Aquaholic

It all started when I was cramming for Physical examination and Microbiology exam. I fall in love and now, I seem to be strongly attached.

Now, it's jemně perlivá voda (lightly carbonated water), always.

Others won't do.

2 bottles down

Yes, I am currently downing at least 3 litres or 2 bottles of Jemně perlivá Poděbradka, every day.

It's just that it's not too sugary nor heavily carbonated.

Main reason why I keep going to the ladies is beacuse of the carbonated feeling of the water, it's hard to resist.

Luckily, the supply come at a cost.

Buying a bottle each day is insufficient yet heaving 6 bottles from TESCO to home is also not an easy job. At least it keeps my intake at 2 bottles per day.

My concern is that I would increase my daily intake.

Too much water ain't good.

Indeed, anything, if u take it too little or too much, it never end up good.

I don't really know how to stop the intake but since my intake has been 3 litres a day, I try to keep it at 3 litres and gradually would tone it down to 2 litres a day.

It doesn't sound that hard but believe me, it is hard.

Like now, I'm refraining myself to pop open another bottle.

Can not!!!!Even though it's already half past midnight.

A Prayer

O Allah, I beg You.

Ease my path, ease my way.

Please.

Amin ya rabbal a' lamin.

Would You Tell Me

I was at my landlord place just now (just in front of our place).

We were discussing about our extra energy usage~cold water, hot water, heating and electric.

We have to pay an extra of 24 600 czech crown for the energy we used from January to October 2010.

And let me tell you, our rent is only 17 500 czech crown a month.

Admittedly we use quite a lot, but still we think that we have tone down from what we used in 2009.

We cook at least once a day and we use electric for cooking.

Since last December, I couldn't sleep without getting nightmare if the lamp is off, so that's out of topic because December isn't counted in (anyway, I tried to use study lamp instead of the main lamp)

Or maybe we keep our lights on longer than any Czech.

In winter itself, most houses are dark past 8 pm.

Ok, can you tell me how do we save up on this?

So we moved on to cold water, of which I asked where does this come from?

I don't remember using them.

Now Lina, cold water goes to the laundry.

Ah yess, the washing machine.

Now we couldn't really help this part could we?

Or do you expect me to handwash my clothes?

Thanks, I have enough to do.

About the hot water.

Hehehe.

We can help this part a lot I think.

When doing the dishes, I should keep the water in the sink, dunk in the dishes, let the water out, sponge those dishes shiny and then soak the bubbles off.

Yes, we can do that.

When it comes to bath, I think showering does waste your water triple the amount that u would use for bath if u use cebok and kolah.

Now, I couldn't build a kolah in our bathroom, but then maybe we can cut the bathtime.

I know it blows away your body pampering but I'd rather take that than paying extra crown.

Now the heating need a little touch up.

If the bill in heating part goes up next time, we know the person got meter from other house mixed up with us.

We turn off the bathroom heater.

I used the heater in my room just about twice or thrice this winter, each for a brief time only.

We forgot to switch off the kitchen's but we switched it off already when they came to take the reading.

About the big rooms, we gonna get the landlord to seal off any gap in the window frame or doorframa.

And let's hope we make a massive improvement and just have to pay around 4000kc extra.

Does that sound impossible?

Defibrillation

We walked in today to an old man lying on his bed, all prepared for defibrillation.

He had atrial flutter, second most common arrythmia after atrial fibrillation.

As said by my doctor, atrial flutter is more common in old people, usually brought about by organic heart disease (cardiac malformation such as atrial dilatation, valvular diseases etc.)

A doctor provided oxygen to the patient and a nurse administered propofol or what they call, the Jackson drug.

It has milk like appearance.

Propofol is used here as general anasthesia to send the patient into hypnotic state.

Defibrillation is a procedure where you send electric shock into the patient body to correct the arrythmia.

It was a very painful procedure since the voltage makes an excruciating stabbing pain and taken this into account, defibrillation is done when the patient is unconscious.

A patient reportedly needed to be sent to the psychiatric department for few months due to phobia of defibrillator after an excruciating defribillation procedure.

Back to propofol, this drug can cause respiratory arrest in overdosing.

Otherwise it sedative effect is rather transient and patient regain consciousness rapidly.

The defibrilator was put on the chest and the current went through, sending the patient torso in midair for a nick of time before it dropped back onto the bed, his hand rested on it.

It was as fast as a bolt of lightning.

We took turns pumping the oxygen.

The chin must be tilted so that the airway is patent and the mask shall be hold correctly so that no air gets out and all is good as long as the oxygen saturation meter reads above 95%.

The patient woke up as the third person took over pumping the oxygen.

It has been a really good day at the hospital.

And maybe next time we can perform defibrillation ourselves?

Eksesais Wira Jaya

Basically, it's a1 night survival camp. (or was it 3 days and 2 nights?)

They loaded us with knowledge on how to identify edible plant, how to make traps, how to dig the earth so that you can answer the call of nature and whatsnot the weeks prior to the survival camp. The classes are called kelas kraf hutan and were conducted among the trees on the hillslope facing the camp's pond ~ they sure tried to make it as authentic as possible.

On the day itself, packed with poncho, pots and pans, rucksack and some provision we set off to the site which is just 15 minutes walk away from camp.

But still, u are in the middle of jungle. Not thick one though, merely like Czech woods I must say.

First tasks were digging hole for toilet and trash, cutting out bamboo for poles and support for the tent etc.

It was very enjoyable.

Although I grew up going into and out of bushes with the cousins, I never dare to go near bamboos.

Spirits and snakes, enough to send me off that place.

However, it's scary no more when there are girls with parangs excited to show off some manly skills they possess.

Done propping up the tent, we went for a quick dip at the stream.

I mean, my family did this once in a while when I was small.

You know, those times when the water supply was interrupted and the well went dry and you would go for dip in the stream.

Having dip with friends are really nice, plus the surrounding trees (now, my description sounds scary but it's not, when you have tenths of screaming girls with you)

And then the nature decides to send me off the stream..

As I lift my hand to throw water, I saw it, a tiny, dark brown, glistening cylindrical thing, firmly fastened to my hand and since I didn't know what the hell was that and I am ever so disgusted by worms and snakes, I freaked out.

I was frantically shaking my hand to get that thing off and yelling, gone was the composure, who need that anyway in times like this.

A girl came, take a look at that thing and cooly took it off my hand and throw it away~in the water (-,-')

The tentmates

Lunch followed up next and we set our fire and painfully trying to open the cans using parang (mental note : must buy Swiss army knife when I go to Switzerland)

I opened the sardine can at the cost of my combat suit.

The sauce toppled over my wrist, staining it and left a rather strong perfume.

Going to scrub it at the stream is a big no-no, especially when I saw a black snake swam by when I was having a face tan under the sun.

Meet Cikgu Apai. He taught us Golf Romeo (Layman's term, grid reference)

We had a competition, making traps.

Because all of us were doing something else other than listening and making notes when we had survival class in camp, we decided to dig a trapping pit, and since digging hole is very hampering, we managed only a 20+ cm depth and decided to put some sharp=pointed bamboo.

The camp commandant didn't find it useful though but we told him, this would suffice for ayam hutan and mouse deer.

In the evening, we went into lines and they nicked the biggest two in each company.

We were supposed to find those 2.

Walking with torch in hand and the instructor with us with a warning, never shine the torch and see up the trees (yes, even in a big company, it's creepy and is strongly advised)

We went through quite some hurdles, visiting some mad men (who were unmistakeably some of the trainers themselves) dancing around the bonfire and by the time we reached our destination, our legs already aches from the long journey.

And we were supposed to locate those 2 girls in the middle of the pitch dark.

One was thrown somewhere near a bush, another was found on a tree branch.

I don't know how they went through that. For sure, I don't want to be in their position.

I'd rather sleep with an arm feeling like the mucles double their size and aching all night long from carrying those two girls from where we found them back to our campsite, of which I did.

I couldn't believe how another company got their girl back. They had the biggest and tallest girl.

Must have feel like losing an arm for two days I think.

The survival camp came to an end. We close the "toilet" and the trash pit, packed our tent and walked baxk to the camp.

The boys stole some boxes of mandarins from the vice camp commandant Mercedes and a latah girl cut a baby cobra into 5 pieces.

And I was feeling all great, despite the fact of 2 days with no shower in a combat suit stained with sardine sauce.

The camp has been fun and I enjoyed myself.

Credit : the photos are of my national service batch.credits go to feliw wira and wirawati who own them

Rantings

This week passed at unusually fast pace.

After rise, I would go to classes which ends at half past 1 and when I think I've only covered 20% of what should have been done that day (minus class), it's time for bed.

I don't really think that my life this week has been that hectic but oh well.

I'll just hope that next week would creep.

I really need to feel like that.

Anyway, the moon felt unusually close today.

It's a bright full moon and the stars seem rather dim today.

The weather has been such a darling, until last 4 days and yesterday evening, we even had snowfall.

And to day it was freezing cold even though the thermometer said that it's 9 degrees.

I need to dig for those layers again.

This winter has been cold but we were snowed in for the whole December, only.

Which is quite unusual due to the facts ~ snow usually come starting january and would stay in as long as 3 months or so, where there would be piles of them continously. And snow means messy affair. This year, messy affair almost wasn't there.

I had many wrapped things this week.

And it's not even my birthday!

I guess that heals my heart.

Handling unreasonable attitudes, feeling rather unproductive and delayed workloads.

Maybe sometime you are bound to encounter this simultaneously.

The housemates have been really helpful too.

Things like eating dinner together and scrubbing the kitchen while talking about stuff really are good therapies.

I'll miss this in the future.

=)

Old Time