A Six-year old lives alone in China

Will your children be impressed by this? can they do it?


Subject: 6-year-old lives alone in China


A hillslope overgrown with tall grass is A-Long's playground. The village committee sometimes send him living supplies to make sure he does not starve or feel cold.


A-Long demonstrates Chinese kung-fu.It is hard to imagine that the cheerful child has lost both his parents.

Ah Long carrying firewoods down the mountain path to his home

A six-year-old HIV carrier, has been living alone since his parents died of AIDS.



The boy, known as Ah Long, does his own washing, cooking, studying and he also rears some chicken.



He lives in his parents' house at the foothill village of Malu Mountain in Liuzhou in Guangxi Province, China.


Ah Long has an 84-year-old grandmother, who visits him quite frequently and cooks for him.


The granny has also planted some vegetables near the house for Ah Long.


Ah Long making a fire to cook dinner




Ah Long does know what AIDS is.


All he knew was that his friends never want to be near him, doctors did not want to treat his wounds and his only family member – his granny – refused to live with him.

He was also rejected by the nearby primary school.

The only companion the boy has is a dog called Lao Hei.

Ah Long playing with Lao Hei in front of their house

Due to his complicated family background, the Welfare Department has declined to take care of the boy.

Ah Long studying in his room alone


He receives 70 yuan (RM33) monthly subsistence allowance from the civil bureau but it is not enough.

After Ah Long's story was published in Chinese newspapers, a couple announced that they would adopt the boy.

However, it has yet to materialise.
More pictures of him.


A-Long lives in a hut on Malu Mountain that has no windows and leaks when it rains. His new blanket was given to him by a kind-hearted soul.

Six-year-olds like him normally have many mischievious playmates, but not A-Long.His parents suddenly moved to the mountain far away from the village.

A-Long has had his dog "Lao Hei" for a few years. Lao-Hei is at his side whenever A-Long is up and about. They are each other's closest friends.


Mrs Li gave a basketball to A-Long. He plays with it for an entire afternoon on the uneven, dusty ground. Social workers sometimes visit to give him cookies and crackers.


A-Long's grandmother visits him to bring him donations from the village committee. He will receive 70 yuan from November onwards. The amount increases to 100 yuan from next year onwards.


His grandmother visits every few days. A-Long shows her his lunch of noodles.She wanted to send him to attend first grade, but the rest of the parents protested when they learnt of his condition.


A-Long wanders along the hills nearby. Social workers say that it is still best for relatives to adopt him.


Despite his small stature, A-Long frequently explores the hills nearby. He brings home firewood whenever he sees logs on the ground. At six years old, he has learnt to cook, wash, rear chickens and gather firewood.


Boredom is a constant enemy for A-Long.Only when his grandmother visits does he have company.



His parents built this hut six years ago, but their death left A-Long all alone. At six years old, he has learnt to cook, wash, rear chickens and gather firewood.


A-Long starts a fire to cook dinner. A few broken branches and some old newspaper later, a fire starts. Kind-hearted people who wanted to adopt him after his parents' death backed out after they learnt of his condition.


He thinks that he leads a good life because he has Lao Hei. Even though his family has met with misfortune, A-Long has not shed any tears.


A-Long hugs Lao Hei in front of his hut. Lao Hei sometimes sleep with him and guards the door.


His dinner consists of rice and vegetables without salt or any other garnishes. Leftovers are given to Lao Hei.. Recently, A-Long received 20kg of rice and 5kg of noodles from a kind-hearted person.


A-Long goes on guard whenever strangers go past. He is afraid they will steal his chickens.


In the evening when the temperature dips, A-Long boils water and takes a bath in the chilly wind.


A-Long kicks a ball around in the front yard.


A-Long sustained this injury when cooking dinner. A large burn scab covers his left hand between the thumb and index finger.



The future is unclear for A-Long. No one knows what will happen.

THE INABILITY TO RECONCILE REALITY AND EXPECTATION RESULTS IN SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.........SO

If you see someone without a smile today give them one of yours!







Warm Regard, Sara Pandian

3 Ways Moms Neglect Their Health

Women are notorious for putting everyone else’s health and happiness ahead of their own, and a recent CafeMom survey on women’s health habits found that, no surprise, mothers are especially self-sacrificing. I get the desire to take care of your loved ones—I’m a mom, too—but it’s important to remember that taking care of you is not selfish. Hey, you can’t look after those around you if you’re run down or under the weather, right? (As the airlines say, put on your own oxygen mask before you assist others with theirs!) Here are three top ways women admitted to neglecting their well-being in the survey, and 13 super simple ways for putting the focus back on you. You deserve it!

Forty-four percent of women admitted they rarely or never exercise.

One of the best ways to make exercise a regular habit is to choose activities you truly enjoy: The more fun you have while doing, well, anything, the more likely you are to keep doing it! Only you can decide which types of workouts or fitness classes belong on your “do” and “never again!” lists, but here are five totally gym-free ways to get your heart pumping, burn 200 calories and have a blast, all at the same time:
• Meet in a dark alley. Round up your pals and head to the bowl-o-rama. Even if you have a light beer, you’ll still strike 200 calories in 90 minutes. (Skip the beer, and you can do it in about an hour.)
• Leave town. Book a spontaneous getaway. You’ll burn 200 calories before you even arrive by taking 4 minutes total to carry your suitcases to the car, then to baggage drop (hauling a 25-pound load burns 4.8 calories a minute), then reading your issue of SELF on the plane for three hours—sitting simmers a little more than 1 calorie a minute. Bon voyage!
• Master the “Single Ladies” dance (finally!). No doubt, this song will be played at every bar, club, wedding and bar mitzvah you attend for the rest of your life. Learn the moves! Warm up like Beyoncé with pliés: Stand with heels together, toes out. Keeping your back straight, lower into a squat for eight counts. View the video on YouTube and practice for 29 minutes, or about nine times through the 3:13 song—you’ll know the steps, the lyrics and how it feels to be Sasha Fierce!

Forty-seven percent of moms said they don’t make eating right a top priority.

Here’s the great news: You don’t have to totally overhaul your diet to improve your health, boost energy or lose unwanted pounds. In fact, experts say that just a few little changes here and there can make a significant difference. Try adopting one of these eat-smart habits each week:
• Table your meals. As much sitting as we do, we rarely stay put during dinner. Fifty-nine percent of young women eat on the run, a study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association finds, and on-the-go eaters consume more total fat, as well as more soda and fast food. The less distracted and stressed you are when you dine, the more efficiently your body absorbs nutrients. Turn off the tube, step away from your desk and park the car before you dig in.
• Fuel up in the morning, not at night. A car needs gas when it’s hitting the road, not when it’s sitting in the garage—so why do we have our biggest meal when the only energy burner on the agenda is working the remote? Instead, aim for a 550-calorie breakfast, a 500-calorie lunch, a 450-calorie dinner and a 100-calorie snack. “If you overeat at night, you’re less likely to burn off the calories,” says Susan Mitchell, Ph.D., coauthor of Fat Is Not Your Fate.
• Don’t buy food where you buy tires. In our time-crunched life, it’s tempting to grab groceries at the pump or in a store where you can get a giant box of cereal along with an ottoman. But for the healthiest food at the fairest price, visit your neighborhood grocery store. A study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that convenience stores charge more for nutritious fare than supermarkets do.
• Drop out of the clean plate club. Once you slice and sauté your way to a fabulous feast, you don’t have to finish every bite. “We’re conditioned to think that if we don’t devour everything on our plate, we are misbehaving,” says Paul McKenna, Ph.D., author of I Can Make You Thin. But if you keep munching even after you’re full, you are using your body as a storage unit. If there’s enough left over for lunch tomorrow, pack it up and put it in the fridge. Otherwise, toss scraps in the trash. We promise we won’t tell your mom.

Seventy-one percent of moms surveyed said they were not satisfied with their amount of me-time.

This CafeMom stat says one thing to me: We need more hours in the day! Feels impossible some days, but here are six ways to find some minutes here and there in your busy life that can really add up. Use them to spend more time with the people you love the most—yourself included!
• Audit yourself. Spend a day tracking how you spend every half hour, says Laura Vanderkam, author of 168 Hours. You’ll be amazed how much time you waste: three Facebook status updates in an hour?!
• Get chatterboxes to hang up. Have to start a phone call with someone who never ends one? “Call at 5 P.M., when people are trying to get home,” suggests Laura Stack, author of SuperCompetent. “She’ll be less likely to talk incessantly.”
• Cut down on housework. So you can’t summon Mary Poppins to snap her fingers and get the mess to disappear. Make your own magic: Change the air filters in your heating/cooling system. You’ll do less dusting, Stack says, and save up to a half hour each month.
• Make paying your bills a breeze. How? Pay them online. Digitize one account today, another tomorrow. People who pay bills online do so in 15 minutes a month, whereas those who write out checks take two hours, a Harris poll finds. Try it; you’ll like it (maybe not the bill paying, but the hour and 45 minutes for that novel you’ve been meaning to finish).
• Commute with a pal. Even if a carpool means going a little out of your way, you’re finding extra friend time. Trip it real good!
• Schedule sleepovers. Kids love the slumber parties, says Stack, so arrange to send your little ones to a friend’s house for a night. While they’re away, you can savor some alone time or snuggle up with your honey. Then return the favor to ensure those solo evenings become a regular occurrence you can look forward to. When the kids come to your house, you can fully enjoy it knowing you had your free time, and now it’s mom time. You’ll feel more engaged for all the time to yourself. Repeat after me: It’s not selfish, it’s self-preservation!

The new Self Challenge Drop 10 program just launched!  Join us in dropping the winter weight and you'll feel great for summer. Plus, this year we will email you the menu and workout plan free, every day.

Warm Regard, Sara Pandian

7 Secrets of Slim People

Ever notice how some women seem to stay slim without ever stressing about missed workouts or counting a single calorie? It seems unfair—and frustrating!—but those ladies might have some secrets the rest of us can steal. Turns out, you don’t have to completely overhaul your diet or exercise regimen to see fast and impressive results on the scale. (Though if you want a great, easy-to-follow plan, register for the Drop 10 Challenge on Self.com to lose 10 pounds in just five weeks.) In fact, recent research shows that sometimes it’s little, practically effortless changes to everyday habits that make the pounds fall off fast and forever. Try incorporating some of these simple, science-backed steps into your day-to-day life—it’s your turn to become one of those “naturally” slim lucky few!

Make time for tea
Women with the highest intake of catechins, antioxidants in tea that may accelerate fat burn, gained less weight over 14 years than those who sipped less, a study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals. White and green brews have the most catechins. Get brewing!

Move your workouts to the morning
Breaking a sweat before you sit down to breakfast can help you trim down faster, a study in The Journal of Physiology finds. Exercising on an empty stomach in the A.M. improves glucose tolerance, which spurs your body to shed fat.

Join the breakfast club 
If you don’t already have regular morning meals, it’s time to start: Lifelong early eaters have a waistline about 2 inches smaller than that of breakfast skippers, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals. An A.M. meal may rev metabolism; plus, it may cause you to make less of an enzyme that raises cholesterol. 

Savor your food
Eating slowly and steadily can help you stay slim. People who took 30 minutes to eat a bowl of ice cream created more fullness hormones than did those who ate faster, a study in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism notes. Whenever you can, ditch distractions like the television while you’re dining so you can concentrate on enjoying the yummy food in front of you.

Become a creature of habit
Eating at the same times every day and could help you drop pounds. When mice ate at scheduled mealtimes and fasted for 12 hours at night, their liver turned ongenes that burned more sugar and fat, say scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. No, we’re not mice, but if something as simple as sitting down to dinner at 7 P.M. every night helps speed weight loss, why not give it a shot?

Start with water
Downing two cups of H2O before meals helped people lose about 5 pounds more than those who said no to water, research from Virginia Tech reveals. Water is filling, so sippers ate 75 to 90 calories less. Enjoy a few cups of water while you prep a meal or before your entrée arrives at a restaurant to effortlessly keep calories in check.

Step on the scale

Dieters who weighed themselves at least weekly lost more weight than those who didn’t, according to research from the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. Plus, the habit helped nondieters stay at a stable weight. Spotting scale swings early allows you to tweak your eating and exercise routine before pounds can pile up.

The new Self Challenge Drop 10 program just launched!  Join us in dropping the winter weight and you'll feel great for summer. Plus, this year we will email you the menu and workout plan free, every day.

Warm Regard, Sara Pandian

Maybank Account Holder - MUST READ!

All Maybank Account Holders / Semua Pemegang Akaun Maybank

Whoever has the Maybank account number with ATM card, please be careful when withdrawing money through ATM machine, 
Kepada semua pemegang akaun Maybank, disarankan berhati hati bila membuat pengeluaran wang menggunakan mesin ATM.

1. For the first time when you enter the right pin number, a message 'invalid pin number' pops up. 
1. Bila anda menekan no. pin (6 digits), pemberitahuan 'nombor pin salah' terpapar di skrin. 

2. Then, when you enter your pin number for the second time, a message 'invalid pin number, please call this number 'xxx-xxxx' pops up. 
2. Bila menekan no. pin kali kedua, pemberitahuan 'nombor pin salah', sila hubungi nombor telefon 'xxx-xxxx' terpapar di skrin

3.. If you call this number, you will lose all your money. 
3. Jika anda membuat panggilan, anda akan kehilangan semua wang anda. 

NOTE: If you encounter the above matter, please DO NOT call the number. One of my friends just lost RM70000 on last Sunday and Maybank checked his last transaction was on that day itself even though he did not withdraw any money. Please forward this to your friends. 
Nota: Jika anda menghadapi masalah diatas, and dinasihatkan untuk tidak membuat panggilan tersebut. Pernah berlaku dimana pelanggan tidak membuat pengeluaran tetapi kehilangan semua baki simpanan..Sila maklum kepada semua kenalan


Best Regards,
Normah Zakaria
Credit Risk Management
Level 29, East Wing
Menara Maybank

Warm Regard, Sara Pandian

VISIT Burj-Khalifa..DUBAI

All roads in the UAE is known to lead to the Burj-Khalifa, the highest building in the world, in addition to the observation deck. From a height of 124-floor view of the city seems a virtual image. Although you understand that at the bottom - the real reality. Before the Burj Dubai had a chance to see the earth from the Pearl Tower in Shanghai , but the sensation of height there are quite different - in comparison with the skyscraper, say, baby. The fact that the rise in the Dubai tower, you need not even been discussed, how we did it - on a photo story.

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Our compatriots, mostly go to the Emirates via travel companies that meet you on arrival, offer a range of excursions. One of them - "Modern Dubai at a price of $ 100 per person group and $ 200 from one - the individual. We decided to start to look around, and by the evening of the first day of realized that modern Dubai is cheaper and more interesting to "feel" themselves. It was in Dubai Mall you will be able to see a giant aquarium for 50-100 dirhams per person. Here you need to buy tickets for the tower itself. It is important to remember that tickets must be purchased in advance. Then you can choose the time you climb. And, importantly, advance purchased tickets will cost you four times cheaper than you will climb on the day of purchase (roughly - $ 130). We bought the tickets three days before the climb, only on those days had the opportunity to choose the time. Tickets cost 100 dirhams for one. Comparing the prices of fun with tour operators offer was not in favor of the latter. While everyone decides for himself.

So, the morning when we rise to the Burj Dubai. We arrived well in advance, ordered a morning coffee and crunchy croissant on the terrace cafe in Dubai Mall:

On the eve we enjoyed here, "dancing fountains" of what will explain later. Morning "decorations" are absolutely different from the evening. Comfortable air temperature, plus 27, the blue sky and the blue expanse of artificial pools, a sense of celebration:

View of the hotel "Old Town":

Lifting time and the number of simultaneously visiting the Tower of carefully thought out. No fuss, hustle. Rapidly advancing in the queue to a metal detector, go through it without any problems.

We pass by a portrait of his father - His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Prime Minister, Vice-President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai just (can be just the King):

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The guides told us that when the crisis struck, not to stop construction of the Tower, His Highness enlisted the assistance of the UAE and Ruler of the governor Abu Dhabi - Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. That assistance is not denied - threw a couple of billion. Resulting in a beauty-tower was completed safely, inherited his name and, they say, was his property. Is this true, I am reliably do not know how, though, and tour guides - who are the sheikh asks, as was the case in reality. But the historical fact - the tower has changed its name in favor of "senior among equals."

Long corridors with projections in for a recovery:

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Stages of construction of the tower - all projected onto the wall display:

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Approach to the elevators for the tourists, two of them (only 144 in the building elevator). They raise the visitors to the observation deck (and back  ):

The rise in the 124-th, the final floor to exit to the observation deck is in seconds - silently. In the ears laid, as in an airplane. Cutting-edge, high-speed elevators:

The observation deck is spacious, without the "overpopulation":

Did not immediately discover mezhstekolnye open spaces that allow species to shoot without any distortion. They are clearly visible in the upper photo. Clutching the camera (fear drop from somewhere took), shoot what I see. The roof of the Dubai Mall and a relatively undeveloped area of ​​the city:

View of the Persian Gulf:

Ahead namytye island in the form of the globe - the famous World. A total of 200 islands in the number of states in the world, grouped in the form of 7 continents (Eurasia, Africa, etc.). The price of one of the island varies, starting from a mark of one million dollars:

These seem to be tiny famous "dancing fountains":

Proceed to the next, tightly closed glass of the observation deck. Trying to "reach out" through the lens to "crown" Towers, but where there is - the lower level of the Tower closes the top:

Barely noticeable in the left far corner, near the edge of the ocean is white "sail" lonely. But this, as opposed to sung by Mikhail Yurevich, on the sail like only a form of plan sponsors. And inside - modern semizvezdny hotel Burj Al Arab (until recently the richest in decoration and expensive in the world today is the "cool" semizvezdnik "- in Abu Dhabi," The Golden Palace "is called):

I apologize for the quality, these photographs shot through the glass:

Each person can see into the distance through a telescope, 10 dirhams - and a telescope for some time at your disposal:

Time spent on the lookout no limits, you can stay here as long as you see fit. You can buy a souvenir branded T-shirts and souvenirs with the image of the tower. And also in the "golden" ATM (they are two, one at the bottom, the second on the observation platform) gold bars of various shapes and denominations:

Lift quickly and quietly domchal us down. When the gallery layouts Tower (as it was designed and from which it is designed) and photographs of its creators:

Corridors leading to the exit from the tower, equipped with escalators and plasma, with city views:

The following photo story - about the world famous "dancing fountains" of Dubai.

GO PLACES

Warm Regard, Sara Pandian