Book Review: Age-proof Your Brain: Sharpen Your Memory in 7 Days

Book Review

Title: Age-proof Your Brain: Sharpen Your Memory in 7 Days

Author: Tony Buzan

ISBN: 9780007233106

Currently I'm reading this book (in between of reading other books, tihihi):

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This is a great book, Tony Buzan not only list out the techniques to remember, but also how to take care of our brain (physically, food, mentally) and also the 7 days and 7 weeks exercise to improve our memory.

He used a very easy to understand language, explaining very well any bombastic words and I can read this book very casually.

I'm yet trying to find the one hour a day to do the 7 days exercise, hihi. At this moment I'm practicing the 12 memory technique that he had listed in the book, the technique, seriously help me to remember things better.

Read the table of contents and book description from Kinokuniya KLCC web page here.

Happy Birthday!

Secara tiba2 tak pasal2 perbualan sebegini terjadi....

Anak: Happy birthday ummi!

Emak: Bila pulak birthday ummi nya, birthday ummi dah lepas la.....

Anak: Owh.....happy birthday already past ummi!

Emak: Hmmm....boley la tu....

Accccchhhhoooo!

Do you sometimes suffer from sneezing fits?
Does your nose sometimes run
when you don't feel as if you have a cold or flu?
Do you sometimes have a
blocked nose when you don't feel as if you have a cold or flu?
Does your
nose or throat sometimes feel itchy?
Do your eyes get itchy or watery?

I’m suffering from it, all of the above when the allergy strike. Alhamdulillah, now that I know about the suffering and how to overcome, life is much much better.

Orang melayu kata resdung (aku tak berapa pasti definition resdung yang sebenarnya). Katanya kena berubat kalau tidak esok hidung boleh berulat. Jgn percaya ok, tolong jangan percaya sebab aku tak percaya. Setengah pulak kata sinus, pon tak betol sbb sinus atau sinusitus adalah infection kepada sinus (bahagian belakang dan keliling tulang hidung) kadang2 disebabkan oleh allergy dan kadang2 sebab lain.

Pepehal, untuk lebih info yg betul, sila semak website dibawah:

• XYZ Of Allergy, a community portal about allergy from Malaysian Society of Allergy and Immunology.
  
  They had produced a book called The Allergy March, to give reader a clear picture about allergy.
  
  
  About the book:
  
• This is a story about a boy named Nick. He is 10 years old and attends primary school. Nick does not feel well. In fact he feels sick most of the time, especially in the mornings.
  This book has been written to tell you about Nick’s condition, a common illness called allergy, which affects one in three people. Reading this book will help you and your family identify and learn about the symptoms, investigation, triggers, and treatment of allergies, and very importantly, will help you manage allergies better. Download the book here.

• Rhinitis on Wiki.

• Rhinitis from American Academy of Allergy Asthma Immunology.

As for me, to manage my allergy, first, I’ll try to avoid area or doing things that may cause contact with the allergen.
If I cant avoid contact (which is usually that is the case) I’ll take an antihistamine. At this moment, telfast is the one that work for me.

So if you are like me, please see a doctor and explain about your problem. Good luck.

Head Over Heels

I love shoes. I crazy over shoes. I cant live without shoes. Hehehee. When I meet people, shoes is the first thing I'll notice and I'll surely express my likeness if I like the shoes. So, what kind of shoes? A spiky high heel, that's is. So that's why, I'm so head over heel with this pair of jimmy choos'. Damn. This pair of satin nude open toe heel will surely make my day, any day.

Hmmmm.....cantiknya.....alangkah meriah raya tahun ini kalau dapat sepasang yg ni.

That pair wont suit with a comfy pairs of levis though. So I will also need a pair of this:

Hmmm....m drooling now.......

It's been more than a year...

Dah lebih setahun tu baru rasa nak update. Rasa cam takde masa especially setelah berjinak2 dgn fb, hahaha. Realise there's actually a lots of things going on in my head and everywhere. Since I did wrote few notes in my fb, so why not, I said to my self, bring back my blog to life. Yea. I welcoming myself back to the blog. I've did some changes with the template. Later I might include some pics. I prefer my blog to be simple though so even with some changes planned, wont change much. I've include link to site I frequently visit and my frens blog, yea! Ok, gtg, for now.

Crazy about salad

Last sunday, aku buat salad, with an edible dressing, heheheee. A day before tengok Ole-Ole Chef Wan , tengok Chef jemputan dia that is Chef Liza buat Nasi Briyani & Salad. The salad nampak sangat yummy and dressing pon mudah ja. So aku buat dressing macam yg dia buat. Rasanya sangat sedap, even my hubby pon bagi thumbs up. My hubby, he is really sincere and truthful when ask to give comment about food ok. So the recipe for the salad (my version):

Ingredient:

- 3 bunch of butterhead (sejenis daun salad, i use butterhead bcoz it's crunchy without any bitterness taste)
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 piece of pan fried chicken stripe fillet (I marinade the fillet first with 3 dash of worcestershire sauce, 1/2 teaspoonful of oyster sauce and a dash of salt).

For Dressing:
- mayonise
- lemon juice
- salt

Mix all ingredient for dressing together. Put all vegies into a bowl. Pour dressing, mix all together.

Next time I'll include black olive. It might taste great with olive, I think, hehehee.

Bagai Sakti

Siti:
Cinta datang
Tanpa diundang
Seumur masa tercipta

M.Nasir:
Dia datang bagai sakti
Bagai menyaksi mekar
Kembang pagi
Ohhh..

Siti Nurhaliza:
Cinta datang
Dengan senyuman
Panasnya membakar mentari

M.Nasir/Siti:
Wajah yang tergambar
Tak akan terpudar
Dari hati insan yang fana ini
Fana ini

­M.Nasir:
Tak mungkin mentari
Akan terus sembunyi

Siti:
Tiada sempadan
Tak bisa kulewati

Korus:
Jika ini hakikatnya
Aku serahkan jiwa dan ragaku
Menanti muara sengsara
Jika ini ketentuannya

Jika ini hakikatnya
Aku serahkan jiwa dan raga
Jika ini ketentuannya
Kaukan jadi milikku jua

Aku ni takdela minat sangat ngan Siti, tapi M. Nasir tu mmg bestla, menyanyi ka belakon ka, sumer aku suka. Paling best aku tengok dia dlm Selubung la, romantik giler ngan hensemnya that is too good to be true, heh.
Anyway, Siti, walaupon aku tak minat kat dia, takdela aku meluat meyampah ke apa. Bagi aku suara dia biasa2 je, kalau masuk malaysia idol, mmg tak lepas la aku jamin. Tapi tak kisahla kalau org lain minat dia. Dia nak cari rezeki cara tu, suka ati dia. Dia pon bukannya kacau idop aku pon. Tapi aku rasa respek la kat dia sbb tak tehegeh2 mengada cam sesetengah artis yg lain, sbb tu kot dia boleh stay lama inside the intertainment industry ni. So aku tak paham kenapa ada org dengkinya punyala meluap2 sampai sanggup tulis surat layang yg power giler tu. Hmmm...biasala kan....well....org jahat camni, takdela lama sangat kot nak dapat balasan. Bagi aku, kalau betol pon la isi surat tu, pedulik apa aku, lantak p kat sitila apa dia nak buat pon, bukannya dia kacau org. Tapi kalau btol siti main hantu sumer, takkan boleh dia thn lama camni. Aku pecaya, dia boleh sampai tahap skang b'coz of the hard work.
Anyway, aku suka btol lagu bagai sakti nih. The music and the lyric, mmg ada klas. Sabtu nih baru nak p tengok PGL, hehhhe, i know, dah lambat.

Setapak melangkah dua langkah ingatan kanda
kepada dinda

Adinda bersumpah… Jikalau kekanda tidak kembali,
adinda akan menyusul kekanda.
Menginjak pada tanah yang sama, bernafas pada
udara yang sama

Layar berbelok-belok sauh dibongkar
di tempat tenang
Yang tinggal hati tak elok yang pergi hati
tak senang
Bila sampai waktu kita akan bersama

The good news, The bad news and The so so news

The good news
Anwar had been freed. Man, at last. But had to wait and see. I feel so overwhelmed with the news, it's unbelievable. He is in a quite bad shape. I hope the treatment at munich will help. He need to be in a good health to be in the battle, again. Anwar, all the best.

The bad news
My cousin had gave birth a baby girl last tuesday. But somehow, the baby had patau syndrome also known as trisomy 13, a quite rare syndrome. Something like down syndrome but patau is more serious. Doctor said the baby might live for 2-3 days. It break everybody's heart. Nurin Nadirah had a bigger heart and problem with her lung. She had pass away last saturday, after 5 days she was given birth. Alfatihah untuk Nurin Nadirah....

The so so news
A friend invite me to attend Hack In The Box conference. It's a very cool conference, with very cool speakers, but it quite, well expensive. It should. Hmmm.....

Not a news
Treo600, it cost rm2799.00. Expensive, but, with maybank ezypay, rm233.25 permonth, okla, can do la. I will own it. I WILL!!!

Graduates to be....only to be graduated

Semlm ada sekumpulan "graduates to be", 2nd year student dr UITM. Dia org ada assignment yg perlu dibuat. The assignment is each student need to prepare a report (something like that) about IT usage at every department in an organisation/company. They choose to "study" my company. So my boss pon cite2 la kat dia org, my boss yg baik nih, cite je lah. Dah cite2, these girls senyap je, takdela nak tanya2 apa2. Aku dah bengang, aku tanya balik dia org, what actually you guys looking for? Apa yg nak tau sebenarnya? To my surprise, they show us their assignment question!! Oooo my....what a stupid, lazy mengada2 nak kene makan penampar kind of students. Pastu aku cakap, ni u tunjuk soalan assignment, u all takde prepare ke nak tanya apa, takkan kita org nak jawab soalan assignment u. Then dia kuarkan plak lagi satu kertas, question yg dia org prepare for answer to include in the assignment. Hmmmm......tahle. Very passive. No wonder local graduates yg baru2 nih susah nak carik keje, camtu punya attitude. I feel very frustrated. Hmmmm.....

Happiness

I'm happy. Not sooooo happy but happy enough. I dont have lots of money, but i have enough money. I have a family of my own, no kid yet though, but yet, happy.I think happiness is just a state of mind. An attitude. If you choose to feel happy, then happiness is yours. But happiness, like other positive thing in life, u'll have to get thru some obstacles, obstacle from people who dont want to feel happy, cant feel happy and want you to be like them, anti-happiness. I dont know why such a people exist, but they're everywhere. But for those happy people, just ignore these anti-happiness people. Dont get trapped, dont get involved with them. It's a wonderful day and it will always be if we choose the day to be that way.

Time dilation

Time dilation; the twin paradox.

There are two twin brothers. On their thirtieth birthday, one of the brothers goes on a space journey in a superfast rocket that travels at 99% of the speed of light. The space traveler stays on his journey for precisely one year, whereupon he returns to Earth on his 31st birthday. On Earth, however, seven years have elapsed, so his twin brother is 37 years old at the time of his arrival. This is due to the fact that time is stretched by factor 7 at approx. 99% of the speed of light, which means that in the space traveler's reference frame, one year is equivalent to seven years on earth. Yet, time appears to have passed normally to both brothers, i.e. both of them still need five minutes to shave each morning in their respective reference frame.

Org2 melayu, aku tak paham. Since aku sekolah (aku sekolah agama BTW), i was told that, kiamat dah nak dekat dah. Banyak2 kanla amal ibadat. Hmmm....dah nak dekat tu, bape dekat? Bkn itu yg nak aku persoalkan. Kiamat dah dekat atau kiamat lambat lagi, ibadat kpd tuhan tetap kene banyak. Tapi, duit tetap kene carik. "Ala, cari duit bebanyak watpe, bknnya boleh dibawak mati". Abih? carik duit sket je? Org2 kafir/Israel/Amerika, bejuta2 duit dia org dan tengok, apa dah jadi ngan org2 Islam yg "tak payahle dok cari duit bebanyak...". What if, it's the other way round? What if, yg banyak duit sebenonya org Islam? Aku salute ngan sorang org kaya nih, dia banyak duit, pastu dia bukak kelas blaja Quran FOC kat KL. Tengok, betapa duit yg banyak penting sebenarnya. Aku takkan lagi berfikiran sempit pasal duit. Akan akan cari duit banyak2, dan aku akan guna ke jln betul. Tamak haloba tu nafsu dan sifat seseorg manusia. Duit tidak mengubah perangai manusia. Tapi bila manusia tu tak beragama.....abisla sumernya...tiada berguna....

99% of the speed of light, which means that in the space traveler's reference frame, one year is equivalent to seven years on earth

Hmmmm.....so....kiamat x lama lagi....from which reference time frame?