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March 4th, 2009 | Tags: friends, puppies | Category: Photos, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (1)

My dad had pretty bad gout. What is this thing that causes parts of the body to swell up anyway? Gout is actually a type of arthritis. It occurs when there is an excessive amount of uric acid in the blood, and sometimes crystallizes in different joint areas.

Certain foods may trigger an ‘attack’, and in my dad’s case, it was simply too much peanut or chicken. In an uncle’s case, it was eating duck. So there are different triggers for different people. You can try to identify foods by using a food diary and observing when the swelling starts and all, and try eliminating certain foods and see what starts it.

Then of course, how can one treat it? Most people would go to a doctor, and then the doc would prescribe some medication to ease the pain. That was what my dad did, and all was good and fine until one day I decided to google the medication and find out more about its compounds and how they worked. Seriously, it was bad, you can try doing a search for yourself. The side effects were worse or as bad as the pain from gout. Of course they don’t manifest right away, but I can’t imagine the long term result of taking those meds.

So horrified as I was, I looked for a more natural remedy. And some people in forums mentioned cherries, so I decided to let my dad try them. In any case, no harm if they don’t work, but all the benefits if they do. So my dad tried, and amazingly, he’s been off his meds ever since. There was once or twice when he really overate meat, that he had to take his meds, but other than that, he could take his normal meals and have his peanuts too. And, the cherries tasted good of course

The only little problem was that over in my area, we don’t get cherries all the time, and right now actually, the season seems to be off. So the alternative to that was dried cherries. I worried about the effects, but it was as good, just that it has added sugar.

So there, if you are looking for a cheap and effective(and tasty I might add :)) remedy to gout, you have to try cherries!

March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: arthritis, cherries, cherry, gout, natural remedies | Category: Health, natural remedies | Leave a comment

I used to use Post-It lite when I was on the Windows XP OS, but when I switched to Vista because of work, the post-it didn’t work anymore. I didn’t like the notes provided by Windows, so I went to look for an alternative. It took a while, but this one that I found, I really like. I just started using though, so I’m not too sure how good it is yet, but generally seems good right now. Try it out if you need an alternative to post-it notes, both paper and digital. It’s called ’stickies’, and best of all, it’s free. Feel free to make a donation if you think its good!

http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/index.html

Here’s a brief writeup on stickies from the website:

What is Stickies?

Stickies is a PC utility I wrote to try to cut down on the number of Post-It® notes I was leaving stuck to my monitor. It is a computerised version of those notes.

The design goal behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Stickies will not mess with your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores information in a single text-based ini file.

February 4th, 2009 | Tags: notes, pc, post-it, stickies, tool, utility | Category: Tech Stuff | Leave a comment

The last lecture by Randy Pausch

January 29th, 2009 | Category: Fun, Intention, happiness, love | Leave a comment

January 11th, 2009 | Category: Fun, Wordless Wednesdays | Leave a comment

First of all, I have to say, there were a lot of entries, and I apologise if not everyone’s is here.

There are basically 3 categories for this carnival. The first, on maintaining and improving health, where we find entries on how to eat healthy and some remedies on how to improve any health issues any of us may have. The second category is on addiction, a small category, but I thought it was important, as many of us face different kinds of addictions everyday. It is not only drug and alcohol many of us abuse, but also food and other stuff.

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December 20th, 2008 | Category: Blog Carnival | Comments (1)

This post is to announce that we are hosting the #169 edition of carnival of healing this coming December 20 2008! This is my second time hosting a blog carnival, and am thankful to Phylameana lila Desy for giving me the opportunity! I have been rather inactive in my own blog due to personal commitments, but I did remember that I was supposed to host this edition, so I’m back!

So what exactly is this carnival all about? For those who are new to blog carnivals, here’s the excerpt from the carnival of healing website: Carnival of Healing is a weekly round-up of personal blog posts on the topics of holistic health, wellness, spirituality, and self empowerment.

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So if any of you readers out there have something interesting and is related to the themes above, I encourage you to participate in this carnival and submit your post here. Click on the orange box as shown in the image below.

Do ensure that the topics you write about are related to the topics above. Click here if you wish to host future carnivals or view past carnivals.

Do note December 20th on your calendar, and book mark this site to be updated on upcoming posts! See you all here soon!

December 16th, 2008 | Category: Blog Carnival, Healing, Health | Comments (1)

Haven’t been updating much as I’ve been pretty busy with stuffs. Anyway, wanted to post here about one of the things I’d been busy with! Basically, I’ve recently discovered Inkscape. It’s an awesome Open Source vector graphics editor, and I’ve been playing around with their features. The community has been very generous too, there are loads of tutorials/screencasts that teach a particular feature of Inkscape. Anyway, here’s what I’ve just managed to do….

Ok, that’s not very much, but hey I like the effect, and hopefully I’ll be able to come up with some even more interesting and pretty designs myself soon!

November 10th, 2008 | Tags: inkscape, svg, swoosh, vector graphics | Category: Tech Stuff | Leave a comment

October 29th, 2008 | Tags: flower, sunflower, wordless, yellow | Category: Photos, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (1)