Stevia the sweetest

Presently the popular plant in my town here is Stevia, perennial herb plants. Its leaves is really the sweetest among all plants.

When I was at the plants nursery one uncle bought 4 pots. I bought 2 pots. My friend bought 1 pot. Selling like hot cakes. The price is RM15/pot as shown in the picture.

What is Stevia's Chemical Make-up?

Stevia owes its sweet, licorice-like flavor to compounds called glycosides. Stevia contains eight different glycosides, the sweetest of which is stevioside. It has also been found to contain estevin, a compound 150 times as sweet as an equivalent amount of sugar. Other active compounds that have been identified include about 100 phytonutrients and volatile oils.

Aside from its potent, non-caloric sweetening properties, stevia also has additional beneficial health and medicinal properties.

Medicinal Properties of Stevia

Herbal Properties	Actions
Hypoglycemic	Lowering blood sugar
Hypotensive	Lowering blood pressure
Anti-inflammatory	Reducing inflammation
Cardiotonic	A heart tonic
Anti-viral	Kills viruses
Anti-microbial	Preventing and treating infection
Anti-fungal	Preventing and inhibiting fungal growth
Diuretic	Increases the flow of urine

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If you are looking for a safe, natural substitute for table sugar, or do not care much for those commercial, chemical alternatives that come packaged in blue and pink packets, stevia is definitely an alternative that you can get sweet on.

Sources : http://www.herbsarespecial.com.au/free-herb-information, :http://herbs.lovetoknow.com

Hospital Visit - Gratitude

This year I went to hospital twice. The first was I visit my colleague who was not well. The scene at the hospital, where I saw so many sick patients, many in wheel chair, some are very sick, some are lame, some with tube all over their bodies. I saw one lady with one leg in a wheel chair going to have her health checked. She has only one leg and using 2 clutches trying to open the door. As I sat very far away, one person who sat nearer assist her. What a pitiful sight . There I also see some handicap people. Some with bandages on their limb, either legs, hands or arms. Some are very young people in their teens years still can be very sick, lying on the bed. I saw one girl vomit in the toilet. She was damn thin and pale. What a miserable sight. The hospital was packed and all the parking spaces are full. I have to park on the side road. Before that I have no idea there are so many sick people around. All the units/departments of the hospital are full and crowded. It is not easy to believe there are so many sick people around. Diseases are every where then. Hospital are mushrooming too a lot.

I thought I am the most unluckiest person without enough money and no love, yet there are still so many worst off. I should be grateful and thankful for what I am and what I have. Should appreciate my life more after all those scenes and views. Wish I am forever healthy. Forever young at heart and at brain and at all my organs too.

Floral festival, BG, - Part II

Thanks to streamyx for had attended to my problem of slow browsing and downloading. Now I am able to share those beautiful pictures. It was extremely dry hot weather at the Floral Fair that day. Each year after I came back from the place I am half dead.

Test your downloading speed

I have used iZZinet Bandwidth Speed Test to measure my downloading speed. Mine is only 290 kbps for downloading and 71 kbps for up loading. Thus I am unable to download any pictures in my blog as well as sending pictures through email. Report has been lodged on Sun 7/6/09 to internet provider streamyx. As at todate no improvement yet. Very frustrating and upset.

I do not know how many more days they need to take to rectify such problem. Worst they said if problem persist, they have to make an appointment with me to check my internal cable.

Very lousy snail browsing speed. I can only read a few websites. Learn not to curse them in any any vulgar language, hehe .. learn to be less tomboy, haha. Even if I do curse them, it is only at the back only. Never in front.

Floral Festival, Botanical Garden

Today's weather is a very hot and sunny. Yesterday was equally hot. I went to the Floral Festival yesterday. Since 2005 I have been visiting it yearly. I walked a few rounds admiring the flowers. I had snapped many beautiful pictures of the flowers, trees and stalls. However due to internet connection slow speed I am unable to download those pictures. (I have tried more than 10 times downloading, each time connection failure and the pictures are unable to download) I have reported the slow speed to Streamyx. I had wished I did no go there as I do no want to waste any more money unnecessarily. I bought four plants back. One hibiscus plant, one butterfly pant, one lime and one which the name in Malay is called "buah delima".

I wonder if there are others users from the northern region facing this problem.

Other than that all matters are satisfactory. As usual non working days for me are busy day for me. I try to catch up with the washing, sleeping and resting.

What a wonderful night

It is a beautiful warm night. I can see the moon from my drying area. However there are no stars. I feel good not so much because of the beauty of the moon but rather that tomorrow is a public holiday. Every public holiday eve night I feel good. My energy level is high prior recharge yet. I feel so good tonight.

If everything goes smoothly I shall go to visit the Floral Festival at Botanical garden tomorrow.

Lesson on 1/6/09

I have been informed of "If I keep the weaknesses of others in my thought, they soon become part of me".

Applying this in my life i have to forget about those weaknesses of all my unbecoming friends/acquaintances. Let go. Trying to let go. I was advised to forgive them so that I can forget those unpleasant events. Apart from the virtue, forgiving is an art. Mentally we need to follow this art and master it for conquering stress. I forgive those persons who have troubled me and put me in to difficult situations.

I am aware that to become disturbed and angry is harmful to my health.