Baby, you make my "love molecule" soar!
Thu Dec 1, 2005 9:47 AM ET
ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.
The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers.
The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships.
But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same level as that of the other groups.
The Italian researchers, publishing their study in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, said it was not clear how falling in love triggers higher levels of NGF, but the molecule clearly has an important role in the "social chemistry" between people at the start of a relationship. (ends Reuters story)
DESIDERATA:
The above report gives you an inking about this thingy so hard to pin down called LOVE. So relevant on a good Friday,(butt not TGIF for Desi, he has a daeth-defying DEADLINE to meet by 2pm today! and he's still blogging!)-- when a Friday's Child always wins at love...
So mGf, what is Love after all?
Remember, there is no Love without Life.
So ideally, strive to L'VE!
I recently have been absorbed with recounting tales of woes -- WedNURSEday's Child? -- Our Country's, enighbours Singapore-cum-Austraia involved in a spat over an impending death enalty being caried out in Sin-Land on an Oz "drug-traficker"; then in passing, I said Korea too.
So a belated recall of a TRAGEDY whose truth may not be fully revealed -- some fragments are definitely lying somewhere out there, or down there. But to the victime herself, it's of no more importance or consequence.
There is no more L'VE after the coffin is lowered.Or is there?
I wonder, I wandereth into the indscapes of people; they truly confound. They mystify. I should have taken up psychology studies rather than "wasting" inane years writing about third party-accounts, butt...someone must l've to tell the stories, rite?
Following is a story that demonstartes the supreme irony of life -- a young woman with all the riches of the material material spun into a corner to resort to taking her own life. If onlt she had a true friend -- amaybe even a counseller from THE BEFRIENDERS -- by her side, a life could have been saved.
At the end of the day, it underscores the point that Life is Not all about Money, Money, Money...
Remember to reach out -- You've Got a Friend.
On the other hand, several countries exchanged hard and harsh words for weeks calling for "clemency" for Nguyen Tuong Van, 25, convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore. Past and present prime minsiters had put forth their case for a reprieve, countered by the law enforcement heads saying the law is the law -- DADAH IS DEATH!
Samsung reveals truth of heiress's suicide
November 29, 2005
From The Guardian
At first glance she seemed to have everything. An heir to the Samsung Electronics conglomerate, Lee Yoon-hyung seemed happy and outgoing. But this month the 26-year-old was found hanging in her Manhattan apartment, and now questions are being asked about why Samsung initially claimed she had died in a car crash.
Ms Lee was the youngest daughter of Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, and a graduate student of art at New York University. Most of the Lees have a reputation for secrecy but Ms Lee, a big shareholder in the company, set up an extremely popular web blog - Pretty Yoon-hyung - in 2003 to describe her life. As she shared her father's interest in racing cars, it was not beyond the bounds of possibility when Agence France Presse last Tuesday quoted a Samsung spokesman saying she had died after a motor accident.
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But the New York police had no record of the crash. According to the New York Times, the city's medical examiner's office and police accounts revealed that her boyfriend, Soobin Shin, and a friend found her hanging at about 3am last Saturday. It is unclear if she left a note, but Ms Lee was reportedly suffering from depression and was lonely living in America. According to the Korean media, she had recently split up with her boyfriend after her family opposed their marriage plans.
Korean media reported the "accident" but yesterday Samsung spokesman Yim Jun-seok confirmed US reports of suicide. "At the time the story initially broke, we had an insufficient amount of information," he told Reuters. Even after the company knew the truth, he said it kept it secret out of respect for the bereaved.
Her death is the latest blow to the Samsung empire. Last month, two company executives were given suspended jail terms for helping the chairman's children to buy a majority stake in an affiliate at unfairly low prices. In the US, the company was fined $300million for conspiring to fix global prices of memory chips.
According to media reports, Ms Lee's father left a Houston cancer centre, where he had been having treatment, in September. His whereabouts is unknown. His departure from Korea coincided with a request from a parliamentary committee for him to testify over alleged irregularities at a former automobile unit. He is not thought to have attended his daughter's funeral in New York.
From my sifu max EHRMANN's DESIDERATA, these are some sobering thoughts I've extracted to share, Beyond Love:
"GO placidly amid the noise and the haste, and
remember what peace there may be in silence. *
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good
terms with all persons.
"Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the
world is full of trikcery. But let tis not blind you to
what virtue there is; many persons strive for high
ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
* Be
yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither
be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity
and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the
grass.
"Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with
yourself. * You are a child of the universe no less
than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be
here. *
"And whether or not it is clear to you, no
doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you
you conceive Him to be. * And whatever your labours
and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep
peace in your soul. * With all its sham, drudgery
and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be
cheerful. Strive to be happy." *****
Before I end, I also place on record a certain disquiet on Blogosphere -- a Sarawak-based blogger had to "remove" his some 50 drugs posts on police instruction following an expose by Harian Metro two Sundays back. I read many of his "fans" posting inane and juvenile expressions of "support" in drug experimentation, vowing it's just alright to be educated and not fall into drug addiction.
Just like the deputy minister caught putting his hand into the cookie jar, the YoungOne also was caught with his pants down, yet like the deputy minister, postured a bold front. A former Aussie PM used a word on our former PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad "RecalcitranT" which I find most apt for such cases. (Hey, my memory fails sometimes -- was it the other way round?)
Hey, to this particular blogger who won his 15 minutes of media fame, may I say: this is not a kindergarten playground you are dealing with.
You want to play with fire? Be Prepared, like a boy scout, to douse the fire, or be prepared to be burnt.
Don't join the chorus of empty choir members when someone is led to the gallows to face the capital punishment for dadah trafficking. Yes, the people will sympathise with thee if you cry out loud: I did it to save my boy/girl friend from millions of debt to the Ah Long on pain of death to mg girl/boy friend.Hey YoungOnes, go get a l'fe!
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