SECRETS THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW...

There are few things which perhaps we didn't knew..like......
1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
3.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a millisecond.
11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture
a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great,; Hearts - Charlemagne; Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air,the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
18. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is his? Ans. - Honey
19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
20. A snail can sleep for three years.
21. All polar bears are left handed.
22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
25.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
27. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
29. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
...and you're one of them!

Good Morning...

this is me early in the morning of saturday in the office... readying my self for todys work as our RM willbe arriving from manila, for sure he'll be asking out far offshoot questions that goes nothing with my work, better be ready with myself for that.

as i entered the airport on my departure for manila, all i thought that security measures are on the highest level being observed but to my dismay it did not meet my own criteria or maybe i just got a higher level of safety measures in my head based on the news i heard everyday on radios, tv newscast and the likes.

two of us were sent to manila for our quarterly meeting. i woke up at around 5am to fix myself and prepare all my things to catch up with my 830am flight. i made it sure to come early to avoid long queues on the security check to every passenger

our bags passess through the strictest security check-up, x-ray scanner, manual inspection and it came unnoticed to security officers the toothpaste carried by my boss in his handcarried bag. as we checked -in our flight, the lady ask my boss if their is any liquid present in his bag and my boss just answered he got toothpaste and the lady replied he cant have with him the toothpaste coz it is classified as prohibited substances to be carried along with his handcarried luggage and not even pursuing to get the toothpaste out of the bag of my boss... it is clear now that security officers of the airport are not the one forgetting their job but the airline employee themselves. i dont know if the lady was just starstrucked with my boss, all i know shes was not doing her job to help ensure passengers will have a safe trip on their destination.

'Funeral held' for Steve Irwin'... thanks to BBCnews.co.uk

'Funeral held' for Steve Irwin

Irwin was best-known for his work with crocodiles

The funeral of TV naturalist Steve Irwin has taken place in Queensland, Australian media has reported.

Family and friends of the man known as the Crocodile Hunter reportedly joined the low-key ceremony in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast.

It is believed that afterwards Mr Irwin was to be buried at Australia Zoo, the Queensland zoo dedicated to Australian fauna owned by Mr Irwin's family.

Details of the funeral service are expected to be made public on Monday.

Public memorial

"(The) service was a service for family and good friends, people who were close to Steve in recent years," the Brisbane-based Sunday Mail newspaper quoted an unidentified family friend as saying.

"The council gave the family permission to bury Steve at the zoo and we think they're going to erect a monument there so visitors can continue to pay their respects," the person added.

Irwin's family was reportedly given permission to bury him at the zoo

Mr Irwin's friend and manager John Stainton told CNN that a memorial service open to members of the public would be held at a later date.

The Australian government had offered a state funeral for the much-loved TV presenter who died in a stingray attack on Monday, but the family chose a small, private ceremony instead.

"He's an ordinary guy, and he wants to be remembered as an ordinary bloke," Steve Irwin's father Bob said.

Mr Stainton said Mr Irwin's wife, Terri, and the couple's two children - Bindi, eight, and Bob, two - were coping "quite well".

"Terri is very, very strong," he said. "She's having a lot of sad moments obviously, but she's putting on a brave face for the kids' sake."

The 44-year-old naturalist died after being struck in the chest by the stingray's barb while filming a documentary on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.

Donations have flooded into Mr Irwin's charity Wildlife Warriors, while flowers, cards and trademark khaki shirts have been left at the Australian Zoo he ran.

Congratulations to ROger Federer for winning the US Open

Though I would love Roddick to win... anyways... congrats...

hi everyone, gud morning, its a holiday in cebu now, Sergio Osmena Day, this is the day i first met my honey, its been 4 yrs now of ups and downs, iloveyous, fights and it all end up for us to part ways.

September 9, 2002, i arrived in Cebu to continue my review for the Licensure Board Exam for Civil Engineers for the November exams. We've been texting all the time for us to meet in an agreed place.....to be continued...

Building a skyscraper after 9/11

By Rebecca Morelle BBC News

Freedom Tower is to form the centrepiece of the World Trade Center site in New York, which was devastated by the al-Qaeda attacks five years ago.

Due for completion by 2011, the tower will soar 1,776ft (541m) into the sky and incorporate a number of features intended to ensure maximum safety and security.

THE FREEDOM TOWER 1 High-level air intakes to minimise pollution, and chemical and biological filtering system 2 Central vertical core housing key safety features, including water-resistant lifts, pressurised fire-escape stairs and separate staircase for emergency workers 3 Extra-strong 3ft (1m) concrete casing protecting central core, sprinklers, emergency risers 4 Multi-layered glass curtain wall to protect building from explosions A parapet at 1,368ft marks the height of the destroyed twin towers

Safety features include:

Emergency core Fire escapes Collapse prevention Curtain wall

Dedicated staircase Fire-proofing Air filtration Location

EMERGENCY CORE

A vertical core will run through the centre of the building, containing many of the structure's essential safety systems.

It will have 3ft-thick (1m) walls made from extra-strong concrete. In it will be emergency communication cables, exhaust and ventilation shafts, and water pipes, together with stairs and lifts to enter or exit the building.

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DEDICATED STAIRCASE

Inside the core, there will also be a dedicated staircase, specifically for the emergency services to use.

It will be pressurised to keep any smoke out, and will be extra wide to allow firefighters to carry equipment up and down with ease, to avoid a repeat of the congestion in stairwells that occurred on 11 September, 2001.

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FIRE ESCAPES

The building will measure 1776ft (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) Enlarge Image

The core will also contain lifts, made water-resistant to prevent damage from sprinkler systems, and two escape staircases, interconnected so if one staircase becomes blocked with debris, as occurred on 11 September, people can switch to another set of escape stairs.

The stairs also branch off into four street-level exits to avoid any potential congestion in the lobby and allowing a quicker escape.

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FIRE-PROOFING

The force of the impacts as the aircrafts ploughed into the Twin Towers caused the fire-proofing to rip away from the steel frame, allowing fires to rage.

According to a report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, this was a key contributory factor towards the building's collapse.

For the Freedom Tower, concrete which contains highly adhesive and strengthened fire-proofing will be used throughout the building. The architects say it would survive a very strong impact force.

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PREVENTING 'PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE'

The multiple fires that raged throughout the Twin Towers caused the already impact-damaged structure to further weaken.

The floors began to sag, causing load-bearing columns to fail. Eventually they buckled and the buildings concertinaed to the ground - known as "progressive collapse".

Freedom Tower has been designed, so that for whatever reason, if two columns fail, the building will stay standing, according to the architects.

The steel-frame structure and the beams and columns within the building will be connected so that in the event of the loss of a key column, the loads will be redistributed throughout the building.

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AIR FILTRATION

Air for the offices in Freedom Tower will be drawn in from the top of the building, to avoid street-level pollution, and also because on 11 September the cloud of debris clogged ventilation shafts that were positioned closer to the ground.

The air will also be twice filtered, by high-efficiency particulate air filters and charcoal-based systems, for clean air in the event of a biological or chemical attack.

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CURTAIN WALL

At the base of the building will be a curtain wall.

It will consist of three layers of laminated glass, each separated by a vacuum, making it extra-tough, behind which is a reinforced steel structure.

Architects say glass curtain walls can withstand and protect against blasts, and that laminated glass will not shatter into shards.

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LOCATION

The building is located at the north-west corner of the 16-acre (0.06sq km) World Trade Center site, between Vesey Street, West Street and Fulton Street.

It is set back from West Street, a main traffic route, by an average of 90ft (28m) to satisfy demands from city officials who were concerned that explosives placed in a vehicle on the street could place the building and its occupants in peril.

Vesey Street and Fulton Street will both have limited access: only authorised vehicles can use these roads.

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