Billi's fried nasi lemak a hit

KUALA TERENGGANU: The "muhibah" spirit has cooked up the perfect recipe for chef Billy Chua.

He grew up in a village and had many Malay friends. Years ago, he came up with a dish of his own called Nasi Lemak Goreng. It is a combination of two popular dishes which is Chinese fried rice and nasi lemak. He said that he really love nasi lemak. He always eat nasi lemak when he was a child. One day, in his teen years, he got hungry and the only food at home was some nasi lemak. He got an idea to fry that food and he satisfied with that fried food. He added some ingredients to get its favour. For years, he cooked the dish at home, but early this year he added it to the menu at his eatery, Billi Kopitiam, and it has become a hit, selling an average of 100 plates a day. His customers always says that his nasi lemak is unique and also want to know how to cook it.

nst online >> local news

2008/10/21

Student loses hand in parang attack

KOTA BARU: A 17-year-old student, due to sit his Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination next month, had his right hand severed in a parang attack on Sunday evening.

The victim,Ahmad Mustakim Ariff Jusoh, a Form Five student of SMK Puteri, was on the way to his Wakaf Mek Zainab home on a motorcycle, after buying a burger from a nearby stall, when he was attacked by two youths on a motorcycle about midnight. Luckily, his severed hand fell into the front basket of the motorcycle and doctors at Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital in Kubang Kerian were able to re-attach it. His mother said that ahmad mustakim claimed that one of the attackers was a Thai citizen, his closed friend. This incident occured because of the loss of a motorcycle belonging to the Thai youth. The thai youth accused this student of a theft. This unlicky student is not an A-student but he is keep on learning. He wanted to help his family.

nst online >> local news

2008/10/21

Jeweller's wife shot dead during car chase

nst online >> local news

PASIR PUTIH: A 30-year-old woman travelling by car with her husband was shot dead yesterday morning after they did not heed a warning by three men in another car to stop.

Ayuni Hasyim and her husband were travelling to their jewellary shop in Jerteh, Terengganu from their home at Bachok. She was shot in her right shoulder and died on the arrival at the Bachok clinic. This tragedy happened around 8am at Cabang Tiga Kuala Semerak.

What is defibrillation?

Defibrillation is the definitive treatment for the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. It consists of delivering a therapeutic dose of electrical energy to the affected heart with a device called a defibrillator. This depolarizes a critical mass of the heart muscle, terminates the arrhythmia and allows normal sinus rhythm to be re-established by the body’s natural pacemaker, in the sinoatrial node of the heart. It can be external, transvenous or implanted depending on the type of the device used.

Estidotmy 24 September 2008

What is gamma knife?

A gamma knife is a device used to treat brain tumors with a high dose of radiation therapy in one day. The device was invented by Lars Leksell a Swedish neurosurgeon in 1967 at the karolinska institute in Sweden. The gamma knife device contains 201 cobalt-60 sources of approximately 30 curies each, placed in a circular array in a heavily shielded assembly. The device aims gamma radiation through a target point in the patient’s brain. The patient wears a specialized helmet that is surgically fixed to their skull so that the brain tumor remains stationary at the target point of the gamma rays.

Estidotmy 24 September 2008

What is bioengineering?

Biomedical engineering (BME) is the application of engineering principles and techniques to medical field. It combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to help improve the patient health care and the quality of life of individuals. As a new discipline, much of work in biomedical engineering consists of research and development, covering an array of field: bioinformatics, medical imaging, image processing, physiological signal processing, biomechanics, systems analysis and 3D modelling. Examples of concrete applications of biomedical engineering are the development and manufacture of biocompatible prostheses, medical devices, diagnostic devices and imaging equipment.

Estidotmy 24 September 2008

How does the roller coaster work?

What you may not realize as you’re cruising down the track at 100 kilometre hour is that the coaster has no engine. The car is pulled to the top of the first hill at the beginning of the ride, but after that the coaster must complete the ride on its own. You are not being propelled around the track by a motor or pulled by a hitch. The conservation of potential energy to kinetic energy is what drives the roller coaster and all of the kinetic energy you need for the ride is present once the coaster descends the first hill. Once you are underway, different type of wheels help keep the ride smooth. Running wheels guide the coaster on the track. Friction wheels control lateral motion (movement to either side of the track). A final set of wheels keeps the coaster on the track even it is inverted. Compressed air brakes stop the car as the ride ends.

What is difference between mass and weight?

Mass is the amount of stuff in something. Weight is a measure of the amount of gravity acting on the stuff. If you were travel from earth to the moon, you would have the same mass but different weight. Why? Because the amount of stuff in you is always the same. The moon however has less gravitational force than the earth so you would weigh less. In fact, you’d only weigh 16 percent of what you weigh in earth.

Why coffee getting hotter after stir with milk?

Stirring a coffee involves a transfer of energy from you to the coffee. That’s because we are doing physical work on the coffee by pushing it around as it moves in the direction of your push. What began as chemical energy in your body becomes thermal energy in the coffee. That said, the amount of thermal energy you can transfer to the coffee with any reasonable amount of stirring is pretty small and you’d lose patience with the process long before you achieved any noticeable rise in the coffee temperature. The effect that you notice is more one of mixing than of heating. Until you mix the milk into the coffee, you may have hot and cold spots in your cup and you may notice that cold spots most strongly.

Why do turtles go so slowly?

Turtles are slow because they don’t have to go fast! Most turtles are herbivores, which mean they eat plants. Plants don’t run, so they are fairly easy to eat. Also, they have thick shells to protect them from prediators. If you have ever picked up a turtle, you have seen how they can tuck in their heads and feet. Physically, they are slow because they have pretty slow metabolisms which mean their bodies process energy slowly. But animals with slow metabolisms often have longer lives. Some turtles live for more than one hundred years! Slow and steady also wins the race.

Do eyelashes grow back like your hair does?

Eyelashes do grow back-it usually takes two to three months to grow a new one. Your eyelashes protect your eyes from dust and light, and are important part of your integumentary systems, which included your hair, nails and skin. Did you know that as a human we have over 100,000 hairs on your head? Also this may sound gross, but there are tiny insects that live in your eyelashes called demodicids that are eat dead skin. They are perfectly natural and helps keep your eyelashes clean.

Why do people get goosebumps?

Our body is hairy and goosebumps have a lot to do with hair, muscles and skin. All over your body, you have tons of small hair. And underneath the skin, there are tiny muscles attached to the ase of these hairs. You get goosebumps when these tiny muscles pull the hairs until they are standing straight up at attention and your skin bunches together into little bumps. Generally, you get goosebumps when you are colds but sometimes you can get them when you are frightened or something gives you ‘the chills’

What happens when you have an asthma attack?

If you have asthma, however, taking in air can be perilous challenge. In fact, it can make you feel like you are drowning. Asthma is a lung disease that involves having overly sensitive tissues in your airways. These tissues are always inflamed, even if you don’t feel irritated. Dust, pollen, mould spores, and even cold air can trigger reactions in these tissues, making the bronchial tubes swell, excrete thick mucus and plug smaller air passageways. This can make your chest feel tight and cause coughing, wheezing and breathlessness for several hours unless you use special medication. Researchers says that people in crowded cities are particularly at risk for asthma attacks because they are exposed to more icky allergens like dust mites, air pollution and cockroach droppings. While people don’t really outgrow asthma, about half of all kids who have it will experience few, if any, symptoms by the time they become teens. That is because small amounts of narrowing have less impact on airways as they grow larger.

Why are adults stinkier than kids?

Humans are a collection of wondrous and different odours! When humans reach their long-awaited adolescence, they begin to stink in entirely new and even stinkier ways! All over your skin – the soles of your feet, the palms of your hands, your forehead – you have small pores that ooze sweat from glands underneath the skin. Why? Because sweat is the wonderful natural air conditioning that keeps animals like you humans cool. So, what happens to the sweat? Some gets evaporated quickly, and some sits around long enough for bacteria to begin to gather. These microscopic living things just love to munch on dead skin cells and some of the ingredients in sweat. Sometimes, mould, fungus and other microbes decide to join them and cause stinky shoes, stinky feet and stinky humans. Now when humans reach adolescence, they begin a second kind of sweat.

What makes hair curly or straight?

You inherit from your parents genes which help determine whether your hair will be straight, curly, wavy, frizzy, thick or thin. But what actually makes your hair wave, or frizz or lie there bone straight is the shape of the hair itself. If you were able to cut a hair in half and look at it sideways you would notice that curly hair is shaped like rectangle, wavy hair like oval and straight hair like a circle. And that shapes determines whether your hair hangs down straight or spirals in the circle or waves in a curve.

what is biomass?do you know what is it?..

Biomass is any organic materials made from plants or animals. Domestic biomass resources include agricultural and forestry residues, municipal solid waste and industrial waste. It can be converted to other usable forms of energy and is an attractive petroleum alternative for a n umber of reasons. First, it is renewable resources that is more evenly distributed over the earth’s surface than are finite energy sources and may be exploited using more environmentally friendly technologies. Agriculture and forestry residues, and in particular residues from paper mills, are the most common biomass resources used for generating electricity and power, including industrial process heat and steam, as well as for a variety of bio based products. Use of liquid transportation fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel, however, currently derived primarily from agricultural crops, is increasing dramatically.

estidotmy

30 julai 2008

what is biopower??..

Biopower is the use of biomass to generate electricity, or heat and steam required for the operation of a refinery. Biopower system technologies include direct-firing, cofiring, gasification, pyrolysis, and anaerobic digestion. Most power plants use direct-fired systems. They burn biomass feedstock directly to produce steam. This steam drives a turbine, which turns a generator that converts the power into electricity. In some biomass industries, the spent steam from the power plant is also used for manufacturing processes or to heat buildings. Such combined heat and power systems greatly increase overall energy efficiency. Paper mills, the largest current producers of biomass power, generate electricity or process heat as part of the process for recovering pulping chemicals.

estidotmy

30 july 2008

VINT CERF - FATHER OF THE INTERNET

“The net will stop being a part of the telephone network. Instead the telephone network will become a part of the net.”- Cerf

Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut). As a graduate student at UCLA, he was involved in the early design of the ARPANET. He was present when the first IMP was delivered to UCLA. He is called the father of the internet. He earned this nickname as one of the co-authors of TCP/IP-the protocol that allowed ARPA to connect various independent networks together to form one large network of networks-the internet. He headed a group in 1973 with Bob Kahn that invented the TCP/IP protocol. He joined the board of the internet corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN in 1999 and is currently serving a term until 2007. In 2001, he was awarded the Strowger Award from Ohio University’s J.W. McClure School of communication systems management. In October 2002,he was awarded (together with Bob Kahn, Larry Roberts and Tim Berners-Lee) Premio Principle de Asturias de Investigacion Cientifica, the most distinguished Spanish award. In early 2005 it was announced that Cerf, along with Robert Kahn were named the ACM’s 2004 Turing Award winners for their work on the design of internet protocols.

ANOTHER POLICEMAN ARRESTED AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR DRUGS

NST online >> local news
2008/08/25


KOTA BHARU : Barely 24 hours after state police Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi warned of stern action against anymore of his officers or personnel being involved in drug abuse,another policeman was arrested for the same offence yesterday.

The officer-in-charge for the test detected there was some drugs in the 26-year-old lance corporal.
He was then detained and remanded for 4 days. The latest arrested brings the number of policemen who has positive drug test increase into 5. Another 4 policemen was arrested last week after their urine tested positive for illegal drugs.

HOW DO SHELLS GROW???

Many animals with shells are born with
a small shell. As the animal get older,
its shell grows bigger.

Shelled animals get calcium carbonates
and other minerals from water and food
they eat.

They have special organs that turn
the minerals into shell material that
they secretes in layers.

Example;oyster makes a pearl in the same way
as it makes its own shell.

estidotmy
30 MAC 2005

WHY DO PIPES BREAK WHEN WATER FREEZES??

The pipes break because water expands when
it freezes. Its mean that water can
break steel. That's exactly right.

The molecular structure of water causes it
to expand rather than contract(getting smaller),
when exposed to cold temperatures.

So,the pipe is full of water when it's liquid,
then the water freezes and becomes ice,which
takes up more space.

Something has to give,so the pipe breaks.

estidotmy
28 SEPT 2005

WORRIED ABOUT GETTING SUNBUR??

SLIP,SLOP and SLAP!!!

That's not just talk,it's good advice!
slip,slop and slap are 3 S's that every
sun-lovin's camper should know.

First,slip on a shirt(longsleeved if possible)
to protect vulnerable areas like your shoulder
and back.

Then get sloppy and slop on lots of sunscreen
with an SPF(sun protection factor) of 15 or
higher.

Finally,slap on a wide-brimmed hat and you will
keep 70 percent of the sun's rays off your face
and neck.

Try it to know the truth..

estidotmy
29 SEPT 2004

how does solar energy work??

We convert sunlight into electricity using
machines called solar photovoltaic cells.

These machines are thin,metallic plates
that transform the heat from the sun into
electricity that we can use to power our homes.

These machines come in many shapes and sizes.
They are found in calculators,space satellites,
emergency roadside telephones and even billboards.

estidotmy
30 NOV 2005

when sons are a menace to their mothers

NST online>>local news
2008/08/23

2 mens are in trouble for threatening their mothers

In shah alam,a 43 year-old man told her mother he would
bury her alive when her mother advised him to stop his
habitual drinking. He told his mother 'i will use a hoe
to dig a hole,bury you and then set up a tent outside the
house and let people know that you are died'.
The unlucky mother stayed in a relative's house until
taken to the police station to lodge a report about his
son. His son was arrested the day after the incident.

In dungun,a man grabbed a parang and chased his mother
after she refused to give him money to buy drugs.
Her son want RM300 but she denied the request and
because of that,her son threatened her with parang.
Hearing her cries, the woman's other children, who
are staying nearby,came to her aid and the man fled.
the police still looking for the addict which is
believed to have gone into hidding.

kedah won!!!

kedah won in the malaysia cup final this night.
kedah which is faced selangor won 3-2 in that match.
congratulation for the team...
kedah,you're the best!!!

investigation into missing syabu concluded,2 men arrested

NST online>frontpage
august 18,2008

two men were arrested because of the missing 5 kg of syabu from the johor criminal investigation department (CID) evidence room on july 31. The 2 suspects aged 23 and 40 were flagged down at the roadblock at north-bound. They tried to bribe the policemen who is manning the roadblock RM450 to avoid the speeding ticket but they failed and were arrested.
White powder in 2 small plastic container,2 bottle of brown liquid believed syabu and 67 erimin 5 pills were found in suspect's car. The suspects believed have their own previous criminal records.

kedah vs selangor

NST online>sport
2008/08/18

kedah confirmed their spot in malaysia cup final despite losing 0-2 to terengganu in their 2nd leg semi-final match at stadium sultan mizan zainal abidin in gong badak.

in their 1st leg, kedah won the match 3-0 but in their 2nd leg, they lost 0-2. eventhough they lost, they still get to go to final based on aggregate 3-2 faced with selangor,which is also lost 0-1 in their 2nd leg to johor fc but qualified 2-1 in aggregate.

what makes a good power point presentation??..

to makes a good power point presentation,
-must have introduction
-must have attention gatter
-must have conclusion
-use one point in one slide
-use suitable fonts
-use less word in one slide
-use many picture in presentation
-not crowded with many data
-not use many colour
-not use too many animation

what makes a good presenter??

to make a good presenter,
-don't say ops
-don't say sorry if you make mistake
-don't give your back to audience
-good in eye contact with audience
-good in body language
-know who is your audience
-know the props
-know what you speak
-use clear and louder voice
-use simple word

Why don’t we use renewable energy all the time??..

Unlike natural gas and coal, we can’t store up wind and sunshine to use whenever we need to make more electricity. If the wind doesn’t blow or the sun hides behind clouds, there wouldn’t be enough power for everyone. Another reason we used fossil fuels like coal and natural gas is because they are cheaper. Its costs more money to make electricity from wind and most people don’t want to pay more on their monthly utility bills.

How does solar panel work?

The solar collectors we see on rooftops use a process called photovoltaic. Silicon, an element found in sand, is used to convert sunlight directly into energy. If we have a solar-powered watch or calculator, we’re using photovoltaics!

NST online 26/07/2008

baby's death : family blames doctor..

This incident occured in ipoh. The baby was born early tuesday morning and discharged on wednesday morning. After returned home one hour,the 2-day-old baby girl screaming and gasping for breath. The family took her to hospital and arrived about 10.30p.m. The paediatrician attended to the baby at 11p.m. and said that the baby's condition was serious. The baby's family wanted to take the baby to general hospital but noticed that the intensive care unit was full. At 6.30p.m. on thursday,the machines were not longer recording the baby's vital signs. The doctor denied the baby was died until her family threatened to take the baby to raja permaisuri bainun hospital. The unlucky baby was declared dead at 7.40p.m. on thursday by the paediatrician who recorded septicaemia as the cause of death.

sleep??..

What is it in brain that make us sleep better during the night than during the day??.

We have a biological “clock” in our brain. This controls your cycles of sleep and wakefulness. Most people are “set” to sleep at night and wake during day. This is because people are daytime creatures. Night living animals have different cycles. We can change our sleep cycles over time and when that happens we will sleep just as well anytime.

father of polymer - HERMANN STAUDINGER

Born in Worms, Germany in 1881 and receiving his PhD from the University of Halle in 1903, he had mainly been interested in ketene chemistry and only beginning his investigations on natural rubber in 1910. This new line of research led him to propose that polymers were made of macromolecules in 1917. The idea was controversial for reasons both scientific and political. Meanwhile, some scientists felt that there was an upper limit to the numbers of atoms that could be joined together in a single molecule. With dogged persistence he championed his theory, and in the 1930s the work of scientists like Herman Mark and Wallace Carothers would confirm Staudinger’s theory. In 1953, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. He died in 1965.

estidotmy

28 july 2004

who are materials scienties??what do they do??...

We are probably heard about a chemist, a biologist and a physicist, but have we ever heard of a materials scientist? Probably not. One reason is that materials science covers a huge range of activity and touches on many different fields - including chemistry, biology and physics. Sometimes materials scientists are called ceramic or polymer engineers or metallurgists and we can find them working in the industries, labs and universities all over the world. But diverse as they are, materials scientists look at materials from a unified point of view: they look for connections between the underlying structure of material, its properties, how processing changes it, and what the material can do – its performance. In the past, people used and changed materials by trial and error. And they worked on a big, visible scale – for example, heating then rapidly cooling chunks of iron to make it harder. Modern materials scientists manipulate and change materials based on fundamental understandings on how the materials are put together, often on the invisibly – tiny scales of atoms.

estidotmy

28 september 2005

FRIENDSHIP SONG (FUNMUCH.COM)

i like listening music..before that i must read the lyric first..
after i tried to find a new lyric,i found this lyric..its about friendship..
even i didn't hear that song but that lyric makes me feel like
"wow,it's good..."..
for me,friend like a second life..who us without friend...
people can know our attitude based on our friend...
even without seeing them,we still remember them..
try to maintain our friendship...
we love her,she love us..

Because You Loved Me

For all those times you stood by me
For all the truth that you made me see
For all the joy you brought to my life
For all the wrong that you made right
For every dream you made come true
For all the love I found in you
I'll be forever thankful baby
You're the one who held me up
Never let me fall
You're the one who saw me through through it all


You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn't speak
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything I am
Because you loved me


You gave me wings and made me fly
You touched my hand I could touch the sky
I lost my faith, you gave it back to me
You said no star was out of reach
You stood by me and I stood tall
I had your love I had it all
I'm grateful for each day you gave me
Maybe I don't know that much
But I know this much is true
I was blessed because I was loved by you


You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn't speak
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything I am
Because you loved me


You were always there for me
The tender wind that carried me
A light in the dark shining your love into my life
You've been my inspiration
Through the lies you were the truth
My world is a better place because of you


You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn't speak
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything I am
Because you loved me


I'm everything I am
Because you loved me

Boy dies in 13th floor fall

NST 21/07/2008

PUTRAJAYA: Four-year-old Nik Mohd Danial Ashraf Nik Zainal fell to his death from the 13th floor of the Precinct 9 Phase 11 apartments here yesterday.

it is a sad story...
about a 4-year-old children that fell from 13th floor..
The boy had stepped out from the lift with his brother to visit a relative, before he fell over the railings in the 11.30am incident..