Juicing (2)

Water Melon Juice & Green Apple Juice

I have tried this many times.

Whenever I feel that I am going to have fever (my temperature goes up), I would buy half (if not one) a water melon and juice it. Then I drink the juice.

After that I would swallow a few tablets (5 to 10) of Yin Qiao （银翘片) and go to sleep. Of course if possible I would not switch on the air-cond the whole night.

The next morning I would be ok.

Well, water melon has got good cooling effect. It is good if your body is heaty. Another type of juice which I like most is apple juice. Just go and buy green apples (need not be expensive), peel off the skin and juice it. Usually I use 5 apples each time.

The effect of green apples is excellent. For those who have constipation problem, it would help you. The effect is quite mild and you know, if you eat lots of apple or drink lots of apple juice, it is ok to your body. It is neither heaty nor too cooling. (For water melon, it is very cooling.)

If you have fever problem, besides drinking water melon juice, green apple juice would also be good.

Juicing

No politics, no gossip, no unhappiness but juicing

Well, I start to learn about juicing. For a start, probably you want to follow me:-

Celery, apple, capsicum, cucumber and bittergourd.

I make the above into juice every morning. On and off I would have this combination. Some people say it would reduce blood pressure. I can't guarantee you. But let me tell you, the feeling is good.

After taking juice continuously for more than 1 month, I can sleep well most of the nights (before this, I just could not). I sweat. I feel better.

Probably you want to follow.....

Mini Budget

The Mini Budget, to me is not something to shout about!

The stimulus package is RM60 Billion, i.e about RM2,400 per person.

There is no income tax reduction.

You and I still pay the same amount of tax. The goods are expensive now. The inflation rate is riding high and there is no indication it will go down.

There is no extra contribution for our EPF.

We may not get good increment this year.

There is no direct money to assist us to go through tough time.

LRT fare is still high. Petrol price is still high. Food is still expensive.

In Singapore, the citizen's CPF (EPF) account received money from the government under the last stimulus package.

In Taiwan, people were given special voucher amounting to RM300 plus to spend.

I would prefer Pak Lah to Najib. At least Pak Lah gave us RM625 last year.

Suddenly I dream.....

If I were the Finance Minister, I would probably allocate RM100 to each student. Therefore, those families who have more children would get more money.

I would propose to credit RM500 to EPF account of every individual, especially for those accounts whose balance is less than RM100,000.

Further, for those account whose balance is less than RM50,000 (or whatever amount which is justifiable), 1% extra interest to be given to them.

I would reduce the LRT fare, commuter fare and bus fare. I would allocate quite a fair bit to subsidize the public transport.

I would reduce the electricity fare, petrol price and quit rent.

With this few measures implemented, I am sure you and I would be very happy.

Rakyat Malaysia are very simple. We want some assistance to go through tough time. Things which are too far away, we may not able to feel it. I am talking about the macro economic measures which have been announced by the government in Parliament. To me, all those would not have immediate effect.


Well, if I want to get the support from the rakyat so that Barisan would win in the next election, then I would propose a two-month bonus for government servants in 2009.

Malaysia - A lovely country!?

We have a lovely country. Our leaders say we don't have earthquake, tsunami etc. They say we are lucky. The school teachers also teach the same. They tell our children, "you are very lucky!". They say all the ethnic groups in Malaysia live happily. They say the government is very fair to all races. Our children are very proud of the country. They come back and tell the parents the stories. The parents are stunned. Some parents do not know how to tell their children......

I tell my daughter these:-

We don't have earthquake but many lives lost in the road accidents and landslides.

We don't have birdflu but many people died of dengue.

Nobody has got affected or died of Melamine, but our Ministers and government are very worried. They take lots of measures to check and prevent this from happening. Hurray to them! However, dengue took away many lives in Malaysia but the government or the minister does not have any effective way to curb this.

We do not have racial riot in this country but the politicians are arguing, fighting and debating about racial issues everyday.

Our police force is one of the most efficient force in this world, but snatch thieves are found everywhere.

We have one of the best education systems in this region, but our politicians are debating about the teaching medium of Science and Maths in schools, either continue to use English or mother tongues. Politicians are busy in politicing the education issue. Suddenly there are lots of politicians who sent their children to national school stand up and fight for the vernacular (national type) schools' right, though these types of schools which have Tamil and Chinese as their medium were not of their concern before.

Our LRT network is also one of the best in the region. But if you want to take LRT, you can choose to pay by Touch n Go, cash, cuopon or getting a card from the machine. Yup, it is very efficient, but most of the people or tourists are confused. The worst part is the ticketing machines break down very often.

If you take LRT, please be aware, different LRT providers would have different stations and the stations do not link. Eg, Putra and Star stations of Masjid Jamed, Monorail does not link to Sentral Station.

Our politicians or ministers appear in Newspapers and media everyday. The interesting thing is that many of them always come up with contradicting statements.

We have members of parliament who like to make jokes of female MP, but they forget their mothers are also female. The MP teach our children not to speak vulgar words, but they speak them in the parliament house.

My daughter, do you know, our country is a lovely country!

There is hope in Vietnam

Recently I traveled to Ho Chi Minh, the largest city of Vietnam.

The country was occupied by Chinese for more than 1000 years since Dynasty Tang. Vietnamese language then was Chinese Language. Thereafter it was colonized by France for another 100 years. During the occupation of France, French helped Vietnamese to invent their language that is similar to the French language. From thereon, Chinese Language started to diminish in Vietnam.

Vietnamese spent 9 years fighting with France to gain independence. The Vietnam War which took another 21 years saw the Northern Vietnam declaring war with Southern Vietnam. Millions of people were killed in the war. Vietnamese launched the guerrilla wars against the American. They managed to chase American away.

US suffered major loss in Vietnam War. In fact, American not only suffered loss in Vietnam, but also Afghanistan & Iraq.

In 1988, Vietnamese government (The Communist Government) allowed Vietnamese to learn foreign languages and started to liberalize the economy in Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh (used to be called Saigon) is the earliest city to be allowed to practice market economy in Vietnam.

There are altogether 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam (China has 56 ethnics) with Buddhism as the main religion.

Before I went there, I used to think that Vietnamese are like Mainland Chinese. My impression of China is that the people there were generally quite rude and not that sincere in doing business. (So sorry, this was the experience I encountered in China many years ago. Of course, this is only a small group of culprits.) However, the encounter that I had in Vietnam was excellent. The people there are sincere in doing business, very warm towards tourists and are very helpful. They gave tourists very good hospitality.

Back in 30 years ago, the Vietnamese refugees were being chased out by their government (some actually chose to run away from the country) from their country and quite a number of them came to Malaysia to seek shelter. I remember they were placed at Bidong Island at Terengganu (or Kelantan?). The Malaysian government even built a special Vietnamese village at Sungai Besi (near the current Sg Besi Toll) to be their home. There was even one boat full of refugees were drowned in the South China Sea near Malaysia Sea. You see, how pitiful they were!

Many years later, the Vietnamese all over the world (most of them are in the US and Australia) managed to earn good living in these countries and are able to build homes for their children. Some become rich businessmen. Some got themselves involved in the local government administration and were elected to be the local representatives (or members of parliament). They developed and built Vietnamese Towns. That’s why you would find that besides China Town, there are now lots of Vietnamese Towns in US and Australia.

Vietnamese are people who are hardworking, resilient, energetic and full of creativity. For a race who has gone through hardship and difficult times, they appreciate the value of freedom and understand that there is no short cut to success. They are willing to work very hard and go extra miles in achieving their career goals. They venture into business, learn foreign languages and most importantly, willing to leave behind the historical and cultural burden and move on to strive for greater success in life.

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