FAREWELL RAMADHAN

Assalamualaikum,

Esok raya. Means Ramadhan is leaving. farewell Ramadhan kareem. Hope to see you next time. 

LIEBSTER AWARD By Cik Aimi

Assalamualaikum peeps

Using the free time I have to fulfill a promise I've given to Cik Aimi a teacher-to-be. Insya Allah. Sebenarnya, Cik Aimi dah tag aku lama dah. Just masa dekat Shah Alam memang busy-tak-ada-masa-nak-berblogging. Especially time final project punya phase. 

It's been a long time since I've last been tagged. So, thank you so much Cik adik manis bernama Aimi. May Allah's blesses always be with you.

1. Nama, asal and kenapa pilih untuk jadi blogger?

Nama saya yang sebenarnya panjang, so eloklah kalau anda semua mengenali saya dengan nama Cik Cumie :) asal Negeri Sembilan. Jadi blogger sebab saja suka nak ranting my life stories. Blogging since 2009 masa tu baru setahun jagung lagi. So posting masa tu agak childish. Sorryyyyyyyy sangat. Haha

2. Cita-cita / Pekerjaan. Dan kenapa?

there's a lot of things in my mind if I'm imagining what would I be in 5 years from now. used to dream about becoming a doctor but as I grew up, I'm more interested in becoming an Architect. So I landed my self in Landscape Architecture and hoping to be a Landscape Architect soon. Insya Allah. 

3. Impian yang belum tercapai?

Having a good job. So that I'll be able to make my parents proud of me.

4. Tiga lagu yang ada dalam fikiran anda sekarang.

All of me by John Legend *my favourite song*
Number one by Maher Zain
Summertime Sadness

5. Satu gambar yang anda rasa lucu. Dan kenapa?

Hahaha. I think most of the people would hate their ex depending on the situation. Bet this person were so mad.

6. Kereta idaman?

kereta idaman. Hmm..banyak kereta yang diidamkan sebenarnya. setiap tahun lain-lain. haha. Do I need to list all my dream cars or cane ni? Hihi
So far minat Volkswagen Beetle Convertable tuuuu

7. Green or pink?

I'll take both! :D

8. Kawan yang paling rapat?

there are fews..kawan masa kt mrsm. kawan masa kat matriks. kawan masa kat Uitm Perak. I am not gonna list up their names cause we have some privacy to maintain. Cewahhh. Macam retis plak. Sorry..tapi they know who they are. Hihi

9. Perangai buruk yang orang tak tahu? *Hahaa~ I mean, tentang anda yang orang tak tahu.

Ishhh..kalau bagitau dah tak rahsia la. 

when I have this day..all I wanna do is cry or losing my temper to someone. Sorry. :( 

10. Jenama tudung / baju yang anda suka?

Tudung AJ..kangaroo pun okay. Asal tudung bawal. Baju..tak kesah pun. Asal selesa and cantik. Bukan jenis kaki barang branded. Typical girl sajeee.

Okay..that is all. The answers for you questions ye Cik Aimi. Thanks again for tagging me. :)

Physically Black vs Visually Black

Hello and assalamualaikum people!

I am home after a hectic semester. Well, every semester as chaotic as it is. I've just safely arrived here in my home last Friday after finishing up my examination paper. Yeah, but I still have another examination paper to be taken on next Monday. not really this coming Monday but the other Monday in the following week. Back to the topic, 'Physically black vs Visually black' was my topic for my first ELC590 presentation. Since I was too busy to be updating about it and some of my classmates did posted their slides on blogs, I think it is good to share it here too.

If you are wondering what is my topic about, it is about coffee. And nap. 'Physically black' is the metaphor for coffee while 'Visually black' is the metaphor for napping. I was going to use a simply direct title like "Coffee vs Nap" but my Prof. suggested that we must choose at least a catchy title to make the topic sounds interesting. Okay..now let see some of the content I've provided for my presentation. We needed to provide visual aids to help audience understands and keeping interest in our topic.

A good speaker must have a good attention grabber to capture your audience attention. As for me, I cited a poem. An old poem about coffee but it was far less interesting I guess because I didn't get high score for my first attention grabber attempt. As you can see below, is my introduction slide, a little info about the history of coffee.

The three main headings for my speech was coffee and nap would give amazing effects on improving moods, boosting your performance level and last but not the least lowering the level of sleepiness.

There a lot of vitamins that can be found in coffee. Some of it are listed in the next slide I've provided.

Researchers have found that women who drink 4 or more cup of coffee per day have lower the 20% risk of being depressed. As reported by the Harvard University study in 2011.

Next, I am going to tell you how coffee helps in boosting our performance level. 

Coffee enters our system through the blood stream which means it reaches the brain in the range of 8-15 minutes after consumption. Originally, the adenosine supposed to bind with the adenosine receptor which would later making us feeling drowsy.

But, when caffeine came in, the receptor binds with caffeine instead of adenosine because the caffeine molecules are almost the same with adenosine.

Putuitary gland will now sees that and thinks there is an emergency going on. So, it tells the adrenal glands to produce adrenaline and then BAMMM. 5 minutes later you will get more energy.

My last point of speech is the effects of coffee and nap. As far as I concerned, both coffee and nap have can helps with sleepiness. .Especially during 'post dip lunch' which is the sleepiness that occurs in the mid afternoon after lunch. This happens due to dropping of cortisol, a natural chemical that helps to keep us in state. 

As a conclusion, both coffee and nap have restorative properties. Coffee can wears off especially when you've used to it but the combination of coffee and followed by a nap gives double energy in lowering the level of sleepiness.

That's all for my first ELC590 presentation. I'll be updating about my second presentation soon. Thank you for reading and don't forget to leave comments if you find this is interesting!

here's the references I've used. ^.^

Online Books

1. Debry, G. (1994). Coffee and Health. Retrieved from http://books.google.com.my/books?id=uZaaCk-8s9sC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false on 19th March 2014.
2. Chu. Yi Fang, (2012). Coffee: emerging health effects and disease prevention. Retrieved from http://books.google.com.my/books?id=y0qA89vCr3MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=coffee+benefits&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-28qU_aVIoeQrge2rYCYCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=coffee%20benefits&f=false on 25th March 2014.

Magazines

1. Gregory, V. (2013, August). Which is better: coffee or a nap? Reader’s Digest. Retrieved from http://www.rdasia.com/coffee-or-nap?icm=toppicks&icn=Coffee+or+nap on 18th March 2014

Journal article

1. Hayashi, M., Masuda, A., Hori, Tadao. (2003). The alerting effects of caffeine, bright light and face washing after a short daytime nap. International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, doi:10.1016/S1388-2457(03)00255-4
2. Gunnars, K. (2013, November 25). Top 13 Evidence-Based Health Benefits Of Coffee. Authority Nutrition. Retrieved from http://authoritynutrition.com/top-13-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-coffee/ on 10th April 2014.

RAMADHAN IS HERE!!

Assalamualaikum.

finally Ramadhan has arrived. Happy fasting people. May Allah bless us.

Sorry that I abandoned you, love

Assalamulaikum..

It's been a while since my last post. Three months, I guess? Phew..
Second semester in Uitm Shah Alam. First semester living out of campus. Life is pretty amazing so far. even it does have ups and downs. well, that's what we call LIFE kan?

Oh, this semester we are studying about landscape planning. A little bit of Land and Planning Laws, and some other subjects as follows:

Subjects I am taking this semester.

Last month, yeah..exactly last month. We've been on a trip to Kuantan. It was wayyyy much different from the trips we've had in Perak. I guess it is because of the wayyyy different lecturers. We only did the study in day 1. Visual quality I mean. Not so much information to collect either since we're there on Thursday. Thursday afternoon to be precised. What should be there along the beach on Thursday afternoon? Nothing. Nada. Just a few villagers going on their daily routines. But it was so much fun on 2nd and 3rd day. Like we're coming here just to have a nice vacation. The hotel is quite awesome except there is no activities to do around the hotel area, and the Kuantan Waterfront too. Kuantan people are quite annoying to me. Not all but a few of them. Especially the one who's operating the stalls and kiosks. I must say they were quite rude to the customers. I am sorry to KUANTAN people. but this is what I and my friends thinks. I am buying a sizzling noodles in a mall, since it was quite late (what mall are about to close on 9pm?) I asked the lady when would my order would be done cooking but she'd just simply said " If you want to eat uncooked egg, you can have it now." It startled me and make me wanna curse her A LOT! Same thing also happened to my friend but at a different stall. I just can't stand local people being rude at the tourist. even it was local tourist from another state. urghhh..suddenly I feel angry again over an incident that happened last month.

okay. bye. ^.^