Proper way to dispose unwanted cooking oil
How do you dispose the unwanted cooking oil, especially after frying?
I have been pouring the them down the sink until I saw a government message on TV saying that is not the right thing to do. And since my government decided to tell me what’s wrong but leave me to ponder what’s right, I turned to the internet.
Why shouldn’t I just pour used cooking oil down the drain? Because cooking oil and grease poured down the drain can build up in pipes causing backups at home, into streets and the storm drain system. Overflows can happen and pose health and environmental hazards. Clogged drains with stagnant water is a haven for aedes mosquito larvae.
If the amount of oil is small:
1. You can use paper towel or newspaper to absorb the unwanted cooking oil and throw it into the garbage bin, or
2. You can carefully pour it into a strong sealable container, such as an old plastic jar with a lid, or just any unwanted mineral water bottle.
If the amount of oil is large:
1. You can freeze it to solidify the oil and throw it into the garbage bin, or
2. You can use any solidifying agents like cat litter, sawdust or sand.
If the amount of oil is HUMONGOUS:
1. You can try to ask if any restaurants would take them since they usually sell them to the oil recycling vendors, or
2. You can contact your local authority, or
3. If you think the above 2 steps are irrealistically mafan, just cut down your oil intake, since too much of oil is neither good for the body and the drain.
So let’s remember never to pour cooking oil down the drain anymore.
I referred to the following websites:
http://www.ebmud.com/wastewater/residential_pollution_prevention/residential_FOG_FAQ/default.htm
My bathroom, hazardous?
Yesterday, I filled up a recycled mineral water bottle with Dynamo detergent (lemon fragrance, creamy yellow in colour) to put inside the bathroom.
Man it looks like a bottle of mango yogurt drink!
Then I thought, I can’t have this if I have small kids at home. The colour and the smell are so delicious they might mistaken it as yogurt drink, consumed it, poisoned, and DIE!!
But I don’t have kids la, just 2 working adults in the house. I don’t think this mango yogurt wannabe can cause any hazardous to us.
“Eh, do you know what this is?” I asked the other adult in the house.
“DUH..” he said.
“Then what is this?” I asked again.
Confidently he said “Mango yogurt ler!”
=.=
I have the word DYNAMO written all over the bottle now. I don’t wanna take any risk.
Who knows what he craves for in the bathroom!
How clean is my house?
I aggressively scrubbed my kitchen during the weekend, and then I stumbled into this on Monday morning (as if the thought of having to work is not disturbing enough):
“A recent seven-country survey conducted by the Hygiene Council, a global panel of medical experts, found that Malaysian kitchens were more bacteria-infested than bathrooms.”
“Overall, Malaysian homes were found to be the dirtiest among all the countries studied, right after India. The cleanest abodes were found in Saudi Arabia.”
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/Frontpage/2349934/Article/index_html
OMG is this for real??!!!
So after work, my bathroom went through an hour of intense cleaning. Just in case if anybody would ask for me to participate in such survey, and I would be too proud to say NO because only people with dirty homes are afraid of such auditing.
INFERIORITY COMPLEX?
My bathroom and kitchen are squeaky CLEAN now. I’m still not volunteering for any audit or survey.
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Cell 52
I am reading MAYADA, DAUGHTER OF IRAQ now. It’s about a woman’s survival in Saddam Hussein’s Torture Jail. Man this is really a very very very very WRONG book to read before you sleep!
Yea, you guessed it. NIGHTMARE!!!
I was with my second sister when we approached the jail reception (if there’s such thing), asking for permission to visit my eldest sister who was held in the jail. I assumed the Indian lady at the reception had not eaten for a year because despite the number of times we asked her about my eldest sis she continued to finish her rice before attending to us. So with her extremely bo-gam-wan face, she stepped out of the counter and directed us to the corridor.
The lights were dimmed, the doors were orange.
My sister was locked up in CELL 52. (You will know why if you read the book.)
There were 2 layers of doors to each cell, and we had to walk up a step at the second door. The empty cell was extremely small, smaller than a public toilet booth. It is so small that one has to curl up like a shrimp to sleep on the floor.
The Indian lady left, giving us some private time with my eldest sister. So she’s not so evil after all. Maybe she needed the job to feed her kids, even if it requires her to ignore her conscious.
My eldest sister was terribly frightened and she hadn’t slept in days. We tried to calm her down so she could get some sleep, but she kept saying she heard voices of men saying there will be an execution soon.
Nothing can be more heart wrenching than to see your own family member suffering.
I’m so glad that it’s just a bad dream. Maybe the book is not the actual culprit to my nightmare. Maybe it’s my guilty conscience. That I complained to my best friend so much about my sister when I am the one in denial, thinking I’ve contributed so much but in actual fact, I was merely a selfish sister.
Sunni and Shia Muslims?
Read THE KITE RUNNER recently. The story SO INTENSE la!!!
So, SUNNI and SHIA muslims. HUH?? Malaysia is an Islamic country, but very seldom we, or maybe just me, heard or talked about this.
So what’s the difference between the Sunni and Shia Muslims? Below are the important facts I wanna remember so I can *cough* show off *cough* when the topic arises.
1. After the death of Prophet Muhammad, the question of who was the successor to the leadership of Muslim nation arose:
a) Sunni Muslims believe that spiritual leadership to the muslim community is not a birthright, instead the new leader should be elected from among those capable of the job, and the Prophet Muhammad’s closes friend and advisor, Abu Bakr, was elected the first Caliph of the Islamic nation. The word SUNNAH means tradition, and therefore one who follows the tradition of Prophet is called SUNNI.
b) Shia Muslims on the other hand think that the leadership should remained within the Prophet’s family, and that Ali ibn Abi Talib, husband of the Prophet’s daughter Fatimah was appointed by the Prophet to take over the role.
2. Only 10% of total Muslims are Shia Muslims, primarily located in Iran, Iraq and Yemen. The 90% Sunni Muslims are located in most Muslim countries.
3. Shia Muslims believe that the Imam’s authority comes directly from God. They think of the Imam as saints and perform pilgrimages to their tombs. Sunni Muslims on the other hand disagree on the veneration of saints, and believe that a muslim leader needs to earn his trust from the people.
4. There are also differences between the Sunni and Shia muslims in terms of religious practices such as prayer, fasting, etc.
5. MAHDI means “The Guided One”. Both Sunni and Shia muslims agree that Al-Mahdi will be a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and bear the name Muhammad. He will unite the muslims and defeat the Daijjal. However, the Shia muslims believe that Al-Mahdi was already on earth as the “hidden imam” who works through mujtahds to interpret Quran and will return at the end of time, while the Sunni muslims think Al-Mahdi will come in the future.
Of course the history and differences between these two groups are much more complicated than the above mention which is, to me, VERY COMPLICATED already!
Personally, as a non-muslim, I think SHIA is a cooler name because of the pronunciation (yes very shallow I ADMIT), but I am more attracted to the Sunni ideology that one cannot inherit spiritual leadership. Hah, like I know any better, konon! Anyway, I do believe that both groups are pretty much the same since the ultimate guideline is still the Quran, which I believe teaches nothing but good.
PS 1: These are the links to where I got most of my infomation from.
http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/comparison_charts/islamic_sects.htm
http://islam.about.com/cs/divisions/f/shia_sunni.htm
PS 2: Please forgive and educate me if I’ve totally misunderstood the whole Sunni and Shia topic. Many thanks in advance!
How Alaska became part of the United States?
I am so ashamed to confess that I just found out exactly where Alaska is on the world map. And the first question that came to my mind was
“How on earth it became part of the United States if there’s Canadian territory in between Alaska and other states?”
I looked up the history and there were too many details to remember, so I am going to just briefly reiterate the story here.
In 1867, the united states bought Alaska from the Russian Empire at 7.2 million dollars, which is 2 cents per acre. According to wikipedia, 7.2 million dollars then equates to approximately 102 million dollars now.
Alaska did not become a state because there were very little (or maybe nobody) living there, and population is a requirement for statehood. In the 1890s, they discovered gold and brought thousands of miners to settle in Alaska. In 1912, Alaska was granted territorial status, and finally statehood on January 3, 1959.
Do you know the Japanese troops invaded and occupied three outer islands in the Alaska during World Ward II? I wonder if the Japanese used their bicycles there like how they invaded Malaysia.
By the way, Hawaii is the other state in US not bordered by another state. Am I the last person to know this?
How much do you know about Greenland?
In the midst of nowhere, the country GREENLAND randomly came to my mind. It felt like a far away land where people rarely speak about (in Malaysia). So I googled and realised how little I know about the world’s largest island. I didn’t know until now, that:
1. Greenland is a self-governing Danish province and their currency is Danish krone. This is their flag, the white represents the snow, and the red is the sun.
2. Greenland is also the largest dependent territory (by area).
3. The world’s largest national park is in Greenland.
4. The first group of people migrated to Greenland from the American continent more than 4000 years ago.
5. Greenlandic and Danish are the official languages. Greenlandic is closely related to the languages spoken by the Inuits (Inuit and Yupic are the two main groups referred to as Eskimo) in Canada.
6. There are less than 56,700 people living in Greenland. Most of them are Inuits, and the rest are Europeans (mainly Danish). The largest city Nuuk in West Greenland has the highest population.
7. Back in the olden days, the Inuits only wore clothes made from animal hides or skins to keep them warm, like this:
When the Europeans set foot in Greenland in the 17th and 18th centuries, they introduced clothing fabrics and glass beads to the people in Greenland. These materials were gradually incorporated into the Inuit’s dress, particularly for festive attire, like this:
8. Greenland chose to leave the European Economic Community because they did not want to allow European fishing fleets in Greenlandic waters.
9. Greenland is critically dependent on fishing and fish exports, with shrimps fishing industry the largest income earner.
10. It is the government’s policy to provide the students free university education anywhere in Europe or North America. University of Greenland located in Nuuk is the only university there.
Of course Greenland is muc more than what I’ve written here but I can only take in this much info now because the word ALASKA just knocked on my door!
