Belacan

1. I have no idea how Ghafar is able to make his own belacan. But Miri’s belacan is special especially to sambal belacan’s lover. When I was presented with a year stock of belacan what can I say.

2. According to Ghafar, making belacan is not difficult. What he needs to do is to ‘jemur’ those tiny shrimp on top of the roof after mixed well with ‘garam’ and leave for it to dry and ‘tumbuk’ with ‘lesung batu’ till ‘lumat’. You got to Google translate those words!

3. One thing amazing about Miri’s belacan is that it has very much less foul smelling aroma. Am still in a daze how he makes it that way.

4. Don’t be surprise. famous actor has side business in making belacan too (Read Here). It has potential to become a serious business for him one day.

5. Budu is analogue to belacan. A colleague claims that budu is good for the brain (brain food) and I have no idea of how to counterstrike his statement so he may be right! ha..

Inquiry About Virginity

1. Many a time we encounter people come to be examined on virginity. A 2-year-old child was found to have some questionable marks on vulva areas; the mum suspected foul play and wanted to find out what went wrong.

2. Are we going to dismiss maternal instinct, even without trace of evidence and vehement suspicion?

3. The world has becoming unsafe place for indefensible folks. People are not just being robbed of their property but their feeling and dignity. That was what Wardina Safiyyah said in MHI early morning today.

4. Yes, as inquisitive clinicians, we will investigate…

Training Makes Empathy Perfect

1. Empathy belongs to how you put yourself in another’s shoes.

2. Some people have superficial empathy, some very deep empathy. Whoever they are, the fundamental principle is the empathy must be guided by knowledge and fact.

3. By perceiving other people emotion, a successful interpersonal interaction develop which encompass intellectual and emotional contagion and finally perspective taking.

4. Scientists have mapped different brain regions such as ventral striatal response to happy faces correlated positively with Empathy Quotient (EQ), precuneus and lateral prefrontal cortical response to angry faces correlated positively with EQ.

5. Region in the left dorsal inferior frontal gyrus/premotor cortex was positively correlated to the EQ across all four emotions i.e happy, sad, angry and disgust. This region could therefore constitute a biomarker for trait empathy across emotions. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18633800)

6. I believe empathy can be trained. So training make empathy  perfect and so the history taking..