Archive for June, 2008

Young, Enthusiastic and Inexperienced

authored on Wednesday, June 18th 2008

Who says you need to study to get make a living these days? Singers, musicians, artists, dancers, writers, composers, gamers, hobblists, bloggers, fashion designers, even trend setters can make a living in what they love doing!

I’ve dozens of friends who have danced to the tune of the Internet Marketers like me. Lured in to sit on my butt all day long with the illusion that this whole Internet Business will work.

Sit I am, rich I’m not. So are the others. But not all. Some blazed a trail. Some set an example. What’s the missing key? What is it that those who fail, doesn’t know that they don’t know?

For one, blogging with his camera seems the way to go. More traffic means more $$ right? But he ain’t there ‘yet’. Why? Who knows what he doesn’t even know that he doesn’t know?

For instance, with that kind of traffic, I would have monetized with ads. However he has got his account banned. The solution was given. Would cost him only RM2. Yet ignorance and naivity got the better of him. Nangnuff, blah.

N’Nuf bout him. Me? bleh, programminmg to automate till when? Automate what? Excel, Access, VBA, PHP, VB.NET, javascript, SEO, article marketing… but all to do what?

If you’re still wif me, great! Here’s my point. Young people with so much skills and talents surrounding them goes out to work a while for someone, an idea pops up and heyz, quit, starts a business. Young, enthusiastic yet would probably have to go through the school of hard knocks due to their inexperienced. Not all of us are google yahoo or msn.

Gee, even black hat SEO sounds mysteriously cool. But that’s outdated.

So yea, I’ve this huge archieves of files as backdated all the way to 2002. Have to delete these useless outdated clutter. Ta.

Catagorized under Something To Think About • 7 bellows & a yawp »

Ginseng Sex

authored on Sunday, June 15th 2008

Shape of the ginsengGinseng Sex

Here are some facts I’ve researched about Ginseng.

  • Ginseng is prized in the Orient for its purported curative properties.
  • Ginseng is also used for diabetes, migraine, infections, radiation and chemotherapy protection, to aid in sleep, and to stimulate the appetite.
  • Ginseng is known as an adaptogen, which means it increases resistance to physical, chemical, and biological stress and builds energy and general vitality.
  • Since ginseng is such a valuable crop, the potential for theft is definitely something to take into consideration.
  • Most woods-grown ginseng is grown organically, and is six to eight years old.
  • Therefore it is believed ginseng is able to restore harmony to the entire body.
  • Korean ginseng is available as powder of the whole root, as cut and dried roots and as liquid or powder extracts.
  • Korean ginseng is also used by women for treatment of post menopausal symptoms.
  • In much of Asia, ginseng is prized as a revitalizer for the whole body.

And the best of the lot

  • Ginseng is commonly used as a source of energy, and it does appear to act as a stimulant.

That explains the sex shape of ginseng. No matter how one looks at it…. wow, natural entanglement.

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Catagorized under Food, Life, Something To Think About • 2 bellows & a yawp »

Japanese Lunch Time Alone

authored on Thursday, June 12th 2008

Japanese Bento Midori

One day, lunch hour came. Hungry. Guess what… food!

Gee, when one’s hungry, cost is almost not an issue. Why not spend some on oneself after the day’s hard work?

Midori, a japanese food F&B in Cineleisure where I worked, has a wifi that’s secured but the password is… I forgot, some japanese food. bento? oh well…

Anyways, Bento is the Japanese artform of creating lunchboxes. These lunch boxes, Bento, is still used by workers as a packed lunch, by families on day trips, for school picnics and sports days etc. Often eaten at a gathering like a funeral or a party. However this time, I’m alone.

Though I can’t carry this wonderful tray with me back to the office, this bento is packed in a lacquer box and contains a lot of food. The only thing an original bento lacks is vegetables. The meaning of Bento is not a traditional Japanese dish. In this case, I have to say mine is almost civilized. No raw meat, no blood nor pretty girls that comes together like depicted in the menu.

Original Bento is made into the shape of a curved box by carving cedar or cypress, bending it into this shape, and then attaching a separate piece of wood for the bottom. In the picture is a curved bento box (made of plastic actually) used nowadays.

In the end, I suffered from dehydration from finishing everything single edible thing on the plate due to the sodium contained in the soup, sauce and soya sauce.

What can I complain? They gimme 10% off since I work there. Just flash my larnyard and I get my measely $1.65 discount.

Bento Lunch Box

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Catagorized under Food, Life, Work • 3 bellows & a yawp »

Raw Meat In Korea

authored on Monday, June 9th 2008

Raw Meat In Korea The closest to sushi I’ve gotten to in Korea was this redish thing. It is in conjuction with my previous post of the best meal in korea.

Upon great scrutiny, you’ll spot this dish on the array of the previous post’s picture.

Full of naivety, no one seemed to touch this dish and I was there gobbling it down as some kind of kimchi dish.

To my “horror”, it’s raw beef!

Good thing it’s korean cows, if it’s other country’s… bleh. MCD liao.

MCD? Mad Cow Disease. Lol. Swt.

In summary, our tour guide was terribly disappointed because this is the best dish of the whole trip yet none of them eat (all health conscious plus raw means live bacteria blah blah… but i’m still alive and well… whew!).

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Best Mouth-Watering Kimchi Meal

authored on Friday, June 6th 2008

Best Kimchi MealKimchi is the most common Korean banchan, or side dish, eaten with rice along with other banchan dishes. Kimchi is also a common ingredient and cooked with other ingredients to make dishes such as kimchi stew (kimchi jjigae) and kimchi fried rice (kimchi bokkeumbap). Kimchi is made of various vegetables and contains a high concentration of dietary fiber, while being low in calories. Kimchi is rich in vitamin A, thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), calcium and iron, and contains a number of lactic acid bacteria and it is not a highly exportable item from Korea because of its short shelf life, although there is constant researchgoing on to make it last longer. Kimchi is a very crucial part of Korean culture, as shown by the interestin it by the Korean Food Research Institute plus Kimchi is an absolute necessity in every Korean meal.

Koreans still use these ingredients today, but the spice most closely associated with modern kimchi is red pepper powder and they have eaten kimchi with their meals for hundreds of years. Koreans eat approximately 20 kilos of kimchi per person each year, somuch so that when Koreans have their photo taken they say ‘kimchi’instead of ‘cheese’. They make kimchi with their family on the first Monday of December. Koreans eat Tteok on special occasions, such as New Year’s Day, Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving day) and the 100th day of a baby’s birth. Koreans aretrained to use the spoon and the chopsticks correctly from childhood.

In conclusion, Kimchi is Korea’s spicy fermented vegetable dish. Made of lactic acid-fermented vegetable food, Kimchi is an exotic, super spicy side dish. An excellent contributor to the human body, Kimchi is never fickle where flavor is concerned & is becoming more popular around the world!

Catagorized under Food, Korea Trip • 2 bellows & a yawp »

Korean Recycling Demonstration

authored on Tuesday, June 3rd 2008

Recycle Plastic BottlesRecycling Used Drinking BottlesRecycling Plastic Drinking Bottles

I’ve been to Korea. They are hard on recycling. When you walk into a supermarket, u have to pay $0.50 in korean cash, for a plastic bag. In which upon returning the plastic bag (probably in usable conditions), they will fully refund you the $0.50.

Here’s an article on recycling that I rant off my head.

Recycling is the reprocessing of old materials into new products with the aims of preventing the waste of potentially useful materials, reducing the consumption of fresh raw materials, reducing energy usage, air & water pollution by reducing the need for “conventional” waste disposal and lowering greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production.

Recycling is an excellent way of saving energy and conserving the environment and is one of the best ways for you to have a positive impact on the world in which we live. Ultimately, recycling is a creative act that involves thought and dedication to extend the life and usefulness of something that seems to have no more purpose once it has been used for its initial purpose.

Waste disposal experts are certainly coming up with ingenious ways of dealing with the increase in consumer waste that this century has seen, but ultimately we have to tackle the problem at the root: each and everyone of us. Waste may not be a resource, but the space it occupies is, or alternatively, the damage it generates to the environment is real (although I suppose reasonable people may want to argue statistics rather than just gross pictures):.

Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the material into useful products. Plastic collected from businesses and residences is first be compacted and then baled. Plastic can take up to 500 years to decompose. Plastics make up a large amount of waste, since they are available in numerous forms. They include glass, paper, metal, textiles and plastics.

Recycling is one of the best ways for you to have a positive impact on the world in which we live. And because recycling is supposed to be about the conservation of resources, mandating recycling under those circumstances will do more harm than good. A fairer way to encourage recycling is to price the costs of disposal accurately.

This earth is all we have. I don’t think we’ll live past the age of staying on the moon. At least my wallet can’t afford it.

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