Ibuprofen

My son was on a school trip to Philippine last year. He had fever and the teacher gave him ibuprofen + ??. He was allergic to ibuprofen. His two eyes were swollen and he hardly open his eyes. This is the first medication that caused allergic.

Rotator Cuff

Was it a year ago when I started feeling left shoulder feeling painful when I read book lying on the floor facing down while using my two hands to support?  After that I have some difficulty putting my arm behind the back doing zippering.

The doctor prescribed me with Meloxicam 7.5mg for one week. The medicine does relief some pain. I hope I don't have to go for MRI. The inexperience nurse injected a colour dye on the vein of my sister's hand last year and my sister nearly fainted because it was so painful.

Morning Exercise

This morning after the usual warming up,  the trainer taught us to do back lunges, sit through leg extension (kara-oke), and other steps which I have no name to refer to.

It is good to have someone guide me through the exercises. This ensures that I have an hour of exercise thrice a week.

Last Session With Personal Trainer

I had my last session with the personal trainer.

We started with the usual warm up. 2 sets of 10 times each of Inchworm, swing legs, reach down and reach up, swing arms, push up, squatting, jumping jack.

Then 20 times of mountain climber, 30 times of jumping Jack, 20 times of lifting legs with 2 hands on hip lying down, 30 times of jumping jack, 20 times of squatting, 30 times of jumping jack.

After that 4 times of full plank for 20 seconds each.

We finished off with stretching. cobra, Hip Flexors stretch, arm stretch by stretching arm up,
 
that ends the session, about 30 min only.

GST-Goods And Service Tax

I still don't know why GST is good for me. Other than adding on the cost of the purchase, what good does it give me? Btw, GST is enforced by Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and consumerism.

I attended a seminar on GST conducted by a tax agent recently.  As I am doing some trading business, I am made to be aware of the additional working capital to run my business. Apart from that, it is very important to keep track of the GST incurred in buying from suppliers and selling to customers. Otherwise, penalty, penalty, penalty!

Since my business incurs credit terms, my customers can sometimes pay me after 3 months or 4 months. For business sales volume of less than RM5 mil, I have to submit the GST (6%) of the sales amount in 3 months.  That means to say that I have to come out with working capital to cover the GST even if customers do not pay me. The penalty of late submission is cumulative.

The zero rated supplies are live cattle, sheep, goats, ducts, fish, etc, eggs, potatoes, carrots and other vegetable, rice, wheat, flour, palm oil, etc, goods supplied to Langkawi, Labuan & Tioman, supply of treated water and 200 units of electricity for a month, education and childcare services, and exports are also zero rated.

Exercise For 50+

Time to get the proper regular exercise for both of us. 52th birthday is a few days away, and my hubby is 53+. I am concerned about my knee joints pain when I walk downstairs and general weakening of muscles, while my hubby puts on many weights after his hernia repair in Feb. 

Jogging hurts my feet.  What is best for us then?  We decided to join Fitness Core by engaging a Professional Trainer thinking that the trainer should be able to design a program for me and my hubby to strengthen our muscles to reduce joint pain and back pain. It costs us on average RM100 per session. Each session is less than an hour. We don't use the machine much. So far we have only used the elliptical step machine and run on the treadmill. Other than paying the "Professional Trainer", we need to pay for membership to use the facility in Fitness Core. RM250p/m or RM540quarterly. Adding up it is quite a sum of money! After much consideration, we decided to stop the membership because we don't need to use the facility. 

It was a coincidence that on the last time after doing our exercise in Fitness Core, we met a few friends in Lintas coffee shop. These few friends just had their thrice weekly exercise which use kettlebells and other exercises that are suitable for 50+....people who can't jump or run like the young days.

Connecting Xperia Sola to Home WIFI

I bought an Xperia Sola for RM699 sometimes ago. It was annoying that I could only connect to home WIFI once in a blue moon when I have no problem accessing public WIFI. I called up Telekom and Sony mobile warranty center but each asked me to rectify the problem with the other party. My son said Telekom modem is not of good quality and getting a new TP-link modem would solve the problem.

Being an IT departmental head (though very small scale) before, I didn't give up searching for solution. Finally I read something about changing router channel. Eventually I called up Telekom customer service again to ask them to guide me how to change the channel. After changing the setting from 'auto' to channel 10, my problem is finally resolved!!!

Guess my two sons will look at me differently again!