Subject: Food as medicine

HEADACHE? EAT FISH!
Eat plenty of fish -- fish oil helps prevent headaches.
So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain.

HAY FEVER? EAT YOGURT!
Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season.
Also-eat honey from your area (local region) daily.

TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA!
Prevent buildup of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. Green tea is great for our immune system)!

INSOMNIA (CAN'T SLEEP?) HONEY!
Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative.

ASTHMA? EAT ONIONS!!!!
Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes.

ARTHRITIS? EAT FISH, TOO!!
Salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines actually prevent arthritis. (fish has omega oils, good for our immune system)

UPSET STOMACH?  BANANAS - GINGER!!!!!
Bananas will settle an upset stomach.
Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea.

BLADDER INFECTION? DRINK CRANBERRY JUICE!!!!
High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria.

BONE PROBLEMS? EAT PINEAPPLE!!!
Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple.

PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME? EAT CORNFLAKES!!!!
Women can ward off the effects of PMS with cornflakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue.

MEMORY PROBLEMS? EAT OYSTERS!
Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much-needed zinc.

COLDS? EAT GARLIC!
Clear up that stuffy head with garlic. (remember, garlic lowers cholesterol, too.)

COUGHING? USE RED PEPPERS!!
A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper. Use red (cayenne) pepper with caution-it can irritate your tummy.

BREAST CANCER?  EAT Wheat, bran and cabbage
Helps to maintain estrogen at healthy levels.

LUNG CANCER? EAT DARK GREEN AND ORANGE AND VEGGIES!!!
A good antidote is beta carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables.

ULCERS? EAT CABBAGE ALSO!!!
Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers.

DIARRHEA? EAT APPLES!
Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition. (Bananas are good for this ailment)

CLOGGED ARTERIES? EAT AVOCADO!
Mono unsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol.

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? EAT CELERY AND OLIVE OIL!!!
Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure too.

BLOOD SUGAR IMBALANCE? EAT BROCCOLI AND PEANUTS!!!
The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar.

Kiwi: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E &fiber. It's Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

Apple: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants &flavonoids which enhances the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

Strawberry: Protective fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits &protects the body from cancer causing, blood vessels clogging free radicals. (Actually, any berry is good for you..they're high in anti-oxidants and they actually keep us young.........blueberries are the best and very versatile in the health field........they get rid of all the free-radicals that invade our bodies)

Orange: Sweetest medicine. Taking 2 - 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer.

Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system.  They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant.  Other nutrients  

found in watermelon are Vitamin C &Potassium. (watermelon also has natural substances [natural SPF sources] that keep our skin healthy, protecting our skin from those darn suv rays)

Guava &Papaya: Top awards for Vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber which helps prevent constipation.

Papaya is rich in carotene, this is good for your eyes. (also good for gas and indigestion)

Tomatoes are very good as a preventative measure for men, keeps those prostrate problems from invading their bodies.

A very good story

Jerry is the manager of a restaurant in America.
He is always in a good mood and always has something
positive to say. When someone would ask him how
he was doing, he would always reply,
"If I were any better, I would be twins!"

Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their
jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow
him around from restaurant to restaurant. The
waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude.

He was a natural motivator. If an employee was
having a bad day, Jerry was always there,
telling the employee how to look on the positive side of
the scenario.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day
I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it!
No one can be a positive person all of the time.
How do you do it?" Jerry replied,
"Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I
have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good
mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood. I always
choose to be in a good mood.

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to
be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I
always choose to learn from it. Every time someone
comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their
complaining or I can point out the positive side of life."

"But it's not always that easy," I protested.
"Yes,it is," Jerry said
"Life is all about choices. When you cut away
all the junk, every situation is a choice. You
choose how you react to situations. You choose how
people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good
mood or bad mood. It's your choice how you live your life."

Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally
did something you are never supposed to do in
the restaurant business: left the back door of his
restaurant open one morning and was robbed by three armed
men. While trying to open the safe,his hand, shaking
from nervousness slipped off the combination.
The robbers panicked and shot him.

Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the
hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks
of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital
with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident.
When I asked him how he was, he replied,
"If I were any better, I'd be twins.! ! !
Want to see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him
what had gone through his mind as the robbery
took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was
that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied.

"Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the
floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I
could choose to live or choose to great.

They kept telling me.
I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled
me into the Emergency Room and I saw the
expressions on the faces of the doctors and
nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'He's a
dead man'.

I knew I needed to take action." What did you do?"
I asked. "Well, there was a big nurse shouting
questions at me," said Jerry.

"She asked if I was allergic to anything."
'Yes,' I replied.
The doctors and nurses stopped working as they
waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and
yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them,
'I am choosing to live.

Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'.
" Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his
doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned
from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy
your life or to hate it.

The only thing that is truly yours that no one
can control or take from you is your attitude,so
if you can take care of that, everything else in life
becomes much easier.

Now you have two choices to make:
1. You can just close the browser now OR
2. You can forward it to someone you care about.

I hope you will choose #2. I did.

Balance Sheet of Life
 Our Birth is our Opening Balance
 Our Death is our Closing Balance
 Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities
 Our Creative Ideas are our Assets
 Heart is our Current Asset
 Soul is our Fixed Asset
 Brain is our Fixed Deposit
 Thinking is our Current Account
 Achievements are our Capital
 Character & Morals, our Stock-in-Trade
 Friends are our General Reserves
 Values & Behaviour are our Goodwill
 Patience is our Interest Earned
 Love is our Dividend
 Children are our Bonus Issues
 Education is Brands / Patents
 Knowledge is our Investment
 Experience is our Premium Account
                                                                           
 The Aim
                                                                           
 Reduce liabilities to zero at the end of the day.
 Keep the current account active and alive.
 Increase the value of the fixed deposit by transferring funds from the current account.
 Increase the value of the current assets every day.
 Distribute the dividend with open hands.

--- raeis aman wrote:

From: "Mazliza Othman"

Islamic Terrorism: An Oxymoron

I've seen enough articles since 911
about how Islam is a religion of peace - even the word Islam comes
from the root work "salaam" which means peace. I'm not going to
repeat what other people have written. I'm not sure if those articles
made any difference. Regardless of how Muslims try to explain that
Islam is not a religion that promotes violence, all that falls on
deaf ears.
Since 911, Muslims world over have been put on the defensive. They
desperately try to defend their faith from being labelled as one that
promotes hatred and violence. I was one of them, but I had since took
a step back to reflect and I no longer see why I should have to
defend my faith. I know for a fact that Islam is a religion of peace.
Why should the whole Muslim ummah (a population of about 2 billion
people on planet earth) be made to feel guilty for the action of a
few wackoes who just happened to be Muslims? At the time when the
Christian Serbs were herding Bosnian men to concentration camps,
torturing them to death and gang raping Bosnian women, nobody ever
brought up religion as an issue. Just imagine what the headlines
would be like if the situation were reversed and it was the Muslim
Bosnians who were carrying out the ethnic cleansing. And I've never
come across a Christian who is apologetic for what the Serbs did.

Imagine this hypothetical scenario: the IRA plants a few bombs in
London underground tube stations and the bombs explode during rush
hour, killing a few hundred people. Considering that Britain is a
very close ally of the US, would Bush bomb Ireland in order to put a
stop to IRA's terrorism once and for all? After all, haven't the IRA
done enough damage and killed enough innocent civilians over the
years? I doubt that would happen. Not in a million years. They
wouldn't hesitate to shower bombs on people they consider less
civilized than themselves (e.g. the Afghans), but they wouldn't do it
to their own kind. Ever noticed how the IRA has never been labelled
Christian terrorists, or Christian extremists, or other such labels?

Since 911, Muslims travelling by air have been subjected to prejudice
and tighter security checks. An acquaintance was subjected to a two-
hour interrogation upon arrival in Hawaii. Apparently, the head scarf
she wore made her a potential terrorist. Personally, I've never
encountered any problems while travelling abroad but what happened at
Heathrow last year was rather amusing. I stopped by in London to
visit friends on my way home after attending a conference in Greece.
The immigration officer bombarded me with questions. Why are you
here? How long are you staying? Where does you friend work? Where was
your flight from? What were you doing there?... and so on. I answered
all of his questions politely, all the while flashing my innocent,
charming, sweet smile. Then he asked, "What conference did you
attend?". Again, I answered him politely but by then I was
thinking, "Well... what do you think? Bin Laden's conference? And if
it was, do you think I'd tell you?". Did he really think
that by bombarding me with questions he'd be able to determine if I
was a terrorist. If I were a terrorist on a suicide mission, what
were the odds that I would drop subtle hints by saying something
like, "Oh, by the way, I'm flying a plane into Big Ben tomorrow. Just
thought I should let you know."? Duh!

At a conference dinner in Bangkok, conversation stirred from
technical issues to world affairs. Before long, we were discussing
what was happening in Iraq. A gentleman from Alaska insisted that the
reason the Iraqis are fighting back is because in Islam there is a
strong motivation for jihad. I said to him, "Suppose the US attacks
North Korea - a non-Muslim population. Do you think the North Koreans
would just sit back and do nothing while their country is attacked?
No way! They'd fight back - in the same way that the Iraqis are
fighting back. Any people anywhere would do the same. It has nothing
to do with race or religion". His response to what I said was stunned
silence.

As far as I'm concerned, the Iraqi fighters can call their fight a
jihad if they wish (after all, Bush initially called his fight
against terrorism a crusade until corrected by his politically
correct advisors), but no Muslim in his/her right mind would be able
to justify the kidnapping and beheading of civilians because in Islam
the end does not justify the means. Likewise, I think any Christian
in his/her right mind would have trouble justifying the attack on
Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq. Jesus was reported saying
(Matthew 5:39): "Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you
on the right cheek, turn to him the other one." Exactly which part of
Jesus' command were Bush and Blair obeying when they sent troops into
Afghanistan and Iraq?

The only people who didn't expect the Iraqis to fight back were Bush
and Blair. They are deluded enough to believe that the Iraqis would
be eternally grateful to them for ousting Saddam - a monster they
helped create. Anybody who have studied the history of Western
colonization would know that the conquered always fought back in
order to drive away the conquerors. Given Britain's colonial history,
Blair, of all people, should be aware of it. There are ample examples
of how people colonized by the British fought back to regain their
independence regardless of how brutally the colonial master tried to
suppress the freedom fighters. But then again, this brutal and ugly
side of British history is probably not taught in British schools -
unlike the glory of how the sun never set on the British Empire.

Islam and Muslims have been around for more than 1000 years. If Islam
really were a religion that promotes violence and Muslims really were
a bunch of blood thirsty people, why is it that we have never heard
of the so called "Islamic terrorism" until about a decade ago? If
these allegations were true, then shouldn't world history be filled
with tales of wars and destructions inflicted by the Muslims? On the
contrary, if one takes the trouble of studying world history, one
would see that the worst atrocities and tragedies were inflicted by
people who considered themselves more civilized than others.

Let us look at just a few of the greatest atrocities that have
tainted humanity. Who gained Peru from the Incas by massacring a few
thousand Indians in cold blood? Who started World War 1 and World War
2? Who herded a few million Jews to concentration camps and gassed
them to death? Who made indiscriminate use of chemical weapons in
Vietnam and Laos causing not only civilian deaths, but also health
complications to survivors and their descendents (hint: not Saddam)?
Who was behind the Sabra and Shatila massacre? Who masterminded the
ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia?

I can tell you for certain who were not responsible for all that.
Definitely not the Muslims.

Mazliza Othman
19th September, 2004

 
Subject: 10 REASONS WHY SHOULD YOU LEAVE WORK AT 6.00PM
 
 
10 REASONS WHY SHOULD YOU LEAVE WORK AT 6.00PM
 
1.   Employment letter stated that working hour finish at 6.00pm.
2.   Work is a never-ending process even you stay until next morning you
    will never finish it.
3. Human are not robots even robots / machines have to rest or else it
    will facing breakdown problems.
4. You love your career, but your family is even more important in
    your life.
5. If you failed in your life, you boss is not going to be the one who
    gives you a helping hand whereas your family would definitely offer
    help.
6. You do not want to screw up or make your life miserable because of
    your job.
7. Monthly salary = Work from 9am - 6.00pm,
    if 6.30pm = $0.00 + 0 Bonus + 0 Ang Pau + 0 apreciation + Bad Health
    + Bad Social Life + Poor Family Relationship.  Equal To: Unproductive
    Employee + Performance Drop + Company Reputation Drops + Retrenchment
    Rate Increases + Resignation Rate Increases
8. If the person who disagree to the above formulation, we think
    he/she   is a loser who has no life, heartless, doomed workaholic, etc. He/she
    deserves the 'Best Employee of  "The Year' award!
9. You don't give a damn if your boss fires you.
10. For the Chinese, remember this 'House In The East No Longer keep .  You,
    Then Just Move to The West House'
    - Dong Ka Umm Ta, Ta Sai Ka!
 
Psst: So? U still wan to stay back meh? Siao lor... :P