Healthy living

Just now i went to Pusat Perubatan Universiti Melaya (PPUM) to visit my uncle. He got some complication regarding his kidney and he got diabetis. very serious diabetis. My dad asked the doctor there and the doctor there said that there are 2 options:

1) Kidney transplant - u know about this right? nothing much to say

2) Continuous dialisis - have to go 3 times a week, and each time will take about 4 hours. Include the time travelling, that could be 5 - 6 hours, depending on the traffic flow. it's almost half of the waking hour and could you imagine the psychological experience someone like him has to go through? i am not blaming the doctor la of course.. it's just a very sad situation, not just for him, but for every other person as well. In the pursuit of maintaining someone's life, i guess doctors pretty much ignored the psychological aspect.

As such, I am inclined to write here how to live healthily... :)

• Don't eat too much fat, salt and sugar. If u ask me, i would say enemy number one is fast food meal. Try to eat less of those la..
• Drink lots of water
• Get enough rest
• Exercise regularly
• Don't look too highly on money - use money and love people, not love money and use people. If you are too stubborn on money matters, it will eat u up. Of course, i don't mean u simply spend la.

Take good care of your health my friend. What taste good now might not be what's best for you.

God Bless~

Happily Ever After?

Today on the radio, they were discussing the topic of whether it should or should not get back together with ex.

So this guy called in and said that he would definitely want to. Cause he broke up with his gf for 2 years and he still misses her a lot. hahahaha.. only when we lose something will we appreciate it right?

If you ever got married, think of this question. Would you prefer your spouse to die first or you dying first? If your spouse does go first, then surely you will be full of sorrow. Don't 1 to be that sorrowful, so you hope to go first? Aren't you a little bit too selfish? So you would wish for the other to go first? Or you going first?

Treasure whatever you have right now. China got drought, Australia is drowning. Be grateful for wherever you are...

God Bless~

Mat Rempit

Jan 13, 2009

Yes!! that's my answer to your question.

wait a minute.. how can i know what u are thinking? cause i study psychology... i can read minds remember? XD u must be wondering did i met a mat rempit today and had a bad experience right? and so the answer is above, and again.. i say it here.. Yes!!

No la.. psychologist don't read mind. And no.. i didn't had any bad experience with mat rempit today. :p i just suddenly decided to blog about it cause....

today we had a really really short discussion about what we should do for our presentation in one of our subjects (Adolescent and adult development psych) and one of the topic is mat rempit. i thought that it would be pretty interesting (besides the fact that if we really can pull off this research, it would be really really super duper cool cause it will be the first ever psychological reseach on mat rempits and you know how popular we are going to be? ah fame.. people might actually invite us to give talk, ask for professional opinion.. oh i am already drooling from thinking about it :p) therefore, i came home and did some research (see.. i do my homework k)..

so this is what i came up with.. i found this blog of mat rempit and according to the blog, mat rempits are only interested in racing and not things such as gangsterism or vandalism. what they are aiming for are actually adrenaline 'high' during the race, and it gets especially high when police are chasing them. and jeng jeng jeng.. this is the most interesting point (or at least to me) i found out

some of the mat rempits are graduate from University. i repeat.. GRADUATE.

this is really strange. i can understand y they want adrenaline rush.. cause teenagers have a surge of hormone and they would want to find this 'high', apply to both guys and girls (as proved by the existence of minah rempit), coupled with teenagers' feeling of immortally, and wanting to prove themselves. and on the sidenote, human prefrontal cortex doesn't grow till it's optimal level until when we are in our 20's. So teenagers having such behavior.. understandable

but being a graduate.. that's another matter.. it means that the person is at least 22? and being a graduate, the individual should have a high expectation for him/herself and would find high in something more ... safe? really i don't understand.. which is what makes it more interesting.. but of course, according to the blogger, graduates are only a small fraction constituting mat rempit la.

and i also want to know.. y are mat rempits almost all malays? are there any other races? yes? no? WHY?? gah!! no use thinking so much since i can't do any reseach on them also.. no past research (if got, then it wouldn't be called 'first ever' in the first place right? XD), takkan go and interview them right? although i actually did imagine the scenario.. lol.. funny...

ok back to reality.. might do something related to retirement *wink wink* or teen pregnancy

God Bless~

2008 Lookback

As usual, as the year is coming to an end, it's time to ponder on what I have been doing for this past year. This year is definitely one of the most happening year for me I must say. A year of self actualizing. XD

The top 10 things which is most happening to me this year.... i hope 10 would be enough for me to write down everything, or else it would be 15 or more.. XD

11. Bpsych Badminton Tournament - got first runner up for this tournament. Lol.. i am not very good, but i was pretty blessed i would say. My first medal of the year. XD

10. St. Anne's Feast day - my family and I went to Penang to celebrate St. Anne's feast. It's my second time going there, but it's the first time i attend the feast itself. It was pretty good, big crowd, nice time and nice food. :)

9. Rakuzen - Me and my buddy buddy went to Rakuzen to makan. And ate quite a lot i guess.. the price is crazy la.. RM 6 per scope of ice-cream.. ice cream alone we would have eaten more than RM 100. good thing it's a buffet, but, the price is still quite expensive.

8. Learning how to dance - believe it or not.. i did learn how to dance.. and it's waltz. LOL.. it's pretty simple actually, and it's fun. :D

7. Trekathon - Ran at Bukit Gasing and it had been the most tiring experience i ever had, i guess. hahaha. at least i contributed 1 point to the department (i think).

6. 209 triage counselling - i got to know a lot more in detail about my friends. really, it's a great experience.

5. Working with a certain company - name is withheld for privacy sake. lol.. and although it's no. 5, but it's a bad experience. it's no 5 because it's an... experience which i don't think i will forget.. working with meng, and walking to pavilion and starhill gallery almost everyday.. funny.. and calling people.. not funny..

4. CXC camp - Went to Penang for Career Exploration Club camp. I was pretty enlightened by the camp. and also, strengthen some friendship bonds, as well as the opposite. but it's a good experience :)

3. Sports Carnival 08 - entered sports carnival this year. Finally, after 2 years of not being able to.. lol.. i of course represented my department in volleyball and got 2nd runner up.. shucks.. oh well, 2nd medal for the year

2. Research Colloquium - First ever colloquium for me... and the whole day, my anxiety level was quite high.. the whole week, my anxiety level was quite high.. but on that day, it really was constantly high.. but it pays off i guess.. :)

1. MAPCU - definitely definitely MAPCU. the excitement and adrenalin rush when we played and advance little by little to the finals is just unimaginable. this would always remain no. 1 for quite some time i suppose.. unless MAPCU 09 can beat it.. XD got 2 medals from here.. lol..

So in total, i got 4 medals from sports, and some other awards from my studies.. really really a year with considerable achievement, change, excitement and well... stress. XD

Happy New Year everyone

God Bless~

SFA Altar Servers Retreat 08 (3)

18th Dec 08

So this is the third and final day of the retreat.. thank God.. any longer and i might lose hair and have higher blood pressure.. hahahaha

woke up at 7.30 because breakfast is at 8.. didn't manage to sleep well also but did had a nice strange dream. :)

so get ready and as usual, people are late.. after breakfast, it's time to head to the beach.. before the beach, we went to visit the samanarian house.. Fr. Paul Cheong was there.. ^_^

from there, we went to beach and went there and just relax.. i saw a beach volleyball court there and got so excited.. although it was on the other end of the beach, i went there, but the net was so low that i need not jump to place my hand over the net.. lol.. and no one was playing.. if got i think i would join in.. hahaha

then after beach, went back to College General and then took bath.. then we have our mass and after that our lunch.. we left College General at around 2, although we were suppose to leave at 1.. people can be so good at procrastinating.. really.. they don't sense the urgency of time..

so left there, and Fr. brought us to Penang road to eat the famous cendol.. and the cendol was good.. because it taste good, and well.. it's free.. XD then went to the ferry terminal.. it was my first time boarding a ferry and the experience was great.. waited for the bus at mainland and then we were on our way home.. finally...

stopped at a rest house around 8 to eat our dinner and in the bus, Narnia: Prince of Caspian was played.. so managed to catch a movie.. after so many long days of being movie deprived.. reached church at about 10.15 (initial plan was to reach at 7, see my point of them being really good at procrastinating??)

now it's my stress free days.. AH... FINALLY...

God Bless~

SFA Altar Servers Retreat 08 (2)

17th Dec 08

So for the second day of retreat, woke up at 7 because mass will be at 7.30. didn't had a good sleep.. woke up get ready for mass, and as usual, need to wait for people to come.. there is no one time which everyone is on time. sigh.. time wasting.. i have to go call them everytime..

then mass starts, and then it's breakfast.. after breakfast, then there is a session about mass. so learnt some things there and after the session, we went to visit the College General ground. went to the museum and the chapel..

after that it's lunch, and after lunch, we went out to jalan jalan. first went to sleeping Buddha. i think it's the largest in South East Asia.. went there walk walk, then next destination is Kek Lok Si temple. funny as it may sound, we didn't actually went up the temple, just the place before the temple.. Reason?

cause they want to go back to play football... -.-; seriously.. how often they come to penang and go visit places? and they would prefer to go back and play football.. i was dissapointed really.. oh well, it's not that i haven't been to Kek Lok Si, not my loss.. so went back

and i rested cause i don't play football.. then took bath and then took dinner.. after dinner, it's another outing. Since yesterday didn't manage to go Batu Ferringgi, it's postponed to today.. went to Batu Ferringgi and walked until about 10.40. it's not easy bringing 35 kiddos ok.. good thing got brother there.. if not, i sure die already..

by the time went back, it's about 11.30. then ask the kiddos to sleep.. then went out makan.. makan makan until 1 something, father called.. saying the whole of level 2 no electicity.. my gosh, these kiddos are very capable of doing fabulously crazy things.. beats me how they managed to do just that..

so went back and the problem can't be solved.. so they will have to live with it.. good thing i staying in level 1, so got fan.. :p finally i slept at 2 a.m.

God Bless~

SFA Altar Servers Retreat 08 (1)

Ah... finally sems over..

Ah... stress free life finally...NOT

Semester is completed on 15th Dec.. so that evening after exam, went out with loo loo and gang to the curve.. need to talk for more than half an hour to decide where to go.. =.=;

so go there.. makan, and they love taking pictures.. let me rephrase that, the girls love taking pictures, the guys are... ok with taking pictures.. hahaha.. and my gosh, the food need to take so long to come, which i don't understand why..

Anyway, on the 16th, it is SFA Altar Servers Retreat 2008, which this post is dedicated to - a continuation of stressful days even after exams..

Retreat 08 Day 1

So woke up on 5.45 a.m. to get ready.. cause we are suppose to be in church at 6.30. so get ready and went to church. reached there on time and waited for the bus.. our destination?

College General in PENANG!!!

Bus came at 7.30. we placed our luggages in the bus, and went to church for a short prayer before departure.. so we departed from St. Francis of Assisi at 7.45. reach College General way after our schedule, almost 3 o clock. then had our lunch, rest and then play games..

majority played football, but i played volleyball la.. most of them who played volleyball were first time playing, so nothing much to say :p . then had our dinner and the plan was to go Batu Ferringgi. But it was raining. so the trip had to be canceled and what we did was say rosary and then lepak before sleeping..

Some of them talked, others played cards (me included), and others do nonsense thing which makes little sense.. like switching off the lights and the scare people with really loud irritating sounds.. sigh..

then went to bed at 11.40... that's about it for the first day

God Bless~