At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down Finally, the guys’ side of the story.

We always hear “the rules” From the female side…. Now here are the rules from the male side. These are our rules! Please note.. these are all numbered “1 ” ON PURPOSE!

1. Men are NOT mind readers. (FIRST & FOREMOST RULE)

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don’t hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports or news, it’s like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one:

Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That’s what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become Null and void after 7 Days.

1. If you think you’re fat, you probably are. Don’t ask us.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one

1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials…

1. Captain Cook did NOT need directions and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched. We do that.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say “nothing,” we will act like nothing’s wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. If you ask a question you don’t want an answer to, Expect an answer you don’t want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine… Really .

1. Don’t ask us what we’re thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as Football
or Cars.

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!

1. Thank you for reading this. Yes, I know, I have to call and beg for mercy; But did you know men really don’t mind that? It’s like rugby.

Men vs women relationship dating

realtionship Status

New Year's Resolutions

Bing bong bang..there goes the fireworks..
in the mist of new year of 2011, i stay stood in front of the crowds thinking what had i done so far in 2010?
i mark 2 of my last resolution.

✔bought a bike

✔get back in the line(from a hard-slap break-up)

so, without a further ado. i present you Melvyn's 2011 new year resolution

1. finish reading Moby dick and In search of lost time
2. get myself a suit
3. conquer singapore
4. break my best pointer of 3.5
5. donate blood twice as much
6. be more assertive
7. and last but not least, stay single for another year

what your new year resolution?

Wikileaks

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Photoblog

its been long enough to remember when is the last time i open blogger.
all the hectic days as a student come in end for a short period of time, but still all the thing i've craving for is some sleep, mountain-pile of food and some lonely day in my couch drooling in front my beloved old notebook.

i've been thinking lately, maybe i should not type anymore. i rarely have the chance to read my fav book by myself..i been missing all the monthly event of FHM(haha!)..i even dont have time to read the newspaper..sigh..

why should i stop? i barely started..and idea pop out;like the unwanted windows that pop out when you click on naked girl photo.
" I SHOULD MAKE A PHOTOBLOG!"
'a photo worth thousand words' as they said it.

so may introduce to guys my new blog theme..hehe..until next time..i'll bring you some of effort from scavenging the net..

Banana are naturally radioactive

Today I found out bananas are naturally radioactive. This comes from the fact that they contain relatively high amounts of potassium. Specifically, they contain Potassium-40, which is a radioactive isotope of potassium.

The fact that bananas are radioactive has actually given rise to the radiation unit: “banana equivalent dose” (BED); this is the average amount of radiation you are exposed to by eating one banana. The banana equivalent dose is occasionally used to help conceptualize the relative danger of various radiation sources and amounts; for instance, the amount of radiation typically leaked by a modern nuclear fission reactor. This leaked radiation is typically extremely small, typically in the realm of a picocurie, which is a millionth of a millionth of a curie. This latter measurement doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to most people, thus the banana equivalent dose was introduced to give an easy way to understand whether X amount of radiation is harmful or not, given that you know bananas aren’t harmful. For instance, living within 10 miles of a typical nuclear power plant will expose you on a daily basis to just a bit more radiation than you’d get from eating one banana a day.

Now before you start boycotting bananas because of the above association with nuclear reactor radiation leakage, consider that, to cause illness in a person, it takes about 100 rems. (Roentgen Equivalent Man: 1 rem = the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays; basically, a measurement of how much radiation a person is exposed to.) So given eating one banana a day for a year only exposes you to 3.6 millirems, you’d need to eat about 10,000,000 bananas in order to reach that amount [100 rems * (1000 millirems / rem) * (365 bananas / 3.6 millirems)].

Not only should you not worry about eating bananas because of the radiation, but barring some major reactor meltdown, you shouldn’t really worry about living near a nuclear reactor either. In fact, recent research has even begun to indicate that these extreme low level amounts of radiation you experience from the cosmos, bananas, and the like, may actually be beneficial to your body. And as far as major reactor problems that might come up go, if you camped out at the plant at Three Mile Island during the accident that happened there in 1979, you’d have received only an additional 80 millirems of exposure during the duration of the accident. Granted, you’d need to eat about 8000 bananas to reach that level from bananas, but if you’ve ever had your spine x-rayed, you’d have received about double that just during the few seconds of the x-ray. If you were around ten miles away from the reactor during the accident, you’d have received about 8 millirems or about the equivalent of 800 bananas. There are no known deaths/cancers/etc that resulted from this event.

Public reaction to Three Mile Island was way overboard from what the actual event warranted as you can see from the banana equivalent dose. This was largely due to misinformation in the press; misunderstanding of radiation among the general public; and the fact that, not 12 days before it happened, the movie The China Syndrome was released. The plot of the movie was basically how unsafe nuclear reactors were and that just about everyone in the movie but one of the main characters was trying to cover it up. The China Syndrome movie title’s concept comes from the premise that if an American nuclear reactor core were to melt down, it would melt through the center of the Earth to China. Getting around the fact that it is actually the Indian Ocean that is on the opposite side of the Earth from the U.S. and the obvious problems with the “melt through the Earth” premise, it couldn’t have been a better timed movie as far as free advertisement through the press due to the Three Mile Island incident. The movie was nominated for several academy awards, including best actress by Jane Fonda.

So in essence, the banana equivalent dose is basically a measurement used to help quell the media hysteria that always surrounds nuclear reactors and other potential radiation sources like cell phones and the like. Basically, trying to show people that radiation is everywhere (literally) and most of it isn’t harmful at the levels we are typically exposed to, despite what you might read in the news.

On that note, for your reference:

• If you live at high elevations, like Denver, Colorado, you are naturally exposed to about 50-70 more millirems per year than living in, say, Seattle, Washington (sea level).
• Being next to the Rocky Mountains will net you exposure to about 40 extra millirems per year, due to the uranium in the soil.
• If you live near the Atlantic Coast, you’ll get exposed to an extra 55 millirems a year from the air you breathe.
• Every U.S. coast to coast round trip flight will expose you to about 5 extra millirems per trip.
• A chest x-ray will expose you to about 8 millirems; a head/neck x-ray will expose you to about 20 millirems; a lumbar spine x-ray will expose you to about 130 millirems.
• On average, a person living in the United States will naturally be exposed to somewhere around 360 millirems (36,500 bananas) of radiation per year, with the vast majority of that (300 millirems or so) coming from the sun, soil, rocks, and other natural sources.
• If you sat about 1 inch away from your tv-set, you’d receive about .5 millirems per hour.
• If you work with concrete a lot or live or work in a concrete building, you receive an extra 3 millirems or so a year.
• At around 100 rems (about ten million bananas), you’ll contract mild radiation sickness. Early symptoms of this are very similar to the flu. This will also leave you more susceptible to infections, leukemia, and lymphoma.
• At around 200 rems, you’ll start having damage to your gastrointestinal tract, which will cause nausea, bloody vomiting, bloody diarrhea, and abdominal pain. You’ll also start having damage to cells that multiply quickly, such as blood cells, reproductive cells, hair cells, etc. At this point, you’ll typically lose your hair, possibly permanently.
• At around 300 rems, your body’s immune system will likely be permanently damaged.
• At around 400 rems, you have a 50/50 chance of dying within 60 days if you don’t get immediate treatment.

Bonus Factoids:

• Other common foods that are naturally radioactive include potatoes, sunflower seeds, many nuts, and kidney beans, among others. Among these, Brazil nuts are the most radioactive by far at 6600 picocuries per kg or about 1.875 BED (banana equivalent dose). The radium in Brazil nuts does not come from especially high levels of radium in the soil where the trees grow, but rather the very extensive root systems the trees develop, which cover a much larger area of the soil than most trees.
• The Brazil nut tree is among the largest trees in the Amazon rainforest at around 100-150 feet tall and around 5 feet in diameter at the trunk. The tree can live up to around 500-1000 years.
• Despite the name, the primary exporter of “Brazil” “nuts” is Bolivia, who account for about 50% of Brazil nuts exported world-wide. They are also not nuts, but rather seeds. So the whole name is a lie.
• Brazil nuts are radioactive due to containing radium; your body doesn’t need radium, unlike the case with bananas and potassium.
• Although bananas contain very little radiation, they are radioactive enough to trigger false alarms in some radiation sensors used to detect illegal smuggling of nuclear materials.
• About 89% of the time Potassium-40 will decay into calcium-40 and 11% of the time it will decay to argon-40. This latter fact is important when dating rocks as the time elapsed since a rock last cooled from a molten state can be measured by looking at the levels of Potassium-40 and Argon-40 contained in the rock. This is because, when the rock is in a molten state, it releases the argon contained within itself. Once it is solid, it contains no argon initially. When the potassium-40 breaks down into argon-40, the argon cannot escape. This makes for a nice way to measure the age of a rock since it was in a molten state.
• After the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, local milk contained radiation levels of about 20 picocuries/liter. This is about 1/75th the banana equivalent dose (BED) in a 12 ounce glass of the milk.
• Now the Chernobyl disaster was a whole different story, but that was a result of a lot of idiocy more than anything. It was a case where one of the reactors was intentionally put in about the worst possible state it could be in, all the while the operators ignoring all the warnings and overriding many of the automated safety systems. It was actually a testament to the safety systems that the reactor they were messing with lasted as long as it did with what they were doing with it. Even after the explosions, the workers who were managing the reactor next to the exploded one were told to keep the other reactors online and continue to work. It wasn’t until a few hours later that one of the engineers, Yuri Bagdasarov, made the decision to override his superior, Nikolai Fomin, and shut down the reactor adjacent to the exploded one and have everyone who wasn’t absolutely necessary for emergency cooling systems leave.
• The mistakes didn’t stop there though, the exploded reactor crew chief, Alexander Akimov, assumed the reactor was still intact, despite all the graphite and reactor fuel lying around the building after the explosions. So he kept everyone working throughout the night on the exploded reactor core which cost many workers, including Akimov, their lives.
• One of the problems was that, of the two dosimeters capable of measuring the radiation levels they were experiencing, one was inaccessible and the other failed to turn on. All the other meters couldn’t read that high; indeed, they didn’t read very high at all, so they only knew the radiation levels were somewhere above 3.6 rems per hour, which is a relatively high rate, but certainly not going to kill anyone working there for a shift. When they eventually brought a meter in that could read the correct levels, Akimov assumed it must be malfunctioning because of the extreme high readings they were getting. Once again, you’d think the nuclear fuel and graphite lying around the building and the two explosions would have tipped him off, but here we are. In his defense, at around 5000 rems, the brain begins to be damaged with the radiation killing nerves and small blood vessels. He wasn’t likely experiencing these levels where he was working, but lower high levels, while not causing brain damage, will cause memory problems; confusion; information processing ability problems; and decline in cognition. So that may have played a role in his poor decisions after the explosions.
• The next mistake was with the rescue crews that arrived on scene. Many of them knew nothing of radiation and some even directly handled some of the radioactive debris lying around that was emitting as much as 15,000 rems per hour. The mistakes didn’t end there and, in the end, an estimated 60,000 people were exposed to high levels of radiation; of which, about 5,000 people died within five years of the explosion from problems stemming from radiation exposure. Note to self: when working at a nuclear reactor and there are a bagillion warning lights going off over the course of a few hours telling you to stop doing what you are doing, maybe you should think about not overriding said warnings and maybe, instead, stop what you are doing. I’m just throwing that out there.
• Firefighters on scene at Chernobyl described the radiation as “tasting like metal” and feeling sensations of “pins and needles” all over their skin.

source:

• Banana Equivalent Dose
• Brazil Nut
• Curie
• Potassium-40
• Radiation Hormesis
• Is Chronic Radiation an Effective Prophylaxis Against Cancer?
• Harmful Effects of Radiation
• Measuring Exposure to Harmful Radiation
• REM
• Chernobyl
• The China Syndrome
• Three Mile Island Accident

article from : http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/08/bananas-are-naturally-radioactive/

Women are COMPLEX creatures

If you kiss her, you are not a gentleman
If you don’t, you are not a man

If you praise her, she thinks you are lying
If you don’t, you are good for nothing

If you agree to all her likes, you are a wimp
If you don’t, you are not understanding

If you visit her often, she thinks it is boring
If you don’t, she accuses you of double-crossing

If you are well dressed, she says you are a playboy
If you don’t, you are a dull boy

If you are jealous, she says it’s bad
If you don’t, she thinks you do not love her

If you attempt a romance, she says you didn’t respect her
If you don’t, she thinks you do not like her

If you are a minute late, she complains it’s hard to wait
If she is late, she says that’s a girl’s way

If you visit another woman, you’re not putting in “quality time”
If she is visited by another man, “oh it’s natural, we are girls”

If you kiss her once in a while, she professes you are cold
If you kiss her often, she yells that you are taking advantage

If you fail to help her in crossing the street, you lack ethics
If you do, she thinks it’s just one of men’s tactics for seduction

If you stare at another woman, she accuses you of flirting
If she is stared by other men, she says that they are just admiring

If you talk, she wants you to listen
If you listen, she wants you to talk

In short:
So simple, yet so complex
So weak, yet so…
So confusing, yet…
So damning, yet….

Survival To 21st Century Gross Life

Ok Kids,
today i want to teach you

HOW TO TIE YOUR SHOELACE


I'm totally out today, so just learn from these pic showed under..
*yawn*

personally, i use to tie my school shoe checkerboard style
but im to old for that now..haha..
ok folk, until next time, i have class to attend

Overcome Your Past..Start A brighter day / Kuasai Masa Silam Anda..Mulakan Pagi Anda Dengan Koko Crunch...

2 bulan ak x sentuh blog, many thing comes flying around, susa mau menaip dan mencari ilham.. setelah sekian lama, tangan ak gatal balik mau menaip...ok la, sebagai tanda cinta kpada negara Malaysia (just joking, hahaha) kali ni ak buat entry dlm Bahasa Melayu.

Ramai daripada kita mungkin pernah menjalinkan hubungan romantik dengan seseorang, tapi berapa ramaikah yang berjaya melanjutkan hubungan tersebut sehingga mendirikan rumah tangga? tnya la korg punya mummy and daddy, brapa kali dorg putus cinta sebelum dorg kahwin, *yang kahwin sbb family pilih terkecuali..dalam edisi kali ini (macm ada edisi yg lepas) ak merungkai segala kisah dan cara bagaimana seorang insan yang bergelar manusia kembali ke jalan yang benar setelah tewas dalam percintaan....

Cinta atau Kasih Sayang mendalam terhadp seseorang atau sewaktu dengannya merupakan perasaan semulajadi manusia. kenapa kita mencari "perasaan" ini? aku pun xtau sebenarnya, mungkin sbb kita ni makhluk yang x sempurna, perlukan teman. Tapi satu benda aku tahu, bila seseorang fall in love, fuhh..tak dapat digambarkan dengan kata2 nikmatnya, smua indah bak pelangi, hahaha...setiap di antara kita akan jatuh dalam perangkap cinta, tapi malang bagi yang tidak bernasib baik, perasaan ini memakan diri sendiri. perpisahan merupakan salah satu risiko apabila bercinta dan sangat susah untuk pasangan menerimanya dan mcm urg putih ckp "overcome it"...klu x diuruskan dengan baik, akan menjejaskan produktiviti dan daya saing negara di peringkat global, hahaha..x la mcm tu, tapi susa nak buat kerja dgn kwn2 yang baru ptus cinta ni, layu dan murung 24 jam, apa lagi klu dapat assignment berkumpulan, memg ak sorg yg buat..

sebenarnya, ak pun pnah ptus cinta, tapi sbb ak ni cool dan macho, hahahaha, kacang je ak handle smua tu, hahahaha( rasa lain plak puji diri sendiri ni. ). ok, sebelum ak angkut lebih banyak bakul, mari ak ajar, mcmana korang yang di luar sana yang menghadapi masalah ini, cara2 nak mengatasinya.

perkara pertama yang perlu korang buat ialah mencari punca perpisahan. korang kena bincang dgn pasangan masing2. ckapa slow2, jgn nak tengking2, xda benda boleh selesai dgn bunyi suara yang tinggi dan penuh emosi. lagi bagus kalau korang terima kesilapan diri dan lpas tu ckap la kat pasangan masing2, "saya minta maaf"; "i'm Sorry" atau apa2 bahasa yang korang tuturkan (peluang untuk kembali bersama turut meningkat), DAN memaafkan pasangan anda juga.. pasangan perlu berfikir kehadapan, jgn sibuk nak cari silap pasangan masing2, lupakan tentang apa yang telah berlaku.
jika semua usaha untuk bersama tidak dapat tercapai dan anda perlu mengatasi perasaan pedih itu dengan tips ini:


1. Sibukkan diri






















Ni cara paling praktikal bagi mereka yang mempunyai kawalan emosi yang lemah. sibuk2 kan diri agar korg x teringat ex korg. klau korg duduk diam termenung je, mulalah nak ingat masa2 bahagia bersama ex korg, pastu mata pun mula berkaca, huhu.. time ak break dulu, ak bnyk g jejalan tgok movie, ak beli drama2 bergenrekan humour, ak suggest korg cari drama english ni "how i met your mother", balik kuliah je mesti ak tgok, satu bulan x henti2 gelak.


2. Cari kawan2 baru






















ak tau ramai yang ada akaun laman sembang dan sosial, contohnya facebook, twitter, myspace etc. jgn malu2 dan sombong2 utk cari rakan baru..lama kelamaan memori tentang ex korg akang hilang secara semulajadi dan digantikan dengan kegembiraan dengan rakan2 baru.


3. Bina jati diri















ak hairan lah, ramai kwan2 ak yang lpas break trus pndi hisap rokok la, take drug and alcohol. yang nak bunuh diri pun x kurang..aduii, lemah semangat ak tengok.. satu benda perlu ak bagi tau, SUICIDE, CIGARTTE, ALCOHOL AND DRUGS ARE FOR LOSER... jgn cpat mengalah.. fikir positif.. memg sakit bila kita hilang benda yang bergelar cinta, tapi itu salah satu daripada risiko bercinta... masa mula2 ak break-up ngan ex ak sbb dia nak bsama dgn org lain, memg rasa pedih dada, tapi ak tiap hari ckap yg dia bkn jodoh ak dan ada org lain lagi yg akan dtg utk ak. x lama pastu, ak pun da x ngat sngt pasl dia.


4. Beri masa dan kesabaran












sama seperti luka pada anggota badan, ia perlukan masa untuk pulih..terdapat pasangan ak tgok yg lepas break trus fikir nak belas dendam...ugut nak sebarkan gmbr time couple lagi, sebar2kan cerita dan bnyk lagi cara utk membalas dendam yg ak tgok org sekarang buat. come on la guys, be mature, hahaha... xda benda yang akan settle dengan cara negatif, menambahkan keburukan ada la...kawal perasaan korg, jgn cpat melenting, ia bukan sahaja menampkan ketidakmatangan (betulkah ejaan ni?) seseorang, tetapi juga memperlihatkan kebodohan dan kecetekan akal. What comes around goes around, klu betul korg x bersalah, maka biarkan masa dan karma membalas dendam bagi korg..hehe.


5. Ubah cara berfikir/ berfikir secara praktikal















seperti kelahiran dan kematian, semua benda di dunia mempunyai pengakhiran. berfikir secara praktikal boleh membantu korg melupakan apa yg telah berlaku. kalau korg ditinggal oleh gf atau bf korg, itu x bermaksud tiada lagi org lain yg lebih baik utk korg. kalau itu lah kesnya, maka ramai lah yang single smpai mati lpas break-up. kata org tua, bunga bukan sekuntum, kumbang bukan seekor.. ramai lagi jejaka2 dan gadis2 single di luar sana, korg hanya perlu ketuk pintu yang betul saja utk dapatkan cinta sejati korg.. Why to think about the past, in future you may have a sweet surprise!

Bathroom User Instruction For Men And Women

Selamat Hari Guru 16 Mei 2010

Entry ini khas aku tujukan untuk Guru-Guru diluar sana, berjuang mendidik anak bangsa. Tidak ada kata-kata yang boleh mengungkap pengorbanan yang telah dilakukan oleh insan bernama GURU (sebenarnya x ada masa nak taip, exam minggu dpan, busy sgt ni, haha)

GURU PEMBINA NEGARA BANGSA .. itu lah tema Hari Guru tahun ini. Tarikh 16 Mei dipilih sebagai Hari Guru kerana pada haribulan yang sama dalam tahun 1956 Majlis Undang-Undang Persekutuan Tanah Melayu (Federal Legislative Council) telah menerima cadangan-cadangan Laporan Jawatankuasa Pelajaran (Report of the Education Committee) sebagai dasar pelajaran bagi negara kita.






















Jadi sempena 16 Mei esok, aku ucapkan Selamat Hari Guru buat semua rakan-rakan cikgu di IPG Kampus Temenggong Ibrahim dan IPG yang lain, baik kenal dari siber atau rakan-rakan aku kat kampung...dan paling tidak lupa cikgu-cikgu yang mengajar aku di Sekolah Rendah St. Anne Labuan, Sekolah Rendah St. Francis Xavier Keningau Sekolah Menengah St. Francis Xavier Keningau, Sekolah Menengah Teknik Keningau serta pensyarah-pensyarah di IPG Kampus Temenggong Ibrahim. Jasamu tetap kukenang sampai bila-bila...

Opium Poppy, The Beautiful Flower. 10 Ways Its Changed The World

Papaver Somniferum, the Opium Poppy, has been considered one of the most influential, as well as interesting things in the world for thousands of years. For those unfamiliar with it, the poppy produces opium, the euphoric painkiller that is the starting point for heroin. Depictions of the plant have been traced back to the Sumerians of 6000 years ago. The beautiful flower has been worshiped as a gift from the gods, and just the same has been feared for its potential to destroy millions of lives. Rather you see them as divine, or quite the opposite, it’s hard to argue how much influence they’ve had in our world. Here are ten particular areas that the plant and its drug have dramatically impacted.

10.
Music


“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.” Henry Miller. Think of your favorite rock band from the 70s or 80s. I’ll bet you the shoes on my feet that at least one of their songs was inspired by, or if not, directly refers to heroin. It became popular with the rock community for its mild altering effects. Inspiring romanticism, creativity, joy, fun, and of course pleasure made it a hit to rebellious world. Some songs you might be familiar with that have been thought to refer to the drug – “The Needle and the Damage Done” by Neil Young, “Mr. Brownstone” by Guns N’ Roses, “Heroin” by Velvet Underground, and “Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd (that one is probably the most arguable). Courtney Love (above) did well to summarize the relationship between musicians and heroin: “the drug you do if you’re in a fuckin’ four-star hotel and you can order all the goddamn room service that you want and you can just lay in bed and drool all over yourself because you’ve got a million bucks in the bank. That’s the drug you want to do if you want to be a kid forever.”

9.
Surgery


Surgery is thought to have been practiced for centuries, pioneered by ancient civilizations in Egypt, India, Greece and China. The gap between ancient surgery and modern lies heavily on the control of the inevitable pain that comes with it: anesthesia. While local anesthesia is available for us by a completely different plant, the Coca, general anesthesia became possible with the Opium Poppy. The art of putting patients out for surgery made a breakthrough in the 19th century, when Morphine, one of the opiate alkaloids found naturally in opium, was extracted from the plant. With this discovery, surgery was able to advance to the previously unheard of feats we think of commonly today. Soldiers were able to inject themselves with Morphine in the latter half of the Civil War, making the removal of bullets a much less excruciating experience. Nowadays we have other methods of general anesthesia for surgery, such as hypnotics (propofol) and Dissociatives (nitrous oxide), but nevertheless morphine and other opium-derivatives are still commonly used.

8.
Beautiful Flowers


Stepping aside from the drug the Opium Poppy produces; let’s focus on the flower itself. At a time referred to as the “common garden poppy”, the plant is widely cultivated for ornamental purposes all over the world. The flower, depending on the particular variety, ranges from red to white and even purple hues. The capsules containing the opium are very interesting looking and easily emphasizes the plant as a poppy. In certain Part of the world, even the tiny black seeds are used to decorate food, such as cakes and muffins. The poppy seeds you can go get at a local grocer(certain country illegalize it) are indeed the same species of poppy used to harvest opium. While not trying to drift too far off topic, I’ll note that the common “myth” that someone who consumes poppy seeds can fail a drug test is absolutely true and proven. The seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to make it show in your system. My advice: let your employer know if you’ve been eating anything with poppy seeds before your drug screening results come back, or you might be looking for a new job.

7.
Culture


The customs and traditions of societies throughout written history have likely been much more influenced by the Opium Poppy than your high school history teacher let you know. Starting back in Ancient Greece, Homer described opium’s pleasant effects in “The Odyssey”: “…had a happy thought. Into the bowl in which their wine was mixed, she slipped a drug that had the power of robbing grief and anger of their sting and banishing all painful memories. No one who swallowed this dissolved in their wine could shed a single tear that day, even for the death of his mother or father, or if they put his brother or his own son to the sword and he were there to see it done…”. Fast-forward to 19th century China, where the drug was so popular it’s estimated that at least a quarter of Chinese men were addicted to it. It was smoked in opium dens as a pastime, something at first thought to be joyful and social. This was before its addictiveness was well known. The Chinese eventually outlawed it, leading to the Opium Wars in the next section. To this day opiates are used worldwide recreationally and and impact many cultures.

6.
Wars


The Opium Wars were two separate affairs between the Chinese and British, both stemming from China’s opium prohibition and its effect on the British Empire’s cash crop. The first war was fought between 1839-1842, and the second 1856-1860. Massive opium production was occurring in British India and acted as a huge source of wealth, as China’s demand for it was unrelenting. When China’s government realized the harmful effects of so many men being addicted to it, it was outlawed. One way to put it: they quit cold turkey. Although the drug was still being smuggled into China, the effects of Britain losing its main source of money were very damaging, and it would lead to war. The British would end up defeating China, and they were forced to allow opium to be imported into the country. Even the Governor-general Lin Zexu’s efforts of destroying millions of pounds of it and arresting some 1700 dealers were futile; it was an entire nation under the spell of the Opium Poppy.

5.
Literature


I remember in March I was so excited to see the new Alice in Wonderland movie coming out. I’ve always found the story interesting and I decided to do some research on it and its original author, Lewis Carroll. I was surprised to find that it is popularly held that he was an avid opium user, and that the drug was probably a huge inspiration to the story’s imaginative world and characters. This is disputed by some – but laudanum was popular in his time so it is certainly not improbable that he used it. Authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, and Charles Dickens were all fans of the Opium Poppy’s inspirational potential, showing just how much of an impact a single plant has had on literature, especially notable in the 19th century. The Wizard of Oz, commonly referred to as one of the greatest and timeless films ever, comes from an opium inspired book. However, you might have been confused by the scene where Dorothy falls deeply asleep in the poppy field before Emerald City. But perhaps the most famous work inspired by opium use is Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge – he was using opium to counter the effects of dysentery and in doing so dreamed up one of the most ravishing poems in the English language.

4.
Wealth


Knowing that the outlawing of opium in China lead to two major wars, it’s obvious that the financial potential of the plant has been huge throughout history. From the opium harvesters of the past, to the Pharmaceutical Companies who use the poppy to produce medicine, to the common street heroin dealers, one thing is clear: Opium Poppy is a cash crop. It’s estimated that growing kilogram of opium costs a farmer about $300. He can sell that to a drug dealer for around $800, making him a hefty little profit. That dealer, after converting the opium to heroin, will make $16,000 on the same amount of product it took $300 and some help from nature to grow. An enjoyable modern depiction of this process is 2006’s “American Gangster”. A man goes from rags to riches after getting connecting from poppy farmers in Vietnam.

3.
Pain relief


While pain relief is of course a key to surgery, it goes much further than that. Opium has been used from the very beginning for its painkilling properties. In some parts of the world, there is no such thing as retirement. A man will work his whole life, and opium’s relief has sometimes been the only way to keep living. It’s been called “God’s own medicine”, and considered divine and sacred by many people. The two alkaloids in it that bind to out brain’s opioid receptors are morphine and codeine. Many opiate derivatives have been discovered from these; heroin (diacetylmorphine) and hydromorphone from morphine, and oxycodone and hydrocodone from codeine. Since these are semi-synthetic, these substances may start from the poppy, but have to be chemically structured in labs by Pharmaceutical Companies

2.
Pharmaceutical Industries

Opium Poppy may be quite easy to grow, but its genetic properties have made pharmaceutical companies billions and billions of dollars. Bayer marketed Aspirin and Morphine as painkillers for uncontrolled use in the 19th century. The rose of morphine’s superiority to aspirin came with the thorn of its unforgiving addictiveness. Finally a solution, the rose without a thorn. A drug with the power of morphine that wouldn’t hook you: heroin! Well, you can guess what comes next, heroin (named for being thought of as a heroic substance) was found to be even more addictive. Opiates were criminalized in the United States, and used legally only when a medical doctor saw fit to let you. In the 20th century many other opium-derivatives were discovered, such as oxycodone (OxyContin, Percoset), hydrocodone (Lortab, Vicodin), and oxymorphone (Opana, Numorphan). Next time your doctor gives you medicine for your sore back or broken foot, chances are that medicine came from the Opium Poppy.

1.
Addiction


This section really has little need for further description. Opium Poppy introduced society to one of the most harmful and abundant issues of today: drug addiction. With moderate, spiritual opium use addiction wasn’t an issue, but as time went on: chronic use, harmful ways of ingestion, and chemically altering the substance all helped see the downfall of the plant’s “divinity”. It may be the most useful, helpful, and peaceful thing in history. Or it may be the plant responsible for a father’s neglect or a brother’s death. Whichever way you look at it, the Opium Poppy is one of the most influential things to ever grace this Earth.

Who I Share My Birthday with

semalam, kelas aku terpaksa melaksanakan B.I.G(bina insan guru) pada pukul 9.00p.m

(yes u heard me rite, 9.00 p.m!) apa kerja big buat tgah malam-malam niE?
ceritanya apabila kawasan landskap yg kami buat di renovate, dan semua usaha selama berminggu-minggu, lenyap dalam sekelip mata, dan terpaksa lah kerja peyelenggaran dilakukan.

ini lah kawasan yang menjadi tapak permainan kami untuk berminggu-minggu

selepas semua selesai pada pkul 12.15 a.m .
dak2 kelas aku suprise aku dengan sand-made cake, paper-burned candle dan air kolam penuh dengan lumpur. perhhh! kemasinan yang melampau. although, this is not what i dream for( bday in a strip club, huahuahua!) tetapi masih best, smpi kepala aku pusing mabuk dengan tahap keasidan air tersebut. Terima Kasih clasmateku! ur guys the best!!

aku balik dalam jam 12 lebih smlam. membersihkan diri dari kekotoran yang melampau (nasib xde gambar ak basah melekit)
so i go online for a few min before crawling to sleep.
chat2 dgn member2 aku dkat sabah. smua tgah sibuk ngan exam la, malas nak kacau, so ak layan la web2 yang ad kat world wide web. terjumpa la satu web, "born on may 6th"..huhuhu, a lot of huge name there..so, i list some of the name that im pretty sure u know.

1. TONY BLAIR


born on 6th may 1953.
UK prime minister from 1997 to 2007. beliau hilang kuasa disebabkan beberapa skandal dan isu beliau mengenai polisi di Iraq, serta hubungan dengan Israel. walaupun rmai org benci mamat ni, tapi terkenal la juga..hahaha.


2. GEORGE CLOONEY


born on 6th may 1961.
Actor dan "Sexiest men alive" dari People Magazine. siapa tak kenal Dr.Doug Ross dari siri ER., dah tua pun masih macho, pergh, awek2 dia smua muda2 ag..hahaha.. sangat famous dikalangan wanita.
antara movie2 dia yang aku rasa best; Batman, the peacemaker, ocean eleven, twelve, thirteen dan up in the air..
tetapi satu aku suka tentang George ialah pendapat dia tentang politik(beliau seorang liberal) dan masalah di Iraq.

"You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people seeking revenge.... Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win.... I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore."


3. ROBERT H. DICKE


born on 6th may 1916
physicist. mungkin ramai tak kenal beliau ini, tetapi kepada budak2 yang ambik fizik mesti tau robert h.dicke. beliau adalah pencipta Dicke radiometer, satu alat untuk menerima gelombang micro. sumbangan beliau banyak dalam astro fizik, atomik fizik, kosmologi dan graviti, hampir sama dengan Einstein.


4.SIGMUND FREUD


born on 6th may 1856.
psychiatrist dan psychology profound . smua bakal-bakal guru pasti tau pasal beliau ini sebab dalam buku ilmu pendidikan ada satu bab pasal dia. teori beliau seperti ID, EGO dan SUPER-EGO. tetapi ada beberapa perkara yang aku mushykil tentang teori beliau, salah satunya ialah pschosexual yang membincangkan keenakan selepas melabur (berak!). huhu.


5. STANLEY MORISON


born on 6th may 1889
typographer and designer. OK fellow friend, kowg mesti tak kenal beliau ini, siapakah beliau ini?
Kowg tau tak pasal TIMES NEW ROMAN.. ye, font yang slalu kowg gne tu..ahhh, ni arr pencipta font tersebut.


Ada banyak lagi nama dalam list tu, tapi yang ini je la ak kenal.
ok la setakat ini je la aku buang masa..exam da dkat, aku lom study apa2 lagi..hotak aku hambur dengan pasir semalam..hahaha.
kowg boleh cuba sendiri cari sape yang kongsi hari jadi dengan kowg kat web ni:
http://www.nndb.com/
pastu g search columm dia "born on **th **** 19**".
slamat mencuba.

You...

last night..
while in high dose of caffeine..
i found this dude blog..
kinda intrstng dohh..
( http://zackzukhairi.blogspot.com ) <-- give him a visit..
and i stuble his old entry..forgot the name..
but..it is soo touching(jambu!)
i give a try to do like wht he did..
and this is the result..
my drawing kinda of a mess and hideous..(beginner)
but hey! at less im using photoshop to make the drawing..hehe :p