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Sunday, April 25, 2010

LEXMA mouse appears

As it is..a red mouse appear in my room, with the word "LEXMA" en-printed on the surface...

There goes my Sensonic G-20 mouse I bought almost a year ago. It failed me once, somewhere end of last year. It somehow helps me to double click even though i only clicked an icon once.
And after obtaining a brand new one as replacement, it became faulty again after only about 4 months. Scrolling problem, and not sensitive anymore. After all, this is a G-laser mouse, but I have trouble using them in many places, eg. matress, polished tiles/marbles. Weird and bad quality I supposed, though I love the huge size that fits well in my hand.

And this is my new mouse, well maybe temporarily till I found a better one. It wasn't my first choice, looking at the size. It was 2 inch shorter than the Sensonic one, making my finger tip sticking out. Nevertheless, it still works well, and I hope this retractable thingy don't fail me so soon.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Soy milk -Good/Bad?

Recently heard that soy milk is really a bad choice if we wanted to reach the goal-SIX PACK ABS. Not too sure about it though, cause the box definitely mentioned little calories/low sugar, but with 5gm of proteins with only a glass. So, I did read up on these issue.

Read many news/articles/blogs..
They says: Soy products include tofu/soy milk and so on.. do not cause you extra fat. It somehow releases more estrogen hormones into the body and this helps to retain fat. This extra boost of estrogen level will only take place if we consume "HUGE" quantity of soy product. Therefore, I think its still safe if we drink them moderately, coupled with exercise. Soy products can lower the LDL cholesterol, the manufacturer claims. But to what extend, and how true is this, we don't know for sure. After all, they could spend billions of dollars just to advertise the good news of soy, surely an extra million to bribe the scientist wouldn't matter that much.

Nevertheless, there are other side effects too, some claiming that it can caused cancer-breast & so on. Not many articles mention about this. But there is something that is very true. The chinese who had many guinea pigs during the "dynasty" period had done many testings regarding this fermented soy milk-tofu. It was consumed very little, just to enhance the taste of other dishes that were cooked together. This simple recipe was brought to Japan, where tofu is then employed in Miso soup. Just a few slices of tofu brings the soup to such a delicious taste.

Conclusion: I would still drink soya milk & eat tofu, but maybe done in moderate style.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Inheritance

After my previous post on favouritism, I felt compelled to touch more on typical family issues that were endangering family relationships.

Inheritance- Properties in any kind (money/houses/shops/condoms/dildo/shits etc..) left over by the deceased parents to their next of kin (probably their children)

It is only natural that each parents leave something for their own children when they themselves leave to another money-less zone. Maybe there is, but surely it won't be the same currency we are using in Mother Earth?? Anyway, I'm not going to argue about that. So in conclusion, the children would be happy & thankful to their folks, thinking their life would be much more meaningful & comfortable. But the truth is no. How could you be happier alone than being close with your siblings -brothers & sisters.? Some of course are very fortunate to inherit a lump sum and yet forged close relationship with their siblings thru the spirit of SHARING.

A picture of jealousy: due to love

Nevertheless, inheritance causes many family breaking up, with curses hurling among one another. Elder brother will claim that being the eldest, he command the higher percentage of inheritance-say 60%, and the remaining is divided among the rest. The youngest will not fail to mention that he will need a huge sum to either study/do business or some shit. So the list goes on.. but what is important is neither of them would be satisfied with whatever the results of dividing is. Hatred & jealousy will slowly creep up their sleeves till their tiny little bronchus strips. Pop!! The family string that binds everyone together broke & neither heard from each other ever again from that day. 30 years memories of playing together under the field, snatching food/ hide & seek game/swimming & badminton together will just remain as memory forever.

That is just one of the worst example when the parents do not write their wills before their death. So what if they did? Will they stop arguing & fighting about this inheritance?? Well, probably if the parents did the right thing and gave EQUAL treatment to all of their children. Yeah, this is so RELATED to my previous post, but then again, if parents were so one-sided, their children might just go their own way. Which child would just sit quietly and happily when the lawyer turns up at your parents funeral, telling you "you only inherits 10%, your eldest bro 60% and your younger bro got the remaining 30%" Well, 10% might mean a lot if your parents are rich fellas, but the truth that were told thru this will only symbolizes one thing- parents love to other siblings are much greater than you. And then, you'll feel dejected, feeling as lonely as the guppy fish in a huge pond.

So you see, which ever way, inheritance of money really troubles many families & I have witnessed a few good ones. My suggestion for parents is to always write a proper will and be fair to all children. You bring them to this world, leave each of them with something that they can remember for their lifetime. If not, better spend all your own money & just give each of the children a toy bear or something similar. By that way, they would not argue among one another & they have something to remind of your presence.


Saturday, April 10, 2010

New Member to the family-Hachi

After watching the 8.1 Rating for "Hachiko: The dog story", I felt really touched deep inside. Well, of course follow my own sentimental heart, I named my new hampster-Hachi- with the hope that it behave as loyal as the dog in the movie. Naive, how naive...
We select him out of about 50? Hmm...the lucky one..
He smells like shit...
He is different from Minnie...colour wise..(he is an Indian Hampster I would say)
He has super big eyes
He hates human touch (at least that was the beginning case)
He loves to eat SHIT...omg..wonder how those pet owners treat them...must have starve them till they behave like that.

Anyway, I still do not have good clear shots of him yet, so couldn't post his pictures yet. For the first few days, he squeaks frequently..He was really afraid, I could sense his fear..But no longer these days. We played with him so much that he just got used to us. Finally...