Dag Dig Dug

Di dalam daaaadaaaaa~~

Jantung berdebar, hati berbungaaa~

Amboiiii~

Ewah.

Tak tahan plis nak berdangdut sekali sekala. :P

Okey lah, time for iphone app review!!

(konon sambutan hangat der~)

Instant Heart Rate by Azumio.

Bak kata iTunes,

Instant heart rate uses your iPhones camera to detect pulse on your fingertip. A technique used by medical pulse oximeters now available on your iPhone.

Place the tip of your index finger on iPhone’s camera and in a couple of seconds your Heart Rate will be shown. Instant Heart Rate will beep with your pulse.

A real-time chart will show your every heart beat. (ini kalau beli yang tak free punye la :P )

Mulanya aku doubt jugak la kan nak guna.. biar betul. But boleh dipercayai. Kalau tak, takkan lah boleh menang the best Health & Fitness app on Mobile Premier Awards 2011 .

Untuk tahu jantung korang ni spesis sihat ke tak, boleh lah measure guna app ni. The result may not be accurate but the best way is to make sure you're doing it with a good lighting. The app measures your pulse according to your blood flow in your finger.

It's good to measure your resting heart rate, so bila tengah duduk-duduk tu, boleh la measure. If korang duduk relax goyang kaki pun heart rate korang still tinggi, masa untuk mengubah lifestyle kepada yang lebih sihat! 

Aku dah test app ni since I was on drugs due to my asthma. Doc kat klinik bagi salbutamol pills untuk asthma bila aku kena asthma attack that day. Dah lah guna nebulizer, balik tu gwa tibai salbutamol pulak. Pil ni ada side effects, si pemakan jadik menggigil, dan jantung berdebar laju. Senang je nak terkejut. Even sudu jatuh dalam sinki pun aku dah rasa nak pengsan. Punye lah terkejut. Susah nak explain macamana perasaan bila terkejut tu. 

Itulah side effect Salbutamol ni yang paling ketara. Tak boleh drive bila dah makan pil ni. Sangat bahaya. Even ada doktor yang ban pemberian pil ni kepada patients sebab side effects yang sangat tak bagus. Like my doctor in KPJ hospital. He hates it. He's also an asthmatic so he knows best about about asthma.

So resting heart rate aku tanpa pengaruh Salbutamol yang aku ambil apabila bangun pagi adalah seperti berikut.

Manakala ketika di bawah pengaruh ubat, adalah seperti ini.

Kedua-dua measurement ini dibuat ketika aku sedang baring atas katil. Means I was not working out or doing anything. Bezanya cuma pengambilan ubat.

Pernah jugak aku measure ketika penat naik bukit dan tangga pergi kelas. Ini bacaannya.

 

Beza 1 beat je daripada bacaan ketika aku ambil Salbutamol. Punye lah berdebar jantong ku ini kerana dadah.

Maybe kalau jumpe Ashraf Muslim, berganda-ganda lagi gundah gulana di jiwa! HAHAHAHA.

Ok lah, try la app ni but you can't rely on this app as your medical record pulak! Setakat precaution or suka-suka boleh la. Kalau reading duk tinggi je, it's a sign of unhealthy heart ler tu kan.. so jom makan Quaker Oat. Kakaka.

3 + 2

Ok another event yang aku nak cerita adalah Library Week yang dianjurkan pada 3 hingga 7 Oktober lepas. Agak sudah lama ya tuan-tuan dan puan-puan.

Closing ceremony

Library Week ni dianjurkan oleh staf Library untuk students dan staf tapi aku tengok students sini agak pasif. Kami pulak mesti la nak support staf yang anjurkan event ni kan..sebab member-member sendiri jugak. So kebanyakan contests dimonopoli oleh staf dan setiap penyertaan dikenakan bayaran sebanyak RM1.

Ada game-game tradisional macam dam haji, congkak, carrom etc.. dan ada jugak yang berbentuk submission macam crosswords, crack your head quiz, guess the coins etc.

Bos saye tewas di tangan pelajar.

Carrom peringkat saringan.

Dam Aji - sesi saiko.

Aku tak masuk lah game-game tradisional tu.. aku hanya masuk 4 contests dengan total 7 entries, iaitu crack your head quiz, guess the coins, crosswords dan create your own quotation.

1. Crack Your Head quiz
Ada 20 soklan kena jawab. Aku main beli je borang without checking the questions first. Alih-alih bila nak jawab, aku tengok 6 soalan pertama adalah soalan berkaitan dengan medic. T________T

Soalan memang pecah kepala la kan. Makanya aku pun scan dan mintak someone tolong jawabkan :P

At the same time, aku dapat gak jawapan dari colleague aku yang masuk quiz ni dan of course, Google la. :D

Bunyi cam senang kan.. tapi sebenarnye susah please. Confusing. Tak tau mana satu jawapan yang betul. Akhirnya kumpul-kumpul jawapan, aku pun submit lah sekalipun tau tak akan menang. Pemenang akan dipilih mengikut the best marks and time of submission.

2. Crosswords
I had fun doing this contest sebab budak-budak department aku ramai yang beli borang ni dan kami jawab lah sama-sama. I found out most of the answers sebab aku tau kat mana nak cari jawapan-jawapan tu, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.

Tapi kitorang stuck kat satu soalan ni. I was pretty sure we could find it in DBP web tapi tak jumpa. Then diorang ni tak dapat nak tunggu bagi jawapan yang last ni sebab masing-masing kena pergi compete untuk carrom dan dam haji. So I stayed in the office, searching for the answer. Akhirnya jumpa! Memang ada dalam DBP tapi dalam web tu ada typo error.

So I called them to come back to the office cause I had found out the answer, tapi diorang ni lama gila aku tunggu tak muncul-muncul sebab game tak habis lagi so I decided to submit my entry first.

3. Guess the Coins
So ada empat gelas Coke yang penuh dengan duit syiling, you just got to guess the total value. I submitted two entries for this contest, RM204.20 and RM189.30.

Tabung siapa lah kena pecah ni..

Aku bab teka-teka macam ni memang fail k. Tak pernah menang. Value tu pun aku submit after asking that someone to guess it for me. Hahaha...

4. Create Your Own Quotation
Contest ni agak funny sket. Sebab aku tak perasan akan kewujudannye. Aku hanya dapat tahu bila ada student datang nak print kat department aku, then mintak membe aku adjust sikit design quote dia. Since aku dah biasa browsing Tumblr, aku agak familiar dengan design quotation ni. Contest ni syarat dia kena create quote sendiri dan design lah layout dan print dalam bentuk A3. Kalau menang, diorang akan frame kan dan gantung kat library.

Aku dapat tau tu waktu pagi, hari terakhir untuk submit penyertaan. Terus aku pergi beli 3 penyertaan. Hahaha.. Tapi masa dah suntuk. Alkisah pagi tu ada meeting department, lepas lunch baru aku sibuk nak design. Kebetulan hari yang sama aku sibuk pulak dengan hal-hal kerja. So dalam pukul 3 petang macam tu baru lah aku sempat nak design.

Aku guna Adobe Photoshop je. Tak sempat nak cari background pun, aku just browse Tumblr untuk cari image yang sesuai dan ambik mana yang sempat. Confidentnye lah beli sampai 3 entries. Dalam kul 4 baru siap dua. Tapi bila tengah design yang ketiga, baru lah aku teringat kena print dalam A3. Size gambar kat Tumblr ni kecik je. So bila print, gambar akan pecah lah. Hadoiyaiiii!!

Dah lah aku tak sempat nak fikir quote apa nak letak. Maka aku terpaksa lah buat balik yang lagi dua tuuu.. Kul 4.30, staf kat Library dah call, "Ayu, nak submit tak quotation? Dah nak close ni.."

Sepantas kilat la aku print dan pergi submit. Fuh! Berpeluh.

So, menang kah aku dalam keempat-empat game yang aku join ni?

Aku kalah untuk Guess the Coins. Total value adalah RM185.. berapa sen tak ingat.

Third place untuk Crack Your Head Quiz..

First place untuk Crosswords!

And lastly, first place untuk Create Your Own Quotation!

I think no one noticed it's actually a time turner. (Time what??) See.

Hahahaa.. Alhamdulillah.. Rezeki :) Based on kisah aku ni, siapa sangka kan balik-balik muka aku je naik atas stage amik hadiah?

On top of that, aku menang cabutan bertuah.. dua kali! Hahahaha...

Begitu lah kisah rezeki di hari Jumaat. :)

My lucky draw numbers. 54 and 57 got lucky if I'm not mistaken.

Games camni pun dapat sijil doh. Haha..

Bowl for Charity.

Where have I been? Been neglecting my own blog for weeks. Came back with a copy-and-paste article and gone again.

I wasn't going anywhere. But I barely had time to check this blog. Not even to take a quick glance over it. I was tied up with my schedule, my work and a charity event. Well that event is what I wanna talk about in this entry.

Sejujurnye banyak kisah-kisah yang berlaku yang aku nak kongsi tapi sebab dah lama terabai, cerita pun dah membukit, so aku amik je la yang paling senang nak cerita dan mempunyai beberapa keping gambar :P

Sebenarnya tak lama dulu aku, somewhere in July, I decided to join a charity team kat tempat kerja aku ni, atau lebih dikenali sebagai Humanitarian Aid Team (HAT). So rasanye korang pun boleh tau la kan basically apa yang team kami ni buat. Melawat ke rumah-rumah kebajikan, berikan bantuan pada yang memerlukan, kumpul dana, dan lain-lain lagi lah yang berkaitan dengan tugas kebajikan ni. Ada event yang berjaya memancing tumpuan media cetak jugak lah.. Ni antaranya..

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Tapi rata-rata event yang diorang buat ni memang aku tak dapat join sebab selalunya kunjungan ke rumah kebajikan ni diorang buat pada hari Sabtu.. dan hari Sabtu aku takde, pergi kelas di Shah Alam.

Event yang aku nak cerita ni ialah event terakhir yang kami buat setakat ni iaitu HAT Charity Bowling Tournament. Yeahhh.. bowling tournament, bukan melawat rumah kebajikan haha. Tujuannya adalah untuk mengumpul dana bagi aktviti seterusnya. Mungkin bagi yang tak pernah terlibat dengan charity events macam ni wonder untuk apa dana tersebut kalau setakat melawat je kan. Biasanya kami bukan pergi dengan tangan kosong, ada sumbangan yang diberi, samada pemeriksaan kesihatan secara percuma (since tempat keje aku ni penuh dengan medic/nursing/physio students), ataupun sumbangan dalam bentuk alatan atau kemudahan yang diperlukan, bergantung pada keperluan sesuatu rumah kebajikan tu.

Kalau ikutkan bowling tournament ni pun aku tak boleh nak join sebab tarikh asalnya jatuh pada hari Sabtu, tapi entah cemane diorang putuskan untuk tukar hari Ahad. So aku agak sibuk lah dengan kerja belakang tabir ni since aku handle promotion. Mula-mula agak mencabar sikit nak cari penyertaan sebab sambutan agak dingin. Dua minggu sebelum tournament, kami hanya berjaya dapat 6 team sahaja. Bulan Oktober ni banyak aktiviti lain dan students pun ada yang sibuk nak exam, mungkin dari segi tu dah impak jumlah penyertaan. Tapi Alhamdulillah berkat kegigihan komiti, dalam masa dua minggu tu, kami berjaya dapatkan lagi 16 team. :)

Hadiah yang mendapat banyak tajaan dari doktor-doktor pakar di kolej.

Juara longkang dapat real pin okey!

Aku pun masuk bertanding please. Walaupun tak hebat langsung kan, masuk je lah. Ranking peribadi, aku hanya berjaya dapat no 15 daripada 40 orang peserta perempuan. Hahahaha. Tapi team toksah cite dapat nombor berapa. Hahaha. Ibu pun masuk jugak tau! Supportive kan dia? :P Team dia dapat no 7 dan ranking ibu ialah no 8. So lagi hebat la daripada anak-anak dia (adik aku pun masuk!!).

COO merasmikan kejohanan boling.

Nak tiup semangat punye pasal.

Alhamdulillah event berjalan lancar dan habis seperti yang dirancang. Kalau aku organize event, aku paling tak suka ada delay yang terlampau panjang. So aku make sure semua bermula on time atau at least delay dalam 10 ke 15 minit sahaja. Aku rasa berkat aku spam email ofis untuk mengingatkan diorang tentang punctuality telah berjaya sebab peserta yang seramai 88 orang berjaya hadir on time. :)

Group photo: Winners and crew.

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By the way, merujuk pada entry bulan lepas, Celoteh ala bundle, department kami menang first place untuk deco raye tu. Weeeehehehehehe..

Okay lah nanti pos cerita lagi satu. Daa.

Romancing the Unromantic Stone

This is to remind us of the boyfriends, girlfriends, hubbies, wives, or even friends and family members whom we sometimes take for granted.

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My husband is an engineer. Since I met him, he was always an unflappable rock in my life. I knew he always had his feet firmly planted on the ground, and it seemed that no matter what else went crazy, he would be the one constant.

Three years of romance, and two years of marriage later, I got tired. He was the most unromantic man I know. He never bought me flowers, he never surprised me, and nothing changed in our marriage.

After some time, I finally found the courage to tell him that I wanted to leave him. He just sat there, speechless. My heart froze ... what kind of man was I married to that didn't even know what to say to make me stay?

After a while, he spoke, "What can I do to change your mind?"

"I will stay if you can give me a good answer to this question," I replied coldly.

"If I asked for a flower that grew on a cliff, and you knew that getting it for me means certain death, would you get it for me?"

His face grew troubled.

"Can I give you an answer tomorrow morning?" he asked.

Hearing that kind of answer, my heart died. I knew that I could never be happy with a man who couldn't even give me a answer straight away.

 

The next morning, when I woke up, he was missing. In the living room, under a warm glass of milk, was a note. My eyes grew misty as I read it ..

"Dear, I have my answer. I will never pick the flower for you if it meant certain death. But before you leave, I hope you can give me a chance to give you my reasons ....

You will always sit in front of the computer and type about for the whole day, but every time you will end up in tears cause your formatting will always go all over the place... I need my fingers, to do the formatting for you, so your tears will become smiles.

You like to travel, but would always get lost ... I need my eyes, so that I can bring you to the nicest places on earth.

Every time you leave the house, you would always forget your keys ... I need my legs, so that I can run home to open the door for you.

You never knew how to take care of yourself... I need my hands to help you get rid of the pesky white hair you hate so much when you grow old, to trim your nails, to feed you.

So you see, that's why I can't pick the flower for you. Until I find someone who loves you more than I do, I will need my body to take care of you.

If you accept my reasons, then open the door, where I will be waiting with your favorite muffin."

With tears streaming from my eyes, I opened the door, and there he stood, with a extremely worried look on his face. He still had nothing to say, but just stood there waving the packet he had in his hand in front of me. And then I knew for a fact that I will never find another man who will ever love me as much as he does.

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Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean that they don't love you with all they have ...