Alien Invasion

When I got home from Grandpa's on Saturday night I was surprised to see little strands of unidentified matter curled up around my lily patch.
After further investigation with a shove this is what I discovered!

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, FROGGIE EGGS!

NO! This does NOT belong on SUSHI! 

A huge Ewww factor if you asked me. But because I did not want my "pond" to be invaded my tadpoles, I braved my fears of the eww and painstakingly removed each and everyone of them! 

The worse part was the shover wasn't able to pick up the loose strands! I had to use chopsticks!!! 

ARgh!!!! Imagine picking up transparent strands of  glass noodles that have tiny eggs in them!? Yuck... but I did it anyways. 

Now my little lily pond is free of tadpoles but because of that I had to sacrifice one of the plants that them wrap themselves on! 

sighs... 

My life or the lack of it

Some time last week I received a notification saying that I have to hand in 11 reports by the 3rd of May. This was last Friday, at the same time I received the notification that said I have 5 presentation due on the 26th of April. On top of that, my thesis presentation is "hopefully" the following week.
ps. this is the easter weekend. MAJOR BLA! the following is SAM's wedding!

I'm going crazy!

I know it sounds petty of me to be complaining so much but in my defense, my last presentation was 2 weeks ago. ARGHHH!

Yes, this confirms that I have no life.

My churchie Friends

 

So right, ladies and gentlemen, presenting to you the "Churchies". Believe me it's not as bad as it sounds. Unfortunately more me, this means I hang out with a bunch of goodie goodie two shoes. Making me the "evil" one. Or the Wicked Witch of KuaLLs. 

But as you can see, they seem pretty crazy making me look normal so I guess that's a huge plus. Hehe, it's great to have GREAT friends but it's even better to have churchie friends. Wont trade them for the world. 

ps. YES, they are EXTREMELY churchililious. 

Gimme a call if you want me to set up a "date", and yes, i charge processing fees.  

Burden

Everyone's burdened. 

Some more than other. It may be financial, it may be relationships, it may be family.. the list goes on. 

What I'm trying to get here is, everyone has something to worry about. If you turn around and see a "smiling" person don't think that he or she has no worries. 

Some people are just better at hiding how they feel. 

Even the most happy go luck person has something to worry about. 

It really depends on how much we let this "worry" rule our life and yes, I do feel that we need to "proactively" do something about this worry. Sooner the better before it turns to fear. 

And if you need to SCREAM! it's totally ok! 

SCREAM

Glaucoma and Chinese Medication?

When I was preparing for my ophthalmology presentation, I came across a pretty interesting journal "Treatment of Glaucoma with Chinese Herbs".

3 and a half years in the National Institute of Ophthalmic Sciences and not one word about Glaucoma and Chinese Herbs.

Let's talk a look at glaucoma, what is glaucoma?
It is the damage of the optic nerve(disc) due to changes in the eye, with or without increase in intra ocular pressure. This disease is one of the leading causing of blindness in the world.
Intra ocular pressure can be controlled by tropical eye drops like Xalatan, Pilocarpines etc.

The Chinese view on health is all about balance.
The "Yin and Yang", no is not complete without the other. "Yin" being Water, while "Yang" represents Fire.
The Chinese believe that "yin" is the force that brings the water/wind downwards(think of water downwards following). While "yang" brings it upwards(think of hot air rising up). The also believe that, Dampness, Heat, and wind are the primary cause of discomfort and imbalance in the human body. Prolong stasis of water in ones body will cause "pressure" to more upwards.

Imagine a pile of wet leaves, the temperature in the center of the pile of wet leaves will be quite high. Under the right conditions, (the top leaves drying) the pile of leaves combust into flames. As seen in garbage piles. 

This increase in "yang" will push the water upwards against the "yin" causing headache, eye pain, and also increase intra ocular pressure.

A lot more "studying" needs to be done in order to really understand this journal. See you in part 2.
That's if you're still interested.

Oven Hot: Mini Irish Soda Bread

With presentations and research today, I've been completely "STRESSED OUT". What do I do when I'm stressed out? 

I bake. 

As I was searching the world wide web for easy and "idiot-proof" cupcake recipes for the upcoming wedding, I stumbled across this, "Mini Irish Soda Bread"

The recipe looked so simple and so quick! I couldn't resist, just had to try it. Also, This recipe's relatively health, no eggs, no sugar, no butter, no oil. This recipe calls for buttermilk which is quite low in fats, since buttermilk is the leftover milk from the production of butter. However, living in this part of Asian, buttermilk is hard to come by, and relatively EXPENSIVE. It's about RM17 for 500ml. I replaced the buttermilk with cream+milk, and it still turned out pretty good. So no complains here.

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