CONDOMS FOR DUMMY

FOR THOSE WHO ENJOYS HAVING SEX A LOT..HERE I SHARE WITH YOU GUYS TYPES OF CONDOM THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN.LOL..

A List of Items To Avoid During Interview

A List of Items to Avoid During the Interview

1) Poorly coordinated attire such as tie and shirt mismatch

2) Untidy hair like just woken from sleep

3) Sport bag instead of briefcase

4) Poor hand shake

5) Poor sitting posture

6) Pale complexion (lady should put on at least lipstick or lip gloss)

7) Poor eye contact

Body odour

9) Playing with fingers throughout the interview

10) Sweaty palms

11) Stare blankly at interviewers

12) Display immaturity

13) Show great anxiety

14) Behave too casually with interviewers

15) Lack of self-confident or over-confident

16) Give very short answer even after prompting by interviewers

17) Talk too much and not answering the question posted

18) Unable to read between the lines of question posted

19) Not forthcoming in replying to questions posted

20) Focus too much on self gain then desire to contribute to Company

21) Unable to post smart questions to gain more insight into job, work team and Company

22) Fail to research on Company and projects

23) Give contradicting replies to questions posted

24) Unable to convince interviewers why the job is a good fit

Always give it your best shoot at interview. Never let the golden opportunity slip away because of reasons you can overcome with some effort. Prepare a checklist such as items to bring or things to do before the interview like research on the Company for yourself so that you can be well prepared for the interview.

Source: http://www.excellent-job-interview-tips.com

12 ways to know you love someone..

WHOM R U THINKING OF NOW??

TWELVE:
You talk with him/her late at night and when you go to bed you still think of him/her.

ELEVEN:
You walk really slowly when you are with him/her.

TEN:
You don’t feel Ok when he/she is far away.

NINE:
You smile when you hear his/her voice.

EIGHT:
When you look at him/her,you do not see other people around you.You see only him/her.

SIX:
He/She is everything you want to think.

FIVE:
You realise that you smile every time you look at him/her.

FOUR:
You would do anything to see him/her.

THREE:
While you have been reading this, there was a person in your mind all the time.

TWO:
You’ve been so busy thinking of that person that you didn’t notice that number SEVEN is missing.

ONE:
You are going to check above if that’s true and now you are silently laughing to yourself.

NOW MAKE A WISH! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT THE MOST…….

*****

ALMOST THERE!

METAL MUSIC FOR DUMMIES..

ARGHHHH!!!!..halo..dats what i yell everytime i met wit other METALLERS out there…so i was searching the internet and check this website.Ultimate-Guitar.com,and i search the forum where i stumbled upon a topic ” The Official Metal Recommendations”..and i was like..wow!!!good input they have there so i thought maybe i can share it with every METALLERS here in wordpress.com…

so if you need further infos about any rock,metal punk music..tab and chords for guitar,bass and drums..you can check  http://Ultimate-guitar.com  

here are some of the input taken from the Ultimate-guitar.com…

THANK YOU to ULTIMATE-GUITAR.com for they have these great infos.

 

Death Metal

The thrash of the 1980’s is all fine and good, but a lot of fans really wanted something more extreme, something harder, faster and heavier. What they got was death metal. Slayer were (like it or not) the catalysts for the movement. While still being a thrash metal band, they inspired a lot of the early death metal, with extreme ‘gorey’ lyrics, heavy guitars, frantic pace and (at the time) unusual vocals. Mantas (soon to be renamed Death) and Possessed progressed even more on Slayer’s attack, adding even more brutal vocals, higher tempo and a heavier sound. Death metal didn’t slow down after the original boom, since then, there’s been more innovation and progression, with bands such as New York’s Suffocation, Florida’s Obituary and Scandinavia’s Entombed all helping to add their own distinctive regional style to the sound. Today death metal has reached into many more elements of music, adding technical musicianship, progressive elements, jazz influences, and even a well-known addition of Egyptian ambience and instrumentation.

The death metal sound features a low, growled, often almost unintelligible vocal style and frequently utilize downtuned and distorted guitars, a downtuned, sometimes distorted bass guitar and a drum set almost universally using two bass drums or a double bass drum pedal. Song structures can vary, with some bands sticking to the verse-chorus basis and others opting for a loose narrative rather than a repeating structure. Lyrics typically focus on dark themes (although there are some exceptions) with some bands covering in depth descriptions of gorey or gruesome incidents, inspired by Liverpudlian grindcore band Carcass. More specialised Technical Death metal (abbreviated to Tech Death) is known for abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and extremely fast and complex guitar and drumwork, particular tech death bands also implement shred/neoclassical influences in their lead breaks.

The name Death metal is often up to debate, some believing that it is attributed to the Possessed song, Death Metal on the 1985 album Seven Churches. Others believe that the name is from the band, Death, who arguably built upon Possessed’s release and pioneered the first straight up death metal album.

Good starting points:

Albums

• Cannibal Corpse – Kill
• Death – Symbolic
• Slayer – Reign in Blood
• Suffocation – Souls to Deny

Songs

• Behemoth – Conquer All
• Death – Bite The Pain
• Decapitated – Spheres of Madness
• Hate Eternal- King of All Kings
• Morbid Angel – Rapture
• Morbid Angel – Fall From Grace
• Morbid Angel – Where The Slime Live
• Nile – Lashed To The Slave Stick

Essential Albums

Possessed – Seven Churches
Death – Scream Bloody Gore
Morbid Angel – Altars Of Madness
Obituary – Cause Of Death
Deicide – Deicide
Cryptopsy – None So Vile
Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines
Cannibal Corpse – Tomb Of The Mutilated
Suffocation – Effigy Of The Forgotten
Entombed – Left Hand Path

Thrash metal

The origins of thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of bands began incorporating the sound of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of hardcore punk (in particular its drum tempos), creating a new genre and developing into a separate movement from punk.

The genre relies on extremely-fast tempos, and low-register, fast or complex guitar riffs, sometimes layered with high-register guitar solos, often in combination with palm muting to create a “chugging” sound. Thrash guitar solos are almost exclusively played at high speed, as they are usually characterised as shredding, and use techniques such as sweep picking, legato phrasing, alternate picking, string skipping, and two-hand tapping. Vocals ususally adopt a gruff, hard rock style, although heavier bands have been known to simply shout.

1981 is seen by some fans as a critical year, though others cite earlier influences on the genre: The first riff of Black Sabbath’s “Symptom of the Universe” (1975) is possibly one of the first thrash riffs, though their “Into the Void” and “Children of the Grave” (both 1971) were influential as well. Many point to another early example, Queen’s “Stone Cold Crazy” (1974) (from their Sheer Heart Attack album), which was unusually heavy and fast for its time, and ultimately covered many years later by thrash metal’s most famous and successful band, Metallica. Similar to this song was “Ogre Battle” from Queen’s 1974 album Queen II. German prog-metal band Night Sun probably had the fastest examples of early thrash metal on their only album “Mournin’” with the songs “Plastic Shotgun” and “Nightmare” (1972). Also worth mention is Iggy Pop & The Stooges who had a profound influence on Motörhead. Their songs “I Got A Right” and “Gimme Some Skin” (Both 1973) utilized a simple, fast paced beat that resembled still-to-come metal and punk thrashings.

It should also be noted that an early song that had a direct inspiration to the genre was Judas Priest’s 1978 song “Exciter,” off the Stained Class album. Its fast, kick-drum intro was notorious for drummers of this era, as well as the fast guitar solos. While Judas Priest were not a thrash band themselves, several thrash bands like Slayer, Venom, Anthrax, Metallica, and Megadeth cite them as a major influence.

Some suggest that Motörhead’s Overkill LP (1979) gave the name to a New York band (Overkill) that would write what is often considered the first thrash metal song in 1981: “The Beast Within“. Soon thereafter, the short-lived Southern California band Leather Charm would write “Hit the Lights“. This band would break up, but the primary songwriter James Hetfield’s next band, Metallica, would feature this song. The band Metal Church recorded a few rehearsals in 1980-81, which were similar to the early Metallica and Overkill efforts, though not quite as thrashy. The band Venom is also considered a pioneer of the genre, from their 1981 album Welcome To Hell and the 1982 Black Metal: in fact Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament and Exodus cite them as major influences.

Good starting points

Albums

• Metallica – Master Of Puppets
• Exodus – Shovel Headed Kill Machine
• Sepultura – Arise
• Kreator – Pleasure to Kill
• Megadeth – Countdown To Extinction
• Pantera – Cowboys From Hell

Songs

• Metallica – Battery
• Megadeth – Holy Wars…. The Punishment due
• Slayer – Raining Blood
• Destruction – Nailed To The Cross
• Testament – Over The Wall

Essential Albums
Megadeth – Rust in Peace
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Kreator – Pleasure To Kill
Venom – Welcome To Hell

Black metal

One of the more underground and controversial scenes within metal, black metal is as hard to properly define as it is to write an exact history of. The origins of the genre are attributed to many different bands from many different countries, often ironically playing many different styles of music, because of this fact, black metal is more widely considered as a culmination of separate band’s efforts, rather than any solitary band releasing an album that was imitated.

Eighties satanic thrash pioneers Venom have the best claim to having coined the
Black Metal moniker with their 1982 album named “Black Metal” however even they have distanced themselves from the claim to an extent. Realistically, Venom’s release only sonic contribution to the black metal we know of today was the rough production style, everything else about the album was pure 1980’s thrash metal. Other claiments to the formation of black metal include one man Swedish band Bathory, who’s 1984 self titled debut still causes controversy as to whether it is black metal or thrash metal, German thrash band Sodom’s debut also evokes similar reactions, while the sound was undoubtable thrash, the mood of the album was more closely related to black metal bands of today. Other influencial albums were released by the Danish Mercyful Fate (1983/4) and the Swiss band Celtic Frost (1984)

Black metal however did not officially exist as a genre until the early 1990’s, when bands such as Mayhem, Burzum and Abruptum became disillusioned with the popularity of American style death metal, and in particular the Earache mosh label. The bands released albums on Euronymous’s Deathlike Silence label, who’s CD’s displayed the “ANTI MOSH” logo as an insult to Earache records. These second wave albums took the sound of Bathory and Sodom and forged a more extreme, grainy and rough sound.

Sadly black metal has become synonymous with the actions that occured between Mayhem and Burzum during the early 90’s. Information on it won’t be provided here because it detracts from the aim of this article, to give a incite into black metal, not into the twisted minds of it’s pioneers. If you’re still that intrigued to find out what happened, go here

Since these releases, black metal has moved in many directions, some bands sticking to the raw, minimalist style black metal of the second wave. This variety typically features high pitched shreiked vocals, grainy production, and relentless blast beats for most or all of the song. Guitars are more often than not in standard tuning, with extensive use of tremolo picking and minor chords, bass guitar is generally inaudible. More atmospherically minded twists of this sound are displayed by bands such as Fornost and Paysage d’Hiver, with songs stretched out over longer timescales. Keyboards are not uncommon in atmospheric black metal, acoustic guitar interludes are also used occationally.

The major twist in the black metal sound comes with symphonic styled black metal, which more often than not abandons the poor production in favour of clarity. Keyboards and synthisizers are brought to the forefront and guitar complexity is often increased, however guitar solos are uncommon. Bands like Dimmu Borgir and Alghazanth are prime examples of this style of black metal in action.

Lyrics in black metal are as diverse as the sound itself, Satanic/Anti-Christian themes are common, but contrary to popular belief not mandatory or genre defining, indeed later Borknagar lyrics deal everything from conduction of electricity to sea bacteria (!). Black metal lyrics can also deal with ideological/pagan themes and mythology, some bands like Immortal even venturing into the realm of fantasy for their inspiration. National Socialist and racist views are also very occationally present.

Black metal is also very reliant on imagery, with very distinctive on stage fashion. BM bands often sport leather studded clothing, and even occationally battle armour. King Diamond/Kiss style black and white makeup is also a common on stage accessory, known within the scene as “corpsepaint”. Live shows sometimes go further to impress the crowd, with burning torches and dead animals displayed alongsde the band, Mayhem and Gorgoroth being particularly fond of this stage set up.

Due to the diversity of the genre, it is very difficult to pin down black metal in a few paragraphs, many bands combine raw, symphonic and atmospheric influences into their work, aswell as numerous other forms of music such as folk, death metal or prog, the best way to fully get a grasp of black metal is to listen to it.

Good starting points

Albums

• Emperor – Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
• Dimmu Borgir – Stormblast
• Immortal – Sons Of Northern Darkness
• Darkthrone – A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Songs

• Emperor – I am The Black Wizards
• Dissection – Where Dead Angels Lie
• Dimmu Borgir – Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse
• Mayhem – Freezing Moon

Essential albums

Burzum – Filosofem
Emperor – In The Nightside Eclipse
Mayhem – De mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Bathory – Under The Sign of The Black Mark
Darkthrone – Transilvanian Hunger
Dissection – Storm Of The Light’s Bane
Graveland – Thousand Swords
Mutiilation – Vampires Of Black Imperial Blood
Ulver – Nattens Magidral
Sarcofago – INRI
Beherit – Drawing Down The Moon

Melodic Death metal

Also colloqually known as melodeath, melodic death metal is a slightly less extreme form of death metal that incorporates less intense vocals, combined with guitar work aiming for Iron Maiden-esque melodic harmonies and catchy hooks rather than brutal riffing. Melodic death is generally traced back to three albums: Entombed’s 1990 debut, Left Hand Path, Dismember’s 1991 release, Like An Everflowing Stream and oddly, grindcore band Carcass’s 1994 release Heartwork. These albums featured a distinctive sound that separated them from the field of regular death metal, Jeff Walker’s “throaty” vocal style was a departure from the standard gutteral growl, and the unusual “buzzsaw” guitar tone on the Dismember and Entombed releases became synonymous with Scandinavian style death metal.

Ironically, despite Carcass arguably creating the first melodic death metal album, it was released at the wrong time, as in the same year, an unknown Swedish band named In Flames released their debut, Lunar Strain, and one year later in 1995, Dark Tranquillity released their first EP, Of Chaos And Eternal Night, again from Sweden. The new style of metal being played by these bands was labelled “Gothenburg metal”, named after the Swedish city of Gothenburg, the city which claimed to have invented this style despite Carcass’s input to the sound. These important releases, alongside the pioneering efforts of Entombed and Dismember meant that Carcass’s influences were widely discredited, especially as previously Carcass had been a straight up grindcore band.

Since then, melodic death has exploded into a large scene, gaining popularity all over Europe, and even reaching as far as America with bands like The Black Dahlia Murder attaining high levels of popularity. Melodic death is now one of the more mainstream forms of extreme metal, with big bands like In Flames and Children of Bodom pulling huge crowds and getting good amounts of coverage on MTV and in guitar player magazines. Despite this, the grass roots of melodeath are still strong, with underground bands gaining respect amongst their peers regardless of the sometimes negative connotations associated playing a style popularised by In Flames, who’s standing has waned amongst metal fans after their music has moved further and further away from melodic death over time.

Good Starting points

Albums

• Children of Bodom – Follow The Reaper
• In Flames – Lunar Strain
• Insomnium – Since the Day it All Came Down
• Arch Enemy – Anthems of Rebellion

Songs

• Carcass – No Love Lost
• In Flames – Zombie Inc
• Dark Tranquillity – Through Smudged Lenses
• Children Of Bodom – Bed Of Razors
• At The Gates – Blinded By Fear

Essential albums

At The Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
In Flames – The Jester Race
Dark Tranquillity – Character
Amon Amarth – Once Sent from the Golden Hall
Carcass – Heartwork

Folk Metal

The origin of folk metal is almost unanimously traced to 1990 when the British band Skyclad was formed. They began as a thrash metal band, but quickly recruited a violinist into their ranks and began to play a folk-thrash hybrid, thus creating the genre. Other bands followed, some influenced by Skyclad, and others coming to combine folk music and metal on their own. Some other early folk metal bands include Darkthrone’s Fenriz and his side projects Isengard and Storm - which mixed traditional Norwegian folk with black metal, the celtic folk band Mägo de Oz, Waylander – who originally intended to play heavy metal but ended up creating and embracing a folk sound, and the Israeli band Orphaned Land who today play middle eastern style folk metal.

The sounds of folk metal vary greatly from band to band. For example, a celtic folk
metal band can range from basically being heavier celtic music, such as the Irish band Cruachan, to being sonically similar to black metal while still retaining the same distinct celtic style through usage of folk instruments, as displayed by French folk metallers Heol Telwen. A band’s music may be more folk than metal, more metal than folk, or a 50/50 split between the two. Many different individual genres of metal have been combined with folk music (Haggard combining folk and death metal vocals, Elvenking combining folk and power metal etc) in addition to this, the countless different regional folk styles mean that there is a lot of variation in folk metal.

Good starting points:

Albums

• Elvenking – Wyrd
• Ensiferum – Iron
• Korpiklaani – Voice of Wilderness
• Turisas – Battle Metal

Songs

• Finntroll – Trollhammaren
• Korpiklaani – Wooden Pints
• Cruachan – To Invoke The Horned God
• Falkenbach – As Long As Winds Will Blow

Essential Albums
Skyclad – Prince of The Poverty Line
Skyclad – The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth
Bathory – Hammerheart
Windir – 1184
Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness
Agalloch – The Mantle

Power metal

Power metal is a style of heavy metal music incorporating characteristics of traditional metal along with thrash metal, often with a symphonic backdrop. The style is generally regarded to stem from pioneering German bands like Gamma Ray and Helloween

Venturing further back in time, the core power metal sound draws influence from bands such as Queen, Rainbow and Iron Maiden, and their epic neo-classical storytelling style, Judas Priest’s speed and Queensrÿche’s musicianship. In the 80’s, American bands such as Sanctuary, Crimson Glory, Liege lord and Jag Panzer began playing similar styles to their counterparts across the pond and thus the U.S. power metal scene came into being.

In the mid-1980s, European bands such as Helloween (Germany) and Europe (Sweden) put more attention to the melodic side of songwriting. Helloween mixed fast paced thrash metal riffs with melodic lead breaks and added Iron Maiden-like powerful vocals, aswell as further bringing keyboards to the forefront. Their albums Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part 1 (1987) and Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part 2 (1988) are generally regarded as a milestone of this genre. Subsequently, European-style power metal has spread across the continent (particularly to Finland) and worldwide, though it is comparatively less popular in the United States, United Kingdom and other English speaking countries.

Recently, however, many power metal bands have abandoned the “happy-metal” sound of their predecessors, and have adopted a more epic feel combined with the power metal sound. Bands such as Blind Guardian have combined their classic power metal stylings with an orchestral background, further bringing keyboards and synthesisers to the fore, as bands such as Heavenly, Rhapsody of Fire (formerly Rhapsody), and Angra have done.

Whereas most rock lyrics focus largely on “the real world” – personal experience, historical incidents, social commentary, etc. – power metal often treats epic or fantasy themes. Many power metal songs draw inspiration from religion and mythology, and science fiction and fantasy (especially high fantasy) tending to be more optimistic than most metal lyrics, with powerful and uplifting choruses and catchy vocal lines.

Power metal vocals are generally “clean”, as opposed to the growled or screamed vocals that characterise death metal/black metal etc, and are more often than not delivered by a trained vocalist. Following in the tradition of Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford, power metal vocalists tend to sing in a high register and often in falsetto. Some singers, such as Hansi Kürsch of Blind Guardian, record multi-layered vocals reminiscent of Queen. Because of the primary importance of vocals in power metal, vocalists can make or break a band of this style and generally do not double as instrumentalists.

Power metal guitarists and bassists generally play rapid phrases of palm muted notes, but change chords comparatively slowly, with a harmonic tempo of once per measure or slower, often abandoning the fast picking during the choruses and simply strumming the chord once per measure. Fast and demanding guitar solos, however, are almost guaranteed, as well as some bands illustrating challenging keyboard solos.

Power metal drummers generally play with two bass drums for added speed, often playing a constant stream of sixteenth notes (semiquavers) with snare drum accents on the beat. Some bands defy this formula, but it is surprisingly universal.

Many bands also play with a keyboardist, but keyboards are not generally a musical focus, they normally simply lay backing chord behind the guitar, usually with an orchestral or choral voice. A few, such as the Italian band Rhapsody of Fire, have also been known to record with more symphonic elements. Rhapsody actually calls their style of music “Hollywood metal,” emphasizing its resemblance to modern film scores.

Power metal is most popular in Europe, Japan, and some countries of South America (including Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Chile), and has a growing popularity in certain parts of North America, notably in the province of Quebec, Canada, where it has a very strong fan base. UK Power-metal band DragonForce’s recent spike in popularity is a fine example.

Good starting points

Albums

• Blind Guardian – Nightfall In Middle Earth
• Dragonforce – Valley Of The Damned
• Hammerfall – Crimson Thunder

Songs

• Symphony X – Sea of Lies
• Rhapsody Of Fire – Unholy Warcry
• Hammerfall – Hearts on Fire
• Blind Guardian – And Then There Was Silence

Essential Albums
Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys pt. II
Sonata Arctica – Ecliptica
Blind Guardian – Nightfall In Middle Earth
Manowar – Kings of Metal

Traditional Heavy metal/NWOBHM

Traditional heavy metal is a difficult genre to properly classify, as it is usually treated as a genre in which to place bands that do not fit properly in other sub genres. However, under scrutiny heavy metal does have a discernible sound that can be pinned down. Black Sabbath, despite being listed under doom metal by modern pundits, were viewed by their contemporaries as heavy metal.

The heavy metal sound consists of heavily distorted, blues influenced guitar work (sometimes downtuned) usually with a nod to Led Zeppelin, drumming is often fairly simplistic rock ‘n roll style with emphasis on creating a groove rather than anything technical or intricate. Vocals can either adopt a fairly low, gruff ZZTop inspired style (Zakk Wylde, Lemmy etc), or in the case of Black Sabbath and the New Wave British bands, a higher pitched, slightly more toneful singing voice (Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson being the most characterisic)

However, there is a great deal of variety within traditional metal, with the more popular band’s small variations from the style inspiring numerous other genres of metal (Motorhead’s speed inspiring thrash, Iron Maiden’s melodies inspiring German power metal, Black Sabbath’s depressing themes furthering the doom scene) and although classic heavy metal was arguably the label given to the first metal bands, it is far from redundant, as newer bands playing the style of the first metal bands are far from uncommon today, with the UK’s Head On, and America’s Black Label Society playing very much in the vein of traditional metal.

The name “heavy metal” is usually attributed to one of two different sources. Jimi Hendrix’s chaotic blues music being refered to by an anonymous music critic as “like heavy metal falling from the sky!” is most likely the way the name was initially coined, the alternative theory is the likeness with Led Zeppelin’s band name, which was created when The Who drummer Keith Moon predicted that the band’s career would “go down like a lead balloon.” It is rumoured that when the band’s guitarist Jimmy Page first heard the insult, he retorted with the comment “heavy metal like lead hits the ground with a loud noise, and that’s exactly what we’re gonna do.” Either way, the term heavy metal has stuck over the years and gave birth to the greater genre of metal that we see today.

Good starting Points

Albums

• Black Sabbath – Volume 4
• Black Label Society – 1919 Eternal
• Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard Of Ozz
• Iron Maiden – Brave New World
• Motorhead – Ace Of Spades

Songs

• Iron Maiden – Run to The Hills
• Black Sabbath – Paranoid
• Black Label Society – Demise Of Sanity
• Head On – Here Comes The Hammer
• Motorhead – Ace Of Spades
• Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train

Essential Albums
Black sabbath – Paranoid
Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast
Mercyful Fate – Melissa
King Diamond – Abigail

Doom metal

Doom metal was arguably the first form of metal, as although Black Sabbath’s general sound was that of heavy metal, their self titled debut had an unmistakable doom aura, other early bands such as Pentagram also exhibited these same characteristics in the 1970’s. The epitome of doom metal is slow, forboding and depressing, expressed sonically by painfully slow and heavy riffs. Vocals can range from very deep growls, tortured shreiks, to clean singing. Drumming is generally slow and simplistic, but powerful and makes good use of rolls and fills to create a hypnotic effect.

Doom is also a fairly diverse genre, with several main categories. These include funeral, drone and doomdeath. Typically funeral doom is incredibly slow paced, with very long songs. Vocals are growled or shreiked, with guitars often heavily detuned. Drone doom is similar, but the effect in mind is usually to create a hypnotic atmosphere, this usually means that vocals are dispensed with altogether, in some cases like the band Sunn0))), all instruments are removed apart from massively downtuned guitars. Doomdeath is a slightly more fast paced variety of doom, with emphasis on minor key melodies rather than low tempo in creating a melancholy atmosphere.

Good starting points

Albums

• Anathema – The Silent Enigma
• November’s Doom – The Pale Haunt Departure
• Reverand Bizarre – II:Crush the Insects
• Katatonia – Brave Murder Day

Songs

• My Dying Bride – The Cry Of Mankind
• Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
• Candlemass – The Well of Souls
• Paradise Lost – Forever Failure

Essential albums

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Pentagram – Pentagram
Pantheist – Amartia
Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Cathedral – Forest of Equilibrium
Paradise Lost – Gothic
Thergothon – Stream From the Heavens
Skepticism – Lead and Aether
Wormphlegm – In An Excruciating Way…
My Dying Bride – Like Gods of the Sun
Tyranny – Tides of Awakening

Grindcore

The genre was pioneered during the mid-1980s in the United Kingdom by bands such as Napalm Death and Sore Throat, the name “grindcore” having actually being coined by Napalm Death’s drummer Mick Harris, though its roots are in American hardcore punk and hardcore punk influenced heavy metal bands, such as Siege, D.R.I., Deep Wound, and Repulsion.

Early grind bands such as Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror wrote lyrics dealing with social and political themes, in line with American hardcore bands at the time, however lyrics dealing with gore and violence became a mainstay in grindcore after Carcass released Reek of Putrefaction in 1988, with lyrics lifted out of medical dictionaries and surgery reports. Grindcore lyrics can typically involve pornography, murder, surgery, and even unintelligible nonsense as lyrics, with some bands not publishing any lyrics at all.

Sonically, Grindcore generally has more of an emphasis on noise and or speed rather than musicianship. Songs are often blurs of noise around one minute in length, guitar solos are rare, and riffs are simple downtuned progressions played at high speed. Vocals often vary between a death metal style growl and a high pitched screech, sometimes in quick succession. Drumming on the whole is incredibly fast, with some modern bands like Agoraphobic Nosebleed opting for a drum machine rather than a human drummer, such bands are often jokingly refered to as “Cybergrind”.

Other modern grindcore variants include noisecore (more closely related to hardcore) whos features include feedback, out of tune or improvised instruments, bad production high pitched hardcore style vocals.

Grindcore often blurs the boundary between genres, with some bands leaning more towards the hardcore punk end of the spectrum and others sounding very remnicsent of death metal, such as Exhumed, Impaled and Napalm Death’s newer releases.

Good starting points

Albums

• Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer
• Napalm Death – The Code is Red…
• Nasum – Human 2.0

Songs

• Inhume – Meatcleaver
• Napalm Death – The Kill
• Carcass – Crepitating Bowel Erotion
• Exhumed – Limb From Limb

Essential Albums

Carcass – Reek of Putrefaction
Napalm Death – Scum
Exhumed – Gore Metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal is a genre of heavy metal music that originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of doom-death, a subgenre of doom metal. The genre’s main influences oddly stem from outside the metal genre, namely from the deathrock scene in the 80’s forwarded by bands such as Christian Death’s Valor Kand era and Glenn Danzig’s Samhain project. Also of note were Celtic Frost’s releases, particularly Into The Pandemonium and Cold Lake, which blended black metal with a strange, romantic atmosphere as well as a make-up laden “glam” image that later became prominent in goth rock. These influences, combined with British doom bands such as Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride’s depressive and romantic lyrics resulted in the growth of a new scene, forwarded by bands such as Moonspell, Theatre Of Tragedy and The Gathering, one of the earliest bands to utilise a female lead singer, which has since become a common occurance in the genre.

Goth metal is sometimes considered a loose genre in the way it sounds because the genre is defined by its composition of the music and its aesthetics, leaving individual bands to provide their own interpretations. However, goth metal generally makes unique use of dual vocalists, classically trained female vocalists, keyboards and acoustic guitars, sometimes including a progressive edge to the music. The genre tends to take influence from the doom metal, black metal, and death metal subgenres for its composition, heavily synthesizing the styles of their melody and rhythm ideas in its guitar work. Synthesizers and keyboards often dominate, sometimes replacing the second guitarist in bands and taking on the role of either lead or rhythm. The keyboards are often used to imitate a variety of instruments, most often string and wind instruments and sometimes choral effects. As a result the guitar often put behind in the mix as a rhythmic tool

Lyrics are often similar to doom in their melancholy tone, the key difference being the style they are written in. Romance plays a major part in goth metal lyrics, drawing inspiration often from Edwardian or Victorian love stories, a theme which is sometimes reflected in band’s live attire, with female lead singers donning extravagant old fashioned dresses etc.

Good starting points

Albums

• Type 0 Negative – October Rust
• Cradle Of Filth – Midian
• Lacuna Coil – Comalies

Songs

• Theatre of Tragedy – Envision
• Lacuna Coil – Swamped
• Nightwish – The End Of All Hope

Essential albums
Theater of Tragedy – Velvet Darkness They Fear
Nightwish – Century Child
The Gathering – How To Measure a Planet
Moonspell – Wolfheart
Tiamat – The Astral Sleep

Progressive and Avante-Garde metal

Progressive metal (often shortened to prog, or prog metal when differentiating from progressive rock) is a genre of metal music which shares traits with progressive rock including use of complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing strongly influenced by 70’s progressive rock bands such as Yes, Genesis, and ELP. The high level of musical proficiency is often combined with a lyrical counterpart in the form of epic textual concepts, resulting in lengthy songs and concept albums.

Like folk metal, prog metal is very diverse, possibly the most diverse of the genres listed here. Prog elements are often simply incorporated into the base sound of the band, with Opeth being an example of progressive death metal, Dream Theater being an example of progressive power metal, and Arcturus being an example of progressive black metal etc. Some bands also blend many forms of metal (and non metal) together and simply “progress” between the styles during a typical song, sometimes for comedic effect (See Carnival In Coal)

Good starting points

Albums:

• Cynic- Focus
• Nevermore – Dead Heart in a Dead World
• Opeth – Blackwater Park
• Symphony X – The Dvine Wings of Tragedy ~ The Odyssey ~ Damnation Game
• Dream Theater – Train of Thought

Songs

• Cynic – Veil Of Maya
• Nevermore – The Psalm Of Lydia
• Nevermore – Sentient 6
• Opeth – The Moor
• Dream Theater – Glass Prison
• Dream Theater – Dance Of Eternity

Essential Albums

Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle, The Human Equation
Celtic Frost – Into The Pandemonium
Cynic – Focus
Dream Theater – Images & Words
Kong – Earmined
Opeth – My Arms Your Hearse
Spiral Architect – A Sceptic’s Universe

Dark Ambient

Though not actually a subgenre of metal, this type of music has been included here because of its close relationship with black metal, with many black metal artists incorporating black metal atmosphere into ambient side projects and vice versa. As a result, many albums listed here blur the boundary between black metal and ambient music and as such are listed under both sections in the thread.

Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. Dark ambient is a very diverse genre; it is often closely linked with industrial music, noise, gothic rock, and sometimes even black metal, yet can be free from any derivatives and connections to other genres or styles. The term is generally used as a catch-all for any form of ambient music that has dark, foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones.

While dark ambient is primarily a descendant of ambient music itself, it is closely related to industrial music. Dark ambient gets the name from the dark theme often portrayed in industrial. Feelings of an industrial nature are present. Old abandoned factories, primitive machines, and noise. The dark ‘non musical’ and realistic feel gives some dark ambient its feel of solitude and isolation.

While black metal and ambient are nothing alike (other than utilizing minimalism to different extents), a lot of metal bands, specifically black metal, have side-projects in which they produce dark ambient, noise, or other experimental types of music. Many bands mix ambient in their albums, creating something unique and original, similar to that of Ulver and other avant-garde metal acts. Some people have spawned a new subgenre, black ambient, in relation to black metal, as it is often related to the ideology in some black metal, as well as linked to various forms of satanism. Related to this style are artists such as: MZ. 412, Aghast, Karna, WHEN, Wongraven, Neptune Towers, later Burzum, later Beherit and Pazuzu.

Good starting points:

Albums

Burzum – Hliðskjálf
Beherit – Electric Doom Synthesis

Essential Albums

Lustmord – Heresy
Raison D’Etre – In Sadness, Silence and Solitude
Paysage D’Hiver – Die Festung
Moëvöt – Abgzvoryathre
Aäkon Këëtrëh – Dans La Forêt

Sludge/Stoner Metal

Stoner Metal, as well as its sister genre Stoner Rock, can trace its roots back to the early 90’s and the legendary Kyuss, who combined bludgeoning Sabbathian riffs, Melvins-esque groove, and of course the plant which inspired the genre’s name. Many bands on both sides of the Atlantic quickly took up the style in the couple of years surrounding Kyuss releasing Blues for the Red Sun and Kyuss/Welcome to Sky Valley, including Sleep, sHEAVY, and Orange Goblin. Another important band in the development of the genre was Cathedral, when took a dramatic left-turn from their Doom Metal roots with the relatively up-tempo Carnival Bizarre. Typically, Stoner Metal can vary between mid-tempo, such as Spirit Caravan, to having a more
noticeable doom influence, for example Sleep.

At the same time, a more extreme drug-addled genre was developing – Sludge. Early bands such as Grief and Eyehategod originally sounded much like beefed-up Crust Punk being played at a snails pace. Other bands Such as Crowbar and Down (Phil Anslemo’s then-side project) offered a slightly more up-tempo take.

Up until the mid-90’s, sludge had largely come from the states. In 1997, British band Electric Wizard released their second album, Come my Fanatics, and their classic 2000 album Dopethrone, which combined the Sludge template with bottom-end heavy Doom (their first album was pretty much just traditional doom metal), and would prove to be hugely influencial on bands from both genres for years to come.

There have been two interesting developments in sludge in the last 6 or 7 years. Firstly, a number of bands started combining Sludge with more up-tempo metal. These bands, examples being High on Fire (founded by ex-Sleep guitarist Matt Pike), Capricorns, and the ever popular Mastadon, have found their own niche within metal, and it is debatable as to whether they can even be called Sludge anymore.

The other interesting development is the conception of ‘Ambient’ sludge – bands such as Isis, Cult of Luna, Neurosis and Pelican combining elements of Sludge, Drone and Post-Rock. The genre is typically identified by rolling, oceanic riffs, hardcore-esque vocals and non-traditional, narrative song structures.

Good starting points

Albums

Cathedral – Carnival Bizarre
Electric Wizard – We Live
Orange Goblin – Thieving from the House of God
Sleep – Holy Mountain

Songs

Cathedral – Vampire Sun
Kyuss – Thumb
Sleep – Dragonaut
Down – Hail the Leaf

Essential albums

Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Eyehategod – Take as needed for Pain
Grief – Torso
Kyuss – Blues for the Red Sun
Isis – Oceanic
Melvins – Bullhead
Sleep – Dopesmoker
Pelican – The Fire in our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Red Sparowes – At the Soundless Dawn

Industrial Metal

Industrial Metal is by far one of the smallest and most miss understood genres in Metal, simply because different elements are being used by bands all over the spectrum of the metal world. It’s widely not understood exactly what “Industrial” implies thus a lot of bands are branded as being one or another type of Industrial.

Most people view Godflesh as the most widespread influence within this genre and as the originators of industrial. The band has been described as Grindcore mixed with Industrial Rock elements with its Breakbeat innovations within the first album (which lacked traditional bass), programing, rhythms and beats into their music. Other early inovators include; Pitchshifter used drum machines while blending a distinct kind of metal on their early albums. While Ministry added their own take on industrial with new-wave influences and keyboards/synthesizers being used in their music. Fear Factory are accredited with being the first metal band to use samples inside of their music (although this fact is open for debate), also Fear Factory are one of the first bands to let their songs be re-mixed by DJ’s.

In recent years the genre has become some sort of hybrid. Used by many metal artists from different spectra of genres who experiment with different electronic/industrial music. This has meant that Industrial is usually used as a form of experimentation or atmospheric elements within other genres. Recently all sorts of genre blending bands have been using different elements of Industrial to create an ambient type of sound or give more atmosphere to their music. From Industrial Black Metal to Dark/Electronic Metal/Noise sub-genres are popping up using Industrial Influence are diverse and widespread. Overall it’s hard to pinpoint bands that are simply Industrial in this day and age, and many of the bands listed are combinations of other metal genres and industrial elements, nowadays nu metal and industrial combos are perhaps more common i.e. Rammstein, Marilyn Manson etc. This is perhaps one of the most experiment friendly sub-genres of metal.

Good Starting points

Albums

• Strapping Youg Lad – City
• Fear Factory – Demanufacture
• Red Harvest – Sick Transit Gloria Mundi

Songs

• Fear Factory – Martyr
• The Berzerker – Forever
• Blut Aus Nord – Choir Of The Dead

Essential albums

Ministry – The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Godflesh – Streetcleaner
Pitchshifter – Industrial

Miscellanious metal

The following are not really genres of metal, but instead terms that are regularly used to describe certain sounds that are either too closely associated with only one or two bands to merit an entire new genre, or are colloqualisms used between metal fans to describe certain combinations of the genres listen above.

Blackened death

Common name given to bands who play a combination of black metal and death metal. The term is a loose one and does not really differentiate between death influenced black metal or black influenced death metal

Suggested albums:

Akercocke – Choronzon
Behemoth – Demigod

Post metal

Post metal is a loose term given to describe metal influenced by post rock. Bands given this tag more often than not fall under sludge/stoner scene, the avant-garde or progressive categories and sometimes doom.

Suggested albums:

Bones of Giants – Where Sky Meets Sea
Callisto – Noir ~ True Nature Unfolds

Crossover

Crossover is a term used to describe thrash metal bands who incorporate hardcore or punk influences in their music, this is usually in the form of more ringing power chords rather than thrash style palm muted chugs, and more emphasis on vocals.

Suggested albums:

DRI Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – The Dirty Rotten CD
Municipal Waste – Hazardous Mutation

Groove

A term that is generally used when refering to Pantera and Machine Head, who’s style of thrash metal blended speed with crunchy, downtuned and catchy riffs.

Suggested albums:

Machine Head – Through The Ashes Of Empires
Pantera – Vulgar Display Of Power

NWOBHM

A variety of traditional heavy metal played by British bands in the early 1980s. The common abbreviation being New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (not to be confused with the modern day New Wave Of American Heavy Metal, or metalcore movement)

Suggested albums:

Iron Maiden – Killers
Witchfynde – Give em Hell

War Metal

Aussie style war metal is a newly emerging term that is believed to be first coined by Destroyer 666. The sound is best described as a three way combination of black metal, thrash metal and death metal and almost always with lyrics relating to war and battle.

Suggested albums

Destroyer 666 – Phoenix Rising
Operation Winter Mist – Imperial Grand Strategy

Gore metal/Goregrind

Quite simply grindcore and death metal bands who’s lyrics contain gore or violence in the style of early Carcass. The term is related to the Exhumed album of the same name

Suggested albums

Exhumed – Gore Metal
Cannibal Corpse – Vile

Viking metal

Like gore metal, viking metal is a term used in association with any band with viking lyrics. However, unlike gore metal, this term can be related to any style of metal music, not just death metal or grindcore. Many Folk metal bands are often described as viking, aswell as melodic death band, Amon Amarth and black metal band Bathory.

Suggested albums

Bathory – Blood Fire Death
Amon Amarth – The Avenger

Bung Bratak 1st May 2009

Bung Bratak is the ancestral home of the bidayuhs of the Jagoi-Bratak and other Bidayuh groups in Bau, Kuching and Lundu Districts.

It is confirmed by historians and researchers that Bung Bratak was founded more than 750 years ago. Some believe that the Bung Bratak’s original settlers came from Sungkung, now a part of the Indonesian Province of West Kalimantan.

For hundred of years, the people of Bung Bratak lived peacefully, planting rice and other subsistence crops ata the foot-hills that surrounded the hilltop. The settlement was attacked and razed to the ground on 1st. May 1838 by raiders from the Skrang area. From then on, the people started to move out and started their own villages elsewhere. The last groups to move out were the people of Tembawang Sauh and Jugan who left in the early 1960s.

Bung Bratak was rebuilt by 1841 under the leadership of Panglima Kulow who sought the assistance of James Brooke, the First White Rajah of Sarawak.

Over thirty villages in Bau and Lundu Districts, one in Penrissen(Kuching District) and seven in the Seluas District of West Kalimantan, Indonesia originate from Bung Bratak. Many other villages in Bau (e.g,Kandis and Sungei Pinang) and Kuching (Bumbuk) alsi originated from Bung Bratak, they were established before the attack in 1838.

Because of its historical significance, Bidayuhs of the villages that claim their ancestry to Bung Bratak visit it on 1st May each year to commemorate its fall in 1838,and to remember their past and origin.

Bung Bratak Day was initiated and proclaimed by the Dayak Bidayuh National Association (DBNA) in 1988, then headed by Dato’ Peter Minos.

Source: Bidayuh.com

——————————————————————————————–Last Friday, 1st may 2009 me and my wife went to this historical bidayuh’s place called Bung Bratak. Bung means “top” and bratak means “fight/war/quearral’.it is known that this is the place where Biadayuhs form Bau/Lundu originated. we were driving from Kuching for about an hour before reaching the place. then we have to park far from the hill as there were limited parking space, but no worries, its safe. but then,you can also go by public transport.

If you go by public transport, just take the Sarawak Transport Company (STC) Bus No.2 and pay RM3 for the trip. The bus leaves every 40 minutes and takes around an hour to reach the settlement (first bus is at 6am, last bus is at 6pm); alternatively you can take a taxi to get to the area.

 

we started our journey about 9am from kuching and arrived there about 10am.after putting on our shoes,we started the journey.although its only a kilometres of hiking uphill, but because of the slippery and muddy tracks due to the raining previous night, it made the hiking more tiresome and fun (i guess).

to go uphill, there were staircases built by the villagers,but not all the way.the stairs are built using teak wood and even its is slippery as it was covered with mud and fungi..

after a long 1 hour hiking..we reached the top..yeah!!it was a feeling of satisfaction.with all the sweating, wet shirt and even pants, short of breath..it was a well worth journey to a historical place of your own heritage.it was a pleasure to finally step your foot on top of the hill.

on top Bung Bratak, you can see the “Baruk” and the “Balai” where activities such as Kumang Bidayuh (bidayuh maiden), bidayuh traditional dance, etc were held..

after spending almost 2 hours enjoying the views and taking pictures, we went down.the journey downhill is much more easier than going uphill with our happy faces and satisfaction.

here are some views and picies taken around Bung Bratak:

 

to be continue… 

 

Interview Qs: Common Ask Qs

Most interviewers ask questions in a planned sequence.  They usually ask questions that relate to your:

 

Education                                                                    Work Experience

Interpersonal skills                                                       Skills and Strengths

Ability to take initiative and solve problems                   Career goals

 

 

 

Personal Background

-           Tell us about yourself.

-           What would you say is your greatest strength / quality as an individual ?

-           What are your hobbies? What do you normally do to pass your time?

-           What about your greatest weakness?

-           What would you say is your greatest achievement?

-           According to your resume you were not very active in sports/co-curricular activities during your school and college days, why ? ( if you were really not active in sports )

-           According to your resume you were very active in sports/co-curricular

            activities during your school and college days, how did you manage your time between your studies and activities? Has being active in extra-curricular activities helped you in any way? ( if you were really active in sports )

-           Are you a team player?

 

            Qualifications

 

-           What did you enjoy most about being a student?

-           Tell us more about your final year project.

-           What were the most important things you learned while studying?

 

-           Your exam results are not very impressive, why do you think I should take a

            chance in hiring you?

 

            Work Experience

-           Have you worked before? / Do you have any work experience?

-           Did you work while waiting for your results ? If yes, tell me what you have learned from the job ? If no, why ?

-           What would you say were some of the most important things you have learnt

            during your practical training ?

-           You mention here in your resume that you have worked with company X.

            Could you tell us briefly what you did there?

-           Why did you leave your last job/the job at company X? 

-           You don’t have much work experience, why do you think I should take a chance in hiring you?

-           What do you think of doing overtime on a regular basis?

-           What about shift work?

-           Would you prefer working alone or with others?

-           Can you work under pressure? What makes you say that (if your answer is ‘yes’)?

-           In a supervisory role, how do you think you can motivate your staff?

-           How would you deal with a subordinate who takes sick leave frequently?

 

            The Company and the Job

-           What do you know about us ?

-           How did you manage to know so much about us ?

-           What do you know about the job ?

-           What qualities do you think a candidate should have in order to succeed in the

            job?

-           What is it about the company that appeals to you most ?

-           What is your career objective ? Where would you like to be, career wise, in

            5 years’ time ?

-           Some people have problems coping with work stress. What would you do if

            work became very stressful for you?

-           Is money, in this case salary, very important to you? What other things would

            you say are important to you?

-           Would you say you are prepared to have long-term commitment to the

            company?

 

            Others

-           Do you intend to further your studies ?

-           What do you think if we send you to one of our branches ?

            ( Assuming that you do not want to go there )

-           What is your expected salary ?

-           Would you like to ask us anything ?

 

 

ok..those are some possible interview questions that i have gather from some resources..hope it’ll help in the interview. But first of all,bear in mind that the most important things for any interview to succeed and will get you the job is actually “BE PREPARED!”never take it lightly..your future depends on it and your actions and responds will reflect you as a future employee of a company…so always be PREPARED!!!

 

\m/

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Hate Drunkers..

yesterday i had a phone call from my brother in law saying his brother is drunk. so as usual me and my wife went to the house. for my surprise, this was the worse ever drunk episode. the brothers are fighting,exchanging fist with the drunk brother standing and openiong his “drunken master kung fu”…he seems to be possesed..ow what the hell. so yerterday i jump onto him and pin him down with a “submission”. it felt like one of those UFC championship and i was winning…he really pissed me off..i had my fist ready in case he starts to act violently.while i pinned him down,i can hear his breath. it sounded like an angry gorilla in the midst..i hate drunkers..waste my time and waste his life…

Swine Flu 2009

On my way to work this morning, i heard the news on the radio. It was shocking, now there is a new epidemic outbreak in mexico n the US. They call it the swine flu or H1N1, and of course it comes from the swine. Here i took the info about this so call swine flu from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

“Swine Influenza and You”

“What is swine flu?
Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. Swine flu viruses have been reported to spread from person-to-person, but in the past, this transmission was limited and not sustained beyond three people.

Are there human infections with swine flu in the U.S.?
In late March and early April 2009, cases of human infection with swine influenza A (H1N1) viruses were first reported in Southern California and near San Antonio, Texas. Other U.S. states have reported cases of swine flu infection in humans and cases have been reported internationally as well. An updated case count of confirmed swine flu infections in the United States is kept at http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm CDC and local and state health agencies are working together to investigate this situation.

Is this swine flu virus contagious?
CDC has determined that this swine influenza A (H1N1) virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human. However, at this time, it not known how easily the virus spreads between people.

What are the signs and symptoms of swine flu in people?
The symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting associated with swine flu. In the past, severe illness (pneumonia and respiratory failure) and deaths have been reported with swine flu infection in people. Like seasonal flu, swine flu may cause a worsening of underlying chronic medical conditions.

How does swine flu spread?
Spread of this swine influenza A (H1N1) virus is thought to be happening in the same way that seasonal flu spreads. Flu viruses are spread mainly from person to person through coughing or sneezing of people with influenza. Sometimes people may become infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose.

How can someone with the flu infect someone else?
Infected people may be able to infect others beginning 1 day before symptoms develop and up to 7 or more days after becoming sick. That means that you may be able to pass on the flu to someone else before you know you are sick, as well as while you are sick.

What should I do to keep from getting the flu?
First and most important: wash your hands. Try to stay in good general health. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food. Try not touch surfaces that may be contaminated with the flu virus. Avoid close contact with people who are sick.

Are there medicines to treat swine flu?
Yes. CDC recommends the use of oseltamivir or zanamivir for the treatment and/or prevention of infection with these swine influenza viruses. Antiviral drugs are prescription medicines (pills, liquid or an inhaler) that fight against the flu by keeping flu viruses from reproducing in your body. If you get sick, antiviral drugs can make your illness milder and make you feel better faster. They may also prevent serious flu complications. For treatment, antiviral drugs work best if started soon after getting sick (within 2 days of symptoms).

How long can an infected person spread swine flu to others?
People with swine influenza virus infection should be considered potentially contagious as long as they are symptomatic and possible for up to 7 days following illness onset. Children, especially younger children, might potentially be contagious for longer periods.

What surfaces are most likely to be sources of contamination?
Germs can be spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth. Droplets from a cough or sneeze of an infected person move through the air. Germs can be spread when a person touches respiratory droplets from another person on a surface like a desk and then touches their own eyes, mouth or nose before washing their hands.

How long can viruses live outside the body?
We know that some viruses and bacteria can live 2 hours or longer on surfaces like cafeteria tables, doorknobs, and desks. Frequent handwashing will help you reduce the chance of getting contamination from these common surfaces.

What can I do to protect myself from getting sick?
There is no vaccine available right now to protect against swine flu. There are everyday actions that can help prevent the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses like influenza. Take these everyday steps to protect your health:

• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
• Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
• If you get sick with influenza, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them. What is the best way to keep from spreading the virus through coughing or sneezing?

If you are sick, limit your contact with other people as much as possible. Do not go to work or school if ill. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. Put your used tissue in the waste basket. Cover your cough or sneeze if you do not have a tissue. Then, clean your hands, and do so every time you cough or sneeze.

 

What is the best way to keep from spreading the virus through coughing or sneezing?
If you are sick, limit your contact with other people as much as possible. Do not go to work or school if ill. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. Put your used tissue in the waste basket. Cover your cough or sneeze if you do not have a tissue. Then, clean your hands, and do so every time you cough or sneeze.

What is the best technique for washing my hands to avoid getting the flu?
Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. Wash with soap and water. or clean with alcohol-based hand cleaner. we recommend that when you wash your hands — with soap and warm water — that you wash for 15 to 20 seconds. When soap and water are not available, alcohol-based disposable hand wipes or gel sanitizers may be used. You can find them in most supermarkets and drugstores. If using gel, rub your hands until the gel is dry. The gel doesn’t need water to work; the alcohol in it kills the germs on your hands.

What should I do if I get sick? If you live in areas where swine influenza cases have been identified and become ill with influenza-like symptoms, including fever, body aches, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, or vomiting or diarrhea, you may want to contact their health care provider, particularly if you are worried about your symptoms. Your health care provider will determine whether influenza testing or treatment is needed.

If you are sick, you should stay home and avoid contact with other people as much as possible to keep from spreading your illness to others.

If you become ill and experience any of the following warning signs, seek emergency medical care.

In children emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include:

• Fast breathing or trouble breathing
• Bluish skin color
• Not drinking enough fluids
• Not waking up or not interacting
• Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held
• Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
• Fever with a rash

In adults, emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include:

• Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
• Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
• Sudden dizziness
• Confusion
• Severe or persistent vomiting

 

How serious is swine flu infection?
Like seasonal flu, swine flu in humans can vary in severity from mild to severe. Between 2005 until January 2009, 12 human cases of swine flu were detected in the U.S. with no deaths occurring. However, swine flu infection can be serious. In September 1988, a previously healthy 32-year-old pregnant woman in Wisconsin was hospitalized for pneumonia after being infected with swine flu and died 8 days later. A swine flu outbreak in Fort Dix, New Jersey occurred in 1976 that caused more than 200 cases with serious illness in several people and one death.

Can I get swine influenza from eating or preparing pork?
No. Swine influenza viruses are not spread by food. You cannot get swine influenza from eating pork or pork products. Eating properly handled and cooked pork products is safe. “

 

 

body ache..

body ache..thats what im having for the whole week..after a game of “tarik tali” and volley ball, damn i really felt the ache all over my body..from my legs,backside,arm n neck…its been awhile since i become passive in sports..not long ago, i’m one of those who really enjoy sweating and breath taking outdoor life..but since i’m buzy with workloads..wah!!..i have turn into one of those computer geeks..my daily “sport” is typing,clicking and reading..not much of sweat dripping out..but not just having body ache..my quality time with my loved one also i sacrifice for the sake of being a good worker who obeys every orders from the “boss”…i must say, i have becoming “jack the dull”…

Job Interview Tips for Fresh Graduates

Introduction:

The main purpose of  a job interview is to exchange information.  The interviewer wants to find out if you fit the job and you want to find out if the job fits you.  You do this by answering and asking questions.  First, you must answer the interviewers questions well enough to impress the interviewers both professionally and personally so that you will be offered the job.  Second, you must ask questions to obtain sufficient information on whether or not you wish to join the organisation. 

 

Therefore, before you attend a job interview, it is very useful to sit down and reflect on yourself. 

 

WHO ARE YOU ACTUALLY..

 

only you know who you really are.

 

here are some tips i would like to share before and during interviews.

 

before the interview, you should always:

 

1. prepared all your important documents that you think will help you in your job quest.Note that only the relevant documents should be brought along and not those outdated info about you..

2. gather infos about the company. What is their core business, who are the clients, branches, etc. always look prepared and interested about working with the company,eventhough you are desperate for a job.

3. get ready your interview attire, if you dont have any,just borrow or buy a new one. a little investment will eventually help you in the future.

4. then, arrive early for the interview. never late or else it will shows that you are not good in your time management.

 

During the interview:

1. be cool and relax, try to answer the question correctly and if possible,avoid pausing too long.

2. do not chew chewing gums etc, its not polite.

3. avoid being too giddy or too too excited.

4. sit straight and do not “vibrate ” your legs.

5. maintain a proper eye contact especially when answering questions. DO NOT Stare at the panels as if you are ready to eat them.

 

Ending the Interview:

Here are some tips on how or what you should do when the session end:

1. Smile and say “THANK YOU”. This simple two letters word is the most decent and polit way of ending any conversation or meeting.Its shows that you appreciate the meeting/session and my mom always told me that ” whatever you do in your life, whoever you meet and whatever shit happen to you,you must always say “THANK YOU” . Its a BIG word and it may help you someday.”

2. Give a hand shake to the interviewer and SMILE.

3. leave the room politely and do not slam the door.