Thursday, March 11 and the long wait will finally be over for close to half a million 17 year olds who sat for the SPM exam last year.

If you are one of them, good luck and hope the results you get are what you have been hoping for.

If you are one of the parents with a child waiting for the results, I bet you are just as anxious, if not more.

He was admitted a year and a half ago to a nearby hospital with a heart attack and was diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol. He was brought to the hospital

this time having collapsed and lost consciousness after complaining of severe pain in the chest.

Going over the speed limit is downright dangerous and I fully deserve every sen of the RM300 fine I have been slapped with.

Speed kills and everyone knows that. But did you know that driving can also affect the heart badly in a different way?

Of course, this is more than a touch exaggeration. He had been complaining of dizziness for some time and over the previous week, his symptoms got worse.

"DO you smoke, doctor?" I went speechless for a moment when this question was thrown at me by TV host Will Quah. In fact, it was the first question of the interview during NTV7's The Breakfast Show last Friday.

In my mind, I could hear myself scream "Is he out of his mind? Why on earth would I be here if I smoke?"

"No, of course not. Never!" I managed a smile.

IT was early summer and Emma (not her real name) set out with her boyfriend on a backpacking trip to Southeast Asia. It was barely a few days after arriving in Thailand from her home in Surrey, the United Kingdom, when a freak accident happened.

Emma got knocked down by a motorcycle and suffered third degree burns on her right leg. Fortunately, there was no fracture.

How many of us remember this western classic (refer title) starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach?

Having been born not long after its release, I will be forgiven for not knowing the huge impact the movie had made at that time. Such was its success that legendary film director, Quentin Tarantino has even called this 1960’s epic “the best-directed film of all time”.

In my article on April 13, Shape Up: Size Does Matter, I gleefully shared that I had lost 12kg in weight from the start of Ramadan last year to January this year. It took sheer discipline and determination. I was a man on a mission and I achieved more than what I had originally targeted.

But then, he is regarded by many as the world’s greatest living adventurer.

What about to those with heart conditions, such as a recent heart attack or heart failure? Is it wise to do so?

That was Madam Chua's (not her real name) question at her last check-up, and at every check-up for the past one year.

I first saw her just before her planned knee surgery a year ago. Her blood pressure (BP) then was high at 180/80 mmHg.

Pamela was having dialysis three times a week for advance kidney disease, restricting her freedom and affecting her social life. She developed heart failure after a heart attack four years ago.