... ERP rates increase again ...

news report from LTA http://app.lta.gov.sg/corp_press_content.asp?start=2162

LTA revealed that they have completed their current review and will revise the current rates of ERP at ECP fort road gantry..

gantry which i need to use it everyday to work.. from 3 aug onwards, rates from 0730 to 0800 will increase by 50 cents!! which from then onwards, i got to contribute $2 to ERP.. plus evening another $2, it will be $4 per day!!!! isn't it frustrating??!!???!!!

time for me to self review too.. if waking up an hour earlier to save $2 is worth it anot.. *ponders*

... don't sleep too late! ...

A reminder to all. Take note...don't always sleep late!!

Good rest and sound sleep is very

Important... if u don't sleep well,

The toxic in your body will accumulate..

Affecting your health and your mood...

The main causes of liver damage are:

1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are the main cause.

2. Not urinating in the morning.

3. Too much eating.

4. Skipping breakfast.

5. Consuming too much medication.

6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.

7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very fit.

8. Consuming overly done foods also add to the burden of liver. Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.

We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our body to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to 'schedule.'

Because:

Evening at 9 - 11pm: is the time for eliminating unnecessary/toxic chemicals (de-toxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on her health.

Evening at 11pm - 1am : The de-toxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3am : de-toxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 3 - 5am : de-toxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the de-toxification process had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.

Morning 5 - 7am : de-toxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel.

Morning 7 - 9am : Absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30am, for those who are sick. Breakfast before 7:30am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 -10am rather than no meal at all. Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4am is the time when the bone marrow produces blood.

Therefore, have a good sleep and don't sleep late.

... 21 facts to know ...

1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time.

Indeed convenient!

3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.

17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.

20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

... harry potter ...

had i knew this gonna happened i wouldn't have agreed to watch the popular show with carol... it's the sixth episode of harry potter series and being selective in movies i never once watched any..

carol wanted company and persuaded me to watch with her.. seeing her so poor thing plus my soft heartedness i gave in..

starting of the show was fine.. came to the middle of it.. i dozed off.. haha.. and not only once, it's twice!! haha..

really won't watched these type of moive anymore.. imagine years ago i fell asleep watching star strek!! yes, that is really sleeping...

so, conclusion: harry potter is better.. at least it only made me dozed off.. haha..

... stupid me ...

how can a person be so stupid?!?!?!

i was in the office today and there is this heavy duty door which separate my office and my workshop..

everyday we were slamming the door which it had been repaired twice already.. don't what came over me today.. so i thought today i shall not do it.. thus, i used my right hand to hold on to the door..

*door closed slowly ~ bang!*

damn it!! *holding on to my thumb and cursing at it* %*$#!#$#^

i GOT hit by the door!! it was definitely painful lah!!! you can't imagine how terrible the pain was.. and for the rest of my afternoon till now i couldn't exert any force with it..

see the picture which i took before i sleep..

my right thumb was swollen and there were blood clots in the nails.. it was also bruised..

good lor.. wanted to go bowling, now i can't already.. :(

i'm stupid right?? haha..

... bored sunday ...

since i lost my sleep on saturday, i though i could 'nua' at home the whole day on sunday.. no show to watch online, no place to go as nobody date me.. :D

received a call from my two young friends.. they were bored too.. want me to meet them at tea garden instead..

ya, we were back to what we were doing the night before.. playing 'chor dai di' at mac.. haha.. anyway, lady luck wasn't with me tonight.. had an equal share of shuffling cards.. that's why i never gambled lor.. i'm a goody good gal ok?? *big grin*

anyway, what we had experienced then was kind of weird cum funny..

as my friends wanted to smoke, we decided to change to the outdoor tables.. there was this indian guy who was studying alone there.. sitting a table away from us.. the moment we sat down beside him, he started giving us this what-are-you-doing-here look..

initially, my two friends were 'illegally' smoking at the non smoking zone.. (ok ok, this is not the 重点) then, we saw him got up from his seat and walked toward the counter.. oh shit!! we thought he gonna report us for the illegal act so they quickly 'put' away their cigarettes.. yes, put the cigarettes into the box again for later puff!! haha.. cumbersome smokers right?? haha..

we waited and waited, continued our game while monitoring if any mac staffs approached us.. nothing happened!! this indian fella didn't come back after a loong lonng time!! we were laughing away at our stupid act.. being afraid for nothing.. then he came back ~ to his seat and he started looking at us again..

i was jokingly telling my friend, he maybe want to 'tackle' her lah.. or else he won't be looking and looking at us right?? or maybe he wanted to join us in the game?! LOL..

subsequently, we started to get used to that weird indian guy..

what weird experience, really!

... lose my sleep ~ again ...

went to catch a show last night.. Ice Age 3 and the 3D version lor.. well, the feeling is great.. however the specs wasn't really comfortable as i'm wearing my own specs.. so it keep dropping.. would be better if you're on contact lens..

show is funny.. truly enjoyed it..

as it was a bit to go home early on a Friday night, so decided to meet my 2 friends instead.. couldn't decide where to go and ended up at west coast mac.. had supper and then it's playing cards time!! played 'chor dai di' the whole night there.. pretty contended as i only shuffled cards 3 times throughout the whole night.. LOL..

after the 'fast and furious' episode, i came to know my vios could do 160km/h in singapore lor.. of course i'm not the driver lah.. i tried running at 140km/h but failed last time..

it was impressive however but i don't quite really enjoyed the thrill at all.. maybe i'm getting old ba.. compare to youngsters (aka that 2 friends of mine) they are enjoying it instead.. even tell me next time ask that fella bring them go car ride!! i'm speechless...

after all these saga, i reached home at 9am this morning.. however, i woke up at noon (which i didn't wanted!), clocking only 3hrs of sleep (to be exact, 1150hrs).. had short naps in between until my sis woke me up at 3pm to send her to class.. yeh, i lose my previous sleep again :-(

so, it's time for me to catch up on my sleep liao! night!!

... i've got H1N1 flu like symptoms! ...

stay away from me!! haha.. though my flu is mild and i seemed to recover today already.. (now it's my back which caused me pain instead *sad*)

yesterday morning i was having slight cough and running nose.. so went to see a doctor and i was given 2 days MC..

my brother whom just returned from indonesia for vacation was worse.. he has 5 days straight in a row!! haha.. just because he has running nose and need to declare his travel history.. poor him!

now, he's worried about jeopardising his own work.. since the project his handling won't be able to run without him (that's what he says).. but we told him to rest and monitor his temperature for these few days... just in case people start pointing fingers that he's the start of the cluster..

so, both of us didn't went to work then..

.. stupid handbrake break down again ...

my family's vios has to be send to see doctor again.. same problem again.. this time it's my sister who couldn't release the handbrake.. so, she called me for help.. gave her the Marsiling service centre..

i must really put this down man! this is from my sister's narration..

as our car is still under warranty so we could send to any service centre for diagnosis.. as my sister's work place is in marsiling so naturally the nearest workshop would definitely be woodlands.. so she called the centre and after 2 tries a guy picks up the call..

him: "what problem does your car has?"

sis: "i cannot release the handbrake"

him: "oh, like that ah.. so you want me to do what huh?"

sis: "could you send a mechanic down to check the car, if the hand brake can release then i can drive already"

him: "oh, we don't provide this type of service.. and i'm having my lunch now.. so you want me to send the tow truck then? the tow truck no. is xxxxxxxx"

my sis is already boiling at this time already..

sis (still politely)"yes, i guess that is the only way out right?"

him: "oh, why don't you send to other workshop to check instead? coz' if you send here and we can't do then it's a waste of time right? and we might not have the parts here also.. so it's better to send to other workshop right?"

hello, you didn't even check the car how you know it couldn't be repair at your side?!?!

he just refused to take the car and keep pestering my sis to send to other place.. she is so pissed off with him.. in the end, we get it towed to Leng Kee instead.. and the service is so much better!!

when the tow truck driver arrives he also asked my sis why not tow to woodlands as he just come from there and there was no car at all! my sis said it's not she don't want but it's the service guy that doesn't want to accept... subsequently, 2 or 3 people asked her the same thing!! including the Leng Kee service lady that called and verify details with her..

when i heard it just now, i'm so unhappy!! being a service guy yet this is the type of service we get.. no wonder she was so impatient when she called me..

this guy better wake up his idea.. he's lucky my sis didn't got his name.. else i'm sure to lodge a report about it..

... transformer ...

megatrons, decepticons, autobots... anything you could name it in transformer movie..

went to catch it tonight with one of my new found friend, diane and her gal friend, eunice.. we had dinner at kenny rogers and then catch the show..

after 2 hours of restless posture switching, the movie ended.. it wasn't so bad at all mah.. kind of enjoyed it.. just that the part where the robots transform were a bit noisy and draggy..

i even had a friend who left half way as she was having headaches due to the show.. even diane said her head was spinning too after she reached home.. yes, she watched it already and this is the second time.. accompany her friend mah..

overall it's still not too bad lah.. catch it if you love transformers!! but i'm sure there will be a 3rd sequel..