Impersonation & Defamation

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Disclaimer: The link above is the impersonator of me and I have no association with above link.

I already filed an impersonation report with blogger.com and if necessary, will file a defamation and/or slander case against the blogger in near future. 

Boundaries

Drawing a line sounds very simple and easy to do on a piece of paper, but when it come to social situations, people really suck at it. It is one of those things easier said than done. I see that is harder to do more so in eastern culture than in the western world where lines are more clear. Maybe it is due to the cultural differences, like how we were brought up. In east, parents are protected (over-protected might be better word) creating tighter familial bond than the west, where independent is encouraged and allowing the kids to think for themselves creating more flexible bond. The tighter the bond, the more complicated social glue it needs, the more unwritten rules, the harder to draw the so-called 'lines'. Due to the protection and overcaring they provided, come the expectations from the society ('so-called asian world'), assumptions of they have power to decide for your life since they are the providers. You are expected by the society to take care of parents when they grew older, respect the elderly and listen and accept to what they have to say unconditionally. If you do none of those, they treat you like an outcast. So when it come to choosing the career, parents pick the right one for the kids. When it is time for the marriage, it has been arranged, 'you will grow into it'. If needed, they will be the one communicating with your wife/husband, but you are not the one doing the communication. Although their intentions are for the better, most of the time it just turns out worse than when it started. To make it worse, sometimes those so-called parents, who have decided for your life because they say they are adults, are so obviously childish and can't even see the obvious because they are blinded by their pride up to a point that they lose their own purpose of becoming the middleman for their kid. All that happens simply due to their inability to draw 'the line'. I can understand and accept picking the career, arranging a wedding, but becoming the middleman in a couple's fight/argument just felt like over the line. If you truly wants to help, it is better to watch and give emotional/physical support when they need it, or be ready to give it when they ask for it. I know it is hard to just sit and watch, but sometimes it is the best thing you can do for another person. I believe that if you truly love your kids as parents, you should be teaching them how to fish, but not fish for them so they will be able to live their lives beyond the years you are alive. 

I hope after reading this post, if you are parent and want to comment, feel free to do so and if you are kid and you have more to add, feel free too.

Always up for discussion.

Food 4 Thought

I don't know how long will I be able to keep up with this blogging. There are so many things that I want to let out. Sometimes I don't understand why asian parents can't just understand their kids. I thought as a parent, you are supposed to love your kid unconditionally. Isn't it a given? I know there are kids who take parents' love for granted, but there are kids who yearned for their whole life, yet they die without ever receiving it. Since I am not a parent yet, so I can't possibly live in their shoe, but I try to understand them as much as my little brain/experience allow me to. On the other hand, the parents, who have so much more experience than we do, they been through where we currently are (being their kid), should understand us more, and be able to live in our shoes. I know they are saying this and that, worrying this and that for your good, but we never been there before and can't possibly understand them clearly. In that case, please, please, please take the time to communicate with the child and have a real (two-way) talk, like you listen to what the kid have to say and then you present your case and both come with a compromised solution. What I am seeing nowadays is that most asian parents use the ultimatum without considering the feelings of the kid, I know they are worry about kid's future. But you as a parent should ask yourself these questions: "is this what your kid really wants (as in have you ask their feeling and understand your kid's logic behind it)?" "or is it something you regret for not being done and think having done it might put you in a better situation than your current one?" I've been using asian parents as I am an asian and I grew up mostly with other asians and in asian community. So I don't want to step out of my bound and generalized to all parents as I don't know how other race/culture in detail.

If you are a parent, feel free to comment your explanation or your side of the story. 

If you are a kid, feel free to comment on your side of the story too.

I just want to have a discussion going and see what we might have to do to reduce dysfunctional families in the community.

GO MAVS!

JK, Dirk, Chandler, Marion all deserve that ring... (pretty much the whole dallas team deserve it)...

DIRK for the final MVP! woooo hooooo!

WOW!

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Is she serious? Maybe then all the "white" shall go sue the movie titled "White boy can't jump" for being super racist. Please get a hold of yourself. Stop blaming everyone for every little mishaps you have. Learn to accept that LIFE is never FAIR to begin with. Oh don't even bring up the slavery and all the history because there has been many laws to reverse the damages. There are many other races that don't even get that kind of treatments so stop whining and just move on. If you want the example, Japaneses decent don't get any reverse discrimination act or what not for their wrongful incarceration and discrimination during world war. The world will be a better place without this is the type of people.

@ World ... maybe lets boycott Naomi's movies/CD/show.. whatever?

@ Operation Black Vote... I know you guys are trying stand up for the good cause, but just a couple of advices to ya! 1) USE YOUR HEAD! 2) DON'T JUST JUMP TO CONCLUSION TOO SOON! (are you sure you can live without KRAFT's products for a couple of days?) 3) KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK (standing up for the good cause)!

@ Kraft... apologize if you have to save yourself from the lawsuit, but I don't see you as racist! Keep up the good products that you guys always made. Just one thing, you shall not even compare your great products with such a pitiful person. Maybe get a new ad with another great person to replace this one. Maybe the Bliss can come in and works together with that great person to save the world or something.

Food For Thought!

What is the meaning of life? (More than one answer to this question, I just want to see what other people think and how they define life.)

Please post your answer(s) in comment!

2nd EXAM

2nd Exam coming up in 2 wks and guess what? I am not ready yet. To make it worse, I don't feel like preparing for it.

Amazing Courage

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1st Exam in a WEEK!

The final semester of the pre-clinical years is here and the very first exam of the semester is due in a week from today!

What have I done so far? Hospital visit and did pathology rotation and saw a couple of autopsies done. Good experience, but I will have to reconsider my thoughts about becoming a clinical pathologist and whatnots. Then did an interview in a surgery ward. My patient seems to be very lonely and looking for someone to speak to or someone to listen to him/her. Patient is an elderly and I am not very shy with elderlies as they remind me of my grandparents. Having taking care of grandma as well as talking with my grandma makes me quite comfortable while I am doing it. At first a bit awkward as there is a cultural barrier as well as a bit of a generation gap and I don't have a clue what the patient likes. But when I found the common ground, the conversation felt like I was talking to my grandma all over again and we had some laughters. One thing I won't ever forget is the moment when I saw the patient eyes sparkle and saw the inner joy. It was unlike any other feeling that I have felted before. I thought it will be hard to leave my patient as he/she might feel sad when I leave due to lack of companion. Surprisingly, it did not happen that way, instead it seems that my patient enjoyed the time. It probably gave him/her the hope for another visit like this from the student or whatnots, only he/she knows. The patient sent me off with a smile and I felt the warmness and sincereness in it.

That aside, diuretic, antihyperlipidemic, antiangina, antihypertensive, antiarrhythmic, inotropic, hemostasis, respiratory drugs were learned. Haven't mastered them yet, but hopefully by Monday next week I will be. Then learned more about the Microbes: pneumonia causing, heart disease causing: the good olds Streptococcus pyogenes, pneumoniae, Haemophilius influenza, Mycobacterium tuberculosis! Oh and the VIRUSES! Orthomyxo, Flavi, Filo just to name a few. Then come the worms and other parasites. You probably guessed that I learned heart and lung pathology as well.

Time to go back to my study again folks. Thanks for tuning in.

Marriage

Marriage!

It is so complicated that I don't even know where to start. So lets start from what others say about Marriage! Some says that it is when 2 persons get together with a celebration. I can see the logic in that, of course, you need 2 persons to get married since marrying yourself will be quite unproductive. Celebration part is just basically DECLARING to your little niche that that PERSON is yours. Then I ask myself, is it really that simple and am I making things too complicated? Or was I not asking the right question to begin with?

However, others say marriage is not just 2 people getting together, but instead it is 2 families getting together tying knots. That includes sharing of wealth, warmth of a family, to escape from loneliness among others. I like this answer better than the former. It sounds more complete and looks like a lot of thoughts has been put into answering it. Here come the problem, how do you decide which is more important? Not everyone shares the same priority. To me everything is equally important. None should worth more than the others. However, if I must prioritize them, this will be my list in the order of importance: 1)Love, 2)Everything thing else. Very simple because without Love from people around you then, it sort of defeats the purpose of escaping loneliness. Furthermore, without Love, you will hardly get any Peace in your life. I am sure many people still say "Money can get you anything!" and I am sure that one of the thing cannot be Peace. Even if they can, the Peace they get will only last for the duration they can spend their money on. Once they stop spending the money, poof goes the Peace. Never can get the eternal Peace. Personally, I don't see the point in living a life that is not Peaceful. Yet many people rank others higher than Love. Maybe that's the reason why we have such high divorce rate in the world today. Most of the marriages today are based on the something other than Love. Once that foundation of marriage has been struck with mayhems, the whole marriage collapses and ending up with a divorce. That is if the foundation is something tangible material such as money. However, when that foundation is Love, the marriage doesn't seems to collapse as easily or won't collapse at all. In here you have to be clear about the Love, because most people nowadays use Love like they use water or money. The real value of Love has been so dissolved that it doesn't even have any special meaning to some people. When I said Love as a foundation, I meant the "True Love", the one that you are accepting he/she as a person from deep down without any influences from his/her superficial looks. So first ask yourself whether it was the True Love or not, when you said your marriage was based on Love yet it collapsed. Maybe your so-called Love was tainted with others and wasn't the True Love that I am talking about.

So follow your dream, and wish you all have a very lovely life ahead of you.

MEANINGLESS COMPETITIONS

People are just unbelievable sometimes. I am sick of dealing with people in general. When you are being nice to them and living humbly, they think you are a dumb@$$. There are so many (meaningless) competitions in life and that is what I hate the most about life. Because of all those competition, people are suffering, wars are going on and PEACE is getting further away everyday. I learned that NOT everyone deserves your kindness equally. Even if you want to treat people equally, I will suggest not to do so unless you are ready to be stepped all over you. You should always keep those people who like to RUB in your face any time they have a chance, in check at all time. Those are the one who will have MEANINGLESS competition and ruin your peaceful mode.

On that not, leave me the F!@# alone, I just want to live peacefully till I die. If you want to compete or compare or trying to get better than me, DO IT QUIETLY and DON'T F!@#ING come rub in my face with your pitiful knowledge or achievements. NOT that I am scare to compete with you, but I just don't want to waste my precious energy in a useless competition. If it is a worthy competition, I don't mind taking your challenge. The only person you should compete against is YOU! Try to get better, stronger, wiser... whatever -er than the you from the day before. That is the only meaningful competition I see. Being said that, you should get the idea that I probably won't even bother to compete with you. I just want to lay low and stay in the low key, I don't want to be F!@#ING famous.

3rd Day!

First of all, today is the 3rd day of classes for the semester. Tomorrow will be the first ICM lab! Looking forward to it! So far so good, info are more integrative than new so it is going well so far. The countdown begins and T-99 and counting down that is!

99 more days... Then Comp... then STEP, then VACATION, then Rotation, then WHO-KNOWS-WHATS-GONNA-HAPPEN!

Can't wait to be over with school and start practicing. I want to serve the under-served community!

Riddle

It has been two and a quarter year since that day! One and a quarter years since I last saw! About 3500 miles apart yet it is very close to my heart!

Feel free to take a shot at this and post your answer (if you think you know it) on comment space!

P.S. Can be more than 1 correct answer!

1st day of 4th Semester

I have a pretty good feeling about this semester. T -103 days and counting down! So far had cardiopathology and cardiomicro. Will be followed by cardiopharm I believe. Along with the fun-filled cardioICM. 1st day went well so far. Enjoyed what I learned today. Looking forward to the end of semester or the 19th of December!

Played basketball today. Knock-out/Bump whatever they called it. 5-7 times champion! Wooo Hooo!

Missing the loved ones from afar. Thank you all for being there with me thick and thin. Thank you for giving me the courage to keep walking on this road. Thanks to you all that I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope that is not the on-coming train though! Either way, with all of your encouragements and support, I will be able to push back if the light is an on-coming train! Miss you all and LOVE you all!

ICM and BEH ORAL

This week is the fun fun week! Open the week with an ICM practical. Out of 14 possible physical exam tasks, you go up and pick a card (luck of your draw) and perform the task in 6 minutes! The proctor ask you a couple of questions and you are being graded on your performance and your answers to his/her questions! Well, I got "Detailed Radial Pulse Exam", pretty simple, find the radial pulse in both hands, describe its tone, volume, characteristics, rate, rhythm. Then do a radial-radial delay and radial-femoral delay! Well... was good till proctor keeps interrupting me and won't let me do my thing :S. I have my own routine to perform the task, but the proctor has his or her own routine. So when the two don't match proctor starts interrupting me thinking I missed something or what not. So I will say it wasn't that good of an experience, but it is OK overall. And today is the behavior oral exam. You get 10 minutes to do an interview on a standardized patient. The patient provide you with a complaint and you are suppose to determine the cause. This is more fun x). The proctor doesn't interrupt you, you are on your own, acting like a real doc interviewing a patient to better understand the cause of his/her problem. Very rewarding experience I will say. However you only get 10 minutes so you have to manage your time and spend it wisely. Fill the grading criteria first then do whatever you pleased, that is if you have extra time. Either way now the semester is coming to an end. Only have 2 more exams and 1 lab final ;)! Can't wait it to be over! One step closer to my GOAL!

Guang Liang - Tong Hua (Translated)

I don't know what will happen in the future. One thing for certain is that we all will have to leave this world one day. It is just a matter of time and waiting for your turn to be called. So while waiting, people do different things to pass the time. Some wonderful, some awful, but nonetheless they all help us to pass the waiting time. Needless to say, whatever you do, live and control your own life so you will have no regret. If you think Fairy Tales are impossible, you are not 100% wrong, but just because they are not 100% true doesn't mean you should stop trying! If the Fairy Tales are your ideal life, then by all mean do what is within your reach to achieve that life! There is nothing wrong with it. Of course people will say you are foolish because you are trying to achieve the impossible! But let me ask you this, have you ever thought about why they are saying that? There are 3 reasons behind why they are calling you foolish! One, they don't have the courage like you to try and fight for the impossible. Second, if you achieve that impossible, then you will be different from them and 1 level above them, and they don't want to see that someone is better than them! Thirdly, they are not taking control of their own lives, instead they let the society set the rules and living inside that little boundary! So go out and push that boundaries and set new boundaries while you can! You will never know unless you try!!!

Expanding Boundaries

I don't know what will happen in the future. One thing for certain is that we all will have to leave this world one day. It is just a matter of time and waiting for your turn to be called. So while waiting, people do different things to pass the time. Some wonderful, some awful, but nonetheless they all help us to pass the waiting time. Needless to say, whatever you do, live and control your own life so you will have no regret. If you think Fairy Tales are impossible, you are not 100% wrong, but just because they are not 100% true doesn't mean you should stop trying! If the Fairy Tales are your ideal life, then by all mean do what is within your reach to achieve that life! There is nothing wrong with it. Of course people will say you are foolish because you are trying to achieve the impossible! But let me ask you this, have you ever thought about why they are saying that? There are 3 reasons behind why they are calling you foolish! One, they don't have the courage like you to try and fight for the impossible. Second, if you achieve that impossible, then you will be different from them and 1 level above them, and they don't want to see that someone is better than them! Thirdly, they are not taking control of their own lives, instead they let the society set the rules and living inside that little boundary! So go out and push that boundaries and set new boundaries while you can! You will never know unless you try!!!

Been A Long Time

Well well well... I haven't been on here for ages. I was having too much fun in my current semester. It has been a blast so far since the first day. Things are getting more interesting, but so is the amount of materials and workloads. I celebrated my B-Day on the island, away from my parents for the very first time that is. I won't ever forget that! Was a blast yet I am still ambivalent about it as partially feel sad not to be together with parents to celebrate B-Day. However, my friends here made it a blast! So first and foremost, thank you guys! I really appreciate it for showing up and making it a merry party!

I will post the pictures from that day soon in case if you guys want to see them. I hope to do something similar after the semester or even after next Mini! Looking forward to gather again and have fun... I might need some inputs from you guys as well for the future events!

First Patient Interview

I had my first live patient interview on Monday. It wasn't that bad of an experience, but it is completely different from DPS papers that we've been writing in first and second semester. Those paper, you formulate your own questions and answer or you write a story tailored to your need. However those papers helped me quite a bit. At the very least, they gave me a sense of confidence and made me think that I know what I am doing. Those papers put me in ease when I was doing the interview. I will usually be at like super anxious stage in those situation, however I found myself at ease maybe a little nervous as a first timer, but nothing more. Hey, to tell you the truth, it is far from being perfect, but didn't make me feel like an idiot with a pen and paper sitting there and doesn't know what to do. If I have to rate myself I will generously gave myself 6.5/10. That is how perfect it is. I missed to get some information or do a complete ROS. I was jumpy over different sessions because I was letting the interview to take its own course. That is mainly due to my lack of organizational skill and didn't have a good grasp of the structure of the interview. I think I will improve greatly maybe up to 8.5 or higher on my second live interview! I am looking forward to do it more!

The only thing is that clinic visit took about 25-30 minutes ride and the winding road made me nauseous. :( I felt like throwing up when I got to the clinic.

Also I have to write a report or write-up on that patient and due by this Friday. I am pretty much done with it and doing final touches. So far so good??? Don't know yet, I have to wait and see! Can't draw any conclusion for sure yet!

Mother's Day Poem!

အေမ

ကိုးလလြယ္လို႕၊ ဆယ္လဖြား၊ အေမ့ရဲ့သတၱိမ်ား။

ရင္ခြင္ပိုက္ကာႏို႕ခ်ိဳတိုက္၊ ဂ႐ူဏာအစဥ္စိုက္။

အရြယ္ေရာက္ေတာ့ေက်ာင္းပို႕ကာ၊ ပညာသင္ေပးရွာ။

ေန႕မအား၊ ညမနား၊ သူ႕ဘဝကိုပင္သူေမ့ထား။

ပညာစံုလို႕ ၾကင္ရာသို႕၊ အေမ့မွာလိုက္ကာပို႕။

သားသမီးျငီးညဴ မ်က္ႏွာစူ၊ အေမ့ရင္မွာပူ။

ဆဲကာဆိုကာေျပာလို႕သြား၊ အေမကေတာ့ေမတၱာထား။

ေမတၱာမပ်က္ကာ ဆက္ခ်စ္တာ၊ အေမတို႕ရဲ့ က်င့္စဥ္ပါ။

အေမတို႕ရဲ့ မိုးေကာင္းကင္၊ သားသမီးတို႕ရဲ့ မ်က္ႏွာျပင္။

အသက္ကိုပင္စေတးလို႕ေပး၊ အေမ့ရဲ့ခ်စ္တဲ့ေသြး။

Mother's Day လို႕ေခၚတဲ့ဟာ၊ တႏွစ္မွာတခါလာ။

ေပးလိုက္ၾကတဲ့ gifts ေတြဟာ၊ အထဲက အာပလာ။

အေမ့ေက်းဇူး မဆပ္ဖူး၊ သားသမီးမိုက္ကာ႐ူး။