Nice Photos from Rainforest - These are My Collection for Rainforest Wallpaper
Nice view from rainforest mountains and beach,
Nice view from rainforest mountains and beach,
Friday, May 28, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Band Aid History
In Outdoor world band aid is like sanitary pad to women, you need it when you are at time of need. Scratch, blister, cut are common for those hiking in rainforest. And it could be very useful and flexible too... just combine it together to create a bigger plaster to cover a bigger wound / cut - this is called invention. Just as like how band aid was first introduced in this world .. it is result of pure creativity and invention.. interesting enough for me to share its history here...
Earle Dickson, his clumsy wife, and the story of the BAND-AID (IN CASE YOU’VE FORGOTTEN): It’s that thing that usually sports a lovely dinosaur print while clinging to the knees of tow-headed grade-school ruffians. BAND-AIDS are also very handy for adult injuries, but you never really see anyone older than 13 wearing them—even the ones without cartoons. BAND-AIDS, it seems, are something relegated to the backwaters of childhood. Now that you’re a big kid, you’re far too cool to display to the world that you can, in fact, be injured. But your foolish pride is single-handedly diminishing the importance of this invention, and contributing to the downfall of one of America’s greatest achievements. Don’t you think it’s time to heal this wound?YOU SHOULD THANK: hardworking Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson … and his wife. After all, it’s like they say; behind every great man is a woman who burns herself a lot.
IT ALL STARTED: in 1920, when Dickson wed his sweetheart, Josephine, and quickly discovered she wasn’t exactly Little Mary Homemaker. Turns out, she had a rather unnerving habit of kitchen klutziness. Every day, Dickson would come home to find another cut or burn that needed patching up. He was sympathetic at first, but as time passed, the score increased to Kitchen: 500, Josephine: 0, and he grew more and more frustrated. Finally, Dickson came up with a way for his wife to fix her wounds without having to wait on him. He took a roll of Johnson & Johnson surgical tape and spaced out squares of gauze down the length of it. To keep the tape from sticking to itself, he covered it in a layer of removable crinoline. Forever after, when Josephine injured herself, she simply cut a length from the roll and patched up the damage. Thus, BAND-AIDS were born. No word on the final outcome of Josephine vs. Kitchen, but we’re hoping no news is good news.
Credit to Mental Floss
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Help the outdoor industry and win Hi-Tec footwear
Help the outdoor industry and win Hi-Tec footwear
Outdoor headlines
25 May 2010 14:39
The Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) is the leading trade body for manufacturers, retailers, outdoor centres and other organisations that provide products and services for the outdoor leisure pursuits market in the UK. One of the OIA’s key objectives is to communicate regularly with you, the consumer, in order to inform and improve the outdoor industries for your benefit and better meet your requirements in the future.
Use this link to complete the OIA’s latest survey, which asks for your views and attitudes towards product purchase, and gauges your understanding and usage of outdoor centres and activity holidays. The survey only takes a few minutes to complete and everyone who does so will be entered into a prize draw to win a pair of the latest HI-TEC walking boots. This is your chance to express your opinions and help shape the development of the UK’s outdoor industry – so please do get involved.
To find out more about the OIA and what it does, visit http://www.outdoorindustriesassociation.co.uk/.
Outdoor headlines
25 May 2010 14:39
The Outdoor Industries Association (OIA) is the leading trade body for manufacturers, retailers, outdoor centres and other organisations that provide products and services for the outdoor leisure pursuits market in the UK. One of the OIA’s key objectives is to communicate regularly with you, the consumer, in order to inform and improve the outdoor industries for your benefit and better meet your requirements in the future.
Use this link to complete the OIA’s latest survey, which asks for your views and attitudes towards product purchase, and gauges your understanding and usage of outdoor centres and activity holidays. The survey only takes a few minutes to complete and everyone who does so will be entered into a prize draw to win a pair of the latest HI-TEC walking boots. This is your chance to express your opinions and help shape the development of the UK’s outdoor industry – so please do get involved.
To find out more about the OIA and what it does, visit http://www.outdoorindustriesassociation.co.uk/.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Exercise Anorexia - Way How To Lose Weight
Exercise Anorexia - A Way How To lose weight
2 important ways to loss weight that almost everyone know: -exercise and diet, don't have to mention rite? but it is easier said than done... It is ok for me to exercise even not regularly as what should to be, but to diet? It’s hard to suppress my craving for food especially when group out for breakfast, lunch and supper is part of socialize activities. Take out situation during fasting month when some factors can motivate, and when others also fasting.. so it is easy to fast one whole day other than that, “diet” is an alien word. One way to refrain from food without to call it as diet is by through exercise, especially for a macho man out there to let others know that you are on diet is a No No. only girl diet k. Have you all ever feel so tired after exercise that you simply don’t have appetite for food.. After evening futsal normally I would just skip dinner and enough with fruit or light one while on normal day when not exercise my fuel tank just crave for food, so my way to control weight or to lose weight is through exercise then you will naturally eat less or don’t exercise and will end up eat more. How this will explain? During exercise hormone peptide YY which suppressed appetite increase and hormone ghrelin which stimulates appetite dropped. Aerobic exercise is the best to increase hormone peptide YY and decrease hormone ghrelin while non aerobic exercise such as weight lifting decrease hormone ghrelin but don’t show significant increase of hormone peptide YY.
Study by School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK have found their hypothesis that acute exercise is able to produce a short-term negative EB and, if sustained in the long-term, may have an important role in weight maintenance. The phenomenon of ‘exercise-induced anorexia’ may be potentially linked to the increased PYY, GLP-1 and PP levels observed during exercise. [2]
References
1. Effect of peptide YY3-36 on food intake in humans. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16285944
2. Effects of exercise on gut peptides, energy intake and appetiteCatia Martins, Linda M Morgan, Stephen R Bloom1 and M Denise Robertson http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/
run forest run!!!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
MOUNT KINABALU MALAYSIA
south peak
CLIMB MOUNT KINABALU SABAH MALAYSIA
At more than 4000 meters height. Mount Kinabalu in Sabah is not only the highest point in Malaysia, it is also the highest point in South East Asia. This is one of must climb mountain in Malaysia for its beauty and challange. I climbed this mountain in Mac 2005 and truly astounded by its unique beauty. The climb would take two days preferably. It include spend the one night at Laban Rata hut before summiting in the early hours of the morning in time for sunrise on Borneo’s highest point. The climb is not particularly technical but it is real test for fitness and endurance. However it does offer opportunity for wall climbing enthusiast to test skill on various kind of rock face on the granite plateau. Check this couple wall climbing experience around Gurkha Hut - http://joannestamplis.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/borneo-part-2-mt-kinabalu/ .
Shadow of Low's Peak fall on Horizon as sun rise overThis is the mountain that gives you opportunity to experience different kind of climate as your climb increase along the trail. From thick rainforest with high tree gradually changes to pine tree and shorter bonsai, small orchid and finally barren granite at the final part of the mountain on the summit plateau. The temperature gradually drops at higher altitude and with sun move down for the night. For local climber this is only mountain in Malaysia that could give you altitude sickness. Steep ascend from Timpohon base camp and high gain of altitude in short period could give problem for some as your body don’t have enough time to acclimatize. From my experience dizziness that someone could feel as reaching Laban Rata, Panar Laban or Gunting Lagadan could be relieved by taking hot shower, not need for Panadol or aspirin.
The trek is clear and properly maintained. Proper stairs even built on certain part of the trail. You could climb this mountain in stylish way in your new designer sport pant and flashy sport shoes as it’s won’t likely that your pant got shred by thorny rattan, got stuck in mud or crawling for way unless you drop yourself on the slippery trek. Bear in mind that the trail is constant ascend from the start, all up no down and not much flat part. There are various routes to Climb Mount Kinabalu which is differ in term of difficulty level and day taken and require some technical climbing. For normal climber it is better to stick on the commercialize route. There are also various mountain hut on the plateau such as Gurkha hut that reaching these huts would require different pass than the normal one.
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| At Panar Laban Hut, Gunting Lagadan Hut is on the background |
The trek is clear and properly maintained. Proper stairs even built on certain part of the trail. You could climb this mountain in stylish way in your new designer sport pant and flashy sport shoes as it’s won’t likely that your pant got shred by thorny rattan, got stuck in mud or crawling for way unless you drop yourself on the slippery trek. Bear in mind that the trail is constant ascend from the start, all up no down and not much flat part. There are various routes to Climb Mount Kinabalu which is differ in term of difficulty level and day taken and require some technical climbing. For normal climber it is better to stick on the commercialize route. There are also various mountain hut on the plateau such as Gurkha hut that reaching these huts would require different pass than the normal one.
at beautiful Mount Kinabalu Cliff on the way down
View Laban Rata Hut, Panar Laban and Gunting Lagadan Hut from Sattelite View Here. Click " Earth" for 3D view on Google Earth, Click "Ter" to view terrain / topo map on Mount Kinabalu or "Sat" for sattelite view
View Laban Rata Hut in a larger map
Visit Official Website of Sabah Tourism Agency for detail information on Mount Kinabalu and other actractive places in Sabah Borneo
Other links for information of Mount Kinabalu
Globetrotter Visitor’s Guide Kinabalu Park, by Anthea Phillipps
sunrise at Mount Kinabalu peak
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Outdoors Parang Knife
Parang Knife For Outdoors Activity
What is the best Parang for outdoors activity or survival tools? for me it should not have a sharp pointed end blade like golok.. why? it is for safety purpose. The main purpose of having pointed sharp end is for skinning animal, but for outdoors activity the main purpose is for chopping and cutting heavy trunk and light thorny palm leaves or rattan in making your way through abandoned trail. Even not having sharp pointed end as golok this Parang of Kota Belud Sabah is the most suitable outdoors parang for mountaineering and outdoor activity. Its blade feel stable and balance, its slight heavy sweet spot and sharp too, made cutting so easy. Just choose for a small size so it will not be too heavy to carry on your backpack or just hang it beside your waist
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