Losing sight...

Blood and pus oozes painfully from the ulcer residing at the corner of my lip.

If you are going to offer advice on the salt technique, forget it. I tried it once and I want to keep the record that way. Back then, I have this oversized and horribly deep ulcer on my lower lip and my brother decide to do me a 'big' favor and rubbed salt on it. It was an agony! The pang was enough to make me stop talking to my brother till the realization that the salt does pacify the ulcer and the misery caused by the ulcer that daunted me for weeks ended. Too chicken to go through that 10 minutes of torment, tears and numbness again, I am venturing on the long but saner healing method of keeping to a light diet with lots of water and fruits.

I used to be very prone to ulcer attack and the worst attack was by 5 ulcers growing simultaneously in my mouth- 2 resided on my tongue while the other 3 were spread evenly on my lip, left and right side of my mouth. The only food that I consumed during that time was porridge, I dreaded brushing and relied heavily on pen and paper to communicate with others. In my years of experience with ulcer, the tip of the tongue is the worst place in the whole mouth for ulcer to sprout and grow as it brought about great misery and inconvenience in talking and eating. And one of the worst scenario that I went through was the merger of 2 ulcers on my lip. That sure was a big one and took a long time to heal.

Adopting a healthier diet, I'm less susceptible to ulcer attack in the last one year. Just hope that the one on my lip will go away real soon. By the way, do drop me a line if you know a good way to cure ulcer.

Definition of Ulcer :
A lesion of the skin or a mucous membrane such as the one lining the stomach or duodenum that is accompanied by formation of pus and necrosis of surrounding tissue, usually resulting from inflammation or ischemia.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ulcer

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The remote control that allows me to switch the cable channel on my television spoilt. Since nobody at home is really a couch potato, we have been slow in getting a replacement. But right now, I am in a dilemma in getting that replacement.

Down with flu, cough and sore throat, I spend last Friday, Saturday and Sunday mostly with Morpheus, exploring the mysterious land of dreams that he created. The medicine strong drowsy effect simply drain all the strength in me, I am sleeping, televising or reading. And becoming a couch potato is definitely easier than becoming a bookworm and hours were spend goggling the television. Though most of the programme doesn't requires me to exercise any brain cell, getting the right channel requires me to exercise my feet as I have to cross that 300 meters (2 way trip) between the television set box and couch to switch the channel. Initially the 300 meters was acceptable but after a few trips, my weak and sickly body starts to whine and grumble. I start to curse the remote control for its failure and incompetence to make my life easier. That's when it dawn on me, how accustomed and dependent I am on the little remote control. Or simply put how lazy I have become.

Interestingly, the feature of the August 2004 issue in Digital Home magazine was on this fully automated home known as The MajikHouse in Australia. The home was the result of a 3 year R&D project by technology company, Majitek. With 18 touch- screen displays and Java- enabled-mobile phone, the inhabitants of The MajikHouse can control all, yes ALL the home's systems, a total of some 2000 devices, from heating, cooling, electricity, security to entertainment. Impressively, in place of blinds and curtains, the MajikHouse uses unique electrostatic glass shading that will tint the glass on windows and doors automatically if an intruder is detected outside. The system can even respond to temperature and humidity changes by opening and closing the louvers to provide ventilation...Guess I better stop going on and on about The MajikHouse, since it is not in my agenda to promote it in my blog.

If given a chance, I wonder will I want to live in such a fully automated house. Personally, I hold great fear towards technology, technophobia, mainly because my laptop have went through all kinds of hardware failure in the last 2 years and cause me great inconvenience. The failure of the remote control simply heightens my fear and makes me recognize I am suffering from one of the detrimental effect of technology on human- laziness. But taking in consideration of my laziness and how I always forget to switch off the electrical appliances at home, The MajikHouse would definitely be a dream house. However, the property estate agent and developer will definitely have a tough time convincing me that the technology employed in the house wouldn't fail.

Would you want to live in a fully automated house like The MajikHouse? For more information on the amazing house, visit http://www.majitek.com/