Identifying Stroke - S.T.R.

Just wanted to share with all of you on how we can identify or recognize a stroke victim. Both the death rate and level of disability resulting from strokes can be dramatically reduced by immediate and appropriate medical care. This article was forwarded by our Head of Social, Lily Wong. Please read on, you may make a difference.

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STROKE IDENTIFICATION - S.T.R.

During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) ..... she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening.

Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 pm Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die .... they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within three (3) hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke ... totally! He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE. Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps, STR . Read and Learn!

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke .

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:

• S : Ask the individual to SMILE


• T : Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently i.e. It is sunny out today)


• R : Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE o f these tasks, call 999 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

New Sign of a Stroke - Stick out Your Tongue.

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue ... If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other , that is also an indication of a stroke.

Share this with your love ones, friends, neighbours, colleagues ... You may help a person or two and even save their lives!

Here are some other sites where you can learn more:

• What is a Stroke

Recycling Day (February 2008)

Our monthly recycling event is on next Sunday. Here are some of the common "recycables" items listed below. We also take Aluminium, Besi Buruk, and heck, even your old/out-of-function refrigerator/tread mill/washing machine.

When: 3rd February 2008 (Sunday), 10am - 3pm / Where: Gazebo Near 2nd Exit

See you, you and you there!

Beverage Tin Cans
We take soft drink / coffee drink tin cans.


Rinse and empty the content, keep them in plastic bag(s).

Plastics
We take plastic bottles and this includes mineral water bottles, many juice or milk containers, some shampoo bottles, many household cleaning containers like washing detergent etc.

Rinse and empty the content, keep them in plastic bag(s).

Papers

We take all clean dry paper that come in many forms like newspapers, magazines, junk mail, office paper, letters, envelopes, cardboard and boxboard like cereal, soap and tea packets and greetings cards, egg cartons and cardboard milk cartons etc. Even old Yellow Pages (Phone) books are welcome!


Help us by tying the papers ... Easier to weight and load into the lorry. Many thanks!

EPF Monhtly Withdrawal

Many of us still aren't very sure on how the EPF monhtly withdrawal works. Just wanted to share the following article with you, from The Star: EPF withdrawals to go into members’ bank accounts

In summary, the EPF monthly withdrawal for reducing housing loans will be credited directly into the contributor's personal bank account and not to the lending bank.

Checkout KWSP website for information related to withdrawals. Try this one here.

More info on LKSA

Pluck this article from mstar, dated 6th December 2007. I have reproduced the relevant information with regards to Lebuhraya Kemuning Shah Alam (LKSA) below. Now it seems to take approximately RM850m!!!

Read here on our older post.

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Mengenai Lebuhraya Kemuning-Shah Alam, beliau (Samy Vellu) berkata lebuh raya sepanjang 14.7km yang menelan belanja RM850 juta itu akan disiapkan dalam tempoh 24 bulan atau lebih cepat oleh Projek Lintasan Shah Alam Sdn Bhd.

Lebuh raya baru dengan tiga lorong dua hala itu akan bermula dari Persimpangan Kota Kemuning di Lebuhraya KESAS dan akan menyeberang ke arah timur laut melalui Jalan Bukit Kemuning, Jalan Mantap, Sungai Klang, Bulatan Jubli Perak, Landasan Keretapi Tanah Melayu di Jalan Parang dan Bulatan Selangor ke arah Lebuhraya Persekutuan (Laluan 2).

Ia juga mempunyai enam persimpangan bertingkat di Kota Kemuning, Jalan Bukit Kemuning, Seksyen 35, Bulatan Jubli Perak, Bulatan Selangor dan Laluan Kedua Lebuhraya Persekutuan (Federal Highway Route 2).

Selain memberi kapasiti tambahan untuk menampung pertambahan lalu lintas, lebuh raya ini bakal mengubah laluan kenderaan serta mengurangkan kesesakan lalu lintas di Jalan Bukit Kemuning, Persiaran Budiman dan Persiaran Tengku Ampuan di Shah Alam.

Dua tol plaza akan dibina secara sistem terbuka dan maklumat lalu lintas terkini di lebuh raya itu nanti akan dihubungkan ke Pusat Pengurusan Trafik Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia yang akan membolehkan pengguna lebuh raya mendapatkan maklumat trafik terkini secara "tepat masa" melalui laman web dan khidmat pesanan ringkas.

Happy Thaipusam

Wishing Happy Thaipusam to all our Hindu friends. Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai. To learn more about Thaipusam Festiavel, please read here.

Anyone of you going to Batu Caves?

Exit Autogate is functioning

Our Exit Autogate is finally working. It took more than one month for HGD Property Services to rectify this problem. But then again, do you notice that the other one seems to be not functioning? Seems that these gates are taking turn to rosak!!!

Anyway, checkout our complaint on this gate here.

Lebuhraya Kemuning Shah Alam (LKSA)

This article was featured in The Star (Metro Section) today, 22nd January 2008. I googled and found the following news on LKSA - The Edge Daily (27th Nov 2006). This is a whopping RM600m project and guess what ... a 40-year concession (toll lah apa lagi).

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Kota Kemuning folks all set for new highway by Elan Perumal (The Star / 22nd January 2008) (Used Without Permission)

Kota Kemuning residents will be able to enjoy a smooth ride to and from the township once the Lebuhraya Kemuning Shah Alam (LKSA) is completed. Work on the multi-million ringgit highway project started at the end of last year and it is scheduled for completion by the end of next year. According to Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) public relations officer Shahrin Ahmad, the highway will link the Kuala Lumpur-Klang Federal Higway to Kota Kemuning.

Shahrin said the new highway would run across the existing Shah Alam interchange from the Federal Highway to Kota Kemuning via Section 15 and between Section 18 and Section 19. “It will be an easy road home for the Kota Kemuning residents who are currently experiencing constant bottleneck traffic jams from the Kesas Highway en route to the housing estate and vice versa,” he said. “They are having a frustrating time because of the heavy traffic chaos when they go to work in the morning and when they return home in the evening,” he said, Shahrin said the new highway would also provide the people with the option of an alternative route since there currently was only one way in and out of Kota Kemuning.

Once the highway was completed, he said, the residents would be able to bypass the Kesas Highway and the congestion along the Kesas Highway would also be eased. “It will also ease traffic flow along the Kuala Lumpur-Klang Federal Highway,” he said.

According to Shahrin, the highway project undertaken by the Pro Lintas Sdn Bhd stretched to a total of 14.5km. Shahrin also said that the MBSA had only felled trees that could not be uprooted at the project site. He said most of the roadside trees were removed and transplanted at other areas as part of the MBSA green environment policy.

Renew Your Driving License Online

This article was featured in The Star today, 20th January 2008. Never knew that there is this online facility. In fact, I just renewed mine over the Post-Office counter which is done within two minutes including queing time. But I understood that only selected post-office is equipped to do the renewal. Anyway, if anyone of us has tried this online facility, do share with us your experience, thanks!

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The best kept e-secret at JPJ by Teh Eng Hock (The Star / 20th Jan 2008) (Used Without Permission)

Few drivers realise that they can renew their driving licences online without having to leave the comfort of their homes. And for a small fee, they can even have their licence renewal slip delivered to them by registered mail or courier.

With few knowing about the facility available on the Road Transport Department's (JPJ) website since April last year, the response to the online renewal service has been poor. JPJ director-general Datuk Ahmad Mustapha Abdul Rashid said only 687 people renewed their licences online so far, way short of the 1,000-driver target expected in the first year of implementation. Every year, some seven million motorist renew their licences.

“Maybe it is because it has not been promoted enough by the e-services (concessionaires).
“But hopefully things will pick up. Malaysians are a bit sceptical at first (about new technology), but later on they will accept and use it, like on-line banking,” he told The Star. He also added that there were 11 million Competent Driver’s Licence (CDL) holders in the country. Drivers' may renew their CDL by accessing the JPJ website at www.jpj.gov.my, and clicking on the CDL Renewal Online link.

Applicants need to provide the usual personal particulars, such as their MyKad number, licence expiry date and their mobile phone number. Via the online form, they can choose to renew their licences from one to five years, as well as decide on how they would like to collect and pay for the renewal slip. The fee remain the same – a renewal fee of RM30 per year and a processing fee of RM2. Drivers who want their licences delivered to them will be charged a small delivery fee between RM5 and RM10, depending on location. Those who do not want the renewal slip may head to any state JPJ branch to upload the renewal information into their MyKad.

Applicants can also choose to collect their renewal slip from one of the many e-service centres in the country, which are operated by e-services concessionaires MyEG Services Bhd and mySPEED Sdn Bhd. Payment can be made via credit card, or electronic online payment systems such as e-cash and e-debit.

Ahmad Mustapha assured users that the system was secure and reliable. “So far, I haven’t heard anything about the system going down. And it is safe to provide your financial details. There have been no complaints,” he said.

By renewing their licences online, drivers will no longer have to worry about forgetting to renew their licences in future, as the system will send a reminder via SMS to the mobile phone number provided.

Sponsorship for Canal Gardens Golf Tournament 2008

Interested to become one of the SPONSOR to our upcoming event - Canal Gardens Golf Tournament 2008? Sponsorship can be in the form of gifts, cash, vouchers etc. which will be used as the prizes and goodies for this tournament.

Yes... then please contact: Steven Lim (012-366-1166 / kblim3322@gmail.com) and/or Brandon Chin (019-381-9818 / brandonstar@gmail.com)

Canal Gardens Golf Tournament is On!

Steven Lim, our Head of Sports (Canal Gardens Residents' Committee), is calling out to all fellow golfers. Yes, the Canal Gardens Golf Tournament is back! Let's come and join us for some fun. Our road reps will be distributing the Registration Form within the next couple of days. In the meanwhile, here are the details for your information.



Dear Fellow Golfers,

We are starting off 2008 Canal Gardens' sports event by organizing a Golf Tournament which will be played over 18 holes at the Bukit Kemuning Golf & Country Resort on Sunday, 24th February 2008. For full details, please see below. We are expecting between 10 - 15 flights and this event is for Canal Gardens residents, but guests are most welcome.

In addition, participants will also be playing for a worthy cause as the net proceeds from the tournament will be earmarked towards our Canal Gardens Fund to subsidize all future in-house sports and social events.

For those who register, we will be getting in touch with you later on the programme, competition details and flight schedules but meanwhile we would appreciate if you could, time permitting, keep this day free and join us for this event.

Kindly confirm your participation by completing and returning the attached registration form to the following no later than 12th February 2008 together with your cash payment of RM200.00 only.

• Steven Lim (64R) - 012-366-1166 / kblim3322@gmail.com


• Choong Chee Sham (32F) - 019-311-2413 / pfcmay@po.jaring.my


• Brandon Chin (61Q) - 019-381-9818 / brandonstar@gmail.com

Canal Gardens Golf Tournament 2008

• Venue: Bukit Kemuning Golf & Country Resort


• Date & Time: Sunday, 24th February 2008 - 1.30pm


• Mode of Play: Stableford Modified


• Fees: RM200.00 only (Green Fees, Buggy, Insurance, Dinner, Prizes & Lucky Draws)

Best regards and looking forward to your support and participation (from Steven Lim).