For chinese, all of us know that chinese calendar July is considered as “Hungry Ghost” month!!!  So for this year, it is started from 01-08-2008 to 30-08-2008 (in Western calendar), meaning that the hungry ghost will have the authority to come out from “hell” to “human” earth!!! 

In olden days, my parents will advise us not to come out at night during this period!  Behave wisely when doing our day to day living, like speak nicely, don’t simply spit everywhere, don’t simply throw things and and always ask for “excuse me” when throwing rubbish or anything!  This is to avoid us from offending the hungry ghost unintentionally, or else we will be punished by the hungry ghost in anyways.  Minor punishment like wake up with bruise everywhere on your body, reddish in eyes, small injury like falls down, cut your fingers, etc…to heavy punishment which may get you involve in car accident or any kind of accidents which at the end need to be hospitalised.  Or even worst when you offend an “angry ghost”, your life will be threatened unsafe!!

It is up to you to believe!!!  But sometimes it is no harm to beware and listen to old people warnings than regret ourselves if unexpected incidents happened afterwards because it may be too late already!

But there is another meaning for this period of July, it is a good time (once a year) for those younger generation to show their respect and memory in their heart of their late family members by offering them food and “paper assets” for example: money, laptop, car, house, ship, handphone, maids, etc…made of paper, which believed will be received by their late family members in underworld after burn it during the offerings ceremony!

If you are so curious to know more and need to suggest or have your said on anything on this issue, you are welcome to leave a comment on this post.

In this challenging world, there are more and more women embark themselves in the workforce. We live in a world whereby looks and appearance is important and becoming main criteria in recruitment process.

Many people believe that spending more money on personal grooming and attractive clothing will give a good impression to their employers at work and enhance their careers. But is it true for all types of careers?

The answer may yes or may be not. If looks are so important, could your weight affect your job prospects? Studies suggest that weight discrimination in the workplace is rife.

A study revealed that most jobs are to be given to the thinner person when choosing between two otherwise similar candidates and this suggests that weight discrimination counts more against women. Discrimination happened at every stages of the recruitment process – from hiring, through promotion, to dismissal.

Overweight people are typically seen as lazy, out of control, and even dirty. They are always being thought as “possessing negative personality traits”, and dismissed as “emotionally impaired”. Are all these statements true to overweight people?

It could be more appropriate to say that weight discrimination is mostly happened in beauty and wellness industry, fashion industry, secretary, customer services, and any other industries which rely heavily on one’s appearance. Sometimes, it is undeniable that weight discrimination is also happened in the office. Employers will have a misconception that an over weight employee tend to be less productive in handling task if compared to thinner employee.

But there are some women who defy the rules that only thin and attractive people can be successful. Some overweight women are highly successful in the male-dominated field, and their sizes are distinct advantages to them: Everyone is stereotyped one way or another – not just fat people. In other words, there are pro and con for overweight people in the workplace. If you are big, there is the negative stereotype of weak and lazy loser, but there is also a positive stereotype, that you are dynamic, a life-lover, generous, a people person.

It is up to the individual to control the way they are seen. Weight is only a problem if you allow it to be. But it is generally agrees that bias on the basis of weight is more of a problem for people with “average” skills and abilities. So it is advisable that women with weight problem need to upgrade their knowledge and skills in order to compete with other thinner employee in the workplace.

No matter how weight problem will affect your job, but it is definitely will attract more illnesses to you if you are over weight which in turn will affect your daily activities indirectly. So in order to stay healthy and look energetic, a correct lifestyle and healthy diet is vital for all of us.

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Guess what! I am so excited to receive an email today! The email is an invitation to attend an internet millionaires bootcamp by Gobala Krishnan! It is the first bootcamp by this miracle man, and i am sure many of them have been waiting for him to organise such a meaningful bootcamp to reveal his secrets in making a fortune from the internet!!!

I am sure some of you have heard of Gobala Krishnan, a successful Malaysian Internet Marketer earnings tons of money working from home. If you never heard of his name, and curious to know more about his miracle story, you can check it out here.

He is organising his first ever Internet Millionaires Bootcamp in August 2008. For the first time ever, he will reveal all his secrets to make money online. It is a ONE-DAY BOOTCAMP at Armada Hotel, PJ on 16 August 2008 (for Malaysian only). Here’s what he will reveal during the bootcamp:

1. How to start and set-up your first website..
2. How to understand and read HTML like reading a book!
3. How to set-up your BlogSpot and WordPress blog..
4. How to make money from blogging easily, even if you hate writing..
5. How to make money Clickbank, Commission Junction and other affiliate programs..
6. How to withdraw your money from Clickbank and Paypal..
7. How to make money from Google AdSense and blogs..
8. How to build a list or database of up to 20,000 people..
9. How to use email marketing to sell products at ZERO cost..
10. Much, much more..

That’s not all!! He will give away Bonus value about more than RM2,000.00 to all participants during the bootcamp. So now, the question is how much does all these cost? RM2,000.00? RM1,000.00? NO, It is only RM488 per person for a ONE WHOLE DAY BOOTCAMP (including 3 meals and course materials, and many more)!!! Isn’t it value for money!! So why wait as seats are limited to 30 persons only!!! Hurry!!

For your information, i have signed up myself for the one-day bootcamp!! Hope to see you all soon on that day!!