Cuti-cuti Czech : Pec Pod Sněžkou

Pec Pod Sněžkou, means oven under the snow in English and ketuhar di bawah salji in Malay.
It is a small town inside

Krkonossky National Park in Giant Mountain range, if u see it in the map, it's the border between Czech and Poland.

We stayed at this pension

Don't judge a book by its cover.
The 3 of us settled inside a large room that can accommodate 6 at the uppermost floor.
It's so European, we can see the Bobsleigh track and the stream.
The scenery only lacks cows (it would be great when there are cows-I'm serious)
Breakfast are included (too bad, they were short on eggs on the day we were there)

Anyway, our first mission is to take the chairlift up the mountain.
Our way to the station was filled with wows, cantiknyes (cantiknyas for me) and countless stops every few seconds.
U can't help those when all of these are around you.








And after what feels like eternity, we arrived to this


After quite a long period of this


At last we were there, ready to ascend


I lik their style here.
Even we are taking chair lift, there's no need for locker to store our things, they even bring their bikes on the chairlift.
This kind of chairlift I mean


I'm so happy and grateful that I have the chance to connect with nature, to feel the grandeur of the green,





and revising geography topic-different type of plant at different altitude (it has been 6 years kn since the last class of geography)

Anyway, we changed into another chairlift at

In English means, pink mountain and gunung merah jambu in Malay.

We walk around first and it's like the setting in Fantaghiro




I took the second chairlift with a Czech woman, practise my Czech a lil bit and when I ran out of Czech words, the scenery was my saviour.


And my handphone beep 4 times, telling me I'm in Poland
Too bad, our counterpart in Poland, who are supposed to be at the other side of the mountain were not there
We said that we would wave them from the top *sigh*
Yosh, we're now at the topmost point in Czech Republic/Poland
Presenting to you


and more of it


Adeh, xlrt upload dah.
I've things to do.
I'll continue this in the next post.

Pictures are from my own collection and my travelling companions (Zetty, Aina, Dalila, Aini)

Our Body : Temperature

If u put the thermometer under your armpit, it will read 37 degree celcius normally.
Hyperthermia is a situation where u have prolonged high body temperature.
A 4 degree celcius rise from normal temperature is most likely to kill u.

Hypothermia on the other hand is dropping in body temperature.
Living in Czech Republic which is a four seasons land, we are sure to have winter.
Many of us Malaysians seems to take weather change lightly.
We are not that conscious of our clothing.
Not wearing enough layers and act tough in the cold.
It's a big mistake.
One of the reasons that lead to hypothermia is exposing oneself to cold wind without proper clothing or wearing wet clothing.
A second it may be good, your metabolism increased to provide heat for the body bla bla bla

The reality is, a 1 degree celcius decrease can cause u to shiver. and decrese that by 4 degree celcius and be sure u have fully repent and ask for forgivness, u r having amnesia by this time.
Consequently, your muscle will fails u.
U have no means of protecting yourself your heart beats go haywire and the next second u'll just perish.

So, friends, I'm urging u to take care of yourself.
(mcm menteri kesihatan pulak)
Wears layers of protection.
Especially when mother nature is having bad hair year like now.
Even it's still in the middle of October, snows were falling and so does the temperature.
Nyawa itu, antara nikmat Allah yang wajib dilindungi.

Most information are from Introduction to General, Organic and Biological Chemistry by Ouellette.
Photo from Flickr

A Stranger On A Bus Ride

a random things taht's not so easily forgotten
It was short, a very brief encounter.
Man, I'm all excited about it but I couldn't typed it down, the feeling of gratefulness, happy, exciting and all positiveness mixed into one.
This may be just a pinch of my feeling.

I sat next to the window.
Ear stuffed with songs from Tamra Island OST
An old man, embarked and sat beside me
I didn't even shift my face to offer him a smile.
I kept looking outside.
I admit that I'm somewhat cold in a situation like this.
I don't usually smile at strangers, often resort too look down or be interested in certain things.
This happens in the bus and most of the time when I'm walking.

But this man, after few moments, gesture to my hand and ask me in Czech about my casted hand.
I pulled off my headset and with my stumbling Czech, explained how I got it.
He asked does it hurt and then,
do u live here?
what do u do, working?
and few things that I don't really understand.

We even compared our hand.
I jokingly told him that his hand is so big.
he said all working men have big hand.
And he said my fingers are long.
I told him that's why they r a little bended.
With my limited Czech I tried to keep the conversation on.
and when I don't hv anymore things to say I(I'd rather say I hv things to tell but forget it, I dont know the Czech version =()

And so, I went to look outta window
Then, he opened his plastic bag (mind u it takes us a blink to open plastic bag but it takes them old people few seconda to open the plastic bag), took a pear (abah's fav) and gave it to me.
I tried to wave it off but I took it anyway (it was delicious and soft ;p)
I was reluctant to eat it, I want to put it in glass case originally but decided that it too hyperbolic and ate it.

Maybe this is mere than nothing to some people but I don't know why that it's meaningful 1 for me.
U know, sometimes there are some very simple things that makes u smile.
It can be anywhere,anytime. Subhanallah.

And Life Goes On

Autumn dawns upon us full blown.
They say it's season for berry picking and hunting.
Golden leaves are everywhere, preparing for cold freezing winter.

We are 2nd week into winter semester and all labs start this week.
They drew blood in physiology labs.
Next week I'm going to draw them blood even with a casted hand.
Well, I want to learn too.
Mucho thanks to those who give me the chance.
It's nothing so stimulating yet but measuring your own blood density and RBC count are not that bad.

We are doing many more excitng stuffies including karyotyping of our own blood, bla bla bla
Btw, I chose learning and memory to be my presentation case.
Even I don't really know the connection with physiology but I'm counting on it to be an exciting topic.

As for biochemistry, we had Assoc Prof Mohd. Niang in our lab.
And he's a muslim.
From just a lab, I can say that he's to be taken seriously.
Punctuality, listen carefully, work neatly and in order.
All good things that we take lightly.
We synthesized some compound (don't remember the name) which is biru nila in colour.
Our result is very good despite the errors like the dispenser of ammonium solution disattached, loss of precipitation during suction process bla bla bla
And I need to revise all those radas (what is it in English? apparatus?yeah, apparatus), all their names in english
Next we are doing titration
In this biochemistry case, I wish my cast would be removed sooner.

Prof Niang clearly wants me working with 2 other ppl due to my situation.
Gomen ne ppl, I know 3 is a crowd since I'm feeling the same way.

In Biology, I don't know if my observation has failed me but I realise that it is a bit more easier to deal and communicate with Dr Rudolf.
This week we count, count, count, count (repeat the same word until u faint)
We were observing mitosis process under the microscope.
For obvious reason, we were to observe min num of 20 visual fields.
In 1 visual field there are usually not more than 7 cells in mitosis with the number 2-3 is the most frequent and the other 200 or 80 or 150 celss are not in mitotic state.
Imagine counting those figures.
1 visual field, 100++ cells.
And there are 20 visual fields *vomit*
anyone up for pathologist position?

And I registered for cognitive behavioural theraphy class for my elective subject.
First class is quite fine.
We did those psikology thingie like communicating without talking and observing (observing-something that I think I enjoy doing most of the time)
Did makes believe session where I imagined that I'm walking on the sandy beach, eventually picking up a large seashell.
Then we were asked to convey our feeling about it on a piece of blank paper
No drawing but things like crumpling, folding etc.
There was also reasonable period of boringness (well, I expect that)
but the lecturer is so cute
and I'm sitting in middle row after this
I was so high spirited, sitting in front just to crane my neck almost the whole hours to see the lecturer coz she prefered to stand in the middle of the classroom.

Many things are coming up.
I aims to avoid procrastination, study a bit more harder, practise punctuality and be prepared.
Hope all go well.

photo update (18/10/09)

Alternatives

In these 2 months, I experience life sans 2 basic things in my life.
1st is my laptop.
Shortly after is my left hand.
It has been quite inconvenient for me.

My laptop charger malfunctioned in the middle of critical time where I were frantically studying anatomy.
I couldn't check my email, couldn't phone my mum and couln't view the anatomy presentations.
Some people keep reminding me of contacting my mum as if I tried to put a distance between me and my family, no matter how many times I told them that I have no laptop.
Weird how some people r so concerned when my mum understands my situation.
However, it was a great relief that my mobile has WiFi.
It couldn't do much but at least I could check my email and view my facebook acc.
Mobile surfing is no fun.
Poking few times for a letter, pages with limited content and the small screen.
But beggars must not be choosy kn?

And then, when everything is fine.
When I bought a new charger, when I enrolled for the second year study, when everything already fall into places and I even went for a getaway in Pec Pod Sněžkou.

Accident happened.
Leaving me with a cast on my left hand and another 1 month as a handicap person.
A great inconvenince it is.
First few days, I couldn't even stir my thumb.
I realize how important it is for the right hand to have the left hand working together.
For a right handed like me, I thought it's ok since it's left hand.
A wrong assumption it is.
I can't have nice showers and nice sleep.
I even need help from others to clip my fingernails.
Dressing up takes longer than usual and imagine dressed in baju kurung everyday in this chilly October.
It is hard for me to ask for help everyday.
It's inconvenient for me and for others around me.
Now that my thumb is a little moveable, I can put my scarves by myself, folding the laundry and do my bedding (means folding the bedsheet and covered the whole bed with the comforter =p)
However there is something here in my heart.
I suspect people think of me not being able to take care of myself.
Since it is the first week of 2nd year and the upcoming weeks are full of labs, I know there r many things that I will miss.
For example is drawing blood.
And I would need help to take out and put in the microscope during biology labs.
I suspect that people assume that I should know myself that I should be healthy kicking and punching to be a medical student.
Yes, this gonna be over in 1 month.
But a week just crawled by.
So people, cherish your healthy self.
Things that u take for granted are actually essential in your life.
But accidents happen, and when it does, try to live up.
Find alternatives.
Turn inconvenience into innovative.
Be positive!