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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Love your Liver 疼惜你的肝脏

最近频频看到很多人被流行型感冒病毒感染,因此想和大家分享充足和好的睡眠对提高身体免疫力的重要性...因为我们常常不经意的伤害着我们的器官。 防范胜于治疗,让我们一起努力吧!


Good rest and sound sleep is very important. If you don’t sleep well, the toxic in your body will accumulate, affecting your health and your mood.

Once our body immunity system is down, virus will easily find its way to attack us. This explains why some of us (low immunity) are easily infected by virus & some with high immunity are not .

The main causes of liver damage are:

1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are the main cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication/drugs.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible, reduce cooking oil use, even the best cooking oil like olive oil when frying. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired.
8. Consuming overly done food also add to the burden of liver. Vegetables should be eaten raw or cooked 3 - 5 parts. Fried vegetables should be finished in one sitting, do not store.


We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our body to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to “schedule”.

Evening at 9pm - 11pm:
This is the time for eliminating unnecessary/toxic chemicals (de-toxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on her health.

Evening at 11pm - 1am:

The de-toxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1am - 3am:

The de-toxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 3am - 5am:

The de-toxification in the lungs. Therefore, there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the de-toxification process has reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.

Morning 5am - 7am:
The de-toxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel.

Morning 7am - 9am:
The absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30am, for those who are sick.

Breakfast before 7:30am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9am - 10am rather than no meal at all. Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals.

Aside from that, midnight to 4am is the time when the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a good sleep and don’t sleep late.

看了以上的讯息之后, 你觉得你有疼惜你的肝脏吗?如果还不够,就尽量早睡噢(~。~)zzZZZ

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Sarawak Kuching 砂捞越

some of the photos taken during my one & only trip to Sarawak Kuching many years back...

View of Sarawak from the plane. 印象中的砂捞越是一个淳朴的地方。
saw this interesting chilly red fruit at their local market, I still don't know what is the name and how's the taste of this fruit, wonder if anyone who knows can advise me....

On the way to visit the cultural village, stopped near the Satok Suspension Bridge for a picture.

Scenic view of the Damai Cultural Village 文化村. You can see a lot of Sarawak natives and their habitation. They stay in the long houses traditionally.

at the cultural village, a local woman 纺织 weaving a fabric .
this cat was no ordinary cat, it's the wild mountain cat 山猫, 是肉食动物。 它的笼子里只剩下鸡的羽毛,吃到连骨头都没有,就知道它的杀伤力,看到我们毛骨悚然。。。

These are fighting cocks 打斗鸡, very fiece leh, that's why have to be individually locked up. Saw this during a visit at a friend's family farm.

Monday, September 24, 2007

祝福大家中秋佳节幸福快乐!

亲爱的朋友们:

中秋佳节将至,为你送上我深深的祝福,还有为你吟上詩一首:

月是中秋分外明,
我把问候遥相寄
皓月当空洒清辉,
中秋良宵念挚心;
祝愿佳节多好运,
月圆人圆事事圆!

祝愿大家闔家团圆美滿,天天快乐!!

Saturday lunch



nearly lunch time, let me post some food here to whet your appetite, hahaha, so bad huh…… ^_^

The fried rice & mushroom cream sauce spaghetti were cooked last Saturday by my sister & my brother respectively...I only have a few mouthful of them though - coz weren't very hungry at that time...but I must compliment that they cooked them really tasty & delicious.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

柠檬饮料 Lemon drink

I just want to share some of the useful lemon beverages taught over 比利 Billy’s FM97.2 programme:-

Green Lemon Juice Water 青柠檬水

Ingredients:
Green Lemon 青柠檬 :
200g
Water 开水 : 600g
Ice cubes 冰块 : 200g
Brown rock sugar 褐色冰糖(small crystal cubes) 80g – 90g - grind into powder

Method:
1. Wash lemons thoroughly clean (may soak in water to remove wax/insecticide).
2. Cut lemons (with skin attached, remove 中间的芯) into 8 small wedges.

3. Stir brown rock sugar powder into water, blend ice cubes in high speed for 1 sec. & stop. Add in lemon, blend in high speed for 1 sec., stop & blend again 1 sec.
(The ice cubes sharp edges help to extract the natural lemon oil from the lemon skin during blending process. Lemon do not 搅太烂,or else it will be very bitter)
4. Strain the residue with a sieve and drink the lemon juice immediately for freshness & better benefits.
May store the cold drink in the thermal flask to consume within a few hours.



Recommend to drink daily.

Benefits: Green lemon is rich in enzyme and vitamins,regular consumption helps to boost immunity, detoxify body’s toxin & reduce fat.

Boiled Lemon Water 煮柠檬水

1 no. of lemon cut into slices, remove the centre stalk 芯 to reduce bitterness.

Boil lemon slices in 600cc/g/ml of water over high heat for 10 min., then to low heat, simmer till water reduce to around 200cc/g/ml.


Strain & discard the lemon residue.

Stir in small amount of brown rock sugar to your taste, stir till dissolve.

Drink the lemon water after it cool down.

Recommend to drink it 1 to 3 times a week.

Benefits: Rich in vitamins help to boost immunity; help to detox, reduce body fat and aid in slimming.

(note: the above are just my simple jot down notes for reference only, in case u have missed it, happy making & enjoy the drink & its benefits ! )

砂煲香肠冬菇鸡饭

这是星期天姐姐烹煮的claypot rice 午餐,味道很香,很好吃。 One dish meal 就搞定一餐。。。简便。

Monday, September 17, 2007

Sweet bun 小甜面包

这是昨天Auntie IreneNicole 和我一起做的小甜面包Auntie Irene 说看到Mary 做的 mini hot dog bun 好滑好美,大家对面包的口感也赞不绝口,所以手痒痒,也想做一些,哈哈~


我们做了多种pattern和馅料的sweet bun,有hot dog, pizza, 绿豆畔,cream cheesestreasel, 还第一次尝试做了一个新的streasel topping呢,烘过之后streasel的口感好香脆啊!一做完毕,我们就迫不及待的唰了几个新鲜出炉的面包当晚餐咯。。。


隔天面包的口感还是很松软的,家人和同事吃了,都不约而同的赞: ‘the texture is very nice!’ .


这个improved recipe 就是不一样,要感谢auntie Irene师傅和面包达人Mary的多次努力尝试而得的成果。




这是面团发酵前....

…发酵后的样子,发得前所未有的大噢!看到没有?左边发到像ba ru ku 一样,差一点就要破洞了耶!

Friday, September 14, 2007

Pineapple & Orange Enzyme

orange enzyme













pineapple enzyme



前些日子,喝enzyme喝到断货,原因之一是找不到好的green lemon,于是耽搁了。后来看到N...supermarket突然采购了好多漂亮又便宜的green lemon,于是赶快买来做了两瓶enzyme,剩下的还做了Billy 介绍的 lemon water 来喝,very refreshing ~

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

巧克力核桃蛋糕


这是97.2《我的厨房笔记》节目中教的 Chocolate Walnut Cake,喜欢吃nutty口感蛋糕的人就会欣赏它脆香饱满的口感,我就是那个人之一,哈哈~
生日那天同事们给我庆生,我就想要做一个方便携带又不需冷藏的蛋糕带去 office 让他们享用。谢谢auntie Irene 从旁协助,让我成功的做成这个美味可口的蛋糕。

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Durian Cream Puff

一直以来就很想要做cream puff了,不过一拖再拖,上个星期《我的厨房笔记》又复习这个食谱,刚好弟弟买了好多榴莲,看到材料都垂手可得,于是就即兴的决定尝试做来吃。我觉得做的puff不是很成功,不过整体的durian cream puff 的味道和口感还挺不错的! 希望下次会做得更好。。。

Sports in Batam



















Here are some of the photos taken during my 2 trips to Batam some years ago. Over there, if you are game enough, you may want to try sea parachuting, jet skiing, banana boat ride and go-karting! It's pretty exciting and fun!

Saturday, September 01, 2007

Light Cheese Cake on my birthday

这就是Auntie Irene为我特地烘制的轻乳酪蛋糕谢谢她的用心,知道我喜欢吃cheese ,就做了个原汁原味的Light Cheese Cake给我。 像雪糕般软绵得入口即化的口感和滋味一级棒哦!

我依样画葫芦,学才子何的品尝心得:
“泡一杯西洋奶茶
切一片cheese cake
用小汤匙刮下一片
轻轻送入口中
Mmmm……….cheese cake
缓缓溶化, 流入食道
再加呷一口茶, 哇!没得顶….”

哇!果真如此哟! 家人吃了也赞不绝口!

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