May each day of the new year
bring happiness,
good cheer,
and sweet surprises
to you and all your dear ones…
Happy New Year!
I hope that y’all have a great New Year and when 2013 comes, cherish every moment that it will give you. 🙂 Forget all past troubles, forgive everyone you need to forgive, and enjoy 2013 to its fullest.
2013 is going to be, I feel, a great brand new beginning!
I can hear lots of fireworks now, and have to go too.
Adios
-hua
rain’s voice
The taro root/ dasheen plant is a tuber native to S.E. Asia and is a staple food across the Pacific, West Indies, and Africa. It is a plant very similar with the plant malanga, which looks similar and is related to dasheens. The root of this plant (AKA: corm) is one of the most popular root vegetables in Asia, the Pacific islands, Western Africa, and the Amazonian regions of S. America. Why? Because of its great taste after cooked. It is also very healthy– a vegetable good for the eyes, low in fat, high in potassium, etc..
Health Benefits of Taro/Dasheen corms
1. Regulates heart rate and blood pressure– it contains high amounts of potassium, which is an important component of cells&a; body fluids that has everything to do with your heart health. 
2. They are free from gluten and have a high quality phyto-nutrition profile that consists of dietary fiber and antioxidants. 
3. It is one of the finest source of dietary fibers, 100g of its flesh provides 11% of the daily-requirement of dietary fiber. 
4. Contains minerals and vitamins that are essential for your health (for more info, read no.8)
5. Maintains healthy mucus membranes, skin, and vision— Dasheens corms are rich in vitamin A, 100g of these vegetables contains 161% of the RDA of vitamin A (wow). 
6. Prevents lung and oral cavity cancers— rich in flavonoids, which are good for the teeth and lungs.
7. Contains good levels of pyridoxine, folates, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, and thiamin, which are essential for the health of a person.
8. Contains important minerals— these corms provide healthy amounts of zinc, magnesium, copper, iron, and manganese, which are important minerals essential for humans.
9. And... many more.
Warnings…
A dasheen corm eaten raw is extremely bitter and is harmful to the health of a human being (that is, us).
The peel/rind should be peeled away using a knife– NOT the hand.
I ate a dasheen for the first time in my life today.
(Dasheens are also called taro, cocoyam, colocasia, and “elephant’s ear”– I wonder why it is called that.)
Opening Google to find out why dasheens are also called “elephant’s ear”…
I just googled why dasheens are called elephant’s ear by some people. It is because its plant (a large prennial herbaceous plant) has large heart-shaped leaves with frilly edges that look like an elephant’s ear. I am now enlightened, you are probably too. 
Here is a picture of it. The picture may not look very appetizing to you (doesn’t to me), but when the vegetable is cooked, it is DELICIOUS!
The sad thing is, you don’t get a lot of these yummy root vegetables in Hungary. Oh well…
Tomorrow, I’ll write about the health benefits of dasheenS.
(Sometimes, I like to research stuff just for fun).
Adios
-hua
rain’s voice
| “How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog–it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.” | ||
James 4:14, NLT Why does almost every elderly person tell you that life is short even when they have already lived a long life? Because life is short– no matter how long you live. Tomorrow may feel far away to you now, but when it arrives, it won’t be far away anymore (duh:). The point is, don’t think that you have a lot of time remaining in your life to live for Christ and do what you should– YOU DON’T. You do not know when your life will end. |
Yay! Got the CUTEST stuffed animal as a present from my brother today!!!!!!!!!! He lives separate from my mom and I, so he came for a visit and gave me this stuffed animal along with some other stuff. I love how this creature’s (don’t know what can it be called…) body is black and white and how the bottom of its feet is a bright red– 3 of the best colors in the world to put together (Artistic is what I’m trying to say)!
Oh, and this creature is also very big. When I put it–standing up–on the floor, it reaches my hips. I’m going to have a great companion from now on…
Oh, and the hand in this picture is my mom’s. She’s awesome and is a prowess in the art of sneaking herself in every picture that I take (if that is an art).
Emotional gestures/ facial expressions
1. The display of emotion is delayed, stays longer than it typically would, and stops very abruptly.
2. Timing is a little off between emotion gestures/ expressions and the words.
3. Emotion gestures/ expressions do not match a verbal statement.
4. Expressions are limited to mouth movements– faking emotions such as a fake smile.
5. There are micro-expressions— expressions that flash on a person’s face for a second and then disappear. A typical micro-expressions of a lying person would be distress.
Actions & how they react
1. They blink more often and their eyes move to the right (if they are left-handed) or left (right-handed) because they are thinking of something to make up.
2. The person might unconsciously place objects, such as a book, coffee cup, etc., between themselves and the person they are lying to.
3. Physical expression is limited and a little stiff with few movements of the hand and arm.
4. The person tries to avoid making eye contact with the person they are lying to as much as possible OR they overdo eye contact.
5. An unconscious mistake that an inexperienced liar does while lying would be to nod or shake their head in opposition to what they are saying. Such as nodding their head while saying “I did not eat the cookies.”
6. A lying person may be constantly swallowing, gulping, or clearing their throat to relieve the built up tension caused by telling a lie.
Verbal responses of a lying person
1. A lying person (the suspect) typically uses a statement without a contraction to lie, such as “I did not eat the cookie” instead of “I didn’t eat the cookie”. Avoiding contractions is a way for a lying person to make sure that they are communicating the fact that (in this example) they did not eat the cookie.
2. The suspect is talking faster or slower than normal. The person may also be talking in a higher-pitched voice because of built up tension.
3. The suspect may have, 90% of the time, rehearsed over what he/she is going to say (when telling the lie) and when they tell the lie, it comes out more fluent than usual and with not normal timing. One example would be answering a question (non-academic) right after it was asked.
4. A person’s using unnecessary statements such as “to be honest”, “I never lie”, “frankly”, “I was brought up to never lie” can often be a sign of deception.
5. When a person pauses at an unusual time while telling someone something can be a sign that they are telling a lie unless they are interrupted by a phone call or something of that sort.
6. The suspect uses muddled speech or talks with bad grammar and almost not understandable sentences– different from his/her normal speech.
7. The talker speaks in a monotonous tone different from his/her usual tone.
Good luck!
-hua
rain’s voice
In one sentence…
WHO ARE YOU?
My answer?
The first thing that popped up in my head when asked this question was the answer “I am, who I am”. Haha… It is one sentence and does describe who I am– perfectly.
If you had 60 seconds left to live, what would your last words be?
Ask yourself this question below…
WHAT CAN I DO TODAY THAT I COULD NOT DO A YEAR AGO?/ What can I do better now than I could do last year?
Make a list of all the things you can think of…
The list should be bigger than 10 things.
If it is not, make next year’s list at least 10 things (that is , if you ask this question next year, it should be at least 10 things)by doing something you have never done before!
The fact that trees are all brown and green is a wrong assumption that many people make, including me at times. The truth is, only the bark of trees are a dark brown, the pulp is a light brown. Paper is made from the pulp of trees; the bark of a tree is stripped prior to its conversion process. This is why unbleached paper is a light brown with darker specks in it. Unbleached paper in pulp form is easily bleachable. Bleaching turns the pulp white from a light brown; if colored paper is needed, dyes may be added to the white pulp. This bleaching and dying process is the final mixing of the pulp that will later turn into paper.
After the final mixing which decides the paper’s color, the pulp is sprayed on wire mesh to turn into sheet form. The sheets are then dried and pressed until they become paper– in the desired color.
Hope I make sense.
-hua
rain’s voice
Rain's Voice 