Kesihatan

Masalah penghadaman di kalangan rakyat malaysia

APABILA membincangkan tentang isu kesihatan dan kesejahteraan, kesihatan saluran penghadaman biasanya kurang diutamakan berbanding topik yang membabitkan jantung dan tekanan darah. Tetapi usaha menjaga kesihatan sistem penghadaman anda tidak kurang penting berbanding usaha menjaga kesihatan semua bahagian lain badan. Masalah kesihatan saluran penghadaman bukan sahaja mengganggu perut dan usus, tetapi juga boleh menjejaskan kehidupan anda.

l Empat Masalah Utama

Penyakit yang berkaitan dengan saluran gastrousus (GU) dinamakan penyakit penghadaman. Di Malaysia, masalah penghadaman umum yang dialami oleh dewasa Malaysia, berasaskan tahap penularannya ialah:

1. Penyakit Refluks Gastroesofagus (Reflux Oesophagitis)

Penyakit ini berlaku apabila sfinkter esofagus bawah (injap antara esofagus dan perut) tidak ditutup dengan cukup rapat, membolehkan asid perut untuk mengalir kembali ke dalam esofagus. Tanda ataupun simptom paling umum ialah pedih hulu hati. Gejala lain termasuk batuk, suara serak, sendawa dan rasa masam di mulut. Di Malaysia, seperti kebanyakan negara di Asia, penyakit refluks semakin menular kerana faktor gaya hidup, seperti gaya hidup tidak aktif yang tidak mementingkan kegiatan fizikal dan juga pilihan makanan, misalnya makanan berminyak dan berlemak. Namun begitu, penyakit ini boleh dirawat menerusi ubat preskripsi atau dengan membuat perubahan gaya hidup, iaitu jangan makan secara berlebihan, mengurangkan berat badan berlebihan dan menambahkan kekerapan senaman.

2. Sindrom Usus Terganggu (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)

SUT ialah sejenis gangguan usus yang dialami kira-kira 430,000 rakyat Malaysia. Gangguan ini menyebabkan sakit perut, kekejangan, kembung, cirit-birit atau sembelit. Gejala utamanya ialah sakit perut dengan sembelit atau cirit-birit. Terdapat pelbagai teori yang mengenal pasti punca SUT. Ia mungkin berlaku akibat kaitan antara faktor alam sekitar dan genetik. Gejalanya juga dianggap berkaitan dengan komunikasi kurang baik antara otak dan saluran gastrousus. Pergerakan yang normal mungkin tidak berlaku di dalam kolon seseorang yang menghidap SUT. Walaupun SUT ialah sejenis gangguan tidak berbahaya (benign), ia boleh menjejaskan kualiti kehidupan dan mengganggu anda selama bertahun-tahun. Penyakit ini biasanya dialami oleh mereka yang berusia lewat 20-an, wanita dan individu yang mempunyai sejarah SUT dalam keluarga. Rawatannya termasuk perubahan diet dan gaya hidup, seperti mengelakkan makanan yang mencetus gejala, kerap bersenam dan menguruskan stres.

3. Ulser peptic (peptic ulcer)

Ulser peptik ialah liang kecil yang menembusi lapisan perut atau duodenum. Ulser mungkin atau mungkin tidak memperlihatkan sebarang gejala, tetapi apabila gejala didapati, ia termasuk sakit membara atau menusuk di bahagian tengah atau atas perut, kehilangan selera dan penurunan berat badan serta najis berwarna gelap atau hitam (akibat pendarahan). Gejalanya berbeza-beza antara individu. Punca utama ulser peptik ialah penggunaan ubat antiradang bukan steroid (NSAID) seperti aspirin, ibuprofen dan ubat lain. Punca umum kedua ialah jangkitan oleh sejenis bakteria yang dinamakan Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) Sebab lain termasuk merokok atau pengambilan alkohol berlebihan. Stres juga boleh memburukkan lagi gejala.

4. Kanser kolon (colon cancer)

Kanser kolon biasanya bermula sebagai polip, iaitu ketumbuhan kecil pada permukaan kolon. Kebanyakan polip adalah tidak berbahaya (benign), tetapi sekurang-kurangnya satu jenis polip boleh bertukar menjadi malignan (merebak) dan merupakan pelopor bagi kanser kolon. Laporan kedua Pendaftaran Kanser Kebangsaan menarafkan kanser kolon sebagai kanser ketiga paling umum dialami oleh rakyat Malaysia. Penularan kanser kolon juga semakin ketara, terutamanya di kalangan golongan muda. Orang yang berusia lebih 50 tahun menghadapi risiko kanser kolon yang lebih tinggi. Faktor risiko lain termasuk sejarah kanser kolon dalam keluarga, kegemukan, diet yang tinggi kandungan lemak dan rendah kandungan serat, merokok dan kehidupan tidak aktif.

l Mengawal Kesihatan Anda

Lazimnya, anda boleh mengawal kesihatan anda hanya dengan mengambil beberapa langkah pencegahan seperti mengubah gaya hidup dan tabiat pemakanan anda. Jangan tunggu sehingga anda mengalami masalah penghadaman. Mulakan serta-merta untuk memastikan sistem penghadaman anda akan kekal sihat pada hari ini dan sepanjang hayat.

Utusan ARKIB : 31/05/2009

Kesihatan

Jadilah pesakit berilmu

Olehl DR. ABD. HAMID MAT SAIN (Pakar Bedah Columbia Asia Medical Centre

Seremban, Negeri Sembilan)
MALAYSIA sedang bekerja keras menuju ke arah menjadi sebuah negara maju. Salah satu daripada ciri-ciri negara maju adalah mereka perlu mempunyai budaya ilmu yang tinggi.

Ilmu pengetahuan yang akan kekal dengan seseorang buat selama-lamanya adalah ilmu pengetahuan yang praktikal – iaitu boleh digunakan di dalam kehidupan seharian.

Ilmu pengetahuan mengenai kesihatan umum dan sesetengah isu perubatan adalah contoh ilmu pengetahuan yang berbentuk utilitarian/berfaedah.

Malangnya, jika dilihat pada aliran persekolahan masa kini di Malaysia, pedagogi pendidikan pada umumnya hanya tertumpu kepada menyiapkan seseorang penuntut itu menghadapi peperiksaan besar.

Ilmu yang diajar adalah untuk digunakan di dalam menjawab soalan peperiksaan semata-mata. Jauh sekali untuk bekalan sebagai alat kehidupan masa hadapan.

Dari senario pendidikan awal di atas, maka tidak hairanlah ramai rakyat Malaysia pada umumnya mempunyai pengetahuan yang boleh dikatakan cetek tentang isu-isu kesihatan dan perubatan.

Walaupun ilmu-ilmu yang praktikal ini boleh didapati di luar sistem persekolahan dengan bacaan sendiri, hasil dari sistem persekolahan yang terlalu mementingkan peperiksaan dari penghayatan ilmu itu sendiri, maka rakyat Malaysia bukanlah satu masyarakat yang paling gemar membaca.

Ramai rakyat Malaysia berhenti membaca sebaik sahaja tamat zaman persekolahan tidak kiralah sama ada selepas SPM ataupun universiti.

Apakah kaitannya kurang ilmu pengetahuan, tabiat kurang membaca dengan kesihatan umum rakyat Malaysia?

Jika dilihat pada statistik Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia, antara punca utama kematian pesakit di hospital-hospital awam di Malaysia adalah keracunan darah (Septisemia).

Tetapi, jika dibandingkan statistik sama di negara-negara maju seperti Eropah Barat, Amerika Syarikat dan Jepun, maka punca utama kematian adalah penyakit kardiovaskular.

Kematian akibat keracunan darah tidak tersenarai langsung di dalam top 10 sebab-sebab kematian di hospital di negara-negara maju tersebut.

Mengapakah ada perbezaan sedemikian? Sebenarnya jika dihalusi penyebab kepada keracunan darah yang membawa maut itu, ia boleh berpunca daripada penyakit-penyakit yang disebabkan oleh jangkitan kuman.

Banyak jangkitan kuman ini adalah berpunca dari penyakit awal yang lambat dirawat. Contohnya, radang apendiks yang sudah pecah, ulser perut atau duodenum yang pecah dan usus yang pecah.

Kesemua penyakit di atas tidak sepatutnya menjadi punca kematian jika pesakit mempunyai sedikit pengetahuan tentang penyakit dan mendapat rawatan awal.

Masyarakat di negara maju amat mengambil berat dan segera mendapatkan rawatan sekiranya mengetahui mereka menghidapi penyakit-penyakit yang disebutkan tadi.

Kerana itulah di negara-negara maju, penyakit yang disebut di atas jarang menjadi punca kematian.

Malangnya di Malaysia, akibat daripada kurang peka, lambat mendapat rawatan atau tidak mahu dirawat secara teknik moden, penyakit yang sepatutnya tidak membawa maut telah menyebabkan sesebuah keluarga kehilangan ayah, ibu, anak, suami, isteri mahupun orang tersayang.

Kita ambil contoh radang apendiks. Ia merupakan salah satu penyakit yang amat kerap berlaku terutamanya di kalangan orang muda.

Sayangnya, masih ramai pesakit atau penjaga yang memandang ringan dan sambil lewa jika berlaku gejala sakit perut, sehinggalah peringkat yang parah yang menyebabkan apendiks tersebut pecah sebelum sempat dikeluarkan oleh pakar bedah.

Apendik yang pecah mengakibatkan najis terkeluar daripada usus dan masuk ke dalam rongga perut yang boleh menyebabkan keracunan darah. Berlakulah jangkitan kuman yang amat dahsyat di dalam rongga perut yang akan mengakibatkan keracunan di dalam darah.

Secara umumnya, walaupun tanpa ilmu perubatan yang tinggi, kita boleh memahami betapa bahayanya senario ini kepada pesakit dan bagaimana teknik perubatan alternatif tidak boleh mengatasi masalah ini.

Begitu jugalah dengan penyakit ulser peptik yang terjadi akibat kelalaian merawat penyakit yang kerap berlaku di kalangan masyarakat moden iaitu gastritis (radang dinding perut) atau yang kerap disebut sebagai penyakit gastrik oleh masyarakat umum di Malaysia.

Penyakit yang memberi kesakitan yang pedih di bahagian perut atau sering disebut hulu hati ini kerapkali dirawat dengan mengurut.

Bagaimanakah kesakitan yang disebabkan oleh asid yang terdapat di dalam rongga perut (yang turut menghakis organ perut) di dalam rongga manusia boleh dirawat dengan mengurut?

Pesakit yang berilmu akan dapat mengenal pasti sendiri soalan ini. Inilah sebabnya kenapa rakyat Malaysia perlu mula membaca ilmu-ilmu kesihatan yang asas yang boleh menyelamatkan nyawa mereka sendiri atau orang-orang tersayang.

Saya telah banyak kali menemui pesakit-pesakit untuk penyakit yang saya sebutkan di atas mendapatkan rawatan mengurut untuk mengubati penyakit mereka.

Kerapkali juga pesakit mendapat rawatan urut dari pengamal urut yang tidak mempunyai pengetahuan apa-apa tentang anatomi, fisiologi dan patologi manusia.

Tambah mendukacitakan apabila ada penyakit yang kian teruk. Walau bagaimanapun, tidak boleh dinafikan bahawa mengurut mempunyai tempatnya tersendiri di dalam rawatan penyakit.

Antara penyakit yang boleh diubati dengan mengurut adalah seperti penyakit-penyakit Muskuloskeletal (otot dan tulang). Itu pun pesakit perlu mengetahui dan membezakan mereka yang mempunyai ilmu pengetahuan tentang struktur-struktur tersebut ataupun tidak.

Pesakit yang mempunyai pengetahuan umum di dalam ilmu perubatan akan dapat membezakan sama ada kesakitan yang dialami itu boleh dipulihkan dengan rawatan teknik moden ataupun alternatif.

Ini adalah ciri-ciri masyarakat negara maju yang saya telah sebutkan di atas tadi. Pesakit perlu mempunyai pengetahuan asas agar dapat membezakan jenis rawatan mana yang boleh digunakan untuk jenis penyakit yang mana.

Contohnya seperti rawatan mengurut tidak boleh digunakan di dalam rawatan penyakit-penyakit dalaman, terutamanya yang melibatkan organ dalaman yang mudah pecah seperti penyakit Apendisitis Akut dan Gastritis.

Pengetahuan tersebut adalah kritikal dalam menyelamatkan nyawa mereka sendiri.

Dengan adanya ilmu yang asas tentang penyakit-penyakit yang kerap berlaku di dalam masyarakat dan juga proses umum punca dan kejadian penyakit tersebut, maka seseorang dapat membuat perhitungan sewajarnya untuk mendapatkan rawatan awal daripada para doktor atau pakar yang berkenaan.

Ilmu asas tentang kesihatan dan perubatan juga penting untuk masyarakat membuat penilaian tentang kesahihan seseorang pengamal perubatan alternatif yang bercambah di tengah-tengah masyarakat moden masa kini.

Keterbukaan kerajaan dan masyarakat terhadap perubatan alternatif haruslah dilihat dalam konteks perubatan yang didasari ilmu pengetahuan.

Memandangkan kesukaran oleh semua pihak yang terlibat dalam perubatan menstrukturkan sistem yang boleh memantau dan memastikan kesahihan pengamalan semua bentuk perubatan didasari ilmu pengetahuan, maka pesakit juga perlu berkongsi tanggungjawab dengan menjadi pengguna yang prihatin dan bertanggungjawab ke atas diri sendiri.

Paling penting, mereka juga harus mempunyai ilmu pengetahuan yang asas di dalam membuat penilaian kesihatan untuk diri sendiri ataupun orang di bawah tanggungan mereka.

Utusan ARKIB : 23/07/2006

Murtabak oh murtabak!

Murtabak ni adalah resepi kak Nora (kakak aku yg ke 2) yang dia olah sendiri..

Power seh! Tabik springgg..

Dia tu mmg suka mencuba dan mencipta resepi sendiri. Husband dier pernah suggest, bukak restoran, dia propose nak jadik manager..hahaa...chomel tul la diorg!

Anyway, silala sapa2 yg nak try buat...... pasti tidak kecewa!

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Bahan inti

1 labu bawang besar [potong dadu]

Daging/ayam [cincang]

2 biji telur

1 kiub ayam

2 s/b rempah kurma

secubit garam

Cara

Gaul semua bahan diatas.

Bahan kulit

Tepung gandum

Minyak masak

Garam (bancuh dalam air)

Cara

1. Campur semua dan gaul menjadi doh.

2. Bentukkan bulat dan disapukan marjerin. Guna selepas 3 jam atau lebih

Cara menyediakan murtabak:

Minyakkan alas untuk menebar. Tebarkan doh sehingga nipis (jangan sampai pecah), letakkan inti dan bungkus membentuk empat segi.

Masak..

Bahan kuah

Bawang merah (dihiris nipis)

Sedikit cuka dibancuh dengan air minum, letakkan setitik pewarna merah (guna air rose – yg nak buat air sirap tu)

Garam dan gula (nisbah 1:6)

Cara

1. Campur semua

Siap untuk dimakan….nyum nyum

Ramadhan And Lactating Mothers

Cited from Ummusaif.com
for later reading myself!..heee =p
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This is a good article for fasting lactating mothers..

Source: FASTING.WS

Breastfeeding safety for the baby while on fasting has been a common question question for lactating mothers. They want to know if the increased release of toxins will hurt the baby. It is certain that fasting increases toxins in the mother’s milk and whatever is in the blood ends up in the milk in trace amounts. The baby does have an immune system. Will there be damage, possibly. But, the greater question is, why be labeled insane. Friends and family will think you are a crazy heretic who does not care about her child. That is unwise. They will not even want to understand. All your pleading for understanding and logic will fall on deaf ears. Where there is a will there is a way and you and your baby will both be blessed with the joy of health.

Fasting Recommendations

If you need to fast due to health problems, then juice fast with the addiction of 7 to 10 egg whites per day. Include 2 tablespoons of essential fatty acids, (fax and hemp mixture is good) vitamin E and a multi B vitamin.

Breastfeeding Diet Recommendations

Here is a simple method to supply the maximum amount of balanced nutrition for both you and the child and allow you to lose weight gained during pregnancy.

1. Drink fresh juice daily.
2. Have some veggie juice with 5 blended egg whites.
3. Make nut milks and drink1 glasses per day.
4. Powder some nuts and add them to the salad or add some tuna to the salad.
5. Take essential oils 2-3 tablespoons per day or make a salad dressing with it.
6. Eat one small salad with several vegetables to get a wide spectrum of nutrients.
7. Eat fruit salads daily.

Breastfeeding and Fasting Research

Breastfeeding research tells us that short-term fasting (not eating) will not decrease milk supply, but that severe dehydration can decrease milk supply.
There have been a few studies on short-term fasting and breastfeeding. Prentice et. al. studied women in West Africa who were fasting for Ramadan (no food or fluids between 5:00 am and 7:30 pm) and found that milk volume was not affected but milk composition did change to a certain extent. The researchers noted that the women appeared to super hydrate themselves overnight when fluids were allowed to lessen daytime dehydration.
Research in the United States by Neville et. al., Neville & Oliva-Rasbach and Tigas et. al. also showed no significant decrease in milk supply after a short water fast. The breastfeeding woman’s body makes several metabolic adaptations during short-term fasting to ensure that milk production is not affected.
opt: henley

By Tom Coghill of Fasting.ws
Articles may be copied or reproduced as long as the back links to fasting.ws are intact and the author’s name is included.

Ramadhan and being home

For some good few years, i had been away from home and family. During those precious few years, i had been fasting in a foreign land. How i longed this moment in time, being home ! not my parent's but my own home although it's just a rented house, it's ok. I love it and love it so much! SubhanaLlah... Alhamdulillah...!

Ramadhan comes again after disappearing for a year. This Ramadhan unlike before, is beyond my prayers and wishes. Thank you Allah for your nikmah, showering every corner of my life this very moment! What more can i hope for other than to have my most beloved husband by my side, a nice house to live in, a loving and caring family both my own and my family-in-law, nice friends around and lovely neighbourhood to mingle about. Not to forget, the nikmah of being a Muslim!

I used to have aims for every Ramadhan but this year, i just want to do my very best for every thing. Being a good servant of God is one, and being the best wife i could possibly be is another!

Note: Allah izinkan wanita memasuki syurga melalui mana2 pintu jika dia menjaga 3 perkara: Solat, Puasa dan Suami!

Regards,
RA

Who's cooking?

Yup, it's me! I am a housewife and i cook everyday excluding days when i feel too wasted like last sunday when i just got home from a long travel to kl!

Being a housewife is one of my weird dreams! Wait.....it's not an ordinary housewife, but a superexcellent housewife, more alike my mother if possible. Right now, it is still too far to reach but at least i am trying.

My mother had been and still is my ultimate role model. What are things that she can't do? None!

She is a marvellous cook, she's a natural artist, she is a trusted teacher, she's a pleasant friends, she's a superwonderful mum, she's the best wife anyone can ask for, she is a caring daughter, she is a humble servant of Allah and she is everything I can imagine a perfect mother can be..huhu, i wish i can be her in so many ways.

Being extraordinary is not easy though. Plus, by being a women mean being too caring, and that on it's own is very demanding.

I am at the moment reading this very popular book entitled: Men from Mars, Women from Venus. It's indeed a life changing experience! I can't deny that it somehow has enlightened me.. and that's just 1/6 of the total content.

Anyway, it mentions about female-being, bornt a giver. She lives to gives others and sacrifice her own happiness (sometimes) to see others happy.

So, it's too demanding actually for women to be extraordinary and it's also dangerous for her relationship. As mentioned in that book, men are a natural self-ish (my own interpetation). They lake the awareness about other ppl other than their selves.

That's why, when a woman gives too much, and a man just fails to recognise the effort, it'll just turn the woman off.

However, coming to this point, as a muslim we learn the value of pahala and hereafter. Yes, in this world, we shall be so depressed and frustrated, but in hereafter, more regards awaits. That's only if we know and believe.

My resolution now is moderation! being an ordinary housewife and a good servant shall do the trick inshaAllah!

Regards,
RA

Can we work together...?

2 nights ago, i was reading a book entitled 'How to become a property millionaire' in front of the telly whilst my husband was studying in the computer room. I was so keen to finish the book because not just that it was very well written but also of its beneficial content.

Later, by my side, he was there. I was so immerse in the book that i failed to notice him walking pass me and sat next to me. He changed the channel and began the conversation.

"wow... you are so into the book!"

"Of course! well, i always like property ladder as i love interior designing and architecture" i looked at him and smile. He knew that too well too!

"If you are thinking about business, then just consider property investment. At least we can work together in here" I made the suggestion. That thought had been lingering in my brain for some times already, and i managed to convey it to him then. what a relief. He for once had mentioned about moving into business but i objected to his idea because i did not have that eager towards business... not until i found the book i mentioned earlier.

I did IB in KMB for 2 years and i took business as one of the minor subject. I did not have a choice, that's why i took it anyway. I dread every minutes of my time studying business because it wouldn't just stick to my brain..It just wouldn't, as simple as that! So, i made the conclusion that I am not a born-business minded!

Well, the main thing i want to share here was about how we seemed to be able to work together. While i was still drown with excitement, there was one section that i got confused about. It was a set of calculation and derivation. It's Maths! Owh, i wish i had the same brain i used have and be proud of back in my teenage years when maths was too simple to be moaning about..but not anymore. I am now with a different brain, maybe with just a tinge of maths, if any!huhu

He came to the picture. Well, i asked for his advice.

"Can you explain this to me?" I passed the book over to him.

He took some times to read and digest the content.

"Hmmm, well, this one.... and that one... They are....! Owh, wait, I can't make sense of it either!" He finally gave up..

While he was explaining, my brain was actually spinning so fast like a roller-coster, wanting to reach the most logical explaination. And i did come with something.

"what if he had set the amount of profit he wants before making out the figure?" I replied and before i managed to continue, he nodded..... He seemed to be enlightened for once.

"yurp, that's right...bla bla.." he completed the explaination!

wow! it occured to me that we can actually be a good couple and great partners! I was refering to business world. We can actually work together only and only if we want to!

regards
RA

RePosting: Ada apa dengan Bus?

I like this entry...it was a 3 years old posting!
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Satu hari, masa sedang masih menunggu bas di Stesyen Bus Piccadilly, kawan ku membuka bicara

"tunggu bus ni menekan jiwa raga betul!!"

Aku sengih. Mata ligat melihat orang lalu lalang. Aku balas balik "sabar....sabar..." sambil tersengih kambing lagi sekali.

"kalau rumah dekat, aku dah jalan balik...malas nak tunggu bas ni lama2" Kawan aku terus membebel. Kesian dia, seharian kelas dari pagi sampai petang, dan sekarang kene tunggu bus yg entah kenapa enggak mahu muncul2.

"ala...cam tak biasa menunggu jer ko nih." Aku yg mmg cool..(hekehk) bersuara. Terlintas di kotak fikiran ku akan sesuatu yg menarik.

"Eh, ko perasan tak? Tunggu bus ni ada persamaan ngan hidup. Matlamat hidup adalah rumah kita yg dituju. Perjalanan dan masa hidup adalah sepanjang jalan. Bus pulak adalah yg mampu bawa kita rumah dengan selamat. Kita tunggu bus, ibarat kita tunggu seorang insan bernama suami....."

"Fuh, mantap sungguh ko berkias. Tapi, betul jugak tuh. Kadang2 aku terpikir, yg mana satu jodoh kita? kalau dah ada org yg baik datang merisik, kenapa ditunggu2. Bukanker ada hadith dari Baginda Rasul, lebih kurang: jika ada orang lelaki yg baik, baik agamanya, cepatkanlah kawinkan anak perempuan tu." Berbicara kawan ku yg sikit benggang tadi. Alim jugak dia ni tau sikit sebanyak pasal hadith, alhamduliLlah.

"tau pun! So, tunggu jer bus mana2 yg datang.....tak kirala Stagecoach ker magicbus yg uzur, arriva, ataupun first.....supaya mudah, selamat dan cepat sampai pada destinasi yg dituju..Mengerti?" Aku jeling sinis pada dia yg sedang menyandar bosan pada tiang 'stand'.

"...yer la! mmg la aku kene pilih stagecoach, dah aku ada buspass. Lainla kalau ko nak belanja tambang bus arriva kesayangan ko tuh" jawab sahabat aku sambil memberi muka buruk ke arahku.

"haha......." aku tergelak besar dengan gelagat dia. Mata masih sibuk memandang hujung jalan, sambil mengharap ada kelibat bus biru,kuning, merah putih lambang stagecoach. Bulat mata ku bila akhirnya muncul juga yg dinanti dari tadi.

"yeay yeah......Akhirnya jejaka tampan bergaya sudah datang!!" meloncat gembira sahabat ku. Aku bangun melangkah ke tepi jalan.

"alamak..alamak.... NOT IN SERVICE!! aarrrghhhhh......bengang..!!!" sambung dia. "aku dah tak tahan......"

"tula....sapa suruh tunggu jejaka tampan bergaya tapi tak beriman??"aku sampuk sambil menepuk bahunya. "jap lagi kot!"

Selang tidak lama, bus biru gelap, usang tiba di perhentian itu. Kami melangkah sambil mengucap syukur. Walaupun magicbus itu selalu sajer kami kutuk kerana penuh bau masam (tak semua pun..hehe), bunyi-bunyian, dan getaran, tapi setidak2nya, dia sanggup memberikan kami keselamatan, kecepatan, dan kepastian untuk tuju ker rumah yg tersayang.

(hanya rekaan semata....dialog dihyperbolakan dan beza dari dialog asal....hehe)

wassalam

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A few weeks if i am not mistaken, my husband mentioned about my inactive blog.

"why don't you write things that you do each day...at least keep you occupied with something". He said readily.

I thought about blogging once more but the urge to pour everything into wording is just to demanding for my brain...haha! What an excuse...

Well, i used to make matter too complicated...once example is by making sure the posting i am about to post shall not have any mistake whatsoever.... or that post should at least benefit one people if not more...and most importantly, I have to satisfy with it in all aspect....Yes, i was too careful and perfectionist..(although i don't think i am that kind of person!, owh, well...maybe)

"I dont like thinking what people think of me..That's why i am active no more!" I replied.

hmmm....i knew exactly what he's about to answer me back...

"If that's so, then i have nothing more to say!" he glanced cynically at me.

"huuh...." i made a long face. I was aware that he had a point. I do not want to stay home doing nothing, so why not keep some notes of events like i used to do when i was little.

Some good few years back, it was during my 13th birthday, my beloved sister had given me a cute pink journal. It has a small lock by the side. It was a treasure.

Over the years, i kept my daytime preoccupied with books and by nightfall, i would come to the journal, jotting every significant details of events on that day. The most exciting part was obviously my days at school. I had a few SA back in high school and that would include my husband ..hahaha. So darling, if you read this entry, you may want to search for that small treasure of mine to see what impression i had on you years ago...

Eventually, i stopped writing once i got to KMB. I did once in a while open it but just to keep some notes in for example names of my future children...ahaks "yes, that was advance, but there's nothing wrong for being overprepared isn't it?". I brought the journal to manchester too and back to Malaysia again after 6years there. It was with me for as long as i can remember since the moment i knew a little about life till now.

I hope i do not bored anyone (if any) yet. Till next time which i shall not promise..

ps - not bothered to check spelling or grammer....hentam sajerr
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Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily

WASHINGTON – The best time to learn a foreign language: Between birth and age 7. Missed that window?

New research is showing just how children's brains can become bilingual so easily, findings that scientists hope eventually could help the rest of us learn a new language a bit easier.

"We think the magic that kids apply to this learning situation, some of the principles, can be imported into learning programs for adults," says Dr. Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington, who is part of an international team now trying to turn those lessons into more teachable technology.

Each language uses a unique set of sounds. Scientists now know babies are born with the ability to distinguish all of them, but that ability starts weakening even before they start talking, by the first birthday.

Kuhl offers an example: Japanese doesn't distinguish between the "L" and "R" sounds of English — "rake" and "lake" would sound the same. Her team proved that a 7-month-old in Tokyo and a 7-month-old in Seattle respond equally well to those different sounds. But by 11 months, the Japanese infant had lost a lot of that ability.

Time out — how do you test a baby? By tracking eye gaze. Make a fun toy appear on one side or the other whenever there's a particular sound. The baby quickly learns to look on that side whenever he or she hears a brand-new but similar sound. Noninvasive brain scans document how the brain is processing and imprinting language.

Mastering your dominant language gets in the way of learning a second, less familiar one, Kuhl's research suggests. The brain tunes out sounds that don't fit.

"You're building a brain architecture that's a perfect fit for Japanese or English or French," whatever is native, Kuhl explains — or, if you're a lucky baby, a brain with two sets of neural circuits dedicated to two languages.

It's remarkable that babies being raised bilingual — by simply speaking to them in two languages — can learn both in the time it takes most babies to learn one. On average, monolingual and bilingual babies start talking around age 1 and can say about 50 words by 18 months.

Italian researchers wondered why there wasn't a delay, and reported this month in the journal Science that being bilingual seems to make the brain more flexible.

The researchers tested 44 12-month-olds to see how they recognized three-syllable patterns — nonsense words, just to test sound learning. Sure enough, gaze-tracking showed the bilingual babies learned two kinds of patterns at the same time — like lo-ba-lo or lo-lo-ba — while the one-language babies learned only one, concluded Agnes Melinda Kovacs of Italy's International School for Advanced Studies.

While new language learning is easiest by age 7, the ability markedly declines after puberty.

"We're seeing the brain as more plastic and ready to create new circuits before than after puberty," Kuhl says. As an adult, "it's a totally different process. You won't learn it in the same way. You won't become (as good as) a native speaker."

Yet a soon-to-be-released survey from the Center for Applied Linguistics, a nonprofit organization that researches language issues, shows U.S. elementary schools cut back on foreign language instruction over the last decade. About a quarter of public elementary schools were teaching foreign languages in 1997, but just 15 percent last year, say preliminary results posted on the center's Web site.

What might help people who missed their childhood window? Baby brains need personal interaction to soak in a new language — TV or CDs alone don't work. So researchers are improving the technology that adults tend to use for language learning, to make it more social and possibly tap brain circuitry that tots would use.

Recall that Japanese "L" and "R" difficulty? Kuhl and scientists at Tokyo Denki University and the University of Minnesota helped develop a computer language program that pictures people speaking in "motherese," the slow exaggeration of sounds that parents use with babies.

Japanese college students who'd had little exposure to spoken English underwent 12 sessions listening to exaggerated "Ls" and "Rs" while watching the computerized instructor's face pronounce English words. Brain scans — a hair dryer-looking device called MEG, for magnetoencephalography — that measure millisecond-by-millisecond activity showed the students could better distinguish between those alien English sounds. And they pronounced them better, too, the team reported in the journal NeuroImage.

"It's our very first, preliminary crude attempt but the gains were phenomenal," says Kuhl.

But she'd rather see parents follow biology and expose youngsters early. If you speak a second language, speak it at home. Or find a play group or caregiver where your child can hear another language regularly.

"You'll be surprised," Kuhl says. "They do seem to pick it up like sponges."

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EDITOR's NOTE — Lauran Neergaard covers health and medical issues for The Associated Press in Washington.

The Wedding

Alhamdulillah..
Praise be to Allah swt, for letting me live up to this moment.

Alhamdulillah...
Praise be to Allah swt for granting my wishes and prayers..

Alhamdulillah..
Praise again to Him for His lovely presents, one after another....

Alhamdulillah..
for my worldly degree.....
for my wedding..
for my loving husband...
for my new life with him..
for all the gifts...

Alhamdulillah...