My Japan Trip - Osaka part

After two days hanging around the Kyoto, finally we came to Osaka. The first place we visited in Osaka was Osaka Castle. Osaka Castle is on the historical castle which surrounded by secondary citadels, gates, turrets, impressive stone walls and moats. The opening time for the castle is from 9am-5pm. You need to pay entrance fee for entering the castle. I had bought the Osaka two days pass earlier at the station tourist counter, so the entrance fee was covered.

Osaka Castle

 

 

 

You may enjoy the picturesque view of Osaka at the top of the Osaka Castle

At night, we visited to Den-den town which is known for its many shops which specialized in furniture, tools, and "otaku" interests such as electronics, animation, manga, and collectibles. If you are a video games and comics, yes, Den-den town is the place for you ^_^

Den-den Town

  

Kuromon
The next day morning, we came to Kuromon-Ichiba. It is a 600 meter-long market with 170 stalls which offers fish, fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs. You may buy some Japan foods at this market as souvenirs.

 

Toriyaki is one of the most famous food in Japan

This one I like to eat ^o^

 

 

Tsukentaku Tower

Shinsaibashi
It is very famous shopping street. If you are a fashion lover, this place will be your favorite.

This tax free shop is just nearby which you can get a lot of tax free products. However, please remember to get back your tax at another special counter !

Universal Studio

This is our last destination in Osaka. We took 1 day to hang around at this area. Even though we came on Thursday, the place was still full of people. I suggest you should buy an express ticket in order to save the time for long queue.

My Japan Trip - Kyoto part

In the starting of September, I experienced one of the most roller-coaster feeling in my life. From sudden change in my working life, my family members illness suddenly became worst till passed away and etc. Luckily The God had prepared a trip for me to temporary clear away my moody life. Yes, it was Japan trip which I had planned few months ago.

In this Japan trip, my target destination were Kyoto and Osaka.

Kyoto is a historical city. It has a lot of tourism places especially temples. Due to time limitation, I merely able to pay a visit to Fushimi Inari Shrine, Arashiyama and Kyoto Tower. 

Fushimi Inari Shrine

The road outside the temple

Use the water to change your luck ^^

If you are traveling by using a bus, you may need to check and planned your bus schedule properly as you may need to take some time to wait for the bus to come.

Arashiyama

The Togetsukyo Bridge is Arashiyama's well known, central landmark. Many small shops, restaurants and other attractions are found nearby, including Tenryuji Temple, Arashiyama's famous bamboo groves and pleasure boats that are available for rent on the river. The scene at here is indeed beautiful, I love it much :))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kyoto Tower 

The shops in Kyoto close early. Normally around 6pm - 8 pm, most of the shops have been closed. Same to Kyoto tower, around 8 pm, it will be closed.

My experience of eye bag surgery

I have posted this eye bag surgery experience in mandarin version before. Since I have converted my blog to English version and I did found this was one of my useful experience, so I decided to re-write this experience in English Version.

I have eye bags and dark eye circles since i was young. I feel ugly and no confidence. I tried all sorts of cream and all sorts of treatments or methods but it didn’t work. What made me feel disgusted was, my friends kept asking me the same stupid question - "Waa ~~~ your eye bag and dark circle very obvious hor~~~ not enough sleep ar ?". For me, this was really sarcastic question, indeed, I tried to maintain a good sleep but it didn't work. Eventually, I forced to wear the color glasses just for covered my eye area.

After doing further research on eye bag, I decided to do eye bag removal surgery. I tried to target some of the legal and qualified plastic surgeon from MAPACS websites (Malaysian Association of Plastic, Aesthetic and Craniomaxillofacial Surgeons). I had consulted few plastic surgeons. Finally, I decided to trust one of the doctor in Klang area. He explained to me that he would remove the fat from cut which was inside the eyelid so that there would be no wound/scar. Since I was still young and there would not be excessive skin, so he would not remove extra skin. I booked a time with the plastic surgeon to perform my eye bag surgery.

The day before my eye bag surgery, I felt very scared because this was my first surgery in my life, some more it was at my eye area. Any way, at the end I pluck up the courage to went for my eye bag surgery. The plastic surgeon injected something on my arm before the surgery started. I was in half conscious when the surgery performing. However, I felt painless and didn't had much feeling during the surgery. The surgery took around 1 hour. When I woke up, I was in another room. My face was still in numb at that moment. The plastic surgeon said that I might need to take around 2-3 weeks to get my wound recovered. He gave me some medicine and some cream to apply. 2-3 days, I already almost fully recovered. 

Below are some of pictures for the fat which the plastic surgeon removed from my eye bag:

I done my eye bag surgery on 2006. 8 years later, many people still asking me the common questions - "Is there any side effect ?", "Will the eye bag come back". Honestly, there isn't much side effect and my eye bags still do not come back after 8 years. The only thing that I concern is, the skin at my previous eye bags area has become thinner and the "tear ditch" appear. If the eyes getting tired, it will easily get influences and become dark circle. Eye bag surgery not much help on dark circle, indeed you should consult the doctor to apply the filler on the removed eye bag area after the eye bag surgery in order to help on reducing the dark circle.

My remedy for sensitive Sneezing, Runny & Stuffy Nose (Part 3)

 

In my previous post - My remedy for sensitive Sneezing, Runny & Stuffy Nose (Part 2), I have highlighted some of the preventive steps that you need to take note for preventing or reducing the sensitive nasal sympthoms. However, what can we do if those sensitive nasal symptoms are happening now ? Drink apple cider ! 

I love to use apple cider because it is a pretty simple way and normally get instant effect.

• Pour some apple cider on the cup. (If you are having a stuffy/blocked nose, you may use the aroma of the apple cider to unblock your nose as well.)

• Put some some water and mixed with it. After that, just drink it. You will get the relief on your nasal symptoms after few minutes later ;)

Puffy eyes ? Tired and fatigue eyes ? Intraocular pressure ? Try this way !

Puffy eyes, tired or fatigue eyes and Intraocular pressure (IOP) are the most common eyes problem that we are facing nowadays. Many of us love to use the cosmetic products for puffy eyes, drink coffee for tired eyes or consult doctor for Intraocular pressure problem. If you do not have any idea what is puffy eye or Intraocular pressure, please get the description at below, I am not going to explain deeply what is it about.

Puffy Eye

Periorbital puffiness, also known as "puffy eyes" or swelling around the eyes, refers to the appearance of swelling in the tissues around the eyes, called the orbits. It is almost exclusively caused by fluid buildup around the eyes, or periorbital edema.

Intraocular pressure

Intraocular pressure (IOP) is the fluid pressure inside the eye. Tonometry is the method eye care professionals use to determine this. IOP is an important aspect in the evaluation of patients at risk from glaucoma.

What's Traditional Chinese Medicine said ?

Many eyes problems normally caused by poor blood circulation. As a result, many "garbage and precipitate" unable to remove from the eyes areas through the blood vessel on time. It leads us to the eye symptoms like dark eye circle, puffy eye, tired eye and so on.

Leg Tai Yang Baldder Meridian is one of the most important meridian for human body. Disharmony of Leg Tai Yang Baldder Meridian can cause symptoms such as difficult urination, incontinence, painful eyes, runny nose, nose bleeding and nasal congestion. Eye problems, pain in the head, neck, back, groin and buttock areas indicate disharmony in the Bladder Meridian pathway. Here, I am going to share how can we massage three acupuncture points - Jing Ming (精明穴), Pu Can (仆参穴) and Shen Mai (申脉穴) on the Leg Tai Yang Bladder Meridian as circled blue in below picture, and get an instant effect on relieving your eyes problems !

How to massage ?
 
Use your fingers to massage Jing Ming, Pu Can and Shen Mai acupuncture points. 
If  you want to compare the miracle between before and after massaging, try one side first. For example, complete the right hand side massage for the right Jing Ming, right Pu Can and right Shen Mai acupuncture points first.  After massaging the right side, normally your right eye will feel better and relief compare to the eye on your left hand side which haven't massage.

• Find the correct position of the mentioned acupuncture points and place your fingers on it. 

 

• Press the mentioned acupuncture points and gradually increase the power (you will feel a bit pain while pressing if you get the correct position of the acupuncture points) 

• At least one minutes massage (clockwise motion) for each of the mentioned acupuncture point.

You will see the miracle after completing the massaging :))

My remedy for sensitive Sneezing, Runny & Stuffy Nose (Part 2)

In the past post - My remedy for sensitive Sneezing, Runny & Stuffy Nose (Part 1), I have highlighted that, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine's view, most of the sensitive nasal problems (sneezing, runny, stuffy) are caused by "weak lung" and the "intrusion of chill" into human body. To reduce the sensitive nasal problem, we need to reduce the chill from "intruding" our body. Previously, I highlighted that always wear a long pant when we are staying in the air-conditioning environment because the meridian on the our legs are one of the main entry point for the chill. Besides that, there are few more important things that we need to concern in order to reduce the chill "intrude into our body" like :

• After washing your hair, always make the hair dry as soon as possible. 
• Never get your body exposed to the rain.
• Never have a cold drinks or foods. (This not only applicable to sensitive nose, it also bring a huge impact to your body in the life.)

If you wet your hair for quite a long time and do not dry it up, the chill will "intrude" into your body through the meridian on your head. If you have a cold drinks or foods, the chill will directly enter into your body through the stomach meridian. When the chill successful "intrude" into your body and your body doesn't have enough blood and Qi (I will create another post on explaining the function of blood and Qi in Traditional Chinese Medicine's view) to fend off the chill from your body, the chill will finally enter and remain deeply in your organ - Lung. It is very hard to fend off the remained chill in the lung without enough blood and Qi in the body. What is the impact ? Eventually, the sensitive nasal problems will follow you through the whole life.

I know some of the peoples will feel lucky as they do not encounter sensitive nasal problems even though they take the cold foods or drinks as usual, never dry the wet hair and some even take off their clothes to enjoy their sleep in the air-conditioning environment.........Bear in the mind, even though you do not have the sensitive nasal problem, it doesn't mean that your body is strong enough from protecting "the intrusion of chill". On the contrary, "the chill that intruded" into your body will bring other impact or problem to your body. If you able to reduce and fend off the chill from your body, you will not only reduce the probability of sensitive nose problems but you will also reduce the probability in generating extra & unused body fat in order to make yourself look youthful. I know it is not easy to adopt these good living habits, however, you will see the miracle if you do so ;)

Health is the root of beauty

When I am browsing the beauty forum, normally I will notice some of the common questions and comments in the posts like below:

1. Is this product really can remove dark circle ?
2. Which product can clean the spots ?
3. No No, this product is useless...
4. Try this xxxx product, it can let you look young, refresh your skin, whitening ...
5. The laser really good, it can rejuvenate your deep skin.....bla bla bla

When you are having the facial or skin problems, is the beauty product really the best way for you ?

Based on my experience and understanding, 20 percent of beauty depend on products while 80 percent of beauty depend on the health. 

I take dark circle as an example.

As we know, there are many factors that cause dark circle. Each dark circle case are subject to different curing methods. If there is any company, boasted that it's product 100% guarantee the effect for dark circle, it is absolutely a lie ! Even you try to consult a aesthetic doctor, using laser and injection, dark circle can only be reduced but not 100 percent diminished. In order to maintain the effect after the laser or injection, you will need to keep the laser or injection treatment as usual in a routine basis (maybe you are rich enough for that......) 

  

Traditional Chinese Medicine's View
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine view, all the facial or skin problems were come from the health issue (including dark circle) especially the five important organs in our body - Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung and Kidney. The organs problems normally give us an early 'signal' and reflect on our face or skin by having dark circle, wrinkles ....... When you are healthy enough, with sufficient blood and Qi and ensure the healthy of five organs, the facial and skin problem will be gone automatically. 

However, it is not easy to turn our body into "true" healthy in a short period. We need more time and be patient. For conclusion, health is the best way to build "true" beauty instead of using numerous beauty product. In the future post, I will try to share more my healthy tips to you all in order to let us move towards the healthy and beauty life together ^^

How to get rid of pimples scar ?

Most of the pimples victims are facing one of the common problem - pimples scars. When I was having a serious pimples problem during my study time, remained pimples red scars on the face were one of the problem that made me headache. Based on my previous experiences, it normally took around five to seven days for a pimples to get rid of swelling or inflammation. However, to let the red pimple scar disappear from the face, normally it needs to took around few months ! Imagine, if you are having a serious pimples problem (one day few pimples come out), few weeks later, the remained pimples scars will be the nightmare for you !

My simple, low cost and natural way on reducing pimples scars

1) Use cold water (put some ice into the water) to wash your face everyday

    Effect : Minimize the pores, firm the skin, reduce pimples

2) Apply aloe vera on the face (I prefer to use fresh aloe vera)

    Effect : Heal the pimples, reduce the red pimples scars

3) Apply home made honey mixed egg mask
(stir the egg with the honey, put it in the refrigerator for a while. After that, apply the honey mixed egg mask on the face)

    Effect : Whitening the skin, reduce red pimples scars, tightening the skin

** Apply one or two times per week, each time apply around 7-8 minutes on the face before washing it off **