aXiao’s

Here is your horoscope for Wednesday, May 31:

Just because you’re opinionated, that doesn’t mean that you’re hard to get along with. In fact, if anything, it means that you’re a lot more interesting than someone who just goes along with everyone else.

Here is your horoscope for Thursday, June 1:

What’s between their ears is way hotter for you at the moment than any other, perhaps more conventional, measures of attractiveness. Anyone who can give your mind a challenge could win your heart.

I AM NOT A PAK TURUT!!

That’s the first thing I could recognize from the horoscope forecast of the day. I am not hard to get along with, I am just opinionated. I let my brain work. It’s such a waste to let it to rot (err, rot is not exactly a good word for it). Okay, put it in better words, to let it idle is not good. I like mental stimulation, IQ test, Sudoku, anything that need my brain to churn out solution. And to get the results it’s just so satisfying.

Okay, so it got me thinking (my brain’s churning now), is it good to be a yes person? I feel that sometimes you just need to get others to know what you are thinking. Your thoughts might not always be correct but it will lead others to see the matter from another perspective.

I have seen people who had been a yes person their whole life. At the end of the day, they tend to be grouchy and complain all the time. Nevertheless, I have seen people who made their point across by discussion, emails, arguments, you name it, even though sometimes the ideas never got approved, but then the satisfaction is there because it had been voiced out. Of course it is better if the opposite takes your words into action.

Lids For Limb

Collecting ring tabs is not hard. In fact it was a pretty easy task to do. All you have to do is just smile and ask, ‘Excuse me, may I have the ring tab please?’ It would work if you are trying to get say like 40, 50 piece of ring tabs. When your target is ONE KG, it’s a different story.

How many ring tabs are there in a kilogram anyway?

Let’s do the maths here.

10 tabs = 3 grams

X tabs = 1000 grams?

X = 3333.33 tabs

Why am I collecting ring tabs in the first place?

Pinky, Li-Ann and me, participants of Asiaworks Foundation Charity Basic in August 2005, were requested to carry out a project in return of attending the course. We met a lot of people from NGOs in Malaysia. One of them is Grace Tam from Girl Guide Malaysia. We got to know about their on-going project, Lids for Limb. So Pinky suggested why not we collect the ring tabs for them as our project. The three of us agreed and so the hunt for ring tabs had begun.

Two weeks into the collection, I got like 100 ring tabs. Yippee! What a good start. I felt that we could achieve the 1 kg in 2 months time. Wrong! I measured the weight of the 100 ring tabs. Guess what? It was a merely 30 grams. Jaw-dropped!

Gosh, how to increase the collection of the tabs? So I thought of where I could find canned drinks the most. Ha, RESTAURANTS! I started to notice the number of people ordering canned drinks during dinner. And it certainly looked promising to raise the pathetic amount of ring tabs I have collected.

One fine day, my housemates and I went to a particular restaurant around my favourite makan place and asked the boss whether we could collect the ring tabs. I was expecting him to shoo us away like an annoying fly on his doughnut. But surprisingly, he actually heard about the collection (well from other sources) and welcomed us to take the tabs. The boss actually taught us how to pluck the tabs off in a less painful way using the spanner. Turn, twist and off the tabs from the can. It seemed easy and quick. But after 10 big plastic bags containing hundreds of cans, it’s tiring and it was not a pretty sight. (Imagine, the cans had been kept for a few weeks before they were sold to recycling centre and they were slimy and smelly.) After 3 grueling hours with the slimy, smelly cans we manage to collect about 700 grams.

Now, the collection must go to a bigger scale. So I started to spread the news around. And of course people start asking. This is the tough part.

Why collect the tabs?

How is it going to help?

How they make the limbs?

Why only the tabs not the whole can?

Who is going to be beneficial from this collection?

Ring tab? What is it?

Artificial limbs for landmine victims in Cambodia were so expensive that Dr. Therdchai Jivacate started to make his own version of the limbs. He founded a formula of making the artificial limbs using recycled items, namely the ring tabs. The tabs are made of titanium, silicone and copper. The can is not usable as it is aluminium and is not strong enough. The exact formula of how the tabs are fused to make the limbs is not being enlightened to us. However, it is being explained that for every kilogram of the ring tabs, we could make a set of artificial limb for those in need.

Ring tabs collection in Malaysia started off in Penang as a Girl Guide’s Queen Guide project. Words spread around and it got to us through Girl Guide KL during the Asiaworks workshop. The artificial limbs made from the ring tab collection in Malaysia will be given out free to the poor amputees locally.

After 6 months of collecting the ring tabs from various sources, Li-Ann and I finally decided to put a closure to the collection on 4th March 2006. We submitted approximately 1.68kg of rings tabs to Girl Guide KL. Collecting thousands of ring tabs is not hard. You just need a strong will and a never-say-die attitude to make it happen. Sometimes, thinking out of the box will help too. Everything is possible.

This is an on-going project for the Girl Guides to help the unfortunates, please continue to collect the ring tabs and submit them to me. Together we can help other people with limbs missing to have a better quality of life.

p.s. People asked how many tabs I collected at 1.68kg. I tried to count but lost count after 500 tabs. 

When u r a kid, someone gave u lets say some toys & then suddenly taken it away from u, what would u do?  Most probably cry ur heart out loud.

Imagine, when u r an adult, someone gave u something, and u already spiritually & physically attached to it, and then suddely they took it away & tell u it was a mistake to be given to u in the first place, what would u do then?

Cry out loud?  Scream at the top of ur lungs?  Or u would fight it all out to get the stuff back?  Or just accept the fate without a fight?

What if u can’t get it back no matter how?  Would u gradually withdraw from that person?  Or just take it as a lesson and look out for similar traits in any person in the future?

But then again, how u know what future holds for u?  Unless u take a step forward. 

Cheers,

Axiao

Got this from a friend…Bloody funny..hahaha

Dear all,

My heartfelt appreciation goes out to all of you who have taken the time and trouble to send e-mails "forwards" over the past 12 months.

Thank you for making me feel safe, secure, blessed, healthy and ever sp SPECIAL.

Extra thanks to whoever sent me the email about rat crap in the glue on envelopes - because I now have to go get a wet towel every time I need to seal an envelope.

Also, I scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.

Because of your genuine concern, I no longer drink Coca Cola because I know it can remove toilet stains, which is not exactly an appealing characteristic.

I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle nfected with AIDS.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone might drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer eat KFC because their "chickens" are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.

Thanks to you, I have learned that God only answers my prayers if I forward an email to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl on the internet who is about to die in the hospital (for the 1,387,258th time).

I no longer have any money at all in fact - but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special on-line email program.

Yes, I want to thank you all so much for looking out for me that I will now return the favour!

If you don’t send this to at least 144,000 people in the next 7 minutes, a large pigeon with a wicked case of diarrhoea will land on your head at 5:00 PM (EST) this afternoon. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour’s ex-mother-in-law’s second husband’s cousin’s beautician. DO IT NOW OR ELSE!!!

And have a nice day!