Xbox Kinect

So this is the thing that i have looking forward to since June 2010 ... the Xbox Kinect (aka Project Natal previously) Preordered it from GAME and it was launched today and it arrive on my doorstep at 8 am today.... OMG.... the excitement was too huge.... unwrapped it and found this big (well bigger than expected) gadget... the wide is almost the size of my little 19" TV.... So now.... trying out the game straight away and it's so fun... Obviously, there are some problems as listed below;

• My room is too small to play kinect
• My TV is too small to have good gaming experience... a 32" and above would be ideal
• I need more games....
• I GOT NO MONEY to buy more games ... :(
• The voice command is cool (because it even recognised my very thick chinapek accent) but only work on ZUNE TV and not standard DVD that I have... so i can't just be 100% controller free in a movie.... still need the big xbox controller...
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Well.... guys get it ... it's so gooood :) What's next? More money to buy games!!!!

Autumn is here

Autumn is here... and Christmas is coming....I am bored \(-~-)/

After SO Long....

Being back to Kuching from my ridiculous tedious rota after 1 year... nothing has change much in Kuching... same old mushrooming cafes still going on.... more shopping mall being built to accommodate the increasingly demanding Kuchingnites...

Actually, what I intend to do in this post is to express my deepest disappointment with the taxi service in Kuala Lumpur. I am not new to the amazingly rude, reckless taxi drivers we have in KL... i have had plenty of experience with them... the media have already repeatedly reported the same old problems we have face when using their services.... BUT... despite all these, WHY ARE THERE STILL NO CHANGES????!?!?!?? WTF is going on?!?!?!? Why does it only happen in KL and not in Singapore... is there a big loop hole that the taxi drivers are smarter than the politician to exploit?

So, what actually happen to make me write this..... SO here I was, flying from Kuching to KL to attend my friends wedding on the auspicious 10.10.10. I arrived on the 9.10.10 in LCCT and decided to take the bus to sentral and hoping to get a cab from the taxi counter to avoid the hassle of bargaining with those bastards ( not all of them) Got into one taxi (Proton Iswara Car Plate HB5***) Indian Driver.... passed him the ticket to drive me to Renaissance Hotel. Poorly kept taxi, cigarrettes odour, no air conditioned. seatbelt that does not work.... just my bad luck to get this cab... BUT nevermind, it is just a short journey to the hotel.... NO....

So, we started our journey... got out of sentral and he started finding out where am I from... I said from Penang hoping that he will pressume that I know my way around KL (can't really say I am from KL because i was carrying a huge luggage and going to a hotel) He appear to be alcohol intoxicated (hopefully not, but he does look like one of those drunken bastard who present to ED on Friday nights) But fine, the first turning outside sentral, he mistook it and have to go back to sentral again. FINE... I thought he genuinely missed the turning.... then he continue his reckless driving in the middle of the road..

You pandai cakap bahasa melayu tak?? I said yes.... then he started babbling away in Malay about what am i doing in KL here for bla bla bla.... halfway there, he decided to pulled over near the train station (in the middle of a fast busy traffic) where an Irish Man was standing, who was clearly hoping to hire a taxi. He thought it was his lucky day for a taxi just appear in front of him and willing to take him in... he was shocked to see me at the back of the taxi.... he was hoping to get to swiss garden hotel... the taxi bager said yes and said I am going the same way.... i was like WTF.... and corrected him... he dare to turn to me and said... SAYA tahu, boss, cari makan boss, sorry boss... jangan marah..... !"$£$*£&$£@"$*£!!!!

The Irish guy felt bad for me because he came into the cab... but in my heart I was thinking, '' DO YOU EVEN HAVE AN IDEA WHAT KIND OF CAB HAVE YOU GOT INTO??? '' At that time, i was hoping that i know some irish language to warn him... but no... i have no way of warning him.... The irish guy requested the metre but the taxi guy refused... and start chatting with him in broken english... i was like thinking '' YOU ARE IN DEEP SHIT'' actually me tooo...

Luckily, we passed by Renaissance hotel and I have to remind him to turn into my hotel... after unloading my luggage, when I wanted to walk away, he grabbed my hand and said 'BOSS , you belum bayar''

That time, the anger level is like through my head and i shouted back... '' SAYA SUDAH BAGI KAMU TIKET TADI... JANGAN KAMU TAMAK, Kamu LAGI mahu TIPU ORANG PUTIH ITU.... ''

He was shocked went into his cab and drove away....

I was so annoyed and frustrated with these people... how can our government, our police force, our transportation department ignore this and let this go on for so long.... is there nothing they can do to restrict these people??

Great Disappointment....

Valentine's Day Shift in A&E

A&E Night shift during valentine's day... What kind of patients do u expect to have to attend the department?

Drunken People? - Yeah, you are right... Lost of drunken people came in after partying hard outside and had a fall and have laceration everywhere, the arms, legs or head... And with alcohol onboard, some couple who are suppose to be loving turn out to be aviolent monster and started hitting the partner with empty bottle... Two cases of those came in... escorted by police officers somemore.... I guess they are seeing each other anymore after that night....

Overdose? - Yeah... you will be surprise how many overdose we get that night.... anything u can think of, paracetamol the most common... love and hatred.... scary eh...

and lots of cardiac arrest as well... for reason no one understood.... hmmm.... argument maybe?

Well... not bad shift afterall...

Life so far...

In the UK, after completing your foundation year training as doctor... you will move on to specialist traning pathway... over the past few years ... there have been some drastic changes in the pathway...

Every year, around Dec to April, most of the second year foundation doc would be busy dealing with jobs application and attending interviews and waiting eagerly for their job offer... many ppl would pray hard for getting job offer within the first round because trust me... getting through all the application forms are tedious and attending interviews are not enjoyable activities to do... Core medical, core surgical, acute care commom stem, paeds, o&g, anaethestic.... all different route and different requirement...

I attempted for the paeds pathway this time... and going through interviews by giving contradicting advice on swine flu vaccine, the ever so disheartening MSF, critically appraise paper and present it in 45 minutes... structured interview that make u pissed in ur pants trying to hold your nerve to answer it in the sensible way... are interview the best way to judge whether a doctor is suitable for the job the best way?

some might argue how a person react in nervous situation is exactly how a doctor is when facing emergency situation and would be all protray out during interview thus supporting having medical interviews to seek for the best candidates... however, have you ever wonder how many good doctors outside are left jobless and in great disappointment when job offer was not given after putting millions effort and time in perfecting the portfolios...

Today... the results revealed... and i am not in their first choice batch... i have to say... i am never a good speaker... never a good person in expresssing myself... never a good presenter... but i think i am fairly a caring doctor who stands on patient sides... how i wish i am a doctor in an ideal world where a Multidisciplinary team actually work perfectly without any flaw... how i wish i am so competent in doing everything that they suppose to teach me in medical school... and how i wish i do not need to ask a nurse to do anything for the patient if i can have extra 30 minutes everyday for each patient... and how i wish i am capable of dispensing medication and doing IV drugs by myself without needing to go through u know who...

sometime ppl think doctors just like to order nurses around to do things for them and doctors are just stealing glamours and are just diagnosing machine who do not care for patients... A lot of ppl do not understand doctors nowadays are restricted by unnessary rules and law that limit doctors training and often the important price to pay is the necessary skills that was used to be required...

At the moment, i am quite better off than a lot other ppl and i shall not be complaining as i am now... maybe this is god's plan for me... Prayed to him and he answered and i am doubting about his decision and not abiding to his plan? I often said God never answer my prayer... but when he does... i doubted him... perhaps this is what human being are... ever so difficult to be pleased.. and greedy ... i am just the typical one... perhaps i should do it... perhaps this is his plan... perhaps this is my DESTINY :)