Lettuce(Name in Malay : Selada/ Name in Cantonese : Sang Choy)

Its benefits :
(a)Lowering risks of cancer, heart diseases, cataract and stroke
(b)Good for cell growth
(c)Prevention of arteriosclerosis
(d)Induces sound sleep

It contains folic acid, vitamin B, vitamin C and vitamin E.

Long Bean(Name in Malay : Kacang Panjang/ Name in Cantonese : Tau Kok)

Its benefits :
(a)Healthy development of eyesight
(b)Improvement of the thinking process
(c)Good for formation of bones and teeth, muscles and skin

It contains vitamin A, vitamin B and vitamin C and is also an antioxidant.

Females normally, getting up early in the morning and brushing your messy yet long hair...
Well, do you know that besides just keeping your hair look tidy, there is actually a secret behind the brushing.

Mothers usually instruct their daughters to brush their hair before going to bed or even getting up. Well-behaved girls were well rewarded, their hair did indeed shine attractively.

The facts for this is that brushing stimulates oil glands in the scalp, making the hair shiny and also it helps to eliminate dandruff and dust that would otherwise make the hair look unattractive.

Note : Although brushing your hair might make you look good, but overdoing it will do more harm than good, thinning the hair and splitting the ends.

Each day we meet different people...
We recall the people we met by their looks and names
But,
We tend to forget names easily
Why?

It is common to most of us and is embarassing. Usually, we can enormous details about a person whose name we forget such as the person's nationality or perhaps an occupation. The harder we try to remember, the more mysterious the name becomes.

Most people can recall precisely what they are doing when they heard the death news of their dearest ones. Most students could remember love affairs than their studies. This proves that high emotion is definite a memory aid.

We can remember one face among thousands, but it seems the process of identification works in the opposite. Example, shows the face of a well known person, say, Albert Einstein. The first response might be "He is a great scientist" or "That man is a genius". If we could recall it, the name comes next.

The brain stores information about names in separate department. To unlock that, we have to go through the others. People suffering from brain damage sometimes lose particular functions. A patient was able to divide a pile of photographs into groups of famous and unfamous people but he had the greatest challenge in naming any of them.

Note : Try to look for your school class photos. You could easily remember your classmates' personalities but not the names.

Pea(Name in Malay : Kacang Ercis/ Name in Cantonese : Ho Lan Tau)

Its benefits :
(a)Healthy development of the eyes
(b)Lowers cholesterol levels
(c)Required for the development of healthy skin
(d)Lowers risks of cancer, cataracts, heart diseases and stroke

It contains folic acid, vitamin B and vitamin C, fibre, zinc and iron.

Pumpkin(Name in Malay : Labu Merah/ Name in Cantonese : Kam Kua)

Its benefits :
(a)Lowers risks of stroke, cataracts, cancer and heart diseases
(b)Helps to maintain healthy eyes

it contains amino acids, vitamin C and vitamin E, carotenes, lutein and zeaxanthin.

Pork Rib Soup with Water Chestnut, Soybean and Carrot

You must have(ingredients) :
10 - 15 water chestnuts
3 ounces of soybeans
3 ounces of carrot
10 ounces of pork rib

Methods :
(1)Wash the pork rib and put it into boiling water for a few minutes
(2)Take up the pork rib and drain it until no water is remained on it
(3)Wash the soybeans
(4)Peel and wash the water chestnuts
(5)Peel and wash the carrot
(6)Cut the carrot into big pieces
(7)Put all ingredients into a big pot of boiling water
(8)Boil it for 2 hours with low fire

Stewed Chicken with Fungus and Dried Longan Soup

You must have(ingredients) :
1 ounce of dried white fungus
1 ounce of dried longans
1 spring chicken(small)
4 red dates

Methods :
(1)Wash and soack the dried white fungus until it is enlarge and soft
(2)Rinse dried longans
(3)Remove seeds from red dates
(4)Clean the red dates
(5)Wash the spring chicken and put it into boiling water for a few minutes
(6)Take the spring chicken out and drain until no water is remained on it
(7)Put all ingredients into a stew pot and stew for 2 - 3 hours
(8)Ready to serve in pot

As we all know, all living things born once, die once.
Out of all possibilities, why do cats can live 9 times? Or have 9 lives?
Is it a rumour, a saying or a believe?

Most animals have built-in sense of alertness around their surroundings especially the prey trying to evade themselves from the predators. Among domestic animals, cat is the most reliant upon alertness, inheriting from their ancestors characteristics, dexterous, agile and instant reflexes, the wild cat. Even the dog seldom maintains quite the same razor-sharp alertness. The dogs' ability is its stamina, cooperation with its fellows, canine and human.

The cat's combination of caution, agility and rapid reaction to emergency has become part of our myth. The myth prevails, no matter how dangerous a cat is placed on a situation could possibly be, the cat will somehow find its way out if there is a way of surviving.

Cutting your fingers would hurt you...
Cutting your legs would have hurt you even more...
Infact, cutting any part of the body will definitely hurt you
But,
Have you ever wonder why it does not hurt when you have a haircut?
It is still a part of your body...But it doesn't hurt
Why?

Almost your whole body is covered with hair, some of it is noticeable others is barely visible to the naked eye. Hair grows around 5 million follicles, about 100,000 are in the scalp. As the hair emerges from within a follicle, it is already dead and no shampoo or any treatment would revive it.

Scalp hairs grows about 12 to 15 cm in a year. The hair keeps growing and growing, even it is dead because the older dead hair cells are pushed out by the new hair growth. That is the reason why cutting the dead hair would not hurt but pulling the hair from the roots would make you cry.

Note : Everytime you comb your hair, you may remove about 100 hairs. This is very common and is no case to worry unless it gets excessive.

The word garlic...
Some people fear by just thinking of the name itself
Some people fear the smell of it
Some people would never eat it a second time
Is garlic so fearsome?

Well, here's some fact that you should know

Garlic is a relative to the onion and a member of the lily family. Garlic has been rated for its medical properties which have been confirmed by Western researches. The oils contain numerous complex sulphur compounds and it is proven to be a powerful antibiotic and antiseptic. People find it that it has significant effects as a defense against the colds, for diarrhoea or nausea and to soothe a sore throat. It can also bring down the cholesterol levels and reduce high blood pressure.

If you have some of the symptoms, do not hesitate to try the mysterious yet magical wonder food 'Garlic'.

Note : It can be eaten raw. Caution, try a tiny bit first if you have never eaten raw garlics as it might cause discomforts around the stomach.

Yam Potato Kuih

You must have(ingredients) :
1/2 pound of potatoes
1/2 pound of yam
2 tblsp of sugar

Method :
(1)Peel off the yam skin
(2)Clean & cut into thin slices and steam for 10 minutes or more till soft
(3)Peel off the potatoes' skin
(4)Clean & cut into small cubes, put into a pot of hot water and boil till soft with low fire
(5)Drain the yam and potatoes separately, leaving next to no water surrounded
(6)Mash and mix well with sugar separately
(7)Pour 1 layer of potatoes onto a clean steel plate, pour another layer of yam onto the layer of potato. Arrangement can be vice-versa
(8)Ready to serve with salad cream

Crispy Potato Balls

You must have(ingredients) :
1 pound of potatoes
4 ounces of flour
(seasonings) :
4 tblsp of cooking oil
2 tsp of salt
1 tsp of monosodium glutamade(Ajinomoto)

Method :
(1)Peel off the potatoes' skin
(2)Clean & cut into 1/2
(3)Put the potatoes into a pot of hot water and boil until it is soft with low fire
(4)Take out & put the potatoes in a big bowl, mash it, add some salt, monosodium glutamade and flour, mix it well
(5)Heat up the cooking oil and turn it to low fire
(6)Turn the mashed potatoes into small round balls with fingers or teaspoons
(7)Put it into the heated oil & deep fried until it turns golden brown
(8)Ready to serve with tomato or chilli sauce

Ever thought of being to somewhere where you have actually never been?
Doing something which you have never done?
Sometimes it could be bad, sometimes it could be good,
You only realise when you are woke up from your sleep,
But have you release why do we have such dreams and nightmares?

Nothing is more complicated than the fantasies created in our dreams.
Some are fascinating, with all the joy, happiness and romance. We wake up sorry to find out that we have been dreaming. Aw...

Some dreams are so bizzare that we are astounded: people appear who have been out of our thoughts for years, decades become scrambled and we do things we would never dare to do in real life.

Other kind of dream solves a problem. We get the answer to a complicated task or some difficulty in solving puzzles. We can locate the lost object. The answer comes like a miracle out of nowhere and we remember it delightedly when we wake up.

In another type of dream, we find ourselves in a hopeless situation such as you're trap in a bathroom and unable to get out, buses depart when we are desperate to catch it, but our legs won't function. To a certain degree farther, the unpleasant dream becomes a nightmare, from which a person may wake in shock, trembling with fear.

Studies have proven that some dreams are a form of wish-fulfillment which closely related to the deep emotional reaction of a person. A dream is often presented in disguised form.

Dreams are an extension of daytime consciousness, a process which absorbs the ideas, feelings and mental impressions from a variety of sources during our waking hours. Strange and unexplainable events take place in dreams because the conscious mind of the day is sleeping. The actions in our mind that control during the waking hours are left to run freely.

Have you experience true nightmares once or more in a year? It is because a person have experience real tragedies in real life such as car accidents or death of a close relative. In other words, those people who do alot of creative works tend to have more nightmare than others.

Researches record the brain's electrical impulses, such that we know dreams take place during rapid eye movement(REM).If you notice a person's eyes rolling from left to right and vice versa while they are sleeping, then you may know that the person is currently dreaming.

What is REM? During REM, the brain is super-duper active. People that woke up during an REM phase often remember the dreams in detail very well. This explains why we could recall some dreams and not others.

Do you know who spends more time in REM sleep? The baby, and so do the people who have suffered head injury. REM recorded during the baby's sleep shows a particular pattern that pinpoint the child's personality.

Having a dream constantly is a good thing because it stimulates the cells within the brain to function efficiently.

Notes : Inception is a movie that explains the process how a dream within a dream in another dream takes place.

Carrot(Name in Malay : Lobak Merah/ Name in Cantonese : Hong Lo Bak)

Its benefits :
(a)Can be eaten raw to lower blood cholesterol
(b)Lowers the risk of various cancers such as breast, colon, cervix, larnyx, lung, bladder and prostate.

Due to its strong antioxidant content, it also contributes to reducing heart diseases. It contains protein, fibre, beta-carotene, calcium, vitamin E, vitamin C and iron.

Cauliflower(Name in Malay : Bunga Kubis/ Name in Cantonese : Pau Choy Fa)

Its benefits :
(a)Lowers the risk of cancer of the colon, lungs and breast
(b)Reduces risk of heart diseases
(c)Reduces risk of cataracts

It contains various vitamins and minerals such as proteins, fibre, beta-carotene, folic acid, calcium, iron, vitamin C, vitamin E, potassium and zinc.

Due to its high antioxidant content, it is truly a health-giving vegetable.

You laugh, I laugh ;d
They laugh, We laugh :D

People say "An apple a day keeps a doctor away"
But for me, you don't need an apple because laughter is the best medicine.

Why?

The mind has an enormous influence over our health.
Doctors' casebook are full of examples of patients whose illness came from general depression.
When a healthy person receives bad news, is understandably upset and before long complains of being 'run down'. One British shows that chronic diseases among the unemployed is six times as high as among those at work.

The body reacts to mental stress by producing more cortisol and adrenaline.
These hormones increase the heart rate and blood pressure, improving our performance so that we can perform more efficiently. Too much stress overstimulates the hormone production, causing us to become less efficient. That is the reason why some people faced with life-threatening crisis find themselves unable to act rationally.

Laughter triggers nerves in the brain to start a chain of reactions. The body's endocrine system secretes natural painkillers and tranquillisers. Other substances aid digestion and the arteries relax to improve the blood flow.

There is no doctor would say that laughter will cure all kinds of diseases, but there is no doubt a laughter does bring us all a power of good.

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