Thursday, November 30, 2006

about Mac and desire to own a new notebook

A friend was having fun with his new MacBook this morning at campus. And it's not small!
He said its 12" one, but still looks bigger than my 12" powerbook.

Anyway, it sucks to have a powerbook with so many problems.
So slow to start, takes like 2 minutes to get to the login window, and takes another minutes to be ready to use.
Its time to go back to windows, perhaps.

Now I just want to get a microsoft - intel centrino notebook!
And it's either Vaio TX series or Fujitsu's smallest one.

Hmmm...
It could be on top of the Christmas/Birthday presents list... *ear to ear grin*

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Phenylalanine

I have been so cautious since the day I started to check what are in whatever i consume... like thousands of instant things.
Dont judge me, its an instant era, none really have time to do anything manually.

Can you imagine that they put phenylalanine even in (an instant) Curcuma Extract? In Ice lemon tea? Even in some of medicine I am using!

So at first, I was wondering what the F is that thing. I asked some people I know that they know more than I know, none answered me yet.

What to do?
I google.

Great start, it doesnt really sound dangerous as Wordreference says

Phenylalanine : an essential amino acid found in proteins and needed for growth of children and for protein metabolism in children and adults; abundant in milk and eggs; it is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body.

It sounds great!
Phenylalanine is needed for growth of children!
Yet it bothers me that so many things has Phenylalanine on their boxes. Why so?

Sweetpoison answers me,

Phenylalanine is a hidden danger to anyone consuming aspartame. Most consumers don't know that too much Phenylalanine is a neurotoxin and excites the neurons in the brain to the point of cellular death. More...

Now you know what I know.

Your sugarless gums, Monster Munch crisps, sugarless soft drinks (such as Diet Coke),
Equal, NutraSweet etc are something BAD !!!

Saturday, November 04, 2006

On Friendster

Lately I got no time to blog!

Keep occupied with organizations stuff...
But at last Bulletin's almost done. Just wait for couple days and its printed!
Next semester, no more organization to join. Enough.
I prefer spend my free time doing things I like anytime!
Though, I'd like to join Photography Club and learn something there...

Also, finally, friendster is something fun.
Since I can snap pictures then upload them right away, thanks to hotspots at my campus.
Those who know me in person... U know what to do ;)

http://www.friendster.com/stripling