Gardasil : Cervical Cancer Vaccines ???

How true is this? How reliable is this? Whom shall we trust?

Some Interesting Surveys

Check out these interesting surveys.

The World's Best Place to Live 2009

The Hardest Hardship

The Most Expensive Cities in the World

Best Global Real Estate Buys

The Best Place To Raise Your Kids

The World's Best Airport

Europe's Best Places For Business

Top Global Cities

So, anyone staying at these places? Do you agree with the surveys?

Happy Father's Day

This is a story I copied from one of the forwarded emails that I received.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Hoyt)

A son asked his dad, "Daddy, would you like to run a marathon with me?".
The father said, "yes".
And they ran their first marathon together.

Another time, the son asked his dad again, "Daddy, would you like to run a marathon with me?".
The father said, "yes son".
And again they ran their marathon together.

One day, the son asked his father, " Daddy, would you run the Iron-man with me?"
*The Ironman is the most difficult triathlon ever (4 kms swimming, 180 kms biking, 42 km running?)*

And the dad said, "yes".

The story looks simple until you watch the following clip. Just amazing, how much can love be.... ?

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Online Radio Station

I know back at home, in Malaysia, there are plenty of radio stations --- HitzFM, MixFM, MyFM, 988, Light&Easy, FlyFM...and the list goes on and on.

But when I am here in Ukraine, one of my favourite online radio station is 93.7 WSTW --- an American English Radio Station. The songs are up-to-date and they have a side column providing the song titles and artists. Besides, I think their advertisements sometimes are rather informative (Awareness campaign regarding macular degeneration, diabetes type I...)

Do pay a visit at this station.

Eat Real. Eat Local.

Hmm, nice work done. But of course, when we eat, we ain't gonna eat Canadian. We gonna go Malaysian. Petai, kangkung, papaya, pisang emas, mangosteen, durian, rambutan, langsat, dukong, duku, ciku, binjai, pineapple...WOW!!! The list can go on and on...

Malaysians who haven't stayed in foreign lands for long term, may not notice how lucky and blessed we Malaysians are for having the natural resources and wonderful harvest that we may have been showered with. But trust me, it is marvelous to have all different types of fruits, varieties of vegetables, choices of cuisine and dishes that we can choose ENDLESSLY...

Be in my shoes in a foreign land, looking at the Rambutan that was occassionally and accidently saw for the first time after 4 years...dark brown, shrunken and was sold at RM5 ONE rambutan. And I mean those type where if you were in Malaysia, you would just throw it away thinking that they can't be consumed anymore. Watermelon during winter can go up to RM50 for a 5kg piece. Chili 1kg RM100-120. OMG!!! And how much we get in Malaysia? 1kg rambutan RM5 or maybe RM10. Watermelon 100g RM1.60? Chili buy 1kg for RM5??? Or RM10? Who cares to buy? Just plant them!

We see varieties of vegetables, Siew Bak Choy, Choi Sam, Lady's fingers, long beans...... Here? In winter, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, carrot, cucumber (expensively), tomato (expensively), pumpkin, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, is potato a vegetable???...and again Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, unless you are willing to pay an enormously higher price for the variety. Well, not much of a variety anyway, perhaps some brinjals, cauliflower, occasionally broccoli...

And there was once when we saw broccoli in the market and we Malaysians bought them happily as the price at that time was good. And a local Ukrainian came by asking us what was that. Obviously, we told her was Broccoli. And she further asked the seller how to "use" it. The seller said, "Salad". And trust me, when you come across any vegetables or fruits that we / they are or aren't familiar with, whenever you ask how to cook it, you will get a simple answer, do salad!

Summer comes in, well, a good sign, vegetable and fruits getting cheaper. Prices (per kg) red in winter, green is summer price
Brinjals uah30-50 uah10
Cucumber uah25 uah3
Tomato uah30 uah7
Chilli uah199-299 uah25

Watermelon and honeydew can get as low as uah0.50 per kg during summer!

Well, yes, sometimes they do get cheaper, even cheaper than in Malaysia. But they are so much lesser in choices and varieties. For so many years here, I haven't even come across Siew Bak Coi, Choy Sum, Kai Lan, kangkung etc. Not even once.

Oh, how I miss Malaysia's abundance!!!

Guitar : Impossible???

How the hell did this guy get 23,250 and counting of comments??? How did he actually get 5 star ratings like 49,662 times? Don't get it? Watch him in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuU00Q3RhDg&fmt=18

Just don't understand.

YouTube Porn

All the while we have the impression that YouTube doesn't allow "porn". Meaning no private parts/naked scene to be posted. However it is a wrong concept. Yes, indeed it doesn't allow real porno to be uploaded. And I believe that it is good. Then what Porn am I writing about?

YouTube does allow nudity/naked video. Well, it isn't really a porn video that I am talking about. But it is some videos related to medical or health importance. Try YouTubing for "Breast Examination". And you might get about 1000 useful videos. However it requires you to confirm your birth date by signing in.



How did I stumble upon these "naked" videos? Haha, I am looking for porn!!! No, just kidding. Was having Oncology cycle at the end of the semester and one of the hometask was about breast cancer. So was doing some search on breast examination that might save life.



Thank you YouTube!

5th Year State Exams = 5 Subjectzzz

Oh, DARN!!! Exams is like 9 days away. And I haven't even cover a subject yet. OMG!!! 5 BIG subjects, my percentage of Preparations is not even like 5%. So what will happen? Soon, you will see me...

~ Praying,
~ Holding tight to Jesus' legs,
~ Holding a book when I am asleep,
~ Having specs while deeply asleep,
~ Switched on the desk lamp whole night long,
~ Cooking in the mid of the night/dawn,
~ Eating and gaining...wait for it (as Barney Stinson said)...wait for it...not knowledge --- but WEIGHT!
~ Sit sleeping with open books on the desk (tough skill, take years to master it)

Also you can see ...

~ Mug with traces of coffee (no effect on me, still fall asleep) or chocolate?
~ Chocolate bar on the desk (or maybe chips)
~ Rosary in hand
~ Teardrops (somewhere...)

But still SLEEPING... :(

Now the schedule for end semester exam of 5th year course:
9th June - Therapy
13th June - Surgery
17th June - Paediatrics
21st June - Infectious Disease
26th June - Social Medicine

Tight schedule, as each is a BIG and IMPORTANT subject. And yet, I am still blogging here. Ooooops!