Happy Halloween- Part 1

p/s:Happy Halloween everyone......Tricks or treats

I'm Back

Hye..everyone. I know I havent write any post for about a month.I'm so busy with work. Nothing much happen lately but yesterday I have an exam. This exam is for those who want to enter public services.I dont why I apply for it since I am now happy with job. Okay leave it on the side, I think I want to talk about the hazardous of smoking. I was a smoker but I quit smoking this year. It's bad for my health. I was born with a hole in my heart and smoking really make it worst.

Why is cigarette is bad for me?

Everyone knows that smoking can cause cancer when you get older, but did you know that it also has bad effects on your body right now? A cigarette contains about 4000 chemicals, many of which are poisonous. Some of the worst ones are:

Nicotine: a deadly poison
Arsenic: used in rat poison
Methane: a component of rocket fuel
Ammonia: found in floor cleaner
Cadmium: used in batteries
Carbon Monoxide: part of car exhaust
Formaldehyde: used to preserve body tissue
Butane: lighter fluid
Hydrogen Cyanide: the poison used in gas chambers

Every time you inhale smoke from a cigarette, small amounts of these chemicals get into your blood through your lungs. They travel to all the parts of your body and cause harm.

Once You Start, It's Hard to Stop

Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal.

People start smoking for a variety of different reasons. Some think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start before they're 18 years old. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never expected to become addicted. That's why people say it's just so much easier to not start smoking at all. There are no physical reasons to start smoking. The body doesn't need tobacco the way it needs food, water, sleep, and exercise. And many of the chemicals in cigarettes, like nicotine and cyanide, are actually poisons that can kill in high enough doses.
The body is smart. It goes on the defense when it's being poisoned. First-time smokers often feel the pain or burning in the throat and lungs, and some people feel sick or even throw up the first few times they try tobacco.

The consequences of this poisoning happen gradually. Over the long term, smoking leads people to develop health problems like heart disease, stroke, emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), and many types of cancer — including lung, throat, stomach, and bladder cancer. People who smoke also have an increased risk of infections like bronchitis and pneumonia.
These diseases limit a person's ability to be normally active, and they can be fatal. Each time someone lights up, that single cigarette takes about 5 to 20 minutes off the person's life.

Smokers not only develop wrinkles and yellow teeth, they also lose bone density, which increases their risk of osteoporosis (pronounced: ahs-tee-o-puh-row-sus), a condition that causes older people to become bent over and their bones to break more easily. Smokers also tend to be less active than nonsmokers because smoking affects lung power.
Smoking can also cause fertility problems and can impact sexual health in both men and women. Girls who are on the pill or other hormone-based methods of birth control (like the patch or the ring) increase their risk of serious health problems, such as heart attacks, if they smoke.
The consequences of smoking may seem very far off, but long-term health problems aren't the only hazard of smoking. Nicotine and the other toxins in cigarettes, cigars, and pipes can affect a person's body quickly, which means that teen smokers experience many of these problems:
Bad skin. Because smoking restricts blood vessels, it can prevent oxygen and nutrients from getting to the skin — which is why smokers often appear pale and unhealthy. Studies have also linked smoking to an increased risk of getting a type of skin rash called psoriasis.Bad breath. Cigarettes leave smokers with a condition called halitosis, or persistent bad breath.Bad-smelling clothes and hair. The smell of stale smoke tends to linger — not just on people's clothing, but on their hair, furniture, and cars. And it's often hard to get the smell of smoke out.Reduced athletic performance. People who smoke usually can't compete with nonsmoking peers because the physical effects of smoking (like rapid heartbeat, decreased circulation, and shortness of breath) impair sports performance.Greater risk of injury and slower healing time. Smoking affects the body's ability to produce collagen, so common sports injuries, such as damage to tendons and ligaments, will heal more slowly in smokers than nonsmokers.Increased risk of illness. Studies show that smokers get more colds, flu, bronchitis, and pneumonia than nonsmokers. And people with certain health conditions, like asthma, become more sick if they smoke (and often if they're just around people who smoke). Because teens who smoke as a way to manage weight often light up instead of eating, their bodies also lack the nutrients they need to grow, develop, and fight off illness properly.BackContinue
Kicking Butts and Staying Smoke FreeAll forms of tobacco — cigarettes, pipes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco — are hazardous. It doesn't help to substitute products that seem like they're better for you than regular cigarettes, such as filtered or low-tar cigarettes.
The only thing that really helps a person avoid the problems associated with smoking is staying smoke free. This isn't always easy, especially if everyone around you is smoking and offering you cigarettes. It may help to have your reasons for not smoking ready for times you may feel the pressure, such as "I just don't like it" or "I want to stay in shape for soccer" (or football, basketball, or other sport).
The good news for people who don't smoke or who want to quit is that studies show that the number of teens who smoke has dropped dramatically.

If you do smoke and want to quit, you have lots of information and support available. Different approaches to quitting work for different people. For some, quitting cold turkey is best. Others find that a slower approach is the way to go. Some people find that it helps to go to a support group especially for teens. These are sometimes sponsored by local hospitals or organizations like the American Cancer Society. The Internet offers a number of good resources to help people quit smoking.
When quitting, it can be helpful to realize that the first few days are the hardest. So don't give up. Some people find they have a few relapses before they manage to quit for good.

I'll quit smoking when I'm ready

A lot of people put off quitting smoking, thinking that they'll do it when the time is right. Only 5% of teens think they will still be smoking in 5 years. Actually, about 75% of them are still smoking more than five years later. If you smoke, it will never seem like the right time to quit and quitting will never be easy. The longer you smoke, the harder it will be to stop and the more damage you will do to your body. Here are some reasons to quit sooner rather than later:

You'll save money if you quit smoking. A pack of cigarettes costs about $5.00. Even if you only smoke a couple packs a week, you're spending about $40 per month and $480 per year on smoking. Think of all the other things you could use that money for.
You only have one pair of lungs. Any damage you do to them now will be with you for the rest of your life.
The longer you smoke, the better your chances are of dying from it. One out of 3 smokers die from smoking and many more become very sick. Think about your friends who smoke. 1/3 of them will die from smoking if none of you quit.

Staying smoke free will give you a whole lot more of everything — more energy, better performance, better looks, more money in your pocket, and, in the long run, more life to live!

Unsun- Biography

UnSun is a Polish female fronted metal band formed by guitarist Maurycy "Mauser" Stefanowicz of death metal band Vader. Their debut album, entitled The End of Life, was released on September 22, 2008 by Century Media Records.

UnSun was founded by Vader guitarist Mauser and lead vocalist Aya. Originally named Unseen, they later changed their name to UnSun to reflect their blending of death metal influences and melodic vocals. Mauser and Aya added additional musicians to complete the group. In 2007, the group was signed with Mystic Production.

In early 2008, Anna and Maurycy Stefanowicz began writing their first album, The End of Life, which was recorded at Studio-X in 2008, and was released worldwide through Century Media Records on 22 September 2008.

The bands record label, Mystic Production, announced in a press statement on 24 June 2010 that the band has begun recording its second album, which is scheduled for release in 2010.

Current Member:
Anna Stefanowicz
Maurycy Stefanowicz
Patryk Malinowski
Wawrzyniec Dramowicz

'Heaven' has different Signs---to me - Emily Dickinson Poem

"Heaven" has different Signs—to me—
Sometimes, I think that Noon
Is but a symbol of the Place—
And when again, at Dawn,

A mighty look runs round the World
And settles in the Hills—
An Awe if it should be like that
Upon the Ignorance steals—

The Orchard, when the Sun is on—
The Triumph of the Birds
When they together Victory make—
Some Carnivals of Clouds—

The Rapture of a finished Day—
Returning to the West—
All these—remind us of the place
That Men call "paradise"—

Itself be fairer—we suppose—
But how Ourself, shall be
Adorned, for a Superior Grace—
Not yet, our eyes can see—

Sylvia Plath Gothic

By studying Sylvia Plath poetry such like Nosferatu, Nightmare on Elm Street, its clear that this reminding us of monster of nightmares from medieval painting of torture and hell.Writing from the recesses of our dark imaginings, Plath brings us haunted,terrible figures of our shared fears.This is the stuff of horror, Gothic language and imagery. But, like all good Gothic horror writers – Poe, King, Stoker, Carter, Rice – Plath slices open,exposes, dramatizes those terrors in order to face them, refuse their power.

In the decades following her death, critics of Sylvia Plath’s poetry tended to read the life and the poetry backwards, as if death’s fixed point put everything into perspective,defining her as only a highly-talented, golden girl suicide, and limiting the wayswe read her work, as evidence of a trajectory leading inevitably to that death. Such psycho-biographical criticism emerged also in response to Letters Home (1975) andThe Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000). Erica Jong recognises the consciousness-raising:‘these were deeply felt perceptions of a consummate artist who had made a journeyinto her own personal hell and was bringing back the truth that only a voyager of genius into the nether regions of the communal unconscious can retrieve.

Writing through Death

Gothic horror allows writer and reader to write/read through and face up to both the worst and the most beautiful, desire and fear, disgust and beauty. Plath causesus all to be more aware of the possibilities and the threats of the human condition.Her Gothic horror is explicable in terms of that developed latterly by other womenwriters such as Anne Rice who comments on the imaginative, liberating potential of her favourite figure, the vampire:


the fantasy frame allows me to get to my reality.
I’m telling all I know about everybodyand everything in these books.
It’s an irony that as I step into this almost cartoon
world, I’m able to touch what I consider to be real.

Both are ‘dealing with death at a symbolic and metaphorical remove. Plath’s ghosts are not from hell. Her version of the afterlife has nothing to do with religion, as is obvious in a rare narrative poem, ‘Dialogue between Ghost and Priest’ . A very solid Father Shawn meets a ghost one evening in the rectory garden. Father Shawn uses Thomas Hardy’s tones, dated, formal, but the ghost refuses to allow him the comfort of believing he comes from the nether regions of hell. Instead the ghost is alongside us in the everyday: ‘Neither of these countries do I frequent / Earth is my haunt’. This is a ghost who has suffered from love which still ‘gnaw[s] my skin / To this white bone’. Shawn’s sense that the ghost should rest eternal is refused by this atheistic phantom, as ‘There sits no higher court / Than man’s red heart’. In ‘November Graveyard’ Plath denies resurrection: ‘when one stark skeleton / Bulks real, all saints’ tongues fall quiet: / Flies watch no resurrections in the sun’ .

Plath’s death-dealings enable us to position ourselves in the world of the everyday accompanying the imaginary, equally real, filled with desires and fears. Prosaic ghosts have little place here; Plath’s street and graveyard world has pavings, forgetme- nots and medieval decayed corpses. There is no God or salvation. She is dubious, but awaits the revelation of the occasionally miraculous in the everyday: ‘Miracles occur . . . The wait’s begun again, / The long wait for the angel, / For that rare, random descent’ (‘Black Rook in Rainy Weather’).

Meanwhile, the skull is revealed beneath the skin, in a way reminiscent of the hard-core gangster horrors of Tarantino or Coppola’s The Godfather, and the real life horrors of cannibalistic serial killer Ed Gein. In ‘Street Song’ people are no more than meat reduced, imagery familiar in the contemporary Psycho series and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre or The Silence of the Lambs. People are disposable meat – a view deriving from the disgust of existential perception of the viscosity of the human. Plath’s protagonist is alienated from body and the world, finding it all predatory. These are horror images. They are also the images of alienation.

In ‘Lady Lazarus’ Plath works through her (ultimately tragic) arguments about rising from death, renewing life. Like ‘Daddy’, this powerful poem has an insistent rhythm and rhyme, celebrating how the speaker seeks power to defy death and cast off oppressive relationships with men and life. The colloquial conversational voice is that of a performer showing off, relating to a rapt audience her greatest daring acts, the scars of her earlier suicide attempts.Use of the first person ‘I’ throughout, emphasises showmanship. The side-show calls us as spectators, the ‘peanutcrunching crowd’, to marvel, pushing in to see her unwrapped, released from a mummified state, restored to life, the worms picked off her. It is a miracle to dice with death and pull through every decade: ‘I am only thirty. / And like the cat I have nine times to die.’ (‘Lady Lazarus’ ). An artiste in death, she claims
Dying
is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I’ve a call. ‘Lady Lazarus’
Using the language of the huckster and performer, the narrator survives a deathdefying routine, luring us as voyeurs in her own life/death scenario. The charge we pay to see bits of her on show, a ghoulish celebration, is electric. She receives a bolt, revitalising her. Plath uses Nazi oppression imagery, addressing ‘Herr Doctor’ death, her enemy.

Horror and the Gothic enable Plath, and her readers, to explore, dramatise and confront personal and cultural contradictions, accepting nothing at face value. They act as a kind of safety valve. By means of embodying worst-case scenarios, labelling what lurks in the unconscious as fear, doubt or revelation, it is possible to face up to the worst, then to write it through, imaginatively overcome it and live on, aware, self-managed. In Plath’s work, the consistent need to imagine death is no disturbed prediction game. It is a genuine set of controlled, imaginative strategies, utilising the trajectory of a horror narrative. Perhaps as critics, Ted Hughes among them, have argued, Plath dangerously invested in these imaginative strategies too much, eliding life with art and ending one step too far, with a real suicide. This reading is consistent with Plath’s recurring death/horror then revival imagery, that of ‘Lady Lazarus’, of the phoenix renewing herself, celebratory in her own performativity, happy to play contradictory roles her own way, rising from the bed of ashes she has so carefully delineated, whose very domestic grate she has poked about in.

As a conclusion,Sylvia Plath is a consummate Gothic artist. She plays with gender roles, exposing and revelling in their contradictions, their performance. She spotlights the liminal, the boundaries, the animate/ inanimate, life and death held in balance. Facing up to the fearful attractiveness of death and its stasis, its artistic completion, provides the energy to rise anew (‘Death and Co.’, ‘Edge’, ‘Lady Lazarus’). Her early ‘Bluebeard’ rewrites the Gothic fairy tale of deadly domestic lies, and the protagonist’s rebellion, making statements about recognition, choices and empowerment. Perhaps she did not need the key to his study; certainly, she would not have needed it if she had felt comfortable in her own.

‘Lady Lazarus’ is Plath’s key Female Gothic poem. In it she dramatises women’s role as performativity, and successfully out performs. She also faces the otherness, the nightmare, death, head on, and revives, renewed. Gothic horror, carnival, saturnalia combine in its final challenge. From oppressive destruction, she insists on her own phoenix-like rising, a daring, harpy figure who challenges men and everything conformist and restricted.

The Superstitions of the Black Cats

As it passes in front of you, your mind instantly snaps out of its pre-occupation. You are suddenly aware of what has happened...

...a black cat has crossed your path!

Does a black cats really brings you a bad luck?

Whether you believe black cats to be good or bad luck could depend on where it is in the world that you live, and even within different countries, there exists differing beliefs, and superstitions concerning black felines.

In United States or most European countries, if a black cat passing in front of you will make you believe that no matter dismals things are now, things are going to get worse. If you live in United Kingdom or Japan, it will probably make you smile and think the good fortune is on its way. Live in Germany make you think that black cat passing in front of you is probably a bad omen. In China, there are those who believe that the black cats as a harbingers of famine and poverty.

In most parts of the world it is thought that a black cat walking towards you is a certainty of good luck coming your way. Should the cat stop and turn away, before it reaches you, then don't take any risks or place any bets, fair fortune is not to be yours.

Chasing black cats out of your house is a certain way to ensure that yours will not be a lucky house. Stroking the fur of black felines will bring you both health, and wealth. In some fishing communities, the fishermen's wives keep their cats indoors, believing that this will keep their men folk safe from peril whilst at sea.

Many people around the world believe that there is a single white hair to be found, on even the blackest of cats. Pull out that hair, without getting a scratch, and yours will be a long, happy and prosperous marriage.

Whatever the local superstitions about cats that are black, most owners of cats consider themselves lucky and blessed. And indeed it is a blessing to own a cat, black or not.

Black Cats and a Witch

Read tales, or myths, about witches, and those tales will almost always involve black kittens and cats.

How did the small, endearing, domestic cat become so associated with witchcraft and the evil arts?

In the 15th century witch hunts were taking place across Europe in an effort to stamp out pagan religions. Many held the belief that all witches kept familiars. These familiars were small creatures, frogs, birds, snakes and such, and very often cats. Folklore held that witches used the power of their familiars in casting evil spells.

Many elderly people led solitary, isolated lives, with only a pet cat for company. If that cat was black, a color associated with magic and mystery, was that not proof that the unfortunate victim, was a witch or warlock?

If some disaster befell a village, and an elderly woman lived nearby with her old dark cat, it was easy to denounce the poor wretch as a witch, and blame the disaster on her.

Ludicrously biased trials were held, and the accused was inevitably found guilty. Cruel executions were performed, such as burning at the stake of both the witches and their feline companions.

Many stories exist about people being identified as witches through wounds inflicted upon black cats.

A story from Scotland tells of a powerful landowner who found his supplies of wine to keep mysteriously disappearing. Determined to catch the thief, he hid himself in his wine cellar.

French medieval records tell of a woman accused of witchcraft who confessed, probably under torture, to rubbing herself with a foul ointment. This she claimed turned her into a black cat so she could move unseen at night and practice her evil art.

Germany has lots of legends of black coated cats and witches. While being sentenced to death, a German witch cackled at the judge, spat threats to the priest, and cursed her executioner. She was dragged from the court and tied to a stake for burning. As the flames rose around her she let forth a deafening cackle, there was a flash and a black cat leapt from the flames and escaped amongst the astonished crowd.

King Charles the first of England owned a black cat. He believed this cat to be lucky and was so afraid of losing it he had it guarded day and night. Coincidentally the cat died the very day before Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary troops came and arrested the king. Shortly after, King Charles was taken to the scaffold and beheaded.

Hopefully this page has been helpful in supplying information about the myths and superstitions surrounding Black Kittens and Cats. Remember that these dark felines are the same as any other cats - lovable, affectionate creatures, that if cared for, give years of companionship.

Planning the Perfect Wedding Day by Choosing the Right Dress

Planning a wedding for the bride is like Celebrities preparing for the Oscars. It's your turn to be the STAR. Every Cinderella Bride needs a fairy godmother bridal guide to weave her magic and ensure a perfect wedding day.

How to choose perfect wedding dress

This is a typical bride dress.For me, honestly I think that its too boring.

But for those Gothic out there who just have same thought like mine, I think you should try something different i.e choose a Gothic wedding dress. More brides are going over to the dark side lately, some even booking the 31st as their wedding day. If you're going Goth, you don't need me to tell you you're probably not going to find your gown in the typical bridal salon. That's right, if you dress Gothic in your day to day life why would you all of a sudden become Grace Kelly on your wedding day? The good news is, we live in a world where self-expression is finally respected; you're free to go as dark and diverse as you want ranging anywhere from Lolita to Steam Punk. Researching Gothic fashion sites, I found tons so narrowing down your shopping will mean finding what direction you want to go in the Goth world.

First off, for any of you unfamiliar, you might be asking, what is Goth exactly? Gothic is alternative and for the non-conformist. Styles of dress include punk, Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian, Lolita or combos of these styles with accents of black or white makeup and hair. The colors of traditional Goth are black, deep muted red and purple. Fabrics tend to be rich and heavy: velvet and satin brocades combined with black and dark laces and even leather. Corsetry is popular and unapologetic in Goth dressing, usually paired up with voluminous skirts with heavy understructure. And speaking of understructure,the silhouette will probably be the same as a traditional bride--big gown with tons of petticoats--but the message conveyed is something different all together

The pictures above give you some idea how the Gothic fashion can turn into something that unexpected such as Gothic wedding dress. We often familiar with Gothic dark fashion which is full of lace,lathers and fish net but when its come to wedding dress, it is something unique.

Above are two version of Goth Victorian.

Absolutely stunning design, it never dates. Multi tonal stunning taffeta & satin creates a wonderful effect on this dress with flower details and optional elasticated sleeves with white faux fur trim. Includes the underskirt for maximum effect.

Above is Goth Lolita wedding dress.The Gothic Lolita fashion movement originated in the Harajuku district in Japan and is growing in popularity in West.Gothic Lolita girls collect elaborate wardrobe of what looks like in 19th century inspired doll clothing.On top of that activities for serious Lolita followers might includes the romanticized ideas of yesteryear such a tea party and croquet matches.

This tips just a starting point for you to think about when you start to choose your right wedding dress. You have so much to do if you wish your dream wedding come true. The drama of Gothic bride will never end and you have just to figure out to start your own