Tuesday 27 December 2011

vanilla, chocolate, and blood pressure


Hye assalam to all :)

I'm not going to tell ya 'bout how vanilla and choc affect your blood pressure. Nope. Ekceli takdew kaitan pown. (Duhhhhh, gedik okay?) Reverse reverse gostan. Actually tiada kaitan pun. (Hmmm much better..haha)

Just finished watch Vanilla Coklat kat TV3. Best lah jugak sebab parents dalam cerita tu kelakar and sempoi-sempoi semuanya. Haha. Macam tak percaya je ada mak yang main jelir lidah dengan anak dia masa husband dia tak pandang. Haha. So basically cerita ni pasal Zara and Amir (Ixara Aisya and Aiman Hakim), classmates kat college, baru 19 tahun, selalu bergaduh but then kena paksa kahwin. So far macam tu lah ceritanya, nak cerita lebih pun baru 2 episod disiarkan (kalau korang nak kejar mungkin sempat lagi, hehe). Korang mesti tertanya-tanya kan siapa Aiman Hakim? Aku pun mula-mula macam tu jugak. 
"Pelakon baru ke? Tapi muka macam biasa tengok. Jiran aku ke ek?"
Dengan tiba-tiba je *mentol menyala* aku teringat siapa Aiman Hakim tu. Patutlah biasa tengok, rupanya dia one of peserta Mentor. Tapi tak ingat lah Mentor yang ke berapa. Kalau tak silap dia protege Rahim Maarof? Kot lah, kalau nak sure lagi silalah rajin-rajinkan diri Google. Terima la kasih.

Anyways, cerita pasal demam aku tu, lepas makan ubat semalam, nampaknya tak kebah, bahkan semakin teruk. (hahh bahasa macam buat karangan ni!) Paling teruk ialah allergic aku. Habis bengkak-bengkak muka, orang tengok pun dah tak kenal rupa dah. Part gatal tu yang tak tahan. Rasa nak menggaru je. Abah (which is my pak sedara) lari sekejap daripada office sebab nak bawa aku pergi klinik. Kesian Abah :( . 

Lepas lebih kurang sejam menunggu giliran kat Klinik Kuala Telemung tu (biasalah klinik kerajaan, ramai orang) aku pun dipanggil lah masuk. MA (Medical Assistant) ataupun orang-orang kat sini panggil 'dressar' tu tanya lah bla bla bla, ambil temperature bla bla bla, dan measure aku punya blood pressure. 

Okay, korang tau tak macam mana nak measure blood pressure dengan setepat-tepatnya? Kalau pakai machine tu kurang precise sikit orang kata. Yang paling precise adalah pakai sphygmomanometer dan stethoscope. Apekebendenya binatang sphygmomanometer dan stethoscope tu? Haaaa ni nak cerita, bukan binatang tau.

Steps on How to Check Your Blood Pressure with a Sphygmomanometer:
  1. Remove the cuff, stethoscope, pressure gauge, and bulb (also known as a "bladder") from the kit, taking care to untangle the various tubes.
  2. Sit down at a table or desk where you can easily rest your arm so that when you bend your elbow, your elbow is parallel to your heart. (Some experts recommend you use your left arm; others suggest you test both arms. But while you're first adjusting to self-testing, use the left arm if you're right-handed, or vice versa.) Sit down at a table or desk where you can easily rest your arm so that when you bend your elbow, your elbow is parallel to your heart.
  3. Bend the arm you're going to test.
  4. Wrap the cuff around your upper arm (upper middle arm), slipping the top part of the cuff through the metal bar that's attached to the cuff. If your shirt has long sleeves, roll them up first. You can put the cuff over very thin clothing. Most cuffs have Velcro, making it easy to keep the cuff in place. Wrap the cuff around your upper arm (upper middle arm), slipping the top part of the cuff through the metal bar that's attached to the cuff.
  5. Make sure the cuff is snug, but not too tight -- if you cut off your circulation and become agitated, you're going to get an alarming blood pressure reading Make sure the cuff is snug, but not too tight -- if you cut off your circulation and become agitated, you're going to get an alarming blood pressure reading!. 
  6. Gently put the earpieces of the stethoscope in your ears. They should feel comfortable in your ears. If not, try holding the stethoscope out in front of you and slightly shifting the earpieces away from you. Gently put the earpieces of the stethoscope in your ears.
  7. Place the wide head of the stethoscope (the diaphragm) entirely on your skin just above the elbow, on the inside of your now straightened arm; the brachial artery. Do not hold the head of the stethoscope with your thumb-your thumb has its own pulse and this will confuse you while you try to obtain a reading. A good method is to hold the chestpiece between your index and middle fingers with your fingertips in the vertical space between the diaphragm and bell. You will not normally hear a thumping until you have begun to inflate the cuff. To aid in finding this you can press two fingers (not your thumb) to the area where it should be and move around until you feel a pulse.
  8. If the pressure gauge is clipped to the cuff, unclip it and attach the clip to something sturdy, such as a hardcover book, that you can place on the table so you can watch it. It's important to keep the gauge anchored and stable. Make sure there is adequate light and you can see the needle and pressure markings well before you begin to test.
  9. Take the rubber bulb and tighten the valve at the base. Be sure to turn the valve all the way clockwise to shut it off so that air doesn't escape when you pump. DO NOT OVER-TIGHTEN THE VALVE. This is key, doing so will not allow you to release air from the cuff slowly enough at first. This is because you will twist it open too far and let out air too fast due to the force needed to open it. Only turn the valve closed until you feel it stop.
  10. Pump the bulb using slow but very steady pressure until the needle on the gauge is at about 20-30 points above your usual systolic (top) number. Now, gently turn the bulb's valve counter-clockwise slightly so that air is released slowly and steadily. Doing this yourself as you listen is a little tricky, you should release the valve with the hand on your cuff arm and hold the stethoscope with your free arm. The needle should ideally be moving down at a rate of two marks per second for accuracy.
  11. As you watch the needle fall back down the gauge, listen for a thumping sound (The clinical name for this is "Korotkoff sounds"). Keep your eyes on the gauge -- when you first hear thumping, you have your systolic number, which represents the greatest amount of pressure exerted on the artery walls as your heart pumps blood. As you watch the needle fall back down the gauge, listen for a thumping sound (The clinical name for this is "Korotkoff sounds").
  12. Keep watching the gauge and listening to the beats. Eventually the hard thumping sound will turn into a "whooshing" sound (these are called the 4th Korotkoff sounds). These sounds are helpful to listen to because they tell you that you are close to your diastolic blood pressure. When the thumping fades to silence, you have your diastolic (bottom) number, the lowest amount of pressure.
  13. If you miss the exact measure of either number, it's perfectly acceptable to pump the cuff back up a little to catch it. Just don't do it too much (like more than twice) because that can affect accuracy. Switch to the other arm in that event and start again.If you miss the exact measure of either number, it's perfectly acceptable to pump the cuff back up a little to catch it.

So, that is pretty much it. Copied directly from wikiHow :)

Sekarang nak cerita macam mana pokcik MA atau pokcik dressar tu measure blood pressure. Kalau refer pada step number 7,
Place the wide head of the stethoscope (the diaphragm) entirely on your skin just above the elbow, on the inside of your now straightened arm; the brachial artery.
Yang kelakarnya, pokcik tu letak diaphragm not entirely on my skin but entirely on my sweater. Dahlah sweater tu memang tebal giloss. Laju je dia measure pastu dia kata blood pressure aku okay 120/80 (120/80 is a normal blood preasure reading)

Aku bukanlah nak kata dia tipu ke apa. Maybe dia dah expert sebab measure beribu blood pressure hari-hari. Kan orang kata practice make perfect. Tapi kalau bagi kat aku suruh measure, berejam habis nak cari "Korotkoff sound" tu je. Memang soft gilaaa "Korotkoff sound" tu. Kalau nak tau, itu bunyi 'whooosh' darah mengalir dalam salur darah korang. So bayangkanlah betapa susahnya nak cari "Korotkoff sound" tu lebih-lebih lagi kalau dpisahkan dengan lapisan pakaian yang tebal. But again, kalau dah biasa, mungkin tak jadi masalah kan?




Teringat zaman belajar measure blood pressure masa pre-medical year dulu. Tak puas rasanya. Nak belajar lagi! :)





PS: Kena cucuk tadi. Sakit jugak rupanya, dah lama tak kena cucuk. Nasib baik tak takut jarum. Nak jadi doctor mana boleh takut jarum. Buat malu je. Haha
PSS: Biasanya kalau demam, blood pressure aku naik. Pernah dulu naik sampai 180/100. Nak nangis dah aku sebab cuak. -,-'


Monday 26 December 2011

ye saya budak banyak cakap


Bismillah. Assalam to all :)
Anyways, lagu yg aku tengah dengar ni adalah the best version of The One That Got Away yang aku pernah dengar, pada pandangan aku lah. Hehe. Second best of course lah Katy Perry tapi kena share ranking dengan Sam Tsui punya cover. Haha. Kenapa? Katy Perry nyanyi best giloss eventhough genre dia pop tapi aku dengar still rasa sedih jugak. Uhuk-uhuk. Sam Tsui? Try dengar memang terbuai gilaaa kot (kalau kau perempuan lah of course, unless kau gay..? okay, tak nak comment). And and and one more thing, pronunciation (bukan PRONOUNSTATION, aku pernah dengar artis mana entah sebut live kat tv, malu gila okay). Ehh sambung balik sambung balik, pronunciation untuk TSUI tu bukan TE-SUI atau TT-SUI atau SUI, tapi tapi tapi (mulut bagi muncung sikit) SHUI. Okay? Got it? SAM TSUI disebut SEM SHUI (SEM as in SEMPOI bukan SAM as in SAMBAL).

Banyak gila kau membebel hanishafizah.
Okay berbalik kepada tujuan utama aku tulis ni. Kalau tak tahu aku sekarang kat Terengganu, balik tengok Ayoh dan Chik (which are my grandparents). Straight dari Penang okayhh. Survival tak aku? Huehehe. And parents aku masih kat KL. Again, survival tak aku? Huehehe. Survival macam ni pun Mak macam berat je nak lepaskan aku nak fly ni (insyaAllah). Agaknya Mak masih dalam mode "tak sangka dah meningkat dewasa anak aku ni" (cehh meningkat dewasa, ayat nak poyo je, haha). Kadang-kadang hal kecil macam aku nak jalan pergi kedai pun Mak aku risau. 
Kalau aku banyak soal nanti Mak akan kata "KakLong takde anak lagi KakLong tak rasa" okay aku pun diamlah, nak sangkal apa lagi, memang betul pun kan? Kasih sayang, naluri, rasa ambil berat kaum ibu ni memang luar biasa sikit. Kalau tengok cerita Harry Potter tu mother’s love boleh jadi perisai kematian kot. Magic tak magic. Haha. Okay jangan lebih2 sangat percaya kang jatuh khurafat pulak.

By the way, sekarang aku kat kampung ni, kesian kat Ayoh dengan Chik berdua je kat rumah. Ayoh dah hampir tujuh tahun tak boleh berjalan, ada kencing manis lagi. Chik pulak hari tu dah menangis-nangis rindu kat aku. Yelah last aku balik kampung pun raya puasa hari tu. Jadi aku ada sem break dua minggu ni baliklah jenguk diorang, secara tak langsung jadi nurse tak bertauliah, make sure Ayoh makan ubat dan cucuk insulin ikut time.
"Habis tu kalau Haha kalau kau tak cuti diorang macam mana?" ohh jangan risau, ramai je saudara-mara aku kat sini, boleh lah datang gilir-gilir. But then masing-masing pun ada tanggungjawab dengan family masing-masing, jadi yang jaga full-time tu takdelah. Okay jugak, dapat aku merasa berbakti dengan Ayoh dengan Chik. Ayah (ni ayah aku, pakcik mail) selalu pesan, “KakLong kena balas jasa Chik, dulu masa KakLong baby Chik lah yang jaga’’. Aku selalu ingat pesan Ayah tu. Aku selalu jugak ingat dulu masa aku kecik2 (dan ringan) Ayoh selalu bawok aku (ehh bawak) tunggang lembu dia. Hahahaha best wohhhh :D.

Maka begitulah al-kisah nya. Yang best kat kampong ni aku suka sebab rumah Chik aku depan sawah padi. Luas je mata memandang. Pastu bila ada sawah padi for surelah aku boleh tengok langit dengan sepuas-puasnya. Tak macam kat KL tu, aku dongak je nampak tangki air rumah flat 25 tingkat lah, billboard company-company besarlah, pakcik2 tengah cuci tingkap shopping complexlah, sungguh tak cantik. I mean, terbatas pandangan nak tengok langit. Ehhh, aku pun tak tahu sejak bila aku suka tengok langit. Maybe since aku belajar kat Penang. Sebab langit kat Penang cantik. :)

Masuk cerita langit pulak hanishafizah ni =.=’’
Haha. Lagi sebab aku suka balik kampong is tak payah pasang kipas. 24 hours kot. Hahaha jimat tak jimat. Satu sebab Chik pening kepala tengok kipas tu berpusing (hahaha agak lawak di situ) and satu lagi sebab memang dah cukup sejuk. Lagi-lagi sekarang ni musim winter, eh tu kat Europe, sekarang ni musim tengkujuh. Asyik hujan je. Pastu berenti sepuluh minit pastu hujan balik. Nasib baik bukan kawasan banjir. Sejuk sejuk sangat aku mana tahan. Sudahnya sekarang aku demam. 24 hours pakai sweater hiphop aku tu. Hoho. Tak payah nak hoho sangat. Seksa tau. Macam biasa, start dengan flu, pastu sakit tekak, then demam. Bila dah demam mulalah naik segala allergic aku ni. Bengkak sana sini. Agaknya aku allergic dengan demam. Cerewet kan? Nasib lah siapa jadi laki aku nanti. Aku ni banyak songeh. Hamboii dah masuk bab laki pulak ni. Reverse reverse reverse.
Nak tambah bab cerewet, nasi pun tak boleh makan. Mengada. Lidah nak prosperity burger je. Mengada. Mana nak cari Mekdi kat kampong ni. Kena lah pergi bandar. Satu hal lah pulak nak suruh orang hantar. Mengada. Sudahnya makan roti kering (yang selalu ada kat kampong tu, nostalgic betul. Haha) cicah Melo. Sedap jugak hahaha.

Tadi Yah (cousin aku) bawak teman dia pergi kedai PokKu beli biskut nak balik Matrikulasi Gopeng. Enjoy lah naik motor round2. Dengan tak pakai helmetnya. Terserempak dengan kereta polis pulak tu. Cuaklah tapi boleh buat apa gelak aje. Haha. Nasib baik pakcik polis tu tak patah balik kejar kitorang. Haha. Kalau kena jugak aku dah rangka ayat “umoh saye depang tu je pokcik” padahal punyalah jauh rumah aku. Haha.
Kat kedai PokKu tu aku cari lah apa-apa yang boleh diterima tekak. Jumpa Nestum. Haha okaylah dah lama jugak tak makan nestum. Bukan yang 3 in 1 tu ye. Yang dalam tin tu. Bila bancuh aku suka buat pekat-pekat, kalau biar sejuk dia boleh jadi keras macam simen. Hahahaha. Angkat tangan siapa suka makan nestum macam aku. Best tau sebab bila makan tu rasa macam baby pulak makan benda lembut-lembut je. Haha. Cakaplah aku perasan baby ke apa. Memang ye pon. Haha. Aku suka makan biskut baby tu apa ke namanya, Milna? Dengan Ruski? Ehh ruski tu brand megi. -,-‘

Ohhh tak sukanya demam kat kampung. Patutnya aku yang jaga Ayoh dengan Chik. Nak manja-manja tak sampai hati. Kalau kat rumah mesti Mak buat bubur nasik. Dulu masa kecik-kecik Mak suka buat air barli kalau aku tak sihat. Tapi tak tau kenapa sekarang dah tak ada :(. Tapi hari tu Chik ada masak bubur lambuk. Wehh best giloss tak tipu. Ayoh pulak bising, dia kata orang sibuk buat bubur asyura apahal pergi buat bubur lambuk pulak?? Hahaha Chik back up lah aku sebab dia tau aku suka makan bubur lambuk dia. Huehehe.

Teringat pulak masa demam kat sekolah dulu. Well sekolah aku 250 km dari rumah. SBPI Sabak Bernam yang kat tepi laut tu, memang hujung dunia. Tapi aku bahagia kesah apa aku sekolah kampong ke hulu ke. Straight A jugak (tetibe) haha. So, since sekolah jauh gila dari rumah, kalau sakit duduk sick bay dengan dorm je lah. Pastu ada orang melawat. Best giloss kawan-kawan aku. Nanti ada junior Form 1 offer nak amikkan makanan untuk aku dari Dewan Makan. Makanan special orang sakit tau. Bubur nasik lahh apa lagi. Sedap giloss okay. Terbaik makcik dewan makan :).

Tapi benda yang aku paling tak boleh lupa, Ramizah Sulaiman (ambik kau aku bagi nama penuh) aka REM atau kitorang kat dorm panggil dia Mama REM (yelah ketua dorm. Ahaha) jaga aku masa aku demam teruk sekali tu. Aku rasa memang teruk kot sebab dia kata aku siap meracau bagai. And aku pun masa tu dalam keadaan separa sedar aku rasa ada orang dok tukar towel basah kat kepala aku. Sepanjang malam kot. Terharu gila. REM tak lena tidur sebab jaga aku demam. Baik kan REM? Rindu pulak kat dia. Walaupun aku selalu sakat dia, dia still ada masa aku perlukan dia. Kesobkesob sumpah terharu. Jadi jejaka-jejaka di luar sana, pilihlah Ramizah sebagai calon kerana beliau sangat berkelayakan. Calon apa? Bendaharikah? Fikir sendiri. Ahaha.

Okay aku rasa dah banyak gilaaa aku membebel ni. Bukan apa menaip-menaip ni, kuranglah sikit sakit kepala aku. And one more thing, jangan lah tengok aku masa aku demam. Macam Hantu Kak Limah wa cakap lu. Haha. Chik pun dah tutup tv tandanya dah masa tidur.

Bye wassalam :)

PS: ohh anyways, aku dah okay dengan Nisa!! Yayyy :D
PSS: aku niat nak masuk gambar sikit2 tapi line broadband ni macam siput babi kekenyangan (bak kata Wirdah)
PSSS: seriously aku dah kena masuk tidur, Chik dah suruh HEMBUS api (maknanya tutup lampu. HAHAHAHAHA)

Thursday 1 December 2011

untuk Nisa : hello December *gloomy*

this is not a nice start of my December


yeahhh when a friend you dear sooooo much
avoids making eye contact while having conversation with you,
and does not respond to your calls
it hurts. inside


takpe Nisa
aku faham
kalau aku kat tempat kau pun aku akan buat macam tu jugak
or maybe worse
aku tunggu kau cool off dulu
and insyaAllah we'll be back to normal. insyaAllah


Nisa, eventhough that was not entirely my fault
I AM SORRY and i mean it




i love it when you're looking at me in your EVERY group presentation..weh aku rindu kau :'(