For south Indians, tamarind is a must for making sambar. Locallly called puli (L as in lion, if L is pronounced lightly as in love, it means tiger!), it is extensively used in pulisatham, rice mixed with tamarind, in travels, as it remains fresh for two or three days.

Some chemical in tamarind dissolves excess fluoride in the bones and allows it to pass through urine, according to today’s Indian Express!

Salt obtained from the sea (containing iodine, calcium, potassium etc. in traces), turmeric, asafoetida, curry leaves, green dhanya leaves, green chillis, mint leaves, lemon, curd etc., routinely used by Indians, are all healthy food ingredients.

Some useful tip for our Western brothers.

A couple of funny comments from my sweet daughter today:

“Mom, I bet Jesus is shrinking down again getting ready to be a baby at Christmas.”

And, during our search for “Euro Shams” at the mall today, she loudly conveyed to her brother,

“Mom’s looking for URINE shams, M!”

Ah…Had to share those.  Love the way kids see the world

Yes, they still hate us . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5EQGHwMd9A

Yes, another real commercial.

Down US 99

Sleep somewhere.
Some smelly, cow town.

Behind motel, feedlot.
Cow urine, trickling river.

Fresno, Tipton, Delano, Mettler, Ripon, Lodi.

7-Eleven; don’t speak the language.
Steal something; something stupid.

Killdeers, grackles, sparrows.
Daybreak.

Push to Salton Sea.

Cher Joris,

Vingt-trois jours que je suis ici et je ne t’ai rien écrit. Je mentirais en te disant que j’ai manqué de temps. Les journées sont parfois longues et d’un terrible ennui. À certaines heures, lorsque le ciel tourne à l’orage, il vaut mieux suspendre sorties et observations, sans quoi la pluie nous lave de ce baume infect dont on s’enduit le corps chaque matin par précaution : une odeur de sueur et d’oignons surs que le camphre peine à couvrir. Je ne m’y habituerai jamais, pas plus qu’à certains coins de la ville que je ne traverse qu’à reculons, quartiers où les murs des maisons — quotidiennement aspergés d’urine — empestent les latrines. Des confins d’humanité dont je traîne les relents jusqu’au soir. Faute de mieux, voilà ce que certains ont trouvé pour contenir le mal. Trois semaines, c’est le temps qu’il m’aura fallu pour lire dans le regard des bêtes et commencer de déchiffrer les rites et marottes des gens d’ici, pour mesurer l’ampleur de ma tâche, immense : le pays compte sept collines dont les coordonnées laissent présager quelque secrète corrélation. Combien de mois me seront nécessaires? Je n’ose y penser sans être pris de vertige, partagé entre exaltation et abattement.
J’ai rapidement trouvé de quoi me loger, grâce à la bienveillance d’un enfant débrouillard qui, dès le lendemain de mon arrivée, me présentait ma logeuse. Je signais aussitôt un registre et pour un loyer dérisoire, prenais possession de mon appartement. Certes, je ne manque ni de place ni de confort, mais crois-moi, n’envie rien à ma vue : les versants grimaçants du Hochwanner qui, de nos lits, nous effrayaient chaque soir de notre enfance, m’apparaissent rétrospectivement, au regard du charnier qui se dresse en face, comme de bien douces et émouvantes visions, qu’il ne me déplaît plus d’agiter en esprit pour vous rappeler à moi. Et puis ce meublé l’est assurément trop, encombré, habité pour ne pas dire hanté par ses propriétaires — un couple et leurs deux garçons — , comme si on les en avait chassés pour m’y installer. Au sentiment désagréable que j’ai de partager leur espace s’ajoute celui de la promiscuité. Je vis parmi leurs objets, entouré de leurs photos personnelles… Pas un tiroir qui ait été vidé, pas un endroit qui soit épargné de leurs souvenirs patiemment amassés, pas un mur, pas un meuble qui n’ait oreille et œil tendu ou posé sur moi. Tout y est resté en l’état, d’un usage suspendu à l’attente de leur imprévisible retour, jusqu’à la chambre d’enfants jonchée de pièces de puzzle et au centre de laquelle trône un bien curieux et pathétique tigre à bascule, une bête naturalisée — gueule ouverte édentée — dont les pattes ont été grossièrement montées sur un piètement métallique. Rares sont les nuits où je ne rêve qu’ils font irruption au beau milieu de la nuit, dans ma chambre, la leur, pour me chasser de leur lit et me jeter à la rue, à la merci de fauves à dents de smilodons.
Tendre frère, je mesure chaque jour la distance qui nous sépare, je ne t’oublie pas dans mon silence et tâcherai de t’en dire un peu plus très bientôt, mais surtout, ne fais pas état de ce courrier à Véra, tu l’inquiéterais inutilement. Dépose sur sa joue le plus affectueux et anonyme des baisers.

Johannes

It is very likely that most of us have taken a mint when walking out of a restaurant. A lot of times these mints are not wrapped up; a spoon was probably there so that people don’t touch unwrapped mints with their dirty hands. I don’t know about you, but I just grab one with my hands anyways. I actually got reprimanded at Whole Foods the other day because I took a nut out of the nut container with my bare hands. So why am I talking about this?

Well, as coined by Rory on a Gilmore Girls episode, these mints are “urine mints.” He stated that urine mints occur “when people go to the bathroom and they don’t wash their hands and they come out and take a mint.” Does this make any of us cringe, thinking that we may be consuming even a “poopie mint?” That grosses me out.

According to Snopes.com, there is no legislation related to the sanitary measures taken on mints in restaurants. There has been talk of legislation though.

Also, after reading an article on Helium.com, I have adopted some of the necessary precautions in order to avoid taking contaminated mints. The five most useful pointers were:

-Use your eyes!! Look around, is the restroom dirty, is the restaurant in good condition? Ask these questions.

-Wash your hands in order to contribute to the overly sanitary atmosphere of the restaurant.

-Check for signs in the restrooms stating when it was last cleaned.

-Are there handtowels or paper towels? A restroom with hand towels is definitely less sanitary than a bathroom with paper towels.

-DON’T EAT THE MINTS! Bring your own, that you know are clean!

I think I’m going to die.  Took yesterday off from work because of this wicked bad sore throat.  Most of the time I can deal with what ever ailments I have to continue to go into work so I don’t need to burn a sick day.  Have a cold?  Just pop some pills until it clears up.  Hacking rough Cough?  They make cough drops in every flavor of the Willy Wonka candy rainbow.  Clogged up sinus?  Tylenol makes a hell of a good sinus with headache combo to treat that.  Flaming diarrhea?  A bottle of pepto and a wadded up piece of toilet paper clenched between the cheeks to catch any excess run off will fix that messy problem.  See?  Any ill feeling I have a solution for.  Just not a quick fix for a sore throat.

A aching scratchy throat is the one thing that I’ll break down and take a sick day for.  Mostly because there’s no quick easy Walgreen’s inspired cure.  Sure there’s the throat sprays and drops but those have never worked that well for me.  The lozenges that numb that back of your wind pipe work some what but the direction says not to use more that six throat drops in a 24 hour period and here I am downing six every fifteen minutes.  When your meals consist of throat lozenges for breakfast, a sensible lunch, more lozenges for dinner and hit of sore throat relief spray for dessert the farts you lay down are amazingly potent.  I made the mistake of “beefing” in the car driving home from work Thursday and almost rear ending a pickup while I was gagging.

Yesterday on the “Eric Get Well Tour” I did three things.  Sleep, drink liquids, and Piss.  Sometimes all at once.  No, I didn’t wet the bed.  I almost fell asleep filling the great  porcelain temple with golden holy water.  Seemed as if I was standing there for hours going….and going…………and going and going some more.  Guess when you choose drinking liquids to quell your burning throat over traditional medicine your bladder will suffer.  My urination has turned into such mammoth proportion I was going to take a ”should I” pee and end up sending a ropey jet of urine that almost over flowed the bowl.

For those that don’t speak Eric a “should I” pee is when you think you might have to take a small leak just because you don’t want to be in the middle of something later when the urge to go strikes you.  You might not even have to go that bad but just do it to clear the tank. A mercy piss.  Here, let me use it in a sentence.  “I’m going to play my video game for the next few hour but Should I go to the bathroom now so I don’t have to go later thus interrupting my gaming session?”  A more common application for a “Should I” pee is on a long road trip when you stop at a dirty rest stop.  You’ll hold your breath bearing the brunt of the stinky urinal because you don’t want piss pangs a few hours down the interstate when there’s no way to relive them except filling a empty gatorade bottle with the latest sports drink flavor……Urethra thunder.

My goal today is drink enough icy cold ginger ale so when I used the bathroom to relive my aching bladder I can belt out the entire classic hit Young MC’s Bust a Move from start to finish before I’m doing peeing.  Lofty goals I know but someone has to set the bar high. 

Wish me luck.

Chapter 1:

P: Hello? Is anyone in the room?
[he knocks on the door]
someone: yes? Im there! Are you here to deliver the food I was ordering just now? This is fast SERVICE!
P: no
[he shoots the door with a gunss]
P: DINNER IS SERVED!
[there is a slump on the other side. Like someone just died or something]
P: I killed you
___________________________________________
P: I killed him
boss: nice. Here is the money
P: Thats a lot of money
B: yes.The briefcase is still mine though. Take the money only. Not the briefcase
[P takes shows off his GEAR]
[start the narrator]
N: The state of the art GEAR was created by the best of the best ever. They made the best gear for
the most good agents. The mateerials are made from the most expensive materials produced by mankind.
We must note that our GEAR in real life is not anywhere near the size or mobility of the new GEAR. The
GEAR is also numerous. And can do anything. Anything you want. Pheelh likes stealth and has profound
ability to be sneaky. Especially with the very cool GEAR that he is suited up with by the CORP. To
be prepared to use the GEAR Pheelh had to train a lot in other countries.
THIS IS
THE
GEAR:::::::
Knife- special alloys make this knife faster than other knives. EXCEPT THE DARK BLADE WIELDED BY THE BAD
GUy. The bad guy doesnt have the goodness of the good guy though. Because of this he isnt as fast.
The knife has cool holes in it that make it really unique. There is not other one thats like it.
gun1: This gun is a machine gun. It shoots fasters than other machine guns. Not AS FAST AS DARK BLADE
that bad guy has. The codename for gun1 is COBRASTRIKEROWL and is sometimes refered to as COBRA OWL
gun 2: The super stealthy gun that shoots very quiet. It also has a bayonet thats a little slower than
“knife” but a lot slower thatn DARK BLADE (the one that the bad guy has). The gun is 6 inches
so not a lot of people can see it from a distance. It has a custom holster for it that has the name
COBRASTRIKEOWL 2 inscribed in it.
gun 3; this is the one that shoots rockets but is small too. It kills a lot. Not many things can with-
stand it. THe DARK BLADE can for sure, but not much is known about the origins of it.
String gun: To tie up bad guys. It has infinite string. It runs out when there is moonlight only but in
the sun, it regains the string. Its scientific explanation. Scientists now are not smart enough
to make this. KEEP IT A SECRET. THEY WANT TO MAKE THEM!
Suit Jacket: Tailored by the best Italian clothes makers in the world and Italy. The material for it are
brought back from
the Apollo moon missions every 3 years, so its rare. Its expensive to make too. The suit is dark clothes
but can change colors like a chamelion because the moonrocks are turned into “silica” and converted with
special clothes dye. It provides outside protection from the elements.
suit jacket#2: This is the overcoat. Its normal like the ones you buy in stores. He needs it because
moon “silica” only hates water and DARK BLADE.
Pants: Made from steel moon rock hybryd to create the ultimate PANTS!!! The only DARK BLADE can TRULY
harm the pants themselves, while small objects and big objects can STILL pulverize the flesh of the
wearer. The pants keep blood flow down and actually ment broken body. But slowly. You need to sleep
to have the effect and even then its still a little painful. Especially if you are an amputee.
This takes TIME. The pants cannot be double worn for the extra power. They also are designer so even
at parties the wearer can be stylish and the star of the party!
shoes: Made from rocket fuel. To make the wearer be able to sail off into the sky. The core is the sock
that is connected to the sock of the man whose flesh is taking it. The need for air conditioning is not
as important because of special sports perforations in the soles.
tooth implants: Special teeth for extra chomping power in case someone poisons the good guy with something
hard and not easy to bite through. They are made from special tooth enamel powder from rhinos. It also
enchances sexual potency. NO JOKE!
fleece pants: More pants that are extra warm for SPECOPS missions where the good guy has to be sneaky AND
do it the cold place. This is an ultimate pair of fleece pants. It is something much sought after by people
in the cold. Especially Eskimos.
_______________________________________
GEAR package #1 exhibition is over!
Boss: The GEAR is very good quality. That sounds like it.
Pheelh: Yes oh and should I kill anyone else?
B: Definetely you can. Please kill my wife!
P: Ok.
B: No. Its a joke. Dont kill my wife. Kill the PRESIDENTS WIFE.
P: Fine. Is there pay in it!?
B: yes if you dont double cross me. This is a half of the money.
[B hands P a briefcase full of some money]
P: Is this my suitcase now?
B: no. Its mine too. YOu just take the paper money. Its not fake.
P: Ok. Ill be right back.
[Pheelh is seen take the airplane back to the headquarters of the PRESIDENTS WIFE]
Presidents wife: I saw you come. Why are you here? Are you raping me?
P: NO! I AM TOLD TO KILL YOU!
PW: but you cannot because you are still on the airplane. I am speaking to you from the ground.
P: Ill BE BAAAACK!
[he opens the hatch to the underside of the airplane (where the secret passages from the older generations
are]
P: I have brought my GEAR to make battle with you!
PW: I too have objects of great prowess to kill you!
[Narrator describes GEAR of the PRESIDENTS WIFE]
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Her battle stance is ancient. From egypt. She has weapons made by the greatest THIHNKER OF THE WORLD IN THE
PAST- DWARF! Her armor is DWARF ARMOR from great materials from the DWARF MOUNTAINS! The smelters of the
great armor and weapons are maybe alive to this day. It is a myth!
knife: Her knife is a lot slower and worse than the good guys knife and a LOT slower than DARK BLADE. It
cannot match anywhere NEAR the power of DARK BLADE. If DARK BLADE was to attack the PRESIDENTS WIFES knife,
the great battle would send down generations of stories! It is specially made to be thicker than DWARF
BONES so that it can go through the mountain doorways of ancient DWARF HOMES. The material is also made
from ancient lava in the mountains.
gun: The PRESIDENTS WIFES gun is specially tailored to be super effective against certain types of armor.
It can pierce very soft armor. Skin is a soft armor. Also tablecloth is soft armor. It can be upgraded
to go through more armor types BUT ITS A HIDDEN SECRET FOR MILLENIA!
gun 2: This one can shoot long bullets.
LONG BULLETS: This is an AMMO TYPE. It is an arrow of GOD OF MURCURY that is dipped in various elements
like stone and magma and gunpowder and rope.  The elements of firing are to be utmostly respected by the
wielder. Hopefully, the long bullets will last for a long time so that even our kids can enjoy the
fruits of DWARF LABOR. They are also attached to bullet who can shoot from guns.
trench coat: PRESIDENTS WIFE can wear many different clothing, especially trench coat. It is meant for
to go over various elemental armor.
lead armor: This ancient armor is an old but not forgotten tool of radiation containment. The thickenss
and density of it can keep many radiation attacks from reaching meat within the armor. The armor was
made from ANCIENT DWARF who has the abilty to control the elements like metal alloy. He is not known as
a designer in ancient times. The lead armor is worn by PRESIDENTS WIFE a lot. A lot meaning almost always.
Including sleep because YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN AN attack is coming.
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
PRESIDENTS WIFE: You cant shoot me with radiation.I have gun and gun2 to shoot you with.
Pheelh: I dont like that fact because it means harm to my body.
PW: Here is my POWER
P: Too later, sucka’!
PW: OH NO! HIS POWER LEVEL IS RISING!
P: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHH!!!
PW: Higher than I could have imagined! Its off the scale!
P: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHH!!!
PW: HE IS UNSTOPABBLE BY THE STANDARDS OF MY.
P: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHH!!!
PW: I feel so weak.
P: I knew you were easy pickings. You are my trophy of DISASTER.
PW: I am unable to command myself under my laws.
[P shoots her with a gun in the head]
PW: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHH!!!
P: THe dark blade! I can sense it nearby!
[2 years later]
Boss: I am glad that you killed her. YOU get rest of the money right now. I lost my briefcase so the money
is in my pockets. here it is.
[TRANSACTION happens]
Pheelh: I am once more glad for this return of favors.
Boss: I have another assignment. I need you to kill people
P: Ok. Do I get more GEAR?
B: Yes. ^you will need the new gear while on this mission. Dont forget to stop by the office when you are
getting GEAR.
P: Ill dont worry! Ill get it!
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
GEAR DESCRIPTION:
snipergun: Its really super fast for far away. Dont make enemies with it. The bores are cold shots. The
reversse azymuth is very complicated. More complicated than your brain can handle. It can even MAYBE
kill DARK BLADE but I wouldnt bet on it in fact the DARK BLADE is probably more powerful than two sniperguns.
WATSCH OUR BACKS!
Grenade: They explode on contact and leave behind fire for a while. THe burning make people usually dead
or very uncomfortable. This is a dangerous asset to anyone with an hidden agenda! It can kill most people
regardless on they heritage. Even if they are born from other culture.
Lipstick: For the ladies man. This seduces most women into giving you sexual favors. No matter what the
weather is like. There is no time limit so the garden is up for grabs. Take this to your latest party
and you will gain the respect within your religion community. BEst used by undercover agents who kill
people to make them lovable. THe way its usable is very secret and only told to the agents who get them.
in fact the one true person who knows is dead because he was not an agent and was killed by the lipstick
becuase he was disrespectful.
bottle: to fill with various element with molecule vertecies alloys. Even soft dr4inks. The harnessing
is so very much important that it
takes years to perfect. YOu can do it like a Joe Shmo by putting regular water in it. This adds the flavor
you crave. ELECTROLYTES!
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
[Pheelh is in a jungle with many monkeys around him. He is here for many years so he speaks to monkeys now.
He intergrated with their society to become the ultimate weapon of terror: A sleeper cell! The microworld
is so within his grasp, he is but a god. He is about to make the HIT]
P: I see you dont know who I am. I am just a person you think was a friend of your microsociety.
P: The facade is off! I am not a friend of your microsociety.
P: I am dangerous criminal bent on revenge!
P: You must fear my GEAR because it is used to murder innocents and guilty alike.
P: My past is murky and I am a loose cannot with loose wires in my head. You dont trip over THIS baby
and live to tell teh tale.
P: This will make the news sing with awesome thoughts I am so cool with power. Like drunk. This is rad.
[he comes behind the unsuspecting leader of the monkey tribe and chockes him with the gun because he
ran out of ammo before and only has the gun to choke money with.]
[the POLICE are slowly creeping into the area to check on the peace of the microsociety]
P: I murdered you and your family, can you take this on? I better hide the evidence and make sure the police
dont know IM here.
[P throws GRENADE GEAR into policeman to the rear of the microsociety. He doesnt know the danger he IS IN!
The gravitas running out of Pheelh is frightening]
Policeman: I am explosion soon. I have GEAR around me. There is danger in the jungle.
[Pheelh sneakily exits the garbage hatch. he is unnoticed by the normal people around the trash.]
random man: HEY HE IS HERE I SEE YOU
[Pheelh sneakily leaves the trash and unnoticibly shoots the building near them with sniper and knife to
distract the cameras]
Boss: This is beyond your pay grade. Are you thinking you are crossing the line? I am prepared to call the
guys who take care of this.
Pheelh: Dont cross my business. This is important to you like it is is mine.
B: Ok. You deserve a psychological test. I AM PRESIDENTS WIFE I AM DARK BLADE
P: He knows too much about DARK BLADE I need to kill him! To preserve my mind!
B: NO You dsidnt succeed the test. I see to it that you are gone.
P: I didnt think I could fail. My life always seemed mutually responsible for my actions. I think I need
to reprimand them.
B: IM sorry are you sad?
P: No but I need to feel the love of a woman.
B: You can take pictures of some of my friends. That cheered me up before I killed people too.
P: You are like me then? Will this double trouble contain the sadness?
B: dont worry. Its 200% effective agounst it.
P: Those are good odds.
B: RIght. Can you come to my closet and see my secrets?
P: Where is the closet?
B: THe closet is right there.
P: This one?
B: yes.
P: Ill be right there.
[the closet opens up secret compartment in the closet and THERE IS ANOTHER WORLD OF DWARF ADVENTURE THERE.]
P: Ill go ill do this to get the pride to love myself again.
B: Ill make sure to make you think about what I have shown you tonight.
P: This is another world in here.
B: This is a sock closet?
P: No. I see deer
B: That is mistaken with my socks sometimes.
P: THe secret is bhind the closet. Its a doorway to a different dimention of life. One can truly be happy
there. I see mystical magic creature with horns and ears there! They are taking stroll in the park.
B: You can go on. This is a way for FUTURE!
P: I will murder for us there, my friend! To open up a new business for more of me! To make more money!
B: I have money too.
P: I wil take it when I am ready to take on the difficulties of real life.
B: there is also GEAR on the closet.
P: That is something to think about too.

5 years ago, I walk into the field of architecture with my best skill of artist and my proud knowledge from Mahidol Wittayanusorn school of science. I did not expect anything from this field, but I thought that architecture should have been the easiest way to graduate. Not so long time ago, my meaning of “Architecture” was changed. I saw many under-constructional areas around my village. Those places had been farm before, but then, they were just the surface of concrete and concrete housing.

Kanjanaburi, photo by Sw Eden on Flickr

Thailand is considered as a perfect country which its land can grow almost kinds of agricultural plants, and has a vast area of forest. King Bhumibol Adulyadej has kept teaching people to head to develop agriculture instead of industrial. Thailand is already good at agriculture, but Thai people just need to make it better and greater. Only less number of capitalists can hear what the King says. They have changed green lands to be nongreen buildings to make a lot of money. My family has been one of foolish people who stepped into their traps. 1997, when I was 10 years old, my family moved to their housing, which built on top of a lotus farm. Many city people love to move out from the crowd areas into suburban housing. They escape from traffic-jam streets and high-pollution air. Most of them have to have their own cars to use in rush hour to go to work in the city. They waste the gas/benzine and also waste the material to make the cars.

Moving Car, photo by Sw Eden on Flickr

The happy life with fresh air could not stay with the city people in suburban so long. When the capitalists invested in malls or supermarkets around those housings, the peaceful areas became the expanded city. The air and noise pollution came into the place. The time to move has come again then. The green areas have been destroyed very fast around many cities in Thailand, such as Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Songkla. Most capitalists do not do a green design, because they just want to pay less. They put a beautiful picture of house with a big grass field on the advertising board. We call those boards, “Air Junk”, because they hide all scenery and wind. People pay for those advertising housing projects before seeing the real houses. Most of real-estate projects in Thailand, people need to pay for every step to build a house, not pay for a finished house. The results that they get are small green areas, because most of green areas are cut to be the main circulation of the project, and that is made by concrete.

The expansion of the city may be a good economic sign in the business term or for the government, but in fact, it is a sign of disaster for environment and for an agriculture country as Thailand. The houses, buildings and factory keep releasing heat and toxic into the natural resources. They do not only hurt the nature by themselves, but they are also harmful for the agriculture areas around. Thai Government announced that rain of all province was not drinkable, because it contained very toxic substance. Although the toxic makers are in the city, the toxic can spread around many places, covering the tropical jungle area in Nakornsritummarach, the north east of Thailand.

Sprash Water, Thai Kid, photo by Sw Eden on Flickr

Cathleen McGuigan wrote on NewWeek.com under a topic of “The Bad News About Green Architecture” about the unpleasantness in the design of green building. She described that the green buildings work so good by themselves, but people still have to drive to work. In my opinion, moral is more important than an object. One Bryant Park has a system of recapturing rainwater which is good, but many people who do not pay for the water bill will never think about saving the water. For example, many women always turn on the tap when they are doing their hair in public restrooms, and many men liked to do that when they are shaving. I have visited a company that my parent worked with, and I saw the janitor turn on all taps in the restroom at the same time to clean an individual sink. Moreover, he spilled some detergent on the restroom floor, and he used whole roll of paper towel to absorb it, then he threw that roll away. Paper is made by the trees. If only people waste and kind of material, that is the way they waste the energy, because all manufacture processes have to use the energy. This mean many people cannot change their attitude, if the results do not impact them directly. If we can change their habits, the world will be able to save the energy by this method more than the green design many times.

Want to pee again, photo by Sw Eden on Flickr

Not only the gray water system that One Bryant Park has, it also has air-condition ventilator on the floor. Most of buildings in the world have air-condition on the ceiling, which is far from human living space. What One Bryant Park does should be so good during the winter, because people love to feel hotter at their feet and feel colder at their heads.

Green design is enjoyable as people love to hang out in the park. People like the sun rather than a electric bulb. I always cheer the green design, but we have to accept that there is no building in the world can be 100% green. Although the big window can save the electricity used in bulb, the building also lose its heat in the winder through the window about 30 times bigger than the wall. If the office loves to use air-condition so much, the big window can also heat the interior up as the system of greenhouse effect. The better way to save the energy during the summer is using fans and open windows instead of air-condition, but it is still the problem for the offices in the high pollution areas.

Narita Airport Facade, photo by Sw Eden on Flickr

One of the towers of K Bank (Kasikorn) in Thailand uses a special kind of glass for their facade. Its glass does not create greenhouse effect as other towers do. The color of its glasses seems white and can reflect the light very well. It is not dark color that will absorb the heat into the glass itself. Considering about the north pole, Greenland and the south pole, they are not only the cold place to keep the world cold, but they are also big white areas to reflect the heat out from the world. I tried to say that the colors of facade and rooftop are very important, too.

I went to Japan accidentally when the flight to USA was delayed. Narita Airport sent Thai people into its hotel for one night. It was winter at that time. We could not make a far trip, because we did not have Japanese visas. I walked to see its swimming pool. It was surprising me that it was covered by half-sphere glasses, and the water was one of the glass’ layers. The temperature was quite fine. The water can act better than the gas or air space actually. If you are a Bible reader and you can remember the Great Flood (Noah’s Ark), the water was from the sky and that means the planet earth had been surrounded by the water. The water can prevent many kinds of rays from the universe and the sun, and it acts very well in this Japanese swimming pool. The Bible also shows that after the Great Flood, humans’ ages were reduces from 800 to be less than 100 years old. Humans’ genes began to have mistake, because the water-atmosphere was destroyed. Brother and sister could not marry anymore after that time.

Koh Chang Tropicana Thai Spa, photo by Sw Eden on Flickr

For the case of using gray water in flush toilets, I cannot say that the toxic rain may destroy the toilet, and the owners may need to pay more to repair whole things. I had talked with a ship owner when I went to at the south ocean of Thailand. I asked him for the reason that he still used tab water for flush toilets in the ship, because he could get salt water from the sea very easily. He told me that salt water had destroyed his flush toilets before. I cannot fully believe in his words, when I think about how much pH in human’s urine comparing with pH in salt water. The rainwater should not have less pH than human’s urine, too. That’s mean using gray water may be good enough to be considered as a part of green design.

The Gherkin Building in London should be praised, especially its system of natural air ventilation which is created by the tower’s aerodynamic form and ‘double skin’ facade (Hannah Bullock, http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk, 2003). Moreover it support the biking people by its bicycle service.

Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, photo by Sw Eden on Flickr

For car industry, many new electricity cars were produced, because people believe that using the electric city is better for environment rather that using benzene. If they consider about electricity producing process, both types of cars are not much different. Most electricity is from coal factory outside the city. To use electricity cars is only move the pollution in the city to outside the city. All still heat up the world.

To get a clear energy may cost higher at the first installing, but it works very well in long term and it is also good to the world, too. The words that pop-up in your head should be solar, wind and water from dam. We can also think about other cheaper things to install, such as roof pond and water coil on the roof to make hot water for hot country.

Concrete Dam Water Container, photo by Sw Eden on Flickr

Dams are something truly green, although they do not look green. A dam does not only produce a lot of electricity, but it can be the biggest green project in the world. Although the government have to destroy a lot of forest area to make a dam and the concrete surface can heat up the temperature around, the dam can keep the water to serve people all year long. When people have water to use, especially for agriculture, they will create the evergreen lands around the rivers, because the rivers have never dried. The places that had been desert during the summer time, the dams can make it to be evergreen territory for whole year. I visited many dams in Thailand during my vacations. The weather was quite hot, especially on the highest part of the dams. People cannot stand without umbrellas in the sunny day. I looked into the town side, and I was very impressed. All territory was green with banana and rice farms. That dam is, “Kun-Dan” Dam (เขื่อนขุนด่าน) in Nakorn Nayok.

เขื่อนขุนด่าน Kun-Dan Dam, photo by Sw Eden on Flickr

I was in a seminar of Dr. Smith Dharmasaroja with other Silpakorn University professors and students in 2008. Dr. Smith explained about the disaster from the dam in the north part of the world. He said that that the current planet earth was just like a feeble spinning top with 23 degree leaning, and if people kept making dams above the equator, the earth would be end faster. Most of the lands on the earth are above the equator, so most of the dams will be above equator, too. This may be real, but I cannot fully believe it, because I cannot know if the south part of the world is exact the below part of the spinning top. The words, “North Pole” and “South Pole” are only what humans used to call for representation. (The first map was made by European, so they would love to show themselves on the North.) If we do not consider about what Dr. Smith said, the dam is still not so useful in many ways as I mentioned before.

Snow At prospect park, photo by Sw Eden on Flickr

I also have another reason to support that the south pole can be the top part of the world, if the world acts like a spinning top. Generally, we know that a biggest ozone hole is at the south pole, and the air of south pole is the lowest moisture air in the world (like the desert air). That mean the south pole does not have much of substance in atmosphere. If we notice the hurricane which acts in the same way, we will see the cloudless space at the eye of hurricane, which is the top part of it. That is the reason that I guess that the south pole is the real top side of the world. You can simply test this method at home. You just have a bowl of water with some sand or dust in it, and then you stir the water around; you will see the dust crowd at the bottom, and the water is hollow at the top when you are stirring.

NASA already found the water on the moon. It also loves to research the Mar. That means humans are looking for new places to live. Why don’t they want to make the world better rather than being hopeless to keep the world green. We cannot stop people who cut the trees down. We cannot stop people who burn the forest. We cannot stop people who keep punching the holes at the north pole for their ice testings (the ice melts faster if the bigger surface touch the water). We cannot stop people who consume everything wastefully. The results are bigger and stronger hurricanes and toxic. Finally, their acts just kill other innocent people who may have never hurt the world.

You guys need to know something about me: I loooove animals. Animals are a part of my family and I love each one of them dearly. I’ve had all kinds of animals including dogs, cats, birds, hamsters, turtles, degus, lizards, frogs, etc.

I had a really bad day today.

I’ve been having problems with my cat, Kitty. She’s never actually learned how to use the litter box, so there’s constantly a pile of shit on our floor and more recently, she started pissing on the floor.

She’s not allowed in Hubby’s room (this is the room we spend all our time in because the TV and computers are in there) because she chews up wires. We’ve lost speakers, Hubby’s special sound thingy, camera USB cords, etc. And Hubby doesn’t allow animals in our bedroom (his rule, definitely not mine). Well, Kitty will stand at the door scratching and meowing. Not just a little meow, but she will sit there and wail until I open the door. It’s gotten worse the past week and I’m not sure why because she still hasn’t been allowed in that room.

To make matters worse, after putting her outside, she went and got stuck in a tree. Again. I was out at 3 in the morning climbing a tree because I couldn’t sleep due to being worried about her.

I was sick with a migraine yesterday and couldn’t even throw up in peace because the cat wouldn’t leave me alone. And I need complete silence when I have one of my headaches, but the cat just didn’t seem to grasp this idea at all.

So today… let me go ahead and warn you, my depression is back WITH A VENGEANCE (and for once I actually don’t feel like discussing it, it’s that bad), and something in me snapped. I came home to a big pile of shit, a puddle of piss, and a meowing cat.

So in a stupid impulse decision, Kitty has been taken to the local shelter.

I’m devastated and can’t believe I even did this. Sure. I’ve given rats away, a degu, and my parents have my two old cats, but I gave Kitty up just like that.

And I feel so guilty. I’m sitting here wondering if anyone will adopt her, take care of her, is she’s lonely, if she knows I gave up on her… I just feel like shit, plain and simple. And with my current mood, I can’t handle feeling this way. I’ve cried all day. I never thought I would give up an animal just like that.

 Pet Urine Odor

Pet urine odor is a special kind of scent. It is a scent that lingers and becomes worse over time, even after you’ve tried everything in your mom’s special remedies box. There are several reasons that urine odor stays and becomes worse over time. Here they are:

• Urine contains protein. After leaving the pet’s body it quickly becomes bacteria in your carpet, area rug, draperies, and even hard floors.
• By applying soap, deodorizer, and/or bleach, the bacteria starts to grow. At first, some of the bacterium gets killed, however, the remaining microorganisms grow and actually feed on the dead bacterium AND the soap, and/or deodorizer.
• After the new bacteria is happy and fed, your carpet looks like a bomb landed smack in the middle of your room and left a brown/yellow stain.
• So, the urine that was once just protein and bacteria, becomes a new beast that we like to call, PeePee Vanilla, the mix between the original scent of urine and your vanilla deodorizer.

Products Used to Remove Urine Odor

So, now you ask yourself, “I’ve used all these cleaning products, why is the urine still there?”
Well, considering urine contains bacteria, soap is not going to work, unless you can remove all of the soap AND urine. For example,  you go to wash your hands after working all day in the yard. You take the soap, lather up, then walk away (skipping the rinse) and wipe your hands. There is no doubt that your hands would be sticky, disgusting and probably dirtier!

This is the soap that was extracted from the carpet after our cleaning.

Therefore, soap is not a good idea. You may say, “well my product doesn’t contain soap!”
If you question whether the product you’re using contains soap, shake the bottle with cap on, remove the cap and check to see if soap suds protrude from the top. If this is the case, your product contains soap.

If you’ve given up hope on removing the urine odor and are now using products made for your kitchen, tiles and/or bathroom, then that product most likely contains bleach. And of course we all know, if you put bleach on ANY fabric that stain will NEVER come out. Same for the urine, if you apply that tiny amount of bleach to your carpet, area rug, or furniture, then that stain and odor will never come out.

How to Remove the Urine Odor

If you want the urine odor gone 100% then another concept must be considered, something natural. Here, at PetPeePee System, only naturally blended minerals from the Dead Sea are used in order to kill the bacteria in urine. Also, we use a cold water system, rather than steam or dry cleaning. Check out our Trying to Sell a House full of PeePee article, where we explain the dry and steam cleaning systems and why they don’t work on urine.  

PetPeePee System offers many services to remove the urine odor such as oriental rug/area rug, and drapery cleaning (if you are out of the South Florida region, give us a call and we can arrange shipment to our warehouse. We will pick up the rug via UPS, clean it, remove the urine odor, and deliver the items back to you urine odor free, guaranteed). We also offer furniture cleaning, wall to wall carpet cleaning in the South Florida region, and hard floor treatments.

If you want to remove the urine odor

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RE: Lets get the Colonel involved

As a loyal customer I have had enough. And by loyal I mean when I’m in a food court and the lineup for Subway is too long and the people I’m with want KFC. When I finally make my way to the counter and place my order I am left waiting for my meal, not just any old wait, we are talking 4+ minutes. Let it be known that I never order anything out of the ordinary, perhaps chips and a potato & gravy, my acquaintances may order a Zinger burger or 3 piece feed. So my question is: what are you guys doing back there? Making lasagna? Because you should really quit this deception and rebrand yourselves as KFL then. It seems to me that when someone orders a chicken-themed meal you guys are all “oh crap, another chicken order. Better go out back and dig some up - if it was pasta sheets with meat and cheese then we’d be set.”

You’re probably thinking “4 minutes? What is this bloke on about? If you go to a restaurant you usually have to wait up to 20 minutes for your order. In the time we take to prepare your order, we ensure staff are making it fresh so that you leave satisfied. You are complaining as if someone urinated in your meal.”
You present a very compelling argument. Firstly, I pay a premium at restaurants so they can take their time and inject a little extra love in my meal. I pay you guys $4.80 to get the shit to me ASAP so I can eat and run and hopefully make it to Target before it closes. As far as the pee is concerned, know this: I will take a little pee in my food if it means my meal will get to me quickly. They say urine is chock-full of nutrients so you’d actually be doing me a favour – think of it as a fried Boost Juice.

Do you want my personal opinion? Don’t answer that, because here it comes: I think it’s been a slippery slope since you became KFC. I say get back to your roots and rename yourselves Kentucky Fried Chicken. Anyone with a semi-functioning brain is aware that you put all food, drinks, straws and napkins in a plastic bag, fry it all as one and then serve it up. Which explains why even my Mountain Dew tastes like pure obesity.

What would the Colonel say about all of this? He was a man of honour, integrity and he had a rockin’ mo. I am fairly certain he would not stand idly by whilst a loyal customer declared they would rather consume urine than wait for their meal. He would set the wheels in motion by issuing a memo to all employees telling them to hurry the fuck up and produce food already! He would then send me a few complimentary meal vouchers.

Listen to the Colonel. He is very wise. He’s knows I’m tight with ACA – I pitched a story to them once (I got no response) and I’m due to pitch another.

http://www.kfc.com.au/about-us/contact-us.asp Sent 10/11/09

There’s an old man
Who sits in a tree
And when you walk past
He does a wee

Yes, he has a tinkle
In to the air
If you’re not too careful
It will go in your hair

So he wees and he wees
‘Til he empties his bladder
And when he’s done all his business
He climbs down a ladder

Week after week (after week after week…), CollegeCandy and our pal John bring you some of the weirdest, funniest, and saddest things he hears on his college campus. And we know he’s not the only one who hears this stuff. Join the Overheard revolution! Listen in on some weirdos’ conversations and share them in the comments or send ‘em over to us to put in next week’s post.

(Guy, two girls, at dining hall breakfast.)

Guy: You girls don’t need your buns toasted, do you?

Girl 1: Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh.

Girl 2: Heh heh. No.

Guy: I was talking about the hot dog buns.

(Girl, on the phone, on a campus thoroughfare.)

Girl: I wish you didn’t have a penis!

(Beat)

Girl: Well, then I wish you would stop jerking off in the shower!

(Girl, talking to other girl, outside classrooms.)

Girl: He’s my boyfriend. So cute!

Girl 2: He’s my boyfriend too. I just wanna eat him up, spit him back out and eat him up again.

(Girl, complaining to other girls about something.)

Girl: Are you kidding me? That bitch! I’m sick of her. That bitch, be like, ‘bitch! Your head’s gone!’

(Guy, girl, shopping in an electronics store.)

Guy: If there were a game I’d have sex with, it’d probably be this one.

Girl: That’s gross.

(Beat)

Girl: I guess I would too, though.

(Guy, before class.)

Guy: You know, I just love it. Ribbons of blood! It’s a beautiful thing.

(Two guys, at party.)

Guy 1: Who wants do a shot with me!

Guy 2: Of what?

Guy 1: Wait, let me read the bottle. It’s … my urine!

(Two guys, talking at a concert.)

Guy 1: I don’t really like Rihanna. I’ve always like Chris Brown better. I guess that’s pretty insensitive to say, though, huh.

Guy 2: I don’t think so. I think it’s only insensitive if he’s sitting in the car behind you.

(Girl, guy, walking around a Barnes and Noble.)

Guy: I don’t get what’s so special about Josh Groban.

Girl: *chuckle*

Guy: I mean, what?

Girl: Ask your parents. They can tell you when you’re older.

(Two guys, shopping for groceries.)

Guy 1: How’s your meat.

Guy 2: Pretty spongey.

(Two girls, talking at a party.)

Girl 1: He was kind of a third wheel, right?

Girl 2: Fifth wheel. Seventh wheel. That wheel that goes flying out of the car wreck on fire after everyone dies.

(Three guys, at the bar.)

Guy 1: You going to the show with us tonight?

Guy 2: Not sure. Dunno.

Guy 1: What, you wanna stay here? And let this loser get you sick?

Guy 3: Oh, he told you about that?

Guy 1: What?

Guy 3: I’m sick. I’m dying.

2/5 — Moves the story and little else.

Titan Maximum
Episode 2: “Busted”
Where Gibbs continues to elude capture, and Titan Maximum is rebuilt — mostly.

The danger of having episodes comprised of only about 12 minutes is that very little can occur, making cramming everything together fairly difficult. Titan Maximum actually handles the dichotomy of being funny and moving the story along fairly well for its time allotment, but that doesn’t change that it isn’t very good — at least, as far as this episode is concerned. The crude humor isn’t actually all that funny. Some of it’s tongue-in-cheek good, but most of it didn’t really appeal to me. The most redeeming part of the episode, I thought was a little girl who apparently guards Gibbs’ base on one of Saturn’s moons. Her name is Clair, and she wipes out a team of trained operatives. And, as the commanding officer reports just before dying, her backpack is a froggy.

"Hm. That doesn't smell right..."

Got a health question? Don’t trust those “Doctors” at the University Health Center? Are you scared of Web M.D. because it always tells you you’re gonna die? Ask a real doctor, our friend Dr. Lissa Rankin. She’s here every Thursday to answer whatever you throw at her – like the ultimate cure for a hangover! – so ask away. Leave your question in the comments or send it over to us. Don’t be shy; she’s waiting for ya!

Q: After unprotected sex I noticed my urine becoming really smelly on a consistent basis, which is a new thing for me. There are no other symptoms-no burning or itching or anything, just the smelliness when I pee. Could this be an STD??

A: Usually, healthy urine has almost no odor (unless you’ve been feasting on asparagus or other foods or vitamins that are known offenders).  If you are dehydrated, your urine will be more concentrated and may have a stronger smell. Also, if bacteria have contaminated the normally sterile urinary system, which happens when you have a urinary tract infection, you may notice an odor.

Most of the time, when women approach me complaining of foul-smelling urine, they’re actually smelling their vagina. If you have a vaginal infection, such as bacterial vaginosis or trichomonas vaginalis, you may notice that your vaginal discharge, when it mixes with your urine, smells icky.

While it could be a sexually transmitted disease, such as trichomonas infection, which causes a vaginal infection characterized by a foul-smelling odor, most STD’s do not cause your urine to smell. Sex however, can trigger urinary tract infections, and infected urine may smell icky.

I would suggest a visit to the gynecologist. Make sure they check out your vagina, as well as your urine, to make sure there are no infections either place. And if you’ve had unprotected sex, go ahead and get tested for everything while you’re there. You can set a good example for your partner and feel more secure about next time.

–Dr. Lissa Rankin’s book, What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in Fall 2010. She invites you to join her Pink online community (www.owningpink.com/forum) or read more of her writing at Owning Pink (www.owningpink.com).

Sadly, I sometimes find that being friendly and nice isn’t always wise.  I say this because I often suddenly find myself in the midst of someone’s insane elevator sales pitch.  People either want to sell me Jesus or Amway.  In either case I must have a lost and desperate look in my eye.  One time I was waiting in the bathroom line at Chevy’s.  Some homely talkative girl struck up a conversation about what I like to do for fun and I think at that point I might have known better.  She asked me if I liked to play volleyball.  Well, surely.  Oh…great!  Her church was having a barbeque and she’d love if I came with her and played volleyball and then we could talk some about the Lord.  No thanky.  I think she tried to give me her number.  I have a near constant stream of gypsies trying to read my fortune.  The Jehovah’s, however, might finally have gotten the picture after my brother answered the door topless and scratched the hair on his chest.

This morning I was walking Nacho in the park and came across this gal with her annoyingly yappy dog.  I’ve seen her before.  She doesn’t want to violate the “dogs must be on leashes” law so she lets her dog run around hooked up to his leash, only the clip part bashes into people’s legs and today the stupid leash rolled over Nacho’s poo.  After some B.S. dog-related chit-chat, she paused and then burst out with, “hey, I have a business opportunity.”  This is never a good way to begin a sentence.  It reeks of desperation.  She then went on to explain that she works with this company that is “similar to Amazon” and allows you to buy things you buy anyway (“like toilet paper”) at wholesale and then you get a check.  Wait, wait.  That is too good to be true.  Anyhow, she then told me it was called Amway and that she was having a product party Monday if I wanted to come over.

This disturbed me.  I thought we were having a nice time.  She reminds me of someone I would have been friends with when I was a sweet lil kid.  And she tried to RECRUIT me.  I felt so used.

Halloween has sadly come and gone.  I hate that about holidays.  There is so much build up and then they happen and then it’s over.  And you have to wait through the drought of spring and summer for the good ones to come up again.  Labor Day?  Bah.  I had a bigger night than I had expected.  This is always a good thing.  The next day, not so much, but you sure do enjoy it when it’s happening.  I was a very unsuccessful cupcake.  The only recognizable thing was a big sparkly cherry I pinned to my wig.  It was sort of embarrassing but way less so than wearing some lame “Sexy Fill-in-the-Blank” costume.  At the first party I attended all the girls were sexy.  Sexy gangster, sexy Red Riding Hood, sexy Greek goddess, sexy Egyptian, sexy border patrol agent.  The border patrol agent was actually with me, so she might not count. And all the guys had weapons: guns, swords, toilet plungers.  I was an unsexy and pacifistic cupcake.

My boyfriend’s friend played beer pong at some bar and was trying to talk to some group of girls when he found that he was puking in his Optimus Prime mask.  The mask had a little breathing hole and some puke started oozing out.  I think I might have run away.

My friend Esteban went to a pumpkin carving costume party and someone there had a complete psychotic episode while scooping the slimy guts out of a pumpkin.  I’m really only guessing it was that that set him off.  I hate those guts myself and I almost want to pitch a serious fit when I have to deal with that muck.  They had to call an ambulance and hide the carving knives and Esteban had to have a very serious conversation with an EMT while dressed as some freaky weirdo with a skull strapped to his head and blood seeping out of his eyes.

I was listening to Fresh Air the other day and good old Terry was interviewing a woman who worked at Bellevue Hospital in New York.  Her job as the emergency room doctor was to determine whether patients were at risk to themselves or others.  She wrote about how sometimes the smells she encountered were awful.  She had taught herself to self-hypnotize and would convince herself “the smell of urine is not offensive to me.”  She did say, however, that it’s really the smell of fungus that is the worst.  For some reason the hypnosis didn’t work on the fungus.   Ahhh, the fungus among us.

Whether the odd fruit of my conversations reflects on my peculiar nature or not is up to you to decide. Two terms I’ve picked up are moreru (漏れる) and onesho (お寝小).

Anyone making the connection between the two terms is a step ahead. Moreru is a verb meaning ‘to leak’. When a child has to go to the bathroom very badly and they are told to hold it, at some point you will hear this exclamation. Basically, this is the “I can’t hold it any longer” announcement: “It’s going to leak!”

For the record, I have never personally heard this, because cruelty suffered in my childhood has left me with a sensitivity to this issue. Whenever a student in my class asks to go the bathroom, they are given immediate access. If I see a student looking like they might be in distress because they don’t want to interrupt my class, I discretely check if they need a break. Now that I’ve defended my name, on to the next term plus a little explanation about remembering terms.

Onesho means “bed wetting”. This one came up because most homes air out bedding on a certain schedule, hanging it over balcony railings. When I noticed a place with all manner of bedding out on a day that didn’t seem to match their schedule, the first idea tossed out by a Japanese person was ‘bed wetting’. Although I say ‘idea’, they spoke with absolute confidence. Imagine your most embarrassing frailties having to be presented to the world. Now imagine it in a society where nothing is considered worse than embarrassment.

So my promise about learning new words. Often a new word in Japanese is just a bunch of sounds (particularly since there are so many homophones), whereas a new word heard in English provides us clues about it’s etymology. When I first heard onesho I had no idea what it meant, but when I looked at the kanji characters in my dictionary it became easy to remember. This is a great benefit of using kanji. Each character is basically a drawing that carries information. Many words are a combination of characters which carry a more complex meaning together. In this case the first character is ’sleep’ and the second character is ’small’. At first this may not seem obvious unless you know the terms for ‘urine’ and ‘feces’ and ’small waste’ and ‘big waste’. Neshoben is a three character phrase meaning the same thing and a little more clear. I think I will never forget this term now. Let’s hope I don’t need it in conversation.