How to seal a bag airtight , the green way ?

Seeing is believing and it is so simple. Kudos to this great brain that came up with this idea


How to seal a bag and make it air-tight!



Cut up a disposable plastic water bottle and keep the neck and top as shown in the picture

Insert the plastic bag through the neck and screw the top – to seal.

Wow , what a fantastic idea!!!!!

The truth is the bottle is made to be air-tight and as such water will not leak.

The secret lies with the top and screw!

This is a great idea to share. Good for us and the environment too.

Is this not call an indigenious innovation, huh ?

Go Green 1Malaysia -this can be the beginning and way, and No big EPP needed for this innovation too.

HAPPY RECYCLING !!!

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Dad, how was I born?

Hi my dear friends, my apologies for being away for a while. On the same subject of humanity in you, I am utmost amaze at how baby dunmping is still an increasing issue among our teens..

Many ideas/ suggestions had been put forward as to how to solve the problem; amongst which were setting up of baby hatches, pregnant girl school and implementing sex education in school and bla..bla...Say what you like, discusiing sex or giving sex prep is not a norm in our Malaysian society even if we call ourselves living in a modern so called gobalised IT world..

For example- What would you say if your kid is to ask ` Dad, how was I born?

And this was what I was told when ... A little boy goes to his father and asks 'Daddy, how was I born?'

The father answers, 'Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out
anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, and goggled each other. There your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said:
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YOU GOT MALE !!!!!!!!!!

Interseting, huh? And so technical and IT savy too? No wonder so many babies are made in this IT savy society via the ` social network wed-lock ', and dumped as if it is deleted on the internet, huh ?

Have you any better ideas as to how this issue of baby boom from this type of social network wed-lock be solved? Baby dumping is inhumane!

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Slam some humanity in you !!!..

NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast, has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said.

The hippopotamus,nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean , then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.

'It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother',' ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP.



'After it was swept away and lost its mother,the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond.They swim, eat and sleep together,' the ecologist added.

'The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,' Kahumbu added

'The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years,' he explained.


'Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.'


This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter much when we need the comfort of another


In the words of Rachel Naomi Remen, MD-
'Much of life can never be explained, only witnessed.'

For some - `The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.`

Hope this story will bring those surrogate mothers who had thrown away their new born babies to shame and dump some senses into them-even animals also have better instinct and humanity, huh?

Remember the baby-hatch is no answer to such sinful, merciless and irresponsible acts of dumping your newborns. I hope those babies that had died in these baby -dumping ordeals will haunt those guilty souls till end and to those babies that had survived would bring punishment to those who had done these dumpings discreetly.

Remember-`WHAT GOES AROUND WILL COME AROUND , OK ! `

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To be a Mother ?

For those lucky to still be blessed with your Mom, this is beautiful.
For those of us who aren't, this is even more beautiful.
For those who are moms, you'll love this.

A young mother set her foot on the path of life.
'Is this the long way?' she asked.
And the guide said: 'Yes, and the way is hard . And you will be old before you reach the end of it.. But the end will be better than the beginning.'

But the young mother was happy and she would not believe that anything could be better than those years. So she played with her children, gathered flowers for them along the way, bathed them in the clear streams; and when the sun shone on them, the young Mother cried, 'Nothing will ever be lovelier than this.'

Then the night came and the storm. The path was dark and the children shook with fear and cold. The mother drew them close and covered them with her mantle and the children said,
'Mother, we are not afraid, for you are near, and no harm can come.'

And when the morning came, there was a hill ahead .The children climbed and grew weary, and the mother was weary. But at all times she said to the children, 'A little patience and we are there.'
So the children climbed and when they reached the top they said, 'Mother, we would not have done it without you.'

And the mother, when she lay down at night looked up at the stars and said, 'This is a better day than the last, for my children have learned fortitude in the face of hardness. Yesterday I gave them courage. Today, I've given them strength.'

And the next day came strange clouds which darkened the earth, clouds of war and hate and evil, and the children groped and stumbled, and the mother said: ' Look up. Lift your eyes to the light.'

And the children looked and saw above the clouds an everlasting glory, and it guided them beyond the darkness.
And that night the Mother said, 'This is the=2 0best day of all, for I have shown my children God.'

And the days went on, and the weeks and the months and the years. The mother grew old and she was little and bent. But her children were tall and strong, and walked with courage.

And when the way was rough, they lifted her, for she was as light as a feather; and at last they came to a hill, and beyond they could see a shining road and golden gates flung wide.

And mother said, 'I have reached the end of my journey. And now I know the end is better than the beginning, for my children can walk alone, and their children after them.'

And the children said, 'You will always walk with us, Mother, even when you have gone through the gates.'
And they stood and watched her as she went on alone, and the gates closed after her.
And they said: 'We cannot see her but she is with us still.
A Mother like ours is more than a memory.
She is a living presence.......'


Yes friends, your Mother is always with you....
She's the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street;
she's the smell of bleach in your freshly laundered socks;
she's the cool hand on your brow when you're not well.
Your Mother lives inside your laughter.
And she's crystallized in every tear drop.
She's the place you came from, your first home;
and she's the map you follow with every step you take.
She's your first love and your first heartbreak,
and nothing on earth can separate you.

Not time, not space... not even death!

So to all those woman who are mothers, HAPPY MOTHER`S DAY.

For those who aren`t , including men and children, MOTHERS ARE PRICELESS , NEVER TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED .

and to those who had mothers no more, MOTHERS ARE FOREVER, THEY LIVE IN YOU.

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Half Man - Half Price Store

In life we keep complaining about what is or why we don't have.
Half the time we seem dissatisfied, though full-bodied and free to choose. Fat people say,"I want to be slim." Skinny people say,"I want to be fatter."
Poor people want to be rich and rich are never satisfied with what they have.

THE STORY OF PENG SHUILIN

PENG Shuilin is 78cms high. He was born in Hunan Province, China.

In 1995, in Shenzhen, a freight truck sliced his body in half.

His lower body and legs were beyond repair.



Surgeons sewed up his torso.

Peng Shuilin, 37, spent nearly two years in hospital in Shenzhen, southern China,

undergoing a series of operations to re-route nearly every major organ or system inside his body.

Peng kept exercising his arms, building up strength, washing his face and brushing his teeth.



He survived against all odds.

Now Peng Shulin has astounded doctors by learning to walk again after a decade.



Considering Peng's plight, doctors at the China Rehabilitation Research Centre in Beijing

devised an ingenious way to allow him to walk on his own,

creating a sophisticated egg cup-like casing to hold his body, with two bionic legs attached.



It took careful consideration, skilled measurement and technical expertise.

Peng has been walking the corridors of Beijing Rehabilitation Centre

with the aid of his specially adapted legs and a resized walking frame.



RGO is a recipicating gait orthosis, attached to a prosthetic socket bucket.

There is a cable attached to both legs so when one goes forward, the other goes backwards.

Rock to the side, add a bit of a twist and the leg without the weight on it advances,

while the other one stays still, giving a highly inefficient way of ambulation.

Oh so satisfying to 'walk' again after ten years with half a body!



Hospital vice-president Lin Liu said: "We've just given him a checkup; he is fitter than most men his age."

Peng Shuilin has opened his own bargain supermarket,

called the Half Man-Half Price Store.

The inspirational 37-year-old has become a businessman

and is used as a role model for other amputees.

At just 2ft 7ins tall, he moves around in a wheelchair giving lectures on recovery from disability.

His attitude is amazing, he doesn't complain.

"He had good care, but his secret is cheerfulness. Nothing ever gets him down."

You have a whole body. You have feet.
Now you have met a man who has no feet.
His life is a feat of endurance, a triumph of the human spirit in overcoming extreme adversity.
Next time you want to complain about something trivial, don't.
Remember Peng Shulin instead.

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