Alhamdullilah. That’s the only phrase that I can say to describe my feelings after the grueling five tiring days of fever.
Last Saturday I fell terribly sick. My joints ached all-over and I suspected it might have been the overdose of Nescafe (Green packet) and Coffee that I took two glasses a day for every single day for two weeks. So I stopped drinking Nescafe again.
Then the headache came. It’s similar to headache that I got when the last time I stopped drinking Nescafe two years ago. It just doesn’t stop until yesterday. I guess it might have been the high temperature anyway, not because of the Nescafe. But I read somewhere that too much coffee is not good (Reminds me of Maya Karin Nescafe Commercial)
The worst thing is that I went through intermittent fever, i.e. sick in the morning, well at noon, then sick again in the evening. It was like this for five days.
I never went to the clinic and just took a Panadol Actifast once. Just to make sure that my body killed the pathogens itself. I think it was dengue fever that I caught when I went out for a jog around UM last Friday. How it happened? Might have been coming from a bite of a mosquito.
Since I moved to UM five months ago, I fell sick more than three times. That’s far more when stayed in Sabah for the last four years. KL is totally infested with viruses and pathogenic bacteria most probably brought by foreigners coming to here to study and work. This will always a ripe moment and time for all microbiologists to work on…
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Do your work rightly and rightfully (Buatlah kerja dengan tepat dan betul)
Yesterday I was being hounded by a simple fact that an unfinished work will always haunt you and everybody else.
While analyzing the 2008 data as requested by my supervisor, I found that the age range for almost all of the samples are of adults. While the samples are purportedly coming from a pediatric institute a.k.a children's hospital, how could all the age range for all of these samples are of adults?
I was in doubt. I went straight to the cold room and took a box of samples out. I started to checked the samples one by one of its Date of Birth. To my astonishment, the guy who jot down the sample data put the "mother's IC" instead of the "child's Date of Birth"!
May God save the guy (he already left our lab to India for good!) and may God save my research! Anyway, more work to do for me!
Conclusion: Buat lah kerja dengan betul.
While analyzing the 2008 data as requested by my supervisor, I found that the age range for almost all of the samples are of adults. While the samples are purportedly coming from a pediatric institute a.k.a children's hospital, how could all the age range for all of these samples are of adults?
I was in doubt. I went straight to the cold room and took a box of samples out. I started to checked the samples one by one of its Date of Birth. To my astonishment, the guy who jot down the sample data put the "mother's IC" instead of the "child's Date of Birth"!
May God save the guy (he already left our lab to India for good!) and may God save my research! Anyway, more work to do for me!
Conclusion: Buat lah kerja dengan betul.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Why play Facebook?
As I could remember, Friendster was the top social website and Malaysians were recorded as the largest group of people using it (kira syok2 sendiri la ni).
And now that has changed. In Malaysia these days, another social website named Facebook rules the internet. Almost everybody especially the youngsters, would have a Facebook account and they will "poke" each other, post on the "walls", chit chatting using a built-in messenger, "tagging" pictures, playing "Mafia Wars" and "Farmville" and obviously taking endless numbers of quizzes (and posting quiz results on the "wall", so that "other" people can see).
All of these extra feature made Facebook indispensable (you can't throw it away) to its users and also made its competitors popularity going way-way down.
But there's one feature that made me think. That feature is the NOTIFICATION thingy, for the benefit of non-Facebook users, it's a red-colored bubble at the bottom right of the window with the number of notifications in the middle of it.
The first thing a Facebook user would do as he/she opens the website is to click on this red bubble before anything else. And why is that?
To some effect, users will keep on thinking about this red bubbles even after they have closed the Facebook website. They will think about "who will be commenting on my post" or "Am I going to be tagged today?" and so on and so forth.
I think it shows that:
i. we are still humans, as human must have some sense of curiosity. That's why we click the red bubble before anything else.
ii. we are in need of feedbacks to survive mentally (that's why criminals are being sent to the prison, so that they can be "tortured mentally")
And I'm sure that there's a bit feeling of "keghairahan" as we click on the red bubble. And why is that? Which part of the brain cause us to feel that? Is that part of the brain made us curious for other things, such as the question on religion, history, biology, chemistry, physics, cookings, writings, football etc?
What a difference has a small, red, simply-made bubble made on our minds by playing on us psychologically by which the fact remains: Facebook is one of the most visited website in the world. The red bubble did it's job very very well.
And now that has changed. In Malaysia these days, another social website named Facebook rules the internet. Almost everybody especially the youngsters, would have a Facebook account and they will "poke" each other, post on the "walls", chit chatting using a built-in messenger, "tagging" pictures, playing "Mafia Wars" and "Farmville" and obviously taking endless numbers of quizzes (and posting quiz results on the "wall", so that "other" people can see).
All of these extra feature made Facebook indispensable (you can't throw it away) to its users and also made its competitors popularity going way-way down.
But there's one feature that made me think. That feature is the NOTIFICATION thingy, for the benefit of non-Facebook users, it's a red-colored bubble at the bottom right of the window with the number of notifications in the middle of it.
The first thing a Facebook user would do as he/she opens the website is to click on this red bubble before anything else. And why is that?
To some effect, users will keep on thinking about this red bubbles even after they have closed the Facebook website. They will think about "who will be commenting on my post" or "Am I going to be tagged today?" and so on and so forth.
I think it shows that:
i. we are still humans, as human must have some sense of curiosity. That's why we click the red bubble before anything else.
ii. we are in need of feedbacks to survive mentally (that's why criminals are being sent to the prison, so that they can be "tortured mentally")
And I'm sure that there's a bit feeling of "keghairahan" as we click on the red bubble. And why is that? Which part of the brain cause us to feel that? Is that part of the brain made us curious for other things, such as the question on religion, history, biology, chemistry, physics, cookings, writings, football etc?
What a difference has a small, red, simply-made bubble made on our minds by playing on us psychologically by which the fact remains: Facebook is one of the most visited website in the world. The red bubble did it's job very very well.