Sunday, November 19, 2017

Kisah Laptop Tahun 2017

Dulu memang blog jadi tempat coretan utama. Apa2 yang berlaku, biasanya memang ditulis di sini. Tapi di zaman Instagram dan Facebook ni, dah kurang guna blog. Tak bagus sangat pun record history kehidupan dalam fb tu. Not easily accessible as conpared to blog. Malas nak explain. Siapa yang pernah cari pasal hal sendiri dalam fb tau lah. Tapi mungkin rasa easier nak share story dengan my own circle. Blog ni masih anonymous to most people. I still choose to keep it that way. Senang sikit nak membebel kat sini kalau tak puas hati 😜

Motherboard terbakar

Actually nak cerita pasal what happened to my laptop. Nanti sendiri juga nak cari info ni. I have 4 days training on 6th to 9th early this month. 2nd day malam2 buta tiba2 jer laptop goes blank. Sikit lampu pun takder and can't start. Worse comes to worst, boleh guna laptop audience tapi tak sesuai lah cara tu. Sebab ada moments yang diorang kena buat kerja with their laptop. That's the reason I requested they bring theirs earlier.

Hubby jadi penyelamat by offering his laptop. Dia akan buat kerja without using one. 😨 kesian pulak dah memang kerjanya memang dengan komputer. Tapi itu jer pilihan yang ada. Thank God all my work memang save di Dropbox. Latest work pun dah save. Alhamdulillah. Berguna beli Dropbox 1Tb. So memang tak risau langsung pasal content.

After 3rd day training, terus pergi Low Yatt cari laptop baru. Nak baiki akan ambil masa and I need to use a laptop. I love my Asus. Sangat ringan and fast. Startup, sleep, buat kerja. Yang tak best, keyboard dia masa typing cursor boleh berubah kedudukan. But I've lived with it. Hubby suggested Dell sebab good after sales service. So we got a Dell and final day training dah guna. Friday I rehat and Saturday baru godek2 laptop baru.

Sekali tengok warranty dah nak expired walaupun ada extended warranty lagi 2 years. Eh diorang ni jual laptop baru ker refurbished laptop? Memang nak cari pasal. Hubby contacted the salesperson and threatened to report. Dia kata kalau tak puas hati boleh tukar tapi warranty tu sebab stock lama. Email resit baru, Dell akan guna date of purchase. Yer lah tu. Biasanya activate warranty a week within purchase kan. Tapi brand lain tak pasti sebab tiada online system nak check. Anyway, dapat lagi laptop baru. Mula2 dia nak offer Vostro. Tengok review, 1 jer and bagi 1 bintang jer pulak. Mesti orang tak nak beli model tu. Then dia bagi Inspiron jugak. Ok lah. Dah check warranty dia.

Terasa Dell ni slow. Maybe sebab not as integrated as Asus. Dah tukar motherboard dah my Asus and performance memang tip top. Tukar motherboard jer pun dah boleh beli laptop lagi satu. Tapi kena lah get used to Dell ni. Asus dah ada new owner. Jaga baik2 Asus tu and semoga bermanfaat.

Friday, November 17, 2017

Depression and Menopause


Ada 2 senario yang berkaitan dengan physiology dan bukan emosi that I wanted to mention here i.e. depression and menopause. Dua-dua perkara ni perlu kan medical help. 

I'm over 40 dan ramai orang-orang sekeliling in my circle yang dah start menopause. Maybe ada yang pendam tapi ada juga tunjuk kan emosi celaru masing-masing. Pada orang lain it doesn't make sense. Pada dia it made perfect sense. I wanted to get away from my mom so much when she's going through this period. Memang stress dibuatnya. Of course masa tu I was way younger and social media pun belum ada to get such information. So layan jer lah perangai mak yang menopausal. I ended up renting somewhere else and tak duduk dengan mak due to it. That's how bad it was. Truly life changing for us. Maybe that's the break we needed. Duduk jauh bau wangi. That's also around my early blogging days. 

If rasa emosi dah start celaru, atau pun tak rasa you are going through menopausal stage tapi semua orang salah, semua orang tak betul, rasa benci atau bengang tak hilang2, cari lah ubat coz you must be suffering. And your suffering will cause other people to suffer too. Ia bukan semudah berzikir dan solat. Chemicals in your body are doing things that causes your emotional upheaval.

Depression pun perkara yang sama. Hormones in your body goes haywire. Actually, stress pun ada melibatkan hormonal reaction. However, by eating better and doing exercises, it triggers good hormone in a natural way. Most of the time it is sufficient to help reduce stress. Tapi tak cukup membantu untuk orang yang depress. They need professional help, bukan ustaz atau ustazah who are not trained to handle the situation medically.

So, lagi sekali kena repeat. If rasa semua orang tak betul dan marah yang tak berkesudahan, get professional help. Bukan semua Doktor pakar dalam hal ni. Ask around for a good doctor. Buat hormone test: Free T3, estrogen and progesteron. Maybe testosterone sekali. Get advice from your Dr. Biasa medical check up buat Free T4 test. Itu tidak berapa membantu pun. Dan ada juga Dr yang prescribe synthetic hormone which may sometimes cause hormone haywire. Again, ask around for a good Doctor who will prescribe better medication. This is not a medical advice yer. Kalau you buat test dan dapat result pun I don't know what to advice and what to prescribe. Saya bukan Dr. Kang, ada yang tuduh Dr palsu pulak :D

1st Physio Session


Alhamdulillah dah selamat 1st physio session. Mula2 setengah jam juga di interview untuk find out about lifestyle, activities, sakit macam mana. Then di ajar buat 6 exercises. One type untuk stretch muscle and the other type untuk build muscle. Dah try buat kat rumah. Boleh lupa lak 1 exercise. Puas fikir sampai Google kut2 boleh trigger memory. Memang takder form exercise yang sama tapi masa tengok Google Image banyak2 tu terus teringat. Alhamdulillah. Some pose actually make me feel better.

According to the physiotherapist, masa sakit, memang muscle akan protect tempat sakit by triggering pain so kita tak akan buat perkara yang menyebabkan kesakitan. However, eventually the muscle tempat sakit akan weak and may further aggravate the situation. So masa recovery kena build semula muscle. She said part joint pain tu tak boleh buat apa. Oh oh... but, let's see if the muscle stretching and building will help with the pain. I'm optimistic.

And by the way, masa di Wah Toh Tit Tar diorang terus zoom in kat bahagian yang sakit and sakit camana. Terus juga cracking the bones. Suka sangat cracking bones sana sini. I'm ok with bones cracking tapi jadi fobia dengan cara diorang buat. Santai sangat di buatnya badan kita ni. Kita yang takut kang terkehel jadi teruk lagi ker tak pasal kan.

Bukan tak percaya kan hospital masa buat treatment lain, cuma rasa masalah ni macam kecik sangat untuk menambah sesak di hospital kan. Biar lah yang ada masalah serious pergi hospital. Tapi, bila bertambah sakit takkan nak biarkan jer and forever live with it. Takut bertambah teruk pulak bila ada rasa kebas2. So itu lah akhirnya ke hospital jugak. I dah cuba untuk tidak menambahkan patient hospital, tapi tak berjaya. Next appointment end of Nov. Kena buat senaman hari2 so ada improvement. Chaiyyok!!!