Do you remember what you had for lunch today? Perhaps a big greasy burger with fat greasy fries? Imagine all that fat and chemical clogging up in your colon and arteries. And then you wonder why you have weight problems.

Well, the first thing to do if you’re interested in pursuing a healthy lifestyle is to detox your body. This will make your body more susceptible to nutrients and vitamins in your food, and make your natural ‘cleansing system’ more effective, thus enabling you to expel more of the unhealthy things you eat. Detoxing your body will also make you more energetic as oxygen will be better absorbed by your blood, sending more oxygen to your brain and muscles. It can also make you look younger, make your skin glow with health and best of all, make you lose up to 20 pounds! So if you’re aiming for a healthier body and a healthier lifestyle, then detoxing your body is the best solution.

However, the process isn’t as easy as you’d hope. It involves a little bit of hunger and sacrifice of big, greasy burgers and fries and fattening desserts. If you think your body and health is worth the sacrifice, then detoxing is just the thing for you.

In detoxing, you need to forgo eating the food you usually eat. Instead, you need to drink more water, eat mostly only vegetables and fruits, and a small amount of grains like rice or barley. This is because you need to minimize the processing in your intestines, colon and liver in order for them to efficiently carry out the cleansing process.

There are a few detox diet plans that help you minimize the pain of the diet, if you think you might not be able to handle it. The Master Plan Secret is a good way to eliminate your putrid wastes with minimal pain and starvation, and it is all done in only 10 days!

If you are ready to expel all the toxic in your body for a whole new you, then don’t wait anymore! The sooner you start to detox your body, the less toxic there are to eliminate, the easier it will be to eliminate them.

Imagine you are driving along a lonely highway in the middle of the night. The radio reception is very poor, and you have no other form of entertainment. You drive on, passing miles and miles of barren land, or fields, and your eyes are getting heavier and heavier…

So what should you do, when you are in this situation, to avoid falling asleep on the steering wheel? Here are a few tips that could save your life:

1. Stock up on sweets before you take off.

I always have a box of Mentos mints when I know I’ll be driving for at least three hours. The mints can make you feel refreshed, and chewing on them can make you exercise your jaws and keep blood circulation going to your head. Chewing gum is also  a good idea.

2. Sing.

You may not have a voice like Mariah Carey or Jason Mraz, but let’s face the fact: This isn’t American Idol, and no Simon Cowell to tear you apart for being out of pitch. If the radio isn’t working, then improvise. Sing your favourite songs out loud, tap your fingers on the steering wheel (but don’t tap your foot on the acceleration pedal!), nod your head to the music and generally make a fool of yourself. It’s fun, trust me, and it works too!

3.  Drink lots of water.

Besides quenching your thirst, water can also keep your blood circulation running smoothly. You can also use water to wash your face and freshen yourself up. Wet a tissue towel and use it to wipe your face and neck. If all fails, drink the whole bottle and hope the pressure in yur bladder will keep you alert!

4.  Play mental games.

I used to count how many, for instance, yellow signs I pass before I get bored, and then switch to red signs, and so on. My friends recently taught me a new game- mental arithmatic. Every time a car passes by, add up the numbers of the car’s license plate as quickly as you can. You can make variations to this game by multiplying the numbers instead to make it more challenging.

5. Stop and rest.

If you’ve tried all the tips above and still fail to get rid of your sleepiness, do stop somewhere safe, like a rest stop, and take a little break from the road. Get something to eat while you’re at it, or just take a little nap to get over the sleepiness. Personally, the word ‘nap’ does not exist in my system because I won’t be satisfied with only 10 mintutes of sleep! So if you’re like me, it’s better to get out of the car and walk around a little to get the blood flowing in your legs and arms, and do some stretching exercises to make you feel more awake.

The most important thing to remember is that you must be prepared for the journey- get enough sleep beforehand, and make sure you have ample time to make the drive. And most importantly, safety always, ALWAYS comes first!

It takes 1 minute to meet someone
One hour to like someone
One day to Love someone
AND
A lifetime to forget someone

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

People fall in love all the time. Sometimes their feelings are accepted, welcomed and returned. Others are not so fortunate. They get turned down, or worse, first accepted and later turned down. Some of us get over it. Some get over it but remain scarred for life. Others just… live with the misery.

The last time my best friend broke up with her boyfriend, she called all of her closest friends- we were all childhood friends- to her house to help her get through this difficult time. We sat around the dining table and gave increasingly murderous suggestions on how to deal with the loser ex-boyfriend. When one of us said “Let’s push him over a cliff and have his organs donated”, we knew we were getting out of hand.

No, I’m not writing this article to teach you how to finish off your exes. What I have is a more mature and humane way of getting over break-ups and rejections. It’s called ‘Recovery‘.

I believe the most important thing to do is to assess the failed relationship. Did you foresee this break-up? Did you have a feeling it wasn’t going to work out? What reasons did he (or she) give to end the relationship?

You have to be totally honest with yourself (after all if you can’t be honest with yourself, who else can you be honest with?). If it was your fault, then admit it as such. Perhaps you were too busy with work, and did not make time for him. Or maybe you expected too much, and he felt too pressured.

If you have identified that it was your fault, then make a resolution to overcome it. Perhaps it was too late to save the relationship even if you changed, but if you don’t change, you’ll  end up with failed relationships for the rest of your life.

And if you’ve identified that the fault lies with your ex - perhaps he was a womanizer, or she was a selfish and vain perfectionist- then perhaps you’re better of without them! Relationships fail for a reason, and if the other person does not think you’re worth making an effort for, then surely the relationship isn’t ment to be. And forcing it might just make the both of you miserable.

I believe that it never does any good to bottle up bitter feelings. So let it out- scream into your pillow, or go to the gym and attack the punch bag.  The key to recovery is acceptance- the sooner you accept that it’s over and was never meant to be, the sooner you recover, get over it and start a new relationship with someone much better for you.

So good luck! I’m sure the right person is just waiting around the corner for you to bump into.

I Googled the word ‘phobia’ last night and came to a website that lists down all these scientific words for fear of things. You may probably have heard of ‘claustrophobia’, which is fear of confined spaces, and you probably are, or know someone who are acrophobic (fear of heights), brontophobic (fear of thunderstorms) or mysophobic (fear of dirt or germs).

However, I was pretty surprised to find this extremely long list of fears. There are even some strange and funny ones which i’ll list down below:

1. Archibutyrophobia- Fear of penut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

This is pretty strange. I imagine the people with this fear would go the rest of their lives avoiding peanut butter.

2.  Barophobia- Fear of gravity

Imagine fearing gravity. Where can you escape to, space?

3.  Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

I have no idea how they came up with this word. Imagine a patient with this problem going to the doctor:

Patient: Doctor, what’s wrng with me?

Doctor: Well, I’m afraid you have Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Patient: Nooooo!! Noooo!!

Doctor: It’s true! You DO have Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Patient: Please stop saying that word! I can’t take it!

Doctor: You have to accept the fact that you have Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia!

I imagine the patient would end up being driven to madness.

Anyway, when people are really scared it doesn’t matter if their fears are irrational. Sometimes we get scared of silly things. Sometimes we get over it. But we should never make fun of someone with a strange and funny phobia.

There was this one time when I was on a class trip to Taman Mini Malaysia, in Malaysia (translated to English this means Malaysia Mini Park) where they have areas showing different cultures in different part of Malaysia. Anway, there were a few souvenir shops around the park, and I unthinkingly picked up a rubber snake and put it on a friend’s shoulder as a joke. I forgot that this particular friend was Ophiophobic (fear snakes). When she turned around and saw the rubber snake on her shoulder… well, let’s just say I feel really, REALLY bad for what I did, even to this day. You really shouldn’t mess around with people’s fears.

Hi, there. Have you ever heard about Joseph? The very famous person with his best beat box. Do you know what beat box is?

Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion connected with hip hop culture (it has been called the “fifth element” of hip hop) although it is not limited to hip hop music.

It is primarily concerned with the art of producing drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, and more. It may also involve singing, vocal imitation of turntablism, the simulation of horns, strings, and other musical instruments.

Therefore it could be said to be a genre of a cappella music although it can be employed alongside other instruments. It may have some historical connections with other vocal traditions such as scat singing and puirt a beul.

Before this, I really hate beat box and something like that (I’m sorry, but if you do love, that’s great!). But once my friend show me Joseph’s performance, I really shocked as this is the first time I ever heard something incredible like this.

Let me know your opinion after you watch these videos :

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