Nicholas Teo admitted to hospital due to liver viral infection

My poor Nicholas Teo had admitted in a hospital in China yesterday T.T

According to the doctor, his liver showed a very high level of viral infection, high until it may bring risks to him. However, the doctor have not found the cause of this infection. I think is due to the contaminated food he consumed in China. Found some information in wikipedia, maybe the type of infection he suffer from is Hepatitis A.

Nicholas Teo had been too busy lately. Maybe this is a chance for him to take a good rest. Hope that he will recover faster. I will pray for him!

Below is the information I found in wikipedia

Viral hepatitis is liver inflammation due to a viral infection. It may present in acute (recent infection, relatively rapid onset) or chronic forms. The most common causes of viral hepatitis are the five unrelated hepatotropic viruses Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis D, and Hepatitis E. In addition to the hepatitis viruses, other viruses that can also cause hepatitis include Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, and Yellow fever.A virus previously called Hepatitis G virus is now classified as GB virus C because it does not appear to cause hepatitis.

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A or infectious jaundice is caused by hepatitis A virus (HAV), a picornavirus transmitted by the fecal-oral route often associated with ingestion of contaminated food or with anal-oral sex. It causes an acute form of hepatitis and does not have a chronic stage. The patient's immune system makes antibodies against HAV that confer immunity against future infection. People with hepatitis A are advised to rest, stay hydrated and avoid alcohol. A vaccine is available that will prevent HAV infection for up to 10 years. Hepatitis A can be spread through personal contact, consumption of raw sea food or drinking contaminated water. This occurs primarily in third world countries. Strict personal hygiene and the avoidance of raw and unpeeled foods can help prevent an infection. Infected people excrete HAV with their feces two weeks before and one week after the appearance of jaundice. The time between the infection and the start of the illness averages 28 days (ranging from 15 to 50 days),^[1] and most recover fully within 2 months, although approximately 15% of sufferers may experience continuous or relapsing symptoms from six months to a year following initial diagnosis.

STAR Librarian Annual Lunch - A Night To Remember

STAR Librarian Annual Lunch 2009! This event was held at Prescott Hotel, 11/10/09. I thought Klang Town will not be so jam on Sunday, but it turned out the other way round. It jammed like hell! So many people reached there late, so we started the thing late and ended it even later hahahaha... The most surprising thing was SMK Shahbandaraya Form 6s also held their Annual Lunch at the same place too! We were at the first floor and they were at the ground floor. Since we have friends in both sides, so we just walk up and down freely LOL. Well, that day was quite nice, I even went to set my hair! It only cost me RM10, cheap leh hehehe...

Leong Jin & Sam

Leong Jin & me

Siew Lee, Eei Yuen and me

Kim Pel, Mei jee and me

Hui Jan, Amira and me

Queen of the day

King of the day

King and Queen Nominees

Violet, Leong Jin and Teik Wee

Wei John!

Sam & Yong Ann

Sim Lee and Sam showing their beautiful legs

Violet and me

Birds of Paradise

The birds of paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes. They are found in eastern Indonesia, Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Australia. The members of this family are perhaps best known for the plumage of the males of most species, in particular highly elongated and elaborate feathers extending from the beak, wings or head. Birds of paradise range in size from the King Bird of Paradise at 50 grams (1.8 oz) and 15 cm (6 in) to the Black Sicklebill at 110 cm (43 in) and the Curl-crested Manucode at 430 grams (15.2 oz). Best known are the members of the genus Paradisaea, including the type species, the Greater Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea apoda. This species was described from specimens brought back to Europe from trading expeditions. These specimens had been prepared by native traders by removing their wings and feet so that they could be used as decorations. This was not known to the explorers and led to the belief that the birds never landed but were kept permanently aloft by their plumes. This is the origin of both the name "birds of paradise" and the specific name apoda — without feet.

Birds of paradise are generally crow-like in general body-form, and, indeed are the brother group to the Corvids (crows and jays). They have stout or long bills and strong feet, with around two-thirds of the species being strongly sexually dimorphic.

They live in tropical forests, including rainforest, swamps and moss forest. In most species, the diet consists predominantly of fruit, although riflebirds and sicklebills also favour insects and other arthropods.

Most species have elaborate mating rituals, with the Paradisaea species using a lek-type mating system. Others, such as the Cicinnurus and Parotia species, have highly ritualised mating dances. Males are polygamous in the sexually dimorphic species, but monogamous in at least some of the monomorphic species. Hybridisation is frequent in these birds, suggesting the polygamous species of bird of paradise are very closely related despite being in different genera. Many hybrids have been described as new species, and doubt remains regarding whether some forms, such as Rothschild's Lobe-billed Bird of Paradise, are valid. Despite the presence of hybrids, some ornithologists hypothesise that at least some putative hybrids are valid species that may be extinct.

Birds of paradise build their nests from soft materials, such as leaves, ferns, and vine tendrils, typically placed in a tree fork. Clutch size is somewhat uncertain. In the large species, it is probably almost always just one egg. Smaller species may produce clutches of 2-3.Eggs hatch after 16–22 days, and the young leave the nest at between 16 and 30 days of age.

Dengue fever

If you close to me in Klang, you would have know that I've been absent from school for 1 week due to dengue fever. I have been admitted in Pantai Medical Centre for 3 days and rest at home for the rest of the week. Actually, my case is not that serious, my platelet count is still consider high, it only dropped to 103,000 per mm3 of blood ( normal human being should have 150,000 and above ). Then, I don't have internal bleeding, no rashes, no vomitting, no diarrhea, no joint pains, just fever, headache and dizinness. Thanks for all those concern and care for me during my treatment and I appreciate those who came to the hospital to visit/accompany me, because I'm really really very boring staying alone in the hospital! I brought my books to study, but I just managed to do it in the second day, I don't have any study mood in the third day haiz.... So, finally I'm back hehehehe.

Here is some information about dengue fever. Dengue fever or known as break-bone fever is caused by four closely related virus serotypes of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae.

Dengue is transmitted to humans by the Aedes aegypti or more rarely the Aedes albopictus mosquito which feed in the day. The symptoms are sudden onset of severe headache, muscle and joint pains, fever and rashes normally on the lower limbs and chest. Other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and drop in platelet count. Basically, there is no specific medicine to cure dengue. A dengue patient is advised to increase oral fluid intake such as water and isotonic drinks ( my dad bought a whole carton of 100 Plus for me LOL ). Supplementation with intravenous fluids may be necessary to prevent dehydration and significant concentration of the blood if the patient is unable to maintain a normal oral intake. Then, the only medicine will be given is paracetamol or most of us know it by Panadol. That's the medication, just like normal fever but the consequences is much much more serious as dengue can cause death. Although there is no specific medicine in the medical field, humans will always have their own way of healing haha. There are some traditional recipes, which are not medically proven which are believed to cure dengue fever.

1st method: Blend an unripe papaya ( still green in colour ) and drink the juice.
2nd method: Blend the leaves of 落地生根 or known as air plant, life plant, miracle plant, goethe plant ( the leaf will grow small leaves at the side ) and drink the juice. The juice is extremely bitter!
3rd method: Cook sliced cucumber with a toad in a slow cooker and drink the soup. Ew....
4th method: Drink a lot a lot a lot of water or 100 Plus.

How far it is true? I really don't know. But my mum blend the unripe papaya for me and the 落地生根 juie for my maid ( she got fever too, normal fever ), it seems working to me. As for the cucumber and the toad, I havn't tried that and I don't wish to LOL.

Thank you again for those who care for me! Love you all ><

Up

That day, went to watch this 3D animation, Up with my younger brother and See Ying hahaha... This movie is extremely funny, we laughed from the beginning til the end! This movie have everything inside, it is funny, adventurous, sentimental and moral values too. This story taught me a lesson which is we have to keep our promise and try everything to fullfill it. Hope this movie brougth something to you too!

PS: Although this movie is very very very unlogic, i still enjoy the movie a lot ><

My Teachers

Today I'm going to talk about the type of teachers. Basically, there are 5 types of teacher teaching my class.

The first type is my MUET teacher, Pn. Indira.
She is like a steady driver, along the whole journey, she will drive at 60km/h.
Means she is quite a good teacher, never rush to finish her syllabus, as she don't have a syllabus.

The second type is my Maths teacher, Pn. Tew.
She is like a fast driver but stuck in the traffic jam. So, sometimes she will honk the car in front or roll down the windows to scold people.




She is a very responsible teacher, she will teach every single thing clearly, yet there are so many topics to be covered. So, she always teach very fast and gave us extra classes.

The third type is my Chemistry teacher, Pn. Lalitha.
She is a moderate driver stuck in a traffic jam like Pn. Tew, but sometimes she might turn to the wrong direction, or she will meet an accident. All these things made her even slower.

Sometimes she teach very details, sometimes no. Sometimes she won't enter the class because of some reasons. However, she is an OK teacher.


The forth type is my Pengajian Am teacher, Mr. Arulsamy.
He is the touch 'n Go type. Every chapter he will just touch and go because he assumes that all us should know as we go for tuition classes. When we didn't answer his questions, he will scold us lazy, stupid and he even scold bad Tamil rough words. Basically, I hate him =.=


The last type is the worst! She is my Biology teacher, Pn. Arasy aka Mrs. Click aka Yat Lap Si ( Cantonese).
She don't even need to queue because she uses Smart TAG! She can 'teach' a chapter within 10 minutes. Why I say 'teach'? It's because she didn't teach us at all, she is just telling us which is important, which one to read up, which diagram to copy and remember to do the homework and worksheets she gave. Why she is known as Mrs. Click? Because she is good in clicking. She can click on the computer for the whole 3 periods ( 1 and a half hour ) without giving any explanation and she aspect us to understand the topic. Don't you think she is the BEST?

Ng Jie Qi - Our Chemistry Replacement Teacher

Ng Jie Qi, he was my Chemistry replacement teacher for 3 months. From a school mate which I never talked to him once to teacher and student and then to good friends. This is a very rare relationship hahaha... Although we knew each other for only plus minus 6 months, we bulit a very strong relationship. This Jie Qi - Pra-UA1 relationship is built so strong, strong until we almost went for movie, dinner, party and gathering together every 2 weeks hahaha... However, he has to leave Malaysia and further his studies in Chemistry in NUS, Singapore. So, we can't be seeing each other so often anymore. No more Mr. Ng in our school and no more Uncle (that's what we call him) in our conversation so often. Here are some pictures and a gathering list we've spent through together....

1. Our first picture took in Pra-UA1.

Yup, he is the guy sitting in the middle in blue...

2. 18/4/09 Farewell for Mr. Ng in Jeth Coffee and Ice-cream + movie in Bukit Tinggi Aeon-Paul Blart the Mall Cop


3. X-Men Origin @ JJ again
4. 5/5/09 Iandy Lim's 19th birthday in Jeth Coffee & Ice-cream
5. 22/5/09 Angels & Demons in JJ again
7. 30/5/09 Greenbox Aeon Bukit Tinggi
8. 31/5/09 Morib 1 day trip
9. 4/6/09 Play badminton + basketball together
10. 31/6/09 Monster Vs Alien @ TGV Aeon Bukit Tinggi
11. 5/6/09 Hakka 'lei cha' lunch @ See Ying's house
12. 27/6/09 Nicholas Teo-Moment Of Silence @ Popular Aeon Bukit Tinggi
13. 10/7/09 Mei Yee's and Jing Yee's birthday in Red Island Cafe
- We made a real mess there... Maybe we have been blacklisted LOL
14. 18/7/09 Surprise BBQ Farewell Party @ my house

Gong Xi Fa Chai & Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri LOL

Yun Yih is 'playing' with our food with her bare hands

His true surpise!

LOL leng lui Jie Qi!

15. 22/7/09 Me, Mei Yee and See Ying watch Jie Qi, Tian-Qi and Ban Lin play basketball @ Chi Liung basketball court.
16. 25/7/09 Last Gathering @ Aeon Bukit Tinggi GreenBox + Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince movie + dinner + kite sighing.
17. 26/7/09 around 1-2am mamak yamcha!!!

Iandy returning to his childhood...

Mc Flurry Oreo!!!

See, we spent so many happy and sweet moments together. So, Jie Qi, please do take care in Singapore and may the Lord bless you! See yoy again 4 months later in Sabah hahahaha

MUET

Finally, I get my MUET results today. Well, the result is a bit disappointing. Actually I aimed for a Band 5, but I only managed to get Band 4, with a total score of 212, which is 8 more marks to Band 5. Felt very "am dui" (in Hokkien)! At first I wanted to retake the exam, but after some considerations, I decided to just let it be. Since the minumum requirement to apply for profesional courses is Band 3, and I will not have t take any English subject in U, plus, this MUET exam is only a certificate to enter U, we will not using it in the future. So, why waste time retaking it? Furthermore, the exam is like 2 months from now. It is not like I will spend more time on improving my English in these 2 months. I haven't start revising for STPM! Puan Indira was right, what we aim for is CGPA 4.0 and not MUET Band 6. So, I will accept the fact and maybe this is what God thinks is best for me... For those friends who are retaking the exam, I wish you luck, while for those who get good results, congratulations!!