Plastic Surgeon As Psychiatrist?

Spotted another amusing typo error (I hope!) at the Putra Medical Centre's website. According to their site, the Consultant Psychiatrist Dr A. Brito is apparently holding a Diploma in Plastic Surgery (UK), instead of a postgraduate degree in psychiatry! ;)

Witch Yoo Hee

Recently I just finished watching the Korean Drama "Witch Yoo Hee" 《魔女幼熙》. And I must admit that it is really a nice and touching love drama (and who said guys don't like Korean Love Dramas?!) i am particularly attracted to one of its soundtrack. Thought of sharing with you guys here. If you have watched the series, the song is even more meaningful!

Malaysian English?

This is probably the best English standard you will get from our MMC.

Bomoh

With the recent shocking news of the missing girl Sharlinie, I really feel that our society's safety is at stake. Today, I read in the Star paper with the headlines "Sharlinie alive and will be found, predicts bomohs".

One thing really makes me ponder a lot: as far as I know, Islam discourages (or is it prohibits?) its followers to believe in bomoh and all those ilmu sihir. Then how come bomohs can come into picture amongst these muslims in our country?

Thaipusam

Glad that this year's Thaipusam is declared a public holiday for KL and Putrajaya, and not only for Selangor and the other 3 states. This means that my wife has holiday as well. So early in the morning today, my wife and I woke up pretty early and brought our 5 month old daugther to Kota Damansara for breakfast. My brother and sis in law joined in as well. My daughter usually wakes up around 10-11am, but whenever it is a weekend or public holiday, she will automatically wake up between 7 and 8am; without needing us to tell her (as if she could understand us even if we'd told her?!) This is something quite consistent over the past 2-3 months, without fail; even my nanny also realises this fact too! ;)

I really enjoy weekends or public holidays nowadays, not so much like in the past when I enjoyed going for movies or makan; but now I enjoy taking out my wife and daughter for sightseeing, as well as breakfast at places like Jom Bali cafe, Burger King etc...

Relaxing Time

This is how I relax in between study time. :) How about you?

8GB SDHC

I bought an A-data 8GB SDHC few days ago, and happy to know that my "new" x50v with WM6 ROM is able to recognise it. And with Softick Card Export installed, I don't need to purchase a SDHC-compatible card reader for the moment. It is really great to now have a total of 10GB in my x50v (8GB SDHC and my old 2GB CF card)! ;)

My Ol' Faithful Axim

Recently I flashed my ol' Dell Axim x50v with the unofficial A03 WM6 ROM (courtesy of XDA developers), and revived the "brick" into a whole-new gadget!

With the new ROM, I have so far been very satisfied with the speed improvement and attractive GUI - more so with the VGA display of the x50v. The only worry initially was whether the Thinkoutside Bluetooth keyboard driver was compatible with the WM6 ROM - but luckily after installing the driver, the bluetooth keyboard works like a charm - so much so it is better and more stable than during the WM2003SE era! But you must remember to turn off the built-in HID option.

I even tried out the RealVGA for WM6 - although the display is greatly enhanced, especially during surfing net with PIE (or Opera 8.65), the speed is tremendously slowed down. I did a hard reset because I was unable to tweak the setting back to the original one.

The Treo 680 is indeed a great PDA phone, and when we compliment it with the x50v (WM6) - they are the best companions a gadget-freak-doctor can have! ;)

Braun Oxyjet

Last Christmas, my wife got a gift from her mom - the Braun Oxyjet - it's essentially a powered device utilising high pressure water jet tooth cleaner! It's not any ordinary electric toothbrush, but a fine piece of equipment, to really clean your teeth right to their base!

All this while, I thought I am really satisfied with my rechargable electric toothbrush plus the dental floss, but after I tried on the Oxyjet, I am just overwhelmed by the result it gives! My teeth look so much cleaner than before, and the best of all, you could clearly see food particles dropping out from your oral cavity, as the water jet is in progress - sounds gross, but the after-effect is just marvellous! This is especially useful for those people with malaligned teeth, giving rise to deep seated cavities which could potentially hide food particles which are impossible to be removed during normal toothbrushing.

It has a container to place water in it before you activate the waterjet system; if you like, you could even add a cupful of mouth rinse (eg. Oral B, Listerine etc.) in it -- it feels so much better!

The price could be a little steep for most of us, but if you care much for your teeth, it is a worthwhile investment! You have to try it to believe it! :)

Fall Sick

This morning I woke up feeling very dizzy and throbbing headache; to make it worse, I even had diarrheoa. I was so lethargic that I couldn't even go to work - gotta sms my consultant to spare me from work today.

Towards the night, I am feeling slightly better, but still feverish. I hope I can get back to work by tomorrow.

Chua Soi Lek In Sex DVD

What a way to start in 2008. I was utterly shocked to read this in The Star today, in my on call room.

I am the one in the sex DVD, says Chua
LABIS: Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek admitted he is the politician in the sex DVDs
circulating in Johor.
In a press conference here Tuesday, Dr Chua said the girl is his “personal friend”.
He apologised to the Malaysian public, his supporters and colleagues.
He said he did not make the tape himself.
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He is quite an out-spoken health minister, and has fought for quite a few benefits for the doctors and paramedics. I wish him all the best, and may luck be with him.