The Passing of a Wonderful Lady - My Mum in Law

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Adele - Someone Like You

Latest : 12 Feb 2012


Adele brought home six GRAMMYs here.




One of my favourite singers Adele with her beautiful song 

“Someone Like You”.

“Secret Diary of a Call Girl”- Head over Heart

This song was played in the finale episode where Ben, Hannah’s long time boyfriend, despite promising he could handle it, finally makes the apparently unreasonable request that his girlfriend 'stop being a prostitute'.

He gave Hannah the ultimatum of choosing between profession and being with him.

Enjoy.

Looking young - Mum 55 looks 35

December is such a busy month with all the weddings one has to attend! There are days having to rush like crazy to be at four functions within 6hours.

One of my hobbies is “people watching” and wedding sure is a nice place to spend your time watching people. You learn a lot just by watching their faces, watch the way they dress from head to toe, watch the way they talk and the way they walk. Very interesting hobby indeed!

Have you come across ladies looking 10-20years younger than what their age should have been? One of them is my aunt, a healthy 78year old lady yet looking barely 60, her flawless skin and fresh complexion - no wrinkles! My late mum should be around  75years old today if still alive, when she died at 65 years; she too looked very young for her age.

So ladies, make an appointment with your mothers or grandmothers – they are actually your most valuable beauty consultants.

Our elders have their many traditional natural beauty secret home remedies that everyone should learn from. Those years, they had to depend mainly on the natural ingredients available around them such as coconut oil, fennel seeds, honey, ginger, pineapple, carrot, tomatoes, cucumbers, almond oil, lemon and citrus fruits and leeches etc. Even today, leeches are being used as beauty treatment!

Many of these secrets are brought to you today in tubes and bottles. Anyway ladies try to stay and look young always. It can be a thrilling feeling when you take a picture with your 20year old son and getting comments such as “is that picture of you and your husband?” Hmm, feels good eh?

Mum 55 looks 35 (here)

LifeCell has been receiving increased media exposure recently around its ability to make the appearance of wrinkles vanish in 17 seconds of application. More here.

World's First Sex School Opens? Malaysia’s Obedient Wives Club

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In Malaysia, last June 2011 the Obedient Wives Club (OWC) created hot sizzling waves, today, we hear of the World’s First Sex School in Vienna!

The world's first international sex school has opened which claims to teach its students how to be better lovers.

But far from being a cheap thrill, one term at the "hands on" International Sex School in Vienna will cost pupils £1,400. 

More here.

New 7 Wonders of the Nature – Jeju Island, South Korea. Lie to Me.

A poll was organized by Swiss foundation New7Wonders (N7W) where world citizens were asked to put forward sites which they deemed are natural wonders.

It began in 2007 when more than 440 locations were nominated in more than 220 countries through a global voting process. The top 77 choices were short listed, and further narrowed to 28 candidates. On November 11^th 2011, seven finalists have been announced, and one of the seven selected is Jeju Island, South Korea.

Jeju Island (here) 

The island was created entirely from volcanic eruptions approximately 2 million years ago, during the time period from the Tertiary to the beginning of the Quaternary period, and consists chiefly of basalt and lava. The eruptions took place in the Cenozoic era. It has a humid subtropical climate, warmer than that of the rest of Korea, with four distinct seasons. Winters are cool and dry while summers are hot, humid, and sometimes rainy.

‘Lie to Me’, a 16 episode Korean romantic love- comedy Television mini series – super rich boy poor girl suspense. The President of World Group of Hotels, Hyeon Gi Jun, in his pursuit to woo the heart and trust of his new love, followed her to Jeju Island.

In the 11^th episode, The Republic of South Korea Ministry of Culture Officer, Gong Ah Jeong was sent to the Island to promote and lure the Judges to vote for Jeju Island. And the series finale also takes us back to Jeju Island. 

Gong Ah Jeong summarises Jeju island in one word, 

 ‘MOTHER’. 

Women from this island, dive into the seas to fish for the abalone, Jeju Island’s delicacy. Many of these women divers perished underwater. Despite the known dangers they still continue to dive for the abalones. The endless sacrifices mothers make to raise their children. 

The Plentiful 3 - the 3 most common things in Jeju Island, the wind, rocks and women.

‘World Toilet Day’ – PooP Like a King.

In Honor of World Toilet Day, "Let's Talk Sh*t", here. This headline really teased my curiosity. An important day went by so quietly – I was not even aware that 19^th November was declared the World’s Toilet Day!

World Toilet Day (WTD) is a global non-profit organization committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide. WTD focuses on toilets instead of water, which receives more attention and resources under the common subject of sanitation.

World Toilet Day: 

Burkina Faso

Founded in 2001 with 15 members, it now has 151 member organizations in 53 countries working towards eliminating the toilet taboo and delivering sustainable sanitation.

Future Toilets

In 2005, WTO started the world's first World Toilet College (WTC) to provide training in toilet design, maintenance, School Sanitation and Disaster Sanitation and implementation of Sustainable Sanitation systems.

Automated street toilets

 – Malaysia

The hi-tech, self serving cleaning toilets are placed in busy areas including Bukit Bintang, Jalan P. Ramlee and Jalan Raja Laut. State-of-the-art public toilets are part of City Hall’s programme to ensure Malaysians and tourist have clean and modern public toilet facilities.

Sensors automatically trigger water, soap and the hand dryer upon use. The sensors also activates the flushing system after each use and the toilet seats are cleaned automatically as well.

The ASTs are disabled-friendly; also have a pull-down table to change babies diapers.

Poop like a KING! 

The most expensive toilet in the world. 

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (38) - Bollywood star and former Miss World, blessed with a baby girl

Aishwarya's pregnancy and the birth of what many are calling India's "most-awaited baby", was born at the private Seven Hills Hospital in the western Mumbai suburb of Andheri on Wednesday morning 16^TH November 2011. 

‘Bollywood 'wedding of the century'

 

Indian film’s hottest couple tied the knot in a traditional Vedic wedding ceremony on April 20, 2007 in what is regarded as the biggest Hindu wedding in Bollywood.

Aishwarya Rai, who first captured India's attention when she was crowned Miss World in 1994, has become one of its biggest stars and one of India's most recognized faces overseas. She has acted in more than 30 movies and starred in several commercials for cosmetic and cola companies.

Abhishek Bachchan comes from a famous Bollywood movie family — his father, Amitabh, is a Bollywood legend and his mother Jaya is also a famous actor.

Kate Middleton Pregnant? – Royal Wedding of the Century

Nov 16, 2011 - New Report Claims Britain’s Kate Middleton, who captivated people around the world when she married Prince William in April 2011 – is six weeks pregnant.

The royal palace has said it would announce the news of any pregnancy, and has a policy of not commenting on such rumors.

Royal Wedding of the Century

 Wedding Photos – slides here.

Dead Toddler Tyler Dasher's Mother Told Cops She Beat Him Because He Wouldn't Stop Crying

Hello everyone, what is happening to our world today? Babies cry because they are hungry, wet, and need attention or simply telling us they are not feeling well. 


One of our colleagues, a new father (Indian) used to rush/dash home after work. Later learnt from him that his newborn will start crying non-stop each day around 6:45pm (dusk) – he needed to burn some incense and smoke his whole house to drive away some ‘evil spirit’ that is disturbing his baby!

I gave him an ointment (minyak Nona Roguy) to apply as per instructions on the bottle and whoosh.. the crying stopped! He now named Nona Roguy as his Magic ointment!

Actually it was colic.

(St. Louis County Police/AP Photo)

The mother of a dead 1-year-old Missouri boy told police she struck him repeatedly when he wouldn't stop crying or lie down, then dumped his body near a nearby graveyard, St. Louis County, Mo., prosecutor Bob McCulloch said at a news conference this afternoon.

McCulloch said the lesson for the community was, "Raising a child can be frustrating. There are a myriad of ways to deal with that. This isn't one of them."  Go here for more news.

Marry the Night - Lady Gaga Loses Her Head On 'X Factor' -

HEADLESS. On a dark stage design bedecked with a cross and flaming torches, Lady Gaga stepped out of a confessional booth seemingly decapitated while cradling her own severed, singing head. Source here



Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name, Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter.  Gaga came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album The Fame in 2008. Its first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", were number-one singles and the album itself reached the number-one spot on nine record charts worldwide.


In late 2009, she released an extended play, The Fame Monster, which spawned international number-one singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone" and "Alejandro". She embarked on the eighteen-month long Monster Ball Tour, which became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time.


Her second album Born This Way was released in 2011, topping the charts on several major markets and spawning international chart-topping singles including "Born This Way", "Judas" and "The Edge of Glory".



Gaga has sold an estimated 23 million albums and 64 million singles worldwide, which makes her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. 

Forbes list for year 2011of world’s most powerful women placed Lady Gaga as one of the most powerful celebrity, securing 11^th place on the list.

Lady Gaga's greatest looks slides here.

Miraculous restorations of fertility – Sacred Belt of the Virgin Mary.

Miracles do happen? My friend had been married for 13years, childless, yet never once gave up the dreams of having her own children. Medically went through all the tests and procedures on fertility, tried just about every tip given to become pregnant.

Finally a Doctor (from Banting, Selangor) suggested she seek traditional treatments. Determined and hopeful, she decided to give it a try and three months later found out she was pregnant. The following 4years she had 2 more babies.

No medical intervention, no pills whatsoever, merely drink water collected from seven mosques and reciting some holy verses from the Quran!

Virgin Mary ‘fertility’ relic - Orthodox disciples believe that the belt helps women to conceive children.

 Images here.

A sacred relic, believed by some Orthodox Christians to be the belt of the Virgin Mary, is drawing thousands of Russian pilgrims in search of a cure for a myriad of ailments including infertility. Source here. Legend has it that the arc that’s been brought from Greece contains part of the belt of camel hair that Virgin Mary wove and carried during all of her earthly life before Her ascent to heaven. The belt of Virgin Mary in the Vatopedi monastery For the past 2000 years, the relic has been kept at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos, in Greece. The belt is normally taken to a Greek city once a year at the request of believers. It had never been taken abroad, and the only exception the Greeks have made was for Russia. The monastery refused earlier requests from other countries, including the U.S. and Romania. Twenty monks from Athos accompanied it to Russia, Interfax reported. The relic will stay in Russia until Nov. 23, 2011and will be taken to 12 cities. The relic arrived in Russia after an initiative taken by the influential Russian Orthodox Church, who is actively promoting motherhood to help the government halt a steadily rise in population decline. The country’s latest census released earlier this year shows the country’s population has shrunk by another 2.2 million people since 2002 and now stands at 142.9 million.  The shrinking population has become somewhat of a matter of national security for Russian leaders.

Gloria Dwomoh Jailed For Force-Feeding Baby To Death - Over-feeding equal child abuse?

We usually read articles on poverty, of the abandoned or neglected children dying of starvation or under nutrition. 

This article however, is just the other way round! Do you know that overfeeding can in itself be abusive and may be considered a crime, and that a mother, a nurse,  was sentenced to jail for force feeding her kid to death?

It was reported on November 11^th , 2011 Nurse Gloria Dwomoh 31, was found guilty and sentenced to 3 years jail for force-feeding, causing or allowing the death of her baby in the first case of its kind in Britain.

Judge Brian Barker, said the case was ‘truly rare and truly tragic’. Post-mortem examination found 10-month-old Diamond died from pneumonia caused by food, including meat and cereals, in her lungs.

Gloria Dwomoh used a small milk jug to tip baby rice, African corn porridge and chicken soup into her mouth. She claimed pouring food from a jug was a traditional feeding method and widely used in her home country, Ghana. More here.

 

      Maury - fattest girl in the world 

Overfeeding can in itself be abusive and may be considered a crime

Parents of seven obese children have been accused by social workers of neglecting their children by allowing them to get too overweight.

Now they’ve been told that four of the children will be taken away and put up for adoption. Dundee City Council said: ‘The council always acts in the best interests of children, with their welfare and safety in mind.’  Interesting read here.

Kids have feelings too – I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candies

Uploaded by Jimmy Kimmel Live

http://youtu.be/_YQpbzQ6gzs

Today is 11-11-11, 11^th November 2011.

There are little precious things that truly matters to kids. So watch out mums - kids and their innocent feelings! 

My daughter was inseparable with her baby doll. Her naughty brother had different ideas. He decided to use a permanent black marker pen and drew a lovely thick moustache and beard on its face. 

She was so upset, terribly miserable and cried non-stop. I will never forget that hectic day!

No other dolls .. she insisted on having the same one. I had to rush to Toys"R"Us to get a replacement; the nearest store (Subang Jaya) did not have any. I had to drive all the way to their KL outlet and, fortunately found one.

Guess what happened? Few weeks later the brother decided to draw again - this time face of a clown - red nose, red cheeks, and thick raised eyebrows etc! 

Judge Beating Disabled Daughter Video Goes Viral – Hillary Adams, Virtue of Spanking Michael Pearl

A 23 year old woman reignites a debate over parental discipline by posting a video of her dad, a Texas judge, ferociously whipping her with powerful belt lashes — punishing her for illegally downloading music. Adams secretly recorded it with a hidden camera seven years ago when she was 16.



She has had ataxic cerebral palsy from birth that led her to a passion for technology. Hillary Adams told ABC News affiliate KXTV. "It had happened before, my father's harassment was getting really bad, I decided to finally publish the video that I had been sitting on for 7 years.”



She recently uploaded it to YouTube and the social sharing site Reddit. The video went viral, racking up almost 6million views since it was first uploaded 27^th Oct 2011, and inspiring the wrath of the community of readers there, who posted his home address, phone number, and workplace contact information and to demand an investigation.


Local officials now say they're stepping up police presence in the small town after many people have called in death threats.


She explained to Keaton Fox - kfox@kristv.com, "I think a lot of the people in the community were tricked because all they saw was the outside," Adams said. "They saw him treating his wife and daughter, oh, look what I gave them, look at these amazing cars and watches and pianos, everything like that and just this other side of him, was hidden for so long, because he was so good at controlling the situation and covering anything up."



Hillary Adams has since Tweeted about the explosion of attention the video has received, "It is my wish that people stop threatening my father and start offering professional help. That is what he really needs," she wrote.

Read more here.

Preaching Virtue of Spanking, Even as Deaths Fuel Debate

ERIK ECKHOLM

November 6, 2011

PLEASANTVILLE, Tenn. —   Debate over the Michael Pearls’ teachings, first seen on Christian Web sites, gained new intensity after the death of a third child, all allegedly at the hands of parents who kept the Pearls’ book, “To Train Up a Child,” in their homes. On Sept. 29, the parents were charged with homicide by abuse. More here.