What is life without ups and downs
I've had good seasons and some deeply pinful ones.
I've made some spectacularly good choices and some outrageously bad mistakes.
I am very human - a work in progress.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Complain #1
Men Are Hard =) (To Please)
The problems with GUYS:
If u TREAT him nicely, he says u are IN LOVE with him
If u Don't, he says u are PROUD
If u DRESS Nicely, he says u are trying to LURE him
If u Don't , he says u are from KAMPUNG
If u ARGUE with him, he says u are STUBBORN
If u keep QUIET, he says u have no BRAINS
If u are SMARTER than him, he'll lose FACE
If he's Smarter than u, he is GREAT
If u don't Love him, he tries to POSSESS u
If u Love him, he will try to LEAVE u.
If u don't make love with him., he says u don't Love him
If u do!! he says u are CHEAP.
If u tell him your PROBLEM, he says u are TROUBLESOME
If u don't, he says that u don't TRUST him
If u SCOLD him, u are like a NANNY to him
If he SCOLDS u, it is because he CARES for u
If u BREAK your PROMISE, u Cannot be TRUSTED
If he BREAKS his, he is FORCED to do so
If u SMOKE, u are BAD girl
If he SMOKES, he is GENTLEMAN
If u do WELL in your exams, he says it's LUCK
If he does WELL, it's BRAINS
If u HURT him, u are CRUEL
If he HURTS u, u are too SENSITIVE!!
Nike Suffocation
Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air
If I should die before I wake
It's 'cause you took my breath away
Losing you is like living in a world with no air
Oh
I'm here alone, didn't wanna leave
My heart won't move, it's incomplete
If there was a way that I can make you understand
But how do you expect me to live
alone with just me'
Cause my world revolves around you
It's so hard for me to breathe
[Chorus] Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
It's how I feel whenever you ain't there
It's no air, no air
Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon' be without me
If you ain't here, I just can't breathe
It's no air, no air
No air, air No air, air
No air, air No air, air
I walked, I ran, I jumped, I flew
Right off the ground to float to you
There's no gravity to hold me down for real
But somehow I'm still alive inside
You took my breath, but I survived
I don't know how, but I don't even care
But how do you expect me to live
alone with just me'
Cause my world revolves around you
It's so hard for me to breathe
[Chorus] Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
It's how I feel whenever you ain't there
It's no air, no air
Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon' be without me
If you ain't here, I just can't breathe
It's no air, no air
No air, air No air, air
No air, air No air, air
No more
It's no air, no air
[Chorus] Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
It's how I feel whenever you ain't there
It's no air, no air
Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon' be without me
If you ain't here, I just can't breathe
It's no air, no air
[Chorus] Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
It's how I feel whenever you ain't thereIt's no air, no air
Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon' be without me
If you ain't here, I just can't breathe
It's no air, no air
No air, air
No air, air
No air, air
No air, air
The 7 Wonders of the Food Coloring World
In the process of making food or drink, especially mass-produced by machine, the accuracy of the end product’s can be a bit skewed. Because certain colors are associated with certain flavors, and vice versa, food coloring was introduced in acknowledgment to its correlation to perceived flavors. Coloring has also been added to mask color loss, aid food identification, and for decoration, as in cake icing. Food Coloring even existed in the times of early Rome, when saffron, carrots, pomegranates, grapes, mulberries, spinach, beets, parsley, and flowers were employed as dyeing agents.
Seven Major Food Color Additives
Today, because of chemical advances, not only are more vibrant and often superfluous colors available, but the usage of these chemicals is far more widespread. Often on a list of ingredients, one can find “for color” rather easily. However, until the Food and Drug Act of 1906, regulation for coloring was not in place for the United States of America. The current regulations allow for seven main dyeing agents.
Blue No. 1 
First among the accepted list is Blue No. 1, or Brilliant Blue FCF, which creates — as you might have guessed — a medium blue shade. This coloring was actually banned in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, but has since been let back into most of the countries under the European Union. Blue No. 1 can be found in some dairy products, sweets, and drinks. Blue No. 1 uses coal tar as one of its components. Because of the use of coal tar, many organizations and circles are speaking out and boycotting products using colors with coal tar because it is a carcinogenic in large quantities, known to cause tumors in lab rats.
It is also feared because only 50% of coal tar’s components have been identified. One thing that Blue No. 1 does not cause is hyperactivity, which was disproved after testing. Only 95% of the coloring is absorbed by the body’s gastro-intestinal lining.
Blue No. 2 
Second is Blue No. 2, which is commonly added to tablets and capsules, but is also used in ice cream, sweets, baked goods, confectionery, and cookies. Also known as Indigotine, the color was extracted originally from several species of plant as well as one of the two famous Phoenician sea snails or from woad, but nearly all indigo dye produced today for food or textile is synthetic. It is possible to have an allergic to Blue No. 2.
Green No. 3 
Green No. 3, or Fast Green FCF, can be used for tinned green peas and other vegetables, jellies, sauces, fish, desserts, and dry bakery mixes at level of up to 100 mg/kg. Fast Green FCF produces a sea green. Green No. 3 is poorly absorbed by the intestines.
Red No. 40 
Red No. 40 was introduced as a replacement for Red No. 2 because Red No. 2, or Amaranth, was a suspected carcinogenic. It has the appearance of a dark red powder. Red No. 40 can be found in sweets, drinks and condiments, medications, and cosmetics. Despite the popular misconception, Allura Red AC is not derived from the cochineal insect. Red AC is derived from coal tar. Carmine (or Crimson Lake, Natural Red 4), however, is the coloring extracted from dried cochineal beetles. It is banned in Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and Austria. It was once feared as a carcinogenic, but this has since been disproved. It has, however, caused allergic reactions in people as well as hyperactivity in children.
Red No. 3 
Also known as Erythrosine, Red No. 3 is a cherry-pink coal tar-based food dye. It is also used in printing inks, as a biological stain, a dental plaque disclosing agent and a radiopaque medium. It is used in cherries, canned fruit, custard mix, sweets, baked goods, and snack foods. It can cause sensitivity to light and learning difficulties, can increase thyroid hormone levels and lead to hyperthyroidism, and was shown to cause thyroid cancer in rats in a study in 1990.
Yellow No. 5 
Yellow No. 5, or Tartrazine, is used for yellow coloring, but can also be used with Brilliant Blue FCF or Green S to produce various green shades. Use of tartrazine is banned in Norway and was banned in Austria and Germany, before European Parliament lifted the ban. Yellow No. 5 can be found in soft drinks, instant puddings, flavored chips (Doritos, etc), cake mixes, custard powder, soups, sauces, kool-aid, ice cream, ice lollies, candy, chewing gum, marzipan, jam, jelly, marmalade, mustard, horseradish, yogurt, noodles, pickles and other pickled products, certain brands of fruit squash, fruit cordial, chips, tim tams, and many convenience foods together with glycerin, lemon and honey products.
Most famously is the now-termed urban legend that ingesting Yellow No. 5, or, more specifically, Mountain Dew, would lower a man’s sperm count and shrink his testicles, possibly rendering him sterile. Tartrazine, however, does produce the most common allergic react, especially among those with an aspirin intolerance and ashtma. Some research has linked Yellow No. 5 to early childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and hyperactivity. It is banned in Austria and Norway.
Yellow No. 6 
Also known as Sunset Yellow FCF, this dye is an orange coal tar-based food dye found in orange squash, orange jelly, marzipan, Swiss roll, apricot jam, citrus marmalade, lemon curd, fortune cookies, sweets, hot chocolate mix and packet soups, trifle mix, breadcrumbs and cheese sauce mix and soft drinks. It is the color most prominently seen in DayQuil. It is capable of causing allergic reactions such as abdominal pain, hyperactivity, hives, nasal congestion, and bronchoconstriction, as well as kidney tumours, chromosomal damage, and distaste for food.
What’s a Blue Lake 1?
The difference between dyes and lakes are in their solubility. Dyes will dissolve in water, but not oil while lakes are the opposite. Lakes are ideal for coloring products containing fats and oils or items lacking sufficient moisture to dissolve dyes. Typical uses include coated tablets, cake and donut mixes, hard candies and chewing gums, lipsticks, soaps, and shampoos.
Truth About Time
1)Time is a limited resource - you can't make more of it. But, you have more time than you need if you use it wisely.
2)You choose how to spend your time.
3)Time is elastic - you can stretch it or compress it.
4)Do what matters to you.
5)Eliminate shoulds and coulds.
6)Be early always. Take along something to read or do in case you have to wait.
7)Plan your year, months, weeks and days to help you stay focused on those things that matter most to you.
8)But, don't plan your time out to the last second. Leave time for crisis, chaos, surprises. Leave time for serendipity.
9)Slow down.
10)Set goals that matter to you - that you want to achieve.
11)Take time away from work. 100 percent away. Phone off, Blackberry off, computer off. Take time away a bit every day, a bit every week. Get away four weeks per year.
12)Live in the present. The past is gone - no matter how much time you spend agonizing over it, it will not change. If you need help letting go of the past, get it. The future isn't here yet - worrying about it will not make it better or worse. Only action taken now can make a difference.
13)When deciding what to work on, I like to think about Return On Time Invested (ROTI). ROTI is a particularly useful concept for the entrepreneurs, professionals and business owners I work with. ROTI is simply the revenue, or profit that an activity is likely to generate divided by the time the activity will take.
14)If you are self-employed, set a dollar value on your time and choose to get it.
15)Fully handle things once. Finish them completely and permanently.
16)Say no often. Offer to help less often.
17)Under-promise.
18)Choose to associate with people and organizations who help you extract the most value out of each of your minutes. Choose not to associate with people and organizations who waste your time.
19)Solve your own problems. Let others solve their own problems.
20)On the other hand, don't be afraid to ask for help. (For example, men, how much time do you waste each year trying to find an address? Ask!!)
21)Focus. Don't multi-task. You'll get more done, and at a higher quality level.
22)Take a real break in the middle of the day.
23)Enjoy the process, not just the result.
24)Listen fully before responding. You'll waste less time answering the wrong question or responding to the wrong concern.
25)Let it be.
Start Of a New Dawn
Inspired by quotes that enriches life,
I have thus started to blog about quotes as a come back to spur myself to not give up.
Enjoys Bros & Holes =)
I have thus started to blog about quotes as a come back to spur myself to not give up.
Enjoys Bros & Holes =)
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