Busy weeks

the long gap in the entry is due to the busy past 2 weeks. on the 7th of June went to KL. i was upposed to attend the 21st Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Congress (APAO) in Singapore which began on the 10th of June, got confused about the dates. arrived in KLIA, presented my tickets and the staff was dumb founded, asked did i confirm my tickets. i was also puzzled by the query since i endeed had confirmed. finally revealed i came to the airport a day earlier!

anyway arrived in the Lion City at 2.00 pm checked in at Conrad Centennial Park Hotel. registered myself at the congress with a little delay since they couldn't find my name and whether i had cleared through the payments.

anyway, all hustle was cleared, i went to the exhibition, looked at booths with very simple displays. not quite what i expected. further enquiry led me to know that this congress which was hosted by our neighbouring country was a very expensive affair with exorbitant charges. no wonder the companies were screeching through, but still they managed...

moreover, learned from some trusted resources, they even refused to let Malaysians pay in Sing dollars, insisted on US Dollars! when were host last year, the Singaporeans got special discount, they were paying in ringgit!
that's something huh.... the difference of our ways..

Someone kissed my bump

while we were driving on the road towards selising in pasir putih, the car in front of us put on an emergency brake. i was lucky, just a mere inches away able to brake. in the few seconds i was praying my thanks to Allah, heard a big sound and my car vibrated. pulled away and saw the back bumper was crushed and angulated up. my god... the two young ladies on the motorbike was on the ground from the heavy momentum, and the bike had actually kissed the rear bumper.

can you believe it, the ladies didn't even have their licence, not wearing helmets and had no purse/wallets, and suffice to say no identity cards with them? Whether they were liars or so careless...

so there i was, too soft hearted to demand any payment from them, insisted their father's phone no. and till now no one is answering their house phone yet. am i being duped? not the first time....

Kelantan in national news

This week spread in the newspapers contained 2 big news from Kelantan which hit the national headlines. First, is the contractor from Tanah Merah who cut hit ehem! ...penis following an arguement from his jealous wife. I was dumbfounded to say the least. Since when the male species had to resort to self destructive way to prove himself an honest man? is the wommen now acquiring such powers to keep the XY chromosomes more home-bound? what men will do for women, for love, for the sanctity of the now not holy marriage institution?

The second news is conserning malaysia's darling and singing sensation Siti Nurhaliza. An old man in Pasir Putih claimed that he is the famous singer's father. my comment on this is ... he and his responsible family must have a good enough reason to cause heartache and unnecessary grief to the singer's family. I mean,, get real... if you can't prove with DNA paternity testing, get out!

Jogyakarta earthquake

I was slow in response to this major catastrophe in Central Java. the irony of it was, the much awaited major eruption from Gunung Merapi actually should be a warning to the geologist and the government of the impending disaster. who should be blamed for it? there should be some kind of a warning system similar like the tsunami warning system for this. as the central java is a highly populated area, this kind of major disaster will sacrife a lot of lives.

among the news regarding the earthquake that really attracted my attention was the ever readiness of our medical students to help out in the hospitals. medical students should be fully utilised in the field because they have the skills in suturing, wound dressing, nursing, putting bandages and POP, setting IV's and giving medication. this would also expose them to the reality of life although may be to some, is premature. parents should be proud to have their children working in the disaster areas, provided of course they remain in the safer areas.

i hope there are lessons to be learnt here and should be learnt fast by the Indonesian government. for the people of malaysia, although we are outside the boundary of the pacific line of fire (the areas with the volcanoes), we are never far from the threat of life, as has been proven before in Dec 2004 (tsunami). be thankful to God that we are safe now. for the indonesians who have lost their beloved, and also their properties, i pray for you...

My Team vs Malaysia & AF4

So finally the day came, how the mighty has fallen! 28th may 2006 - My Team vs malaysia. with baited breath we all waited to see how the new amateur team fare against the not-so 11 best of the malaysian team. the first 10 minutes saw what a struggle the new team had to go through the game. i guess they need more practice and not so prepared.

amidst all the politics in the Malaysian Football team, coming up with a new and fresh team from scouting thousands of hopeful football players, it was a commendable effort.

on the next TV, astro played the Prelude Concert of AF4. not difficult to select the talents there. some has none worth spoken of. i admit it was a disappointment to see the level of performance ...made you think is this the best of malaysian talents in the field? some have no identitiy, some too immature to launch a career (what do you expect, being mushy after 3 weeks separation from parents?). The rest need a lot to polish up.

we'll see the first concert next week!

School holidays start

In Kelantan today is the official start of the school holidays. Not only students are on holidays, my colleagues are also away taking the time to be off from the work pressure. Moi? My daughter has her extra tuition lined up, so there goes the holidays...

This is the time when there'll be influx of tourists and outsiders to Kota Bharu. As usual, there'll be extra traffic jam, extra crowd, extra patients, extra epidermic, and the most important.. the prices of goods will rise!

Tis' the weekend

Since in this state the weekend starts on friday, it's usually the 'all odd jobs day' for me. waking up early to prepare breakfast, going to the ward to see my admitted patients and finally going to the market...
usually at the Wakaf Che Yeh day market, we get the grocery shopping done at reasonable prices. also meeting up friends at a non-professional ground place also doing there chores..

At the fruit stalls..

We went to Wakaf Che Yeh again to buy more mangoes for my brother to bring home. at a stall the sign said "4 kg/ RM10". thinking it was a very attractive offer, we stopped. Then the vendor said this type of mango (which my brother had set his heart on buying) was actually selling at RM4/kg (lie No. 1). so we picked up some, but the vendor instead picked some of his choice (we had to just observe this because his hands were quicker and lighter). we went back and noticed that the ones he picked up (nearer at the top of the mound - quite out of our reach) were quite rotten (lie no. 2). the best thing was when he gave us the balance, it was short of RM5 (lie no. 3). i guess i shouldn't accuse another person of cheating, but i think it was close to that. furthermore in a state where there is such a discrimination, we being the 'outsiders' here are often the victims of such...

Still new at this...

Still finding ways to master this blog stuff. My sister at Karangkraf recently introduced me to blog writing, thank you sis.

My big brother came over from JB last two days to attend a course at one of the local hotels in KB. We went to visit the famous Pasar malam Wakaf Che Yeh. If you're a kelantanese you'd be familiar with this night market selling everything ... from vegetables, fruits to clothes and foods.

So we were just sitting at one of the food stalls and occupied our time looking at all the flies, they were everywhere!

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