Thursday, June 11, 2009

NOT THAT EASY

I started to love in painting, and drawing since I was a child. My friends in high school always tell me that Im a bright artist. But these days, I just realize that Im not that bright.

Im working on a job as an illustrator for a biology text book now. It's been two and almost a half months since I started this job, but it seems that I don't have much progress with it. I just found that drawing can be so difficult. It's 1.00 in the morning already... and I just print page 78 from 340.

But Im enjoying this job, beside since that I don't have another jobs and Im starting running out money, I find many interesting things too in here... I just know that scab in our skin is produced from red cells blood. It makes me going back to when I was in junior high school.

Well, it makes me remember, like a wise man said... don't give up, do your best...... because nothing precious comes easy, right? Read More...

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

CONTACT LENS

According to the history, the idea about contact lens has been exist since year 1000. But that idea that has been documented just mere in year 1508, completed with note and sketch, that made by Leonardo Da Vinci.

The painter of Monalisa is a multitalented genius, an inventor, and inspirator to the invention of high-technology tools that we use nowadays. Inside his notebook, there are many sketches about glasses that be used directly to the eye ball.

After Da Vinci, contact lens also believed be found by Rene Descartes in 1632. This contact lens is being used in cornea. Even, Descrates has created hydriascope, a glass filled with water to neutralize the power of cornea.

After 200 years since those ideas begin, in 1801, an England physican, Thomas Young, created a glass filled with water and a very small lens. He used this lens himself. Has been told that he cut this lens himself so it can be used in the surface of eyes properly.

However, the innovation that created modern contact lens like people use today, is been done by F.E Muller, a Germany, in 1887. While the contact lens that can be used to help people with eye problem found by Adolf Eugen Fick, an physican from Swiss, and his partner, Edouard Kalt, an optician from France. Before it used to human, they first tested it to animals. That lens made from pretty heavy glass with 18-21 mm in diametre.

Another inventor of contact lens is Joseph Dallos. He succeed created a lens made from a fabric like eye sklere. When polymethilmethacrylate (PMMA), a fabric like elastic plastic found in 1935, people getting more interesting to make contact lens from this fabric. William Feinbloom is the first who made contact lens with this fabric in 1936.

Since then, the technology of contact lens keep develop untill 1990. In that days, only high-class community can wear contact lens, and it is not as popular as today. Read More...

POOR GIRL

If you enjoying the Cinderella story, do you know that there are about 500 version of the story about a poor girl who married a royal prince after she been choosed with a shoe?

In the first century BC, there is a story about Rhodopis, a Greek-Egypt girl that married one of Firaun King from Egypt. This story told when Rhodopis washing her clothes in a river, an eagle stole her shoe and drop it in the foot of Firaun Amasis in Memphis.

It said that Rhodopis considered as a fairytale from Thracian people, an ancient tribe that live in Rumania and Bulgaria now. This tribe live in about 6th century BC. So, there is a possibility that this tribe who has created the cinderella story.

China also has a story about Ye Xian that written by Ch'eng-shih in year 850. Ye Xian is an orphan girl who has a fish friend, but in one day, the fish has been killed by her step mother. The girl keep the bone of the fish that has a miracle power. One day, she came in a spring bowl, and when she has to came back home in a hurry, one of her shoe is slipped off, and left, and found by a prince. In this story, it is told that Ye Xian has small feet.

The modern Cinderella story begin from the story that written by Charles Perrault, a Franch writer, in 1697. In the beginning, the girl named Cindrillion, but when the story is being translated and spread to other Europe countries, her name become Cinderella.

Many people said that Cinderella is not a real name. So there is a roumor that her true name was Ella. Because she always clean up the cinder, so the Cinderella name popped out. Read More...

PRESERVING BODY IMUN

Most of us must have known the slogan said that 'we are what we eat'. Living today, we always faced with unfriendly weather, pollution, busy living, medicines, and we often missing sport activity, increasing treat to our health.

To preserving body imun better, we need proper nutrition, and balance like vitamins, folat acid, and zinc.

Here are some easy tips to do:

  • Drink enough water in one day
  • Plant more trees around the house, can make the air you breath fresh
  • Enough rest
  • Avoid stress
  • Balance diet
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