For today's time-poor executive, a healthy work life balance is the ultimate lifestyle dream – a richly fulfilling job and a complete domestic lie, combined in perfect harmony. Technology is often seen as a threat to this goal but, used properly, it can help you to live and work smarter. Here are 10 ways to get the balance right.
BE SMART ABOUT EMAIL
Increasingly, US organizations are adopting No Email Fridays, when no one in the company is allowed to send internal emails. Instead they pick up the phone, or even walk round to their office to talk. Manager find that in actually meeting and talking to each face-to-face, problems are solved and morale goes up..
USE DOWNTOWN TO SPEED UP
Maria is a project manager and mother of one. "I have to pick my son up several times a week. So I schedule conference calls on those days from 4pm on, and use the mobile phone and my car as my office when I am driving." Maria uses Bluetooth headset and a digital recorder for notes.
TAKE YOUR FAMILY WITH YOU
As an international sales director Edson feels he spends more time on planes and he dopes at home. But his children travel everywhere with him. "I have a camera phone and have dozens of picture everywhere I go. I change the wallpaper everyday." He also sends his partner at least 10 pictures a day. "Sometimes it is something amused me, or just what I am looking at or where I am. And she sends her back. It is a way of sharing days."
DON'T BE AFRAID TO PULL THE PLUG
Use technology to help you and your team. Block off fixed regular periods for interrupted work when the phones will be off, and use a helpful voice mail to re-direct callers. "I'm sorry but I will not be taking calls between 9am to 10pm." Please leave a message and I will call you back after 10.30am.
HOLD MEETINGS STAND UP
Big formal meetings are responsible for wasted work time than anything else. The editor of French newspaper Le Monde holds all meetings standing up. Less time in meeting means more time actually working – and less time working later to make up for all the lost productivity of pointless meeting!
DON'T BE A PERFECTIONIST
Business success is about striving for excellence, not perfection. Accept, and get your team to accept, that not everything has to be done in a single day and that sometimes "good enough" is, well, good enough.
THERE'S ALWYS TOMMOROW
Bestselling psychologist Richard Carlson of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, advices people to learn to live with the fact that the in-tray will never be empty at the end of the day. "Realise that you are not Superman or Superwoman," he says. "It is just humanly possible to accomplish everything in one day." In every working day there are always things that don't go according to plan, which mean time spent sorting out unforeseen problems. "My rule of thumb is: assume that only half of the things you plan on doing today will actually get done," says personnel manager Leah.
KNOW WHERE THE OFF SWITCH IS - AND USE IT
"Carve out hours for yourself and your relationship," says Steven Hobfoll, professor of psychology. "Stop checking email and mobile phone so often." Few people are so important that they need their phones on at all times." Guard this personal time fiercely and treat it with respect: treat your partner's birthday or your child's sport day as seriously as you would a big sales meeting.
MAKE TIME FOR YOU
Identify what matters to you and dedicate time to it. Hugo is a sales manager for a US carmaker. "I play drums for a rock band. I block out a fixed time every week after work and will never work late that day. If I need to I can make up on other days."
SMASH THE "WORKING LATE" CULTURE
In Germany working late is seen as a sign of weakness, not strength: To a German director, a manager who works late into the evening is one who can't organize his day properly. British telecom giant BT uses a management consultancy to inspect employees' timesheets and thus spot people who are spending too long at work. So, reward team members who get things done both on time and in time.
Sab Nyer...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Combating Computer Fatigue
No one is immune to computer fatigue. If you've spent any length of time working on computer you will probably recognize at least some of the following symptoms: eye-strain, backache, tight and/ or sore shoulder muscles, hand soreness, aches and soreness in underused buttock and thigh muscles. Here are some things you can do while you are using your computer, to help alleviate and avoid these energy-robbing aches and strains.
Eyestrain
This is very important. Your eyes need to be exercised just like muscles. Look away from the computer screen every 30-45 minutes. Focus on the farthest object available. Choose a tree or building or sign, any stationery object that stretches your visual focus. When you feel you eyes have adjusted (3-5 seconds), focus on another object that is midway between the object you just focused on and your computer screen.
Once your eyes have adjusted to that object, look at your computer screen or another close object for a few seconds. Repeat the sequence – focus on farthest object, midway object, close up object. Stare at each point long enough for your eyes to become comfortable. If you do not have a window in your workplace, then use the space you have or walk to where you have a longer view. This is great exercise to do while you are on the phone, waiting for a programme to load, while doing Internet searches, or waiting for a document to print.
Tight and/or sore shoulder muscles
This is often is the result of posture while typing. Do you slump? (Strengthening abdominal muscles often helps straighten posture, as those muscles help support you back). Do you raise your wrist when you type? (Catch yourself. Then let your wrists drop. They should rest on a pad while you type). Computer fatigue can create energy-robbing stress in your body.
Try this. Pull your shoulders straight up towards your ears, hold them there for five seconds then let them drop. Repeat this but hold your shoulders up for only 2-3 seconds before relaxing them. You can use a little visualization with this if you need extra relaxation. Breathe in deeply as you bring your shoulders up, invite all the tension in your body to rise to your shoulders with your breath, see or feel this happening. Imagine the tension being carried out of your body through your shoulders; down your arms (especially your right arm) as you slowly exhale. This exercise is very effective and become easier and even more effective with practice.
Hand soreness
Excessive and repetitive use of those typing and mouse-clicking fingers can result in overall hand soreness. Remember to stretch – often! Picture a cat stretching her arms and extending her claws. Follow the 'shoulder tension release' exercise described above with a cat-like stretch of the arms and hands. Then massage the pad of your hand under each thumb.
Use your thumb and massage the palm of the opposite hand using small circular motions. Now, starting with thumb at bottom of palm, press thumb into hand and move it smoothly towards each finger, including thumb. This is great for stimulating circulation in your hands to keep them warm and supple. By far the best thing I have found is those Chinese cheegung hand balls. They are widely available, fairly inexpensive and usually come in an attractive box that will look great on your desk. Hold both balls in your palm and roll them around your hand. Use a counterclockwise direction for the right hand and a clockwise direction for the left hand. With practice you will be able to roll them around and get a smooth humming sound. This activity is purported to have many beneficial effects and are used to strengthen hands, improve circulation to hands and fingers, and prevent arthritis and rheumatism in arm and shoulder joints. Perhaps today we can add 'prevention of computer fatigue' to the list of traditional benefits.
Thighs and buttocks
Those neglected, underused muscles! They get sore and slack from sitting for lengths of time. The good news is that that you can stay in shape, even when you're work requires many hours at the computer. Keep a Buttmaster under your desk. Use it frequently for short periods of time throughout the day. It doesn't require your attention and it leaves your hands free to type. It does tone those neglected muscles!
Instead of sitting while you wait for a document to print or a programme to load, stand up and do some deep knee bends. Stand and breathe in deeply. As you exhale, bring one knee up and as close to your chest as you can. This will stretch and tone those sitting muscles. While sitting in your chair, bend over, relax your head and let your arms hang limp beside your legs. Inhale as you come up slowly, rising from the base of your spine upwards, bringing your head up last.
Double-duty your time with these simple moves and you will avoid computer fatigue. These are all exercises that can be performed right at your computer, and easily integrated into your normal computer activities. Put it into your consciousness that you will make these a part of your day. Recognize when you have those useable moments – while printing, searching the web, on "hold".
Computer fatigue is does not have to be a part of your work experience. Use these exercises and you will be alleviating and then eliminating computer fatigue from your life. Don't be surprised if you find yourself feeling more relaxed and alert after work then usual. Happy computing!
Sab Nyer...
Eyestrain
This is very important. Your eyes need to be exercised just like muscles. Look away from the computer screen every 30-45 minutes. Focus on the farthest object available. Choose a tree or building or sign, any stationery object that stretches your visual focus. When you feel you eyes have adjusted (3-5 seconds), focus on another object that is midway between the object you just focused on and your computer screen.
Once your eyes have adjusted to that object, look at your computer screen or another close object for a few seconds. Repeat the sequence – focus on farthest object, midway object, close up object. Stare at each point long enough for your eyes to become comfortable. If you do not have a window in your workplace, then use the space you have or walk to where you have a longer view. This is great exercise to do while you are on the phone, waiting for a programme to load, while doing Internet searches, or waiting for a document to print.
Tight and/or sore shoulder muscles
This is often is the result of posture while typing. Do you slump? (Strengthening abdominal muscles often helps straighten posture, as those muscles help support you back). Do you raise your wrist when you type? (Catch yourself. Then let your wrists drop. They should rest on a pad while you type). Computer fatigue can create energy-robbing stress in your body.
Try this. Pull your shoulders straight up towards your ears, hold them there for five seconds then let them drop. Repeat this but hold your shoulders up for only 2-3 seconds before relaxing them. You can use a little visualization with this if you need extra relaxation. Breathe in deeply as you bring your shoulders up, invite all the tension in your body to rise to your shoulders with your breath, see or feel this happening. Imagine the tension being carried out of your body through your shoulders; down your arms (especially your right arm) as you slowly exhale. This exercise is very effective and become easier and even more effective with practice.
Hand soreness
Excessive and repetitive use of those typing and mouse-clicking fingers can result in overall hand soreness. Remember to stretch – often! Picture a cat stretching her arms and extending her claws. Follow the 'shoulder tension release' exercise described above with a cat-like stretch of the arms and hands. Then massage the pad of your hand under each thumb.
Use your thumb and massage the palm of the opposite hand using small circular motions. Now, starting with thumb at bottom of palm, press thumb into hand and move it smoothly towards each finger, including thumb. This is great for stimulating circulation in your hands to keep them warm and supple. By far the best thing I have found is those Chinese cheegung hand balls. They are widely available, fairly inexpensive and usually come in an attractive box that will look great on your desk. Hold both balls in your palm and roll them around your hand. Use a counterclockwise direction for the right hand and a clockwise direction for the left hand. With practice you will be able to roll them around and get a smooth humming sound. This activity is purported to have many beneficial effects and are used to strengthen hands, improve circulation to hands and fingers, and prevent arthritis and rheumatism in arm and shoulder joints. Perhaps today we can add 'prevention of computer fatigue' to the list of traditional benefits.
Thighs and buttocks
Those neglected, underused muscles! They get sore and slack from sitting for lengths of time. The good news is that that you can stay in shape, even when you're work requires many hours at the computer. Keep a Buttmaster under your desk. Use it frequently for short periods of time throughout the day. It doesn't require your attention and it leaves your hands free to type. It does tone those neglected muscles!
Instead of sitting while you wait for a document to print or a programme to load, stand up and do some deep knee bends. Stand and breathe in deeply. As you exhale, bring one knee up and as close to your chest as you can. This will stretch and tone those sitting muscles. While sitting in your chair, bend over, relax your head and let your arms hang limp beside your legs. Inhale as you come up slowly, rising from the base of your spine upwards, bringing your head up last.
Double-duty your time with these simple moves and you will avoid computer fatigue. These are all exercises that can be performed right at your computer, and easily integrated into your normal computer activities. Put it into your consciousness that you will make these a part of your day. Recognize when you have those useable moments – while printing, searching the web, on "hold".
Computer fatigue is does not have to be a part of your work experience. Use these exercises and you will be alleviating and then eliminating computer fatigue from your life. Don't be surprised if you find yourself feeling more relaxed and alert after work then usual. Happy computing!
Sab Nyer...
Business Clothes Encountered
Do you ever wonder where dress rules have gone? Depending on when and where you are on any given business day, the words 'distant' might come to mind. It's difficult to decide if people don't know what to wear to work of if they have lost sight of relevance of appearance to professional success.
Try going to busy restaurant at lunchtime. Look around you at what people are wearing and see if you don't make judgments about who they are, and line of business, their personalities and their competencies.
Think about how you feel when you are dressed in your usual business attire as opposed to casual dress. Your choice of business apparel speaks to you professional behaviour and credibility. It is important to understand how to dress for business if you wish to promote yourself and your organization in a positive manner.
How you dress depends on four factors – the industry in which you work, the job you have in that industry, the geographic area in which you live and, most importantly, what your client expects to see.
Professional Dress for Men
In men's clothing, fashion does not change significantly from season to season but business attire is about being professional and not about being fashionable. It's about presenting yourself in away that makes your clients feel comfortable and confident with you. Dressing for success is still the rule. The professional businessman should keep in mind these few points when deciding what to wear to work.
Choose a conservative suit in navy, black or grey either pinstripe or solid. The quality of the material speaks as loudly as the colour and can make the difference between sleaze and suave. A solid white or blue dress shirt with long sleeves offers the most polished look. The more pattern and colour you add, the more the focus is on your clothing, rather than your professionalism.
Ties should be made of silk or a silk-like fabric. Avoid cartoon characters and go for simple and subtle if you want to enhance your credibility.
Socks should be calf-length or above. Make sure they match not only what you are wearing, but also each other. A quick glance in good light before heading out the door can save embarrassment later in the day.
Check for holes as well if you'll be going through airport security and removing your shoes.
Shoes should without question be conservative, clean and well polished. Lace-up shoes are the choice over slip-ons or flips flops.
Don't think for a minute that people don't notice shoes. Many people will look at your feet before your face.
Belts need to match or closely coordinate with your shoes. Once again, quality counts. Keep jewellery to a minimum. In a time when men sport gold necklaces, bracelets and earrings, the business professional should limit himself to a conservative watch, a wedding band and maybe his college ring.
Personal hygiene is part of success equation. Freshly scrubbed wins out over heavily fragranced any day of the week. Save the after-shave for after hours, but never the shave itself.
The finishing touch for the business man is his choice of accessories – briefcase, portfolio and pen. When it comes to sealing the deal, a top of the line suit, a silk tie and a good pair of leather shoes can lose their affect when you pull out the ball point pen you picked up in the hotel meeting room the day before.
Professional Dress for Woman
While the business woman now wears trousers to work, she does it out of a desire to appear professional and at the same time enjoy the flexibility and comfort of pants offer over skirts. Her goal is no longer to mirror her male colleagues.
The same overall rules apply to woman's work attire. Business clothing is not a reflection of the latest fashion trend.
A woman should be noticed foe who she is and her professional skills rather than foe what she wears. Her business wear should be appropriate for her industry and her position or title within the industry.
Start with a skirted suit or pants suit for the most conservative look. A skirted suit is the most professional. With a few exceptions, dresses do not offer the same credibility unless accompanied by matching jackets.
Skirts should be knee-length or slightly above or below. Avoid extremes. A skirt more than two inches above the knee raise eyebrows and questions.
Pants should break at the top of the foot or shoe. While Capri pants and their fashion cousins that come in assorted lengths from mid-calf to ankle are the latest trend, they are out of place in the conservative business environment.
Blouse and sweaters provide colour and variety for woman's clothing, but they should be appealing rather than revealing. Inappropriate necklines and waistlines can give the wrong impression.
Women need to wear hose in the business world. Neutral or flesh-tone stockings are the best choices. Never wear dark hose with light-coloured clothing or shoes. Keep an extra pair of stockings in your desk drawer unless the hosiery store is next door or just down the street from the office.
Faces, not feet, should be focal point in business so chose conservative shoes. A low heel is more professional than flats or high heels. In spite of current fashion and sandal rage, open-toed or backless shoes are not office attire. Not only are sandals a safety hazard, they suggest a certain official agenda.
When it comes to accessories and jewellery, less is once again more. Keep it simple; one ring per hand, one earring per ear. Accessories should reflect your personality, not diminishing your credibility.
Business attire is different from weekend and evening wear. Investing in a good business wardrobe is an investment your professional future. For those who think it's not what you want you wear but who you are that creates success, give that some more thought. Business skills and experience count, but so does personal appearance and that all-important first impression.
Sab Nyer...
Try going to busy restaurant at lunchtime. Look around you at what people are wearing and see if you don't make judgments about who they are, and line of business, their personalities and their competencies.
Think about how you feel when you are dressed in your usual business attire as opposed to casual dress. Your choice of business apparel speaks to you professional behaviour and credibility. It is important to understand how to dress for business if you wish to promote yourself and your organization in a positive manner.
How you dress depends on four factors – the industry in which you work, the job you have in that industry, the geographic area in which you live and, most importantly, what your client expects to see.
Professional Dress for Men
In men's clothing, fashion does not change significantly from season to season but business attire is about being professional and not about being fashionable. It's about presenting yourself in away that makes your clients feel comfortable and confident with you. Dressing for success is still the rule. The professional businessman should keep in mind these few points when deciding what to wear to work.
Choose a conservative suit in navy, black or grey either pinstripe or solid. The quality of the material speaks as loudly as the colour and can make the difference between sleaze and suave. A solid white or blue dress shirt with long sleeves offers the most polished look. The more pattern and colour you add, the more the focus is on your clothing, rather than your professionalism.
Ties should be made of silk or a silk-like fabric. Avoid cartoon characters and go for simple and subtle if you want to enhance your credibility.
Socks should be calf-length or above. Make sure they match not only what you are wearing, but also each other. A quick glance in good light before heading out the door can save embarrassment later in the day.
Check for holes as well if you'll be going through airport security and removing your shoes.
Shoes should without question be conservative, clean and well polished. Lace-up shoes are the choice over slip-ons or flips flops.
Don't think for a minute that people don't notice shoes. Many people will look at your feet before your face.
Belts need to match or closely coordinate with your shoes. Once again, quality counts. Keep jewellery to a minimum. In a time when men sport gold necklaces, bracelets and earrings, the business professional should limit himself to a conservative watch, a wedding band and maybe his college ring.
Personal hygiene is part of success equation. Freshly scrubbed wins out over heavily fragranced any day of the week. Save the after-shave for after hours, but never the shave itself.
The finishing touch for the business man is his choice of accessories – briefcase, portfolio and pen. When it comes to sealing the deal, a top of the line suit, a silk tie and a good pair of leather shoes can lose their affect when you pull out the ball point pen you picked up in the hotel meeting room the day before.
Professional Dress for Woman
While the business woman now wears trousers to work, she does it out of a desire to appear professional and at the same time enjoy the flexibility and comfort of pants offer over skirts. Her goal is no longer to mirror her male colleagues.
The same overall rules apply to woman's work attire. Business clothing is not a reflection of the latest fashion trend.
A woman should be noticed foe who she is and her professional skills rather than foe what she wears. Her business wear should be appropriate for her industry and her position or title within the industry.
Start with a skirted suit or pants suit for the most conservative look. A skirted suit is the most professional. With a few exceptions, dresses do not offer the same credibility unless accompanied by matching jackets.
Skirts should be knee-length or slightly above or below. Avoid extremes. A skirt more than two inches above the knee raise eyebrows and questions.
Pants should break at the top of the foot or shoe. While Capri pants and their fashion cousins that come in assorted lengths from mid-calf to ankle are the latest trend, they are out of place in the conservative business environment.
Blouse and sweaters provide colour and variety for woman's clothing, but they should be appealing rather than revealing. Inappropriate necklines and waistlines can give the wrong impression.
Women need to wear hose in the business world. Neutral or flesh-tone stockings are the best choices. Never wear dark hose with light-coloured clothing or shoes. Keep an extra pair of stockings in your desk drawer unless the hosiery store is next door or just down the street from the office.
Faces, not feet, should be focal point in business so chose conservative shoes. A low heel is more professional than flats or high heels. In spite of current fashion and sandal rage, open-toed or backless shoes are not office attire. Not only are sandals a safety hazard, they suggest a certain official agenda.
When it comes to accessories and jewellery, less is once again more. Keep it simple; one ring per hand, one earring per ear. Accessories should reflect your personality, not diminishing your credibility.
Business attire is different from weekend and evening wear. Investing in a good business wardrobe is an investment your professional future. For those who think it's not what you want you wear but who you are that creates success, give that some more thought. Business skills and experience count, but so does personal appearance and that all-important first impression.
Sab Nyer...
How To Face Worry
Introduction
The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (Seventh edition 2005) defines worry as to keep thinking about unpleasant things that might happen or about problems that you have.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. - Dale Carnegie
To learn how to face worry, the following two worry-related rules adapted from “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, first published by Dale Carnegie in 1944, can be used as evergreen examples.
In the early days, Carnegie made his living by teaching adult classes in night schools in New York. He realised that one of the biggest problems of these adults was worry. He wrote his book by reading what the philosophers of all ages have said about worry. He also read hundreds of biographies, all the way from Confucius to Churchill. According to him, we won’t find anything new in his book, but we will find much that is not generally being applied in our daily life.
Rule #1 : Basic Techniques in Analysing Worry
This was a story of an insurance man. When he first started selling insurance, he was filled with a boundless enthusiasm and love for his work. Then something happened. He became so discouraged that he despised his work and thought of giving it up. Then on one Saturday morning, he sat down and tried to get at the root of his worries. He began asking himself following questions:
a) What was the problem?
He was not getting high enough returns for the staggering amount of telephone calls that he made.
b) What was the cause of the problem?
He did pretty well at selling a prospect, until the moment came for closing a sale. Then the customer would say, “Well, I’ll think it over, Mister. Come and see me again”. The time wasted on these follow-up calls that was causing his depression.
c) What were all possible solutions?
He checked his record book for the last twelve months and studied the figures carefully. He made an astounding discovery! He discovered that 70% of his sales had been closed at the very first interview! Another 23% of his sales had been closed on the second interview. And another 7% had been closed on those third, fourth, fifth, etc., interviews. He came to the conclusion that he was wasting fully one half of his working day on a part of his business which was responsible for only seven per cent of his sales!
d) What was the best solution?
He made a quick decision that he would immediately cut all visits beyond the second interview, and spent the extra time building up new prospects.
Rule #2 : How to Keep From Worrying About Criticism
A national sensation in educational circles was created due to an event which occurred in 1929. Learned men and women from all Americas rushed to Chicago to witness the affair. A few years earlier, a young man by the name of Robert Hutchins had worked his way through Yale, acting as a waiter, a lumberjack, a tutor, and a clothesline salesman. Now, only eight years later, he was being inaugurated as president of the fourth richest university in America, the University of Chicago. His age? Thirty. Incredible! Criticism came roaring down upon this “boy wonder” like a rockslide. Even the newspapers joined in the attack.
The day he was inaugurated, a friend said to the father of Robert Maynard Hutchins: ”I was shocked this morning to read that newspaper editorial denouncing your son”.
“Yes,” the elder Hutchins replied, “it was severe, but remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog”.
Yes, and the more important a dog is, the more satisfaction people get in kicking him or her.
Carnegie added that when you are kicked or criticized, remember that it is often done because it gives the kicker a feeling of importance. It often signifies that you are accomplishing something and are worthy of attention. Many people get a sense of savage satisfaction out of denouncing those who are better educated than they are or are more successful.
Conclusion
It is worthwhile to mention it here as what was written by Linda R. Dominguez in her book entitled “How to Shine at Work” (2003). She wrote that part of turning problems into opportunities is to recognize that we always have a choice. We can choose to be angry, we can choose to worry, or we can choose to be thoughtful and respond in a way that moves us forward. It is up to us.
Worry less about what others think, say and do.
Sab Nyer...
The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (Seventh edition 2005) defines worry as to keep thinking about unpleasant things that might happen or about problems that you have.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. - Dale Carnegie
To learn how to face worry, the following two worry-related rules adapted from “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, first published by Dale Carnegie in 1944, can be used as evergreen examples.
In the early days, Carnegie made his living by teaching adult classes in night schools in New York. He realised that one of the biggest problems of these adults was worry. He wrote his book by reading what the philosophers of all ages have said about worry. He also read hundreds of biographies, all the way from Confucius to Churchill. According to him, we won’t find anything new in his book, but we will find much that is not generally being applied in our daily life.
Rule #1 : Basic Techniques in Analysing Worry
This was a story of an insurance man. When he first started selling insurance, he was filled with a boundless enthusiasm and love for his work. Then something happened. He became so discouraged that he despised his work and thought of giving it up. Then on one Saturday morning, he sat down and tried to get at the root of his worries. He began asking himself following questions:
a) What was the problem?
He was not getting high enough returns for the staggering amount of telephone calls that he made.
b) What was the cause of the problem?
He did pretty well at selling a prospect, until the moment came for closing a sale. Then the customer would say, “Well, I’ll think it over, Mister. Come and see me again”. The time wasted on these follow-up calls that was causing his depression.
c) What were all possible solutions?
He checked his record book for the last twelve months and studied the figures carefully. He made an astounding discovery! He discovered that 70% of his sales had been closed at the very first interview! Another 23% of his sales had been closed on the second interview. And another 7% had been closed on those third, fourth, fifth, etc., interviews. He came to the conclusion that he was wasting fully one half of his working day on a part of his business which was responsible for only seven per cent of his sales!
d) What was the best solution?
He made a quick decision that he would immediately cut all visits beyond the second interview, and spent the extra time building up new prospects.
Rule #2 : How to Keep From Worrying About Criticism
A national sensation in educational circles was created due to an event which occurred in 1929. Learned men and women from all Americas rushed to Chicago to witness the affair. A few years earlier, a young man by the name of Robert Hutchins had worked his way through Yale, acting as a waiter, a lumberjack, a tutor, and a clothesline salesman. Now, only eight years later, he was being inaugurated as president of the fourth richest university in America, the University of Chicago. His age? Thirty. Incredible! Criticism came roaring down upon this “boy wonder” like a rockslide. Even the newspapers joined in the attack.
The day he was inaugurated, a friend said to the father of Robert Maynard Hutchins: ”I was shocked this morning to read that newspaper editorial denouncing your son”.
“Yes,” the elder Hutchins replied, “it was severe, but remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog”.
Yes, and the more important a dog is, the more satisfaction people get in kicking him or her.
Carnegie added that when you are kicked or criticized, remember that it is often done because it gives the kicker a feeling of importance. It often signifies that you are accomplishing something and are worthy of attention. Many people get a sense of savage satisfaction out of denouncing those who are better educated than they are or are more successful.
Conclusion
It is worthwhile to mention it here as what was written by Linda R. Dominguez in her book entitled “How to Shine at Work” (2003). She wrote that part of turning problems into opportunities is to recognize that we always have a choice. We can choose to be angry, we can choose to worry, or we can choose to be thoughtful and respond in a way that moves us forward. It is up to us.
Worry less about what others think, say and do.
Sab Nyer...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Takziah..
Takziah kepada keluarga Allahyarham Hasnih Jamaluddin yang telah kembali ke rahmatullah pada 9 November 2008 yang lepas.
Semoga rohnya dicucuri rahmat....Al fatihah
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sumbangan berita harian 11 November 2008
Dua beradik maut nahas tiga kenderaan
TAWAU: Dua beradik, termasuk seorang wanita yang baru melangsungkan pertunangan Sabtu lalu, maut dalam kemalangan membabitkan tiga kenderaan di Batu 15 Jalan Apas, di sini, petang kelmarin.
Kejadian kira-kira jam 7.45 petang itu mengorbankan Hasnih Jamaluddin, 26, yang meninggal sejurus tiba di Hospital Tawau manakala adiknya, Mohd Hafiz, 9, yang mengalami pendarahan dalaman serius disahkan meninggal jam 9.30 pagi, semalam.
Dua lagi saudara kandung mereka iaitu Rudy, 23, yang juga pemandu kereta dilaporkan kritikal dan koma di Hospital Tawau manakala Mohd Hakim, 6, cedera di kaki kiri tetapi stabil.
Pemangku Ketua Polis Daerah, Superintendan Ramli Ali Mat, berkata empat beradik dari Kampung Pukat, Tanjung Batu itu menaiki kereta jenis Honda dan dikatakan dalam perjalanan ke Lapangan Terbang Tawau.
"Ketika sampai di Batu 15, Rudy dipercayai hilang kawalan sebelum bertembung dengan kenderaan pacuan empat roda dari arah bertentangan yang membawa empat penumpang menghala ke Tawau.
"Keadaan itu menyebabkan sebuah kereta jenis Perodua Kenari yang membawa empat penumpang merempuh kenderaan pacuan empat roda berkenaan dari belakang," katanya ketika dihubungi di sini, semalam.
Ramli berkata, seorang daripada penumpang pacuan empat roda serta keempat-empat penumpang Kenari itu hanya cedera ringan dan punca kemalangan masih disiasat.
Sab Nyer...
Semoga rohnya dicucuri rahmat....Al fatihah
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sumbangan berita harian 11 November 2008
Dua beradik maut nahas tiga kenderaan
TAWAU: Dua beradik, termasuk seorang wanita yang baru melangsungkan pertunangan Sabtu lalu, maut dalam kemalangan membabitkan tiga kenderaan di Batu 15 Jalan Apas, di sini, petang kelmarin.
Kejadian kira-kira jam 7.45 petang itu mengorbankan Hasnih Jamaluddin, 26, yang meninggal sejurus tiba di Hospital Tawau manakala adiknya, Mohd Hafiz, 9, yang mengalami pendarahan dalaman serius disahkan meninggal jam 9.30 pagi, semalam.
Dua lagi saudara kandung mereka iaitu Rudy, 23, yang juga pemandu kereta dilaporkan kritikal dan koma di Hospital Tawau manakala Mohd Hakim, 6, cedera di kaki kiri tetapi stabil.
Pemangku Ketua Polis Daerah, Superintendan Ramli Ali Mat, berkata empat beradik dari Kampung Pukat, Tanjung Batu itu menaiki kereta jenis Honda dan dikatakan dalam perjalanan ke Lapangan Terbang Tawau.
"Ketika sampai di Batu 15, Rudy dipercayai hilang kawalan sebelum bertembung dengan kenderaan pacuan empat roda dari arah bertentangan yang membawa empat penumpang menghala ke Tawau.
"Keadaan itu menyebabkan sebuah kereta jenis Perodua Kenari yang membawa empat penumpang merempuh kenderaan pacuan empat roda berkenaan dari belakang," katanya ketika dihubungi di sini, semalam.
Ramli berkata, seorang daripada penumpang pacuan empat roda serta keempat-empat penumpang Kenari itu hanya cedera ringan dan punca kemalangan masih disiasat.
Sab Nyer...
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Cure Breast Cancer by Avoiding All Milk Products
Professor Jane Plant is a wife, a mother, and widely respected scientist, who was made a CBE for her work in geochemistry. When she was struck by breast cancer in 1987 at the age of 42, her happy and productive existence seemed destined to fall apart. But despite the disease recurring a further four times, Jane refused to give in. As she describes in an inspiring new book, [Your Life In Your Hands] serialised by the Daily Mail this week, she devised a revolutionary diet and lifestyle programme that she believes saved her life and can cut the chances of other women falling prey to the disease.Her theory remains a controversial one - but every woman should read it and make up her own mind.
Today, she explains her personal breakthrough...I had no alternative but to die or to try to find a cure for myself. I am a scientist - surely there was a rational explanation for this cruel illness that affects one in 12 women in the UK?I had suffered the loss of one breast, and undergone radiotherapy. I was now receiving painful chemotherapy, and had been seen by some of the country's most eminent specialists. But, deep down, I felt certain I was facing death.I had a loving husband, a beautiful home and two young children to care for. I desperately wanted to live. Fortunately, this desire drove me to unearth the facts, some of which were known only to a handful of scientists at the time.Anyone who has come into contact with breast cancer will know that certain risk factors - such as increasing age, early onset of womanhood, late onset of menopause and a family history of breast cancer - are completely out of our control. But there are many risk factors, which we can control easily.
These 'controllable' risk factors readily translate into simple changes that we can all make in our day-to-day lives to help prevent or treat breast cancer. My message is that even advanced breast cancer can be overcome because I have done it.The first clue to understanding what was promoting my breast cancer came when my husband Peter, who was also a scientist, arrived back from working in China while I was being plugged in for a chemotherapy session.He had brought with him cards and letters, as well as some amazing herbal suppositories, sent by my friends and science colleagues in China.The suppositories were sent to me as a cure for breast cancer. Despite the awfulness of the situation, we both had a good belly laugh, and I remember saying that this was the treatment for breast cancer in China, then it was little wonder that Chinese women avoided getting the disease. Those words echoed in my mind. Why didn't Chinese women get breast cancer? I had collaborated once with Chinese colleagues on a study of links between soil chemistry and disease, and I remembered some of the statistics.The disease was virtually non-existent throughout the whole country. Only one in 10,000 women in China will die from it, compared to that terrible figure of one in 12 in Britain and the even grimmer average of one in 10 across most Western countries.It is not just a matter of China being a more rural country, with less urban pollution. In highly urbanised Hong Kong, the rate rises to 34 women in every 10,000 but still puts the West to shame.
The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have similar rates. And remember, both cities were attacked with nuclear weapons, so in addition to the usual pollution-related cancers, one would also expect to find some radiation-related cases, too. The conclusion we can draw from these statistics strikes you with some force. If a Western woman were to move to industrialized, irradiated Hiroshima, she would stash her risk of contracting breast cancer by half.Obviously this is absurd. It seemed obvious to me that some lifestyle factor not related to pollution, urbanization or the environment is seriously increasing the Western woman's chance of contracting breast cancer.I then discovered that whatever causes the huge differences in breast cancer rates between oriental and Western countries, it isn't genetic. Scientific research showed that when Chinese or Japanese people move to the West, within one or two generations their rates of breast cancer approach those of their host community.
The same thing happens when oriental people adopt a completely Western lifestyle in Hong Kong. In fact, the slang name for breast cancer in China translates as 'Rich Woman's Disease'. This is because, in China, only the better off can afford to eat what is termed 'Hong Kong food'.The Chinese describe all Western food, including everything from ice cream and chocolate bars to spaghetti and feta cheese, as 'Hong Kong food', because of its availability in the former British colony and its scarcity, in the past, in mainland China.So it made perfect sense to me that whatever was causing my breast cancer and the shockingly high incidence in this country generally, it was almost certainly something to do with our better-off, middle-class, Western lifestyle.There is an important point for men here, too. I have observed in my research that much of the the data about prostate cancer leads to similar conclusions.According to figures from the World Health Organization, the number of men contracting prostate cancer in rural China is negligible, only 0.5 men in every 100,000. In England, Scotland and Wales, however, this figure is 70 times higher.Like breast cancer, it is a middle-class disease that primarily attacks the wealthier and higher socio-economic groups - those that can afford to eat rich foods.I remember saying to my husband-- 'Come on Peter, you have just come back from China.
What is it about the Chinese way of life that is so different. Why don't they get breast cancer?'We decided to utilize our joint scientific backgrounds and approach it logically. We examined scientific data that pointed us in the general direction of fats in diets.Researchers had discovered in the 1980s that only l4 % of calories in the average Chinese diet were from fat, compared to almost 36% in the West. But the diet I had been living on for years before I contracted breast cancer was very low in fat and high in fibre.Besides, I knew as a scientist that fat intake in adults has not been shown to increase risk for breast cancer in most investigations that have followed large groups of women for up to a dozen years.Then one day something rather special happened. Peter and I have worked together so closely over the years that I am not sure which one of us first said: 'The Chinese don't eat dairy produce!'It is hard to explain to a non-scientist the sudden mental and emotional 'buzz' you get when you know you have had an important insight.It's as if you have had a lot of pieces of a jigsaw in your mind, and suddenly, in a few seconds, they all fall into place and the whole picture is clear.
Suddenly I recalled how many Chinese people were physically unable to tolerate milk, how the Chinese people I had worked with had always said that milk was only for babies, and how one of my close friends, who is of Chinese origin, always politely turned down the cheese course at dinner parties.I knew of no Chinese people who lived a traditional Chinese life who ever used cow or other dairy food to feed their babies. The tradition was to use a wet nurse but never, ever, dairy products.Culturally, the Chinese find our Western preoccupation with milk and milk products very strange. I remember entertaining a large delegation of Chinese scientists shortly after the ending of the Cultural Revolution in the 1980s.On advice from the Foreign Office, we had asked the caterer to provide a pudding that contained a lot of ice cream. After inquiring what the pudding consisted of, all of the Chinese, including their interpreter, politely but firmly refused to eat it, and they could not be persuaded to change their minds.
At the time we were all delighted and ate extra portions!Milk, I discovered, is one of the most common causes of food allergies.Over 70% of the world's population are unable to digest the milk sugar, lactose, which has led nutritionists to believe that this is the normal condition for adults, not some sort of deficiency. Perhaps nature is trying to tell us that we are eating the wrong food.Before I had breast cancer for the first time, I had eaten a lot of dairy produce, such as skimmed milk, low-fat cheese and yoghurt. I had used it as my main source of protein. I also ate cheap but lean minced beef, which I now realized was probably often ground-up dairy cow.In order to cope with the chemotherapy I received for my fifth case of cancer, I had been eating organic yoghurts as a way of helping my digestive tract to recover and repopulate my gut with 'good' bacteria.Recently, I discovered that way back in 1989 yoghurt had been implicated in ovarian cancer. Dr Daniel Cramer of Harvard University studied hundreds of women with ovarian cancer, and had them record in detail what they normally ate. I wish I'd been made aware of his findings when he had first discovered them.
Following Peter's and my insight into the Chinese diet, I decided to give up not just yoghurt but all dairy produce immediately. Cheese, butter, milk and yoghurt and anything else that contained dairy produce - it went down the sink or in the rubbish.It is surprising how many products, including commercial soups, biscuits and cakes, contain some form of dairy produce. Even many proprietary brands of margarine marketed as soya, sunflower or olive oil spreads can contain dairy produce. I therefore became an avid reader of the small print on food labels.Up to this point, I had been steadfastly measuring the progress of my fifth cancerous lump with callipers and plotting the results. Despite all the encouraging comments and positive feedback from my doctors and nurses, my own precise observations told me the bitter truth.My first chemotherapy sessions had produced no effect - the lump was still the same size.Then I eliminated dairy products. Within days, the lump started to shrink. About two weeks after my second chemotherapy session and one week after giving up dairy produce, the lump in my neck started to itch. Then it began to soften and to reduce in size.
The line on the graph, which had shown no change, was now pointing downwards as the tumour got smaller and smaller.And, very significantly, I noted that instead of declining exponentially (a graceful curve) as cancer is meant to do, the tumour's decrease in size was plotted on a straight line heading off the bottom of the graph, indicating a cure, not suppression (or remission) of the tumour.One Saturday afternoon after about six weeks of excluding all dairy produce from my diet, I practised an hour of meditation then felt for what was left of the lump. I couldn't find it.Yet I was very experienced at detecting cancerous lumps - I had discovered all five cancers on my own. I went downstairs and asked my husband to feel my neck. He could not find any trace of the lump either.
On the following Thursday I was due to be seen by my cancer specialist at Charing Cross Hospital in London.He examined me thoroughly, especially my neck where the tumour had been. He was initially bemused and then delighted as he said, "I cannot find it.' None of my doctors, it appeared, had expected someone with my type and stage of cancer (which had clearly spread to the lymph system) to survive, let alone be so hale and hearty.My specialist was as overjoyed as I was. When I first discussed my ideas with him he was understandably skeptical. But I understand that he now uses maps showing cancer mortality in China in his lectures, and recommends a non-dairy diet to his cancer patients.I now believe that the link between dairy produce and breast cancer is similar to the link between smoking and lung cancer. I believe that identifying the link between breast cancer and dairy produce, and then developing a diet specifically targeted at maintaining the health of my breast and hormone system, cured me.It was difficult for me, as it may be for you, to accept that a substance as 'natural' as milk might have such ominous health implications. But I am a living proof that it works and, starting from tomorrow, I shall reveal the secrets of my revolutionary action plan.
Extracted from Your Life in Your Hands, by Professor Jane Plant, to be published by Virgin on June 8 at £16.99. © Professor Jane Plant, 2000. Evidence that reveals the dangers lurking in a pinta
Jane Plant's conviction that dairy products can cause cancer arises from the complex chemical makeup of milk. All mature breast milk, from humans or other mammals, is a medium for transporting hundreds of chemical components.It is a powerful biochemical solution, designed specifically to provide for the individual needs of young mammals of the same species. Jane says: "It is not that cow's milk isn't a good food. It is a great food- for baby cows. It is not intended by nature for consumption by any species other than baby cows.
It is nutritionally different from human breast milk, containing three times as much protein and far more calcium.'Breast milk, like cow's milk, contains chemicals designed to play an important rote in the development of young cattle. One of these, insulin growth factor IGF-1,causes cells to divide and reproduce.IGF-1 is biologically active in humans, especially during puberty, when growth is rapid. In young girls it stimulates breast tissue to grow and, while its levels are high during pregnancy, the hormones prolactin and oestrogen are also active, enlarging breast tissue and increasing the production of milk ducts in preparation for breast-feeding.Though the concentration and secretions of these hormones in the blood are small, they exert a powerful effect on the body.
All these hormones are present in cow's milk. IGF-1 is identical in make-up, whether in human or cow's milk, but its levels are naturally higher in cow's milk. It is also found in the meat of cows.High levels of IGF-1 in humans are thought to be a risk factor for breast and prostate cancer. A 1998 study of pre-menopausal women revealed that those with the highest levels of IGF-1 in their bloodstream ran almost three times the risk of developing breast cancer compared with women who had low levels. Among women younger than 50, the risk was increased seven times.Other studies have shown that high circulating levels of IGF-1 In men are a strong indicator of prostate cancer. Interestingly, recent measures to improve milk yields have boosted IGF-1 levels in cows. Could IGF-1 from milk and the meat of dairy animals cause a build-up in humans, especially over a lifetime, leading to inappropriate cell division?
Though we produce our own IGF-1, could it be that the extra amounts we ingest from dairy produce actually cause cancer?Jane Plant already knew that one way the high-profile drug tamoxifen, used in the treatment of breast cancer, is thought to work by lowering circulating levels of IGF-1.IGF-1 is not destroyed by pasteurization, but critics argue that it is destroyed by digestion and rendered harmless. Jane believes the main milk protein, casein, prevents this from happening and that homogenization, which prevents milk from separating into milk and cream, could further increase the risk of cancer-promoting hormones and other chemicals reaching the bloodstream.She also believes there are other chemicals in cow's milk that may be responsible for sending muddied signals to adult tissue.
Could prolactin, released to stimulate milk production in cows, have a similar effect on human breast tissue, effectively triggering the same response and causing cells to become confused, stressed and start making mistakes in replicating their own DNA? Studies have confirmed that prolactin promotes the growth of prostate cancer cells in culture.Another hormone, oestrogen, considered one of the main risk factors for breast cancer, is present in milk in minute quantities. But even low levels of hormones are known to cause severe biological damage. Microscopic quantities of oestrogen in our rivers are powerful enough to cause the feminisation of many male species of fish. While oestrogen in milk may not pose a direct threat to tissues, it may stimulate the expression of IGF-1, resulting in long-term tumour growth.
Jane, who has found growing support for her theories from cancer specialists, stresses that she is not setting out to attack more orthodox approaches. She intends her dietary programme to complement the best therapies available from conventional medicine, not to replace them.Pure but deadly: Is milk potentially fatal?******************************************************************************
Dairy-free diet and breast/colon cancer[ IOA Archived Discussion Forum May 2000 ]Posted By Leslie Dungan on June 19, 2000 at 17:40:01:The following review appeared last week in the Irish Times.Has anyone out there opinions or experiences relevant to Prof Plant's approach? British scientist Jane Plant, who believes a dairy-free diet helped her recover from breast cancer, talks to Katie DonovanTempted by a cream bun, you talk yourself out of it with thoughts of all that unhealthy fat clogging up your arteries. You opt for a low-fat yoghurt instead, with skimmed milk in your tea, congratulating yourself on your sensible self-control. Think again. According to a ground-breaking new book about breast cancer (which kills over 600 women in Ireland annually), dairy products, whether low-fat or full cream, should be off everyone's menu overnight. (They are also culpable with regard to prostate cancer, so that really means everyone).
Prof Jane Plant CBE, author of Your Life in Your Hands, was diagnosed with breast cancer 13 years ago. She was 42, a successful geochemist (she is now chief scientist of the British Geological Survey), and led, she thought, a healthy life. There was no history of breast cancer in her family. She discovered that "only five to 10 per cent of breast cancers are the result of inherited genes, and the disease may not always develop, even in those carrying the mutated gene." Bamboozled by jargon and frozen with panic, she fell back on her scientific training to try and figure out how she had developed the disease, and how best to cure herself.She went on the Bristol diet, she had a mastectomy, she had radiotherapy, she had her ovaries irradiated (to induce menopause and eliminate oestrogen), she asked questions and did lots of research.
To no avail.By the time of the cancer's fifth recurrence (it spread into the lymph), she was given a course of chemotherapy and three months to live. She had an egg-sized tumour on the side of her neck.Brainstorming one night with her fellow scientist husband about why, in the West, one in 10 women get breast cancer (one in 14 in Ireland), while in China it's only one woman in 10,000, the pair came up with the simple answer: Chinese people don't eat dairy products.Plant eliminated all dairy products (including goat and sheep) from her diet. Six weeks later, the tumour had disappeared.When I meet her she is a youthful-looking woman in her mid-fifties, quaffing mint tea and eating a tuna sandwich (no butter or mayonnaise). She has stayed on her dairy-free diet and has remained clear of cancer.Giving up dairy products was only part of a healthy regimen she had been following throughout her cancer, including taking folic acid and zinc supplements, drinking filtered water and never consuming anything that had been packaged in plastic (phthalates, harmful carcinogenic chemicals, leak from soft plastic into food).In spite of her best efforts it was only after she gave up all dairy products that the cancer disappeared. Sixty-three other women who had breast cancer and who came to her for advice, also recovered after giving up dairy products.So how, I ask, can dairy products-- beloved of both the Irish and British alike, not to mention the Americans whose diet is 40 per cent dairy-- have such a lethal effect? "Milk is designed as the perfect food for newborn animals. They can't eat ordinary food, they are dependent on milk to keep development and cell differentiation going. But milk contains a chemical-- insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1 -- which girls have naturally as teenagers to help their breasts develop.
This chemical-- which is designed to stimulate cell growth-- can send the wrong signal to adult breast tissue."She quotes studies in the US and Canada in 1998 which found that pre-menopausal women with the highest IGF-1 concentration in their blood had a far higher risk of developing breast cancer (similar studies have found a link between IGF-1 and prostate cancer). The drug Tamoxifen, prescribed for women with breast cancer, is thought to work by reducing circulating IGF-1 levels."Over 70 per cent of the world's population are unable to digest the milk sugar, lactose," she observes. "Lactose intolerance may be nature's early warning system: perhaps nature is trying to tell us that we're eating the wrong food." Homogenization apparently only enables cancer-producing chemicals to reach the bloodstream quicker.Plant has done her homework: "Epidemiological studies have indicated a positive correlation between dairy product consumption and breast cancer risk going back two decades. Studies have found an increase in breast cancer risk among women who consumed milk (especially whole milk) and/or cheese."In 1977 scientists examining the incidence of breast cancer in Japan found "a significant increase in both the consumption of dairy products and the occurrence of breast cancer in urban areas".She quotes more research to suggest that "free oestrogens"-- found in commercial pasteurized whole cow's milk and in skimmed milk-- may stimulate expression of IGF-1 resulting in "indirect long-term tumour growth".She lists dioxins and other damaging environmental chemicals, some of them carcinogenic, which are often fat soluble and end up "particularly concentrated" in milk.As for the argument that we need dairy products because they contain calcium, Plant quotes the World Health Organization's finding that countries which have low intakes of calcium do not have an increased incidence of osteoporosis: "Scientific studies into calcium absorption have shown that only 18 to 36 per cent of the calcium in milk is taken up by the body."Now that we're convinced, what should we be eating instead?
Plant recommends soya milk, herbal tea, humous, tofu, nuts and seeds, non-farmed fish, organic eggs and lean meat (not minced beef, which tends to be dairy cow) and plenty of fresh organic fruit and vegetables (in salads, juiced, or lightly steamed).But how can the average woman afford the time and energy it takes to source and prepare such food? "Your priority should be good food, not glop," she stresses. "Put organic food first. Your health is more important than a new car. Anyway, I don't find it too costly-- after all, I don't buy any processed food, which is very expensive."Her husband and two children have no problem following her diet. And although she travels a lot for her job, she finds that she is able to manage-- she includes many tips in her book about what to bring with you on a trip (dried soya milk, herbal tea bags, kelp tablets for iodine, etc).She is about to start writing a new book, a guide for busy women who want to stay healthy.She advocates thorough and frequent self-examination of your breasts, and, if you do develop breast cancer, self-empowerment by working with your doctor "as a partner, not as a victim".She is not a fan of the Louise Hay You Can Heal Your Life philosophy: "I do believe in positive thinking, but I'm also a scientist and I wanted a rational explanation. I have friends with diseases like MS who have read Hay's books and feel guilty because they can't adapt their mental attitude; or, if they have adapted, and the disease doesn't go away, they become distressed."Plant, who is an advocate of acupuncture, has varying opinions of alternative therapies. She is suspicious of aromatherapy, found visualization didn't work, but took much comfort from cognitive therapy and hypnotherapy (both of which helped her to reduce the stress and anxiety caused by having cancer).
Overall, however, it was her professional research as a geochemist into the links between disease and trace elements (such as selenium) in the environment in China and Korea that led to her insight about the role of dairy produce in her cancer. She finds the medical profession particularly shortsighted about the influence of environmental factors-- such as pollution and industrialization-- on disease: "I think public health has done a lot for the elimination of infectious diseases, but looking at the environment and nutrition could do the same for a lot of degenerative diseases."Plant started writing Your Life in Your Hands for her daughter Emma (now 25). Emma's teen years were dominated by the fear that her mother was going to die: "The book's original title was What I Want My Daughter to Know," recalls Plant. "The 63 women with breast cancer who followed my diet and survived their cancer encouraged me to publish the book. I was reluctant at first-- I knew I'd get flak for it, because science is an adversarial process.But morally, I felt if I had done the research and I had the information, I should share it with others. Men and women have the right to know what I know, and to draw their own conclusions."
Today, she explains her personal breakthrough...I had no alternative but to die or to try to find a cure for myself. I am a scientist - surely there was a rational explanation for this cruel illness that affects one in 12 women in the UK?I had suffered the loss of one breast, and undergone radiotherapy. I was now receiving painful chemotherapy, and had been seen by some of the country's most eminent specialists. But, deep down, I felt certain I was facing death.I had a loving husband, a beautiful home and two young children to care for. I desperately wanted to live. Fortunately, this desire drove me to unearth the facts, some of which were known only to a handful of scientists at the time.Anyone who has come into contact with breast cancer will know that certain risk factors - such as increasing age, early onset of womanhood, late onset of menopause and a family history of breast cancer - are completely out of our control. But there are many risk factors, which we can control easily.
These 'controllable' risk factors readily translate into simple changes that we can all make in our day-to-day lives to help prevent or treat breast cancer. My message is that even advanced breast cancer can be overcome because I have done it.The first clue to understanding what was promoting my breast cancer came when my husband Peter, who was also a scientist, arrived back from working in China while I was being plugged in for a chemotherapy session.He had brought with him cards and letters, as well as some amazing herbal suppositories, sent by my friends and science colleagues in China.The suppositories were sent to me as a cure for breast cancer. Despite the awfulness of the situation, we both had a good belly laugh, and I remember saying that this was the treatment for breast cancer in China, then it was little wonder that Chinese women avoided getting the disease. Those words echoed in my mind. Why didn't Chinese women get breast cancer? I had collaborated once with Chinese colleagues on a study of links between soil chemistry and disease, and I remembered some of the statistics.The disease was virtually non-existent throughout the whole country. Only one in 10,000 women in China will die from it, compared to that terrible figure of one in 12 in Britain and the even grimmer average of one in 10 across most Western countries.It is not just a matter of China being a more rural country, with less urban pollution. In highly urbanised Hong Kong, the rate rises to 34 women in every 10,000 but still puts the West to shame.
The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have similar rates. And remember, both cities were attacked with nuclear weapons, so in addition to the usual pollution-related cancers, one would also expect to find some radiation-related cases, too. The conclusion we can draw from these statistics strikes you with some force. If a Western woman were to move to industrialized, irradiated Hiroshima, she would stash her risk of contracting breast cancer by half.Obviously this is absurd. It seemed obvious to me that some lifestyle factor not related to pollution, urbanization or the environment is seriously increasing the Western woman's chance of contracting breast cancer.I then discovered that whatever causes the huge differences in breast cancer rates between oriental and Western countries, it isn't genetic. Scientific research showed that when Chinese or Japanese people move to the West, within one or two generations their rates of breast cancer approach those of their host community.
The same thing happens when oriental people adopt a completely Western lifestyle in Hong Kong. In fact, the slang name for breast cancer in China translates as 'Rich Woman's Disease'. This is because, in China, only the better off can afford to eat what is termed 'Hong Kong food'.The Chinese describe all Western food, including everything from ice cream and chocolate bars to spaghetti and feta cheese, as 'Hong Kong food', because of its availability in the former British colony and its scarcity, in the past, in mainland China.So it made perfect sense to me that whatever was causing my breast cancer and the shockingly high incidence in this country generally, it was almost certainly something to do with our better-off, middle-class, Western lifestyle.There is an important point for men here, too. I have observed in my research that much of the the data about prostate cancer leads to similar conclusions.According to figures from the World Health Organization, the number of men contracting prostate cancer in rural China is negligible, only 0.5 men in every 100,000. In England, Scotland and Wales, however, this figure is 70 times higher.Like breast cancer, it is a middle-class disease that primarily attacks the wealthier and higher socio-economic groups - those that can afford to eat rich foods.I remember saying to my husband-- 'Come on Peter, you have just come back from China.
What is it about the Chinese way of life that is so different. Why don't they get breast cancer?'We decided to utilize our joint scientific backgrounds and approach it logically. We examined scientific data that pointed us in the general direction of fats in diets.Researchers had discovered in the 1980s that only l4 % of calories in the average Chinese diet were from fat, compared to almost 36% in the West. But the diet I had been living on for years before I contracted breast cancer was very low in fat and high in fibre.Besides, I knew as a scientist that fat intake in adults has not been shown to increase risk for breast cancer in most investigations that have followed large groups of women for up to a dozen years.Then one day something rather special happened. Peter and I have worked together so closely over the years that I am not sure which one of us first said: 'The Chinese don't eat dairy produce!'It is hard to explain to a non-scientist the sudden mental and emotional 'buzz' you get when you know you have had an important insight.It's as if you have had a lot of pieces of a jigsaw in your mind, and suddenly, in a few seconds, they all fall into place and the whole picture is clear.
Suddenly I recalled how many Chinese people were physically unable to tolerate milk, how the Chinese people I had worked with had always said that milk was only for babies, and how one of my close friends, who is of Chinese origin, always politely turned down the cheese course at dinner parties.I knew of no Chinese people who lived a traditional Chinese life who ever used cow or other dairy food to feed their babies. The tradition was to use a wet nurse but never, ever, dairy products.Culturally, the Chinese find our Western preoccupation with milk and milk products very strange. I remember entertaining a large delegation of Chinese scientists shortly after the ending of the Cultural Revolution in the 1980s.On advice from the Foreign Office, we had asked the caterer to provide a pudding that contained a lot of ice cream. After inquiring what the pudding consisted of, all of the Chinese, including their interpreter, politely but firmly refused to eat it, and they could not be persuaded to change their minds.
At the time we were all delighted and ate extra portions!Milk, I discovered, is one of the most common causes of food allergies.Over 70% of the world's population are unable to digest the milk sugar, lactose, which has led nutritionists to believe that this is the normal condition for adults, not some sort of deficiency. Perhaps nature is trying to tell us that we are eating the wrong food.Before I had breast cancer for the first time, I had eaten a lot of dairy produce, such as skimmed milk, low-fat cheese and yoghurt. I had used it as my main source of protein. I also ate cheap but lean minced beef, which I now realized was probably often ground-up dairy cow.In order to cope with the chemotherapy I received for my fifth case of cancer, I had been eating organic yoghurts as a way of helping my digestive tract to recover and repopulate my gut with 'good' bacteria.Recently, I discovered that way back in 1989 yoghurt had been implicated in ovarian cancer. Dr Daniel Cramer of Harvard University studied hundreds of women with ovarian cancer, and had them record in detail what they normally ate. I wish I'd been made aware of his findings when he had first discovered them.
Following Peter's and my insight into the Chinese diet, I decided to give up not just yoghurt but all dairy produce immediately. Cheese, butter, milk and yoghurt and anything else that contained dairy produce - it went down the sink or in the rubbish.It is surprising how many products, including commercial soups, biscuits and cakes, contain some form of dairy produce. Even many proprietary brands of margarine marketed as soya, sunflower or olive oil spreads can contain dairy produce. I therefore became an avid reader of the small print on food labels.Up to this point, I had been steadfastly measuring the progress of my fifth cancerous lump with callipers and plotting the results. Despite all the encouraging comments and positive feedback from my doctors and nurses, my own precise observations told me the bitter truth.My first chemotherapy sessions had produced no effect - the lump was still the same size.Then I eliminated dairy products. Within days, the lump started to shrink. About two weeks after my second chemotherapy session and one week after giving up dairy produce, the lump in my neck started to itch. Then it began to soften and to reduce in size.
The line on the graph, which had shown no change, was now pointing downwards as the tumour got smaller and smaller.And, very significantly, I noted that instead of declining exponentially (a graceful curve) as cancer is meant to do, the tumour's decrease in size was plotted on a straight line heading off the bottom of the graph, indicating a cure, not suppression (or remission) of the tumour.One Saturday afternoon after about six weeks of excluding all dairy produce from my diet, I practised an hour of meditation then felt for what was left of the lump. I couldn't find it.Yet I was very experienced at detecting cancerous lumps - I had discovered all five cancers on my own. I went downstairs and asked my husband to feel my neck. He could not find any trace of the lump either.
On the following Thursday I was due to be seen by my cancer specialist at Charing Cross Hospital in London.He examined me thoroughly, especially my neck where the tumour had been. He was initially bemused and then delighted as he said, "I cannot find it.' None of my doctors, it appeared, had expected someone with my type and stage of cancer (which had clearly spread to the lymph system) to survive, let alone be so hale and hearty.My specialist was as overjoyed as I was. When I first discussed my ideas with him he was understandably skeptical. But I understand that he now uses maps showing cancer mortality in China in his lectures, and recommends a non-dairy diet to his cancer patients.I now believe that the link between dairy produce and breast cancer is similar to the link between smoking and lung cancer. I believe that identifying the link between breast cancer and dairy produce, and then developing a diet specifically targeted at maintaining the health of my breast and hormone system, cured me.It was difficult for me, as it may be for you, to accept that a substance as 'natural' as milk might have such ominous health implications. But I am a living proof that it works and, starting from tomorrow, I shall reveal the secrets of my revolutionary action plan.
Extracted from Your Life in Your Hands, by Professor Jane Plant, to be published by Virgin on June 8 at £16.99. © Professor Jane Plant, 2000. Evidence that reveals the dangers lurking in a pinta
Jane Plant's conviction that dairy products can cause cancer arises from the complex chemical makeup of milk. All mature breast milk, from humans or other mammals, is a medium for transporting hundreds of chemical components.It is a powerful biochemical solution, designed specifically to provide for the individual needs of young mammals of the same species. Jane says: "It is not that cow's milk isn't a good food. It is a great food- for baby cows. It is not intended by nature for consumption by any species other than baby cows.
It is nutritionally different from human breast milk, containing three times as much protein and far more calcium.'Breast milk, like cow's milk, contains chemicals designed to play an important rote in the development of young cattle. One of these, insulin growth factor IGF-1,causes cells to divide and reproduce.IGF-1 is biologically active in humans, especially during puberty, when growth is rapid. In young girls it stimulates breast tissue to grow and, while its levels are high during pregnancy, the hormones prolactin and oestrogen are also active, enlarging breast tissue and increasing the production of milk ducts in preparation for breast-feeding.Though the concentration and secretions of these hormones in the blood are small, they exert a powerful effect on the body.
All these hormones are present in cow's milk. IGF-1 is identical in make-up, whether in human or cow's milk, but its levels are naturally higher in cow's milk. It is also found in the meat of cows.High levels of IGF-1 in humans are thought to be a risk factor for breast and prostate cancer. A 1998 study of pre-menopausal women revealed that those with the highest levels of IGF-1 in their bloodstream ran almost three times the risk of developing breast cancer compared with women who had low levels. Among women younger than 50, the risk was increased seven times.Other studies have shown that high circulating levels of IGF-1 In men are a strong indicator of prostate cancer. Interestingly, recent measures to improve milk yields have boosted IGF-1 levels in cows. Could IGF-1 from milk and the meat of dairy animals cause a build-up in humans, especially over a lifetime, leading to inappropriate cell division?
Though we produce our own IGF-1, could it be that the extra amounts we ingest from dairy produce actually cause cancer?Jane Plant already knew that one way the high-profile drug tamoxifen, used in the treatment of breast cancer, is thought to work by lowering circulating levels of IGF-1.IGF-1 is not destroyed by pasteurization, but critics argue that it is destroyed by digestion and rendered harmless. Jane believes the main milk protein, casein, prevents this from happening and that homogenization, which prevents milk from separating into milk and cream, could further increase the risk of cancer-promoting hormones and other chemicals reaching the bloodstream.She also believes there are other chemicals in cow's milk that may be responsible for sending muddied signals to adult tissue.
Could prolactin, released to stimulate milk production in cows, have a similar effect on human breast tissue, effectively triggering the same response and causing cells to become confused, stressed and start making mistakes in replicating their own DNA? Studies have confirmed that prolactin promotes the growth of prostate cancer cells in culture.Another hormone, oestrogen, considered one of the main risk factors for breast cancer, is present in milk in minute quantities. But even low levels of hormones are known to cause severe biological damage. Microscopic quantities of oestrogen in our rivers are powerful enough to cause the feminisation of many male species of fish. While oestrogen in milk may not pose a direct threat to tissues, it may stimulate the expression of IGF-1, resulting in long-term tumour growth.
Jane, who has found growing support for her theories from cancer specialists, stresses that she is not setting out to attack more orthodox approaches. She intends her dietary programme to complement the best therapies available from conventional medicine, not to replace them.Pure but deadly: Is milk potentially fatal?******************************************************************************
Dairy-free diet and breast/colon cancer[ IOA Archived Discussion Forum May 2000 ]Posted By Leslie Dungan on June 19, 2000 at 17:40:01:The following review appeared last week in the Irish Times.Has anyone out there opinions or experiences relevant to Prof Plant's approach? British scientist Jane Plant, who believes a dairy-free diet helped her recover from breast cancer, talks to Katie DonovanTempted by a cream bun, you talk yourself out of it with thoughts of all that unhealthy fat clogging up your arteries. You opt for a low-fat yoghurt instead, with skimmed milk in your tea, congratulating yourself on your sensible self-control. Think again. According to a ground-breaking new book about breast cancer (which kills over 600 women in Ireland annually), dairy products, whether low-fat or full cream, should be off everyone's menu overnight. (They are also culpable with regard to prostate cancer, so that really means everyone).
Prof Jane Plant CBE, author of Your Life in Your Hands, was diagnosed with breast cancer 13 years ago. She was 42, a successful geochemist (she is now chief scientist of the British Geological Survey), and led, she thought, a healthy life. There was no history of breast cancer in her family. She discovered that "only five to 10 per cent of breast cancers are the result of inherited genes, and the disease may not always develop, even in those carrying the mutated gene." Bamboozled by jargon and frozen with panic, she fell back on her scientific training to try and figure out how she had developed the disease, and how best to cure herself.She went on the Bristol diet, she had a mastectomy, she had radiotherapy, she had her ovaries irradiated (to induce menopause and eliminate oestrogen), she asked questions and did lots of research.
To no avail.By the time of the cancer's fifth recurrence (it spread into the lymph), she was given a course of chemotherapy and three months to live. She had an egg-sized tumour on the side of her neck.Brainstorming one night with her fellow scientist husband about why, in the West, one in 10 women get breast cancer (one in 14 in Ireland), while in China it's only one woman in 10,000, the pair came up with the simple answer: Chinese people don't eat dairy products.Plant eliminated all dairy products (including goat and sheep) from her diet. Six weeks later, the tumour had disappeared.When I meet her she is a youthful-looking woman in her mid-fifties, quaffing mint tea and eating a tuna sandwich (no butter or mayonnaise). She has stayed on her dairy-free diet and has remained clear of cancer.Giving up dairy products was only part of a healthy regimen she had been following throughout her cancer, including taking folic acid and zinc supplements, drinking filtered water and never consuming anything that had been packaged in plastic (phthalates, harmful carcinogenic chemicals, leak from soft plastic into food).In spite of her best efforts it was only after she gave up all dairy products that the cancer disappeared. Sixty-three other women who had breast cancer and who came to her for advice, also recovered after giving up dairy products.So how, I ask, can dairy products-- beloved of both the Irish and British alike, not to mention the Americans whose diet is 40 per cent dairy-- have such a lethal effect? "Milk is designed as the perfect food for newborn animals. They can't eat ordinary food, they are dependent on milk to keep development and cell differentiation going. But milk contains a chemical-- insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1 -- which girls have naturally as teenagers to help their breasts develop.
This chemical-- which is designed to stimulate cell growth-- can send the wrong signal to adult breast tissue."She quotes studies in the US and Canada in 1998 which found that pre-menopausal women with the highest IGF-1 concentration in their blood had a far higher risk of developing breast cancer (similar studies have found a link between IGF-1 and prostate cancer). The drug Tamoxifen, prescribed for women with breast cancer, is thought to work by reducing circulating IGF-1 levels."Over 70 per cent of the world's population are unable to digest the milk sugar, lactose," she observes. "Lactose intolerance may be nature's early warning system: perhaps nature is trying to tell us that we're eating the wrong food." Homogenization apparently only enables cancer-producing chemicals to reach the bloodstream quicker.Plant has done her homework: "Epidemiological studies have indicated a positive correlation between dairy product consumption and breast cancer risk going back two decades. Studies have found an increase in breast cancer risk among women who consumed milk (especially whole milk) and/or cheese."In 1977 scientists examining the incidence of breast cancer in Japan found "a significant increase in both the consumption of dairy products and the occurrence of breast cancer in urban areas".She quotes more research to suggest that "free oestrogens"-- found in commercial pasteurized whole cow's milk and in skimmed milk-- may stimulate expression of IGF-1 resulting in "indirect long-term tumour growth".She lists dioxins and other damaging environmental chemicals, some of them carcinogenic, which are often fat soluble and end up "particularly concentrated" in milk.As for the argument that we need dairy products because they contain calcium, Plant quotes the World Health Organization's finding that countries which have low intakes of calcium do not have an increased incidence of osteoporosis: "Scientific studies into calcium absorption have shown that only 18 to 36 per cent of the calcium in milk is taken up by the body."Now that we're convinced, what should we be eating instead?
Plant recommends soya milk, herbal tea, humous, tofu, nuts and seeds, non-farmed fish, organic eggs and lean meat (not minced beef, which tends to be dairy cow) and plenty of fresh organic fruit and vegetables (in salads, juiced, or lightly steamed).But how can the average woman afford the time and energy it takes to source and prepare such food? "Your priority should be good food, not glop," she stresses. "Put organic food first. Your health is more important than a new car. Anyway, I don't find it too costly-- after all, I don't buy any processed food, which is very expensive."Her husband and two children have no problem following her diet. And although she travels a lot for her job, she finds that she is able to manage-- she includes many tips in her book about what to bring with you on a trip (dried soya milk, herbal tea bags, kelp tablets for iodine, etc).She is about to start writing a new book, a guide for busy women who want to stay healthy.She advocates thorough and frequent self-examination of your breasts, and, if you do develop breast cancer, self-empowerment by working with your doctor "as a partner, not as a victim".She is not a fan of the Louise Hay You Can Heal Your Life philosophy: "I do believe in positive thinking, but I'm also a scientist and I wanted a rational explanation. I have friends with diseases like MS who have read Hay's books and feel guilty because they can't adapt their mental attitude; or, if they have adapted, and the disease doesn't go away, they become distressed."Plant, who is an advocate of acupuncture, has varying opinions of alternative therapies. She is suspicious of aromatherapy, found visualization didn't work, but took much comfort from cognitive therapy and hypnotherapy (both of which helped her to reduce the stress and anxiety caused by having cancer).
Overall, however, it was her professional research as a geochemist into the links between disease and trace elements (such as selenium) in the environment in China and Korea that led to her insight about the role of dairy produce in her cancer. She finds the medical profession particularly shortsighted about the influence of environmental factors-- such as pollution and industrialization-- on disease: "I think public health has done a lot for the elimination of infectious diseases, but looking at the environment and nutrition could do the same for a lot of degenerative diseases."Plant started writing Your Life in Your Hands for her daughter Emma (now 25). Emma's teen years were dominated by the fear that her mother was going to die: "The book's original title was What I Want My Daughter to Know," recalls Plant. "The 63 women with breast cancer who followed my diet and survived their cancer encouraged me to publish the book. I was reluctant at first-- I knew I'd get flak for it, because science is an adversarial process.But morally, I felt if I had done the research and I had the information, I should share it with others. Men and women have the right to know what I know, and to draw their own conclusions."
Dr. Fatma's tafsir Al-Quran class How to use the Surah Al Fatihah
1. To make someone (Your Husband, your children) think of you all the time :
* Read the Al-Fatihah 14 times before going to sleep.
2. For terminal diseases:
* Read the Al-Fatihah 41 times and blow it in the water. Drink and take a bath with that water.
3. For the mentally ill:* Read the Al-Fatihah 7 times while rubbing the person's head once in the morning and once at night, everyday without fail.
4. When in extreme pain: * Read the Al-Fatihah 3 times and blow it in a glass of water and drink it.Then, read the Al-Fatihah while rubbing the area that is in pain.
5. For babies who cry at night or at any time:* Read the Al-Fatihah 7 times while rubbing the baby's head.
6. For injury : ex: Cut, Bee sting, Bleeding, Finger got slammed by the door
* Read the Al-Fatihah 3 or 7 times, using your thumb, take your saliva from the 'langit-langit' of your mouth and rub it onto the injured area.
All of the above INSYAALLAH will work with several conditions:
* Believe that the Al-Fatihah is the best 'penawar' for everything
* Read it with full 'khusyuk'
* Tawakal to Allah* Use it with GOOD 'niat' /intentions. Untuk yg berhajat: (percepatkan jodoh, memanjangkan jodoh,dikurniakan cahaya mata, sembuhkan penyakit, elakkan dari malapetaka,diampunkan dosa dan sebagai nye):
* Dilakukan pada hari Jumaat selepas sembahyang Asar sehinggalah masuknye waktu Maghrib.* duduk menghadap kiblat* lakukannye dgn khusyuk dan yakin yg Allah akan membantu kita
* Baca lah Ya Rahman, Ya Rahim, Ya Allah berulang-ulang sepanjang-panjang kita duduk selepas sembahyang asar sehinggalah masuknye waktu maghrib.* Masuk sahaja waktu Maghrib, di kala the first 'Allahuakbar' dilaungkan, terus lah angkat tangan dan berdoa kepada Allah yg MAHA berkuasa dgn apa yg dihajati.
* Buat sebanyak 3 Jumaat berturut turut. Mintak lah yg baik baik. Niat biar baik. InsyaAllah akan dimakbulkan oleh Allah. Wallahualam.Notes taken fm Ustazah Fatma's last lecture session taken by her closest friend, Ani:-
Untuk awet muda both internal & external.
1.Zikir - Baca' Ya Badiyah ' 1 x' Ya Nur ' 1 x' Ya Hadi ' 1 x' Ya Allah ' 3 xBaca dan tiup ke tapak tangan dan sapu ke raup muka kita pada tiap hari.
2.Baca ayat Al Waqiah , ayat ke 35,36,37 dan 38, pada tiap selepas sembahyang subuh ke air dan minum. (air rawatan dalaman to look young and feel young inside)
3.Baca Al Waqiah tiap tiap hari sebelum tidur kita akan kaya dengan ketenangan jiwa.
4.Baca Al Waqiah Ayat 19 untuk yang selalu sakit kepala. Moga-moga boleh menghilang/meredakan.Wallahualam.
* Read the Al-Fatihah 14 times before going to sleep.
2. For terminal diseases:
* Read the Al-Fatihah 41 times and blow it in the water. Drink and take a bath with that water.
3. For the mentally ill:* Read the Al-Fatihah 7 times while rubbing the person's head once in the morning and once at night, everyday without fail.
4. When in extreme pain: * Read the Al-Fatihah 3 times and blow it in a glass of water and drink it.Then, read the Al-Fatihah while rubbing the area that is in pain.
5. For babies who cry at night or at any time:* Read the Al-Fatihah 7 times while rubbing the baby's head.
6. For injury : ex: Cut, Bee sting, Bleeding, Finger got slammed by the door
* Read the Al-Fatihah 3 or 7 times, using your thumb, take your saliva from the 'langit-langit' of your mouth and rub it onto the injured area.
All of the above INSYAALLAH will work with several conditions:
* Believe that the Al-Fatihah is the best 'penawar' for everything
* Read it with full 'khusyuk'
* Tawakal to Allah* Use it with GOOD 'niat' /intentions. Untuk yg berhajat: (percepatkan jodoh, memanjangkan jodoh,dikurniakan cahaya mata, sembuhkan penyakit, elakkan dari malapetaka,diampunkan dosa dan sebagai nye):
* Dilakukan pada hari Jumaat selepas sembahyang Asar sehinggalah masuknye waktu Maghrib.* duduk menghadap kiblat* lakukannye dgn khusyuk dan yakin yg Allah akan membantu kita
* Baca lah Ya Rahman, Ya Rahim, Ya Allah berulang-ulang sepanjang-panjang kita duduk selepas sembahyang asar sehinggalah masuknye waktu maghrib.* Masuk sahaja waktu Maghrib, di kala the first 'Allahuakbar' dilaungkan, terus lah angkat tangan dan berdoa kepada Allah yg MAHA berkuasa dgn apa yg dihajati.
* Buat sebanyak 3 Jumaat berturut turut. Mintak lah yg baik baik. Niat biar baik. InsyaAllah akan dimakbulkan oleh Allah. Wallahualam.Notes taken fm Ustazah Fatma's last lecture session taken by her closest friend, Ani:-
Untuk awet muda both internal & external.
1.Zikir - Baca' Ya Badiyah ' 1 x' Ya Nur ' 1 x' Ya Hadi ' 1 x' Ya Allah ' 3 xBaca dan tiup ke tapak tangan dan sapu ke raup muka kita pada tiap hari.
2.Baca ayat Al Waqiah , ayat ke 35,36,37 dan 38, pada tiap selepas sembahyang subuh ke air dan minum. (air rawatan dalaman to look young and feel young inside)
3.Baca Al Waqiah tiap tiap hari sebelum tidur kita akan kaya dengan ketenangan jiwa.
4.Baca Al Waqiah Ayat 19 untuk yang selalu sakit kepala. Moga-moga boleh menghilang/meredakan.Wallahualam.
Rakyat diminta sedia hadapi 2009 - Najib
di petik dari utusan.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR 5 Nov. - Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak meminta rakyat supaya bersedia untuk berhadapan dengan tahun 2009 yang diramal menjadi tempoh sukar berbanding dengan apa yang dilalui tahun ini.
Timbalan Perdana Menteri yang juga Menteri Kewangan berkata, namun dengan kekuatan ekonomi dalaman yang ada, kerajaan sekali lagi berkeyakinan bahawa ekonomi negara mampu mengelak daripada kemelesetan.
''Kita masih mempertahankan bahawa Malaysia tidak akan mengalami kemelesetan pada tahun depan. Insya Allah kita masih boleh.
''Kalau nak kata kemelesetan teknikal maknanya dua suku, pertumbuhan kita negatif. Kita tidak lihat perkara ini akan berlaku pada tahun hadapan melainkan ada sesuatu yang amat luar biasa kepada ekonomi luaran,'' kata beliau.
Najib berkata demikian semasa temu bual khas dengan RTM mengenai pakej rangsangan fiskal kerajaan bagi Bajet 2009 yang disiarkan di TV2 di sini malam ini.
Menurut Timbalan Perdana Menteri, dalam masa sama keyakinan itu bukanlah bermakna yang kerajaan terlalu optimis kerana Malaysia juga tidak dapat lari daripada menerima bahang atau tempias krisis ekonomi global.
Namun kata beliau, bahang itu tidak akan menjadi seteruk yang mungkin dihadapi oleh sesetengah negara lain memandangkan Malaysia mempunyai fundamental ekonomi yang kukuh.
''Tidak (tidak terlalu optimis). Kalau kita terlalu optimis kita tidak buat pelan suntikan dan rangsangan fiskal ini,'' jelasnya.
Tambah Najib, kerajaan juga amat realistik apabila mengunjurkan pertumbuhan pada kadar 3.5 peratus untuk tahun hadapan walaupun diketahui bahawa 2009 akan menyaksikan keadaan yang tidak sebaik tahun ini.
Menurutnya, selagi tiada tekanan luar biasa daripada ekonomi luaran, unjuran itu tetap diyakini masih mampu dicapai walaupun ada pihak tertentu yang cuba menyangkal kemampuan tersebut.
''Kalau satu tekanan yang begitu hebat, itu lain cerita tetapi dalam keadaan yang kita dapat lihat, keadaan yang menurun dan tidak begitu teruk, kita masih boleh mencapai 3.5 peratus,'' ujarnya.
Kata Najib, sekiranya semua pihak berganding bahu dan mempunyai permuafakatan lebih jitu untuk menangani kesan krisis kewangan global, beliau percaya lebih mudah untuk menangani krisis itu.
''Kita sudah memberi penjelasan mengenai kemungkinan keadaan ekonomi tahun depan tidak sebaik tahun ini.
''Itu satu pengakuan, maknanya kita realistik. Kita bukanlah menafikan dan kita harap dengan adanya kekuatan dalaman ekonomi negara, kita masih boleh bertahan lagi dan kalau ekonomi luaran pulih ada kemungkinan 2010 lebih baik daripada 2009,'' kata beliau.
KUALA LUMPUR 5 Nov. - Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak meminta rakyat supaya bersedia untuk berhadapan dengan tahun 2009 yang diramal menjadi tempoh sukar berbanding dengan apa yang dilalui tahun ini.
Timbalan Perdana Menteri yang juga Menteri Kewangan berkata, namun dengan kekuatan ekonomi dalaman yang ada, kerajaan sekali lagi berkeyakinan bahawa ekonomi negara mampu mengelak daripada kemelesetan.
''Kita masih mempertahankan bahawa Malaysia tidak akan mengalami kemelesetan pada tahun depan. Insya Allah kita masih boleh.
''Kalau nak kata kemelesetan teknikal maknanya dua suku, pertumbuhan kita negatif. Kita tidak lihat perkara ini akan berlaku pada tahun hadapan melainkan ada sesuatu yang amat luar biasa kepada ekonomi luaran,'' kata beliau.
Najib berkata demikian semasa temu bual khas dengan RTM mengenai pakej rangsangan fiskal kerajaan bagi Bajet 2009 yang disiarkan di TV2 di sini malam ini.
Menurut Timbalan Perdana Menteri, dalam masa sama keyakinan itu bukanlah bermakna yang kerajaan terlalu optimis kerana Malaysia juga tidak dapat lari daripada menerima bahang atau tempias krisis ekonomi global.
Namun kata beliau, bahang itu tidak akan menjadi seteruk yang mungkin dihadapi oleh sesetengah negara lain memandangkan Malaysia mempunyai fundamental ekonomi yang kukuh.
''Tidak (tidak terlalu optimis). Kalau kita terlalu optimis kita tidak buat pelan suntikan dan rangsangan fiskal ini,'' jelasnya.
Tambah Najib, kerajaan juga amat realistik apabila mengunjurkan pertumbuhan pada kadar 3.5 peratus untuk tahun hadapan walaupun diketahui bahawa 2009 akan menyaksikan keadaan yang tidak sebaik tahun ini.
Menurutnya, selagi tiada tekanan luar biasa daripada ekonomi luaran, unjuran itu tetap diyakini masih mampu dicapai walaupun ada pihak tertentu yang cuba menyangkal kemampuan tersebut.
''Kalau satu tekanan yang begitu hebat, itu lain cerita tetapi dalam keadaan yang kita dapat lihat, keadaan yang menurun dan tidak begitu teruk, kita masih boleh mencapai 3.5 peratus,'' ujarnya.
Kata Najib, sekiranya semua pihak berganding bahu dan mempunyai permuafakatan lebih jitu untuk menangani kesan krisis kewangan global, beliau percaya lebih mudah untuk menangani krisis itu.
''Kita sudah memberi penjelasan mengenai kemungkinan keadaan ekonomi tahun depan tidak sebaik tahun ini.
''Itu satu pengakuan, maknanya kita realistik. Kita bukanlah menafikan dan kita harap dengan adanya kekuatan dalaman ekonomi negara, kita masih boleh bertahan lagi dan kalau ekonomi luaran pulih ada kemungkinan 2010 lebih baik daripada 2009,'' kata beliau.
Barrack Obama As New US President
Well aku tak banyak komen...sebab tak kenal dier kan....but saje je nak highlightkan dalam blog ni.....
Kena gak amik tau perkembangan dunia semasa....-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In a vote of historic proportions yesterday, Senator Barack Obama became President-Elect of the United States of America with a 52% majority in the popular vote, and more than 349 electoral votes. Over two years of campaigning was resolved with a record voter turnout, as the Republican candidate John McCain conceded graciously at 11:20 pm eastern last night. With such a high level of interest and attention, there have been millions of words written and photographs taken of the candidates over the past year. Here is a collection of some of the best photos of President-Elect Barack Obama over the past several months
Sab Nyer...
Formula One Winner - Lewis hamilton...
well..sebenarnyer dah dekat seminggu dah Si Hamilton dapat title jore..tapi aku tak suker....cumer saje je nak paste citer pasal race yang aku rasa paling mencabr, mendebarkan, sedih, (paling sedih tak lar...sebab ada yang lagi sedih)
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Massa victorious, Hamilton champion after nail-biting finish in Brazil
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton is the 30th - and youngest-ever - world champion. Lady Luck was on his side after title rival Felipe Massa dominated at Interlagos. The Brazilian crossed the line first after a pluperfect performance - and seemed to have achieved the impossible - as Hamilton trailed in sixth.Rain in the closing stages had prompted the first five - Massa, Renault’s Fernando Alonso, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, Hamilton and Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel - to pit for wet tyres. Crucially, Timo Glock, running sixth for Toyota, did not.Massa, Alonso and Raikkonen resumed in first to third places, but Hamilton and Vettel fell behind Glock.
That was still good enough for Hamilton. But then, under pressure on the 70th lap, he made a crucial mistake and slid wide. It was all Vettel needed and the Toro Rosso driver pushed through to snatch away the fifth place that Hamilton needed to become champion.Even as Massa crossed the line, Hamilton was only sixth and the Brazilian was the champion. But as Vettel and Hamilton slammed out of the final corner, Glock’s Toyota was slowing in front of them, the German struggling for grip on his increasingly unsuitable rubber.
From the jaws of defeat, the British driver snatched back the crown in one of the most dramatic title deciders in history. No Hollywood script could have been more exciting.Rain at the start had added to the drama, and saw Red Bull’s David Coulthard make an undignified exit from his last Grand Prix after he was tapped into a spin by Williams’ Nico Rosberg, which then involved Rosberg’s team mate Kazuki Nakajima. Coulthard was out on the spot, while Renault’s Nelson Piquet went off in Turn Three and was also out.Massa controlled things throughout, with Toyota’s Jarno Trulli soon falling back from an initially strong second-place run as everyone began changing from wet to dry-weather tyres after seven laps. Vettel, running a different fuel strategy to the other leaders, was always a threat, running second ahead of Alonso and pressuring Massa several times before stopping earlier for fuel. Raikkonen ran some way behind this trio, but closed in rapidly on Alonso in the final stages and was close to him as Massa crossed the line 13.2s ahead.Hamilton took few chances, was always around fourth or fifth, and looked easily on target until that dramatic battle at the end. Glock finished sixth, limping across the line well ahead of McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen, and Trulli, the final points scorers.Mark Webber brought his Red Bull home ninth, ahead of the BMW Saubers of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica, the team thus failing to score for the first time in 2008.
Rosberg was 12th ahead of Honda’s Jenson Button, Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Bourdais (whose chances of points were ruined after a clash with Trulli in Turn One), Honda’s Rubens Barrichello, Force India’s Adrian Sutil, Nakajima and Giancarlo Fisichella. The Italian Force India driver was the first to stop for dry tyres on Lap Two, and ran as high as fifth before the inevitable decline as faster machinery hit its stride.After those gripping final laps there was almost disbelief at McLaren as Hamilton scraped home, but Massa had that covered as he graciously conceded defeat.“We need to congratulate Lewis,” he said. “He did a great championship, and he scored more points than us, so deserves to be champion.”Ferrari’s consolation was to win the constructors’ world championship but, ultimately, and in the most dramatic circumstances imaginable, this was Lewis Hamilton’s and McLaren’s day
Full Result
Pos
Driver
Nationality
Team
Points
1
Lewis Hamilton
British
McLaren-Mercedes
98
2
Felipe Massa
Brazilian
Ferrari
97
3
Kimi Räikkönen
Finnish
Ferrari
75
4
Robert Kubica
Polish
BMW Sauber
75
5
Fernando Alonso
Spanish
Renault
61
6
Nick Heidfeld
German
BMW Sauber
60
7
Heikki Kovalainen
Finnish
McLaren-Mercedes
53
8
Sebastian Vettel
German
STR-Ferrari
35
9
Jarno Trulli
Italian
Toyota
31
10
Timo Glock
German
Toyota
25
11
Mark Webber
Australian
Red Bull-Renault
21
12
Nelsinho Piquet
Brazilian
Renault
19
13
Nico Rosberg
German
Williams-Toyota
17
14
Rubens Barrichello
Brazilian
Honda
11
15
Kazuki Nakajima
Japanese
Williams-Toyota
9
16
David Coulthard
British
Red Bull-Renault
8
17
Sebastien Bourdais
French
STR-Ferrari
4
18
Jenson Button
British
Honda
3
19
Giancarlo Fisichella
Italian
Force India-Ferrari
0
20
Adrian Sutil
German
Force India-Ferrari
0
21
Takuma Sato
Japanese
Super Aguri-Honda
0
22
Anthony Davidson
British
Super Aguri-Honda
0
Note - Super Aguri withdrew from the championship after round four.
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Massa victorious, Hamilton champion after nail-biting finish in Brazil
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton is the 30th - and youngest-ever - world champion. Lady Luck was on his side after title rival Felipe Massa dominated at Interlagos. The Brazilian crossed the line first after a pluperfect performance - and seemed to have achieved the impossible - as Hamilton trailed in sixth.Rain in the closing stages had prompted the first five - Massa, Renault’s Fernando Alonso, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, Hamilton and Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel - to pit for wet tyres. Crucially, Timo Glock, running sixth for Toyota, did not.Massa, Alonso and Raikkonen resumed in first to third places, but Hamilton and Vettel fell behind Glock.
That was still good enough for Hamilton. But then, under pressure on the 70th lap, he made a crucial mistake and slid wide. It was all Vettel needed and the Toro Rosso driver pushed through to snatch away the fifth place that Hamilton needed to become champion.Even as Massa crossed the line, Hamilton was only sixth and the Brazilian was the champion. But as Vettel and Hamilton slammed out of the final corner, Glock’s Toyota was slowing in front of them, the German struggling for grip on his increasingly unsuitable rubber.
From the jaws of defeat, the British driver snatched back the crown in one of the most dramatic title deciders in history. No Hollywood script could have been more exciting.Rain at the start had added to the drama, and saw Red Bull’s David Coulthard make an undignified exit from his last Grand Prix after he was tapped into a spin by Williams’ Nico Rosberg, which then involved Rosberg’s team mate Kazuki Nakajima. Coulthard was out on the spot, while Renault’s Nelson Piquet went off in Turn Three and was also out.Massa controlled things throughout, with Toyota’s Jarno Trulli soon falling back from an initially strong second-place run as everyone began changing from wet to dry-weather tyres after seven laps. Vettel, running a different fuel strategy to the other leaders, was always a threat, running second ahead of Alonso and pressuring Massa several times before stopping earlier for fuel. Raikkonen ran some way behind this trio, but closed in rapidly on Alonso in the final stages and was close to him as Massa crossed the line 13.2s ahead.Hamilton took few chances, was always around fourth or fifth, and looked easily on target until that dramatic battle at the end. Glock finished sixth, limping across the line well ahead of McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen, and Trulli, the final points scorers.Mark Webber brought his Red Bull home ninth, ahead of the BMW Saubers of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica, the team thus failing to score for the first time in 2008.
Rosberg was 12th ahead of Honda’s Jenson Button, Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Bourdais (whose chances of points were ruined after a clash with Trulli in Turn One), Honda’s Rubens Barrichello, Force India’s Adrian Sutil, Nakajima and Giancarlo Fisichella. The Italian Force India driver was the first to stop for dry tyres on Lap Two, and ran as high as fifth before the inevitable decline as faster machinery hit its stride.After those gripping final laps there was almost disbelief at McLaren as Hamilton scraped home, but Massa had that covered as he graciously conceded defeat.“We need to congratulate Lewis,” he said. “He did a great championship, and he scored more points than us, so deserves to be champion.”Ferrari’s consolation was to win the constructors’ world championship but, ultimately, and in the most dramatic circumstances imaginable, this was Lewis Hamilton’s and McLaren’s day
Full Result
Driver Championship
Pos
Driver
Nationality
Team
Points
1
Lewis Hamilton
British
McLaren-Mercedes
98
2
Felipe Massa
Brazilian
Ferrari
97
3
Kimi Räikkönen
Finnish
Ferrari
75
4
Robert Kubica
Polish
BMW Sauber
75
5
Fernando Alonso
Spanish
Renault
61
6
Nick Heidfeld
German
BMW Sauber
60
7
Heikki Kovalainen
Finnish
McLaren-Mercedes
53
8
Sebastian Vettel
German
STR-Ferrari
35
9
Jarno Trulli
Italian
Toyota
31
10
Timo Glock
German
Toyota
25
11
Mark Webber
Australian
Red Bull-Renault
21
12
Nelsinho Piquet
Brazilian
Renault
19
13
Nico Rosberg
German
Williams-Toyota
17
14
Rubens Barrichello
Brazilian
Honda
11
15
Kazuki Nakajima
Japanese
Williams-Toyota
9
16
David Coulthard
British
Red Bull-Renault
8
17
Sebastien Bourdais
French
STR-Ferrari
4
18
Jenson Button
British
Honda
3
19
Giancarlo Fisichella
Italian
Force India-Ferrari
0
20
Adrian Sutil
German
Force India-Ferrari
0
21
Takuma Sato
Japanese
Super Aguri-Honda
0
22
Anthony Davidson
British
Super Aguri-Honda
0
Note - Super Aguri withdrew from the championship after round four.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
My new look
oppsss bukan aku..tapi blog aku....
saje je tukar yang baru....ala-ala nampak fresh skit.....biru..aman gitu.....
Sab Nyer...
saje je tukar yang baru....ala-ala nampak fresh skit.....biru..aman gitu.....
Sab Nyer...
Malam Kemuncak Aidilfitri AF
1st of all..nak say thanks to semua yang juin malam Kemuncak Aidilfitri AF pada 29 hb yang lepas....memang korang enjoy....for penaja ..ad banyak bende perlu dipikirkan untuk event akan datang....tapi aku rasa...sumer org enjoy malam tu..yelah...mana taknyer dapat makan semeja ngan artis AF kegemaran dorang...
Mostly sumer artis AF2 hingga AF6, jore-jore sumer ader kecuali Vince....Af1 pun tak de wakil, Af2 Zahid, ngan Farah, Af3 Mawi ngan Marsha, Af4 Faizal dengan Zila, AF5, Shawal,Dafi, Mila, Heliza ngan Nonny AF6 paling ramai - sumer finalist ada...Stacy, Riz, Nubhan, toi, Nadia,Saida,Alif.Untuk pengetahuan korang artis yang dipilih malam tu atas request fan club...so juz pepaham jelah yek...hihihi
Banyak gak gambo aku amik....tapi tak terlarat nak letak kat sini...so sesapa nak tgk gambo, pi multiply aku jer.....tak pun facebook aku k...so enjoy ngan gambo kat bawah ni.....
Biasalah...dah sampai majlis, mesti amik gambo ngan atis kan tapi mana leh lupe...nama pun peminat setia....so mestilah aku duduk satu meja ngan dier....yang ada juin skali geng TAG - Seri, Atie, Kema, Eyla, Aku , Tira, Anxy, dan ada beberapa orang yang bukan geng TAG....thanks u all...appreciate sesangat....hihihihi
Mostly sumer artis AF2 hingga AF6, jore-jore sumer ader kecuali Vince....Af1 pun tak de wakil, Af2 Zahid, ngan Farah, Af3 Mawi ngan Marsha, Af4 Faizal dengan Zila, AF5, Shawal,Dafi, Mila, Heliza ngan Nonny AF6 paling ramai - sumer finalist ada...Stacy, Riz, Nubhan, toi, Nadia,Saida,Alif.Untuk pengetahuan korang artis yang dipilih malam tu atas request fan club...so juz pepaham jelah yek...hihihi
Banyak gak gambo aku amik....tapi tak terlarat nak letak kat sini...so sesapa nak tgk gambo, pi multiply aku jer.....tak pun facebook aku k...so enjoy ngan gambo kat bawah ni.....
Biasalah...dah sampai majlis, mesti amik gambo ngan atis kan tapi mana leh lupe...nama pun peminat setia....so mestilah aku duduk satu meja ngan dier....yang ada juin skali geng TAG - Seri, Atie, Kema, Eyla, Aku , Tira, Anxy, dan ada beberapa orang yang bukan geng TAG....thanks u all...appreciate sesangat....hihihihiKonsep table kiteorang berwarna biru..so dah plan baik punyer ngan Boss suh pakai baju biru....klass gitu. pastu yang pakai tudung sumer pakai warna putih, memang sedondon....
Kesian boss malam tu, asyik kena kaco masa makan...tapi yang kaco pun kiteorang hahahahha jahat kan...biasalah..nak amik gambo...pastu kena ready back stage tuk perform (sorry tak de VC) pastu ada sesi amik gambo bersama peminat. Sign autograf pun ada.....boss sambil2 tu siap sign Kad raya beliau...den sempat ciluk satu...........
Kmudiannya, kiteorang ingat nak buat surprise untuk birthday gurl malam tu - Ms Eyla a.k.a mamarazi...tapi banyak kali terkantoi memandangkan boss bz ngan photoshoot...so tetiba dier nyanyi kuat2....terkezut si Eyla...hihihi surprise tak menjadi sangat tapi apa pun haappy tgk Eyla terkezut masa buat surprise........yeahhhh Ms Eyla dah 25 tahun.........tahniahhhh
Kesian boss malam tu, asyik kena kaco masa makan...tapi yang kaco pun kiteorang hahahahha jahat kan...biasalah..nak amik gambo...pastu kena ready back stage tuk perform (sorry tak de VC) pastu ada sesi amik gambo bersama peminat. Sign autograf pun ada.....boss sambil2 tu siap sign Kad raya beliau...den sempat ciluk satu...........
Kmudiannya, kiteorang ingat nak buat surprise untuk birthday gurl malam tu - Ms Eyla a.k.a mamarazi...tapi banyak kali terkantoi memandangkan boss bz ngan photoshoot...so tetiba dier nyanyi kuat2....terkezut si Eyla...hihihi surprise tak menjadi sangat tapi apa pun haappy tgk Eyla terkezut masa buat surprise........yeahhhh Ms Eyla dah 25 tahun.........tahniahhhh Sab Nyer...