This was a last minute beach vacation. Booked my flight via jetstar for $200 and exchanged singapore dollar for 23 baht of $400. As usual, my budget hostel search landed me onto Patong Backpacker hostel which costed me $20 per night for a 6 bedder. Waited for 40 minutes for SBS 36 and nearly missed the flight, did not know which terminal Jet star flys from, thank Jesus, I managed to ask an elderly man who knows the airport at his finger tips. Reached my counter and was told to enter within the next 10 minutes. Realised that I cannot bring water bottle into the carry on luggages even thought they are sealed, need to seal them with a airport sealed bag. Had to drink and throw away at the security counter. (Did not know as I have not been travelling for the past 2 years).
Had a good flight via Jetstar
I had a good experience with the Phuket bus transport staff at the airport's minibus counter, at the hostel, and I met lots of European country people e.g. Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Ireland, Swiss, Australian, Korean and I found a number of Philipines working in Phuket too. My first flight on a budget airway took me 1 hour plus to reach Phuket which is one hour before Singapore's local time. When straight to the Mini bus counter to purchase a bus trip to the Hostel for B$ 150. The trip was pleasant as I met an experienced Singaporean on the bus trip, he shared his experiences with me along the way and shared that we will be brought to a intermediate stop over tourist shop which will be selling the Island tours which should cost around $B800-900. The shop wanted to sell me at B$1400 which included 5 islands and lunch on board. I was surprised that the experienced guy bought the trip at $B1500. Also realised that Phuket has a number of uphill travel by the mini bus, when I reach my hostel, I checked in and when out immediately for supper. There were lots of people at 10pm and the night light is very vibrant till 2-3am. There were lots of bars and a Go Go bars along the Banga road area. The following are good knowledge to remember:
No 6 Seafood serve nice and authetic thai food
Big one shopping supermarket is good to get the daily necessities, I bought my snorkeling gear for $B430, drinking water.
Findgic handbag, shoe shops are also good to visit, bought some fragrance incense set which comes with holder, elephant containing wax and wax carved out to form a flower.
Massages done at CNM Massage center opposite No 6 Seafood and Viemann at Soi food lane (run by a Swiss and Thai couple). $B300 for one hour of oil full body massage and $B250 for foot massage. I was encouraged to go for my first massage when i met a fellow Singaporean on my second night at the hostel. Reason was that there are so many massage shops with beautiful ladies offering the massage that I was confused as to which will provide a better service. It was after much knowledge sharing with the Singaporean who experienced it herself that I had the confidence to try.
Met international travellers over lunch, dinner at No 6 Seafood and exchange contacts and exchanged ideas, discussed on Christianity not being a religion but a relationship with Jesus. Met a group of poor and dark family of 2 elderly lady and 4 children along the public bus trip from Patong to Phuket town center. Felt sorry for them as the children were barefooted, bought a box of strawberries from Chang rai for them to eat. According to the shop owner, they are living in the nearby islands and normally begs along the roads?
Day 1 Patong Beach, walking around the round and beach area and waiting for the property consultant to meet up and to share more with me. According to him, Nai Harn is the best beach area and that Patong has been heavily commercialised with lots of vendors pulling and asking you to buy from them.
Day 2 am, Patong beach, had a morning run along the coast line, saw a thai guy with a spear guy with a squid being pierced. Collected sea shells along the beach.
Day 2 pm going to Nai Harn
Met a Norway family with beautiful daughter and boy friend at Nai Harn and shared experiences too. Lots of European citizens there, it is really like I am in Norway? All of them like the warm weather of Phuket rather than their winter.
Met the German lady and a korean family when i returned from Nai Harn beach where I saw live fishes swimming in the lagoon. Korean family spoken chinese with me while the german spoken english. The common language is the enabling factor to knowledge exchange. The next day decided to go Nai Harn again although it took me 2 hours from Patong to nai harn. I met the German guy from 2nd day and he too agreed with me that the public transport has to be improved. He suggested for a round trip, while I suggested a point to point ie a direct bus from Patong to Nai Harn instead of making Phuket town as the central bus interchange. The buses needs to be air condition if possible as the amount of exhausted inhaled is not very healthy. It cost $B 25 from Patong to Town, while it cost $B40 from Town to Nai Harn.
Day 3 Nai Harn beach was very good as I managed to swim near the southern rocks where I could see more marine life, small yellow stripped fish, and live baby crabs. Met a Italian beach manager and a Thai lady into properties, shared that properties in Thailand is on the up swing too.
On my return trip, I met the same German lady up at the bus which was already loaded with another couple ready to travel back to Phuket town. All were quiet till I stepped into the pick up. I made contact with the german lady and started conversation, then I asked the couple where they came from, and found out that she was a Philpino migrated to Germany, and that made the link for the German community to start their German conversation. Proofs that language is the common glue that triggers knowledge sharing and knowledge exchanges, and may be a common enclosed area where we have nothing else to do but to talk as we were sitting facing each other.
My first trip to Thailand left me with both relaxing and hectic moments, rich and poor divide is evident, beautiful and ugly, capable and disabled people along the street selling and making a living, kampong houses and rich condos, schools, people selling flowers on the street. Lots of taxis and tuk tuk which charge the same rate as Taxis about $B400-600 and thus very few people like to take them as they are expensive vs the public buses.
Thai people seldom speak english thus it will be difficult in communicating, end up not talking at all.
Rushed to catch the airport bus back to airport and waited for the air plane which reached late and my flight was delayed for 40 minutes. Realised that there were lots of Singaporean flying back at the same flight too.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
myknowledgegenie.com
I came across the above site https://www.myknowledgegenie.com and found it to be useful for consultants to share/sell their personal knowledge. I will be trying out the free genie to find out how it really works.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Personal Health - Starve Cancer cells
I received this personal email on how to treat cancer: The best way to keep it is via a blog instead of embedded email:
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (TRY THE KEYWORD) AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard Tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size....
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's life time.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle (lack of sleep) factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinaltract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However, prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction..
9 When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy=2
0and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
A. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful.. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
B. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.
C. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
D.. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice,=2
0whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells, try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
E. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water -- best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tapwater.. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs, etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements20like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16.. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
(PLEASE FORWARD IT TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT)
CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.
Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.
Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that
we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.
This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as CorningWare, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.
Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (TRY THE KEYWORD) AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard Tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size....
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's life time.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle (lack of sleep) factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinaltract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However, prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction..
9 When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy=2
0and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
A. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful.. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
B. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.
C. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
D.. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice,=2
0whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells, try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
E. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water -- best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tapwater.. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs, etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements20like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16.. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
(PLEASE FORWARD IT TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT)
CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.
Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.
Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that
we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.
This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as CorningWare, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.
Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Personal Temperature taking is on again
I will be asked to take my personal temperature twice a day. This first happened in 2003 when SARs broke out. We started recording the temperature on hardcopies, then realised that we can capture it via eRooms (a collaboration technology which was bought over by Documentum). Now I am exploring how this personal temperature recording can be done using "list" of Sharepoint Team room. I have created a staff movement chart for keeping track of staff's oversea movement so that management can see and monitor the staff's movement easily. will have to market this idea in order to get management's support. This Sharepoint is really an improvement to the simple dumb shared folder concept and the stale intranet which only allow adminstrators to manage the contents.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Personal Learning
Learning took on a different meaning when the Internet was capable of providing online lessons and when university can record and share their lectures via the Web 2.0 video portals such as http://academicearth.org/, http://www.youtube.com/edu. when i searched for the term KM Teaching, the above links were discovered from a personal blog. This is very much different from the way I studied during my Secondary and Junior College days where we were not able to leverage on the internet for our research.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Additional PRM
I did a search and found this article which focused on other personal records such as tax, warranty statements etc http://www.shrednations.com/articles/personal-records-retention.php. For me, we simply destroy contents that have passed the valid date range and we open plastic files to keep track of credit card bills. But lately many organisations are encouraging electronic statements eg. Telcos like Singtel, majority of Banks, online warranty update e.g. Canon products, Investment companies such as poems are encouraging estatements. Another example will be the Ministry of Defence which engages it's reserve pool via online portals http://www.ns.sg/nsPortal/index.jsp. I still keep the little green book that recorded my reservist incamp just for keep sake and for remembrance.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
PRM
PRM stands for Personal Records Management. When i was in my primary school days, I remembered my father used to have a old paper file that recorded all our identification number on the front cover of the file. The file also contains all our birth certificates, educational qualifications, pass ports. Once my sisters were married, my father will then hand over the documents to her so that she can start managing on her own. I also remembered when i had to apply for my first scholarship, I had to photocopy my certificates and to stamp them as "Certified true copies" before handing them to the Scholarship team. When I started my official KM journey, I came across the Registry which is a central holding area where all official records are filed. They were centrally managed once and then due to reorganisation they were decentralised. We then looked at how to transform the hardcopy registry to a digital registry and I like to draw this analogy, where we individually can also transform our personal records management. One way will be to scan all our certificates, qualification, testimonials to digital pdfs which is OCRed (Optical character recogniable so as to allow the search engine to index them for future retrieval. These scanned pdfs can then be filed electronically into our hard drives.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Using the ASHEN model to guide my pkm.
I like to use the ASHEN model to guide our PKM capture process so that we cover majority of the artefact. The ASHEN model was introduce by Dave Snowden. I also came across this article entitled ‘I only know what I know when I need to know it - embracing the active management of tacit knowledge’, thinking back this statement is quite true as we will only find out when we need information/knowledge and to know when we need to know something. We tend to find out the latest research for the required answer when asked.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Name cards and more name cards
How do we manage names cards which we collect, exchange when we meet new friends at work, play, seminar, courses?
I recalled when i used to teach at an IT training firm that I will make it a point to exchange name cards to keep in touch with my students so that they can contact me if they encounter any issues or problems. We had name card albums, then came the name card scanners, then came the electronic version of name cards by beaming from our pdas. There are new ways offered by web 2.0, one is to invite people to your social networking sites and provided they do accept you as a friend and you will then be connected. Other ways will be to type out their contact details in a Mind map or any customer contact database. I am trying these last few methods to capture and to connect with people.
I recalled when i used to teach at an IT training firm that I will make it a point to exchange name cards to keep in touch with my students so that they can contact me if they encounter any issues or problems. We had name card albums, then came the name card scanners, then came the electronic version of name cards by beaming from our pdas. There are new ways offered by web 2.0, one is to invite people to your social networking sites and provided they do accept you as a friend and you will then be connected. Other ways will be to type out their contact details in a Mind map or any customer contact database. I am trying these last few methods to capture and to connect with people.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Technology an enabler to PKM
Through out my life journey, I have witnessed the cost reduction and size reduction to physical computer storage. We used to the 5 and 1/4 floppy diskette and then 3.5 inch diskette, higher density disk, followed by thumbdrive, finally to the portable removable hard disk which can store all my past years contents instead of the numerous diskettes which I had to store my personal contents. With the advert of web 2.0, where contents can now be created and published by practically any one, PKM has taken a new level, where personal knowledge are now captured in personal blogs and wikis. This is a shift of knowledge storage from personal storage to the Internet. Even our photos are no longer in physical albums but in social networking sites like facebook, myspace, flickr, photobucket etc to name a few. We have also transformed from organising our own photos to allow all others to tag our contents - folksonomy. How about bookmarking of URLs? I used to store it in my own "favorites" and then i have to back it up when ever i change personal computers, now we have Del.icio.us. As i was searching for a tool for bookmarking from firefox to Del.icio.us, I stumbled upon / discovered a new photo bookmarking site called http://vi.sualize.us/ This is also related to PKM, learning while surfing which is not heard of 20 years ago. Learning takes on a different level too as the internet is our virtual learning resource. I used to go to the library for my first primary school project but now I simply google my research topic and do my research via the WWW.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Started at age 14
My Knowledge Management journey started when I was in my secondary school years of age 14 when I witness the birth of my first nephew. As it is a custom for my mother to cook for my sister during her confinement, I realized that there are special ingredients and special sesame oil to be used for the dishes so as to be more nutritious. I asked my mother and she will share her knowledge on tradition and recipe with me. I started documenting in my notepad but I realized that there must be a better way for us to capture all these important knowledge which will be reused for my others sisters and my own wife when my turn to father my child comes.
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