Different Experiences

I noticed that there are some things changes on myself lately.
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I sweat easily even though I only have limited body movements whenever I'm in a high humidity & poor ventilation room (with fan switched on at low speed). Of course you may think that this is a logic and common thing; for me, i rarely experience this before hence I never complain even I'm in a room with no fan, I can adapted to such environment very well.
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And very often about few hours after I shower, my body will start becomes a bit sticky and smelly, even though I don't sweat! The odour from the armpits is even worst, although there are some improvements after the used of the deodorant, it sometime does makes me feel uncomfortable & embarrassing too.
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I breath hardly and my body movements seem clumsy & less agile when I'm in a sitting or meditative position. Between I found that after a long period of over & over washing processes all my pants seem shrinking in the size, especially at the waist part . How can a jean pant also can be shrunk in the size? ............

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Okie, I must face facts, yes~~~I'm gaining weight day by day, month by month, and year by year, but disagree I'm getting fatter & fatter! I still maintain the fit & athletic body type so far [ less perfect one lah of course... -_-''' ], just my tummy abit embossed (凸起).

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I can't believe that since I came to work in Miri in year 2004 til now year 2008, I have gain body weight of 13KG, i.e from the 65KG increased to 78KG! And yet the major part of the body weigth increment seem started to happen within this one year back...~sigh~

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You see, I yet getting plump, fat or obese, I just gaining body weight alone. Despite it has brings me an inconvenience and lots of troubles. So I just wonder how suffer and torture are them, I meant those fat & obese people who having health alert & heavy body weigth to bear; in the meantime have to be tolerate to those bad mouths & sarcastic words. In short they are definitely experienced the physical & mental torturing. So please never try to sneer at or gossiping on those people who are less perfect than us from the physical or other aspects, and try to cheer them up!

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What I Say Not What You Think

While hanging in Boulevard Hypermarket, I & Fern noticed that there were people crowd at a corner. So we walked toward that corner to find out what is happening? Well, the said corner which surrounded with people crowd is actually a promotional stall by Ladyship (贵夫人). There were 2-3 promoters doing the Ladyship's products demonstration; one of the products being demonstrated is multi-function Ladyship Extractor, which you can depend on it to produce you high fiber fruit & vegetable juices, vegetable soup stock, ice-blended beverages, rice paste and dairy mixture.

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Ladyshop Essence Extractor

The photo above showing one of the promoter is having the extractor demontration infront the people crowd. He blends various kind of fruit & vegetable juices (e.g tomato, bitter, orange, coffee, apple juice and etc) for public tasting purpose. Suddently I found some one is listening the promoter's explantion with serious look (full attention). He tried all the juices blended. Please stare on the photo above carefully, have you notice something interesting?

Okie, is fine if you failed to or can't find it, as I knew that the photo taken with my Olympus Digicam has low resolution. Look at the photo above again, I have circled a guy's head with a red circle. Can you see his face clearly?

I have enlarged the image, perhaps you can see his face now? Can you? Do you know who is he? Does his face look familiar or strange to you? When I point my finger to this guy, Fern was shocked! She asked that isn't he the blogger celebrity, Kenny Sia? Err...well myself also uncertain, I can't tell if he is Kenny Sia or not, the face look alike. Anyway, I guess he is not, as I believe Kenny Sia who claimed that his camera never be obedience to the rules should always has a camera with him regardless of the "whenever" or "wherever"! Don't know who is Kenny Sia? Here he is......

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Oop, Un-affordable Body Weight!

Obesity is a health issue which has long alerted the alarm of health nationwide, due to lack of the physical exercise, imbalance diet, genetic problem & etc. Malaysia as a new developed country also having this health problem, especially now-a-day the so called fast foods (e.g Mc Donald, KFC, Sugarbun...etc) have become the food celebrities among the small childs, teenages, youth, even adults & the eldery. That why recently the MOH (Ministry of Health) has tries to ban all kinds of fast foods' advertisments to be published in the newspapers or on the local TV channels.

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My Words:

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How far is your health conscious on the seriousness of obesity? As I know majority of the female are quite very concern with their body weight & body shape. During my university, us guys not hard to hear the complains from the girls, claimed that they were fat, they were overweight & wanna on diet programme to keep body slim & so on. Well, I won't deny that some of them were really looked abit fat & plump, but many of them for us guys were actually quite good looking & slim. Then why should them still make noise? Are they over health conscious?
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Is it any possibility that they girls don't have the right definition on the word "SLIM"? They may not even know how to diferentiate the physical look of "THIN", "SLIM" & "FAT" as well? Honestly, I have no idea how to diferentiate the body shape too, especially between thin & slim. Any suggestive figure or measurement can help in the differentiation?

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Just because of we don't know how slim is considered as slim, so many of us may undergoing an endless & un-worthwhile keep fit & diet programmes......However, if you only eat less but with balance daily diet and having a regular exercise as part of the "keep slim" programme, it is still fine, it won't harm your health and at least one thing for sure, you have changed your life style to the healthier one.

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Instead of chasing for the dreamed slim body shape, would advice just to monitor & maintain your body weight BMI (Body Mass Index) within the normal limit. What is the point that you are slim but you are actually underweight or unhealthy? You may say that body shape (external look) is important to create a self confident in approach to the public & social life; then how can you explain that some plump guys like kennysia ( haha...he will never know Im gossiping him as he will never come to my blog...:p ) can be so confident in his social life & became a blogger celebrity? ------------------------ [MOH-BMI Calculator]

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Doctor, Are You Serious?

What will you do if doctor tell you that you have the diabetes?

Shocked?

Nothing to do & just accept the reality & fact?

Don't belief & try to argue with the doctor?

Visit other doctor for second opinion?

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I have heard lots of bad feedbacks & complaints made by the customers to the doctor(s) they visited since I’m working in the medical lab for 4 years. Anyway, it may not a complaint as I said; it may be more alike a suspicious to the doctors’ professional or it may be just a misunderstanding?
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The scenario almost the same: Patient (customer) has done a blood test in a clinic. After consulted with the doctor, (s)he is shocked & worried, as doctor told that (s)he had the diabetes & medicine prescription is needed. Well, some patients might just simply accept & follow whatever being told or advised by the doctor, but some seem so hard to belief it & manage to find out the real story. Finally they came to the lab & of course I’m the one who entertained them. After listened to their stories on the “What”, the “How” & the “Why”, I started to play my role to remove the “?” from their queries! ( So funny & weird, how come they not trust the doctor but trust me more? :p )
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I also wondered why (how) some doctors are so expert & can simply diagnose a patient has the diabetes with just single blood or urine testing. Or without further investigation on the symptoms, family history & etc the patient might have?
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None of the diseases can be diagnosed with only single testing (as none of the testing are 100% accurate! If there is any clinic or lab tells hat they can provide you a 100% accurate blood test results, then they are bullshit!) ; it must at least twice, or perhaps more are required. A patient tested with high blood glucose / sugar (or glucose content in the urine) at the very first time not mean that (s)he must has the diabetes. It may be due to other reasons, like patient just had the meal or not fasted over a required fasting period (10 to 12 hours before the blood testing) or sometime other underlying biological factor(s) may play a role too. Likewise, a diabetes patient can tested with normal blood glucose as well, if they are over fasted or is under effective medication control. So how a doctor can tell if a patient has the diabetes with single blood or urine test & without any further investigation?
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Firstly, may be the doctor is still new with no experience or perhaps (s)he doesn’t know the truth behind the lab test findings! Anyway this is not a good excuse; if the so called “new doctor” has no idea on the right diagnostic procedure for the diabetes (as one of the most common disorders human being had), then what more we can expect from them? Secondly, doctor gives the patient wrong piece of information intentionally, with the hope to boost the drug / medicine selling (profits) high up? If this happen, I think the “Beast” or “Bitch” would be the best word to describes such an un-ethical doctor. Thirdly, may be patient him (her) self misunderstood the doctor’s message, especially if you don’t know how to differentiate the high blood glucose & diabetes.

For those people who may experience this before or after, the thing you must do is to ask doctor do another blood test for you, or ask doctor to do the OGTT (Oral Glucose Tolerance Test) to confirm the diabetes status. Of course now-a-day, there is another test that you may interest to get it done---HbA1c (Glycosylated hemoglobin). HbA1c may able to monitor & tell your blood glucose level in the last 2 to 3 months, although it actually is used to monitor how well a patient is under a medication control.
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With the HbA1c, you never can cheat to your doctor if you are a diabetes patient who never obeys to the advice & instruction in diabetes control plan; even if you have tried to over fasted (with or without strenuous exercise) or take the medicine only a very short period from the date of the blood testing, the HbA1c test will still shows an abnormal result (poor control).

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Symptoms of High Blood Glucose or Diabetes
(Picture grab from www.xtend-life.com)

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Foreign Workers Medical Check-Up

Yesterday I just assisit in a foreign workers' medical check-up which under a clinic Fern works with. This medical check-up involved 118 workers from Kalimantan, Indoneisa and it was held in a canteen of Shin Yang Sdn Bhd, located at Kuala Baram, Miri (around 3oKM form town center.)

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118 workers involved in medical check-upa
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My colleague, Jabie who assist me to perform the phlebotomy.a

Clinic staffs, Mardinah & Fern who help Dr Noor in the medical check-upa

Blood pressure measurement by Fern

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Weight & Height measurement, eye examination by Mardinah

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Tell you what? Most of the workers cheat in their age, they are actually teenagers (15-17 years old), but age stated in their passports are above 18 years old (which fit the min working age allowed by labor law). You will not hard to noticed that most of them having the same D.O.B. (like 31/01/xx or 01/01/xx) too in the name list given. You see, us Malaysians are actually quite lucky compare to those teenagers from other neighbour countries (e.g Indonesia), we are still under education & free from heavy works at this age range, unless you are one of the minority un-lucky group(s) or you choose to do so by your own desire.

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Only those who past the medical check-up can stay & work in local, or else they will be sent back to the place of origin. Normally the full medical check-up includes the following:

1. Physical check-up by doctor

2. Weight & height measurement

3. Blood pressure measurement

4. Eye examination

5. X-ray (screening for TB)

6. Blood screening (HIV I & II Screening, HBsAg, VDRL, Malaria Parasite, Urine Morphine & Carnabinoid screening, Urine Examination, and UPT for female only)

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~ Today is a special day for me, ya is my 29th birthday! Im on one day of replacement leave to rest at home and accompany Fern, who having off day today too.

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~ Are you going to employ a foreigner as house maid to do housekeeping or look after your childs. I have some advice here, but not now; I'll post it in another entry within this month. Please do follow up closely. Thanks ya... :)

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Fund Raising Health Screening Campaign

I just attent a 3-days Fund Raising Health Screening Campaign in Limbang last week (22nd to 24th Jan). This being the 3rd join project between my company & Lions Club of Limbang Mandarin.

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Campaign banner hanging in front the clinic main door.

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Well the campaign was successfully conducted. On the 1st day of the campaign, 71 participants came to redeem the blood test with vouchers (profiling test consist of Full Blood Picture, Lipid Study, Liver Function Test, Renal Function Test, Hepatitis B Screening, Rheumatoid Factor, Free T4, VDRL, Urine Examination & Hepatitis A IgG at RM88.00). On the 2nd day of the campaign, 86 participants joined in & on the 3rd day (the last day), another 70 participants came for the blood test, make it a total head count of 227 pax.

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Although the response is not as good as the past 2 years (314 pax in 2006 & 298 pax in 2007 ), it was a great result anyway. Don't forget, Limbang just a small town!

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Newspaper cutting (Sin Chew Jit Poh)

Limbang Plaza, Biggest Building in Limbang

(Combination of Shopping Mall & Purnama Hotel)

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The view of Limbang River with Water Village
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Ground floor of Limbang Market, besides vegetables, fruits & other raw stuffs,
wine & alcoholic drinks found at here too at very low rate (of course is underwater one lah),
even cheaper than those free duty one in Labuan Island.
Few bottles of alcoholic drinks bought as listed below:
1. Chivas 12 --- RM65 (1 Litre)
2. Sheridan's Coffee Layered Liqueur --- RM63 (1 Litre)
3. Peter Vella (Red Wine) --- RM50 (5 Litres)
4. Benedictine D.O.M (法国朗酒 )--- RM58 (2 Litres)
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Pasar Tani Limbang - Dried local products (salty fishes, dried prawns, ikan bilis...etc)
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Pasar Tani Limbang - Ikan Salai (Smoked Fished) at RM16 per KG
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Pasar Tani Limbang - Lukan at RM10 per tray (Favorite sea food for Bumi)

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Pasar Tani Limbang - Rices derived from Bario

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Wild Durian? Local people called it Buah Ukak or Durian Ukak

( not as sweet as the durian eaten by Merdurian... :p )

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Buah Asam Paya - A sour fruits, a plant with thorny stem normally found at river bank

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Damn Cough

Damn cough! Seem it likes me very much, don't wanna leave me oh...I got it since last Sunday (4th Nov), but til today, not yet get better, getting worst somemore even have tried up various kinds of medicines.

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At first, I have tried up the Strepsils, include the one for chesty cough (purple packing), but it just can't help.

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Later Fern has bought me the "枇杷膏", I not really like it, even this was my choice (mmh, should be my mum choice...) during my childhood. It is sweet but not effective in stopping my cough & itchy throat.
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So on Tuesday (6th Nov), Fern bought me an anti-cough syrup (Sedilix) from clinic, but my cough seem getting worst after this syrup been taken...! Night time, Fern's mum gave me a remedy...put an egg in a glass (of course with the shell removed) with a red onions chopped into small pieces & pour in the hot boiled water, left it for few minutes, then drink it...hmm, nice tasting, but......I still coughing!
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Wednesday (7th Nov), after finish played badminton at 9:00P.M, went to fecth Fern's from the clinic (she works night shift). I was asked to see Dr Noor. After checking, Dr Noor gave me another anti-cough syrup (ZECUF, made of herbs).
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At the same time, Fern's mum have another remedy for me, she steamed me a green apple together with some herbs, which believed that can stop coughing. I have ZECUF & green apple for 3 days already, but...sad...needless to say, I still cough over night.

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Im sad, as I miss crabs very much. Sea World Sea Foods Restaurant is having a promotion, 1KG of crabs is just RM10.00 (normal rate RM15.00). Tomorrow would be the last day of promotion, damn cough...all because of you, those crabs are to feed other people tummy, not mine!

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OMG, too bad, I get running nose this morning...what wrong to my immunity system, it never been this weak before, perhaps I can't deny that, Im not young any more... :p

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Luak Bay - Esplanade Beach

Hmm, too bad...my body has gave me some signals last few days...finally I get cough, which caused pain in the throat when coughing. But one thing Im sure is that I havent get the sore throat yet, as I had try to soak my throat with salty water, it not caused any pain...anyway, I lost my voice since yesterday...

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Yesterday (around 2:30P.M) I received a call from Sunway International Hotel, said that I have a free voucher for 3 days 2 nights hotel/resort room package, asked me go to collect this free voucher at Mega Hotel (Miri), at floor 11th, functioning room "xxx" (forgot the room's name). Had called Mega Hotel to have a clarification, and the operator told that it was true. Anyway at the last, I didnt make it, as assumed by Fern's sister-in-law (who works in Miri Marriot Resort & Spa) , it should be a travelling package promotion, by which if you buy one, you are entitled to such free voucher.
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In the evening (5:00P.M) I went to Esplanade Beach (Luak Bay) with friends, plan to have a swim, but the sea is wavy, not allow us to do so, so just walk on the beach. Below are fews shots at Esplanade Beach.

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We later went to Tanjong Sea Food Restaurant for our dinner.

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a..Belacan Midin

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a.."Manicai" fried Egg (树子菜/Sayur Cangkuk Manis)

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a..Herb Chicken

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a.Wet Fried Butter Crabs

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Video Clip: Luak Bay ~ Esplanade Beach

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And I found this from the newspaper today, by which State Government plans to build a 5KM long corridor to join the Luak Bay (Esplanade Beach) with the Tanjong Lobang Beach.

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