HIKING-RIVERING-CAVING at Gopeng, Perak

Assalamualaikum.

1-3 Februari 2013. Before masuk sem, aku join group ohsem called PEMBINA. Persatuan Belia Islam Nasional. HIKING - SUNGAI - CAVING. Best weh! Seriously view maha cantik atas Bukit. Ada Batu Tiga Beradik lagi. Cantik siot! Subhanallah! Rugi x da antara kami yg bawak camera sebab balik memang ikut sungai. Urghh!! Tulah reward paling HENSEM untuk hikers! Penat semput camane pon hiking, sampai atas VIEW MAHA INDAH! Subhanallah. Subhanallah. Subhanallah!

Sungai triple maple kliple lebih OHSEM DARAB LAPAN! Just imagine terlentang je kat sungai jernih tu dengan life jacket dalam beberapa kilometer, then kaki keatas.. Tengok awan.. Punggung sakit-sakit sedap kena batu. OHSEMnya perasaan itu! Before ni Camp kelas Skill Recreation 1 pernah buat tubing, duduk dalam tube hitam terlentang jugak, tapi x seohsem river trecking pakai badan. Gila best satu badan dapat rasa air! Allahuakbar! Aku nak beli tanah dekat2 sungai nanti! HAHA. Memang tak boleh blah la aku memang lead the crowd je.. Repeat banyak2 kali sambil tunggu yang lain lepas at belakang. Aku antara yang lasak x pe jugak, tapi ada yang fobia air, takut lemas dan sebagainya kat belakang. Rasa bersalah pulak seronok sendiri kat depan, ada jugak yang kata nightmare. Heee.. Punyalah berbeza perasaan memasing. 

Then CAVING di sebelah petang! Ni first experience aku caving bebetul, pergi Perlis dulu Gua Kelam makan angin je jalan kat jambatan dulu. Kali ni Gua Kandu, Gopeng, Perak. OHSEM DARAB LAPAN WEH! Gua ni gua yang kering dan agak berdebu. So yang ada athma x digalakkan. Seronok weh! Naik turun batu! Ada yang mencanak, ada yang kena turun, ada jalan kena tunduk, merangkak. OHSEM OHSEM OHSEM. Just imagine macam mana Allah ciptakan gua yg terbentuk dari air je beberapa juta tahun dulu. Just imagine. Historically nya, Gua Kandu satu masa dulu adalah pusat tentera Jepun. Dalam tu ada tempat parking heli bagai suma ada. Penjara2 pun banyak kat atas2 atap gua tu. Geram je nak naik tengok. Geram je aku tengok banyak lubang tikus dalam tu. Nak je aku masuk explore sendiri, tapi pergi dengan group, jangan buat hal. HAHA. Teringin nak pergi Gua Tempurung la plak, area Gopeng jugak kalau x silap. Gua Tempurung ada sungai, lagi syiok aku rasa..! Seriously dalam gua rasa tenang ya amat. Sejuk dia macam ada aircond dalam tu. Then try off torchlight semua. Then rasalah pengalaman alam barzakh. Sunyi. Gelap. Hitam. Sejuk. Astaghfirullah. Allahuakbar. 

And the most interestingnya camp trip untuk aku kali ini ialah...

NO MEN! Super duper best sebab semua aktiviti Perempuan dengan Lelaki memang x sama. Kitorang Hiking + Rivering pagi, Caving petang, lelaki sebaliknya. Ini lah experience yg aku nak rasa dah lama. Pada hemat aku ok je. Aktiviti jalan sempoi je. Cukup dengan guide2 lelaki.. Tak payah pun nak pergi sekali bagai. Gerak sekali tapi x da contact pun lelaki-perempuan. OHSEM OHSEM OHSEM. 

Bertambah lagi satu passion aku: CAVING! 

Serpihan gua yang runtuh bila Gua Kandu as markas Jepun ni dibom oleh British

Ohsemness of Life

Assalamualaikum..

Pergh gila susah nak menarikan jari-jari kat keyboard untuk update blog sekarang ni. Kenapa tah idea banyak, malas nya menebal x hengat pulak! Yang penting banyak gila benda-benda Ohsem dalam hidup den sejak2 menghilang nak dekat setengah tahun ni. Rasa x best nak bagitau semua benda, tapi untuk catitan kenangan, rasanya sangat perlu untuk buat dokumentasi kat blog ni. Nanti tua2 anak cucu boleh tahu seberapa aktifnya grandma beliau ni. Jangan nak lembik2 sangat, keluar cari life wahai anak cucuku! HAHA!


Ohsemness bermula bila aku join SLEU (Student Learning Enhancement Centre), gila best tak hengat. SC2 and PTA2 semua sekepala. Paling best sebenarnya dalam reflection kelas Developmental Psychology dulu, aku ada pernah state yg aku teringin nak rapat dengan various races kat IIUM ni. Teringin nak paham culture diorang yg pelbagai tu. And guess what? TUP! Allah Maha Besar bagi aku peluang ni. Bekerja dengan diorang, bergaul dengan derang, kawan, berjimba.. OHSEM OHSEM OHSEM..! Aku x pernah terfikir semua ni. SERIOUSLY dari dulu aku tahu ALLAH sangat membantu aku. Dari Tadika, Sekolah Rendah, SPM, Matriks, sampailah sekarang. Courses aku, results tok exam aku, aku taw semua tu Allah dah susun cantik2 untuk aku dan bagi impact gila besar dalam future life aku, SEMUA BERKAIT! OHSEM! Percayalah cucu2 ku, jangan sesekali doubt dengan apa yg ALLAH aturkan untuk kita ya.! :)

Memories with SLEU:

 28-30 September 2012: SLEU Family Day (Perlis & Thailand). 

SLEU @ Gua Kelam, Perlis

SLEU Starz Competition

14 January 2013: keGentingan with SLEU Buddies

Well... sebenarnya nak cerita all activities sepanjang semester lepas. Next post lah ye. Kurang rajin. HAHA.
See ya.

Caffein: It's Benefits, Side-Effects, & Withdrawal Symptoms

Assalamualaikum...

This is a summary of my mini research project for my English for Academic Writing course. Why Caffeine? Yeah just because aku Pencinta Kopi! So aku feel interesting to search a bit more about it. May it give some benefits for all! Konon2 nak relate dengan Health Psychology la. Tapi x relate sangat at the end. More to nutrition study. HAHA!

Harus diingat: THIS IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. No serious research was done and it involves only small sample of the population.

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Nature of research:

               Caffeine is increasingly consumed by student when prior to deadline of assignments and examination period. Caffeine consumed usually because of its benefits, but has to remember that caffeine also has its side-effects and withdrawal symptoms. This study investigated IIUM Human Sciences students’ consumption of caffeine and their knowledge of caffeine’s benefits, side effects and withdrawal symptoms. Participants were selected using simple random sampling method (n=10). A set of questionnaire were given to the participants. The data was gathered and the average score for the test were identified and compared. The result indicates that majority of students consumed caffeine-containing product. However, the total score of caffeine-knowledge test was just 9.6 over 24. This can clearly shows us that students have very minimum knowledge of caffeine. This happened probably because the withdrawal symptoms and side-effects of caffeine were commonly experienced than its benefits, since many of the benefits are associated with the long-term consumed of caffeine. Therefore, recommendations should be made to the students’ health and counseling service on campus or any club or society to implement actions, such as displaying posters in strategic locations or distribution of information brochures, in an attempt to improve students’ knowledge of caffeine. 

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So the findings? 

               The average score for the caffeine knowledge test was 9.6 out of 24 for the total group of participants. From the results obtained, participants had the most knowledge on the withdrawal of the caffeine (average score of 4.8 out of 8), less knowledge on the side effects (average score of 3.1 out of 8), and least knowledge on is benefits (average score of 1.7 out of 8). These findings harmonized with previous study by Lee et. al. (2009). According to them, this situation was happened probably because the withdrawal symptoms and side-effects of caffeine were commonly experienced than its benefits, since many of the benefits are associated with the long-term consumed of caffeine. With regard to common myths concerning caffeine, many students believed caffeine as a substitute for sleep (40%), causes of acne (30%) and causes hot flushes (20%).

            The results of the caffeine awareness test could be influenced by the fact that all the participants were caffeine consumers. They could probably have experienced the side-effects personally and therefore knew more about caffeine than non-consumers.

            In addition, the results obtained in this study clearly showed that students have consumed caffeine while have less knowledge in its side-effects, benefits and withdrawal symptoms. The majority of participants were using caffeine without sufficient knowledge of its side-effects, benefits and withdrawal symptoms. Hence, recommendations should be made to the students’ health and counseling service on campus or any club or society to implement actions, such as displaying posters in strategic locations or distribution of information brochures, in an attempt to improve students’ knowledge of caffeine so that students consume caffeine-containing product with aware of its side-effects. This is very important to help them avoid over-consumption of caffeine since it could results negative consequences on their health. By following the beautiful teaching of Islam, people have to take care of their diet that must also be balanced, in order to maintain the balance that God has established in all things, this is addressed in the Quran when God says:

“And He enforced the balance. That you exceed not the bounds; but observe the balance strictly; and fall not short thereof.”

(Ar- Rahman 55:7-9)  

        Last but not least, future research can be done to further the study by looking at students’ attitude on over-consumption of caffeine, whether they are aware of its negative effects on health or they are not really care about their health even though the negative effects have been exposed to them. This recommendation study would be interesting as we can investigate students’ awareness regarding their own health and whether the youth nowadays eager to practice healthy lifestyle or vice versa.

In short, based on previous study by Lee et. al. (2009):

The facts of caffeine benefits, side-effects & withdrawal symptoms are:

There are also some common misconceptions of people towards caffeine such as causes acne, dry eyes, aggression, hallucinations, skin itching and many more. AND REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE ALL MISCONCEPTIONS UNTIL FUTURE RESEARCH HAS PROVED THE OPPOSITES, YA!

So...till we not take it without the awareness of over-consumption's side-effects, Drink coffee is Ohsem !

Akhir kalam, may this post has benefits you. Wallahua'lam. Peace.