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Old Boys Weekend (OBW) 2010

At Big School....

Watching basketball game.

The basketball players with old boys.

Thoroughbred 76-- with Mr. Lalang in forefront.......

Maher Zain embraces Islam...

This is the most beautiful video/song I have ever seen. The first time i watched it , my eyes were full of tears. Do watch it, you wont regret the 7 minutes you will spend your time on it.

When myalgia make you feel old: adverse effect of a statin drug.....

When I went for my blood test again on 3rd Nov, I was totally shocked when my lipid profile was really bad!! My total cholesterol was up to 5.8 mmol/l, my LDL ( the bad cholesterol) was up to 3.45 ,and my HDL (the good guy) dropped dangerously to 0.8! My triglycerides (TGs) was up again to 3.4!! It was shocking as I had been taking Lipantril, a drug containing fenofibrate to reduce my TGs. To make matters worse, my fasting blood sugar was up to a scary 7.3, and my uric acid was a high 466 micromol/l !!

Oh dear, it must be Wong's barbecued kambing that had caused the all-time high bad levels in my blood serum!!! Anyway I have to admit I had been very naughty the whole month of Syawal!! So many Hari Raya open-houses every weekend, and I have this gluttony to taste every delicious mouth-watering rendang at every invitation, he he.

I realised that I have pre-diabetic syndrome, or Syndrome X, as some doctors called it, for the past 2 years! It seemed that whatever that I have done to overcome this problem has failed. So the doctor decided to give me a statin drug, as she said she had prescibed the drug to many of her patient as the result was good, in the sense that it managed to reduce the total cholesterol, raise the HDL and lower the LDL. I was more than willing as I have done my homework and read about positive results of statin drugs in the web.

My next blood test was on the 7th Dec. It seemed that station does work! My TGs dropped to 2.45mmol/l, my total cholesterol was down to a normal 4.8, my LDL was also down to less than 2.0, however, statin also cause my HDL to drop to a 0.7!

It was in my second month on statin that I began to feel pain in my legs, which did not disappear with massages, nor with painkillers like diclofenac (Voltaren) or muscle relaxants. The pain seared from my calfs right up to my thighs, and it can last the whole day. I had to take bedrest a lot, a good thing this happened in December, and I had taken a lot of leave, without interfering much with my work. Many mornings,I felt so out of energy, that it was so difficult to get out of bed for the Suboh prayers. I realised that I must be having myalgia, muscular pain, and fatigue as a result of taking the statin drug. I urine had also changed from a light yellowish tincture to a darker brownish colour. Are my muscles cells exploding??

I have been reading a couple of books on wellnesss and natural health, and I have also studied many websites concerning cholesterol and statin drugs. After 6 weeks taking statin, I made my decision to stop taking the drug. At first I was quite worried to make a sudden stop without the doctor's advise due to fear of sudden withdrawal effect. However, as I had taken statin for only 6 weeks, I had decided to stop, and besides, I can't bear the muscular pain in mu legs and at the back of my neck.

..... to be continued.

Raya Feast at Fat Cat Studio, Damansara Perdana

It was a belated Hari Raya feast last Friday night, 23rd of October (one week after end of Syawal!!) starting at 9 pm,but as sumptuous as it could be, with Wong's barbecued Kambing being the main gastonomical attraction, everyone loved the raya dinner. It seemed that we Malaysians never stopped eating during the month long Hari Raya (to such an extend that we continue with our voracious appetite even after Syawal's end!! ha ha). However, it was a wonderful night where I was glad to be able to meet 25 of my old (literally) school mates from MCKK. We called ourselves the thoroughbred (72-76), as we were the first batch of bright intelligent kids to be accepted to join Form 1 in 1972 in the prestigious Malay College Kuala Kangsar.

....( to be continued)

melankholia...

I guess there are things a man doesn't tell others...
they just haunt him inside...
this is a dark night in my life...
i cannot sleep...frustrated...sad...
has your heart ever hurt so much you thought it was gonna explode?

and right now i am feeling a pain in the pit of my stomach
and right now i am feeling a pain all over my heart
i was not made for this;
love is for the strong and stupid
i am careless and naive...and misunderstood
a deadly combination.

there is no prize
just nights of lost sleep
just dreams of what could've been
sometimes i am spread too thin
trying to make everyone happy is not easy
especially when no one tries to put a smile on my face
just nights of lost sleep...

In my hallucination
I saw my beautiful flower garden.
In my vertigo, in my dizziness
In my drunken haze
Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel
And I was the spirit of love
Now I am sober
There is only the hangover
And the memory of love
And only the sorrow

ILI: My personal experience- Part 5; Keys to Survival

From my observation of the sufferings of my children, I have understood and recognized the symptoms of serious ILI rather well. The symptoms could be any of the following combinations;

• body aches followed by very high fever (39-40 degrees) for 3 days which became milder and continue for another 2-3 days, no runny nose or blocked nose, dry "bison" cough and severe sore throat and malaise till 8th day.
• severe agonising back ache with very high fever for 3 days, became less severe for another 2-3 days, mild sore throat, no runny nose, dry "bison" cough, malaise.
• tired body, very high fever for 3 days, and became milder for 4-5 days, no runny nose, severe headache, dry "bison" cough .

These I knew are symptoms of H1N1. Perhaps my whole family had had H1N1 ! Only not proven so because I didnt do the lab test. The test for H1N1 at private institutions are eye-boggling too damn expensive!! I asked a private clinic and I was given a hefty RM170 tag !! A private hospital in Shah Alam charged a ridiculous RM220!! What are these medical professionals doing? Making money out of people's sufferings?

I am glad I have practised the followings as soon as my children had fever and cough.

1. Take organic multi-vitamin, multi-mineral supplement.
2. Take extra 500 mg of organic Vitamin C supplement which naturally contain bioflavonoids. To be taken 3x /day. Thats a total of 1500 mg of Vitamin C plus phytonutrients.
3. Take 2 tablets of freeze-dried garlic supplement with added veges such as parsley which also contain phytonutrients.
4. Eat a lot green apples, as apples are alkalizing and rich in pyhtonutrients. I believe eating oranges will be equally beneficial.
5. Eat alkalizing foods. Taking chicken soup with watercress or broccoli is a good alkalizing broth. Try it.
6. Eat a lot of greens, like salads or ulam kampung.
7. As all this happened in the month of Ramadhan, I had supplicated to God for his mercy on my children, and family.

Preventive measures

Being in the middle of a pandemic should make us more careful and make positive important decisions to save ourselves and our family from this scourge. Besides cleaning our hands with antiseptic soap, as advocated by the authority, I strongly believe that strengthening our inner biological terrain is a positive step towards prevention from this pandemic. We should assert ourselves to boost up our immune system, and at the same time, ensure to make effort to make our blood and body more alkaline at cellular level.

A MCOBA doctor wrote that, H1N1, like other Influenza A viruses, only infects the upper respiratory tracts and proliferates there. The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/ throat. In a global pandemic of this nature, it's almost impossible not coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not the problem but proliferation is. While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps -

Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (or any well-known mouth-wash). H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. Gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one.

Similar to above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. Blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.

Allahu a'lam.....

25 years in service-Majlis Jasamu di kenang.....

On 1st October 2009, I had attended a 'Majlis Jasamu di kenang' at Dewab Sri Budiman, a event to show gratitude to "otai-otai" UiTM who had served with dedication for 25 years, 30 years and till gas ran-out. It was a simple event ,well organised, and as it is still Raya month, we are served with nice lodeh and nasi empit with really delicious rendang and daging serunding. Then came the speech time started with our Tan Sri VC with his usual brand of humor. He talked about many of us now not so very handsome, now with greying hair, and also those who had surpassed menopause era. Then Tan Sri Dr Wan, the Pengerusi Lembaga Pengarah, also began to give his speech. He had praise our VC who had worked so hard to uplift UiTM to what it si now, he talked about the otai who had achieved impressive explicit knowledges, but also had acquired tacit knowledges, or implicit knowledges. This is wise words, as I truly agree with him. The deep understanding and acquistion of knowledges unpublished comes through years of intellectual experiences, and wisdom through aging intelligently.
Not failingly, he also had some wits under his sleeves. He talked about listening very carefully to Tan Sri VC's speech ,and he thought he heard "MEN-NO-PAUSE". That was charming of him. I guess men will always be men, we will always be cheeky, even at very old age...... he he.

Anyway, as a token of good faith, we were given a couple of Bonia watches, His and Hers. I guess it was nice to receive a free gift. Although I wish that they had given me the diamond studded gold watch as depicted on the Bonia paper bag which came with the gift... he he.

ILI: My personal experience;Part 4-Alliin and alkalizing foods

I have also given my children garlic supplements. I believed that garlic is a potent immune system stimulant and a natural antibiotic. Garlic contains an amino acid derivative 'alliin'. When the effect of alliin is observed on blood cells, a noted increase in the engulfing capacity of phagocyting cells is seen.
When garlic is crushed or damaged, the enzyme alliinase converts alliin to allicin. Thus it is important to choose a supplement which still contain alliin, and this can happen only if the garlic is freeze-dried before pulverised and made into pills. Garlic oil or pearls may be good for your heart but it may not have anti-bacterial or anti-viral properties.
Allicin itself has powerful anti bacterial and anti -fungal properties.
Garlic not only has anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties, but also has more than 70 sulfur-containing compounds that help the body make other immune-stimulating compounds such as cysteine and glutathione.

Garlic is also an alkalizing food. Our body is alkaline by design and acid by function. Maintaining proper alkalinity is essential for life, health, and vitality. Simply put - an imbalance of alkalinity creates a condition favorable to the growth of bacteria, yeast, viruses and other unwanted organisms. All leading biochemists and medical physiologists have recognized pH (or the acid-alkaline balance) as the most important aspect of a balanced and healthy body. They have long known that the maintenance of an alkaline pH in our tissues and cells is critical to cellular health.
All the cells (billions of them) that make up the human body are slightly alkaline, and must maintain alkalinity in order to function and remain healthy and alive. However their cellular activity creates acid and this acid is what gives the cell energy and function. As each alkaline cell performs its task, it secretes metabolic wastes, and these end products of cellular metabolism are acid in nature.
An acidic, anaerobic (lacking oxygen) body environment encourages the breeding of fungus, mold, bacteria, and viruses. One way to keep our body's biological terrain at a healthy alkaline environment is eating alkalizing foods including lots of green foods.

Many of us must have received an email about a student who had suffered from H1N1 but was not given any appropriate treatment for a week in a hospital, he was nearing death, until he was taken home and an Ustaz recommended him to eat 6 apples a day! He recovered a few days later.
I have also bought a lot of green apples for my children too. Perhaps green apples are more alkaline than ripe red apples, definitely it is in the list of alkalizing foods that we should consume! Apples are not only alkalizing, but each apple contains some 15 mg of Vitamin C, and a whole load of rich phytochemicals! However, make sure you consume everything, skin and all, except the seeds, as the phytonutrients are rich at the rind and pits.
I am glad that I have decided to change the diet of my family many months ago, after attending a 2-day wellness workshop under the patronage of open university. Thus I have groomed my family to love eating green foods, such as lettuces, delicious crispy romaine salads, and not forgetting our own "salads", our ulam kampung. My children may be weird as they even love eating the bitter pegaga with dinner!! These ulams are packed with perhaps 100s of phytonutrients!!

ILI: My personal experience- Part 3:Boosting immunity

I have given my children natural organic multi-vitamin and multi-mineral supplement as well as extra doses of Vitamin C. Vitamin C has well been known to boost up the immune system. When the word "vitamin" is mentioned, people would be thinking "pill". The more educated modern people would probably think " US RDA" ( now, its RDI, US Reference Daily Intake) . The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has formulated recommended consumption levels for vitamins called recommended daily allowances (RDA). But we must understand that these allowances do not account for the amount needed to maintain maximum health, rather than 'borderline' health, only the amount needed to prevent deficiency diseases such as beri-beri, rickets or scurvy.
Larger doses of vitamins can help our body work better. Holistic medicine practitioners and wellness experts talk about ODA instead of RDA. Optimum Daily Allowances are the amounts of micronutrients needed to achieve optimal and vibrant good health. For example, the RDA for Vitamin C is a mere 60 mg, well, enough to prevent scurvy, however, ODA requires you to consume more than 2000 mg. To boost up your immune system ,you must take at least 1500 mg per day.
The immune system is a complex and amazing body system that protects us from bacteria, viruses, toxins, and other dangerous pathogens (germs). Holistic medicine recognizes that illness is not caused by viruses and bacteria, but rather by weakened immune systems. For example, all medical practitioners agreed that cancer is a disease which resulted from the immune system that has gone terribly wrong.
Viamin C is one of the top immune boosters available. Vitamin C increases the production of infection-fighting white blood cells and antibodies and increases levels of interferon, the antibody that coats cell surfaces, preventing the entry of viruses.
However, when you choose a multi-vitamin supplement, you must choose a supplement which is made from natural sources.
Studies have shown that protein-bonded vitamins, as found in natural whole food supplements, are absorbed, utilized, and retained in the tissues better than supplements that are not protein-bonded. Chemical derived or synthetic vitamins are not protein-bonded.
Man-made synthetic ascorbic acid are manufactured in the lab, and many of this cheap local products also contain artificial colourings and flavors.

I have chosen a Vitamin C supplement which also contain fruit and vegetable extracts that are rich in phytonutrients such as bioflavonoids. The bioflavonoids are helpful in the absorption of vitamin C and protect the multifunctional vitamin C molecule from oxidation, thereby improving and prolonging its functioning. Flavonoids have been referred to as "nature's biological response modifiers" because of strong experimental evidence of their inherent ability to modify the body's reaction to allergens, viruses, and carcinogens. They show anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial and anti-cancer activity.
Bioflavonoids function synergistically with Vitamin C in regard to maintaining healthy capillaries, to help form collagen in connective tissue, to help heal wounds, and to support a healthy immune system. These bioflavonoids increase intracellular Vitamin C levels, thus preventive damages to the cell by viruses.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri

Jika ....

ada langkah yang mengguris hati,

ada tingkah laku yang membekas luka,

ada lisan yang tak terjaga,

ada janji yang tak tertunai,

ada hati yang berperangsangka

serta ucapan berbunga dusta,

mohon dibukakan pintu kemaafan.....

Salam Aidil Fitri, maaf dazhir batin.......

ILI: My personal experience- Part 2:Organic Supplements

The next day, my Form Three son, Hasan, complained that he had chills the whole night before I woke him up for sahur. A couple of hours later his body temperature began to rise rapidly. He was having similar ILI. On Friday, three other sons of mine began to have fever. Habibi , my 13 year-old son, complained of having body aches all-over for the past 3 days, and finally was down with similar high fever. My third son, Dzil, 22, who is in his first semester doing his first degree, began to complain of excruciating pain in the back, which he said later, he had never experienced such a terrible back ache. I had to go to office first, and when I came back at 11 am to bring them to a clinic, Umair also complained of feeling feverish. Umair is my second son who is now in his final year pursuing his first degree in UiTM. Now all my 6 sons was having ILI, but I will just take care of them myself. My house was then full of sick boys who coughed deep and dry, sporadically and sometimes together, filling the house with deafening brazen noise like the long deep trumpeting snort of American white buffaloes or leucistic bisons.
Although I worry about the recovery of my sons, I have high hopes and believe that if I can assist my children to boost up their immune system, I can save them from aggravating towards dangerous deterioration.
Actually I was not sure who actually brought this A-virus to my family. Perhaps it was my elder daughter. About a week earlier, both my daughters, Maryam,20, and Fatimah, 17, were down with flu. They had high fever, headaches, and were coughing quite badly. Besides taking them to a clinic for medicines, I had told them to take Vitamin C and Garlic. With disciplined consumption of the organic supplements, both my daughters recovered quickly in 3 days.