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Ultrabook for Your Lifestyle

January 30, 2012

A new genre of Ultrabook is created for all notebook users. Nowadays, notebook users desperately need a lighter, thinner, and powerful device, which also has a charming appearance. A thin and lightweight notebook is something that can't be compromised if you need a kind of portable device. You may just throw away that heavy portable device. Because that's not portable at all.

A powerful notebook relatively depends on how you use the device. Whether for your work on design, 3D gaming, or just to connect to your social network. Modern people are very detailed on the device appearance, they want the display to be more attractive because of lifestyle demands.

Acer Aspire S3

Aspire S3 was launched on October 2011, and became the pioneer of Ultrabook. The 1st Ultrabook made by Acer, on January 2012, Aspire S3 Series has won Design and Engineering Award for Computer Hardware & Components Category at CES Innovations 2012. The Acer Aspire S3 is a high-performance, ultra light notebook that powers on instantly, connects to the Web in seconds and provides up to 50 days of stand-by time. Aspire S3 using Cutting Edge Design with 13mm thickness, which when you look from the side, it will look very thin.

Acer Aspire S3

Comes with 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7-2637M inside, 4 GB SDRAM, 240 GB Solid State Drive (SSD), and 13.3-Inch Screen, you will be amazed with Aspire S3 performance. 12.6 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches on dimensions, and 2.9 pounds on weight, Aspire S3 has a variety of advantages that make it different from standard Ultrabook, even compared to some Ultrabook.




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Web Counter with Traffic and Backlink

January 25, 2012

Looking for a web counter or hit counter for your wesite, is the first thing we usually do after we create a website. There are many service providers of web counter on the internet. Sometimes we wonder, where does our visitors come from? Although blogger are already had statistic page that show it, but we usually unsatisfied with the stat result. There is only one web counter I knew, that can drive traffic and also give a backlink to your website.

Get your own flagcounter!

A web counter that I love most is flagcounter from boardhost. I'm become the one from millions of fanatical fans of flagcounter. You can see here in my blog, there are 5 types of flagcounter from boardhost.

As an Indonesian, I should be proud because Indonesia becomes the fourth country that frequently access flagcounter site. This is seen from the flagcounter.com master counter here.

You can collect 51 regional flags from United States and 13 flags from Canada using free flagcounter. If you upgrade to become Pro user, you will have the ability to collect regional flags from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, and many more. For example, 33 regional flags from 33 provinces of Indonesia.

In addition, Pro users can make their flagcounter become private and can't be seen by their visitors. Pro users can also eliminate the flagcounter logo.

Flagcounter is only a simple image of html without having a javascript. It can be place everywhere on the site that support image. But on Facebook page or profile as far as I know, you can't place a flagcounter.

By avoiding too many widgets with javascript, will get your site index by Google bots faster. It will have resulting on the SERPs. That's the basic SEO that I've learnt.

One way to get more visitors or traffic to your website as well get a backlink from boardhost.com is by joining in the flagcounter forum here. By placing your website URL on your signature, it will give backlink to your website.

You can ask for other flagcounter forum members to visit your website, by posting with title 'Need a flag' for example, on flag requests section. But you must remember! You should also visit their website in return!!

I Named My Son in Honour of St. Michael

January 22, 2012

My son Michael was born a month earlier than it was expected. My wife didn't notice that she have been pregnant for four month age until doctor examined. All pregnancy test-pack was negative for the last three month. Valentine was supposed became the name behind Michael's name, due to the birth date prediction was on February 14.

But on Saturday night, January 19, 2008, I was accompanied my wife to doctor. The doctor said that my wife will beared her child in about 2 until 3 days from that day. That's a shocked news.

One thing makes me shocked, is that if Michael was born on Monday, it means his Javanese day of birth (weton) is Senin Pon, just like his mother. Because if Michael was born on Sunday starting at 6.00 pm (sunset) until Monday's sunset, means his 'weton' is still Senin Pon.

In the Javanese culture, if 'weton' of a child is the same with their parents, then the child must perform a ritual. The ritual is to get rid of the child, which then will be discovered and owned by their parents's relative. Their parents had to buy back their child from their relative. How much money to buy back the child is only symbolically.

Why should there be a ritual like this?

There were such cases around me that were illogical. If 'weton' of a child and a mother alike. Then the mother and child must have the same character and habits. In their future life, they would like two repelling, same magnetic poles. Which will result in a natural process, who's strong, he/she will live longer.

In the case with some couple, if their both have the same 'weton', they will never be united. If it can, their marriage will not be long, a short-lived marriage.

An obvious example around me is my uncle died when my cousin was two years old. My cousin and my uncle/his father has the same 'weton'. My wife's sister with her first child has the same weton, my wife's sister died while giving birth to her second child. My sister-in-law died at the age of 28.

Surprisingly my sister-in-law's 'weton' is the same like her mother, who apparently died six years earlier. I did not get to know with my mother-in-law. When I met my wife, she was an orphan, her mother has past already.

Why I named my son Michael?

First of all, it was based on my favourite football player Michael Owen, NBA legend Michael Jordan, and my ace idol Michael Chang. But their first name was not the basic reason. I'm a Roman Catholic in religion, so my son must have his first name after a Saint's name. I choose St. Michael's name, which also it was my elementary school's name.

Long before the USG reports that predict my second child will be a boy, I also prepare the name Michele for a girl. I wanted my second child to be my guardian angel for the family. Surely, he will become my guardian angel, due to his sister was name Marianne, derived from St. Mary and her mother St. Anna combined together. There are no St. Marianne in Catholic literature for Saint. Because also the name Anne is given in honour of my late mother-in-law, Ani.

Do you agree, if I say that St. Michael is Our Lord Jesus Christ?

St. Michael by Guido Reni(Guido Reni's painting in Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, 1636 is also reproduced in mosaic at the St. Michael Altar in St. Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican.)

Michael means "Who is like God?". But for me, Michael is God Him-self, although human are created by God based on His image. Father is God, Son is Jesus Christ, and Michael is the Holy Spirit. Only Michael is called an archangel in the Bible.

The original meaning of the name Michael gave rise to the Latin phrase, Quis ut Deus?, which can be seen on his artistic portrayals when he rhetorically and scornfully asks, Who is like God?, as he defeats Satan. Within the hierarchy of the angels, at the highest level, St. Michael is a princely seraph.

The word archangel comes from the Greek words arche (prince) and angelos (messenger). The prophet Daniel (12: 1) called him "Michael the great prince who shall rise at the time of the end."

The question is, who will become the judge on the Judgement Day? God? Jesus Christ?, or Michael? Because the archangel who heralds the second coming of Jesus Christ is not named.




" Happy 4th Birthday to my son Michael Valerian "

The Year of Water Dragon

January 21, 2012

Many people thought that the water dragon year begins on January 23, 2012, simultaneously with the arrival of The Chinese New Year. But according to calculations of Feng Shui, water dragon year will begin on February 4, 2012 at 18:18. Chinese New Year calculation is based on Chinese Lunar Calendar, while the calculation of Feng Shui is based on Chinese Solar Calendar.

Then, Babies born between January 23, 2012 until February 4, 2012 at 18:17 still has Shio Rabbit, although the lunar new year celebrations have passed. Meanwhile, babies born after the date of February 4, 2012 at 18:18, they have Shio Dragon.

Year of the dragon this time called the year of the water dragon, because the stem of sky has positive element of water (Ren) and branch of earth has positive element of ground (Chen). In Feng Shui is called the year of Ren Chen.

According to Indonesian Feng Shui consultant Yohanes Cokrowibowo, which also known as Suhu Yo, water dragon is a green dragon, vicious, cruel, and has no mercy. Specifically relating to economic significance, that the water element's enemy is metal element. So that, business-related with the metal element will fall. As the price of gold will reach IDR 650,000 (US$ 72) to IDR 1 million (US$ 111) per gram, it will occur in 2012.

Car prices will also soar this year, due to metal's fear of water. The vegetation price will rise due to flooding and long drought season, and also high demand less supply. There will be food crisis. The ebbing tide of sea water makes the fish prices rise, due to lack of fish catch.

Other phenomenon that will occur in the year of water dragon is seen from the side of the dragon. Dragon is Chinese's creation, although dragon is more than a myth in some culture, but the origin story of dragon is derived from China. Chinese products will be booming this year 2012, such as electric motors, energy efficient cars from China will flood many countries. That also includes clothes, fruits, and plastics from China. Since last 3 years, plastics toys from China has been flooding Indonesia, with a lower prices. Both my children and I didn't look the quality of products, when it comes to toys.

Based on the interview with detikFinance, Suhu Yo also said that there will be major flood, that will occur from January until December 2012. I hope there will be no major flood, that will happen on December 21, 2012. Such a paranoia, I guess. Have you watched movie titled 2012 yet? Will Mayan prophecy proved in the year of water dragon?

In the movie 2012 is narrated the destruction of the earth by the tsunami as high as Mt. Everest. But for me, it's just a movie about Mayan prophecy. Mayan calendar will end on Dec 21, 2012. Also such a coincidence, it occurs on the year of water dragon. Don't be paranoid! Desperate people has no stand point! After all, if we know we will die tommorow, we will have more courage to face the world for our loving family.

" 恭 喜 发 财 "

" Gong Xi Fat Choi "

" Happy Greetings & May You Gather Wealth "

Stay Healthy with The Fruit of Evil

January 19, 2012

Apple is considered to be the fruit of knowledge based on Book of Genesis. Although is not identified correctly, is just the same as snake on Book of Genesis. Snake is described to be the most genius animal species ever that can walk and speak human language, until God curse him to be crawl using his stomach.

Why Apple becomes the fruit of evil, although it is supposed to be the fruit of knowledge? Malus, Latin name for Apple is similar in singular shape to Malum, Latin name for Evil, which is identical in plural shape, Mala. Because also after Adam and Eve eat it, they both then knew that snake is evil.

Fuji Apple

Based on research, apple can reduce the risk of colon, prostate, and lung cancer. Apple contains vitamin C (4,6mg/100g), also rich in antioxidant compounds. Fibers in apple helps control bowel movements, it will reduce the risk of colon cancer. Apple fiber also stem heart disease, as well as weight and cholesterol levels control, because apple contains no cholesterol.

Apparently apples can be be a good choice as a healthy diet to help lower blood sugar levels. A healthy diet can prevent from diabetes and prediabetes complications. Apple is considered fruit with low glycemic index value, it will cause blood sugar increase slower and stays on low level. If someone has a high blood sugar level, then it is better to consume apple than other snacks that contain high glycemic such as dried fruits or soft drinks.

New Cancer Cell Killing Machine

January 16, 2012

In my place in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, soursop has became rumors from mouth to mouth recently, about its huge benefits in the prevention and treatment of several diseases.

It is recommended to eat or drink soursop fruit juice daily for prevention. I just can ask my neighbour who grows Soursop tree, to give me soursop leaves. To dry the leaves, you should not dry them under direct sunlight. Simply put in somewhere that sunlight cannot reach.

Soursop leaves were believed for healing any diseases. Take 3, 5, 7 or 9 (Javanese believed in odd number) pieces of half dry soursop leaves (dark green coloured) mixed into 3 cups of water (900ml). Boil until the water evaporated into 1 cup only. Drink everyday 1-2 times.

Several researchs had been carried out extensively on soursop (Annona muricata Linn.) for many years, but still we do not know anything about this. You know why? Because it is so easy that our health, our life are controlled by money and power. Several research results were astonishing. Soursop is scientifically proven as cancer cell killing machine.

Annona muricata Linn.

Research since the 1970s has proven that Soursop (Annona muricata) or guanábana (Spanish), graviola (Portuguese), and sirsak (Indonesia) can be:

  • Attacking cancer cells safely and effectively naturally, without nausea, weight loss, hair loss. 10,000 times stronger than Adriamycin, a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug.
  • Protecting the immune system and prevent deadly infections.
  • Patients feel stronger, more healthy during the treatment.
  • Increased energy and improved physical appearance.

Health Science Institute in the United States is the institution that unmasked the secrets of this magical fruit, deep in the Amazon jungle. It will change the way you think, your doctor, and the world about cancer healing process and hope to survive. No one can promise more than this, in times to come.

Most striking discovery from Catholic University of South Korea revealed that Soursop can only kill cancer cells, while healthy cells remain untouched. Unlike Adriamycin that used on chemotherapy, who cannot distinguish between cancer cells, and healthy cells.

And then reproductive cells were killed by Adriamycin, which raised the negative effects of nausea and hair loss. A study at Purdue University show that the Soursop leaves are able to kill cancer cells effectively, particularly prostate, pancreas, and lungs cancer. Now you know the benefits of Soursop fruit is exceptional. 100% natural fruit without any side effects. Now it's better for you to start growing Soursop tree in your garden!









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Another Way To Boost Your SEO Rankings

January 15, 2012

A bad post is worst than no post at all

Did you ever heard the sentence above before? I'm 50% agree with that idea. You know why? Your blog content might be become the king, and then your blog design appearance should be the queen. If no post is better than a bad post or just a huge image on a blog, then why do you make a blog? Blog at first time was a kind of digital diary. People were posting to their blog to express their thought, mind, and share their expertise, and experience. No matter if there any readers that visit their blogs.

Back to the topic. If blog appearance is the queen, a way to beautify your blog is by creating slideshows. A beautiful and functional slideshow to improve your website performance, you should try SlideDeck.

SlideDeck is available as a jQuery Slider Plugin or WordPress plugin. There are two versions for both plugins: Lite (limited) version and a Pro (feature rich, customizable) version. SlideDeck is a powerful jquery slider plugin made for web designers. Automatically animate through your SlideDeck when visitors arrive on your website. You can use SlideDeck to explain how your web app works or let a user visually browse your blog posts. SlideDeck can actually boost your SEO rankings. The content from each slide is cleanly organized in your code and is automatically indexed by search engines.

With SlideDeck, you can organize any type of web content into a beautiful, user-friendly slider, and provides a great way to draw attention to your web content, while maintaining full search engine optimization. It is designed to provide understanding of a concept in less than a minute.

Today is Jum'at Legi but also Friday the 13th

January 13, 2012

Today is the 1st Friday the 13th on the year of 2012. Many people believe that today is related with bad luck according to history.

Fear of Friday the 13th is the most popular mythology among scientist. Fears or phobias that called friggatriskaidekaphobia. While phobias at number 13 called Triskaidekaphobia.

Then where superstitions come from? No scientists has dared called the initial appearance. But possibility appears linked with 13 men at Jesus Christ last supper. Friday is the day when Jesus Christ was crucified.

On friday, October 13, 1307, in France, 120 Knights Templars, including the grand master, Jacques de Molay, were condemned and executed, ordered by Philip IV of France. This event is believed to be the origin of the myths associated with bad luck on Friday the 13th.

On some passenger aircraft such as Continental Airlines, there are no seats numbered groups of 13.

Some airport terminals do not have gates numbered 13.

In Formula 1, MotoGP, and some other race, no car or bike that carries the number 13.

Microsoft is not going to name the next Office as Office 13, but Microsoft Office 14.

Composer Arnold Schoenberg suffered triskaidekafobia. He was born and died on the 13th.

In the United States, there is no plane named F-13 because the pilots many who believe in this superstition.

U.S. singer John Mayer has 14 songs on the album Room for Squares, although the songs of the 13 only 0.2 seconds long and no voice.

A British ship named Friday the 13th, was sailing on Friday the 13th. This ship was then no longer known its existence.

Apollo 13 was launched April 11, 1970, at 13:13. The launch is not at the 13th, but the sum of the numbers of that date (04/11/70) is 13 (0 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 7 + 0 = 13). The plane then experienced an explosion in space on April 13. But the crew successfully returned to earth.

Most hospitals do not have room number 13. Similarly happen on skyscraper buildings are also don't have 13th floor.

Butch Cassidy, famous train and bank robbers in the U.S., was born on Friday, April 13, 1866. While Fidel Castro was born on Friday, August 13, 1926.

U.S. President, Franklin D Roosevelt believed the myth of number 13. He will not travel on the date 13 in every month and will not entertain guests totaled 13. Napoleon and Herbert Hoover also triskaidekaphobic suffering and have abnormal behavior of item 13.

While Woodrow Wilson was on the contrary. He considers the numbers 13 as luck, but fact just the opposite. He arrived in Normandy, France at 13 December 1918 for peace talks. But the agreement failed because Congress was not agree.

Another strange numerology of number 13 like in China, the fear is on number 4. Because in Mandarin or Chinese language, the pronunciation of the word "dead" and "four" is the same. Should be noted that the sum of number 13 is 4 (1 + 3 = 4).

In Puncak Marina, an apartment estate in Surabaya, Indonesia, doesn't have 4th floor or room number 4. My house in a real-estate is on number 3a, while my left and right neighbour's house are in number 3 and 5.

Question is! Do You believe the numbers 13 and day of Friday 13th brings bad luck? I'm not. I was born on Thursday night at 8.45 pm, but my ' weton ' or my ' Javanese day ' is Friday. On Javanese day, after Sunset is considered to be tomorrow or new day begins with the dark. Some Friday in Javanese day is considered to be a lucky day, just like today, Jum'at Legi in Javanese day.

Food of The Gods

Recently, I just arrived at a blog that shows photo of a woman bites a huge of chocolate candy bar. That picture gives me an idea to write this post. In this post, I write about the benefit that you can get from chocolate.

Chocolate has played a special role in Maya and Aztec cultures. Aztec priests usually presented cacao seeds as offerings to the gods, and served chocolate drinks during sacred ceremonies. You know why? It all because chocolate latin name Theobroma cacao, the term of Theobroma, which in Greek roots Theo (God) and brosi (food), meaning ' food of the gods '. So it's natural for Maya and Aztec priests to offer chocolate to their gods, its food.

The word chocolate itself is origin from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, which is xocolatl, made up from the words xococ (bitter), and atl (water or drink), meaning ' bitter drink '. Chocolate also contains the alkaloid theobromine, which has a stimulating effect on the nervous system, but has lesser impact than caffein.

Although theobromine is not an addictive, but it is possible causing addiction to chocolate. Theobromine is also consider as an aphrodisiac. Theobromine has been used to treat high blood pressure, due to its ability to dilate blood vessels.

Theobromine can cause sleeplessness and will increase your urine production. So, if you want to awake all day, it is better drink hot chocolate than arabican coffee. Because arabican coffee contains less theobromine than chocolate. Other side effects that sometimes occurs are loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting, if you consume chocolate excessively.

But the bottom line is that, if you consume chocolate, especially dark chocolate regularly, and not excessively, it will reduce the risk of some diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and lower the risk of having heart attack. Dark chocolate is also consider as delicious food for diet.

Masturbation is Healthier than Brushing Teeth

January 11, 2012

Masturbation activity or onanism still becomes controversy nowadays. Some people call that men solo sexual activity is dangerous. But medical experts concluded that masturbation is harmless activity, and it even healthier than brushing your teeth every day.

A famous sexologist, Gloria Brame, said that masturbation is a natural and harmless activity. Problem occurs when it done excessively, it will disrupt daily life. " Onanism is part of healthy sex life. This activity is safe and does not dangerous. It even more healthy than You brush your teeth every day, " says Brame.

Brame said, that sex or regular masturbation will train pelvis muscles, prevent erectile dysfunction, and incontinence. Brame advises for having sex or masturbation at least 3 times a week. " Doing masturbation one hour before sex also gives you more control. Masturbation can be an excellent motivation for someone to train themselves to survive longer during sexual intercourse to reach orgasm, " she said.

A study in 2003, in Australia, also mentions that the man who ejaculated more than five times every week, one-third smaller likely to suffer from cancer prostate. Meanwhile, according to hormone therapy specialist, Jennifer Landa, ejaculation can be help raise levels of hormones cortisol which works to increase immunity. " Onanism can produce an atmosphere to strengthen the body immune system, " she concluded.





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Source : tribunnews.com

Delicious Foods for Diet

January 09, 2012

Desire to lose weight or maintain the body shape doesn't mean you can only eat fruit or vegetables throughout the day. There are some delicious foods that can still be eaten.

Here are delicious and nutritious foods, but still be able to control your weight.

  • Eggs
    Eggs are not only making you become more powerful, these foods are also rich in protein. Among other benefits, when we breakfast with eggs, it can reduce appetite. So you'll feel full longer. To cultivate it, can be boiled or fried eggs with a little olive oil.
  • Cheese
    Choose cheese made from goat's or cow's milk. Because, animals that eat grass contain conjugated linolenic acid (CLA) which can assist weight loss.
  • Salmon
    Recent research states, protein intake can prevent weight gain. Salmon are rich in protein, more than meat. Research in Sweden shows, respondents who had lunch with salmon intake 11 percent fewer calories.
  • Skim Milk
    One cup of skim milk has only 86 calories. Proteins in milk (whey and casein) can be filling the stomach than beverages containing sugar. The content of CLA in milk also helps fight obesity.
  • Dark Chocolate
    In 100 grams of dark chocolate, contains only 170 calories. According to research from the University of Copenhagen, eating dark chocolate before a meal can make you eat less food portions. Compounds in dark chocolate slows down the digestive process and keep you full longer. A small piece of chocolate (about the size of business cards) can also resist the desire to eat salty foods, sweet and fatty foods.
  • Citrus
    Citrus is one fruit that is able to give full effect in addition to apples, because the high fiber content. Many also eat fiber can fight obesity and generate a flat stomach.





Source : wolipop.com

Illegal Parking-lot Guard, Easy Ways to Become Corruptors in Indonesia

January 07, 2012

Corruption is a disease like kleptomania. Overcoming the problem of corruption is like melting an iceberg in the Atlantic ocean. Not visible on the surface but the bottom is higher than Mt. Everest when measured from the seabed.

A complicated subject where I live in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia is parking subscribing problem. Many people complain about parking subscription in Sidoarjo. It costs IDR 25,000 (US$ 2.7) per year for motorcycles. But in practice, if we parked in public places, the road or in government agencies still have to pay IDR 1,000 for parking fee.

Sidoarjo Department of Transportation claims to have been socializing the parking-lot guard. But after 5 years of my experince in the field, there is no reality. Even for Sidoarjo no.1 person (mayor), still have to pay for parking when using his private car. Department of Transportation argued that the park service users who had to fight the parking-lot guard who still remain collecting parking fee.

The information I get from a person who have a bicycle care business said that some strategic parking-lot were auctioned off by unscrupulous of the Department of Transportation. So more busy a parking-lot, the price for a ticket for one month becomes very expensive. The impact was, users should bear the cost of parking that landowners expenses. Parking-lot guards were targeted, they must deposit some millions of Rupiah from their earnings each week to the owner of a parking-lot.

I guess it is useless to eradicate the corruption that is worth billions of Rupiah, if it can not overcome the corruption that is worth only IDR 1.000 but has ancient roots and cultures. Even in the minimarket free marked parking, we still levied by a teenager parking-lot guard. With high unemployment rate, 7.1% (2010), population below poverty line, 13.33% (2010) from total population of 245,613,043 (July 2011 est.), in Indonesia, an easy way to make money is by being a parking-lot guard.

Sandals, Indonesian Symbols of Justice

January 05, 2012

Sandals collecting solidarity action to liberate AAL, a 15 year-old boy on trial in State Court of Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, because stealing sandal continues to grow. Most sandals are collected starting handed over to police as a symbol of how expensive justice for the poor.

If only slippers that were stolen does not belong to a police officer, his case would not continue to trial. Moreover, the price of a pair of sandals is not worth the high cost of litigation. Similar to the term for justice seeker, namely ' Lost your chicken, if you report to the police, you may lost your cow '.

The case became hot news in Indonesia, a reality that actually happened in the world of law in Indonesia. For the poor, justice becomes a luxury that must be redeemed at a very expensive price. This does not apply to those who are rich, and for those who close to the legal world, they can easily get justice. Because justice is blind indeed.

Such irony, if the case of AAL is comparing with corruption cases in Indonesia. AAL object crime of not more than IDR 30,000 (US$ 3) are treated as equal to corrupt billions of Rupiah. Strong reaction from the people of Indonesia is a voice of conscience for a substantive justice.

Obviously there is something wrong in AAL legal process, and AAL trial process is really violated conscience. But reality says another, on January 4, 2012, the judge decided AAL proven guilty according to article 362 of the Criminal Code. Punishment received by AAL is returned to his parents to be fostered, in accordance with Law No. 3 of 1997 on The Protection of Children.

Law in Indonesia seemed to be in its own world and no longer becomes a product of society. Hopefully the case of AAL will become last case in Indonesia.





Source : Jawa Pos, Jan 5, 2012, Jati Diri, page 4.

Healthy Foods According to Your Zodiac

Fire Element

Aries, Leo, and Sagitarius

Fire elements can be easily against disease. If you find it to be quick-tempered, developing hypertension, heart disease, or inflammation, it means is not balanced, so you need a food that are cold, damp, heavy to balance it. Eat whole grains and vegetables from the root. Avoid spicy foods and red meat.

For treatment, use chamomile to become cold tea. However, when you experience bowel problems, consume flavorful and heat foods such as lemon, yogurt, green vegetables. Avoid milk based and meat products. For treatment, use a stimulant extract such as cayenne, mustard, cloves, cinnamon, garlic, ginger.

Air Element

Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius

People that belonging to the air element are more easily stimulated, because they are sensitive, but they are also very easy to lose balance. If there is an imbalance, You will feel overly active, restless, sensitive, tired, dry skin, insomnia, and senile. Therefore, consume only foods such as steamed vegetables and nuts, avoid raw foods, fermented foods and sugar.

For treatment, consume foods that helps the absorption of nutrients in the body. To strengthen the nervous system, you require different kinds of minerals such as calcium and magnesium. Therefore, consume gingko, red chillies, garlic, ginger, and yogurt.

Water Element

Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces

Water elements regulate the reproductive system, lymphatic, and body fluids, including blood, mucus, and lymph nodes. Water will clean and cool the body. Water elements are very sensitive to their environment, especially against fungi, bacteria, and viruses. Health problems that commonly occur in three zodiac generally have side emotional. They are usually easier absorb negative energy from their environment. Their health problems were tend to recur.

When there is imbalance, they tend to undergo a process of digestion and slow metabolism. It can also becomes the problem of overweight. To overcome this, they must reducing fluid intake, changing the diet by eating steamed vegetables, nuts and fruits, as well as reproduce water sports.

However, avoid greasy foods, milk, sweet foods, fermented, and salted. To speed up treatment, the consumption foods that are diuretics such as parsley, garlic, and olive leaf. If people starry Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces are having low water elements in the body, they will experiencing difficulties in destroying toxins in their bodies, dehydration, insomnia, dry skin and dry hair. Difficulty of absorption nutrition is a condition that often occurs.

To overcome this, take a bath, drink a lot water, and live near water. Consume fruits and vegetables that contain high water, wheat, seaweed, dairy products, and natural sugars. In addition, caution against extreme exposure to sunlight. Avoid natural diuretics such as carrots, cabbage, celery, and asparagus. For treatment, consume a fruit juice.

Earth Element

Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn

Earth elements set the system so that the bone is essential for growth, reproduction, and tissue repair. Earth elements tend to have problems with weight, gland disorders, and have a greater risk appearance of tumors. However, they have strong teeth and neatly arranged, and their immune system are very good.

Excess earth elements make them often experience fatigue, digestive and a slow metabolism, increased density of body tissue, and grew thick hair. Fruit salad, cabbage, steamed vegetables, and juice are best foods choices for them. Despite the weight problem, they also abstinence excess diet. To treat such problems, taking spices such as ginger, pepper, and cayenne, are very helpful.





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The Danger of Toxoplasma

January 04, 2012

Toxoplasmosis typically associated with women. Due to the parasite, a woman can be hard having pregnancy. Even if she can, high risk of miscarriage, or the born baby is at high risk of becoming an abnormal.

Many people don't understand, parasite of Toxoplasma gondii can also attack a man. Heru Budiarto, 42, is one of them. Originallly lived in Surabaya, Indonesia, have already experiencing 4 years of sufferring from blindness due to these parasites attacks his eyes. Heru's condition is called choriotinitis, or inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina of the eye.

Approximately 67% patients with no symptoms of infection such as fever, enlarged neck glands, and body sweating at night. While inflammation of the eye (choriotinitis) occurred in 15% patients. When a condition is at high immunity, infection symptoms will not show up.

Several people, including high-risk contact with toxoplasma parasites, are those with resilient lower body. For example, people with HIV/AIDS, drug consumers (chemotherapy), transplantation patients, patients with cancer and autoimmune patients. Health care and healthy food consumed suppose to be the best move. Because toxoplasma entrance into the body through food. The incubation period of disease depends on the resilience of someone's body and the number of parasites that attack.

Toxoplasma gondii parasite grows in the cat's intestines. Contaminated feces mixed with grass. => Grass eaten by cows, goats, or poultry. The parasites migrate to the body fat. => The parasites live in the flesh, the animal intestine and brain. => Meat, intestine, brain or contaminated vegetables consume by human.

Prevention Actions?

Meat
Consume only cooked meat. Avoid eating half cooked meat. Half cooked process will not kill parasites in the flesh. Pregnant women should not wash raw meat. Wash hands with soap and warm water after processing the meat. Wash cooking utensils such as knives, bowl place raw meat with hot water.

You and Your Pet
Run a routine medical check up at least once a year. Please check your pet to the vet regularly. Avoid direct contact with the dirt of your pet, especially if you have a cat.

Fruit and Vegetables
Wash fruits and vegetables with running water. Peel the fruit before eating, especially apples.




Source : Jawa Pos, Jan 3, 2012, page 9.

Loneliness in Marriage

January 03, 2012

Loneliness by Paul Delvaux (1956)
Loneliness by Paul Delvaux (1956)
Photo Credit: WikiPaintings.org

Phenomenon of living together but feels lonely is not new in a marriage.

That midnight, Lucia woke up because listening to Andy, her husband, who is typing. Apparently, he was writing a paper for presentation materials tomorrow morning. That was Andy's habit after work, when there's a meeting with clients the next morning.

Lucia realized, there's something lost inside hers. Lucia felt like a very heavy burden pinned her that makes her difficult to breathe. A woman who was at the top of her career, was shivering, not because of cold, but due to her intense of loneliness. In fact, not far from where she's lying, there's Andy, former boyfriend who almost 8 years live with her.

Why I don't feel like the first time I knew Andy? Why even though I was with him, I feel alone?, shout Lucia in her heart, because her throat feels congested. Lucia wonder, what kind of disease is this? She don't have the courage to talk to Andy, who increasingly do not care her. Lucia is afraid of being refused and considered to be irrational fear. In terms of material, they both are two successful young executive. Luxury homes in the elite. Two new sport cars, two sweet and nice children, and the career that is uphill.

A Cracked Mirror Marriage

Many people thought feeling lonely are for those who are single or not married. No wonder many assumptions that by being married, life is no longer to be alone. However, psychological research now shows that loneliness can strike anyone, especially married women.

So what's behind this phenomenon? The cause is due to the environment and the people around the sufferer are tend to ignore. Social and cultural community that is changing. From the nature of community togetherness, changed to individual, is more concerned with their own interests.

Above is according to the article, but to me, a very important matter of a marriage is that:

The Perfect Marriage is not Expecting Perfection.

Talk to each other is the key. We can't solve our own problems alone. We need our partner to solve it together. Speak up your mind! Do not hide behind your mask! Be honest to yourself and your partner! And then you won't feel lonely again.



Source : Parents Guide, Dec 2006, page 51.

The Magic Leaf of Binahong

January 02, 2012

Binahong or also known by the name Dheng San Chi for the people of China, is a plant used as medicine. It is also an obligatory food for Vietnamese. Binahong grows wild in the wilderness of Vietnam forests. When the invasion of US troops in the Vietnam war, Vietnamese soldiers used Binahong to help them gained their stamina in the fight against the US army. In other words, Binahong helped Vietnam win the war against US.

Binahong leaves

This plant is very quick to heal the wounds either by eat it or smear directly over the wound. Binahong are named in Bahasa Indonesia, Latin name Bassela Rubra Linn (Eng: Heartleaf Maderavine Madevine) of species Anredera cordifolia. Binahong or Anredera cordifolia is thought to originally come from South America.

Here in Indonesia, Binahong is used to cure some diseases. Some leaves are just chewed, or boiled with a glass of water, and then drink along with the waste.

Diseases that can be cured:

  • Acne: 8 leaves taken daily
  • Asthma: 7 leaves taken daily
  • Bleeding Gums: 4 leaves taken daily
  • Burns: 10 leaves taken daily
  • Concussion: 10 leaves taken daily
  • Diabetes: 11 leaves taken daily
  • Dysentery: 10 leaves taken daily
  • Eczema: 10 to 15 leaves taken daily
  • Expires Surgical: 20 leaves taken daily
  • Fractures : 10 to 20 leaves taken daily
  • Keeping Stamina: 1 leaf every day
  • Inflammation of The Kidney: 7 pieces of leaves taken daily
  • Inflammation of The Lung: 10 leaves taken daily
  • Menstrual Irregularities: 3 leaves taken daily
  • Swollen Intestine: 3 leaves taken daily
  • Tuberculosis: 10 leaves taken daily


Note: In such cases of heavy disease, it may take from 1 until 6 month for curing the disease.

Binahong is also useful for curing cancer. How? Dried up the leaf, then boiled and drink it every day. However, the tuber can also be dried, then finely ground, then put in a capsule and drink 3 times a day.

Thanks to this binahong leaf, which had made my son's skin burn healed fast. I described this on my previous post.


Source : Binahong sebagai obat kencing manis, sesak nafas, darah rendah, radang ginjal, muntah-muntah, gegar otak ringan.

Suffering from Skin Burn

Michael carried a doll
Tunjungan Plasa, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Dec 18, 2009


My son Michael once experienced a stage 4 burns on his right arm, right ear to the eyebrow. His age was 13 months at the time. It happened, when my mother was going to make a tea. When she was going to take a tea strainer, my mother did not notice that Michael was behind her. Suddenly, he pulled the glass which filled with hot water and tea.


Michael’s right arm
Michael’s right arm


Michael’s right ear
Michael’s right ear
Michael had his skin burn at Feb 13, 2009


My frantic mother and wife, immediately brought Michael to the bathroom. They gave his injuries with toothpaste. That was a wrong action, which was supposed to dip him, into the bathtub filled with water, to reduce the burning sensation on his skin. My panic mother and wife took Michael to the hospital. But in the ER, the doctor was handled severely. It maked my wife was unable to watch Michael's pain. He was crying out loud in the ER.

The doctor action was only skinning Michael's swollen skin, that filled with water due to reaction of burning sensation. Doctor then only prescribed Burnazin ointment.

I considered Michael suffered to be stage 4 burns after 2 months later. My wife friend's daughter also suffered stage 4 burns which was also prescribed the same ointment. But the different was her fate. She was only managed to survive for 2 weeks in hospital. She was suffered 40% burns in all her body. From stomach below to the feet. Her reproductive organ suffered skin burns. Her age was 11 days older than Michael.

I was still at work that when the incident happened. The next day, my friend advised me to smear it with Binahong leaves. He gave me about 5 Binahong leaves. I washed Binahong leaves with water, finely crushed, and stored it in the fridge. Burnazin ointment prescription runs out after 2 days of use, but Michael's burn skin still watery, and looked like a fresh beef.

I replaced the ointment with Binahong leaf, which I kept in the fridge. I spread the leaves on Michael's skin, morning and evening, covered it with bandages. Miraculously Michael's burn skin dried instantly after 2 days using Binahong. His wound skin turned into dark color.

Because Michael burns were dry, and no longer covered them with bandages. I then bought Bioplacenton ointment at a pharmacy. I used Bioplacenton until Michael no longer felt the heat on his wound. But now 3 years later, there is a tatoo that marks his arm.


Two weeks later
Two weeks later


What is Binahong leaf?


Binahong leaves
Binahong leaves


I will describe it here..

 

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