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Never Do This After Eating

There are some simple things that we did it right after eating. Somehow, we did not realized that what we did will distract the metabolism progress in out body. And if we keep on doing it, sooner or later, it will become a "silent killer" that can kill us. Avoid below habits, and it will safe your life and make your life healthier :

1. Eat Fruits :
It might be refreshing to eat fruits as dessert right after eating. Correct? Eeeekkkk... wrong....!!!Once the food entering our stomach, it needs at least 1 - 2 hours to digest.. But if we are eating fruits in the middle of digesting process, it will block the process (not make it easier as we thought, even fruits content lots of fiber). The digesting process will be longer and it will create more gas inside stomach that can resulting fart and diarrhea.


2. Drinking Tea :
Some people believe, drinking tea right after eating (especially oily and high cholesterol foods) can swipe the fat. Again.... you are wrong....!!! Tea contents tanin (tanat acid) that turn protein into sediment and make our body very difficult to absorb it. It also hold the absorption of zinc and will resulting anemia.


3. Smoking :
Sure thing that smoking after eating is a very dangerous act that we should avoid (even it make us feel very nice) . After eating, every part of our stomach is working, including kidney and heart. Smoke will make the blood circulation volume drop and will make kidney and heart must work harder to pump the blood and let the food can be digested. If this work continue in long time, our kidney and heart will suffer and collaps.


4. Taking a bath :
NEVER taking a bath right after eating, because after eating, all part of our stomach is working hard to digest. The result of their hard work is our body become hot. Water will turn our body cool (imagine spilling water unto a very hot steal....), and will ccompletely damaging the digestion progress. By the end, we will suffer in digestion problem. And if it's keep continuing, we can get sudden death caused by heart failure.

How Many Johns Do You Know?

Let's play some brain-storming & see how far your bible-knowledge : How many Johns in the bible?

Ok... got the answer? How many? Two? Three?

WRONG!!

The correct answer is : FOUR!!!

HOW COME?

Ok.... let's count together :

1. JOHN THE BAPTIST : He also known as Yohanoan (in Aram language). He is the one who babtist Jesus Christ in Jordanian River. Herodes Antipas cut his head.

2. JOHN THE APOSTLE : He is one of the 12 Apostles, the diciples of Christ. He also known as John, the Son of Zebedee, brother of Saint James the Great.

3. JOHN THE PRESBYTER : Even he's been known as John, but actually he was (or should I say : THEM WERE) not John. They actually Polycarpus and Papias. Who are they? Well... Bible did not mentioned their name, but they were known as the pupil of John the Apostle. They learned about the idea of salvation and they wrote them out based on what they heard from John. Polycarpus wrote the bible of 1John and John. Meanwhile Papias wrote the bible of 2John and 3john.

4. JOHN OF PATMOS : Who is he? Until today, no one is abling to confirm who is he. He's been known as the person who wrote the bible of Revelation. Using the very odd and strange description in very bizzare Greek language. A lot of people think he is crazy, but some people also think that he wrote a lot of certain thing about premonition, and things that's going to be happened not long from now. Strange deceises, war, strange religions,... everything happens. Is he a true the disciple of Jesus that able to see things from future? Or he is a crazy person? Nobody can prove it till now.

Everything About Batik

October 2, 2009 will be remembered by all Indonesia people as Batik's Day because today, UNESCO designated Batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. For Indonesian people, this acknowledgment also a statement and recognition from the world that Batik Cloth is originally belong to Indonesia, and not to other country such as Malaysia and others. Batik Cloth is the third cultural product from Indonesia named a World Intangible Heritage since Wayang (shadow puppet, status certified in November 2003) and Keris (ceremonial dagger, status certified in November 2005).

What is Batik? Why this cloth sound soooo special and interesting?

Batik itself is the name for cloth which traditionally uses a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. It's been developed in Java (Central Java, precisely) since 6th century. The most popular pattern, called The Gringsing Pattern was made in Kediri, East Java, & start to be well-known in 12th century. This pattern is only be created by means of the canting (the tools to draw batik's pattern), in which invented & only available in Java around that time.

Thanks to Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, whose brought and published batik cloth in London in 1817, people from all around the world start to know and like batik very much. One of Dutch Merchant, Van Rijekevorsel, gave one piece of traditional batik to the ethnographic museum in Rotterdam in 1873. The cloth still there till today. Batik has been exposed to the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1900, and it impressed the public and the artisans that time.

There are several kind of Batik cloth. The most expensive and the finest one is Batik Tulis Halus cloth, which can fetch several thousand dollars. It also takes several months to make. You can find this fine batik cloth in Laweyan and Kauman ares in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. Meanwhile the cheapest one is batik cap (hand print batik) and usually use mechanical automation print.

Some batik designs are reserved for brides and bridegrooms as well as their families. Some others are reserved for the Sultan and his family. A person's rank also can be determined by the patter of the batik they wore. In some occasions, batik formerly decorated with gold lead or dust. It called Prada (in Javanese language, it means Gold).

There are some way to make batik. Besides hand-drawing, it also can be done in etching, discharge dyeing, or stencils methods. It also can be made is several different tools for waxing and dyeing and can be done in many kind of fabric, such as silk, cotton, wool, leather, or even wood and ceramics.

Batik has become part of fashion for young people in Indonesia, mostly for casual wear. For formal occasion, women normally wears it as part of kebaya (traditional cloth from Indonesia).

Recently, Batik has found worldwide popularity. Nelson Mandela wears batik shirts on formal occasions. Siti Nurhaliza, one of Malaysian singer, wore Indonesia batik on her wedding day. Ann Duhnam, the late mother of President Barack Obama, was a avid collector of batik. The flight attendants of Indonesian, Singaporean and Malaysian national airlines all wear batiks for their uniform.

What is the Best Food To Boost Our IQ, Improve Our Brain and Memory?

It has been proven that by eating right food, you can boost your IQ, sharpen memory, think quicker, better coordinated and improved concentration. Then you come out with other question : What kind of food can be called "right food"?

To improve the quality of our brain, there are three key brain food - which determined as "right food" for brain - which able to do that. And the three keys are :
1. ACETYLCHOLINE (ACh) :
This neutrotransmiter excites other neurons and may be responsible for memory. Consumed foods that content with ACh can help to prevent Alzheimer. ACh rich foods include egg yolks, peanuts, wheat germ, liver, meat, fish, milk, cheese, and vegetables (especially broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower).

2. DOPAMINE :
Generally excites and involved in movement, attention, learning, and also inhibitory. Eat food that rich with dopamine can help us to prevent schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. You can get dopamine in all proteins (meat, milk products, fish, beans, nuts, and soy products). Eat 3 - 4 ounces of protein each day will help you to feel energized, more alert, and more assertive.

3. SEROTONIN (5-HT) :
Usually inhibits and involved in arousal and sleep, mood, appetite, and sensitivity. Having active serotonin can help people to avoid clinical depression. Serotonin can be found in carbohydrate based foods, such as pasta, starchy vegetables, potatoes, cereals, and breads.

What Is The Longest Film Ever Produced?

The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (Huo Shao Hong Lian Si) is the longest film ever produced. It running 1620 minutes (27 hours). The Mingxing Film Company - the producer of the film - was released the film in 18 feature-length parts between 1928 - 1931.

This Chinese silent film was adapted from the novel "The Tale of the Extraordinary Swordsman". It was focused on the rescue of a commander help captive in The Red Lotus Temple, a mysterious full of traps cavern.

The film used more than 400 stunt men from professional martial arts schools. The film was premiered in May 1, 1928 in Beijing and become national box-office film that time.

Are We Going Doomed in 2012?

There is nothing in the world that able to worried people so much than the prediction of the end of our world in December 21st, 2012. You heard and read the prediction. This idea has been disseminated by numerous books, internet sites, and tv documentaries.

The forecast is based on primarily on what is claimed to be the end-date of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calender - also called Mayan Calender - which is presented as lasting 5,125 years and as terminating on December 21, 2012 along with interpretations of assorted legends, scriptures, numerological construction, and prophecies.

The calender was constructed by Mayans - an advanced civilization - around 250 - 900 AD. The Mayan are probably most famous for their pyramids and other intricate and grand buildings. They had a huge impact on Central American culture. They actually used many different calendars and viewed time as a meshing of spiritual cycles. Most of their calenders were short. The Tzolk'in calender, for example, which only lasted 260 days.

Using an innovative method, the Mayan were able to expand on the long count calender which lasting 5126 years. Their base year starts at "0.0.0.0.0". Each zero goes fro 0 - 19 and each represent a tally of Mayan days. For examples, the first day in Long Count is denoted as 0.0.0.0.1. On the 19th day, we'll have 0.0.0.0.19, and then on the 20th day it goes up to one level as 0.0.0.1.0. The long count calender will ended after it reached 13.0.0.0.0 (about 5126 years), in which the date is December 21st, 2012.

People start to think up the most extreme possibilities. And one of them is the end of our civilization. Several popular ideas of how our world ended are focus on Planet X, meteorite impacts, black holes, killer solar flares, Gamma Ray Burst, global dimming, geomagnetic reversal, a rapid ice age, and many more. But none of them have been confirm will happen. Yet.

Will our world will ended in 2012? Still three years to go, and there is no anything we can do about it. My only suggestions : live better, respect others, respect yourself, keep your faith, and pray a lot. We all need it.