Foods That Make You Happy - from Yahoo

Don't you sometimes wish there were a happy pill to spritz up your spirits when you're out of sorts? To make you laugh when you're grumpy? Or to warm your heart when you're about to bite someone's head off? Well, there are probably several things in your kitchen that could do the trick, and they taste a lot better than a pill. These foods tweak your brain in ways that help you feel happy.

A Little Dessert Sugar soothes us when we're stressed--or at least it calms down stressed-out rats, which are good models for stress in people. But before you race to the vending machine with a license to binge, know that a little sugar may soothe rattled nerves, but too much will backfire, playing moody havoc with your blood sugar.

Here's how to get just enough:

A small slice of angel food cake with 1/2 cup strawberries

2 Fig Newman cookies and a 6-ounce glass of juice

Fruit and Chocolate Fondue
1 cup fresh strawberries
1 peeled, sliced kiwi
1/4 cup fat-free chocolate syrup
>Dunk fruit into syrup, lean back, and smile.

Toast and Jam "Of course we crave bread and other carbohydrates when we're down!," laughs Elizabeth Somer, RD, author of Food & Mood. "Carbs raise levels of the feel-good brain chemical serotonin, which lifts our spirits." But think whole-wheat bread and other whole-grain carbs, because they also stabilize blood sugar levels--unlike refined grains (white bread, pasta, rice, and pretty much anything white). They send blood sugar on a roller-coaster ride, leaving you jittery, grumpy, and hungry.

Get a happy serotonin boost from the following snacks:

Half a toasted whole-wheat English muffin or bagel with jam or honey
A small bowl of oatmeal with some dried cranberries
and a bit of brown sugar
Comforting, creamy peach open-face sandwich
2 Tbsp. fat-free cream cheese
1 tsp. honey
1 peach, peeled and chopped
1 slice 100% whole-grain bread
1/2 tsp. chopped walnuts
>Blend cheese, honey, and chopped peaches;
spread mixture on bread and sprinkle with nuts.
Yum.

Yogurt and Eggs Numerous studies show that getting more of the omega-3 fatty acid called DHA in your diet makes you happier and smarter. Even people battling tough-to-treat depression feel as much as 50% better when they get lots of DHA.
To keep your chin cheerfully up, aim for 200 mg of DHA a day.
Mix and match DHA-fortified foods like these...

1 container Rachel's Wickedly Delicious Yogurt (32 mg of DHA)
1 Gold Circle Farm egg (150 mg)
1 Oh Mama nutrition bar (115 mg)
1 cup of Horizon Organic reduced-fat milk plus DHA (32 mg)
18-oz. Odwalla Soy Smart drink (32 mg)

Popeye's Fave No wonder he was always in such a high-energy mood. Spinach is full of folate, a B vitamin that's a must for making feel-good serotonin. Like DHA, folate is potent enough to ease clinical depression, say researchers. If you're trying to stay on the sunny side of life, make chowing down Popeye-style a habit.

To get plenty of this happy green (about two cups of cooked spinach is perfect)...
Add a 10-ounce packet of frozen, chopped spinach to soups, stews, and casseroles, homemade or not.
Use spinach instead of lettuce in sandwiches and wraps.
Whip steamed, chopped spinach into mashed potatoes.
Make a salad meal of itPile your plate high with baby spinach leaves
Top it off with a grilled chicken breast or broiled salmon fillet (another great DHA source, BTW)

Black Bean Dip Black beans, like most legumes, are a nifty source of iron. And if you're low on iron--as many active women are--you can be tired and have trouble sleeping, turning you into Major Grouch.

Here's how to help keep your iron levels, and your mood, up:

Mix black beans with chopped spinach, roasted red peppers,
and salsa as a dip for a toasted whole-wheat tortilla.
Heat black beans with onions, garlic, and cumin,
and serve over brown rice.
Toss black beans and turkey cubes into a salad
(the "heme" iron in poultry and meat helps you absorb more of the "non-heme" iron in beans).
Add extra black beans to chili and soups.

Two quick tips for iron intake: To help your body absorb max amounts of this mineral, do combine iron-rich foods with foods that are high in vitamin C (tomatoes, broccoli, red peppers, OJ). But don't wash them down with coffee, tea, or milk; all three can block iron absorption.

Happy foods have another big, big payoff besides brightening your outlook on life: Taking care of your emotional health and well-being can make your RealAge up to 16 (!) years younger.

Man....that is something to think about hahaha.
Cheers!!!

The red template

hahaha...guess still CNY, so will continue with the above red template. True...not easy for the eyes but so far...still have some luck for 4D.

Yes! even the wording for the setting is changed to reflect the change I hope to go thru soon. There is thing to do....same thing, there has to have some changes with life as people change. Just cannot stop them from changing...just gotto accept that this is part of life.

I will be still remain the same....guess that maybe I am out-of-date type or maybe becoz I'm not tech savry enough to go make friends / having relationships on-line. With...many places to go eg facebook, friendster, youtube, swinger sites, mocca, irc etc. still so blur....guess these sites are for people who has lots of spare time or maybe has lots of time to kill.

Ok...lah, all the same....must really put big big efforts to put my past behind and to march forward into the unknown to seek my future. ( hahaha not seeking out relationship - I'm already passed the expiry date for that )

Blog oh Blog

Thank you for being here for me....BloG! for me to rumble and rumble on. If not....who can I open my feeling to?

At the end of the day....it is still me and the world, no one will come help me or even bother about me. so...i can only write down my thoughts and how I feel here.

Guess...this is a great way for lonely sad people to share or open up to themselves. Never
mind....and I will continue to write as and when something happen or just to up-date on
my 4D and toto status. Win or lose!

For the stock market....same thing! will up-date so that I can remind myself on the status.

Happy to see the happy faces at work

hahaha....yes! it is always good to be able to give treats then everyone is happy. That is life!

Since I didn't give any Ang Pow to them...I give them a treat.

Now....everyone is thanking me and saying good things, power of money!!!

Sat - 4D

POWER!!! so the special spirit does have some powers.....the set of numbers did came in as one of the consulation prize hahaha.

So....me kena $1500....10 big!!!! POWER :) but just think how much was my capital hahaha? Lucky that I kena or else...."LL". That is the risk of what I was talking about....even when a great sage do appear we somehow dare not "cheong" all the way.

Still ....I'm happy for the GREAT start for the year of the Rat!!! HUAT AH !!!

OH....LORD please help me!

A prayer to the almighty....OH LORD, please help me to be a better person than I was before.
To keep my simple mind....simple and straight,
To keep my simple mind....focus on the things I should be doing,
and not to waste my time getting angry with things that won't or cannot be changed,
and try to clear all my debts before I have nothing left to live with as I get older,
to live a short but fruitful life.

Please hear my prayer and help me with the above.
Thank you.....GOD.

On the eve of CNY - had a strange but great feeling!!

Oh....gotto put it on record that I had this strange and very present encounter on the eve of CNY.

I was half asleep....after sending out most of the CNY's greeting on my hp and can hardly keep my eyes open by then. It was about 11pm... after doing some last minute housekeeping that I had to go lay down on my bed alone. My hp rang....and one of the aunties complaint that I anyhow sent out the greeting. She said that I sent her a set of 4D numbers...in fact the one that I kena 2 nd prize.....0716 I-bet hahaha and she asked me what was I trying to send. So....after I explained to her and also told her that I was sorry and I sent another sms with the CNY greeting, I just closed my eyes.

Then I can feel a cool rush of wind blowing in from the door of my room towards me and at the same time....a sweet jasmine smell too. So "shiok" was the feeling I felt then....so peaceful, so nice smell, so "cool" and I was feeling so HAPPY too. Then....I was like in a "good dream" with someone but I cannot really made out who it was or how the person or spirit looks like....just can feel a "present of a special spirit". She or He just tell me that what I kena earlier ( the 2 sets of 4D - 0716 and 2390 ) was just a small start for me to use as "capital" to hit a huge one soon....in fact very soon. I remembered....I was in a state of bliss but still only half asleep and very much aware of what going on around me with my eyes closed. Then......for a moment a set of 4-D appear before I open up my eyes. Hahaha....what a strange dream? Much much better than anything that has happened to me before in my life. Really never before I felt this good............
it is really like heaven so different than making love....in fact even much much better. The bliss of it all is so so....out of this world.

It was like a mighty spirit trying to help me but as soon as I woke up.....I have my doubts. When I was in the dream-stage....I was "so sure" that this mighty spirit will help me and that I must dump every single cents that I kena on the set of 4D numbers. Now....I realised that in life, even with such strange and happy "happening/dream"....I dare not do it ( dump every single cent on it even that this is my only chance during this lifetime ). The word...."pau teoh" hahaha may not be so "pau" after all.

Then...I woke up and immediately "pray pray" to the gods at my own house. Then at nearly 1:15am went to Waterloo temple to pray pray with my family...1st time they followed me but they "very clever" to complain too...the smoke and crowd and so on. Later went home then to the new Punggol temple with them again....by the time we got back home it was about 4+am. Not bad.....nice experience that my family followed me to go pray pray.

Sleep after that....I was supposed to wake up early to go pray pray on CNY day but couldn't get up from bed. Slept until nearly 2pm....get everyone to wake up to go see movie CJ7 but by the time we started on the road...jam at CTE and it was already too late, nearly 350pm and the show time was 4pm.

Decided to go pray pray at my mom's grave....then my father-in-law's niche and head back to Punggol becoz my eldest daughter's former BF's mother asked her to visit them. So went to my old man's niche before sending her to their grandma's place in Hougang.

Rushed home ....warmed up some left-over...ate and went to work. Clocked in at 6:50pm then go thru my lotus notes and emails....replied and sent out whatever reports needed then went to fetch my daughter before going home. Then all of us including my daughter's former bf went to see a double movies....Kung-fu Dunk starring Jay Chou and CJ7 starring Steven Chow.

So....on the whole, this CNY's eve and CNY day itself was a "nice" experience for me and I find that the time was well-spent.....A HAPPY NEW YEAR indeed. Now can only hope to see if the mighty spirit is so POWERFUL indeed. In life....who can tell for sure??? I have really felt "blessed" by the whole experience.

Hahaha....I am at my workplace now, writting all these....no anger even with me having to work while my counter-part having a "ball" of a time.

Year of the Rat

Can only pray and hope that this Rat year will turn out better than the previous years. Hope that I can be a better person and not so dependent on my honey and the share market. Becoz any of these 2 things can really affected my thinking, mood and my whole self confidence. Felt very sad and bad whenever I think of her........missed her mah or lose $$$$$ in the stock market.

Yes! for both these faults are all my own doing...so silly but matters of the heart cannot be explained at times even by me, a silly old man, same goes for stock market. It can just drop like SHIT with all these "present poor sentiment" around the world at the present time. Any little bit of bad news and the stock market reacts badly......so fucking crazy!!!!

So....really would seriously hope that I can be less addictive to both my "only" faults in my present life for a change esp with this start of the present "Rat" year. Must seriously put my mind and heart to other things....like TOTO and 4D since that my luck is not that shitty....esp 4D lately. Can be costly hobby....but with God's help who knows :) and hopefully regain my loses.


So....again, back to my main point.....to pray pray harder and to think more positive for myself
and my own family. To spend more time with my wife even without screwing and to think less about the screwing part.

4D luck

Hahaha....last Sunday, managed to kena one consulation prize of $150 but the capital was nearly $380. Walau sure mati....and almost give up on 4D.

On Wed....look at my horoscope and was told that I must be steady and to push on with whatever I had in mind previously. So, LL.....for to proof that the horoscope was accurate even when I don't like to bet on Big Sweep draw......I cut down on whatever I betted on last Sunday with a minor adjustment, cut down on the amount that I bet. And the total was about nearly $250. And what do you know....kena a 2nd prize and a starter, all on I-bet hahaha which totalled to be $2500. After minusing on the bets and commission, still left about $1800 to collect. The only shit thing was that on Wed....the share market had a huge drop and it swiped off about 3K from my shares.

Anyway....guess that is what life really is "win some lose some", still no complaint hahaha. A good start on the eve of CNY.

"HUAT AH"