Of Weight Issues

I was linked to this article from another blog. An excellent read. It is able to explain why fast food has been so successful and addictive. It also makes me rethink about eating fast food. Sure, it's cheap, quick and readily available, what's not to like. But, if we continue to indulge without care or control of our weight, health problems will come all together at once before you can even sense it. I also realized that I'm quite a fast eater and sometimes do not chew my food too much. This probably explains why my weight can go up when I stop exercising. Perhaps the root cause is my laziness in chewing.

Some of the key points which I took and summarized from the article:

In many countries, obesity is becoming a serious problem

• Widening of 'Heavy-Thin Gap'
• Overweight people were becoming more overweight

"Higher sugar, fat and salt make you want to eat more."

• Sugar, fat and salt make a food compelling. They stimulate neurons and makes us want to eat more. 
• Sugar, fat and salt are either loaded into a core ingredient (such as meat, vegetables, potato or bread), layered on top of it, or both.
• fast food chains serve food with more fat, sugar and salt

Eliminating our need to chew before swallowing

• Americans typically chewed food up to 25 times before it was swallowed; now the average American chews 10 times.
• The key is to create foods with just enough chew – but not too much. Foods that slip down don't leave us with a sense of being well fed. In making food disappear so swiftly, fat and sugar only leave us wanting more.

Available at any time and anywhere

• Make enticing food easily and constantly available, keep it novel, and people will keep coming back for more. With food available in almost any setting, "the number of cues, the number of opportunities" to eat have increased, while the barriers to consumption have fallen

Of D-Cup Model to Role Model

Meet Kanny Theng. She used to be a Jeffrey Chung's Model. Now, she will be hosting children's TV show.
Read here: AsiaOne

Image Credit: The New Paper

Of Cable TV programmes - Singtel and Starhub

This is quite a piece of good news.

ONE set-top box - that is all you need to watch cable TV programmes from either StarHub or SingTel.
This is a major departure from the current situation, where StarHub cable TV customers cannot watch programmes telecast on rival SingTel's mio TV.
To watch shows from both, you would need an account with both players and pay for two set-up boxes.
But yesterday, the Government mandated that the companies work out a way to allow customers of one to watch shows from the other, without having to install two boxes in their homes or open another account.
Consumers will also pay identical fees for watching a programme, as providers will not be allowed to bill a rival's customers a higher fee.
The change will not happen right away, though.

Source: Straits Times

Of One Affair No Enough - Jack Neo’s second “affair” after Wendy Chong

Jack Neo is becoming Singapore's Tiger Woods with more and more women revealing Jack's scandals.

From Temasek Review:

After news broke of Jack Neo having an affair with a 22 year old model, another former member of his “Liang Jia Ban” entertainment group has stepped forward to accuse him of sexual harrassment!
In an interview with Chinese Daily Lianhe Wanbao, Foyce Le Xuan claimed that Jack Neo started to woo her within one year of joining the group. He would send her sweet SMSes and offered to send her home after work. He even booked a hotel room and asked her to meet him there so that they can share a “quiet” and “private” moment with one another.
She also accused Jack Neo of not giving her opportunities due to her rejection of his advances which prompted her to terminate her 3 year contract earlier.

Of Jack Neo's Marital Affairs

Jack Neo has affair with a 22 year old model!

Taken from Temasek Review:

Jack Neo’s wife has forgiven him for his 2 year- extramarital affair with a 22 year old model, Ms Zhong Jiayan, Lianhe Wanbao reports.

The famous Singapore comedian turned movie director has made the headlines lately after it was spilled to the media that the model had leaked the affair to Jack Neo’s wife, Mdm Kang Meifeng.

According to Ms Zhong, she first knew Jack Neo while filming “Money Not Enough 2″ 2 years ago after which Jack Neo started courting her. They started dating a week later.
Jack Neo admitted that he had thought of ending the relationship, but Ms Zhong always threatened suicide to keep him by her side.

Ms Zhong had gone to Jack Neo’s place at Pasir Ris yesterday to expose their 2-year affair to his wife. To her surprise, Jack invited her into his house and asked his wife to meet her.
Mdm Kang asked her what she wants and told her calmly that she already knew about their affair a year ago. She suggested they have a talk outside so as not to disturb her children.
The three proceeded to talk at a Crowne Plaza restaurant together with Ms Zhong’s father and sister as well as Jack’s pastor and family friend who joined them later.

Ms Zhong revealed that she had gone overseas with Jack on four occasions during their relationship. Jack has since apologized to his wife who had forgiven him.

 Read another article from Kwongwah.com:

Ms Zhong Jiayan [Image Credit: Kwongwah]

The meeting at Crowne Plaza [Image Credit: Kwongwah]

Of Augmented-Reality Maps

In this TED video, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

After watching this, I must say that I'm really impressed by this technology. Once the technology reaches maturity, I think it will totally transform the way we view and play with maps. It is fascinating to be able to zoom in from 2D maps to 3D buildings then to real street view. Another mind-blowing feature is when in street view, users are able to see photos tagged with time stamp, hence the possibility of scrolling through photos taken at different times (as if you are travelling through time). Equally brilliant is the video embedded into the actual locations.

Of Manager sprayed air freshener at breast-feeding mum

First he peeped into the changing room, then he complained of about the smell of her breast milk.

‘I closed the curtain as far as possible, and my baby immediately cried, so I sat down to feed her,’ she said. ‘This never takes more than a couple of minutes, there was another changing room available, and there was only one other customer in the shop.’

However, Mrs Baker realised that ‘a man with multiple facial piercings’ – whom she later learned was manager Steve Symonds – was watching her through the side of the curtain. 

The man said loudly: ‘Changing rooms aren’t for breast-feeding.’ 

Despite this, she finished feeding Elsie and was browsing for shoes in the shop when Mr Symonds began spraying air freshener. 

‘My baby started to cry,’ she said. ‘When another customer suggested it was from the strong smell of the spray, the manager said very loudly, “I have to spray because your breast milk stinks”.

‘Shocked and indignant, I complained, including asking why he felt it was appropriate to look into changing rooms.

‘He was insistent that he needed to look because he was the manager, and that I should not feed my baby in his store.’

Mind’s area manager, Lindsay McBryne, who was also in the shop, supported Mr Symonds and said changing rooms were ‘for trying on clothes, not for other purposes’.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255257/Manager-sprayed-air-freshener-I-started-breast-feeding-charity-shop.html#ixzz0hBKVb5nG

Of 2 men having sex with goat

This happened in Mozambique (southeastern Africa).

Two guys were caught red handed having sex with a GOAT.
And the worse part is the owner is demanding the young men pay him damages and initiate a traditional wedding ceremony by paying a dowry.

There is no end to people's stupidity.

Source

Of 28 goals and 1 trophy

The super-sub's form is unstoppable.

After coming on as a first-half substitute for Michael Owen, Rooney netted the winner to lift the first Cup this season for the Red Devils.

Manchester United v Aston Villa
by rebhami01