Lifestyles Ideas Management - Sleep Walking

I have this kind of sleep-walking many years ago when I had my first job at the manufacturing factory. Because it was my first job after graduation, I took my job with dead seriousness that I worked ten hours a day every Monday to Friday and promotion came quickly. But I was suffered from poor health, skin allergies and poor night sleep. Sometimes I would sleep walk around the living room with my family members watching television. They would woke me up and asked me to go back to sleep. Sometimes I would close all the windows and murmured something which nobody understood what I was saying. The next day my brother or sister would relate such incidents to me. Sometimes I would wake up and go to the study table and write something on a piece of paper, strangely I cannot remembered when I woke up. Most of the time, when I went on holidays with friends I would remind them that I can sleep-walk so that they can watch out for me during the nights, just in case I stepped out into the dark outside.

How to cope
Always reassure that sleepwalker is not abnormal. The condition is mostly benign and disappears with age. Try to find out what minimize the trigger factors (for example, stress). The person should have adequate sleep and rest. The sleepwalker should avoid watching television or exposure to other such stimuli before sleep. This is to ensure a clear state of mind. Family members should locked the doors and install window grilles if necessary in the sleepwalker’s room. Also remove sharp obstacles and objects in the room. Instead of trying to wake a sleepwalker gently redirect him back to bed.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - About Potatoes

Just today, the coffee lady was talking about cooking in the kitchen and making potatoes meat patties that was so delicious that her elderly mum would love to eat them. She mentioned about putting a little of MSG in the mixture and I was sharing with her about the chicken essence (either cubes or granules) Maggi brand which we, Singapore love so much and we put them into every dishes we could think of.
There was once I was so crazy about potato that I cooked them every weekend, mashed potato, potato ball, potato patties, potatoes soup and best of all chilled potatoes salad.

This nutritious tasty tuber – now eaten all over the world and the main ingredient in over 406,000 recipes over the Internet – was first cultivated in the South American Andes mountains over 4,000 years ago. The potato consists of about 80 percent water and 20 percent starch. One medium size potato (about 150g) contains 100 calories if you boil it or bake it without fat. Website www.thehotpotato.com lists these nutrients in a medium size potato: 3g protein; 0g fat; 22g carbohydrates.
Apart from being fat and cholesterol-free, the potato is also high in vitamin C, potassium and a good source of vitamin B5 and dietary fiber. The sweet potato belongs in the same family as morning glories while the white potato belongs to the same group as tomatoes, tobacco, chilli pepper, egg plant and the petunia, according to www.geocities.com
Despite the popular notion, the majority of nutrients are not found in the skin, but in the potato itself. Nonetheless, leaving the skin on the potatoes retains all the nutrients and the fiber in the skin. It also makes potatoes easier to prepare according to www.potatoes.com.
This is the United Nations’ International Year of the Potato which will focus on the importance of the potato in providing food security and alleviating poverty.
The potato as a fashion accessory. Don’t laugh. France’s Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette liked to wear potato blossoms. He in his buttonhole and she in her hair.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Animals in a zoo

The Kayan tribe in Thailand whose women wear brass rings around their necks as status symbols – the longer the neck the more beautiful the woman. The rings weigh 10 kg or more and over the years, the weight pushes down the collar bones and shoulders making their necks appear longer and giving the women their nicknames of “long-necked” or “giraffe” women. I used to watch these kayan women in the documentary in the “Amazing Asia” and they were so proud of their giraffe neck though I think the ring is like a “bondage” to this woman and imagine they will have to use wet straws to clean their necks. To visit their village, the tourist will have to pay an entrance fee of S$10.70 and in one day they will have to receive as many as three or four tour groups. The village’s hut was built on stilts because the dirt tracks in front of them are often flooded in the rainy season. Most tourists think that the Kayan are primitive people and according to the guides the tourists do not want to see good roads or clean villages or anything modern so the tribes have to live like this to please the tourists.
The Kayan tribes were refugee from Myanmar – who lives in north-western Thailand in a mock village purpose-built for tourists. When business is good the women wearing neck rings receives 1,500 baht a month from the village’s operators. During the off-peak season they received nothing and rely on donations from charities to survive.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - On Purpose for a Purpose

At first glance, the parable of the Sheep and Goats in Matthew 25 seems to suggest that our acts of love and kindness towards those in need will ensure us of eternal life and entry into the kingdom of God. But that would go against biblical teaching that we are saved by grace through faith and not by our good deeds (Eph. 2 8-9) A careful reading of the parable however will show that the parable is not about works – salvation. The parable, as recorded for us in the Gospel of Matthew, does not stand alone. It is in fact the last of a series of five parables that Jesus told his disciplines in response to their query concerning the destruction of the temple and the sign of his coming and of the end of the age (Matt. 24:3)> it is essential then to take this connection and context in mind if we are to better understand the point and meaning of Jesus’ teaching.

Taken as a whole, the five parables, beginning from Matthew 24:34 to all of chapter 25, show us what Jesus expects of his followers in the time between his first coming and his return, namely that his return will come suddenly, unexpectedly. As such, he expects us to be watchful, ready to meet him anytime. We are to be faithful in the use of all that God has entrusted to us, and to be filled to overflowing with love for others. Then, we need not fear judgment and can instead trust God for our eternal salvation.

Many of us desire to live our lives as meaningfully and as purposefully as possible. We want to be faithful to God and loving towards others. But we have bills to pay, children to feed and parents to take care of. In the midst of life’s struggles and challenges, how can we be faithful and wise servant? The answer lies in discovering what God has given you. Long before you were born, God determined your assignment and equipped you with special and unique tools to do the job. He has packed you on purpose for a purpose. The first step is living wisely and faithfully is to discover and use your uniqueness to make a big deal out of God everyday of your life. When you do that, your life becomes a living sacrifice, and both you and God rejoices… forever! Preached last Sunday 20 April by Pastor Richard Lim.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Inner Beauty

Inner beauty takes a long time to discover unlike outer beauty which is immediately apparent to the most casual observer; inner beauty can be fully appreciated to only those who get to know us long enough. It takes much time for inner beauty to impact and when it does, we see that person through new eyes. Many of us have had the experience of finding someone attractive even though we know they are actually not the good-looking type but their personality, kindness and goodness seems to project through.

The most wonderful thing about inner beauty is that it can endure through time. Outer beauty does not last and every one of us knows that. All the creams over the cosmetics counter cannot erase or shield the wrinkles on our faces through the passing of time. But there is no time limitation to courage, kindness, sense of humor, helpfulness and generosity. These lasts forever. As time goes by, we hardly can recall the look but we recollect their acts of good deeds, kind words and thoughts. Outer beauty makes a first impression and inner beauty makes a lasting impression. In his book, Learning from Wonderful Lives, Cambridge University psychologist, Dr Nick Baylis writes “We’d be making a great mistake to judge ourselves by the way we look, because that’s only a fraction of what true beauty is all about.” Dr Nick Baylis writes: “I always thought how pleasing it would feel to be really beautiful – head-turningly handsome – so that woman whose admiration I sought would recoil slightly in open-mouthed awe, which is what I seemed to do when confronted by some stunning.”

So to those who have inner beauty, do not despair as there is hope, pursue beauty by displaying a good attitude to living life every moment by acts of kindness and thinking good thoughts about others.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Growing Older

Just that day, a special day in the morning when I was on my way to the office building, I stopped by the Impreza Café to buy my breakfast. I like the vermicelli with luncheon meat and dashed with spicy chilli sauce. While waiting in queue and my turn came, the uncle serving over the counter, a bald head man also the boss of this café called out to be “Young girl, what’s for breakfast” I thought he was calling someone else behind me and I looked behind my back. “So sickening” it was my turn and he called the next person standing at the back. But he called out aloud” Young girl, what’s for breakfast”. Oh! La la, he was referring to me. That makes my day! The vermicelli and luncheon meat tasted super delicious that early morning. I dislike and hate those who called me “Auntie” though I knew that it was a respectful mannerism but I felt old when someone called me “Auntie”. I preferred my neighborhood fruit and vegetables stall owner to address me as “Miss or Madam” when I passed by their shops. Once I stopped by a new fruit stall and chose some fruit to bring along on my way to the office, the owner called me “Auntie”> Do you know what I did immediately, I took out all the fruits in my basket and put them back and walked away without looking back. The owner was very puzzled over my action. What did I do wrong that this young Miss or Madam walked away without buying anything from my shop? He was not young at all and he called me “Auntie” this kind of addressing is humiliating to any potential customer. I certainly do not want to perceive myself as someone who is growing old but someone growing older but wise no doubt.
It is not possible to be happy in old age when we looked at the mirror with more and more wrinkles coming up around the edges of the eyes, time to change the mirror.
I like to believe that I will be growing older and living a meaningful life. I am no long productive as being productive has to do with economic value. But growing older means I am less and less productive, one day I will be unproductive. Since, one day I will be unproductive, I have decided to do without some materialism. I will only purchase what I need for my daily life, the essentials. I will buy watches as long as they can still tell the time. I prefer a less complicated life, without the trapping of material well-being. My value will be satisfaction in my work and work is only one part of my life. I will concentrate planning my life around the weekends, working out plans for the holidays around the year, and enhance my physical wellness by exercising my body. I hope to be able to climb my last mountain before my last breath is taken away.

I will learn to live with little regrets, to live each moment as if it is the last, treasure my relationship with people who mean something to me and leave behind some wonderful memories in other’s mind. So that when I passed away, people can remembered some little things and leave behind some smiles. Finally I seek satisfaction, contentment and be like an old trees with spread branches that every birds in the air takes refuge in my branches. I am growing older not growing old.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Painful Break-ups

Break-ups where both sides know that they should stop seeing each other but don’t really want to. Where one part of you wants to let go by the other wants to cling on where the feelings keep clouding the picture; where you promise not to talk about hi or not to call anymore but still can’t fight the urge to send a sms message because you still care.
That happened to one of my close friend and she still cannot let go of him during the initial break-ups, actually they have not started courting each other. They just went out a few times alone for lunch and dinner. He went to her house each time on a pretext of wanting to borrow something which is too heavy to carry. Then he left something at her house so that he can make another trip to her house. I wondered why he has to always come up with alibi just to get close to her and I cannot understand why he did that in the first place by sending wrong body language to her when he is not ready to commit in a close relationship. Aha! I know he wanted “to be friends” or “companionship” than being tied down in an accountable relationship. She was ready to settle down.
Break-ups bring out the worst in people. I have a girlfriend who walk up to her hateful ex and fling one cup of chilled water which happened to be on the table onto his face and hair. And she walked away with few stares from other tables. I knew about her relationship as she shared with me and I had a feeling that she was the one doing all the chasing and that poor boy was too frightened to reject her advances. Since that day, he must have gone to a Chinese physician for some medicine to calm his nerves. What will she do next! Such spiteful behavior is stupid and childish and always leaves you feeling small and mean. Sometimes, it is strange that someone you love and when love dies, the episode of your life together and every details of that person are detestable. All along the happy memories now the thought of him arouse revenge. Once the other party threw the towel in, that party had better be prepared to receive thousand text messages that alternated between pleas and curses, 20 phone calls a day and suicide threats. I witnessed one case where the man went up to her ex-girlfriend office and stabbed her hand with a small Swiss knife right through the centre of the hand. There were cases where the ex-boyfriend track her down and stabbed her back while she was having lunch with her colleagues.

There are so many reasons why relationship ends:
You were not really that into each other in the first place and the reality sinks in after you have exhausted the early bouts of physical desires.
You love each other but the personality clashes
One party betrays the other party or both parties and forgiveness is not possible
One party or both parties do not love each other, love just dies instantly
You love each other but cannot have life together for whatever reasons there may be

How can you tell when the relationship is on the verge of break-ups?
You’re no longer No. 1 in her life where you are the first person she called when she got a promotion or at work or scold by her boss. She lost the enthusiasm to share the details of her life. She does not desire your company any longer. Phone calls getting shorter and she is busy that she do not want to take your call, you are the one that calls her every time. When she meets you, she is distracted by the beep of her phone and keeps sneaking beeps at her mobile phone to check her sms messages.
She is impatient and get angry, argue over small things. She starts muttering things like “you deserve someone better” or dropped hint that “we need to talk”.
One of the most childish break-ups a couple did was, the boyfriend asked her to return all the clothes he bought with his credit card so that he can gave all the second hand clothes to his new girlfriend. How about that! Really petty and stingy man! I pity the new beau!

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Do you crave fries!

Fries, yes I do many times and during the afternoon or on my way back from work. I, sometimes wish that I can have a packet of fries to munch along. I crave for fries when I walked past by the McDonald’s or Burger King or any fast food joints. The smell from the cooking kitchen arouses my senses to crave more something to eat. It can be apple pie, fries or just an ice cream, but fries will be my first choice. It’s my mum’s fault anywhere. When I was young, my mum will always be busy in the kitchen making fried anchovies or all the fried stuff for our teas. Our breakfast will always be loaves of bread with jam, margarine and peanut butter. Lunch and dinner will always be to big bowls of rice, fish and meat all cooked in big bowls for feeding an army. Though we were poor, but mum is so wise with her hands that she can whipped very delicious dishes for our appetite. I have never lost appetite for food. Teas will always be something she cooked out from the recipe book or somewhere she saw the snack shop selling this delicatessen.
Every seldom do we get to eat out for lunch or dinner. Eating at home was something that I always looked forward during those days. We used to look forward to festive season when we get to eat meat dumplings (taste as good as the ones sold in Katong, a place where you can find good food), spring rolls (eight types of vegetables wrapped in dough roll) Stewed meat with steamed buns, vegetables rolls and many more. She do not have the recipes and everything was memorized by hard or just cooked the way she know.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Bananas

We say bananas trees.
Bananas do not grow on trees, the word “trees” is a term however bananas is a perennial herb according to website homecooking.about.com. Its trunk is not a true one but many leaves wrapped tightly around a single stem which emerges at the top as the fruit-bearing flower stalk. Some bananas trees can continue to bear fruits for up to 100 years although most plantations cut them down after every 10 to 20 years to renew their stocks.
The banana is botanically classified as a berry and it from the same family as ginger, turmeric and cardamom. There are over 400 varieties of bananas around the whole world and it is the world’s best selling fruit, outranking the apple and orange.

Banana are good source of vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber and contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium, according to the International Banana Association (website: eatmorebananas.com). They also contain a rich supply of vitamin B 6, providing 20 percent of the Recommended Daily Allowance of B6. Vitamin B6 helps in protein metabolism, red blood cell formation and the functioning of the central nervous system.
Bananas contain more digestible carbohydrates than any other fruit. The advantage is that the body burns off calories from carbohydrates more quickly and easily then calories from protein or fat. Bananas contain three types of natural sugars –sucrose, fructose and glucose – which can give you an energy boast.
A banana makes a good after workout snack because it helps to replenish necessary carbohydrates, glycogen and body fluids depleted during exercise.
Research has proved that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90 minute workout.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - So busy that I had no time to fry the sunny side up

Just finished my dinner and thought of catching up with today’s news on TV, we switched on the usual channel for the news and the program was all about Shangri-La Hotel in China, I think it is Beijing and the General Manager was sharing about the mission and the vision of his hotel in the light of delighting customers and making customers feel at home. I had that kind of experiences while traveling down south China. We are on a tour package where the agency put us in the same hotel stay for five days through the whole trip. This is a budget family style accommodation where the rooms are sparkling clean and the bed sheets were changed everyday. Nothing to complain about or praise about it was well within the so called budget hotel, except one thing.

At breakfast between 7am – 9am, the chef came in late so breakfast was served at 7:30am though the notice put up in big bold words in Chinese “7am ~ 9am”. Since I was traveling during off-peak season there were no guests staying at this 40 room’s style hotel run by local Chinese enterpriser, it is not a small enterprise but a hotel chain with establishments all over China. The chef came over and mentioned to us that because there was only three of us, he cannot cooked any dishes except to stir fry some vegetables and opened up a few types of canned food. But with exception, he will boil the plain porridge and make an instant bean curd drink for us. That was the best he as a chef can do. If there were more staying guests, he will throw in more dishes to complement the staple plain porridge. Can you imagine that the chef of a budget hotel can speak with such arrogant attitude and it is as if he rule the whole kitchen. Indeed he did, other days we heard vulgarities languages coming from the kitchen backyard and as he cooked with a story about what happened last night. In one sentence, three or four words ended up with the vulgar content in front or toward the end. One particular incident, there were many staying guests mostly local Chinese people on a detour from another province. He came to our table and say “This morning I was so busy that I had no time to fry the sunny side up”. Our breakfast comprise of buffet spread and include a sunny side up served every morning throughout the whole five days stay. This chef had no feelings of being apologetic or even embarrassed about this statement. He was just merely saying that he has no time to fry three sunny sides up and we were supposed to take him at face value. No qualms about it or argue about it, the matter was closed and he walked away smiling to his place of work. He is the chef and he has no time to fry the three sunny sides up, I found that extremely out of context. He is the chef employed to cook for breakfast as the hotel did not served any room service, lunches and dinner. And he’s engaged to just make breakfasts and he had not time to fry three sunny sides up. Then I wondered why the management engage a chef who called his own shots. Aha! I think he must be very lowly paid that he can command his own work scope as he sees fits. If chef decided to open a few canned food for breakfast he shall do with his own permission. If he decided not to fry three sunny sides up he will do so with his own permission. Anyway I shall not be too demanding as this is just a family budget hotel and it will remain so as there are demands for such cheap accommodation in the southern part of China.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Octopus ahead!

This is a letter written by Leo Mun Sang which I picked it up from The Forum printed in The Straits Times dated April 18, 2008.
A few days ago, I had an amazing encounter; I saw an octopus behind the wheel of a car. It used its head and shoulder to hold its mobile phone and while it was talking, its right arm was dangling a cigarette out of the window. It steered with its left arm and as it was trying to reverse. I guessed it was using its left foot to shift gear and its right foot to work on the pedals. I could clearly see the octopus perform effortlessly as its windscreen was not tinted beyond the regulation level, as there are seemingly many driverless cars on the road nowadays. I believe we have enough rules and regulations to keep animals and spirits off the road, but I think they get away with it because of lack of enforcement. The next time I am on the road, I wish I could also have another pair of hands so I could take a photo of these amazing animals.

My colleagues have the habits too of speaking while driving on the phone and being the back-seat passenger, I am a little worried what will really happen if something is amiss. Sometimes, we put our lives in someone’s hand and unknowingly we can land up in hot soup because the driver was speaking on the phone and not paying enough attention on the on-coming cars at the rear, it happen to be an octopus. “Bang” suddenly we are thrown off and then up in Heaven before our appointed time, without even saying our “goodbyes” to our beloved ones.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Reminder for all

A friend sent me an email which mentioned about a moment to read and a life time to remember as it will save your life one day!
One way to remember as we are all forgetful race is to read it many times and talk about it to others, by talking you help you to remember well. Try it, it works!

Tips from USA police
The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do!
If a robber asks for your wallet, do not hand it over to him. Toss it away from you… chances are that he is more interested in you wallet than you and he will go for the wallet. Run like mad in the other direction.
If you are thrown into the trunk of a car, Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the bole and start waving like crazy. The driver won’t see you but everybody else will and this had saved lives.
Women have a tendency to get into their car after shopping, eating, working etc; and just sit doing their check book or making a list. Don’t do this. The predator will be watching you and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side, put a gun to your head and tell you where to go. As soon as you get into your car, lock the doors and leave.
A few notes about getting into your care in a packing lot:
Be aware look around you; look into your car, at the passenger side floor and in the back seat (And check out under the car as you approach.)
If you are packed next to a big van you should enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars.
Look at the car parked on the driver’s side of your vehicle and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car you many want to walk back into the mall or building and get a security guard to walk you back to the car. It is better to be a paranoid and safe than dead sorry!
Always take the elevator instead of the stairs, stairways are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot.
If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, always run!
The predator will only hit you as a running target 4 in 100 times and even then, it most likely will not be a vital organ, Run!
As women, we are always sympathetic; Stop it, it may get you raped or killed.
Ted Bundy, the serial killer was a good-looking well educated man who always played on the sympathy of unsuspecting women! He walked with a cane or a limp and often asked for help into his vehicle or with his vehicle which is when he abducted his next victim.
Someone just told me that her friend heard a crying baby on the porch the night before last and she called the police because it was late and she thought it was weird. The police told her ‘whatever you do, do not open the door’ the lady said that it sounded like a baby had crawled near a window and she was worried that it would crawl to the street and get run over. The police said “ we already have a unit on the way, whatever you do, do not open the door’ He told here that they think a serial killer has a baby cry recorder and uses it to coax woman out of their homes thinking that someone dropped off a baby. He said they have not verified it but have several calls by women saying that they heard baby cries outside their door when they are at home alone at night.

This email should probably be taken seriously because the crying baby theory was mentioned in America’s Most Wanted Serial killer in Louisiana.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Hudson Taylor before he went to China as a missionary

Hudson Taylor was training as a Medical student in London and he spent his weekend sharing the gospel and ministering to the poor of London. Once he was approached by a man to minister to his “dying wife” Hudson went with the man to a basement which has only a mat on which lies a lady. Besides her were he skinny, undernourished young children with the oldest holding a baby who seemed too weak to cry.
Hudson ministered the Word to the family and prayed for the weak lady. As he turned to leave, he remembered his rental money in his pocket. But he could not give it away because it was for his rental which was due the next day and he does not even have any more money for his own food. As Hudson walked away, he felt that he needed to give more than what he had done. After much struggle, he went back and gave his rent money to the impoverished family.

He went home and ate the last of the food he had prayed and go ready to be evicted by his landlord. The next day, Hudson heard the dreadful footsteps of the landlord coming up to the stairs. The landlord knocked at his door but was there to handover Hudson’s mal and a quick reminder that the rent was due and left. Hudson was relieved for that moment and proceeded to open his mails. One of them contains enough money for the rental and food for the next few days.
May we learn that our God is a generous God and that we must be like Him – for He will surely not fail us as we give of ourselves in service for Him.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - 10 ways to get a good night's sleep

No matter what kind of a sleeper you are, here is a list of good sleep habits to help you get a peaceful night’s rest.

Fix a bedtime and a waking up time
Most of use stay up too late and get up too early. Try not to make these times too fluid and flexible.
Avoid using alcohol as a sleep aid
Withdrawal from alcohol leads to shallow sleep and recurrent awakening.
Avoid caffeine up to 10 hours before bedtime
This includes caffeinated beverages such as coffee, tea and some sodas, as well as chocolate.
Avoid heavy meals or spicy foods two to three hours before bedtime
These can affect your ability to stay asleep at they may cause acid reflux.
Exercise regularly but not right before bedtime
Regular exercise, particularly in the afternoon, can help deepen sleep. Strenuous exercise within the two hours before bedtime, however, can decrease your ability to fall asleep.
Use your bed for sleep, not work.
It’s tempting to fall into bed with your laptop, surfing the Net and face booking with your friends. But these exciting distractions can prevent you from getting sleepy. Try to let your brain only associate your bed with sleep.
Banish the TV from your bedroom
Watching television in bed is often a bad idea because it can stimulate your brain and make it hard to unwind and fall asleep.
Block out all distracting noise
Also, eliminate as much light as possible. Dim the lights for a while before falling asleep.
Try a light snack before sleeping
Warm milk and foods high in the amino acid tryptophan, such as bananas may help you sleep.
Don’t take your worries to bed
Try and deal with work worries and to do lists long before bedtime. If it helps, set aside worry time in the evening so that you don’t carry it to bed.
Source: Dr Lim Li Ling, director, Sleep Disorders Unit, Singapore General Hospital

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Seven things to know about Oranges

Oranges can be stored at cool room temperature for a day but should then be refrigerated for up to two weeks.
They are an excellent source of vitamin C and contain some vitamin A. Once cut and squeezed the vitamin C quickly begins to dissipate. After eight hours at room temperature of 24 hours in the refrigerator, there’s a 20 percent vitamin C loss. Canned bottled and frozen-concentrate orange juices have a great decreased vitamin C content.
Orange juice is not necessarily high on the nutritional scale. While it may contain vitamin C and potassium, it provides little more than a source of carbohydrates in the form of a natural sugar.
Orange juice will lose more vitamin C content when it stored in an open container or one made of plastic with a lid. Always store it in a glass container with a screw cap.
A medium orange is packed with as much fibre as seven cup of cornflakes.
Oranges are high in antioxidants, which neutralize the effects of free radicals – groups of atoms that disrupt cell-reproduction.
After chocolate and vanilla, orange is the world’s favorite flavor.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - What is beauty?

We know and share similar ideas about what makes someone beautiful.
The physical features we find attractive in men and women, lustrous hair, unblemished skin, toned muscles, all these tend to denotes health and vigor.
Beauty can arouse admiration and it is natural for us to admire those with beautiful faces and figures and we too like to be just as beautiful as them.

People used to say looks aren’t everything in life but they can be wrong. Men flocks around beautiful girls and beautiful get the job. I remembered reading a comment posted in the newspaper quite awhile ago, quoting a boss saying that when an ugly girl makes mistakes, he get very angry and on the verge of firing her. But when a beautiful girl makes mistakes, he cannot bring himself to be angry with her. I knew of an ex colleague from my previous company, she have everything about her that is stunningly attractive, tall, looks and good complexion, speak well with good English but she is scarcely happier than the rest of us. I asked her for an explanation and she mentioned something which really stunned me. “Because I am beautiful”. She claimed that beautiful woman will always have a sad and tragic life and that’s her fate. I guessed that it was true to her life as she was moving from so many men friend and gone on numerous dates from Monday to Friday and reserved the weekend for a special men friend. Her life was so filled with activities after activities that she has no time to spend with herself. Last I heard of her was she is still single and in and out of so many relationship that does not last more than six months. Sometimes in life there are too many selections that you cannot decide whom should you spend your life with and I guessed that was her thoughts.
Contentment and being beautiful do not goes hand in hand.

It is true that beautiful people scarcely happier than the rest of the not so beautiful and plain Jane. I remembered a many years ago, the church caretaker an elderly woman told me her life story; she is ninety-two now. When she was young and ugly with cleft lip, she thought that no one would want to marry her but she was married at her thirties. The moral of her story is that no matter how ugly you are, there is someone who sees beauty in you. I believe no one in this world is ugly and no one in this world is perfect beauty.
I remembered making modeling clay craft in picture frame of some daisies decorated in the pot, one daisy was molded falling on the table and the rest looked perfect in the pot. Some one asked me why I chose to make this piece of art with flaw in it. “Nobody is perfect” is the theme of this clay picture frame.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Man & Woman

Office Arithematic
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime

Shopping Mathematics
A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.
A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need.

General Equations & Statistics
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Happiness
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Longevity
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.

Propensity To Change
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.

Discussion Technique
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - A Letter

Dear friend,
She came to our front door Tuesday morning, dressed in dirty rags, holding a little aluminum paint can in her arms.
From the second she stepped inside our shelter, she mystified us. Whatever she did, wherever she went, the paint can never left her hands.
When Kathy sat in the crisis shelter, the can sat in her arms. She took the can with her to the cafeteria that first morning she ate, and to bed with her that first night she slept.
When she stepped into the shower, the can was only a few feet away. When the tiny homeless girl dressed, the can rested alongside her feet.
“I’m sorry this is mine,” she told our counselors, whenever we asked about it. This can belongs to me.”
“Do you want to tell me what’s in it, Kathy?” I’d asked her. “Um, not today,” she said, “not today.”
When Kathy was sad or angry or hurt – which happened a lot – she took her paint can to a quiet dorm room on the 3rd floor. Many times on Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday, I’d pass her room, and watch her rock gently back and forth, the can in her arms. Sometimes she’d talk to the paint can in low whispers.
I’ve been around troubled kids all my life…I’m used to seeing them carry stuffed animals (some of the roughest, toughest kids at Covenant House have a stuffed animal). Every kid has something – needs something – to hold.
But a paint can? I could feel alarm bells ringing in my head.
Early this morning, I decided to “accidentally” run into her again. “Would you like to join me for breakfast?” I said. “That would be great,” she said.
For a few minutes we sat in a corner of our cafeteria, talking quietly over the din of 150 ravenous homeless kids. Then I took a deep breath, and plunged into it…
“Kathy, that’s a really nice can. What’s in it?”
For a long time, Kathy didn’t answer. She rocked back and forth, her hair swaying across her shoulders. Then she looked over at me, tears in her eyes.
“It’s my mother,” she said.
“Oh,” I said, “what do you mean, it’s your mother?” I asked.
“It’s my mother’s ashes,” she said. “I went and got them from the funeral home. See, I even asked them to put a label right here on the side. It has her name on it.”
Kathy held the can up before my eyes. A little label on the side chronicled all that remained of her mother: date of birth, date of death, name. That was it. Then Kathy pulled the can close, hugged it.
“I never really knew my mother, Sister,” Kathy told me. “I mean, she threw me in the garbage two days after I was born.” (We checked Kathy’s story. Sure enough the year Kathy was born, the New York newspaper ran a story saying that police had found a little infant girl in a dumpster…and yes, it was two days after Kathy was born.)
“I ended up living in a lot of foster homes, mad at my mother,” Kathy said. “But then, I decided I was going to find her. I got lucky – someone knew where she was living. I went to her house.”
“She wasn’t there, Sister,” she said. “My mother was in the hospital. She had AIDS. She was dying.”
“I went to the hospital, and I got to meet her the day before she died. My mother told me she loved me, Sister,” Kathy said crying. “She told me she loved me.” (We double checked Kathy’s story…every word of it was true.)
I reached out and hugged Kathy and she cried in my arms for a long time. It was tough enough getting my arms around hers, because she just wouldn’t put the paint can down. But she didn’t seem to mind. I know I didn’t…
I saw Kathy again, a couple of hours ago, eating dinner in our cafeteria. She made a point to come up and say hi. I made a point to give her an extra hug…
I’ve felt like crying tonight. I can’t seem to stop feeling this way. I guess this story – the whole horrible, sad, unreal mess – has gotten to me tonight.
I guess that’s why I just had to write you this letter.”
Taken from Cries of the Heart, Ravi Zacharias (Word Publishing, 1998), pp. 165-66 Sister Mary Rose, president of Covenant House, NY, Covenant House Newsletter, Fall 1995.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Do you want it?

As a third century man was anticipating death, he penned these last words to a friend: “It’s a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy which is a thousand times better than any pleasure of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted but they care not. They are the master of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people are the Christians – and I am one of them (Today in the word, June 1988)

Christian are people who understand that there is life beyond the here and the now.
They know that in Jesus Christ there is life beyond the here and the now because he has destroyed death and offers eternal life.
Christians are believers in Jesus Christ and have eternal life.
Do you have this life? Do you want it?

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Don't adopt a 'pencil attitude'

After sending my father off at the airport the other night, some relatives and I decided to grab some food and drinks. I did not know the way to the café and it had seemed to be such a long walk, just like life. The journey always feels longer when you are on a path you have never taken before. You take in all the unfamiliar scenery, perhaps concentrating a split second more. You absorb as much as possible of whatever that comes your way because you are wary of danger of getting lost or simply because you fear what lies ahead. However the return journey seems shorter and you may not even pay as much attention to the scenery. This time round you may pay attention to only the few landmarks or eye-catching items you had remembered to lead you back. Life is such isn’t it.

At times it seems so hard to move forward because we are so scared of what lies ahead. The journey to the unknown is often so much more difficult than a simple act of reflection. Similarly, many of us rarely take roads that are less traveled anymore. We are so used to have the government set our paths for us (academy path) So much so that some of us feel lost when suddenly we have full control of what we can do with our lives. When there are not more goals set by others to reach, or maps prepared by others to follow, some of us lose sight of what we want because we were simply not trained to think about what we really like to pursue in life. Isn’t wonderful to be able to think, choose and plan. So why not indulge in this privilege.
We can choose to use the black, red, blue, yellow, etc., colors of crayons to paint our canvas of life with circles, dots, stripes, and patterns of other unique designs. We are the ones holding the crayons and we can have colorful lives if we choose to.
We know it cannot be with the use of a pencil because actions are not erasable, but that is where it is interesting. We all know the marks left behind by erased pencil markings are ugly, so don’t adopt the “pencil attitude”.
Don’t have an eraser for “what ifs”. If you like something believes in it, choose it, plan for it, dot and make your portrait colorful. Many years from now, when we have flashbacks on our lives hopefully we will see streams and streaks of exciting colors to call our own. This is an aspiring article written by a full-time singer-songwriter and wedding singer. She has just released an album called Lonely Afternoon.

You never know the wrongs we did that will work out to our good until the flashbacks then you will begin to appreciate it. Without setbacks and rough times, we will never ever change to a better person, it is through heart aches and pain in life that we can become a more matured and understanding person. Just last Sunday sermon, Pastor Richard was speaking on this and I managed to scribbled these down on the bulletin copy. It goes
“Life can be understood backwards when we look forward” Experience is what you do with what happened to you!”.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - No shortages of rice

There has been quite a number of times assurances from Government that there is no need to worry about a rice shortages. Stock is ample and imports are coming in as usual from various countries and the Government warehouse is full of with stocks of rice grains in bags. There are three main reasons: Singapore’s relatively small import share diversification of sources and the ability to pay for rice at market prices. The policy is that Singapore will not put a price ceiling on rice and importer will not be able to buy rice on the global market for Singapore and no exporter will sell to them. But there will be a short-term price increase and despite the three assurances reported by national newspapers and over the media, many Singaporean continued their rush to buy up rice for stock. A check with the supermarkets found people who normally buy one bag of rice a month will buy an extra bag for safe-stock.
An average family uses about 10 kg of rice for three months. A housewife who was interviewed was not stocking as she claimed there was no point of buying so many bags of rice, it will just be eaten by weevils. Rice can keep for about three months before the weevils set in say importers. An evening media showed a housewife in Hong Kong buying five 10 kg bag for stocking as she mentioned that the increase is about 30% and she will not pay for the increase. I guessed for their weather the weevils will set in about 6 months as the weather is not humid in Hong Kong unlike Singapore.
The news front page flashed “HOARDING UNNECESSARY” there is sufficient rice to go around. It is not advisable to hoard. The more you hoard, the more prices will increase and you are artificially boosting demand and prices increase even more. I am not hoarding any extra rice to feed the weevils and let the weevils get to eat the rice first.
The same thing happened in Philippines, Thailand and Hong Kong, everyone is stocking rice in case they’re sold out and illegal traders will drive up prices. It is like war times when rice prices shoot up and only the rich can afford to hoard rice. Many efforts by the two governments have begun to stop hoarders and illegal traders driving prices up.
One of my colleagues stopped at supermarket to buy a bag of rice since she claimed that her rice container is empty but my guess is that she just wants to follow the crowd and stock some rice since everyone is doing the same thing. Sometime it happen to me as well when everyone is queuing for some popular snacks and everyone claimed that it is super delicious, I will also join the queue for a trial taste, just simply do not want to miss out the good taste. I think like everyone else I am afraid to lose out in life! But for the rice affairs, I did not stock for simple reason, our family of three in one roof do not eat that much grain of rice. We eat very little rice for dinner and most of the time, we eat noodles or bread as substitute. It’s time to change our lifestyles ideas management by eating fewer carbohydrates and more of protein and calcium which is a balance diet.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Social problem

Nowadays in every public places it is difficult to find well-mannered people around. What has happened to our society these days, are we rushing so much that we do not have the time to display gracious behaviors or what does not pay does not matter any more. The “me syndrome” is around in today young people and older generation as well. For the older generation there is a lack of trust or faith in relationship. The young ones are so busy in pursuing wealth management that they have no time for graciousness. The lack of empathy and ability to understand and share other’s people’s feelings. The focus is on self and that I do not feel does no harm.
There are many examples of ungracious behavior such as cutting into other people’s path without a murmur of “sorry” speaking loudly on the mobile phone and had everyone listening in the conversations. Walking into the lift without saying “thank you” to the person holding it for you. It is hard to say “sorry”, “thank you” and “excuse me” some people thinks that saying such words is a display of being vulnerable and weakling.
Let be nice to each other starting from home. Do we say “thank you” when things are done for us? Do the children thank their parents for keeping home clean, cooking and washing. Do we apologize when we make mistakes? My family feels that it is odd to show appreciation to those close to us. Appreciation and gratitude should start home if we are going to be a civil and gracious society. If we cannot be nice to those close to us how can we be nice to people outside our circle. Everyone appreciate good manners and I believe well mannered people are well-received by others. People who are positive enjoy better health and are generally happier too. It really takes very little effort to be pleasant and our busy lifestyles are not excuse to be otherwise. Quoted by myp@sph.com.sg

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Six Feet Lingerie

Even for the death they do have to wear lingerie at least that is what some people’s think. Walked by the shops selling offerings to the deceased, you can find some interesting and unusual productions of stuffs. These are used by the deceased man and woman, old and young. There are the colorful ones and the plain ones and from far they looked like the real thing, Coke it is. But near to sight, they are just made of paper prints with colorful trimmings and decorated to look like a LV luggage bag. For entertainment, the mahjong sets, chess sets, dominoes and other Parker Brother’s games for the deceased to amuse themselves under six feet ground. For the fashion conscious, there are paper trendy clothes, shoes and hand bags, for those who drives, there are Mercedes Benz in paper with keys, for the tech savy young people, there are mock up PC with USB port for use in the other world.

In Penang, shops have bought huge quantities of mock bras and panties to burn as offering for the deceased during the Qing Ming Festival (tomb-sweeping festival) which started last Friday. Matching cardboard –made bras and panties in various colors and designs are snapped off the shelves. The simple design and color ones to sexy leopard skin prints are on special offer. Some bras and panties are with trimmings and decorated with tiny beautiful butterflies. The designer probably got their inspiration from the Butterflies Lovers Opera. The underwear was imported from China and at an imported price at S$1.70 a set.
Most customers find these cuts and would usually add a few sets to go with other paper clothing. For their female family members to use in the other world. These are items which are sold at huge quantities during the Tomb-sweeping festival observed every year. Just yesterday, the media TV News shared a website on virtual Tomb-sweeping ritual for young people who did not visit their loved ones in the cemetery can perform their respect on the website, all for a fee US$5.00.
Even in the other world, people believe that they lead the same lifestyles ideas and management is the same as of this world. I do not believe as the paper items turned to ashes, what is left behind is the soot! Over the other side of the world, we still have to be living a lifestyles ideas management of "materialism".

Lifestyles Ideas Management – Getting out of the Rut

Life is full of pressure and problems.
Most of us believe that we have limited resources – time, money and energy. Yet, we are faced with mounting responsibilities, meeting deadlines, paying bills and playing different roles in life. Each role that we play comes with high expectations. Our bosses and customers want our highest productivity; partners want our best attention; parents, children, friends – everyone wants a piece of us.
Six years ago I sat in my room looking at bills for the mortgage, car payments, my children’s school fees and also, my overdraft. I felt tired and afraid.
Being a single mum, not only was I dealing with my emotional pain, but I was dealing with financial pressure.
Pressures in life can be so overwhelming that people begin to have thoughts of suicide. Some people break down, withdraw themselves from others, become aggressive or harm themselves with wounds, alcohol, drugs and reckless habits.
Today, I look back to those moments of despair and am thankful for the choices I made to get myself out of the rut. I am glad I did not stay miserable. My training in psychology gave me some tools. Having faith gave me some inner strength, with these, I started to reduce my pressure, and created progress for myself.

1. A regular thanksgiving
One choice I made was to count my blessings. Every night I would sit on my bed surrounded by my children and write in a little notebook: “ today I am thankful for..”
My children called that book “mummy’s thankful diary” We would list things we were thankful for – ice cream, smiles, hugs, etc. We learned to focus our minds on what we had rather than what we did not have.
Giving yourself five minutes to list down people, things, experiences that you are grateful for allows you to acknowledge your progress and the support you have, and whatever successes you have, no matter how small they seem to you.

2. My own definition of success
I chose not to compare my status in life with others.
I set small actionable goals, for examples, to exercise for twenty minutes, to have dinner with my parents, and to organize a camp for the underprivileged.
Every time I achieved a small goal, I stopped and gave myself a pat on my back. This grew my confidence and I began to set bigger goals like to write a book, start a business, and to snowboard.

I believe that we make the best possible choice at the moment, and we may make another choice at another moment in time. Choices many not reduce stress and pressure. But by owning the choice, and not blaming others, we would be responsible for making those choices. And the best part? Owning our choices is empowering.
Adapted from Wand Inspiration and an author of 22 books

Lifestyles Ideas Management - God's Garden

In growing a healthy fruit bearing church try this ideas management.
Plant three rows of squash:
Squash gossip
Squash criticism
Squash indifference

Plant seven rows of peas:
Prayer
Promptness
Perseverance
Politeness
Preparedness
Purity
Patience

Plant seven heads of lettuce
Let us be unselfish and loyal
Let us be faithful to duty
Let us search the scriptures
Let us not be weary in well doing
Let us be obedient in all things
Let us be truthful
Let us love one another

No garden is complete without turnips:
Turn up for church
Turn up for meetings, prayer and Bible study
Turn up with a smile, even when things are difficult
Turn up with determination to do your best in God’s service

After planting, may you grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18) And may you reap rich results.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - UBS S$51 billion

The recent S$51 billion written off by Swiss bank would have buy over 4,000 tonnes of the world’s finest Caspian Beluga Caviar from Queen Elizabeth II’s exclusive British grocer Fortnum & Mason or 74,000 tonnes of the finest Kobe beef sold in Tokyo’s swanky Mitsukoshi department store or 2 million tonnes of Toblerone chocolate bars or 5 million Rolex watches or 12.2 million of the latest Dior Babe handbags as sported by Ms Carla Sarkoz, the young wife of the French President or Loetscher cuckoo clocks from Switzerland or 2 billion standard Victorinox Swiss Army pen knives or 74,000 Ferrari 599’s or Foot the bill for organizing the Olympic games in London twice or fund charity group Oxfam for 87 years.
The money would also put big spending Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich in the shade. US$37 billion could have filled 38 soccer team with 11 Zinedine Zidane at his prime.
For the next Christmas party, UBS could have hired Madonna to belt out 1,233 renditions of her hit, Like a Virgin, after she was quoted saying she won’t sing it ever again for less than US$30 million a time. The bank could have bought 139,622 houses in the US based on an average house price of US$265,000.00. Reuters

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Keep them guessing your age

Wrinkles. You cannot iron them out. Nor can you simply wish them away. Leave them or hate them, they indicate where smiles have been; they showed that you have laughed, cried, whispered, kissed and most of all, that you have lived.
Thankfully, the experts have a number of strategies to keep you from looking old before your time. Here is one of them:
As you grow older, fine lines and wrinkles appear deeper as your skin starts to lose collagen and Hyaluronic Acid or HA , your skin’s natural moisture magnet.
Hyaluronic Acid or HA is a carbohydrate found naturally in our bodies, It acts as an important cushion allowing skin to bind with water, rendering skin smooth and soft.

How many wrinkles will you have this year?
If you go out without sunscreen every day …Add 25 lines
If you smoke…. Add 15 lines
If you sleep less than 8 hours a night …. Add 10 lines
If you skip breakfast regularly….Add 10 lines
If you don’t exercise actively ….. Add 5 lines
If you laugh, frown or smile….. Add 5 lines
If you sleep on one side …….. Add 5 lines

Everything we do eventually show up on our face, even if we have good complexion, our wrinkles and lines show that we have lived and it all add up.
I prefer wrinkles lines from laughter and smiling daily, those wrinkles lines are wonderful to have and it show that we have lived a cheerful life! What a heck with wrinkles!

Lifestyles Ideas Management - What a shock!

I remembered the birds in the air forever.
Once after walking out from the MRT (subway) early in the morning without breakfast and felt very hungry. No food and drinks is allowed while traveling in the MRT (subway). The minute I was out of the station, I pulled out a curry puff (deep fried pastry filled with sardines or curried potatoes) and took my first bite while walking toward the direction. All of the sudden my curry puff left my hand, I stopped and looked around me, then on the floor and wondering where goes my curry puff. I covered my mouth and thought for awhile, these actions took about a few seconds. Then looking up I saw a black big crow flew away with the half the curry puff hanging at its claws. What a fright of my life! I looked at the flying crow until it disappeared to a small dot. Can you imagine the sharp vision of this crow that can spot my curry puff from the sky and took its flight down to claw away from my hand. What if this black bird was a myopic and instead of clawing away my puff and some flesh from my mouth. How ugly will I be! And how can I explained to the doctor what has happened. Nobody will believe what has happened if some part of the flesh is ripped off by the black crow. What a narrow escape!

In another occasion while walking home, some thing flopped over my shoulder bag. My first reaction was looked back to see what was that sound. I looked into my shoulder bag and thought perhaps someone threw something inside. Then I noticed a transparent slimy liquid on the side of the bag and realized that it was bird’s shit. One bird flew over my head and shit from high and landed over my shoulder and spilled over my bag. What bird that can do such a thing to shit and fly at the same time.

Once a friend told me this story, while reading in the library with the overhead ceiling fan blowing, a bird flew in. “Flop” the bird shit over his head. At that time I find it hard to believe but not anymore after the above two incidents.
The birds, monkeys, street cats and stray dogs are getting very ferocious as if we have already violate their habitat by clearing more jungles and forests for our home that leave these no place for their food portion.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Express Yourself

It is important to learn how to express yourself in all kind of situation and circumstances so that you are better understood by others and there is no misunderstanding created from these situations. We can learn to analyses our thoughts and mind before verbalizing it. Speaking without thinking through can create unhappiness to others who may perceive the words differently. Speakers speak with no intention to hurt but hearers think otherwise. We may speak our mind however we need to use words cautiously so that it does not create ambiguity to the hearers. Just one harsh word can cut through the best of friendship and break the bond that has been fostered through the years. Words can heal a weary soul and just as words can tear a person down. Let learn to use our mouth wisely. Use it timely and use it wisely and only allow wholesome words to flow out. All these can be done if we exercise self control or make it a habit not to allow any negative words to come out. Let train our mind and heart to think through before spouting out! Speaking out timely can be a tool for building good relationship with one another. Make friends and not enemies because making enemies is so easy, it just take 1 minute to make an enemy by a nasty word. Learn to zip our mouth is a habit that we can start learning today. But then I remember the zip file software where one can unzip it. So when one friend mentioned that we should zip our mouth as I put it, I say we should learn to crucify our tongue. It is the tongue that can cause a whole forest on fires. Do you believe once a talkative always a talkative? Yes, I do as it is hard to change the temperament. I believe a talkative fellow is better than quiet still water run deep fellow at least you know that this talkative fellow do not harbor bad motives at heart besides not able to keep a secret. Most of all you know what is on that talkative mind. Before we make a statement, run through the words with the mind (the delay is about ½ seconds) and then shoot. Besides learning the art of conversation, we should also train our ears to listen first. Listening is an art which I am struggling to learn. I speak more than I listen and this makes me an unwise person.

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Can you bring food into Singapore?

Many travelers wishes to bring food home after the holidays overseas and did not know about the restrictions on what you can bring in from overseas.
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) is responsible for maintaining high food safety standards in Singapore. You can follow these guidelines on the types, quantities and sources of food that you can bring into Singapore.

Meat
Food Type: Beef (chilled, frozen, processed or canned)
Countries from which food can be brought in directly: Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Uruguary
Mutton (chilled, frozen, processed or canned)
Countries from which food can be brought in directly: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Uruguay, USA
Pork (chilled, frozen, processed or canned)
Countries from which food can be brought in directly: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, The Netherlands, USA
Personal Allowance: A total of 5 kg per person of beef, mutton, pork and poultry

Seafood
Fish products (except frozen cooked crabmeat, frozen cooked prawn meat & live or frozen oysters)
Countries from which food can be brought in directly: All countries
Personal Allowance: 5 kg per person (provided that the total quantity of all seafood products does not exceed 5 kg per person)

Live or frozen oysters
Countries from which food can be brought in directly: Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, New Zealand, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
Frozen cooked crabmeat & frozen cooked prawn meat
Countries from which food can be brought in directly : All countries
Personal Allowance: 2 kg per person (provided that the total quantity of all seafood products does not exceed 5 kg per person)

Hen Eggs
Countries from which food can be brought in directly: Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, USA
Personal Allowance: Up to 30 eggs per person
Fresh fruits & vegetables
Countries from which good can be brought in directly: All countries. However a phytosanitary certificate is required for fresh fruits from Latin American and Pacific island
Personal Allowance: Small, reasonable quantities hand carried for personal consumption
Processed Food Products ( all food products excluding meat and seafood products, fresh fruits and vegetables)
Countries from which food can be brought in directly: All countries
Personal Allowance: Total weight or volume does not exceed 5 kg or litres and total value is not more than S$100.00 per person