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Showing posts with label Good Advise. Show all posts

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Health: Home Remedy for Cough & Fever

Date:  Nov 3, 2013

Yesterday, my young son Kay Kay suddenly have fever and was coughing a lot.

He, different from his brother Jay, doesn’t like to eat a lot.  He does not eat veggies too.  So, his immune systems is much weaker than his brother.

Jay Jay has been taking anti-oxydant supplements for almost a year and he has not had any fever or cough or cold/flu, just like me.  We have been very healthy for one whole year.  But Kay Kay is a problem.

Today, we are going to talk about Nuskin’s Galvanic Body SPA.  

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What is it for?  It is actually for slimming purpose.  :)  It help to make your skin to absorb those fat burning gel/cream.  It is very useful for women who wanted to get rid of the stretch mark.  But this is not today’s topic.  

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Today’s topic is how to use this as a Chinese Sensei tool.   Yup!  中医经络养生.  This is the book published by one of the Hong Kong’s Nuskin folks.  And I found it so interesting.  That is why I decided to use it.  And it actually works.

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What do you mean by that?  What is Galvanic Current?

Galvanic current is used by beautician so that it can expel toxin and dirts from your skins.  There is a special gel that you use so to apply on it, and then, you simply use the Galvanic body SPA to roll over the skins.  That gel will go under the skin and then, magically, covered the dirts and then, bring the dirts and toxin out from your body.  I also don’t know how it works.  But it does work as described in the following photos.

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Some how, this Galvanic Current at the same time will make the circulations of blood flow more effective too.

And in Chinese Medical terms, all the veins in our body has represent special blood flow systems, and if you can find a method to make the blood flow smooth, then, you become more healthy.  Traditionally, Chinese Sensei uses acupuncture, as well as the Ba Guan (i.e. Fire Cupping).

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After the fire cupping, usually, you will have blue black marks.  And that is the mark that represents how heaty your body are.  The darker the color your body has more heat.  (photo from google).

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What if I say… you now no need to go see Chinese Sensei and you can do your own Ba Guan (Fire Cupping) at home without using the fire cup?  Huh?

Yes, using the Galvanic Body SPA, we can achieve almost the same thing.

Here are some of the common veins that you need to know.

1.  Inner Hand, blood flow go downwards.

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2.  Outer Hand, the blood flow of the veins goes upward.

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3.  The inner leg, the blood flow in the veins goes upwards direction.  (this is opposite of the inner hand flow direction)

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4.  The outer leg, the blood flow goes downwards.

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5.  For both side of the spinal cords, the blood flow downwards.  

6.  But the Center Spinal cords itself (between the two veins besides which goes downward) is going upward.

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6.  (no pictures) As for the back neck portion.  The veins will go downwards for each side (left and right towards the back).

Basically, what you need to do is to apply the Galvanic Gel, and then, use the Galvanic Body SPA to “brush” or “sweep” thru the veins/direction.  It is either the neck, the inner or outer arms and legs or the back (spinal cord or the two sides).

Then, there is this I-Ching thingy that you will try to follow.  

Yes, the number 6 is Yin 阴 (cold), and the number 9 is yang 阳 (heat).  So, when you do the “sweeping” using the Galvanic body SPA, you should do a multiple of 9 times, i.e. 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72 or 81, etc.  I usually will do a 9 x 9 = 81 times.  Means you do up-down 81 times or you do down-up 81 times depending on which veins you are targeting.

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After Golf

So, every time after my golf, my finger, my arms and hand will feel very tense and tired.  My neck will be tight too.  So, I usually will use this to brush it.  This is the outer hand veins.  So, it is from the index finger down-up to my shoulder.  (you can clearly see the vein route visually).  And after doing a few times, you can see the “red spots” started to come out.  And that is precisely the place where I feel sour and pain after my golf game.  

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After golf, the muscles here is pain.  But after you sweep thru using the Galvanic body SPA, you can see the redness of the skins.  That is the same effect like the Ba Guan (Fire Cupping), except that the color is not so red and blue black.  After the treatment, my arms feel very relaxing.

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Now, you might have noticed the “gel” has turned into white bubbly thingy after you sweep thru the veins.  That means your body is very heaty and all the toxin has been expelled out.  These white stuff are bad stuff.  So, normally, you will need to wipe that off immediately.  The more toxic your body, the more heaty it is, the more white stuff going to come out.  Which is good.

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Now, you switch to do the inner hand veins.  So, it is up-to-down direction.  From the front shoulder down to the thumb.

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After you have done it.  You can see that your veins are a bit bigger.  That is because blood flow thru these veins very smoothly.  Your blood streams is circulated.

(Warning:  I think, if you have any heart conditions, please do not do this, as it may worsen your conditions.  You have been warned!)

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Fever, Cough, Cold & Flu

Magically, this is used to treat the above mentioned symptoms. 

Fever.

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Flu and coughing.

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This is Kay Kay.  Who has a mild fever, with coughing symptoms.  So, for both sides of the spinal cord, you do a neck to waist up-down direction.  Do for 81 sweeps for each side.  Then, you do a down-up sweep from the waist to next on the spinal cord routes.

As you can see, he is quite heaty.  And all the red spots starts to come up.

He has just completed his right blood veins beside the centre cord.  Notice that the centre spinal cords there does not have “red spots”.

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Then, when you do the centre spinal cords, it is from down to up.  And you can see the red spots all come up.  Just take note, when you sweep, you do not apply any force, just lightly sweep the Galvanic Body SPA head over the skin.  Your aim is to touch the skins lightly only, but not pressing hard on the skin and sweep.

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So, after doing this, Kay Kay felt quite sleepy.  And his head is not so warm, as the blood circulation has bring down his temperature.  And the cough is much lesser.

Here is a quick video showing how it was done.  :)  Thanks Kay Kay for being the model.  hahahaha.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/KmAR6wpvstI

OK.  Now, let’s try it on a healthy person.  (don’t worry, it does not promote extra blood flow on the healthy person, whahahaha).  Jay Jay, come!

A healthy person does not have a lot of red spot.  He also does not have any pain at his back or what so ever, no fever, no coughing, so no “red spot”.

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Look closer, the gel also not turning white and milky.  So, Jay Jay basically has no heaty stuff inside his body.   So, he is very healthy and not much problem in his muscles and veins.  Very good.  :)

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Nuskin is a MLM company.  I used to have a very negative views and opinions about MLM.  However, after I have used a few of their products and prove that it works, I start to change my mind.  MLM not necessary produce con products.  So, this is another product that I used and I felt that it is useful.  And they are a listed company on NYSE.  And look at their stock performance, it is keep going up for the last 12 months.  I believe they have some technology and these technology have help them to sell their product - the direct way.  It is a very interesting product lines that have change my life style and it makes me very health aware.  Cool product!

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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Making Home Movies

Date:  Sep 15, 2013

(I am using Apple only product at the moment.  For Samsung or Android users, please find alternative to reach the same goal.)

 

Buy A Bigger Capacity Phone

There is a reason for me always buying the largest capacity of my iPhone.

I can take a lot of photos with 64GB.  

But hey, 8 Megapixel photos don't eat up that much!

I also takes a lot a lot of videos.

Yes, but still, that does not takes up so much memory space?

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Use iMovie to Make Your Home Movies

What is the use that if you take so many photos, and videos but you do not make it into home movies?

Yes.  I do make home movies using my iPhone or iPad.  (Most of the time, I use iPhone).  

And I am using iMovie to do so.

 

Let Your Kids Remember Their Childhood

I have two wonderful kids, and I am raising them with all my heart.

And as a parent, I want my sons to remember every single thing that we have done together in the past. 

This is how they going to remember their childhood.  By Watching all these home movies again and again.

In the past, we do not have all these fantastic gears.  Our camera can only take 12, 24 or 36 photos at a time.

When we take photos, we do all kinds of pose.  So, we end up with photos that is very "fake".  HaHaHa.

May be fake is not what I really want to mean, but "Not Natural".

With today smartphones capability, where you can take photos in burst mode, you can capture every single moment of what your children are doing "naturally".

What you have capture are their natural smiles, their original anger (angry of something), their sad moment, etc.

Especially when you have the videos, you can know exactly what happen in the past.

That will be a very strong memory deep inside them.

So, to make them remember those happy moments, those wonderful moments, I suggest you make movies, and caption it.

Combines all the photos and movies, caption it and put in nice music and make a wonderful home movies.

Of course, you can store it on Youtube, but for me, that is for backup.  The high quality version is always with me.  On my NAS.

 

iMovies & iPhotos Are Going to be FREE

Hey!  iMovies is going to be FREE for every one on IOS devices.

Tim Cook make a very good move, and correct move.  If he does not make it free, then, a lot more people will be inspired to write the software to compete.  

Although none of them may be working as perfectly as iMovie, but it is going to be close, and with a lower price tag, people may fall for it.

Now, if you give them free, all will use it free.  No need to download others.  

It will also inspire the software programmers to write better one, but at least, the majority of people are using yours iMovie.

So, Good move Tim!  I foresee there will be a lot more of people using the iMovie in future.

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Why not using iMovie on iMac

Tim Cook did not say he is giving free iMovie on iMac.

My personal opinion is to use iMovie on the iPhone is much faster than using the iMovie on iMac.

Although the features of the iMovie on iPhone is much lesser than the iMac, but it is good enough.

 

AirDrop

But if you can create movie on iPad using iMovie, that is the best.  But most of the time, you can't because your video files are shoot using iPhone which is more convenient.

When you are using IOS7 later.  You can use AirDrop to transfer file between iPhone and iPad.

So, all your Video files and photo files can be transfer just like that?  Then, you got a bigger screen to work on your iMovie.

(But no guarantee that Time Cook going to let you transfer video files.  They said Drop everything.  So, I am assuming, video files cannot be transfer).

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Watch Home Movies You Made With Your Kids

You can do it on TV.  Or you are like me, the Gadget Daddy, bought a mini 3M Streaming Projector with Roku connecting to my Plex Media Server Running on my Synology NAS.  I underline those 4 things because you will need these knowledge to set it up.  Basically, two things.  Go Amazon buy the 3M Streming Projector, and it comes with Roku.  Setup the Roku account.  Take note.  I think when you set up the Roku account, you will need a US-IP address to do so.  Or you can ask any of your US friends to do it for you.  Then, you install the Plex Channel.  On the other hand, setup a NAS, for me, I strongly recommend Synology for its superior processing power and speed.  Install the Plex Media Server on it.  And create a directory to dump all your home movies.  That's it.

The kids loves it.  After we watched an episode of Thomas & Friends.  I show them all the trips we went to Japan when Kay Kay is only 2 years old.  Kay Kay was so excited.  Jay Jay then remembers a lot of things.  We watch about 30 short home movies yesterday.  I also keep videos for Jay Jay when he learn tennis, badminton, swimming, robotics, Taekwondo, golf and so on.  How about Kay Kay first learning how to ride a bicycle.  

I finally decided to place the 3M projector in the kids room.  Attached it with a small speaker.  And project it on the wall that is clean.  We can do about 84" projection with this way.  And kids lying on their bed to watch and comment on the home movie.  It is very cool.  

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Kay: Daddy, I don't like koko, because he don't let me drive the Shinkansen.

(Kay watching an old video of him and Jay riding the small shinkansen train at Hakone).

Dad: You are still very young back then, and you cannot drive the train.  That is why you see mommy is holding you and sit with you together.

Jay: Ya Kay Kay, you are PG class last time.

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What is the use of making all these home movies and you are not watching it.

This is like taking all those vintage photos and put it so nicely in the photo albums and keep the albums stored in your store room.

How can the kids remember if they do not see it again and again?

So, once you have done all these home movies, from time to time, play it and watch it together with your kids.

It is very easy to make home movies.

You can also make home movies which is merely a slide shows of all the photos.

Next time, when iPhone's IOS 7 capable of doing slow motion, you will have both fast and slow motion video that will create a lot of fun.

So, when IOS 7 comes out next Friday

1.  Don't forget to upgrade to IOS 7

2.  Grab a copy of free iMovie and iPhotos

3.  Try using AirDrop

4.  Try making your first home movies.

Good luck parents!  

Monday, December 31, 2012

Jay New Swim Wear

Date: Dec 31, 2012

Jay Jay is considered a bit big size for a K2 boy. So it's not easy to buy swim wear for him of his size.

I bought size 32 (biggest) for him from Takashimaya. It is Arena brand. Looks quite fit.




Of course, he will argue and says must buy a new matching orange color goggles.




And of course Kay Kay must wear the same too.



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Monday Wet Market Close!

Date: Dec 31, 2012

A note to myself.

Try not to host party on Monday.

No meat.
No food.
No seafood.




And really all stalls closed on Monday.

This is Tiong Bahru!

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Jay Jay & What'sApp

Date:  Dec 20, 2012

Jay Jay need not to attend pre-school from now on until he goes into Primary 1 in January.

So, I will need to look after him until then.

So, today, what shall we do.  I was driving then, so, I passed my iPhone to Jay.  Help me to go into the What'sApp and ask your friends' mommies and daddies what are they doing today.

And Jay Jay was happy to do that for me.

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So, he started to type the message.  Now, there are still a lot of words he does not know.  So, I spell for him, and ask him to memorize it for future use.  And He is glad about doing so.  And he learned quite a lot of ways of expressing himself in What'sApp.

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GOOD TIPS!  So, it is not a bad idea once in a while, that you ask your son or daughter to help type message and at the same time teach them spelling.

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Jay Jay seems to enjoy himself there.  He was amaze that he could speak to his friends mommies and daddies using iPhone messages or What'sApp.  

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One of the example of messages he typed.

"We are washing car now"…. seems simple, but are we?  or the Caltex people did?  Basically, I still have to teach him how to grammatically write some good English, which I sometimes myself have problem with.  hahahaha  But this is a good start.

"Wet Wet".  Jay typed whatever in his thoughts.  And learn how to spell those words.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Google Reader & RSS

Date:  Oct 30, 2012

A friend asked me yesterday, how do you read news on your PC or Tablet?

So, I told him, I got all my news from Google Reader.

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Back in the old days, we used Gopher or UseNet News.  Then, come along RSS.  RSS stands for Rich Site Summary.  

This is how the google reader looks like..

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

 

Almost all the content website has a RSS feeds.  This is like a short summary of the news or anything interesting from the website or blog site.

For example, you go to Zao Bao web site, and then, you will see in the top menu, you will see this "热点 译名 新南洋 RSS“

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http://www.zaobao.com.sg/welcomesg.shtml

Move your mouse on to the word "RSS" and click it.  You get this page.

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http://www.zaobao.com.sg/ssi/rss/rss.shtml

 These links (on the right columns) are the RSS feed links.  This is where you subscribed the RSS feeds into the Google Feeder.  For example, I want to see the 新加坡新闻 so, I select the RSS Feed URL http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp.xml.  (Copy it)

即时报道http://realtime.zaobao.com/news.xml
中国新闻http://www.zaobao.com/zg/zg.xml
国际新闻http://www.zaobao.com/gj/gj.xml
东南亚新闻http://www.zaobao.com/yx/yx.xml
新加坡新闻http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp.xml
今日观点http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl.xml
中国财经http://www.zaobao.com/cz/cz.xml
狮城财经http://www.zaobao.com/cs/cs.xml
全球财经http://www.zaobao.com/cg/cg.xml
早报体育http://www.zaobao.com/ty/ty.xml
早报副刊http://www.zaobao.com/fk/fk.xml
世界报刊文萃http://www.zaobao.com/wencui/wencui.xml

Then, you go to your Google Reader.  Click on the RED "SUBSCRIBE" button on the top left corner.

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Once you subscribed it, it will show it on your list. (last one) and the news associate to this RSS feeds will be displayed on your right hand panel.

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Another example is my MiniLiew Blog.  There is a small little link called "Subscribe to", once you click it and select "Add to Google"

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So, immediately, it ask you what you want to do.  So, you simply select "Add to Google Reader".  That's it.

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And after you done so, the "Mini Liew" blog immediately send the RSS feeds to Google Reader.

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so, What sort of RSS Feeds am I reading on daily basis?

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And many more.

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And once you get this Google Reader setup, it is very easy to use it on your FLIPBOARD.

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The photos and articles and all sort of contents are placed nicely together.  You can add Google Reader RSS Feeds onto your Flipboard too.  

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I will write something about Flipboard soon.  Stay tune.  First, you must get your Google Reader running.