Video pick - week 4

Yea girl, I'm so  inspired!
Nice one by Waje
Enjoy!!!

Please who knows who the the rapper is?
she is good

A great weekend to y'all

Speak to yourself....

Happy New Month everyone.
I've been a little reluctant with posting something here today. Anyway, I had to just break out of it and try to come around. I know there's someone out there waiting for my "happy new month post", well here it is :)


I was trying to think of something to put up here, but my mind has just been so preoccupied with other things that it failed to come up with some good inspiration. Anyway, I posted something today on my twitter page, I said "Speak to yourself, it listens..." While I was still thinking of what to write, I thought, why don't I just elaborate on this??

So here we go:
Have you ever looked at yourself and wondered what people thought about you? How people really see you?
Most times, it's much more than your dress, your hair or even your skin.
It's about what's underneath everything.
I tell you, people will only see you the way you choose to see your self.
And that reminds me of that old adage that says " Treat yourself good, it gives people a definition on how to treat you"
If you see yourself as useless, and you just choose to walk around with a grumpy kinda look, sooner than later, people are going to start seeing you exactly that way.

Majority of the people in this world are those that are best at bringing others down, in their attempt to make themselves look better. Please, for your sake, do not allow anybody make you accept their definition for your life. If they are callous enough to define you to what suits them, then there's really little you can do to help them. That's their ignorance not yours but at least do not believe them.

Do not stay mute! Tell yourself :
You're amazing
You're beautiful
You're the best
This I think is rather easy.
Leonard Cohen said, "Act the way you'd like to be, and soon you'll be the way you act"

Be the best you can possibly be guys, and never let anyone try to make you feel lowly
HAPPY MARCH 2011

What are you grateful for?

Aww! I can't believe December is here already!
I woke up to a very lazy start today.
Thank God I had a day off from my clinical practice today, at least I could spend some more time on my bed. Just laying there staring into the ceilings, thinking of all the things I have to do once I can get my butts off the bed :)
And then I heard my message tone, someone sent me a message. I checked, I had 3 other unread messages already. Too many messages for one morning!

I went ahead to check the first one, it was a 'happy new month' wish. Aww that was it! I didn't realise December was here already. Gosh how did I let that skip my mind?! I quickly whispered a prayer to God.
I looked out of my window, the whole place was covered up with snow. Very beautiful scenery, amazing beauty by God (even though I was happy that I didn't have to step out early today)

Later on, my sister called. It wasn't just the usual calls. She had some amazing news she wanted to share with me. She just heard news about the release of her final results from school. She's been waiting for this for so long but it has just been unavoidably delayed. It was like everything had come to a stand still for her and she was just constantly depressed everytime she thought about it. She kept hoping month after month, until I and my mum asked her to stop hoping and just settle her mind for next year. At least next year was far enough for everything to be sorted out so she won't be more dissapointed than she already was.

That was indeed a great news. I was so happy! I thought about all the goodness I have enjoyed through out the year too.... my life, good friends, family....
I knew I had to give God a proper "Thank you".

I want to admonish you to take some time out to reminisce and be thankful for 2010 too. What are you grateful for? Think about your life, all the achievements, all the troubles that never came your way.
And if you think that maybe you do not have a good reason to be; maybe because you still have a lot that you want to achieve in 2010 and the year is already coming to an end, then maybe all you need is just a lil bit of hope. You still have 30 more days and it could still happen. Take my sister's case as an example.

But if you think of the fact that we are still walking on the same earth that has swallowed up a lot of people, then maybe you'd have enough reason to be thankful. Think about all the times you picked up a paper to read about some tragedy that you never experienced. If you'd just think a lil bit, just a lil bit, I'm sure you'd have several reasons to be grateful.

Happy December!

Tough decision…. but very worthwhile contd....

For this post, I feel like I’m just being pushed by the “don’t start what you can’t finish” saying. Anyway, that’s it, I read my previous post, and I felt like there had to be some sort of a continuation, especially for drinking. You know most times they always go together, like a perfect combination, just like bread and butter :)

Anyway, I had the perfect experience to make me want to write about drinking too.

Still during my clinical practice, we had this patient, a tourist that was rushed  to the intensive care unit of the hospital. He collapsed in a club the previous night from having way too much alcohol. (Yea feels like I had a great experience with my clinical practice this year, huh? I think so too, cos you’d be so surprised if I'd  start narrating some of my many experiences.)

Firstly, we needed to get the necessary information about him, so my coordinator said as she was trying to read up his report “I heard you had way too much yesterday”.

 Deep inside me, I knew she was trying to be sarcastic and I was praying that I don’t laugh out cos she was already talking amidst very mischevious smiles. The man immediately interjected, “No not just yesterday, but for 10days straight”. Omg poor guy! something must have prompted this, I thought.  I immediately asked  "why?" expecting to hear some sad story, only for him to smile and say, “Nothing, I’m an alcoholist”.  Whatever that meant!

 Apparently he was trying to make us understand that he was an alcoholic! Seriously, is that supposed to be an achievement?  You are in the ICU because of excess drinking and you dare try to be proud of it?  I don’t know if that was supposed to come off as “cool” but sorry, I just couldn’t see it as that, especially not when he was gasping for breath and looking like one desperately in need of help.

The tricky thing about drinking is that it can tell people how responsible you can be. The good news is that you don’t have to completely stay off it, so you don’t have to worry about trying to quit, but at the same time, you shouldn’t allow yourself to get drunk, cos that’s just the thin line between rational and irrational or cool and not cool.

So the big question is “when is drinking alcoholism?"

If you are a complete abstainer, then you need not worry about this. But I’m not going to go ahead and say “that’s it, everyone, just stay off alcohol” because that would be being neither here nor there.

So lets try defining ALCOHOLISM!

The key word in this context is “excessive”.

Uusually, "you’ll hear when you start getting irrational as a result of the intake of alcohol, then you should understand that’s your limit", but some people can consume a whole lot of alcohol without even feeling the effects.

But still, using the feeling to define the limits could be some great starting point.  So maybe I can say, if you drink, and start seeing stars, and 2 heads, and then threes, and then butterflies, and your head is spinning then that’s when you should stop.  Hahaha! I’m obviously kidding, seeing these would mean  you are already drunk innit? hahaha! You know I just had to make you laugh!

Anyway, let’s just say that you should try to define your limit, and stop at the point just before where you are supposed to feel tipsy.  I can’t say for sure cos I don’t know the feeling!. Did you just ask why? Ok I’ll tell you.

Why would I want to lose control of my senses even for one second? I can’t even imagine being irrational not even for a split second. What if in that split second I went ahead and did something rather stupid e.g set me ablaze? You laughed right? I’m laughing too cos its actually very funny, but you may not understand that you do subject yourself to this kind of risk and many more, every time you drink yourself to stupor. 

Ok back to excessive, whether you feel drunk or not, too much alcohol in the system is not good. It’s a risk factor for several health conditions. According to nutirtionists, a small amount of alcohol could also be rewarding. Alcohol could help to prevent cardiovascular diseases by lowering the LDL (low density lipo-protein) in the body while increasing HDL(high density lipo-protein).

Thus, some experts thought it wise to give some specific ranges for the limits

For men, its about 3-4 units per day

For women, its about 2-3 units per day 

 When it comes to alcohol, its recommended in units. A unit is about 8g or 10 millilitres. This varies a lot depending on the type of alcohol and the country, but maybe we can just say that 1 unit is roughly a glass of wine or a can of beer.

But remember, a higher intake will be more detrimental than beneficial.

Well, I don’t know if looking at it from the nutritional point of view was a good remedy still especially for the heavy drinkers, but one thing I do know is that, this would never be easy. Alcoholism is bad, and I don’t want to start highlighting all the dangers of alcoholism cos I suppose we would have heard about them already. 

Ending certain lifelong habits can be really demanding, it can be as difficult as walking on a tight rope. Nothing good comes easy, they say, but you’ll have to make a choice and that is where you’ll need to subscribe a lot on self restraint.

Goodluck!