Textual Thoughts

Wishing you and your family a very happy and prosperous Chinese New Year.

Merry Christmas everyone.

I received the following interesting article in my email today pertaining to the connection between breakfast and heart attacks.

While I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information I always prefer to err on the side of caution. Hence I’m sharing the article here.

Read on:

As many of us are approaching 30 yrs old with some are already in 30s, we should be kind and gentle to our body. The least that we could do is to be moderate in everything we do and watch out on our food intake. Eat healthy food. …..

I received this article via email. It is one of those mails which circulate amongst a close circle of family and friends.

I usually skim through these mails but this particular one caught my eye because it dealt with the scourge of humanity, cancer. Upon reading the article in full I found it to be informative and logical. While I cannot vouch for the authencity of the contents, I have decided to give it the benefit of the doubt. I could not detect any item in there which would be detrimental to our health and have decided to share it here. Nevertheless please exercise your own discretion when you read the article below.

Hope you will find it interesting and may it one day help to save lives:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

The first thing you will notice about the Pelikan Majesty fountain pen is the absolutely beautiful barrel made of fluted sterling silver Ag 925 which is coated with platinum. The nib is a two toned 18K gold handcrafted nib. From the picture it seems that the overall finishing of the pen is excellent as can be expected from Pelikan.

I would like to share a joke which was forwarded to me via email.
Ever wondered how a man can go about catching a girl’s eye? Read on if you wish to know more:
A man is dinning in a fancy restaurant and there’s a gorgeous woman sitting at the next table.
He’s been checking her out [...]

I came across this piece of gem and I would like to share this simple recipe for a happiness in the coming year:
 
Take twelve whole months,Clean them thoroughly of all bitterness, hate, and jealousy,Make them just as fresh and clean as possible.Now cut each month into twenty-eight, thirty, orthirty-one different parts,but don’t make up the whole batch [...]

It is that time of the year to send out Christmas greetings to friends and relatives. So in addition to the customary greeting cards and text messages, here’s one more way to get the message out:
Wish all of you a blessed Christmas and may the Lord shower each and everyone of you with blessings on [...]

The Street.com reported that AOL’s recent announcement of its plans to begin offering free personalized domains to internet users from September 2006, has adversely affected Godaddy.com’s IPO plans. In fact Godaddy has announced the shelving of the IPO plans.
Godaddy revolutionized the domain name regstration industry by offering low priced domain name registration via the web [...]

This hilarious story came to me via email:
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods.”What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!” he said to himself.
As he was walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.He turned to look and saw a 7 foot grizzly bear charge towards [...]

Received this on a rainy day via email:
Something you may want to ponder on a rainy day?
So, you Think English is Easy?
Try to read these correctly the first time?
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) [...]

Thought I would share the following message which I received via email today:

There was a church that had problems with outsiders parking in its parking lots, so they put up a sign:

CHURCH CAR PARK - FOR MEMBERS ONLY
Trespassers will be baptized!”

CHURCH SIGN BOARDS:
“No God - No Peace”
“Know God - Know Peace.”

When Canon launched the Canon Powershot S2 IS in April last year I was sorely tempted to get one. I really liked the small form factor, the combination of monster 12X optical zoom with image stabilization, Digic II processor, video recording capabilities etc. However I held back because I was eagerly waiting for the Canon Powershot G7 which I was sure would be released at the end of 2005. After all the G6 was released way back in August 2004, a lifetime ago in the accelerated timeline of the modern digital cameras.

In the past few years Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been plagued by a growing problem which other companies would kill to have, ie the problem of having too much excess cash. It comes from years of accumulating hugely successful businesses which rake in tons of excess cash each year. The growing cash stockpile is truly an embarassment of riches, one which Warren has had to explain every year to his fellow shareholders.

My job occasionally takes me to Dubai, a city which never fails to amaze with its rapid pace of development. To get an idea of how much Dubai has grown from its sandy past, check out the following pictures:

Image links courtesy of “Metroblogging Dubai”:http://dubai.metblogs.com/archives/2006/03/dubai_a_few_years_ago.phtml .
I have a “Flickr photoset”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannytam/sets/951784/ of snapshots which I took in [...]

Lulu.com is bringing really affordable self publishing to the masses. Through the help of software technology and the internet, Lulu is able to lower the costs of self publishing by providing the user with powerful software tools to publish and sell books online .

I received this intriguing article in the mail. While I cannot vouch for the accuracy and truthfulness of the contents, the message seem important enough that I would like to share it here. The article is posted almost verbatim with the end section deleted due to its conspiracy claims which I do not wish to repeat. Please read it and judge for yourselves: ….

Found this in my mail archive. Thought I’d share it here.
Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah’s Ark …..

Don’t miss the boat.
Remember that we are all in the same boat.
Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark.
Stay fit. When you are 600 years old, someone may ask you to [...]

h3. 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006

What the above series of number have in common is that they are all “years of the dog”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_%28zodiac%29, according to the “Chinese Zodiac”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_Chinese_Zodiac. Out of curiousity I googled up a few articles describing common characteristics of dog people, or people born in the year of the dog….

Everybody knows what a thesaurus is, but maybe very few people have ever heard of a swearsaurus. To my surprise there’s an online version here.
Never leave home without consulting it.