Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Are You Going To Finish Strong???

I’m just asking you to give me three minutes to watch this video before you leave and I can guarantee you that your life starting today will CHANGE…




This is inspirational. It's very touching. Nick Vujicic is a rainbow amongst the rain drops. Beautiful... This video truly shows people that no matter what you go through, not to give up and not try. It shows you that no matter how many times you fail, you should still try. God Bless You Nick...

One Day To Reach The End... The Biggest Swimming Pool...



Over one kilometer in length, 8 hectares in surface area and 2.5 million liters of water. Too big to picture? Let's put it this way; The size of this pool is equivalent to 6,000 standard-size 8-meter long swimming pools. This one took five years to build, cost nearly $2 billion and has an annual maintenance bill of $4 million. The monster pool uses a computer- controlled suction and filtration system to keep fresh seawater in permanent circulation. The star of the show is the man-made lagoon in San Alfonso del Mar resort located in seaside Algarrobo, Chile.

How I wish I can witness it with my two eyes on how the swimming pool functioning. However I don’t have enough budgets to be their, the best thing I can do is place here in my blog so that I can see it daily and wishing one night I’m dreaming of floating in that busy pool or do sun bathing or drinking wine in the corregidor . Maybe someday it will happen. Let’s wait and see…

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Beauty Doesn't Matter It's Over Now...



RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – One month ago, 20-year-old beauty queen Mariana Bridi was living the dream of many young Brazilian women, trading her striking good looks for a modeling career that promised to lift her family out of poverty.Then she contracted a seemingly ordinary urinary tract infection. The bacteria spread quickly and inexorably through her body, proving to be extremely drug resistant. In a desperate bid to save her life, doctors amputated her hands and feet. But by Saturday she was dead.

"God is comforting our hearts because he wanted her to be with him now," her father Agnaldo Costa told reporters outside the hospital where his daughter died. "I can't accept that my daughter left us so soon." Bridi's Web site says she began modeling at age 14 with the hope of giving "a dignified life to her parents."

Her father is a taxi driver and her mother a house cleaner. By the age of 18, she was well on her way: In 2007 and 2008, she was a finalist in the Brazilian stage of the Miss World pageant. Her Web site said next month she was to participate in the second stage of a modeling competition held in Sao Paulo by Dilson Stein, the Brazilian model scout who discovered supermodel Gisele Bundchen.

Last year, she took fourth in the Face of the Universe competition in South Africa and she had won bikini competitions across the globe. The Miss World Brazil organization said she was an example of someone "who knew how to intensely live her life." Half a dozen memorial groups on Facebook had already sprung up just hours after her death. On Bridi's own page on Orkut — the most popular Web social networking site in Brazil — dozens of memorial messages were left. The course of her illness was swift.

In late December, she fell ill and doctors in her native state of Espirito Santo — northeast of Rio de Janeiro — initially diagnosed as having kidney stones. She returned to a hospital on Jan. 3 in septic shock — life-threatening low blood pressure — from the infection that would force doctors to amputate first her feet, then her hands. Doctors said there was little they could do but pump drugs into her and hope for the best.

It was a nightmare scenario for anyone with an infection: Her body did not react to the latest and most potent drugs while the bacteria in her veins spread from head to toe. In Bridi's case, the culprit was the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is known to be drug resistant. According to the January 2008 book "Pseudomonas: Genomics and Molecular Biology," edited by Pierre Cornelis, a researcher at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology in Brussels, the bacteria has the "worrisome characteristic" of "low antibiotic susceptibility." It also easily mutates to develop resistance to new drugs.


Death from infections caused by the bacteria are relatively rare, but not unheard of: In late 2006, an outbreak of the bacteria at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles sickened five infants — leading to the deaths of two of them. The bacteria causes about 10 percent of the roughly two million hospital-acquired infections each year in the U.S., according to health officials. A short statement from the Espirito Santo State Health Secretariat announced her death on Saturday "despite all the commitment of the hospital team." Her aunt said the hundreds of messages left on her Web site had lifted Bridi's spirit in the past weeks.


"I believe that the serenity on her face came from this spiritual comfort," Oriendina Pereira Wasen said outside the hospital. Bridi's funeral was planned for Saturday afternoon in the town of Marechal Floriano.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Wealth Against Warren Buffett Age...


According to Forbes.com "Warren Buffett" America's most beloved investor is now the World's Richest Man during the first half of 2008, with an estimated net worth of $62.0 billion, soared past friend and bridge partner Bill Gates.

His license plate reads “THRIFTY” and his prize possession a 2001 Lincoln Town Car Signature Series. Regardless, Buffett prefers the Lincoln’s wide bench seats and will take an American Town Car over a Cadillac or Lexus any day.

Warren Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska on 30th August 1930, to Leila and Howard Buffett, a local stockbroker. One of his influential mentors was Benjamin Graham. Graham’s philosophy had such an impact on Buffett that he enrolled in Columbia Business School to study directly under him. In Buffett’s own words: “I’m 15 percent Fisher and 85 percent Benjamin Graham.” As Buffett often would say about Graham’s teachings: “The basic ideas of investing are to look at stocks as business, use the market's fluctuations to your advantage, and seek a margin of safety. That’s what Ben Graham taught us. A hundred years from now they will still be the cornerstones of investing.”

Buffett has described himself as agnostic when it comes to religious beliefs. In December 2006 it was reported that Mr. Buffett does not carry a cell phone, does not have a computer at his desk, and drives his own automobile, a Cadillac DTS. In 2007, he auctioned a luncheon with himself that raised a final bid of $650,100 for a charity. Buffett's DNA report revealed that his paternal ancestors hail from northern Scandinavia, while his maternal ancestors most likely have roots in Iberia or Estonia. Despite widespread suggestions to the contrary, and the casual friendship which has developed between their families.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Time To Change Your Habit...



Pass it on to all the hiking gang if they have not already known this. That is why a lot of Chinese drink warm water or tea instead of ice water during meal time.

Heart Attacks and Drinking Warm Water

This is a very good article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about Heart Attacks. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold water, maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating.

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will! Slow down the digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the
solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

Common Symptoms of Heart Attack...

A serious note about heart attacks - You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.
You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.

A cardiologist says if everyone who reads this message tells it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life. Read this & inform your friend. It could save a life. So, please be a true friend and tell this article to all your friends you care about.

I JUST DID…

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Precious Wealth Of Human Kind...



Mother Teresa And Some Of Here Inspiring Words...

"Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy – let us pray"...

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace...

"There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim becomes a better Muslim, and a Catholic becomes a better Catholic. We believe our work should be our example to people. We have among us 475 souls - 30 families are Catholics and the rest are all Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs—all different religions. But they all come to our prayers"...

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her.
It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed...

"Mother Teresa marked the history of our century with courage. She served all human beings by promoting their dignity and respect, and made those who had been defeated by life feel the tenderness of God"...
- Pope John Paul II

Do you still remember the story of Mother Teresa Of Calcuta? For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. If you don't I guess you need some reflections to her life and works... Just think of it...

Monday, January 19, 2009

Grilled Or Fried???



These days chickens are injected with steroids to accelerate growth. These shots are usually given in the neck or wings, so the concentration is maximum there. These steroids have a terrifying effects in the body as it accelerates growth. It has even more dangerous effects in women in the presence of female hormones, leading to women being more prone to cyst in the womb. Therefore friends, try to consume less chicken wings, in our own interest.

My friends give me this information about chicken wings. Honestly speaking, eating this food is incredibly yummy, grill, fry or whatever technique do you want to cook it. I don’t know if it’s true that they insert something just like drug into the tissue to make it fresher, fine-looking or anything, to make it big or something like that, I don’t know… So I share it to you even though it’s your favorite or you know these things previously, but for me, just a reminder only to all of you…

My main concern is known if it’s true or not that someone is doing that? What do you think?

Sunday, January 18, 2009

This is what we describe Wealth...



How can we spend this massive amount of money? Even if I'm dreaming I think it's tough to waste these huge funds. How about you? Do you have any plan to on how to consume this? Just think of it and share it to me...

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Effects Of Cold Water...


My primary concern today is sharing this article to you and it's not too late to read it... Please have a time to study this before you leave.

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