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Wah Prof Cks, I drinking coke while I was reading your coke post. Thank you very much, I think I will not touch Coke for at least a long while...........
Hi chinkiasu....
I'm not into mini-skirts... much prefer jeans.
Anyway, I hate NDP parades... so crowded and so noisy. I took part in a parade last time when I was in secondary school. Some kind of mass display. That was pretty fun.
Hedge Fund Sowood Suffers 50% Loss, Plans to Wind Down
By Reuters | 31 Jul 2007 | 01:15 AM ET
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Hedge fund Sowood Capital told investors on Monday that it would shut down after losing half of its assets on soured bond market bets, becoming the first-high profile fund forced out of business by recent market turmoil.
The Boston-based fund, which managed money for Harvard University and other prominent clients, saw assets dwindle to roughly $1.5 billion from $3.0 billion in less than four weeks.
actually sir on a more serious note:
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
You may want to put that soda can down.
A common preservative found in drinks such as Coca-Cola, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Fanta and Diet Pepsi may cause serious cell damage, according to a report in Britain's The Independent.
Sodium benzoate has the ability to switch off vital parts of a person's DNA, according to research from a British university.
The problem is usually associated with aging and alcohol abuse, but new findings show that drinking soda with the preservative can eventually lead to cirrhosis of the liver and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.
Click here to read the full story in The Independent.
Sodium benzoate, which derives from benzoic acid, has been used for years by the carbonated drinks industry to prevent mold from developing in soft drinks. The ingredient has been the subject of concern on cancer, because when mixed with Vitamin C, it turns into a carcinogenic substance called benzene, the Independent reported.
Last year, a Food Standards Agency survey of benzene in drinks found high levels in four brands that were removed from store shelves.
"These chemicals have the ability to cause severe damage to DNA in the mitochondria to the point that they totally inactivate it: they knock it out altogether," said Peter Piper, a professor of molecular biology and biotechnology.
hahaha !
watch out !... the price of F&N and yeo hiap seng are going to drop when the market opens today ... ! : )
...to think Warren Buffet is part of this conspiracy ....hahaha !
*wink*
reminded of reading long long ago, something like this .... "all the people who died ..had something in common....they all drank just plain water ...! " *wink*
my dear Datuk Baseer...
as requested I found this post about coke... minta maaf... bukan fikiran saya anyway here goes: pls read it with a pinch of (coke)
Coke !!!
For those of u who love Coke/Pepsi... Just when you thought you knew
everything....
To clean a toilet :Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl. Let the "real thing" sit for
one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from
vitreous china.
To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers :
Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminium foil
dipped in Coca-Cola.
To clean corrosion from car battery terminals :
Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
To loosen a rusted bolt :
Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
To remove grease from clothes :
Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run
through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It
will also clean road haze from your windshield.
AND WE DRINK THIS STUFF ! ! !
The truth about Coke Pepsi and Others.
1.. Look at the wrapper on a Coca-Cola 1.5 litre bottle and in the
ingredients you will find phosporic acid in it. Minute quantities of
ethylene glycol is also used (which is acknowledged in the soft drink world
for making it "really chill"). This is popularly known as anti-freeze which
prevents water from freezing at 0 deg C and instead drops it by 4-5 degrees
with minute quantities. This chemical is a known slow poison in the caliber
of arsenic.
So, if you manage to drink about 4 litres of Coke within an hour or so, you
can die.
2.. Guess what's the pH for soft drinks, e.g. Coke? pH 3.4! This acidity is
strong enough to dissolve teeth and bones! Our human body stops building
bones at the age of about 30. After that it'll be dissolving about 8-18% of
the bones each year through the urine depending on the acidity of the food
intake (acidity does not depend on the taste of the food, but on the ratio
of potassium / calcium / magnesium / etc. to phosphorus).
All the dissolved calcium compounds accumulate in the arteries, veins, skin
tissue, organs. This affects the functioning of the kidney (kidney stones).
3. Soft drinks do not have any
nutrition value (in terms of vitamins &
minerals). It is high in sugar content, carbonic acid,chemicals
i.e.colorings etc. Some like to take cold soft drinks after each meal.Guess
what's the impact? Our body needs an optimum temperature of 37degrees
Celsius for digestive-enzyme functioning. The temperature of cold soft
drinks is very much below 37 degrees or even close to 0 degrees Celsius.
This will dilute the enzymes & stress the digestive system.The food taken
will not be digested. In fact it will be fermented! The fermented food
produces gases, decays and becomes toxin, gets absorbed by the intestine,
circulates in the blood stream and is carried to the whole body. Hence toxin
is accumulated in other parts of the body, developing into various diseases.
4. Think before you drink Coke/Pepsi (or any soft drink)again. Have you ever
thought what you drink when you drink an aerated drink? You gulp down
carbondioxide, when nobody in the world would advise you to drink CO2. Think
before you drink Coke/Pepsi (or any soft drink) again.
5. There was a competition at Kent State University-"Who could
drink the most Coke?" The winner drank 8 bottles and fainted on the spot --
too much CO2 in the blood. Thereafter, the principal banned all soft drinks
from the college canteen ! While this might have been an extreme measure,the
results do provide some food for thought.
Did you know that soft drinks use chemicals in them that cause immense harm
to you. Someone put a broken tooth in a bottle of Pepsi and in 10 days it
DISSOLVED! Can you believe it? Teeth and bones are the only human parts that
stay intact for years after death. Imagine what the drink must be doing to
your soft intestines and stomach lining!
Manikamaniko : )
tak banyak... sedikit sedikit saja ... boleh tahan ... : )
terimah kasih banyak untuk jaga kawan : )
(not many ..just a little ...safe... thank you very much for looking out for a friend i.e. well meant concern ; ) )
BaseerAhmed... :)
Oi, Datuk... awak sekarang ada apa kaunta?
Kalau ada banyak, mesti mahu jaga pant... oops.. mahu jaga-jaga sadikit...
many thanks EastonBay... will wait for your report on Pac Andes...ha ha
and Datuk Baseer.. certainly I will give some inputs on coke and tea.. but right now got to do some errands plus sort out my cashflow re my recent buys/bottomfishing...
meanwhile I note my SPC up 3% now 6.7, looks like it would now resume it normal course which is north....
with the + ve dow and some asian mkts up let's hope its a bright day today.
"the best is yet to be "
hahaha !
i think chinkiasu will now come back with a 'study' on cafffiene content in tea, coffee, coke etc....hahaha !
anyway, from what i remember, the caffiene content in tea is even less than half as coffee per cup.....and in addition ..tea contains polyphenols which is said to slow down or regulate the caffiene absorption into the body ....
ok, let's wait for the 'offical' write up from our ' master of all subjects ' chinkiasu ...hahaha !
as to the sin part ....the Creator is the final Judge....
Good Morning Everyone!!!
Guess it will be a good green day ahead...
baseerahmed: from your list of drinks... you are almost a no-sin person... if I try very hard to find fault with your drink list, that will be coke and tea for the little caffein they contain...
cks: it's Pac Andes AGM today... will try to see if I can make arrangement to attend. At Raffles Hotel at 3:30pm.
Good Morning Folks... Happy Day!!!!
News from CNN...
Stocks bounce back after last week's selloff as credit market fears subside and helped by some deal making activity.
By
David Ellis, CNNMoney.com staff writer
July 30 2007: 5:55 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Last week's stock market selloff came to an end Monday with major gauges finishing higher, helped by cooling credit markets fears and a bit of deal making on Wall Street.
The Dow Jones industrial average (up 92.84 to 13,358.31,
Charts) climbed by as much as 131 points, before paring some gains and finishing 92 points, or 0.7 percent higher.
The broader S&P 500 (up 14.96 to 1,473.91,
Charts) surged 1 percent higher, while Nasdaq composite index (up 21.04 to 2,583.28,
Charts) closed up 0.8 percent.
Stocks struggled at the start of Monday's session, but moved higher after Wall Street's recent fears about the housing and credit markets subsided.
"
A number of brokerage firms and economic strategists have reached the conclusion that the problems in the credit market do not imply that the economy and earnings are going to go into a tailspin ," said Hugh Johnson, chief strategist for ThomasLloyd Global Asset Management.
zorkss : thanks for the correction... never did Romeo and Juliet ...i suppose ...the object is what matters not the name of the object...
chinkiasu : drink regularly plain water, tea with milk , occasionally soft drinks like coke, pepsi, sarsi, orange, soyabean etc... rarely coffee ...zero on alcoholic drinks .
great cool idea re chilling out...yongjiu..!! oh yes indeed the Château Duhart Milon Rothschild is a Fourth Classed Growth. I supposed you got the 2002 year.. frankly, I doubt it is worth getting wines costing more than US100 for the older years (except perhaps for the snob value...). The Carruades de Lafite I understand itself is made from the fruit of vines that exceed, on average, 40 years of age and is the second wine of the Chateau. With up to 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, and a greater proportion of Merlot I think it would suit most Singaporeans...
btw, my auntie bunnie has gone awandering again... I hope she got back from GZ in one piece.. her last posting was she would be back that day.... hope she has not caught the fluis or mauled by the bear ....they like to eat bunnies..
Eh Basheer....
It's "What in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"....... not "the same"
Anyway "Invest"sounds more professional. Unlike words like 'play', 'dabble', 'punt'.
Here's to our investments......Cheers
oh datuk, do you drink wine? or perhaps we say coffee..?
hmm Eastonbay.. actually i think it cool to be kiddish... make us more avant-garde.. perhaps the age part can interpreted in the context of " imagined or assumed"...
hahaha !
actually , if not mistaken, we have people from 18 to beyond retirement age in here... !
hmmm .... good point ..... but i was thinking along the line of work and play .... for most of us ,this is not our real work , ...we are playing with the extra dollar we have after all the basics needs have been taken care of ....hence the term is used loosely ..... "a rose by any name will still smell the same "..... play , invest ....
baseerahmed: agree.. maybe can extend the age limit to late 30s... and one amendment... instead of 'play' stock market, can we have 'invest' in stock market? Play sounds a little kiddish. You think?
mmmmm.....
things in common :
late twenties to mid thirties
plays stock market
mid to long term investments
travels
wines
......?
