The Adventure Continues
I am a traveller on a journey,
A journey of knowledge,
On a path to fill this thirst.
O lonely rocks,
Do you not wish to traverse the world?
Enjoying sights unknown.
Join me!
Let’s walk together on this journey,
A journey full of wonders.
Voyage of enlightenment,
A never ending quest,
A purpose to fill.
My Cough Meds
A few week back… Was among the worst week in my life. Scrambling to get a rein on my health. Day after day my health was deteriorating.
I developed a cough back in early January. Initially I thought it was just due to my sore throat. Went to the doctor and got some antibiotics and sore throat lozenges. But it lingered.
Day after day it was worsening. Tried another clinic, another doctor… Getting a second opinion. When I told everything that I knew about my symptoms he concluded I had asthma. Shoot. My childhood illness has apparently come back?
Was prescribed another batch of medicines. But instead of improving, it only worsened for me. Coughing was still there.
Went to government clinic. The doctor concurred that it may be asthma, and added a few more meds.
Then, I lost my voice, the cough was so bad it only stopped if I vomited. The frequent vomiting affected my voice. My voice was ermm undescribable.
All this while I was in communication with my sister. We talked about other possible causes of my cough. We talked about acid reflux. Went ahead and got myself over the counter medicines for acid reflux.
Still not much improvement.
Then I went yet to another doctor trying to get some more asthma medication. He suggested changing it a little bit. Dropping theophylline and instead getting clenbuterol.
Days went by and my condition improved.
So here I am still unhealthy but in better shape. Voice is still hoarse. But can carry far longer conversation. Though I still get winded if too long.
Starting my high blood sugar/pressure journey. Have been delaying the pills for quite some time.
The doctor told me it can’t be avoided anymore.
Visuals are always intertwined with festivals. Be it the Petronas adverts that we eagerly await for every year, our need to decorate our houses or a simple poster wishing Happy Holidays.
This year I took up the task of creating a Hari Raya Poster for my alumni. Not an easy task to begin with, but I my tried my best. So I looked for inspirations and managed to edit a poster I found on the internet into this.
But of course the first attempt would always garner a lot of comments, with one striking comment requesting a jawi or arabic version of the poster. Easier said than done, but hey I’m a guy who like to tinker. So I made two more version of the said poster.
Obviously it wouldn’t satisfy everyone but comments were heavily leaning on the jawi version of it. So I found a nicer jawi writing for Salam Aidilfitri and it lead to another version of it.
This gained more comments, and there were critics who requested more changes. But after 24 hours of editing and moving things around I didn’t really want to change anything anymore. So finally, we came to this version which was used by my alumni.
You probably thought all of that took seconds to finish but in reality, it took more than a day to realize. Reminder, am not a professional graphic designer so please be kind with your comments :p
Till next time, my adventure continues…
Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri everyone…
A lot of people have intuited that in the future we will be forced to live indoors, it spawned generations of preppers.
The reason for it have all seemed to be along the lines of war, man made catastrophes. Some have pitched biological warfares. Now it seems the reason would be a pandemic. Not so exciting as a zombie apocalypse, but it certainly is dangerous enough to force us into our homes.
My out take from all of this hits closer to home, I am an educator and I have always believed that we should prepare our kids for the future. When all of this occurred, we could immediately see how people with (medical) skills are in high demand. Through the ages it has always been so. But more so now that its is people who can make things, who can create, defend, heal… These are the people that matters. So what should we do?
Skills, that is what we should do. Focus on creating a generation with hands on skills. Through our TVET programmes. We have to realise that knowing how to sing won’t get food on the table. We can’t all offer conveyancing services, but those who can build those buildings, who can automate said buildings, these are the people that will always be in demand.
Let us not say anymore that TVET is a last choice. It should be our first choice in creating a future ready generation.
I am truly honoured to be one of the recipients for Pegawai Teknikal Cemerlang (Ko-Akademik) this year. Couldn’t have done it without support from fellow teachers. Every competition hinges on the team that handles it not just me alone. Thank you for a great year.
Working here at UiTM Pulau Pinang from 16 to 19 August as Scrabble Tournament Director, my 3rd year as one since I started at state level in 2014.
New concept paper for english co-academic competition can now be accessed via this link
bit.ly/EnglishCo-A
Finally got the official version of the concept papers from BKK officer. Pn. Nora. Sharing here for easy reference.
Enjoy
Was invited to the English Co-Academic Activities Think Tank Meeting couple of week back. As a result I attended a day long meeting. Main agenda of our meeting today was to discuss the concept paper of Poetry Recitation and Scrabble competition. Specifically to include the secondary schools in the competition.
After going over the concept paper back and forth so many times we finally came out with the revised concept paper. Both competition had minor changes, most of it is to ease the running of the competition and also to clarify a few issues and to address feedback from our colleagues.
Hopefully the changes are beneficial for everyone and will make the competition more enjoyable and able to achieve its objectives and aims.
Links for the concept papers are below.
*the concept papers are not considered final nor official until it is from the moe or its website, it is just here to spread the news about the 2 new categories.
Adieu
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Themes for national level poetry competition 2015 (primary & secondary)
1.beauty
2.freedom
3.hope