Malayan Emergency History Channel

just watched the Malayan Emergency documentary in the History Channel. Very informative 2 hour documentary about the tumoultous times when the communist wanted to take over Malaya by force. The Emegency period was from June 1948 to 1960. Also have a brief info about Roy Follows and the first fort, Fort Brooke in Cameron Highlands in which Roy was in charge. Good documentary!

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Kang Travel and Tours Job Opportunity

Hello! Looking for a job in Cameron Highlands?

Well here's some job opportunity for those who like to work in the highlands, Kang Travel is looking for drivers who have PSC License and Sales Operator for their office. If you think it would be interesting to work in Cameron Highlands, well you can give Kang Travel a call. Their telephone contact +60 (5) 4915828

So give a call and see if the vacancy is still available.

Cheers!

Jan.

Just came back

my dad just came back from cameron highlands. he had great time there for the entire week and boought back some veggie and flowers too! they stay at heritage hotel and use up their vacation club points for it. they noted that heritage hotel got a splendid new wing and of course anything new means higher price. and there was bus loads of european tourist escaping the summer heat of europe. hmmm I would have thought they would prefer the sun sand and see. with the current ramadhan cameron highlands seems rather quiet. might be a good time for a visit before the mad rush, no?

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Equatorial Cameron Highlands EON Bank Promotion

Saw this Hotel Equatorial Cameron Highlands Hari Raya promotion on my brother's EON Bank credit card. So if you are looking for some cuti-cuti Malaysia promotion, you can look through the fine print and see if this offer is worth it. My brother was considering it but there are some terms and condition to be considered. Too bad my mobile camera makes such a lousy shot so can't really see the details. So I just have to decipher what best that I could squint out of the blurry info.

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Green Tea Polyphenols and Catechine

Came up this discussion about the downside of drinking too much Green Tea. Although drinking Green Tea Polyphenols and Catechine has the good benefit of anti-oxidants which helps to prevent cancer and fighting against free radicals. Drinking too much has side effects that are no good for the body.

 

Also to note that Catechine can be found in fruits and vegetables too.

 

In everything, there should be moderation. Neither too much nor too little. This world is in a state of equilibrium and so is your bodily function. Just like too much sugar is no good and too little is no good either.

 

Here is what they said if too much Polyphenols and Catechine is taken:

1. It will harm the liver and kidney: Liver is the main organ for our body to "detoxify" most chemicals, and kidney helps us to "release" partial wastes. Too much catechine would be toxic to liver and kidney and create burden to them.

2. It is hard to bowel: it slows down the bowel movement if too much/strong. However, strong tea can help people who have some diarrhoea issues. Try some concentrated pomegranate juice to help out this ailment. So it depend on each situation. When the wastes stay in the body for too long, it will become toxic. (This probably refers to black tea, coz strong Green Tea causes irritable bowel for me!)

3. Kidney stone.

4. Interacts with iron thus reducing the absorption, but if drank properly, it can be avoided.

(I wonder if it will affect the absorption of calcium too, since too much coffee would reduce the ability for calcium absorption.)

 

But I wonder how much is too much. I heard there are situations where they could get concentrated Green Tea to obtain the good antioxidant effects of Polyphenols and Catechine.

 

Anyhow, in just about anything moderation is key. We should neither abstain nor overly infuse ourselves with Green tea. Just like we should eat all kinds of vegetables to obtain the benefits of the bioflavonoid anti-oxidants and vegetable fibre and yet should not be completely vegetarian.