Samsung S4 latest update destroy everything

I am sure that this is not going to be good for samsung reputation. You better get it sort out with another update quickly to get rid of all the mess you did with the phone after the latest update was introduced.
Problems:
1.Phone shutting down by itself constantly even on full battery.
2.The volume became so low that you could hardly hear it at all on speaker.
3.Getting missed call. (Frustrated)

These three are my main concern but there are many other problem which Samsung are aware of from the complaint they received after the update.

The important keys to live a happier life

The one thing I know is that my life have been constantly coming back to hit me really hard over and over again. People are chasing for wealth, beauty, fame and even politician getting louder in term of words for their matters and the growing economy. Not knowing, we have created the stressful and unhappy group of people.. All these around us, does it bring lasting happiness? I am not so sure now.

A huge certain of variation in us come from our own choices. We absolutely have the power to change how happy we are and how we can approach our lives. I sometimes do question myself why do I still accept the same suffering in my life over and over again? Have I not overcome it and learnt from it? Obviously not if I have been going through it over and over again.

When you fall and hit the ground hard and asking for help... sometimes people will help if you are lucky but most of the time, people would not want to get involved. They would either end up totally invisible and disappeared into the thin air.
For the extremely rich ones, who may live in a big house just like a castle with thousand of square meter fully designer decorated with 40 to 50 servant, unfortunately and sadly, they can be very cold and heartless. I said this because I experience it personally. It is sad, but it is true. I can come begging, but they can just neglect and ignore. Even thought I may felt shamed and shattered... but I will still pray and wish for his good health and wealth to continue.

A Happier Healthier You

Some certain action which I will put into my thought and identified in action.

Caring for others

I know personally, I am a very caring and sympathetic person. I always care for others and how people would feel as I know part of it would bring happiness. Caring for others does not have to involve financial all the time. I know the society are mostly below average in income. Most people are tight financially, so if you are one of the lucky humans with no financial issues then helping out financially to someone in need is always good. Otherwise pay a compliment to someone would make that person smile. Even offer to help in any possible way you could. Small little things make a lot of difference. Whenever you start saying or think, "I don't give a shit about him/her" Rewire that thought. I have decided to forgive everyone who have done something bad to me and will not hold any grudges anymore. I would not be their best friend, but I would not hate them from now onwards. If I ever do hear that they have a problem, I would send my offer to help.
Put aside what people had done towards you and learned to forgive and forget as people make a mistake.

Take good care of our body

Our body is very important to us. It's a part of happiness which we always seem to forget and have been taking things for granted. We humans abused ourselves by putting in lots of alcohol, smoking, taking drugs, eating lots of crappy food in our body. I will not go into details of the result, but we all should be aware of the consequences. Eventually, some may catch up with the over weight problem and ending up being unhappy. 

The more you love yourself and take care of your health, mentally you will be prepared to do more good things to your body. You will have enough sleep daily and enjoying a nice long walk in fresh air. 

Have a goal in Life

A goal is part of happiness. Setting goals will motivate you and challenge you as a whole person. Try not to set something which is beyond reach. Realistic goals will lead to happiness and sense of accomplishment. Sometimes we put too high hope and dreams that when it fail, we get disappointed and stress. Who doesn't want to set a goal to be a millionaire? BUT can you achieve that :)

Try to find a way to come back

Realistic all of us have gone through trauma, the sadness of losing someone, the failure which we have least expected and how should we respond to such situation. Drown yourself in sorrow and lots of smoking and drinking? That is what most of the people will do as we cannot handle such despair in life. I know it is easy to say but in a real life situation like this, it is not that easy to just bounce back to life again. It takes a lot of skills and probably we have to go through a lot of disappointment, despair, failure, sadness or trauma for us to be able to learn.

My list could go on and on, but I stop here at the moment.....

Outdoor Living with amazing outdoor kitchen

For years, I have always dreamt of having a proper outdoor living with an outdoor kitchen in my house. When we were living in Egypt, we had an outdoor pool in our garden and we were also talking about building an outdoor kitchen but we never made it come true as we left the place not long after just before the revolution started.
I know having a proper cosy outdoor can be very relaxing. Life has already been so stressful these days. Honestly relaxing outdoor at the back of your garden with proper outdoor kitchen and proper living would and could take the stress away.

 An amazing jacuzzi with the ocean view. Unwind your stress day in the jacuzzi and relax with the view of the ocean. My wildest dream.

 This is my dream relaxing outdoor. The sight of owning this one day would be unspeakable.

I love the cosy wooden style. Seeing the sight of a living area with fireplace and view of the pool. I have to share it with you.

 Countryside view. Cosy little garden with Jacuzzi and a set of cosy sitting area.

This is the type of outdoor kitchen I have always dreamt about. It is an absolute grand design. I can also be very happy with only half of the design.

Surrounded by greenery and concept of jungle living, hearing the bird cheeping, and the nature wild and free life.

Golf Humor

I have been doing a lot of research on golf and lately I came across a lot of golf humor which I personally found it very interesting. Enjoy...:)

Sugar Body scrub

I have never been a fan of shaving especially the man type of shaving with razor shaver. In fact, I am considered lucky as I was not born hairy either. I do shave my armpit and legs every now and then, probably once a month using the electric epilator but never the razor. I had my electric epilator which pulls from the roots which I prefer as when the hair grows back it is not as rough as you shave. Plus the hair is much finer and eventually after pulling it for many years, it became so much lesser.

I have been using the normal body scrub, but I read about homemade sugar body scrub one day and decided to give it a try. It works fantastic.

So I recommend that you give it a try.

Please take note that if you shave using the razor, you can repeat by using the sugar scrub - shave - and sugar scrub again after soaking in warm bath for 5 mins.

Sugar Scrub
2tbs of normal white sugar
2tbs of coconut oil
5 tbs of freshly squeezed citrus juice.

Soak for about 5 minutes in a warm bath
Take the homemade sugar scrub and scrub your body thoroughly with it.
Repeat until you feel it is smooth as you will be removing any dead skin.
Finish with a bath, pat dry and if you like to you can apply any body cream or I prefer a coconut oil.

This is the virgin coconut oil which I brought it from a health shop here in London, Holland and Barrett. I used this to apply all over my body after the sugar body scrub and it will feel so smooth.

I do not use this coconut oil to make the sugar body scrub. 

I bought a cheaper version (as shown below)where you can find it in the supermarket which cost only £2.

When is the cheapest time to travel

There is a time when you felt like packing and just go away. 

Our life is so base on routine. Our daily routine sometimes bore us. We need a little excitement and slight positive changes at times to stop the routine. Waking up in the morning every day, to prepare breakfast either for yourself or for the family, then getting ready for the same daily routine can be dreadful feeling in the end. I know we have to be thankful for our life as we get the chance to see the light everyday as we open our eyes. Indeed, I am very thankful and glad that I get to see the day and end the night with love from my family.

Somehow it is always nice to have the little extra of waking up by the sound of the beach waves and havig breakfast under the nice warm sun. 

Somehow fight prices are not cheap especially when it is during the holiday season. Strangely it is the only time when most people can actually travel away when their children are off from school.

The truth, spontaneous weekend or weekday trip can cost you a fortune.

If you can plan in advance, it can save you hundreds of dollars.

Try booking at least 2 months in advance, flights will be so much cheaper.

When you can avoid flying on Friday and Sunday it will make a lot of difference. 

Flying on weekdays such as Tuesday and Wednesday has a number crunch difference than weekend prices.

I just recently checked a direct flight in May for a Business Class ticket for a Norwegian airline, travelling from Stockholm to Thailand cost ONLY 398 British pound. Isn't it amazing?

So next time when try planning your trip. Book months ahead, try taking the kids out of school for few days and discuss with the teachers if long distance studies will be negotiable. OR, for example, the Swedish school in Thailand have especially made for swedish parents who would ike to take few weeks or months off from their routine and can still have their kids registered to that swedish school in Thailand. 

I am sure if you prepare yourself and find out the alternative for cheap travel during off peak period, there sure be an option for you.

Good Luck!

How to Multiply

This is brilliant. If you are bad at multiplication, well this person has come up with an easy simple way for you to calculate.

Why Most Success Stories Begin With a failure?

There are many many stories where people who have been successful have also gone through one failure or some even went through many failures in their life. Being successful is not easy. You will go through many rejections and feel so devastated. That is why weaker people normally would have given up as it is not an easy job to work for to reach the successful goal.
Oprah Winfrey was never born with a silver spoon. She was fired from her first job and now, she is worth billions.
Harrison Ford was told he would never be successful after his first six small movies, but BAM... he made it through in blockbuster Indiana jones, star wars etc
My lists of names could go on and on, but the main point is, behind every success story is an embarrassing first effort, a fall, a stumble, or a great change of direction. This is what we call the steps on to fame and fortune.

"ENJOY FAILURE AND LEARN FROM IT. YOU CAN NEVER LEARN FROM SUCCESS."

I documented my life, my thought in writing which may be written in my blog sometimes when I have the time for it. I don't really care or be bothered what people think or say about me or my family. We family have always had our ups and down, but we always end up tighter together. This is what is called life. No one is perfect and everyone makes a mistake.

It is ashamed when family can cut each other relationship away for some reason they believe in or for some reason they don't agree in. I have seen them all and I couldn't care less now what other thinks or say or judge my family. I have gone through several ups and down in my life and this time, it has changed for the better.

"I CAN FINALLY SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, AND WE ARE FINALLY GETTING THERE"

That statement above came from my brother who told me a couple of weeks ago and it is true. I chat with my brother quite often and we are very respectful towards one another. Since I am the only girl in the family with 3 elder brother (one passed away), I still never felt being the only girl. We fought when we were young, but that is what most kids do but now we never argue or hurt each other in any way. We supported each other value and thought which brought us closer as a family.

Be thankful and appreciate the life that has brought upon you. With great success comes with greater responsibility. As long as you learn from success is not final, and failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. 

Have a lovely and wonderful day ahead!

Keratosis pilaris

What is Keratosis Pilaris? Its a small tiny spot which looks like goosebumps or usually it's call chicken skin. I had mine on both arms for 11 years when I was 7 months pregnant with my son.

Over the years, I have tried all sorts of cream but it doesn't seems to help. Until one day I googled and found out there are far more worst which some others had on their arms, back, buttock, than compared to mine. I did my research and found that virgin coconut oil has helped many people who tried many years to get rid of this and finally did it with the simple oil. 

It's my 4th day and it seems slightly smoother and not so pricky. 

Effective and intensive workout for weight loss

I have been training for the last couple of weeks intensively. Not only have I decided to lose weight this time but I also quit smoking for almost 3 months now and I feel that my stamina is much better when I run. 

Before I started my training I was really doing my research on how to lose weight effectively. I spent hours reading for the pro and cons of all different possible. I don't believe in popping pills, stop eating or dieting. I believe in eating right and exercise right.

To be very honest I live in a considerably quite well to do neighbourhood, we have a private gym for the resident. All the ladies who came to the gym are never alone. They mostly came with their private instructor and at time there are only 5 trainers including plus 5 instructors. 

I may not like the idea of having a private instructor to begin with. For me it is not complicated like a science rocket. All information you need in losing weight the right way are there on the internet, you can really do a proper research that you need it by reading carefully or seeing the video. Most importantly, you have to be push yourself hard and not try to cheat yourself since no one is watching you. 

Realistically, the first two weeks, I begin with 4 times a weeks and the other 3 days, I went for a long walk or swim few laps.

First week and 2nd week: Cardio exercise for 15 mins before I take my arms, butt, legs and Ab. In between all that I also did few exercises to strengthen my back. I did 10 x 3 for different muscles workout. 4 days gym and 3 days of long walk or swimming. Alternate one day upper body workout and the next lower body workout.

3rd and 4th week : Cardio 30 to 45 mins. 15 x 3 sets each for different muscles workout. 6 days training at the gym and 1 day swimming or long walk.

5th weeks. Same cardio 30 to 45 mins. Increase a little more heavier dumbbell while working with each different muscles group.

I am in that shape now on the photo after the end of 5th week.

I still have a long way to go especially to toned up different parts of my body muscles.

One thing I never asked myself how fast will I lose weight but I asked myself how long I can ran without feeling tired. When I can do 15 mins to 45 mins intensive cardio, I know I can lose weight slowly by then.

My aim is to really toned up my stomach, arms, legs butt, back and giving it 2 months then I will be satisfied. So I will be posting more photos when I see some more changes.

Warm and sunny weekend

We had a lovely weather over the weekend here in London with temperature as high as 16 degree and sunny. Normally my son would never like to come along on a weekend walk but this time we insisted that he have to get out of the house and we are going to talk a long walk on this nice lovely weather here and he is not allowed to stay home and just play game.

 After crossing passing by the Hammersmith bridge, we decided to turn to the left and continue walking along the River Thames. We pass by many lovely cosy houses, beautiful pubs and restaurants by the river. One of the thing that caught my eyes is this pirate flag on a ship. It has somehow caught many passerby attention as I saw few people took photo of this flag.

 Along this river Thames are surrounded by many of this beautiful big houses. Amazingly I am aware that the water level rises so high and at times passes by the road and can reach the doorstep of some of the big villas.
While walking along this street, I saw signs, warning the vehicle of serious damage should they take the risk to park outside the roadside in front of this villas as water may rises and can cause damage to cars.

 I just love walking along different estate in London as there are always something nice thing that we would come across.

World Golf Tournament

World Golf Tournament is created to all passionate golfers from all over the world to compete with other golfers worldwide without having to go through the old traditional methods. 

With World Golf Tournament, golfers can still compete to play at any course of their choice and does not need to be present at a specific course to compete with another player from another country.

There are no arrange progression of which time the competition will be set.

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Go to http://www.wgolft.com

Electronic cigarette

I have been a smoker for many years and I considered myself pretty much addictive. Honestly I have never thought of quitting and the only time I would automatically quit smoking was when I was pregnant. That was good in many ways as I never have to suffer myself so much if I have to quit smoking during my pregnancy. I just hated the smell of cigarette by then and I stop smoking. My last child, I quit throughout the whole nine month including 7 months after birth as I was breast feeding. I pick it up so easily again as the craving of a cigarette start to come back just as everything is back to normal.

When we moved to London, a friend of us asked me if I have ever tried e cigarette. Honestly at that time, I have not even heard of a e cigarette. Then we went to stores here and I realised that e cigarette are everywhere selling on the counter like normal cigarette. I bought one starter pack including a USB charger for the battery. I was excited to try it to see if it does taste good, I probably will stop smoking if it helps. It was actually ok even though it was not 100% to the taste of a normal cigarette. The e cig lasted 2 weeks and I need to change the filter. I couldn't find the filter of the same brand in all shops around and I continue smoking normal cigarette again.

Few weeks later my husband bought for me another brand. I don't really kind of like it so much. I started goggling around for e cig with different taste and brand.

One day while we were walking in a mall near home, we came to a counter who sells different types of e cig and the good thing is that we could try all the different strength and taste. I picked out one and since then I have not only quit smoking but I was cutting down more than 50% of my e cig too. Now I only smoke the e cigarette socially when we drink and hardly a single puff during the day. It does help me to quit without suffering or craving.

Obviously it is so much cheaper than smoking the real cigarette plus no more tar, no more yellow stain teeth and no more smell.

I know in some country e cigarette are banned and airline have also started to banned smoking e cig on board the plane. I have read some of their reason but still for me if this e cig can help a person to reduce smoking and probably some would quit smoking too, why ban it? Plus we know e cig does not harm second hand smoke to people around you. In London most of the restaurant allows people to smoke e cigarette and it feels much nicer to be sitting indoor rather than running in and out of the door each time you want to smoke.

This was my first e cig which I bought and tried until the filter ran out. It may look like a real cigarette but it's hard like a stone.

This was a much classier version and actually taste much better than my first buy.

You can start browse the site to the e cigarette at  Socialites E cigarette 

Mamma Mia

The best movie ever!

Not sure how many times I have seen this movie but I did watch it again in itv3 tonight. Last week my Swedish friend was here and we were actually planning to see Mamma Mia musical theatre here in London. We went to few ticketing booth and we asked for the tickets but unfortunately we did not have much time. 

This is the kind of movie I could watch all life. The music is forever classic and I wish I was there seeing them shooting this movie as it must be so fun. 

I laugh, I cried and I wish I was there!!

Sunday

So what do you normally do on Sunday? Most people relax and take it easy or probably do their weekly food shopping or take a nice long walk or go to the park or seat by the beach.... Etc

My sunday can be different from each week. Somedays I just lay down n read for hrs or I can also start cleaning the whole house including dusting and scrubbing of toilets or probably take a walk with my husband and children. The past few weeks I have felt so weak, not sure why but felt very weak and sleepy. Even though we still do our daily routine by waking up and started of with a breakfast, we just felt dead by end of the day. 

Weather has been up and down. Sunny one min and cloudy the next. Amazingly it was hailing yesterday. We were walking home from our small walk and it started to hail. Those icy stone can be big sometimes and when it smack your head or ur skin hard, you feel it ouch.... The good thing we don't get wet with hail. 

The sun breaking through the cloud just  mins after it stop hailing. 

No lazing in front of TV today since our TV broke down yesterday. It just doesn't start and it's 2 months old. 

It so happen that it was a loud thunder just second before we got home yesterday and we thought it might have been the thunder who might have strike through the building antenna. Anyway its a new 2 months old with one year guarantee. 

Planning to start going to the gym once again next week. I have been so lazy and have slacken down the past 10 weeks ever since I started my course in the Uppsala University. I took a distance course in the Uppsala University and we have to submit and do our presentation of our project every Tuesday online. I felt stressful as I have to finish them up every week. So that's partly the reason I have not been to the gym. Now I finishes my last project and the course will be done next week, I have decided to start going back to the gym. We have a lovely full equips gym with 25 meter swimming pool, etc right here in our compound for the resident of Harrods Living, why still I am lazy to walk out the door and do it. 

Will keep update now of my progress in picking up back my exercise.

Shocking news revealed about Malaysia Airline MH370

I am not sure as to how many of you out there are following this missing flight MH370. I did read few times a day, did several research on different sites.

Have you follow the flightradar24? It has shown that someone has change the course, altitude of the plane on the radar. The first place where the plane lost its communication, it went down to 0 altitude which mean it has crashes to the ground of that area. Then someone change the radar back as it climb immediately to more than 40 thousand feet. There is too much scandal that has been going on behind this. The ill fated of all the crew members and passengers onboard are being played around by some bad people who only think of covering themselves. The one suffering now are the one who's alive, their love ones. 

See this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JpbZZKqxy0
continue explain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZtz-HVy6c

Polish Hotdog

Walking in the market street of London and we came across Polish food stand grilling hotdog.

They have a much nicer hotdog compared to the English ones. 

We didnt buy any as we just had our lunch before this but we bought hotdog at the Polish shop here in Shepherd Bush and they were really good.

London most rudest bus driver

I am a traveller who have been travelling to most different parts of the world but I swear I have never came across the most rudest bus driver in my life. I came back home and google to see where I could file my complain to and found out an interesting article from the BBC news (article read to believe it yourself ) that the complain on London bus driver have increased to 66,000!! I was shocked to read the comment, complain people posted.
First of all, I have been here only 4 months. When we first came to London, we went to the ticketing office in one of the tube station to get our weekly card so we could go around freely with their public transport. We asked for 2 adult and 1 child. Later he confirmed with us that our boy will be travelling for free since he is 10 and as long as he is accompanied by an adult. So we thought, great!! than it will be only two adult oyster tickets that we need to get.
One sunny day after our trip to one of the market, we hop into a bus 283 from Shepherd Bush Market at around 17:10. He pointed rudely at my son and asked me to show his oyster card. We being new here and since we were once informed by the London ticketing office that our son would be travelling for free until he reaches the age of 11. I politely answer that he is only 10. This damn driver shooked his head and asked me to pay. I said again but he is only 10 and I am not lying which he is 10. Which parents go around and carry a passport of a 10 year old child. I didn't. So I thought ok if he dont trust I can pay as it is ok even though I was frustrated. My husband came forward and ask me what happened. I told him and he asked the bus driver why does his son needs to pay as he is only 10. The reply from the bus driver was so damn rude that he insisted we pay or get off from his bus. There goes my husband head, he shouted at the bus driver that his son is only 10. The bus driver chases us off the bus and he on a very loud siren. He says that my husband is harassing him!!! Damn, who is harassing who? My husband said I have a copy of his passport in my phone and he can prove to him but the bus driver did not want to see and insisted that we get off from "HIS BUS"!!

My husband took a snap of the driver photo before we left. As we were walking along the side pathment, the driver were driving slowly beside us pointing his finger and was reacting as if he was putting on a challenge. How stupid can a person be? You are a bus driver, don't act as if you own the bus even. We the customers pays your salary to get this going.
Later at the traffic light he stop and when it turn green we were crossing and walking, I was shocked that he tries to retaliate by rolling his bus slowly toward us who is walking crossing the road. In my heart, try to hit me and I swear where you will end up.

I seens few cases of such rude driver here which happened to others while I was on the bus too. I felt that the driver here were given too much authority and they felt they can chase even a paid passengers off  if he feels he does not like us.

After this incident, my husband and I try to avoid taking the bus. we thought busses would be nice to travel in rather than tube as we can sit and look outside but not after this incident of meeting the most rudest bus driver.

I really hope that the Transport for London would seriously take a look into cases of such driver if they do received such a big increase of complain about their driver. I know driving a bus is not an easy job, but I know too that there are not many easy job in so many aspect and areas and that does not mean you can start to be rude to people because your job was not an easy job. I have been all along into the service industry and I have always smile and be polite even at some days where it can be very tiring for me.

For other passengers who faces the same situation like I did, please do drop me a line and if the number increases here, we could gather together and come forward to stop this.

Different article to read:
Complain about bus driver
Transport for London releases complaint
Refused access: fighting for the right to travel by buses

Class 4A

10/10/2013 Gabriel went with his classmate of 4A to a children TV program called the Lilla Aktuellt.

He is so excited and really looking forward to it. 

Winter

The winter seems long and dragging here in Sweden. Day after day I am longing for the spring to come. I know I can continue dreaming as it will take a long time before we can smell the spring fresh air. Its February now and it is still snowing and still feeling freezing cold and white everywhere.

Well I love to take photo and at times I did take a nice photo and at times I dont. Photo is something that u have to be able to have lots of patience and keep snapping hundreds of photos before you can get some nice ones.
These photos are taken only by my simple iphone camera n not my professional with special lenses camera.
Taken here in Stockholm while taking a weekend walk with my husband one day.