Loratadine

I didn't know what went inexplicably awry with me as I was perpetually sneezing for the whole day. There is no other overt sign other than on the brink of falling ill. In the late morning, I felt remarkably exhausted and debilitated. My nostrils are badly occluded and I seriously need antihistamine drugs. Lest you are marveling what is antihistamine drugs, they are medicines that decrease inflammation or allergic attack.

I sprayed my nostrils with NASONEX inhaler and have had Loratadine an hour ago, at least it provides a transient comfort when I start to sleep tonight. Only if it is a common flu that is devilishly severe, I will let my immune system to activate native healing.

Why native healing? There are a lot of people who are sicked in my camp, if I eat antibiotics and recuperate from my illness, I may get sick again since some other people might spread to me the same virus especially when my immune system has not developed resistance to this virus yet. Why not let my body develop resistance against this virus so that nobody can spread to me after I am healed.

My next research is whether half a tablet of Loratadine and a quarter tablet of Chlorpheniramine eat together is more effective than eating 1 tablet of Loratadine or 1 tablet of Chlorpheniramine alone.

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Checking Your Ear Frequency Curve

This is my (21.5 years old guy) ear frequency curve which you can use to compare with your hearing curve. x-axis represents decibel while y-axis represent frequency in log. Test your ear frequency now to check the quality of your hearing.

Download this Excel file and this sound frequency to do a test on your ear. Use a high quality ear piece which has a broad range of sound frequency so that you will not get a false result.

Firstly, open 3500Hz audio file and play it, adjust your ear piece until you can hear the 18th tone but not the 19th one, this is also known as calibration since different ear piece has different sound amplitude.

Secondly, open the Excel file. Play 40Hz and note which cut off level that you last heard and record the level in cell C3. Repeat this procedure for all others frequency audio files. Your frequency sensitivity curve will be generated on the right hand side graph, the lower the decibel, the better it is because it means your ear is sensitive to that frequency of sound.

How to read the log number? 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 are shown. Each minor axis from 10 to 100 represent 10 increment. Each minor axis from 100 to 1000 represent 1000 increment. Each minor axis from 1000 to 10000 represent 1000 increment.

After all test were done, proceed to http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/can-you-hear-this-hearing-test/ to test the maximum frequency you can hear. Note that you need a high quality sound producing system to be accurate.

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Dracaena sanderiana / Lucky Bamboo / Guan Yin Teck / 富贵竹 / 转运竹

GOOD MORNING, DAWN SKY.

Dracaena sanderiana (druh-see-nuh sun-the-ria-na) aka Lucky Bamboo aka Guan Yin Teck in Teo Chew aka 富贵竹 or 转运竹 in Chinese.

I found that my lucky bamboo got cancer or some sort of evolution. Notice the quaint sharp thorny leaves? There isn't any strange leave in this species of plant and nor reproduce by seed, neither will reproduce by flower; it reproduces by rhizome.

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Plant Cancer & Vitamin D

Cancer in the context of a human has got a specialist disorder. What we mean by cancer, our cells that have lost the ability to obey the normal signals that control and dictate how things grow and move and obey signals that tell them not to go to other places in the body and not to grow through boundaries of tissues and not to disobey ‘kill yourself signals. Because every cell in the body is programmed to die unless it’s told otherwise.

Any living things can get cancer including plants. By comparing between animals and plants, plants will not die from cancer easily since it does not have a blood circulating system, thus the cancer cell does not spread throughout the plant. Plant can also get sick from virus, bacteria or fungi infection. Plant is totipotent; if you cut out a small branch from the plant and put the branch in soil, it will grow into a complete plant, the root will grow by itself after sometime, this gives plant cells its ability to protect itself from cancer. Totipotent cells are stem cells. If human can be developed completely by a liver cell, we are also considered as having totipotent cells and there is a possibility of cloning humans.

People who have darker skin tone are thinner than people who have lighter skin tone. If your size is big, you are probably white even after exposure to the sunlight for quite a long time, if you are thin, you will easily get dark after a while in the sunlight. I usually get darker after a while of swimming and I am thin. Darker skin has poor ability to absorb uv light so lesser production of vitamin D and therefore lesser absorption of calcium in the body, thus the person's bone look smaller. Isn't that logical? Lighter skin is the contrary. Isn't it true that a person is less likely to develop cancer if he is dark and thin since the skin has the ability to absorb uv ray and convert it to heat instead of absorbing deep into the skin and cause DNA damages?

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CNY & Car Drivers

Chinese New Year (CNY) is approaching but I do not have much time to buy clothes so every shopping event will hold on to Saturday. This new year clothes budget will be $200, $50 was spent on a quantity of 2 and so what's left will be gone on Saturday. It gonna be a busy weekend for sure, you can't book me except one slot for swimming which has already been booked. I have no CNY resolution this year, NS is only one pure thing which I do not want to elaborate.

Woke up early in the morning... ... Helped Sir to do some stuffs and at the same time Mdm came to look for me, asking me to help her with her car as it was surrounded by 9 cars so she could not drive out of camp. I was busy doing some stuffs for him so rejected her request but I found it was funny though, how can car drivers be so stupid by parking their cars without thinking and moreover all those cars belong to the regular officers. That was humorous.

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The Science of Longevity

Many teenagers especially girls are very concerned about aging. As a result, this post is especially important for you. The purpose is to educate youngster some basic knowledge of maintaining their young and youthful appearance, longevity of life and staying with a healthy lifestyle. I will try to put this post as elucidating as possible so everybody who read can at least grab more than 50% of what I write; although some scientific terms seem to be hard to understand, I will try to explain each and every of the definition as much as possible. Let's start with some of the easy one.

Ionizing radiation - When we are talking about ionizing radiation in regards to staying young, we are talking about the ultraviolet radiation (UV ray) emitted from the sun which destroy our skin cells. Although X-ray is also an ionizing radiation, we are not talking about that since just one X-ray scan doesn't do you as much harm as the daily exposure to UV ray from the sun. Despite providing us with Vitamin D (a coenzyme important for the correct formation of our born and absorption of calcium), UV ray can also damage our cells DNA (causing cancer or sunburn), killing our cells (damaging factor), reducing the collagen in our face (more crevice formation that make us look older), causing free radical on our cells (free radical are high energy electron or ions that damage our cells such as destroying the DNA and this may cause benign or malignant tumors whereas malignant tumor is definitely a cancer). To stay young, it is advisable for you to put on sunscreen or lotion with zinc and antioxidant ingredient when you are exposing to the afternoon sunlight. Take note that UV ray can pass through some umbrella, the purpose of umbrellas are to shed visible light but not UV ray so do not assume that you are protected if you have an umbrella.

Antioxidant - As mention in the previous paragraph, what is antioxidant? Free radials are generated from your body during metabolism or when you are exposed to ionizing radiation. Free radials cause damages to the cell, sometime it can be so serious such that the cell becomes cancerous. The purpose of antioxidant is to neutralize the free radical so that there are lesser free radical in our body, thus lesser harms and therefore slower aging. To stay young, eat antioxidant such as lipoic acid, Vitamin C and E TOGETHER with many types of fruits and vegetables. You cannot totally depend on supplement as there are over 100 types of chemicals in fruits that work together to scavenge free radicals from your body.

Carbohydrate - Eating less carbohydrate can lead to longevity since glucose restriction means slower metabolism in our cells. When our cell metabolism slow down, lesser free radials are produced, thus, we will age slowly since there are lesser damages on our body. For some girls who are on high carbohydrate and fats restriction, because you are afraid that you may become fat even though you are underweight, you may have Anexoria nervosa. I have seen some of my teen friends who look normal weight as they restrict diet but have gastric problem after doing this for long term and they are still restricting carbohydrate. This is not the right way of doing since they will not get enough nutrient from food, thus slowing their growth rate during their puberty time. The right solution is to eat moderately, not too much such that it can gain you much fats or too little that can cause you gastric pain. Your existing health is your first priority but not spoiling one system for the purpose of losing weight. Strictly do not eat medical pills to slim down other than vitamins and minerals. Medical pills are harmful/cannot be trust, they can damage your livers and kidney for long term consumption. If half of your liver or kidneys are damaged, you wouldn't know since no symptoms will appear until 90% of it is damaged so you need to be careful.

Having enough sleep - Sleeping (not resting) is very important. While we are sleeping, our cell metabolism slow down, lesser free radials are produced. Therefore, people who sleep enough will look younger. When we are sleeping, our body undergoes a few cycle of random eyes movement, it is where our body becomes active, idle, active, idle, many repeating cycle for every few hours. This is the lay man term, in scientific terms, it is more than this but idle body does not happen when you are resting, except that when you are sleeping. Not only sleeping for a long time, a person must sleep at the right time; it means you sleep when you are sleepy but not sleeping too lately as it can affect your body clock. When your body is producing melatonin preparing for you to sleep, you force high production of Epinephrine while your body is producing melatonin at the same time. Does that make you feel actively drowsy; confused?

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Myth or Fact?

1. When I was young, my mum warned me not to point at the moon, if I do, my ear will be cut by the moon while I am sleeping. If we somehow end up pointing at the moon, we must spit on our fingers and rub it in the back of our ears and tell the moon not to give us a cut behind our ears. Till my 20s, I still believe in this. Many people said it happened to them before and this has the highest belief among many people in the forums compared to other myths.
2. Do not open an umbrella at home. Opening it indoor means you are insulting the sun god. 
3. Do not cut your finger nail or whistle at night as it will attract ghost, most people said it is superstition.
4. Changing the appearance of a person face while he/she is sleeping such as by drawing on his face beyond recognition will beget the soul of the person not able to recognizes his body and thus unable to return to his body.
5. When a black crow making a lot of noise near your house, a person is going to die in the next few days.
6. Do not point at black crow or disturb them as it will cause unexpected illness to you that you have never seen before such as hundreds of blue black on your body which happened to one of my mum's friend before.
7. If your right eye twitches, something good will happen. If the left eye twitches, something bad will happen.
8. If you take pictures with 3 people in a photo, bad luck will happen to the middle person.
9. To break a mirror into 7 pieces, it means something bad is going to happen.
10. An onion under the bed of a sick person will draw off fever and poisons. This is quite true as it happens many times to me before. When I was young, I always have sleepwalking and the only solution to wake me up is when mum put an onion on my hand, immediately I woke up. This is seriously no joke so from that days onward, nobody can convince me that this is a myth.
11. Salt can be used to ward off evil.

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Northpoint & Clarke Quay CNY 2010 Celebration

As CNY 2010 is approaching, we can see an increasing number of spring celebration coming up especially in the southern precinct of Singapore. The Read Bridge at Clarke Quay was girdled with feeble lights on artifical spring flowers. There was also a flair of intuitive lion dance performance that required intangible knowledge to guess their every steps and motions.

The CNY 2010 celebration had also beget much furore among the tourist who arrived at the right spots. There were quaint Chinese caligraphy presentation with traditional Chinese music, lion dances, perilous walking sticks on fire and Singapore notable juggler show. It was especially hard to avert DSLR cameras at the Read Bridge as it was everywhere.

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