Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Genap 9 Bulan/Klinik Kerajaan/H1N1

Alhamdullilah...

Achievement Unlock!
Syukur saya dan baby sampai juga ke bulan 9 kandungan iaitu 36 minggu.

Minggu lalu hati saya sangat risau memandangkan saya sd mulah merasa kontraksi dan kemudian mengalami cecair yang berlebihan...

tetapi syukur mungkin itu cuma Braxton Hicks dan juga cecair biasa.

So pada masa kini saya sudah bersedia semua barang-barang didalam kereta dan hanya tunggu untuk angkut saja haha...

Kemarin pula saya pergi berklinik di Klinik Kesihatan Ibu dan Anak Menggatal, wah...lumayan~
Ramainya tidak terkira...rasanya meletops juga statistik kelahiran bayi untuk tahun 2014 bagi Kota Kinabalu hehe...baguslah, bertambah ramai rakyat Malaysia.

Maknanya tahun ini ramai anak tahun Kuda lah yerr, ni mesti anak-anak rajin dan tangkas ni kan..in shaa Allah ^_^


Bila sampai giliran saya, nurse macam biasa, cek nadi, air kencing, berat badan then chek perut.

Fuh...picit sikit saja sekarang ni pun sudah sakit, tapi syukur memang nurse tu lemah lembut dan berpengalaman.Dia bagi tahu lah, kepala bayi sudah turun ke bawah dan masuk kawasan pelvis ^_^

Memang berita baik hehe...sebab sebulan lalu saya scan di klinik swasta, posisi baby waktu itu songsang...berdiri juga bulu roma saya...takuut kena bedah. Nampak jarum pun ngilu sudah hehe...

Selesai diperiksa saya pun ambil kesempatan untuk bercerita dengan nurse tentang gosip hangat di Sabah sekarang...tidak lain tidak bukan pasal jangkitan H1N1 di Hospital Wanita dan Kanak-kanak Likas.

Bila saya start perbualan, nurse pun segera letak pen kemudian explain satu persatu pada saya, memang nurse yang baik hehe...pada waktu ini pihak mereka pun tidak pasti akan hal sebenar memandangkan banyak gosip-gosip yang bercampur aduk.

Tetapi menurut beliau, penyakit tersebut di detect di Wad Pesakit Kronik di aras 4. 

Maknanya bahagian yang disyaki terjangkit ialah memang kawasan yang sudah sedia di kuarantin, pesakit-pesakit dia pun yang memang tidak keluar dari bilik.

Jadi saya pun menyuarakan kerisauaan lah, so nurse ada cakap, tidak perlu risau, jangkitan bukan hanya boleh terjadi di Hospital tetapi dimana pun kita berada.

Saya paling risau kalau nanti bersalin memang satu-satunya tempat yang paling reccomended ialah Hospital Wanita dan Kanak-kanak Likas, second option memanglah swasta tetapi layanan dan fasilitinya pun sebenarnya lebih kurang juga.

Nurse tu pun nasihatkan untuk tidak perlu risau memandangkan wad dan bilik bersalin berada di tingkat 1 so tiada la isu terpaksa melalui kawasan kuarantin tu, tetapi beliau ada menasihati kalau risau kan anak-anak semasa datang melawat lebih baik tidak perlu bawa anak-anak ke hospital tunggu saja adik di rumah hehe...

Sebelum pulang saya pun mengambil kesempatan untuk bertanyakan apa tindakan yang paling bagus untuk mengelak jangkitan especially pada anak-anak.

Dengan pantas nurse cakap, bagi Vitamin C dan cukup rehat.
Orang yang cukup rehat akan memiliki antibodi yang lebih banyak menghalang jangkitan.

So...jangan tunggu lama-lama, cepat-cepatlah sumbat anak dengan Shaklee Vita-C Plus ^_^ dan kalau bagi kita orang dewasa boleh ambil Shaklee Sustained Release Vita-C Plus. Kelebihannya ialah ia akan membekalkan Vitamin C didalam badan secara berperingkat.



Untuk anda yang belum tahu, Vitamin C ialah vitamin yang paling cepat menyerap kedalam tubuh badan tetapi paling cepat keluar dari badan.

Oleh itu Shaklee telah membelanjakan 300 juta untuk kajian teknologi bagi semua produknya.

300 juta....bukan main2 tu hehe.

Memanglah sakit dan sihat itu pemberian Tuhan, tapi sekurang-kurangnya biarlah dengan inisiatif dan daya usaha sendiri untuk menjaga kesejahteraan hidup ^_^

So...marilah sama-sama berharap jangkitan H1N1 tu tidak akan merebak dan semoga saya bersalin dengan selamat...anak-anak tunggu adik di rumah sajalah hehe, bukan lama sehari dua saja pun kan ^_^

till then!


Sunday, February 9, 2014

topik Breastfeeding

Fuh...

ini satu topik baru dalam hidup saya.
Walaupun sudah ada 2 cahaya mata tetapi 'Breastfeeding' is totally benda baru buat saya.

Ini kerana, saya memang secara semulajadi tidak mempunyai air susu yang banyak.

Ok, mari kita cerita sikit :)
Semasa kandungan pertama iaitu Ayman, air susu saya tidak banyak, walaupun dia ada mencuba untuk minum sejurus selepas lahir tapi badan saya tidak menghasilkan susu yang mencukupi. Akibatnya ; pada umur 6 bulan beliau terkena jangkitan Pneumia Bronchitis dan akhirnya menghidap Asthma.

Tuhan saja yang tahu keperitan menjaga anak yang sakit...bukan sebab penat tapi hati sedih memandang anak yang sukar bernafas dan tidak selesa tidur ditambah lagi melihat muka kecil sebegitu dipakaikan mask khas untuk orang dewasa sahaja...

Ayman pernah ditahan selama 6 malam di Hospital Wanita dan Kanak-Kanak Likas,disebabkan itu. Saya pun berulang alik dari pejabat (sewaktu itu masih bekerja dikawasan Kolombong) setiap pagi dan petang, mandi dan tidur di Hospital. Setiap malam pada waktu tengah malam, Ayman akan diberikan ubat pernafasan melalui mask, so saya pun kenalah pegang mask dimuka Ayman sampai ubat habis.

Memang sedih melihat anak sakit, maunya lagi kita yang terseksa daripada anak sendiri.

Ok, itu pasal anak pertama.
Anak Kedua : Shatara.

Dia ni lagi kes sulit hehe...Langsung tiada air susu!
Kesian Tara asyik 'nyot...nyot...nyot' kuat lagi bunyi dia tu haha...tapi tiada air susu.
Selepas beberapa hari baru ada air susu itu pun sedikit saja. Akibatnya, seawal umur sebulan, Tara sudah minum susu formula....rasa kecewa pun ada juga tapi apakan daya.

Oleh itu,
Bagi kandungan ketiga ini, saya NEKAD untuk melaksanakan Penyusuan Susu Ibu Secara Eksklusif

Saya mula bertanyakan kawan-kawan dan keluarga yang sudah berjaya memberikan susu ibu kepada anak mereka sehingga umur 2 tahun!
Ada di antaranya memberikan tips-tips seperti berikut :


  1. Sup Ayam + Lihing(sejenis minuman alkohol dari tapai)
  2. Betik Muda
  3. Ayam Kampung
  4. White Bread
dan banyak lagi, namun begitu setiap yang diatas ada kelemahannya iaitu :

  1. Lihing tidak halal
  2. membuatkan gatal di bahagian sulit
  3. susah mau cari oi...tinggal d bandar hehe
  4. kandungan carbohidrat yang tinggi tetapi kurang serat
So...lepas buat research akhirnya saya memilih satu jalan penyelesaian iaitu :

Shaklee ^_^


Nah...setakat ini, ini yang paling mudah dan simple dan terjamin kualiti kesihatannya.
Oleh kerana kandungan susu ibu banyak mengandungi Protein, ESP-Soy Protein Isolate Powder ialah sumber protein soya terbaik.  ESP menyediakan 14 gram protein soya bukan-GMO berkualiti tinggi  dengan semua  asid amino yang tubuh anda perlukan bagi proses sintesis protein termasuk sembilan asid amino penting.  Berbanding  protein daripada sumber daging, telur dan tenusu,  ESP adalah  rendah  lemak dan  bebas laktosa dan kolesterol.

Shaklee ESP:
•    Menyediakan tenaga berkekalan dan membantu menahan rasa lapar kerana bekalan                 sumber tenaga yang konsisten.
•    Protein soya membantu mengurangkan kolesterol.
•    Mengandungi lima vitamin B penting, separuh daripada keperluan kalsium harian,                    dan soya isoflavones.  Kajian menunjukkan yang soya membantu dalam                                        mengawal kestabilan hormon semasa tempoh putus haid.*
•    Protein soya bukan-GMO ini dihasilkan di bawah satu  Program yang digelar Identity                    Preservation Program (IPP), di mana kacang soya dipantau dan dijaga dengan teliti dari
      proses menanam hinggalah saat pemprosesannya


Itu pasal ESP @ Protein, tetapi bintang utamanya ialah : Alfalfa Complex



Ini kerana Alfalfa merupakan pusat pengumpulan segala nutrien.  Akar tunjangnya yang mengunjur sedalam enam meter ke bawah mampu menyerap pelbagai zat dan mineral daripada mendapan di dalam tanah, sementara daunnya mengumpul klorofil yang banyak melalui proses fotosintesis semulajadi.  Alfalfa mengandungi vitamin A, C dan E serta kalsium, potasium, fosforus dan zat besi

Alfalfa Complex merupakan satu Formulasi Shaklee Signature yang pada asalnya dibangunkan oleh Dr. Shaklee pada tahun 1950s.
•    Sumber semulajadi alfalfa.
•    Pil juga boleh dihancurkan dan dicampur ke dalam air sebagai minuman herba semulajadi.

Tiada perasa tiruan, pemanis, pewarna atau bahan pengawet tambahan. 
Kelebihannya ialah boleh membantu badan untuk menghasilkan susu ibu :
  • Terkenal dari dulu kata sebagai herba milk booster
  • Susu bertambah banyak dan pekat
  • Mengurangkan sinus
  • Menjadikan proses penghadaman lebih baik
  • Mengurangkan keputihan
  • Bertindak sebagai 'Kacip Fatimah'
  • Detox badan dengan lebih baik
  • Mempunyai Vitamin K, bagi penghasilan susu yang lebih banyak
  • Mengawal paras kolestrol dalam darah
  • Menstabilkan kandungan gula dalam darah, jadi nafsu makan lebih terkawal
  • Mengelakkan edema aka bengkak air
  • Merawat masalah sembelit 
  • dan pelbagai lagi
Walaupun baru diperkenalkan produk ini, setakat ini testimoni dar 2 orang kawan di pejabat memang mengesahkan, susu akan jadi Kembang! haha dan air susu juga menjadi Pekat!.
Nah...kalau pekat maknanya banyak apa?...banyak Colustrum lah jawabnya ^_^

Colustrum lah kandungan dalam susu ibu yang mengandungi segala intipati magik bagi kesihatan bayi dan anak.

Oleh itu saya sekarang sangat excited untuk mula mencuba ESP + Alfalfa ni.
Sebenarnya banyak lagi yang kita boleh buat untuk tambah susu tapi bagi set bajet dan permulaan, kawan saya rekomenkan ambil ini dahulu.

Lepas rasa sendiri kebaikan dan kualitinya bolehlah tambah ambil produk untuk menambah kesihatan supaya badan mampu menghasilkan susu ibu yang terbaik :)

Ok...kejap lagi saya akan keluar untuk beli bekalan susu Strawberry buat 'cocktail mix' la sangat dengan Shaklee ESP hehe

till next time ^_^

Monday, February 4, 2013

BIM 2013 & Mt. Climbing Training : Day 3

Today.

I trained with my younger brother
He was also interested in the BIM 2013 and so i encourage him to pay before 15 Feb for the early bird rate.

Well...he was ready mentally...
but i must say...not quite physically.

He basically run barefoot with his boxer.

He did try to find a running tight earlier but ended up bought something else.

So we arrive at about 6 :15AM
There were already two people ahead of us.
They look more like an athlete, a man and a woman.

He ; without any warm up just fleet away.
I must say im quite jealous.
Him so young with a lot of stamina.

After warming up i started to run. looking at the time it was about 6 : 27.
I ran lightly just like jogging.
This time is didn't find it so hard. Probably because i was already downloading musics into my handphone.

Songs such as : Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, Gnarls Barkley, Temper Trap and Florence & the Machine.

I did well, running a complete 6 lapse non-stop.
My target suppose to be only 5 lapse.

I don't know...probably because when im listening to musics, before the songs finish...my emotions did'nt run out too.

While finishing the sixth lapse, my bladder started killing me and so i made a toilet stop.

When i came back, i realize more people turn up this time.

There were about 3 men, i think they're warming up for a basketball game, then 2 matured men, look more like a higher ranking officer, i noticed they were wearing the recent UMS sports team theme windbreaker and a young woman with hijab too!

Probably they were also training for BIM maybe?

After the toilet stop, i decided to continue for few more rounds.

So today?
In total?

10 lapse.

and i can still feel my legs!

My brother finish after...15 Lapse! Non-Stop!.

Then he go on bragging saying i did 10 lapse because i feel intimidated by his achievement. bleh bleh bleh...

But, the truth is, i think its because of the musics that i did not hear myself breathing like a dog under a  scorching sun glare and so i did not feel myself dying!.

Also i feel more secured,not just because i have someone to help looking after my car keys that i put by the bench but also....i have a partner whose making a fool of themselves in the early mornings ^____^

Wow....10 lapse equals to 4KM in about 45 minutes....so probably 8 KM = 1 hour and a half....
My record last year is 10KM for 1 hour and 37 minutes...hmm that's not good enough...

Oh well...the goal for February is to build stamina, once i have it then we shall accelerate our speed ..so my brother's theory bleh bleh bleh

Well we still have about 3 months to train, we shall see what we are capable of ^_^

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Training BIM & Mt. Climbing : Day 2


Arrive track at 6:34AM

Warm up jog - 1 lapse (400 metres)
Warm up walk : 1 lapse
400 metres time Race : 3 minutes
Relax walk : 1 lapse
3 lapse non-stop(1200 metre) : 8 Minutes
Relax walk : 1 lapse

Running Stairs : 3 lapse.

Leave track at : 7:21AM

Merah padam muka sa....

Sampai office, toilet occupied.
Use another one.
Too much disturbance outside, got panic.
Hurriedly leave the toilet, met with two ladies carrying gift flowers.

Alhamdullilah, she's concern.
My dress zip's undone.

Ouuw Gawd!
Said my thanks.

Anyway.
Now safe and sound by my working desk.

On Saturday will try 4 lapse non-stop.
^_^

Target : 25 lapse equals to 10KM - non-stop-.



Sunday, January 6, 2013

being Mom

I always wanted to watch that animation movie : Brave.
Its not just because her Red hair looks so realistic, but i just feel intrigue by her arrow combine with dresses.


And so i purchased the DVD and showed it to my kids.
Now, it has become my kids favorite selection after, Rio, ParaNorman, Rise of The Guardians and Mickey Mouse.

So in this story, Merida is free-spirited princess who do not want to get married.
But, her cultured mother insist due to tradition.
So, Merida rebel with anger and called her mother 'Beast' and even 'poison' her using witchcraft that turn her into a Bear after their huge fight.

So the first time we watched it, we watch it all four of us (Hubby, Me and the kids)
When its finished, my husband tries to relate the moral into our real life

"Nah...tinguk tu, kalau dia tidak dengar cakap mamy dia...Mamy dia jadi beruang. Kamu mau mamy kamu jadi beruang?" (he's being sarcastic of course...)

After a pause, my kids said 'No'..still, a bit dumbfounded and uncertain.

Later, after watching it repeatedly.
My daughter Tara, develop a defense mechanism. 
A Threat.

Everytime she aware that i was about to get angry.
She asked me a question
"Nah, kalau mamy marah, mamy mau jadi beruang?"

In good tempered, my answer would be 'No...'
And so she would subside into a Moral lecture of her own.
"Nah...kalau mamy tidak mau, Mamy tidak bulih marah-marah"

But during stress with workloads i would answer rigidly 'Yes.'
Then she would quickly grab my arm and said

"eeee! Jangan...Tara mau sayang Mamy"

......

My....that has a cooling effect to my soul.

And so my friends : 


And with that, i'll always hold my own Mother close to heart.
Regardless how flaw she may be.
Because....

That's what my Daughter do.
^_^

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Flushed Plump Lips

Recently i just purchased these :


It was highly recommended by my sister that says it was the new trend.
Honestly im not so sure what so hype about it, but when i google, it does kinda trendy at the moment, bloggers made reviews about it.


Actually the main reason i purchased it because, i was crossing the road one day for a movie at 1 Borneo when a car pass us by, in it a girl with her boyfriend, she had this long pretty hair and nicely done complexion. But what struck me most is her lips.
It was kinda bright plumpy in the middle lips and all around the edges is kinda pale.


She was so pretty, and so i thought hmmm,...i wonder how she do it with her lips,and it was out of the ordinary.
I started to wonder how she get the idea to create such lips and finally decide that it might be the latest make up style, then i started to wonder which beauty magazine that publish such trend.

But anyway, the day after that we were going on a road trip to Poring. I was feeling off with the ride and decide to buy fermented food to kill the nausea.
I was planning to buy the white dried lime skins but there were none, so i bought the red dried mango.

I was eating and when i noticed my red fingers from the artificial color i suddenly remember how we used to rub it on our lips when we were kids to make fake lipstick.

So i was eating and rubbing it allover my lips and guess what. This is how it looks:


That is truly without any lipstick, balm or whatsoever.

After the birth of my daughter, i started to have a dark lips pigmentation starting from the top and lower edges of my lips (the peaks and the lining)
Its normal to some mothers to have a skins pigmentation during and after birth.
And too bad for me,its on the lips.

That is why i spent quite a number on lipstick, lip balm, lip conditioner,etc.

After i look at our pictures taken that day i begin to realize that the girl with the pretty lips might be using the same trick ; provided she ate 3-5 pieces of the dried mango just before went out with her boyfriend.

Anyway, i opt for my sisters recommendation with the new Lip Balm from Maybelline.
But i did not deny the fact that the sour junk food really work the magic ^_^

My Ideal kind of lips


Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Pasukan Cuti Sekolah Part 1-Anak buah yang dilantik menjadi Nanny Ayman Tara


Wuah, dalam dua minggu lagi baki cuti sekolah, barulah ada masa untuk tulis cerita pasal ni hehe...

So bermulanya cuti sekolah hari itu, kami suami isteri menghadapi masalah besar.
Iaitu...siapa mo jaga Ayman Tara.
Sekolah kan cuti, jadi jagaan harian pun turut bercuti.
Pihak tadika ada mencadangkan untuk jagaan harian tetapi lokasi Penjaga tersebut terletak di kawasan Tebobon.

Well...bagi aku, KK terbahagi kepada dua bahagian yang JAM nya sangat teruk.
Satu ; kawasan Penampang.
Dua ; Kawasan Tebobon.

Dua tempat ini lah yang aku cuba untuk elakkan.

So, pilihan tersebut terpaksa ditolak.
Oleh kerna itu, option seterusnya ialah, menjemput kaum keluarga untuk turut membantu.

Jadi...kena importlah anak buah En. Suami dari Tawau.

So, selama durang tinggal bersama aku, antara aktiviti mandatori ialah : Entertainment.

Yah, ini harus, demi menjamin emosi mereka untuk kekal stabil dan tidak bosan duduk dirumah aku yang di atas puncak serta serba sunyi.

Family relatives aku yang part ini, tidak jauh bezanya dari family relatives side aku, Mama aku juga penggemar leisure.
Selama beliau tinggal bersama aku, aku cuba memenuhi masa hujung minggu beliau dengan berjalan-jalan (sampai beliau sendiri surrender hehe)

Walaupun suami sibuk, kami make time juga untuk bawa durang ke Taman Perdana, Tg. Aru.
Tengok air menari kata si Ayman Tara.

Jadi, yang serba ungu tu Mak Mentua AKA Datin Seri Paduka Baginda.
Yang tudung pink itu, ialah anak buah En. Suami : Nurul Ashikin.
Kepada beliau la aku serahkan tugas makan minum anak-anak aku.
Pasal Kebersihan...aku ndak mau demand sangat...Macamlah aku pembersih sangat kan...
Jadi, aku masih menyapu, masih Cuci kain, Masih lipat kain, masih jemur kain, masih masak, masih mengemas.

Pokoknya tugas beliau hanyalah
1) Memastikan Ayman Tara Makan
2) Memastikan Ayman Tara Mandi
3) Memastikan Ayman Tara Selamat dan tidak bergaduh sesama sendiri.

Basically itu saja...
Tapi, yang hebatnya...beliau sendiri pandai berfikir, Kadang beliau masak tanpa diminta.
Cuci kain walaupun aku sudah cakap 'Jangan, ndak perlulah'
Lipat kain, mop lantai, jemur kain(termasuk lapik sofa) dan (paling Best!) cuci peti sejuk aku yang....sudah berkarat...muahahahaha!


So basically aku puas hati lah juga, walaupun ada masanya beliau kena sakit malas...
Tapi....
Kita ni Manusia,
Selagi kita tidak pernah menyakitkan hati orang lain....maka
Kita bukan manusia...tapi Malaikat.

Anyway....belum habis cerita pasal gambar di atas pula.
Yang baby-baby girl tu,haaa itu lah 'Mika Chan'
Ini anak adik ipar aku, Mama dia Chinese, tu yang mata penyet tu.

Selama budak ni bersuai kenal dengan kami suami isteri, belum pernah sekali dia suka dengan kami.

Aku suspek it has something to do with my voice volume dan my husbands glaring stare haha.

Tapi as per today....okay dah. Dia sudah pandai cium-cium aku, duduk kuai-kuai sebelah aku makan biskut.
Baby pun Manusia normal juga....kena kenal lama baru boleh kenal hati budi hehe...



Yang gambar ni pula,ada included, adik ipar aku yang berbaju merah, (yang duduk yerr...yang berdiri tu Suami I) dan yang berbaju hitam tu ialah abang Shikin.

Haa...ini isu yang aku ndak paham-paham sampai sekarang.
Apasal dia ikut aar?haha...sebab yang menjaga Ayman Tara tu Shikin....
Tapi...ndak apalah...orang-orang tua cakap 'ko paham-paham la bah'

So all in all a total of 7 weeks @ sebulan setengah. 
Hanya untuk jaga kebajikan anak-anak, aku bagi saguhati wang kepada Shikin sebanyak RM600.

Not bad eh, dia tolong aku jaga anak, aku tolong dia bayar School Fee dan School expenses.
Banyak atau tidak, itu aku ndak pasti.
Cukup atau tidak, rasanya...ndak cukup kali...

Tapi...rasanya memadai lah...
Harap-harap tahun depan beliau sudi datang menjaga anak-anak aku lagi dan kali ini dengan lebih semangat yang padu dan jaya haha....

Kalau sampai tahun depan masih tidur-tidur di sofa sambil anak-anak aku belum mandi tu...nah, memang aku cubit suda tu hahaha!


Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Nestle's Breakfast Hunt 2012

I was so thankful that my work colleagues decided to invited me.

Because i knew these kind of activities will need a lot of teamwork and chemistry between team members.

So if i got invited, i must some kind of resourceful or easy to work with huh...

Well, easy to work with maybe, Resourceful? i doubt that.

I didn't even bring a pen on the event day and we ended up borrowing a pen from the Ambulance staffs.

It was fun! and best of all out of about 270 teams, we won consolation prize!

Most of the teams are students...and guess what hehe, we can still use our brains!
People might say, the older you get, the boring and static you become....but not these ladies hehe.



So here are the prizes that i collected home and most probably i will put myself in for next year's Hunting Events...that is if i still got invited hehe...




Breakfast Hunt now Burger Hunt

If there are things that im fully committed other than being mum and work and all.....is that ;

My Commitment to EAT.

This time its Burger Time!

I've always been a Burger Fan. Ever since i was little, i loved Burgers.
Not KFC burger though...McD burgers so-so.

But what i loved most is Burgers Stall, i love it when you can ask to add extra Chilli Sauce, extra cabbages, its nice.

So, when i look into my Facebook this morning, a friend of mine posted these Grilled Burgers pictures...what's better is that they're all in KK!.

So, im gonna set myself for some Burger Hunt!

These are some Burgers that need to be Explore...muahaaha




D-Grillz |Burger Bakar
Anjung Selera, Tanjung Lipat


Firefly Bar & Grill, KK Times Square


Aizat Recipe Burger Bakar, Kingfisher Likas, Lorong Raja Udang 10, Lot 27



111, Gaya Street


Does these pictures makes you shiver? hehe...

Well, first thing first is to check the Opening Hours and the Halal Certificate.
But i am rather snickery...as long as there are womens with hijab sitting in the restaurants, might as well i sit in too hehe..

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Life of PI

So i have watched Life of PI.


I highly recommend it, based on :
    • Storytelling
    • Graphic
    • Sentiments
    • Message contained
    • List of Actors
    • ....just about everything about it

I was informed by my brother it was derived from a non-fictional book and the writer is an Englishman(actually canadian-French). He's guessing that the price of the book must have gone up by now.

I still want to buy it anyway, its been awhile i did not touch any non-fictional book. My brain need some fantasy.

Well...it is kinda sad movie to me, i didn't cry tho' but i feel saddened only that i get the message and stops feeling sorry.

Im a movie junkie yeah so don't mind me go gugu gaga over a movie hehe.

Its about a boy who is so interested in God, and always looking for God. His father does not believe in religions and his mother only gave a vague impression of religion towards him.

He ended up embracing, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam altogether (even Judaism in later life). And at 16 he was involve in a shipwreck when he came to experience an even larger meaning of God-ness.


But what struck me most about this movie is that...this dialogue : 

Writer : so... the orangutan was your mother, the zebra was the sailor, the hyena was the cook, and Richard Parker, the tiger, was ....


Pi Patel " why? you don't believe in the story?"

Writer " well...some of it is rather extraordinary"

Pi Patel " Let me ask you, there are two stories and in each story i was in a shipwreck, lost my family and become an orphan and that's not going to change but Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' 


Writer: '......The story with animals.' 

Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.'

So...the key point is.

Our Life.

We can choose it to be bland, factious and trully realistic.

Or

We can choose life with God and has life full of Miracles, Wonder and Magical.

So....which story do you prefers?






Tuesday, October 2, 2012

My confrontation with Ganglion Cyst

Yesterday, i have just undergone a minor surgery on my left wrist to remove the cyst.
As per today ;
  • sweeping the floor
  • tying my hair
  • ironing
  • typing
  • taking my medicines
is such a struggle.

The lump started to appear since May 2012.
At the beginning i do not feel any kind of fear, just amaze and curious.






Later i beginning to think that it might caused by somekind of mysterious sickness related to black magic, genie and all.

I went to various doctor and they explained to me that it was Ganglion Cyst, so i went google all over it and discovered that there were 3 ways to remove it OR it can just suddenly dissapear by itself. So my options are :
  • Hit it hard with a thick book (traditional method)
  • Use a syringe to suck the liquid
  • Operation.
So, rather than just waiting infinitely until its missing by itself, i opt for operation. Due to the temporary solution of the syringe and suction and the creepy thought of hitting myself with a thick large book appalls me.

But before i went to the doctors for operation, i decided to fully investigate the nature of that lump. So what i did?...i went to see a traditional islamic healing Ustaz. I know, i know...

So, as soon as i showed it to Ustaz Ikmal, he directly response to me that it was Ganglion Cyst. I feel a mix feeling of relief and ashamed haha...

However, the Ustaz did scan me for any appearance of bad or negative spirit or energy.
When finished he explained that im just rather restless and advised me to recite a calming prayers and zikir.

So instead of went home with somekind of fear, i went home from the Ustaz house with 2 designs of Kain Ela...haha, he was also selling textiles and books.

After discussion with my husband, we went to the hospital which supposedly just for a review before making preparation on surgery.

During the review, the Japanese doctor asked me if im ready to be operated on the same day. (mind you he only took about 15 minutes of medical checking before calling for operation)
That moment my biggest concern is to cut futile time waiting at hospital booth for repeatedly reviews.
So i said "yeah, sure why not!" and looked at my dazed husband whom finally nods in barely agreement.

The doctor lead me to another room and before he leave us by the waiting chair i finally asked him the most important question which is an excruciatingly the most important issue that i should have considered before i even say yes to operation. 

"Doctor.." says I
"After the operation; how soon can i get back to work?" thank God, my husband reminded me of work since, i still have some pending task that very afternoon.
The doctor explained that i would need THREE days of rest. I can only blinked my eyes in a retarded way...because i've been making plans for the week for work and...i guess...without options im gonna be missed at work. Fear of discomfortness from the doctors with my sudden withdrew from the operation after preparation been made, i sit quietly, thinking of ways to explained it to my work colleagues.

When the nurse called me in, they started to make all the preparation and asked me to remove any metal and jewelry. She explained that it can cause complications when they turned on some machines to suck excessive blood during the operation..(my mouth gaped) and she quickly explained that, the condition is extremely rare but just for percaution.

Before i laid on the bed i asked her if the metal in my bra can caused a problem and she laughed, "no...not at all"...i knew i was creative.

Anyway, later when i was lying on the operation table, my heart continues to zikir but my mind wanders to the point that i would be scrolled with the operation bed to another emergency room due to surgery complications...told you i was creative.

After about 30 minutes being sooth over by listening to trivial chats among two nurses and one trainee doctor (amazingly i felt calm listening to a very casual talks just before my wrist being cut open and watching her taking a portions of anesthetic into a 3 inch long needle) the real doctor finally came. He was large and very smooth talking guy. He explained that he will cut open my wrist to remove the cyst yet, there is no quarantee that the culprit shall not come back. He manage to slip in a question if i wanted it removed. I said yes and asked him, why Ganglion Cyst ever happen and he explained that it was because when the tendon is weak ; it tends to absorb more water in order to perform better. I suddenly remembered that just before the lump appear, i wear my watch on the left wrist which originally on my right wrist ; just for a change , for a kick....see i am creative.

So i asked the doctor should i minimize the usage of my left arms and he said no point, we all need to use both hands evertime.

He procedded on pouring three kinds of liquid onto my left arm, first it was bloody color ; my sudden thought is that this is to make it less gruesome during operation since its blood color there shall be no obvious different if bloods spluttering all over my arms.Second liquid is bronze in colour and my arms started to feeling burning and the third is colorless and gave the most burning sensation.

Finally the moment of truth. The injection time.
which i sucked.

He explained that he would inject me with the anesthetic 3 times. The insertion is okay...but the exertion is slow and...vicious.
After the third he asked me if i still got my 'feel' sense while poking my wrist with a needle...of course i could still feel it. 
and...he went right away to inject me...Fourth Time!

After a while i became numb and upon receiving my reply, i suppose he went right away to cut my wrist.

During the operation i did not dare to look into it because i feared that i will lose my only 20% courage (80% has gone south), but later the junior nurse start to comment.

"so that's how it look like inside huh"
the senior nurse reply " yup, thats how it looks like inside"
Then the doctor continues " yeap it is filled with water"
"wow...it looks like marble" she continues...(i was already feeling tempted to look)
"kinda pretty..."she again continues...and i finally look at it!.

I manage to get a glimpse of good ol ganglion cyst.
It looks a lot like marble and not like i imagined, it was not all covered with blood everywhere. 
It just sit there round, gel-like and pink.

(which looks a lot like my Special ABC i had later at lunch..unfinished.)

The doctor struggle to cut it off and asked the nurses to hand him another operating utensils but their slow reaction and the doctors operating skills caused it to burst.

I feel dissapointed, because i thought of taking it home and could use it as pranks during April Fool. (seriously)

But then i thought, i should feel compliant towards everything that happen because there shall be a hidden wisdom in all this.

So the doctor scoops the gel from my tendon and showed it to me.
"this is the contents in your tendon all this while"

it looks a lot like my kids snots.

He proceeded to cut the tendon that has become a bag for the liquids, and showed it to me 
"this is the pouch"


it looks like a molar teeth, but of course because it was all folded, white, a little blood smeared.

Then he started to prepare for stitching it, but before he started he looked up to me and says 
"we're all done, its gone and look! it was only a small cut"
he lifted my arms to see.

It was gaped open,and deep red blooded inside and kinda hollow.
I let go a nervous and painful laugh.
He laughed back.

While he was stiching, the nurses (which now is 3 pax as another one enters the room bringing another patient)exchange their views on how pro the doctor skills in stiching, with one remarked how pretty it is and such a work of a cosmetic surgery doctor. They both congratulate how lucky i am and convince me that there shall be not a scar ('that we shall see i' said in my head). The doctor (maybe kinda thrilled) started to tell a story about a guy he did operation on the other day for second removal. He did it all pretty but the guy scratch it and not just scar, the cut turns out to be 'kiliod' some kind of skin issues i guess.

Occasionally the doctor exchange question with the trainee doctor who stood quietly during the whole operation.

When finished, one of the nurse insist to put a bandage on it and after some paperwork ; i was discharged.


When i came out from the operation room my husband round eyes looked at me and says how nervous he is waiting outside and imagined exactly the same thing as i did earlier on, with a robe on and scrolled on bed for another emergency operation because i might pass out and blood is everywhere....we were both creative.

We went home and the numbness on my hand remains until at about 9pm that night.

And this morning, the pain finally sets in, i passed my bandage to my daughter who insist to wear it and just had a cotton plaster on my cuts. I was given antibiotic for avoiding infection and a paracetamol for pain.

So this is how it looks like....
now im starting to wonder if the Doctor is good at sewing at home too hehe...

This morning...i just feel lucky.
That i didn't lose my arm or hand and...thinking about others who is not so lucky.

Im glad i still have it, and i thank God for his gift.
I learned that we should not take things for granted should be prepared for any adversity but pray for mercy.

For those who did not experienced it, i didn't expect you to care about my condition.
I just hope you would UNDERSTAND, i shall not make a video of myself getting all pucker up and duckface in tribute of granting 3 days MC and uploaded it to youtube just like the Singaporean girl with swollen eyes did; for you to believe that i actually have a condition.

Belum mengena; belum merasa
Hargai kelebihan anda dan jangan mempersenda orang lain yang kurang bernasib baik.

Thank you.