Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.

Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world’s leading athletes.

But energy isn’t the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.

Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana.. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.

Anemia : High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.

Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit’s ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.

Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness

Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.

Overweight and at work? Studies at the Instituteof Psychologyin Austriafound pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips… Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady..

Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a “cooling” fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.

Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.

Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body’s water balance.. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.

Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!

Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!

So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, “A banana a day keeps the doctor away!”

Hari ni plak…selesema datang menyerang ….sok sek sok sek….sib baik sok cuti….3 hari cuti tu…yuhuuu…semoga batuk dan selesema aku ni baik la sebelum aku masuk keje minggu depan…banyak keje yang menanti minggu depan ni…hari ni dah xde mood dah nak wat keje..tunggu pukul 5 je..trus nak blah…

p/s: Sori kak noor, xdapat attend wedding kak noor, first because the weather is uncertainty, and second…im not well…but I pray for your happiness..muah muah..

Masih belum terlambat untuk ucapkan tahniah kepada Hana dan juga Kak Noor yang telah selamat menjadi isteri orang. Semoga rumahtangga diberkati Allah selalu. Bertolak ansur dalam kehidupan adalah kunci kebahagian. Cewahh…cakap macam dah kawin je aku ni…tapi takpela..saling mengingati tu kan bagus…Doa-doa moga after ni turn aku plak….doakan aku yea kawan-kawan.

2009 dah nak melabuhkan tirai..tak terasa setahun dah nak berakhir. Apalah pencapaian aku tahun ni..sedey plak…tu entri len kali plak aku citer..kay..adios…

p/s: suka dengar lagu ‘mencari konklusi’ oleh hujan.

They love you,

But they are not your lover.

They care for you,

But they are not from your family.

They are ready to share your pain,

But they are not in your blood relation.

They are…..FRIENDS!!!

True friend.

Scolds like a DAD,

Cares like a MOM,

Teases like a SISTER,

Irritates like a BROTHER,

And finally loves you more than a LOVER.

I miss my friends…hopefully they heard my whisper.

A professor stood before his philosophy class
and had some items in front of him.

When the class began, wordlessly,
he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar
and starts to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and  poured
it into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again
if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand
and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded
with a unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table
and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively
filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.

‘Now,’ said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.

The golf balls are the important things - God, family,
children, health, friends, and favourite passions  
Things  that if everything else was lost
and  only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, house, and car.

The sand is everything else —
The small stuff.

‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued,
‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy  on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that  are
important to you.

So…

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.

There will always be time
to clean the house and fix the dripping tap.

One of the students raised her hand
and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled.

‘I’m glad you asked’.

It just goes to show you that  no matter how full your life may seem,
there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.’

Please share this with other “Golf Balls”  

‘Take care of the golf balls first.
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.’

I just did…

memang tak tukar siaran r…

sehati berdansa pun tak tengok…

punyalah semangat nak tgk hobin jang hobin….

Akhirnya hobin jang hobin menang……

Yeaaa……

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, ‘Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?’

The man said, ‘I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.’
What he had written was: ‘Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.‘

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively.

Invite others towards good with wisdom. Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear.

Great men say, ‘Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness…. In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of a good conscience.’

The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling…
And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!!!

Vocabulary:

• incessant – continuing without interruption
• conscience – the awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one’s conduct

Tronoh Theatre Shop of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (TTSUTP) and The Qum Actors (TQA) proudly present the award winning masterpiece of ‘Asylum’ and ‘Miao Miao Sang Arnab’. Don’t miss the hilarious asylum inhabitants in ‘Asylum’ and the fun of talking rabbit in ‘Miao Miao Sang Arnab’.

Also, let’s experience the spirit of Malay warrior in ‘Tok Janggut’ by Dr Shark and watch ‘Medley of Mimes’ by the talented TTS Mimers.

‘Asylum’ by TTSUTP was the 2^nd runner up in Festival Teater Perak 2007 and ‘Miao Miao Sang Arnab’ by TQA bagged 2^nd runner up in the recent Festival Teater Kuala Lumpur 2009. 

Venue: Taman Budaya Kuala Lumpur (Next to Balai Polis Trafik Jalan Bandar, KL)

Date: 17^th Oct 2009

Date : 18^th Oct 2009
Show 1: Asylum & Medley of Mimes
Time : 2.30 PM
Ticket : RM 10
Show 2 : Miao Miao Sang Arnab & Monolog Tok Janggut
Time : 9.00 PM
Ticket : RM 10

Kindly contact M Faisal B Aziz (1-9641/0127521564) for ticket. Tickets are also available at the entrance during the show.

30% of the ticket collection will be donated to Rumah Budi Mulia Nurul Huda, Chenor, Perak. For more info, visit http://tronohtheatershop.blogspot.com