Thursday, July 11

Selamat Berpuasa!

7 Sebab Anda Patut Makan Kurma

Kurma dikatakan tumbuhan yang mempunyai pelbagai khasiat dan kegunaan yang mana sebahagian daripadanya sudah terbukti secara saintifik. 

1. Membuat Anda Bertenaga


Paling cepat diproses dan diserap, sekali gus memberikan tenaga segera.

Kandungan gula ringkasnya (monosaccharide) yang sangat tinggi malah lebih tinggi dari pisang, kurma berupaya memberikan “tenaga segera” yang akan diserap oleh tubuh serta-merta. Berbeza dengan kebanyakan buah-buahan lain yang mengadungi sukrosa (disaccharide). Disaccharide seperti sukrosa harus dipecahkan dahulu oleh enzim sebelum bertukar menjadi monosaccharide lalu diserap tubuh sebagai tenaga.

Makan kurma ketika berbuka puasa amat bagus kerana pada waktu ini, kita perlukan tenaga segera, dan bukannya tenaga yang “lambat untuk dicerna” seperti yang terkandung dalam kebanyakkan makanan berlemak dan bergoreng yang lain.

2.  Kaya dengan serat dan potassium

 

Kurma dimakan tanpa perlu membuang kulitnya dan pada kulitnya itulah terkandung serat. Kurma adalah antara buah-buahan yang amat kaya dengan serat, serat larut mahupun tak larut. Kita sering menganggap buah-buahan seperti pisang itu mengandungi serat yang tinggi, tetapi tahukah anda, dalam 100g Kurma terdapat 8g serat sedangkan dalam 100g Pisang hanya terdapat 2.6g serat sahaja? Tinggi serat amat baik untuk sistem pelawasan.

Selain itu, kurma kaya dengan Potassium dan beberapa zat galian yang lain. Potassium adalah elektrolit yang akan menyeimbangkan kembali kandungan air dalam tubuh badan apabila kita kehilangannya, terutama sepanjang tempoh berpuasa. Tidak perlu membeli 100 Plus sekiranya khuatir akan kekurangan elektrolit ketika berbuka, memadai dengan beberapa biji kurma dan air suam. Potassium juga membantu dalam pembinaan otot termasuk otot jantung dan mampu memelihara sistem saraf.

3.  Penguat memori



Ramai yang berfikiran hanya kismis yang baik untuk menguatkan daya ingatan, namun hakikatnya kurma juga tidak kurang hebatnya. Kurma amat sesuai untuk kanak-kanak yang sedang membesar.

4. Baik untuk wanita mengandung/bersalin

 

Buah kurma amat baik untuk wanita mengandung dan akan memudahkan wanita untuk melahirkan anak dan akan mengurangkan pengaliran darah semasa proses kelahiran. Malah anak yang dilahirkan kelak dipercayai akan mempunyai sifat-sifat yang baik, penyabar, bersopan santun serta cerdas pemikirannya.

5. Penawar Racun
Diriwayat oleh Aishah RA, “Jika sesiapa yang selalu makan kurma akan dihindari daripada terkena racun yang dimakan.”

6. Merawat penyakit


Dalam perubatan homeopati, biji kurma dikisar halus seperti serbuk teh. Ia direndam dan diminum bagi menyembuhkan pelbagai jenis penyakit.

7. Mengubati gangguan usus dan sembelit

Ketidakserasian dengan gluten menghalang penyerapan zat-zat makanan secara sempurna. Kurma mencegah ini dari berlaku.
 
 

Wednesday, July 3

Creative Shopping Bag Advertisements

1. ReVital
Designed by Antje Gerwien, from the University of Weimar.

2. ASPE Crime Stories Bag

This bag was given when you bought a book by Belgium’s most famous crime-writer.

3. Sawney Bean – Cannibal of Scotland

Creative director/Art Director John Messum

4. Karl Lagerfeld Shopping Bag

Agency: unknown

5. YKM Shopping Bag: Jump Rope

Agency: TBWA, Istanbul

6. Wheaties Shopping Bag

Agency: unknown

7. Headhunting Agency Shopping Bag

Agency: unknown

8. Fitness

Publicis Frankfurt | Creative Direction: Gert Maehnicke

9. Tom of Finland Shopping Bag

Tom of Finland is a popular gay icon. (Agency: unknown)

10. Clothes in Closets: Knucle Bag

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Lisbon, Portugal

11. Blush Lingerie: X-Ray Bag

Agency: BBDO Berlin

12. Big Lipton Tea Bag

Agency: DDB Integrated Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

13. Kong: Shoe Bag

Kong is a chain of street/skate wear shops specializing in limited & collectable trainers. The handle of the bags makes the lace of the trainer. (Advertising Agency: Rave Communications, Birmingham, UK)

14. P Magazine: Life Through Burka

P-magazine published an article about the daily life of women in Afghanistan wearing a burka. To draw the attention to this story, over a 100.000 black bags with a burka cutout where made. Carry a magazine in the bag and the cover girl will look at you behind a burka. (Agency : Duval Guillaume, Antwerp)

15. Floating Magic-i Bag

The agency was given the task to design a shopping bag for Magic-i, a magic shop. The idea: the handles of the shopping bag are made of transparent fishing line, which makes it look like it is being held without handles as if by magic. (Advertising Agency: Grey Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

16. Samsung TV Bag

Agency: unknown

17. Muse Bags

These bags were designed as color samples of hair extensions for distribution to visitors to a party at muse, beauty salon. So, hair extensions were attached to bags as handles. (Agency: Tokyu Agency Inc., Tokyo)

18. Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Tymoshenko, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, iconic in Europe for her braids. Funny, but probably fake – the bag looks exactly the same as one of the Muse bags.(link)

19. Gaia: Animals Torture

Agency: Duval Guillaume, Brussels, Belgium

20. Olympic Shopping Bag

Designed by Tao Ma Design

21. Red Cross – Volunteers Needed

Advertising Agency: Lem, Shanghai, China

22. Book

Agency: unknown

23. Daihatsu

Agency: Creative Lab, Cairo, Egypt|Art Director: Walid Abd Rabo

24. Panadol

Agency: unknown

25. Children with Autism

Art director: Yosef Khouwes | Copywriter: Bipin Jacob

26. Greenpeace – Give Me Your Hand

Advertising Agency: dentsu, Beijing, China

27. Volkswagen Golf GTI Bag

Advertising Agency: Agence V, Paris, France

28. Alinna

Agency: unknown

29. Meralco: Unplug to Save

Meralco, the Philippines’ top supplier of electricity, aimed to show goodwill to its customers by educating them on how electric consumption works and how to read electricity bills. (Advertising Agency: TBWA, Philippines)

30. Ann Summers – Kinky Whip

A guerrilla marketing concept for underwear and accessories shop. (Designed by guerrillaguru)

31. Condomi Erotic Shopping Bag

Advertising Agency: Draft FCB Kobza, Vienna, Austria

32. Shumensko Beer Crate

33. Stop’n grow: Nailbiter

Designed by Jung von Matt, Berlin
AK: Isn't it so cool aite? I sure proud bringing these shopping bag. Especially the gun. HAHAHAHA

Monday, July 1

45 Life Lessons, written by a 90 year old

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short not to enjoy it.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.
5. Don’t buy stuff you don’t need.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for things that matter.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye… But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful.  Clutter weighs you down in many ways.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It’s never too late to be happy.  But it’s all up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words, ‘In five years, will this matter?’
27. Always choose Life.
28. Forgive but don’t forget.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give Time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d
grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you think you need.
42. The best is yet to come…
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.