Thursday, 25 October 2007

15 Things It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn

By Dave Barry…

  1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
  2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”
  3. There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”
  4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
  5. You should not confuse your career with your life.
  6. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
  7. Never lick a steak knife.
  8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
  9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
  10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
  11. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.
  12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.
  13. A person who is nice to you but rude to a waiter is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)
  14. Your friends love you anyway.
  15. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the TItanic.

Saturday, 5 May 2007

Home


My new home.

The home that belongs to Fui Yin and I, it appeared in front of me that it has been completed, construction wise. I sense something inside me. Something that I have never felt before in mixture. Responsibilities, sense of secure, sense of success (to an extent), a milestone of our lives, a reward of hard work, accomplishment of a goal. What a rush of feeling, trust me it is not easy to handle, at least for that brief moment.

I can't thank you enough dad and mum for all the education and emotional support that you have provided me along the way, this is something that you could be proud of, out of my limited achievement till this stage of my life. You have been the only pair that always pull me up instead of holding me back, and I feel lucky to be out of your genomes.

Dad and mum, I assure you I will make you proud again. And again. And again.



Wednesday, 2 May 2007

漫画在线

http://cnc.finaleden.com/
Online manga of chinese translation. Loading speed varies with connection speed, and its free, so don't complain!

End of relaxing journey


For those whom I have not met during my time returned to Kuala Lumpur, I hereby apologise as there are too much to do during this short vacation. I hope you guys are enjoying what you are doing, and I miss you all.

For the very minority whom I have personally met and chatted with, I greatly appreciate your time spent with me as I know at this stage of our lives we are all busy with different commitment. Special thanks to Nigel Goh who shared so much of his life story with me. And I am certainly thankful for Dr. Kam Ji-Yen for bringing himself and his 33-week pregnant wife for a memorable catch-up.

To my mom and dad, I regret that I could not hang around during the special parents' days. I love you all, and do look after yourself while I am away.

It has been a great 2.5 weeks. And it is simply too short.




Monday, 30 April 2007

Acupuncture


I wonder if any of you readers believe in acupuncture or chinese medicine. Anyway, for those who know that I came back to M'sia for 3 weeks holiday, I took this opportunity to spend a day and went to a regional area with my mum for a day of volunteer work.

She is currently studying chinese medicine, and is actually graduating end of the year. Every 2nd or 3rd week she will travel with a few other mates to a regional place for volunteer work. Since she has not graduated, all she could do is acupuncture and massage, but not consultation or giving prescription. I was amazed by the passion of those doctors, all together 4 of them, who were consulting FOC and worked for about 3-4 hours there everyweek. Mi mum was like an assistant, but seeing her doing acupuncture was surely something that I had never expected to witness. She does look like a doctor to me already.

At that time I was proud to be with this group of people, spiritually they are passionate with their job and such responsibility to look after those who needs medical attention but unable to pay the high pricing medical professionals. Obviously its not financially feasible to practise this as a career, but having the will and spirit to do such thing even just once or twice a week, its apparently not for everyone.

Not only I love you mum, but I am very proud of you.



Saturday, 28 April 2007

Picasa Web Albums

http://picasaweb.google.com/leesangyee
My Picasa online photo albums.

I find Picasa another awesome invention, those who haven't heard of it do feel free to check it out!

Medical Heaven

http://www.medicalheaven.com/
As per title... this site is truely a heaven for medical personnels. Thousands of textbooks readily for grab electronically.

Sunday, 18 February 2007

Chinese new year 07...


...Is definitely not a fun one to start of with... b'coz I was needed to work from 9pm till 9am on new year's eve and new year's day. Freagin hell....


And we had outside food for reunion dinner. And we had left over for new year's day dinner.


Where are you mum!!!!


Tuesday, 13 February 2007

Doctor vs business man


I've been questioning myself lately, what role do I play the most when I become a specialist - a doctor or a business man?


I can't deny the fact that doctor as a profession can be lucrative. Everyone believes that, including me. And that can be a big driving factor for a lot of doctors in-training. In fact, a lot of the time people want to specialise because it makes them "special", and hence enhancing their money generating ability to the next level. Do we really need so many specialists, or is that just a trend to achieve wealth?


I still recall the very first day of I attended my first lecture for medical course, it was pure excitement. Excitement about taking the first step to achieve what I have dreamt to be, what I was dying to be called - doctor. It is the desire and drive, wanting to obtain a pair of healing hands; the joy to be infused by knowledge and skills to provide the healing touch to my patients. I simply wanted to help and contribute to the community, and the money sign had never crossed my mind.


Until I met with more and more doctors along my path. Everyone is talking about generating money in the shortest time with the easiest way. Become a surgeon - long training, hard work, common legistic issues, but extremely financially rewarding. Become a non-intervention physician - relatively short training, hard work, better life style, less income in comparison. Become an intervention physician - similar to surgeon but shorter training, usually deal with single organ diseases, life style in between, income in between. Its all about the type of services and the type of rewards. Its simply, transaction.


And to earn "big money" we need a private practise. We need a room. Its like a retailn shop. We need business partners, i.e. other doctors, to share the cost for establishing and maintaining the practise. We have meetings, not to discuss how to cut down the charges for patient, but to circulate around the topic of tax deduction, purchasing new equipments and hence charging more from patients, or simply to fight that my benz is better than your BMW. We pamper local GP so that they will refer more patients to our rooms, and during christmas we will send them the biggest hamper as appreciation. Its about building relationship. Its simply, business.


It is so commercialised that the medical field is no longer medical in its purest form. Even the public system works in a similar way, but its the governement who does the funding. Until the day I could earn sufficient cash to put food into my familys mouth without actively working, I am unsure when to see the day when I could go to somewhere like a third world doing real medicine.


Its all about providing care. I have once heard my consultant said to me, and it still echoed now and then in my mind, "The patients don't care how skillful or knowledgeble you are, until they know how much you care for them."


I hope one day I don't have to wear a business man coat while wearing the white coat.


Sang-Yee


The 10th Valentine's...


... With the same lovely Fui Yin.


I wish you healthy and happy days and nights.


I will keep on loving you.