Healthy living diet and Re:Thesis

Salam.

So, supervisor I hari ni tiba-tiba bagi reading assignment, dan sekarang I dah sangat bosan. Tapi entah macam mana, tadi tiba-tiba saya terbaca sesuatu yang menarik.

Ini berita lama; publish 6 tahun lalu. Okay, kalau kamu malas nak baca, meh sini saya terangkan serba sedikit dari apa yang saya faham (I sendiri pun tak baca semua, malas punya pasal).

Katanya, kalau makan sedikit, umur dapat dipanjangkan dan hidup lebih sihat (saya tahu, jangka hayat seseorang insan sudah ditentukan, takyah nak argue dengan saya pasal point tu). Bukan itu sahaja, katanya, inilah resipi untuk awet muda, menjadikan kita lebih sukar untuk jatuh sakit, kurangkan the possibility of getting Alzheimer's, all the good healthy stuff yada yada. Banyaklah cara diorang listkan dalam artikel tu; macam fasting every other day la, calorie restrictive diet la, low carb diet la, dan sebagainya.

This thing is a relevation! A big step for mankind to extend their lives!  And you look younger even when you are entering old age!

Wow, that's just fascinating~!
But the thing is...

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Bukankah Rasulallah (s.a.w.) sunatkan berpuasa Isnin Khamis?
Bukankah Rasulallah (s.a.w) nasihatkan supaya kita berhenti makan sebelum kenyang?
Bukankah Rasulallah (s.a.w) pernah kata yang semua penyakit berasal dari perut [need citation of this, I pernah terdengar someone say it, but dunno how far its true]?

Ini berita lama la... sangat-sangat lama. Lebih seribu tahun lebih lama.

Sekarang ada rasa nak puasa tak?

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Ok, cerita ini takde kaitan ngan cerita kat atas, but may or may not ada kaitan ngan classmate kita yang masih tidak dikenali itu, berkenaan dengan soalan dia pasal phd masters stuff.

Sempat lagi ke saya nak bagi input? Ke, dah buat pilihan dah?

Anyway, on with this fairy tale:-
Every year kat fakulti kitorang ada Olympiad (uuu, canggihnyerrrr), which, in a simplified word, is something of a pop quiz related to our field, but done in groups rather than individually. Well, actually baru start buat benda ni time 2010, and sebab dapat sambutan hangat (hurr so nerdy hurr hurr), diorang buat lagi.

Just so you know, in the last olympiad, group I dapat first. Ye la, dalam group tu semua top 10 kot, but keep in mind yang kitorang lawan ngan seniors gak (and the senior group got second). Siapa buat group budak pandai cepat dia menang. Sangat tak aci, I know.

So, anyway, first prize untuk quiz tahun tersebut dapat stethoscope, bebeh! Last time I menang dapat ape je... tin biskut kot. Sape je yang tanak stethoscope? Even though I dah ada stethoscope kaler kelabu (kaler tak menarik supaya takde orang curi), I OK je kalau dapat stethoscope lagi satu FOC, boleh buat collection. Second prize dapat tendon hammer, third prize dapat penlight.

Nak dijadikan cerita, satu hari tendon hammer I patah. Korang bayangkan je la apa yang I buat sampai tendon hammer boleh patah; kalau I cerita mesti korang tak caya nye. So aim I masuk quiz ni sebenarnya ialah untuk dapat tendon hammer, which is second prize, but my ego and pride won't let me sit just for second prize; I want the first, I don't even care what the prize is.

So classmates I ni mulalah scout budak lain nak buat group. So ada a few group yang all girls datang approach nak ajak masuk group and opening statement diorang mesti : "Kai, dah ada group belum? Kalau belum, joinla group kitorang, tapi kitorang ni masuk saje-saje je, tak menang takpe eh?" And I'm like, tak, kita mesti memang, I want first place!

....And they all ran away.

And ada satu group ni dah confirm nak recruit I: all girls, semua top 10 punya students, tinggal nak key in nama kat dalam kertas je and we're all set. I told them what I told the other groups: kita kena menang, kita mesti dapat first place. Dahla lawan junior, kalau kalah malu siot. They said, okay, jap, i nak gi register nama. And you know what happened? Last minute tinggal lagi 2-3 jam je before the group settle and proceed to the quiz, I asked them weih sape lagi yang masuk group kita? and they said "Owwh, kitowwunk ingat yu takmaww masyuk sho kitowwunk dah ganti yu ngan budakz lain, Sowwyz~ Tak sengajewww~ (=^_^=;) Sowwy taww? "

Ladies and gentlemen; behold, humanity rears its ugly head.

Time tu I was so pissed, malas aku nak layan mendalah ni. Kalau korang takut, cakap je la awal-awal, baik I cari group lain je, and I pergi lab sambil merajuk. Sorang kawan pompuan I dapat tahu cerita I and in an attempt to cheer me up dia kata rugi weih kau tak masuk. And I'm like, ha, kau budak pandai kan? Nak group ngan aku tak? Yang lagi dua orang tu kita kutip je and soalan kau ngan aku je jawab. And she was like, no way man, aku takut doh nak kena compete open camni, takpe, aku carikan orang untuk kau.

Pastu dia pun meliar mencari orang kat 4 lab (sebab class kitorang kalau lab session akan pecah jadi 4 lab) keluar masuk cari sana sini even though lab was in session. Akhirnya, dia jumpa 3 orang yang sanggup se-group ngan I for this quiz. Tiga-tiga semua budak laki, tapi diorang takdelah top 10. Hell, at this stage, I dah tak kesah dah kau top10 ke tak, I just nak manusia yang tak dump me tanpa sebab munasabah. Maybe somewhere around top 50 (just so you know, only 1 out of 9 kids yang top 10 is a guy). And similar to the girls group, I said the same thing: Kita kena menang doh, first place, kalau kalah ngan junior malu weih.

And they said, sure thing, no prob. Mesti menang punya.

 Our group was able to go though the quiz even though kitorang terlambat nak register. Throughout the whole quiz (which was, iirc, about 3 days long because it has 3 stages) I noticed that, even though they aren't the brightest bulb, diorang confident dengan jawapan diorang. Even though sah-sah salah and I kena betulkan and explain kat diorang kenapa salah, they were confident.

Akhirnya group kitorang yang terkontang-kanting ni dapat masuk final. Everybody had split opinion on which group will win in the end. It wasn't clear cut. Some of my faculty-mates sokong group I yang haru biru ni, ada yang sokong group lain atas sebab torkontang-kantingnya group I. Of course, the guys mesti sokong group I sebab group I je yang ada guys which made it to the finals. Seingat saya, it was a one on one lawan ngan satu group all girls WHICH DITCHED ME EARLIER  SWEET REVENGE IS AT HAND. Group junior ada, tapi masa second stage/final stage diorang terkandas even though diorang yang patutnya at an advantage sebab hampir all the soalan diorang baru je belajar. Kitorang yang seniors ni terkedek-kedek nak ingat balik amende ntah bilirubin tu rasanya wujud kat spleen D=. And this was conducted in a hall chock full of students of both years yang kena paksa datang (about 350~ students), so... yeah, can you imagine the pressure?

And man, did the other group put up a fight. That particular all-girls group is reputably known to be the geeks among geeks or something like that. Boleh kata top 10 in the academic charts punya group gak ah.  They were doing good but then, budak laki group I ni pergi psycho group tu. Macam everytime group tu decide an answer (and kitorang boleh dengar answer diorang sebab kitorang duduk quite close together if compared to our distance with the audience and judges), budak laki group I akan geleng kepala, and suruh I geleng kepala gak hahahah. Berpeluh-peluh diorang jawab, and bila tengok kitorang geleng kepala, diorang tukar jawapan, padahal da betul dah. Hahaha~

Long story short, kitorang menang first place lepas pakai taktik kotor. 2 years in a row, baby! And all 4 of us got our stethoscope, even though what I needed was a hammer. But I'm happy nonetheless.

I told this story to my parents. They laughed and said, ha itulah, budak pompuan ni memang intelligent, tapi tak konfiden, nak bagi jawapan takut, nak tanya soalan segan, ragu-ragu etc. etc. (I'm not being sexist here, but that's what we observe). Well, the moral of the story is: be confident with yourself. If you know that you can do it, just give it a go. If you're confident that you can't do it for whatever reason, then don't attempt it.

P/S: tendon hammer tu patah sebab jatuh from my locker.

-Kai
11th May 2012

reply : thesis

Well aku sokong je Kai kat bawah ni. How long do you want to live in your own comfort zone, seriously.. how long? Someone would only start living when he/she can live outside of what they think they can, and bila you da dapat that satisfaction, woah.. kick ass i tell you.. hehe..

“Patutkah manusia menyangka bahawa mereka akan dibiarkan dengan hanya berkata: Kami beriman, sedang mereka tidak diuji (dengan sesuatu cubaan)? Dan demi sesungguhnya! Kami telah menguji orang-orang yang terdahulu daripada mereka, maka (dengan ujian yang demikian), nyata apa yang diketahui Allah tentang orang-orang yang sebenar-benarnya beriman, dan nyata pula apa yang diketahuiNya tentang orang-orang yang berdusta.” 


Surah Al-Ankabut ayat 2-3.

I didnt drop Est dulu, sebab aku rasa aku boleh buat. and aku rasa dia boleh jadi bekap aku. and most importantly, memang aku minat pun tulis karangan bi scientific2 macam tu. dulu la, tapi bila aku da lama tak mengarang, english jd hampeh gila. bm pun sama.seriously =.="

okay, back to our topic, kalau rasa tak nak terus lompat amek phd because you think you tak LAYAK, well.. i think you dah judge yourself before apa-apa lagi. if you really tak layak, why do u get it at the first place? dont  underestimate yourself, tapi consider juga kemampuan kita.

Allah tidak memberati seseorang melainkan apa yang terdaya olehnya. Ia mendapat pahala kebaikan yang diusahakannya, dan ia juga menanggung dosa kejahatan yang diusahakannya...

Surah Al Baqarah ayat 286

 It is something that you're assigned to da or do you still have some other options? dan paling important, ko minat ke tak? each and everyone of us ada kita punya cara and style, or whatsoever they called it.. maybe apa yang kau boleh buat, tak semua orang lain boleh buat dengan cara yang sama juga, and vice versa. meaning you have to try it yourself lah, not from other people. orang boleh bagi pendapat, tapi you yourself yang determine you nak macam mana. so why bother so much dengan apa orang cakap. kalau kau tahu kau boleh, have faith and just do it. people will talk tapi sampai bila je, not much, really.

so.. last but not least, if u think master is good for you, then teruskan, kalau phd sounds more promising, then give it a try! :D peluang tak selalu datang kan.. and whatever decision it will be, we want you to know that we're very proud of you and congratulations! ^__________________^

Re: opinion to question below

I got this from my mom, and I think it's worthwhile to share it with you guys, cuz I'm not into chain forward chain forward forward or die chain chain forward chain mail.

HOW LONG IT TAKES TO DECOMPOSE

Just think about the below list before you are throwing something to the soil.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO DECOMPOSE:

Paper Towel - 2-4 weeks
Banana Peel - 3-4 weeks
Paper Bag - 1 month
Newspaper - 1.5 months
Apple Core - 2 months
Cardboard - 2 months
Cotton Glove - 3 months
Orange peels - 6 months
Plywood - 1-3 years
Wool Sock - 1-5 years
Milk Cartons - 5 years
Cigarette Butts - 10-12 years
Leather shoes - 25-40 years
Tinned Steel Can - 50 years
Foamed Plastic Cups - 50 years
Rubber-Boot Sole - 50-80 years
Plastic containers - 50-80 years
Aluminum Can - 200-500 years
Plastic Bottles - 450 years
Disposable Diapers - 550 years
Monofilament Fishing Line - 600 years
Plastic Bags - 200-1000 years

We request you, please share this piece of information in your network as much as you can.
This will create awareness amongst people that this is also one of the reasons related to Global Green House Effect.

p/s: tak rasa ke when you self-proclaim yang you awek seseorang, itu lebih poyo? Neway, kalau you rasa you takut nak buat phd sebab kena tulis thesis tebal, then that's not a good reason. I cakap camtu sebab cerita dia camni: ingat tak time dulu kita form 5, ada macam satu gerakan besar-besaran untuk drop EST, sebab diorang kata EST membuatkan student kita ramai tak dapat straight A and takde mainkan peranan yang besar pun, and cikgu semua macam sokong kan? Maybe korang tak ingat sebab benda ni takde impak kat korang. Tapi I ingat sebab I drop that subject without my parents consent, and bila diorang dapat tahu, I kena balun gila gila gila punya balun. My defense speech to my parents was the same as what the teachers said, EST ni saintifik sangat bla bla, takde kaitan ngan SPM and something like that. Then my parents replied kata something like, then sampai bila you nak lari dari buat scientific report?

That hit me hard.

Okay, maybe this isn't a good argument and you're hating me because I regarded you as poyo in the sentence above, but think about it.

Plus, biasanya, diorang akan bagi guidelines untuk tulis thesis.

-Kai
7hb Mei 2012