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Men who use mobile phones could be risking their fertility, warn researchers.

A new study shows a worrying link between poor sperm and the number of hours a day that a man uses his mobile phone.

Those who made calls on a mobile phone for more than four hours a day had the worst sperm counts and the poorest quality sperm, according to results released yest at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine annual meeting in New Orleans.

Doctors believe the damage could be caused by the electromagnetic radiation emitted by handsets or the heat they generate.

The findings suggest millions of men may encounter difficulties in fathering a child due to the widespread use of mobile phones and offers another possible explanation for plummeting fertility levels among British males.

Sperm counts among British men have fallen by 29 per cent over the past decade, a drop which has also been blamed on increasing obesity, smoking, stress, pollution and ‘gender-bending’ chemicals which disrupt the hormone system.

The latest study backs up previous research which indicated a link between mobile phone use and sperm quality, but it is the biggest and best designed to date.

US researchers in Cleveland and New Orleans, and doctors in Mumbai, India, looked at more than 360 men undergoing checks at a fertility clinic who were classified into three groups according to their sperm count.

Men who used a mobile for more than four hours a day had a 25 per cent lower sperm count than men who never used a mobile.

The men with highest usage also had greater problems with sperm quality, with the swimming ability of sperm - a crucial factor in conception - down by a third.

They had a 50 per cent drop in the number of properly formed sperm, with just one-fifth looking normal under a microscope.

Professor Ashok Agarwal, director of the Reproductive Research Centre at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, who led the study, said “Almost a billion people are using cell phones around the world and the number is growing in many countries at 20 to 30 per cent a year.

“In another five years the number is going to double. People use mobile phones without thinking twice what the consequences may be.

“It is just like using a toothbrush but mobiles could be having a devastating effect on fertility. It still has to be proved but it could have a huge impact because mobiles are so much part of our lives.”

Altogether 361 men in the study were divided into four groups, with 40 never using a mobile, 107 men using them for less than two hours a day, 100 men using them for two-four hours daily and 114 making calls for four or more hours a day.

The main finding was that on four measures of sperm potency - count, motility, viability and morphology, or appearance - there were significant differences between the groups.

The greater the use of mobile phones, the greater the reduction in each measure. Prof Agarwal said “This was very clear and very significant. Many in the lowest group for sperm count would be below normal as defined by the World Health Organisation.”

The WHO says a normal sperm count is above 20 million per millilitre of seminal fluid. “There was a significant decrease in the most important measures of sperm health with cell phone use and that should definitely be reflected in a decrease in fertility” he said.

Motility measures the swimming ability of sperm, viability measures whether non-swimming sperm are still alive while morphology is the appearance compared to the norm.

Although the men were seeking fertility treatment at a clinic in Mumbai, not all would have had a problem - it could be their partners, he added.

Prof Agarwal said the most likely mechanism was damage to sperm-making cells in the testes caused by electromagnetic radiation or heat, although a fall in hormone production could also affect sperm motility and sperm DNA.

He said: “These cells in the testes have been shown to be susceptible to electromagnetic waves in previous research in animals.

“Somehow electromagnetic waves may be causing direct damage to these cells and that perhaps causes a decrease in sperm production.”

Mobiles may also increase temperature in the groin, if a man was wearing it on a belt or carrying it around in a pocket.

Prof Agarwal said it was too early to advise men trying to start a family about whether they should limit their mobile phone use. He said “We still have a long way to go to prove this but we have just had another study approved.”

More than 40 million people in Britain are thought to use mobile phones. Alasdair Philips, director of the consumer pressure group Powerwatch said “It’s a plausible link between the amount of time spent using a mobile phone and a possible effect on male fertility.

“The eyes, breasts and testicles are the areas of the body most likely to absorb the energy and many men carry their mobiles attached to their belt.”

Sending text messages uses less power than talking but it can be a more intense emission of radiation, especially on trains, he said.

“I’ve seen men on trains spending two or three hours continually texting with their mobile phones held in their laps, and they press Send in the same position when it starts to seek a signal.

“This needs a considerable amount of power within what is effectively a metal box. We advise people to send a text with their arm outstretched next to the window when travelling on a train” he added.

He said local heating of the groin triggered by a mobile phone might also be involved in affecting sperm quality.

“Sperm is very temperature sensitive as shown by many studies, and a short-term rise in temperature could be responsible” he added.

However, Dr Allan Pacey, senior lecturer in andrology at the University of Sheffield, said “This is a good quality study but I don’t think it tackles the issue.

“If you’re using your phone for four hours a day, presumably it is out of your pocket for longer. That raises a big question: how is it that testicular damage is supposed to occur?”

He said mobile phone use may be a marker for other lifestyle factors known to affect sperm quality.

“Maybe people who use a phone for four hours a day spend more time sitting in cars, which could mean there’s a heat issue. It could be they are more stressed, or more sedentary and sit about eating junk food getting fat. Those seem to be better explanations than a phone causing the damage at such a great distance” he added.

So, where should we keep our mobile phone?

After my return from Kota Tinggi last week, I had a conversation with a couple of friends. Basically this conversation kind of enlightened me in the sense there are certain people are plain critics.

He keep saying that there are people who never change. Remains the same despite of these few years. I feel offended by his cynical statement and especially when he think he changed the most. Oh hell ya, changed to be better or worse? If they going to change to be the worse, I rather they stay the same. Unless they are changing for the better. Nonetheless, why keep talking about people in such a way when you never try to help them anyway. Why can’t we just walk the talk we talk about? It’s easy when we just talk. How about doing it? Paying such lip service.

Definitely, the boost of ego in a person. What if being a lawyer, architect or pilot to you? Are you living in humility? One thing that I couldn’t get off my chest is that when he promised me that he will be there at 8.30pm, then do your best to be there. A lot of calls ensued but you ain’t picking up and claims the fault of the telco?

Furthermore, he is just a 6 houses away. Can’t you drag yourself to there just to inform that you’ll be late? You can be whatever kind of profession you want and in the end, it doesn’t even matter. Making 5 figure or 6 figure income doesn’t mean you accumulate the required wealth. Wealth can be in many forms. So, it’s up to your decision.

There’s sayings say that friend should bear his infirmities. I get him and just felt like ranting, that’s all.

I always wanted to post about my wedding but bleargh, I’m still single and not yet married. So there’s no point also to write about it. Unless I am trying to satisfy my ego.

Further to my previous post, I had been thinking about my wedding. I mean if I am going to host a wedding dinner, there’ll be huge list of attendees or people to invite. Starts from my father side of the family, my mother side times 2, my primary schoolmates, secondary schoolmates, collegemates, coursemates, colleagues from company 1, colleagues from company 2 and colleagues from company 3. However, if I narrow down to prioritize the list, it’s not that much after all.

Actually, what makes it so important to have a grand wedding dinner with a lots of people. It’s all about ego. This is what happened to my nephew wedding. A typical chinese wedding dinner. Since my nephew is the eldest grandson in the family, my eldest sister-in-law invites quite a number of relatives from my father side. However, the turn up was pretty disappointing since she invite them via phone calls. A short discussion with the elders say that it’s not

Argh. I can’t focus these days… Give me some time. Lost my mood adi.

Few weeks ago, I took annual leave to attend my nephew wedding up north. Prior to the wedding, there were plenty of issue arise. The conflict and arguement between relatives. Likewise, when there is human, then there surely will have some conflict or disagreement. It’s just how we are going to minimize and handle such matter.

To cut things short, I know that if it comes to my wedding, I have to personally invite the seniors, elders and all my relatives either from my mother side as well as my father side. Having to physically go there, drop the wedding card and seek their confirmation to attend the wedding dinner. As the Chinese customs to have a lot of relatives and friends to the wedding dinner. The more the merrier. Else, it shows that this person or even the family lack of respect from many. The ideal condition is to have the entire venue filled up. Packed. Full of cheers and laughter. The noise and the chaotic atmosphere.

Ehm… maybe do an underground wedding is good enough. No need to do grand one hor. What do you think?

Back from Kota Tinggi few days ago. Plenty of stuff haven’t update yet. Argh. Be Right Back.

Er, since I haven’t completed with my post on the wedding stuff, I’ll fill you guys with the Copy N Paste of the day.

The greater your weight, the lower your IQ. Says Scientist

But Ann Widdecombe, the former Tory minister, said that the research seemed unsustainable. “You just need to look around the world and you will see hundreds of thin nitwits and clever fat people,” said Ms Widdecombe, who lost two stone when taking part in the television show Celebrity Fit Club.

“When I lost weight it was my waistline that improved, not my cerebellum.”

Ehm,

Last week I took a straight 3 days off work. Theorically la of course. This is because I need to attend my nephew wedding up north with my mom.

Due to the work commitment, I have arranged a meeting with my customer on Wednesday in Ipoh. Therefore, despite my annual leave I met up with my customer to discuss on the solution for them. Some would say that I am such a “sohai” that even I am on leave, I still be working and meeting up with customer. Can I say I am hungry? My mom was with me for the outstation trip and I dropped her off at my aunt place before I meet up with the customer. My colleague and I went to Onn Kei for famous “Ipoh Taugeh Chicken” or “beansprouts chicken” but to our dismay, they didn’t open that day. Talk about bad timing. Furthermore, Lou Wong also open their shop late in the evening. Since I will be staying overnight in Ipoh, my colleague Alex went to buy Ipoh Salted Chicken and some biscuits back to KL.

My mom and I sleepover at my aunt place for a night before heading to Jawi. The next morning before we embark on the journey, we went to the famous dim sum in Ipoh called Foh San restaurant. They only sell dim sum in the morning until afternoon. My uncle was old time there since he been driving taxi in Ipoh for years. Practically more than 40 years. So, he knew quite a lot of people in that area. So, we had a good seating for the dim sum. Their famous dish is the fish ball. Fresh and made daily.

We reached Jawi in the afternoon and after I drop my mom at my brother house, I took a nap until 3pm before heading to Penang island. I told EY (reallybites) that I wanted to go for Penang Laksa and she was kind enough to spare time to bring me out to new lane for food. Unlike someone who told me that he had presentation the next day and then in the afternoon that day, he went out “kai-kai”. Anyway, we have Penang Laksa, Penang Chee Cheong Fun, Penang Or Jeng (Fried Oyster) and Penang Char Kueh Tiauw. I would say the food is great since I have a good companion for the food. (She is a food lover) and she can be a good tour guide. :p

She picked me up at Tesco since that’s the only place I am familar with plus free parking space. Hehe… and after dinner with EY, I returned to the mainland. I met up with my ex-coursemate in Butterworth. He was working as petrol attendant there and we went for a drink until 11pm before I headed back to Jawi. It been quite some time since I met him and was talking about lots of stuff. From his relationship to work and from work to rubbish. Men.

The next day, I checked my emails and one of my dearly customer in Penang requested me to come into his office. He wanted me to rebind the documents since I courier him the admended pages only. So, want or don’t want I also have to go to Penang island again. I had a lunch with them at Crystal Point’s Moi Yuan and the food is not bad. Initally we wanted to go to Chef & Brew but the place is damn freaking crowded. It’s like free food there. Due to the time constraint, we ended up with Moi Yuan. Feeling full, I travelled around the island to find the famous Ghee Hiang’s Tau Sar Pheah. Thus I acted smart and drive blindly around the island without knowing the way to the place. Ended I making plenty of calls back to Alex since he is a Penangites. With his guidance here and there, I manage to locate the Ghee Hiang.

That night, I went into my dad’s birthplace which is Tanjung Piandang (12 km from Parit Buntar). It is a fishery village and my siblings are staying there. I decided to pay them a visit and it was sweet to see my nephews. They went for the Lantern Festival in their school, Nam Hua Primary. Unlike cities and towns, the atmosphere here was different. All the kids are enjoying the traditional mid autumn festival. The road was blocked to allow kids to walk around with their lanterns. Kinda big event there.

The next day was my nephew wedding and after the wedding dinner, my mom and I travelled back to KL. However, the wedding stuff and things happened during the wedding I will write about it in my next post.

The food I had with EY is after the jump

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Knowing that I will be on leave for a couple of days and without any entertainment, I seek for a match of dota last nite. And indeed it was a good game after all, with a duration of 2 hours plus.

It was a 5 on 5 match with me being the sentinel team. AP (All Pick) with me using Balanar (NightStalker), Zeus, Sniper, Sven and Gondar going against Kelvin who is using Drow Ranger with Lion, Lina, Enchantress and Razor as the scrouge team. In the early game, I got pawned real hard by Drow as well as the nuker (Lion and Lina). In the midst of the game, the Scrouge manage to push the first and second tower of the middle lane. It was there and then when they were pushing the first two towers, I was on my way at the right lane pushing. With S&Y (Sange and Yasha), I manage to break their two barracks at the right lane. My teammates manage to pull off the wave from the Scrouge.

However, as time goes by Drow manage to get a Radiance after I getting it. However, the radiance doesn’t really helped him much since he is a range hero. Moreover, he had the Aegis at the very late game. Zeus left the game early since he felt bored and I was trying to control two units at the same time. In the end, the scrouge manage to pull off to push the middle last tower and eventually break the two barracks.

Now with 2 barracks was down in the middle lane, they decided to push the left lane. Somehow, we got screwed hard and losing another 2 more barracks in the left side of the map. As time goes by, me (armed with radiance) decided to push the left lane with Sven while the rest are pushing the middle lane. This leave the right lane to the creep to work they way through.

As the scrouge are being preoccupied with the waves of attack from both left and middle lane, we manage to pull off the strategy and eventually win the match. It is indeed a pretty good game.

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On the other hand, I was being quite busy with my schedule and things started to make its way to my calendar. Even when I am on leave also I am eventually working and meeting customers. *Bangga* What can I do when I am in the sales line. Bleargh.

I was talking with a net fren. Let’s call her PY. She was asking me how am i when she saw me logging into the MSN. Below is the remake of the conversation as I recalled.

PY : Hi. How are u?
Me : Bz. Sort of good and bad. u?
PY : much of less the same. why u say bad?
Me : Lack of booze punya pasal.
PY : Me too but gotta get less booze.
Me : Why?
PY : booze get me tummy.
Me : Then u should share the booze so u won’t be taking so much of the tummy urself.
PY : Can.
Me : Or if u dun want to have tummy, u give it all to me.
PY : But if i dont drink, how to dance?
Me : Only noob like u need booze to dance when going clubbing
PY : You…aiya. ppl get a bit high then can dance ma. Eh I can dance you know. I can even do dirty dancing.
Me : *Roll Eyes*

I think Fireangel can do it better, but she keep camwhore herself onli. Don’t know when she want to camwhore herself doing dirty dancing as well. Perhaps we could start a petition for all her fan so she can post a video clip with her dancing or better, dirty dancing.

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Saturday, the guy have plan. Teluk Gong dinner and then movie, Rob-B-Hood. Wow, it’s been quite some time since the last outing with them. So, we headed to the destination, Teluk Gong for a hefty meal that cost RM4++ with 15 pax ended up all hungry. There was fried rice noodles, scallops, fish (partial -tail only), crabs, pissing prawns, prawns, and a vegetable as well as a plate of chicken. The feast begins on 7pm and then we are rushing to the movie which starts at 8.10pm. Imagine travelling from Telok Gong to Bukit Raja in the shortest period possible. With 4 cars trying to tail a MyVi which sped all the way, we lost them and have to find our way there. In the end, we miss about 10 minutes or more of the movie. Luckily that the laughters were able to make it back to us.

Personally I think the organizer doesn’t do well in coordinating the outing but I’m quite sure he will do even better next time.

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When things started to get the worse out of you, it still never that bad yet. In fact on Monday when I was about to go to work, I accidentally caused my glasses to crack into pieces. There and then I knew that it going to cost me a couple of bucks. Then, I went to Sg Wang to get myself a new pair of glasses. With the blessing from god, I got myself a new glasses at a reasonable price of RM500 the next day. Talk about efficiency. Guess when it comes to business, it always best to leave it to those who are more hungry.

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Mid Autumn Festival is around the corner. Not sure by the time my posting up, the festival has already ended but would really like to take this opportunity to wish you guys up here a very tremendous sweet Mid Autumn festival.

Eat more mooncake, just eat first die later. Of course, you are dying after eating a whole lot of mooncake.

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be right back. plenty to talk about. enjoy ur weekend

I went to gather some information on my customer this morning. Unable to locate the comany, I saw an old man in his 50s was opening his premise for business. Since I couldn’t find the company, I asked him for direction.

Me : Bang, tumpang tanya, Lrg ***** kat mana?

Old Man : Ooh. Lrg ***** dekat je, kat belakang ini.

Me : Dari hujung sini sampai sana? atau hujung lagi.

Old Man : Ya la. Kat belakang je.

Me : Kalau nak tampal kasut ni, macam mano?

Old Man : Mula-mula, ratakan dulu kemudian tampal.

Me : Berapa kalau nak buat?

Old Man : Lima Belas (RM15)

Me : Bang, boleh tolong buatkan?

Old Man : Boleh.

Me : Terima Kasih.

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After a while

Old Man : Gah, terkena jari

Me : Ish, mana? Oh. Biasa kena?

Old Man : Biasa la. Kerja ada risiko. Kalau main pisau, kena potong. Kalau main air, mesti kena basah. Kalau main api?

Me : Dek kena bakar…

Old Man : Haha… setiap benda mesti ada risikonya. Kena hati-hati sikit.

Me : *pondering* mind flying

Old Man : Hari ini terkena sebab ngantuk

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Me : Bang, selalu buka ke?

Old Man : Selalu ada, sebab duduk rumah takde benda buat. Kalau ada meeting ke, jkk ke baru tak buka. Kalau dek duduk sini, ada jugak sikit rezeki.

Me : *ponder*

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Old Man : Dah siap, cuba tengok?

Me : Bagus. Baik. Terima Kasih, Encik.

Old Man : Sama.