Survival Skills

Have you ever had locking yourself out of your apartment, losing your car in the Mid Valley lot, standing lost on a city street corner of Pasar Seni? Well, we are not Harry Potter, we cannot cast a pragmatic magic to make our life easier. We are not Tony Stark, we are incapable neither to build a high-tech devices nor hired a pretty 24 hour-standby executive secretary to assists us.
However, you can overcome almost any day-to-day disaster with some clever thinking and a bit of knowledge.

2008 is going to reach its end, well, its time to do something that beneficial to community. In this case, below are few pragmatic survival skills that i learned in 2008, an unrestrained year.

• Tell the time without a watch (Still stuying)

There are some moments in life when neither a watch nor a cell phone, nor even a bank with a big digital street clock. The two main methods involve dividing the sky into fractions or using your fist size to measure the horizon, and, like using the sun as a compass, both require thinking a bit about Daylight Saving Time and your general location in the world. It's sounds hard, in fact, it was. Basic geography knowledge is required.

• Wisely uses of car alarm

Get lost in stuffed parking lot? Forgot the colour of your car? Have no idea between Kancil and Myvi? Same model, colour, number plate of car parking beside yours? Well, that's not a big deal, provided you still holding the car remote. Press the alarm (or beep-beep locking button ) and you'll locate your vehicle from farther away. Saw a suspicious strangers that looks like Jim Carrey hanging around the car? Don't shout, don't ask why, don't ask what happen, don't get approach. Stay cool, hit the alarm button and run. You are advisable to follow the plan A, even he looks like Keanu Reeves.

• Know your direction without a compass

Who cares the direction? But it is a different story if you are freaker of jungle trekking. When navigating unfamiliar jungle, directions like "Head South to XXX" aren't terribly helpful.

Hold an non digital wristwatch with 12 o'clock at left. Move your arm so that the hour hand points the sun. The spot halfway between the hour hand and the 12 is south.

• Pick lock (Still a newbie)

Lock picking is no longer a fraud scene in 007 movie or Hitman game series. In fact ,it is one of those rare skills that give you serious cool cred and come in really, really useful at the right moments. With a little study, you can grab a piece of iron needle and come to the rescue of friends, neighbors, and your own forgetful self. Buy a simple lock and borrow a needle from your mom, start study yourself.

• Predict the weather yourself (I can predict the raining day)

The official forecasts and weather reports you can get on TV news or laptop are no longer perfect, and you don't need a meteorology degree to beat them. Take a look at the clouds, while also keeping your nose open for telltale smells. You can also watch animal behavior and follow other signs. More lucky, you can predict the earthquake, tsunami, flood and save your life.

• Recover from a late night

Clubbing, spending whole night on gaming and watching japanese movie are seriously damage to you, especially in terms of external appearance, regardless of internal healthy issues. In this situation, always prepare yourself with a cool sunglasses ( cover your puffy, dark under-eyes ), panadol ( effective cure to head pain ), Ali-Tongkat ( help to get back your focus and enable you to drive ).

• Improve your night vision

Finding one's way through the dark has been a true survival skill for ninjas, stealthy travelers, soldiers, and many other adventurers. In modern life, this skill is specially subject to night-ers. These included covering one eye to retain light sensitivity, using your cell phone's camera instead of your eyes, consume fish at least once a day and using red light electric torch instead of others colour.

• Become an lier detector

Doubting your boyfriend and husband naughty at outside? Wondering your best friend vendetta and stabbed behind you? Basically, everyone can become a detective, at least an lier detector. Please refers to http://www.ehow.com/how_2001040_become-human-lie-detector.html

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Take it seriously, as i am extreamly serious.