Holland & Belgium

Randomised photos...



My favourite photo/postcards... It was like 3-5euros for this card >_<
I feel so xingfu to be in the tulipsfield!


The red light district. I believe the name of 'red light district' is originated from Amsterdam. There are really red lights in this area and each sexy lady is standing inside the tiny room. When the curtains are closed, means its ON business... The business is legalised there, and even police are protecting them. It might be a profession in Amsterdam. I tried to risk my life to take the photos of them, but I failed when a lady came out of the tiny room and scolded me T_T


The cute gal who was trying to show me the swans on the river... So cute of her.


My favourite pink tulips!!


Manchester United Trafford stadium


Mine is the heaviest (12.3kg) and tallest but then the smallest one being forced to check in the luggage...


See the dipped chocolate and waffles?


The ticket costs us <£6 for museum and tour, because of the promotion voucher I got... ^_^
This restaurant has over 100 years of history and plenty of awards! I love the mediterrean one more than white wine one... Cost us 47 euro for these 2 pots (800g each) of mussels.


Amsterdam

Amsterdam


Amsterdam, we were always shooting our album cover page :x


We've eaten countless meals of bread throughout the trip...


Nice presentation right?? Its made by the Sue Chef, in the Leeds Bradford Airport.


Cock shoes..postcards are too expensive that I cant afford to buy them T_T



Kinderdijk



19 windmills there. not to be missed spot!!



Cute uncle loh.



I really love kinderdijk


Was it 3 euros for the entrance? We did not get in though.


I only managed to capture few pcs of tulips before the batt died..I've been eagerly waiting for the flowers shooting...end up seeing them shooting.. T_T


Waiting to get all photos back!





Back from 7 days trip to Leeds, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels and Manchester. How should I describe the trip? Lots of fun, lots of memory, lots of saving + wasting ...

• I really love pink tulips, also white, dark red and yellow ones. I was so excited to see the whole tulipsfield!! Now I know why Net loves tulipsfield so much!! The moment I saw tulipsfield, hua hai, I was super excited!! You are like really swimming in the flowers sea... The sad thing is... My camera had no batt to take the flowers!!! I'm going to get extra batt for my camera!!!
• We were really so unlucky that...all of us speechless.. haiz... dun want to mention it anymore. It is really the never forgetting experience...
• We've eaten countless meals of BREAD, just to save for the famous and awarded mussels in Brussels, the waffles... The mediterrean and white wine mussles were great, but the chocolate ice cream or chocolate sauce waffles were really too sweet for us! BUT belgium chocolate is really awesome!!
• I would avoid to sleep in airport regardless of the season!
• I would never step into Charpeloi Airport in Brussels, the strictest security check airport I've ever come across. Here it goes my SGD50 £%%^&*&*$%$$$^&
• Holland is So SO so expensive in everything ranging from dorm, foods, entrance fee, postcards..... Belgium is slighter more affordable.
• We've slept in the cheapest dorm in Amsterdam, 4 star hotel in Rotterdam, several CCTV monitored and plenty of house rules hostel in Brussels, Budget airport floor... How exciting @.@
• BUt then, I love Amsterdam more than Brussels. I love the building, the river, the flower, the bicycles in the city...
• Amsterdam ppl speak good english and more friendlier than Belgians, though residents in both countries are friendly and speak good english, than most of other European countries.
• The windmill in kinderdijk is really stunning. 19 windmills, which were actually their houses in old days.
• I've get married in Amsterdam. Looking forward to our June Honeymoon trip =p
• Soon after I'm married, I've attached to another qingfu...
• We met few Malaysians in Amsterdam. A guy who is working in Amsterdam helped us to purchase the train ticket at the night we arrived. On the flowers day, we met a couple whose husband/bf is sent to work in Germany for a year, so the wife/gf applied 9months leave to stay in Germany too. I'm so suprised that motoroxx in Butterworth allows 9months leave.
• I told myself to be born with golden spoon next turn, so I can buy all the chocolates in Belgium, so brandy that I cant afford at all. 30-40euro/500g. Anyone??
• many many more...

In conclusion, I enjoyed the trip so so so much!! The only thing was that I cant take the tulips photo in the most famous tulips garden in the world, which was my intention to visit amsterdam in this spring!!

Anyway, I've no time to upload and write everything... tomorrow there is another day trip to lake district, and one submission due in 6days, fyp in 7days...

痛不欲生 - 自言自語 - 請跳過

3.00pm

當下，最痛苦的是 用優美文句完成這份我很討厭的bioethic dissertation.

到底要怎樣吐2000個字出來，到數1天半...
一整天，我只寫了200個字...

神啊，救救我吧~
一把年紀還要備受折磨...


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7.20pm

要控制想念的心，讓心放在作業上...
真的好難...

快崩潰了....

才400個字...

我不會寫 >_<

1. 以後不要再叫我深造了。
2. 以後不要再讓我跟我愛的人分開兩地。
3. 以後不要再叫我討論bioethic的作業，在我開口以前，我先把你宰了。

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16/04 10.47am 終于做完了！雖然英文本來就不是很好，加上我是argue的蠢材，所以...能夠完成2001字的文章已經很不錯啦！哈哈！ Preimplantation for non medical sex selection的結論？ 我會跟你說：看你自己的意願，是否能夠承受IVF/PDG帶給你的精神、心理、金錢和承受失敗的壓力。PGD對社會帶來的負面印象，是渺小的。

要去圖書館打印出來然後呈交上去...之後就要見教授，去超市買些乾糧，去巴士站確定明早上巴士的地點，找一些Leeds/manchester的資料，晚上跟他們一起做sushi...

暫時解放1個星期，我要享受這次的春季出遊！

還有3份功課有待完成，但安啦！可以完成的！

hooray!!!

done 6552 words for fyp...
left 2000 words for bioethnic in 3days. i hope i can get it done with at least 6hrs sleep per night...


50days to my academic freedom.
98days to my academic congregation.
103days to see You YOU u U!!


Almost time to leave Europe...hmm...tats fast.

12 april is __ days to ___

Time: 2.24am.
Date:
12 April = 2days to submit completed draft FYP report to supervisor [left better rearrangment of discussion, write the conclusion, and format rearrangement, appendix, acknowledgement...]
12 April = 4days to submit bioethic dissertation [not any single words have written!!]
12 April = 5days to Spring trip to Holland and Belgium [have not done research on my part- Leeds, Manchester & airport transfers].


So, im going to finish up my discussion and conclusion. Rearrange abit on the formant, insert appendix, write an acknowledgement, check my citation. I guess the draft is there. Im satisfied with my abstract, introduction, literature review, materials and methods and results. but not the discussion...still struggling for discussion and conclusion...I need inspiration...hmmm

Next, what do you think about social reasons for sex selection (i.e, I just want to have equal gender of children, not medical reasons such as genetic problem). Is it ethical?? 2000 words by applying bioethic terminologies (i.e. autonomy,non malefinence, libertarium etc). I seriously dont think this 20credits make a difference to my future nutrition career prospect. Hate this man.

Whatever, all these shall be ended by 2pm on 16 April!

Shall try to make myself to sleep...I have to sleep!!

Thats how I spend the 4days Good Friday & Easter holiday in the UK. How pathetic!

Hogmany Party 2009

I'm bored with the writings...

Self-entertained by editting some photos using photobucket...
That was my first time using DSLR, end up having lots of blurred images T_T

Part of my memorable days in the UK...

Dated 4months ago...We're freezing cold in the Edinburgh...I was wearing 6 tops and still feeling DAMN COLD!! With double hand gloves, I just kinda reluctant to take photos... That was the time I missed My & SG the most, and realised how comfortable Newcastle is.

In addition, I realised that is also an Enormous difference in the defination of 'Happening'. Edinburgh Hogmony party is claimed to the most happening and biggest new year celebration party in the UK and probably famous in the Europe too. Well, the party and 'happening' were so-so. But the scottish people is really fun and lovely. The further north of the UK, the friendlier the people are. This is absolutely true.



Here is where we viewed the stunning castle fireworks.






Lazy to edit liao...

4.15 的你

24嵗生日要到的你... 看過來！

覺得你真的很老了...哈哈...

今年你的生日禮物依然落單
習以爲常了嘛

24嵗生日很大一下..
看看有沒有什麽可以帶回去給你^_^

祝你生日過後的比賽順利哦~
捧個獎回來給我看看，我的禮物也可以給得比較理所當然一點點..呵呵..

看在我作業很趕，卻還做個Slideshow給你的份上，
接受這份早到禮物吧！

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!

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.

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。