Villa Daniala Bachok Again

Was here about 2 weeks ago, and here again for a retreat.

What can I comment about Villa Daniala? Well, it is certainly unique, out of the box sort of resort. If you like big spacious bath, high ceiling, sexy room aka top to bottom jz window, Villa Daniala is definitely the one to go.

Very nice view as it sat just besides the beach, nice pool, big spa room, horseriding to those who are kin.

The owner is impressive too! Dato' Siti Hamidah is a modern Kelantan lady. Previously of Time dot Com, she came back to Kelantan establishing her room.

The food served here is mostly ala kampung. Definitely a Malaysia kitchen stuffs as she sometimes employs the old lady around the villa to prepare the Kelantan delicacies.

Have to say though, Villa Daniala definitely need to upgrade her maintenance a bit currently. However, did hear that there will be major upgrading exercise. Good luck Villa Daniala, think you are definitely able to shine brightly again!


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Al Fatihah to En. Islah & Simple Guide to Heart Attack & Strokes

Last week, we were shocked to learn of the sudden passing of our colleagues, En. Islah. He was a jovial, happy, friendly, positive guy.. still a considerably young for heart attacks, I think he hasn't reached his 50th years yet.

Thruthfully I didn't know him all that good, but for the few weeks he was our bosses (due to the last boss being posted, and the supposedly new boss didnt came in yet), he was very helpful, friendly.. overall his aura is a lovely lovely positive tinge.

Anyway, from the replies in our officials emails after the sudden notification of his deaths, and the FB status of collegues, all expressing shock and extreme sadness of his passing, we know he was a very popular guy.

So what happen?? Seems its nothing. A day before that, a group of friends remarked he was happy trying on our new corporate shirt. The morning it happen, a few more saw him enjoying his breakfast. Then, everything happen in a flash. He felt pain in his chest, went to the doc in our forth floor, collapsed, and while all the doctors and medical personnel tried to revive him, he passed on.

So sad, please please, dear readers, if you are a muslim, please dedicate al Fatihah to this beautiful guy, may Allah grant him mercy and Jannah (paradise)..

Am sharing the shared note by one of the highest boss in my organization, he himself greatly affected by the sudden passing, more profoundly as he is also considered on borrowed time, after a heart bypass surgery. Read on, hope we all benefited.

1. HEART ATTACK AND STROKE

HEART ATTACK   The heart is a strong, active muscle which needs a constant supply of blood to nourish the muscle and keep it beating. Blood flow to the heart is supplied by the coronary arteries. A heart attack occurs when the flow of blood through a coronary artery becomes severely reduced or stopped altogether. The loss of blood damages the heart, chiefly by cutting off oxygen to the heart muscle. The blood supply can be reduced by coronary spasm, the build-up of cholesterol plaque inside the artery (called atherosclerosis), or from blood clots, which arise from the rupture of cholesterol plaque.

The illustration above shows a blood clot obstructing the flow of blood through a coronary artery. If the obstruction lasts a long time, portions of the heart muscle nourished by the artery will die. This weakens the heart's ability to pump blood to the rest of the body, a condition called heart failure. If the damage is great enough, nerve fibers in the heart—which tell the heart when and how to beat—will also die. If too many nerve fibers die, the heart will stop beating, resulting in cardiac arrest and the death of the victim.

2.    STROKE

Just like the heart, the brain also needs a steady supply of blood to function properly. There are four main blood supplies to the brain—two carotid arteries and two vertebral arteries. A stroke (or brain attack) occurs when blood flow is severely reduced or stopped due to obstructions from spasm, cholesterol plaques or blood clots.

The illustration on the right shows a blood clot obstructing the flow of blood to the brain, causing damage to brain tissue. Many different kinds of neurologic symptoms can result from brain attacks, depending on the site and length of the attack. Short-lived attacks are called Transient Ischemic Attacks or mini-strokes. Attacks that last more than an hour and produce permanent disabilities are simply called strokes. And strokes that provoke no immediate symptoms are called silent strokes.
3. STRESS

Stress is defined as the sum of the body's reactions to adverse influences. Often, we can feel the effects of stress because it is accompanied by an activation of the sympathetic nervous system. The activation of this system can provoke strong cardiovascular changes, such as rapidly raising your blood pressure and heart rate. That's why episodes of acute stress are strongly felt inside of us. Moments of stress are often a trigger for strokes and heart attacks. Here's why. An artery is designed to react quickly to moments of stress by contracting or expanding in response to the signals it gets from the many nerve fibers that connect it to the sympathetic nervous system. When an artery is diseased by cholesterol plaque, it is much more likely to collapse into spasm as a result of stress. The force of the spasm cracks open the plaque, releasing soft cholesterol, which produces a blood clot. The clot can occlude the artery at the site of spasm or be swept away by the bloodstream, causing an occlusion further down the artery. Either way, the result may be a stroke or heart attack. Most people assume that only physical influences (such as shoveling too much snow on a winter morning) can cause the stress which leads to heart attacks. But did you know that chronic mental stress has a much more important role to play than physical stress as a trigger of strokes and heart attacks? Mental stress is a bit difficult to define, but its effect on your arteries is very real. On a small scale, mental stress accompanies many of the tasks that we attend to every day. These tasks usually involve some level of frustration or mental effort—solving an arithmetic problem, speaking in public, memorizing facts for an important test and so on.          On a larger scale, chronic mental stress is best understood as a "stonewall worry," that is, the state of your mind when it is confronted by a problem that seems to have no ready solution, such as loneliness, relationship troubles or depression. Mental stress has much the same affect on your blood vessels as physical stress does―it causes the arteries to contract or dilate, often with surprising swiftness. (A blush is the almost instantaneous dilation of blood vessels of the face.) The artery spasm caused by mental stress can be so strong that it crunches cholesterol plaque, breaking it open and allowing the formation of dangerous blood clots. Mental stress can be a chronic condition; your blood vessels can be affected for long periods of time. For that reason, and because mental stress is not readily observed, the cumulative affect on your arteries can be very dangerous, eventually provoking a stroke or heart attack.

It is possible to detect the effect of mental stress on your arteries with the non-invasive and painless Sit-Down Stress Test, an invaluable tool that safely predicts your risk for a heart attack.

Hope we all learn something today. Sometimes, it is worthwhile to just relax and smell the roses, and appreciate what we have today.

Another One Bite the Dusts :)

Yeay! Another rat gone! The poison bate cat food is irresistible it seems. Need to keep it up, see how many more there is :)


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Theme Park Hotel Genting :)

 

* This was posted on 24/1/2013 but on my other blog hehe.. transferring it to its rightful place in this blog today :D

 

Am currently in Genting outdoor park. Baby Hannah snug in her borrowed oversized sweater, the 2 bros and their dad having lotsa fun!

Staying at Theme Park Hotel Genting. Booked online 2 weeks ago at RM128, not so bad. A year ago a portion of the hotel was closed for renovation. So, that's what it look like. I kinda like the old room. Much bigger and spacious. Here as you can see, the room is a bit small. Well, bought some comforter for the boys to crash tonite. We won't really stay in the room so to speak, so that's why just a single room this time round,

Then the indoor outdoor family package ticket (2 adults 2 kids) for RM213.

Today is Maulidur Rasul. Thought Genting would be jammed pack but thankfully it is quite not bad. The boys would have so much fun!

Tomorrow, dunno yet whether straight back to Kerteh or KL for stopover windowshopping at IKEA first. We shall see.



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Crazy Rat

Damn this crazy rat. Thought they only help themself at my 2nd room aka the store room, but seems they took a liking to my bedroom too. Hope there's no baby rat yet but I heard squekings. Yikes!

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SOLD!!!!! Spectra 3 Breast Milk Pump Preloved for Sale - RM450 ONLY

SOLD TO MS. S OF SERDANG... hope the baby and the future siblings benefits :)

Well, I aim to breastfed my baby but alas, seems I can't. So I am trying to sell off my preloved Spectra 3 full set breast pump as follows:-

The full set offered.

 Cooler Tote Bag Polkadot RM 46.90
Autumz Breast Pumo Knapsack RM 99.90
BOTH NOT USED

Ice pack, Autumz storage bottles, breast pad, stand and plastic milk pack.

Autumz Breast Milk Storage 10 bottles RM 38.90 - NOT USED

Washable Breast Pad RM 10.00 - NOT USED

Autumz Breast Milk Storage 4 bottles RM 15.00 - NOT USED

Autumz Reusable Ice Pack RM 23.00 - NOT USED

Breast Shield And Tubing & milk storage plastic RM 76.00 (Very lightly used)

Spectra with dual pump. Original came with just one breast shield. RM 388.00

VERY LIGHTLY USED

Warranty still valid till 22/3/2013.

FOC baby jaundice bath - NOT USED

VALUE RM5 @ 3 = RM 15.00

FOC Pureen Disposable Nursing Pad - NOT USED

Value RM 23.00

Pumping Machine Specktra 3 Slim Type

Extra Breast Shield

Extra Milk Bottles for Storage - Autumz

Bottle Stand while pumping

Ice pack for temporary storage

Backpack bag for temporary milk storage

Sling bag for temporary milk storage

Breast pad

FOC Chinese Herbal baby bath especially for jaundice

All in all calculated, things are worth around RM 630. I bought it RM 575.00.

Used less than a month before storage as not in use. MOST ITEMS ARE NOT USED. Very light used for the pump.

Bought 22/9/2012, warranty 6 month.. Still valid til 22/3/2013.

Price RM 450.00 + RM 25.00 Peninsular Malaysia postage, so RM 475.00 for the whole set.

DISCOUNTED FINAL PRICE INCLUDING POSTAGE RM450.00

* Even the pump is RM388.00
* FOC Jaudice Baby Wash & Pureen Disposable Nursing Pad @ RM 38.00

Sms me if interested (cz I might be engaged, I will sms back once free), 013 951 1981, Kak Ojah.

DeCluttering & Recycling @ Terengganu

Hannah is a good girl today cz she went to sleep without demanding me to sleep too! Or is it perhaps, the weight of the rabbit stuff toy she accidently pull across her comforted her, lulling her into thinking that's my arm :)

Well, that gave me some time to organised my 2nd room @ my weekday rented abode at Bt Payung. Phew, we have been infested by rats! I supposed they have been making home there for quite some times judging from the poop they left behind. Hurmmm.. Need to get some rat trap after this too cz they seems too smart to eat the poison I left around.

Hurmm.. So that got me into major decluttering mode. The three bags there contains paper. Bet some of you would ask, why not recycle? Well, there's two reasons. 1) KT doesn't really have the friendly place where we can drop our recyclables.

2) This is actually a bit like recycling. I put things in clean plastics for scavengers to pick up.. And then send to the recycle centre they frequented. I saw a few here in Bt.Payung.. As well as the supposed to be richer area in Kerteh. Hope they will get a few ringgit for the papers there..

Kind of heartbreaking right to know that some people need to do this to get a few cents or ringgit, while others like you and me sometimes do not value RM1 as much.

Reminder to myself as well.

P/s .. Will do some more throwing out stuffs after this. Hope my spare room would be spick n span soon!


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Baby's 13th Day..

Jz a short n sweet note.. Won't be updating my blog for a while..

Got my sweet girl at last, birthed @ 11.35pm on 12 Sept 2012.. Love you baby girl, Hannah would be her name, meaning Kasih Sayang.. Love.. Nick name would be Hana.. Kebahagian or contentment.. Another I read is rezeki..

Been in confinement for 14 days.. Been bored already.. Wondering when I can start being at my own home again...


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