Motherhood

I went marketing this morning, something drawn my attention whilst I was haggling over some fishballs (ha). A female cat with its baby sleep soundly right at the corner attached to the stall. I reckon kitten is a month old, milking from it's mom and fell asleep later. I also assume mother was too tired or didn't want to wake the baby so she fell as sleep as soon as the baby does.

Why do I dwelled so much about their sleep? Because it was beautiful. The female cat has dark patch on her sparkling white coated fur whilst the baby has the mixtures all over the body, the rhythm of breathing are consistent and calm (I used this technique to calm my baby to sleep), they sleep so soundly despite noise pollution in the market. I've never seen a stagnant breastfeeding session especially the female cat are very alert when the babies are around, in this case, both knocked out at most vulnerable state. You know cats have exellent hearing and very sensitive to sound. 

 Both mother and baby sleep soundly in the midst of breastfeeding

I bend over to appreciate the beautiful scene of motherhood (Yeah, I was quite free this morning actually, waiting for my daughter to get off from classes, so I sort of squandering my time here ><). They didn't awake by my move (of course I did it discreetly, dumb!). I would think maybe they have traveled far and got so tired especially the mother just gave birth to 3 (poor little mother has to stray on street).

Perhaps it has been awhile and the mother feels that she needs to take care the other baby, she stood up and walked to the otherside of the stall (she didn't bother that I was watching her, perhaps she is really tired). She licked the tiny small baby again and again, finally baby was awaken and she did the same chore. She's so redefined with lovely motherhood.

The vendor told me they consume residual from the fresh chicken/fish stall as source of food (I felt heartache, to me they are just like a beautiful family except they are not human, look at her loves for her babies awww). I had a whim to bring them home (My irreconsilable empathy arise ><).

'Lunch time, baby'

 Baby milking from its mother

 

Whilst breastfeeding the baby, she also upkeep herself deligently!!

 

Imagine if animal could love their child instinctively, what makes the human mother dump the baby away? Killing or Abusing? Some animal kill their own 'babies' like reptile (fish) but They-don't-abuse!! So does this analogy symbolize animal has distinctive sentiments than human? haha. Well. This post is not going to delve into intense topic like this. Below are images  of animal motherhood which I garnered from other website, it's so beautiful and warm. So sit back relax and enjoy. :) 

Animal Motherhoood Images via.

  

Juliane Koepcke

This is a true story. I was astonished and I'm still.

Woke up in exquisite pain, hundreds or thousands of pictures ran through her mind like 200kmh. Vague impression from the airplane crash, the feeling of plummeted from thousand miles high, the chaos of cabin conditions....the trembling plane, people cried and scream, some prayed for hope, there were horrified, luggage begins to trembling down.. Captain and crew trying their best to prepare for emergency landing...it was havoc... she went unconscious state again.

"It was Christmas Eve 1971 and everyone was eager to get home, we were angry because the plane was seven hours late." said Juliane

Julianne Kopcke, 17, German Peruvian, the only survivor of LANSA Flight 508 airplane crash.

When she finally awoke to her senses again, miraculously, she found herself strapped in aircraft seat (yes it was plummeted our of aircraft), thanks to super-destructible airline seatbelt (now we learnt the importancy of the seatbelt). She knew she survived through the airplane crash. Struck by lightning through heavy thunderstorm, the plane failed to land eventually as it exploded into pieces, she blew out to the sky and later plummeted from few thousands feets high into the land of Amazon Rainforest.

Being plummeted and splashed down like a free ball she suffered from broken collarbone, deep cuts on her calf, severe concussions and swollen shuts eyes. As if just woke up from deep sleep however pains she has to endured, she unbuckled it and sit up to walk. There were corpses everywhere, laying grossly, total 94 passengers. Her first intention was to search for her mother but unavail, her last memory was they clutched with each other before crashes filled with extremely frights of death. Heavy explosion blew her out from cabin without parachute as well as other passengers. She later found other passengers clung onto seat with heads burried into ground on her way out. 

Covered with thick canopy of forest with no other contacts for help, her survival instinct was to reach civilization as soon as possible. Brought with her was few candies and food she could grab in hand, she begins her journey of death defying.

Ever thought of what beneath this renown rain forest? Nearly half of the animal population in the world can be found in this mysterious jungle, populated by insects, arachnids, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals. Some popular one are Anaconda which can grow up to 21 feets long, Piranaha, a river fish has powerful jaw and razor - like triangular teeth that can shred flesh from bone in a matter of seconds. Jaguar, excellent hunter, speedy and intelligent, Poison Arrow Frog, Very small in size, but poisonous enough as to kill up to 100 people, Black Caiman, The largest predator in the Amazon river, it has no enemies other than man and can eat from piranha, capybara and giant river otters to humans. It's a home to many strangest looking, largest and smallest, loudest and quietest, more dangerous and least frightening animals on Earth.

Though she has to bear with pains, frights and unknown hope, based on her past experience, follow the stream might be the source to reach for help. One of the biggest factor that she could survived through the venomous, giant, strong and dangerous of animals infestated in this jungle was the surviving principal her father ever thaught. She is not a blonde bombshell, she was on her way to obtain the zoologist degree and her parents are renown Germany biologist. Matter of fact, she was at the site located 30 miles away for an ecology study with her parents a week before the crash. Amazon Rainforest is not new and strange to her.

She found a creek after a day of trekking and begins her journey all by herself through the dark, quiet and yet unveil dangers it can be. Through the ten days of trekking in the water (it's the safest to travel), hardly able to close her eyes without fears. cold. She was lucky however as she never met any revolts animals from the land or water, although at times she needs to cross the knee high river which potentially the human shredding machine fishes and giant Caiman could have break her into pieces within second. Nope. Her journey was quite safe other than her deep cuts were infected with 35 maggots.

On the nine days of adventures, she finally come across a boat and lumberman who aided her and they travel hours to seek for help from the local authority. No one recounted the conditions of other stranded passengers most probably might be gone, she saw a flock of vultures straying above the sky for carrions.

So what actually had happened to other passengers whom crash to the Amazon Rainforest? No, I didn't come across any elaboration on that throughout my research. I reckoned, most of them would have been too injured to move on and die of overbleeding, or starvation. They were not as lucky as the airplane survivor as I recounted in 'Andes Crash'.  

My assumption of these two different airplane crashes was one crashed at thick cushion of snow caped mountain, of course the doubling landing reduces the impact of plummeting and buffer the concussions to passengers. Wherease the other impact badly due to explosion and crashing to the hardcore land at once, these victims make no difference from those jump off the building, however at unimaginary heights. It was sad to learn this tragedy but these are risks we have to undertake with no mercy.

”	I had nightmares for a long time, for years, and of course the grief about my mother's death and that of the other people came back again and again. The thought Why was I the only survivor? haunts me. It always will.	”
—Juliane Koepcke, 2010 "What if you're Juliane Koepcke, the only airplane crash survivor, what would you do?" I don't have an answer. Do you?

Andes Crash

The recent aritical about human endurance  inspired me into this post. One of the story struck me with 'hey, there are survivors from ten thousands kilometres height airplane crash!!  It wasn't a fiction like we seen in the film! It was REAL!!

I stucked on 'Andes Crash' amid my research about SURVIVAL for my previous post. Didn't intend to delve into, however the spirit of survival strucked me with greatest sense of imaginary than I ever had. I spent hours and days searching and comprehend the entire scene and story, it's a touching, worth reading.

In my wildest spare time, I've ever picture if I would be one of the victim of an airplane crash, what do I do? First thing come across my mind was, oh oxygen mask. haha. Then I will reminisce my life with my family and friends. I will be regretted not spending good time with my old folks at home, and didn't do my best as a mother to my daughter. Then I will most probably die in  crash with my body smashed into pieces (I think) or into ocean and eaten by shark or drown. Whatever it's I-Never-Ever-Thought-Of-There-Could-Be-Survivors. However ignorant or innocent I was, it happened.

Friday, 13 Oct 1972, a 2 engines turbopro Fairchild  FH221-d, flight 571 carried a group of Rugby Team, students and other loose passengers, 40 of them in total from Uruguay to Chile for a match. It was supposed to be an exciting trip, full of spirit to take part in the game, glory in the hope. However a glory hope turn out to be a biggest challenge in life - fight for survival.

Due to misjudge for landing the airplane crashed at the snow caped mountain eventually. Strong winds blindfolded the decision making resulted the fatal error, one third of the passenger died upon crashing including the captain and crew, another 8 died after swept of avalanche.

Stranded at 11,000 feets high Andes (El Milagro de los Andes) near South America, the remainder 16 passengers contracted minor injury clung to life for good 72 days (2.5 months). Snow mountains are the only scene within sights, though it can be romantically snuggle in a camp for two but this wasn't the hype at that moment. Frights from crash, depression over decease of family members (Nando Parradon's sister and mother died in the same crash) are not the concern anymore but how to survive. Not to mention their career, bank account, study, business, car or house, the catalyst of clinging to live was able to get back  and warm hug with their family members at home.

Given scarce of resources, food, water and shelter, they survived through the believe in god and the trust developed within. They hid in the wreck aircraft for warmth, melted the snow for water and ate the dead body for food. Some medical students even innovated sunglasses from the corkpit screen to avoid contact with scorching sunlight. What aggravate the situation was  the rescue team cancelled the search after 11 days, assuming all couldn't make it through the freezing cold of -30 degree and died (we were lucky because freezing mountain is rare occasion unless we travel. Our proximity are hot weather all year long). 

Out of  fear, pain, depression they could have loss of hope TOTALLY. It was 1972, Internet was newly invented, who would able to locate them in an unnamed mountain heights?  How do they survive through scarce resources? Some of them had even planned their dying path - walk to the west before they become the item for food. Mountains and mountains high, civilisation is far to be seen. Imagine death is the only option.

Wide spread of snow caped mountains, two heros, Nando Parrado and Roberto Cannesa decided to trek for hope, defy against the destiny. Ten days with limited resources, good ten days (frankly I wonder how did they survived in the very first place, it was freezing cold with limited energy to burn, in this circumstances  they bring them with no food! I left out how they deperate for food, including aircraft seat to find straws but latex is something they could derived, leather goods, although it's synthetic blended). 10 good days of trekking before they finally give up, they met a Shepherd...

The story was truly eye-opening, amazing and inspiring. One would never thought of able to survive and they made it through steely focus and hope. Read more if you wish to know more..click here. or here.

Like any other popular news in the world, this ordeal has been narrated in the a blockbuster film 'ALIVE', cannibalism was recounted as well, however the review was pretty poor, as it left out heart-moving scene like group structure, spirit of teamwork etc. For more comprehensive version, you may try Piers Paul Read’s book “ALIVE ( I haven't read but I would get it soon).

Today, we are fortunate with the advanced of technology wit GPS. Rescuer would able to locate a trace within an hour...if you ever stranded from airplane crash.



Updates:

I went to bookstore to search for the book under the section of memoir but unavail. I reckoned this book was somehow published long ago, it may not sold in the bookstore anymore.

Didn't intend to connect to so much of sobbing story, however after certain deliberation I decided to share another story of airplane crash incident Juliane Koepcke - The ONLY Survivor. How does she survived through a strength of her alone? Read this

Survival Instincts

I read an article the other entitled "Death Defier". It leaves me with exclaimationwith goose pumps and given my inner greatest salutation towards these survivors.


What if you're in the situation of live or dead. 'Yes, no other options in between'.


Let me take you to the scene. You were in a yatch with a load of other passenger, a sudden wave smash the boat and capsized the boat in the middle of the ocean...When you awoke, you were the only survivor.


Question: "WHAT WOULD YOU DO?"


Let me take you further, some passengers die gruesomely, the wreck boat prick into them, some were drowned. Dead people everywhere.


"Do I have a survival skill?" Have you ever ask?  Nope, most of us don't. I don't.


You were terrified in the middle of the sea, dead body, dark, cold and fear, No food, no water. Are you going to just embrace death at that moment?


Question: "HOW STRONG IS YOUR WILL POWER TO LIVE?"


 "Well. I hardly take boat". You might be thinking and that's what I was thinking too. I can avoid taking boat.




Well, fine. I bet we'll travel in our life time. Just a methaphor, 'what if air plane crash?', 'what if you're the only survivor?', 'how do you survive till the rescue team?'


'Do you think you'll see yourself to the end?', or 'You think you can make it?', which one would you opted for?


Well this maybe something you never thought of - human possessed the survival instinct in a fatal circumtances.


But how much you could make it? Your courage to live occured only at near hopeless state? Sound scary huh? Do you know what is the catalyst of survive in the first place? How to overcome moment of despair?


Answer: It takes strong will power to live. I always believed when there is a will there is a way. The documentary testified the proverb  - you don't know how strong you're until be strong is the only option.


We've seen these ordeals from the movies, have you ever thought it happened in real life..in details? How do they ACTUALLY SURVIVE?

Remember human basic needs - Food, Water & Shelter. These survivors strieve to live, and the instinct of surviving overcoming fear from things which never done in their life this include ate the dead body, seeing the friends' dead through the surviving journey.




October, 1972, an Uruguay Airforce Flight 571 carrying 45 passengers crashed into Andes at tens thousands feets height . Quarter passengers died upon crashing, another 8 died after swept of avalanche. 72 days in the andes before rescue team, a group of passenger clung to survive. They endured freezing cold -30 degree, attack of avalanche, ate dead body which preserved by snow, no shelter, no food. Things gotten them to despair when the rescue team canceled the search due to bad weather.

Another airplane crash survivor landed at Amazon rainforest, the only survivor, Juliane Koepcke. She survived through 10 days in the forest, all by herself only with little resources to fill her stomach. 10 days in the mystery, cold, quiet, dangers, darkness, one would horrified to dead through fear. Assuming fear could be overcome but what if wild animal attack? Crocodile? Tiger? Snake? Fire can be the detering tool, but do you know how to build the fire? Awesome! I don't know. I know the basic knowledge of igniting the fire haha. Frankily I bet I will be dead out of fear.

What if I stranded in a canyon all alone? what if I got pinned down by a boulder? Do I have the courage to amputate myself.....with a pen knife? Aron Ralston does. His story were recounted in the file 127 hours.

What if I got stucked in own car burried in snowdrift on a remote reforest track for months? Peter Skyllberg survived through 2 months until he has been found.


Other ordeal happened through mountaineering expedition, yatching, diving etc.


What impeded the way to survive? Emotion, Fear, Pain, inhibition (drink own urine, eat dead body). How do you overcome those? Essentially no one would have the clue until you are in the real scene, your survival instincts would lead you the way....


I still feeling horrific after reading the article and some research on my own...what if.... and these people do earned my respects versus those who take their life away with mundane reason.

Unconditional Love

We went for a simulation of a jogging route after dinner around the neck of the woods. I told her I'm going for a training tomorrow morning.

"Why do you have to go running in the morning?" She doesn't like the idea of me running on the road.

"I'm participating marathon, darling". I said, trying to paint her a picture that I've an objective by doing this.

"So how far is this run will be?"

"hmm..About 4km".

"4km? So if you run back and forth, it will be 8km!!". "Yes", I said. She did enlighten me to buffer my stamina to run back! She's more deliberate than her mother. Dumb mommy==.

"You'll be thirsty!!". "I will bring my water bottle, darling"

" But you will be too tired to run back home!!" She seriously don't like the idea of me going for an outdoor run! haha.

After a while, she knew there is no way of stopping me from going for this jog, She use another tactic.

"I don't want, you'll lose weight", She said anxiously. "I want the 'fat fat' you", she said, again. She definitely worries about my safety than my weight. So cute ><

"I won't lose weight, you see my fats are still here."

"Can you get your friend to accompany you instead?", " Again, morning will be quiet", she almost cry already.

"I won't go that early, I'll make sure people starts running at that hour too." I do want her to have peace of mind and agreed upon my goal.

I can see her little mind were processing my words, for a while she didn't ask anything anymore. As we cruise passed the traffic lights.

"Make sure you don't cross the road when the light is green", She rolling her eyes and said.

 

"What time will you be going and coming back?", she asked again.

She does nagged like my mom!haha. She's so sweets.

"I will be back around 9.30?", I tried to answer every queries she had as I always do.

How do you reassure your child when you need to be away, somehow they are afraid of losing you, especially you are their the only dependence.

1. Talked to them just like a friend of yours. Show that you care about them by relating to your activity.

2. Show them you've a plan for this activity. Reassure you've a safety measure.

3. Explicit time they could expect you to come home. Allow them to manage their time.

4. Kept your promise, always. It will easier to manage their expection in the future.

5. Reassure you'll be home. Tell them how much you love them.

As child of single parent, she knew she can only depend on a parent and you can't possbily picture how strong the bonding is, especially girl. I do believe you'll received much as you give. I understand her loves to me is unconditional, too. 

I love you darling, always.

Car Accident

This entry might seem a bit mundane as I'm recounting time & date throughout the incident, but that's what I want you to take note, time & date.

 

 

What's in your mind when someone knock you from the back....in the morning? Upset is the only response.

 

 

What do you do the moment you get down from the car..... ? Stare at the driver, of course ( you need to make him feel guilty for his wrong doing).

 

 

What if the driver feel very apologetic.....? Calm down (Ok, I don't have to act ^^)

 

 

What if he offer you his personal particular to ensure you can hold him for repayment......and let you possess his ID for verification? ...wow, cool!! This can be settled amicably.

NO!! The hell starts from this moment....

 

As I was rushing for an early morning meeting, we agreed to settle at a fee from my workshop, so we didn't lodge a police report. It was a long day for me, it was clocking 5pm when all my meetings were ended. I took some time off and rushed to the workshop (begging them to evaluate my car and request for certain claim details) only realized my driving license was expired (panic! of course making an insurance claim would be a problem).

Moral of the story 1: Renew your license on time? No!! Human nature - Blame the driver for the accident^^

Should I making a police report without a valid driving license, I'm subject to a penalty!! Since he is a newbie (1986!) ( I tried to convinced myself that I'm helping him instead), I offered him this:

"Since you're a fresh school leaver and I could tolerate with simple repair, I would like to offer you a 50% discount", I said confidently as if I do empathize on his financial condition.

"hmm...that's expensive. Let me get back to you in 5 mins". he said

5 mins later, sharp.

"I think it's still expensive, I could only afford 50% of what you offered." he said, good in haggling!!

"I don't think I can lower this much, see, I'm trying to help, if you still think this is too much, then that's too bad." I was bit impatient and upset.

"Yeah, my NCD doesn't seem to worth this much." He said, sounded honest. (Later I think again, that's so true!! How much of deduction for someone who bought a car for just...2 years?)

Moral of the story 2: When the driver is a young chap, you're doomed!! He has no cash to offer you at the scene neither his NCD would convince his back up (parents) to pay!! 

So we decided to make a police report for an insurance claim. It was 6pm, TRAFFIC JAMMED everywhere. I decided to go back home for a rest while waiting traffic to ease off. To make a claim I need :

a) Police report

b) Valid driving license
c) Copy of Car grant
d) Fill in the claim form (hell man, you need to draw out the scene!!Crap!)

d) If you don't possess item (b), find a replacement driver!!

We travelled to police station at 9pm, it was heavy rain, bumper-to-bumper, traffic moved as if it never move!! We endured for an hour before decided to head home. 11pm, we travel again to police station.

From lodging report to interview with sergeant and photograph the dented spot, it was past mid night. Tired and Sleepy. Fortunately the driver lodged the report as well. According to sergeant, you'll be doomed if the driver didn't show up. The summons letter would be sent however it might be like another summons you received (as usual we don't pay summons haha).

The next day morning, I took another time off (Stupid mechanic came at 9.30am luckily he was quite cute, so^^). Submitted the necessary document however car grant need to be udpated with latest roadtax renewal (Apparrently my agent didn't carry out his due diligent). I resumed at work at 10.30am.

Following week, I  managed to get agent to collect my car grant from bank only realized it was released last year! I got so panic!! Numerous calls back and forth amid my working hours ( I felt so bad over the unproductive day, I'm professional ok!) and finally found the grant left at parents home (No..it wasn't my fault but I won't tell you why it landed there). 

So I went to JPJ (The Malaysian Road Transport Department) the following day, another time off. Reached JPJ and only realized my grant was udpated but the photostat copy (apparently the photostat copy was past year!). Dumb! I scanned the copy and forward the updated grant to the cute mechanic.

Moral of the story 3: Get a dedicated insurance agent (professional advisory & support can be obtained)

So far I think problems being resolved and waiting for the spareparts delivery (my worries now is the police report doesn't has the photographer's details!!). Well, this is not ended, I would be carless for 2 days at least when I send it for final repair.

In summary of this car accident:

1. You travel intensively to make police report

2. Hectic schedule to complete documents for submision
3. 3- 4 time off distrupted your work

4. Time spent on numerous travellings, phone calls

5. Emotionally affected from panic, upset, stress

At the end of the day, you ask yourself, is that worth to spend all these hassles to make a claim?

Moral of the story 4: If you met an car accident and you're confident that you're not the wrong one, FUCK the driver first...regardless he's apologetic or not ==II.

Battleship

Due to overwhelming response on Mirror Mirror the cashier offered us Battleship instead. The title sounded interesting and I do have vague impression from the promotion mediums, so we went ahead with it.

'Battleship is an epic blockbuster summer action film which is inspired by the popular Hasbro game Battleship.  An action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies, and over land as our planet fights for the survival against a superior force.'

It's an Armageddon, numbers of armada driven by Aliens and Marine, extremely destructive, huge explosion, super high voltage electrical artillery, armaments. Aliens  are armed with super high explosion resistance amour and spaceship. The casts typically consist of a hero, boobies, joker and commander. I like the overall production, alien costume especially, look at the evolved super high voltage weapons and human evolved aliens, I would say the movie has high quality of production. It isn't super fiction but high possibility of existence.

Starred by Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson, Directed by Peter Berg, movie starts off with United Nation reaching out to a planet which shared the similar climate which potentially living by creature like us - Human, however the frequency attracted explosive attacks from aliens instead...

It is kind of entertaining holiday program, swooped by the non-stop actions, bashing soundsystem (No I don't really like action movie unless something I can comprehend, in this case I do!) does awaken my mind a little.

Although it  was big budget movie which ranked the same like King Kong, X-men, Spiderman 3, Avatar, but there were area that I felt a bit lacking as compared to all these blockbuster and high box office film.

a) No cohesive impact in certain scenes i.e. you'll notice broken spaceship doesn't impact on the nearby boat  

b) The humongous navy ship got swirled away like a toy - Shifting the rudder doesn't just make the ship go into the direction wanted, immediately

c) Oh, why Rihana? Why her? Her role doesn't seem to bring value in the entire movie??!!!

Anyways, the movie carries few educational values:

a) Boobies gets its perks - like the Chicken Burrito (Grinning is right lol)

b) Honesty & Humility - Respect the leadership, remove the ego

c) Friendship - Friendship made through good and hard time

d) 'Malaysia' was mentioned in the movie!! Bravo (Is our Marines forces that good which worth to mention? or It was a paid advertisement? lol).

Some sneak preview for your reference? ^^

Stomach Flu Journal

I felt prick inside my stomach, it comes and goes, comes and goes, doesn't detrimental to my routine except I visited washroom more often. After enduring the same symptoms for couple of days I knew I'm infected. I thought by take care of my diet it will be fine (sure it would be fine got Immune mah). But it doesn't.

Finally I went to visit doctor, without further diagnostication, doctor prescribed me with "Flagyl" (antibiotic). I followed his advise - removed anything with Oil, Dairy (Not diary, i know I spelled wrongly in FB dahhh...enough, no more laughing!!), Fried, Hot and many many more. That means, I can only eat bread & plain porridge. Arrrggghhh...kill me. 

Each time thinking of my favorites dip cream ranch with chips, I told myself "be patient", when I feel like munching - Oreo "be patient", peanut butter with bread "patient........", yogurt for my lunch? "Be patient gal.......". I also have to look away when passing by the array of soda drinks and not all, I had removed the 'must have'  - fruuuuuits in my life, not to forget my the only joy from mom's cook, as well. 

Frankly I do feel depress for awhile..how well a person can be being deprived from the heavenly scrumptious food? T.T

I can't enjoy any of these:

Recently bought dip creamy ranch, yummy

 Pasta Zanmai's Unagi Egg Rice

My cooking-lah, nice?

 

My favorite - PUMPIN ><

 My mom's drooling dish - see?

but ......replaced with:

 Tea - I can count the number of time I drink tea with fingers

 I eat this at 10pm which I usually don't eat anything at this hour, but diarrhea...well.

 Weetameal - I love this, but not at 11pm!!!

 The most bearable home cook - Bean sprout :(

and my mom's specially cook for her beloved daughter - No oil ><

After  a week and a half..TADAH!!! I have recovered???!!! Nope, pricking sensation remained. Damn it! Imagine, I need to scrutinise every damn thing before making an order, that is so tormenting. How do I dissect my order? Here is the scenario. Action!!

It was my 12th day of infection. I walked into San Francisco located in this office building (don't ask which one), as usual, I tried to order err..the wrap something. can't remember the name, basically a pita bread wrap with bbq chicken and salad top with honey mustard <---(Remember this!!)

"Give me one without mustard". I order (This is the sign of the 12th day of being sick, brain work very slow)
" err...it's honey mustard". He repeated.
" Yes, give me one without mustard". I said it confidently
" It comes together". He replied patiently. (Me, so bodoh (Stupid) ><)
" Oh, then what does mustard made of?" I don't eat mustard, I find it awful.
" hmm..something cheese..?". He wasn't sure either. "Oh..". Dumb me. So.
" Then give me that without condiment". 100 times dumb!
Basically, this is how I dissect my food before ordering, anything 'fishy' will be 'interrogated'. That was how I lived for that past 2 weeks.

Finally got something from internet (shhh...!!). It look something like that.

I went to visit the doctor again, I told him it didn't work and why he didn't prescribed me with charcoal? He got caught off guard. Later the medication lasted me for another 1 and half weeks. I resumed my diet with or without ensuring stomach was ok. ==.

It has been weeks and I'm still surviving, so I guess I'm strong enough to fight against it!! Awesome!!



Facebook

I've been quite active in Facebook (FB) lately and I seriously enjoy interact with my friends (I meet face-to-face), cyber friends (only meet cyber-ly), new friends (selected ones), game friends (from the FB game I played previously), family members (you'll be surprise how many of them are in this interactive circle now ^^).

I recently got connected to my long lost Primary/High school mates, exclaimation mark is right ^^. Yes  after decades and we finally got connected via Facebook. Thanks to FB. Not all, my other lost touched friends and acquaintances are also within my radar now. It's a great way to keep updated with what they have been up to, their thoughts, on day-to-day basis.

Effective events mangement, now you didn't have to send invitation card and you get to see who's attending, comments on the event, it's fun! You can also broadcast your blog (like I did, something I felt is valuable to my reader. So ==). In a nutshell, FB is a one stop internet social network tool, therefore the millions of users today.


Lately I noticed FB-ian has been slowing down in update things in them, some debated 'It's privacy'. Well. I still do my day-to-day updates as I find it's good to share my thoughts and things evolve around me (of course not every damn things, but mostly) with my friends. I'm generous right? Hehe.

Today, many people has been using Facebook more of third party stuff:

1. Sharing an online quotes (It brings no value as it isn't your personal thoughts, but it's fine, some inspiring quotes, why not)

2. Sharing an online video clips (especially those 'forcing' you to 'like' them, gggrrhh)

3. Sharing fun pictures (nothing special but at least it make you happy, some can be hillarious)

4. Spreading polical influence (which is fine till the election is over)

5. Sharing/Tagging your products (if these are something good and helping you, I don't mind lorr)

6. Sharing your game score (you want to share you were leveled up, I'm happy for you)

What I find it really loathsome, nasty, obnoxious (ok, I think I have expressed enough for now!!) was, those who shared:

1. Raunchy photos of adult/children (This is violeting the law of minority, I seriously find them brainless)

2. Luring Comics (Do you have to share your favorites racy comics with your friends PUBLICLY?)

3. Gruesome photos (what can I do with these gruesome tragedy? Can I undo? NO!!!)

4. Tragical helps (You should know victims don't get any incentives but you're revealing your contacts. Wake up. Don't fall for their tricks)
5. Threatening shares (I give no damn action, bloody childish and nasty!)

So, I urge

Stop displaying arousing photos, it gives bad influence to children (As for adults, we know where to find those sites, so don't bloody have to share yours!)

Stop being "too frank" to your friends, we didn't need to be shoved into your dirty interest (It might be a fun interest in your dirty perspective, but from dirty perspective it's plain dirty!)

Conduct yourself in internet social network ethically, you're responsible for infludences you made to the community. Love your friends and people around you

Mark Zuckerberg, PLEASE SCAN THE PHOTOS AND ENFORCE SPAMING POLICY

OK, I hope I had made my point, if you don't like please click "unfriend"