Okay, I have heard of the "Temple Of Life" in modern days, sung by Avril Lavigne. I am sure most of you heard the song too.
But, have you heard of the "Museum of Life"?No, it's not another song done by Avril Lavigne. In fact, it is not a song at all!
What I am talking about is Thailand's Life Museum.
Now what is so interesting about this museum is that, unlike the other museums that we go to, that has photos and antiques of the past, this museum actually has corpses of humans displayed there!
These are not normal humans, but actually of those who suffer from Aids. Working alongside this museum, is a temple called "Aids Temple". This temple was initially a Buddhist Temple, but was later converted "into a small hospice to care for fully blown AIDS patients".
If you want to read more about the temple, and would like to lend a helping hand, Click Here!
You can also watch a video of a documentary done with a few patients living in the temple.
Do read the website as it has many interesting facts about the reason as to why "Thailand is ranked as the Fourth in terms of most AIDS patients per head of population".
Simplified version:
Rural area, education level is low, thus farmers have no idea as to how to protect themselves against Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
"It has long been in the Thai culture for men to sleep with prostitutes". The females are mainly the wives who contracted the diseases from their husbands. In turn, the kids are affected.
"Thailand is a society where conservative appearances are deceiving. Drug use is rampant and there is virtually no education towards the use of needles".
"The support for AIDS patients is negligible". Families are basically afraid of catching AIDS by being around the AIDS infected ones.
* The ones that are placed "like this" are quotes lifted off of the site.
Anyway, as we all know, AIDS is not a joking matter. And to end this post, I would like to "enlighten" you by displaying photographs of the life in the museum and temple. The bodies were donated to the Life Museum by AIDS patients that have passed away.
Here goes.
These are cremation ovens.
And these are the thousands and thousands of bags of ashes. These are the ashes of the HIV patients.
"9 Thais die from AIDS every hour. 500 Thais contract HIV every day. It is estimated that there are one million HIV positive people in Thailand", as said by Dr. AlongkotDikkapanyo.
Speaking of innocent children who die, this is PanidaKumrat. She was one year, three months and 21 days old when she passed away. Her mother had infected her with the deadly virus.
This is also another child, James, who died at the age of five.
This is the corpse of MirapornChindatong. "She died of AIDS at the age of 24. She was infected by "providing sex" as it says on her vitreous coffin. Miraporn's last will had been to donate her body to science, for "educational means" to help others".
Now if you think that contracting AIDS is a joke, then see how this man suffer(ed) as he spend his last few days in struggle. There is in fact, 10 000 people who are on the waiting list to get care and a bed in the hospice.
Now on more photos. I'll let them to the talking, or at least the frightening.
Have you guys watched "Storm Chasers" on Discovery Channel?
Man, I love that show. I love it when these teams set off to do what others would think dumb of, to chase after storms, and capture them on video. The team(above) is actually trying to be IN a tornado, and capture footage of it. And after watching this show, I realized that, even though tornadoes cause huge destruction, they are actually pretty beautiful to look at.
To tell you the truth, I myself am a chaser. No, not a Storm chaser, but a 'Cicak Chaser'.
Just like the storm chasers, I have a radar (Junior, my dog. He sniffs around and when there's one, he'll wag his tail excitedly, and try to pry open the drawers or cabinets that the cicak is hiding in.) that tells me where the nearest Cicak is. And instead of setting up pods to capture the "storm", I throw mothballs in, and then attack it head on with my handy-dandy Sheildtox.
I can't help it, Cicaks love me. And as beautiful as some of them are, the household cicaks are a big No-No.
So far, I have killed millions with my partner in crime, Junior. I killed one with a slipper. I threw one out of the window, and even chopped one of by slamming my window against it. I even microwaved one. Man, the explosion was like POW!
I hate cicaks, especially after one of them slept with me!
Now don't get it wrong, Cicak Man is not my son.
What I mean, is that I woke up with a cicak staring straight back at me, and it was on my covers!
And so, I started cicak-chasing ever since. You can join if you want. Hahaha.
I know you must be thinking "Wah lao, first dead people, then cicak story, then now toothpaste?!? Si bei bo liao lah. "
Well, my friend, toothpaste is actually a very interesting topic. And I bet you'll learn something after reading this post.
But before I begin, let me ask you a question.. Do you know how the tubes of the toothpaste produces this (Below) when you squeeze the tube? I mean is there any mechanism that causes the toothpaste to not be mixed up?
Okay, here was what happened. As always, I woke up in the afternoon and headed to the toilet. My mum bought us a new toothpaste, and I was the first one to use it! Nevermind..
Sidetrack: I love toothpaste. Especially Kodomo's Grape flavour because it tastes like Bubble Gum.
But I've stopped using them since I was 7, after my mum realized that my brothers and I eating them more than we were using them to brush our teeth. We use the coloured ones now, because it looks more like candy than the normal Darlie toothpaste.
Anyway, back to my morning routine.
After squeezing the tube, the coloured toothpaste came out. And of all days, this was the day where this question striked me "How come the toothpaste isn't mixed up, and can come out of the tube in perfect design like this?"
Well, curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to try an experiment. No, I did not cut open the tube, even though I really wanted to. Instead, I squeezed the tube back and forth, and the toothpaste still came out in perfect design!
How can?!?!
So I decided to search it on the net, but instead of finding out how the tube works, I found these.
It's about half an hour long, and it is about kids who suffer from Fluorosis. It is a health condition caused by an overdose of fluoride. In its severe form it is characterized by black and brown stains, as well as cracking and pitting of the teeth.
If you want to know more about it, watch the video and read this!
Ah.. Now I'm in full regret of eating those Kodomo toothpaste.
So now you know, don't eat your toothpaste!
Oh, and before I leave, visit This Site. There are actually alot to know about toothpaste!
I think it's been long enough since I've last blogged. I wouldn't want to sound idiotic and whine on and on about things. Let's just say, the reason why I didn't blog for a long time, was due tostressful times in Life. I'll leave the imagination to your guys.
Anyway, I'll "repay" the blog by actually posting two posts. Why? Because when started blogging, one aim for this blog was to have an update every week.
Fret not, the posts won't be a repetition because it would be utterly stupid to do so. It won't be rantings about my school work or teachers. Instead, I've found some interesting stuff to blog about.
But first, the "quizzes" from Shera's blog.
1st one: Random facts about me
Rules :
- each blogger starts with ten random facts/habits about themselves
I'll definitely not tag others to do it, because quizzes like this should be done for fun and not by "passing". And I'm tired to wreck my brains to think of 10 people.
- bloggers tagged need to write on their on blog about their ten things and post the rules.
- at the end of your blog you need to choose 10 people you`re going to tag and list their names.
- don't forget to comment on their site that they`re tagged.
1)I think thatToe-socksare the best creation ever. I have no clue why ILOVEtoe socks but they just make me feel "all fuzzy inside".
2)I HATEthe colourPINK. EspeciallyHOT PINK. But I love the Singer PINK.
3)I LOVEwatching people get body piercingsand I'm inLOVEwithThaipusam(Indian festivals)where people carry heavy kavadis by piercing metal rods through their body. I like watching the lion dance performances too.
4)I LOVEgoing to'Toys R Us'. I love playing every single toy there, removing the toy baby's diapers, playing with the swords and machine guns.
5)I have a habit of twirling my pen between my fingers. I find it entertaining.
6)I have to stretchand "crack" my neck, elbows,finger,back,knee and toesbefore i head to school. This way, I wouldn't feel lethargic, but feel energized all day. My mum thinks it's gross and that my head,elbows,knees, toes and fingers would drop from my body one day.
7)I have so muchjunk foodin myroom that I can start my own "mama shop".
8)I have five black trash bags of soft toys. I used to be alover of soft toys. There was once when I didn't want to go home unless my parents bought me the soft toy that i was hugging. Fortunately, they did. . My room and bed used to be filled with toys, leaving me with no space to sleep on my bed. But my dad started giving away my "precious" to his friend's kids. I'm left with only five bags now.
9)I think that I am a very stubborn ass and tend to not listen to people's advice if I feel that I am not in the wrong. But before you go around telling that "kethlyn's an ass", I'd like you to get to know me better and then judge instead of judging from other's opinions. No one is good enough to judge you if that person doesn't know you well enough.
10)I'm allergic toPanadol. hahah.
Next: Stupid things that you have done.
Instructions:
Mark with a “X” the stupid things you have experienced.
You must write in their guestbooks to the people you tag that they have been tagged max. 10 tagged ppl. (Just do it if you want to.)
1-[] Your bubblegum falls when you talk 2-[] Your bubblegum has fallen off your mouth though you are not speaking 3-[X] You have hit with a door or something transparent 4-[X] You have thrown yourself off a moving vehicle. 5-[X] You have thought in something funny, start laughing about it and ppl stare at you weirdly 6-[ ] You have hit with a tree while walking 7-[ ] It’s possible to lick your elbow 8-[ ] When you read this you tried to lick it 9-[ ] You have never noticed that the “abc song” and twinkle twinkle little star have the same tone 10-[ ] When you read no.9 you sang them 11-[X] You have tripped with your shoelaces. 12-[X] You have chocked with your own saliva. 13-[ ] You have watched the matrix movie and didn’t understand it it 14-[] You didn’t notice that I repeated the word “it” in the previous number 15-[] You have just returned to see if it was true 16-[] Your hair is blond or dark-blond 17-[X] People have called you slow 18-[X] You have set fire to something accidentally 19-[X] Sometimes you leave your mouth open without thinking 20-[X] You have fallen asleep during class. 21-[X] Sometimes you stop thinking 22-[X] Sometimes you forget what you were talking about 23-[ ] People stares at you weirdly and go away from you 24-[] Very often you are told to listen the little voice in your head 26-[] You use your fingers to do simple subtractions or sums 27-[X] You have eaten an insect. 28-[X] You are doing this while you were supposed to be doing something important 29-[X] You have wore your clothes wrong side 30-[X] You have looked for something and it was in your hand all the time 31-[] You send chain mails because you are afraid of those things happening 32-[] You lose stuff very easily and often. 33-[] Your friends know that they shouldn’t use long words while speaking with you. 34-[] You hit your head with your hand when you get confused. 35-[X] You have fell of the chair. 36-[X] When you are laying on your bed staring at the roof you try to find figures in the roof’s texture. 36-[X] You repeat too often “ummmm..” when you’re speaking. 37-[] You are afraid of something very very stupid 38-[X] It’s hard to count the “x” you got.
TOTAL 1:11
39-[X] You had to count again 40-[X] You are asking why does it says 'TOTAL 1:11' 41-[] You didn’t notice that no.36 was written twice and they are really stupid things
This post is too wordy.. So I'll skip to the next post to talk about my interesting day!
