FellowShip @ Heaven (~_*)

The SON

2010-11-02T05:38:00.000-07:00

This is great. Take a moment to read it ; it will make your day! The ending will surprise you.

Take My SON

A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art.

When the Vietnam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.

About a month later, just before Christmas, there was a knock at the door. A young man stood at the door with a large package in his hands.

He said, 'Sir, you don't know me, but I am the soldier for whom your son gave his life. He saved many lives that day, and he was carrying me to safety when a bullet struck him in the heart and he died instantly.. He often talked about you, and your love for art.' The young man held out this package. 'I know this isn't much. I'm not really a great artist, but I think your son would have wanted you to have this.'

The father opened the package. It was a portrait of his son, painted by the young man.. He stared in awe at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was so drawn to the eyes that his own eyes welled up with tears. He thanked the young man and offered to pay him for the picture. 'Oh, no sir, I could never repay what your son did for me. It's a gift.'

The father hung the portrait over his mantle. Every time visitors came to his home he took them to see the portrait of his son before he showed them any of the other great works he had collected. The man died a few months later. There was to be a great auction of his paintings. Many influential people gathered, excited over seeing the great paintings and having an opportunity to purchase one for their collection.

On the platform sat the painting of the son. The auctioneer pounded his gavel. 'We will start the bidding with this picture of the son. Who will bid for this picture?'

There was silence..

Then a voice in the back of the room shouted, 'We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.'But the auctioneer persisted. 'Will somebody bid for this painting? Who will start the bidding? $100, $200?'. Another voice angrily. 'We didn't come to see this painting. We came to see the Van Gogh's, the Rembrandts. Get on with the real bids!'

But still the auctioneer continued. 'The son! The son! Who'll take the son?'

Finally, a voice came from the very back of the room. It was the longtime gardener of the man and his son. 'I'll give $10 for the painting...' Being a poor man, it was all he could afford.'We have $10, who will bid $20?'.'Give it to him for $10. Let's see the masters.'

The crowd was becoming angry... They didn't want the picture of the son.They wanted the more worthy investments for their collections. The auctioneer pounded the gavel. 'Going once, twice, SOLD for $10!' A man sitting on the second row shouted, 'Now let's get on with the collection!'

The auctioneer laid down his gavel. 'I'm sorry, the auction is over.'

'What about the paintings?' I am sorry. When I was called to conduct this auction, I was told of a secret stipulation in the will. I was not allowed to reveal that stipulation until this time. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever bought that painting would inherit the entire estate, including the paintings.

The man who took the son gets everything!'

God gave His son 2,000 years ago to die on the cross.. Much like the auctioneer, His message today is: 'The son, the son, who'll take the son?'

Because, you see, whoever takes the Son gets everything.

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHO SO EVER BELIEVETH, SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE...THAT'S LOVE

Penning-off:(~_*)

Obedience

2010-08-23T01:52:00.000-07:00

A man was sleeping one night in his cabin when suddenly the room filled with light,and God appeared.The Lord told the man He had work for Him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to 'Push' against the rock with all his might....

So, this man did, day after day.For many years he toiled from sun up to sundown, his shoulders set squarely against the cold,massive surface of the unmoving rock,pushing with all his might!

Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain. Since the man was showing discouragement, the adversary (Satan) decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the weary mind : (He will do it every time)!

"You have been pushing against the rock for a long time and it hasn't moved".Thus,he gave the man the impression the the task was impossible and that he was a failure. These thoughts discouraged and disheartened him.

Satan said,"Why kill yourself over this?Just put in your time,giving just the minimum effort; and that will be good enough".That's what the weary man planned to do,but decided to make it a matter of Prayer and to take his troubled thoughts to the Lord.

"Lord,"he said,"I have laboured long and hard in Your Service,putting all my strength to do that which You have asked. Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by half a millimeter.What is wrong? Why am I failing?"

The Lord responded compassionately,"My child,when I asked you to serve Me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all of your strength, which you have done.

Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to Push.Now you come to Me with your strength spent,thinking that you have failed....

But, is that really so? Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back is massive and brown;you hands are callused and your legs have become massive and hard.

Through opposition you have grown much, and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. True, you haven't moved the rock. But your calling was to be Obedient and to Push and to exercise your Faith and Trust in My Wisdom,that you have done. Now my child,I will move the rock".

At times,when we hear a word from God,we tend to use our own intellect to decipher what He wants,when actually what God wants obedience and faith in Him.

By all means,exercise the Faith that moves mountains, but know that it is still God Who moves the Mountain.

So!,
When everything seems to go wrong...............................................Just P.U.S.H.

When the job gets you down............................................................Just P.U.S.H.

When people don't so as you think they should .............................Just P.U.S.H.

When your money is 'gone' and the bills are due ...........................Just P.U.S.H.

When people don't understand you.................................................Just P.U.S.H.

P = Pray
U = Until
S = Something
H = Happens

Penning-off:(~_*)

Sleeping Disorder & Insomnia

2010-08-17T03:32:00.000-07:00

Why Can't We Sleep?

Staring at the clock's blinking red lights, tossing and turning until the sheets are tied in knots — some 40 million Americans are all too familiar with what a chronic sleep disorder feels like. In a quest to understand her own insomnia, journalist Patricia Morrisroe traveled from Las Vegas to north of the Arctic Circle and chronicled what she found in a new book, Wide Awake. Morrisroe talked to TIME about how sleep has evolved, how ancient Greeks went to sleep and why we need our z's.

So what happens to the body when it doesn't get enough sleep?
It depends on the amount of sleep you're getting. Researchers talk about impaired concentration and memory. Of the people who have gone on these long sleep-deprivation jags, one became a drifter and lost his wife and job. Another person [who set the Guinness World Record for sleep deprivation in 1965 with 264 hours, or more than 11 days awake] seemed to do quite well.

You say it's difficult to understand how sleep has evolved. What are some theories about why people sleep?
There's no "sleep bone" that people have been able to locate or find. So ultimately we don't know how people used to sleep.How many hours did people sleep then? How many hours are we sleeping now? Is it far fewer hours? That type of thing is hard to track.
A lot of people tend to wake up during the night. Every 90 minutes or so you'll sort of wake up as you go into another cycle. Insomnia patients may remember that they're waking up a lot longer. Or somebody may just feel unrefreshed.

In the '50s, sleep was in the domain of psychiatry. The first sleep labs were really dream labs. And then in the '60s, they seized on the topic of insomnia. But insomnia has always been a vague complaint, so ultimately sleep medicine couldn't get its hands around it. With the discovery of narcolepsy, sleep at least had a disease to call its own. And yet it affects such a small percentage of people that it really wasn't able to give any prominence to the field. The invention of the CPAP machine [used for the treatment of sleep apnea] in 1981 really put sleep medicine on the map.

Penning-off: (~_*)

Brain Waves

2010-08-17T03:25:00.000-07:00

How Our Brains Make Us Light or Heavy Sleepers?

How many times do you wake during the night? Do the slightest disturbances — the sound of a toilet flushing, say, or the TV in the next room — rouse you from sleep, while your partner slumbers soundly through a thunderstorm?

It turns out that some people's brains are better than others' at blocking the constant incoming flow of environmental stimuli during sleep, and in a new study, scientists have identified and measured the process. They hope that one day they will be able to manipulate this ability in order to give lighter sleepers a better night's rest.

Ambient sound is the most common cause of sleep interruption, since even during sleep, the brain must actively receive sensory information. But as it continually monitors stimuli from the environment in order to protect against threats, the brain also actively blockades them to allow body and mind to recharge and rest during sleep.

"The name of the game in sleep is stacking the cards in your favor, and one of those cards is having a quiet environment."When it's not quiet, we need to figure out how to block that sound from getting the brain to cause you to wake. And hopefully brain-based solutions will one day be an option for protecting sleepers from losing sleep every night."

Answers!!!

2009-11-19T02:56:00.000-08:00

Hey, guess what I've got a tip of from the teacher at SMK Wesley KL:

ANSWERS for the SPM 2009 SEJARAH Obj. Paper, COOL UH!!

1 D
2 A
3 B
4 C
5 D
6 A
7 B
8 C
9 B
10 B
11 C
12 C
13 B
14 C
15 A
16 B
17 D
18 A
19 D
20 B
21 B
22 D
23 A
24 A
25 C
26 B
27 A
28 D
29 D
30 D
31 A
32 C
33 B
34 C
35 B
36 D
37 D
38 A
39 C
40 A

Enjoy ya all with the results, hope ya satisfied with it.
GOOD LUCK for the coming exam!!

Petcare Robot: Play with your pet from a distance

2009-10-17T06:34:00.000-07:00

The first time I saw this picture, I thought someone took an alien head and mounted it on the body of a UFO. In reality, this is the PetCare robot, a mobile webcam that allows you to monitor your pet from a distance.

I know when I leave my dog alone for a while, I would feel better if he was occupied by playing with this toy rather than chewing up my garbage. This is assuming that I have nothing better to do on my vacation than operate this toy on the Internet.Not only is this camera/toy mobile by remote control through the Internet, but the ball that it bears is also remote control as well. In fact, the ball can be charged in the mobile camera itself. I’m not certain how the robot can be charged, or if it can be charged from a distance.

This device is fitted with infrared lenses so that you can see your pet in the dark. The lenses also have covers so your pet’s drool won’t damage the electric peepers. The only question I have is: what happens when your pet tips it over?Well, the PetCare robot is only a concept for now, but personally, it really is a step in the right direction for pet care from a distance.

Awesome Gadgets!!!

2009-10-17T06:06:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, watches look really interesting. So many of the designs just make you want to grab it then and there. This is a conceptual watch that may give you mixed thoughts. It is a pretty funky looking one and has a measuring-tape look-alike thing as its dial. Termed as the Ora watch, this one tells time on a series of three crisscrossed analog time strips. The top one gives time in minutes, overlapping a smaller band with the hours, and a narrow third belt with the current day of the week. The mechanism seems very complicated and quite mind baffling. It is designed by Alexandros Stasinopoulos.

Gosh...these watches are really awesome....You just fell like wanna grab it...u know....maybe be the first coolest dude to actually wear these gorgeous watch.But, unfortunately....they can be found in Australia....what a waste...(sigh)

Finally Onlining!!!

2009-08-10T02:26:00.000-07:00

Hi EVERYONE!!!

I would say that it has been centuries since I've started blogging!!lol

Sorry to all those whose has been 'DYING FOR ME TO UPDATE MY BLOG'!!

Actually very busylah these days

with exams and all other assigments!!

Thank God that my monthly test has just finished

Well...it finished long time ago!!

let say 2 weeks or maybe a week ago....

ah,whateverlah...at least it has finish..

but

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF MY MISERY

A MISERY THAT WILL CONTINUE TO HAUNT ME

IN MY DREAMS!!

IN MY THOUGHTS!!

CAN'T LIVE A SECOND WITHOUT IT!!
THAT SHOWS HOW MISERABLE IS IT!!

WHAT TO DO??

WE SPM STUDENTS HAS TO BE THE VICTIM

THIS TIME

IF NOT US, THEN WHO??

All we could do is study smart,not hard!!

no use study sooo hard!!

wanna die is it!!

dahlah brain so small!!

wanna cramp all those unwanted things into my brain!!

what you think ah???
robot...bionical man, a machine is it!!

Anyway,my blessings and prayers to all those who are sitting for their trial paper today!!All the Best!!

DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE!!

FOR THE FUTURE IS IN UR HANDS!!!

penning-off : bye..bye (~_*)

Michael Jackson "King Of Pop"

2009-06-26T00:44:00.000-07:00

2009-06-26T00:07:00.000-07:00

Born : August 29 1958 in Gary Indiana
Education : Private Schools & Tutors
Former Spouses:
Lisa Marie Presley(Elvis Presley's Sis)-(married May 18,1994-Jan 18,1996)-divorsed Debbie Rowe (married Nov 15,1996-Oct 8,1999)-divorsed

Children:
Paris Michael Katherine, April 3,1998 (with Rowe)
Prince Michael Jr. , Feb 12,1997 (with Rowe)
Prince Michael II a.k.a "blanket", 2002 (with anonymous surrogate)

Religion: Jehovah's Witness

Current Residence: Los Angeles,California

At one point, lived on the Neverland Valley Ranch in Santa Barbara County,California,which he built with a mini-roller-coaster, bumper cars, a merry-go-round and other rides.

Sold more than 300 million albums worldwide....

Young vocalist to top the U.S singles chart,age 11, fronting the Jackson 5.....

First vocalist to enter the U.S singles chart at No.1 with "You Are Not Alone"!!

"Michael Jackson May You Rest In Peace"

Michael Jackson

2009-06-25T23:54:00.000-07:00

Michael Jackson "King Of Pop"

Michael Jackson died after being taken to a hospital on Thursday having suffered cardiac arrest, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's office.

Paramedics took Jackson, 50, from his west Los Angeles home Thursday afternoon to UCLA Medical Center, where a team of physicians attempted to resuscitate him for more than an hour, said brother Jermaine Jackson. He said the famed singer was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. PT.
An autopsy is scheduled Friday, he said. Results are expected Friday afternoon, according to Lt. Fred Corral of the Los Angeles coroner's office, who also said Jackson was unresponsive when he arrived at the hospital.

Fire Capt. Steve Ruda told CNN paramedics were sent to a west Los Angeles, California, residence after a 911 call came in at 12:21 p.m.

Michael Jackson, the music icon from Gary, Indiana, was known as the "King of Pop." Jackson had many No. 1 hits, and his "Thriller" is the best-selling album of all time.

Jackson was the seventh of nine children from a well-known musical family. He is survived by three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II.

Jackson's former wife, Lisa Marie Presley, said she was "shocked and saddened" by Jackson's death. "My heart goes out to his children and his family," she said.

At the medical center, every entrance to the emergency room was blocked by security guards. Even hospital staffers were not permitted to enter. A few people stood inside the waiting area, some of them crying.

2009-06-25T23:46:00.001-07:00

Culture Unplugged Video

2009-04-16T01:50:00.001-07:00

View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

2009-04-16T01:10:00.000-07:00

Yesterday...15 April 2009

Well,I was bugged by my frens to share my thought.....,

I mean...what is so nice in hearing other peoples thought!!!,

Well...for the sake of satisfying my frens wishes...,

I decided to give it a go....,

Hmm....'Who knows it might be interesting'!!

In Biology class...our teacher thought about skeletal muscles in animals..,

such as bird,frog,locust and last but not least fish...,

when everybody heard the word fish....,

automaticly all heads were turned in my direction,

quite scary...but wow...'the attention'!

the teacher was quite confused on why this happened ,

but she didn't bother asking....

Anyway,I was named 'GOLDFISH'...in the class,

cause....hmmm...I looked like one...hahaha ,

I mean not exactly a fish...but just the face...,

yup...I do have a cubby like rounded-shape kind of face...,

ask anyone & they'll say I look exactly like a GOLDFISH,

not an ordinary fish but a typical looking GOLDFISH...,

huh...here's that word again....,

I guess I'm sort of used to hear that word....,

soooo...not a big probem at all!!!

....There was a fish in our school aquarium...,

and well I was named because of that fish...,

but I call it 'BLOTTEDFISH'...,

cause it's sooo round..,

unfortunately....it DIED....

DIED just like that...,

My heart drooped down...

I felt half of my life is gone...

at first I couldn't believe..

but,trust me...the cut is too deep to bear...

passing by the aquarium everyday...

and it's GONE...

GONE...for good!! (tears rolling down)

I don't have it real picture but I'll download one that is exact

as a rememberance for me...

Here it is....'BLOTTEDFISH'.....

MAY YOU REST IN PEACE!!(!_!)

That's all I could say...signing off!!

2009-04-11T05:12:00.000-07:00

Abdominal Fat Distribution Predicts Heart Disease

Abdominal obesity is a strong independent risk factor for heart disease, and using the waist-hip ratio rather than waist measurement alone is a better predictor of heart disease risk among men and women

During the follow-up, 1,708 men and 892 women developed coronary heart disease. When they divided the men and women into five groups, according to waist-hip ratio, researchers found that those with the highest waist-to-hip ratio had the highest heart disease risk. Among the findings:
Men in the top one-fifth of the distribution (those with the biggest waists in relation to their hips) had a 55 percent higher risk of developing coronary heart disease compared to men in the bottom one-fifth of the distribution (those with the smallest waists in relation to their hips).

Women in the top one-fifth, or the highest waist-to-hip ratio group, were 91 percent more likely to develop heart disease than women with the smallest waists in relation to their hips.

Waist-only measurements underestimated heart disease risk by 10 percent to 18 percent when compared to risk estimates for waist measurements when hip is considered (waist-to-hip ratio).

When waist-only, body mass index and coronary heart disease risk factors are considered, for every 6.4 centimeter (cm) increase in hip circumference in men and for every 9.2 cm hip circumference increase in women, there is a 20 percent lower risk for developing heart disease

"People whose abdominal fat puts them at higher risk for heart disease do not always appear overweight or obese," Canoy said. "However, the overriding message from this and other studies about heart disease risk is that, despite the different measures and risk estimates, the bottom line is that many of us need to lose excess weight. Doctors should start looking beyond weight, height, simple waist circumference and BMI to assess heart disease. A simple waist-hip ratio measurement is a strong predictor of heart disease."

2009-04-11T05:08:00.000-07:00

Waist Size Found To Be Predictor Of Heart Failure In Both Men And Women

Adding to the growing evidence that a person's waist size is an important indicator of heart health, a study led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has found that larger waist circumference is associated with increased risk of heart failure in middle-aged and older populations of men and women.

The findings, published online in the April 7 Rapid Access Report of the journal Circulation: Heart Failure, showed that increased waist size was a predictor of heart failure even when measurements of body mass index (BMI) fell within the normal range.
"Currently, 66 percent of adults in the United States are overweight or obese," explains Emily Levitan, ScD, the study's first author and a Research Fellow in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit at BIDMC. "Knowing that the prevalence of heart failure increased between 1989 and 1999, we wanted to better understand if and how this increase in obesity was contributing to these rising figures."

A life-threatening condition that develops when the heart can no longer pump enough blood to meet the body's needs, heart failure (also known as congestive heart failure) is usually caused by existing cardiac conditions, including high blood pressure and coronary artery disease. Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization among patients 65 and older, and is characterized by such symptoms as fatigue and weakness, difficulty walking, rapid or irregular heartbeat, and persistent cough or wheezing.

The researchers examined two Swedish population-based studies, the Swedish Mammography Cohort (made up of 36,873 women aged 48 to 83) and the Cohort of Swedish Men (43,487 men aged 45 to 79) who responded to questionnaires asking for information about their height, weight and waist circumference. Over a seven-year period between January 1998 and December 2004 the researchers reported 382 first-time heart-failure events among the women (including 357 hospital admissions and 25 deaths) and 718 first-time heart-failure events among men (accounting for 679 hospital admissions and 39 deaths.)
Their analysis found that based on the answers provided by the study participants, 34 percent of the women were overweight and 11 percent were obese, while 46 percent of the men were overweight and 10 percent were obese.

"By any measure – BMI, waist circumference, waist to hip ratio or waist to height ratio –our findings showed that excess body weight was associated with higher rates of heart failure," explains Levitan.

Further breakdown of the numbers showed that among the women with a BMI of 25 (within the normal range), a 10-centimeter higher waist measurement was associated with a 15 percent higher heart failure rate; women with a BMI of 30 had an 18 percent increased heart failure rate. In men with a BMI of 25, a 10-centimeter higher waist circumference was associated with a 16 percent higher heart failure rate; the rate increased to 18 percent when men's BMI increased to 30.

Furthermore, adds Levitan, among the men, each one-unit increase in BMI was associated with a four percent higher heart failure rate, no matter what the man's waist size. In women, she adds, BMI was only associated with increased heart failure rates among the subjects with the largest waists. Finally, the authors found that the association between BMI and heart-failure events declined with age, suggesting that the younger the person, the greater the impact of weight to heart health.

"This study reinforces the importance of maintaining a healthy weight," says Levitan. "Previous research has looked at various types of heart disease and related health issues, and no matter the particulars of the study, they've all been pretty consistent in determining that excess body weight increases a person's risk of heart disease."

2009-04-11T05:03:00.000-07:00

Red In The Face? People Use The Color Of Your Skin To Judge How Healthy You Are

People use the color of your skin to judge how healthy you are, according to researchers at the University of St Andrews.

Scientists in the School of Psychology have shown that there is truth to the received wisdom that a "rosy" complexion denotes healthiness, whilst a "green" or "pale" color indicates illness.
Lead researcher Ian Stephen worked with the University's Perception Lab to determine how face color is associated with healthy looks.
Several monkey species use redness in their faces or sexual skin to advertise their health status and to attract mates. The team was keen to discover whether similar mechanisms were at work in humans.

Ian Stephen said, "Parents and doctors know that when you get ill, you can end up looking pale. Our research goes further and shows that even young, healthy university students can benefit from a complexion reflecting more blood and more oxygen in the skin."
The team from the University of St Andrews first measured how skin color varies with the amount of blood and oxygen in the blood.
These measurements were used with computer graphics to allow research participants to change the color of the faces in the photographs to look as healthy as possible. The team found that, for all faces, participants added more oxygen rich blood color to improve the healthy appearance.

Stephen continued, "Our skin contains many tiny blood vessels that carry blood laden with oxygen to the skin cells, allowing them to "breathe", and allowing us to lose heat during exercise. People who are physically fit or have higher levels of sex hormones have more of these blood vessels and flush easier than people who are unhealthy, unfit, elderly or smokers. Physically fit people also have more oxygen in their blood than people who are unfit or have heart or lung illnesses."

Professor Dave Perrett, head of the Perception Lab commented, "Our evaluators all thought that bright red blood with lots of oxygen looked healthier than darker, slightly bluer blood with lower oxygen levels. It is remarkable is that people can see this subtle difference."
"This may explain why some people with very red faces do not look so healthy; the color of their blood may be wrong. So it's not just the amount of blood that's important; it's the type of blood that determines healthy looks".

The research shows that people use the color of the blood in your skin to judge how healthy you are.