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Bell Game....

2008-11-08T19:11:00.000-08:00

Since I didn't go to the game last night I just found out today that we lost. NOOOO!!
I'm really dissapointed, but our team must've tried their best.

My brother really wanted to know if our team won, so I actually found out by googling "FV vs. Edison Bell Game 2008" (:D). It was linked to a edison football player's mom's blog...that was interesting. Apparently, her son got a concussion.

Her blog is very detailed about the game, but I can't tell if FV was lagging behind since the beginning. All I'm finding out is Edison's point of view. To her point of view, Edison wasn't at its "A" game before half-time.

I was really hoping that we'd win...hopefully our senior year. That would be great if we won senior year!

Ramadan....

2008-09-23T21:29:00.000-07:00

The fasting month of ramadan for muslims already started a while ago. Actually, it's more than half-way done.

The total time for fasting is one month.

Basically, one cannot eat nor drink from sunrise to sunset. There is a calender that tells you when to stop eating in the morning (we get up before sunrise to eat) and when to break the fast.

My mom was actually telling me how fasting (any kind...has to have the absense of food) is healthy, and it's proven scientifically.

I got curious, so I looked it up online and this is what I found:

During the period you fast, your body cleans itself. Your body is more relaxed, so it could use the extra energy for other mechanical and chemical processes. You actually can recover faster because your body works to destroy unwanted toxins and other excess material.

Fasting also gets rid of unwanted fats, which almost all humans have.

I also found out that there are stages in which your body cleans out the body:

"The first stage of cleansing removes large quantities of waste matter and digestive residues. The first few days of a fast can be rough due to the quantity of waste passing into the blood stream. The tongue becomes coated and the breath foul as the body excretes waste through every opening. After the third day of the fast, there is little desire for food. The second stage is the cleansing of mucous, fat, diseased and dying cells, and the more easily removed toxins. As the fast continues, the cleansing process becomes more thorough. The last stage is the cleansing of toxins that have been accumulating in your cellular tissue from birth, and the microscopic tubes that carry vital elements to the brain. Cleansing of the last layer is only possible through a combination of juice fasting, water fasting, and a healthy diet high in raw foods. To overcome a severe disease like cancer, it is important to continue through a series of fasts, to the point where the full scouring action of catabolism removes the disease from the tissue."

So, fasting is actually really good for your health. It gives your body a rest and lets it clean itself.

The Dangers of Canned Food!!!

2008-02-26T19:32:00.000-08:00

This little story below tells us an example of WHY it is important to wash the tops of soda cans or any other cans. It's actually pretty gross.
O yea!!! I had NO HW yesterday. I was sooo happy:D!!! But today I do and lots of it
:(

A stock clerk was sent to clean up a storeroom in Maui, Hawaii.

When he got back, he was complaining that the storeroom was really filthy and that he had noticed dried mouse/rat droppings in some areas.
A couple of days later, he started to feel like he was coming down with a stomach flu, complained of sore joints and headaches, and began to vomit.

He went to bed and never really got up again. Within two days he was severely ill and weak. His blood sugar count was down to 66, and his face and eyeballs were yellow. He was rushed to the emergency at Pali-Momi, where he was diagnosed to be suffering from massive organ failure. He died shortly before midnight .
No one would have made the connection between his job and his death, had it not been for a doctor who specifically asked if he had been in a warehouse or exposed to dried rat/mouse dropping s at any time. They said there is a virus (much like the Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat and mouse droppings.

Once dried, these droppings are like dust and can easily be breathed in or ingested if a person does not wear protective gear or fails to wash face and hands thoroughly.

This is why it is extremely important to ALWAYS carefully rinse off the tops of canned sodas or foods, and to wipe off pasta packaging, cereal boxes, and so on.
Almost everything you buy in a supermarket was stored in a warehouse at one time or another, and stores themselves often have rodents.

Most of us remember to wash vegetables and fruits but never think of boxes and cans.
The ugly truth is, even the most modern, upper-class, super store has rats and mice. And their warehouse most assuredly does!

How to Identify a Stroke

2008-02-14T16:00:00.000-08:00

I got this forwarded email from my friend, and I thought it was interesting, so now i'm posting it.

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:

During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 pm , Ingrid passed away). She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps, STR. Read and Learn!

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:

S * Ask the individual to SMILE.

T * Ask the person to TALK, to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE(Coherently) (I.e. It is sunny out today).

R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke. If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.

Texting Competion

2008-01-16T19:04:00.000-08:00

I just came across a small article that talked about a texting competition that was held and the winner would be determined by writing the longest word they could think of in the shortest time. Well, there isn't a lot of information, but it says that a thirteen year old girl in Pasadena won $25,000 by texting:

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" in 15 seconds.

I thought that was pretty amazing.

I also read about a teacher who sprinkled cow urine in hopes to purify students and drive away the evil. That was interesting to read.

Last post ever for "Kid Nation"!!!

2008-01-03T18:07:00.000-08:00

The last episode finally came for this show. It ended up the way I expected and, overall, the show was OK. It was kind of boring actually now that I think about it.

Well, the golden stars were worth 50,000 dollars this time and three kids won them. Two of them did already get the 20,000 dollar stars before in the show and my mom was complaining about that a lot because she thinks that new kids should get it instead of the same ones. I guess I can understand why they got it since they were very good workers and dedicated.

They had to do one last ch allege which was to clean up the whole town following instructions placed in various areas. In the end, you start to realize that they were preparing for a picnic and all the parents came, so that was a nice and touching moment.

I'm kind of glad this show ended because it was distracting me from my homework, so that is a relief. I was actually addicted to a book series which was about vampires and the same thing happened with that, and I slacked off on my school work :D.

Tiger escapes from zoo!!!

2007-12-27T23:33:00.000-08:00

It's been already on the news for about a day, but I thought it was interesting. There was a tiger who escaped from the San Francisco Zoo on Wednesday and it was reported that it attacked three people. It finally got shot and died as it was attacking one of the victims. One person died, but the other two survived and are no longer in critical condition.
There are no updates that I heard about on how the tiger escaped. There is one theory, though, that the tiger jumped over a 15-18 feet wide waterless moat.
I also heard on the news that this tiger also attacked its trainer just last year.

More "Kid Nation"

2007-12-09T20:15:00.000-08:00

I haven't blogged for such a looonnnggg time, so I guess I should stop being lazy and type something. The only thing I can think about is "Kid Nation". Well, the season finale is coming up and this show wasn't that bad. You can tell, though, at sometimes that the director is telling the kids to do somethings and start up fights.

This second last episode was about unity, overall. The town councils left and the town "sheriff" was left in charge. The sheriff actually did a better job, in my opinion, compared to their council leaders.

In one of the other episodes, they won an arcade with a lot of cool games and they didn't have to pay in buffalo nickels, so it was all free. However, in the town council meeting they agreed to shut down the arcade because they realized that they didn't know each other very well and they had 3 days left.

Another prize they won was hot air balloon rides.

On the season finale, they are suppose to recieve the final gold stars. Apparently, they're worth more than a regular gold star which is 20,000. I wonder who deserves them.

Random Stuff

2007-11-10T18:45:00.000-08:00

think you know everything

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said that
he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the
Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps
They don't appear until
the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.
Dogs only have about ten vocal sounds.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that
ends in the letters "mt."

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history
not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years,
no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China

walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of
the
rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life,
you will spend an average of
6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word
typed with only the left hand
and "lollipop" is the longest word with your right hand.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
"TYPEWRITER"is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches
for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and
a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that
Niagara Fall s froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level'
are the same whether they are read
left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language
which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have
all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in
the Flintstone Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Winston Churchill was born
in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus
every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

NOW, you know everything

more "Kid Nation"

2007-10-13T20:11:00.001-07:00

I haven't posted a blog in a long time, so I decided that now would be a good time since I have no work.
It's about the fourth episode of "Kid Nation". This time is was on how the kids had arguments over religion. They were sitting in the lunch room and then somehow the conversation is on the topic of religion. Then a kid says, "My religion is the best!" and the rest continues after this. The town counselors try to make the towns' people closer by having a prayer, but no one came because it was going to be said in different ways by different religions. In the end, this was solved and everyone had a positive view on the others religion.
There were also complaints on one of the town council's members. Here name is Taylor and she is 10 or 11 years old. A lot of the kids said she acted like a dictator and threatened them a lot. She also sat there and did nothing to help around. Her team, the Yellow Team, were the cooks numerous times and they cooked horribly and didn't clean the dishes. The kitchen was a mess every time they were in there and the thing that really made the kids mad was that Taylor was always in the saloon drinking coke and candy. I have a feeling that someone is going to take her spot soon and that would be a very good thing for everybody.

10 excuses for work

2007-09-26T12:45:00.000-07:00

This was the actual thing I was looking for yesterday, but instead I found the other one. Here it is:

1. Someone was following me, and I drove all around town trying to lose them.
2. My dog dialed 911, and the police wanted to question me about what "really" happened.
3. My girlfriend got mad and destroyed all of my undergarments.
4. I woke up and thought I was temporarily deaf.
5. I just wasn't "feelin' it" this morning.
6. I was up all night arguing with God.
7. A raccoon stole my work shoe off my porch.
8. I super-glued my eye thinking it was contact solution.
9. I was putting lotion on my face when my finger went up my nose causing a nose bleed.
10. A prostitute climbed into my car at a stop light, and I was afraid my wife would see her and think I was messing around... so I got out of the car.

Excuses

2007-09-25T20:49:00.001-07:00

I found a website which has excuses for being late for school or for forgetting your homework. There's about 200 excuses and they all really did happen. Here's one that I thought took too much time and effort to come up with:

"226. Second semester freshman year I managed to attend fifteen classes combined between five courses for the entire semester. The way in which I did this would surely send me to hell if I weren't Jewish (no hell:)) This was a two step process. First, I told one of my teachers that a friend of mine from home had gotten into a car accident and I had to go home and see him. Two weeks and no classes later, I was writing an e-mail to the same professor to explain my absences. I wrote that my friend had sadly passed away and that I had to attend the funeral in... and this was the kicker... Hungary. Why Hungary? Why not? No death certificate necessary as well as two more weeks without class. I passed this info on to all my other teachers and it worked for three weeks. Then they started asking questions so I had to tell them I was taking his death pretty hard. Bam! Two more weeks without classes. At the end of the semester I had missed most of my classes and all of my midterms so I went to see the school psychologist to tell him I was more or less having a nervous break down. A few more phone calls to my teachers (who were more than sympathetic) and I finished the semester with two B's, two B+'s, and one F (the heartless bastard). What's more, I actually had a friend at school who was from Hungary and was also a slacker. Around finals, he hadn't turned in his final or his midterm for a class we were in together. He told me he was going to tell the teacher a friend of his in Hungary had died. Thank God he talked to me first and we managed to straighten things out. We decided that he had a friend in Turkey that had died. He got a B+, too."

"Kid Nation"

2007-09-19T21:17:00.001-07:00

Well, the title explains it. I just watched the first part of "Kid Nation" and it seemed interesting. On the first night there at the town, the kids already started to argue a lot. The town leaders are ok, but they don't seem to get that much respect from the others and I think it's becuase they aren't the oldest ones.
I also saw on the previews that they actually do have to do everything by themselves and that means killing the sheep and chicken for meat. I'm not sure yet if they're actually going to do it, but it'll be interesting.
I thought it was cool how one of the teams get to run a store. They sold candies and soda for only 5 cents (I liked the price!).
O yea, one of the kids already won a gold star, awarded by the leaders, for working the hardest. They most suprising part was that it was actual gold! $20,000!!!

bored

2007-09-15T17:46:00.000-07:00

I don' have much to do this weekend. Except for homework and test studying, of course, which I'm not looking forward to. Hopefully next weekend won't be like this one.