ici Radio Canada...

It's a force of habit... whenever I hear the word 'isi', I'll automatically say "Radio Canada"

Where ever... when ever... be it the filling station or the butcher's

Imagine saying this in front of a Quebecois...

And there are lots of Quebecois tourist here... Encountered more than 10 times... which I know of... They're sporting Quebec flag on their knapsack. American posing as Canadian would always only use the red maple leaf, but the blue white fleur de lis, it's exclusively Quebecois.

(p/s I saw a drape with maple leaves pattern... If only I could get one)

The Husband Dean Koontz

Reading halfway through the novel. A thriller novel. A psycho parents, a psycho elder brother, kidnapped wife, shoot, shoot, kill, kill, die, die...

Hey! It's a good read. Finished 10 chapters, 4 more to go.

Somebody should make a movie out of this novel.

As usual, Matt Bomer should play Mitch. Well that's what I imagined Mitch to look like. (Holly describe her husband as beautiful)... Anson Mount as Anson? Suave, strong, athletic... (Imagining Cullen Bohannon...) After I found out that Anson is a psychopath, not a good choice.

(p/s after doing some research, apparently Odd Thomas is authored by Dean Koontz too. Never watch it though.)

My first week studying Business

It's already 1 week and I've made some friend. Joshie, Jerry and Larry. Josh is also my course-mate. He's taking business too. Jerry and Larry are in Human Resource Management course but we'll meet for 3 sessions a week. For English class, Management class and Organizational Behaviour class. During this 3 sessions, we'll sit together.

For Josh and I, this is something new. Josh, also a former student in a public uni told me it's his first time having a class with somebody from other courses. He studied Accounting in his former public Uni. In his class all were from Accounting course.

In my former faculty, we seldom have classes with other courses. Only for the first 2 years for English classes, Music classes, Cognitive Science classes... with nursing students ( my friends).
Never in Clinical years.

Currently, our English class consists of Business. Human Resource and Accounting students. For ethics class, we share the class with Occupational Safety and Health students. Management and Organizational Behaviour classes are consist of Business and HR students. Only Accounting and Marketing classes are purely business students.

Our group is the smallest, 4 business students this batch. Until morning, we had another one coming in. I tried to initiate a conversation with this chap but he gave me a cold shoulder. Josh and Jerry witnessed how he replied me. So we ignored him. Giving him his space. He might be friendlier next time. Maybe he woke up in the wrong side of the bed this morning.

Jerry and Larry are funny. Larry would share some funny videos in his smartphone while Jerry would make funny jokes. And they are younger than us (Josh and I). Josh is a bit quiet but is a nice person to talk too. Yes both of us are more 'matured' than Larry and Jerry but that doesn't inhibit us from clicking together.

Larry made a funny comment this evening. When I told them about the OSH students, how noisy, hippy they are, he said "those OSH students are not in the right mind". And we laughed. Yes, one can just label a noisy person as OSH student. Other students are quite reserved. Not OSH students. Yesterday, I was ridiculed for wearing formal attire. Business, Accounting and HR students never comment on how I dress, but not OSH students. One of these days I should down-dress myself, something business casual?

Yeah, that about it for now.

p/s And I am always participating in the class. This morning our accounting lecturer patted me on my shoulder for being proactive. Honestly, most lecturers think that I am in Business field before... self-clap?

The President, The King and the Prime Minister...

The King is always the head of state, the Prime Minister is always the head of the government. A President (Yusuf Ishak) can be the head of state only or both head of state and government (Obama).

Apparently, a big-headed Prime Minister sees himself as the head of state.

Is insulting the Prime Minister an act of sedition? It is when someone insult the King, the head of state. Or the Queen, or The FIRST LADY.

So petty. I wonder how the world sees this. A small thing as conspiracy theory leads to man-hunt. I wouldn't blame that chap for thinking it's a conspiracy theory. Hiding the facts, denying, can you blame him/her?

Man, we really need freedom of speech to go forward. Freedom of speech = transparency. And more matured, civilized, fair politic.

Petty, petty, petty...

Can't help not to laugh

The funniest one would be the smart car with yellow top and red body... just like the kiddy car

Colic

My bestie, Marj is a new mother. She has a 3 months old baby.

She's worried. Her baby hates being bottle fed. The boy prefer breast-feeding. In medical point of view, that's good. Everyone in the government hospital advocates for breast-feeding.

Unfortunately, it's not very practical. My bestie is a teacher (in a government school). She is now working. Knowing the importance of breast milk, she pumps her breast milk. Bottle feed her baby with breast milk when she's away.

Her boss according her is 'menopausal'. Making them busy. Dog in the manger. No crib for a bed. (since I'm posting about babies)

Obviously, somebody doesn't walk the talk. You're spending money to educate mothers on breast feeding but you're not giving them a facilities/time to do so. Or at least let the new mothers have their own break.

Her concern is how would she nourish her baby if she's busy at work? The baby refuses to be bottle-fed. So, she asked me what to do.

I can't make any conclusion on why but my main suspect is colic. Common among bottle-fed babies.

The breast is full of milk, there's no air for the baby to suck. Bottles in the other hand would be filled with air as the air displaces the milk. If the baby sucks in air, she/he'll get colic. Bowel is distended with air making it uncomfortable.

Anti-colic bottle do help but not as superior as breast. (Well the breast would be God's no.1 invention, almost everybody loves them, unless if it's too large or too small. My sister keeps on complaining how bothersome her big breast are... heavy)

Another thing to consider is to hold the bottle vertical when feeding. By vertical I meant perpendicular to the baby. This reduces the chance of sucking air. And remove the bottle from the baby as soon as it's empty.

Colic is the main culprit, but there are other causes too. Congenital anomalies like Hirschprung's diseases (well that's the only differential diagnosis which comes to my mind... I sucked in surgery)

To release abdominal pressure, I think Buzzfeed have the best method

of Orthopaedic surgeon and twitter

Prior to twitter, one can find a lot of # in medical case notes. Especially in an orthopaedic ward or ER.

Example:
mid-shaft # of the rt femur... C4 #...

In orthopaedics, # is shorthand for fracture. That's why it's hard for a lay-person to decipher a doctor's writing. Jargon and short-hands... and terrible handwriting.

Imagine an ultra-modern hospital, where all the staffs utilize social media to send referral notes. That would be very efficient (but there would be confidential issue too). One wouldn't need to wait for the attendants to send the notes. Housemen Officers wouldn't complaint that they are underpaid.

Say, a radiologist were to report a fracture to the orthopaedic surgeon via twitter...

# mid-shaft # of the rt femur. If I were the one who invented hashtag, I would patent them and I'll get rich by charging the orthopaedic department for copyright infringement... Cool huh?

So an orthopaedic surgeon who has twitter addiction would see hashtags all the time. Twitter #, case notes #. If only they play tic tac toe... another big hashtag.

(And I was laughing alone when thinking of this, in Marketing class. We were discussing about hashtags and social media)

Well, my first day of marketing class, I present our group discussion on micro environment and macro environment. I'm not sure whether my presentation is good or the lecturer just not in the mood to comment on our presentation.

I would say, my 'oddness' pays itself. I read a book on marketing in college. I took Biology. Reading the marketing textbook for leisure.