Financial literacy piggy bank for all

Hi all, i think it is good that the xmas gift to be meaningful . That is why I am going to share with you guys out that about this cute financial literacy piggy bank with you guys out there.

This piggy bank consists of 4 portions which are the save, spend, donate and invest. Each portion will determined how much u are willing to either save, spend, donate and invest. For parents, it would be good as you can use this tool to teach your kids about financial literacy.

 I am retailing it at $25 dollars. Interested parties, please email me at akimoto_emi05@yahoo.com.sg.

A forwarded email warning about the dangers of china mushrooms

I was in China recently and we went to a few "mushrooms steamboat " restaurants where we can select all different kinds of mushrooms to put into our steamboat. It was very good.

 The waiters in ALL such restaurants told us NOT to eat until the soup has been boiling for at least 12 to 15 mins.

 In the first restaurant, we were very hungry , so we did not bother to wait for 12 mins and started to dish out our mushrooms from the steamboat when the waiter ran over quickly to our table to stop us from eating. Every restuarant gave us very stern warning that we CANNOT eat until it is 15 mins of continuous boiling.

 

Apparently, they had to kill all the bacteria in the mushrooms. I was thinking maybe it is toxic.

Sulfide 硫化氫 has the potential to cause allergies, mostly asthmatic. 10% of asthma cases are cause by an allergy to sulfides. It is a preservative, but strictly regulated.

It has been found that Mushrooms from China contain carbon disulfide二硫化碳 in them. Carbon disulfide is a pesticide/fungicide with acceptable/legal residue levels defined for fresh/dried foods.
Always discard the soak liquid and do not use it in the cooking process.

China's regulations are questionable.

Most of the mushrooms on the market are from China, and are contaminated with chemicals which are soluble in water. Discard the water that you soak the dried mushrooms in to soften.
According to Mr. L.W. Chan of the Health Department (USA), most mushrooms are smuggled into the country from China.

The recent opening of traffic between China and Taiwan made it difficult for the government to control these illegal activities.
It is better to use Taiwanese mushrooms or Japanese Shiitake Mushrooms.

Soak them in water before cooking and the water used to soak the mushrooms must be thrown away.

Mr. Chan continued to say that it is customary and a common practice for people to cook the mushrooms with the water saved from soaking. This habit should stop, because most fertilizers used in farming are water soluble.
According to tests in the past, it was known that mushrooms were contaminated by fertilizer.

Mushrooms contain sulfur and when mixed in with fertilizer, carbonate tests showed a 20% higher reading on carbon disulfide which made it difficult to obtain a reliable reading on results.

Dangerous food import bar coding alert

 The whole world is scared of China made 'black hearted goods'. Can you differentiate which one is made in the USA , Philippines , Taiwan or China ? For your Information ... the first 3 digits of the barcode is the country code wherein the product was made. Sample: all barcodes that start with 690.691.692 until 695 are all MADE IN CHINA. 471 is Made in Taiwan

 

 

This is our human right to know, but the government and related department never educate the public, therefore we have to RESCUE ourselves. Nowadays, Chinese businessmen know that consumers do not prefer products 'made in china', so they don't show from which country it is made.
However, you may now refer to the barcode, remember if the first 3 digits is 690 to 695, then it is Made in China .
00 ~ 13 USA & CANADA
30 ~ 37 FRANCE
40 ~ 44 GERMANY
49 ~ JAPAN
50 ~ UK
57 ~ Denmark
64 ~ Finland
76 ~ Switzerland and Lienchtenstein
628 ~ Saudi-Arabien
629 ~ United Arab Emirates
740 ~ 745 - Central America
All 480 Codes are Made in the Philippines. Now read on below for specifics on goods from China to protect yourself, your family, and your friends – as I am trying to do.
This is sickening but it is an alert to read labels and always buy fresh when you can.

DO NOT BUY FOOD PROCESSED IN CHINA , HONG KONG , VIETNAM AND THAILAND !!! no food inspection!!!

 

 

Mom can be discharged!

Hee hee mom can be discharged liao ..so good thing but i think she will miss some of the food in the hospital like the curry fish head and the soup...she said the soup in ktph is nice...

Don't know what to cook for her yet...she got special diet to adhere to .....see how is it going got to do a lot of articles writing soon for you guys out there

Yeah it's the last day of exams for this semster

Today it's the last paper for me ....completed it early by noon. Soon after the paper, I had lunch with my friend and came back home to put down my school bag before visiting mum at khoo teck phuat hospital in yishun.

Actually mom was warded since deepavail but then because I was having exams, she told me to visit her after that. When I reached there about 6pm, she was served with dinner. She had western food for dinner . Surprisingly, this is the first time when I go to hospital and visit patient to see that the portion of food was huge. She was served with main course with soup plus still got tiramisu. It feels weird 'cos first time seeing mum in hospital and so happily eating the food.

Another sweet thing was that my ex student messaged me to ask how was my exams? It was so sweet of her ...imagine a 12 yr old kiddo doing that to you...It melts ...this kind of thing you can never find it elsewhere... really got to meet my sweet ex student too.

In the midst of my exams

Hi people out there ,

I am still in the midst of preparing my operations management exams for next mon which is my final paper of this semster. So many topics to cover but then thank God this is more of a calculations paper.

I now realized that why people at the lowest level in the hierarchy in the organization are being so called 'bullied' by the management level cos it is due to making enough challenges for people at the lowest level to feel challenged enough just because of this thing called Just in time approach.

I am doing my studying at my school library and I found 2 new friends. One is called Ann , another is called 老师. Hoping for that today i will be able to complete 11 chapters in 9 hours. Then tomorrow can start practicing calculations. Sunday to do memorization work.

Things that I love to use and its helpful

Hi all,

just wanna to share with you some things that I use which I wanna to share with you guys out there.

Food

Ntuc brand -udon & oyster mushrooms, Mission wraps , Nissin brand of button mushroom, & etc.

Miscellaneous stuff

Watsons brand of cotton bud- good for parents when helping babies to dig their ears cos the cotton bud will not fall off.

Uses of Lemon

Ladies, there is additional tip for you which is to use the lemon to rub against the area of your thighs if you don't like the darkening of the skin colour when you grow fat.

Weight loss tip and awakening your body tip: Add a slice of lemon to your iced work to help you to detox and it will help you to reduce your fatigue.

How to attract abundance into your life

How emotions harm you

 

Health tips for the working class adults

Let's just cover something very simple health tips for the working class adults. Having a healthy body at work not only increases your productivity but also reduces the amount of stress that your body is going to get throughout the week.

Tip 1: Drink more fruit juice

By drinking more fruit juice , it will help you to increase the number of anti-oxidants that will help you to fight against the free radicals aka stress or viruses like flu & etc. However, if in the event you are a diabetic patient I would suggest that you take minimum amount of fruits . Diabetic patients are not allowed to take fruit juice due to high sugar content. 

Fruits that I recommend for diabetic patients would be a slice of apple or guava. 

Tip 2: Sleep less in air conditioned room 

If you are sick, it is best that you check on the air condition system if it is dusty 'cos it is not healthy to breathe in dusty air when you are on the mode of recovery or just fully recovered from the illness.

Tip 3: Eat less of the savoury food and adopt the habit of taking slightly bland food

Even for the different kind of  savoury food when we compare between the meat dishes and the vegetable dishes, the meat dishes will take longer to digest. It will affects the digestive system. So for the sake of your digestive system , try to take in more fibre to detox.

 Tip 4: Stretch 

If your working hours are a bit tad long , it is best to do some stretching at the desk. Best to do some stretching once you wake up, it will help in the blood circulation and with that it will help u to keep a healthy body.

Things that you need to pack before going on a holiday

Things that you need to pack before going on a holiday

1. Probiotics- It is to help you to safe guard against travellers' diarrhoea. The main function of the probiotics is to help suppress the colonization of bad microflora and maintain the digestive system's health.

2. Multivitamins aka antioxidants- The main purpose is to help you to protect your body from radiation.

3. Vitamin B complex- for the fast relief of muscle pain if you are intending to go on a back packing trip.

4. Vitamin C -to prevent runny nose.

Benefits of Tumeric

 

 

Here's one recipe for cooking

For fish
Step 1: Wash clean the fish
Step 2 : Marinate with salt and tumeric
Step 3: Pad dry the fish or chicken and fry

Ways to use Apple Cider

Give Thanks to God

Just wanna to give thanks to God just from the moment I wake up. Feeling blissfully for the things I own today.

Food review at local neighbourhood coffee shop in bedok reservoir road

I was once again being invited to do food review for nice Indian -Muslim food this time round . This review was done about 2 weeks back . Nonetheless, it was something new which I was able to try out. Something new about doing food review was that it was a neighbourhood coffee shop serving fusion food between the local Chinese fare, Indian fare , Muslin fare and Thai fare.

This neighbourhood coffee shop is known as the Al waris, located at 117 Bedok Reservoir Road.

Though the food review was done in a neighbourhood coffee shop , it was nice as the food are cooked on the spot just like the chinese zi char stall. Food that are being reviewed are the nasi goreng kampung , nasi goreng usa , seafood kway teow and

                                                             Nasi Goreng Kampung

Nasi goreng kampung is a traditional fried rice in the Muslim fare just like the Chinese fried rice. It was done in a manner whereby the rice did not stick together and you could taste the individual grains of the rice even after for 10 mins on the table without touching it. Best of all , it was not oily.

                                                                Nasi Goreng USA

This is the first time that I have heard a dish called Nasi goreng usa . Nasi goreng usa consists of tumeric fried rice, nice mutton meat and a sunny side up. The mutton meat was the crux to the nasi goreng usa cos its spicy yet without the smell of the mutton and also tender.

                                                           Seafood Kway Teow
                                                  
As for this dish, it is able to same kind of taste we can get from the normal chinese zi char stall . It lacks of the wok hei ( the burnt kind of taste) in the kway teow. Portion wise , I would say you get what you pay for.

                                                      Chup Chai ( mixed vegetables)

This dish is abit pale in comparison as to the other dishes and the vegetables are a bit well cooked for my taste. However , it taste nice if the elderly folk were to compliment it with plain porridge.Sauce wise, it seems to be like getting the taste from the seafood kway teow sauce's style.

                                                 Promfret with pudina herbs

This dish is a bit unique cos we hardly see that Indian food is without spices. However, this time round the spice is called mentha arvenis(podia).The chef use mentha arvenis ( podia aka japanese peppermint) to pound it and make it into to a paste to spread on top of the fish.

 Podina is used as a carminative and an expectorant. The plant is highly effective in treating headaches, rhinitis, cough sore throat, colic, prurigo and vomiting. It serves as a good blood cleanser, since it is antiseptic and anti-bacterial. Podina plays a significant role in alleviating swollen gums, mouth ulcers and toothaches. Crushed and bruised pudina leaves are used in treating insect bites. The decoction and infusion of its leaves and stems helps in fever, stomachaches, dysmenorrheal and diuresis. Fresh leaves of podina are crushed and sniffed for dizziness. Crushed leaves are also applied on the forehead and temple, to cure headaches.

The other 2 companion side dishes which is the long beans and french beans are well saute and crunchy.

                                                          Freshly grated apple juice

This is the first time when I got fruit juice without any sugar syrup in it. Kudos to Al waris!

                                                          Home made ice lemon tea

Seems like this homemade ice lemon tea is done with lipton tea and little sugar syrup together with a lime.

                                         Lastly, we had a group photo taken at the shop front.

If you are planning to do online delivery, Al waris  does offer food delivery to the nearby office in the ubi or eunos area. For more info , please go to http://www.alwaris.sg.














 

It's Sunday

Hope everyone will get a happy sunday. As for me, I am planning to go back to school to study hard for exams.Will cover my abnormal psychology and operations management module.

Egg mayonnaise wrap for lunch

Hi all, today I am feeling that nothing is nice outside for me to purchase to eat so I decided to do a egg mayonnaise wrap for lunch which I feel is cheap and healthy to eat.

Here comes the recipe:

Ingredients
 3 hard boiled eggs
1 teaspoon of mayonnaise
1 teaspoon of parsley
A dash of black pepper
2 piece of mission wraps ( can get from ntuc at $5.35)

Directions

1. Boil the 3 eggs and smashed it.
2. Add the 1 teaspoon of mayonnaise( I prefer kraft)
3. Add 1 teaspoon of parsley( Mcormicks)
4. Mix it well and add a dash of pepper
5. Mean while, heat up the wrap skin .Just do it for 10 secs
6. Place the egg mayonnaise mix in the centre of the wrap skin and it is done.

Emotional Wellness

Hi all ,

Just wanna to share something about emotional wellness with you guys out there through an excerpt that i was reading from my daily devotionals.

The excerpt goes like this:

Being Emotionally Honest

 

Ephesians 4:15 

 

Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ

 

You can guard your intimate relationships by monitoring how you verbally express your emotions to them. For example, you're having a terrible day at the office, so you call home and say to your wife, "Honey, I'm having a bear of a day. I won't be home until about 6:00 p.m. and I have a meeting at church at 7:00. Could you have dinner ready when I get home?"

 

When you hit the front door you discover that your wife doesn't have dinner ready as you'd hoped. "For crying out loud," you blaze at her, "I wanted dinner ready at six o'clock! That's why I called you!" Is your wife really the cause of your emotional outburst? Not really. You had a terrible day and you're tired, hungry and stressed out. It's not her fault. Anything could have set you off. You could have just as easily kicked the dog.

 

Rather than level your wife, why not be emotionally honest? When it comes to acknowledging emotions with your inner circle, honesty is the best policy. But be sure to speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15).

 

Another important guideline for acknowledging and expressing your emotions is to know your limitations. Be aware that if you're on the edge emotionally--angry, tense, anxious, depressed--it's not a good time to make decisions on important issues. Your emotions may push you to resolve what you're struggling with, but you may regret your resolution if you push too hard. You're going to say things you'll later regret. Somebody's going to get hurt. You're far better off to recognize your emotional limits and say, "If we keep talking I'm going to get angry. May we continue this discussion at another time?"

 

Being emotionally honest lets others off the hook. When you honestly convey how you feel, others know you are not primarily mad at them and that the problem is not their fault. They can also love you better by meeting the needs you express.

 

 

So take time to acknowledge your emotions and be real to yourself and from there , you can do greater things and focus on happiness.  When you know how to better manage your emotions , your relationships get better.

Benefits of Strawberries

Strawberry is one of my favorite fruits . It helps in anti aging via prevention of wrinkles. Its colour is something that will brighten me up just like receiving roses .So have a nice monday.