Cool Practical Designs 2

Here are some more cool yet practical designs to feast your eyes.

Cool Practical Designs

Should we give the following designers some kind of awards. They certainly deserve it i thought. Nice cool designs yet very practical. They designs adds practicallity to the aesthetic nature of their fine artistic work. Well Done. How i wish i can have one of the designs. Hmm. Perhaps i should go check out if any is available in Singapore, especially the egg holder.

How to Write A Resignation Letter

These are interesting ways to write your resignation letter. Take them as your reference at your own risks! =)

Inspiring Movies - L Change The World (2008)

I just came back from the movie theatre in Vivocity, Singapore after watching the movie "L Change The World". L Change The World is a spin-off movie from the "Death Note" sequels which is about the last 23 days of L, the hero.

After solving the Kira case (in Death Note 1 and 2), another serious one finds L and he has only 23 days left to solve it. A boy and a girl hold the key to solving the case and L faces a crisis of global magnitude to protect the kids. He is without his most trusted partner, Watari, and cannot rely on his superb intellect alone to solve the case. What will happen to L? What will change? The 23 days are packed with turns of events even L himself cannot predict. This movie spin-off do not have the "Death God" that always eat apples.

The show instead touches alot on Human Mankind and it's kindness, forgiveness and passion. The young 13-years old girl and the small boy have also acted briliantly in the show, supporting L, the lead actor to portray the soft part of him. I was inspired when he brought the young boy to a orphanage and mentioned the following statement (below), before he left to die on his own (due to a curse that he had on himself to save the world):

"No Matter How Gifted You Are, You Alone Cannot Change The World"

Below is a short trailer that i would like to share with you.


For those from US and Europe, i hope you have a chance to watch this movie.

Beware of low cost Flip Flops

Halo,

I just received an email from a friend about the low cost flip-flops that some people wore, and have serious skin reaction to their feet. It seems like the chemicals that are used to make the flip-flops have created irritation to the skin. Being a chemist by training, i know how bad some chemicals are to our body.

Based on the email, it seems to come from a China source, but brand is not stated. This is the pictures that was sent to me. Pardon me for the gore, but i thought it is important to share with my readers. Also, i think we have to be careful whenever we feel itch to our feet. Stop wearing the flip-flops whenever you feel the itch.

For me, i don't have this problem as my Hippo-Bloo Flip-Flop is damn cool and comfortable.

More Interesting Quotes from Andrew Matthew

More interesting and inspiring quotes from Andrew Mathhew's "Happiness In A Nutshell" book.

Next time you are upset, remember it’s not so much people who makes you angry,as your thoughts about them.
Whatever thoughts are causing you pain, they are only thoughts.You can change a thought.

Because we are always attracting the learning experiences we need, we often attract what we fear.
If you fear loneliness, you’ll attract that.
If you fear embarrassment, you’ll fall on your face.
It’s your life’s way of encouraging us to grow.
The only way to beat fear is to face it.

When your body hurts, pain reminds you to take a rest, or maybe to change your shoes or to find a better way.
When your mind hurts, pain reminds you to quit worrying or to be more forgiving, or to think a different way.
Pain is not your enemy.
Pain is your friend!

Courage is not the absence of fear-
Courage is acting in spite of fear.
People who do nothing with their lives are just as scared as people who take major risks.
It’s just that the first group get scared over tiny things.
Why not get scared over something significant?

Famous Fried Carrot Cake in Clementi, Singapore

Hi,

This is a picture of the boss/or master chef of the famous fried carrot cake in Clementi Market, Singapore. This market is near to the Clementi MRT station and serves lots of good food. But for me, i just like the fried carrot cake served by him. Heard he has been making fried carrot cake for more than 50 years experience. No wonder it is so tasty. I must say that the carrot cake is second to none, in Singapore.

Besides his great cooking, there is also something interested in his stall. His son is helping him with the stall, and is in charged of collection of money, order placement as well as servicing it to the customer.This young man wears a pair of sports shoe and he run from one corner of market to another corner to make delibery services. Truly athletic and inspirational in his dedication to serve his customer with the food asap.

Do find time to check out their stall at Clementi Market.

Interesting Quotes from Andrew Matthews

Halo Planet,

Following are some inspirational quotes that i find it interesting while reading through Andrew Matthew's "Happiness in A Nutshell" book. This is more like a "bible", a field book - that makes us feel so much better when we read through it at time of sadness and/or unhappiness.

Usually, the best place to make a new start is where you are!
Before changing your address, consider changing your thinking!
When you change, your situation changes.
It is Law.

We all fail.
But it is not failing that hurts.
What hurts is knowing that you didn’t give your best.

Have the discipline to do little things you don’t like-
and you can spend your life doing the big things you do like.

Happy people don’t just accept change, they EMBRACE it!
They are the people who say:
“Why would I want my next five years to be like my last five?”

The moment you get too attached to things, people, money…you screw it up!
The challenge of life is to appreciate everything and attach yourself to nothing.

On giving advice:If people aren’t asking you, they usually don’t want the information!

Interesting Posters by Primary & Secondary Sch Students

I was at the Singapore Botanical Gardens to do my weekly long distance jogging over the last weekend. Upon the end of the run, we were at the Visitor center and chance upon a series of posters display at the vicinity. It was a poster exhibition on Environment Awareness (Green Initiative) from Singapore Primary and Secondary school students and i thought it was well conceptualized, well drawn and presented to the public.

Below are 2 of my favourite pieces and i would like to share with you.

Interesting Facts 11

Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.

Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.

The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.

The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.

American adults have been educated for the longest time.

The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.

72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.

The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic languages. Every such country is in the top 20.

More than 20% of the votes in the 2001 elections in Argentina were invalid.

You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt - at least in theory.

0.7% of Americans are currently in prison. Wow!

Saudi diplomats have 367 outstanding parking fines in Britain.

The average criminal sentence length is 137 years in Colombia.

Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia.

America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation.

Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China.

Former enemies, America and Russia now have a great deal in common - they both lead the world in locking people up.

You're 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA as in France.

The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500.00 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.

New Decisions, New Life for a New Year by Anthony Robbins

Halo Planet,

I have been following Anthony Robbins for quite a while - listening to his audio teleseminar, reading his Books on “Giant Within”, “Unlimited Power, attending his Motivational Seminars - finding Personal Motivation and Inspiring Others as years passed.

Motivational guru Anthony Robbins has guided and coached many to master the key communication skills, strategies and beliefs used by the world’s top achievers to attain their outstanding success and fulfillment. He believes it all starts with taking control of your life and making things happen, whether it’s your academics, career, finances, body, etc. Vanquish whatever is holding you back and turn dreams into reality. And it doesn’t stop there… his teachings also helps to develop the physical vitality and energy you need to passionately follow through.

In this exciting year of new destinies, opportunities and massive results, i are thrilled to invite you to take your leadership and personal growth to an entirely new level at with the following Tony Robbins’ Exclusive FREE Online Audio Mini Seminar. I had just completed it on the 1st day of the Lunar (Chinese) New Year and i am full of energy and determination again, for the new year.
Hope you will enjoy and benefit from it as much as i do.

F*REE Tony Robbins’ Exclusive Online Audio Mini Seminar (for my readers)

PS: Quickly listen to the F*REE audio mini seminar, before the organized takes it down.

To your success,
Sean

Interesting Facts 10

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials.

In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.

It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.

Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.

McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.

Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.

The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.

One pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.

A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year.

Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.

The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man.

Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.

25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused.

26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats.

The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.

Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.

US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.

22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.

Interesting Facts 9

More More Facts!!!!

People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!

Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.

Armadillos are able to contract leprosy.

Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.

The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.

The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.

Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.

In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.

If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Happy Chinese New Year - Make this Year A Happy One

Halo Planet,

Wishing you a Happy Chinese New Year,we are going to have our reunion dinner in awhile, so i thought i wanna come up to do a post for all that celebrate this important festival for the chinese in this planet. For others, enjoy your holiday...if you country takes Chinese New Year as a public holidy. In Singapore, we are given 2 days to celebrate this occasion.

Pix by ioldmo

Make this year a Happy and Successful One for You.
Chinese New Year means celebration and the Year of the RAT is a special one to chinese as it is the first in the Chinese Zodiac of the 12 animal signs. The RAT is respected and is often associated with admirable qualities like courage and determination. Sounds like Ratatouille yeah!
This is often seen as a year of renewal, a year in which it is good to embark on change, or a change of direction.

While the new year is an occasion for eating, sharing and gathering, what happens ater all this joy and celebration? We need to carry on and continue for the quest towards a truly happy new year.


How do we do that?
We need to come up with a roadmap for a truly good life.
We need to honest with ourself and be aware of our own procrastination and attitude. We need to set goals for the year ahead and be really commited towards making our life better.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Sean

Interesting Facts 8

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.

Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

New Kids On The Block back?

Do you ever heard of New Kids On The Block (NKOTB)?

They formed the world's biggest boyband in the late '80s and early '90s, selling more than 50 million albums before calling it quits in 1994.

Picture by juliet is silly

If reports are true, we will have 5 middleaged "kids" reuniting to hang tough once again. Their hit songs like Cover Girl, Hangin' Tough, Please Don't Go Girl and Step By Step sent teenage girls into a frenzy, paving the way for similar acts like 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys. Now, fourteen years later, the 'kids' are almost 40.

Perhaps the recent combacks of other '90s acts like The Spice Girls and Take That have inspired the "kids" to put on their costumes again.

Interesting Facts 7

Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after
President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For
Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting
the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping
nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social
connotations.

Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were
actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface
during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more
limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid
repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and
a leg."

Diabled Spy Satellite Flying Towards You?

Picture by bentlightnvegas
United States government officials has mentioned that a large American spy satellite has lost power and could hit the earth in late February or early March. The satellite, which can no longer be controlled, could contains hazardous materials such as Hydrazine (a toxic chemical which is colorless and having a ammonia-like smell)which can cause harm to anyone that comes into contact with, and it is unknown where it is now in the orbit and when it will come down to earth. This is considered Secret and thus no names have been mentioned.

It was not clear how long ago the satellite lost power, or under what circumstances. Many insiders and defence experts believed that the satellite probably died as long as a year ago and is about to re-enter the atmosphere. We are perhaps talking about the size of a bus (and weighing 9,000kg) that might fall on you anytime soon.

Officials have confirmed that appropriate government agencies are monitoring the situation but would not comment on whether it was possible for the satellite to be shot down. A senior person has also commented that other countries are also being kept aware of this matter.

I just hope it wont land into anyone. Pray hard it go into ocean, such as in 1979 where an unconrolled spacecraft that fell from orbit and its debris dropped harmlessly into the Indian Ocean and a remote section of western Australia.

Interesting Facts 6

The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.