Relax …

The Tao of Detox
by Daniel Reid

Detoxing is an important topic if you are interested in health issues. The body is not healthy when your internal system is full of toxin, even if you have a lot of muscle and excellent stamina.

This books talks about various detox methods, from traditional chinese medicine perspective, to the modern and unusual gadgets. It includes chapters like water healing, solar healing, detox powders, food menu and a lot more.

It also discusses ways to minimize toxin intake (polution, food etc.) in our daily lives.

Read it today and clean your body system so that you can live in an efficient and fresh physical body.

Respect

There are many human characters in this world, just like there are many types of species of organism existing on this planet. Endless colours integrated into a spectrum of rainbow. Each of them is unique and special respectively. They are only rated “better” or “worse” based on our own personal perception, but they are just what they are, just like a leaf on the ground and the stars in the sky.

Such richness of varieties makes us having perception towards everything and anything. We tend to favour something and dislike something, just like we tend to favour certain colours and dislike certain shades. Keep in mind that it is just our perception towards them that influences their “quality” or “appearance”. In nature, they are still being just what they are.

Problem arises when we humans do not understand such a simple thing. When there is something or someone that we find unpleasant and disliking, some of us react negatively to it even though it is not harming us. From here comes many “filtering” of how we treat things and people.

For people, some of us start to treat others based on religion, race, language, relationship and so on. Now come the double standards that give birth to a lot of problems like nepotism, cronyism, racism, sexism and various discrimination. We lose our ability to respect people for being who they are and what they choose to be. We see them as enemies instead of individuals.

It becomes worse when people become so blinded and emotional until they choose to kill and destroy those individuals they do not favour. Many homosexuals, pagans, farmers, merchants, blacks etc. are discriminate, captured, tortured and killed. They were forced to become someone they do not choose to be and do things that they choose not to do. They were just individuals with families just like everyone else, but people do not care. Where is the respect and compassion? How could we ripped of their very basic human rights?

Some of these killers and destroyers are “role models” of our society. They are priests, preachers, leaders and Noble prize winners. Surprisingly they caused harm to humanity without conscience and respect to others. It becomes a big disappointment for humanity.

Learn to love and be compassionate. Respect other individuals as they are and what they choose to do. It is their basic human rights even if we do not find it pleasant to us. Not all colours favour us, but they are there as they are to complete the spectrum, so are human beings around us. Remember, they are individuals just like you.

Your Money or Your Life
by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin

This is a very good book on Personal Finance.
It teaches you how to reach financial independance and improve your relationship with money.

Many people are in bad shape financially due to ignorance. That is why we really need to learn about personal finance.

I strongly recommend you to read this book. It has helped me financially and now, thanks to the book, I am planning my retirement in 5 to 15 years time.

wish me luck.

Remember, this book is not teaching you how to become a rich guy nor speculating in stock market.

It guides you to gain a better relationship with money and pave way to financial freedom. You will know what you trully need to buy with money, what is a waste of money and so on by reading this wonderful book.

Sorry for being idle for quite some time already. I was trying to adapt to my new working (internship) life. I underwent some training and did some work. OK, now I am back for a while. Sorry for keeping you guys waiting. I appreciate you for being so supportive. 

Integration, as in combining some new elements to this blog.

At first I was thinking of having separate blogs for certain topics to keep its special mood. I think I can’t afford doing so. I am integrating some other stuffs into this blog including book reviews, tips on improving oneself and so on. I might have various style of writing. Too bad I might not guarantee that I will add nice pictures every time I update my blog. Sorry for that. If that is the case, I will just add a cup of tee. Hehe.

Nowadays I might post some book reviews. I really hope you enjoy it. Book review is one way for me to contribute something to the world.

 
 
 
Health
 
Health is an important aspect in life.
Sadly many of us negleted it thinking that we are quite healthy.
We are actually living a very unhealthy life.
Coming up next…. I shall talk about health and how to maintain it.
 
 
 
* picture courtesy of Tim Jacob
 
 
 

Doha International Airport

 
 
 
The Relaxing Rooms
 
I stopped at Doha International Airport on my way from Frankfurt to Kuala Lumpur.
I saw something interesting. There are special rooms for people to relax at the airport !

[ Prayer room, Quiet room, Smoking room and Toilet ]

prayer room

It looks calm and relaxing.
However, I am not into religious stuff.

quiet room

It is dark and cool.
There are quite a lot of inclined chairs for people to lie down and rest.

smoking room

Smoking makes smokers less tense.
There is a special room for smokers to hang out.
Smoking room looks a bit like sauna chamber where smokers can sit there and relax.
Instead of hot vapour, the room is saturated with smoke.
It might be a nice place for smokers,
but it might not be relaxing for non smokers. *cough*

I wonder who is that girl who touches her butt. yummie….

The toilet or restroom can be relaxing to some people…. well…

Resting

At the end, I choosed to rest at the quiet room while listening to some peaceful songs.
Did I make the right choice?
I am glad I did.
 
 
 

the artist when he is still young

 
 
 
The Blogger is back !
 
Sorry for being idle for a while.
I just came back on 23rd March and my internship started on the following Monday.
I have to cope with jet lag and working hours,
that is why I can’t blog so soon.
 
 
 

 
Anyways my 5-week holidays were great.
I have the chance to meet some cool bloggers like the cool Robb, Japanophileans kurokei and Reiko.

I managed to get some nice books on health and I have a nice time in Singapore.
 
 
 

 
The people in Singapore are not as nasty as described by many people, at least not so bad to a tourist like me.
Singaporeans are quite fashion conscious and that is something cool about them.
However, the law enforcement of the infamous nanny state is not something pleasant.
As I have said, Singapore is “dangerous” not because of criminals, but because of its weird law enforcement.
You will be sent to jail for two years for performing oral sex, yet prostitution is tolerated.

I think Singapore is a nice place to visit,
but not really a good place to live.

Unknown person

 
 
 
Taking a Break
 

My exam is coming to an end. I have a few more papers left and then I will go back to my hometown and enjoy my life there for about 5 weeks.
The message of this post is obvious,
I am taking a short break from blogging.
I shall be back at the end of March 2007.

I have a few things that I plan to do soon.

1. I plan to meet some of my readers and bloggers in real life. If you are interested to meet me, I will be glad to drink tea with you.

2. I plan to visit Singapore. I have never been there before.

3. I plan to read more self help books and do some cool exercises. Most probably I will blog about them here.

4. I plan to start a group blog soon. The details of this new blog will remain as mystery for now.

5. I plan to complete my previous post on Italian food. I have no time to write about it now due to exam.

Finally, I wish you happy Chinese New Year.
Thanks for all your support. I am happy to have you as my readers.
I hope to see you soon.

One day

 
 
 
One day

Today I would love to share a nicely edited Music Video with you.
It is not original but I find it being made like a series of moving inspirational cards. I really like this idea.
The song One Day is not any typical love song.
It is a very motivational song, sung by Sissel from Norway, is what I would love to play over and over again to gain inner glow and strength.
I hope you will like the voice and video.

Click here for the video : One Day

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my readers for being so loyal and supportive.
That is the fun part of blogging, the part where readers and the writer are enjoying sweet interaction and understanding and love is achieved.
I am glad that some of you love the relaxing pictures and exercises here.
Some of you who tried the self help exercises here seem to benefit a lot from them, am I right?
I was quite happy when you guys told me that the honey lemon tonic helps you a lot.

I feel grateful for your support and I shall continue to blog with passion. Hopefully there will be more cool stuffs and exercises that will benefit you greatly.
We shall see about that…. one day.
Anyways, expect some surprises in the future.

I love you all ^_^
Have fun and keep experimenting.

Usually I don’t blog about gadgets and devices because on this blog I discuss about arts, self help and anything that makes us feel relaxed. Today’s post is a bit special because the gadget I am talking about has greatly eased my 2-month backpacking trip in Europe. It simply made my traveling experience more relaxed so I feel the need to share such a wonderful stuff with you.

VARTA is a well known battery maker in Europe. Its head office is in Ellwangen, Germany. It is just 15 minute ride from my place. Another famous company near my place is Carl Zeiss, the best optical instrument maker in the world. It’s cool to live near these big companies.

Recently VARTA has launched their new product called 15 minutes Charge and Go !
Self-explanatory, it simply charges their special AA and AAA size batteries in just 15 minutes !
The coolest part is that the batteries outperform similar rechargeable batteries that take more than 8 hours of charging. I am brutally honest here.
A set of such AA batteries can last for more than a day in a digicam for a backpacker like me.
I got this stuff quite early maybe because I live quite near to VARTA headquarter.

In my first backpacking trip I have to charge my batteries for many hours and that is quite stressful for a person who has to move about frequently. Today with these VARTA batteries, I just need to charge them while enjoying my meals. Everything is just so easy !
Now I just need to bring an army of 8 VARTA batteries in my backpack adventure.
I will never look back again. No regrets, no problem, and there is only comfort and satisfaction.

* Update
 

OK guys, I have found out that the price for the double slot AA / AAA battery charger (exactly same as in the picture) costs only 30 Euro (batteries included) and a pair of AA batteries alone costs 8 Euro. The full 4 battery slots charger cost about 70 euro.
If you live near Kuala Lumpur, I might get it for you, for a little bit of commission of ccourse

Budapest, Hungary

 
 
 
Effective Way to Deal with Anger and Stress

 
Dealing with explosive emotions like anger and stress is easy to say than to do.
How can we deal with them easily yet effectively?
Simply tap yourself over and over again.

The Chinese believe that emotions and body are closely related.
The organs and energy meridians in the body have emotional elements and how you feel will affect the body, and vice versa.
Therefore it is quite effective to deal with the emotion-body energy system to eliminate anger and stress.

Previously I blogged about Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) that effectively deals with emotions.
It has the function of triggering the emotion so that anger and stress can surface and manifest itself for us to eliminate, by tapping a few acupressure points that can get rid of them quickly and cleanly.
We can simplify the whole EFT thing to just tapping so that we can deal with our emotional problems directly.
The tapping itself is the main method to release emotional energy blockage and outburst, which is causing a lot of problems.

I shall outline some of the points to be tapped with your fingers (not nails) of both hands.
You simply need to tap each point rapidly for about 7 times.
 
 

Here’s a video demo of the points to be tapped. (just skip the non tapping part)

Although it seems ridiculous to get rid of anger and stress by just tapping but from the experience of many people it works quite well. Tapping for one round alone (tapping through the points mentioned above once) can greatly reduce the level of negative emotions.
When you are really in bad mood from exam, work, annoyance or anything else,
quickly do the tapping again and again,
even though this might not seem to work at first but after many rounds (10, 20 or 30 rounds, which won’t last for more than 10 minutes)
You will notice that the outburst is reduced significantly and the feeling of inner bliss is felt.

Always choose to do tapping when you are angry or stressed.
It is much better than hurting yourself, your loved ones and your valuable things,
and it deals with the root of the problem directly.

Sometimes anger or stress can be subtle so it is a good idea to do the tapping a few short rounds even though you are not experiencing outburst. The problem is there, it is just that sometimes we are not aware of it. It can cause muscular tension or dull feeling. So when you are taking a walk, waiting at train station or not doing anything, go through the tapping gently.
You might even notice that you feel calmer and less tense after doing it as subtle stress is removed.

I hope this simple tapping exercise will help you greatly to deal with your problems in life.
Have fun and keep experimenting.