3 things to be successful in life

 

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013

3 things to be successful in life

Know what you want; have a clear idea of your OUTCOME in any situation.
Be alert & keep your SENSES open so that you notice what you are getting.
Have the FLEXIBILITY to keep changing what you do until you get what you want.

Wrote this on FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013 but never post, copy and paste to post it! :)

 

Wrote this on FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013 but never post, copy and paste to post it! :)

3 essential skills on Dynamic Listening

Reading - nonverbal signs
Nose touch
Making decision
The mouth guard
If person is speaking he is probably telling a lie.
If he is listening he feels you are lying.
The neck scratch
Scratches about 5 times - signal of doubt or uncertainty - "I am not sure I agree".
Evaluating critically.

Building rapport with non-verbal

Smiling, eye contact, tilting, nodding & sitting forward

Probing - questioning

Using marking out technique

Identifying 1 or few words spoken by someone & asking him / her to elobrate.

E.g. What do u mean by.......?

What does ..... Exactly mean to u?

Can u give me an example what u mean by......?

Reflecting - facts vs feelings

More feelings than facts - empathising

More facts than feelings - paraphrasing

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Admission to the hosiptal on 25 Oct 08

At 1am on 25 Oct 08, I admitted to the delivery suite. I was very anxious when I entered the deliver room and do not know what to do. I lie on the bed and have my CTG test, everything is normal. At 2am, Dr Wee came into the delivery to check on me. He notice that I am still not in labour, thus decided to induce as per scheduled.

After 2 hours of waiting, my CTG test is still showing as per normal. I was being sent to the ward.
Labour does not start till late afternoon.  The contraction started on and off, I could not eat, sleep or do anything.  I have a quick bath, by 6pm in the evening, I was push to the delivery room.  Initially, it is for another roundof induction, when I was in the delivery room, the nurse told me I am 6 cm dilation which means I am going to deliver anytime.  I did not have any epidural taken as per planned.

We waited anxiously, the nurse told me, I might have to wait till mid night before my delivery.  Who knows, in an hour time, I am fully dilated and ready for delivery.  Dr Wee was informed and he arrived shortly.  In a midst of time, my baby is delivered successfully at 19:25.  FINALLY!!
FAST and; CLEAN!! HAHAHA!! 

Motherhood started!!  :)

My Thirtheen Visits - 38.4weeks

This is my last visit to the gynea, I was asked to admit today midnight for induction.

As I had lost 1.5 kg (61.3kg now) compare to my previous check up and there are more white spots are formed on the placenta due to the aging placenta, my doctor is kind of worries that the baby might be in danger and recommended me to admit.

I was kind of sad as I do really enjoyed my pregnancy even though it is kind of heavy and hurt at times.

After the check up, we went for out breakfast and stroll down to the guan yin miao near bugis to pray, hoping for a smooth delivery. Hubby and I went back home after that to do our last preparation for the arrival of the baby. We have informed both our families.

My Twelveth 20 Oct 08 - 38 Weeks

As usual, after working we went for our regular check up, today I have to reach there 30 mins earlier for my CTG testing. At first I do not know what the test is all about, when i got there the nurse explained the machine measures the baby's heartbeat and my contraction. I have to lie down motionless for half an hour for the test. I did my routine test first before proceeding for my CTG testing.

After the test, I waited for my turn outside the gynes's room. 15 mins later, my name was called. I went into the room and my gynea told me that from the test everything is normal. During ultra screening, my gynea spotted some white particles on my placenta, this is due to aging placenta. The baby might not be getting all the nutrients, the calcium from my body did not reach the baby and fall out causing the white spot on the placenta. He told me that if the condition did not improve, I would need to admit earlier to induce. He told us to prepare ourselves and arranged another appointment on Friday.

He took the snap shot of my baby's picture and said he need it for reference. Today's check my baby weighs 3 kg while my weight increased to 62.8kg.

My Tenth Visit - 34 Weeks

On 22 September 08, this is the 10th visit.  Everything is as per normal, could not remember much on this day... so sad!!

My Eleventh Visit - 13 Oct 08 - 37 Weeks

Wah~~ I am 37 weeks now, could not believe it.

Time really flies fast, soon my gal would be out to this world, can you believe it?

As usual upon reaching KK hospital for the check up, I have to go through my routine tests first before seeing the doctor. I did not gain much weight today and am weighing 61.9 kg. Dr Wee asked me if I am dieting and if I am eating well or not, he then looked at my hubby for the answer. We told him that I am eating as per normal even though I feeling nausea and breathless. He told me I am very skinny, as long as I am eating fine and not dieting then it would fine.

During Ultra screening, my gynea checked on

1. My baby to scan her heart, liver, etc to see if they are growing well. He measured my baby's weight and said she is now weighing 2.65Kg.


2. My placenta to see if it is in place, he was able to see that there is still alot of fluid for the baby to move around.


3. The umbilical cord to make sure that it does not go round the baby's neck.

To our relieve, everything is growing fine. ^_^

My Ninth Visit - 31 weeks

On 1 September 08, I have my ninth visit to the gynea. Everything went smoothly and my baby is growing well.

I have put on quite a number of weight this round and am weighing 61.4kg. I am glad that my baby is growing quite well too and is weighing 1.58Kg, a gain of 0.38kg since the last visit. She is still in the Breech position but am not worried because there is still alot of room for her to move down claimed the doctor.

My Eighth Visit - 27 Weeks

On 6 Aug 08 this is my eighth visit to the gynea. In today's visit, I have a gynea visit and two blood tests. My appointment with the gynea is at 9.30am while the two blood tests are 9am and 11 am. I ought to fast over night for the blood test. The night before when the clock strike twelve, I have to stop eating and drinking, this really make my life very tough. I could not stand without any water.

During the first blood test at 9am, I was given a cup of glucose to drink. The glucose drink is for my second blood test to check if my body can dispense away the glucose that I have taken. The glucose drink is very sweet. Yuck!! No food and drinks are allowed until I finished my second blood test. I was so weak and hungry at that time.

At 9.30am, I visited my gynea for the regular check up. I complaint to him that I am having stomachache and diarrhoea for the past few weeks, he looks worried, he told me to go for a cervix examination immediately. This is a precaution checking in case of any premature labor. Hubby and I do as he said. Results came out; the cervix gap is 3.1cm which is normal. A relief look is shown on my gynea. After the result, I have my Ultra sound screening, gynea told me that the placenta is in place, my baby is growing well and she is weighing 1.18kg. I am delighted that my baby is safely growing inside my womb. After the examination, my gynea told me to rest at home for 3 days, he told me not to stress too much and rest more.

My Seventh Visit - 23 Weeks

I have my seventh visit on the 9 Jul 08, as usual; I left office at 5pm. Today, I took a different route to the hospital, instead of taking bus 57 from PSA building; I took a bus to HarbourFront MRT station and took a train to Little India station. As I am not familiar to which exit I should leave, I went to the wrong one. When I am out of the MRT station, the place look so strange to me, I asked a lady how to get to KK hospital; she pointed the direction and told me to be extremely careful as she knew I am pregnant. She is such a nice person. :)

After 5 minutes walk, I still did not see the hospital. I thought to myself, am I lost. I did not stop walking as I have a feeling that the hospital is just round the corner. True enough, I reached the hospital in less than 15 minutes.

I have my routine tests before seated outside the gynea's room to wait for hubby and my turn to see the doctor. My blood pressure and urine test are normal but I have gained 3kg in one month, currently weighing 57.7kg. Wow!!

When in the gynea's room, the gynea first question to me is how everything is and he continued you have been eating alot. Is your appetite getting better? I told him yes I ate more than usual and I asked him, is the baby growing or am I growing myself, he said that this is what he is going to find out too. Hehe!!

During Screening, he examined my baby and told me that my baby is weighing 800gm currently and she is perfectly growing well. He added she would be around 3kg when she is born. My baby is a shy gal, she knew today we are coming to see her, she swim facing downwards but she is very active as we keep seeing her moving. The doctor asked if I could feel her moving, I told him occasionally.

11 Jun 08 - My Sixth Visit - 19.3 Weeks

It is a Wednesday morning, we woke up as per working days to prepare our visit to the gynea. Today is not just a gynea visit, a detailed screening had been scheduled.

After my registration, we were asked to wait outside the screening room. I measured my weight, finally I had gained some weight and I am weighing 54.8kg. Once again the ultra sound screening is done by another doctor. A female doctor attended to me, everything went well at the beginning when she was unable to get the result she wanted. She started hitting and pressing harder on my tummy, she did apologies for the roughness and she got even more violent after that. She was trying to get a clearer view of my baby spine; however, my baby refused to turn to her back and lied still at her back. The doctor asked me to go for a 5 -10 minutes walk before continuing our screening. Even after the walk, the baby remained the same, the doctor asked me to lie on my side and true enough, the baby swim facing down. We do not understand the reason why she still keep hitting and pressing so hard. Hubby initially wants to tell her to stop but he did not. After half an hour, finally is over. What a relief, phew!!

The result shows that my baby is perfectly normal, everything organs are growing fine. We had been told the gender of my baby, guess what!! Is a gal!!! I sent an sms to my sister telling her that I am carrying a baby gal, she is very happy. She has actually guessed correctly that mine is a baby gal and she said gal gal is better than a boy.

We were unable to go back yet even after the screening, as we still had an appointment with my gynea. We waited almost 2 hours for the doctor as he is once again in the process of delivering a baby. We were very hungry as it is past noon; hubby went to the Mr. Bean stall to get some pan cakes and a glass of warm soya bean. Yum Yum!! After finishing our snack, the doctor was back. It only took less than 15 minutes in the gynea's room and everything is done.

My Fifth Visit on 12 May 08

We always look forward on every visit to the gynea. We wonder what would our baby do this round and to see how he / she is growing.

Every visit, I have to go through the routine tests. The result shows normal except my weight. I had only gained 0.3kg this month and I was weighing 51.9kg. My doctor seem abit worried on my weight, he checked to see if I had been eating well and I told him I did. After screening, he had no worries as he knew that my baby is growing perfectly well and is very active.

As I am 15 weeks now and I am quite curious to know the gender of my baby. During Screening, I asked my doctor whether he would be able to tell the gender of the baby. He said should be able to see provided the baby cooperates by opening the legs. He tried to see but it is quite hard to determine as the baby crossed the legs. He tried different angle till the baby got too shy and swim facing downwards (picture 2). Haha!! No choice, we would have to wait for the next round for our chance.

Picture 1: Facing up

Picture 2: Facing Down - SHY!!!

My Third & Fourth Visit

14 April 08 is my 3rd gynea visit.

We have opt to have our visit at the KK Private Suite, even though it is abit more expensive than the normal clinic in KK, the facilities are much better.

At the Private Suite, the doctor does my screening personally. I feel more relax and no more pain. What a relief!!! The baby is 11 weeks and is 44.5mm in length. During Ultra-sound screening, we have the most memorable moment; that is, the baby waved to us. What a surprise!! ^_^

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22 April 08 - my 4th visit.

I have been told to perform tests to check if the baby is growing well and to check if he / she has any down syndrome. A more detailed screening is done by another doctor, he is extremely long winded, he keeps repeating on what he says. Haha!! Besides the screening, hubby and I were told to have our blood tests; this would help to get a higher accuracy of the Down syndrome reading and to check if both of us are healthy to deliver a healthy baby.

On this visit, the baby is 12 weeks old and is 57.4mm in length. My weight remained as 51.6kg from the 2 visits.

My Second Visit

27 Mar 08 is my second visit to the gynea. For this visit, I went to KK hospital for my check up instead of the private clinic at Tanglin Shopping Centre. The reasons for not going back to the previous clinic were due to their poor services and high consultation fees.

My doctor in KK hospital had done my health screening back in Sept 07. I find him courteous and friendly and I felt quite comfortable with him.

Upon reaching the hospital, I have to go through the registration process again. Once again, I was given some questionnaire to answer on my pregnancy. My hubby and I went to different test stations for my varies screening and urine test before seeing the doctor.

During Ultra Screening, the nurse who helped me with the screening is once again not gentle, she pressed very hard onto my tummy to get a better scan of my fetus and it is quite painful. I wonder why I have to go through with this type of attitude from the nurses again. The routine tests which consist of ultra-screening, weight taking, urine test and blood pressure test took about half an hour to complete. My weight remains as 51.6kg and we are able to see a formed shape of my baby. He / She is 8.4 weeks and is 18mm in length. :)

After all the tests, we waited for an hour for the doctor is because he is in the process of delivering a baby.

My First Visit

I had my first gynea visit on 17 Mar 08, at The Tow Yung Clinic in Tanglin Shopping Centre. This is my first time seeing my baby, I'm so excited.

At 9 am on 17 Mar 08 while still lying in bed, I made a call to the clinic to make an appointment. The only available time slot is at 10.15am, so I jumped out of bed to prepare for the trip.

When hubby and I arrived at the clinic, to my surprise it was full of people. I did not expect the clinic to be so crowded on a Monday morning. I quickly went straight to the counter for registration in order to beat the crowd.

Registering for the first time was troublesome. A long list of questions were being asked. I am also required to measure my weight, height, blood pressure and also doing an urine test. Ever since I am pregnant, I lost 2kg and am currently weighing at 51.6kg. After all the tests, I was told to wait outside the room for my turn to see the doctor. 5 mins later, a nurse came out of the room and invited us in.

Upon seeing us, the doctor thank us for contributing to the Singapore's birth rate, we laughed and find him friendly and cheerful. Shortly after that I was led to another part of the room to prepare for my ultra sound screening. During examination, as he was not gentle I felt pain and discomfort by the equipment he used. The screening enable us to see the image of the foetus and we were also able to hear the heartbeat, it was so amazing. At that time, I was 5-6 weeks pregnant and the foetus was only 0.47mm wide. The size of the foetus is just a 10 cent coin in the water bag. After the examination, the doctor told us that everything is normal and advised me to eat well. We checked with him on a number of our enquiries and we felt that the answer he has given us were neither sincere nor professional.

During the trip, there was an unpleasant incident that I would like to complain. One of the nurse who attended to me was very rude and impatient. She spoke very softly, when i could not hear what she said and asked her to repeat, she became frustrated. Without further explanation, she pulls my bra abruptly and asked me to unhook it for the examination. I told myself not to be angry and just smile as nothing happened.

ReHiz~~~~

Hi, I'm back. It has been one year since my blog has been left to rot. Haha!!

In a New Year, with a New Life.....
Life has never been the same since 22 Jan 08, a new life is growing inside me. I did not notice a change until one and a half months later, haha.. Slow right??

I have been feeling very tired, cold and unwell in Feb thinking that it is due to workload and stress in work. On the 14 Mar 08, I decided to take a day off from work to rest as I could not take it anymore.

A week ago, I have a feeling that my body is not functioning as before and I have missed my period. Thus, on the day off I decided to take a pregnancy test and to my surprise it was positive. I was stunned for a few second as I do not know if I should be happy or worried. I am worried that I have never been wanting a baby as I could not stand kids screaming and crying. On the other hand, I am happy because babies are cute.

I immediately show hubby the test kit, he surprised me by asking me what is this? I explained to him and he was astonished. I could feel that he is very happy as I know he has always wanted a kid of his own even though he keep saying that no matter whether we have or don't is fine for him.

After knowing that I am pregnant, he is so excited and become very caring . He helped me with most of the house chorus like cleaning the floor, bathing the dog, refilling the kettle, washing the dishes, hanging the clothes, etc. I did not expect anything like that to happen before and I am so glad and appreciate that he has taken the initiative to do all the things. I, on the other hand has became a piggy, no matter how long I sleep, it will never be enough.

On Saturday morning, I went to see a doctor in order to get some folic acid and was given a MC on the coming Monday. The doctor also advised me to see a gynae as soon as possible.

On Monday (17 Mar 08), I went to one of the clinic in Tanglin Shopping Centre to see a gynae. The gynea showed me the un-formed baby (just a dot) and we are able to hear the heart beat of the foetus. We were so excited. A screen shot has been taken and given to us as for keeping.

Extracted from Your Life in Your Hands, by Professor Jane Plant.

By Prof. Jane Plant, PhD, CBE ... "Why I believe that giving up milk is the key to beating breast cancer..."

Extracted from Your Life in Your Hands, by Professor Jane Plant.

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 in China 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 Chinabeing a more rural country, with less urban pollution. In highly urbanized Hong Kong , the rate rises to 34 women in every 10,000 but still puts the West to shame.

The Japanese cities of Hiroshimaand Nagasakihave 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 slash 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 Chinatranslates as 'Rich Woman's Disease'. This is because, in China , only the better off can afford to eat what is termed 'Hong Kongfood'.

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 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 Chinais negligible, only 0.5 men in every 100,000. In England , Scotlandand 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 1980 s.

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 HarvardUniversitystudied hundreds of women with ovarian cancer, and had them record in detail what they normally ate. 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 CrossHospitalin 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 portality in Chinain 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.

Unscramble scrabble

*Someone out there either has too much spare time or is deadly at Scrabble.*

*DORMITORY
When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM*

*PRESBYTERIAN
When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER*

*ASTRONOMER
When you rearrange the letters: MOON STARER*

*DESPERATION
When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT *

*THE EYES
When you rearrange the letters: THEY SEE*

*GEORGE BUSH
When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE*

*THE MORSE CODE
When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS*

*SLOT MACHINES
When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME *

*ANIMOSITY
When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY*

*ELECTION RESULTS
When you rearrange the letters: LIES - LET'S RECOUNT *

*MOTHER-IN-LAW
When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER*

*SNOOZE ALARMS
When you rearrange the letters: ALAS! NO MORE Z'S*

*A DECIMAL POINT
When you rearrange the letters: IM A DOT IN PLACE*

*THE EARTHQUAKES
When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE *

*ELEVEN PLUS TWO
When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE*

Boss Vs Me

When I Take a long time to finish, I am slow,
When my boss takes a long time, he is thorough

When I don't do it, I am lazy,
When my boss does not do it, he is busy,

When I do something without being told,
I am trying to be smart,
When my boss does the same, he takes the initiative,

When I please my boss, I am apple polishing,
When my boss pleases his boss, he is cooperating,

When I make a mistake, you're an idiot.
When my boss makes a mistake, he's only human.

When I am out of the office, I am wandering around.
When my boss is out of the office, he's on business.

When I am on a day off sick, I am always sick.
When my boss is a day off sick, he must be very ill.

When I apply for leave, I must be going for an interview
When my boss applies for leave, it's because he's overworked

When I do good, my boss never remembers,
When I do wrong, he never forgets