10 Good Uses For Salt

Just a pinch of it and it’s worth it. We’re talking salt here. Used throughout human history, ubiquitous and cheap. Mined from salt rocks and extracted from sea water, salt is… well, the “salt of the earth.” You can’t live without it healthily. At the same time, you can’t live healthily with too much of it. Get the balance right – in your food and in your live – and salt is worth it’s own weight.
 

Papadums

I am on a Satvic diet until the Thaipusam end but when talking about foods especially Indian cuisine you can't avoid "Papadum".My previous post I did write about some food stuff, "Morning breakfast and "Food for Onam festival" to name a few but today I just want to write something about food but, alas! why not Papadum?

A Romantic Painting for A Valentine Romance

Valentine come again and romance is in the air.So I decided to post some romance painting to let our mood lights on.I knew some of you guys really looking forward to impress your lover, be it your girlfriend or wife and for girl her boyfriend or husband.Valentine is a message of loves and been remembered every year and been cherish by everyone and belong to every souls that cares the value of love.Why human had chosen a specific day to celebrate Valentine? Well! we do need something to be remembered don't you? Something universal that that can reach our thought and be understood.A boundary which we call Love,present everywhere but yet we don't notice them.

Thaipusam on Palani,Kavadi and Idumban

                                                                       Idumban

Today I would like to write something about Thaipusam.Yes, Thaipusam the grand celebration to Lord Muruga that will be celebrated by millions of Hindus through out the world on 7 Feb 2012.I will also involved in this holly celebration.Not carrying the Kavadi but I render in different service by singing his praise and accompany the Kavadis.I do belong to a well know Muruga devotee family from Johor Bahru by the name of our patron the late "Madavan Pusari", my Grandfather.We are in this service for decade and now its already touch the third generation and I am happy to see the tradition still going on and wish its will still go through many more generation to come.Hopping like me my daughter and son will carry on to participate in this service to the holly feet of Lord Muruga once a year in conjunction of Thaipusam festival.

The main thing in Thaipusam is Kavadi.You can see during the celebration the devotee will carry this kavadi with beautiful decorations.Its take a lot of patience to do and fix one especially the big Kavadi.

12 Truly Bizarre Funeral Customs

For thousands of years, humans have mourned their dead. Evidence from Shanidar Cave in Iraq indicates that, perhaps, Neanderthals originated the idea of a funeral. Different customs surrounding the dead have grown up in various places around the world. Funeral and burial customs are still evolving today, as technology advances. Here are 12 interesting funeral and burial customs from around the world:

Size of the Dishes and Colour will effect how much we eat

A lot of peoples want to be in shape and eager to have a beautiful body.Men or women the desire is the same but more percentage on women I guess.But when we face the food it is quite difficult for some to control the intake.Especially delicious foods which we tend to eat more and more until we may not realise how much we had over ate them.

I am not at home on CNY

I did plan a short trip during Chinese New Year (CNY).A plan I had discuss a months back since I have about 4 days to spend.I am not interested to stay at Home either but since I had a wedding reciption in Klang,Selangor why not.Klang is over 300 km away from my home in Johor Bahru which I decided to take this opportunity to go for a short stroll at Klang and also Kuala Lumpur.We went  for a grand weeding reception on Saturday night and then off we goes on our own leisure.

An Anthill Sage The Great Valmiki Of Ramayana

 Maharshi Valmiki, the author of the great Indian epic Ramayana, was a Hindu sage who lived around the beginning of the first millennium B.C. He is referred to as the 'adikavi', the original creator of the Hindu 'sloka' - a verse form in which most of the great epics such as Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranas, and other works are composed.

How Valmiki Got His Name

He was a Brahman by birth belonging to the lineage of Bhrigu. Fate consigned him to a family of robbers which brought him up. Accidental contact with the Saptarsis - the Seven Sages and with the sage Narada changed his life. By the repetition of Ramanama or the name of Ram, he attained the supreme state of a 'maharshi' or great sage. Since a 'valmika' or an anthill had grown over his body during his long period of austerities and poised state of penance, he came to be known as Valmiki.