Everyone knows LEGO and I've been playing with LEGO for years since the age of 6. According to the company, LEGO is good for the kids to train their creativity.
I've never thought it can be used this way and this is really creative.
Yeah, I think I'm going to buy this interesting stuff for my cats in future.
The rounded base is gently curved and produces a slight rocking motion whenever kitty wants to sharpen its claws and engage in some playtime activity. Such rocky surface can also be kitty's perfect spot to scratch its body or lean against.
Sungai Lembing is somewhere that I've planned to pay a visit a long time ago and I finally found the chance to visit it. As I expected, its truly a lovely place worth our visit. Sungai Lembing was a was a major producer of tin back in 1970s and now it has become a tourist spot.
Sungai Lembing town looks beautiful from this angle especially seeing a row of giant trees in the middle of the road.
Its truly not an easy task to walk up the stairs to the top of the mountain especially when you have to wake up at 5am to climb the mountain.
But looking at the sunrise and the scenes, I think it is worth all the hardship we've been through.
Further more, Sungai Lembing's breakfast is truly tempting. I think one must treat the stomach well by eating all these food after such a tiring mountain climbing.
The popular stuffed meat steam tofu... Yummy!
Meat balls, yong tau fu, soup are Sungai Lembing's specialty.
Most importantly, Sungai Lembing noodle, also known as 林明面 (ling ming mian), is a must to try.
A curry version of Sungai Lembing noodle too, is tasty.
Sungai Lembing coconut biscuit is one of the local specialties. Such a big pack only cost RM3.30.
My chemo department is way too messy that I think I'm losing my concentration and work productivity. Simply looking at the photos below, I think people can understand how I feel about this.
My work station... Urgh... It makes me feel sleepy everyday.
Sub store... It makes me want to bath three times a day.
In order to improve such condition, I've planned to initiate the 5S system in my department which involves the following S's.
Phase 1 - Seiri (整理) : Sorting.
Phase 2 - Seiton (整頓) : Set in Order.
Phase 3 - Seisō (清掃) : Systematic Cleaning.
Phase 4 - Seiketsu (清潔) : Standardization.
Phase 5 - Shitsuke (躾) : Sustaining.
It all started with my work station where I started to throw all unnecessary stuffs away.
The second stage of 5S where I started to label everything that I use in routine.
Standardization of documents and files is part of the important keys to achieve 5S.
Modification and innovation some times make everything looks natural and neat.
Clinical paper bags and sharp bins were previously thrown all around my department and they are now neatly arranged.
Each color of the files represents different oncology section and this makes access to their chemo regimes and protocols alot easier.
And these are part of the crews who helped me out in the 5S. Although its only half way of the 5S, but I truly thanking all of you for the hard work!
Its hard to get the tickets for the second episode of Transformer even during the third day of movie post-launching. Lucky me that my colleague was able to book the cinema seats via online.
The movie started off with a robot vs robot scene where this ultra big robot ( that I initially thought its gonna be the boss of the whole movie but its just a pawn...) went mad and fury but it was then being defeated by Optimus Prime, the leader of Autobots.
Of course everyone recognize this face: the Megatron of Decepticon who came alive after being defeated by Optimus Prime in the first episode. Megatron again, causing much catastrophic events on Earth, making both the human race and Autobots in a big troubles.
One of the sad scene was that when Optimus Prime got stabbed at the back and was destroyed by one of the Decepticons. I couldn't believe it either but Optimus Prime really did died after that fatal stabbing.
The best part of the movie was the battle between the human soldiers and Autobots against Decepticons while they were trying hard to protect Optimus Prime's corpse. One of my favourite robots of all time, the Constructicon actually appeared in the scene.
So... What are you waiting for? Go watch it!!!
Many retail pharmacists say that chitosan is effective in reducing cholesterol as well as promoting weight lost. Is this true or even possible?
Chitosan is a linear polysaccharide composed of randomly distributed β-(1-4)-linked D-glucosamine (deacetylated unit) and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (acetylated unit). Chitosan is produced commercially via de-acetylation of chitin, which is the structural element found in the exoskeleton of crustaceans such as crabs, shrimp, lobster or any seafood with hard shell you name it. Surprisingly the chitin is found from seafood that cause high cholesterol in human body upon ingestion. Interesting isn't it?
Chitosan is frequently sold in tablet form at health stores as a fat attractor where it supposed to have the capability of attracting fat from the digestive system and expelling it from the body so that users can lose weight without eating less. Perhaps in other words we can call it a fat-magnet?
Chitosan appears to be virtually too good to be true and also there are lack of studies being done upon its effect. A research done in year 2001 showed that there was an insignificant reduction of cholesterol in comparison to other slimming medicines. However, some researches proves chitosan has a potential effect on reducing the body weight of the consumers.
BALDR Force EXE, aka バルドフォース エグゼ レソリューション in Japanese is a 'not bad' and 'worth watching' anime involving tech, robots, computer networks, vengeance, and love. The first episode caught my attention in year 2007 because its idea was almost similar to that of Matrix Trilogy and Dot Hack. However I wasn't able to download the following episodes due to limited source of download. And right after 2 and a half years, I manage to buy its original DVD set and yay, everything is back into my memory now.
The story’s set in the future, in an age where people can “dive” into the wired world. Some people escape into the wired world to avoid reality. The anime started out with a group of FLAK agents (FLAK: a major military organization run by the United Nations to prevent cyber terrorism) scouting around a digital town looking for a suspicious virus attack of the network. However, they were destroyed in the network by some unknown source of attack. Morpheus from The Matrix used to say:" the body cannot live without the mind". Hell yea this concept is applied here as well. Apparently these FLAK agents died after they were killed in the network.
Mean while, the main character of the story, Tohru Soma appeared. Tohru was a member of "Steppen Wolf", a group of hackers. The group decided to do one more hacking attack by attempting to hack into FLAK. However, they were discovered quickly, which resulted in the death of Yuya, Steppen Wolf's leader and Tohru's friend, as well as their arrest. In order to avoid a long term in prison, Tohru ultimately decided to join FLAK, in order to find out who killed Yuya. While Tohru tries to find the murderer of his friend, he and his new teammates are to defend the wired world from Fei Dao, an extremist group who threatens to disrupt the stability of the wired world. While battling the Fei Dao, more issues and stories were revealed and I guess you should watch it by yourself.
I was driving back to my home town last week and the sky was peeing the whole day. It was annoying because I couldn't speed! But thank God that such turtle speed had actually saved my life because a tree just fell down three cars ahead of me. Lucky me...
Thank God the local fire brigades were fast enough. It was settled within an hour time and I was able to continue my journey then. And of course, I was the third car to leave that incident site too ^^
Oxygen X, is the name of the website. Though the website has been deactivated, but the wallpaper is still downloadable. This 2 pieces of wallpapers are my all time favorite! Simply click any of the picture will enlarge it, and you can save it into your computer.
I won't say Night At The Museum 2 is really a super good movie but a few parts of this movie really made me burst out laughing in the cinema. Many more interesting characters appear in the movie.
General George Armstrong Custer, a funny man who talks alot of shits. Simply by boasting around making his action more retarded.
Napoleon Bonaparte, appears to be a shortie French leader who was and who is sensitive with the word 'short' while Ivan The Terrible who loves to speak using his funny Russian accent.
And of course Teddy Roosevelt is always there in the show.
I bet many readers do not know the existence of the band known as Estrella. Estrella is a Malaysian band formed in the year 2006 with the initial members Liyana as the guitarist/singer and Yob the lead guitarist. In year 2008, their music became popular especially my favorite song of theirs, 'STAY'.
The lead singer Liyana has a sweet voice that makes the song 'Stay' so soothing upon listening. The song started off with a nice guitar strumming before Liyana comes in with her singing. Personally I think this song is really attractive because of its jazzie guitar chords.
Meanwhile about the music video, it does looks a lil bit low budgeted but the video's flaw has been covered up by the good song. So I think this is a good start for Estrella.
These handmade flowers are truly wonderful. I didn't know a handmade flower can be so eye catching than a real flower.
Simply by looking at its artistic design, I don't think each handmade flower will be cheap.
Congratulation Boon Kiong, one of my good friends I've met in IMU. So he's one of the very first friends of mine who gets married. Oh gosh, I think many more weddings will come very soon.
So anyway, the wedding is held in Pontian (Johor) and a few of us were invited to be his 'brothers' during the first day of wedding. Its kinda funny looking at all of us in white shirts and black pants but its our big boss Boon Kiong's order.
7:30AM... Arrived in front of the bride's house, getting ready to accept the challenge in order to get the bride for the groom.
When the groom arrived, the brotherhood is ready to battle.
The sisters just won't let you enter the house so easily unless you offer them money. Thats women's nature.
You'll definitely be locked outside the door if you offer RM1 to them.
And lucky enough these sisters were impressed by the RM50 we've offered to them.
We've entered the house but not so easy, these kind hearted sisters have prepared some delicious weird food for us brothers. Simply by looking at it, I can guess its not something really tasty.
"Fight for our boss, and we shall do it!" Says Chris and Tong.
"It tastes.... Gooooooood!!!!" Says Henry with such of his facial expression.
Torturing us with all kinds of drinks was part of the sisters plan. Royiez received an unknown liquid and he was forced to drink it.
Zin received a kiss of blessing from the groom Boon Kiong because I think Zin will be the next to get married.
But it seems that Zin was not selfish at all and he wished to share the kiss of blessing with his good friend IzzacRio by licking his ear.
And finally after all kind of troubles we've gone through, the bride and groom meets each other and "dang dang dang dang", the bell of wedding rings.
Synopsis: "Based on the popular Japanese manga created by Akira Toriyama, whose work includes best-selling graphic novels, videogames and a phenomenally successful television series, Dragon Ball Evolution centres on Goku, a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from rogues who are hell-bent on dominating the universe and bla bla bla..."
Oh God... How many friends of mine have warned me not to watch Dragon Ball Evolution but I didn't listen to them and instead, I bought the DVD *faint*. I ended up fast forwarded through out the whole movie...
Mike Portnoy is the acclaimed drummer of Dream Theater as well as various side-projects such as Liquid Tension Experiment, TransAtlantic, O.S.I. and tribute bands such as Yellow Matter Custard, Hammer Of The Gods, Amazing Journey and Cygnus & The Sea Monsters.
Looking at the drum above, I can recognize it belongs to Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy.
It seems that Mike likes to be surrounded by many types of drum kits and percussion. This drum setup is known as the 'Albino Monster'. One of the first song I've ever heard from is was Dance of Eternity. Right after I listened to the music, my one and only reaction was 'Wooooow...'.
Mike Portnoy's live performance is always superb in the sense that he'll never make a single mistake by playing on such complicatedly arranged song on such uniquely designed drum set. And that is why Mike Portnoy is always one of my most favorite drummer.
Here we have the Pecanpals, simple but heart warming toys. There are five of them in total, each with different colors and shape.
The Pecanpals toy was actually taken from the art works shown below.
They even have a wooden version. Personally I would prefer the wooden version because they look more attractive.
They all have very unique markings due to the wood grain. Some are spotted, some have a marbled look, and some are a mixture of the two.
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I went to Johor Baru for my friend's wedding and I've managed to meet up with some friends that I hardly meet after graduation. So I brought them to this nice Japanese BBQ restaurant to celebrate our time of reunion.
Here we have Zen (right) and Chris (left). Just for an introduction, Chris was our International Medical University (IMU) pharmacy course representative. Responsible, hardworking, polite but unpredictable are the words that I'm going to use to describe him. And Zen, one of my best friends in IMU. He's a great basketball and badminton player who knows how to win girl's heart simply by his extra-ordinary cooking.
The first set we ordered was seafood. Simply by looking at it, my saliva just can't stop flowing out of my mouth.
The second set we ordered was a meaty high cholesterol plate. Bad for health I know but is there a problem if its a 'once in a while' celebration?
This is the BBQ plate used by the restaurant. Its not electrical hot plate but a real charcoal BBQ plate. According to some professionals, charcoal produces the best and tastiest original flavor for BBQ.
You'll need the ice to 'tune down' the fire so that it won't over burnt your food.
When you're hungry, you'll tend to overflow the BBQ plate with your food.
Other than BBQ, we've ordered a bowl of soup, sort of like 'too much of heaty stuff and you'll need a soup to cool down your body' concept.
And our final dish, oyster!
Well, I can't really remember the name of this restaurant but all I know is that its located somewhere near the Johor Jaya area. If you're interested, perhaps you can search around that area.
You're definitely not alone when you're lonely.
Loneliness is one of life's most miserable experiences. And it's not just single people who feel lonely. Everyone deals with loneliness from time to time, but some more than others. Those who experience habitual loneliness know something for certain: It doesn't just go away. Loneliness tends to make us feel isolated and in fact it intensifies our problems and fears, leading us further downward into more destructive emotions.
However, we must remember that you're not alone in all situations. Care and love is always by your side.
Deuteronomy 31:6 says...
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified, for the Lord goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."
Happy 27th birthday Dr Cheah! Just for a general introduction, Dr Cheah originated from Penang island but somehow got transfered to Pekan, Pahang by the government during his medical practice. This is the day Dr Cheah turns 27 and a few of us surprised him with his favorite chocolate mud cake.
Along with Christine my university junior, we have Dr Tan my ex-housemate in Pekan whose going to transfer to Kuantan soon.
Zhi Yong my ex-housemate in Kuantan who is transfered to Pekan and the one besides him is his girl friend Pui Yee aka fatty (ah pui) although she's not fat at all.
Here we have a wonderful stunning cake specially customized for Dr Cheah. I know exactly what Christine and Dr Tan are thinking. This cake was designed base on...
Dr Cheah's Wolverine hair!!! Bwahaha... What a genius I am *grin*
Dr Cheah's making a wish and I think he was wishing for his transfer out of Pekan.
Such big portion of chocolate cake... Its specially for Dr Cheah.
I can see Dr Cheah is happy with his cake. So once again Dr Cheah, happy birthday to you and may your wish come true!
Looking at the fire hoses above, what do you think you can make out of them? Its heavy, its bulky, its dirty, and its nasty. Surprisingly the Elvis & Kresse Organisation (EaKo) was able to create stunning life-style accessories by fully utilizing such unwanted hoses. 
Recycled fire hose made handbag.
Recycled fire hose made pouch.
Recycled fire hose made sling bag.
Recycled fire hose made table mat.
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This interesting post is taken from the original website written by Ned Gulley. With this we learn to write our name in Elvish.
The following alphabets are going to be used in generating names in Elvish.
I think I'll just explain the first lesson about writting Elvish and the others can be read from Ned Gulley website.
We pharmacist often do therapeutic drug monitoring aka TDM and most of our on-calls during the week days are associated with medication dose confirmation such as antibiotics, anti epileptic drugs and most common of all, paracetamol poisoning. With the technique of TDM and pharmacokinetic calculations, we are able to determine whether or not a patient is receiving adequate amount of medication or the patient has a potential of toxicity.
Our previous TDM machine has been giving us a lot of headaches and finally we're able to get rid of it and here we have Abbott's Axsym. After using the previous antique TDM machine for such a long time, it can be hard for technology caveman pharmacists like us to operate such sophisticated machine.
Generally, this huge machine is consisted of 3 segments:
1. Sampling Centre
This is the first area where the sample will land.
The black compartments is where the sampling reagent will be placed. Apparently there are more than 10 compartments which means more than 10 different drugs can be tested at the same time.
Sampling tube is where the blood serum will be placed prior to be analyzed by the machine.
Reactor vessel is where the machine's probe (something like the hand of this machine) will place the serum along with the reagent before it is sent into the processing centre.
The left steel stick as you can see on the left part of the picture is the so-called probe thing.
In case your eyes aren't observant enough, here you are, the probe. So the probe's function is to served as the hand of this machine, picking up or inserting liquids into the vessels.
2. Processing Centre
This is the second area where the sample goes: the processing centre.
It looks complicated but you can handle it like a baby.
These tubes are important because they can affect your results of the sampling if there are bubbles in it. So make sure there's no bubble(s) in it.
Colleague Yap with his cute face looking at my camera.
Colleague Fiza trying to observe the inner part of the machine.
This is the carousel, where the reactor vessels will be placed and analyzed by the machine.
My colleagues were learning to detach and replace some parts of this machine.
3. Analyzing Centre
Results will be shown here in analyzing centre.
The keyboard looks nice but its slightly differs from the normal keyboard we're using.
4. Miscellaneous
Well well, there's nothing much I can talk about here and its mainly a huge rubbish bin and a few solution that we used for this machine.
Keat's Thought:
Pros: This machine is rather user friendly and many samples can be analyzed at once. This is for sure a better machine than the previous idiotic out-dated machine. Many manual procedures have been automated and it saves a pharmacist's time.
Cons: Complicated function. Many functions are remain unknown to us because this machine was not made solely for TDM. As I was told by the product specialist that this machine can be used for tracing opioid misuse, cancer marker, so on and so forth. Also, the price of this machine. I won't want to reveal the price here but I think readers will get a rough figure by themselves.
Conclusion: Axsym makes our life easier? No idea at all and the conclusion will be presented after a few months of trial on this machine.
Our life is just like a balloon. It is initially bonded to someone.
But when life comes to a part that you have to be released, you will eventually travel by your own.
You start off low, because you aren't sure about what you're going to do.
As life goes on, you learn, you see, you feel, you experience.
You go higher and higher and you see more of your life, more of this world.
And finally upon completion, you reach your destination.
This is not a toy but a pepper grinder. This simple and colorful pepper grinder is sold $90. Expensive isn't it? Other than the multi color grinder, it comes with two other colors which are black and white.
This Nike Air Force 1 is designed based on Yi Jian Lian, a NBA basketball player from China. The shoe features a clean leather upper with a dark colored sole. The upper itself is further broken down into a woven and croc leather parts with Yi Jian Lian’s personal logo seen on the heel tabs. One question is that are people going to wear this for basketball games because I would think its wasteful.
Joy de Vivre released this amazingly creative item designed by a Toronto designer named Terence Cooke. This fruit holder contains 169 pliable silicon fingers to hold the fruits and it can be considered as a modern bowl don't you think so?
Love can be seen everywhere... You're somehow being surrounded by it and its only the matter of whether you can find it or not.
A stick can be ordinary in everyone's eyes. But if you search carefully, you will definitely find something extraordinary in it.
You're using a cup everyday but did you ever realize that the cup handle is actually a 'heart shape'?
If you place a ring in between two pages, what will you see?
For those who do not know Chivas, it is a premium Scotch whisky produced by Chivas Brothers. It was founded in 1801 in Aberdeen, Scotland. The Chivas brand's home is Strathisla Distillery at Keith, Moray in Speyside, Scotland.
Chivas Regal is one of the best selling premium whiskies in the world, available in over 200 countries and I'm pretty sure that Malaysia is one of them. It is the best selling premium Scotch whisky in Europe and Asia Pacific and is rated one of the world's most powerful spirits brands.
Chivas is one of the things that I missed the most in Scotland. Here's a few limited edition packaging of Chivas that truly catches my attention.
This packing is really good. But the coming packing is even better than this.
I'm going to get fat very soon if I keep eating food like this... *sob sob*. One thing dangerous about Kuantan is that there are plenty of fatally-delicious food available and its very hard to keep your mouth away from them. Even if your mouth says no, your mind and stomach will be a pair of great oppositions that your mouth will eventually loses its will.
The story started off like this: My house mates William and Zhi Young got posted to hospital in other parts of Pahang and we have decided to celebrate such depressive departure in Kuantan's Hai Tian Lou (海天樓).
"Meaty-stuffed chicken floss tofu" (355kcal)
"Sweet and sour king's rib" (550kcal)
"Salted egg fried calamaries" (955kcal)
"Authentic grilled chicken" (455kcal)
I can't imagine how much calories I've ingested and I seriously have to think of a way to get rid of the excessive fat on my stomach.
This thing looks like a book but its actually not. This is a remarkable perfume package of Viktor & Rolf (V&R), designed by Raison Pure Design Group and this perfume is really going to be a great gift for a woman.
This pillow is simply awesome for those office workers who can't finish their work and have to work late. Once they are tired, they can just lie down on the pillowed arm and tie. This pillow is designed by a Polish designer named Maja Gansyniec.
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There's a lot of underground alternative Christian bands been performing and producing nice and lovely songs but many of them remain unknown to the public. Unless you’ve been following the Christian alternative underground closely, you may not have heard of this poetic, percussive, progressive and poignant song called She's Alright, arranged and composed by The Choir.
I can't remember how I came across this song but this song has truly attracted my attention when I first listened to it approximately 4 years ago, initially with its nice intro and later on the lovely chorus.
Comes a time for tears in the dark
No need to fake it
Yesterday her eyes were shining stars
I know she'll make it
She's alright
She's alright now
Flyin' over mountains
Comin' through the clouds
She's alright
Like an eagle in the wind
I know she's gonna make it through
'Cause she's got true blue friends
Even when the rain is falling hard
She will find cover
Even though she aches to the heart
She knows we love her
She's alright...
This is an interesting brand from Japan and its called Milkyboy. This brand has been pioneering the Japanese youth's sneaker fashion for more than 30 years and what I find cute about this the sneakers of this brand is the dots, the black and white dots.
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"Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel."
by Jacques Costeau
