Post mortem

Looks like my head and stomach had been hit by a tornado, and the aftermath is full of craps and corpses around... Rewind back to last Thursday, I remembered I had an action packed day when I was cross country attending meeting on Penang office and then rushed to Kulim to conduct training for the people there, and top it up I had a heaty nasi kandar as lunch and with very minimal water drinking habit... I was down with fever the very same night.

Normally fever is a small matter which could be easily brushed off within one or two day of blanket sauna practice... however the scare of my life came when I realize that all that I ate and drink are being exited from my ass. Imagine your morning diet all came out and say hi from your ass in the afternoon, with your urine tract staying dry... having seen 4 seasons of Dr. House series, I know fully well that your body can sometimes play trick on you and make you seriously doubt the existence of a godly being.... Anyway, the feeling at that time was seriously mind boggling as your body had started to divert all the fluid waste into your rectum instead of your kidney, its kinda like your body had mistaken the food tract and urinary tract and enacted convergence lane into the wrong lane....

Fast forwarding 2 days later, everything is solved after I went to see doctor in the middle of the Sunday night (2 am), and after downing for what it may seem like a wide selection of cancer patient medicine, everything started to get reset in Sunday morning. I just drank my favourite Coca Cola at the time of this blog :)

The only bad moment for this sickness is that I shit my pants and had some awkward cleaning moment in the washroom myself, other than that, it came out pretty well

The smell of freedom is really priceless, while the smell of shit is nostalgic to say the least... the smell and color made me think of baby poop, healthy and yellow *Ewww*
Note: No more nasi kandar marathon next time!

Sick again

This is really sucks, after approximately 6 months of clean sheet, I manage to get myself sick again, so here am, sweating and head dizzy and typing this post from my bed. The sickness itself is not serious, just a little bit of fever and no energy for the whole body... fortunate enough there are no joint pain.
Having said that, today I found out that the company is unmerciful when it comes to employee getting sick. First of all, I took effort to attend night teleconference, and push my ass all the way to Kulim to prepare the training for 2nd half, but the company will expect more from you, short of exhausting your energy.

If I can't get better by tomorrow, I guess need to descend to Defcon 2 already (see doctor), and the funny thing is that I don't even know who is the panel clinic here in BM... yeah, I don't expect to fall sick in BM mah.. here got parents, suppose they can take care of you right?
Anyway, the reason I think I got sick this time is because of heaty... earlier my body had try to send an early warning (by accidently biten my lips and caused ulcer) but I choose to ignore it, coupled with the food I taken before getting sick (nasi kandar, nasi lemak...), and that particular day I was driving around looking for 4E halfcut (yes, I went hunting on weekdays). All these add up to the toll :(

Nevertheless, I should prevail! Now I'm dreading next week of work... so many stuff to do and yet so little time.

Point of diminish in power plant reached?

Remember back in the 90s where the game SimCity was a hit? Nearly every friend I knew played or heard this game. From there the objective of the game is to flourish your kampung into a pekan, then into bandar and then city or metropolitan. Simple as that. However to achieve that, one need to roll out the proper street, designate the proper zone and the main thing is to build the right power plant for your people. That was how I perceive power plant technology in my early days of life, and had been following that concept ever since.

There was always

• coal, the dirtiest SOB piece of crap in the game where it automatically brings your pollution to level 3, followed by
  
• natural gas (environment ok but expensive),
  
• hydro (great if you have a Niagara fall near your city),
• solar (high maintenance),
  
• wind turbines (need alot and low output kW),
  
• Nuclear (risk radiation, high output kW),
  
• Microwave and
  
• Fusion power plant

Currently I would say we're around the Nuclear region as the developed country had them and there are no 'more advanced' power plant around that I knew of.

However, latest news from US shows they are back to explore clean coal, Europe is also into coal, and of course Russia also likes coal now as there is no demand on their nuclear waste (e.g. Plutonium). So technically we're going back to coal, and this made the PC game Simcity, the board game Power Grid, and even many sci-fi movie obsolete.

Well that's a start, as gas and oil is reaching a record high price (USD118 per barrel as of now), all fossil power plant project had been switched to the coal, rather than oil or gas. So basically environment will get screwed anyway. I don't know the footprint involved but I can bet for every 10 person who strictly adhere to greenpeace advise, just 1 person who is poor and drive a 1985 Toyota Crown diesel will just offset the pollution made. Imagine what 5 coal plant will do.

I am not a green person, just wondering why the fuss on the Earth day, global warming and greenpeace are all about. The effort is being screwed by politician and government in just a few implementation, and someone need to fix the concept of technology on power plant.

New sports: Tennis!

Started my first game of tennis after 27 years of existence, I must admit this may be the worst sports I ever played in my life, with ugly serving, wrong forehand, pathetic backhand, bad return and virtually zero ball control, I am amaze that only 1 ball was strike out of bound (fly out of the confinement zone).
The game lasted 2 hours with 2 players, another 1 would volunteer to collect the balls which oh-so-frequently blocked by the net. Luckily my stamina is still there.

So wanna say thanks to Jeebs for the tennis racquet, its the first step towards moulding the next Pete Sampras, all I need to do is to get the forehand right, master the backhand to fix the problem of ball coming at my LHS, and also develope a more beautiful serve. Then I would probably ace my way towards total domination.

Can't wait to play in the Malaysia open and beat Michael Chang's ass :P

It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes

eather had been ridiculously hot lately, with temperature reported at 37degC and humidity at 52% RH on the afternoon on this part of the world, I don't know how can one survive without air conditioning. Can't really go out that much under this condition, the only thing good is that wax and polishing of your car will be pretty effective.

I hate hot days on weekends.

Ulcer party

Not sure if it's because of the trip to Singapore, but there has been alot of ulcers popping out from my lips... I registered 3 fully riped ulcers (meaning they are the most painful phase). Not because I dowan to drink water but the water price in Singapore is so expensive.... blardy Malaysia government overcharging the water price to Singapore! So there you go, one of the reason I have to suffer, because of my own G.

Really can't believe that, sounds like I slapped myself. And these multiple ulcers also affect my mood, my sleep, my speech, my thinking.... I think I need more sleep. Must be due to the jet lag I experienced from Singapore back to Penang. SIA air stewardess also not pretty 1 this trip.... *sigh*

Blood test!!!

Did a blood test when I was 23 years old, no abnormality based on that report, but if I remember correctly it takes about 5 minutes to extract what can be done in 1 minute, during that test, the blood froze halfway during the 20cc pick and it had to be resume after I downed a cup of lukewarm water. OK so fine, my blood are naughty little bastard liquid.

On 4-Nov under the influence of my gal, I went for another blood test at a health lab near BJ. Things went well except for the fact that blood refuse to flow out of my body, it took 4 attempts to extract the cute red liquid from my green vein and it still failed. Bloody trainee doctors I presume. This is exactly what happened…

1st attempt
Doc 1: OK Relax
Me: (Look away and pray) …
Doc 1: Hhmm…
Me: (Curious… felt tingling pain on left arm)
Doc 1: ….(about 30 seconds)
Me: (Turn and see the needle)… WAH! No blood come out 1 ?
Doc 1: (Remove the needle) Never mind, you go out there and wait for a while, later we do again.
Me: (thinking… OMG, AGAIN?!?!)

Went out, saw my gal waiting, tell her the bad news, she say never mind, don’t nervous or panic, oi oi me a bit.

2nd attempt
Doc 2: OK, I heard that your previous attempt fail right? OK never mind, relax.
Me: Very relax already (palm sweating, knees weak, arms are heavy)
Doc 2: (plunge needle into right arm)
Me: (Looking at the syringe…. Why my blood didn’t come out 1?)
Doc 2: (Try to suck the blood out… Nothing but pain)
Doc 2: (Try to suck harder)
Me: Sssss (show a pain face)
Doc 2: (Remove the needle) Hhmm, ok, you go out and drink a cup of water first. Then we try again later.

Went out, saw my gal again, tell her bad news, take a cup of water, down it.

3rd attempt
Doc 2: Lets try this again, calm down, and we’ll be fine.
Me: Why my blood didn’t come out har?
Doc 2: Did you drink a lot of water? Maybe your blood too thick cannot come out.
Me: WTF… If like that I need blood thinner
Doc 2: Heheh, ok relax.
Me: (Here we go again….pain, more pain when doctor pump the syringe… still nothing, KK!)
Doc 2: Never mind, I administer you to another doctor, more expert in this blood test
Me: (Got doctor expert or not expert in taking out blood 1 meh? KK!)

Went out, saw my gal again again, tell her the same news, drank 2 cups of water. Prepared to die again.

4th fricking attempt
Doc 3: (Looking at my biodata together with Doc 2) You said earlier you had trouble withdrawing blood samples in your early experience right?
Me: Ya, but not as bad as this, last time at least can extract half vial before it stop, but today langsung tak ada !
Doc 3: It’s ok, sometimes the blood is too thick or flow too slow to be extracted.
Me: Wah, like that mah never will had my blood taken out?
Doc 3: No lah, don’t worry, not that serious one. (Remove the 4th needle I see in a day, and find a nice G-spot at the middle of my arm. I think she is trying to locate one of my big artery which is hidden beneath the green vein coz I see that she just pluck right in the middle without any vein in sight, not really pain, just a bit tingling and numbness until…. )
Doc 2: Want to wait a little while or not before plunging deeper (in Chinese, thought I don’t understand mehhhh)
Me: (WTF does that mean? Doc 3 is not patient enough ? She is doing it too fast so that to be able to leave office soon?)
Doc 3: (plunge about 5cm of needle inside my arm, could be coming out of the other end of my arm anytime soon… then started to perform suction, for the first time I saw my blood !!! About a small pinch, not more than 1 mm, then she try to suck more, and then strangely… ONLY AIR COMES OUT….shit loh, why ?? Why my blood didn’t come out 1?!?!)

My blood decided to rebel and stay united in my body. Only 1mm blood extracted. What I said next really pathetic after I thought of it… I said …
Me: Like that the blood enough or not ?
Both doctors looking at each other…. While not to embarrass me, Doc 3 said…
Doc 3: Never mind, how about you come back later? Say tomorrow?
Me: How about Monday? (Coz tomorrow will be too soon for my blood to be any better IMHO)
Doc 3: OK, Monday, please come again so that we could take your blood sample. Remember to drink a lot of water.
Me: (CB, KLK)
Doc 2: Remember to drink more water har….

Went out, saw my poor gal out there waiting for nearly an hour already, tell her the news, get oi oi a bit then left for lunch (Fasting for 18 hours already!)

Anyway today already extracted the damn blood. Took only 1 minute to get them out, but my palm is sweaty, can see the sweat there, heck, even during management presentation I am not that scared. So this experience taught me few things :
I don’t have the material for being a great man.
Besides roaches, I had identified a new phobia, and it’s not blood.

Now I look like a bloody drug addict with multiple puncture hole at my arm. Count : 5 !!!

Why so fat ?

Did a simple fat test on the web, looks like technically I should only be having 8% body fat inside me. Not sure if I should be happy or not cause reasonably I should be low risk in getting any cholesterol related disease but 8%?! We know blood consist of 7% of our total body, my fat is 8%, very close leh!!



Now I know I have 4.2kg of fat, that's alot man, it's like 4 small chicken inside me, as fat. Geli lohhhh, cannot imagine. I hope this test is faulty, so that it will spare my nightmare.

I hope I won't suffer from Anorexia Nervosa anytime soon. Now puasa somemore, great... more reason to fast.

Anyway you can try the test yourself here : Fat test