Sigh... Soon I'll be riding the wind to return to Peninsular... SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know I'm gonna miss Sabah sooooooooooo MUCH!!! There's so much memories here after 5 years. 5 LONG years... And now my student life too, is gonna be over. This, I have a mix up feeling though, of excitement and also sad lo... The carefree life will be over and hello responsibility. BIG responsibility...
Before leaving, I must grab a few jumbo packs of Sabah tea and Tenom coffee!!! After 20 years of BOH and Lipton, next on my list of favourite caffeine is Sabah tea. And a new acquired passion, Cameron Highland strawberry tea.
Then I want to try the new revolving shabu - shabu restaurant at Tg. Lipat. Hopefully the weekend promotion of 20 - food - in - a - plate for RM 9.99 is still on! The place looks pretty good on the pamphlet.
Let see... places... Hmm, most of them covered. Ohhh!!! Lok Kawi Zoo!! Yes, must pay a last visit to those adorable cows and bears.
A photo session around UMS maybe...
I want to eat at Jaws one last time and enjoy their tom yum...
I want to gorge my face with seafood until bloated...
I want to go to Phillipino market just to look around.
And I so want to get that blouse from Souele!!! Pity they don't have a branch in KL...
Sigh... I still have so much that I want to eat and do here...
*BLUE mood*
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Long live the Queen.
Something to write before I leave Sabah at the end of this month... Because I feel sorry about it and also because other than this, I can't do much. Also, take note that I'm NOT bashing. I'm just lamenting.
Anyway...
6 months since the declaration that the building is no longer save for occupation with its cracking ceilings and walls, nothing has happened. The building still stood like a sore thumb, waiting for God knows what. Waiting to be declared as a heritage perhaps? Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Forever In Memory, RIP.
And so...
I watched as the doctors and paramedical staffs scramble around, from SMC to Bukit Padang to Likas to escort patient for CT scan, to operating theatres and for ward transfers.
I watched the health personnel and patients alike suffer and suffocate in the crowded war zones called the wards.
I was the one who had to tell the bloated boy with nephrotic syndrome to switch beds with the breathless elderly man on the makeshift bed on the floor because his bed has an oxygen tank attached to it and the ward's oxygen tanks were nowhere to be seen, and because that's the fastest and easiest way to get the uncle on oxygen.
I was accidentally kicked by a houseman who nearly tripped over me who was taking blood for Culture and Sensitivity on the floor. Luckily I had not uncap the needle yet. That was a VERY close call. Why on the floor? The poor lad with suspected malaria was placed on a floor bed and wow, the spaces between these beds are about only 1 - 2 feet.
I was there when 20 new admissions came in within 3 hours, and watched as makeshift beds were unfolded on the floor to accommodate the patients. And had to tell many patients that the ward had ran out of blanket, but it’s freaking hot anyway.
I watched harried nurses rushing off to photocopy Pathology forms when the Medical wards became swamped with feverish patients, while the housemen tore the carbon copies apart to make do. Then they tossed the syringe and hundred blood bottles to willing medical students. If there are 10 patients (In your dreams...), 3 basic tests each plus additional tests. You do the math. (BTW, the labs insisted on specimens with at least 2 ml of blood per bottle, and use green needle for taking BUSE and creatinine)
I entered a ward where all field of surgical patients are lumped together; General Surgery, Orthopedic, ENT, Dental, Urology, Plastic. If this is a merely district hospital, it’s quite acceptable, but for a tertiary referral centre?
I listened as doctors tell patient that they have to wait in line for 3 – 6 months for an ultrasound of the suspicious breast lump, or pay themselves to get it done faster at private centers.
I followed the rounds where Specialists rushed through the many patients while housemen frantically try to trace results from the miniature labs in Queen that not only cater Queen itself, but some of Likas’ specimens too. Or the housemen will toss the phone and directory to medical students to help them while they rush off to a breathless patient or to deliver the forms themselves before the labs closed at 5. Or else, goodbye LFT and others.
I sutured 4 cases in 1 hour time in A&E while the health personnel scrambled around to handle the congested A&E. But they still pushed me away and allowed the Russian elective students instead to perform CPR with crooked arms. Hoh... And nobody said anything.
BTW, for better information and a delicious dose of sarcasm, you can visit the links below.
Anyway...
6 months since the declaration that the building is no longer save for occupation with its cracking ceilings and walls, nothing has happened. The building still stood like a sore thumb, waiting for God knows what. Waiting to be declared as a heritage perhaps? Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Forever In Memory, RIP.
And so...
I watched as the doctors and paramedical staffs scramble around, from SMC to Bukit Padang to Likas to escort patient for CT scan, to operating theatres and for ward transfers.
I watched the health personnel and patients alike suffer and suffocate in the crowded war zones called the wards.
I was the one who had to tell the bloated boy with nephrotic syndrome to switch beds with the breathless elderly man on the makeshift bed on the floor because his bed has an oxygen tank attached to it and the ward's oxygen tanks were nowhere to be seen, and because that's the fastest and easiest way to get the uncle on oxygen.
I was accidentally kicked by a houseman who nearly tripped over me who was taking blood for Culture and Sensitivity on the floor. Luckily I had not uncap the needle yet. That was a VERY close call. Why on the floor? The poor lad with suspected malaria was placed on a floor bed and wow, the spaces between these beds are about only 1 - 2 feet.
I was there when 20 new admissions came in within 3 hours, and watched as makeshift beds were unfolded on the floor to accommodate the patients. And had to tell many patients that the ward had ran out of blanket, but it’s freaking hot anyway.
I watched harried nurses rushing off to photocopy Pathology forms when the Medical wards became swamped with feverish patients, while the housemen tore the carbon copies apart to make do. Then they tossed the syringe and hundred blood bottles to willing medical students. If there are 10 patients (In your dreams...), 3 basic tests each plus additional tests. You do the math. (BTW, the labs insisted on specimens with at least 2 ml of blood per bottle, and use green needle for taking BUSE and creatinine)
I entered a ward where all field of surgical patients are lumped together; General Surgery, Orthopedic, ENT, Dental, Urology, Plastic. If this is a merely district hospital, it’s quite acceptable, but for a tertiary referral centre?
I listened as doctors tell patient that they have to wait in line for 3 – 6 months for an ultrasound of the suspicious breast lump, or pay themselves to get it done faster at private centers.
I followed the rounds where Specialists rushed through the many patients while housemen frantically try to trace results from the miniature labs in Queen that not only cater Queen itself, but some of Likas’ specimens too. Or the housemen will toss the phone and directory to medical students to help them while they rush off to a breathless patient or to deliver the forms themselves before the labs closed at 5. Or else, goodbye LFT and others.
I sutured 4 cases in 1 hour time in A&E while the health personnel scrambled around to handle the congested A&E. But they still pushed me away and allowed the Russian elective students instead to perform CPR with crooked arms. Hoh... And nobody said anything.
BTW, for better information and a delicious dose of sarcasm, you can visit the links below.
- How to overcome health crisis
- A newspaper article on this blog
- How to Make Easy Money In A Healthcare Crisis
- An Open Apology To The Health Minister
- Health Minister: Quality health services assured
Monday, April 13, 2009
Parking charges in 1Borneo.
It’s been some time but I still want to write about this. Starting 01 April 2009, 1Borneo officially started charging the fees for parking.
Mon – Thu: RM 1 per entry
Fri – Sun, Public Holiday: RM 2 per entry
Overnight: RM 10
Well, at least the charges are per entry, not per hour. So you can still watch movie in peace without worrying about your parking fees unlike in CentrePoint on weekday.
Though I kind of hoped that after the charging starts, they management will improve the condition of the parking lot but then again, I’m still seeing the stray dogs on rainy days. And I wish that they put up more paying booths instead of me walking around from 1 end to another just to pay my parking fee. Moral of the story, pay first upon entry or whenever you see a booth nearby. At least the booths are man – operated so I don’t have to worry about rejected crumpled money.
Mon – Thu: RM 1 per entry
Fri – Sun, Public Holiday: RM 2 per entry
Overnight: RM 10
Well, at least the charges are per entry, not per hour. So you can still watch movie in peace without worrying about your parking fees unlike in CentrePoint on weekday.
Though I kind of hoped that after the charging starts, they management will improve the condition of the parking lot but then again, I’m still seeing the stray dogs on rainy days. And I wish that they put up more paying booths instead of me walking around from 1 end to another just to pay my parking fee. Moral of the story, pay first upon entry or whenever you see a booth nearby. At least the booths are man – operated so I don’t have to worry about rejected crumpled money.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Check out this FREE widget… LinkWithin.
I LOVE this FREE widget!
I received the e – mail from a representative of the company on one fateful day in February promoting this widget and so, I decided to surf the site and check out what it’s all about.
And the results… see below at all those “You might like these stories:”, that is the widget. It functions to look up for all previous posts related to your current post and link them together automatically on the same page. This way, all your old posts will be brought up again to the surface instead of being buried unread by new visitors.
To get the widget in your blog is SO simple! Just go to the site (you can click on its link below this article, just hover your mouse over it and click!) and type in your blog address in the specified area, followed by installing the widget into your blog (they’ll do it for you) and in a few minutes it’s in your blog. No complicated html works required. Now just how simple is that? Plain awesome!!!
And so I proclaim, I am SO in LOVE with this FREE widget!
I received the e – mail from a representative of the company on one fateful day in February promoting this widget and so, I decided to surf the site and check out what it’s all about.
And the results… see below at all those “You might like these stories:”, that is the widget. It functions to look up for all previous posts related to your current post and link them together automatically on the same page. This way, all your old posts will be brought up again to the surface instead of being buried unread by new visitors.
To get the widget in your blog is SO simple! Just go to the site (you can click on its link below this article, just hover your mouse over it and click!) and type in your blog address in the specified area, followed by installing the widget into your blog (they’ll do it for you) and in a few minutes it’s in your blog. No complicated html works required. Now just how simple is that? Plain awesome!!!
And so I proclaim, I am SO in LOVE with this FREE widget!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Ads... Nuffnang, Amazon, AdSense
Since everyone is putting them up, urging me to, and yapping so much about them, I decided to try myself by applying to Nuffnang, Amazon Affiliates and the good - old AdSense. So let's see how it'll turns out... I hope I'm not pushing it too much though.
The only thing I like about these ads is that they become somewhat a form of decoration since they are flashy and so on. LOL Thank God they don't clutter up on the page.
Now, to study!!! And phew, my viva voce went fine except for minor glitches and tongue slips =) I think it's a good day indeed today LOL
The only thing I like about these ads is that they become somewhat a form of decoration since they are flashy and so on. LOL Thank God they don't clutter up on the page.
Now, to study!!! And phew, my viva voce went fine except for minor glitches and tongue slips =) I think it's a good day indeed today LOL
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