The Last Lecture
In the midst of study break, where i should be studying by each minutes, i’m adamant to set aside my time for tonight’s event, for which this event is one of the most important one during my time here.
Dr. Ahmad Sayeed, our beloved lecturer, teacher, muazzin, imam will be leaving us in a few days time.
Tonight’s event is organized by the usual people, rahim and the others, to bid a proper farewell to our beloved Dr. Ahmad Sayeed.
When i arrived here in Melaka campus of our college, i didn’t immediately get to know him instead, i know him little by little and as time goes on, knows about him a little bit more.
He is a prime example of a true, and the real Muslim should be. He epitomises all the values, intrinsic and extrinsic of an ideal & decent Muslim.
In his last lecture, which he was invited to do tonight in the surau, it summarizes to a very important thing, the one that he tries convey every single day whenever he met any of us: strive for excellence for the afterlife, as well as excellence in this world
He started by advocating that every Muslims should always came back to the foundation of what Islam really is: The admission of there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
In doing so, we should adhere to the basic tenet which is basically as simple as Doing what is asked of you, and Avoid all of the impermissible.
He also emphasizes on the importance of quality of Shalat Prayer in everyday life. It should be with presence of mind and the heart.
One of the thing that he really stressed upon is the preparation for the afterlife, which is very important, but he also reminded that our success in the world is also important.
Other thing that really impressed us is the way he conveys the current situation of parents being ill treated by their children, and the sheer importance of taking care of our parents, as they have took care of us when we were young, when we have grown up, it is our turn to take care of them.
Dr. Ahmad Sayeed, apart from being a really good lecturer, teaching in a very simplified, purposeful manner, he also is a very decent & pious man, while being a person that you enjoy speaking with, with an ability to crack jokes at times, and almost every day without failed, calls for prayer every late afternoon during asar times with his unique tone and pronounciation of the azan.
With full of his heart, he conveys the last message and advice to us: Strive for excellence in preparation for the afterlife, and equally important is to strive for excellence in this world, by being the best doctor we can be, and Specialize (in medical world) to the best of our ability.
In short, Be excellent in all aspects of our life
Yeah, that’s right; let’s strive for excellence, as we have been lagging behind all these years in most of our aspects of life.
Thank you Dr. Ahmad Sayeed for all your advises, your guidance and we hope all the best for your future endeavour! May Allah bless you in everything that you do.
And above all, the one thing i will always remember and cherish is his Azan in Asar time, classic & unique, and for that Thank you sir!
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Saya: Sorry sayang, i tak dapat bagi hadiah utk harijadi u tahun ni.
Dia: It’s ok darling, you gave my life back.
*terkesima*…. 
BMI : An Easy Calculation of Health Risk, Not fatness!
Everyone know how to calculate BMI, and everyone think they know what BMI is.
BMI is actually is not a measure of how fat are you, or how thin are you, but instead it is a measure of health risk below and above the normal BMI.
Experts, and researchers have done studies all over the world including large sample of people and patients and study the weight/height relationship with health risks, mainly cardiovascular (heart), hypertension, diabetes mellitus, mortality, anorexia nervosa and several malnutrition diseases.
For example:
low BMI may indicate you might have additional health risk, either due to anorexia nervosa, or nutritional problems and nutritional deficiency that may lead to reduced inability to fight off infections, anemia, tiredness and so on.
high BMI may indicate you might have health risk such as hypertension, heart problem, diabetes, obesity and so on.
Since ages before we have been using BMI 18-25 as normal range for BMI. and remember! having a normal BMI doesnt mean your body figure looks good, but it means in this range of BMI you have the least health risk factor comparing to the low and high BMI people.
However, for ASIAN, WHO has done a wide-scale, big sample population studies to redefine the BMI range since we are completely different from european and americans.
in 2005 they release a new, redefined BMI scales!
Asian BMI Classification
| Severe thinness | <16 |
| Moderate Thinness | 16.00-16.99 |
| Mild Thinness | 17.00-18.49 |
| Normal | 18.50-22.99 |
| Overweight | 23.00-27.49 |
| Obese class I | 27.50-32.49 |
| Obese Class II | 32.50-37.49 |
| Obese Class III | >37.50 |
So it means, make yourself work towards the Normal BMI, to reduce health risks in the road to be healthier!
Remember! Normal BMI = least health risks, NOT ideal body figure!
Diabetes Mellitus type 2 Explained & Revealed
It started 3 weeks ago, when my father was diagnosed officially as to have Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 (DM). That is also after endless, persistent plead from me for him to do the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test in a clinic.
My father has a few symptoms which lead me to think of possibility of DM, namely, increased frequency of urination during night time, polyphagia, polydipsia, polyuria, easy fatiguability, and more prominently is the tingling and numbness of both feet that on examination has reduced vibration sensation on his big toes of both sides.
I have been explaining about DM just briefly here and there to my parents, everytime i got back home and when i have the chance.
Upon his diagnosis back then 3 weeks ago, my father is calm, and composed upon hearing the news. Although i can say he is quietly scared beneath him, but who don’t?
I suggest that the night of him got diagnosed, that me, and my parents go out and have a good dinner to mark the occassion, and then the golden question were given to me by my parents:
What exactly is Diabetes Mellitus anyway?
In the simplest word, it is the inefficiency of the body to maintain sugar in the blood below the normal level.
In a simple, but more accurate albeit a bit difficult term to understand is, for DM type 2: Reduced sensitivity of insulin at the receptor level.
Then, at that time, i thought of a Metaphor for DM type 2:
Blood Sugar Control Department of The Human Body Factory
1) Normal Situation & Functioning
Let’s imagine that our body is a factory which has several departments.
There is one department in the factory with the purpose of controlling sugar in the blood and the have 200 workers.
All these workers stand by the side of a long tube in a long queue, side by side.
The long tube contains blood which is essential in our body
In this factory, there is a Department Supervisor
On the picture above, the workers are the black round shape, with the tube containing the blood, and the Department Supervisor is the blue-coloured box
All the worker is able to take the sugar from the blood and put it away to reduce the amount of sugar inside the blood in order to maintain blood sugar is in safe level, but will do so only under the command of the Department Supervisor.
The Department Supervisor is able to give command to the workers only through SMS using his handphone, since everyone cannot talk inside the factory.
All of the workers have their own handphone in which they will receive the SMS and will take out the sugar from the blood accordingly.
So, whenever there is rise of blood sugar, the Department Supervisor will send out more sms, that lead to the workers to take out more blood sugar to maintain it in safe level.
Whenever the blood sugar is low, the department supervisor will stop sending SMS, and there is another department that can increase blood sugar to maintain it in safe level.
Just take an arbitrary level, safe is 3-10, remember this is only creation not the level for the real one, too low, the factory can be suddenly shut down altogether, too high can cause damage to many other departments in the factory including this department that we are speaking of.
2) In Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
Due to many reasons, our Blood Sugar Control Department has been slowly faltering after 30-40 years of functioning, the reasons which i wont discuss now.
This is only in DM type 2, where the fault is in the handphone of the majority of ther workers, which has broken.
The Department Supervisor send out SMS as usual, but the workers can’t receive the SMS, thus they cannot take out the sugar from the blood, causing sugar in the blood to be high.
Usually in DM type 2, out of 200 workers, 150 of them will have their handphone broken. Thus, what would happen? High blood sugar!
No matter how hard the Department Supervisor tried to send out more and more SMS, it can only be received by 50 workers!
So what if the blood sugar is high?
This high blood sugar slowly over time will damage the department of pumping of the blood which is the heart, the department of vision which is the eye, and even would damage the Chairman and Board of Directors of the factory which is the brain!
What happen next?
Naturally, these 50 workers soon will either become too tired or their handphone will not be functioning either broken or has not enough memory to store the SMS. Then the blood sugar will become really high.
What follows, the Department Supervisor will not able to sufficiently send out SMS due to run out credit/ if he is using postpaid, the credit limit will be reached, or simply his finger is being too painful to send SMS.
Then the blood sugar will be really really high! The Damage would extend to all part of the factory, damaging and destroying department of walking which is the leg & feet plus many more!
So better watch out!
3) The Metaphor explained.
The Factory is the Human Body.
The Department is the group of cells and organ which works to control the blood sugar in the blood.
Blood sugar is actually to be accurate is Blood Glucose.
The Department Supervisor is Pancreas, to be exact is the beta cells of the Langerhans cell of the Endocrine portion of Pancreas.
The SMS is the Insulin. Yes, the insulin is merely a messenger/message conveyed by the Langerhans cell of Pancreas to all the cells which has the handphone to receive it
The handphone is the Insulin Receptor, which is in the possesion of the certain muscle and cells which has it, which called The Workers.
4) Understanding Diabtes Mellitus.
DM type 2: The Reduced Insulin Sensitivity toward Insulin = 150 out of 200 handphone broken causing only 50 workers to receive the SMS, thus leading to high blood sugar.
then what is type 1?
DM type 1: Autoimmune destruction of beta cell of Langerhans cell of Pancreas = using the same metaphor, it is the problem of the Department Supervisor is dead altogether killed by some workers from other department (the army), leading to inability for SMS to be received by the workers = High Blood Sugar!
5) Treating Diabtes Mellitus.
Using this metaphor in mind, you can easily understand the method of treatment for Diabetes Mellitus!
Diet Control, Oral Anti-diabetic Agent (oral hypoglycemics), and insulin therapy
I let you all to work out it yourself for this one okay! i’ll write about it when i got the chance!
Near the end dilemma & Study Marathon
When I joined the course 5 years ago, i was a different person,
i’ve been a better person now, but also picked up several not-so-good stuff along the way,
The first 2 year was probably most diffiult, especially the first one,
but i matched with unparallel effort in study, in terms of effort of study, it was the best 2 year in my whole life,
It slowly dwindled in the 3rd year but rise in 4th year but not-so-much, but then steeply increase by the end of 4th year exam.
It was the best moment after passing the 4th year exam, the same feeling of passing the 1st & 2nd year exam,
Maybe i enjoyed myself too much & thinking it will be smooth all the way till the end.
Now i’m in the period where during my first year i can’t even imagine how it would be like, i just think at that time,
that maybe when i’m nearing the end i would be that good, as to be level with the profession i’m going to take up.
But the truth is, i think i’m in the slump again. Compare now and the first 2 years, you will find the effort that i put, is like 5 times less,
The weird thing is, up till now i haven’t had the awareness yet, im not feeingl the danger and that is the most dangerous thing of all.
I had always felt before, it would never end, i mean, this studying for exam thing since i enter college,
During the first year i say to myself i would study hard, when it comes to the near of it.
But i’m doing nothing.
I’ve seen many of my friends already kick up their own study preparation, study group or whatever. Me? Nothing!
Let be honest about it, I am really afraid of the exam, i am afraid of failure, because if that happens, i am afraid that my world would crumble & fall apart.
I need the strength to confront the fear, not hide & consumed by it. If i continue like this, i will surely fail, higher chances of it happening.
I need to put my study marathon headband, tie all loose ends, prepare for life without any fun, and become serious more than ever.
I know i am capable of doing study marathon, i am capable to study like there’s no tomorrow, i’ve done that several time before.
To do that, it will be so tiresome, so energy-consuming, and time-consuming. The tired part of it that i don’t like, when i thought about previous marathon.
I have no choice now, i need to do the study marathon again, by hook or by crook, i have to swallow all the tired aspect of it in order to be successful.
Maybe my previous results was good, but it doesn’t necessarily confirm my future. People can say whatever they want, but i don’t think im brilliant.
The future lies on my current effort. The future result would be the sum of your current effort.
It would be approximately only 2 months left before the final exam of all, the MBBS exam, the one & only, the last gate that i need to pass through.
I have to think that i’ve come all the way up to this point through so many obstacles, is it worth to throw it away because i want to relax a bit?
I can’t. it’s not the time to relax yet. I can’t afford to throw it away. It’s so huge so i have to continue fighting, and fight till the last sand of time.
Fight and Fight, Fight your own devil, Fight your own laziness, It’s yourself that stands in the way of you! Nobody say it would be easy, but nobody say it is impossible,
So jabbar, come on & let’s fight and study and leave everything behind, only study should be with you all the time.
No one will support you, not even your fiancee, not even your closest of friends. why?
they have problems of their own and you can’t always fall back on them when there’s a slight scratch on your study marathon.
You need to support yourself! don’t worry, it’s for only 2 months, and the best part of it, It won’t kil you. It won’t, ever! If it does, kill prof.razak. ~jokes
Shall we start the study marathon? Why not i start it today? What is the harm of starting today? Why postpone tomorrow? Why? No answer!
So, Start now! Yeah, Start the Study Marathon now! Now! Yeah, Now!
