Nowadays one seldom bump into fortune tellers or seek one out for consultation. Maybe I am out of touch with such things and the last time I met any fortune tellers were at the Central Market a couple of years ago.
I am sure many of you must have had experienced consultation with a fortune teller! I had when I was just starting out in life and was keen to know my future! Invariably one is curious about who they will become in future! Common things we want to know were wealth, health and girlfriends! Honestly none of them seem very good when I look back! Totally different from what they told me. I guess in life there is no guarantee for such things as wealth and health etc. One fortune teller said I am going to have 4 wives! Waaah! If that is the case I won't be alive today! Either I was murdered by one of the wives or mother-in-laws or perhaps ended up in an asylum for insanity!
The best joke was King Solomon in the Bible! He had 700 wives and concubines! Compared to the Chinese Emperors that's nothing for they used to have 3000 plus! Yet King Solomon was called a wise King! I cannot see how a man with 700 mother-in-laws can be wise! The kids alone would have driven you up the Wailing Wall! Maybe that's why it was named that! hehe! I am just joking of course not.
Well I am not really talking about fortune tellers but want to share with you this e-fortune teller available online! Hey! getting high tech too in this discipline classified as soccery! Don't believe me? why not check out Facestat and see for yourself! It was my buddy kuanhoong who introduced me to this internet fortune teller! I know you cannot resist this so go ahead and let me know how good is Facestat! You can check your friends too for FREE!
I suppose for most folks, eating fruits has a direct connection with health is a well accepted fact. There are so much research been done into Food, Fruits and Vegetables that there is an explosion of information out there in the internet. However a friend sent me something rather interesting. There was an old article by David Bjerkelie, published in Time Magazine back in 2003 that connects how the shape of the fruit has a bearing on a particular organ that looks like the fruit! Take a look and see how amazing is Nature!
When you look at a sliced Carrot, don't you think it resembles the human eye-balls? So it seems carrots are are good for your eyes or eye sight!
These Kidney Beans resembles the Kidneys! It seems that Kidney Beans help to maintain kidney functions.
A sliced Tomato showing 4 chambers and red, resembles the human heart which has 4 chambers too! Tomatoes are good for the heart.
The Walnut when cracked open, looks like the human brain! Two hemispheres, cerebrums and cerebellumns and the folds the neo-cortex. Walnuts help to produce neuron transmitters for brain function.
Celery looks like sticks and it resembles the human bone! It seems that celery contains 23% Sodium and our bones are 23% sodium! Eating Celery gives us bone mass.
Avocardos and Pears are good for the womb and cervix for females and don't you think they look like them too?
There were many other fruits mentioned in the article but the above few proves the point and that is the shape of the fruit has a direct connection as well as health enhancement to the human body organs that resembles it! However it seems the article misses out on one particular fruit!
Yes! the glorious Banana! Going by what was mentioned I wonder what are the benefits a Banana has and whether this correlation still holds! Hemmm! What do you think? Would love to have some comments from my educated friends on this!
My first encounter with a Computer was in University back in the early 70's where it was the size of two desks! Then came the Personal Computers in mid-70's and my first computer was the Apple IIe; Apple IIGS and finally the Mchintosh or Mac for short. Founder of Apple, Steve Jobs is, in my reckoning, a great man and a Visionary! We have a lot to learn from this man. Here is a short video of him addressing a group of Graduates from Stanford University in 2005. Great Stuff and very inspiring!
Air Asia is Malaysia's success story of a Budget Airline. Do you want to peek into the future and see what it could be like when you travel on a Budget Airline? Watch this entertaining clip!
What I am pondering now after the dismantling of the Barisan Power in our recent General Elections is the possibility of the Local Authorities coming down hard on dubious Property Developers who sold sub-standard, very poor quality houses to the general public.From experience, quality of houses built currently is of poor quality as compared to houses built in the early 70’s and 80’s! I have been to many house warming and I was shocked by the poor workmanship, from plastering to plumbing to electrical works etc, etc. I have seen sewerage pipes exposed, running down from upstairs along the wall and disappeared back into the wall! Even some door frames were crooked but the door still fits! I am sure you can guess how! Am I right here? Do you people, especially fellow Malaysians agree with me?
This even happened lately to supposedly up market properties like Condominiums in the City Centre. My own brother had a rather nasty experience in one piece of low cost property he purchased nearly 8 years ago. It was so bad that the issue was highlighted in the local newspapers but as far as I know nothing was done and the people continued to suffer in agony over their pathetic homes. Can you imagine that handed over properties without water supply? The pipes and taps were there except no water supply! Residents had to get their daily supply from public taps on a daily basis and doing that for nearly 2 years! No wonder they took the matter up. I did not follow up and so do not have further facts of the case, whether there were any compensation, make good the faults etc. As far as I know, there were no Certificate of Fitness issued when owners took the keys to their new homes then. Surprise, surprise! Apa macam pun boleh jadi di-sini!
From observation, it seems that the middle and lower costs homes have more of such problems than the upper middle class or expensive houses! I guess these deviant developers dared not take on these educated and rich owners for fear of getting sued! It looks like they bully the poor because the poor could not afford the costly affair of bringing them to court. Many of these are hawkers or petty traders and they really do not have the time, a fear of and understanding of the intricacies involved in going to Court. Moreover they accepted it with disgruntled resignation, having a sense of being bullied, for if they do not move into the house, they might have to rent a place somewhere and this will be added expenses in addition to servicing their bank loans.
Lately there was a call for the Local Authorities to seriously look into incomplete housing projects! Yes you guess it, those lower cost apartments or flats. The developer had either absconded or gone bust, I am not sure but these poor people are still servicing the loans but with no home to expect or in view for many years! What a shame this is. It looked like the average income group and the poor have to suffer all these atrocities not due to any fault of theirs. Let’s hope that the Authorities, Banks and new Developers who undertake to revive these abandoned projects, can find a workable solution in order to alleviate the financial strain on the poor! Would love to see this happening soon! A challenge to the newly elected Opposition Coalition State Governments who proclaimed anti-corruption and serving the masses!
