The Journey

Hello there! It is an honour for me to write and share my thoughts with all of you. I am sure that all readers must be expecting a review of ‘The Journey’, a recent film that has surpassed KL Gangster and Ombak Rindu as the most profitable Malaysian film of all time! However, that is not the context of this story. It is regarding the journey of my life to be a better, healthier person.

I started working at Vision College on December and I feel very happy to be one of the academicians. However, I feel that I need to be in a better shape – physically, in order to fit my job scope that demands a lot of effort and hard work. I feel that even though I am glad with my job and the challenges, I still feel that something is amiss, like an empty feeling inside my heart.

One day, I went for a medical check-up. Thankfully, the results show that I am healthy, but my BMI was horrendous. It struck my heart like a thunderbolt struck by Thor. Even though I have the height, my weight is almost double than the suggested ratio.

Thus, after 2 months of working and after that particular check-up, I signed up with a gym near my house on February 5^th. My initial workout is health screening and assessment by my trainer, Farid. I weighted 139 kg on that day and 40% of my weight is fat. F.A.T. FAT!!!  So, he suggested that I need to change my lifestyle: eating habits, physical training, and sleep. From a person who has been drinking sweet drinks EVERYTIME, I need to change them into H20 as the main, sole source and  have to start eating clean, not like I used to where it is a lot rice and pasta. I also need to put my time into physical training on a daily basis to get into shape faster. Sleep is also crucial as the body needs it’s daily, adequate rest.

The first 3 weeks is the hardest as I find myself lethargic and quite emotional even though my body is responding positively. This is because of consistency. I changed my eating habits into 5-meal plan. The three main meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner and 2 snacking time between Breakfast-Lunch and Lunch-Dinner. By doing this consistently, it is a good way to energise my body whilst controlling my hunger with many meals but in small portion. My usual breakfast is oats or cereal with milk. My lunch is whether nasi lemak or fried glass noodles (meehoon). My dinner is Subway sandwich (minus the sauces, more veggies). My snack is usually oat biscuits or a Gardenia 70cent bun. Besides this, I drink plain water on a large scale, at least 3 litres daily. It helps to make me feel full even though I am eating in small portions.

Besides dieting, training is essential in losing weight swiftly. I do my trainings on a daily basis at night.  I usually spend my sessions at the gym around 2 hours. My training started with 30 minutes of cardio on treadmill. However, I have added more time of it right after my second week to 1 hour with an added 30 minutes on cross trainer. Currently, my cardio includes both with additional 30 minutes on stepper. Cardio is crucial in losing weight; my main goal.  Another training that I do is weight training. I use the machines to improve my body shape by developing the muscles.

Alright, it has been two months since I started working out. The results are priceless as I have lost 20 kg in that period. Twenty K-Freaking-G! :D

There have been changes as I am slimmer as my families, friends, Vision staffs and students - Yeah, all of you :D - noticed it over the course of time. I feel much better as I am more energetic and active compared to my old self. I hope I can achieve my ideal BMI rate before I end my yearly membership with the gym. 

Prior Training & Diet

After 1 month of Training & Diet

After 2 months of Training & Diet

Written by

Muhammad Fahmi

Lecturer,

Department of Health Sciences,

Vision College

Great Fun At Vision College

      Gunung Meludung, Cameron Highland  

     I, Chua Kim Ting, love to meet people and am passionate to encourage the younger generation to continue pursuing their higher education. I started my career in marketing, doing sales and services (MSS) in the banking industry for about 7 years. Then, I made a wise decision to pursue a career in education MSS till today. I enjoy being involved in all levels of strategic planning and implementation of each step; from the beginning of the registration of a college to university and public listing. I believe success is due to teamwork and support of the people in the company and satisfied repeating customers. I care for my colleagues and my boss. They are all my dear friends and I do respect and am happy to work with them. Sometimes I do make mistakes and they help me to correct it. Life is a beautiful journey and as no one is perfect, we must keep learning and motivate each other to be better each day.

 Mid Valley of Mt Kanchapuri, Thailand

   Gunung Kinabalu, Sabah  

     Now, I am a MSS staff in Vision College leading a dynamic MSS team to recruit students for health sciences, business and foundation programs. We do all kinds of marketing that includes traditional, interesting, hi-tech etc. The bottom line is only our results will be assessed. My whole team is evaluated based on by the number of students enrolled into college till graduation and being employed. This is a very interesting, challenging, full of pressure job as we must be ever ready, self motivated and convincing. This job can be highly rewarding and it is a result-oriented career. If you are interested to get some advices on Vision College programs or start a MSS career with us, please email me at chuakt@vision.edu.my or Whatsapp me at 0111 2255 917.

p.s. I know work is a big chunk or 80% of my life. I do spend 20% of my free time with my family, parents and hike into deep forests looking for flora, fauna and stunning waterfalls. I do take photos and share with some “Hiking Kaki” or post it on the Internet. If you are interested to join us for hiking, please feel free to email me at chuakt11@gmail.com.

   Maliau Lost World, Sabah   

 Golden Monkey, Selangor

 1 Line Sky, Kelantan

  King Flame, China

by Chua Kim Ting
Director of Marketing Department
Vision College

Becoming A Good Tutor

     With the title that so straight forward, I think most people could have guessed what I am going to share today. Before I start, I have to introduce myself in this blog and it feels so awkward. It feels like you are talking to a mirror.

     I am Aisyah, a newbie tutor in our department, Department of Ultrasound. I just started joining this department in January this year but before that, I already worked with Vision College starting from March 2013. So, I already shed my blood, sweat and tears with Vision College for 1 year *congratulate myself

     A newbie means that I am lacking skills and still on a journey of becoming a good tutor. So, I am going to share 10 golden rules to become a good tutor.

1. Be honest

2. Be flexible

3. Be patient

4. Be a good listener

5. Be professional

6. Willing to share your own experiences

7. Be a collaborator

8. Teach the student how to learn

9. Be confident

10. Use available resources

Most of people already know this, but the difference is “Are they applying it?”

     Challenges that we are facing as tutors nowadays are tough and it reminds me of a video showing how a mother teaches her daughter. It is not related to this topic but it has something that we can learn.

Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS0XiOLW_Qk

    Lastly, people always said that “learning is a continuous process” but for me teaching is also a continuous process.

By Siti 'Aisyah Bt Omar
Tutor
Postgraduate Diploma of Medical Ultrasonography (Asia)

My Working Life

    This has been the sixth month since I start working as an Admission Counselor at Vision. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my Director and my colleagues for their generous helps and advises. Thank you! Xoxo.

    Anyway, if you are curious (or even if you are not curious) about my working life, the following pictures will tell you something about my work.  

At Kolej Vokasional Klang

At SMK Vivekananda

Vision Health Careers Camp

Ps: Thank you for your help (you know who you are) during the camp and for the participants, I wish you all the best in your future!

It looks fun right? But, for most of the time, I am sitting in front of my laptop (for work) and meeting students and their parents :)

These are all for now. So, see you next time!  

By,

Ruo Xuan

Admission Counsellor

Ernst And Vision College

    Hi guys, My name is Ernst Gan. A lot of people hardly recognized my English name as "Ernst" but "Ernest". Probably Asians are more familiar with names like Michael, Jason, Howard but not my bizarre name. Nahh... Just saying. Due to that, I always have to introduce "Ernst & Young" Company, one of the big-four audit firm, so that people will know where the "Ernst" came from. Worst comes to worst, I would only end with "Just call me Gan" as an introductory statement.

      Starting a career pathway always a challenging task for every fresh graduates. As a toddler in the society, we tend to observe our surrounding, "talk" to the surrounding and eventually, we "surrender" to a firm.

       I once was an employee of a well known firm. Entertainment is their strong business nature, until I decided to came down to Kuala Lumpur to seek new challenges and exposures. Until one day, Mr Hoh called me to attend an interview. It was a very sudden decision but I know that I am willing to do this, which is to grow with Vision.

Thanks to my director for a great treatment. How about massageee one day? Hehe. P/S: One of my activities that trigger a lot of haters is the 21st Century phenomena, food photography. Please don't hate me.

     Working with marketing team is a lot of fun. I first met Brandon,and he was my senior in the section.

Look at how my Boss presenting a powerful speech to all the ladies & gentlemen up there! Yes, you can!

     He professionally greeted me & brought me to my new working area. I started joining a school fair only few days after my employment. To be frank, I am kind of nervous in this particular school fair as I hardly can confidently tell the student on our courses offered. Knowing product knowledge of your company is the key, important thing before presenting ourselves. I learnt my lesson. Day by day, things get better as my director started letting me go to roadshows on my own. An interesting fact about my job is that I am not only telling available courses here at Vision, but I also managed to give a clear picture to students on their future career pathways.

Key to success is failure. That is how we succeed! Seriously.  

    Working with Vision is way too different compared with my previous employment. Everyone is treated like brothers & sisters. One of the advantages is that everyone is allowed to voice out their opinions without stressing out our differences. However, we still respect The Boss though. yeah...  

Allow me to introduce Vision College,

Vision College is a highly potential college that offers Postgraduate Diploma of Medical Ultrasonography (PG DMU) course for 1-year. I bet that you won't find any other place that offers such course, which is also accredited by ASUM in Asia.

      Our next intake is on April & July 2014. If you are reading this, perhaps you want to know more, please reach me at 03-7803 8302 ext 107.

By,

Ernst Gan Tze Chun

Admission Counsellor

Mammogram

      I joined Vision College on June 2013. One of the new experiences I gained here is doing Mammogram. Mammogram is an x-ray image of the breast to detect any abnormality of the breast. However, it is exclusively limited to women aged 40 years old and above. It is because younger women have dense breasts.

         It is suggested for patients to make appointments for the examination, preferably after the menstrual period. The patient is not allowed to wear deodorant or talcum powder because this will cause artifact to the image. However, the patient is allowed to wear  a 2-piece attire.

     Mammogram can be uncomfortable due to compression to the breast. The breast need to be compressed to produce a uniform brightness of the image. This is where the patient feels pain. In addition, it has to be done twice, on each breast! However, the compression lasted only for a few seconds. So the patient just need to be calm and relaxed.

This is how the breast is compressed

        Each examination requires four images, two different views for each breast. I usually start with right breast continue with left breast alternately. This is a systematic technique that apply to all basic mammographic examination. This examination usually takes about 15-30 minutes. 

      Later, all four images will be reported by Radiologist. Any abnormality can be categorized into 5 categories according to BIRADS. However, further examinations such as biopsy are required to determine benign or cancerous lesion.

Appearance of the abnormalities

        As time goes by, I am gaining valuable experiences doing mammogram. It is a skill that not only to be learnt from books, but through hands-on experience as well.

By,
Noor Hazwani Bt Abdullah

DMI Lecturer

Home To Down Syndrome

A great number of children suffer from Down syndrome disorder in this world today. This form of disability is perceived differently in different cultures and these affect the life of Down syndrome children. All of these children can live normal lives as normal ordinary children. Sadly, many of Down syndrome children have been abandoned by their families because they are not ‘ordinary children as us’.

I have spent my time visiting the ‘Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-kanak hyperactive & down syndrome’. I went there together with my social class students.  

There, I have learned many things about Down syndrome especially the behaviors of Down syndrome children. One boy, in particular, likes to beat/hurt himself to show his anger. He also does not like it if somebody approaches him. He likes to moan. I had to learn to be calm to approach to him. I have to agree, that Down syndrome children are so kind and they like it if somebody shows love and kindness towards them. They need our love rather than sympathy.

I am amazed when I looked towards them. 

 There, I was given the opportunity to learn how to listen, communicate and relate to people in an entirely new way. I found meaning of life and happiness from them. I learn to appreciate myself too.

‘Show support and love to people who really need it like the children with Down syndrome’.

By,

Narmatha Mohan

Postgraduate Diploma of Medical Ultrasonography (Asia)