I actually passed the physics test, even though I really don’t get what Im doing. Im bored. Tried to do some work for school, didn’t go so well. Been so freakin dizzy since music class! (which was around 3pm). It’s really hard playing base guitar when your dizzy… messed up the beat several times because of it. :S

Jag like rock, alternative, nu metal, pop(maybe some i guess..) och metal;
Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, Senses Fail, Paramore, Simple Plan, Sum 41, Avril Lavigne, Jason Mraz, Pink, 30 Seconds to Mars, Three Days Grace, Neverstore, Hilary Duff, Fort Minor, Dixie Chicks, Renegade Five, Gyllene Tider, Colbie Caillat, Dead by April, The All-American Rejects, Nickelback, Kelly Clarkson, Per Gessle, Katy Perry, The Killers, Vertical Horizon, Busta Rhymes Ft. Linkin Park, Bullet For My Valentine, 3OH!3, Lazee, Metro Station, Rage Against the Machine, Escape the Fate, Green Day, Taylor Swift, Foolsgarden, H.I.M, Sugarcult, Dave Days, 3 Doors Down, Fort Minor Feat. Lupe Fiasco & Holly Brook, Midnight Hour, Savage Garden, Fort Minor Feat. Sixx John, Limp Bizkit, Daniel Powter, Dead by Sunrise, Bare Naked Ladies, Vanessa Carlton.

Check out your music taste @ http://www.lastfm.se/user/CeceAnn (OBS, SWEDISH!)

Just a quick little update:
I’m sick! Or something. Feel really wired. Dizzy. This afternoon I had a massive head ache. My stomach feels empty (and it isn’t, and not empty hungry-empty just empty like a big warehouse). Not good. Can’t get sick right now. Have an exam to write on Sunday and a lot of studying to do before that exam.

That’s your lot for the day. The world just swayed away again…

Spellbound Dizzy

Developed and published in 1991 by Codemasters Spellbound Dizzy is just one game in a long series of egg related shenanigans involving the Yolkfolk (this time with the help of Theo the Wizard). Each game follows the usual set of rules and gameplay, (puzzle solving platformer with inventory menu and dodgy music) but each retaining its own unique charm. The series was originally developed by the Oliver twins, two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, who started to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school. However, they had little involvement with this title other than signing the game off and letting Big Red Software take over the design and development aspects of the game.

The game itself is well drawn and immediately boasts about its size *cough* but never really gets further than that in the interesting stakes. The graphics are bright and colorful, the usual combination of cartoonish scenery and well drawn objects throughout. 

However, compared to earlier games, this one seems inferior in design and presentation, even with the extra animation scenes such as Dizzy becoming stunned, swimming and the mine cart.

Spellbound Dizzy does feature some minor differences in game play from other Dizzy games; fruit and cakes are dotted around to restore energy, water doesn’t kill instantly, although without the aqua lung drowning is inevitable, and the mushrooms (magic?) are spinny objects that can propel Dizzy to greater heights, allowing him to reach unseen platforms and the odd cloud. Unfortunately these minor differences in game play don’t really make up for the lack of storytelling (it’s nice to have a little bit), puzzles that don’t seem to make much sense, and some very irritating music. 

Long and ever so slightly dull (being generous) the Dizzy games seem to work best when they are kept simple and short, this makes them a lot more fun to play as opposed to (an hour in) switching the music off and wanting to throw Dizzy from a great height shouting “Survive that!”

As much as I love other Dizzy games this one didn’t work for me, childhood memories tell me it was a lot more fun back in 1991, in my opinion there are better games in the series, Fantasy World Dizzy (1989), Magicland Dizzy (1990), that are genuinely still fun to play as an adult.

Need more Dizzy? Visit this  fan site for more info!

I had to go in fasting, so that meant no meds in the middle of the night or this morning. Geezum crow!!! I forgot how weak I am without Mestinon. It was really hard getting in and out of the van. I walked like a drunk, shuffling old lady. Steering the van was WORK.

I cannot take my meds without food, so had to do without. Mestinon is tough on the guts. Days and days of diarrhea have made me weaker than usual…..and also dehydrated. The woman drawing my blood had a hard time. She had to poke me repeatedly and move the needle around. Until then, I did not realize how dehydrated I had become. Did the pinch test and the skin on my hands stands up in a sharp line from being pinched. Sigh…

I’m soooooo darned weak! I guess it will take more than one dose of Mestinon until my strength comes back. Both of my legs hurt unmercifully The pain is making me extra queasy. Sigh…   Nap time!

Yay! One more days until we stuff ourselves with goodies.

About my last post…where we made all sorts of pumpkin delights in Gourmet cooking? At first, everybody was saying, “Oh, yeah, this looks so good!” And afterwards we were all groaning because it was SO much pumpkin and SO much sugar. Almost no one finished their plate. But a lot of people got hyper. I started laughing and I couldn’t stop, and another girl at my table complained that she was dizzy. Eli, a boy in my group, said, “Try spinning around slowly” as a joke. But Sreevidya didn’t know he was joking and did it anyway. Funny! And Eli was the Dishwasher and I dried the dishes. He filled the empty cups with water and stuck utensils in them and gave them to me to dry, saying, “Here’s your martinis. Oh wait, did you order the cherry martini?” I nodded, playing along. He filled a cup with “pumpkin water” (because the dishes had been washed in the tub and turned orange) and put a fork or two in their and handed it to me. “Here you go!” And I just started to crack up, mostly because I was hyper, and partly because he wasn’t this hyper normally either. It doesn’t sound very funny here, but it was there, mostly because I was hyper.

Today I’m going to attempt to make Iced Pumpkin Cookies for a Thanksgiving celebration tomorrow. I’m going to my grandparents’ house with a bunch of other relatives and we’ll play and eat and have lots of fun.

ibby out!

Hi everyone! I’m back

It feels so good to be home, with this laptop, being in my room. It’s pretty much heaven on earth if you ask me! Well, I arrived in KLIA at around 7:40pm just now, today, Tuesday. In my Twitter, I forgot to write the day, I just wrote 7:40pm. Well, because of the time difference between Switzerland and Malaysia, I became confused, of course!

My flight back home was at 10:15pm (Zurich time) and at that time, it was actually around 5:15am in Malaysia!! Can you imagine how sleepy I was!? Waiting at the airport. Our flight was delayed actually. For 30 minutes. The original boarding time was at 9:45pm.

The flight was for 11 hours and 40 minutes if I’m not mistaken. So, at around 4:30pm (in Malaysia), we arrived at Singapore. Yeah, we had to take a transit flight from there. Then, we had 2 hours, bid farewell to dad because he had to go to Johor instead of coming back home to KL with us. I almost cried just now but had to stay strong (long story, will blog about it later, maybe)

Then, at 6:45pm, we were on our way to KL. And arrived 40minutes later.

The first thing I did when I got home was edit the pictures! Ha-ha! I am crazy, I know. I just had to upload them all in my Facebook and Myspace. Facebook was having an error when I tried to upload just now but thank God, after a few minutes of waiting, they were all safely uploaded

Then, now, of course, I would LOVE to blog about my trip though nothing special happened. Dad was still busy with his work. Didn’t even go to Mt Titlis due to some problems. So, yeah, it was just pretty much a normal trip. Dad was feeling all guilty because he didn’t manage to entertain us and our plans didn’t really go well, but yeah, we had a great family time and I am grateful for that.

And now, it’s 1:47am and I can’t sleep though I have class tomorrow! At 8:30am! I am soooo dead! But while I was there, I went to sleep at 8:00pm which was around 2-3am in Malaysia! It was winter, so it was pretty much dark after 5:30pm. So now, I am not sleepy yet.

I am going to need lots and lots of caffeine and FOOD tomorrow to keep me awake!

Oh well. I think I shall try to go to sleep now. Oh yeah, I can’t really blog about my trip tonight because it’s already late and I am tired and feeling dizzy from the long hours in the airplane. Plus, I have class to attend tomorrow. So, I will find some other time to blog about it. Have to do it fast before I forget all the details

Wish me luck not to fall asleep in class tomorrow!

xoxo, Fanah.

ps: I watched one episode of Gossip Girl season 3 while I was there! I seriously felt like killing myself for not knowing that Gossip Girl now has a new season! Grrrr. Oh, and it seemed way more interesting than season 2!

Yesterday,Nov.23,09 was a sleepy day but it was so fine. I slept 3am and woke up at 6am! no,it must not happen again because I do not feel really fine! I was so dizzy and I was so high. The happiness I can’t explain but all I know is I am happy. Around 12pm, I was trying to sleep and did not took lunch because I felt 90% sleepy,10% hungry.LOL A new number appeared at my celphone and it was Jon again! He was so happy, I hear and feel it in his voice. His words,his touching words makes me feel so lively though a little dizzy. The talk was short but it is so meaningful,nothing compares the feeling we have.Thank you  Lord.

I am happy, I have a new friend at BMT, where I can send Jon his needs,God really moves!Thank you so much Jah.

I worked yesterday but I cant continue because of on/off network of internet. I did not sleep well because its my tummy again, I feel I am full,bloated maybe because I went outside last night and I didn’t wear anything to cover me from cold breeze.Maybe that’s why. I slept a little irritable but I can say it was fine, because I asked Jah to watch over us always and my loved ones whenever we sleep and in every thing we do.

I love and miss you too Jon,mwah!God bless us!

here’s an interesting music video from the group known as The Golden Filter. this is their new song called Thunderbird. i don’t really know how i feel about the video, but i do love the song.

I should have never whined that things were “too quiet” yesterday. Afterwards I went through hours of apartment drama that I cannot put online. It involves money and drugs and a psychiatric patient, a frightened old lady and a WHOLE lot more. Waaaaaaaaaay too much excitement and drama. When things get scary, the stress goes right to my guts. I was up most of the night in the bathroom.

Zeke was in my bed when I came back from one of my trips. He looked so cute! I got in the other side of the bed and was totally amazed that he stayed. Zeke does not like to cuddle in bed. He thinks people are too hot. When I got in bed it was 7:15 and when I woke up it was 7:15. No more Dollar Store batteries! It was really after noon

I am sad that I missed church, but am also glad. I really was in no shape to drive. In the night I was sooooo sick. I still am, but feel a heck of a lot better than last night

Uncomfortably cold
Rapid rhythms through my head
My head is spinning

Most heart disease patients are on multiple different medications to help prevent a future heart attack and lower the risk of death. Taking a handful of pills all at once though is undesirable for many people. Taking all the pills at once may make you feel lightheaded when they all take effect at the same time. The best way to take them is by creating a schedule of doses. For instance, take half of them at 8am and the other half at 8pm. If it gets too confusing, I recommend you use a medication organizer.

Medication organizers are a type of pill box that you place your medicine into ahead of time. The compartments are separated by days and times. Some pharmacies will even offer the service of filling the organizer for you! The best part is that when you miss a dose, you’ll notice right away that you still have pills in the box!

Mid-air ripples…

F*cking concentric circles!

Can’t get up.

Hate throwing up.

It just won’t stop!

This past Saturday we held our 4th Vestibular Support Group and what a success it was! Dr. Julia Rahn came and spoke about the psychological challenges of living with a vestibular disorder/chronic illness. Although we had a smaller group than usual, the group was fantastic. While the support group does provide a group speaker, it is a very laid back atmosphere and everyone was free to share their story, their concerns and daily challenges. Although initially we had some timid members, after hearing others share their vestibular story, everyone opened up and even stayed after to swap phone numbers and email addresses.

We hope that you will consider joining us for the next vestibular support group. For more info: info@balancechicago.com

Well, there isn’t really anything new to write about here. The only thing worth mentioning today is, that I got my English teacher to fill out her share of my application, plus I felt like shit all day long- headache and dizziness. Maybe I’m becoming sick? I hope not! But anyway, I just found out that my English teacher missed a question and forgot to sign date- typical her d: Besides that, I’ll have my mum print out the rest of the pages soon so we can sign and upload them. There’s still the problem about my late doctor appointment the 1st of December- the date where I need to have my online application done and sent in, if I want to be able to choose states- which I do! That was pretty much all I could think of right now~

Also, at Thursday we get a day at home to do “self-study”. Not that I think anyone will actually study, but oh well.. We were originally to meet at 10am because of some rescheduling, but then it turned out that our main teacher was going to take a course that day- and so there was simply no reason for us to go to school for only 45 min., so we got the day off- well, the teacher call it “self-study” as I mentioned before d:

I got up early, took a shower and got ready for church. Gut distress as usual, lately. I did fine driving to church until the last couple of miles, then my head felt very strange.

I started staggering as soon as I went through the first door. Sigh….

I did OK until sacrament was done, and the dizziness and nausea just kept increasing I was also tremoring BAD. I was wearing what I consider to be a pretty purple skirt with a repetitive pattern. With my legs shaking, the pattern was making me quite ill. I tried not to look down. While looking up, it’s as if my field of vision kept making a hop up and to the side a fraction of an inch every few seconds. Ugh. I got some relief by closing my eyes. If the talks had not been so good, I would have bolted!

I was scared about driving home and mentioned it to a few people, just in case. Once I was out in the fresh air, I was better. But….I was wishing I was not driving!

Got home, made a very quick dinner of beef chunks, sauteed onions and mashed potatoes. Then I fell asleep a few hours. Beth and Luc stopped by with a Santa head for me to hang next to the snowman they gave me a week or so ago Later Mary Lou came over to spoil Zeke and Aleka. She gets right down on the floor with them. Each hand was rubbing a belly

I spent the early evening watching YouTube videos about the swine/avian/human flu. That ought to scare me un-dizzy!

Hahay sekalinya lagi sempet bikin postingan, ga tanggung-tanggung ah sekalian aja, takut malesnya dateng lagi. Here is flash update gado-gado-nya..

1. Kursus SAP

Pulang Kursus

Yupz, udah dari 3 minggu kebelakang setiap hari sabtu pagi sampe sore gua kursus SAP di kampus Depok, yang katanya sih syarat biar ntar bisa sidang thesis (thesisnya aja blom kepikiran dah mikirin sidang ). Tapi nilai moral yang bisa gua ambil dari kursus di kampus Depok adalah: “Gua berasa muda lagi” ahahahaha..isinya mahasiswa S1 yang masih ranum-ranum ciiin!! (halah). Tapi iya kan, liat aja poto gua di atas masih pantes kan jadi anak umuran 19 taun .

2. IS Team Touring To Anyer

Tanggal 2,3 dan 4 Oktober kemaren team IS (Information System) di kantor, plus beberapa teman kuliah, ngadain touring ke Anyer, Banten.

Biarpun banyak cobaan pas berangkat, dari mulai Iben yang motornya selalu bermasalah (kayaknya disumpahin si prast tuh), trus ada motor yang olinya bocor (keliatan touring yang ga ada persiapan), sempet nyasar kepisah pisah, sampe gua dan 2 orang temen ditilang polisi di Tangerang gara-gara ngikutin GPS-nya si Ferry tuh! Salah belok katanya..dooh (mending jual aja dah fer tuh GPS, gak guna ). Tapi kita hepi kok di sana, dah lama gak ke laut. Terutama bima tuh, liat foto di bawah, perutnya itu loh boo ga tahaan..ahahaha..

Dan yang juga bikin touring ini semakin “sempurna” adalah pulang dari sana kita keujanan. Sampe kantor malem, pulang ke kosan macet mampus karena banjir.

3. Halo-halo Bandung

Jalan Braga, Bandung (HDR-ed image with Qtpfsgui)

Yihaa..!! September kemaren akhirnya gua ke Bandung lagi setelah beberapa taun gak kesana, niatnya sih jenguk My Brother yang lagi kuliah disana tapi teteep intinya pengen maen, biarpun gak sempet ke tempat-tempat yang jauh tapi lumayan lah sedikit refresh ingatan jaman dulu kala, liat mojang Bandung yang bening-bening (teteuup), trus hunting jaket motor di PVJ (jaket apa jakeet ) dan sedikit wiskul. Tapi tetep aja gua gak hapal sama sekali jalan-jalan di Bandung.

Aldi N Permana, my bro.. Pianist Jazz, lebih gede dari kakaknya, tapi tetep kerenan kakaknya

Risol Kopi Progo, wuiih ini mantaf nih risol, gede nih aslinya, satu aja dijamin kenyang

Calamari Kopi Progo-nya sih lumayan enak, tapi nothing special laah.

Coklat Kopi Progo, biarpun namanya Kopi Progo, tapi yang terkenal katanya sih Coklat hangatnya, dan bener emang mantep ciing

4. Ke Banten Mengantar “Kepulangan” Bapak

Kuburan Bapak

Tadinya judul ini mau gua bikin dedicated. Tapi toh peristiwa ini dah lumayan lama lewat kok, cuma blom sempet ditulis aja akibat blom bayar hosting (dooh), jadinya dijadiin flash update aja.

12 Agustus 2009,di bulan Ramadhan bapak akhirnya mengakhiri penderitaan melawan penyakit komplikasinya (diabetes, ginjal dan paru-paru), beliau dengan tenang menghadap Allah. Sedih banget memang, tapi gua tau ini demi kebaikan Bapak dan gua sepenuhnya ikhlas, bapak orang baik, pasti akan disayang Allah dan dimudahkan segalanya.

Pak, anakmu yang belum sempat membahagiakan Bapak ini hanya bisa berdoa untuk Bapak, aku yakin Bapak lebih bahagia di sana. Amin.

There is a good chance that during vestibular rehabilitation therapy you may still feel dizzy. The vestibular system tells your brain where your head is in space (up, down, left…). When the vestibular system is weakened, in an accident or after being sick, the vestibular system has a hard time figuring out where your head is located in space, causing you to be off balance.

During vestibular rehabiliation therapy, you are doing exercises that are intentionally making you dizzy. Exercises that include moving the head left to right while focusing on a steady object is one example. By focusing on a still object while moving your head left to right, you are re-training the brain to coordinate the information between the senses and the vestibular system so that signals are sent correctly to the brain.

Your exercises will get increasingly hard as you progress through your therapy and your symptoms may flare up because your brain will not be used to the increase in difficulty (ie. new visual cues). Do not despair, this happens to some of our patients!

How do you combat this dizziness: Do your exercises at home that your physical therapist provides you with. It will really help you with your dizziness!

Blogging on a touchscreen device is insane!!

I have had a really crazy weekend. Worked through the weekend and went to Lizzy’s bridal shower. It was so much fun!

I have had dizzy spells all weekend long and I couldn’t drink the delicous alcoholic beverages that wrre served at the bridal shower. Apparently, I am dehydrated and that can cause dizziness. It was strange because my vitals were normal. At one point, I couldn’t even walk I was so dizzy.

Tomorrow, I start taking the lead at my internship. I start talking to kids on my own and start mediating groups. It’s very nerve racking.

I just have to remind myself that the things worth doing are the things you fear the most. I just need to jump in there and get with the program!

In a few hours, Priscilla and I will be attending a lecture by one of my favorite authors, Donald Miller! I’m so excited to see him in person. He had such a huge impact in my life with his book “Blue Like Jazz”. His book led me to the faith I lost as a twelve year old.

I’m glad I get the chance to see him live. I hope there’s some sort of meet and greet.

Lets get started where it “ended”…. (Guns N’ Roses)
Guns N’ Roses. What a band. So many lineups, so much potential, so much talent. I became fixed on the Gunners at a tender age of 7 in 1988 when I snuck into my older brothers hockey locker room and heard ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ blasting on some old school beat box. So aggressive and so powerful and man, did that shit pump me up. The first video I saw from them was Paradise City and I became hooked. I didnt know what the hell I was doing at 7 years old absolutely obsessing over a bunch of fucking junkies, but I thought they were the most badass mofo’s and still feel the same way 20 years later. Granted the band has changed alot and Axl has gone and made some wonderful songs without the old lineup, but I will discuss here the last song ever played live by the “old” lineup. When I say the old lineup in this context, I don’t mean the original lineup, but close to it. Close to what non obsessed GNR fans, unlike myself, would think of as a GNR lineup would be Axl, the crazy top hat wearing guy Slash, and maybe they might remember there was some guy named Izzzy or Dizzy or something like that. The real sharp ones might even know Duff or Steven Adler or Matt Sorum. Anyways, back in 1993 GNR was ending a 2.5 year tour supporting their Use Your Illusion albums and their last show was in Argentina. The last song of the night, an Appetite for Destruction hit called Paradise City was played. Little did the crowd know that this was it for this classic lineup. A lineup with the potential of making megahits every year if they wanted, up to the quality that many would compare to Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, or now in modern day era, Pearl Jam. Anyways, now we all get to witness this performance. You could never tell thru this video that Axl hated every other bandmates guys by this point. Enjoy!!