getting things done the right way.

Bizarre Chrismas Musicians

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Tire Safety

I have shared about the danger of buying tyres at reduced price when we are not aware of its limited service life. Here is one of the same in slides shared by R Shaikh.

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Monday, April 13, 2009

7 habits of highly effective Ah Bengs

From My InBox:

Steven Covey's famous 7 habits for successful people are nothing more than a free adaptation of very common Hokkien phrases.



So why pay thousands of dollars to attend talks when your grand-parents, parents, spouses and even the auntie who sweeps the floor can give you the same kind of advice FOC, every day?

Saturday, April 11, 2009

The No Milk Page

If you can't take milk for one reason or another, "The No Milk Page" is a site that you should check out. You can find recipes for making your own Rice Milks.

diarrhoea - rice water the cure?

Can be used for pets too:

Rice Water Recipe to Control Diarrhea
http://www.oes.org/page2/3621~Rice_Water_Recipe_to_Control_Diarrhea.html

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From My InBox:

With the recent cases on the Gelyang Serai food poisoning out break, I would like to share the info received from a friend. Pls read on, it may be of help...

When someone gets diarrhea, sometimes the solution is so easy, we wonder why anyone has to suffer. The secret is in rice water. This is already known in this region. Ask your maids -- Sri Lankan, Indonesian, Filipina and they would know about it.

(My mother) knew about it. When Dr Albert Winsemius came to Singapore for a farewell and thank you dinner in his honour, he brought along his wife Aly and his granddaughter, Jolijn. Both women came down with very bad gastroenteritis. They saw the doctor who gave them medication. It was slow to work.

Mother boiled some rice in lots of water and went to their hotel with two 1.5L bottles of rice water. I cringed in shame at the offer of this folk remedy, which seemed so primitive to me. Never heard of this cure before. To my surprise, it worked, and they were even able to go out for dinner the next day. Both were exclaiming how the rice water did the trick of making them well again. Well, lucky it worked, I thought to myself.

I was discussing this some years back with Kim Ng, the ex-matron of KK Hospital. She said, yes, that is what Professor Wong Hock Boon, the notable pediatrician teaches. I was shocked and made some comment how could he? It was common knowledge so what had he to do with it?

Many months later, I regretted laughing at it. Dr Christina Shanta Emmanuel, who is the CEO of...uh, which group I have forgotten. Either National Health Group, or Polyclinics, or whatever.. regarded me
seriously when I brought up the topic like it was good fun. She said that Prof Wong Hock Boon had presented a paper on it at some conference after he had done clinical trials. Then his results were published in the Lancet, the Medical Journal all doctors read. In fact, said Shanta, he was credited for saving the lives of 2 million African babies by this method.

Ah, so! I am impressed.

It is rice water and not rice that does the trick. I have found it effective again and again. You take a handful of rice and boil it in a large saucepan with lots of water. Like three or four large glasses. Then you cool that and drink the water. If you are in a hurry to relieve the ailing person, take the saucepan off the fire and dunk it in a frying pan or basin of cool water with ice cubes if necessary. This gives the patient a chance to drink the rice water sooner and cure himself or herself sooner.

When drinking the rice water, make sure there is lots of it. You have to tell the patient that enough water must go in to line your guts from throat to other end, all 10 to 12 metres of it. If you take rice, it stays in the stomach. If you take broth, some of it may go into the small intestine. But if you take rice water, it will carry rice grains to every inch of your small and large intestine to the end where the problem is.

How does it work? Even Prof Wong Hock Boon doesn't know. Read the attached file. Or go to


http://rehydrate.org/dd/dd06.htm#page2


It is good to pass on the news to everyone you know because the complaint is so common and people suffer unnecessarily. You would be doing your friends a great favour to relieve them of their misery when the occasion arises.

The T-Mobile Dance

From My InBox:

A short film about the hunger and poverty

If you have any problem getting our children to finish up their food in restaurants you take them to, have them watch this short film.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009

AMAZING WATER THERAPY

Sutrisno2629 shared this water therapy on SlideShare.



My aunt practices this and she looks good for her age. I recall someone telling me that she skips after drinking water.

***SPAM*** July 22nd 2009 another Tsumani..

I think this message has to do with a game by Britton LaRoche.

Extracted from:

http://www.peppertail.com/britton-laroche-free-game-idea-eclipse-earh-quake-simulator.html

Britton LaRoche : Free Game Idea: Eclipse & Earh Quake Simulator

Every now and again I have a great idea for game that has a practical
application. I think the TGE and a basic physics engine would make
this simulator viable. I'm not going to do this anytime soon, so I'm
releasing this idea into the royalty free public domain. Anyone who
wants to do this by all means, give it a shot!Earth Quake / Eclipse
SimulatorThe idea is there are a number of websites and even a few TV
shows that claim there is a number of ways to predict an earthquake.
One of them is to look ...

Extract from following link:
http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/15946

"So this is the last post on the Eclipse Earthquake simulator. I have
no plans to create the simulator (but before I drop the idea all
together) I thought I'd use a little Psuedo science to make my own
earth quake prediction for the July 22 2009 Eclipse."

"Note: I have absolutely no credibility to do this. I'm just applying
the theory that the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon pulling
together will do the following things.

1. Lift the tectonic plates
2. Cause the tide to rise more than usual
3. Cause an underground molten magma tide to dip and raise the plates
following the water tide."

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From My InBox:

Hi,

Please be more cautious as the warnings has been given.

Attached a photo for u.

I just received this message from a colleague. I don’t know the source of the message; I also don’t know the credibility of the content, but just beware.

Below is the content on the message:

“Hello there. I just wanted 2 let you know that please stay away from the beaches all around in the month of July. There is a prediction that there will be another tsunami hitting on July 22nd. It is also when there will be sun eclipse. Predicted that it is going 2 be really bad and countries like Malaysia (Sabah & Sarawak), Singapore, Maldives, Australia, Mauritius, Si Lanka, India, Indonesia, Philippines are going 2 be badly hit. Please try and stay away from the beaches in July. Better 2 be safe than sorry. Please pass the word around. Please also pray for all beings.”

Thanks and have a nice day.

Bless you~

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Country doctors.

From My InBox:

A young doctor had moved out to a small community to replace a doctor who was retiring. The older gent suggested the young one accompany him on his rounds so the community could become used to a new doctor.

At the first house a woman complained, "I've been a little sickto my stomach." The older doctor said, "Well, you've probably been overdoing the fresh fruit. Why not cut back on the amount you've been eating and see if that does the trick?"

As they left the younger man said, "You didn't even examine that woman. How'd you come to your diagnosis so quickly?"

"I didn't have to. You noticed I dropped my stethoscope on thefloor in there? When I bent over to pick it up, I noticed a half dozen banana peels in the trash. That was what was probably making her sick."

"Huh," the younger doctor said, "Pretty clever. I think I'll try that at the next house."

Arriving at the next house, they spent several minutes talking with an elderly woman. She complained that she just didn't have the energy she once did. "I'm feeling terribly run down lately."

"You've probably been doing too much work for the church," the younger doctor told her. "Perhaps you should cut back a bit and see if that helps."

As they left, the elder doc said, "Your diagnosis is almost certainly correct, but how did you arrive at it?"

"Well, just like you at the last house, I dropped my stethoscope. When I bent down to retrieve it, I noticed the preacher under the bed."

Lovely photos

From My InBox: