Bersih 2.0 – Love to my country
Today, July 9, 2011 is the day tens of thousands of Bersih 2.0 supporters marched in Kuala Lumpur peacefully for the good cause to seek electoral reform for a clean and fair election. There are plenty of information spreading on the Internet about Bersih 2.0 rally so I am not going to repeat everything here.
One thing for sure, this rally has changed my perception and the spirit of a true Malaysia, where all races – Malays, Indians and Chinese united under one cause despite of the unwarranted, tyrannical acts by the National Front government and the police. I have never felt more proud of being a Malaysian.
A quote from a friend of mine from Hong Kong:
Democracy won’t come to you, is you go and get it. if you have chance just speak out loud, or shout from the rooftop. – Atropos
And from famous actor Clint Eastwood
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. – Clint Eastwood
What happened today on July 9, 2011 will be written in the history of Malaysia. This is the day when fellow Malaysians stood up bravely to defend their civil liberties which have long been disrespected by the ruling government since independence. I don’t want my children, when they grow up, ask me: “Dad, what had you done on July 9, 2011?” and I can’t answer them. So I decided to wear yellow (the signature color of Bersih) and walked in town to show support. Honestly, as a father of three and the breadwinner for my family, such decision was not without fear. Why fear you may ask? Perhaps Malaysia is the only region in the world where you can be arrested for merely wearing yellow. And being arrested is one thing, how you would be treated after arrest is another.
This morning, I wore a yellow T-shirt and moved around at certain parts of the town. In the afternoon, after meeting my client at his office, I walked from Hatten Square, crossed the main road, and walked length of Dataran Pahlawan in the same T-shirt.
Having been following up the rally happenings in Kuala Lumpur since morning, I thought I could at least feel a little of the Bersih atmosphere here in Melaka. Disappointedly, I only saw large crowds, mostly Chinese, hanging out at Hatten Square and Dataran Pahlawan happily as usual. Everyone seemed carefree and undisturbed by the fact that thousands of people were being treated inhumanly by the police just because they wanted to ask for a clean democracy for all Malaysians. I hardly spotted one that wore yellow. If you look at the photos taken during the Bersih rally, you can see most of the protestors are Malays, relatively few Chinese took part in the rally. I am not being racist here, my point is there are too many Chinese Malaysians who simply don’t give a damn to the wellbeing of the country. They don’t even care to vote. All they care about are how much money they can make and how well they can live. With such attitudes, no wonder the Chinese are being called “pendatang” or squatters in spite of the fact that they are born in Malaysia. I think these people really deserve such labeling.
Although what I did was insignificant and actually nothing compared to those who had risked being arrested, injured or even losing their life to join the Bersih 2.0 movement in Kuala Lumpur today, I am glad that I have made one tiny step to conquer my fear by wearing yellow and walking on busy road and in busy malls in the heart of Melaka, with the spirit of Bersih (Clean).
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie
马来西亚华裔是猪-没错！
Ibrahim Ali和他的同僚说Cina是猪，一点都没错，反而吾觉得妙极。
“猪相”：它们的吃”很省”(猪食)，它们老爱在一角落臭挤(猪圈)，它们永远看似很”满足”(猪样)，但“开心”是装/堆出来(猪也会涂口红)，它们甘受宰制(猪脑)，它们有发癫的时侯(猪嚎嚎大叫时)。它们爱窝裹斗，猪咬猪，自己打自己人。当狼来了，个个夹着尾巴鸟兽散。可怜一两只被牺牲在狼的血盆大口之下泪流满面，认命!
The Cancer of Malaysia – Part 1
March 2008, the opposition parties or denominated the People’s Coalition (or Pakatan Rakyat or PR for short), received an unexpected landslide victory in the 12th General Election (GE12). PR had successfully secured 5 northern states in peninsular Malaysia. Since then, Malaysians have started to witness their own very beloved country becoming the showcase of betrayals, mockeries and remonstrations.
Before our former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad stepped down, he made a radical change to our education – the use of English language to teach math and science subjects in all primary and secondary schools. His change was immediately welcome by many Malaysians, I was for one of them. This, of course, was disagreed by many other parties who champion pro-ethnic education. Dong Jiao Zhong (the association of Chinese vernacular school boards and teachers) is one of them to loudly protest.
Before we get deeper into education, it is worthwhile to mention a few racial and religious pandemonium which happened recently. One most recent uproar is the protest of the ruling of court over the use of the word “Allah” in a Catholic newspapers, Herald. Churches were bombed and torched by some unscrupulous citizens. Before this, a group of Muslim protesters trampled a severed cow head to protest the building of Hindu temple near their residences. You can find many reports on disheartening eruptions of racial and religious matters besides politics on the Internet so I am not writing the entire length and breadth but to mention one or two as examples.
Malaysia advertises herself as a beautiful country with multi races living together in harmony and tolerance. Where is the noble tolerance between different races and religions? What is contributing to this separation of ethnicity and religion?
Let us ask ourselves a very simple question: What has happened to Malaysia? This simple question has no easy answer. The answer is multifold and viciously lurking and recycling in every layers of Malaysian society.
If you ask me what my answer is, I think the best analogy to describe this is cancer! Yes, multi-stream education in Malaysia is like cancer, slowly suffocating and envenoming the pure untouched minds, silently consuming ethnic unity in Malaysia.
Before I go further, I would like to boldly correct a common mistake and suggest a term to address Chinese descendants or Malaysia-born Chinese as “ orang Cina” or “Cina” for short. In my opinion, only the native inhabitant of China can be entitled as “Chinese”. Like Peranakan, “Cina” will be the proper localized term to classify our ethnicity. While for Malaysia Indian, I would address them as “orang India” or “India” and Malays as “orang Melayu” or “Melayu”. To be fair.
As a Cina myself who has received 6 years of primary Cina education, I generalized the grass root Cina community as conservative and hardworking with narrow and superficial thinking and vision. Close minded, emotional and shallow. I personally have experienced these many years ago during school days.
I was a town boy and lived among grass root Cina. I had never communicated with a Melayu or India until I was in secondary school. I would see some Melayu ladies passing by my house every morning and evening.
In primary school, I was among the 100% Cina students except a few Melayu teachers and staffs. My limited exposure to other races did not come to the end when I went to secondary school. All students coming from Cina primary school would be put together in “Remove” class, 100% Cina with no India at all. I only began to have Melayu classmates during Form 1 and I could tell you, they were fun to call them friends compared to other Cina peers. This racial mixture had to come to the end when I entered Form 4. I was in Science 1 class and there was not a single Melayu classmate, only 1 India. In Form 6, again I was in Science 1 doing double math, my classmates were 100% Cina.
After more than 20 years, I can still remember an experience during my upper 6. Our teachers always advised and encouraged us to speak English in school and of course I was the only “stupid” Cina student to comply. As the result, one of my female classmate called me “Banana Man” （a racial discrimination term used by Cina to call other Cina who does not speak Cina, it is like banana, yellow (Chinese skin) on the outside, white (English) on the inside) and together with other classmates as well as our peers from other classes to desist from speaking to me. How shallow she and the others could be? This is the malignant product of multi-stream education. These shallow and superficial minds are poisoned and shaped by the monotonous environment.
About 5 years ago, my wife and I were to decide which school we should send our children to. Being a Cina educated who did not have confidence in Cina vernacular education and my wife received her education from national school, we decided to send our children to national school based on a few observations.
I was back to my former secondary school and coaching karate there. In my class, I had both Cina and Melayu students. And the Cina students were from both Cina and national school. I observed them for very long time and these were what I concluded:
- the Cina students coming from national school are more willing to interact with their Melayu peers.
- the Cina students coming from national school are more communicable and possess good interpersonal skill far better than those coming from Cina stream.
- the Cina school educated students demonstrate self centered attitude.
- the Cina school educated students shun themselves away from dialog.
- the Cina students from national school are more active and socializing.
As a software engineer, I have not used Mandarin to communicate despite the fact that many years ago I had collaborated with software developers and engineers from China and Taiwan. Based on personal experience and observation, we decided not to send our children to Cina-stream school.
But to be fair, ethnic and religious demarcation happens in national school. This Chinese New Year, my wife prepared some cookies for our eldest son to bring to school and to share with his classmates. None of his Melayu friends ate or touched the cookies. It is pathetic to see how religion separates Malaysian children at such a young age!
Multi-stream education is the separatist which divides the ethnicity at the very young age. Children are separated by ethnic idealism in the name of education. And Malaysia is the only country in the world which practices multi-stream education.
Next, we should look at treacherous political influence and the historical mistakes in multi-stream education.
Irresponsible doctor on-call
Last night, I was experiencing pounding pain on my left eye which was radiating to the back and into my brain that caused headache.
I called ISEC emergency number and spoke to a nurse on duty. She advised me to go to A&E of a nearby hospital to have my eye checked. One of the factor could be infection.
LA took me to Pantai Hospital. After the medical officer had examined my eye, he rang the opthalmologist on-call, Dr. Lim.
From their phone conversation, we could tell that he was reluctant to come. After many times of persuasion and insistance by the medical officer, he finally agreed to come. But we were told that we would have to wait. What an arrogant bastard!
A doctor on-call is a doctor on night duty. He has to respond to emergency cases at night regardless of the parient’s condition. This doctor’s attitude was really irritating. WTF! After some thoughts, I decided to go home without seeing him. I did not want this irresponsible doctor to earn my money. Furthermore, my pain had subsided due to the paracetamol I took before we left home.
What a dinner!
After my karate class, I went down town to pick up my parents. The traffic was massive. Getting into town took almost 30 minutes and getting out of it took another 15 minutes. When we reached home, the two older boys were ready. Dmitry was wearing his new watch. We were going out for dinner on the last Sunday of 2008. I quickly took my shower then we left the house at around 1900.
Some days ago, our friend recommended a Hakka restaurant at Taman Merdeka, Batu Berendam. We were very eager to try out this restaurant.
没有“懒趴”的华人
读了《回教党将是变天的最大赢家》也续我那篇《自私自利的马来西亚华人》之后，我不只感慨也愤怒马来西亚华人的怯懦，被他人说我们华人是“寄居者”简直是罪有应得。
前几天，我到巴生一处送东西。那边全是回教党的地头。我没有怕，反而更好奇。我驾车长驱直入。我迷路了，看到有一伙马来青少年坐在机车上聊天，我就过去问他们我要找的地方。一眼看去，他们都像那种吃饱没事作的飙车族，对一些华人来说肯定吓到半死，不敢问就跑了。当其中一位回答我的时侯，他的确让我感到非常惊讶。他说：“Uncle terus pergi, belok kiri, lepas belok kanan. Rumah tu sebelah kanan uncle saja.” (叔叔直走，转左然后再转右。那间屋子就在叔叔的右侧）。这位回教青年，多么有礼。回教非常可怕吗？
当我找到那间屋之后，屋主不在。其邻居出来问个究竟，那位 makcik 很友善的请我进去她家里等。他的儿子也盛情的邀请。我不好意思，向她们谢了，然后告诉她们我还没有吃晚餐（其实那时快晚上十点了，午餐只是草草了事），问她那里有 KFC，她儿子马上向我说方向。我有点满头雾水，他看出来就说可以带我去。我不想麻烦他人，就谢了。
用了晚餐过后，我又回到那里，屋主还没有回来。那位 makcik 请我进去喝一杯水。我答应了。然后跟他儿子还有儿子的两位朋友谈话了。他们都在工艺中学求学。我们还打成一片呢。过不久也很夜了，那屋主还没有回来，我只好把东西留在该邻居家，请她转交。她很乐意的答应了。第二天，我太太至电给收件人问她有没有收到寄存她邻居的东西，她说有也非常感谢和深表歉意让我等这么久。
回教党有什么可怕？我倒觉得他们都非常诚实和充满人情味。华人呢？不用我说到出面吧？
很可悲的是，很多华人连自己的宗教都搞不清楚，就连拜什么也不知道。就好象，一些华人，口说要支持华教维护华人文化，要送子女去华校，可惜连自己的中华文化也搞不懂。举个列子，为何新年要挂“红彩”？有的华人随便拿条“红布”挂上就说挂“红彩”。真是天大的笑话！要知道，“红彩”布料非一般“红布”的布料。有很多华人在新年家里也没挂红彩，也不懂为何要挂。一些华小华文老师也搞不好正确的发音。比如说，“风”，有些华语老师说“fong”。其正确的读音是“feng”。连自己的语言宗教文化都一知不解，还要跟人争平等。连自己的宗教也模糊不清，难怪会怕回教。无知！
自私自利的马来西亚华人
读了“916变天不成，安华应该交带！”之后，我写了“完成大事，要有耐心”（我也把它登在我的博客里，见：小不忍则乱大谋）来回应这妇人之见，希望大家能忍耐一下，继续齐心协力支持安华斗争到底。可是还有些持“妇人之见”人仕继续讽刺安华、要安华解释等等的来信。
看了之后，本人极度感慨马来西亚华人这种自私自利的态度。人家做得好，一声感谢都没有，要是有吗就随便说声”好！“。人家要是做不到吗，就踩到底，要人家解释等等荒唐之说。读了“安华好心没好报”和“应该体谅行动者”，我略有同感：安华欠了你吗？
好些马来西亚华人多是自私自利、怕事、不团结、自扫门前雪。举一项列子，一些华人看到他人被打劫，就快快躲起来，眼不见为净。有些还告诉子女亲人不要多管他人“闲事”惹麻烦。反观马来友族，要是一人被抢劫，整个kampung的人就会出来捉人。难怪会让他人看扁我们华人说我们是“寄居者”！
变天是一件国家大事，不是小孩子玩泥沙。变天如棋，安华正小心翼翼下这盘棋，一步错，全盘皆落索。安华一定要依照宪政程序一步一步来。要是安华直接觐见国家元首，肯定被对方咬定安华没照宪政程序，反被对方问为何安华不先在国会讨论，那时就连国家元首也帮不了安华。
安华除了依照宪政程序之外，他也正在打心理牌，让现今政府丑态百出，同时也试探国际社会对他的支持。安华比任何一位在朝或在野政客有更多的国际人脉网络，如果由他出任首相，肯定很多外资蜂涌来马。
变天这件事已经引起国际社会的关注。要是当今政府胆敢以内安法令捉安华，西方国家，由其是国际人权委员会肯定会大肆谴责当今政府并向其施加压力。
请大家先搞清楚才做指责。要是不知道宪政或法律程序，那请不要胡乱指责安华，于事无补，反而弄巧反拙。这样会让他人更瞧不起我们华人！
这种态度要是不改，不管有位多么好的首相，我们华人在马来西亚不会有什么好日子过。
Math and Science in English: A failure
My recent post about our tertiary education has revealed a serious flaw in our education as a whole. I read in awe an article of the same title by Meeky-Meeky and really got very disappointed about the policy. As I commented in Meeky-Meeky’s post, our education system is very much driven and influenced by politics. Those ignorant fools who oppose to teach Math and Science in English are shallowed minded, short-sighted and politically retarded. It is imprudent to let politics to influence and chart the course of education.
If this continues, our country will be dumb-headed in a few generation to come. Our country is already losing competitiveness in so many areas. With the rise of China as a new economy in this region, the competition gets tougher. And soon, Vietnam will rise. What will be our future?
A disgrace to Malaysian tertiary education
Many of my friends and I do not see education in Malaysia at par with many western countries and even neighboring country like Singapore. Some students even revealed to me that some Ph.D. lecturers plagiarized lecture notes and assignments from foreign university’s websites and setting silly questions in mid-term paper for final year students. Some of them even were told to Google for answer when they approached their Ph.D. lecturers for pointers. Many of them have now realized how serious our tertiary education has deteriorated or has not even achieved in standards at all. But there are also some short-sighted students do not agree with that and continue to feel proud to be tertiary educated by Malaysia education system. Read the comment by a student nicknamed “Kick his Rosy ass” here.
This morning, I received an email from a friend from China who was reading local news website. Now, the whole world knew our standard and that’s extremely embarrassing but not surprising.
On August 23, New Straits Times published an advertorial entitled “Honorary Degree Award, 7th Convocation Ceremony University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia — Yang Amat Mulia Raja Zarith Sofiah binti AlMarhum Sultan Idris Al-Mutawakil Alallahi Shah, D.K.II, S.P.M.J., S.P.C.M.” This grammatically broken advertorial was produced by University Tun Hussein Onn. Click on the advertorial for larger view.
Later on August 26, New Straits Times apologized for mistakenly published this advertorial which was unfit to be published. The notice said (link):
NEW Straits Times published an advertorial entitled “Honorary Degree Award, 7th Convocation Ceremony University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia — Yang Amat Mulia Raja Zarith Sofiah binti AlMarhum Sultan Idris Al-Mutawakil Alallahi Shah, D.K.II, S.P.M.J., S.P.C.M.” in our Aug 23 issue. The advertorial contained gross factual and grammatical errors. The New Straits Times Press (M) Berhad, as publisher and printer, hereby expresses deep regret for inadvertently printing the advertorial, which was unfit to be published. The advertorial was produced by University Tun Hussein Onn to announce the honorary degree award to Yang Amat Mulia Raja Zarith Sofiah binti AlMarhum Sultan Idris Al-Mutawakil Alallahi Shah, D.K.II, S.P.M.J., S.P.C.M. by the university.
Well, if this had happened in one of the local university, it could happen in other local universities. Some could be better but were not necessarily to meet standards.
And to our “honorable” minister of education, this is a university that named after your father. What say you? Malaysia boleh!
Silly mid-term paper
Well, well, well. Many people has regarded MMU a great university. Many of its students have regarded graduating from there gives them highest honor. I always don’t think so.
Have you been thinking that an exam at university level must be difficult? Well, the answer is not difficult at all. Take a look at this snapshot of the recent mid-term paper set for senior students (final year)! This picture was downloaded from the blog of a MMU student.
Riddle: Guess what the big rose will do when it goes crazy?
Silly questions, aren’t they? I know who is that lecturer. Worse is that, he is a senior lecturer and associate dean and the *worst* thing is that he is a doctorate! Silly, silly, silly. The evaluation test that I gave to my scholarship candidates was even tougher than this. I wonder how he got his doctorate and at what standard he has got his doctorate? This reflects the inferiority of tertiary education in Malaysia.
Actually, I did not want to write a post like this anymore. I don’t want a post like this to pollute my blog. But I think it over under someone’s (a student) request. He says people need to know what quality this university has. Let’s not mention it anymore. It is a waste of time and an eye sore, really.
The most profitable business
As we, including the kids, know that a profitable business is when we purchase at low price and sell at higher price to make a profit. But the “law of profitability” in economics has been broken. I read a piece of news with mouth wide opened. Am I reading correctly? Here is the repost of the news from “The Malaysian Insiders“:
KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 — American motorcycle giant Harley-Davidson has, according to the Associated Press, agreed to buy MV Agusta for US$109 million (RM360 million), in sharp contrast to the one euro Italian company Gevi paid when it bought the Italian bike-maker from Proton Holdings in 2006.
Harley-Davidson said in a statement out of Milwaukee last Friday that it was likely to seal the deal in weeks but the news is likely to unleash a firestorm of criticism against Proton, which was savagely assailed for the 2006 sale by no less a person than former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who conceived Proton back in 1984, according to the SingaporeBusiness Times.
Proton, then under the leadership of Dr Mahathir protege Tengku Mahaleel Ariff, bought a 57.75 per cent interest in MV Agusta in December 2004 for 70 million euros (RM357 million). Dr Mahathir had stepped down as premier a month earlier but had been appointed Proton adviser by his successor Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the time.
By 2005, Proton was floundering amid intense competition from better-quality Japanese models and relations between Tengku Mahaleel and the new Proton board, all appointed by Abdullah, were tense. These culminated in the chief executive’s contract not being renewed. Barely a year later, the company sold MV Agusta, with its debt of 107 million euros, for one euro.
Dr Mahathir took it personally, asking for an investigation of the sale decision and its beneficiaries, and questioning the urgency of the deal.
Proton defended itself by saying there were “no operational, engineering or technological synergies” between the two companies, a conclusion that it said had “been independently confirmed by its appointed advisers”.
When Tengku Mahaleel and Dr Mahathir decided on the buy earlier, it was precisely because of the deal’s so-called “technological synergies”.
Even so, the Harley deal would appear to vindicate both men and is likely to rebound upon Proton and, by extension, Abdullah and his administration, which has stoutly defended Proton’s new management against the criticism of Dr Mahathir.
MV Agusta makes a line of premium sports motorcycles under its own name and another line of lightweight bikes under the Cagiva brand.
Meanwhile, the deal will help Harley-Davidson expand into the European market as sales slump in the US where consumers are pulling back on spending. Performance biking accounts for almost 80 per cent of sales in Europe, where Harley’s sales have been growing in double digits over the past three years. The US bike-maker now has a 10 per cent share of the European market.
Meanwhile Bernama reports that Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah told the Dewan Rakyat today that the sale of MV Agusta for one euro was profitable to Proton as there was no synergy between the Italian motorcycle maker and Proton as a car manufacturer.
He said Proton made the decision after taking into account the financial liabilities of Agusta which had debts of 107 million euros.
Under the agreement, the shareholder must be responsible for the company’s debts, he said.
“As there was no synergy between car and motorcycle and instead of shouldering the debt, Proton decided to sell Agusta,” he said in reply to a supplementary question from Nga Kor Ming (DAP-Taiping) during Question Time.
Take a look at the last fourth paragraph carefully. The speaker was really lack of intelligence. How can a business be profitable if it spends 70 millions Euros to buy a company and then sells it for 1 Euro? But in the first place, will you buy a company with 107 millions Euros of debts?
Hello? Is this a typo? I don’t think so. But the person who made such statement in Dewan Rakyat must be thinking the Malaysians are mentally retarded.
这个世界是文明还是野蛮？
傍晚在电视上看到第二届世界大专华文辩论会（世辩贰）大决赛。题目是《这个世界是文明还是野蛮？》。马来西亚国民大学是正方，而反方是中国苏州大学。在我看来，反方比较明确的述明这世界的野蛮里的文明。不过，大体上，双方都在逗圈子，来来去去都在争论是文明是野蛮的。双方都拿不出一个标准。依我看来，反方比较胜卷在握。
看这场辩论赛而辩论这个世界是文明还是野蛮的，真是浪费时间。
这个世界是文明还是野蛮的不是世人能定夺。这个世界是一个灰色的世界。文明中带有野蛮、野蛮中带有文明。以文明来掩饰野蛮、而野蛮行为中带点文明处处可见。一位企业化黑帮老大坏事做尽、可他又是一位慈善家，那么他是文明还是野蛮？把一件事以多角度、多层次来抽丝剥茧的深入观察和分析，就会有好多不同的结论。以上两支决赛队伍都缺乏了多角度多层次的客观分析。
在一个文明社会的字典里，《法律》、《斗争》、《仇恨》、《战争》、《经济》、《利益》、《罪恶》等等是不存在的。在文明社会里是不需要法律来约束人民的。为什么？因为每人脑里都没有经济和利益的斗争，也不会有战争。社会上种种罪恶都是利益和经济的冲突所引起的。所以，在我们野蛮的社会里，需要法律来约束人们以防止罪案发生。有文明不代表没有了野蛮。只是野蛮被文明的法律约束压制了。
一个文明社会里，经济和金钱是不存在的。每人都知道自己对社会的义务而工作，而不是为个人的物质享受而工作。所有行动和思想都是和大体一致的为大体的生存而产生。
一个文明社会里，所有思想都是无极的，也不会有这场辩论会，更不需要辩论。一切仇恨斗争都是思想极化的产物。
在我眼里，这个世界是文明里带有野蛮、野蛮里有点文明的一个矛盾世界。
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Protected: Two things that annoyed me today
NSAID allergy case the 3rd time!
My dad was admitted to the General Hospital yesterday due to suspecting of food poisoning. He was actually going to the Community Polyclinic at Pantai Peringgit for his routine medical checkup. But he had been having diarrhea since last week and yesterday he began to vomit.
There wasn’t any vacant ward so they put him in the A&E ward. He was transferred to medical ward this morning. When I visited him two hours ago, I saw his eyes were swollen. His eye bags were filled with fluid. I knew he was having allergic reaction and I quickly checked with the nurse.
There were some young doctors there. A female doctor attended to me and my dad to see what’s going on. Her name was Dr. Ng. I told her that my dad was allergic to NSAID (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs). They prescribed him Aspirin. She said they had stopped giving him aspirin.
This was negligence and I pursued the responsibility with her. I am regarded as some kind of pain-in-the-ass by some people. I could see her facial reaction when I told her that I would pursue this responsibility. She quickly apologized and carefully worked through the documents. I backed off a little when I saw her diligence. I am not totally a pain-in-the-ass after all. I am not totally unreasonable.
She found a remark stating my dad was allergic to two unknown drugs. I told her, when a patient had informed the doctor or the nurse of his unknown allergic, then it would be the normal procedure to go through the patient’s medical history to find out what he was allergic to. Assessment had to be made accordingly if the patient was medically illiterate. The hospital should also immediately contact his family to find out what his allergies.
She apologized again and suggested me to speak to her superior tomorrow morning. She apologized again and I told her it was not her fault because my dad had been admitted at the same hospital with the same allergic reaction. Someone did not do their job well.
He was prescribed NSAID by an A&E doctor at the same general hospital and had mild allergic reaction. This happened in early 2007. In May 2007, the Community Polyclinic at Pantai Peringgit prescribed him Diclofenac Sodium and he had a bad allergic reaction and was admitted to the general hospital at night. I wrote about this here.
Why does this happen again for the 3rd time?
I am going to be someone’s real pain-in-the-ass tomorrow.
Are our soldiers competent enough?
When I was queueing up at the cash deposit machine in a bank, there was a soldier in his uniform in front of me. The banks in Malaysia have become semi electronics with machines for both withdrawal and deposit plus human counters.
Come back to the soldier in front of me.
When it was the soldier turn to make his deposit, he kindly asked the man in front of him to help with his deposit. This soldier was in his late 30s or 40s looking at his grey hair. One question sparked across my mind: How competent are our soldiers? He couldn’t even make an electronic deposit transaction! Perhaps he was the only incompetent soldier in the whole military. I wished I was wrong.
I remembered that I attended a beach party on Okinawa. The party was organized by marines and civilian security force. You can read and see some photos here. The two men at the barbecue were some high ranking marines officers. I can’t recall their ranks. The other man with blue shorts, blind-folded standing in the tub was a commander.
I spoke to most of the people there. From bottom to some substantially high ranking officers. Their attitude and manners, and the way they spoke to me and the contents of conversation suggested some high level of intelligence. They were truly professional soldiers.
Looking at the soldier who was queueing in front of me, it was a total distinction and a disgrace. I might have not met a bad US soldier on Okinawa. But both of my encounters have prompted me if our soldiers are competent if compare to our neighbors. Our soldier don’t even know to operate a cash deposit machines? I must be joking if you don’t see it yourself. But yes, I saw it right in front of me.
Go to YouTube, you can see some of our military performance. The military war dance is really a laughing stock!
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