What's cooking??


It has been months and years since I last blogged. Yes, I had been pretty busy lately. This is the Special Study Module, something we had been gearing up for the past 18 months. Or sort of. Our insignificant researches are coming to an end with a scientific meeting next Tuesday. Doing that isn't that hard, apart from a recently found fact that I am seriously statistically-phobic. I just felt dizzy and the figures running and dancing around as I toyed around SPSS. Accounting is 1st nature for me, so does anything with money. But statistics as such with no money sense? I think that's my limit. Or maybe it was a wise choice to avoid advance statistics. Chi Square, ANOVA, Linear Regression, etc.

Well, apart from that, I was also involved in the organizing committee of the scientific meet. It wasn't easy as I thought. but at least, I was not at the helm of everything. My past haunts me more than everything, and I'm just glad to be one of the members, learning the steps as I go through the process. It's fun doing the job, but it's rather time-consuming, and dealing with people from all walks of life, whether they're running, limping, crawling or hiding (just a pun). Fortunately, SSM is not as demanding as other postings.

The posting list is out. For this year round, I'll be in Group 3. This means I'll start with Surgery --> Pediatrics --> Obs & Gyne --> Family Medicine --> Internal Medicine --> Professional Exams. Just in case you're wondering, here's the timetable. Yeah, it's one of my blogsites too, now you know how many blogs I am handling. Just to kill time, and some hobby and interests. Time flies, faster as it comes, that living in the moment always seem impossible and out of reach. But after SSM, everything will return to it was before. A final push to graduation.
 
But before that, we'll be going for a PPD camp. This time it's going to be 7 days instead of the usual 5. That's because we are to subject to ourselves to an extra 2 days of BTN course. Again, the typical brainwashing tactics used on us to love the government. I just hope that it's not like the monkey we had who escaped from zoo, lecturing nonsense and shouting in front of the microphone. A rural uncivilized creature who had no idea of decency or sort of. But be prepared, because quite a number learnt their lessons well. There will be more voice recorders to tape the speech, and sent nationwide should anything goes wrong. It may not be me, but pray hard no other monkey is trying to curry favour from the government by overtly trying to brainwash us. Your head might be served alive, I mean, with Shark's fin soup.
 
Haha, I guess I'm just getting sneaky and cheeky. But I guess that makes me a.. man? And this is another update with no real ending as I end this here in a sleepy mood. Ciaoz. :)
 

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iPad - Begone!

Posted by ~YM~ | | 7:59 PM
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While I'm nothing of a fan of Apple, nothing they make will ever be. Imagine rectangle boxes with rounded edges that caused a hype in a small number of population. Wow, that must be ground-breaking, Apple fans would have thought, apart from feeding their delusion of being a class on-top. Never mind on how Steve Jobs acted worse than Bill Gates, while Bill Gates' partner was bought off with money, Steve let his partner suffer in poverty (although his partner did had some leisure of his own nowadays). 


With the recent iPad introduction, they had caused a hype by building an underdeveloped iPad, used the generated revenue to build a slightly better version, and hoping the same people to buy this "new" version to generate revenue to develop the next "slightly upgraded" iPad. While the same hard-core fans have 2 or more iPad, its popularity decreases because of the neverending cyclical storyline. 


But what of that? They had even "intruded" the manga world by trying to be an authority. Ok, perhaps they were one of the first, but banning e-manga with "violence" theme or "porn"-related is definitely a no-no. This had caused almost 30% of Japanese manga to be banned from iPad, anything related to blood, including Naruto, Bleach, One Piece and even medical manga series. Or some occasional manga which accidentally showed a boob popping out once in every 20 volumes (Around 150 chapters). "If you want porn buy an Android" statement is challenging everyone, and trying to be an authority in the potentially booming e-book industry. Killing off yourself before the boom is a bit tad overestimating oneself. If you can't do anything with it, why bother buying some "sleek" designs which can't do a thing? 


Seriously, why must we be judged by profiting people of what we should read. Porn may be understandable, but the thin fine line of violence and non-violnce ought to be there. The blatant banning of manga without having a clear guidelines is not going to go well, as they had refused to comment anything, but acting now and explaining much later, when their sales drop, is gonna be bad news for them. Competitors like Androids will come soon, and this is gonna bite off a large chunk of the pie.


Sometimes, it's not about wanting to watch violent theme or porn, it is to know that we have the accesibility to them that constitutes our rights. Plus, we should be trained to differentiate what is right and wrong, instead of 100% dictated by religion or hiding in the monastery devoted to nothing but paedophilism while the brother is the Pope. Imagine when Internet censorship was trying to be introduced in China or Malaysia. The uproar caused had been so great that it was not implemented in Malaysia, although China went through with certain sites.

So, what is there for us? Maybe we can recommend our Malaysian Censorship Board to them. I bet they'll do a fantastic job for iPad. :P

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New Semester

Posted by ~YM~ | | 10:54 AM
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A new semester, a new gossip. But today's contents are not of coherency, because it is the flow of my mind. :P

It was only until I set my foot and settle down in my hostel that it dawned on me. This is my final year in UKMMC. Oh well, it's all good news, bad news, but definitely not no-news. I've seen many drama-like scenarios, gossips, rumours and everything that is possible, became possible. Somehow I've to blame the TV for showing the bad influence, because I'm sure everyone does watch at least one US drama. If you think House acted like a jerk, think again. He wasn't. I've seen many more defective copies who tried imitating that "jerk" attitude (not jerking) but without the knowledge. Or some who happened to looked like him a bit, either through the coarse facial hair or the antalgic gait with a walking cane. Or perhaps the juicy affairs in Grey's anatomy/ Desperate Housewives. Oh well, it did happened, although it wasn't as juicy as it seems on TV. Whether if it is a sexual affair, social affair, emotional affair, or molestation affair, it all happens. well, never mind the perks. It's usually based on willing buyer willing seller terms, apart from the molestation.

Sometimes, it makes me wonder if the drama series were based on real stories, or because such stories happened because they watch too much of those drama. It could happen either way, but such morality will not be judged, because it makes my life more happening. I mean, there's no need to subscribe to PayTV or wasting time being a couch potato. In fact, it hone your attentiveness to another whole level, as well as to improve your communication skills (gossip does count, doesn't it?) with fellow course mates.

I can't really say I'm out of the flaws either, but oh well, everyone lies, right? (Oh, I love the quote from House, it's really true) Mind the days when I had to pry the secrets from my high school mates with some subtle interrogation (it works actually) because there were nothing much to do back then, and the community is small, like those TVB love stories. I've definitely tone down on that, using it only accasionally, but the gossips and rumors were so much that I needn't go out to get them. They'll get me instead, though it was just a matter of time.

Or some people who can get all power-crazy when given a little bit of power (authority). I wonder if they had hit a panic button, because they flung it all out, either being too elated (the least benign), too aggresive, too paranoid, or too laidback. Being too elated can make you buy 101 leadership books and share them with your nil blog readers, but it make you enthuasistic, so you did more work than being a leader. But oh well, such leaders usually learn their lesson well (I hope), and to learn to delegate the tasks. The ones being too aggressive are the juicy ones when two of such people clash together, for the greatest showdown on earth. In Chinese, there's this term called "arm wresting", and such power wrestle was so much anticipated, but sizzles out quietly, because one of them was fierce and aggressive as a lion within the pack, but turns out to be a cat when dealing with outsiders. or sometimes the seemingly paranoid ones, who meted out punishment or scolding others for their future mistakes, or for not listening to what he said in his mind. I mean, I'm not telepathic, no thanks, although I would love that as my super power. Even if I do hear you, I'll be looking for a psychiatrist, because I've been hearing voices. Or the ones so laidback that the job gets done tomorrow. I mean the exact date tomorrow, but next year, and by other people.
 
And PPD taught us how to lie with our eyes open. No, we'll still have to stay sober and look into the patient's eyes, and to break the bad news. You have to tell them that you understand their feelings, because you empathize them, even if you'd just strike a lottery or had the best wedding proposal ever on earth and your mind is blank and you're actually thinking "Who cares?". (this is not me though). Or teach your future students all about morality, professionalism and ethics while you yourself will be breaking themor screwing around. Oh well, rules are there to be broken, I guess.

But no matter how I rant it, this is reality. There is no fairness, despite my optimism.And even if you call me immature, you had your call. But we all are. While the losers in the recent by-election called for unfairness and bribery while distributing chickens, groceries etc to the people during election, it was not because of justice that he blew the whistle. It was all because: HE LOST. had he win, he'll sure said that the people had chosen him in the spirit of fairness. Of course, there are also extremists in the winning party which had causes furore. but then again, I used to hate our current PM back when he kicked my ass into National Service. Not that I hate the camp, but the way it was implemented for the sake of his own good. But I've to give credits to him for being a smart guy and wits, being a politician with a proper degree and professionalism. Look at our country, how many politicians in Malaysia could graduate properly from a University? Some graduate from ISA, with a low intellect now that he's old. And some coming from culture, language and religious degrees, which, are always good in words, but fail to perform. We have such prominent leaders in both government and opposition parties, to be fair. It's just my opinion that such people had always fail to perform, whether in politics, or in other aspects..erhem...  But I'm not saying that degrees make people special, because as they say, people with degree had attitude problems at times, and nowadays, every Tom, Dick and Harry is a graduate. In Chinese we have "Ah Chu Ah Kau" which is pigs and dogs (Si babi, Si Anjing). But at least be well-versed in whatever portfolio you're holding.


But yet again, I'm still glad that our country as opposition parties, despite being such an irrational ones. At least there's a check and balance system, rather than the whole nation being silently obedient like lapdogs. But I had to give credits to such breeds because they can proudly declare that they are proud to be a citizen of such country despite all its forthcoming. Well, I guess everyone has their own choice. 


Uh oh, I'm already hypoglycemic. guess I have to stop here for now. Adios!

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