And today, I suddenly realized that my boundaries have been broken!

I can now afford to rent a condominium apartment!

I also realized today why drinking cold water can help reduce weight.  Of course, it's obvious to anyone now that I'm going to mention it. Why does drinking cold water increase weight loss?

First, a little trip down memory lane. For me, my science teachers were Mr and Mrs Chan and Miss Lim. I vaguely remember another female teacher (Mrs Fong?) who (wore specs and) used to talk about "electronic configuration", but I no longer remember her name. Science classes were the most memorable part of my educational years because I love challenges and I used to challenge the teachers a lot. I remember a particular examination where Mr Chan gave a question on the specific density of water, and 2 persons (that's me and another friend who) got the answers wrong while everyone else got it right. When I challenged Mr Chan, it turned out that the 2 persons actually got the answers right and everyone else got it wrong. At 4 degree celsius, water weighs exactly 1 gram per cm3. And 1 cm3 is exactly 1 ml. The question? To plot the specific density of water from 0 degree celsius to probably 20 (or 30) degree celsius as the X-axis and the specific density as the Y-axis.

So, anyway... assuming if one drinks 500ml of ice-water,  that 500ml of water is going to increase your caloric usage by about 500 calories, for every one degree celsius difference between the water temperature and one's body temperature.

Normally, the human body temperature is 37 degree celsius, and so, if the 500ml of ice-water you drink has a temperature of 15 degree celsius, the energy used by your body to raise that 500 ml of water is

( 37 - 15 )  x 500 = 11,000 calories!

And 11,000 calories is actually just 11 food calories. A normal adult person's meal is about 1,500 calories, which means that in order to burn away that meal, one must actually drink about 136 glasses of ice-water.

There's a danger of drinking too much water though. That danger is blindness. Read the article here.