KettleBell Exercises

A Kettle bell is so useful to exercise!
I have been reading up on many exercise techniques recently... need to exercise more to have a healthy body!

Kettle Up!!

Why I tried 10 brands of Manuka honey for health?

I love Manuka honey! I eat a teaspoon in the morning and a teaspoon just before I sleep for health benefits such as to boost my immunity.

I am not alone in doing that.

Manuka honey has been used by the Maori community in New Zealand for centuries because of its incredible anti-bacterial and healing properties, and celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johannson are said to be big fans.

“It really adds an amazing glow and your skin is so soft afterwards. It pulls out the impurities—and it’s a nice foundation, especially if you are going to a big event where you want a great glow and you want to take that extra 15 minutes to do a treatment before you put your makeup on. It preps your skin in a really nice way” - Scarlett Johannson

I have not put honey on my face though.. LOL. I do use manuka honey based skincare though:- royal nectar face mask and lifting cream (can get it from www.qoo10.sg/shop/cherub)

Honey has been known for its special properties for thousands of years. And we have learnt that certain honeys from specific plants have a greater range of attributes than others, and the honey that comes from some varieties of the New Zealand Manuka bush (Leptospermum scoparium) is one of these.

Manuka honey is produced in New Zealand by bees that pollinate the native manuka bush.
Advocates say it treats wound infections and other conditions.

I usually buy manuka honey that has at least UMF 10+, to treat illness such as sore throats, stomach disorder such as stomach ulcer. Scientific studies have shown that Manuka Honey inhibits the bacteria growth!

If you have external wound, you can also apply a little manuka honey to the wound, and dress with a bandage. The manuka honey draws healing fluids and nutrition to affected area and creates a natural thin layer of moisture at the wound surface. Hence when you remove the dressing, you would not damage new regrowing tissues and allow your wound to heal faster.

For daily care, I take a spoonful of honey before meal, once or twice a day. Usually I take one spoonful before I sleep, and 1 spoonful in the morning before breakfast.

This is the most important as PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE, a key feature of manuka honey's anti-oxidant properties. It appears that manuka honey slow the oxidation process in the body, which is associated with many degenerative health conditions.
Manuka Honey may anti-oxidise and protect us from free radical unstable oxygen damage in our bodies.

However, not all honey is made equal.
For manuka honey, I only buy two brands from New Zealand.

These are some of the honey i tried before i concluded on the best brands.

I must have consumed more than 10 brands of honey before concluding the two best brands...
there are so many reviews to read, so many things to check, and the best way is to test it on myself.

One is Comvita, the only public listed honey company in the world. Comvita beekeepers are the experts in the honey crop, and the Comvita quality system filters out any low quality ingredients to ensure that only the best honey will make the Comvita Honey quality grade. No other company knows Manuka honey like Comvita.

The only drawback is that due to the high quality, Comvita honey retails for $129 in Singapore! It is certainly a very pricey honey. The good new is that you can get it from Qoo10 at much better rate (www.qoo10.sg/shop/cherub) Just look for Comvita Honey.

It is the best honey ever.

For a more mid-range price brand, the other brand I buy for regular consumption is Kare Manuka Honey. It is a great brand, direct from the farm and the beekeepers are strictly trained to ensure good quality honey. The activity levels of all Kare UMF® honeys are backed up by guarantee certificates and copies of the relevant laboratory testing certificates and UMFHA certificates.
Kare is one of those family farm brands that you can trust, I buy lots of them as gifts for my business partners and associates. =) You can find Kare at Qoo10 too (www.qoo10.sg/shop/cherub) Just look for Comvita Honey.

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5 exercise you are doing wrong

There are many exercises we are doing wrongly.

Plank, Lunges, Crunches, Squats and Push ups.

Please do it correctly with a good posture if not you would injure your body.

Here is a graphical guide

Yoga Basics 101

Buying Gold Silver Guide – Does Brand matter?

There are a variety of brands available for both silver and gold, so the question on everyone’s mind is:-

Does brand matters?

 

There are refinery that cast or mint their own brands, selling it as close to spot prices as possible, there are private mints and are government / public mints, there are financial institutes that forge their own brands on gold / silver that is refined by other 3rd parties. There are European brands, Australia brands, Chinese brands etc etc.

Do they matter?

It actually depends on investors’ preferences. Some brands like RCM (Royal Canadian Mint) is reputed with very pure silver at the lowest premium in the market. Certain other brands, would demand a higher brand premium over the metal value of the bar / coin.

Bar / Coin = Metal Value + Premium

As the metal value depends on the spot prices of the gold and silver, you are essentially paying the premium of the brand.  RCM has low premium. Certain brands like Panda series from China Mint has a much higher premium for its coins.

Whether it is worth it, it depends on the investor prospector. For example, CML (Canadian Maple Leaf) and ASE (American Silver Eagle) has very low premium over their coins, while Chinese Panda has a high premiums. This premium may not be fixed.

For example, if you have bought CML or ASE in 2011 or 2013 because it costs a lot less than the Chinese Panda series, the current value of CML and ASE in 2015 is still roughly the same as the metal value and the same low premium. Those collectors with the Panda series would be laughing their ways to the banks as the Panda’s premiums has rocketed. Of course this is not a sure thing, so collectors may have to judge their risk-reward ratios.

Pamp Suisse Gold Bar Lady Liberty 1 oz

Another factor is the recognition of the brand. For example PAMP Suisse is highly recognised, especially by the elder generation. Hence PAMP Suisse is seen as a more luxurious brand.

Lastly, in Singapore, for investment silver and gold that investors can enjoy stacking up without paying the extra 7% GST, they have to patronise only certain brands that are considered IPM (Investment Precious Metals). These brands has to be under LBMA’s (London Bullion Market Association) Good Delivery lists. As such, it is important for stackers to buy silver or gold from these lists as you would be buying them a lot cheaper than if you were to buy a jewellery-branded gold bar that attracts 7% GST.

Except for numismatic bars and coins set, all the silver and gold in Gold Silver City are all classified under IPM, and hence has NO addition GST on them. It would be much more financial prudent to start investment without paying this extra 7% tax.

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We are all Singaporeans.

Singapore is a luxury cruise ship - Titanic

You have to say, Singaporeans are not as non-creative as we thought...

From Sgag.com

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GE2015 - Talents are flowing to Opposition

One of the thing that most Singaporeans, including me, that are fearful of voting for opposition parties is because the quality of the candidates are frightening low. Many candidates oppose for the sake of opposing, whine incessantly and yet do not provide suitable alternate solutions.
A lot of them have questionable backgrounds... the most famous example would be Steve Chia who probably single-handedly threw the opposition back 10 years when his wife lodged a police report when naked photos of their maid were discovered in Steve Chia's computer.
(Steve Chia insisted those were artistic photos)

Fortunately, this seems to be changing....

As early as SG GE2006, I was at the election rally at AMK and I remember some new opposition members were at rally explaining how their decisions to stand for election affects their family.

One candidate mentioned his grandma went on her knees to beg him to reconsider.

I was young, naive and did not understand political history. But I was genuinely saddened that Singaporeans are discouraged to take an active interest in politics. Or rather, discouraged to act in the opposition's interest.

When GE 2011 arrived, Singapore was totally stunned by the new candidates for Worker's Party. There was a list of impressive candidates, most notably Chen Show Mao, a high flying lawyer who Low Thia Khiang persuaded to return to Singapore to join the Workers' Party.

Low Thia Khiang, Sylvia Lim, Chen Show Mao, Pritam Singh, Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap, these 5 highly qualified and educated candidates went on to become the first opposition candidates to win a GRC, a first in Singapore history.

Fast forward to the present, GE 2015 and I am sooooo glad that there are many good candidates in opposition parties now.

Workers' Party has attracted a tremendous amount of good quality, educated volunteers and representative candidates.

Leon Perera stands out extremely as someone who I expect PAP to unveil as their candidates.

He speaks well, with great understanding of the topic on hand and his proposed solutions work well, populist but not financially bad for the country.

And there are plenty more, He Ting Ru, Terrence Tan, etc etc, from corporate lawyers to successful entrepreneurs to senior civil servants.

And I am glad to hear more good quality candidates as well in other opposition parties.

For now, I think the Parties can be divided into three

Majority Party - PAP

Minority Party - WP

Opposition Parties - All other opposition parties.

SDP though is the most unique dark horse. I am having a lot of new respect for Dr Chee... though that would be another blog post.

And here is some eye candies that are relevant to GE2015

Source from Petalbytes for Singapore Women