Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Rahman Prediction - Malaysia Prime Ministers

Have you ever hear the so called "Rahman Prediction" before? Well is the first time I heard about this prediction from my colleague, Beatrix whilst we are discussed on the result of the latest Malaysia 2008 Election. She said that she knew this since studied in Secondary School (SPM) from a teacher.
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I have made a table to show you what is the "Rahman Prediction" actually about? According the "Rahman Prediction", our Malaysia Prime Minister candidates will have a name begin with the alphabet R.A.H.M.A.N (please refer to the table below for better understanding):
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Can you see it? Between, during Tun Mahathir Mohamad being our PM, Anwar Ibrahim who was our x-Deputy PM also having an "A" as the first alphabet in his name! But later he was found to involved in the sexual scandal & caught into the jail, and Adullah Badawi who is our recent PM is rised up to be our Deputy PM.
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Then after Pak Lah, who will be our next PM? As we all know, Najib Abdul Razak is our recent Deputy PM, and just right he have the "N" as the first alphabet in his name! Amazing enough,right? So do you think the "Rahman Prediction" will bring us another miracle & make it come true in the future, by which Najib Addul Razak (or somebody else with first alphabet "N" in his name) will become our 6th PM?
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If so, after our 6th PM, will the "Rahman Prediction" continue play the role to determine who is our future PM by start over again with R.A.H.M.A.N? Or there be another prediction exist? Or is it possible that after the 6th PM, we may have a first non-Malay PM?
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Sunday, March 9, 2008

Good or Bad? What Do You Think?

Malaysia 2008 Election has just been carried up yesterday (8 Aug 08), it has became a hot & interesting issue which us Malaysians (perhaps the foreign countries as well) really care of. As the election results will determine the fate & the movement of the Malaysia in the coming next 5 years.
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Im sure you know better than me on the latest 2008 Election results, as you might be one of the bloggers who blog about this issue very closely & professionally. Don't you? Below is part of the news grabbed from sinchew-i.com for your reading pleasure: -
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國陣失檳雪霹吉政權‧國會三分二優勢不保
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(吉隆坡)國陣在本屆大選蒙受重挫,除了再痛失4個州政權,即檳城、雪蘭莪、霹靂和吉打外,也無法從回教黨手中奪回吉蘭丹州政權;而在吉隆坡聯邦直轄區則幾乎全面淪陷,只保住一個國會議席。
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截至凌晨2時,國陣已贏得125個國席,再度執政;而反對黨總共贏得了78席,否決了國陣的三分之二多數議席;還有19個國席的成績尚未公佈。
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另一方面,霹靂州政權在凌晨2時左右落入反對黨手裡。反對黨奪得30席,國陣只保住29席。反對黨在檳州40個州議席中拿下25席,其中行動黨競選19個州議席全勝,預料行動黨秘書長林冠英將出任檳州首席部長,一圓該黨多年來執政檳州之夢。
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吉打州已由獲得最多議席的回教黨執政,而雪州政權則在午夜12時宣告易手,預料將由公正黨代表出任大臣。公正黨顧問拿督斯里安華於午夜在其住家召開緊急新聞發布會,而反對黨支持者也在午夜時分圍繞在雪州政府大廈。............
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(Read more at 星洲互动)
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Breathtaking news, BN has lost its political powers in 4 states: Penang, Kedah, Selangor & Perak, while failed to grab the political power from the PAS in Kelantan. This meant that in the next 5 years the opposition parties will be in power to rule in the 5 states by establish a new state government in each state very soon. But Im wondering, why should DAP, PKR or PAS still known as a opposition party? Is it just because of the political powers of the Malaysia are still majority under BN?
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Although the opposition parties had a flying colour election results in West Malaysia, they DON'T in Borneo Island (Sabah & Sarawak)! ~Sigh~ In my state (Sarawak), the lawyer Chong Chieng Jen (张健仁) is the only DAP parliament member of Kuching Town who able to stand firm & won in 2008 Election. DAP had conducted a "10,000 People Assembly" in Chong Lin Park, Kuching a night before the 8.3.08, and the next day evening he managed beat his competitor the lawyer Alan Sim (沈耀荣) with the majority votes of almost 10,000 votes (actual votes: 9,952).....AMAZING enough!!!
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10,000 People Assembly by DAP
(photo grabbed from www.chiengjen.blogspot.com)
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So, what do you think? What is your first thought & reaction when you get known the above news? Well, is a good or is a bad, Im not in the position to further comment on this topic as Im not really familiar with the political issues. For me, please just let them have an opportunity & a try, and let the "time" be our most honest witness to prove & tell us the outcome in future!
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Friday, March 7, 2008

Doctor, Are You Serious?

What will you do if doctor tell you that you have the diabetes?
Shocked?
Nothing to do & just accept the reality & fact?
Don't belief & try to argue with the doctor?
Visit other doctor for second opinion?
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I have heard lots of bad feedbacks & complaints made by the customers to the doctor(s) they visited since I’m working in the medical lab for 4 years. Anyway, it may not a complaint as I said; it may be more alike a suspicious to the doctors’ professional or it may be just a misunderstanding?
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The scenario almost the same: Patient (customer) has done a blood test in a clinic. After consulted with the doctor, (s)he is shocked & worried, as doctor told that (s)he had the diabetes & medicine prescription is needed. Well, some patients might just simply accept & follow whatever being told or advised by the doctor, but some seem so hard to belief it & manage to find out the real story. Finally they came to the lab & of course I’m the one who entertained them. After listened to their stories on the “What”, the “How” & the “Why”, I started to play my role to remove the “?” from their queries! ( So funny & weird, how come they not trust the doctor but trust me more? :p )
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I also wondered why (how) some doctors are so expert & can simply diagnose a patient has the diabetes with just single blood or urine testing. Or without further investigation on the symptoms, family history & etc the patient might have?
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None of the diseases can be diagnosed with only single testing (as none of the testing are 100% accurate! If there is any clinic or lab tells hat they can provide you a 100% accurate blood test results, then they are bullshit!) ; it must at least twice, or perhaps more are required. A patient tested with high blood glucose / sugar (or glucose content in the urine) at the very first time not mean that (s)he must has the diabetes. It may be due to other reasons, like patient just had the meal or not fasted over a required fasting period (10 to 12 hours before the blood testing) or sometime other underlying biological factor(s) may play a role too. Likewise, a diabetes patient can tested with normal blood glucose as well, if they are over fasted or is under effective medication control. So how a doctor can tell if a patient has the diabetes with single blood or urine test & without any further investigation?
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Firstly, may be the doctor is still new with no experience or perhaps (s)he doesn’t know the truth behind the lab test findings! Anyway this is not a good excuse; if the so called “new doctor” has no idea on the right diagnostic procedure for the diabetes (as one of the most common disorders human being had), then what more we can expect from them? Secondly, doctor gives the patient wrong piece of information intentionally, with the hope to boost the drug / medicine selling (profits) high up? If this happen, I think the “Beast” or “Bitch” would be the best word to describes such an un-ethical doctor. Thirdly, may be patient him (her) self misunderstood the doctor’s message, especially if you don’t know how to differentiate the high blood glucose & diabetes.

For those people who may experience this before or after, the thing you must do is to ask doctor do another blood test for you, or ask doctor to do the OGTT (Oral Glucose Tolerance Test) to confirm the diabetes status. Of course now-a-day, there is another test that you may interest to get it done---HbA1c (Glycosylated hemoglobin). HbA1c may able to monitor & tell your blood glucose level in the last 2 to 3 months, although it actually is used to monitor how well a patient is under a medication control.
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With the HbA1c, you never can cheat to your doctor if you are a diabetes patient who never obeys to the advice & instruction in diabetes control plan; even if you have tried to over fasted (with or without strenuous exercise) or take the medicine only a very short period from the date of the blood testing, the HbA1c test will still shows an abnormal result (poor control).
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Symptoms of High Blood Glucose or Diabetes
(Picture grab from www.xtend-life.com)

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Sunday, March 2, 2008

My Saturday Night with "The Mist"

I like watching movie very much, especially those action, horror & comedy movies (love movies occasional lah), I'll never miss it. Of course, it is impossible to watch all the movies in the cinema, so only sellected & worthy movies to watch in the cinema, the rest to play with pirated VCD or DVD.
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Last night I just went to have a movie "The Mist" 《迷雾惊魂》in Star Cineplex with Fern. "The Mist", a movie directed by Frank Darabont, mainly star by Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden & Alexa Davalos. Although there is nothing special or new in the story line, it is a nice movie & worth to have a watch in the cinema. After finished the movie, my feeling was messy & complicated, as the feeling of happy & upset come at the same time. Why?
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Movie Poster of "The Mist"
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I like & happy with its ending, as it is much different from other movies which with the same category or story line; the ending was out of my expectation. I thought the Thomas Jane & others will finally find a solution to solve & terminate the problem rised, but he isn't......!
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A scene in "The Mist" (grab from dreadcentral.com)
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At the same time, I really dislike the ending, it was a sad ending. While Thomas Jane with other 4 persons (include his son) are trying to get assistance from the outside in a vehicle in the mist with hidden dangerous, the mission failed as the vehicle is running out of the fuel. When they were dismay & thought that there is no way out, they decided to end up 5 lifes with 4 shoots............(to know the whole story, please watch the movie )............Thomas Jane remain alive & he just found that the "Mist" is just over with the rescue from the army teams.......!
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The moral of the story I learnt from "The Mist" is that, no matter how never surrender under any circumstance or to any one easily. As been taught by most celebrities --- "All the troubles rised must at least with a reason & a solution to fixed".
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Never ever give up! (Have you see this picture before?)
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The most simple reason that we mustn't give up --- we don't know when the un-desirable will turn into desirable; we will never know how far is the hope or success apart from us...it might be still far apart, very soon, or almost happen. If it is almost happen, but you just so impatience & can't wait & have just gave up, than it would be end up with a sadness & regrettable consequence.
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Saturday, March 1, 2008

Will You Need A House-Maid?

First of all, before I start this topic, I would like to emphasis that whenever I mention the word "House-Maid" or "Maid" in this entry, it would mainly refer to those foreigners who derived from the neighbouring countries. ( I assume that you know better than me, so not going to reveal the countries names here for certain reasons! )
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Now-a-day most of the big & rich families (even the small & families) like to employ House-Maid(s) to lighten the burdens of the so called "Housewife". Of course it might not exactly only lighten the burdens, some are even totally take over the roles of an "Housewife" or perhaps a "Mother" by doing all the nursery tasks, house-works (all types of cleaning & washing), gardening and so on. Perhaps if the house-maids are well educated, they will need to assist the childs in the homeworks revision & learning process as well...!!!
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If let say your family really need one or more house-maid(s) to do whatever jobs from low to high, light to heavy & inside to outside the house, I have few advices here so you can take note of it to avoid any unnecessary troublesome:~
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Firstly, never trust the Foreign Worker Agents. Before the foreigners can stay & work in local, they must undergo a medical check-up to prove that they are healthy & not carry any infective diseases. The agent(s) will arrange & do all the necessaries prior sending over the qualified house-maid to you. Well, please bear in mind that the agent(s) can sometime with the help from an un-ethical doctor & lab to have a false medical report. So no matter how, you must bring the maid for 2nd medical check-up (blood test alone will do), of course at different clinic & lab is preferrable ( unfortunately, normally you will never have chance to see the medical report by agents, so you will never know which clinic & lab they used ).
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Secondly, you may heard about have experienced it before by which the house-maid run away (disappeared) from somebody's your house & never come back again. This might be problem created by the agent intentionally. Then why? Do you know that once the qualified house-maid accepted, you will need to pay the agent a certain amount of agent fee which not less than RM4K and if you "lost" the maid & can never manage to find her back, you will be fined a certain amount which not less than RM1K? If the agent sent you a maid & later "kidnap" her and send to other house, then keep repeating this process, can you imagine how much they can earn from a single maid? So please monitor the maid's behaviour closely.You should strictly prohibit them direct contact with strangers or if possible the agent in the 2 years working permit period.
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Note:
1. The condition may vary from one place to another place, so the above only based on the local scenario.
2. Some agents will closely monitor both employer & worker's behaviour, to make sure employer treat the worker nicely & worker performs their tasks ideally.
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Thirdly, if you don't know how to respect the maid, or you think that you are superior & they are low class with no dignity. I would advice you not to have any maid at home. As we have heard & witness too many bully (abuse) foreign worker(s) cases, we don't want any of the foreign workers become your next victim! The salary for a maid is only RM250-350/month at my place, and they suppose being paid the full total amount after finished the 2 years working permit, but the sad news is some of them not being paid even a single cent! You see, they are coming to our country with the hope can earn some money to reduce their families' burdens, but end up with empty pocket after 2 years of works. How do they going to face & explain to their families & others when back to the home country?
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