Archive for the ‘General Info’ Category

Floodlights for indoor plants

When I was still working as technical assistant, I had an opportunity to work on hydroponics products, got a chance to grow plants indoor using hydroponics technology and it was cool. It was growing plants without using soil – only water, nutrients and hydroponics equipment. But one thing was missing in my experiment – floodlights. [...]

Hair Loss

Have you encountered uncontrollable hair fall? It’s scary, right? I experienced massive hair fall about 2 years ago.  I thought I was having terminal illness or serious health problem and so in order to stop the scare, I did a research on what causes hair loss,  which according to medical books is not a serious threat [...]

Another health buff invention?

There are people who love smoking, but then, it’s not healthy.  Health buff have invented some cigar that can be alternative to unhealthful cigarettes. There are organic cigarette without nicotine made from herbs, electronic cigarette which does not make use of real tobacco, and today I came across with a new type of cigar called [...]

How confident are you?

How are you confident about your future? When you reach your retirement age, will you be able to live a fulfilled life -spiritually, financially and emotionally? I believe all of us want to have a fulfilled life in all aspects of our lives.   Regarding building financial security, I believe one should start it at [...]

what is circadian rhythm?

Our body follows schedule/pattern within 24hours that whenever the body is not able to comply to it, something happens.  This pattern/schedule is called circadian rhythm, which is defined by wikipedia as  “a roughly 24-hour cycle in the biochemical, physiological, or behavioural processes of living entities”.
As circadian rhythm indicates, the best time to sleep is from [...]

How are you going to discipline your child

I searched for the article about the law on prohibiting a parent to spank a child.  I think this law is not good.  Spanking a child was mentioned even the Bible, so that they can be disciplined so that when he grows up he knows what is wrong and right and he would do the [...]

Feeding your pet fish?

Did you know that feeding your pet fish with a lot fish food may kill them?  If you don’t feed them, it would kill them too.   Fish, too, practice the habbit of feeding in moderation.  When my housemate was still keeping fish as pet, and she went away for several days, she asked me to look [...]

Is a coconut a nut or a fruit?

Have you asked yourself how to classify a coconut? Its name suggests that it’s a nut, but do you know that it is classified as fruit (drupe)?
We get lots of benefits from coconut – from tree to fruit – nothing can be wasted. Do you enjoy drinking coconut juice? It’s very refreshing right? [...]

Appropriate toys for kids

Do you know that the toys that you are giving to your kids may help them enhance their development and learning? Give toys that are appropriate for your child’s age, it should stimulate their thinking ability their imagination, and their physical activities.  Most importantly the toys that you give them should interest them, otherwise it [...]

Energy

I always associate energy with strength, liveliness, enthusiasm, cheerfulness and positive atmosphere. In science, energy is associated with many things such as the famous Enstein’s formula, E=mc2. Energy has many forms which include kinetic, potential, thermal, gravitational, sound, elastic, light, and electromagnetic energy.  In our daily life, we always experience energy with the form of  [...]