Food as MedicineHEADACHE? EAT FISH! Eat plenty of fish -- fish oil helps prevent headaches. So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain.HAVE FEVER? EAT YOGHURT! Eat lots of yoghurt before pollen season. Also-eat honey from your area (local region) daily.TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA! Prevent buildup of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. (actually, tea suppresses my appetite and keeps the pounds from invading....Green tea is great for our immune system)!INSOMNIA (CAN'T SLEEP?) HONEY! Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative.ASTHMA? EAT ONIONS!!!Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes.ARTHRITIS? EAT FISH, TOO!! Salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines actually prevent arthritis. (fish has omega oils, good for our immune system)UPSET STOMACH? BANANAS - GINGER!!!!! Bananas will settle an upset stomach. Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea.BLADDER INFECTION? DRINK CRANBERRY JUICE!!!! High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria.BONE PROBLEMS? EAT PINEAPPLE!!! Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple.PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME? EAT CORNFLAKES!!!! Women can ward off the effects of PMS with cornflakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue.MEMORY PROBLEMS? EAT OYSTERS! Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much-needed zinc.COLDS? EAT GARLIC! Clear up that stuffy head with garlic. (remember, garlic lowers cholesterol, too.)COUGHING? USE RED PEPPERS!! A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper. Use red (cayenne) pepper with caution-it can irritate your tummy.BREAST CANCER? EAT Wheat, bran and cabbage Helps to maintain estrogen at healthy levels.LUNG CANCER? EAT DARK GREEN AND ORANGE AND VEGGIES!!! A good antidote is beta carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables. ULCERS? EAT CABBAGE ALSO!!! Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers.DIARRHEA? EAT APPLES! Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition. (Bananas are good for this ailment)CLOGGED ARTERIES? EAT AVOCADO! Mono unsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol.HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? EAT CELERY AND OLIVE OIL!!! Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure. Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure too.BLOOD SUGAR IMBALANCE? EAT BROCCOLI AND PEANUTS!!! The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar.Kiwi: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E & fiber. It's Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.Apple: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.Strawberry: Protective fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protects the body from cancer causing, blood vessels clogging free radicals. (Actually, any berry is good for you..they're high in anti-oxidants and they actually keep us young.........blueberries are the best and very versatile in the health field........they get rid of all the free-radicals that invade our bodies)Orange: Sweetest medicine. Taking 2 - 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer.Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are Vitamin C & Potassium. (watermelon also has natural substances [natural SPF sources] that keep our skin healthy, protecting our skin from those darn uv rays)Guava & Papaya: Top awards for Vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber which helps prevent constipation.Papaya is rich in carotene, this is good for your eyes. (also good for gas and indigestion)Tomatoes are very good as a preventative measure for men, keeps those prostrate problems from invading their bodies.

Hi Guys and Gals, Not Sure how true is this..... Host of a TV programme once taught this method, to detect the present of pinsize spy camera. Probably this method would turn out to be effective to all girls, no harmgiving it a try. Before entering any public toilet, check if your handphone is able to callout. After entered the toilet, re-check whether you can call out with yourhandphone or not. If phone call is possible outside the toilet butimpossible inside the toilet, there is something wrong. Better watch out if such situation happens. Please forward to your female friends.

its not dead...hes just sleeping hugging a bear....hes so cute na~!
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my rabbit..my fav tibble
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thats my sister premni with a hornbill at our national zoo
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thats my late tibble hiding under a rag
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thats me and my younger sister at..ermm the underground shopping arena in putrajaya,malaysia
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thats my mom...looking very excitedly at the flames of the forest!
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thats my younger sister on her 21st birthday!
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my elder sister...cutting her cake recently!!!!!!!! shes such a darling
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well dont ask how my holiday is going like...firstly i keep staring at my self on the mirror and i keep saying im obese...no. 2 i keep running awya from people cause i feel they might say the 3 golden words...YOU ARE FAT!....URGHHHHHHHHH...so the best thing to do now is sleep! till then

well my dog id obese..went thru a diet and now shes lovely...though shes still a pain but shes lovely..well i seriously am on a diet...need to lose all those fat i put on in russia. my net sucks here..even blogging is so hard these days what more ircing. well, rite now im gonna leave to the hospital to check out the availability to carry on my praticals and elective postings then gonna check out my tickets...so till then dont miss me to much neel ! hahaha bye

Why zero in on Crimea State?
P Ramasamy
Jun 30, 05 2:01pm



The Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) has come out to say that it will
not extend recognition to Ukraine's Crimea State Medical University
after Dec 31, 2006. Such a decision - without any prior warning -
has come a rude shock to many Malaysians particularly the students
intending to study there.

It is a disappointment to the Malaysian public for various reasons.
First, it is not clear why the MMC zeroed on this particular
university when there are many other universities in Southeast Asia,
the Middle East and South Asia also recognised by the Malaysian
government. Many of these universities have doubtful teaching and
clinical standards but are nonetheless tolerated by the MMC and the
Malaysian government.

Second, by specifically focusing on the medical standards of CSMU,
questions are raised about the objectivity and impartiality of MMC's
assessment of its curriculum, teaching methods, student-lecturer
ratio and others.

Third, while the Malaysian public expects the MMC to advise the
government on the quality of medical programmes in various
recognised universities, it is unclear whether the MMC itself
initiated the present de-recognition of CSMU.

Fourth, knowing very well that the admission criteria for medical
schools in Malaysia is biased in favour of those taking the
matriculation entrance examination, it is not very clear whether the
MMC's real intention to de-recognize the CSMU is based on
considerations other than academic.

Fifth, some are arguing that the MMC's decisions to de-recognise the
CSMU is related to the need to balance the entry of Malays and non-
Malays into medical schools both here and abroad.

Given the demand for medical education in universities that are good
and cheap, it is quite natural that some students might have used
the assistance of unscrupulous agencies to gain admission without
the necessary credentials.

In this regard, it always wise for the MMC and the government to
take the necessary steps to weed out these black sheep rather than
punish those who have not committed any crime. CSMU might not be the
top medical school in the entire world, however, it at the same time
is not as bad as some of the schools currently recognised by the
Malaysian government.

The decision to de-recognise the CSMU comes at time when there is so
much controversy about higher education in general and entry into
medical education in particular. Not only is there a mismatch
between the two entry points into local universities, there is also
a certainly perceived discrimination against the entry of non-
bumiputeras into medical schools.

Therefore, given the strong traditional predilection of many Indian
parents to send their children to medical schools, entry into cheap
and good foreign medical universities has emerged as a viable
alternative option for them.

This explains why the MIC was so upset by the MMC's decision to de-
recognise the CSMU, leading to the outbursts by one of its deputy
ministers in parliament.

The situation of higher education has become very critical in the
country. The government has simply no vision to provide a good
alternative for Malaysians. And once the university intakes are
announced under the notorious meritocracy system, the problem will
be compounded.

I suggest the following measures to be adopted by the government to
defuse the present tensions in society.

First, make an announcement to cancel the recent decision to de-
recognise the CSMU pending a major study to ascertain the merits or
demerits of certain controversial medical schools abroad.

Second, if not too late for this year, make an announcement to
replace the present meritocracy- based university intake system with
a different system. Third, make allowances for a more effective
representation of marginalised groups in critical academic
disciplines such as medicine, engineering and dentistry.

The deteriorating situation of higher education in Malaysia cannot
be resolved overnight. What is needed right now is the correct
political will on the part of the government to rise above narrow
ethnic sectarian concerns to ensure that our educational system
caters for the interests of all ethnic groups.

welll i reach malaysia on saturday and its HOT! really really hot..well i am rather short in time...since its like almost one am and im leaving home tom at 5.30am to a temple in a diifferent state...so aloha...till then will update ya soon..and neel :) i miss ya!

Doha, room 401, almajoori hotel

Firstly im pissed because I was promised Marriot and I got this. Second thing, the handle of my hand luggage broke just as I entered the hotel. Third I was so clumsy that my hand luggage knocked down the metal rubbish bin by the elevator and fourth, of all the days, my wrist watch had to break. There’s on good news, I got a room for myself. Well, basically I did not want to stay with that girl and im glad she thought the same way too. I was glad that I was given a single room after I started flirting with him a bit and thank god I understood Hindi, and I got the manager involved into a nice conversation till he allowed me to stay alone. Now that’s my talent and im proud of it. I don’t actually need to carry my skirts or show my cleavage just to get things done. I just talk and it always seems to work if you are sincere. I was told that dinner was to be served now and breakfast at 7 tomorrow. And my check out of that hotel is at 12. So I have around a day more here in Doha. I don’t plan to go out with a taxi or anything like that. Im just going to walk around since the hotel is in town. Well, for one I can sleep naked and no one will comment but the thought that this is an Arab country, I double checked my door. Its one is here in Doha now and Im sleepy. Some how im too tired to sleep I guess. A peek out of the window shows some unrevealed part of Doha. If im not mistaken I just saw a prostitute flashing her boobs to some cars passing. OK made up my mind, im just going for food and no where else. My times are just not good. Oh movie marathon has started in my room. Let’s see the channels are killing. Channel one shows some Arabians stretching, uff channel 2 some discussion in Arab language. Right channel 3 is what Im glued to cause it in English, whoa, Richard Gere just got slapped, I think its this No mercy movie, rite next channel 4, some Arabian singing ya Habibi, urgh, channel 5 LBC channel muted I don’t know why, channel 6 black and white next!, channel 7 blank, channel 8 ahhh BBC world news. It’s been such a long time since actually watched news. Pilot killed in crash some spy pilots, Briton arrested, im still lost. Let me skip the channels and jump to channel 15. Sexy Arabians and whoa they are sexy and they really can shake their hips. Right enough, Im going to watch Euro news now and fall asleep. That’s all about my one night in Doha, im just surrounded by shops shops and sand. Good night people bye

Well I fundamentally left Kursk at 4 am, willing fully accompanied by my best friend, raj and my two affectionate brothers, Marcus and mike to patfak to take the bus. It was rather chilly and inside me I dint have any exhilaration to leave Kursk and to leave these magnificent people. I have grown so fond of to them that on the whole we were depending on each other. I know I will miss them a lot particularly Raj and mike. Raj was hushed the whole entire day and so was mike. Logen was with me the whole day from shopping till packing. Mike and raj made me my two desired meals, soy with ketchup and saccharine sour egg. I felt something pungent up my throat while eating. For the first time, everyone was silence during dinner including me. I felt like I was leaving something really imperative back and couldn’t find it. Well if they were actually leaving with me or anything earlier I wouldn’t be so distressing. The fact that they were leaving only on July 17th made me feel so sick. Well I hope everything goes on fine.

The waft of wee hours of the morning was really frosty. I was the first on to arrive at patfak and no one was there so I kind off lazed around, went visiting friends and etc. Jaya called asking for me when I was talking to dev asking me to come down. I heavy heartedly left and went down and entered the bus to find myself a comfy place in the bus. It was a sleeping bus so it was rather cozy in there. I said tata to everyone and got into the bus and left. I tried sleeping for so long that the next thing I knew was that I was in Moscow. My flight was to leave at 4.30 and we had to check in at 2. It was 1.30pm when we reach the airdrome. I hurried and changed my rubles to USD and then I renowned a very recognizable face. Right I was. It was Ramesh the guy whom I did my practical with last year along with Suren whom was there too. Well, I checked in and got to the plane, set my self up and Walla, I slept. Ha-ha. I woke up when dinner was served and slept back. The next thing I knew is Im in Doha. Will update you when I get to the hotel. Bye and stay tuned!

Don't Marry a Computer, Software or a Web Engineer.

Husband : (Returning late from work) "Good Evening dear....I'm now logged in." Wife: Have you brought the groceries? Husband : Bad command or filename. Wife: But I told you in the morning Husband : Syntax Error. Abort? Wife: What about my new TV? Husband : Variable not found . . . Wife : At least, give me your Credit Card, I want to do someshopping. Husband : Sharing Violation. Access denied Wife: Do you love me or do you only love computers or are you just being funny? Husband : Too many parameters . . . Wife: It was a great mistake that I married an idiot like you. Husband : Data type mismatch. Wife: You are useless. Husband : It's by Default. Wife: What about your Salary? Husband : File in use . . . Try later. Wife: What is my value in the family. Husband : Unknown Virus.

I woke up basically at 8.00 am and my class was at 8.30. You may presuppose that I was still in time but the nastiest part was there was not even a single taxi at sight and I had to travel to a hospital for my propadeutics classes. I finally got a taxi and I wasn’t the only one behind schedule for class. It was fascinating to actually study internal diseases and what we had for class today was about the GIT and we managed to finish the whole percussion, palpation and auscultation all in one day.

The next thing on my mind was to get my credit books signed for pharmacology and path physiology which I did in time. I came home feeling a little pompous of myself and logged online.

I logged in IRC and into yahoo and found 330 mails in my mail box. Something actually caught my concentration there about the de recognization of Crimea state medical university, Russia. All pre med students and those enrolling now to leave to Crimea are advised to extract all the payments and application. I was dazed to read that they actually have 2000 plus Malaysian students studying medicine just in Crimea.

I found Mr.Muchkins online and was basically having a chat with him. Well, it was kind of fastidious to actually sit back and loosen up and talk to someone you actually can open up to. My mother was online so was my younger sister, we had some gossips reorganized and I in return told her particulars about my flight and etc.

I was a little drained and decided to catnap for at least 1 hour, so well that’s what I thought, I woke up at 10 plus and I dint have this good feeling adjoining me. It was like I smelled either snag or let’s see, well, I just felt very heavy inside.

I logged online after lazing around for another half an hour. I logged on and I said a hi to my usual friends and none answered me. Okay forget the rest, but kippu refused to answer me, and I thought I must have said something really erroneous. Mr.muchkins was around and I had a succinct conversation. I always delete my message achieve everyday and I was going through it and I found some stuffs which I never wrote. Not a fuck you note to my mom. That was acutely a grave issue.

I logged on to IRC and that’s where I realized that some jackasses had got thru my yahoo and retrieved my password even on IRC. It was preposterous for me to actually tell my pass words around. Well, let’s see MR. Javed, that’s his real name, much known as GODZUKI, comes in with pitiable nicks like Bhoom and Jumbles, and not a man enough to come up and speak in front. For some reasons, I personally think he’s a gay. Well for one, he looks like one and for two, each time he hits a conversation with me, its got to be Le this Le that. And well he really sounds domineering over Le_debbs. LE you’ve got yourself a devotee.

Well, bhoom seems to be basically distressed by my access everywhere, so he logged into my IRC username, removes all my access as if he thought that would have an inch bothered me, and well he talked to kipps and Pone and well of course they were no dumbos like him, lol, sometimes I think, he’s such a dumb fuck. Well, one thing I realized yesterday was that he’s a person whom is basically so freaking down, a low down life person and I guess it’s just the way he was brought up, and his rearing actually showed him this path of life. I mean if a person isn’t able to find at least one word of unadulterated and apt meaning, I have nothing to say. He swears at other peoples mothers, and uses crude words on them, so I can actually imagine what kind of a mother he has, and what kind of a father he has, or maybe…maybe he never knew his dad. Well makes sense, im not being mean, im being coherent, if you say a word about my mother, I have flawlessly ten words in return, and deem me, you don’t really want to know…am going to sleep now tata

well i have been really busy this whole week due to the visa applications and etc...will update the blog later when i have the time..pst..neel chill! u always miss me on IRC by 21 hours :P

The 5 Things You Really Want to Know About Men!
By Mr. Answer ManMore from iVillage
4 Things He Doesn't Dare Tell YouWhat He's Really Thinking -- RevealedGuy Behavior 101

Ever wonder what a guy was really thinking - but were too afraid to ask?You're not the only one! We took five of your most-asked questions and gotsome real answers from a real guy, our resident expert on the maleperspective, Mr. Answer Man.

1. Do all men have the same sexual fantasies? And what are they?Men's sexual fantasies are probably a lot tamer than you think. For the mostpart, they don't even involve multiple partners, foreign objects or a tight,skimpy French maid's outfit. Male sexual fantasy tends to stick to a verytight formula: hot rambunctious sex with people we aren't supposed to behaving it with. This pool is extended to include platonic friends, ourgirlfriend or spouse's friends and ex-girlfriends who were great in bed.

2. Do men care if their partner earns more money than they do?Short answer, yes. Even if we try to hide it and say that it's okay, thetruth is that when a woman out-earns us, it's a blow to our egos. That said,not all of us are comfortable being the breadwinners, either. Beingresponsible for someone else's financial stability is a huge amount ofpressure. It's a Catch-22.

3. How can I tell if my partner is cheating?The issue here is trust. I'll assume, since you ask the question at all,that in some way, you are questioning your partner's commitment, not just toyou, but to the truth. And to answer your question, you can't know if yourpartner is cheating until you're presented with clear, incontrovertibleproof. Which leaves us with a far more difficult issue: what to do when yoususpect but cannot prove.I could throw out all the stereotypical signs of cheating: he says he has towork late, but when you call the office, no one answers; he avoids intimacyand sex; he talks a lot about a female friend or colleague; he's vague ordefensive about where he's been when not with you. But none of theseso-called signs are proof of unfaithfulness. In my humble opinion, ratherthan accusing your partner of infidelity, the safest bet is to address theissue of trust in your relationship in general. Whether by yourselves or incouples counseling, your feelings have to be acknowledged and worked throughtogether if you're ever going to build a genuine, trusting relationship.This is not easy -- only absolutely necessary.Trust is never a sure thing. It's precious precisely because of howvulnerable it leaves us. But trust upheld is one of life's richesttreasures, well worth the risk of being honest about our feelings, no matterhow painful. Good luck.

4. What does a guy really think when you have sex on the first date?He really thinks you're slutty. And that, sister, is not necessarily a badthing -- depending on what you want out of the relationship, of course.Unless he believes that he's the exception to the rule (in other words, ifhe doesn't think you fall into bed on the first date with every guy), doingthe horizontal boogie so early on means your relationship is going to bemainly about sex. When you're making plans for future dates, he'll bethinking of you on the dinner table rather than across it. However, if youwait and get to know each other on an emotional level and let the physicalfollow, then the relationship can be about both. The exception: If you twohave been friends for a while, then hit the sheets on your first "official"date, don't worry -- your relationship can be hot and heavy.

5. Why do men come crawling back after they break up with you?Let me be blunt. A man comes crawling back after a breakup because he'dgotten used to a certain something that he's no longer getting and is nowpanicking in the face of a biological drive -- at the expense of yourfeelings and his pride.There are two exceptions to this rule, and both have to do with the timeframe of the ''crawl back.'' First, if your guy comes crawling backimmediately, he's probably being genuine -- pathetic, but genuine. Herealizes he's made a terrible mistake and really does want to make therelationship work. Also, if months and months have passed, you can be prettysure that he's really thought about it, truly misses you and (finally)realizes what a great gal you are. But if he calls you, say, two to threeweeks after he walked out of your life, do not be fooled. It only means he'sbeen unable to get his erotic needs fulfilled and has succumbed topath-of-least-resistance daydreams about his last partner -- namely, you.Suggest that he try one of the many 900 numbers out there and cross his nameout of your address book.