ME Getting Old

Blueberry Cake (Chocolate with Blueberry Fruit)

Coffee Cake (Coffee with Chocolate Chip)

Orange Cake (Normal)

"MAKE A GUESS ===> WHICH ONE I CHOOSE"

YEAH!!!!! Tomorrow is my BORN day!!!!!Happy Birthday to myself first. Wahahahaha!!!
"Closed my eyes" make a wish......Wishing my dream become true SOON and BLESSING my lovely family, friends, colleagues ===> HAPPY FOREVER, GOOD HEALTH, ALL THE BEST!!!

World===>PEACE!!!

Last friday, I went back my home town "2 days one night" for celebrate my coming BIRTHDAY. In fact, rushing but HAPPY & ENJOY. This celebration not me only, but the rest of my family members too. (Thanks GOD, Present me COMPLETE and WARM family) i feel HAPPINESS...(although this sentences "yoke ma" but really appreciate and cherish whatever i have now)......YEAH!!!!!!!!They always LIVE in my HEART~~~~~I MISS THEM~~~hehehehehe!!!!

This month ME really ENJOY ate cake gao gao. LOLzzz!!!! Many friends celebrate their BIRTHDAY too . I LIKE cake but it really TOO MUCH, make me scared. hahahaha!!!! So now i announced here , Who wanna celebrate with me, please take note ya ======>"NO CAKE PLEASE******I ONLY ACCEPT GIFT. " (Hope they know , what to do????) Wakakkakakka.

Trans Fats

TRANS-FATS

• they are partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, turning oily foods into semi-solid foods.
• used to extend shelf life of products.
• low levels of trans fat occurs naturally in dairy products, beef, lamb and mutton.
• produced by the normal action of bacteria in the stomach of cow and sheep.
  
• put into pastries, cakes, margarine and some fast foods.
• vegetable oils contain very small amount of trans fat, which is formed during the refining process.
• can raise levels of "bad" cholesterol
• even a small reduction in consumption can cut heart disease.
• they have no nutritional benefit.

WHAT ARE THE MAJOR SOURCES OF TRANS FAT?

The main sources of trans fat in out diet are pastries, cakes cookies, biscuits, commercially deep fried foods as well as products containing vegetable shortening and hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils.


WHY IS TRANS FAT SO BAD?

1. LDL (Low-density lipoprotein) ["bad" cholesterol] transports cholesterol throughout your body. LDL cholesterol, when elevated, builds up in the walls of your arteries, making them hard and narrow.
2. HDL(High-density lipoprotein ) [ "good" cholesterol] picks up excess cholesterol and takes it back to your liver.

Trans fat raises LDL- cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol) and reduces HDL - cholesterol ("good" cholesterol) in the body. As a result, trans fat increases the risk of developing heart disease.
Besides trans fat, what other types of fat should watch out for? There is "Saturated Fat". Saturated fat raises LDL - cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol) which increases the risk of heart disease.

We can found in :-

• Animal fats (e.g : b utter, lard, ghee, fatty meat, skin of poultry)
• High-fat dairy products (e.g : full cream milk)
• Palm-based vegetable oils
• Coconut milk and coconut cream

We should keep trans fat intake to a minimum. As a guide, limit trans fat to less than 2g per day. For saturated fat, consume no more than 20g in your daily diet.

READING FOOD LABELS

How do you know whether food contains trans fat? Look for the words "partially hydrogenated" vegetable oil. That's another term for trans fat. The word "shortening" is also a clue: Shortening contains some trans fat.

It sounds counterintuitive, but "fully" hydrogenated oil doesn't contain trans fat. Unlike partially hydrogenated oil, the process used to make fully hydrogenated oil doesn't result in trans fatty acids. However, if the label says just "hydrogenated" vegetable oil, that usually means the oil contains trans fat.

Although small amounts of trans fat occur naturally in some meat and dairy products, it's the trans fats in processed foods that seem to be more harmful.

You may click here and this to found out the ideas or balance diet in your commonly eaten foods.
Enjoy the healthy choice"GOOD HEALTH GOOD LIFE" Cheerssssssssss!!!!!! :D

LTA Lastest News

Higher fares for higher service?

The changes required will be a challenge, said SBS Transit in a statement, as the revisions will require new investments in buses 'over and above what has been catered for'.

SBS Transit Chief Operating Officer, Mr Gan Juay Kiat said: 'This is not going to be an easy task but we will do what we need to do to achieve this as it will benefit our commuters.'

Lowering the headway requirements will require at least an additional 100 buses as well as increased manpower resources over the next two years, SBS Transit said.

But Mr Ee stressed that the revised standards does not mean that 'higher operating costs feed directly into higher fares' - that operators should not pass on the cost to commuters.

'In tightening the QoS standards, the PTC has carefully calibrated them to avoid unduly increasing the PTOs' compliance costs,' said Mr Ee.

Fare adjustments should only occur in the case of price inflation and wage growth in the economy as a whole, and not a 'cost-plus formula' where increased operating costs added on to fares.

"SMRT pointed out that the increase in the goods and services tax as well as the 1.5 percentage point rise in employers' CPF contributions will pull down its earnings by about $11 million a year."

The Public Transport Council has upped the service standards for buses, to solve perennial problems like long waiting times and overcrowding. To comply, both SBS Transit and SMRT have already applied for fare hikes.

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What do your view regarding this issue. Let's us doing some discussion. :D

New Display Data in Singapore

COMMUTERS may soon have a shorter waiting time for buses during peak hours.

The Public Transport Council (PTC) will be further tightening the quality of service (QoS) standards for basic bus services operated by SBS Transit and SMRT Buses.

The PTC has required that the operators have at least 80 per cent of their bus services operating at frequencies of not more than 10 minutes during weekday peak hours.

At present, the interval is 15 minutes.

'The PTC decided that the current service provision standard of 15 minutes for peak period can be reduced further. This is long when we factor in the 5 minute allowance for operational deviation in the actual schedule,' PTC chairman Gerard Ee said.

'On the ground, this could translate to waiting times of 20 minutes or more for some commuters.'

The operators will be given two years to comply with the revised standard, meaning that it will take effect from August 2009.

This will give the operators enough time 'to progressively procure more buses and recruit and train more drivers in order to meet this requirement', the PTC said.

Timetables, bus load

Another new requirement PTC stated was for timetables of bus services that have a frequency of 20 minutes or more to be displayed at bus stops, effective from August this year.

This applies to services where more than 20 per cent of the bus trips fall outside this interval.

Currently, operators need to do so only for bus services with more than 20 per cent of the bus trips having frequencies that exceed 20 minutes.

Also, PTC stated that bus loading during weekday peak periods on each bus service should not exceed 95 per cent daily. This means buses should not be overcrowded even during peak periods.

With effect from October, the bus operators will also be fined if they fail to meet the QoS standards.

Depending on the standards, the penalty ranges from $100 per day per bus service to $10,000 per month per standard.

How about your opinion? Do you think this is good idea ? Does it will cause increasing bus fares?