Know Your Medicine

Do u know your medicine?

As a consumer, we seldom realise what are our rights and responsibilities in buying our medicines. Understand more of our rights can actually help us make a better decision and we can get a better health outcome.

Recently, Msia government set up a health campaign called "Know Your Medicine"

It is a health campaign jointly organised by :
1) Ministry of Health (MOH)
2) Federation of Malaysian Consumer Association (FOMCA).

The campaign was just launch yesterday 29june2007 by the minister of health at melaka

This campaign aims are :
a) to let the public know and understand their medicines,
c) to educate them to use medicines rationally
d) to inform their right to information on medicines.

In conjunction with this campaign, they set up a website to let the public access.
http://www.knowyourmedicine.gov.my/

I find this website quite useful and interesting. As a pharmacist, educating consumer on rational/proper use of medication important and this webstite help to increase the awareness of the consumer which will in turn cause the pharmacists' job to be more easy.

However, when there is an increase in awareness, the consumer will tend to ask more questions. As a result, pharmacists must also equip themselves with the latest information to make sure that they fulfill the increase demand of the patients.

I think this time the government had done a good job by launching this campaign. Hope it can successfully sent the correct message to the public and the campaign also should not be just "3 minutes work" and each relevant sectors must also help in making the campaign a success.

P/S: This is also a good website: http://www.myhealth.gov.my

30 hour famine --- Hungry For Hope

To all my friends:

The 30 hour famine camp is coming!!!
Whoever wants to go to the camp please let me know latest by 2 july 2007 (monday)

We can go together.
Below are some of the details of the camp.
For further information please visit
http://famine.worldvision.com.my/2007/en/main.html

To get the form and donation card to participate:

http://famine.worldvision.com.my/2007/en/pdf/wv-map-to-office.pdf

What is the 30-Hour Famine?
The 30-Hour Famine is a global movement against hunger and poverty. It is a camp aimed at spreading awareness about global poverty, and raising funds to improve the lives of needy children and communities.

What is so special about 30-Hour Famine 2007?
This year marks the 10th Famine in Malaysia, coinciding with World Vision Malaysia’s 10th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, the Famine will be bilingual (English and Mandarin) for the first time ever, and, they are throwing open the doors to 5,000 campers! The theme for the year is “hungry for hope”…

What are the activities in the camp?
During the 30-Hour Famine Camp participants are :
a) acquainted with the world-wide humanitarian work of World Vision
b) how emergency relief operations are managed
c) how poor communities are enabled to break the cycle of poverty
d) how ordinary well-wishers can help people in need

The programme is conducted through mini-talks, video presentation, and simulation games.( Talks are given by many well known people )


When and where will the Famine be held?
West Malaysia Date : 15 & 16 Sep 2007 (Saturday to Sunday)
Time : 12pm (Sat) – 6pm (Sun)
Venue : Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil, KL

How do I participate in the Famine?
1.Campers are required to make a minimum donation of:
* RM100 for students/senior citizens (aged 55 years old and above)
* RM150 for non-students

2.The minimum donation could be:
* The camper’s personal contribution OR
* Raised via a donation card

How to Register?

For Academic Organisations
Distribution of Donation Cards: 15 Apr to 15 Jul 2007
Last Date for Return of Donation Cards : 31 Jul 2007

Where does the money go?
30-Hour Famine beneficiaries (West Malaysia) for 2007 are :

* Vietnam
* World Vision HOPE Fund
* World Vision Malaysia Children Development Fund

30-Hour Famine beneficiaries (East Malaysia) for 2007 are :

* Children Centre Lawas Project, Sarawak
* Good Shepherd Asia Pacific Leadership Programme, Sabah

A story about a friend

In respond to Shui yee recent blog,
I am also going to write something about my little GARFIELD friend here. hehe

Shui yee has a very beatiful chinese name, 淑仪.
But same with all the "banana" ( non-chinese speaking chinese), among the hundreds and thousands chinese words, they only know how to write their chinese name.

However, compare to other "banana", she is not really a banana as she can speak hokkien quite fluently and her mandarin is not bad. Her pronunciation is very clear and understandable. BUT she just don't want to speak to us in mandarin.

Shui yee is a soft-spoken girl. She always stay calm and cool and although she is having a small frame, she is strong and tough inside her heart.

Although she don't like to smile, but she can make great joke. Her joke can always make people laugh until rolling on the floor, and sometime I just don't know how come words come out from her mouth are so funny, and can make people laugh, but when I repeat the same thing, NO RESPOND FROM OTHERS AT ALL. hahahha.

I still remember the first day I met her in IMU, she wore black blouse and pants and asked me about the LRT route. I was very happy to find a friend to accompany me as during that time I had to take train myself, and I don't like to be alone all the time. Learn to know that having someone from the same class that will be going by LRT as me make me feel very relief.

My LRT gang(photo taken in semester 3): ks, jivan, me and Shui yee

Shui yee is a special person. I feel very happy to know her. During our 3 years friendship, you had changed my ways of thinking and gives me so much fun aside from the bored and dull lectures... hehehe.

Lastly, the same advice from me again laaaa.
smile more often!!!
wear dresses and high heel as well!!!
Hope you will be always happy and healthy.

Klang Bak Kut Teh

I am coming!!! Klang Bak kut teh!!!
My friends and I went to Klang to eat the famous bak kut teh on wednesday!!!
This is the Klang leng lui who bring us around. ahahaha.

We are so desperate to eat the bak kut teh and forget to take a proper group photo. Anyway, the one in white T shirt is minying. The one in blue T shirt is seng yeong and the last one in black T shirt is 'chi yuk mui' eelin.

So, let the picture tell u the story of pork.
This is wet bak kut teh. Inside there is nice herb soup, pork, vege, fried onion, ginger, mushroom, fried tou fu, tou fu skin. WAAAAAAA the soup is so delicious and we keep adding and adding. hehe so 'pai se'

Oh ya, almost forget the 3 layer pork --- eelin favorite.

This is dry bak kut teh. Dry bak kut teh has a tasty gravy with pork, dry chili, lady's fingers, dry squid, salted fish, fried onion and many nice spices.

Lastly, this is "You Zha Gui". Dipped inside the soup before we eat !!! super nice.
Actually malaysia has many good food in each states and town. These traditional nice dishes are relatively cheap compare to those expensive cafe and restaurants in KL, BUT the taste is special and extremely delicious. Just need to ask the local people to bring us around.

So, THANK YOU minying!!! thank you for bring us around. I will definitely come for klang bak kut teh again.

Happy dumpling festival

The dumpling festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
hehe, actually it is fall on tuesday 19 june this year...
so this blog is a bit out dated. hahaha

The chinese rice dumpling = Zhong Zi = bak chang

A traditional dumpling usually has chestnuts, pork, black-eyed beans, mushrooms, salted egg yolk, small dry prawn and dry squid inside the glutinous rice.

hehe, the dumpling in the pic below taste super NICE. It is wrapped by my grandma.

So, the story of 'duan wu' festival or dumpling festival is like that...

Once upon a time in the Chu kingdom there live a scholar-poet called Qu yuan. This man is very patriotic and he jumped into the Miluo river after the Chinese emperor refused to listen to his advice which resulted to the fall of the Chu kingdom.

So, Qu yuan friends and the people in Chu kingdom went to search for his body but they could not trace it. Then, in order to lure the fishes and demon away from Qu yuan body, they made dumplings and threw them into the river to protect the body.

This is it!!! eat the dumpling and know the story. So that each time when other people asked we can answer them proudly that we chinese actually has a patriotic soul once upon a time.

Beautiful Sunday

My friends and I went to do charity work yesterday morning.
It is a recycle point set up by the Tzu Chi association.

Many residents nearby sent the old clothes, newspaper, magazines, electronic wares, tins, glass, plastics and many other things which can be recycle to the recycle point.



Our job is to help the volunteers to separate those things accordingly.
This is the first time we went to the recycle point, the volunteers there are very helpful and taught us the proper way to sort different materials accordingly.

That's me!!! (VERY SERIOUS FACE) hahaha



That's my friends: foot seng, min choo, yuen nee, chuan zhen and me!


SO, just to inform...
The activity starts from 8-11am every sunday of the 3rd week of every month at Bandar Sungai Long
So those who interested to help out can just go to the place directly.

After the activity ends, I brought my friends to eat the famous Kajang Satay...


The photo is self explainable la!!!
The satay is very tasty and the air tebu is sweet naturally. Without any flavoring.
Although some say the satay at their place are nicer, but I still think that Satay kajang cannot be beaten la.
hehehe. Come Kajang eat satay la!

Sivaji The Boss

Sivaji the boss is a bollywood movie.
I never heard of or watch the movie before until I see today newspaper.

This movie premiere caused chaos in more than 10 cinemas all over Malaysia last night...
The angry fans smashed the glass display, throw mineral bottles, damage the chairs, tore the screen curtain and do all sorts of stupid acts.

Tickets for the movie sold out a few days ago.
Many fans cannot buy tickets to watch the movie...
Some unscrupulous people bought many tickets and raised the ticket price to RM30...
To make matter worse, some cinema delay the show, making the crowd waited for a few hours...
Then, in Klang cinema, the movie stop halfway due to technical problems..
In PJ, the police even be summoned to the cinema to prevent unwanted incidents.

Wow.. This is the first time I see such incidents happen in Msia.
Guess it must be a very interesting movie???

But then...
Bollywood movie is famous for their leng chai and leng lui actors and actresses, the never ending singing and dancing scene, love stories, fighting scene and the triad story.
The story is always like that only!!
What is so special about this sivaji?

I am not being sarcastic or trying to promote pirated thing
but the vcd or dvd can be buy in everywhere, if they are so impatient, just buy them to watch first. It is just a premiere right???
There are still so much time for them to watch. Why need to be so angry???

Movie can provide an imaginary and ideal world to the viewers.
The hero or heroine can always save the world in the end
The Bad people will always die
But all these will not happened in the realistic world.
Most of the time, only the opposite things will happened.

I like to watch movie.
Imagine myself to be rich, pretty, succesful, famous..
But movie is only 3 hours.
After that we had to Go back to the real world again.

Hope the real world will be more beautiful.
Hope the fans understand the fact that movie is just a movie.
They cant replace anything.
After all the stupid acts, life still has to go on
Hope they don't do things that mempersiasuikan malaysia again.

Scars

I came back from Sarawak for quite some time edi...
As in my post earlier, the trip was fun, but now problems come...

As the mosquitoes there are too friendly, I kena 'kiss' a lot of times on both arms and legs.
These area are full with many colorful spots now... Red, brown, black...
If you are artistic enough, you can actually see patterns.
My friend say UNIQUE BATIK PATTERN. wat the hell...
-.- The only thing I can say is Mulu mosquitoes are very talented...
They actually design the bites!!!

Now I often wear 3 quarter pants to avoid being stare too often.
Don't ask me why I don't wear long pants. (hello! this is malaysia. It is so hot laaaaaaaaaaa).

So, back to story again... Although it is 3 quarter, some with sharp eyes will still see them.
Somehow, I think only kids are having sharp eyes.
When I went for jogging in the park, those primary school kids will look at my legs with strange stares. Then, when I look at them, they will just pretend to look away.
I caught them looking a few times as if I have some sort of disease. -.- sighhhhhhhhhh...

However, if it is only scar, I can still tolerate.
But the itchiness is the thing I cannot tahan.
Even until now, I can still feel the itchiness quite often.

Everyone who see my legs will open their mouth in shock and make that noise 'yeeeeeeee'
one can actually see the SCARED symdrome on their face very clearly.
S- staring
C- curiosity
A- anguish
R- recoil
E- embarrassment
D- dread

I can now really understand how those people with facial disfigurement feel.
I only had mosquitoes bites and it is only temporary.
Imagine those who had cleft lips, burns marks, birth marks on their face..
PLEASE DON'T STARE AT THEM. IT IS VERY RUDE.
JUST TAKE THEM AS NORMAL PEOPLE.

SO... this is what Cathy and May said...
use MEDERMA to erase the scar.
Ok la, I will give it a try once all the lesions go flat.
Hope Mederma is as effective as what it says la.

Namo Amitofu

This is MIECC - Msia International Exhibition convention centre



I went to visit the Buddhist culture & arts exhibition last Sunday..

This exhibition show the Buddha RELICS !!! 舍利子 --- "gem stones" obtained after cremation of the highly respected saint who have devoted their entire lifetime to spiritual practices and dedicated to the welfare.

However, the relics sometime can be obtained from the common people!!! This is when those people did a lot of good deeds when they are alive.

These relics come with various shapes. They are colorful. Mostly come in red, white and black. Some look like pearl, some look like diamond.

It is said that relics have magical power. They carry positive energy to inspire goodness and protect the devotees.

I purchased lotus and queue up with many devotees to wait for my turn to see the sacred relic and get blessing from the monk!!! (pray hard to be always pretty. hahaha)

Besides relics, the exhibition also has a giant lantern comprising 84 small lanterns. The lantern are illuminated by many colorful bulbs and they rotate by itself. It is very pretty.


I also see the mandala produced by Tibetan monks. It is made from millions of coloured grains of sand. It is said that at the end of exhibition it will be destroyed to remind that all things in the universe are impermanent.


The exhibition also has many statues, calligraphy, paintings, arts exhibition and charitable sales.
They also have clutural performances, floral arrangement, photography and stamps exhibition.

As I always tell people I am a buddhist, actually I do not know much about the buddha practice. This exhibition let me understand more about my religion and see many things I had never seen before.




Ref: http://www.maitreyaproject.org/en/relic/index.html
http://www.bovis.tv/bcaf

Yes I do!!!

Imagine this...

In a lovely evening, a 67 years old man hold flowers, ring, bend his knee and proposed to a 53 years old woman...

He stared into her eyes and asked: Will u marry me???
She was shocked, open her mouth in disbelief...
There was silence for a moment, tears rolling down from her eyes...
She never thought this man, the PM will one day proposed to her.
Finally, she said: Yes, I do!!!

Isn't this romantic??? haha, this is just imagination laaaaa

hehe, but then I think this is how our Pak Lah proposed to Jeanne Abdullah.

At the age of 67, many men at this age already retired... Their daily life may be go yum cha and tai chi every morning, taking care of grandchildren, plant some vegetables, chatting with neighbours and sometime fight with the wife....

But, for Pak Lah, at this age, it is just a beginning of his life as the prime minister...
He is so so so busy, having so so so many works to do, fly here and there...
He may be already facing many health problems: arthritis, backache, indigestion, hehe, maybe frequent urination at night too!!! ;-p

(hehe, just crapping la!!! but is possible oso!!! The symptoms above are common health problems faced by elderly men la... )

When he returned to home, he had no wife to fight with him!!! Endon had left him for more than 1 year... Although he still love her, he has his own career, many children and grandchildren, he has maid, chef, garderner to help him manage his house, but still, the role of a wife is not so easily replaced by children and maid.

Although we knew he still love Endon, but then, life must moved on. This is a very realistic matters. He need someone to take care of him.

So, since Jeanne had work for him in his official residential for more than 20 years, taking care of his household stuffs even before Endon passed away, and then since she had divorced for more than 15 years, I guess this is how 2 lonely heart fell for each other...

Anyway, CONGRATULATION to Pak LAh.. our beloved prime minister.

Hope after his marriage, after he had a wife to take care of him, he will have more energy and strength to manage our country.

衷心祝福：希望一对新人新婚快乐，甜甜蜜蜜，百年好合，白头偕老。

Millionaire fair - gateway to the luxury lifestyle

I came across the millionaire fair on tv a few days ago...

As I am a poor student, this fair had nothing to do with me NOW, but then, think twice, maybe in the FUTURE I will have a chance to be an exhibitor or a participant..

haha, everything is possible !!! we never know.

Millionaire fair is a place where the extraordinary rich people can spend their money to buy extravagant and luxury things. It is a place EXCLUSIVELY RESERVED FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD A LOT OF MONEY BUT DUNNO WHERE TO SPEND..

The Millionaire Fair was first organised by Gijrath Media Groep International
and it is held annually in Shanghai, Moscow, Amsterdam and Kortrijk.

Visitors are normally the rich & famous, celebrities, CEOs, entrepreneurs and networkers, spotters and bon vivants and the media.

These people can find a broad cross-section of exclusive products and services in luxurious surroundings. In addition, there are many stunning presentations and dazzling performances to keep them well entertained.


Things that they sell in the fair include:

• Arts and antique
• Luxury cars
  
  

• Interior & design

• Jewellery & watches
  
  

• Lifestyle
• Travel
• Boats & Yachts
• Private Jets & Helicopters
• Fashion & Haute Couture
• Investment
• Spirits & Haute Cuisine
• Cosmetics & Beauty
• Home entertainment, sound & vision
• Telecom
• Hotels & Resorts
• Property
• Banking & Finance

In short, a bazaar is for the normal people and the millionaire fair is for the rich.

Although they do not specify the price on their website, but then, see the exhibitor list !!!

See what they selll in the fair!!! helicopter, yatch, hotel!!! imagine the amount of money they had to pay... imagine the transaction amount... Imagine how much can the exhibitor earn...

Sighhh...

While in some part of the world, people still need to fight for the basic necessities to survive, fight for food, shelter, too poor to pay medical bill, no money to pay school fee... these rich people are gather together to buy all kind of luxury things.


No wonder Bill Gate once said: The world is unfair.
This fact is really cruel... but it is so so so real.

Hope these rich people do remember there are still many unlucky people in the world...

Since they can spend so much money to buy luxury things, hope that they wont forget to take some money to help the poor.

Bookfest@ Malaysia 2007

I went to bookfest @ Malaysia 2007 two days ago. It is held in KL convention center for 9 days.


Although newspaper shows that more than 40,0000 people visited this year book fest, but then I face a lot of difficulties when asking around to ask my friends to go with me. 90% say they are NOT INTERESTED, 5% say they are not free or went there already and 5% is banana... ;-p

I wonder where is the 40,0000 people come from??????? ;-p

This is the logo and motto for this year book fest:

See the amount of people turn up in the book fest...

Although this pic is taken from the official site of the bookfest, but then I assure u, there are more people when I was there on the second last day of the book fest. More importantly, many books already sold out when I reach there.

ARGHHHHHHHH......The moral of the story is do never do things last minute......

MAny leading publishers from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia had participated in the bookfest.

This year, I am particularly impress with the price of the books offered by the China publishers. The price of the same book published by them make so much differences compare to taiwan and english books

Besides that, this is also my first time buying translated book. Before this, I always think that translated books are not as good as original because the 'feel' is not there...

But after I know the price difference between the translated book and the original book, I changed my mind... Below are some examples:

chinese (C) : RM11.90 english(E) : RM 27.90

(C): RM 17.90 (E): RM 49.90
(C): RM25.90 (E): RM34.90
(C): RM16.90 (E):RM79.90

We can learn the same knowledge in different ways, different forms and different languages. As long as we know what the author want to tell us, who cares in what language the book is written?

Besides that, I pay half price to get the same book... This means that I can use the remaining money to get other things...

hehe, 想通以后，I feel so proud that I know chinese. hahahaha... and then, I bought 11 books and the average of 1 book is only RM18 ++ . THis make me so so so happy.

For those people who did not visit the book fest this year, nevermind. It held every year around june and july... Just don't miss it again next year...

For those who haven't learn chinese, learn now!!! ;-p

Trust me, it is useful to know more languages.

Reference:

1) http://www.bookfestmalaysia.com/

2) http://www.klccconventioncentre.com/index_flash.html

3) http://www.popular.com.my/index.jsp

4) http://www.bookschina.com/