Se-hun aja nak raya dah ni. Tapi tak rasa macam nak raya. Senyap sangat. Rumah aku, rumah jiran2 semua sunyi sepi. Radio pun tak dengar. Kuali pun takde dengar kena ketuk dengan senduk. Suara budak2 pun takde. Suara jiran aku yang non-stop membebel tu pun tak dengar juga.
Haish.....am I in Twilight Zone????!!!!! Seramlah pulak!!!
Plan dah dirombak. Masak-memasak di downscale-kan memandangkan chef2 ada yang sakit jantung, letih buat kuih untuk iftar ramadhan, letih jaga anak2 menakan, letih jaga laki, letih jaga anak masuk hospital dll. Ramadhan yang sangat eventful bagi kami di No 30!
Tapi....kami akan tetap buat biskut raya. YA!! Plan tu masih mantap. Butter, tepung, bekas kuih semua dah beli. Takkan nak biar tak berusik kan.....kan.
InsyaaAllah akan diusahakan beramai2 lepas berbuka nanti. Pasti seronok buat menyibuk :D
Petang nanti rasanya cukup quorum kat rumah ni. Si cilik2 semua dah balik dari rumah tok depa. Sekarang depa semua keluar pi ambil Hakim kat hospital. Nasib Hakim tak kena dengue. Alhamdulillah.
Tadi, Ali, electrician Pakistan kami tu, dah datang tukar mentol2 lampu yang dah mati. Cerdik betul Ali ni....kat chandelier yang semua mentol kuning tu, tiba2 ada satu mentol putih. Tunggulah bila boss nampak nanti......hehehe.....mesti duit raya kena potong.
Ani kata ada hamba Allah hadiahkan a gothic looking chandelier-like lampu kat sini. Jenuh dia fikir mana nak gantung. Last2 gantung kat garage. Harap2 orang tu tak perasanlah bila dia datang rumah nanti!
My nephew nak makan potato salad hari raya nanti. Macam pelik kan.....tapi layan ajelah. Bukan susah nak buat pun. My sis pula teringinkan cream of mushroom soup. Beres! Kena ada garlic breadlah juga kalau macam tu kan. Imagine makan ni semua pagi raya nanti. Nampak sangat Cik Peah dah takde bersama kami - lari benor menu pagi rayanya!
Student UPSR aku ni pulak terlebih rajin nak datang tuition sampai malam raya. Tersampuk gamaknya budak ni. Aku cakap kat dia, "Forget it! Lepas raya baru datang". Kalau dia datang juga, aku akan suruh dia belajar buat kuih.
Abang aku sibuk menyapu keliling kawasan hari ni. Dia memang the resident gardener cum man Friday. Hari ni dia tak menyanyi pulak sambil berkemas. Tunggu mood raya masuk kot......
Aku juga yang tak boleh pi mana2 sebab tidak dibenarkan berjalan2 sesuka hati. Takut tak sedar diri ini baru aja keluar hospital. Sakit jantung lagi. Nasib aku ni tak rajin merewang pun.
So sekarang aku tengah duduk goyang kaki........
SELAMAT AIDIL FITRI KEPADA SEMUA. Maaf dipinta, maaf dihulur. Semoga semua selamat, sejahtera dan bahagia berhari raya dengan tak kisahlah siapa.
Saturday 26 July 2014
Lessons from a heart attack - Part 2
I got admitted into CCU, HKL, on Tuesday evening. Was given a bed by the window.
Do you know that there are NO toilets for the patients in CCU? We had to do "everything" on our beds. Well, to be fair, most patients there are debilitated. I just happened to be one of the rare ones who got there still active and lucid.
Which made it super difficult to just twiddle my thumbs while trying not to move too much - can't get the heart beating too fast you know! So I got a nurse to tutor me on what those figures on the monitor meant. From then on I monitored my own heartbeat, BP, oxygen level and breathing.
The 2nd lesson:
Your BP [blood pressure] doesn't need to hit the roof for a heart attack. Mine was a steady 120/80 and below throughout my life. With it going lower when I didn't rest/eat well. Which is pretty normal for me :)
Before I had angioplasty done, my heartbeat would rise even for mundane activities like brushing my teeth. I didn't realise that I was doing it so energetically! Had to slow down to a snail's pace.....or was it even slower?? Felt like it anyway.........
Having good breathing techniques help a lot. Thank goodness I was taught to breathe properly as a child. I guess being on the brink of death at 7 made me the recipient of many "wisdom" from the older folks around me. I was the only CCU residents sans oxygen paraphernalia - although they insisted on me breathing bottled oxygen initially. The air-conditioning coupled with oxygen-tube-in-nose caused my nose to bleed. So I got off it. Yea......although hidung sakit untuk beberapa hari.
Because I breathed "well", I passed the breaths-per-minute test with flying colours :)
Oh and when you're in this "fragile" situation, even sitting up isn't allowed. It taxes the heart it seems. So I could only sit up for meals, during sponging, and doctor's examination. Bleaaarggghhhh.........
So I practised being demure - with hands folded over stomach, sweet smile on face.......
Gives one lots of opportunity to berzikir for sure........
Do you know that there are NO toilets for the patients in CCU? We had to do "everything" on our beds. Well, to be fair, most patients there are debilitated. I just happened to be one of the rare ones who got there still active and lucid.
Which made it super difficult to just twiddle my thumbs while trying not to move too much - can't get the heart beating too fast you know! So I got a nurse to tutor me on what those figures on the monitor meant. From then on I monitored my own heartbeat, BP, oxygen level and breathing.
The 2nd lesson:
Your BP [blood pressure] doesn't need to hit the roof for a heart attack. Mine was a steady 120/80 and below throughout my life. With it going lower when I didn't rest/eat well. Which is pretty normal for me :)
Before I had angioplasty done, my heartbeat would rise even for mundane activities like brushing my teeth. I didn't realise that I was doing it so energetically! Had to slow down to a snail's pace.....or was it even slower?? Felt like it anyway.........
Having good breathing techniques help a lot. Thank goodness I was taught to breathe properly as a child. I guess being on the brink of death at 7 made me the recipient of many "wisdom" from the older folks around me. I was the only CCU residents sans oxygen paraphernalia - although they insisted on me breathing bottled oxygen initially. The air-conditioning coupled with oxygen-tube-in-nose caused my nose to bleed. So I got off it. Yea......although hidung sakit untuk beberapa hari.
Because I breathed "well", I passed the breaths-per-minute test with flying colours :)
Oh and when you're in this "fragile" situation, even sitting up isn't allowed. It taxes the heart it seems. So I could only sit up for meals, during sponging, and doctor's examination. Bleaaarggghhhh.........
So I practised being demure - with hands folded over stomach, sweet smile on face.......
Gives one lots of opportunity to berzikir for sure........
Friday 25 July 2014
Lessons from a heart attack - Part 1
I had a heart attack recently. A pretty bad one. Quite an experience. Because the signs fooled me completely.
Since I'm in the high risk category, I've always looked out for chest pains, shortness of breath, sweating, intense headache, etc. I didn't have any of these. Instead I had shoulder pains [left], neck ache and heartburn. The same symptoms of scapulocostal syndrome [sakit belikat] - of which I suffer from regularly. So I didn't think much of it.
Until I had spasms along my left arm and left side of my face during prayer. Funny enough, all the pain I had suffered for more than a week, disappeared. I felt totally fine after that bout of spasm.
But I was so sure I had a heart attack! Somehow.......
I slept well that night.....after a trip to Giant after isya'.
The next morning I gaily trotted off to the nearest government clinic for a consultation. The doctor was initially sceptical when I told her.....until she saw my ECG. She sent me off to HKL in an ambulance pronto!
I must have been the most unlikely "critical" patient in ER. I forgot what code I came under, but there were at least 6 doctors there with me. Plus several nurses. They hooked me up to several machines. They poked, prodded, drew blood, asked the same questions over and over again.
I got rejected by IJN because I was more alive than dead. So I got sent off to CCU after an X-ray was taken. I spent the longest and most boring time of my life there. I wasn't allowed to step off the bed. I could only sit up for meals. The sound of beeps from various machines kept me company. The place was almost devoid of human sound as most patients had oxygen masks over their faces.
Now I get a different set of specialists "visiting" me. A different set of medical "tazkirah" too...........
The 1st lesson:
Women are most likely not to experience chest pains. So be wary when you get a combo of neck ache, shoulder pain and heartburn!!! Nina, a doctor friend, said that her aunt thought she had toothache.....when it was, in reality, a stroke.
Get to a doctor on the double if you experience what I did. Get to a doctor within 3 hours of the attack. According to the MO, that would really help them treat the condition.
Since I'm in the high risk category, I've always looked out for chest pains, shortness of breath, sweating, intense headache, etc. I didn't have any of these. Instead I had shoulder pains [left], neck ache and heartburn. The same symptoms of scapulocostal syndrome [sakit belikat] - of which I suffer from regularly. So I didn't think much of it.
Until I had spasms along my left arm and left side of my face during prayer. Funny enough, all the pain I had suffered for more than a week, disappeared. I felt totally fine after that bout of spasm.
But I was so sure I had a heart attack! Somehow.......
I slept well that night.....after a trip to Giant after isya'.
The next morning I gaily trotted off to the nearest government clinic for a consultation. The doctor was initially sceptical when I told her.....until she saw my ECG. She sent me off to HKL in an ambulance pronto!
I must have been the most unlikely "critical" patient in ER. I forgot what code I came under, but there were at least 6 doctors there with me. Plus several nurses. They hooked me up to several machines. They poked, prodded, drew blood, asked the same questions over and over again.
I got rejected by IJN because I was more alive than dead. So I got sent off to CCU after an X-ray was taken. I spent the longest and most boring time of my life there. I wasn't allowed to step off the bed. I could only sit up for meals. The sound of beeps from various machines kept me company. The place was almost devoid of human sound as most patients had oxygen masks over their faces.
Now I get a different set of specialists "visiting" me. A different set of medical "tazkirah" too...........
The 1st lesson:
Women are most likely not to experience chest pains. So be wary when you get a combo of neck ache, shoulder pain and heartburn!!! Nina, a doctor friend, said that her aunt thought she had toothache.....when it was, in reality, a stroke.
Get to a doctor on the double if you experience what I did. Get to a doctor within 3 hours of the attack. According to the MO, that would really help them treat the condition.
Sunday 4 May 2014
Novel yang lain daripada yang lain.
Assalamualaikum
Kak Norizan, tumpang ya.
Bercakap tentang tajuk. Memang benar. Sebab saya ni sukakan konsep bold, outstanding, rare, non commoner (kononnya)
Marilah dapatkan novel Sayang Scarlet ini untuk mengetahui kelainannya.
Antara komen-komen yang telah diterima setakat ini,
komen dari pembaca lelaki - Sayang Scarlet ialah novel yang bukan indie, bukan main stream. Ia ada di streamnya yang tersendiri.
komen dari pembaca lelaki - Sayang Scarlet sesuai dibaca oleh golongan lelaki dan perempuan
komen dari pembaca lelaki - Bagus untuk student U yang ingin membuat thesis tentang mental health issue.
komen dari pembaca perempuan - Semua ada, cinta, lucu, ghairah, suspense, takut, seram, ngeri.
komen dari pembaca perempuan - Novel Sayang Scarlet ni berat, mengetengahkan isu keluarga, cinta dan seram. Saya suka novel yang ringan-ringan.
komen dari pembaca perempuan - Penulis novel Sayang Scarlet ni banyak letak monolog. Saya tak suka novel banyak monolog. Saya suka novel banyak sembang (komen diberikan sebaik sahaja tamat baca bab 1).
komen dari kanak-kanak perempuan, 14 tahun - Mak cik, tulislah lagi! saya suka baca buku cerita mak cik!
komen dari kanak-kanak lelaki, 13 tahun - menulis lagi ya!
komen dari kanak-kanak perempuan, 16 tahun - tak boleh berhenti baca, sebab tak sabar nak tahu ending cerita ni. Suspense!
Novel ini mengisahkan tentang Scarlet, seorang blogger yang jatuh cinta kepada seorang blogger lain. Mereka saling menyintai. Namun cinta mereka terhalang. Teman blognya tiba-tiba menyepi tanpa berita. Dalam masa yang sama, Scarlet diganggu oleh makhluk halus dan hidupnya menjadi tambah porak peranda disebabkan oleh seorang pesakit skizofrenia. Adakah cinta blognya dapat direalisasikan? Apakah yang dilakukan oleh pesakit skizofrenia itu yang telah menghancurkan ketenangan jiwa Scarlet?
Harga RM30 (SM), RM 36 (SS) - termasuk postage. Boleh emel penerbit di ceritakosong@gmail.com untuk pembelian online.
Kak Norizan, tumpang ya.
Bercakap tentang tajuk. Memang benar. Sebab saya ni sukakan konsep bold, outstanding, rare, non commoner (kononnya)
Marilah dapatkan novel Sayang Scarlet ini untuk mengetahui kelainannya.
Antara komen-komen yang telah diterima setakat ini,
komen dari pembaca lelaki - Sayang Scarlet ialah novel yang bukan indie, bukan main stream. Ia ada di streamnya yang tersendiri.
komen dari pembaca lelaki - Sayang Scarlet sesuai dibaca oleh golongan lelaki dan perempuan
komen dari pembaca lelaki - Bagus untuk student U yang ingin membuat thesis tentang mental health issue.
komen dari pembaca perempuan - Semua ada, cinta, lucu, ghairah, suspense, takut, seram, ngeri.
komen dari pembaca perempuan - Novel Sayang Scarlet ni berat, mengetengahkan isu keluarga, cinta dan seram. Saya suka novel yang ringan-ringan.
komen dari pembaca perempuan - Penulis novel Sayang Scarlet ni banyak letak monolog. Saya tak suka novel banyak monolog. Saya suka novel banyak sembang (komen diberikan sebaik sahaja tamat baca bab 1).
komen dari kanak-kanak perempuan, 14 tahun - Mak cik, tulislah lagi! saya suka baca buku cerita mak cik!
komen dari kanak-kanak lelaki, 13 tahun - menulis lagi ya!
komen dari kanak-kanak perempuan, 16 tahun - tak boleh berhenti baca, sebab tak sabar nak tahu ending cerita ni. Suspense!
Novel ini mengisahkan tentang Scarlet, seorang blogger yang jatuh cinta kepada seorang blogger lain. Mereka saling menyintai. Namun cinta mereka terhalang. Teman blognya tiba-tiba menyepi tanpa berita. Dalam masa yang sama, Scarlet diganggu oleh makhluk halus dan hidupnya menjadi tambah porak peranda disebabkan oleh seorang pesakit skizofrenia. Adakah cinta blognya dapat direalisasikan? Apakah yang dilakukan oleh pesakit skizofrenia itu yang telah menghancurkan ketenangan jiwa Scarlet?
Harga RM30 (SM), RM 36 (SS) - termasuk postage. Boleh emel penerbit di ceritakosong@gmail.com untuk pembelian online.
Tuesday 18 March 2014
Novel tulisan Saodah Lasim, seorang penulis novel kanak-kanak
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Assalamualaikum
Dengan lahirnya novel Sayang Scarlet ini, naiklah satu tahap lagi kareer penulisan saya dari penulis novel kanak-kanak ke novel umum. Dikeluarkan di bawah label CK Publication. Kisah seorang gadis blogger yang menggunakan nama samaran, Scarlet yang telah jatuh cinta kepada seorang blogger. Cinta yang baru mula berputik diuji dengan kehilangan demi kehilangan yang dihadapi oleh Scarlet. Keadaan itu membuatkan dia sedih dan menjadi murung. Kelemahan jiwanya itu mendedahkan dia kepada gangguan makhluk halus. Harapannya untuk berkahwin dengan blogger yang dicintainya bertemu jalan buntu.
Hidup Scarlet diselubungi kesedihan demi kesedihan. Adakah dia dapat berkahwin dengan pilihan hatinya? Adakah jiwanya akan kembali ceria?
Saya dah buka pre-order, dan harga promosi ialah RM22 untuk Semenanjung Malaysia, RM25 untuk Sabah, Sarawak. Harga pos ialah RM6 untuk sebuah buku.
(Harga di back cover ialah RM24 dan RM27, so, hari ni saya mulakan dengan harga promosi. Mau pecah telur, hehe)
Kalau berminat, boleh bank-in di mbb, 114178-805003 dan emelkan resit ke ceritakosong@gmail.com.
Terima kasih.
Dengan lahirnya novel Sayang Scarlet ini, naiklah satu tahap lagi kareer penulisan saya dari penulis novel kanak-kanak ke novel umum. Dikeluarkan di bawah label CK Publication. Kisah seorang gadis blogger yang menggunakan nama samaran, Scarlet yang telah jatuh cinta kepada seorang blogger. Cinta yang baru mula berputik diuji dengan kehilangan demi kehilangan yang dihadapi oleh Scarlet. Keadaan itu membuatkan dia sedih dan menjadi murung. Kelemahan jiwanya itu mendedahkan dia kepada gangguan makhluk halus. Harapannya untuk berkahwin dengan blogger yang dicintainya bertemu jalan buntu.
Hidup Scarlet diselubungi kesedihan demi kesedihan. Adakah dia dapat berkahwin dengan pilihan hatinya? Adakah jiwanya akan kembali ceria?
Saya dah buka pre-order, dan harga promosi ialah RM22 untuk Semenanjung Malaysia, RM25 untuk Sabah, Sarawak. Harga pos ialah RM6 untuk sebuah buku.
(Harga di back cover ialah RM24 dan RM27, so, hari ni saya mulakan dengan harga promosi. Mau pecah telur, hehe)
Kalau berminat, boleh bank-in di mbb, 114178-805003 dan emelkan resit ke ceritakosong@gmail.com.
Terima kasih.
Friday 14 March 2014
Saya Sayang Awak
Tadi saya ke perpustakaan, nak ambil lesen/sijil penerbitan untuk syarikat penerbitan CK Publication. Sekaligus ambil nombor isbn dan petang ni, dah dapat pdp. langkah seterusnya, bawa file berkenaan, ke syarikat percetakan.
Alangkah gembiranya hati, buah hati sulung semakin menonjolkan mukanya. semoga menjadi pemangkin untuk saya terus mengarang, cerita kehidupan, untuk pembaca yang dah terlalu lama disogokkan dengan kisah cinta fairy tale.
hmm... itulah susahnya saya ni, saya tak dapat mendalami cerita kisah cinta fairy tale tu, sebab hidup saya sendiri tak manis. saya jadi benci dengan kisah cinta yang terlalu indah bak hidup di inderaloka... oh, maafkan saya.
semua orang berhak menulis sebagaimana yang mereka suka.. huhu
apa pun, hari ni saya terfikir, marilah jadi wira untuk diri sendiri!
:D
Alangkah gembiranya hati, buah hati sulung semakin menonjolkan mukanya. semoga menjadi pemangkin untuk saya terus mengarang, cerita kehidupan, untuk pembaca yang dah terlalu lama disogokkan dengan kisah cinta fairy tale.
hmm... itulah susahnya saya ni, saya tak dapat mendalami cerita kisah cinta fairy tale tu, sebab hidup saya sendiri tak manis. saya jadi benci dengan kisah cinta yang terlalu indah bak hidup di inderaloka... oh, maafkan saya.
semua orang berhak menulis sebagaimana yang mereka suka.. huhu
apa pun, hari ni saya terfikir, marilah jadi wira untuk diri sendiri!
:D
Sunday 2 March 2014
The New "Normal"
1. not look at the sky - too busy with looking down at gadgets
2. not look and talk to people - too busy looking down at gadgets
3. to not kiss the hands of older folks - pull hand toward forehead instead
4. to talk back to older folks
5. kids decide where to dine, vacation etc
6. pets are better at responding when their names are called
7. to drive to the corner store 60m away
8. to be frequently sick
9. to congregate at malls
10. not know our neighbours
11. life without the internet is akin to armageddon
12. to whine about anything and everything
13. the young are perpetually bored
14. internet savvy senior citizens and pre-schoolers
15. feel "funny" leaving home without cellular phones
16. restaurants having the best "home-cooked" food
17. high, super-high front gates
18. no dropping by someone's home unannounced
19. contracting cancer and other serious ailments
20. almost everything we eat comes from a shop of some sort
21. washing clothes by hand
22. parents paying for kids' cars/homes/holidays - even when they have jobs
23. parents sent to old folks homes
24. Muslims committing suicide
25. ladies in hijab and abaya
26. guys in jubah and serban
27. young ustaz and ustazah
28. interacting more on facebook than in real life
29. texting a person in the next room, across a table etc
30. blaming BN for every single thing that goes wrong in the nation
2. not look and talk to people - too busy looking down at gadgets
3. to not kiss the hands of older folks - pull hand toward forehead instead
4. to talk back to older folks
5. kids decide where to dine, vacation etc
6. pets are better at responding when their names are called
7. to drive to the corner store 60m away
8. to be frequently sick
9. to congregate at malls
10. not know our neighbours
11. life without the internet is akin to armageddon
12. to whine about anything and everything
13. the young are perpetually bored
14. internet savvy senior citizens and pre-schoolers
15. feel "funny" leaving home without cellular phones
16. restaurants having the best "home-cooked" food
17. high, super-high front gates
18. no dropping by someone's home unannounced
19. contracting cancer and other serious ailments
20. almost everything we eat comes from a shop of some sort
21. washing clothes by hand
22. parents paying for kids' cars/homes/holidays - even when they have jobs
23. parents sent to old folks homes
24. Muslims committing suicide
25. ladies in hijab and abaya
26. guys in jubah and serban
27. young ustaz and ustazah
28. interacting more on facebook than in real life
29. texting a person in the next room, across a table etc
30. blaming BN for every single thing that goes wrong in the nation
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Anda mahu berkongsi idea, pengalaman, cerita anda dengan orang lain?
Boleh saja kalau anda mahu.
Tepuk dada tanya selera.
Hantarkan cerita anda ke CK Publication (002303577-D).
Yang penting, cerita anda bukanlah sekadar
cerita-cerita kosong sahaja tetapi ada pengisian.
Syarat utama, cerita anda mestilah ada nilai moral positif yang boleh menaikkan semangat pembaca.
CK Publication mengalu-alukan cerita-cerita tidak kira genre yang mampu membuatkan orang menangis, menegakkan bulu roma, ketawa seikhlas hati juga menginsafkan. Tidak kira peringkat usia, tidak kira bangsa, tidak kira latarbelakang, tidak kira tahap pendidikan, asalkan anda ada cerita menarik, hantarkan manuskrip anda ke CK Publication di ceritakosong@gmail.com.
Hantarkan sinopsis cerita anda berserta 5 bab terawal dan 3 bab terakhir. Jangan lupa untuk menyertakan butir-butir peribadi anda juga!
Maklumat penting, karangan anda hendaklah lebih kurang dalam 350 pages A4,
font calibri size 12, double spacing, indent yang standard. Jarak antara perenggan, 2 indent. Jarak antara separator dalam bab, 3 indent. Setiap bab, mulakan di muka surat baharu.
Maklumat penting, karangan anda hendaklah lebih kurang dalam 350 pages A4,
font calibri size 12, double spacing, indent yang standard. Jarak antara perenggan, 2 indent. Jarak antara separator dalam bab, 3 indent. Setiap bab, mulakan di muka surat baharu.
Sunday 2 February 2014
What freedom??!!
The Americans have always prided themselves as the Land of Freedom, the land of equality and opportunity. Really?
On one of my sojourns into the alien world of gardening, I chanced upon a couple of documentaries on food farming - and it's amazing how the Americans, and perhaps most of us in the rest of the world, have very little say in what we put into our mouths. We buy stuff from the supermarkets thinking that these are "healthy" foods...and we wonder why we are plagued by various ailments that were totally alien to our elders of long ago.
In our endeavour to eat "healthy", we have actually swallowed stuff that gets us to the medical facilities a lot more frequently. We have also inadvertently helped the health insurance business tremendously. We have accepted that falling ill is a way of life - gravely ill I mean.
Watch this and be horrified......how Monsanto and other "big boys" have controlled the world food market : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVwmgH_99Kc [for some reason this video "could not be found"] , and the one below on how small time farmers are harassed for providing "real" food to a small segment of the population.
Then I came across this : http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_story.html
Despite all these, many still look up to America with reverence, always accepting whatever comes out from there as the "best". Malaysians are no exception.
I guess many of us love to be deceived for as long as life looks rosy :)
On one of my sojourns into the alien world of gardening, I chanced upon a couple of documentaries on food farming - and it's amazing how the Americans, and perhaps most of us in the rest of the world, have very little say in what we put into our mouths. We buy stuff from the supermarkets thinking that these are "healthy" foods...and we wonder why we are plagued by various ailments that were totally alien to our elders of long ago.
In our endeavour to eat "healthy", we have actually swallowed stuff that gets us to the medical facilities a lot more frequently. We have also inadvertently helped the health insurance business tremendously. We have accepted that falling ill is a way of life - gravely ill I mean.
Watch this and be horrified......how Monsanto and other "big boys" have controlled the world food market : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVwmgH_99Kc [for some reason this video "could not be found"] , and the one below on how small time farmers are harassed for providing "real" food to a small segment of the population.
Then I came across this : http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_story.html
Despite all these, many still look up to America with reverence, always accepting whatever comes out from there as the "best". Malaysians are no exception.
I guess many of us love to be deceived for as long as life looks rosy :)
Friday 24 January 2014
Hobi
Dari kecil saya suka membaca. Membaca apa saja.
sekarang.. kalau boleh nak menghasilkan bahan bacaan yang dibaca oleh semua orang.
Mampukah?
Belum cuba belum tahu :D
sekarang.. kalau boleh nak menghasilkan bahan bacaan yang dibaca oleh semua orang.
Mampukah?
Belum cuba belum tahu :D
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