Take Care of your Knee!

Hi. I’m bouncing back but not as high as before. I still cough and I can still do voice-over for trailers, the one that sounds like a 7-foot tall man who’s been smoking since childhood? It’s all very much the same, except that I’m not really doing any voice-overs, I’m not a 7-foot tall man, and I haven’t been smoking since childhood. But it’d be very interesting to do voice-overs though. The rest…well, moderate fever out. Super influenza (sounds like a new model of Mazda or Toyota) also out. Maybe a sniff or two every once in a while. Praise be to Allah.

I’m also wrapping my lower leg tight, from the shin and around the back of my lower leg (calf/betis) because it’s unbelievably sore down the left. Any of these muscles ring any bells? (Evertor, plantar, flexor, plantar flexor, whatever.) The unusual walking posture must have induced extra tension beyond the original tolerance. I’ve always had the impression that my thigh muscles would get in trouble first because of ligament loss. In spite of that, the trouble is seen in the opposite side.

Probably and almost apparently, my thigh muscles are already strong (maybe a contributing factor of being bow-legged, lol) and that my lower leg is not as strong. Wait. How can the upper leg develop stronger muscles relative to the lower, or perhaps, how come the overall development of muscles is not proportional (since thighs appear to be more massive and I really don’t know exactly which has more muscles or which one is supposed to be stronger), even though the movements and exercises are executed by the leg as one? Is there any physical habit that doesn’t make them proportional? Sounds scary.

The most noticeable aftermath of losing an ACL is the sway effect. Don’t you always allow both your knees slide to the back and into a locking position when you stand straight? And then you feel like there’s a stopper that would prevent your knees to slide back further? Can you feel the stopping force from within? And even if you push backward, there would be no further movement available? (You can stand now and try) Well, imagine if that force is gone. It feels like it’s going to sway to and fro but it’s not really doing it. It’s really scary.

Some of you did try to stand and lock the knee backward, ha?

Standing Back

I’m getting sick again. Some people say the best advice is the one you give to others. So I’m going to drink tons of water.

In the mean time, I’m truly sorry if I have wronged or hurt you/anyone in the past. Also for any special cases of dispute – I apologize. Let’s resolve it together if you claim unjustness or I haven’t been fair. Please claim your ‘makan’ or treat the soonest if I’ve ever promised you one or two. Claim them all. If I’m holding your OS 9 copy, all the other software in my possession are yours to claim in case I wouldn’t be able to return it in time. If you don’t like them, I have a slew of hardware you can choose from. If you’re still monitoring your CPU activity, I hope by now you’d be able to notice the trend when the laptop goes “puff” and avoid the same load or activities in the future. If it doesn’t work, then sorry but you have to upgrade/buy a new laptop. Thanks for all the Houses. I’ll keep the stars with me if you don’t mind. They remind me of the good moments I’ve had and also the bad, both simple and complicated. They empower me and hurt me at the same time.

The feeling of pain is actually not too bad if you’ve had a couple of double doses. But of course, it’s nowhere close to death and that’s what I’m reminded of right now. OK. I should rest now.

Utility Package

To maximize my cell phone [also portable music player], I have uploaded 125 songs into it. It can go up to 400 but I guess I’m going to leave the space for incoming photos and videos.

It was made possible by the following: upgrade the original 64MB to a 1,000MB storage. Now Phone, Music, Photos, Videos, Data Storage, all rolled into one. Next: Internet?

Battery Life

Have you ever wondered how you can extend your laptop’s battery life? Do we let the battery discharge to 0% every time? Should we immediately charge before it goes to zero? Is it good to always have the power plugged in? Your charging/discharging behavior plays a vital role.

I have done my own research on how to approximately delay the deterioration of laptop’s battery life. It’s not as rigorous as testing it with lab equipment and verifying all the numbers and the average down the third decimal points, but enough to convince myself that certain practice would defer the projected deterioration 6-month to a year later.

GROUND RULES
This is not to overwrite the fact that, given the same capacity/juice, battery life is ALWAYS in decreasing mode. In other words, it is impossible to have a battery that lasts 3 hours before, and run 4 afterwards (unless you exchange it to a higher capacity/more juice battery.) The efforts we’re looking at is simply to slow down the deterioration and not to stop it. Keep in mind that average battery life is about 2 to 3 years. If you have used up a battery for that long, and retain about an hour of battery life at the end of it – that’s typical.

Here it goes.

I normally wouldn’t want to leave the battery lower than 40% for too long. Every once in a while (once or twice a month), I deliberately unplug and drain it to 0% to re-calibrate its reading. Battery works better at lower temperature. Say if you need to leave your battery for a vacation, discharge it and store it in the refrigerator.

With battery life down to about 45 minutes after 3 years of use, I recently acquired NuPower 65-Watt-Hour as an upgrade. It gives me a solid 3-hour run. Have you ever experienced your battery status report to be deceiving? (battery says 2 hours left but your unit blacks out after an hour). Well, this one doesn’t. When it says it’s going to go 3 hours, it really does last for 3 hours. Sometimes 3.5 depending on aggregate activities and continuity.

Happy upgrading and preserving battery life!

Performance Upgrade

Hey, man! I’m also a Mac.

A Mac ad spoof with euphemism and cliche

Yassir & Diana

Finally, I grabbed hold of a copy. Yassir & Diana wedding at Tmn Melawati (Sat Aug 19). Congratulations!

Looks like I need a good shaving. And haircut. oh! that’s what i’m a do today.

Your Nephew

Even Ridhwan is very up. I should learn from him.

Another Long Line

KL suddenly turned into the worst city in the world. One heavy downpour and you could see the worst sections of the town; traffic behavior, haphazard sewerage and infrastructures, improvised road connections, unconsolidated construction activities. All these were being pointed to us in the last couple of days. And I got stuck again for about an hour and a half.

Update A
The last two-day training has been very enlightening. It’s about some sort of troubleshooting and investigation skills. Always appreciate the knowledge and practice it. Share it. Except that I can’t for this one. It’s licensed and copyrighted. (Wishing I had some patented ideas of my own… hm… )

Update B
Several key movers left. It’s truly a challenge at this moment in time. Now you realize that management isn’t the only one who can drop the bombs.

Update C
The lower portion of my back rocks! No, that’s what it’s really doing. I hope it’s not anything serious. Maybe side effect of the operation like Taufiq said.

The Long Line

Terrible traffic jam yesterday. It took Zul and I 3 hours to get home! It subsided as soon as I reached Sg Besi (which was not as soon as I thought), but you wouldn’t believe how long the traffic jam going into KL was on the opposite side of the road. Since the moment I departed, which was from Jalan Tun Razak near U.S. Embassy, until I exited the KL-Seremban highway via UPM, the cars heading to KL were still lining up!

By the way, a study at Yale University reported that men who are married to gorgeous women are so afraid of losing them, the worry is giving them a lot of stress. It continued on to say that men who married less attractive women would live 12 years longer.

(Now how did you statistically outline who is gorgeous and who is not? Men statistically die earlier anyway, so take a pick.)