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.

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. ^.^

6th Assembly of Landscape Architecture Students (ALAM6)

 Assalamualaikum!

alhamdulillah I am home. dah empat hari sebenarnya. tapi keseronokan dan kepenatan bahana event ALAM6 tu belum habis lagi rasanya.

credit : FB Alam 2014

event ni sepatutnya berlangsung pada bulan Disember yang lepas. tapi sebab ada beberapa isu yang timbul, ia ditunda pada bulan Januari 2014. untuk event tahun ni, IIUM kembali menjadi tuan rumah. seperti yang aku sedia maklum, IIUM merupakan tempat asal event ini dilaksanakan. so berangkatlah beberapa delegasi dari seluruh Malaysia ke program ini.

Bukan semua kolej atau universiti ye boleh join. haha. hanya kolej atau universiti yang ada program berkaitan landskap je boleh turut serta. untuk tahun ni bertambah pula Kolej Geomatika. tak silap aku, ALAM5 dulu Geomatika tak join. tapi tak apalah. it was fun meeting new people. :)

konsep ALAM6 tahun ni ialah KEMBALI. kembali tu merujuk kepada pusingan urutan penganjuran ALAM dimana IIUM adalah permulaan ALAM yang pertama. *gua dah cerita ptadi pasal ni* 

keduanya sebab KEMBALI merujuk kepada simbolik manusia kembali kepada alam. apa-apa perbuatan kita akan reflect balik kepada alam. ketiga, berkaitan dengan hubungan manusia sesama manusia dan mencipta hubungan baik dengan Tuhan.

*source : website AlamKembali*

kalau ALAM 5 yang lepas, pembahagian kumpulan ikut nama landscape architect tersohor macam Peter Walker, Frederick Law Olmsted dan sebagainya. tapi ALAM 6 kali ni pakai nama filem-filem P.Ramlee. Klasik gitu. sesuai la dengan tema 'kembali' dan 'Cultural'nya tu. ada group Ali Baba, Tiga Abdul, Madu Tiga, Labu Labi, Bujang Lapuk, Anakku Sazali, Ibu Mertuaku, Ahmad Albab, dan beberapa lagi. aku tak ingat le. hahaha. 

DAY ONE 
24th January 2014

semua delegasi mendaftar. view from Mahallah Aminah.

ice breaking. Labu Labi. semua nampak awkward lagi. -.-
credit: Atisya Syakilla

Night Forum : I have seen the world change.

DAY TWO
25th January 2014

ni group Tiga Abdul yang punya. :)
credit: Atisya Syakilla

us. delegates from UiTM Shah Alam at our exhibition booth.
Jadila dapat second place pun. :)
credit: Azim Azmi

DIY bench project. Recyled wood palette. ni johannya, group Ali Baba.
credit: Atisya Syakilla

untuk cultural performance malam ni. sorry..I don't have any picture of it. videos pun tak ada. but it was really fun. sorry again guys. 

DAY 3

26th January 2014

Catalyst Run. habis muka kena conteng!
credit: Atisya Syakilla

Water Ballon Fight. Rasanya game ni paling best.credit: Atisya Syakilla

jalan guna tempurung kepala. betul-betul "kembali" ni.
credit: Atisya Syakilla

team saya. Geng Labu Labi. third for Catalyst Run. :)
Credit: Azim Azmi

UiTM Perak with UiTM Shah Alam. we are one.  #inUiTMwetrust
Credit: Azim Azmi 

Anakku Sazali team members.
credit: Atisya Syakilla

sekitar Grand High Tea and closing ceremony ALAM VI

ALAM VI brings good memories 

KAED Gallery, IIUM. Fine architecture.
credit : Abdullah Azhar

sekitar meja buffet. cendol basi pun ada. haha.
credit: Abdullah Azhar

All delegates involved in ALAM VI. IIUM.
credit : Athirah B

Thank you for all the delegates and crew from IIUM. Jumpa lagi next time. ALAM 7 RISDA. 2015. :) 

p/s ---> beberapa gambar yang tak ada credit tu are mine. saja tak letak watermark. thank you for reading. :)

A full semester update. tee hee.

Assalamualaikum semua!

setelah sekian lama. gua muncul balik. maaf sepanjang empat bulan ni gua hilang. biasalah budak baru masuk u balik. dia jadi macam kelam-kabut banyak. studio pun boleh tahan mencabar jugak. tak macam masa kat Perak. sepanjang aku kat Perak pun, tak adalah tak tidur berhari-hari macam kat sini. kos sara hidup yang tinggi pulak.

*culture shock sekejap.*

iyelahh..dulu belajar kat Bota. biasa-biasa je. sekarang kat Shah Alam. even semua kerja computerized saja, tapi sakit juga. belum sempat save kerja, skrin jadi putih..keluar pulak message box.

*adobe photoshop is not responding*

terus rasa macam nak hantuk kepala ke meja. kalau roomate aku lagi best. kul 4,5 pagi siap kerja. yeayyy..boleh tidur. bangun esok pagi, kerja yang konon dah save tu entah kemana. hanya Tuhan yang tahu. seriously classmate mostly dah salin lappy baru. lappy yang upgrade bak kata mereka. bawah i3 jangan harap la. ni sekarang sume main level i5, i7. laptop aku ni pentium je dik oi. tapi alhamdulillah la, berkat kesabaran yang tinggi ni. lepas pun sem 4 ni dengan ____________.

*tempat kosong diatas hanya boleh diisi setelah keputusan peperiksaan UiTM diumumkan.

okay..the best part. jom tengok gambar. I tau you all memang suka tengok gambar kan? jeng jeng jenggggg..

 nah. aku tempek gambar classmate aku kat sini besau-besau. ada kawan korang kat sini? ni gambar masa studio terbuka. baru je beberapa hari start semester 4.

ini gadis - gadis lulusan Perak. semuanya diterbangkan khas ke Shah Alam. kah3. 

Athirah B tak ada pulak dalam gambaq ni. maap je art. :p

ini pulak gambau masa trip ke Melaka. trip untuk second assignment studio urban. ni lah jejaka - jejaka tampan group I. ada 3 ketul je. :D

ni pulak geng perempuan group aku. Haa..ni semua diva tau kecuali yang tudung mustard tu. macam-macam-macam gaya posing disitu. harap maaf.

tet tetttt..maaf menyelit gambar dengan kawan lelaki kita. 

haha..seronok dapat sambung belajar sesama lagi. :D

maaf lagi sekali. gambar saya bersama si dia lagi. hooyeahh. kami grad together-gether. 

*tunjuk gigi*

ini gambar pre-convocation dengan gegirl Diploma Senibina Landskap UiTM Perak. aku jugak paling ketot kat situ. :(

another important event in my life. my 22nd birthday. tak ada kek buat sendiri dah tahun ni. sebab celebrate kat shah alam. Thank you bestie and boyfie for the suprise. nad kata..muffin mccafe pun jadila. sebab tengah malam kedai kek tutup. :*

SOLAR Night Award. Dinner Jabatan. budak barukan..kena la join. tapi..tapi..rindu UiTM Perak. dah biasa dinner jabatan grand-grand, bila biasa-biasa jadi tak seronok. sorry Shah Alam. 

we went camping!! 

ni jelah last trip untuk sem ni. trip to Kuala Gandah and Janda Baik for subject Environmental Ethics. balik trip ni terus pulun buat board final studio. phewww.

that's all for this semester. exam dah habis tadi so I'm a free bird now. tapi belum boleh balik sebab aku join ALAM 6. ouhh..sedihnya.