My phobias are in blue:
acrophobia.. fear of high places
aerophobia.. fear of air or drafts
agoraphobia.. fear of open spaces
ailurophobia... fear of cats
algophobia.. fear of pain
androphobia.. fear of men
anthrophobia.. fear of human beings
aquaphobia.. fear of water
astraphobia... fear of stars
autophobia.. fear of automobiles
bibliophobia.. fear of books
canophobia... fear of laws, rules, dogmas
claustrophobia.. fear of closed spaces
coitophobia.. fear of sexual intercourse
ergophobia.. fear of work
frigophobia... fear of cold
gamophobia.. fear of marriage
genophobia.. fear of sex
gymnotophobia.. fear of nudity
gynophobia.. fear of women
hadephobia.. fear of hell
hamartiophobia.. fear of sin
haphephobia.. fear of being touched
hematophobia.. fear of blood
hierophobia.. fear of sacred things
homophobia.. fear of homosexual
shydrophobia.. fear of water
hypegiaphobia.. fear of responsibility
hypnophobia.. fear of sleep
logophobia.. fear of words
maieusophobia.. fear of pregnancy
misophobia.. fear of contamination
monophobia.. fear of being alone
nyctophobia... fear of darkness or night
ornithophobia.. fear of birds
ouranophobia.. fear of heaven
pantophobia.. fear of everything
peccatophobia.. fear of sinning
pediphobia.. fear of children
peniaphobia.. fear of poverty
phasmophobia.. fear of ghosts
phobophobia... fear of fears
photophobia.. fear of light
phronemophobia.. fear of thinking
pogonophobia.. fear of beards
poinephobia.. fear of punishment
pyrophobia.. fear of fire
satanophobia.. fear of Satan
sciophobia.. fear of shadow
staphophobia... fear of being buried alive, graves
theophobia.. fear of God
thermophobia.. fear of heat
tocophobia.. fear of childbirth
triskaidikaphobia... fear of the # 13
trypanophobia.. fear of injections
xenophobia.. fear of strangers
zelophobia.. fear of jealousy
zoophobia.. fear of animals
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006
My Mistake: Smoking
I started smoking at the age of 14. Nobody had any influence on my addiction to cigarettes when I started. It was that one night, I had a dream of smoking Benson & Hedges. It was a very nice feeling. The next day, I illegally jumped out of the school fence and bought myself a small pack of Benson and a box of matches. I smoked a stick and it was the same feeling as in my dream. I then became addicted.
The night on the same day, I was about to have my cigarette in the school toilet. To my surprise, I found some of my closest friends smoked too. They were very shocked in the beginning and then were very happy that I too smoke. It was a very memorial night.
For 28 years, I had nothing against smoking. In fact, I thought it was a moral obligation. It was the physical embodiment for my individual spirit. Smoking was the main reason why I had been very productive. Never had I questioned anything regarding deteriorating health or anything on the economical factors. To make it even worse, I used to point out that smokers are important to the nation’s economy as we pay ‘tax’. Non-smokers should even thank us for this. For some reason, friends just cannot argue with me.
Three months ago, something did happen when I was presenting a seminar where a gallant participant embarrassed me of my smoking addiction. Since then I started to rethink on this addiction. Finally I quit.
The truth about smoking, in my own words now:
Think of the money I could save.
Very difficult to give up - not looking forward to withdrawal symptoms.
Bad for health, too expensive, very hard drug to give up.
I wish I had never started.
It doesn’t do me any harm but it doesn’t do me any good.
Horrible really when it boils down to it - just say you can’t taste things properly and it is right when you stop smoking things taste a lot better.
Filthy habit.
Years ago they were cheaper - it is getting too expensive now.
Will kill me in the end if I don’t stop.
Anybody who starts today knows of the down side. When I started nothing was said about health side.
It’s all pointless really.
My children keep telling me to give up.
My chest is probably black!! I would be healthier.
No plus points - stained teeth, blackened lungs, bad arteries, etc.
The harm a cigarette can do, I realise that I am throwing away my money to kill myself!!!
Effect on my wife and children.
It is an idiotic thing to start to do.
For the small amount of pleasure it gives me, it’s not worth the hassle I get.
I would be richer.
Offensive habit.
It’s a killer.
Because it comes to control your life - I have a physical craving which stops me doing other things.
Don’t like smell on clothes.
Feel I’m addicted to a drug.
The night on the same day, I was about to have my cigarette in the school toilet. To my surprise, I found some of my closest friends smoked too. They were very shocked in the beginning and then were very happy that I too smoke. It was a very memorial night.
For 28 years, I had nothing against smoking. In fact, I thought it was a moral obligation. It was the physical embodiment for my individual spirit. Smoking was the main reason why I had been very productive. Never had I questioned anything regarding deteriorating health or anything on the economical factors. To make it even worse, I used to point out that smokers are important to the nation’s economy as we pay ‘tax’. Non-smokers should even thank us for this. For some reason, friends just cannot argue with me.
Three months ago, something did happen when I was presenting a seminar where a gallant participant embarrassed me of my smoking addiction. Since then I started to rethink on this addiction. Finally I quit.
The truth about smoking, in my own words now:
Think of the money I could save.
Very difficult to give up - not looking forward to withdrawal symptoms.
Bad for health, too expensive, very hard drug to give up.
I wish I had never started.
It doesn’t do me any harm but it doesn’t do me any good.
Horrible really when it boils down to it - just say you can’t taste things properly and it is right when you stop smoking things taste a lot better.
Filthy habit.
Years ago they were cheaper - it is getting too expensive now.
Will kill me in the end if I don’t stop.
Anybody who starts today knows of the down side. When I started nothing was said about health side.
It’s all pointless really.
My children keep telling me to give up.
My chest is probably black!! I would be healthier.
No plus points - stained teeth, blackened lungs, bad arteries, etc.
The harm a cigarette can do, I realise that I am throwing away my money to kill myself!!!
Effect on my wife and children.
It is an idiotic thing to start to do.
For the small amount of pleasure it gives me, it’s not worth the hassle I get.
I would be richer.
Offensive habit.
It’s a killer.
Because it comes to control your life - I have a physical craving which stops me doing other things.
Don’t like smell on clothes.
Feel I’m addicted to a drug.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Outta Surfin Stuffs
Find seven hearts from this picture.
Your sleuthing gear includes a micro listening device for those not-to-be-missed conversations between bosses. You also get two discreet mirrors which can be used singularly or can be built into a simple periscope—essential for snooping over cubicle walls. And don’t forget the two-in-one invisible ink pen and decoder that lets you record classified information without being discovered. In short order, you’ll be the CEO—that’s Chief Espionage Organizer-and hot on the trail of the latest office coup!
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