中医部，进来参观哦！

这个星期在中医部，基本上就是在中医的门诊,算是医院内门诊人数最高的其中之一。在这几天我们学了也见识了各种中医疗法，其中包括针灸，推拿，各中草药等等。另个朋友上星期已在这了，所以这星期他带我们学习。

病床与电疗机（接在针上）

我还是第一次真正接触到中医，在这是中西合拼，效果很不错哦！这里的医师都有西医的qualification,有些已经是西医专科，再读中医，住院医师都有硕士资格，所以能处理更多的问题。他们也接受来自病房的referral，所以会到病房替病人针灸调理。

各种草药的样本

针灸工具，都是Sterile的

很多中风人士在这都能获得相当好的进展。但是穴道好多，各种草药与用法更是多到。。。真是佩服那些医师们。不过回想起来，我们西医也不知不觉学了很多新 词，所谓common things come commonly，同样的道理，常见的问题的处理方法就变得熟悉了，对我们这些新手很多时候就‘听没路’罗！

自己扎了一针，麻麻的，接电后更刺激！

Taroko National Park 太鲁阁国家公园

We decided to go Toroko National Park on saturday morning by following the Taiwan Bus Tour. It is located in Hua Lien, but is not reach-able by cycling. We got cheaper price using Youth Travel Card. The morning weather looked a bit dark, but it turned skyblue when the van moving away from the town.

The driver (also the tour guide) was very good and professional. We were fortunate to be in a small group of 11 ppl, so everything was fast and efficient. The driver, Mr. Wong whois a teacher, kept joking and introducing along the way with full of interest. He knows alot about the place, although i know he d repeated it for hundred times :)

There were many spots within the national park, but we were brought to some of the best sites which cannot be missed :)

and the place is very nice! Cool weather, not cloudy, mountains which cannot see the top, the sound of waterfall along the river, the tress, flowers, the famous stones... cant describe in words, come let see some pics!

We were glad that the drive stop by at 七星潭 before back to town. This also a nice place to go, it is not a lake, dun get misunderstand! it is actually a seaside, facing Pacific ocean. The waves are big, strictly no swimming! The scenery around was very nice, not far can see mountains jz beside the sea, and the beautiful gardens jz beside the seaside with bicycle track.

The special thing is the stones. The beach has no fine sands, but full of all kinds of stones, which make HuaLien Taiwan to be one of few famous stones production in the world. Some names that i remember include 大理石，玫瑰石，猫眼石。。

*More photos at friendster and facebook :)
Welcome to share u r comments oh!
Wish u all a happy year-end season festival!

More photos - 台湾花莲慈济综合医院，大学与花莲市

Very lucky to meet 石院长 when visiting a patient from Sabah, Malaysia who comes for surgery of his left lower limb.

I think this is the hostel for the volunteers

Today weather very nice, warm sunshine and clear sky. (Right view from my room)

Beautiful mountains behind. (front view from my room)

Left view from my room. Tsu Chi hospital can be seen not far away.

More updates from Taiwan :)
Glad to be able to online at the campus via wireless, but have to carry my laptop here haha!
Keep in touch friends!

Days at Taiwan!~ 台湾花莲慈济综合医院，大学与花莲市

I was quite busy after the arrival at Taiwan on last Saturday. We stayed one night at Taoyuan Tsu Chi after getting down from the China airline plane. On early morning of Sunday, we traveled via train to Hua Lien. We were given 2 rooms at the hostel, but it is not within the Hospital compound but outside the hospital and campus, beside the main road.

Our rooms at 5th floor, so hv to climb stairs like hiking everyday. Luckily we dun have to walk around like first few days here, after getting a bicycle from Tsu Chi education department. Cycling around here is nice, but not when the weather is freezing cold.

The weather here is getting colder for the past few days, but today is very nice, not cloudy with sunshine, temperature around 22-25C, like daytime in Genting.

I post some photos here to share :)

At KLIA waiting for departure

Welcome to Taiwan! Taiwan Tao-Yuan international airport

Tao-Yuan newly build Tsu Chi 静思堂

Tao-Yuan 静思堂

铁路便当

Outlook of Hua-Lien General Hospital

自拍哈哈！

Tsu Chi University new building

Tsu Chi University

台湾花莲慈济静思堂外观

Road outside hospital

自强夜市（不认识这小妹妹。。呵呵！）

静思堂壮观

Outside the Dining Hall

Garden around the 静思堂

Stucked in Midvalley

Today i went to watch movie with a few friends at Midvalley. It was only 12 somthing after lunch, we drive there and the cars were getting more n more when entering the Midvalley city from federal highway.

All the sign boards with car park zones and availability showed full house! Zone A,B,C... and also the Garden parking. After turning a corner, Zon G & H showed green light, i quickly followed the directions and i noticed the cars around were moving at the same direction too.

The traffic was heavy, moving slowly (luckily still moving!). So my frens went down to buy tickets first. When arrived at the Zon G,H entrance, it was closed with full parking sign board. Oh my god... now where to go?

There was still more than one hour before the movie starts, so i kept trying and going around the place, hoping for any miracle, but the ONLY place available was the Garden Premier car park. That is very expensive and totally not worth it. I guess only ppl with Benz or BMW will go in..

So many cars around me hungering for jz a small parking lot, i'm jz wasting time n petrol there. Finally i gave up and drive back, but my frens said they already bought the tickets...what to do?

Haha! Luckily i know a place to park at the apartment beside Station University. I parked my car there and took RapidKL back to Midvalley. Funny isnt it? But that was the reality in KL, u hv no choice but to turn back..

With only RM1, u can go to anywhere in the region with RapidKL for the whole day. It is really a good and affordable facility, but of coz driving car is more comfortable (but not during traffic jam like that).

Waiting to move

2 days later i will be taking china airline to Taiwan for attachment at Tsu Chi HQ Hospital at Hua Lian. So i'm hanging around in KL these few days, n quite free actually.

After a briefing by seniors who went there b4, i realized that there are so many nice places in taiwan to see n visit. Compared to them, we have shorter time to travel around coz we gonna spend 3 weeks on attachement and 1 week to travel in taiwan. So from their experience, we probably gonna go to places where highly recommended, so will be more selective :p

According to them, some places that are 'must go' include Gao Xiong, Ali Shan, Qi Xing Tan and Taipei. (I not really know how to spell or write the real name haha!) During the time in Hua Lian, there are already many places to go around in the weekends and free time during weekdays. We gonna borrow bicycle and explore around ourselves. The good thing in taiwan is that bicycle is safe and popular in smaller town like in Hua Lian.

Taiwan is really an environmental friendly place, besides cycling, they discourage the use of plaster bags, extra charges will be made if u need plastic bags in supermarket. Eating in Tsu Chi cafe is also a good example. We use own food container called '环保饭盒’ to eat or 'dabao', no use of polyester products.

We are lucky to get accomodation in hostel of the hospital. The facilities are great and convenient according to previous batch. The only thing is that we need to come back by 11 or 12am coz the gate will close, so 'gonna sleep early wake up early' （早睡早起）n be a good boy lo haha :) heard there is no wifi access in the hostel, so hv to go to the library to online. Anyway, i will bring my laptop along for my elective work, also for entertainment purpose :p

According to Shiun Woei, the food there is very nice. The cafe only serves vege food. We need to buy prepaid card to eat, but it is very cheap, only about RM2 per meal after converting to ringgit. Accomodation is free & we only nid to pay for water & electrical supply. Feeling very grateful for the good offer from Tsu Chi to medical students like us.

I still not very sure the best way of connection in Taiwan. For phone call we probably will get a new local number for the ease of contacting each other. IDD card is suitable for calling back Malaysia coz its more expensive if use my own maxis number. However, i still activate my international roaming, so only call me if emergency ya! ( i will be charged with same rate when receiving)

I found back my old Skype account luckily. So if the speed allowed, its the cheapest way to call back, but need stable internet connection lor. I will try to update wats going on in Taiwan in my blog, and hope to share more with u all here :) If u hv gone to taiwan b4, u are very welcome to give some advices and suggestions about where to go, what to buy, what to eat, what to play!

Hiking in Penang

Yesterday i went to hiking in my hometown Penang island's mountain. I used to followed my parents to hike in saturdays. So when i back to home i always bring my sport shoes for hiking. I think there is a bit special about penang hiking places.

In penang there are many routes to hike and they are crossed and connected to each other, so one can have varity of choices as each path has its own characteristics. Some are steeper, some are cooler with more trees, some are easier but longer, and some are fast but challenging! so u may choose according to ur taste.

The very steep, long and continuous staircase at the botanical garden (inside)

Secondly there are many rest stations in betweem or at the end of the path. Many of them have nice view of scenery, and there are coffee, tea, biscuits and sometimes even fried mihun provided. All food and drinks are free, and one can make donation at the box. Many ppl hike in the weekends, and my parents make many new friends there, this is a good and healthy way of widening the social relationship.

This is the time when my SE walkman phone plays a vital role!

Popular paths to start point include Moongate, inside youth park and botanical garden(inside and beside). They can reach many rest stations such as:

No.3 - coffee, tea, biscuits, fried mihun
No.5 - coffee, tea, biscuits, gym equipments by MPPP
No.38 - coffee, tea
No. 46 - coffee, tea, platform for taichi
84 - coffee, tea, biscuits
Penang hill - many stalls, got one ais-kacang best (cheaper for hiking ppl)

Getting tired sooner than b4 when hiking ystdy, looks like i need more exercise to train back my stamina, now keep eating too much at home and supper in college d :)

又有好料介绍啦。。Nasi Lemak Panas!

前天跟俐莹跑步后不知去哪里吃，突然想起去试试Seapark的Nasi Lemak Panas. 其实已经听说很久了，但是就是没机会去吃，况且我蛮少去Supper的。

印象中它是路边mamak档来，那时才傍晚六点，我们就碰碰运气看开了没罗。老天不负苦心人，我们到时刚开哦！难得天气好，桌子整齐的摆在路边，只是条小路没什么车经过，感觉这地方不错哦。

介绍美食哦，Ho Jia （好吃）！

叫了出名的Nasi Lemak Ayam，还没什么人所以一下就来罗。看起来好好吃哦， 果然是'Panas'！饭是烫的，鸡刚炸好，蛋刚煎好，加哩热乎乎的，只有timun和江鱼仔是normal temperature，小心烫嘴哦！

吃起来不错啦，地方广阔，是个宵夜的好去处。一碟RM4.50，现在KL mamak可不是便宜的哦!吃宵夜分分钟还贵过正餐耶！突然想起SS2 Murni也有Nasi Lemak Ayam，但蛮久没叫了，忘了味道如何，不能做比较。

香喷喷的Nasi Lemak Panas!

它是在Seapark Shell油站后面，在一间咖啡店旁边，那时咖啡店已关，只剩下它和一档肉骨茶在店旁，周围路旁的桌椅都是mamak的哦。仔细看发觉原来有档名的耶，叫PJ Ibumie。

有机会去尝尝吧！不错哦，只是好像没荧幕，晚上不能看足球罗！不过也好，通常有球赛时食客坐了就不走人，这样就不必争位子啦。

PJ KL这一带还有很多不错的好‘吃’处，但小心不要迷路哦，随便叫个UM或UTAR生应该都很熟悉的。

最后想祝亲爱的俐莹考试顺利，不要太压力哦，尽力而为就好，加油加油！Gambate！

Transnational vs Konsortium, who is the winner?

Finally for the first time i decided to try transnational express bus from KL back to Penang today. This is referring to the article i discussed earlier about problems with Konsortium bus. There are a few good things to highlight here about Transnational:

1. The information counter has a large board displaying all destination, time, bus plate number, on time or delayed, and is it boarding now. It is updated every second and passengers dun hv to keep asking about which bus and where to wait (as in Konsortium)

2. This is impressive! 4pm bus ticket, the bus departed at 4pm sharp. 3 transnational buses departed together at the same time, showing how punctual are they. The buses were already waiting at the lane b4 the departure time.

3. The bus is very new, 3 seats, comfortable, clean. Drivers and staffs no chit-chatting or making noise around like in other bus sometimes.

4. Bus moved in fast speed. Powerful engine coz it is new, with auto gear (i can feel its smoothness when changing gear).

5. Only stopped once at Plus rest station. Duration was short and no delaying.

6. This is safe! The seats are equipped with seat belt. But none of the passengers used it, including me, haha :)

7. 4pm bus, i arrived Penang island at 8.20pm (hv to count in the time the bus went to Duta station to take more passengers). it is much faster and well scheduled than konsortium or other buses, where more than 6 hours is not something shocking at all (late depature, stop many times & long duration of stop, super slow driving)

8. Ticketing counters available in UM (my school lar university malaya) or even in UH (university hospital).

However, there are a few inconvenience that i found out:

• The seat is not as spacious as Konsortium. Transnational has 11 rows, 3 seats per row, making it 11x3=33 seats, compared to Konsortium with 9/10 rows.
• The bus will go to Duta station to take more passengers.
• The time KL-PG-KL is not that frequent.

So whois better?

I like the good system, management, transparency, punctuality, discipline, and attitude of Transnational bus company.

I like the comfortable seats, frequent schedule, and direct PG-KL-PG route of Konsortium.

Maybe this is why ppl always say "there is nothing perfect in this world"..

Both of them have their pros n cons. Overall, i'm more satisfied with transnational bus as the seat and extra duta stoppage doesnt really matter for me. So for the time being, i think KL-PG with Transnational, and PG-KL with Konsortium, is a better idea.

Sick with trojans..

I have been struggling through for the past few days due to this trojan (malware problem).. my laptop slowly became slow in loading especially during surfing net. The Mozilla took ages to open, and the softwares and games took 10X than normal speed.

When ur laptop is not functioning properly, and some more u need to use it, then life become miserable.

Trojan horse, from the movie The Troy

We have a wide local network in college hostel, about 6-7 hubs connecting over 20 people in guys hostel. I'm the lucky guy coz my room can connect to internet thru wifi. So i share the internet to all ppl, and i think the problem actually came from here.

The trojan was detected from my antivirus Kaspersky 7.0 (Licensed wan okay!) It was something like Trojan backdoor win 32... I cant cure it from the suggestion in internet by cancelling it in the registry. Although it reported that it had been disinfected, whenever i deal with local network things like playing network games or chatting (we use BorgChat to communicate, a cool and free software!), the laptop became laggy..

I formatted twice in the past 2 days. After the first time the problem seemed like still persisted. But thinking back now maybe d2 crashing between Kaspersky and ZoneAlarm (a firewall security software), coz Kaspersky prompted that ZoneAlarm was contraindicated in latter time.

So i format again and everything is working fine, until now. Heard that Kaspersky Internet Security provides the best security, but at a higher price. For ppl like us who play Dota frequently, the firewall is open all the time, its at risk of getting infections.

Statistically, some friends formatted computer recently d2 similar problem. Many frens' thumbdrives which connects to my laptop showed similar infection, something like Worm.Win32.Autorun. So beware of these transmitted agent, scan b4 u open the pendrives!

Beware of these viruses and worms, computer needs a healthy body check-up too!

缘火锅，你吃过吗？

前几天整班朋友去火锅,在Sunway的，相信在KL的人都知道吧！如果不知道让我推荐一下:)

什么这样特别呢？其实很多朋友去多次乐都说还好啦，吃多当然也会显。。它有样最特别的东西，就是。。。鸡翅膀！当然不是自己烤啦，现成的，热乎乎，招牌菜哦！

这就是招牌菜鸡翅膀罗！

去了几次都是这样恐怖，每当鸡翅膀一拿出来，就会引起一阵轰动，你会看到一大堆人冲上去，为的就是抢给自己桌。所以每桌都会有些“代表选手”去“竞赛”！

届时会听到欢呼声，也有一大群人脸臭臭走回去，身材大点的就有优势啦！像我这样斯文的真的很难找吃，哈哈！

鸡翅膀每十五分钟出一次，十秒内一扫而空！这店老板肯定赚到傻，三成楼肯定都满座，外头还有大把人在排队，一人二十块，谁说经济不景气？

槟城也有间叫金火锅的也是很不错哦！我比较喜欢那边，选择更多，价钱也便宜，也不用争先恐后！或许，争回来的，所以更好吃吧？哈哈。。

Tears from a mother

There was one Chinese girl presented with jaundice for 2 months. She had episodes of seizure and psychosis recently.. the 13 years old chinese gal very kelian, the whole family n relatives were there when we came to the bed, and she looked dizzy and talking to herself. The parents were so worried after went thru hospital Columbia and Gleneagles without any improvement, she was first thought of having hepatitis.

Many investigations were done on her b4, finally she was diagnosed with SLE and referred to UMMC. i believe she must have suffered a lot all this while. With the specialists available here i hope she could recover fast.

"Dr, please give her the best treatment available, I just want her to be cured, no matter how much the cost will be.."

First sentence that came from the mother, with watery eyes looking at all the doctors surrounding the bed. Suddenly i felt very touched, the love from parents, the tiredness and anxious-looking on their face, after going thru all of these.. if i'm the one lying on bed, i believe my parents and family will say the same words, spending all their time, energy and effort just for me.

It is so fortunate that we have family and friends with us, the loves and courage are sometimes just what the patient hope for, and they might even better than any medicine!

ALTHOUGH you will see smiley and relieved faces on patients in hospital who finally treated correctly, you will never know how much disappointment and anxiety they have gone thru before arriving at the safe platform.

What we see in tertiary hospital is just the tip of the iceberg. When the disease is recognized and diagnosed correctly, most of the time the patient is able to progress well and recovered. However, there are so many cases outside in the society that remained undiagnosed. People are suffering everyday simply d2 poor health care services. Misdiagnosed and undiagnosed cases are everywhere…

Who to blame?

People who continue suffer will blame the attending doctors, which usually the first line general practitioner in clinics, and finally lost faith on health care services.

I used to listen to complaints from patients in Klang general hospital regarding the poor quality of service, and this dissatisfaction occurred on so many patients.

“Private is better than GH..” this is what has created among Malaysia ppl's mind, and something to think of, if there is still hope in our public health services.