Thursday, 9 April 2009

Little Little update

1. RIP to 272 victims (so far) in 6.3 earthquake in Central Italy. I hope that Rome is not seriously affected. It is really close to Rome, probably 1 hour drive =( I'm really fortunate to hold the nationality of a country without earthquake. Was it true that the lady I met today really keen to change her UK passport to Malaysia one? Anyway, people here is so fake. Many cases we've encountered and one of them --praise excellent presentation/work with great satisfaction look but give low marks. Kill.

2. Happy Good Friday and Easter to everyone. We're having a meal and Easter eggs exchange on monday. heez. Plus, counting down 9days to the Trip! Shall housekeeping my DSLR before the trip. Oopss, hope my ebay item arrives before the trip!

3. Horrible FYP and Bioethic dissertation. Kill those writings! Gotta make sure im done before the trip. 30 out of 120 credits of my degree..Pray hard!

4. Additional impression about SPRING. It's not just about flowery season, but also windy season. Wind makes everyone sick. Hong Mok (hokkien) is what could happen. I'm having little flu, but still better than what I used to have in SG & MY. No wantons so far.

5. Slowly get used to longer day.

6. I do gain ALOT of weight. It reaches my visible fats maximum endurance ! I need liposuction. Yes, I'm a fans of fast and efficient solution with promising result. Haha. Though cost is always a concern... Immune system tolerance is an issue for liposuction I guess. Ok..diet and exercise are always the perfect combination...

7. Dad keeps urging me to explore around Europe. They know me well, or rather from what they have been through. Warn that I'm not coming back, treasure the time I'm here. So...no reason for not touring around. Few more little and big plans after exam, 55days to go! Such a shame that I havent visited the largest shopping mall in the Europe- Metro Centre, which is just a 10min bus journey away from here! Ok, blame for my laziness and non-shopholical character. Will get them a visit soon! Angel of the north, seaburn, south/northsheilds, sunderland, tynemouth...are all under my waiting list. Northeast England is indeed an exciting place [without the work, and my nerdy]. Looking forward to post-exam! June-July are exciting months ^_^

8. Today WE went 'paktor' aka dating, 'egg hunting' and spent LITTLE fortune to book our 'honeymoon' ... Where is the hottest honeymoon spot in western europe for well-off ppl [while spend lesser, PROBABLY less expensive and hassle]? Will be revealed when time comes nearer. Real exciting. Everything's getting dreamy...

I'm going to miss Newcastle & Europe after 3++ months. I know. I know.
Start having those unpleasant feeling T_T
As Crab said, I would probably wake up from the DREAM after I go back to the tropical country. After been through a dream, I get myself a degree qualification and treasurous memory, how fortunate am I ...Life is impossible...
There is a dream, there is a will. ..so there is a high probability.


Get the screen back to the work!

Sunday, 5 April 2009

Diet and cancer.

Received the following in an email, most the points the person made is true. From my knowledge, the information about cancer growth, chemotherapy and environment-diet interactions, the applications are relatively realible, but it is only general guide. In fact, I believe personalised than generalised dietary advice for high risk population. One thing he should add is consume anti-oxidants rich foods such as strawberry and etc. High intake of fruits and vegetables is undoubtably beneficial to health, not only preventing cancer, but also other chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and delay aging. All has been scientifically proven.

If you've a choice, dont go for chemotherapy or shorten the chemotherapy duration, it really worsens your immune system and destroy all the cells, be it a good or bad cell.

Everyone has cancer cells, and in our body, we've 2 types of cancer-related cells, one to promoto and another one to suppress named tumour suppress gene. Activation of cancer cells need multiple exposures over a latent perioud, can be as long as decades to develop the detectable cancer size. To activate and support function of tumour suppress genes, you must control the diet and environment exposure as you can.

No need to follow exactly wat he mentioned. For instances, milk is the food that contains almost all essential nutrients to human, that's the reason it is the food needed by cancer cells too. But I still drink milk, cause it is the cheapest and easily available nutrient-dense food and I love drinking milk, one cup of milk a day here. Possibly try to reduce the consumption frequency and then work more on meat and fruit&vege consumption. Gotta cut down my chocolate consumption too, one of my favourite. Indulge once a while is still alright. I always believe Moderation.

Nutritionists dont deal with people with seriously ill, but more on prevention and maintenance. I do really hope that people starts taking precaution to prevent or delay the development of chronic diseases, given the fact that we are all exposed to nasty environment and built up toxic dietary pattern.

Hope the article benefits everyone. Enjoy reading and grab the beneficial take home message.

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AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

Saturday, 4 April 2009

Foods!

Blogged abit about foods.

When is your last time having Malaysian Nasi Lemak? My last time was last August in my hometown, before flying to UK. There are little differences between Singapore and Malaysia nasi lemak. Nasi lemak in Singapore Hawker center is accompanied by fried chicken wings, fried fish cake and other fried foods; Malaysians tend to serve in ikan bilis, boiled eggs, fish and the essential nasi lemak representative -- sambal!! To me, no sambal =/= nasi lemak!! In fact, Nasi lemak in different states in Malaysia are varied too. Chinese and Malay Nasi lemak are served in different styles. I prefer those pack in banana leaf (RM0.50 or RM1.00 per pack) and the one sold by a Chinese aunty in my hometown which I can mix nasi lemak with little prawns and fish in spicy gravy!!

Here, look at what I had on Thursday.^^

It was a healthier version, as the rice was not cooked with coconut milk.
Anyone wanna have it at £8? I bet that's the price to have a decent Malaysian Nasi Lemak here.


Crab, you can make money with this. heez.



火山爆发!was the first word I heard when she delivered this to my room. Special dessert delivery service to my room. How great the life is ! Creative and nice combination with Ferroro dark chocolate. Love it!

Today I prepared 五彩紫菜汤 that was composed of seaweed, cucumber, carrot, tofu, egg and turkey minced meat ball...no photo is taken. Nice and healthy. heez

The importance of supervisor

I would only consider myself unlucky.

An answer about chi square test she gave me was inaccurate!!! It caused all my data invalid because of her answer!! I have this worry and raised it to her, few days after tat, she told me DONT WORRY about the sentences indicated at the end of the test. I still worry and eventually I FOUND OUT from statistic lecturer and handbooks that IT DOES MATTER!

WTH!!!! I dont want to redo analysis...><

I'm reluctant to do fyp...I hate it now. I wanna get it over!!

PLS CHOOSE A COMPETENT SUPERVISOR, if you have a choice.

My case, I've no choice. sign...

瓶颈,就是此刻。
真的很想放弃了。

快疯了。

Friday, 3 April 2009

谈政治?

几分钟前,N 正式上台了 A 正式下台了。

大马的政治会翻云覆雨吗?

虽然我不懂政治,但是我有不好的预感,感觉只会越来越糟。

他下台了,我认为算是好事吧?
老实说,他领导的5年里,我只看到每况愈下的大马。
记得有人说过,有些状况不是他能控制的,不管哪个领袖在位,还是一样的。
虽然大部分的华人对M的作风不同意,但以全面来说,M给大马带来了发展。
A的管理却让我看到越来越差的一面。

固然我认为A是个性格比较软弱的领袖,但N的上位并不会让我预见他比A更出色。

其实我不懂,也不理政治。
随便说说的感觉。

拭目以待。

范瑋琪 - 放電

很有OMH、有活力的歌,够疯,我喜欢。很适合唱K...
想念有几次连续唱很high的歌,手牵手、badboy、让我们get high...


越来越喜欢范瑋琪



穿上我的白布鞋
我只有一個 小小單純心願
我的藍天和世界
我都不怕前面有多危險

放大直覺 我決不妥協

跳跳跳跳 就要你對我放電
叫叫叫叫 快樂永遠不斷線
跳跳跳跳 夢想要自己挑選

我的未來最特別
我每天在異想的世界

(二)不管晴天或雨天
我的心情都 隨著自己轉變
我在瘋狂的世界
準備好要去明天的路線

一天一天 夢沒有期限

(三)只要有你的出現
都值得唱出 最美好的紀念
伸出手比一個YA
每個笑臉都在我心裡面

給我擁抱 愛就能無限

Thursday, 2 April 2009

What and who is nutritionist

Carole gave a talk about the nutritionist job opportunity and the job scope today. There are plenty of nutritionist jobs in the UK, far more than in the Asia.

At least, I know Im not suitable as Research or clinical nutritionist. Especially after working my project. I know myself clear, NOT lab based, NOT statistical analysis which most of the biological research needs it. I like to talk to people and be actively involved in some sort of work. Nutritionist consultant is probably the one I'm most interested.

Animal nutritionist out. I seriously dun like animal. They look cute but not when touching them >_<

Food industry nutritionist is probably the one suits my backgroud the most. Though sometimes you may not agree wat the company is formulating the product. Nevertheles, that is probably fitting my education background the best. Shall give it a try.

Sport nutritionist is massively growing. Kinda interesting.

Public health nutritionist or self-employed, like Carole are also appealing to me. Analyse your diet and give advice? Build up your confidence in nutrition and reputation first.

Gotta see wat kind of job is available when im back.

Now, back to work =(

I miss you, Andy Lau



远距离恋情的心声吧?
只能说这首歌是我的远距离恋情的最佳心情写照。

Wednesday, 1 April 2009

刚刚通过电话,告诉他关于之前写的结婚纪念东西...

他...提出了让我非常意外的事,没想到这么快从他口中说出来的话。

尝试冷静下来...
快到不能接受...

我还不能say yes啦!

结婚周年纪念

有人在帮爸妈搞30结婚周年纪念,给了我一个link,原来不同国家给于结婚周年纪念不同的名称,搞到她不知要用哪国的名称...最后决定只称为30结婚周年纪念!

原来大家最常庆祝的是25周年(普遍称为银婚)和50周年(普遍称为金婚)。
算算,才知道我家的两老今年是25结婚周年纪念哦!
可惜,我没记错的话,是5月6日,二小姐我还在十万八千里之外 T_T
今年,他们或许该来个小小的庆祝。

我也想5年后来隆重庆祝他们的30结婚周年纪念。
套用朋友的点子来构图,一张从来没有想过的画面!
爸爸要穿端庄西装;妈妈要穿大方晚装;
在酒楼办个20座,庆朋好友要出席;
别忘了要提早拍摄夫妻婚纱合照和全家福;
还要制作和回味他们一路走来的风雨影片;
经济、时间和健康允许之下,他们还要去度蜜月!
或许不是两个人的,是全家人的!
整套的,感觉挺不错。

姐,怎么看?
把我们的计划加入这个,怎样?
可是我们要存很多钱,要他们存健康。

能够携手共渡这么长的日子,真的不容易。
维持一段婚姻更是不易。

她送了我一句:今天是幸福,永远是爱情

很多人说,爱情是没有永远的;相处久了,就会慢慢从爱情升华到感情。
或许人们认为激情不在,两人少了当初脸红心跳加速的感觉,就不再是爱情。
或许是真的吧? 
可是我还是相信永远的爱情,爱是幸福的动力。
只是爱情表达的方式也随着时间而改变。

我想改成:今天是爱情,永远是幸福。
爱情是幸福的根本,加上许多重要的原料,才能完成稳固的永远幸福之家。

谢谢你的分享,让我感觉世界真的很美好,这幅美丽的画面,是我憧憬的。

但愿身边的人,都永远幸福。
简单的祝福语,却不简单。

老实说,我身边的朋友从来没人提起这样的事-帮父母庆祝结婚周年纪念。或许我不知道吧?
如果你看到这里,也构起你一点点的遐想,尽管去想去行动吧!我想把这种爱宣扬出去,我想要更多人庆祝10、20、25、30周年,最好是可以庆祝到50周年结婚纪念!这样有爱的世界,不好吗?让更多的人更懂得婚姻的难得和可贵!

我要帮我的爸妈搞30结婚周年纪念!




附录:

美国
1年一纸婚;2年一布婚;3年一皮婚;
4年一丝婚;5年一木婚;6年一铁婚;
7年一铜婚;8年一电婚;9年一陶婚;
10年一锡婚;11年一钢婚;12年一亚麻婚;
13年一花边婚;14年一象牙婚;15年一水晶婚;
20年一瓷婚;25年一银婚;30年一珍珠婚;
35年一玉婚;40年一红宝石婚;45年一蓝宝石婚;
50年一金婚;60年一钻石婚。

法国
1年一棉婚;2年一皮婚;3年一麦婚;
4年一蜡婚;5年一木婚;6年一铜婚;
7年一羊毛婚;8年一虞美人婚;9年一陶婚;
10年一锡婚;11年一珊瑚婚;12年一丝婚;
13年一铃兰婚;14年一铅婚;15年一水晶婚;
16年一蓝宝石婚;17年一玫瑰婚;18年一绿松石婚;
19年一印花婚;20年一瓷婚;21年一乳白石婚;
22年一青铜婚;23年一绿玉婚;24年一萨丁婚;
25年一银婚;26年一玉婚;27年一桃花心木婚;
28年一镍婚;29年一绒婚;30年一珍珠婚;
31年一羊皮婚;32年一紫铜婚;33年一斑岩婚;
34年一琥珀婚;36年一梅斯林婚;37年一纸婚;
38年一水银婚;39年一绉纱婚;40年一祖母绿婚;
41年一铁婚;42年一珠质婚;43年一法兰绒婚;
44年一黄玉婚;45年一朱红婚;46年一薰衣草婚;
47年一开斯米婚;48年一紫晶婚;49年一雪松婚;
50年一金婚;60年一钻石婚;70年一白金婚;
75年一白石婚;80年一橡树婚。

英国
1年一纸婚;5年一木婚;10年一锡婚;
12年一皮革婚;20年一瓷婚;25年一银婚;
30年一象牙婚;40年一绒毛婚;45年一丝绸婚;
50年一金婚;75年一钻石婚。

俄罗斯
1年一花布婚;5年一木婚;6年一锌婚;
7年一铜婚;8年一白木婚;40年一银婚;
50年一金婚;60年一钻石婚;67年一石婚;
70年一福婚;75年一王冠婚。

日本
2年一纸婚;5年一木婚;10年一锡婚;
15年一水晶婚;20年一陶婚325年一银婚;
30年一珍珠婚;35年一珊瑚婚;40年一红玉婚;
50年一金婚;75年一金刚石婚

朝鲜
一周年:纸婚 二周年:棉婚
三周年:皮婚、皮革婚 四周年:毅婚、花果婚
五周年:木婚 六周年:铁婚、糖婚
七周年:铜婚、毛婚 八周年:陶器婚、铜婚
九周年:柳婚、陶婚 十周年:锡婚
十一周年:钢婚 十二周年:绕仁婚、丝婚
十三周年:花边婚 十四周年:象牙婚
十五周年:水晶婚 二十周年:搪瓷婚、磁婚
二十五周年:银婚 三十周年:珠婚、珍珠婚
三十五周年:珊瑚婚 四十周年:红宝石婚
四十五周年:蓝宝石婚、青玉婚 五十周年:金婚
五十五周年:翡翠婚 六十周年:钻石婚、金钢钻婚
七十周年:白金婚 七十五周年:钻石婚