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Validity of hospital OKU approval form

anti-informatic — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:15:09 +0800

I just got the forms approved from hospital about my parent OKU application last week. But I need to go oversea for 2 weeks business trip by this Sunday.

Is there any validity of the hospital approval form like, I must submit to KEMAS within a month or so otherwise the application will be expired? Since I need to go business trip starting next week I don't think i have time to go KEMAS by this week

Calculating Recommended Daily Nutrient Intake

anti-informatic — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:17:11 +0800

I've been searching for code or formula to calculate RDI like based on a person bio (age, gender, weight, height, activity level) as param, then calculate all the macronutrients and also micronutrient info, including full list of vitamin, mineral, etc as the result.

I found several links that only calculate macronutrients, but not so detail until vitamin and mineral. I also tried looking for formula to calculate manually but have difficulty finding one.

Please share if you have any link for that. Code sample in any language will do

Daily food delivery for elder

anti-informatic — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:06:00 +0800

I have parents with some medical conditions so it's better for them not to cook, but order on monthly subscription and deliver daily to our door step instead.

We tried one, the food aren't that bad, not that salty or too much of MSG like many places, but it's more like suitable for younger people without much health issues. We would prefer foods that are less fat, oily and fried, more protein, calcium and other good nutrition, and ideally foods that are soft and easier for elderly consumption.

Any good & recommended service provider like that?

Nauseous after eating recently

anti-informatic — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:50:38 +0800

Last month I went to HK for business trip and the clients treat us big meals for few times. I experience overeating in one of the days where I'm feeling super stuff from breakfast, lunch and dinner. And then the next day I'm totally lack of appetite. From there I tried eating very small meals whenever I could. Then few days later only feeling better. But I'm started to feel nauseous when I eat a bit more.

Right now about 2 weeks have past, it seems that my appetite has shrink as I used to be a big eater. Last time I need finish two packs of rice box to feel full at lunch, now I can only manage 1 rice box. If I eat a bit more then I feel nauseous again.

What type of condition is this? I search online but all I could find is nauseous due to pregnancy (obviously not), migraine, food or lactose intolerance (unlikely), food poisoning or, warning sign of serious condition. Or I should visit doc on this?

How to hire Good house maid for disabled elder

anti-informatic — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 18:01:59 +0800

My mum has difficulty walking and doing house work, so my family want to hire a good maid to do most of the housewife work like cooking and cleaning house, and of course take care of my mum daily

This is the first time hiring maid so I got a few question

1) what type of maid (indon, Philippine, Cambodia, etc) better in taking care disabled elder? Or any maid would be fine?

2) any agency that has maid with good attitude and patient towards elder? Or its all the same?

3) when interviewing the maid, what are some of the question to ask & test if she's good with dealing with disabled elder?

Apart of above, what sort of thing I should know in order to find a good maid for disabled elder?

EDIT:
FYI, I'm just looking for a normal maid to do cooking, house cleaning, and anything that normal housewife do, I'm not looking for a person specifically to take care of disabled elder for every single thing. My mum is not bed ridden, she can still walk, bath herself and stuff. So a normal full time maid is what I need now

Daily home delivery/catering for elderly

anti-informatic — Thu, 23 May 2019 17:43:20 +0800

I'm looking for home delivery/catering that send to doorstep everyday for my parent, who should eat something healthier like less oily/fried food, more veggie, healthy protein or lean meat, and easy to bite type of foods.

Anyone know service like that to mainly target elderly people?

Looking for long term boarding/caretaking of 2 cat

anti-informatic — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 17:31:04 +0800

I'm going to move away from house by May and right now I'm unable to find some to adopt my 2 female cats. I can't bring my cats with me because I'm moving back to my parent house, my father is an animal hater. He made it clear that he don't want any animal in the house. In the past, he caught cats into a bag and dump them far away. I don't wish my cats ended up in the same way.

I posted my cats to be adopted in several FB pages but no respond so far. Worst case if no one wanted to adopt them when I need to move out, I want to find pet shelter to keep my cats 1st and then continue looking for adopters.

I contacted Cherishlife about my case, they willing to take in both of my cats for RM300, which is actually fine with me. But the problem is their location is quite far away for me (near Batu cave). Would be inconvenient if I want to visit them occasionally or want to bring them back. I wish to seek similar service which is nearer to KL with similar rate.

I found a lot of pet boarding/hotel but cheapest is around RM25 per night & per cat, which sums up to around RM1500 per month for both cats. Super heavy amount of $$ to me.

So want to ask is there any people/group that offer decent boarding service with cheaper price for long term (possibly months)?

Website/app that suggest food from disease/illness

anti-informatic — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:02:00 +0800

I'm looking for any website/apps that has features like recommending list of foods that are good for your health conditions and would suggest to avoid foods that are not good or harmful. Like let's say if I have bone problem, the website/app would suggest foods that are high in calcium and foods that are bad for bone.

Also I wish to have some kind of food diary, allow you to enter the food that u consumed on daily basis and then the website/app would analyze if your food consumption is improving your conditions or is it harmful your health

Data Massage for 50k rows running overnight

anti-informatic — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:31:01 +0800

We have a 16GB RAM server that host a window service that read data from some table and perform data massage on batch of data using Stored procedure. The entire process need almost 10 hours or more because the table contain about 70 columns and many of the columns required some logic like changing data format, running some IF-ELSE to modify data based on conditions, and etc. Usually this type of operation will need to run overnight for the entire thing to complete

Here's my real question: Is processing over 50k records overnight consider too long and possible to make it much shorter? The management think it's unacceptable because the usual amount of data has no lesser than 10k or even more than 100k. If it can be done quickly then its good for users to process more data. But how do we benchmark the current process to determine if this is consider slow, normal or what?

Currently the management try to throw in more fancy hardware. upgrade the RAM and etc and hope the performance can improve. And I'm looking into fine-tuning the stored procedure to see what can be improved. But I have concern that optimizing the SP wouldn't cut down the processing time into half and more, and I have no idea how to convince the management to understand that there's no magic to reduce processing time of 50k records to few minutes or so.

Why bottom of water bottle is oily

anti-informatic — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 11:25:43 +0800

I wash my plastic water container/bottle like one or two weeks once. I notice that the bottom of the container/bottle is kinda oily.

Not that type of oil for cooking that require detergent to wash. I can put some water and rub abit and it's all smooth.

But I'm not sure if there's anything I need to worry about this, especially when I have habit of storing water up to weeks and still drink from the container/bottle. Or do I have to wash the container/bottle often like few days once to avoid this?

Consume enough daily nutrition intake

anti-informatic — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:52:14 +0800

Look up the Internet and I could find all sort of info on what happen if you don't consume enough daily nutri intake. Things like higher risk of disease, low immune system, blablabla...

Now my question, is what happen if you really consume enough daily nutri intake? Is ur life going to extend greater compare to those who don't have enough daily intake? Any evidence that you e can reduce the number or impact of illness when we are old? How do enough nutri intake helps to prevent disease?

When Middle Management Hell Hit

anti-informatic — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:24:58 +0800

When you work in a company for too long and were performing well on your job, and then some changes occur to the company such as some manager/executive people resigned, structural changes, changes of job role/responsibility.... and then suddenly your boss/manager/supervisor comes to u that from now on, u are required to handle more things about managing people and the project/work tasks directly assigned to the manager level, ON TOP of all the work that u are doing now. For me, this is how my middle management life began.

I'm confuse, for so long that I didn't remember. How it comes to this? Suddenly our two project managers were resigned and then we have no vancacy for project manager. Before I realize, I'm the programmer cum project manager where I have to handle all the programming tasks like I always do, and more importantly to handle to new project requirement and collaboration with client in the long run. As a "senior" position (being called senior many times but my job title has been the same for the past 5 years), I'm also required to handle the big complicated part of the programming work.

It's good to learn abit about management work. Yes, abit would be enough. Stuck in this middle management hell hole is really tough, hard to breath. I will need to deal with complicated programming work according to my level, at the same time managing project to ensure everything goes according to schedule, carry out meeting time to time with the team to ensure everything up to expectation, communicate with clients on any changes or clarification... It's tough to handle both programming and project work at same time.

Things gone from bad to worst when I'm suddenly required to manage the team. Whenever they have issue with programming stuff, I need to discuss technical problem and come out with solution. I'm also expected to train the people, to monitor their performance, mentor and coach them whenever needed. That's make me feel like I have advance into programmer cum project manager cum team lead. It's tough, when I don't have enough time to do my programming work. I only found peace when I do it during weekend, which destroy my personal life when it happen.

The most suffering part, as of why this is call middle management, is that I can feel constant feeling of being "stuck" between first line staff and manager level. In usual situation, I'm the one that past down higher management decision to the staff. When the management made incorrect decision, I'm part to be blamed for passing down the wrong decision; when the staff(s) isn't doing the right thing, I'm part to be blamed for not managing people well. Being in the middle is always a bad thing.

I'm still consider first line staff, according to my job title. Doing everything that I need to do according to my job role; but then my management work doesn't make me go up to the management role, as I have no rights in most management decision. I can't really say no when the manager insist on yes as they constantly treat me as first line, expect me to follow order.

Pros: Learn variety of works more than ur own job role, somewhat make u superior than others that have same job title as u

Cons: Do more than what u suppose to do, virtually promoted but reality is that ur job title, salary and everything remain the same, suffocate when lost of direction occur and u are part of everything

What's your experience & idea of being stuck in the middle management hell?

Nightmares bite back

anti-informatic — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:15:23 +0800

I thought the next level of our r/s is marriage. Suddenly she talk about migrating to other country. The tragic thing is, it's not about both of us. It's her own plan to study for few years, then apply for PR, and work there. She goes on and on about the big idea of her study and how much her family have good expectation of her applying PR but, there's no saying about what about me, what about our r/s.

We argue about this few years back. When my sister suddenly made the decision to migrate to oversea. It's like she just decided and want to go ahead with her plan. There wasn't any discussion or asking our opinion first. Told my parent about, told me later on, and then proceed to apply for visa, procedure, letter, whatever and migrate after a year or so, leave everything here. I'm the only child in the family now to bearing the responsibility to take care of parent from that time till now.

That time, my girlfriend think that it's very cool to do this. Just leave, abandon or just ignore whatever responsibility here then move on to do whatever we want. So she want to do the same. Call me selfish, despite saying that's what she want to do, we had the largest fight ever about this. I think she don't care about me, and moreover don't care about our r/s. She don't even has any plan or opinion about future. What she want to do after migrating to other country? What she want me to expect after that? Am I suppose to wait for her? Or wait for fate to decide? If someday, me or her fall for someone, then that's all for our r/s;else if our heart still remain the same when she's back, then we continue to our next level? There's no saying about her plan of coming back or not. After all, she just can't speak of any plan when I asked.

Guess the thing that she couldn't understand is "responsibility". She can just leave her family and her life here then move to somewhere else. At some point I express some dissatisfaction then she say I can migrate too. But not me. I need to take care of my parent, they can't simply migrate to other place. My father has his own business here, he can't just abandon it and give to someone else. Even if my parent want to migrate, how do I bear the living costs in the new country? I made it clear to her that I can't, although she keep saying my parent should migrate too and sounds like it's something that will happen eventually.

And the same is happening now. Again. I'm not sure if she had forgotten the huge fuss we made last time or whatever my difficulties about this. Now she brought this up again, and this time her family support her to do so. Sometimes, I really don't know if she's just plain forgetful, or she just doesn't take our r/s seriously. In usual day, I know she care about me. Sometimes, she cook for me when I back from work. She don't mind me doesn't have a car, willing to drive me around. I have many weaknesses but she's don't have much problem with it. But planning ahead of migrating and go with her bright future, I can't deny she do care about me but I couldn't help thinking that she doesn't care much about our r/s.

When she talk about migrating few days ago, I asked her what happen if she met someone in other place. She just sigh and told me, if that happen, then she doesn't worthy to be with me. What she's trying to make me think? Instead of giving me any kind of assurance, I'm getting more doubts on what am I suppose to feel or think about this entire migrating matter. As if, it doesn't really matter about my opinion, it's all about how she want it to be now and whatever happen just let fate decide. Just like few years back then.

This time, I didn't seek argument or quarrel like before. Because I know we fought over this before, there's no point fighting over the same thing again. Somehow, she thought that I'm ok with her plan this time and she felt grateful about. What else can I say? Last time I can oppose her idea and selfishly stop her from doing so. Now she has family support, and she looking forward for it. If her family knew that I don't want her to go ahead with her great future, I will become the unworthy one to be with her.

We didn't really prepare to get married. But we do talk about some plan on the marriage and our future time to time. I truly thought that that our next big thing. Guess I was taking things for granted too much, and didn't expect this sudden twist. Again, I don't know anything anymore. I don't even feel like want to talk or understand anything from her about it.

I feel like I can just go on to be with her for now. Perhaps after she left this country I gotta find a new one to form another r/s, or maybe I can looks for one now and on the way see how things gonna turn out. Probably this is known as having an affair, but I don't feel like wasting time and having my r/s life go no where.

Hope the nightmare could end. Nowadays when I fall asleep, in my dream, I made a huge fuss and quarrel with her on this. I was enrage and really berserk mode in the dream. Even after I woke up, I can feel the anger and got bad mood for the entire day. Sigh.... I have no idea, being with someone for more than 6 years but has no plan for the r/s truly sucks. More than enough to cause nightmares bite back, and few sleepless nights.

Reason why my teacher slapped me harder

anti-informatic — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:23:59 +0800

I did not submit my homework again so my teacher got very angry after I did the same mistake so many times. She got so angry to the point that she give me a big slap on the face in front of the class.

I was scared and panic so I want to ease the situation a little. I thought of buying some foods from the canteen for the teacher but I was too panic so I accidentally shorten my sentence: "You didn't eat rice is it?"

Exercise 2 cure fever & take vitamin clear virus

anti-informatic — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 09:42:09 +0800

I just have a thought, not sure how feasible it is

Yesterday my body was on heat. Don't feel like got fever but feel like my body is heat up fighting some virus or disease. No big deal except that my body feeling very tired and can't focus to work at all.

As far as I know, it's a good sign that our body is working on fighting virus, just don't like the part where I'm feeling fatigue.

Here is what I'm thinking, I tried several times in the past where I sweat out and then the fever or body heat significant lower and soon I feel a lot better. Correct me if I'm wrong, although I can reduce the fever this way by sweating out to reduce my body heat but my body probably haven't finish doing it's job fighting off the virus. Might be a better idea I let my body finish it's job and take good rest until everything return to normal

But what if, I sweat out to reduce the fever and body heat, then afterwards I take supplement/eat healthy to fight the virus/disease by foods and proper lifestyle? Does it work or it's better to rest and let our body do everything?

Instant Solution for Sticky Running Shoe Sole?

anti-informatic — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 17:27:44 +0800

I sweat a lot when I do sport. Like when I play badminton, I sweat so much that my whole body got so wet and the floor will be full of my sweat drops. After a certain period of time, my shoe started to get "sticky" like it's glued to the floor. It's kind of annoying when I try to move a little faster but feel like the floor is hindering me to do so.

I'm thinking if there's any good instant solution like applying some kind of powder or lotion under the shoe to get rid of the stickiness. Heard from other forum that someone mention baby powder but method of using it is not provided. Anyone know how to use it?

Frustration:Setup Ionic 2+ with Visual Studio 2017

anti-informatic — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:00:40 +0800

Having 5+ years of programming experience render me useless dealing with Ionic 2/3 setup problem with VS. I have not experience any terrible situation to resolve bugs that consume me 2 or 3 weeks, but setting up Ionic 2/3 in VS caused me months (Read: more than 6 months) and I'm still continue to face issues WITHOUT LEARNING ANY PRACTICAL IONIC 2/3 PROGRAMMING KNOWLEDGE. Being a slave to the stable .NET platform with very little setup issue, this add up lots of bitterness to my dev life.

I use Ionic 1 with VS 2015 before. Had little problem during setup, but doesn't take too long before I can start writing some Ionic code. But for Ionic 2/3..... all the time I spent is to deal with all sort of error from IDE, dependency error, and all sort of unknown-type problem. I tried Ionic 2 with VS 2015, which I saw some people on the internet able to do so (I also recall some people use

Here's a breakdown of my experience:

i) Ionic 1 with VS 2015

Had little problem during setup, but doesn't take too long before I can start writing some Ionic code. Heard Ionic 2+ is a much better option with better performance and native experience, decided to switch to it.

ii) Ionic 2+ with VS 2015

Spend more than 3 weeks resolving all sort of dependency errors. Used VS dependency checker to resolve some issues, but new dependency error keep popping up. Keep clearing Cordova cache as suggested by many, only to learn that should be used often because sometimes it cause another set of error (same for VS 2017).

Give up after 3 weeks, go waste some time of my life and back to Ionic 2+ few months later. Did clean reinstall to start from scratch, no luck but reminder me the same type of error that I face that causes me to gave up.

Found a holy advice from forum that Ionic 2+ is compatible with VS2017. Great, move on.

iii) Ionic 2+ with VS 2017

Install VS 2017 with Ionic 2+ with very little setup. All dependency error that I faced in VS 2015 is not there. HOORAY!! Dependency Checker - DONE, everything good; Clean - Success; Rebuild - Success (God still love me); Not using lousy Ripple Simulator - awesome; hit Debug to simulate in browser - goot.... what? "package.json" not found?? IT'S RIGHT THERE! RIGHT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE'S EYE!

Ask Google, tons of people have the same issue. Best advice: "npm install". Work for everyone, except me. Suspected package.json has invalid format. Checked, "homepage" has empty string. Have no idea why is it even there at first place. Simply keep in something, error gone. Debug again. "node_modules" cannot be found. IT'S RIGHT THERE!! Tried all sort of thing like "npm cache verify", "npm install -g npm", "npm every-single-thing-i-know", no luck. Did some action, forgotten what, error gone. Many advice from forum that work for some people just doesn't work for me. Some people always suggest to update package/plugin to latest, which is also suggested from VS package manager console. Did that but all sort of error keep popping up. After that notice some people need to downgrade certain package/plugin for things to work..... okay, doesn't work for me either way.

Give up. Just like before, come back after few months time.

iv) Ionic 2+ with VS Code & VS 2017

Seems many use Ionic CLI, could give VS Code a try since it's more lite. So far is okay: can clean, build, npm install ionic/cordova/node/plugin return very little issue, ionic serve can see the mobile layout in website (Hallelujah!). Trying to work things out with VS Code now, dealing with some error still. Running VS 2017 at the same time but keep staring at same sort of error time to time. Compare the dependency, plugin, package.json, everything, couldn't understand why can't VS 2017 work??

Is VS even compatible with Ionic 2+?? Did anyone even able to use VS with Ionic 2+? Please someone tell me it's actually can work. I tried reviewed Microsoft doc for setting up Ionic for VS 2017 but the article is too long and too much of stuff to check. I can't even be sure that I did not miss out anything.

I found many tutorial for Ionic using CLI, not much for Ionic with VS. So here's the big question:

1) Anyone can use VS with Ionic 2+ and work well with it?
2) How long did u spend for setup and configuring before u actually started to code?
2) How frequent do u face dependency error and what good way to deal with it?
4) Is there really successful case where people do dev with Ionic 2+ with VS and publish app with it (can't help but doubt this)?

Looking for Ionic 2/4 trainer in KL

anti-informatic — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:19:24 +0800

My company is looking for Ionic 2 or Ionic 4 trainer to provide training to a group of 8 developers. Mostly has no knowledge on how Ionic work at all. Would prefer on spot training rather than online learning.

Please recommend if you know anyone or group.

Thanks

Theory name of multitask on multi job at work

anti-informatic — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:03:11 +0800

----Start TLDR----
Having one task at a time seems to be ideal when we are still new to the job, but eventually we learn that our company think that we are committing a "sin" by doing one task at a time, thus finding opportunity to mold you into another multitasker. Just like them, just like everybody else.

Multitasking is too common, nothing new. Even if you have the courage to complain to your supervisor/manager, for sure they have more than enough reasons to tell you that this is how it suppose to be.

Multitasking is subject to negative impact as well, especially towards physical and mental health of the employees. The productivity is another questionable subject. Yet our culture heavily practice this regardless of any statistic that shows and compare the effectiveness of multitask VS no-multitask.

When talking doesn't work, and you can't take the heavy pressure anymore, the best resort: change to a new job. After all those hectic process of resignation, apply new job, interview, adapt to new workplace..... finally, you learn that everywhere is the same.

You will end up expected to be a multitasker. Even when they ensure that you that they strongly encourage "One job at a time" policy (if there is even such thing). Yea, one job at a time. You are doing task A for 3 minutes, then you have to switch to task B for 10 minutes, switch back to task A for 5 minutes, do the same for task C, D, E, F..... One job, one time, perfect policy.

As if this is not enough. Multitasking in your own job seems too boring. When u demonstrate sufficient capability at ur job in multitasking, then you will be promoted to multitasking for your job AND other people job. That include but not limited to job of admin, IT, marketing idea, training, manager work.... you name it.

As the multitasking culture is just too common. I feel like the term "multitasking" is not strong enough to express the seriousness of it, especially when it involve job of other fields where you are not suppose to step in.
----End TLDR----

Is there any specific terms that describe the culture of overly multitasking? Or its nothing other than "Excessive Multitasking at Work"?

Can I charge people for website about public info

anti-informatic — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:15:59 +0800

Let's say I have a website. This website contain of wide range of information obtained from internet and books about foods. List of foods, the type of food group, what good and bad about each food, what disease the food can heal or cause, etc etc. There are two type of info:

1) Basic: Such as food info and description. Obtained from internet/books and display as it is

2) Analyzed Data: Such as what food can cause what illness/disease. This type of data is analyzed and mapped by myself. Not available online

But since all the data source are obtained from public

- Is it reasonable for me to charge people for accessing my own analyzed data on public info which is not available at other sites?
- Will I get sued for copyright or any violation/misuse of public info?
- "Since some of the info come from books, I can credit the book name & author but will I get into trouble for using the book info to earn money?" - I got the answer from Quora, I will get into the trouble if I put book info on my website because books are publish and cost people for buying and read it. Posting their info for free violate the copyright issue.