Caprice's birthday (4/4/09)

LOL !! yaya..finally i manage to post the pictures for last week birthday celebration in Zouk KL with Caprice, one of my dance mate in Celebrity Fitness, One Utama =D For clubbing kaki, they're probably familiar with the sectors in zouk, including Velvet, phuture, zouk, aristo, barsonic, and terracebar. We spent most of our time in phuture and velvet ~,~ it's a fun night =)

Thought

As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. They may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Relationships

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Marquee Coding for Image Gallery

Saw the Image gallery from the top? yaya.. i was stucking with the marquee codes for whole day in the uni, at first i was planning to make the image gallery to be vertical and put it at the side, no matter how complicated or simple the codes are ( i tried CSS, Javascript as well), it still couldn't run smoothly (stuck after the first pic moved). After few hours i found out that marquee code is not advisable to be used on FF, because the code was originated from IE ~.~ thus only IE can run smoothly =/ Finally i gave up and decided to switch the gallery to horizontal style.

The purpose of making this image moving gallery is preparing for my upcoming boutique blog, it'll be easy for reader / buyer to blink through all the available items / goods from the image gallery instead of clicking here and there for finding suitable goods for themselves =D

Want to know how to do it? =D you can learn it from this site

Reducing Blog Page resolution

ahemm...since the blog established (not long ago, only for a month), alot of the readers have been complaining to me that the web resolution is too large...they couldn't view the site properly..need to scroll left and right, especially during the picture viewing ~.~
yaya..now i have reduced it from 1200px to 800..should be better right =D

Prostitution Menu From HK

A non-culinary menu of the most sordid sort comes to light, illustrating the costs of various special encounters.

Advertising the going rates for procuring carnal services from ladies of various nationalities and characteristics, the “menu” has some rather fanciful descriptions of the wares available to the discriminating customer.


大波北姑: big-breasted northern girl
青春陀地: youthful local
白淨馬拉: fair-skinned Malay
熱情寶妹: feisty Filipina
狂野鬼妹: wild white girl (or “raving wild evil ghost little sister” if you read the characters in more literal manner)

It is worth nothing that procuring the services of the “wild evil ghost little sister,” will cost a customer twice as much than purchasing the services of one of the local varieties, perhaps owing to the exotic nature of a potential interracial sexual encounter, or the rarity of such a product in the local market.

500 HKD is about RM250.

In comparison, Filipina and Malay equivalents may hold great appeal to the bargain conscious consumer…

China Bans Japanese Anime?!!

A recent comment by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao decrying the lack of Chinese anime has incited a flurry of online support, with Chinese net users vigorously denouncing Japanese anime.

The Premier started the fracas by publically lamenting the current poverty of Chinese visual culture:

“There are times when I watch TV anime with my grandchild, but they’re always foreign works like Ultraman and so on, and few are domestically produced. We should be cultivating a domestic anime industry.”

Ultraman (which is a tokusatsu live action show rather than an anime per se) is currently all the rage amongst the youth of China, but parents are said to be anxious about the programme; net users criticise it: “Ultraman is Japanese. All he does is fight. Have all the Chinese who can make anime disappeared?”

More extreme voices of support are also heard: “Kill Ultraman and all the other Japanese anime!”

China has in recent years been working to strengthen its domestic anime industry, with a variety of successful titles being brought to air, such as 喜羊羊与灰太狼 / Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, a hit children’s show with over 500 episodes aired since its inception in 2005.

However, heavy restrictions on the amount of foreign programming allowed also ensure that fans of international anime have no legitimate recourse for viewing their favourite titles, although mass-market anime such as Doraemon or Detective Conan is of course in a different league to niche Japanese titles.

Chinese are said to be generally critical of their country’s anime output so far, characterising it as “insipid, tedious and preachy”, suggesting more effort is required.

Source taken from recordchina

Chinese Job Seekers Turn to Plastic Surgery

The worsening economic conditions in China have seemingly forced many new college graduates and the recently sacked to turn to plastic surgery to gain an edge in the increasingly competitive job market.

Chinese unemployment rolls have surged with millions cut from factories dependent on dwindling foreign exports. Further, 6.1 million students will graduate from college or similar institutions of higher learning, a nine percent increase from the previous year, almost all of whom will naturally be entering the job market.

While Chinese law forbids job discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex or religion, no similar legal oversight covers physical appearance. Chinese employers routinely specify desired height, weight and other physical requirements.

Applicants for a nursing position at the Beijing Modern Women’s Hospital are expected to be taller than 5 feet, 2.5 inches and have “acceptable facial features.” A recent governmental posting in Hunan province even required its applicants to have “symmetrical breasts”, for reasons we can only guess at.

The most commonly requested surgical procedures include raising noses, cutting eyelids (a popular procedure in much of East Asia and beyond to acquire a more “western” look) and softening angular faces into the rounder shapes commonly prized in East Asia.

Procedures that lighten the skin are also highly desired as the Chinese consider lighter skin more delicate and desirable than darker shades. Lighter skin also happens to be a characteristic of the dominant Han ethnicitiy.

Some however feel that such minor surgeries are not enough. A commonly held perception by many Chinese employers are that shorter workers are less healthy and capable than taller ones.

Such perceptions have encouraged many Chinese job applicants to undergo leg lengthening surgery. Leg lengthening surgery involve doctors breaking the legs of their patients in order to insert steel pins in their bones.

Such surgeries typically add 3 inches to a person’s height, but are fraught with dangerous potential complications.

Despite such risks, business has been booming in Chinese plastic surgery hospitals. Nearly a dozen leading Chinese hospitals reported strong business since late last fall, commencing around the period when the global financial crisis began to take its toll on China’s economy.

Many Chinese job seekers have decried the emphasis on physical appearance, calling such requirements absurd. However, such sentiment has not stopped them from getting procedures done in record numbers.

One recent female graduate made this candid assessment: “They may not say it openly, but during the process they will pick the prettier one.”

Source taken from La Times

Stem Cell Breast Enlargement !!!

Stem cell therapy now offers the prospect of “naturally” enlarged breasts, free of surgical implants.

The technique involves extracting stem cells from the fat of the stomach or thighs and inserting them into the mammaries, where they join the breast tissue, increasing the size of the breast as a result.

The procedure offers some significant advantages over traditional “augmentation.”

Unlike breasts enhanced with artificial implants, breasts treated with stem cells will feel natural, having the same softness and fluidity as natural breasts due to being constituted of the same mixture of glandular fat and water.

Further, implants often have long-term complications and may require replacements. They can also leak and cause scarring and nerve damage, to say nothing of the risks of failed surgery.

Implanted stem cells also promote the growth of blood vessels, ensuring sufficient blood circulation. Procedures that merely moved fat into a woman’s breasts were problematic to the lack of blood supply to the implanted fat.

The technique was pioneered in Japan, initially to treat women with deformities caused by breast cancer. Recently, the technique has also been used for cosmetic enhancements and has begun clinical trials in Britain.

The stem cell treatment appears currently only to be able to provide modest increases in breast size. While scientists are confident in increases of one cup size, only further research will determine if larger augmentations are possible.

Doctors also caution that the current technique only restores volume but does not provide firmness and lift. Those wishing to avoid unappealing ptosis whilst gaining even more volume will have to wait.

In addition, the process takes several months as the extracted fat is mixed with stem cells in batches and gradually implanted to achieve the desired shape and size.

The procedure is expected to become available in 6 months, costing some £6,500.

Source taken fromTimes online

Died From Wii?!!

A man has died after a Wii Fit session went terribly awry; during his jogging session on the game, he collapsed and promptly died.

The man, identified as Tim Eves (25), of Norfolk in the UK, was apparently of sound body, enjoying such activities as cycling and fishing, and led a troupe of boy scouts. He worked as a labourer.

It seems he was playing the game, involving pretending to jog on the spot, when he suddenly keeled over. His friend and girlfriend immediately attempted to revive him and summoned medical assistance, but to no avail – he was declared deceased upon arrival at the hospital.

An autopsy is scheduled, but in the mean time so speculate he may have fallen victim to that most dread of killers, “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome”, that is to say he dropped dead for no good reason.

source taken from web-tab.jp