คุณคิดว่าตัวเองมี sense มั๊ย

คุณคิดว่าตัวเองมี sense มั๊ย สำหรับเราตอบได้เลยว่ามี แล้วก็แม่นมากจนน่าตกใจ ที่คิดว่าตัวเองมี sense ก็เพราะว่ามีอยู่ครั้งนึง ขณะที่เรากำลังขับรถมาที่มหาลัย เรามีความรู้สึกว่า มันต้องเกิดอะไรที่ไม่ดีกับเค้าขึ้นแน่ๆ เค้าอาจจะไม่สบาย หรืออาจจะต้องเข้าโรงพยาบาล ซึ่งตอนนั้นมันเป็นรู้สึกที่อยู่ดีๆก็แว๊บขึ้นมาในหัว แล้วก็ไม่คิดว่าจะเป็นจริง เราก็เลยโทรไปหาเค้า ก็ไม่รับสาย ติดต่อไม่ได้ สักพักก็เจอเพื่อนเค้าพอดี ก็เลยรู้ว่าเค้าไม่สบายจริงๆ แต่ไม่เป็นอะไรมาก (ขนาดไม่เป็นอะไรมาก แต่นอนให้น้ำเกลือที่รพ.อยู่ 1 ขวด) พอหลังจากที่เค้าหาย เราเล่าให้เค้าฟังถึงเรื่องที่ผ่านมา เค้าฟังแล้วขนลุกว่ารู้ได้ยังไง ทำไมถึงรู้ อ้าว...ก็บอกไปแล้วว่ามันมีความรู้สึกอย่างนั้นจริงๆ

และยังมีอีกหลายเรื่องที่เรารู้สึกได้ว่าเรามี sense แต่ก็เป็นเหตุการณ์เล็กๆน้อยๆ เช่น เจอเพื่อนเค้าครั้งแรก แล้วมีความรู้สึกว่า เพื่อนเค้าคนนี้ต้องเคยทำงานที่การบินไทย แล้วก็เป็นอย่างนั้นจริงๆ หรือ เรื่องล่าสุด เราคิดสสมติให้เค้าเป็นคนไข้แล้วเราเป็นคุณหมอ พอวันรุ่งขึ้น เค้าไม่สบาย อาการหนัก เข้าโรงพยาบาลเกือบเดือน T^T สำหรับเรา sense ที่เกิดขึ้น มันไม่ได้เกิดขึ้นกับทุกคน มันเกิดเฉพาะกับคนที่เรารักและสนิทมากเท่านั้น

แล้วคุณหล่ะ คุณคิดว่าตัวเองมี sense หรือ สัมผัสที่ 6 อะไรแบบนี้บ้างมั๊ย

ความหวัง-ความผิดหวัง

เคยคาดหวังอะไรแล้วรู้สึกผิดหวังกันบ้างมั๊ย แล้วมันรู้สึกยังไง สำหรับเรามันเสียใจมาก เมื่อสิ่งที่เราหวังกลับไม่เป็นตามที่ต้องการ แต่มันไม่ใช่แค่นั้น เพราะมีคนที่ฝากความหวังไว้กับเราเหมือนกัน บอกได้คำเดียวว่ารู้สึกแย่ว่ะ ที่ทำให้คนที่เรารักต้องผิดหวังไปพร้อมๆกับเรา ผลจากการที่เราทุ่มเททำอะไรบางอย่าง และสุดท้ายแล้วมันคือ "ความล้มเหลว" บางทีก็ไม่รู้เหมือนกันว่าจะทำไปเพื่ออะไร มีคนว่าไว้ว่า ชีวิตอยู่ได้ด้วยความหวัง แต่ถ้าหวังแล้วต้องผิดหวังบ่อยๆ ไม่ต้องหวังอะไรเลยจะดีกว่ามั๊ย

how do i

And Tell Me Now
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How Do I Live Without You
I Want To Know
How Do I Breathe Without You
If You Ever Go
How Do I Ever Ever Survive
How Do I How Do I Oh How Do I Live

ทุกครั้งที่เราฟังเพลงนี้ เราจะย้อนนึกไปถึงคำถามคำถามนึง
ที่คนที่เรารักมากที่สุดเคยถามเราไว้ว่า "ถ้าเค้าตายไป แล้วเราจะเป็นยังไง"
มันเป็นคำถามที่ตอบยากมากนะ เราไม่รู้ว่าเค้าคิดยังไงถึงถามแบบนี้
วันนั้นเราตอบแบบติดตลกไปว่า "ร้องไห้ เสียใจ ตายตาม"
สองคำแรก เราคงเป็นแบบนั้นจริงๆ แค่เค้าเข้าโรงพยาบาล
เราก็เป็นห่วงเค้ามากมาย กลัวว่าเค้าจะเป็นอะไรไป

หลายวันก่อนเราเอาเพลงนี้เขียนใส่ space ของเรา แล้วเค้าก็เข้ามา comment ว่า "ยังอยู่ด้วยกันอีกนาน ไม่ต้องกลัว" เราอยากรู้ว่านานมันนานแค่ไหน
เพราะใจจริงเราอยากอยู่กับเค้าตลอดไป.....

จนถึงตอนนี้เราก็ตอบตัวเองไม่ได้ว่า ถ้าเค้าตายไปแล้วเราจะเป็นยังไง
แล้วถ้าคนที่คุณรักมาถามคุณแบบนี้ คุณจะตอบไปว่ายังไง.......

The latest in anti-ageing technology

A new program has the key to youthful looks

In recent years, people worldwide have strived to explore ways to live longer, maintain their youthful looks and are constantly seeking ways to remain as healthy and fit as possible. As a result, anti-ageing methodologies are being sought to restore our health and wellness.

One of the latest anti-ageing technologies in Thailand introduced by Dr Pakpilai Thavisin is Bio-Energy Medicine or BEM, which is a computerised program that measures the body's micro-energy. The program provides an analysis and assessment of the risks profile, vitamins and minerals status, hormonal status, enzymes, toxins and the organ's functions (i.e. liver, stomach, kidney). What this means is that the analysis can tell you whether you have sufficient amounts of minerals in your body, whether your hormone level is balanced, your ability to digest specific kinds of food and what allergies your body might susceptible to.

The BEM machine is capable of accurately assessing and normalising underlying energetic imbalances. It also provides information needed for the body to restore itself and empowers a person to find subconscious reasons for many illnesses and diseases. The BEM machine has potential interaction on all levels of our being (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual).

In other words, you will learn about your natural health and its vulnerability. With this knowledge, a healthy lifestyle can be achieved as we are able to undertake preventive measures to prolong our youth.

Sweet dreams

A nap with no guilt

If we are one of the normal hard-working people of the world today, the last time we napped in the afternoon was when we were in kindergarten. It is hard to imagine napping in this fast-paced world, especially in our office after lunch. What would our colleagues think? What would we think about ourselves? Certainly the thoughts would not be very positive.

Napping is actually very good for the brain. Research done by Sara Mednick, a researcher from Harvard University, working for the Salk Institute, suggests that perhaps a good nap is as good as a good night's sleep.

A research on memory found that if subjects took a good night's sleep between memory tasks, scores were usually higher. Subjects who were asked to remember items and perform a memory test the same day do score slightly lower. The test was repeated with a nap in between remembering and memory test. A stunning effect was found. A good nap raised scores almost like a good night's sleep. Within these few years a lot of research on napping has been done and more and more scientists have become believers of afternoon naps.

Let's see the reasons why you should nap a bit in the afternoon.

First of all, napping increases alertness. This is one of the benefits that people like the most. Mednick says, "Whether you are on the road, observing market trends, diagnosing patients or interacting with clients, staying alert is the most important determinant of your efficiency." A lot of us would agree with her.

Napping also speeds up you motor performance. You don't have to be a pianist to need good motor performance. Typing on a keyboard needs excellent motor coordination as well. Napping a bit can increase your accuracy.

We all know that making mistakes can cost time, money, energy and sometimes even lives. So whatever profession you are in, or even for stay-at-home mums, napping can help you perform your jobs and chores better at the same speed or even faster.

And for my female readers, reading the following lines might convince you to nap more than other things I have mentioned so far.

Napping preserves your youthful looks. This is because nothing ages you like fatigue. If you add a nap to your regimen, not only will it improve your skin and tissue regeneration, it will also keep you looking younger longer.

Speaking of beauty sleep, well, napping is truly beauty sleep. Also if you need to lose weight, napping will help you do just that. Research shows that sleepy people tend to reach for high-fat, sugar-rich foods more than people who are rested. So a good nap will help you resist potato chips and cheesecakes and also produce growth hormones and reduces body fat.

If you are feeling down and depressed too often than you like, perhaps napping can help you deal with your emotions better. While sleep deprivation causes irritability, depression and anger, a good nap will bathe your brain with serotonin. This will reverse the effect of depression and produce a more positive outlook.

Let me introduce you to a great napper. Her name is Anne-Marie McDermott. Perhaps some of you have been to her performance before. When she was 12, she performed Felix Mendelssohn's Concerto in G minor with a full orchestra at Carnegie Hall. In her mid-teen years, her schedule was so hectic that her mentor at the Manhattan School of Music suggested meditation but she discovered napping instead. From that day on, while performing around the world, she also adopted a habit of napping in the afternoon.

By the age of 22, napping has become an integral part of her routine as practicing scales. "I treat it almost like a religious thing," she says. "My nap on concert days is the most critical of all, since I have to be at my optimal level of performance when I take the stage."

She said sometimes napping for an hour is enough. However, if she is a soloist carrying the entire performance, the nap might be as long as two hours. Even on some days when she doesn't have time, she will lay her head on her dressing table to "zone out" for 10 minutes. Napping did help her perform better by far.

But what about the rest of us? In a perfect world, society would give us a chance to be great nappers. Whether we are people who teach at school, drive taxis, write software, balance corporate accounts, raise children, aren't we entitled to a nap's benefits too?
So this is for the managers and business owners. Do you know that napping can reduce absenteeism, increases productivity, increase employees retention, and saves money?

A 1999 study concluded that healthy employees often miss work because of fatigue. Also, Nasa napping studies report an average productivity increase of 13 per cent. At the end, comparing a nap room with a cost of building a gym, hiring a massage therapist, or bringing in wellness trainers, and a nap comes out looking like a bargain.

Napping can be very good for your brain and for your mood. If you have not done it since five, perhaps today might be a good start. Good afternoon nap and sweet dreams!

TOT to build B30 billion 3G mobile network for rent

TOT Plc yesterday announced a plan to invest 30 billion baht in third-generation mobile-phone services to be ready for commercial launch within one year. The announcement came after TOT signed a memorandum of understanding with CAT Telecom yesterday for the rights and management of the 1900 MHz spectrum to provide 3G services.

The signing ceremony was witnessed by Information and Communications Technology Minister Mun Patanotai.

Under the agreement, TOT would pay 2.4 billion baht for the 42% stake in Thai Mobile held by CAT Telecom, to be paid in instalments over five years. TOT would also shoulder all the accumulated debts of six billion baht of Thai Mobile.

Dr Mun said that TOT would invest alone in the 3G network infrastructure to become a ''virtual'' mobile network operator that would rent it to private operators seeking to provide 3G services.
TOT expects three or four private operators to share its network.

TOT board chairman Teerawut Boonyasophon said the state enterprise would provide the 3G services under the TOT Mobile brand. A subsidiary would be set up to manage the service and would spend about 30 billion baht to build the 3G network nationwide within one year.

Initially, TOT would invest 2-3 billion baht to upgrade the existing 500 base stations in Bangkok and satellite provinces to a third-generation platform and transfer the current 60,000 customers of Thai Mobile to the new system.

He said that TOT would allow its business allies _ AIS, True, TT&T and DTAC _ to use its mobile network.Although Advanced Info Service, DTAC and True Move have plans to offer their own 3G services, the spectra allowed them are not the world standard 1900 MHz like that of Thai Mobile, which means handset compatibility could be limited.

TOT would handle just 20% of the marketed services while the rest would be handled by its business allies on rental basis.

TOT deputy president Varut Suvakorn said that since the investment was huge, TOT might need to look for long-term funds on a government-to-government basis as currently the lending interest rate was high, at 6-7%.

P.S. The dream come true for Thai peoples to use 3G. Not too long right now because they are preparing it. However, do you think it's good?

Taste for Quick Boost Tied to Taste for Risk

Health researchers have identified a surprising new predictor for risky behavior among teenagers and young adults: the energy drink.

Super-caffeinated energy drinks, with names like Red Bull, Monster, Full Throttle and Amp, have surged in popularity in the past decade. About a third of 12- to 24-year-olds say they regularly down energy drinks, which account for more than $3 billion in annual sales in the United States.

The trend has been the source of growing concern among health researchers and school officials. Around the country, the drinks have been linked with reports of nausea, abnormal heart rhythms and emergency room visits.

In Colorado Springs, several high school students last year became ill after drinking Spike Shooter, a high caffeine drink, prompting the principal to ban the beverages. In March, four middle school students in Broward County, Fla., went to the emergency room with heart palpitations and sweating after drinking the energy beverage Redline. In Tigard, Ore., teachers this month sent parents e-mail alerting them that students who brought energy drinks to school were “literally drunk on a caffeine buzz or falling off a caffeine crash.”

New research suggests the drinks are associated with a health issue far more worrisome than the jittery effects of caffeine — risk taking.

In March, The Journal of American College Health published a report on the link between energy drinks, athletics and risky behavior. The study’s author, Kathleen Miller, an addiction researcher at the University of Buffalo, says it suggests that high consumption of energy drinks is associated with “toxic jock” behavior, a constellation of risky and aggressive behaviors including unprotected sex, substance abuse and violence.

The finding doesn’t mean the drinks cause bad behavior. But the data suggest that regular consumption of energy drinks may be a red flag for parents that their children are more likely to take risks with their health and safety. “It appears the kids who are heavily into drinking energy drinks are more likely to be the ones who are inclined toward taking risks,” Dr. Miller said.

The American Beverage Association says its members don’t market energy drinks to teenagers. “The intended audience is adults,” said Craig Stevens, a spokesman. He says the marketing is meant for “people who can actually afford the two or three bucks to buy the products.”

The drinks include a variety of ingredients in different combinations: plant-based stimulants like guarana, herbs like ginkgo and ginseng, sugar, amino acids including taurine as well as vitamins. But the main active ingredient is caffeine.

Caffeine content varies. A 12-ounce serving of Amp contains 107 milligrams of caffeine, compared with 34 to 38 milligrams for the same amount of Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Monster has 120 milligrams and Red Bull has 116. Higher on the spectrum, Spike Shooter contains 428 milligrams of caffeine in 12 ounces, and Wired X344 contains 258.

Mr. Stevens points out that “mainstream” energy drinks often have less caffeine than a cup of coffee. At Starbucks, the caffeine content varies depending on the drink, from 75 milligrams in a 12-ounce cappuccino or latte to as much as 250 milligrams in a 12-ounce brewed coffee.

One concern about the drinks is that because they are served cold, they may be consumed in larger amounts and more quickly than hot coffee drinks, which are sipped. Another worry is the increasing popularity of mixing energy drinks with alcohol. The addition of caffeine can make alcohol users feel less drunk, but motor coordination and visual reaction time are just as impaired as when they drink alcohol by itself, according to an April 2006 study in the medical journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

“You’re every bit as drunk, you’re just an awake drunk,” said Dr. Mary Claire O’Brien, associate professor in the departments of emergency medicine and public health services at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Dr. O’Brien surveyed energy drink and alcohol use among college students at 10 universities in North Carolina. The study, published this month in Academic Emergency Medicine, showed that students who mixed energy drinks with alcohol got drunk twice as often as those who consumed alcohol by itself and were far more likely to be injured or require medical treatment while drinking. Energy drink mixers were more likely to be victims or perpetrators of aggressive sexual behavior. The effect remained even after researchers controlled for the amount of alcohol consumed.

Energy drink marketers say they don’t encourage consumers to mix the drinks with alcohol. Michelle Naughton, a spokeswoman for PepsiCo, which markets Amp, said, “We expect consumers to enjoy our products responsibly.”