 Thank you so much to "celebrity" Katherine who invited us to the zouk party, "Are You Men's Health Enough" organised by SPH. Feel so "old" to revisit zouk after so many years with a company of young friends.
Haha.. i must say it felt cool to be treated like VIP with so many goodies inside the door gift (earphone, facial wash, foot spray, wrist band,tiger beer drinking glass, etc)... even got a shot taken and posted up in one of the lifestyle portal...
 after many hours and days of attempt, finally found a standalone version to install and begin using the new version rather than using e default version that come with windows...
hmm.. begin to msn after such a long time....
sigh.. pity that my office block MSN...
 warning: Totally Addictive biscuit!
Beware of eating 10+ packets (one packet contains 4 thin slice each) in one shot... this was one of the stress buster biscuit that i eat in office when you were working late~
  One from Loreal and Nugeno
  Cool spot for late night chat for those who are living near ECP or travelled by car.
Travel down along ECP all the way towards bedok direction and you would spot a isolated round pub house with soothing atmosphere~
  Interactive but could find a way to prevent the market pen from drying out since only the first few hundred people get to use the pen before someone stole the cap and cause the marker to dry~
 its been a long time since i took up my digital brush to do up a design. and somehow i got lucky to come up with this design as the inspiration came out of nowhere.
Let me know if anyone of your friends are actually interested to join this Henna workshop
 You have two choices
Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood.
When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply:
"If I were any better, I would be twins!"
Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs,
so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant.
Why？
Because Jerry was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling him how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him：
"I don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Jerry replied,
"Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today.
I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood.
I always choose to be in a good mood.
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be victim or I can choose to learn from it.
I always choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life.
I always choose the positive side of life."
"But it's not always that easy,” I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry said.
"Life is all about choices.
When you cut away all the junk every situation is a choice."
You choose how you react to situations.
You choose how people will affect your mood.
You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.
It's your choice how you live your life."
Several years later,
I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business.
He left the back door of his restaurant open
And then in the morning, he was robbed by three armed men.
While Jerry trying to open the safe box, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination.
The robbers panicked and shot him.
Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.…
I saw Jerry about six months after the accident.
When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied.
"Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or could choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared“ I asked?
Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine.
But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expression on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared.
In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.
I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything."
'Yes,' to bullets, I replied.
Over their laughter, I told them: “I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”
"Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.
I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it.
The only thing that is truly yours - that no one can control or take from you –
is your attitude,
so if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.
Now you have two choices to make:
1. You can delete this message or
2. You can forward it to someone you care about.
I hope you will choose #2.
I did.
A classic story that i never got bored listening to it. It might had sound dumb to me last time, but reviewing it again at a different stage of life, it made me gain more enlightenment.
The story didnt change, but my life experience did. I gained more life experiences and wisdom as i continued to reflect on my actions and people around me.
This is one story that i would want to read from time to time and remind myself how that life is about choices and that I had the ability to make one.
This story became more meaningful when the moral of the story became a practical advice for my loved ones when they encountered situation that made them feel useless and frustrated about.
Comments: False, for now. The technology exists which would allow ATM users to contact police in an emergency by punching in their PIN (personal identification number) in reverse, but as of this writing it has not yet been implemented anywhere in the United States. Lawmakers in the states of Kansas and Illinois introduced legislation calling for the institution of reverse-PIN emergency notification systems (also known under the brand name SafetyPIN) in 2004, but the Kansas bill stalled in committee and the Illinois bill was watered down at the behest of the banking industry, making the adoption of the technology purely voluntary -- which it already was. According to a story published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last year, bankers are opposed to the reverse-PIN system because of safety concerns. They worry that ATM users might hesitate or fumble while trying to enter their PINs backwards under duress, possibly increasing the chances of violence. The banking industry is in favor of finding a means to protect ATM customers, a member of the American Bankers Association said, but question whether the reverse-PIN solution is the right one. Inventor of PIN number reversal system says banks 'in denial' The inventor of SafetyPIN, Joseph Zingher, claims the banking industry is afraid to admit the growing extent of the crime of ATM robbery. Exact figures are hard to come by because ATM holdups are lumped in with other types of bank robbery in the FBI's annual crime statistics. Of the 8,000 to 12,000 bank robberies per year counted by the FBI over the past 15 years, 3,000 to 4,000 (or just over one-third) were ATM robberies, according to the banking industry. Some crime experts suspect the figure is actually higher. Bankers, for their part, insist they do acknowledge the problem of ATM crime and recommend that customers exercise due caution and be aware of their surroundings when using automated teller machines.
Sources and further reading:
Technology to Keep You Safe at ATM Machines
WOAI-TV News, 22 September 2006 Why Great Ideas Get Shot Down
Fortune Small Business, 1 February 2006 Inventor, Kansas Senator Back Idea to Thwart ATM Holdups
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3 April 2005 Banking on ATM Safety
Forbes, 28 January 2004
STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters....S.T.R.
A nurse sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree.
If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously.
Please read:
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) . . . she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.
They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening.
Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 pm Ingrid passed away). She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die.... they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.
It only takes a minute to read this. . ..
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke... totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Remember the '3' steps, STR. Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke .
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
S Ask the individual to SMILE
T Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently, i.e. It is sunny out today)
R Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS
If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 999 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
New Sign of a Stroke -- Stick out Your Tongue
NOTE: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other , that is also an indication of a stroke.
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.
> Sharing this useful information with you....
>
> > PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)
> >
> >If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM
> > machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse.
> >
> > For example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. The
> > ATM recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM card you
> > placed in the machine.
> >
> > The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to
> > the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.
> >
> > This information was recently broadcasted on TV and it states that it is
> > seldom used because people don't know it exists.
> >*Please pass this along to everyone possible.*
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Sean Phua
> > Customer Service Officer
> > Call Centre
> > CISCO
> > Hotline: 1800-747 2888 / (65) 6747 2888
> > Fax: (65) 6744 0039
> > www.cisco.com..sg
  ADEX TEAM!  YUMMY Buffet style~
  its been a long time since i last drew a caricature of someone, phew, luckily i managed to finish it in 2hours where i just reached home at 1am from NTU.
phew... luckily manage to meet the deadline of my supervisor.
do let me know if the drawing is good.. hee..
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