4 more days to go and I will be leaving connaught. Well, this is the place where I had rooted myself for over the past 3 years. I still remember when i first came to kl with my parents on one particular Wednesday and i had to take my dinner alone in this famous pasar malam.. *terrible* as i do not know any one over here. Along those way, i knew a lot of friends and particularly I met my darling here.Over these 3 years i lost more than i gained. I have a wonderful boyfriend but I lost my granny and most importantly the homey feelings that i had last time. I guess it's going to be very difficult to retrieve it back. Furthermore, I regretted for what I did to my granny when she was trying to concern about how I was doing while i in hostel. I'm really really sorry!!! When I started my relationship with Cavan,I had never have the chance to let Cavan meet this spectacular and wonderful women in my life. That was such a shame!! But i always believe that Cavan is always the best present that my granny sent to me as my guidance angel, taking care of me. Although granny had never meet Cavan, but i know that deep down, Granny will like and love Cavan.. Am i right??
No matter what, cavan and i will be together along with Granny living deep down in each on of us.. Isn't that wonderful??

Well, after living Connaught, Cavan and I will be moving over to Section 17, Petaling Jaya due to my working place. Oh ya, that's my another stages of life. In another 6 more days, I will be starting my new chapter of my life, working in a company known as Materialise Software Asia Pacific as a medical conversion engineer.Hence I won't have the chance to play play and couch potato-ing anymore. *sob sob*



This is going to be a tough job for me. I am worrying whether i have the ability to cope with this position. But no matter what happens, I hope that I could manage, learn and adapt it in a short time. With blessing and guidance from granny and love and care from my siblings and Cavan, I really hope that I can toughen myself and faces the everyday challenges.

Besides them, my beloved friends will support me too right?? I'm sure you guys will. hehe!!..Thanks ya..

I guess that's all for now.. Will further update more on myself.. Take care everybody!! Love ya all..

Time to move forward..


It's been a while since my last blog. Ever since i completed my internship in Sime Darby, my life has been like so relaxing as in everyday i wake up, Internet, sleep and eat. That's all. But that wasn't about all. Besides that, i still had to clear up my viva presentation and all those corrections to be made. After spending like exactly a year on my final year project, finally i got it done and ready for hard cover binding. Ended up, my hard cover binding got rejected due to the font type too small. There goes my RM 40 bucks.. (Fly away) Then i purposely made another trip down to Serdang and on my way back in the KTM, i almost got picked pocket. Fortunately, i felt it else not only 80 bucks disappeared but also my RM 620 mobile phone.When i returned to college that very monday, i noticed that i'm the only one who had to send in for hardbound twice and what pissed me off others with the same cover (previously done as mine) need not have to do second time.[*speechless*] What can i do?? Nothing but to swallow it deep down my stomach. That was the unfortunate moment i ever had this year. After went through all those sweat and tears, here goes..



My thesis with all the sweat and tears..

and now, i can say that.. I'm officially OUT from UCSI.. [evil laugh]


As for a month later, i was in dilemma whether to continue master or start working. I was hesitating. I really had no idea. It's like as if, I'm lost in no where. Therefore, i applied for job and prepared for my master application. It was really a tough decision to make. Then as i received a call from the company to attend for an interview, i wasn't sure that i'm making the correct decision. Cavan told me, why not just attend the interview.. just go get interview experiences. Then on the other side, my sister called and said the same thing. It wasn't a bad decision after all, in order to apply for master degree, the most important thing is to have a potential supervisor which i could not find one. I could not risk my 2 years of master with somebody unknown and end up i could not grad.

At the end, i went to the interview and made it for my 2nd interview, i told myself that, even i have to postpone my dream and start working first, it wasn't a bad idea after all. Everybody eventually needs to enter this realistic society sooner or later and it;s good to have working experiences and then further improve and upgrade ourselves. Other than that, Cavan will not have travel over 70 Km each days anymore.

Now, i made it through the 2nd interview and being offered the job as medical conversion engineer. I wanted to thank everybody for all their help especially my parents, siblings and Cavan. They supported me well enough. Soon i will be starting my work and i may not carry out my responsibility or assignments given well, but for those who i loved and supported me all these while, I will try my very best to be fit for this position.

P.S.

Granny, if you see this, i really hope that you will be with me, guide me all the way. I really hope that i can make you feel proud of me. Loving you always.

Cavan, my dear, i'm sorry for being such a self center and causes you quite a lot of trouble. Soon, we together will gambate and make our dreams come true.

Haze in Kuala Lumpur on 13th July 2009 caused by some barbarians from Sumatera



On this day, i was awakened by this smelly burnt smell.. and i knew this going to be another day with HAZE. I was correct and shocked when I saw that the blurry image of the buildings in KL as shown in the picture above.

Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other dry particles obscure the clarity of the sky. The WMO manual of codes includes a classification of horizontal obscuration into categories of fog, ice fog, steam fog, mist, haze, smoke, volcanic ash, dust, sand and snow. [1] Sources for haze particles include farming (ploughing in dry weather), traffic, industry, and wildfires.

Seen from afar (e.g. approaching airplane) and depending upon the direction of view with respect to the sun, haze may appear brownish or bluish, while mist tends to be bluish-grey. Whereas haze often is thought of as a phenomenon of dry air, mist formation is a phenomenon of humid air. However, haze particles may act as condensation nuclei for the subsequent formation of mist droplets; such forms of haze are known as "wet haze."

In the United States and elsewhere, the term "haze" in meteorological literature generally is used to denote visibility-reducing aerosols of the wet type. Such aerosols commonly arise from complex chemical reactions that occur as sulfur dioxide gases emitted during combustion are converted into small droplets of sulfuric acid. The reactions are enhanced in the presence of sunlight, high relative humidity, and stagnant air flow. A small component of wet haze aerosols appear to be derived from compounds released by trees, such as terpenes. For all these reasons, wet haze tends to be primarily a warm-season phenomenon. Large areas of haze covering many thousands of kilometers may be produced under favorable conditions each summer.

Haze is also use to describe turbidity in clear glass or plastic as a percent value, or turbidity in beer or wine.

Haze often occurs when dust and smoke particles accumulate in relatively dry air. When weather conditions block the dispersal of smoke and other pollutants they concentrate and form a usually low-hanging shroud that impairs visibility and may become a respiratory health threat. Industrial pollution can result in dense haze, which is known as smog.

Since 1991, haze has been a particularly acute problem in Southeast Asia. In response the ASEAN countries agreed on a Regional Haze Action Plan (1997) and later signed the Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution (2002). Under the agreement the ASEAN secretariat hosts a co-ordination and support unit.[2]

aze causes issues in the area of terrestrial photography, where the penetration of large amounts of dense atmosphere may be necessary to image distant subjects. This results in the visual effect of a loss of contrast in the subject, due to the effect of light scattering through the haze particles. For these reasons, sunrise and sunset colors appear subdued on hazy days, and stars may be obscured at night. In some cases, attenuation by haze is so great that, toward sunset, the sun disappears altogether before reaching the horizon (see, for example, Figure 1 in http://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/corfidi/haze.html). Haze can be defined as an aerial form of the Tyndall effect therefore unlike other atmospheric effects such as cloud and fog, haze is spectrally selective: shorter (blue) wavelengths are scattered more, and longer (red/infrared) wavelengths are scattered less. For this reason many super-telephoto lenses often incorporate yellow filters or coatings to enhance image contrast.

Infrared (IR) imaging may also be used to penetrate haze over long distances, with a combination of IR-pass optical filters (such as the Wratten 89B) and IR-sensitive detector.



With production of plastic films haze has technical significance as the percentage of light that is deflected more than 2.5° from the incoming light direction.[3]
(WIkipedia)

Here are some facts, adapted from the star

Settle this burning issue of haze, now


Something’s in the air these days and it’s not really very nice – in fact it’s downright dangerous and I am not talking about the swine flu. It is the particulates from burning taking place across the Straits of Malacca in Sumatra and in the Riau archipelago carried into Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand by the winds.

It irritates the throat, waters the eyes, increases the risk to asthma patients, multiplies respiratory ailments, raises the air pollution index to unhealthy levels, discourages tourism, puts a pall of gloom in the air and probably has resulted in more direct and indirect deaths than the total number of people killed throughout the world from the A (H1N1) or swine flu virus.

In 1997/98, a particularly bad period when visibility was so low that one could not see the building sitting across the road in Kuala Lumpur, total damage to the environment, health, tourism and other activities was estimated at a staggering US$9bil (RM32bil), most of it to Indonesia itself.

Since that year, the haze has recurred yearly in our part of the world. In addition to fires in Sumatra and Riau, there are others in Kalimantan. Mostly, the fires are due to clearing of land for agriculture.

Using fires to clear land is illegal in Indonesia, but many plantations and farmers routinely use this method for agriculture because it is the cheapest way. The perpetrators don’t care for the health, economic and environmental damage they cause.

They are in effect aided by Indonesian authorities who routinely turn a blind eye to this practice and allow it to go on during the dry season. This burning has recurred every year since 1997 and sometimes has become extremely serious, such as in 2006.

Every year, the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore are blanketed in smoke from burning in Sumatra while parts of Sarawak and Brunei are affected by similar burning in the Indonesian part of Borneo.

Every year, when we are supposed to be enjoying blue skies and sunshine, and the sometimes unwelcome hot weather, we get instead gloomy skies, haze and smoke with unseasonably, intense thunderstorms from moisture in the air.

For weeks and months on end from June to September, we have to endure this until the advent of rains from October quells the fires and we move into the rainy season.

The thing that grates is that this whole episode repeated year in and year out is so easily preventable and this will benefit not only countries affected by the Indonesian burning but is most beneficial to Indonesia itself.

Following the major haze in 1997/98, Asean countries signed an agreement called the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution in 2002. That agreement provides a comprehensive basis for the control of haze in the region, imposing obligations on the countries to take appropriate measures where the haze could affect other countries.

However, to date, Indonesia, although a signatory, has not ratified the agreement, which means that the provisions of the agreement are not binding yet.

Thus, the main perpetrator of cross-border pollution is not clearly held to account.

Indonesia’s stance previously has been that it tries to stop the fires but because of the dry weather and the nature of the fires, it is often very difficult to put out once the fires start. The truth is probably somewhere in between, and even by accounts in the Indonesian press itself, fires are most often started by farmers and plantations deliberately and then subsequently rage out of control.

While the short-term costs are lower when debris from land clearing is burnt, the long-term damage to the environment, health, tourism and other economic activities are much, much bigger than the costs.

While unremitting pressure should be put on Indonesia by all the other Asean countries to ratify the agreement, there should be a plan to help Indonesia as well.

Asean countries should seriously consider the setting up of a fund not just to put out fires after they start but to prevent it altogether. That means to stop the people whether farmers or plantations from starting the fires to burn the waste in the first place.

There are measures which can be employed to get rid of organic waste in an environmentally friendly manner. They can for instance be broken up into small pieces and spread on the ground in plantations and farms, providing a source of nutrients as they rot.

A properly administered system of incentives, subsidies and severe penalties will quickly shift plantations and farmers into adopting more environment-friendly measures as they directly gain or lose according to the methods they use.

But for all this to take place, Indonesia must be willing to be part of the process. Asean countries must do their part to pull Jakarta into the circle by applying pressure and by standing ready to provide technical and financial help as and when required.

Admittedly it’s a delicate act which requires not just diplomacy, tact and negotiation but toughness, too. We cannot be pussyfooting around this issue forever as we have not had a haze-free dry season for more than a decade now.

We must extinguish this smouldering, burning issue once and for all.

Managing editor P Gunasegaram says take care of the environment and it will take care of us, too.

Until today the hazes in KL continues, I'm wondering..Does people especially the Authorized personnel have the concern even to solve this problem?? I guess not, they won't give a damn to it also. All they know is just fight for wealth, power, status and just do whatever things in order to get back what they wanted.I really hope that we do our part in making sure that this earth is a safe place for us to have a better future.

No more burning of forest. No more deforestation. No more pollution. Give those lovely animals and creatures a chance to live happily on earth. They have the rights as much as we do.

A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya
(Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees .
The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone.


Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart?

Ans:
1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar

Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?

Ans: No

Qn: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person
gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?

Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.

Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary?

Ans: Yes

Qn: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you suggest to de-stress?

Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in everything in life.

Qn: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to keep a healthy heart?

Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and injury to joints

Qn: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to do so?

Ans: Mother Theresa , who was my patient

Qn: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?

Ans: Extremely rare

Qn: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age
(I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30 years of age?

Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.

Qn: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart ?

Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused.

Qn: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines?

Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.

Qn: Can yoga prevent heart ailments?

Ans: Yoga helps.

Qn: Which is the best and worst food for the heart?

Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil.

Qn: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive?

Ans: All oils are bad .

Qn: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific test?

Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP, Treadmill test after an echo.

Qn: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?

Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position , place an aspirin tablet under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first hour.

Qn: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that caused due to gastric trouble?

Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.

Qn: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and serious heart problems.

Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents. Also, s edentary lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans and Americans.

Qn: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of 120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?

Ans: Yes.

Qn: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the child. Is it true?

Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not have a software engineer as a child

Qn: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart ? What precautions would you recommend?

Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these irregularities. However, as you grow older, respect the biological clock.

Qn: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications (short / long term)?

Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. However, modern anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.

Qn: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks?

Ans : No.

Qn: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease?

Ans : No.

Qn: How would you define junk food?

Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds , samosas, and even masala dosas.

Qn: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food?

Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are vulnerable for the most expensive disease.

Qn: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension?

Ans : No.

Qn: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of forwarded emails on this)?

Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the time, the ambulance does not turn up.

Qn: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to heart problems?

Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your exercise capacity.

Qn: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise?

Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot.

Qn: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?

Ans: Yes. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics.

Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation?

Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time , Control cholesterol, BP, weight.

Qn: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when compared to day shift workers?

Ans : No.

Qn: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs?

Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to
reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.

Qn: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart attacks?

Ans : No.

Qn: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?

Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45.

Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?

Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six months recommended) ....

Events for last two months!!

End of January (Chinese New Year 2009)

Cavan's visit to Penang (Together with H.Ting)










Valentine Eve (Faye and Emily)






March (Supper of the Month)

Happy Lunar New Year... maybe not so happy after all

This year.. it will be the 2nd year i am celebrating Chinese New Year without my granny.. my beloved grandmother. Without her, it's like everything also did not go well. This year no matter what happen i thought i can face it and try to mend every not necessary sadness, but when this thing came up, it just prove that i am a failure. I am useless in everything. It's not what i want and i cannot predict what's going to happen. Out of sudden, i became the bad guy of everything that happened. This is not what i want. All i want is just to be happy.. celebrate this new year.. Looks like.. my new year is getting worst from years to years.

Anyway.. to the rest.. Happy Chinese New Year..

The Past and the Future

There, 2009, end of another decades.. Welcome 2009!!!... To be frank.. i ain't the person that very excited over something that is not very exciting.. Okay.. I'm crapping here.. Anyway, my purpose for today's blog is to let people know what i did for the year 2008 and how i feel over the coming days.

Every year, during new year eve...we will sure never going to forget to make ASPIRATIONS.. hehe.. and when over to Gurney Plaza..squeezing with other people just to see fireworks.. This year, it was different.. very different.. i not only get to see fireworks, celebrate with friends and most importantly i don't have to squeeze with people...

Let ya see how i celebrated my New Year.






Isn't it great.. can be able to celebrate with group of friends.. in 19th floor where can see fireworks of the whole KL.. hehe..

there's one thing that i won't forget... that happened last year...
Prom Night ¬ everlasting memories... organized by Faculty of Applied Sciences May 06.. That was the best prom night i ever attended. Not only that, i managed to a title for that night..

Let ya see..



Best couple of the night.. wakakaka!!!

Other pictures...









In fact i wanna thank my friends who voted Cavan and me else i won't had the opportunity to get it.. Thanks ya..!!



Besides that.. i really wanna take this opportunity to wish everybody.. all the best in your future undertakings. 3 years.. it's not a long or a short time, we played, we studied together everything we did was indeed a memory.. Though we could not stop the time from moving forward, but we do have the ability to keep the memories we had to be everlasting. Love ya everybody, i do really missing you guys now..

In the mean time, what's really keep me frustrated, is the damn thesis.. and for now.. that's my worst nightmare.. cause i cannot finish my lab work... Sometimes there is time that i do really feel like giving up but i can feel that somewhere in me keeps telling to keep going. No matter how long is it i'm going to take to end my lab, i will sure to be going tough.. Although the road may be tough right now, as long as we do not fear them, we will easily cross the road to reach our very own destinations.

"Never Let the fear of Striking out, keeps you from playing the game"