While Kuala Lumpur celebrates City Day on Feb 1, tomorrow, in the United States, Feb 1 marks National Wear Red Day.
Thousands of people nationwide will be wearing red to support Go Red For Women, the American Heart Association's movement to increase awareness of heart disease, the No. 1 killer of both women and men.
What To Wear National Wear Red Day has its own dress code. Wear your favorite red clothes or accessory - a red blouse, a red dress pin, a fabulous red handbag - put on red lipstick, or sport a red tie and red socks. Go red in your own fashion to show your support for women and the fight against heart disease.
Why You Should Wear Red! Too few people realize that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women (and men), but the good news is heart disease can often be prevented. Spreading the Go Red For Women message - Love Your Heart - raises awareness of heart disease and empowers women to reduce their risk.
Heart disease is caused by controllable risk factors including smoking, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, physical inactivity, obesity and being overweight, and diabetes. Therefore, getting involved in heart-healthy activities will help in controlling these risk factors - get active, manage weight well, reduce or better still stop smoking, eat better and more.
Visit the official Go Red For Women site for tips and tools for a heart-healthy lifestyle.
The Lunar New Year or more commonly known here as the Chinese New Year begins on Feb 7, 12:01am. The ruling animal of the new year is the Rat.
Traditional Chinese folks would be concerned with what the new year has in store for them. This is so as to be able to take necessary steps to avoid making mistakes that might bring about bad results or on a positive note, to feel relieved that the new year might be a better one than the last.
The Chinese Almanac is one such reference where one can tell what the next twelve months will be like. For those of us who do not have such a reference, aren't we just as curious to know what to expect though we might just enjoy reading it and nothing else?
Below is the prophecy for the twelve animals for the next twelve months. Just click on each to enlarge the print.
Let me take this opportunity to wish you and your loved ones Happiness, Health and Prosperity in the New Year.
All babies start out with the same number of raw cells which, over nine months, develop into a complete female baby.
The problem occurs when cells are instructed by the little chromosomes to make a male baby instead.
Because there are only so many cells to go around, the cells necessary to develop a male's reproductive organs have to come from cells already assigned elsewhere in the female.
Recent tests have shown that these cells are removed from the communications centre of the brain, migrate lower in the body and develop into male sexual organs.
If you visualize a normal brain to be similar to a full deck of cards, this means that males are born a few cards short, so to speak. And some of their cards are in their shorts.
This difference between the male and female brain manifests itself in various ways.
Little girls will tend to play things like house or learn to read.
Little boys, however, will tend to do things like placing a bucket over their heads and running into walls.
Little girls will think about doing things before taking any action.
Little boys will just punch or kick something and will look surprised if someone asks them why they just punched their little brother who was half asleep and looking the other way.
This basic cognitive difference continues to grow until puberty, when the hormones kick into action and the trouble really begins. After puberty, not only the size of the male and female brains differs, but the centre of thought also differs.
Women think with their heads.
Male thoughts often originate lower in their bodies where their ex-brain cells reside.
Of course, the size of this problem varies from man to man. In some men only a small number of brain cells migrate and they are left with nearly full mental capacity but they tend to be rather dull, sexually speaking.
Such men are known in medical terms as "Accountants."
Other men suffer larger brain cell relocation. These men are medically referred to as "Engineers."
A small number of men suffer massive brain cell migration to their groins.
These men are usually referred to as..... "Mr. President."
There are many good people among us. We either contribute to charity or even organise fundraisers ourselves. Many things can be donated to raise funds - cookies, gift vouchers, plane tickets, holiday packages, handicraft, paintings, bicycles, designer clothes, shoes, accessories, celeb memorabilia and many more. What about donate car?
Yes, that too and there is a place for that. There is a non-profit company that uses car and other donations for a good cause. Carangel.com uses these funds to make videos for kids and teens to give away to schools. So far, they have given away over 2.4 million videos.
A strange thing happened on my way to work the other day. I was thinking about Alanis Morissette and her music and suddenly, a song of her's came on air. I was like, "Wow! that's just great! Of course, that wasn't the only occasion such a coincidence happened.
Then there was the other time in the office, I was sorting papers and going through the things that are still outstanding and I was thinking that I need to see this certain person. And next thing I knew, he was standing right in front of me! Way too much of a coincidence, really. Spooky, in fact. Of course, there were other incidents. Too many and too trivial to commit to memory.
All these coincidences in life go to show that the mind is really powerful and under-utilised, something to use expansively, and wisely, of course. Remember The Secret? Like attract like and ask and you will receive (and I don't mean the religious kind, not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Enough said. Thought you might like to hear Alanis Morissette's song that came on air. Lyrics are also included - in case you'd want to sing along. This song grows on you, really. Btw, I've got the lyrics filed in my Lyrics blog. These days, the video is also loaded in together with the lyrics. Yep, I do have a Lyrics blog (stated on the sidebar too) but don't get your hopes up too high because it's just my own collection and not a comprehensive one, plus it's still a work-in-progress little pet project.
Well, enjoy the song. Dance to it if you want to. lol
Have a great weekend!
HAND IN MY POCKET
I'm broke but I'm happy
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful, baby
And what it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
'Cos I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five
I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm restless
I'm here but I'm really gone
I'm wrong and I'm sorry, baby
And what it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be quite alright
'Cos I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is flicking a cigarette
And what it all comes down to
Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet
'Cos I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving the peace sign
I'm free but I'm focused
I'm green but I'm wise
I'm hard but I'm friendly, baby
I'm sad but I'm laughing
I'm brave but I'm chickenshit
I'm sick but I'm pretty, baby
And what it all boils down to
Is that no one's really got it figured out just yet
But I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is playing the piano
And what it all comes down to my friends, yeah
Is that everything is just fine fine fine
'Cos I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is hailing a taxi cab
Okay, the truth is out. After all the unbelievable results from the quizzes, something's got to give. So, here's when we find out how real we are. So, how real am I? I might disappoint you, but, I offer no apology.
You Are 96% Real
There's hardly a person on this earth more real than you are.
You have no problem showing people who you are, flaws and all.
For you, there couldn't be any other way. Because it's way too stressful to live an inauthentic life.
You're very comfortable with yourself. And because of this, you're able to live an exciting, interesting, and challenging life.
Scanning through my site analytics, noticed some rather interesting hits lately, such as these:
- playboy calendar - looking for sex kl - sperm count hospitals in kuala lumpur -- must have hit that sperm bank joke - playboy party kuala lumpur - hair salon special service sex kl (huh??)
and mind you, some of these even topped the search results! I checked.
And these two:
- big cock kuala lumpur - man big cock
are purely innocent searches, I'm sure. Now, don't get any ideas. They were probably just looking for this little fella.
And then, there were some other (harmless) keywords like:
- feeling sad ecard -- imagine getting hit by a request for a sad card on a happy site?! - super crab - twinkle twinkle little star bet your wondering where we are answering machine - if you are left handed where should buttons on a shirt be -- I touched on this in one of my posts - dengue mosquito look -- this one, cute way of putting it. The Look. Anyone? - the song \'\'honesty is the best policy\'\' -- this number is new to me
Oh yeah, one more I forgot to include and that's "hooters kl". You wish!