Monday, May 31, 2010

DC : Doped

aku fly ke DC 3 hari awal (1 hari mmg utk flight je - 14 jam ok!) then 2 hari plan utk jalan2 - shopping2 :-)

ni kali kedua aku sampai ke DC ni. aku mengharap sgt lah dpt upgrade sbb 14 jam, tp tak pernah lah bernasib baik. dok lah kat ekonomi. penuh plak tu... and kids, menangis je semua nya. tp ok lah aku dpt tido je.. dan watched 4 movies. masa sampai airport aku expect aku kena double check up macam dulu, tp ntah kenapa, kali ni lebih mudah. not much question. cumanya nak lepas imigresen tu makan 2 jam beratur...

so sabtu tu aku sorang2 lah jalan2 g malls... plan nak g ke NY tak jadi... nak g outlet mall pun tak jadi :-( so g lah tgk apa yg patut. my colleague yg fly sama, dia g boston jumpa sedara dia. tp nak jadi sebab masa aku nak lintas jalan, aku tergelincir dan kaki terseliuh. duduk lah sekejap tepi jalan bg sengal2 reda. tp tak ingat, lepas tu terus je jalan terjengkut2 sambung shopping hehehe. tp utk mengelakkan kaki jd terlebih bengkak, aku decided utk balik awal. masa terseliuh tu aku dengar gak crack tp since aku mampu jalan i dont think ada retak or patah. so balik awal, rest early.

esok nya bangun dlm pkl 5am, harapkan blh lah berjalan ari tu. tp, kaki sakit gile, mcm menyucuk2. terus aku decided utk g hospital. kurang2 nya nak xray. esok nak keje. bahaya gak kalau tak sembuh. aku g George Washington Univ. hospital. mmg hospital ni je paling dekat n aku rasa ni gak hospital yg akan rawat president US lah.

awal pg jam 6am tak ramai org kat emergency. ada lah 3-4 org. dan tak sampai setengah jam aku kena panggil utk buat check up. lepas tu aku kena panggil ke dalam wad kecemasan utk further check. then aku kena xray kaki. first time aku dok atas kerusi dan kena tolak. :-) aku rasa kesian plak kat nurse yg tolak aku tu, aku ni kan berat. tp yg kelakar nya, nurse yg xray kaki aku tu kata aku ni muka mcm tiger woods... hahaha..

lepas tu aku rehat atas katil sampai dtg doktor. actually ada 3-4 doktor/nurse/sesapa ntah dtg check, setiap kali check tu lah aku kena explain apa punca kaki tu. n doktor yg ni cakap takde retak apa2. dia akan advice ubat and nak bg painkiller. dia kata lepas bg injection tu, aku akan drowsy so aku kena make sure someone else ambik and kena rehat whole day. am glad takde apa2, so... lepas rehat mlm blh g jalan lagi :-). sementara tunggu injection, dtg org registrar tanya pasal insurance n payment, n suruh jumpa lepas discharge and tak lama lepas tu, dtg nurse nak suntik kat bontot. (my first time experience kena injection kat bontot). dia cek nama n sakit, br inject. and takde lah sakit apa pun.

lepas inject since dia akan akibat kan drowsy, doktor suruh rehat dulu. lepas 30 minit dtg doktor and nurse n cakap blh lah balik. aku pun bgn lah.. tp bila berdiri je, badan mcm terhuyung hayang. tak blh tegak. n doktor suruh duduk n baring semula. rehat sejam lagi. aku pun rehat, tido2 ayam. and nurse buat blood pressure check. after sejam lebih kot, doktor dtg semula kata dia nak pindah kan aku ke wad, tak blh balik. dia kata bkn admitted tp nak close supervision. aku perlu diberikan oksigen. dan pas tu ada nurse tolak katil aku.. woo.. kena tolak atas katil plak ni.. masa tu aku rasa ok je... tak sakit apa2 in fact kaki aku mcm lega. tp masa tu buku lali aku depa taruh cast, bg straight.
sampai kat dlm wad, depa letak oksigen dan taruh bloood pressure check yg akan pump every 30 minutes. aku agak mamai, tidor2 ayam dan setiap 3o minit aku tersedar sbb blood pressure pump tu. dan aku akan tersedar setiap kali doktor datang or nurse cek... masa tu br jam 7.30 pagi. aku tak berapa sedar sgt... dlm sedar tak sedar tu, sampai pkl 1pm. br aku rasa agak lega. nurse cakap kalau nak makan blh lah dia bg juice and biskut. aku kata ok lah. tp doktor kata aku akan rasa nausea. aku try.
so nurse dtg bg juice. skit je. lepas minum aku rasa mcm nak sedawa... n masa ni tetiba rasa nak muntah. nasib baik nurse dah prepare kan aku bekas... muntah abis air juice aku minum tu... then rehat lagi. tido2 jap... masa tu mata tgk benda semua bergerak2 tak tetap. doktor dtg explain (utk kali ke berapa ntah) sebenarnya depa dah bg narcotic kat aku. sepatutnya 2mg je kot utk aku. tp depa bg 4mg. dia kata normally 4 mg, tp maybe dia tak assess saiz badan aku, depa tak kurang kan dose. so aku dah overdose. dan dia minta maaf aku kena dok wad ni.

pastu aku try lagi, minum air and biskut plak. again aku muntah. doktor kata aku kena ada air dlm badan utk detox narcotic. depa nak bg aku drip taruh air. aku tak nak... aku cakap aku nak try minum lagi. tp bila muntah jugak... doktor cadang bg satu lagi injection utk nausea. aku agree... alhamdulillah, lepas kena suntik tu, aku dah blh makan n agak lega skit. lepas rehat lagi... jam 4 aku dibenarkan keluar. aku sign discharge paper then balik. apparently, depa tak caj apa2 pun...

ptg tu aku sambung tido lagi. dr jam 5 sampai 10. sedar kejap, then jam 11pm tido sampai pg isnin. abis lah satu hari ahad aku tido. hari isnin dah ok, kaki blh jalan tp kepala kureng. tp aku tetap g office lah. ari tu ari memorial day, sepatutnya cuti je. tp ada gak blh buat planning skit2... sampai tghhari tu, aku dah tak larat aku balik tido. tp malam tu gigih gak g jalan :-) sbb dah settle lepas bgn tido.

hari selasa br aku ok... dok citer kat office semua org suruh saman je... blh dpt sejuta kalau saman... aku bz sangat nak fikir pasal saman... and mcm malas nak go through... hehehe.. decided not to... the fact yg doktor minta maaf n no charge tu menunjukkan mmg hospital salah. tp hmm.. tak kisah lah janji selamat. alhamdulillah :-) what an experience... being doped.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Fly again

arrgh.. beg balik kl pun tak kemas lagi... but tomorrow nak kena fly again...

am going to Washington DC, US... agak kecewa skit sbb tak dpt tukar flight ke NY... kalau dpt pun kena byr mahal :-(

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Dah balik ke Doha...

am back in Doha... terfikir nak update blog...

settle most of the stuff i need to do when i was back in KUL-IPH hari tu...

hmm... when i checked the entries in 2010 so far... nampak sangat blog ni dah ketandusan entry... hmm... ada banyak benda nak tulis on one thing ni... tp takde kaitan plak ngan travel or kehidupan perantau... and rasa mcm tak appropriate plak nak tulis kat sini...

anyway, insyaAllah... am beginning a new chapter in my life soon... :-)

so should i tulis all the rambling on the process to start a new chapter here??? :-) what say u???

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Home...

Few urgent things need to be cleared... some discussions need to be made... some arrangements need to be done... some consultants need to be met....

am going back to KL for a while... i'll be back in a week...

btw... tiket Qatar Airways dah banyak tier dah.. to get a cheaper tiket i have to kill one day just for travelling i.e. take the 9am flight out from doha and only arrive in KL at 9pm.. what a waste of time... then balik dr KL pun 9am and sampai doha 12pm.... urgh...

if i were to take the normal flight at 1am from Doha and back at 2am from KL... it wil cost me a QR1500 extra... not worth the money...

ooh decided to travel this month as QR is giving away double points for all travel in May :-) cepat lah dpt gold level :-)

Sunday, May 09, 2010

HIQ : Post dated check...

Awal2 dulu, antara sebab aku stay kat company accomodation instead of sewa sendiri adalah kerana aku kena keluarkan post dated cheque utk bulan2 yg aku stay kat umah tu. Aku rasa its a weird practise, and it can be misused. Tp since company aku dah suruh aku dok stay sendiri... i have no choice lah kan...

so masa aku sign contract ari tu, aku pun bg lah aku punya post dated cheque... since it is something yg common kat doha and so far takde lagi lah org cite benda tu disalahgunakan... so, i have to settle with it and kena lah make sure balance akaun cukup end of the month... but suddenly this news keluar kat surat khabar: Post Dated cheque boleh ditunaikan bila2 masa setelah diisu...

Taken from Newspaper:

Local banks have started to alert customers ahead of next week’s implementation of a new law stipulating that post-dated cheques can be cashed on presentation.
The Article 580 of Qatar Commercial Law (No 27 of 2006), which makes cheques “payable at sight”, states that “if a cheque is presented before the date set as its issuing date, it shall be paid on its presentation date”.
This means that if the bank is presented with a cheque, which has been issued on a post-dated basis (commonly known as post-dated cheque), the holder can present it for payment immediately and not have to wait until the post-date on the cheque to encash it.

The system of issuing post-dated cheques will get scrapped with the law taking effect, a senior banker told Gulf Times yesterday. He said Qatar Central Bank had already notified the local banks about the relevant provisions of the Commercial Law of Qatar taking effect.

Once the law takes effect, industry sources say, it will be the “drawer’s responsibility” to ensure he/she has sufficient funds before issuing a cheque. This means that those with insufficient funds in his/her account to cover the value of a cheque that is presented for payment can be subject to criminal liability.

Legal expert Nizar Kochery said drawers of cheques would no longer be able to rely on their instruments being cashed on or after a “future date”. He said: “A cheque is the equivalent of cash. While a cheque facilitates easy handling, the drawer must issue it with full seriousness, fully abiding with the laws of the land.

“The days of post-dated cheques have gone. Cheques can be presented for payment anytime after they are handed over to the drawee. The banks will be required to honour and pay the cheques immediately on presentation,” Kochery said.

The Qatar News Agency (QNA) yesterday said the weekly Cabinet meeting had taken “necessary procedures for the issuance of a draft law amending some provisions of the Commercial Law (No 27 of 2006), after reviewing a relevant Advisory Council recommendation”.


so.... selamat ke??? apa punya concept ni?? why the change?? apa guna post dated cheque kalau benda nya mcm cash... hmmm.... so what shall we do now... cheque dah keluar dah, how can i maintain QR60k (being sewa QR6k per month x 10 months) kat bank... mana nak ada...

Sunday, May 02, 2010

HIQ : WC 2022

(aku dah tulis entry ni few days ago... tp hilang gitu je... now i copy n paste je lah without any comments... :-) )

As we all know Doha offer jadi organiser WC2022 lama lagi... see the clip below...

last week depa kuat kan bidding depa dgn tunjuk 5 new stadiums depa nak bina...

this is news on that...

The first five proposed stadiums for the World Cup were unveiled at the beginning of March 2010. The stadiums will employ cooling technology capable of reducing temperatures within the stadium by up to 20 degrees Celsius, and the upper tiers of the stadiums will be disassembled after the World Cup and donated to countries with less developed sports infrastructure. All of the five stadium projects launched have been designed by German architect Albert Speer & Partners.

The Al-Khor Stadium is planned for Al-Khor city, located 50 kilometres north of Doha. The stadium will have a total capacity of 45,330, with 19,830 of the seats forming part of a temporary modular upper tier. The Al-Wakrah stadium, to be located in Al-Wakrah city in southern Qatar, will have a total capacity of 45,120 seats. The stadium will also contain a temporary upper tier of 25,500 seats. The stadium will be surrounded by large solar panels and will be decorated with Islamic art. The Al-Wakrah and Al-Khor stadiums will be built regardless of whether Qatar is awarded the World Cup, according to the bid committee. However, the temporary upper-tier sections will only be added if Qatar wins the right to host the tournament.


FYI, the decision will be made in December 2010... very soon. Kalau dapat lah kat Doha... I'm expecting loads of development, peluang keje pun makin banyak lah kot.. :-)