Sunday, July 15, 2007
Death, the second of The Endless, you are responsible for ending all lives and taking them to your realm, from which no one ever returns. You are bright, positive, happy, optimistic and enjoy everything about life, but that does not mean your silly or stupid. You can lay the smack down when you have to! Everyone loves you, and they don't know why.
I'm reading The Sandman again.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
A cautious right toe in
This is not a time to start blogging again. Experience tells me not to become a blog whore the moment I need release. Another non-literary form would be safer, more sensible, but not necessarily the most appropriate.
But something tells me, who cares? Who will be reading? So many voices sound the same, and I'm exactly one of the many faceless but needful voices on the internet yearning to pretend someone will listen to the shit that we churn out everyday.
Be it whining about work or thinking about the future, isn't this the perfect medium, government surveillance not withstanding? So many voices think alike, and I'm not the only one they need to shut up.
Be that as it may, I am not of the happy-blogging-what-I-did-today-update blog. Something beckons. I want my story to be told. But at what cost?
Hate talking like that. Used to read singabloodypore.com and felt they were relevant. Now they sound a little too radical. The Gov't may be bad but to paint them they way they do is like trying to make tar a lighter shade of pink.
This is not a time to start blogging again. Experience tells me not to become a blog whore the moment I need release. Another non-literary form would be safer, more sensible, but not necessarily the most appropriate.
But something tells me, who cares? Who will be reading? So many voices sound the same, and I'm exactly one of the many faceless but needful voices on the internet yearning to pretend someone will listen to the shit that we churn out everyday.
Be it whining about work or thinking about the future, isn't this the perfect medium, government surveillance not withstanding? So many voices think alike, and I'm not the only one they need to shut up.
Be that as it may, I am not of the happy-blogging-what-I-did-today-update blog. Something beckons. I want my story to be told. But at what cost?
Hate talking like that. Used to read singabloodypore.com and felt they were relevant. Now they sound a little too radical. The Gov't may be bad but to paint them they way they do is like trying to make tar a lighter shade of pink.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Well, I've got cable and digital TV at the condo! But need to study, Part One is only next Tuesday.
Life has been unfair to me, but it's not mine to complain, but to weather it through and hopefully come out a stronger and better person.
Life has been unfair to me, but it's not mine to complain, but to weather it through and hopefully come out a stronger and better person.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
In GS
No jobs here my friend. Like every other discipline. Time to learn how to sell insurance/ stocks or get lots of locums.
And of married life
Gtting married to a foreigner who is NOT WHITE and NOT MALAYSIAN is no easy task. not that the xenophobic government had anything to do with making it harder.
I had to get a cert from ROM declaring I'm single, go to CID ( yes, Criminal Investigations) to apply since she previously had a working permit here, and they asked us lots of questions. Good thing my occupation held up everything. Imagine if I was just a deliveryman. And everytime she flies in she's questioned like she's committed a crime. A measly 2 week visa which requires extending by going to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority where they speak to you in that same tone, sitting with the ah peks and their China girlfriends, the Mongols, Bangladeshis, and the many more nationalities that do try to call Singapore a home but unfortunately are not considered " desirable".
I try to connect that with the Home Affairs' message of welcoming foreign talent and infusing new blood and I'm a little miffed. Not that I'm unware governments do toe a different line behind the common man's back, but I was expecting a little more manners, less menace.
No jobs here my friend. Like every other discipline. Time to learn how to sell insurance/ stocks or get lots of locums.
And of married life
Gtting married to a foreigner who is NOT WHITE and NOT MALAYSIAN is no easy task. not that the xenophobic government had anything to do with making it harder.
I had to get a cert from ROM declaring I'm single, go to CID ( yes, Criminal Investigations) to apply since she previously had a working permit here, and they asked us lots of questions. Good thing my occupation held up everything. Imagine if I was just a deliveryman. And everytime she flies in she's questioned like she's committed a crime. A measly 2 week visa which requires extending by going to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority where they speak to you in that same tone, sitting with the ah peks and their China girlfriends, the Mongols, Bangladeshis, and the many more nationalities that do try to call Singapore a home but unfortunately are not considered " desirable".
I try to connect that with the Home Affairs' message of welcoming foreign talent and infusing new blood and I'm a little miffed. Not that I'm unware governments do toe a different line behind the common man's back, but I was expecting a little more manners, less menace.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
My banner is up and functioning well again, thanks to some inexplicable bug blogger fixed.
Anyway, yesterday was the deadline for choosing MOPEX - Medical Officers Posting EXercise. I gave Urology, Orthopaedics, Anaesthesia, Cardiothoracic, Paediatric Surg and Neurosurgery a shot in that order. Not sure if speaking to the head of Urology is going to get me in.
I don't even REALLY like urology but I figured I better work around the different disciplines before really deciding. The other reason is because GS is certainly not easy to get in, and much much much harder to get out of.
Taking leave from 25th to 30th to register in Thailand. Hopefully everything goes well. Would love to post some funny photos of work, but it's bordering on old makcik pron so I better not.
Anyway, yesterday was the deadline for choosing MOPEX - Medical Officers Posting EXercise. I gave Urology, Orthopaedics, Anaesthesia, Cardiothoracic, Paediatric Surg and Neurosurgery a shot in that order. Not sure if speaking to the head of Urology is going to get me in.
I don't even REALLY like urology but I figured I better work around the different disciplines before really deciding. The other reason is because GS is certainly not easy to get in, and much much much harder to get out of.
Taking leave from 25th to 30th to register in Thailand. Hopefully everything goes well. Would love to post some funny photos of work, but it's bordering on old makcik pron so I better not.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
I have survived an entire 14 months without cable, without easy net access at home and totally no gizmos.
Yesterday i just bought a panasonic Lumix, read the papers, watched portugal beat engand on the internet, and took a ride on my bike again.
Felt good but different.
Yesterday i just bought a panasonic Lumix, read the papers, watched portugal beat engand on the internet, and took a ride on my bike again.
Felt good but different.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
" Internship" Lost
These three weeks not being a house officer are great. Sort of. You do spend less time in the ward, someone else can do the changes for you, and at least you can start running clinics under ( very) close supervision. It's not like I haven't had a single clinic in Cambodia or Nias but the Singaporean clinic patient is somewhat different. Medico-legal issues and hospital consultants' spheres of influence now present themselves much more acutely than when I was just another new addition to the system.
Obviously can't say more than that.
Not sure as to whether being a specialist would be the right thing ( and of course whether anyone will let me become one in the first place!). Being a GP has no shame to it, the driving factor being family time. Getting married at the end of the year and thinking about a new family has brought doubts into whether I want to spend my firstborn's first birthday in the operating theatre doing someone else's operation for the next ten years.
I can obviously survive on running a small clinic outside, but what if I'm cut out for surgery - and what if I'm not?
Having come this far, I'm stumped. What to do?
Likely: Take the MRCS part one, and see what happens. You never know. Goodness, friends have already passed theirs - good for them to know what they want, but unfortunately I don't.
These three weeks not being a house officer are great. Sort of. You do spend less time in the ward, someone else can do the changes for you, and at least you can start running clinics under ( very) close supervision. It's not like I haven't had a single clinic in Cambodia or Nias but the Singaporean clinic patient is somewhat different. Medico-legal issues and hospital consultants' spheres of influence now present themselves much more acutely than when I was just another new addition to the system.
Obviously can't say more than that.
Not sure as to whether being a specialist would be the right thing ( and of course whether anyone will let me become one in the first place!). Being a GP has no shame to it, the driving factor being family time. Getting married at the end of the year and thinking about a new family has brought doubts into whether I want to spend my firstborn's first birthday in the operating theatre doing someone else's operation for the next ten years.
I can obviously survive on running a small clinic outside, but what if I'm cut out for surgery - and what if I'm not?
Having come this far, I'm stumped. What to do?
Likely: Take the MRCS part one, and see what happens. You never know. Goodness, friends have already passed theirs - good for them to know what they want, but unfortunately I don't.
