给现实的一封信

亲爱的现实；
您知道吗，我真的以为我们是朋友！
因为您的存在，我使人们繁衍了希望，理想与抱负；
使我让人们的感情，承诺与山盟海誓萌了芽。。。

可也是您。。。
您使人们不再相信我。。。
您把我所繁衍的希望，抱负与理想摧毁；
您也把我已萌芽的感情，承诺与山盟海誓除了根！

您真的很残忍。。。
看见遍体鳞伤的人们在您的砧板上，
您一而再地蹂躏着人们的希望；贱踏着他们的情感。。。
您使得他们不得不向您低头；

您利用他们的痛来证实您的存在。。。
利用他们的伤来警惕他们对我的向往！
对已受伤的他们，希望，抱负与理想已是飘渺虚无；
情感，承诺与海誓山盟只是大言不惭

好了。。。
您赢了。。。
因为现在我只是个无谓的奢侈品！

RON92, RON95 and RON97

I rarely update my blog, the thing that triggers me to write is when I was listening to my favourite breakfast radio show this morning, three radio hosts were fighting over the differences in RON92, RON95 and RON97 and had entirely no idea on the topic that caused the rift. Is really a downer to know that the hosts from my favourite breakfast show weren’t doing any homework at all for the topic that they were discussing, so I had decided to post something about it.

I realized people generally have few misconceptions on RON. To give you a brief idea, RON is an acronym for Research Octane Number, an index for your car’s ignition level (knocking). Higher RON value indicates easier knocking and lower value indicates harder ignition.

A common misconception people made was higher RON gases produce more power in a car as compared to lower RON gases. In fact, the amount of power generated from two different RON value gases is equal, or almost equal. The only different is the ignition level, higher RON gases have higher probability that unwanted ignition can occur which leads to engine overheating and shorten the engine’s life.

A second misconception on RON is that it indicates the level of lead compound, or RON92 represents leaded gases and RON95 represents unleaded gases. In Malaysia, the Government had eradicated the idea of having leaded gas long before, so all RON92, RON95 and RON97 gases are unleaded.

Higher RON gases are designed for high performance spot cars. If you owned an ordinary sedan, you do not need high RON value gases because in performance wise, RON95 is as good as RON97. So why lower RON gases are cheaper than higher RON gases? The reason being is Government subsidy. The Government in Malaysia subsidizes gases based on production cost; more subsidies are given to lower RON gases because of the lower cost of production. For gas refineries’ profit, I think is about equal for the same reason (difference in Government subsidies).

Lose Weight - 10 Things You Must Know About!

I know this sounds pretty hilarious from a person who is overweight but I just want to share some information with you. So instead of laughing, a humble thank you would be appreciated!

So, what are the 10 things you need to know about losing weight...

1. Do more anaerobic training e.g. free weights or high intensity interval training. Anaerobic training “traumatises” your core muscle groups and causes the “muscle protein breakdown” process. Studies had shown that your basal metabolic rate (BMR) can increases up to 24 – 48 hours after intense anaerobic workout as a result from the repairing works done to your damaged muscles.

2. Although aerobic training (cardio) burn more calories during workout, studies had shown that aerobic training will only lift your BMR up to 2 – 4 hours after your training. So, anaerobic training burn more calories that aerobic training.

3. When doing weight training, focus 80% of your time on free weights instead of machines because in free weight training, other part of your body muscles will be utilized for body stabilization while on a machine training, the machine stabilizes the body for you.

4. Muscle on average consumes 3X more energy than fat on a weight to weight basis. This means that you will literally burn more fat by developing more muscles.

5. Do not be too obsessed on low carb diet because low carb diet will cause your body’s leptin level to fall. When leptin levels fall in your body, this effectively reduces your BMR and triggers increased cortisol production (a catabolic hormone that promotes muscle loss and makes it hard to lose fat), and also increases your appetite, essentially promoting body fat gain.

6. Increase your meal frequency (ideally 6 small meals per day). The reason being is your body needs energy from digesting and absorbing the meal. Hence, you increase your body’s calories expenditure by simply increasing your daily meal intake.

7. Additional small meals per day help to stabilize your body’s blood sugar and effectively lower your crave for food and appetite throughout the day.

8. You can eat whatever sugar you like (especially high Glycemic Index (GI) foods) 30 – 60 minutes after workout because high GI foods will promote insulin spike in your body to replenish your muscle glycogens that were depleted during your intense workout session. Other than that, try to keep your foods low in GI to avoid big swing in blood sugar level.

9. Fibre can slow your blood sugar respond to food. This means that you are literally lowering the GI value of your food by incorporating more fibre in your diet.

10. Try to incorporate green tea or oolong tea in your diet. Studies had shown that green tea and oolong tea can stimulates thermogenesis (conversion of fat to heat) and increase the percentage of fat utilized for energy thus helping you to lose body fat. Click HERE to know more on green tea’s goodies.

I’ve come to know all these after I joined a gym. I hope this will help you to shave some kgs away or gain some insights on weight loss.

Susan Boyle – Merited or Overrated?

Few days after I introduced Charice Pempengco, someone had asked me to check out for Susan Boyle. He told me Charice is nothing when compared to Susan and Susan would simply outclass Charice from head to toe.

Honestly, I was a bit disappointed when I first saw her on Youtube because I wasn’t expecting that the lady whom I was about to watch is a 47-years-old, peasant-like with a bucolic feel’s woman. I think my friend should have described something about her to me before asking me to check her out. At least I could save the “disappointment” part. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t discriminating against her, just that I was expecting something more… Perhaps slightly more aesthetically appealing!

Before I watch her video I thought that she must have a class of her own just by looking at the number of views she had. Well at least up till now her number of hits and views had already outclassed Charice. After watching her performance in British Got Talent, I was totally disappointed and underwhelmed! I mean, yeah… she has good vocal but I bet there are millions out there who can sing as well as her. I guess it was the chemistry that gave her the fame… what kind of chemistry, below average face + a good voice! To me… instead of her being really exceptional, I think is the inspiration and aspiration that she conveyed captured the heart and soul of the public.

So, back to her singing… does she really deserve all the standing ovation and enthusiasm? I seriously don’t think so. But of cause, she deserves a credit for being inspirational and for having the gut to stand on a stage where millions were watching… For this, I idolize her.

To me, I think she was kind of overrated. Looking back to the previous Britain Got Talent… Leona Lewis or Paul Potts or even Connie Talbot sang better than her. In case you haven’t watched any of her video, here is one to share with you…

Susan Boyle performing in Britains Got Talent 2009

So… what do you think?

This is gonna make your day!

Two emails sent to me this afternoon cheered the rest of my day. Here to share with you.

E-mail 1: Riddles

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away ?

4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday?

Answers after the second email.

E-mail 2: Stupid Letter

Answers:
1. The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three
years are dead. That one was easy, right?

2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry (shot; held under water; and hung).

3. Charcoal, as it is used in barbecuing.

4. Sure you can name three consecutive days, yesterday, today, and tomorrow!

Chicken Talk!

BARACK OBAMA:
The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN MCCAIN:
My friends, that chicken crossed the road because it recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON:
When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.......

GEORGE W. BUSH:
We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

JOHN LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing the road together, in peace.

BILL GATES:
I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra...#@&&^(C% .......... reboot.

BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE:
Chicken shall not shit while crossing the road. This is for a green environment..

LEE KUAN YEW:
We have installed crossing lights at all traffic junctions. All chickens should follow instructions while crossing the road.

SAMY VELLU:
Gantry points have been set up. All chickens wanting to cross the road are advised to top up their cash cards first.

NAJIB RAZAK:
What chickens? I don't know any chickens... especially those from Mongolia..

ABDULLAH BADAWI:
We have to be fair to all chickens. Some want to cross over the road, some do not. ........ Zzzzzz .......zzzzzz ....... Now what were we talking about? Ah yes, chickens. We will form a Royal Commission to decide whether it is right for them to cross the road.

MAHATHIR:
Now even non-bumi chickens want to cross the road! How can they disrespect and disregard apa nama bumi chickens? We must be allowed to cross over first. It is our special privilege and no one can challenge that!

ANWAR:
We have enough chickens waiting to cross over in September.

SHAHRIR:
All foreign chickens are welcome in Malaysia but they must not cross over the road within 50km of the border.

How to increase your blog’s traffic

One interesting way is to submit Sitemaps of your blog to Google Webmaster Google can crawl your webpages easily and more quickly!

This post explains the procedure to add your blogger blog's sitemap to the Google Webmaster Tools. (click here for more detail.)

1. Sign-in to Google Webmaster Dashboard using your Google Account.
2. Type your blog URL and click Add Site:
   
3. Once your site is added to Google Webmaster, you need to verify the site by adding a Meta Tag to your blog:
   
4. Copy the Meta Tag code given by Google Webmaster as shown in the screenshot below:
   
5. Now go to Blogger Dashboard - Layout - Edit HTML - then search(Ctrl+F) for the code given below in the header section:

   <b:include data="blog" name="all-head-content"/>

6. Then Paste the Meta Tag just after the above code and Save the Template.
7. Now click Verify in the Google Webmaster Tools. Your site will be verified if you followed the above steps clearly:
   
8. Next step is to add sitemaps of your blog. Select Sitemap from the left sidebar:
   
9. You can add the following sitemaps of your blogger blog to the Google Webmaster:

   http://www.YourBlog.com/atom.xml?redirect=false

   http://www.YourBlog.com/feeds/posts/default?=rss

   

10. Finished! Your Blog's sitemap will be added to Google now!

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