Honey, I forgot..........

Pregnancy does cause memory loss

Science has now confirmed what expectant moms already know: Carrying a baby makes them more forgetful. A recent study by two Australian researchers has found that pregnant women do experience a slight loss of memory -- and in many cases, the forgetfulness continues after birth.

The memory loss is subtle, and usually involves unfamiliar or demanding tasks, Dr. Julie Henry, one of the authors of the study, told CNN .

Hmm......got to check with Soo Pei whether she remember.

Moment of peace

Two of our baby (Reanne and Ivan) fast asleep in their afternoon nap.

Here lay two innocent soul waiting to be crafted, mold and transformed into God's perfect plan.

Lord, grand us Your grace and wisdom as parents to become part of Your instruments to make them mighty man and women of God.

Happy Marriage, Happy Heart

Study finds contented mates enjoy lower blood pressure

Happily married people have lower blood pressure than unhappy married people or singles, a Brigham Young University study says.

On the other hand, even having a supportive social network did not translate into a blood pressure benefit for singles or unhappy married people, according to the study.

"There seem to be some unique health benefits from marriage. It's not just being married that benefits health -- what's really the most protective of health is having a happy marriage,"

Getting married is just the first step which is relatively easy, after that ‘happiness’ is the continuous afford of commitment and making it happens. I would says it worth the afford giving the benefit of health.

So, are you married? If not now, when? Why not then.

'Add Rice' No More

The Government recently announced in the news, will introduce a holistic package to deal with the global shortage of food including calling for a reduction in rice consumption. This is to follow what the Thai Government’s recent call for their people to reduce rice consumption to address the global spiraling of prices and acute shortage of staple food. In Bangladesh, their government already is asking its people to switch to potatoes as alternative.

Did you know that adult Malaysian consumes a per capita average of 77kg of rice per annum? To be exact, we eat about 200g a day! If you eat twice a day, it would be 100g per meal. Bear in mind, most noodles are also made from rice.

I know my family already has been reducing rice consumption quite a while ago. Not because of shortage issues but for health issues. That would be another topic to cover.

So, Malaysian get ready to say no to ‘add rice’ especially when going for banana leaf rice or chicken rice. That also mean Nasi lemak Antarabangsa definitely gonna be affected since internationally rice is of shortage! Need to change to Nasi Lemak Tempatan…….

What else can we eat la?

E-asy Tax Got E-rror

"Tax Deadline Rush Causes System To Malfunction"

Woh, what a head line in the news today. I spoke to soon in my last post. People waited for as long as one hour to login to the system due to 'heavy traffic' as people (like us) doing the last minutes mad rush.

Anyhow the IRB people managed to pull the system together to hold.

Thank God ours got through smoothly.

E-asy Tax

Finally, we managed to submit our income tax.......online! First ever for us.

E-Filling amazingly it's very easy, hassle free and friendly. I gotta admit the government did a pretty good job this round. We were skeptical when it was launch two years ago. Main concern is that can the system hold or worst crash down.

Sad part is that I end up still gotto pay tax :(

This year need to be wise and plan ahead on our tax management. Last year, we have not fully utilize the allowable deduction/rebate especially for books and medical check up. That itself already RM1,500 of tax saving. Tax savvy time!

Dejavu

Lately this few nites after Soo Pei have resumed her works, we start to get back the 'dejavu' we dread much about. Oh, it is back again! Nature sound of music breaching the silence nite. This time is by our 2 months old, Reanne.

We just have no idea what trigger her 'alarm system'. How we wish the 'Snooze Belly Button' shown here in the cartoon existed, just by the push of a button. Presto! Yes, we sound 'desperate'.

Reanne is still being breast feed. This dedication of mother's love is getting pretty challenging for Soo Pei. She got to wake up earlier a bit to pump the breast milk for storage before going to work. No wonder mother's love knows no boundary. How much more is God's love!

The rest of day, Reanne is just a cute and sweet little innocent angle.

What You Eat Determine Your Baby Sexs

Women on low-calorie diets or who skip breakfast at the time of conception are more likely to give birth to girls than boys, British scientists said on Wednesday.

New research by the universities of Exeter and Oxford provides the first evidence that a child's sex is associated with the mother's diet, and higher energy intake is linked to males.

"This research may help to explain why in developed countries, where many young women choose to have low-calorie diets, the proportion of boys born is falling," said Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter.

There has been a small but consistent decline, of about one per 1,000 births annually, in the proportion of boys being born in industrialised countries over the past 40 years.

In humans, going without breakfast may be interpreted by the body as signalling low food availability, since it depresses levels of blood sugar.

Although sex is genetically determined by fathers, it is known that high levels of glucose encourage the growth and development of male embryos while inhibiting female ones, although the exact mechanism is unclear.

Mathews and colleagues studied 740 first-time pregnant mothers in Britain and found 56 percent of those in the group with the highest energy intake at conception had sons, compared with 45 percent in the lowest group.

In evolutionary terms, this correlation may make sense.

Males' breeding potential is strongly influenced by fitness, while females breed more consistently.

"If a mother has plentiful resources then it can make sense to invest in producing a son because he is likely to produce more grandchildren than would a daughter. However, in leaner times having a daughter is a safer bet," Mathews said.

Some researchers have been sounding alarms for years over the change in sex ratios in developed countries and have in the past blamed pollutants and synthetic chemicals such as those found in some pesticides which disrupt human hormones.

The latest findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.