Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Ramadhan Kareem everyone!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Honda 1 Nissan 1 [ H1N1 ]
n the fact that 8million of us could be infected is a serious matter!
read this then...
[again taken from NST]
DAILY DISPATCHES: To stop H1N1, follow the Mexican wave and shut down everything
2009/08/18
Azmi Anshar
GOING by the psyche of easy-going Malaysians, the whole nation has unwittingly become a petri dish to ease the spread of the A (H1N1) flu, swine flu to those of you who prefer to refer the disease by its more ominous slang. To effectively kill the spread of the flu, Malaysia may have to follow the Mexican wave - Government mandated closure of all social, educational and commercial activities. Virtually a day the Earth stood still scenario in Malaysia.
But are we up to it? Social distancing turned self-imprisonment for a stretch of six days at great economic losses to the tune of perhaps hundreds of millions of ringgit?
The notion is being bandied about already by Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai, who preferred to employ the amiable term “health curfew” for what is now a desperate “national health emergency”. The World Health Organisation has looked at the Malaysian petri dish under a social microscope and declared that eight million of us can be potentially infected. And that includes our cousins in Sabah and Sarawak.
Petrified parents, many of whom are desperately asking the authorities to shut down schools, have unilaterally stopped their children from going to lessons but let’s hope they extend their cautionary instincts to stopping their children from attending movies, mega sales, shopping malls, feasts, weddings, political gatherings and even religious congregations. If the chances of infections in schools are good, the chances of infections in public assemblage are far greater.
In effect, parents who demand closure of schools must not only quarantine their children in their rooms/houses but make sure they stay within the confines of the walls of their homes. In other words, do the cruel to be kind thing by imprisoning your kids. It would be the greatest of ironies that kids who skip schools because of the H1N1 scare gets a whiff of the virus at their neighbourhood fast food joint or a sale or kenduri they just had to go to on the insistence of their indulgent parents.
So, is anywhere safe in Malaysia? Other than the mountain top or secluded spot in the rain forests, a prison similar to the one in Kajang perhaps. Prisons might be the safest places that can shield human beings from being potentially infected by the H1N1 virus if your life is coiled around an urban/suburban sprawl. Prisons are by its physical engineering natural quarantine chambers. The very reasons why prisoners are barred from mingling with the general public are also the reasons why they are buffered from the H1N1 virus.
However, even this highly regulated protective cocoon is no longer a guarantee as long as prison guards and officials, who mingle freely with the general public, can become infected or carriers, whichever is most convenient for the virus to spread, and soon inadvertently pass it over to the incarcerated men and women.
Now the situation is scarier. No public place - pubs, restaurants, shopping malls, religious centres, offices - have the proper medical forcefield against H1N1. It’s a pervasive serial killer and doesn’t care for any socio-economic or ethnic divides. It does prefer the high risk groups of the very old, the very young, the pregnant and the disease-ridden ailed.
This also means no partying, no merry-making, no going to any place where people can meet, shake hands or hug. Everyone, from the very rich to the very poor, would have to stay put at home. On the bright side, think of all that quality family time together, doing all the simple things you have long neglected, like catching up all your reading, your DVD movies and the wife’s cooking.
On the bright side too, the healthy ones who do get infected recover within a week from the cough, cold and fever. That means that in the event of a seminal closure of public life in Malaysia to efficiently contain H1N1, the young and the strong have to be relied upon to grease the economic wheels. This is also the time to prove that the Internet economy, of working and operating from home on the computer with a broadband connection, can actually work. Telecommuting by default of a killer virus.
Emulating Mexico, only emergency/essential services remain operational. Police patrols with all precautions taken are the only people allowed to roam freely. Then there are the strict protocols: Only six people or less can enter an elevator. Press conferences on the epidemic are held in the open air.
Even the Prime Minister, an essential servicer himself to the people, may be unable go to his office and has to conduct his business with his staff in the open. His harshest critics from the Pakatan Rakyat must also support his declaration of a national shutdown. No theatrics and no playing the blame game.
Even Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak may have to anticipate that there would still be the incorrigible and stubborn who regard a national shutdown as cramping their lifestyle, like the robbers, thieves and burglars, and the typical Malaysian who just had to go out because there is nothing for them to do at home, either with their family or in solitude.
There are also the death wishers confident with the status of their health. During the SARS/bird flu epidemic in 2003, there were reports of the incorrigible who defiantly turn up for work although their bosses permitted them to take a few days off after they had returned from problematic countries like Vietnam and Hong Kong. These same people continue to exist and if ever the disease is difficult to contain, these are the people the authorities and employers must detect and blacklist.
It’s a tough decision, the balancing between human survival and commercial concerns but most right-thinking Malaysians will understand if the Government decides on the drastic option of a total shutdown. You can recover and make back the money you lost but you can’t fight a virus you can’t see, worse still if you’re dead.
Water babies
and also hope that i can be one of the first women who opt for this kind of delivery but it seems that i'm not pregnant yet nevertheless married. so somebody else has taken up the chance to be the first in Malaysia. ^___^
taken from NST ;
Cover Story: Water babies
2009/08/18
Suzanna PillayWater births are a simple option for low-risk mothers with uncomplicated pregnancies, writes SUZANNA PILLAY.
SHE may not be Malaysia’s first, but little Neena Ruth Mia Cheryan made history of her own earlier this year when she was born on June 14. She became the first baby to be delivered via water birth in Kuala Lumpur.
Last year, Malaysia welcomed its first “water” baby at Island Hospital in Georgetown, Penang when 40-year-old secretary Wang Chiew Kian gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on Valentine’s Day.
The water birth method is where a mother is immersed in warm water (equivalent to normal body temperature of between 35°C and 37°C) for some part or the entire part of her labour and delivery.
Dr Choong said most women who have had water births are likely to opt for the method of delivery again. |
It is a simple birthing option for low-risk mothers with uncomplicated pregnancies.
Neena’s mother Joanna was present to share her water birth experience to interested mothers-to-be and their spouses at Kuala Lumpur’s first Water Birth Forum, jointly organised by Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur (PHKL) and Ibu Family Resource Group last Saturday.
“Initially, when I became pregnant, I was terrified about delivery after I heard negative experiences from other women about the birthing process being extremely painful, humiliating and there being loss of control.
“Then I decided to research childbirth and discovered water births.
“The experience was described positively as being empowering with manageable pain and no loss of control for the mother.”
Joanna, who is married to a Malaysian, is a member of the Gentle Birthing Group, a support group in Kuala Lumpur for natural and water birthing.
She delivered her first child via water birth in the Netherlands. Neena is her third child. Her second child was delivered normally, as at that time water birth services were not offered in Malaysia.
Besides having mothers share their water birth experience, the forum, which was held at the hospital, also included talks by practitioners about the safety, benefits and risks of water birthing, and the current practices around the region.
Vanessa Beyer is a certified professional midwife and doula from the United States. Beyer, who welcomed her son via water birth earlier this year, spoke about the benefits to the mother.
“She will still feel contractions and pain but the process is bearable. The water birth experience is gentle and empowering for the mother.
Joanna and her Neena. |
“Where a pregnant mother finds it cumbersome to move about because of her size, she can move about easily into any position in water because of its buoyancy.”
Apart from greater comfort and mobility, another advantage about water births is that not only do they reduce the need for drugs and intervention, they also promote relaxation and give the mother more control.
The mother has her own private, protected space which encourages an easier birth and a gentler welcome for the baby.
Other benefits are that a water birth speeds up labour, reduces high blood pressure caused by distress, perineal trauma and eliminates episiotomies.”
PHKL consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Choong Kuo Hsiang who assisted Joanna with her water birth said most women who have had water births are likely to opt for the method of delivery again, if given the option.
He has performed two successful water births at PHKL.
He said mothers are usually introduced into the birthing pool when their contractions are well established and they are in advanced labour.
They are also free to move in and out of the pool, and if they are trying the process for the first time and are not comfortable with proceeding with a water birth after a few hours in the pool, they can opt for a normal delivery.
There are two aspects to water births, said Dr Choong.
“Some mothers use it for relaxation or comfort until normal delivery, or they go the whole way and deliver in the water.”
Although water births are safe, there is a very minimal percentage of risk which include possibilities of drowning, water inhalation, infection, cord avulsion and water embolism.
Risks usually arise if the procedure is performed incorrectly or if the mother has some complications with the pregnancy.
Therefore, water births are only suitable for mothers with healthy, normal, low risk pregnancies.
The procedure may not be an option:
● if the baby is in a breech position
● in the case of shoulder dystocia (when one shoulder is preventing the baby from birthing)
● the baby has an irregular heartbeat
● in cases of multiple births or IVF babies
Mothers who have undergone C-sections, have high blood pressure or other complications are also excluded.
Water births are also not suitable for parents who wish to store cord blood stem cells as the practice is to cut the umbilical cord later to establish proper respiration in the baby first “and there may not be enough cord blood left”.
In the United Kingdom, The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists endorses the use of water in labour provided that there are suitably trained attendants to assist the women who opt for water births.
However, it noted, that there may be rare but significant risks for the baby to be born underwater and mothers who choose this option should be screened for any complications and informed of the risk. Water births are offered in 64 per cent of hospitals in the United Kingdom.
In Singapore, the National University Hospital welcomed its first water birth in April 2006.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has not taken any official position on water births as it feels more research in the area is required.
Despite this, Dr Choong said that as of 2005, 300 hospitals in the US offer the option.
Dr Narinder Singh Shadan, who performed the first water birth delivery in Malaysia on Feb 14 last year, said water birthing is not for everybody.
“It’s a choice some mothers’ make. There is a group who wish to do things the natural way. People who choose it are those who do not want intervention or medication.
“The water process relieves anxiety and pain during labour. Mothers who opt for it are usually prepared for the process, have read up on it and know the journey they will be embarking on.”
In Malaysia, the practice is for interested mothers-to-be to approach their gynaecologist to ask for water births. The doctors will assess whether the pregnancy is safe and if it is possible to go ahead with a water birth.
“Age is not a barrier in water delivery provided there is low risk to both mother and baby, and there are no complications up to the time of labour.”
Dr Narinder said after handling his first successful water birth in Malaysia at Island Hospital there were plans for six more waterbirth deliveries. However, labour being a dynamic process, three had to opt for another method of delivery. So far there will be one water birth due at the end of this month.
Before you proceed...
1. Why choose water?
Appropriately heated water helps to ease the transition from the birth canal to the outside world because the warm liquid resembles the familiar intrauterine environment and softens lights, colours and sounds.
For the mother there are many benefits, most importantly pain relief. Water has the ability to soften contractions, allowing the mother to relax.
2. Discuss your plan to have a water birth with your obstetrician and gynaecologist to ensure that you are a suitable candidate and that he fully supports your decision.
If you have a normal, healthy low-risk pregnancy, there is a good chance you will be allowed to use this delivery option.
3. Visit the labour ward and discuss the option with the nurses there.
The birthing pool takes between two to three hours to prepare because it is an inflatable pool and therefore needs to be inflated as well as filled with water.
When you arrive at the labour ward you will need to be monitored for 30 minutes before you can enter the water.
4. The best time to enter the pool is when contractions are strongly established. Some recommend waiting until you are at least 5cm dilated.
5. The baby is monitored during a water birth and labour.
Water should be monitored at a temperature that is comfortable for the mother, usually between 35°C and 38°C.
6. How long will the baby stay underwater?
Many people feel comfortable with the time that it takes to reach down and pick the baby up. Any longer than that is not necessary.
7. At the third stage of labour, you will be asked to leave the pool to deliver the placenta on the bed due to the difficulty in judging blood loss in the water.
Source: Pantai Hospital KL and Ibu Family Resource Group
Dr Choong demonstrates how the mother sits in the birthing pool (left picture). Malaysia’s first water baby and his parents Wang Chiew Kian (left) and Goh Beng Huat (right). Looking on is Dr Narinder. |
Friday, August 7, 2009
Apa yang dibaca pesakit dan dibacakan padanya dan ke atasnya dan bertanya tentang keadaannya
a) Surah Ikhlas
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Diriwayatkan daripada Ibnu Abbas r.a. bahwa Rasulullah s.a.w. pernah mengajar para sahabat doa untuk menghilangkan derita sakit dan daripada sakit demam panas, beliau membaca:
Hendaklah membacakan (1) Al-Fatihah ke atas dirinya sendiri bila sakit dengan: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mencita-citakan mati kerana sesuatu bahaya yang menimpa diri adalah makruh hukumnya, tetapi jika ia takut fitnah terhadap agamanya, Maka mencita-citakan yang demekian adalah harus hukumnya. Diriwayatkan daripada Anas r.a katanya: telah bersabda Nabi s.a.w. Jangan sekali-kali seseorang kamu menginginkan mati kerana sesuatu bahaya yang menimpanya, dan kalau pun dia terpaksa melakukannya, maka hendaklah dia mengatakan:
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Diriwayatkan daripada Ummul – Mukminin Hafshah binti Umar r.a. dia berkata: telah berucap Umar r.a.:
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Diriwayatkan daripada Abu sa’id Al-Khudri r.a katanya: telah bersabda Rasulullah s.a.w:
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Apabila terdapat kebimbangan pada diri pesakit, bolehlah dipuji tentang amalan-amalannya yang baik untuk menghapuskan perasaan bimbang itu daripada dirinya, dan supaya menimbulkan perasaan sangka baiknya terhadap Tuhannya s.w.t. Diriwayatkan daripad Ibnu Abbas r.a.bahawa dia pernah mengatakan kepada Saiyidina Umar bin Al-Khattab r.a. ketika dia ditikam oleh Abu Lu’lu’ah (orang majusi dari Iran) dan kelihatanya dia sangat mengeluh. Berkata Ibnu Abbas: Wahai amirul Mukminin! Jangan Engkau ingat apa-apa! Engkau telah bersahabat dengan Rasulullah s.a.w dan engkau telah memperelokkan persahabatanmu dengan beliau, kemudian beliau telah meninggalkanmu sedang beliau ridha dengan apa yang engkau lakukan. Kemudian engkau telah bersahabat dengan kaum muslimin, dan engkau telah memperelokkan persahabatanmu dengan mereka, maka jika engkau meninggalkan mereka pun, engkau akan meninggalkan mereka sedang mereka ridha dengan segala perbuatanmu itu…… dan seterusnya. Umar menjawab: memang itu semua daripada kurniaan Allah Ta’ala. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Diriwayatkan daripada Maimun bin Mahran daripada Umar bin Al-Khattab r.a. dia berkata: telah bersabda Rasulullah s.a.w. : |
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Demo Gerakan Mansuh ISA
I had safely arrived at my house.
went there at about 2pm.
Keluar rumah, saya bertawakkal segalanya kepada yang maha Esa,
saya tahu perjalanan yang akan saya tempuhi sekejap lagi amat merbahaya.
I didn't dress as they suggested[merah/hitam]; because mom and dad had already give advice on some precaution steps to be taken. So, i went for baju for jalan2 warna hijau and jeans hitam. I wore 2 selendang hitam, one act as a tudung and another one act as my 'purdah'.
Saya pergi ke sana bersama dengan ayah saya. Kitaorang naik komuter sampai di stesen keretapi Kuala Lumpur. Sampai sahaja di sana, sudah ada orang2 'kita'. So, kitaorang tengok mana diaorang nak pergi....tapi semua cam tak tahu je. So, my dad call his friends "salam, anta kat mana ya? macam mana keadaan di sana?". Kawan ayah cakap diaorang kat depan sikit dari masjid negara...so..kitaorang bergerak la kat sana.
sampai2 je dekat2 sana. FRU....sembur dan baling gas pemedih mata. wooo. Dahsyat!!! FRU sembur dr atas jambatan... orang2 gather kat bawah jambatan... memang sedap aa derang perabis duit kitaorang ni dengan membaling gas pemedih mata balik kat kita. So, derang dah agak2 orang dah bersurai...ok bukan bersurai tapi bertempiaran lari... so derang pon blah ke tempat lain. Me and my dad...mara lagi ke hdpn.... kitaorang lalu dekat2 kawasan tadi...tapi kitaorang masuk pejabat pos....[ramai gile polis kat jambatan...kitaorang..wat xtau je].
yang nak dijadikan cerita.. time lalu depan pejabat pos besar tuh... kesan2 gas pemedih mata tuh ada lagi....eventho i wore sunglass... it didn't help... i was affected by that, sakit mataku!!! [can still feel it until now]. dalam hati.. "ooo...camni rasanya gas pemedih mata, sakit beb sakit!" tapi saya kena kesan2 tinggalan... bayangkan yang sembur depan mata....AlhamdulillahiRabbil'Alamin je la. [kalo tgk mata2 derang memang merah abes la,waduh2 si]
dah sakit2 mata tuh, my dad and i tried to find source of water to damp up the towel that we brought from home. jumpe. kat belakang bangunan pejabat pos. basahkan towel...lap mata and breath dr damped towel itu. busuk gas ni.
terus, we move forward to in front of loke yew building, there, we found YB Nizar (^^,) and also Dr Rani. sempat la orang2 yg berkumpul kat situ bertalk2 and bertakbir b4 polis mengade datang.
time ramai2 kat in front of loke yew building, there are peoples from bar council, dad said that they need to observe what happen, is there any violation of human rights.
lepas dah polis mengade datang, we move forward again.. katanya heading to Pejabat Agung PAS...but sampai kat stesen LRT masjid Jamek... sumer seems lost but actually ramai dah ke sana. so kitaorg duduk jap... see what happens etc. [hey, LRT siap tutup and tak berhenti pon kat kawasan masjid jamek sbb ada kitaorang. huh. ape daa]
dah lama sgt dok tgk org.... dad ask "jom balik?" i answered "alaa.. dah nak balik ke? xpuas lagi..." hehe...actually memang saya puas lagi. nak berdemo xdapat... asek move forward belaka.
so ayah pun cakap..."jom kita g tengok kat dataran". berjalan lagi la ke sana... otw tu nampak la Zubair W.A.R dengan family besar nyer. so smpi jer kat junction nak masuk dataran merdeka. we stop. jalan di tutup. ade la trak keta polis bagai. and kat situ memang kosong. tiada orang.
so kitaorang decide... ok laa kita balik....
aa ni yang best...
konon nak balik...
berjalan heading to KTM bank negara....
time naek bridge nak ke KTM tuh.... ade FRU datang....xsemena2.
apo kono eh jang? kitaorang stop. tgk dr bridge.
FRU main sembur kepala bapak dia...
xfikir orang2 yang ada anak sumer baru balek shopping....
kono sombor xpasal2...
kitaorg pon ape lagi...
aiwah...jom kita turun....
turun2 je...
ade sketsa...
omak ni pi marah kek polis.."eh korang tak pk ke kitaorang ade anak kecik sumer nih??"
havoc lah kejap....
aleh2 bukan polis nak buat pe..
dia kata..."em dik, kak, bang sila kosongkan kawasan"
haih, memang nak kono lompang ngan eden polis mudo nie ha!
dahtu time kitaorang turun tu pon... polis dengan sedap hati sesuka rasa diaorang jer
pi tangkap org2 yg "disyaki" merbahaya [poodah...], sampai 2 trak. hampagas punya polis.
Saya nampak depan mata saya how they being arrested... aduh.. meleleh air mata. ganas... di paksa2, ditolak2... polis ngan mengade nyer siap senyum. yang best tuh boleh cakap..."huh! menyusahkan orang jer!!!" [Hello, siapa susahkan siapa sekarang ini???, bukan korang ke yang menyusahkan diri sendiri??]
yang sobab leleh airmato tu...sobab eh org yg ditgkp tuh muke diaorang memang kesian bobonar.. they looked at me like saying "help me!" i stand kat tepi trak polis tuh sebenarnye. jarak setkt 2 depa kot. i stand there with a pen and a notebook. saya rakam apa yang saya lihat dan apa yang saya rasa ke dalam perkataan.
My dad sambil tgk tu, dia chat dgn cina yg berdiri sebelah dia...
cina cakap ape.... dalam ayah{ayat} mana yang kata boleh buat macam ni? ini la islam hadhari...
haa amek kow....
cina tuh x abes ngan islam hadhari dia sampai kan dia pergi kat geng dia.. dia kata "ini la islam hadhari...bla..bla..." (huhu, pakcik, islam hadhari dah xjdi prime minister lg, yg ade skrg mongolia).
dalam kecoh2 tu tetibe ade satu trak polis dtg penuh dgn orang2 berbaju biasa... dan derang turun kat kawasan lrt depan sogo tuh.......guess who are they??
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alrite... org2 itu adelah SB a.k.a special branch.
ayah cepat2 cakap..."tgkp gamba derang!"
and then they all disperse dalam kelompok2 manusia.
hmm ada la tu nak pi report kat polis.
xlama lepas tuh... keadaan dah agak tenang [yg mengkecohkan tu polis ja, haih],
so we both agreed to head home.
although dah abes,
saya agak tidak berpuas hati kerana xdapat berdemo sepenuhnya. a lil late maybe. kata pon keluar kol 2.
gas pemedih mata tuh; saya bersyukur saya dapat merasainya, [rasa sikit xpuas ;) ], ini hanya lah jihad kecil saya menentang kezaliman.
terus terang di sini saya sangat suka terlibat dalam perkara2 sebegini although it is very dangerous for me, but i felt satisfied that at least i had done something or menzahirkan ape yang saya rasa xpuas hati.
Allahu'alam