MALAYSIAN GP: THRILLS UNDER THE RAIN

Two times a charm. That is how I would start off by describing the man on force now.

It was a race that is difficult to predict right from the start. The race became chaotic even from the first moment when all the 5 red lights gone off to mark to start of the race. Prior to the race, many expects rain to be pouring in but it was beyond anyone's imagination that the weather can really play such a key role in determining the outcome.

From starting point, the sky was dark and cloudy. The race starts but like what happen with Barrichello, Button was slow on the ignition, eventually passed down by Trulli, Alonso and Rosberg who sped up to lead the race. On the end of first lap, Button lost two places after managed a pass over Alonso. Barrichello also passed from ninth to fifth. By the oepning two laps, Kovalainen and Kubica were both retired from the race.

Rosberg pulled away substantially from Trulli while Button followed closely behind. On one point, Alonso's pace came under fire and held up the most of the drivers behind him including Raikkonen, Webber, Glock and Hamilton. With tactical moves, Button reclaimed his lead after pit stop round one.

Signs that rain will come down was very clear. The biggest gamble of the day was to put Raikkonen on the wet tyre on his 18th lap pit, but it proved to be disastrous as he lapped slow. Others still stayed on their soft dry tyre when the drops of water started to wet the track. On lap 22, Timo Glock put on his intermediate tyres while the rest on wet tyre. Glock's choices of tyres seems to suit well with the condition of the track. Some parts of the track were wetter than the other. Glock made much ground and even passing one car after another until he was at second place behind Button.

The heavy shower materialize on Lap 30, and came in all the field into the pit lane for a wet deeply grooved rubber tyres. Button was still in command after his fourth stops while Glock and Heidfeld battled it out on the second spot. Then, the race stewards found out the race condition was so bad that Fisichella, Hamilton and Vettel were spun out of the track even under the safety car.


The rain kept on pouring and the race was nevertheless been suspended, red-flagged on the end of Lap 32.

Now the Malaysian Grand Prix had been a cliffhanger. The rain eventually eased after 45 minutes of suspended period. At first, the chances of a restart seems likely but the evening sun was making its way for a set, the sky became dark and race directors finally called it off at 18:50 local time.

Button won but the decision was made to give out the race position at Lap 31 as the finalized race finishing order. Since the race has past half but not third quarter of the distance, half of the points were awarded.


The final result is on:


[source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7984270.stm, http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/4/9147.html, http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/results/7921143.stm, http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2009/806/6609/]

WHY QUIT SMOKING NOW?

Smoking is a pleasure for some people and for others it is a symbol of elegant, coolness and so on. However, many realize the dangers behind smoking, yet, the number of smokers continue to rise every year. It is estimate that 1 in 5 of us smokes. When 28 million Malaysian are been used as a data, now you got 5.6 million smokers in Malaysia alone; while it reaches more than 1.4 billion worldwide.

Once you light up a cigarette, the heat helps to release thousands of chemical compounds in the list of name such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, nicotine, tar, at least 43 carcinogens and numerous mutagens. Carcinogens are agents that induce the process of cancer in our body and mutagens are agents that induce mutation of genes in the body.

Nicotine is found naturally in tobacco leaves as an alkaloid that used widely as an insecticide in the past. With low concentration in a stick of cigarette, it reaches the brain in within 10 seconds and full body after 15 seconds upon inhalation. Nicotine raises the blood pressure, heart rate and increase alertness and relaxation. However, once the nicotine level dropped, smokers will take another stick to hit the desire, thus the need for maintaining the kicking level causes addiction.

Tar in the cigarette similar from those used to pave the road! Tar tends to accumulate on the branchial tubes leading to the lungs and burn the tiny hairlike projection of cilia that trap harmful particles before they enter the lungs. Thus, the chances of getting lung cancer is high.

Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that quickly absorbed into the blood to reduce oxygen capacity. Therefore, smoker has to exert more physical effort to attain a task than non-smoker, causing heart to work harder. The gas also causes vision impair, impairing perception of time and coordination.

So, why not stop smoking? Over the years of research, many points out the great benefits from smoking cessation. In dentistry, we also deal with cases that need smoking cessation in the clinic. Below are the good effects of quitting your cigarette packs.

WITHIN THE PERIOD OF STOP SMOKING

20 minutes Blood pressure, pulse rate and temperature of hands and feet return to normal.

8 hours Nicotine level is now fallen to only 6.25% of normal peak during smoking.

12 hours Blood oxygen level returns to normal.

24 hours Anxieties peak but should normalize within 2 weeks - this is the most critical part, where success depends on this 2 weeks period.

48 hours Damaged nerve endings start to regrow while your smell and taste return to normal; anger and irritability peaks.

72 hours Breathing becomes easier and lungs functional abilities increase with 100% nicotine-free and almost 90% of its by products should have been passed down via urine; symptoms of chemical withdrawal syndrome like restlessness peak.

10 to 14 days Recovery is likely where addiction no longer in place; blood circulation to gum and teeth normalize.

2 weeks to 3 months The risk for heart attack starts to drop and lungs functional begins to improve.

3 weeks to 3 months Blood circulation improves substantially and any chronic cough would have disappear.

1 to 9 months No more fatigue and shortness of breath; cilia have regrow to help to keep your lungs clean and reducing risk of lung infection.

1 year Risk of coronary heart disease dropped to half of a smoker.

1 to 5 years Risk of stroke declined to half of a non-smoker.

10 years Risk of lung cancer declined by half of an average smoker

15 years Risk of coronary heart disease is now that of a person who never smoked.


SO STOP SMOKING NOW. IT'S NEVER BEEN TOO LATE.

Source: http://whyquit.com/whyquit/A_Benefits_Time_Table.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine,

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To start the fourth month of the year, we shall starts with some laughter. HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY.

The very funny, ONLY IN....

Note: I'm not even sure how true these pictures are, but I am sure that the last pictures are somewhat true.

ONLY IN SINGAPORE....Booking your seats with a pack of tissue papers.

ONLY IN INDONESIA..... You are allowed to loiter around the railway track without worrying it will hit you somehow. I bet these people haven't watch "KNOWING" yet.

ONLY IN CHINA....A giant swimming pool to facilitate 1.3 billion Chinese.

ONLY IN INDIA....You can feed the rats with fresh milk. How lucky these creatures are.

ONLY IN HAWAII....Seaside gathering for our next blogger meeting?

ONLY IN MEXICO....You must go naked but there are certain parts of the body that you do not require sun-tanning. Talking about basked dudu....

ONLY IN CAMBODIA....Who need a boat when you have a pail, frying pan or just simply a peace sign.

ONLY IN MALAYSIA....Yeah, embarrassing!!

Anyway, before I end here, watch this video for more crazy stuff. The point is tell me how long you took before you start bursting into a loud laugh!!??

Seriously!!