Preparing the Mangosteen Juice

Check this site for a video and some references on the benefit of mangosteen.  
http://livingbyheart.tripod.com/xresearch/id71.html  Though, this site sound like an advertisement for the commercial product, I do found a lot of scientific research papers about this fruit.  Just google "mangosteen diabetic" for example with Google Scholar, you get hundreds of resources. 
Below are the slide show of the pictures in the process of making the juice from the fruit skin or the pericarp by me.


I'm not a good narrator, so I hope the pictures will help. What I did was just boil the pericarp (after eating the white sweet & sour inside part of the fruit) for about 2 hours. And, you know, the seed taste good too. Very crunchy. I ate them all.
After boiling, I left it for the night for the suspended particles to settle down. The juice was sieved then transferred into a bottle (not in the photos). (TBC)

About mangosteen

Dear friends,
I would like to share with you what I know and doing with this great fruit.

From Wikipedia, "The Purple Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), colloquially known simply as "the mangosteen", is a tropical evergreen tree, believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia. The tree grows from 7 to 25 m (20–80 ft) tall. The rind (exocarp) of the edible fruit is deep reddish purple when ripe. Botanically an aril, the fragrant edible flesh can be described as sweet and tangy, citrusy with peach flavor and texture. "

I would add more information to this post in a few days. I'm taking this fruits for my diabetic alternative treatment. I'm a bad diabetic. I was introduce to this, by my uncle who was a fruit seller at Shah Alam. I'll share with you, how I make this fruit into my daily drinks. So, stay on.

First, this fruit is not cheap.  I just bought a kilo last nite for RM9.  I got hardly 12-15 small fruits for that.  If you really want to eat it and enjoy eating it, you need to find a tree.  There are many you can find in a malay kampong.  I use to climb this tree and eat the fruits right on the branches.  Really missed the time.  Last Saturday I bought 4 baby plants.  I'm planning to plant them somewhere, don't know where yet.

Reference from Wikipedia
1) Mangostin is a natural organic compound ...

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The meaning of LOVE to you

To love X (a person) is:
1) to care for X,
2) to protect X,
3) to do what is best for X (even if you have to leave X)
4) to remember X when X is away
5) to miss X when X is not around
6) hoping for the best for X (not you)
7) to make X happy even if it cost your happiness ('cause X happiness is your happiness even if your heart hurts very much)
8) .... (please add, dear friends)

As a muslim, loving any other muslim (male or female) is part of Islam. As they are your brothers & sisters in faith. Loving other human should be so too, as we are all children of the Prophet Adam & Great Mother Hawa. (TBC)

Almost 4 month, still adjusting

I have been hear at IAB for more than 3 month (almost 4). I feel that I'm well accepted at this "prestigious" place, where the future school leaders come for training, and the current school leaders come for their CPD. I do have some fairly important role I can play here, to improve the state of our public schools, through the school heads & principals. But I'm still exploring and sometime wondering if I'm in the right place (at the right time). This wasn't not my earlier plan I had for my career path. The traveling cost is also quite high (especially the toll). It is a totally new experience. I hope I can continue to grow and be wiser. I hope this place could satisfy my zeal for knowledge and action, with less politics.

Some of the sceneries we collected (Nov 2009)

In November 2009, we (my wife and I), spent the whole month in New Zealand. We manage to go to the South Island for 5 days. Here are some of the photos (scenery) that we captured. I created a blog for our trip.

My first class

This is my first class at IAB. I'm teaching than how to use Google Apps as collaborative technology for collaborative online editing. I'm team teaching in the Digital Editing in Case Study course.

March 3 & 4, 2010.

Check their work at http://sites.google.com/a/ilmu.iab.edu.my/digital-case-study/