Saturday, December 26, 2009

Youtube downloader

This is real handy:

A simple bookmark which trigger a javascript to download the video :)

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old

This is something we should all read at least once a week!

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the local newspaper "The Plain Dealer", Cleveland, Ohio.

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written."

My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2.. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month..

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14.. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special..

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

another 365days of suffering........................


.. doctor say ive another 1year to go...
F*.. what the hell did i do in my past to deserve this suffering...

i wish i could be strong...
but its just 2 much...
maybe i should start to meditate...
maybe god ask me to see myself away from being with my body...
go on a destiny of a detachment..
detachment with peace of mind...
detachment away from life desire...
detachment from ALL DESIRE.
reminding me of suffering and death ...
reminding me of cycle of life...

i wish i would understand which path i should follow...

shall i try to be a monk? maybe i can detach myself from my suffering...
god.. why use this way to enlighten me?....
isnt there any better way?....

Sunday, November 22, 2009

how to convert pdf to grayscale in linux

Two commands:

1) pdf2ps -sDEVICE=psgray filename.pdf
2) ps2pdf filename.ps

filename.pdf is now grayscale

Monday, October 19, 2009

Chinese Food Cart

Reminding myself:

Dietary imbalances or extremes will negatively effect the organs and the qi. An excessively stimulating diet, for example, will stimulate body processes, triggering infinite variations of inflamation, fever, hyperactivity, or hormonal abnormalities.

Such patterns appear as fevers, sweats, insomnia, hyperthyroid, inflamatory skin conditions, etc,. These conditions will be worsened by over-consumption of foods considered "hot", stimulating, or yang in nature. Overstimulated people may benefit from foods that are considered "cool", "calming", or "yin".

Conversely, those who have cold, or "yang deficient" conditions such as low blood pressure, hypersomnia, sciatica, hypothyroid, Hashimoto's complex, etc., may do better with a more stimulating (yang) diet.

Keep in mind, when altering your diet, that moderation rules. Changes are most sustainable when they are introduced gradually.

STIMULATING (Yang)

NEUTRAL

CALMING (yin)

Apricots*
Artichoke
Basil
Beef*
Black tea
Butter
Butterfish
Carp*
Cayenne
Celery*
Cherries
Chestnuts
Chicken
Chili
Cinnamon
Chives
Coconut
Coconut milk
Cod
Coffee
Coriander
Dates
Egg, yolk
Fennel
Garlic
Ginger
Goose*
Grapes*
Green onion
Ham
Lamb
Malt
Mussels
Mustard
Mustard Greens
Nectarine
Oats
Olives
Onions
Oolong tea
Parsley
Peach
Pepper
Pinapple*
Pine nut
Plums*
Safflower
Shrimp
Soy oil
Sugar, brown
Sweet potato
Turkey
Turmeric
Vinegar
Walnuts
Wine

* Classified in some texts as stimulating and in others as neutral


Almonds
Apples**
Art i c ho k e,
Jerusalem
Art i c ho k e
Beans, Kidney**
Bean sprouts
Beets
Black mushrooms
Blueberries
Cabbage
Carrots
Catfish
Cauliflower
Carob
Cheese
Clams**
Coconut Oil
Corn
Currant
Eel
Figs
Guava
Grits
Honey
Huckleberries
Mackrel
Maple Syrup
Milk
Nutmeg
Okra
Olive Oil
Papaya
Peanuts
Pecans
Perch
Pinto Beans
Pork
Potatoes
Pumpkin Seeds
Quail
Raisin*
Rice
Sardines
Sesame seeds
Shark
Shitake Mushroom
Sugar, white
Strawberries
String bean
Sturgeon
Tapioca
Taro
Turnip
Vanilla
Whitefish
Winter squash
Yam
Yogurt

Abalone
Agar
Banana
Barley
Beer
Beans**
Beancurd**
Bran
Buckwheat
Cottage cheese
Crab
Cucumber
Duck**
Eggplant
Egg, white
Frog's Legs
Gluten
Kelp
Lettuce
Lotus Root
Malt
Mango
Marrow
Melon
Millet
Mulberries
Mung Beans
Mushrooms
Octopus
Oysters
Pears
Peas
Persimmons
Pumpkin
Rabbit
Rock salt
Rhubarb
Seaweed
Sesame oil**
Snails
Spirulina
Sugar, cane
Summer squash
Sunflower seeds
Tangerine
Tea, green
Tofu
Tomato
Water Chestnut
Watercress
Watermelon
Wheat
Wheatberries
Wheat germ
White fungus

* *Classified in some texts as calming and in others as neutral


Reference:
https://www.drshen.com/foodasmedicine.htm

Thursday, October 1, 2009

house price in copenhagen vs malaysia

apartment without lift (copenhagen) vs malaysia with lift (puchong)

price: 225k myr vs 706k myr
size: 1236sqr ft vs 485sqr ft..

wow!
thats like 3 x 2, almost 6 times more!

Monday, September 7, 2009

my dear favorite wasabi


Ouuushii...
definitely not my wasabi plate ><

So far, sushi yo not bad :) lots of vege choices.. but doesnt seems to suit my dear dear seafood appetite much...