SOMETHING SMELLS FUNNY
Have you ever really wondered why is it offensive to tell someone if their breathe is bad or their body odour wreaks? Since honesty is the best policy, shouldn't it be just fine to tell someone politely, "Excuse me, but is it ok if you go wrinse your mouth cause I think you have bad breath". However, we would more rather endure the smell for however long a time, then start complaining about the person later. I mean, honestly, how often do you hear people telling a person that their breath stinks?
According to Wikipedia:
Some interesting answers on
I guess if the person smells bad after they just woke up or came back from a 10 mile marathon, it would be quite your fault for going too near them. However, what about weird diseases that causes them to have weird breath, like some weird stomach cancer? We would never know. So sometimes if we really have to tell someone that they have bad breath (the fancy name for it is HALITOSIS), we might want to do it personally. If we do find out that they have some weird disease then, we might want to maybe pray for them or suggest something helpful and positive. Sometimes it may happen to our own friends or close relatives and we hear other people talking about them, it may not be the most comfortable thing to hear, so we should be tactful in informing them and letting them know that they don't smell that good.
Some interesting methods on
However, if the person is constantly smelling bad, you may really want to consider telling them they smell bad as it may be a sign of wrong consumption or something wrong with their habits. I know it is easier said then done especially in church, workplace or meeting someone new, when everyone tries their best to be their nicest to one another, it may be a bit touchy and personal to tell them that their breath stinks as they wouldn't want to offend anybody, but think of it this way, wouldn't it be easier if you just told the person that they stink, rather than telling the whole world that they stink and letting the poor guy find out that people have been talking behind his back.
Maybe this should no longer be a taboo subject as hygiene is everyones responsiblity. Sure, people in the past may have taken baths in few months once, but times are changing, we no longer live in the era where bathtubs and toothbrushes don't exist. I mean there are even electronic toothbrushes and high pressured showers. There shouldn't be much excuses on why we can't smell good. Just do simple checks on yourself before you leave the house. You may not be going to see the prime minister or the person you are interested in, but it is no crime to smell good so that you don't make other people feel uncomfortable.
"Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it!, HENRY MILLER"
DISCLAIMER:
The author wishes to state that this post was not done to make anyone feel bad about themselves as this post was done from a third party perspective with no particular interest in the subject. The author wishes to encourages everyone to practice good hygiene as it is no crime to be healthy and clean.
HOW TO SMILE
Things you need:
1. A mouth (preferably still attached to your face)
Precautions:
1. Practice good oral hygiene as you wouldn't want to flash a beautiful smile with few green gummy bears sticking out of it would you. However, it's not a must to have a beautiful set of teeth to have a beautiful smile.
2. Smiling and winking simultaneously might send the wrong sign (especially to the opposite gender)
Steps:
1. Begin by curving your lips upwards.
2. When comfortable, open your lips slightly to show those shiny white pearls (preferably if you have some)
3. Now, flash that brilliant smile of yours to the world.
Smile and the whole world smiles with you! Up till yesterday, I have never heard that smiling is against the law. Yet, people keep their smiles as if it will help them get any richer.
Ever wonder why models never smile?
Some interesting answers here:
Sure, we have all been guilty of being selfish with our smiles, but sometimes, we must understand that we will never truly understand what a person is going through. So share the smile. It's contagious. No matter how weird and crooked you think you may look, a smile banishes all of that. Even a stranger is worth sharing your smile with. However, in my personal view, if you don't feel like smiling, don't fake it. You are ruining the purity and innocence of a smile. Sounds harsh right? Big companies pay millions just to educate and motivate their staff on how to smiles. See how important smiling is? SO SMILE!
INTELLIGENT QUOTIENT
First and foremost, I would like to specially dedicate this post a person I highly respect and look up to, Commander Vive for provoking my thought and hence inspiring me to write this post.
This was his post about intelligence
http://vivealive.blogspot.com/2009/10/smart-but-not-so-bright.html
SO WHAT IS IQ?
It basically is too long to conclude and quite varying answers so I'm just going to link the websites, if you are really interested, you go study it.
According to Wikipedia:
According to How Stuff Works:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/question455.htm
According to About.com:
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/IQ.htm
Based on some 'googling' of websites, I found 1 sentence quite interesting, "We cannot measure intelligence when we have not defined it."
This website is quite interesting:
http://iq-test.learninginfo.org/iq02.htm#top
Anyway, I also wanted more answers and I talked to my friend YONG LEE MAN about IQ (please note that he is still single and available). After quite a deep discussion with the man, I got some good stuff from him, which parents should sometimes consider. He says that he does not believe in the existence of dumb or stupid people. Which I partially agree. He says that it is only whether they put enough effort into it. Rings a bell? "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" Albert Einstein.
Parents, in general, hope the best for their children, they hope that they will all be smart and successful in life. Who hopes that their children would end up begging on the streets? However, they spend hundreds and thousands on the child, when he has not even had a glimpse of the world. In this new generation, there are also parents sending their children for all sorts of lessons, be it swimming, ballet, piano. Some say its to discover their true talent and all, but sometimes, they put the children out of the equation, not even bothering to ask them if they like the sport or music instrument. I'm not judging. I'm just posing a question. Is it really worth pushing the child to do something they don't like? Isn't childhood suppose to be the best time of their lives? An average primary school goer now has probably an average of 1 hour of play time now which they barely even spend outside.
It is definitely not a crime for their parents to push their children for their own future, but there should be a balance for the child to enjoy his or her life too. However, children should also understand that parents sometimes push them for tuition and the such based on the parents observation and understanding that the child is not doing too well in their studies or the extraordinary ability to swim extremely well. Well, maybe its safe for me to conclude that parents and children should communicate to know what they expect out of each other? It sounds too cheesy and metaphorical, but I guess it's the best solution. Example, if you like swimming, you should let your parents know about your dislike for the current badminton lessons you are attending, and see what you both can work out. Anyway, how parents raise their children is really none of my business, it's all up to the parents. I'm just posing these questions as food for thought.
My friend also added that it varies among people. They have different skills and talents. He gave an example of himself having short concentration. So he acknowledges this and knows what he has to do, which is during that short period of concentration he has, he does his very best and puts full effort and understanding into what he is trying to do. Then he starts losing concentration and starts playing Tekken 6. However, the point is this, eventhough he has short concentration, he does not use it as an excuse to NOT do work. He does his best to counter the problem.
So, based on this deep interview, what I can say to conclude it is, there is no such thing as dumb people. Everyone should acknowledge their weakness and learn to fight it. So if you want to achieve something, there should be no excuse for 'When there is a will, there is a way'. However, please don't read it out of context and do something immoral.
Besides IQ, there is also the question on EQ? What is it? Based on my understanding? It is a measure of emotions. There are plenty of studies showing the relation between both, however not much the studies have been conclusive, my best guess is that there can be nothing conclusive on humans because we are all so subjective. To say that someone can be so sure about something human is rather illogical. Anyway, back to IQ, would you call a doctor who smokes intelligent? What about a successful business man whose personal life or marriage that is in ruins?
So how do you tell if a person is smart? What REALLY differentiates him or her from the rest? A few numbers in their IQ score? Their ability to do well in exams? Well, this post is not to encourage students to be happy with their current below average scores and say that you are not dumb, just lazy. I hope that you will feel more inspired to work harder, knowing that if someone can get A in their exam, so can you. See the difference? Anyway, this is all stuff you already should know, so I'm not going to go deeper. Well, based on my understanding, I just hope that I can provoke everyone reading enough to know that it doesn't really matter what your measure of IQ is, it's what you make of it.
So what do YOU think about IQ and EQ? Please feel free to state your ideas and thoughts.
DISCLAIMER:
The author wishes to state that the author has no preference on whether IQ and EQ is good or bad. This post is done from a third party perspective with no personal interest in the matter whatsoever. The author also wishes to apologize if in any way, any person has felt insulted as the author has not written this post with any intention of hurting anyone.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/question455.htm
According to About.com:
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/IQ.htm
Based on some 'googling' of websites, I found 1 sentence quite interesting, "We cannot measure intelligence when we have not defined it."
This website is quite interesting:
http://iq-test.learninginfo.org/iq02.htm#top
Anyway, I also wanted more answers and I talked to my friend YONG LEE MAN about IQ (please note that he is still single and available). After quite a deep discussion with the man, I got some good stuff from him, which parents should sometimes consider. He says that he does not believe in the existence of dumb or stupid people. Which I partially agree. He says that it is only whether they put enough effort into it. Rings a bell? "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" Albert Einstein.
Parents, in general, hope the best for their children, they hope that they will all be smart and successful in life. Who hopes that their children would end up begging on the streets? However, they spend hundreds and thousands on the child, when he has not even had a glimpse of the world. In this new generation, there are also parents sending their children for all sorts of lessons, be it swimming, ballet, piano. Some say its to discover their true talent and all, but sometimes, they put the children out of the equation, not even bothering to ask them if they like the sport or music instrument. I'm not judging. I'm just posing a question. Is it really worth pushing the child to do something they don't like? Isn't childhood suppose to be the best time of their lives? An average primary school goer now has probably an average of 1 hour of play time now which they barely even spend outside.
It is definitely not a crime for their parents to push their children for their own future, but there should be a balance for the child to enjoy his or her life too. However, children should also understand that parents sometimes push them for tuition and the such based on the parents observation and understanding that the child is not doing too well in their studies or the extraordinary ability to swim extremely well. Well, maybe its safe for me to conclude that parents and children should communicate to know what they expect out of each other? It sounds too cheesy and metaphorical, but I guess it's the best solution. Example, if you like swimming, you should let your parents know about your dislike for the current badminton lessons you are attending, and see what you both can work out. Anyway, how parents raise their children is really none of my business, it's all up to the parents. I'm just posing these questions as food for thought.
My friend also added that it varies among people. They have different skills and talents. He gave an example of himself having short concentration. So he acknowledges this and knows what he has to do, which is during that short period of concentration he has, he does his very best and puts full effort and understanding into what he is trying to do. Then he starts losing concentration and starts playing Tekken 6. However, the point is this, eventhough he has short concentration, he does not use it as an excuse to NOT do work. He does his best to counter the problem.
So, based on this deep interview, what I can say to conclude it is, there is no such thing as dumb people. Everyone should acknowledge their weakness and learn to fight it. So if you want to achieve something, there should be no excuse for 'When there is a will, there is a way'. However, please don't read it out of context and do something immoral.
Besides IQ, there is also the question on EQ? What is it? Based on my understanding? It is a measure of emotions. There are plenty of studies showing the relation between both, however not much the studies have been conclusive, my best guess is that there can be nothing conclusive on humans because we are all so subjective. To say that someone can be so sure about something human is rather illogical. Anyway, back to IQ, would you call a doctor who smokes intelligent? What about a successful business man whose personal life or marriage that is in ruins?
So how do you tell if a person is smart? What REALLY differentiates him or her from the rest? A few numbers in their IQ score? Their ability to do well in exams? Well, this post is not to encourage students to be happy with their current below average scores and say that you are not dumb, just lazy. I hope that you will feel more inspired to work harder, knowing that if someone can get A in their exam, so can you. See the difference? Anyway, this is all stuff you already should know, so I'm not going to go deeper. Well, based on my understanding, I just hope that I can provoke everyone reading enough to know that it doesn't really matter what your measure of IQ is, it's what you make of it.
So what do YOU think about IQ and EQ? Please feel free to state your ideas and thoughts.
DISCLAIMER:
The author wishes to state that the author has no preference on whether IQ and EQ is good or bad. This post is done from a third party perspective with no personal interest in the matter whatsoever. The author also wishes to apologize if in any way, any person has felt insulted as the author has not written this post with any intention of hurting anyone.
WORTH-LESS
JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE NECESSARY DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE IMPORTANT
JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE UNIQUE DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE USEFUL
First of all, I would like to deeply appreciate my dear friend Alex Oi Zhia Loong for inspiring me to post this.
All those pictures are certainly thought provoking aren't they. If it doesn't get you thinking I would like to congratulate you on having a strong firm in your principles and whatever you believe in. However, to those having their brain gears running after looking at this. I'm curious to what is your reaction the first moment looking at it. Happy? Angry? Sad? Thoughtful?
The world seems mean now doesn't it. To some who may try their best to justify this, I'm sure you may have some hard time evading this very simple truth.That we are all NECESSARY, BUT NOT ALL IMPORTANT. Some of you may feel insulted. There is no denial because we are all homo sapiens with some hint of emotions. Even for those who are allergic to a whole spectrum of human emotions, they do admit the existence of human emotions. Anyway, that is a bit side tracked.
Sure we are all important, just that some of us are not that important, yet we are all necessary to cause an imbalance to create a balance. It's quite straight forward. However, this doesn't mean that we should stop trying to do our best. It's just a reminder that we are all human and we have our imperfections. Every little gesture causes an effect. A little something called a chain reaction. Everything in life has it's reason and purpose, it's all necessary yet not always important. So don't ever feel like you don't belong, because God has a purpose for each and everyone of you. It may feel like a small and unimportant task to you, but it is necessary and crucial that we follow obediently so that God's divine plan can be unfold.
The author wishes to apologize to those who have felt insulted by this post. The author wishes to state that this post was done to purely provoke thinking and not to upset anyone in any manner. Please feel free to state your opinions and thoughts.
THE OTHER SIDE OF PENANG
If you think Johor and KL drivers are bad, wait till you see Penang drivers. I know this is quite a bad post considering its stereotyping drivers, but I'm just talking in general of the things I realize. This is not a post where I will trash about Penang drivers, but just a small thing a lot of people seem to notice about Penang drivers.
I realized that KL drivers just driver really fast and Johor drivers are really aggressive. However Penang drivers are a hybrid of both plus a hint of Singaporean driving, which is the ("I'm always right" way of driving, no offense) and a dash of paranoia.
I may not be the safest and conservative driver but all these drivers are like a new breed of fast and furious.
I don't understand what is causing this phenomena, but feel free to state your observations.
HOW NOT TO WORRY
TOP 5 suggestions I can think of:
5. Constantly remind yourself on why you SHOULD NOT worry.
4. Remind yourself Worrying = NOT trusting God
3. Relax yourself, realize that there are things you can't control
2. Live everyday like it's your last
1. My personal favorite: JUST DON'T CARE! Who are you to care about everything anyway?
Sometimes we as fragile human beings tend to care about what everything everybody says. You should know by now that no one is perfect or will ever be. So you can NEVER please EVERYONE. So why bother? Why worry? Just be happy and do the best that you can. If you know what you are doing, just follow your instincts, why let other people allow you to have doubts?
Sometimes there are just certain things you really shouldn't know, so don't drown yourself in worry thinking what might happen if i do or don't do this or that. For example, exercising. You think, whether or not should I do this or will this routine make me shoulders too broad or will lifting too much weights make me short. All these worries just ends up becoming excuses for us to not exercise. So don't think too much and NIKE. In other terms, JUST DO IT. Though, don't read this out of context and do things that will bring harm to you or others. Please use some common sense. Sure it is a good concept to live by, but sometimes, certain things don't apply. Like murdering someone, you don't JUST DO IT. You shouldn't even think about doing it.
Read this in the context where it would benefit everyone.
Worrying is never good for anyone, so why start now?
WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER WORRY
New York 9/11
As you might remember, the head of a company survived 9/11
Because his son started kindergarten.
Another fellow was alive because it was
His turn to bring donuts.
One woman was late because her
Alarm clock didn't go off in time.
One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
Because of an auto accident.
One of them
Missed his bus.
One spilled food on her clothes and had to take
Time to change.
One's
Car wouldn't start.
One
His turn to bring donuts.
One woman was late because her
Alarm clock didn't go off in time.
One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
Because of an auto accident.
One of them
Missed his bus.
One spilled food on her clothes and had to take
Time to change.
One's
Car wouldn't start.
One
couldn't get a taxi.
The one that struck me was the man
Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,
Took the various means to get to work
But before he got there, he developed
A blister on his foot.
He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.
That is why he is alive today..
Now when I am
Stuck in traffic,
Miss an elevator,
Turn back to answer a ringing telephone...
The one that struck me was the man
Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,
Took the various means to get to work
But before he got there, he developed
A blister on his foot.
He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.
That is why he is alive today..
Now when I am
Stuck in traffic,
Miss an elevator,
Turn back to answer a ringing telephone...
All the little things that annoy me.
I think to myself,
This is exactly where
God wants me to be
At this very moment.
Next time your morning seems to be
Going wrong,
You can't seem to find the car keys,
You hit every traffic light,
Don't get mad or frustrated;
It may be just that
God is at work watching over you.
I think to myself,
This is exactly where
God wants me to be
At this very moment.
Next time your morning seems to be
Going wrong,
You can't seem to find the car keys,
You hit every traffic light,
Don't get mad or frustrated;
It may be just that
God is at work watching over you.
This was an email I received and I find that we all should be reminded on how unpredictable life always is. It's the little things in life that sometimes bring the most joy. That is why we should constantly remind ourselves never to worry about the little or big things that annoy us. Simply because life is too short to be wasted on such unnecessary burdens that anxiety brings.
For God's eye is on the sparrow, so I know God watches me.
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