Diarrhoea - The cure for it is drink rice water

Visit the Website where Professor Wong Hock Boon elaborate more on this wonderful cure.

Hi all,

With recent case on the Gelyang Serai, Spore food poisoning out break (with 2 deaths todate).. would like to share the info received from a friend pls read on it may be of help...

When someone gets diarrhoea, sometimes the solution is so easy, we wonder why anyone has to suffer.

The secret is in rice water.

This is already known in this region. Ask your maids -- Sri Lankan,Indonesian, Filipina and they would know about it.

(My mother) knew about it. When Dr Albert Winsemius came to Singapore for a farewell and thank you dinner in his honour, he brought along his wife Aly and his granddaughter, Jolijn. Both women came down with very bad gastroenteritis. They saw the doctor who gave them medication. It was slow to work.

Mother boiled some rice in lots of water and went to their hotel with two 1.5L bottles of rice water.

I cringed in shame at the offer of this folk remedy, which seemed so primitive to me. Never heard of this cure before. To my surprise, it worked, and they were even able to go out for dinner the next day. Both were exclaiming how the rice water did the trick of making them well again. Well, lucky it worked, I thought to myself.

I was discussing this some years back with Kim Ng, the ex-matron of KK Hospital. She said, yes, that is what Professor Wong Hock Boon, the notable paediatrician teaches. I was shocked and made some comment how could he? It was common knowledge so what had he to do with it?

Many months later, I regretted laughing at it. Dr Christina Shanta Emmanuel, who is the CEO of...uh, which group I have forgotten. Either National Health Group, or Polyclinics, or whatever.. regarded me seriously when I brought up the topic like it was good fun. She said that Prof Wong Hock Boon had presented a paper on it. At some conference. After he had done clinical trials.

Then his results were published in the Lancet, the Medical Journal all doctors read. In fact, said Shanta, he was credited for saving the lives of 2 million African babies by this method.

Ah, so! I am impressed.

It is rice water and not rice, that does the trick. I have found it effective again and again. You take a handful of rice and boil it in a large saucepan with lots of water. Like three or four large glasses.Then you cool that and drink the water. If you are in a hurry to relieve the ailing person, take the saucepan off the fire and dunk it in a frying pan or basin of cool water with ice cubes if necessary.

This gives the patient a chance to drink the rice water sooner and cure himself or herself sooner.

When drinking the rice water, make sure there is lots of it. You have to tell the patient that enough water must go in to line your guts from throat to other end, all 10 to 12 metres of it. If you take rice, it stays in the stomach. If you take broth, some of it may go into the small intestine.

But if you take rice water, it will carry rice grains to every inch of your small and large intestine to the end where the problem is.

How does it work? Even Prof Wong Hock Boon doesn't know. Read the attached file. Or go to

*http://rehydrate.org/dd/dd06.htm#page2*

It is good to pass on the news to everyone you know because the complaint is so common and people suffer unnecessarily. You would be doing your friends a great favour to relieve them of their misery when the occasion arises.

Contributed by Mr Tony Wee

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The above is one of the activities done by our GC residents. I will upload pictures when I get hold of them as I was not able to make it to this event.

Taizo's Birthday & Open House

Another reason to party...

It being a Chinese New Year and also coincide with Taizo's birthday, he decided to have a party and many of us were invited and of course, present ourselves.

The few of us decided to get him a barrel of beer, whereas other comes with their own assorted presents and whatnots. For us the beer group, our Mary Wee designed a very beautiful card and I got everyone who contributed to the pool to sign on it. This is what the card looked like, it was made with such TLC and written with so much sincerity that I think this card is one of the best I have seen so far.











This is how the barrel of beer after installation looked like and Cathy's sister officiating it.





The cake blowing session, with birthday boy making his wishes.







It was a night of laughter, merriment and full of joy, peals of laughter were heard, people chattering the night away and there was even time for posing for some photo shoot!!







As usual, long night, even when everybody says time to go home, everyone would still lingers on for another few tens of minutes, like this.





For more photos, go here.

Chinese New Year Get Together

New update.

Venu just uploaded some new eve photos, accessible here.

I can see lot of smiling faces, laughter and merriment going around. It was satisfying to see all these happy faces. Truly an unforgetable first time experience for us, the organising committee.

And special thanks to one of the cameraman, Venu, for capturing these precious moments.

On another note, we had another eating session, yesterday, at my place. I didn't get to call everybody because I don't have everybody's number, or probably some did not receive my sms or probably I got some of the numbers wrong. I was hoping that words would pass around, apparently, our Glenmarie's Residents are very private lot, we don't tell...the lot of us should be politicians instead, hahaha. I ended up with lot of foods and by the look of it, I might have to eat the same re-heated food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper for the coming few days...the horror of it!!!

A recap of people who spared their time were Anita, Patma & Sheila, Taizo & Chris, Taizo's parents, Jeff & Cathy, Ian, Teh & Pat, Nicky & Doris, Joe & Stella, Albert & Agnes, Tony & Mary, Mary Lowdik, Nazer, Mano, Thana, Azlan & Bad and a few others. Can't recall all of them. For those who did not, well, if ever, ever you all heard someone's organinising a party, especially with tent put up, AND one or two of your neighbours are invited, chances are, you would be welcome with an embracing arms, so, do pop in. After all, the food is all there and the company is there too..

I didn't take any photos but I believe someone did, if ever I get hold of it, I will put a link to it. Meantime, enjoy your new year, many happiness for the year and years to come, to my GC extended family, you guys are a great REASON for organising a party. I sincerely hoped that everyone had fun and I hope any shortcomings on the host's part will be excused, not executed.

Note From Geraldine Wee

Tick tock tick tock, it is like more than a week since New Year. Time do flies, don't they?

I got an email from Geraldine, who we got to know when Tony and Mary Wee had their Christmas party and she asked me to post her message to everyone. I have sent it to our mailing list, for those not in the mailing list, here is the message :-

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Hi everyone in GC!

Just a quick note to say that it was good to put a face to a name when I met you all over C'mas. Mom and Dad are always talking about 'GC this, GC that' so it was great to experience it firsthand.

It was really nice to see how close everyone is - that is, you all hang out together not just because you're neighbours and have to, but because you all genuinely like each other and want to hang out! And boy oh boy did I witness just how much hanging out you did. Seriously, think you guys were more happening and had much later nights overall than I did when I was back home.

I am relieved that the move from PJ to Klang has gone smoothly for my parents. At first we were all like 'Are you mad, you know how far away Klang is????'. Then when we saw the place we were like 'What, no grills?? Safe or not??'

But it feels safe in GC (and hope it stays that way too going forward). Mom and Dad have plenty to keep them busy so a big THANK YOU to you all for looking out for them.

Happy New Years to all and here's to 2009 being a good year for GC, as the community and it's members grow from strength to strength.

Cheers!
Geraldine

On behalf of GC, I would also say nice knowing you and don't worry about your parents, they are some of the nicest people around and inevitably, nice people will get nice and caring friends. Trust me, as Chinese New Year is just around the corner, your parents will be very busy attending parties and feasting again. Over here, people in GC are excellent in partying and having good time and feasting and all things nice.

Pictorial And "Advertisement"

I wonder whether some of our neighbours would be interested to let their house interior's picture be taken and be made into a glossy magazine? I am trying to get a friend to do some photography and it would be nice to get a group, instead of my house only. Sampler of his works can be found here. Anyone interested? I am still trying to get the costing for printing it into a glossy magazine form. It will be interesting to see how, in the eye of artist, how our houses would be pictured?

On another note, I was informed by Sheila that Pastor Joe's church is on fund-raising drive and that, this coming Saturday, they will have a fund-raising dinner. I don't have much details, probably those interested to participate, or contribute, or purchase the tickets, can get in touch with either Sheila Padmanathan or Joe and Stella themselves.

Irregardless of your own personal belief, a good cause is a good cause and deserve some support, contributions in any form would definitely be a welcome. I am not Christian but for this good cause, more so because I count both Joe and Stella as friends, beside them being some of the more involved residents in our neighbourhood's activities, I personally will get a ticket in support of our friends' mission, "crusade" if you may.

Those who don't have their numbers, leave a message at the comments box and I will relay them to you.

I do hope that as in everything else Glencovers does, we will do Joe and Stella honour as their friends.

Countdown 2009

Pheww, for the organinising committee of this countdown party, we can finally have a peaceful sleep. My "investigation" revealed that a majority of us, yours truly included, have been having sleepless night for the few days leading up to the countdown party. There were so many last minutes loose end to tie up and finally, it was all system go and whether we did a good job or not, it is for the participants to judge themselves, though I must say that those who knows how to party, have a good time and those who are still shy, there is always next year.

I didn't have opportunity to snap pictures, but I do know that Zafri, Venu, Tony and a few others took loads of photos. So, while waiting for the photos, I will attempt to capture some of the moments of last night in here.

Before I do that though, I think our Event Head, Ms Agnes Lim deserved to be awarded a medal for doing a great job, she was the busiest person yesterday night and doing 1001 things, without which, many of the things would not have gone so smoothly. Her kids, Michelle and Andy manned the reception. Also, she prepared the finger foods when the caterer was delayed by an accident. Organising the event, taking the lead in the party and many many other things that I didn't notice personally but I know she did it, out of passion, responsibility and love for the community. A big bravo Agnes (you are staying on permanently on this job, I'd say)

Of course, the rest of the organising committee for job greatly done, I will list here and any good Glencovers should thank them when you all see them during your evening walk, gym time and whatnots.

a) Mary Westholt - for wrapping the presents and making the whole presentation looked like a million dollars!!! And walking around the neighbourhood with Sheila selling the tickets and promoting the event.




b) Nicky and Doris - for running up and down to buy things, get things organised, leading some of the games etc.

c) Mary Wee - for arranging the presents for the carollers.

d) Sheila - for aggressively promoting the event and selling the ticket, at the same time assisting Mary for presents et al.

e) Tony, Dahlia, Penny, Albert, Padma, Jeff and Cathy - for assisting in organisation of the event.

And a few others who chipped in but probably skipped my mind, of course, the things everyone mentioned above did was not limited to that stated, it was definitely more than that, I am just listing what little I can remember. Of course, not forgetting the sponsors for the presents, Ganesh & Prames, Rajan, Syed & Sharifah and yours truly lah of course.

The event started around 10.30 with speech from Penghulu. Then some game, some lucky draws and we were at the eve of the year already. A quick countdown by Nicky and lighting of fireworks, again, sponsored by Ganesh and Prames. Everything goes so fast that I don't really recall the chronicle of events, suffice to say that it went as well as I could wish for and I am really going to let the picture tell the stories, later, when I get the photos, of course.

But some of the guys stayed on after the event proper, I was with them until 4.00 a.m and I think, most of them would have watched the dawn of a new year by the riverside as it was only 2 hours to go for that view. We shall know later.

Well, that's about all that I am going to write about this party, until I remember more. I do hope everyone enjoyed themselves.