I have just had my first dental visit in what seems like eons to me. I can't even remember when was the last year that I visited a dentist. To be honest, I have never liked dentists much. The sounds they make when drilling holes into the teeth make me shiver and so I had managed to avoid seeing a dentist for so long.
However recently my wisdom tooth is starting to hurt my gum badly. It hurt so much that I can't use my right jaw to chew any food at all. Hot drinks or cold drinks serve to add pain to my already aching gum.
Anyway I went to the dental clinic that is closest to my home, Tan Dental Surgery. Dr. Tan wasn't that bad as he chirped away happily during my treatment. As my upper right wisdom tooth is grinding down on my lower jaw gums, he suggested doing an extraction soon. In the meantime, he would set everything nicely so that it wouldn't hurt so badly. I don't really understand what he meant by setting but they don't include any extraction.
The total bill came to $230 and so I'm terribly broke right now. I truly hate my wisdom tooth for giving me so much trouble. Now I still feel some soreness around the affected area but I will be going to a polyclinic to get a referral letter to get a specialist to extract my wisdom tooth. Man, I really can't stand the pain. (>.<)
Wish me (and my wallet) luck!
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change
This year, I have decided to participate in the Blog Action Day, which focuses on climate change for 2009. You can read more about it here ~ www.blogactionday.org.
Every year, climate change remains an important part of global environmental topics and this year is no different. In Singapore, the National Environment Agency put up its own climate change programme with the slogan, "Fight Climate Change, Conserve Energy, Save Money". You can view the website here ~ National Environment Agency.
Climate change affects humanity in a number of ways. It can range from the change in weather temperature to rising sea levels to increment in cost of food. In relative to Singapore, a change in weather would meant we are getting hotter days/nights and rainier storms. This could have an adverse effect on our health, causing us to suffer from heatstroke or colds and flus.
As for cost of food, we citizens are affected directly in the pocket as we import most of our food from outside countries. Climate change can cause vegetation to wither and die, thus resulting in lesser food and pushing up the selling prices for these vegetables and fruits. Even life-stocks such as meat and fish are not spared either.
This in turn will cause our cost of living to increase and our disposable income will be affected. When that happens, consumer overall spending will decrease and in turn our national GDP will be affected and reduced.
From this we can see how a tiny change in temperature can escalate into serious national problem. When that happens, it could affect the whole global environment. That is why we need to address the issue of climate change urgently in order to prevent such a scenario from happening.
What we can do on our part as a ciziten of this Earth is to use more efficient ways to use energy to reduce our carbon footprints to help fight climate change. NEA provides some little tips that can help us in our daily lives so that we can help in the cause of climate change. There is also a little energy challenge booklet that can be downloaded for more tips on energy saving tips.
For my own part, I use fan to cool my room instead of an air-con unit but I don't own an air-con unit in my house anyway. I also use energy-saving light bulbs for lightings in my house to reduce the energy usage. These are the small little things that I can help to contribute to fight the climate change.
What about you? Please help to do your part in whatever you can to help save our mother earth. We only have 1 mother earth and it is up to us to save it with our own efforts.
Every year, climate change remains an important part of global environmental topics and this year is no different. In Singapore, the National Environment Agency put up its own climate change programme with the slogan, "Fight Climate Change, Conserve Energy, Save Money". You can view the website here ~ National Environment Agency.
Climate change affects humanity in a number of ways. It can range from the change in weather temperature to rising sea levels to increment in cost of food. In relative to Singapore, a change in weather would meant we are getting hotter days/nights and rainier storms. This could have an adverse effect on our health, causing us to suffer from heatstroke or colds and flus.
As for cost of food, we citizens are affected directly in the pocket as we import most of our food from outside countries. Climate change can cause vegetation to wither and die, thus resulting in lesser food and pushing up the selling prices for these vegetables and fruits. Even life-stocks such as meat and fish are not spared either.
This in turn will cause our cost of living to increase and our disposable income will be affected. When that happens, consumer overall spending will decrease and in turn our national GDP will be affected and reduced.
From this we can see how a tiny change in temperature can escalate into serious national problem. When that happens, it could affect the whole global environment. That is why we need to address the issue of climate change urgently in order to prevent such a scenario from happening.
What we can do on our part as a ciziten of this Earth is to use more efficient ways to use energy to reduce our carbon footprints to help fight climate change. NEA provides some little tips that can help us in our daily lives so that we can help in the cause of climate change. There is also a little energy challenge booklet that can be downloaded for more tips on energy saving tips.
For my own part, I use fan to cool my room instead of an air-con unit but I don't own an air-con unit in my house anyway. I also use energy-saving light bulbs for lightings in my house to reduce the energy usage. These are the small little things that I can help to contribute to fight the climate change.
What about you? Please help to do your part in whatever you can to help save our mother earth. We only have 1 mother earth and it is up to us to save it with our own efforts.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
H1N1 Flu Situation Gets Worse in Singapore
Foreigners can be such a pain in the ass sometimes. They think they are so great when they compare themselves to Singaporeans but in reality, they are not better than any one of us here either.
Take the recent H1N1 cases for example. 1 German researcher came back from the US and 1 Indonesian man came back from Melbourne with flu symptoms yet they behaved irresponsibly by going out in to the public to spread their virus.
The German man is particular nasty. Not only he went back to his office for work, he also went shopping, attended a concert and even attended a French ambassador's function party. All these were done BEFORE he finally called 933 to admit himself to the CDC. This guy is so audacious! Who the hell does he think he is? The King of Germany?!
For the Indonesian man, he also went to do some shopping before he admitted himself to the emergency department at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. It was also reported that both had already developed the symptoms way before they flew back to Singapore. The only symptom that failed to arise at that time was fever, otherwise both guys would have already been quarantined long time ago.
These two irresponsible guys should be exposed to the public so that we can be aware of them and be certain not to go near them. The Ministry of Health should issue a health warning and a fine to them for exposing the public to health risk.
We should not be lenient on them just because they are the so-called foreign talent. Anyway if they are really foreign talents, it's obvious that they don't place any importance in our country at all. Going around the country and spreading the H1N1 virus at the same time only tell people that they are idiots. I, for one, would not have any sympathy for these guys and they should be repatriated back to their own countries and be barred from entering Singapore.
Who cares about Germany and Indonesia anyway? It's hard to be understanding towards these guys when they had obviously enjoyed themselves before surrendering over to the health authorities. Damn them to hell.
What could be worse is that if the shopping that they had done was actually at the recent PC show at Suntec City? That would have been a major disaster since there are lots of people who had attended the show.
Now we are facing the prospect of getting more people infected and thus the Ministry of Education has decided to extend the school holidays so as to ensure that students who have been abroad to afflicted countries do not spread the virus further.
Looks like there will never be an end to this whole saga. More people continue to go overseas despite travel advisories issued by the government. People are stubborn to the point of idiocracy.
Oh well, I can't be bothered about it anymore. Just give me the names of the two big idiots that I mentioned earlier. Damn them.
Take the recent H1N1 cases for example. 1 German researcher came back from the US and 1 Indonesian man came back from Melbourne with flu symptoms yet they behaved irresponsibly by going out in to the public to spread their virus.
The German man is particular nasty. Not only he went back to his office for work, he also went shopping, attended a concert and even attended a French ambassador's function party. All these were done BEFORE he finally called 933 to admit himself to the CDC. This guy is so audacious! Who the hell does he think he is? The King of Germany?!
For the Indonesian man, he also went to do some shopping before he admitted himself to the emergency department at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. It was also reported that both had already developed the symptoms way before they flew back to Singapore. The only symptom that failed to arise at that time was fever, otherwise both guys would have already been quarantined long time ago.
These two irresponsible guys should be exposed to the public so that we can be aware of them and be certain not to go near them. The Ministry of Health should issue a health warning and a fine to them for exposing the public to health risk.
We should not be lenient on them just because they are the so-called foreign talent. Anyway if they are really foreign talents, it's obvious that they don't place any importance in our country at all. Going around the country and spreading the H1N1 virus at the same time only tell people that they are idiots. I, for one, would not have any sympathy for these guys and they should be repatriated back to their own countries and be barred from entering Singapore.
Who cares about Germany and Indonesia anyway? It's hard to be understanding towards these guys when they had obviously enjoyed themselves before surrendering over to the health authorities. Damn them to hell.
What could be worse is that if the shopping that they had done was actually at the recent PC show at Suntec City? That would have been a major disaster since there are lots of people who had attended the show.
Now we are facing the prospect of getting more people infected and thus the Ministry of Education has decided to extend the school holidays so as to ensure that students who have been abroad to afflicted countries do not spread the virus further.
Looks like there will never be an end to this whole saga. More people continue to go overseas despite travel advisories issued by the government. People are stubborn to the point of idiocracy.
Oh well, I can't be bothered about it anymore. Just give me the names of the two big idiots that I mentioned earlier. Damn them.
Friday, May 15, 2009
H1N1 Influenza A Hits Malaysia
Now the recent H1N1 influenza A has reached much closer to home, with Malaysia reporting its first case about 2 hours ago.
A 21 years old male student who had just returned on a trip from the United States on 13 May had fallen ill yesterday. Laboratory tests confirmed that it was the H1N1 flu virus that caused the illness.
With that, Singapore is now going to be more alert in its fight against the flu virus as so far no cases have been reported yet. But with the virus hitting so close, it would only be a matter of time before the virus finally hit us since Malaysia is only a river away from us.
However I believe we can and are able to fight against the virus as we have already been well-prepared when the virus first struck in Mexico.
We just have to be more vigilant in our stringent screenings of patients who visit GPs and travellers who have just returned from affected countries. So far 33 countries have reported cases of the virus striking but the fatality is only about 65, most of them in Mexico.
That means the virus is highly contagious but is not life-threatening at this stage. Oh well, after the SARS episode, companies are much more aware of the health situations around the world. My company is no exception either and we have purchased many medical stuffs to stock up as well as for our frontline clinical staffs' usage.
Now all we can do is wait for more news from WHO to track the progress of the virus.
A 21 years old male student who had just returned on a trip from the United States on 13 May had fallen ill yesterday. Laboratory tests confirmed that it was the H1N1 flu virus that caused the illness.
With that, Singapore is now going to be more alert in its fight against the flu virus as so far no cases have been reported yet. But with the virus hitting so close, it would only be a matter of time before the virus finally hit us since Malaysia is only a river away from us.
However I believe we can and are able to fight against the virus as we have already been well-prepared when the virus first struck in Mexico.
We just have to be more vigilant in our stringent screenings of patients who visit GPs and travellers who have just returned from affected countries. So far 33 countries have reported cases of the virus striking but the fatality is only about 65, most of them in Mexico.
That means the virus is highly contagious but is not life-threatening at this stage. Oh well, after the SARS episode, companies are much more aware of the health situations around the world. My company is no exception either and we have purchased many medical stuffs to stock up as well as for our frontline clinical staffs' usage.
Now all we can do is wait for more news from WHO to track the progress of the virus.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
It's Raining Heavily Now...
It's raining heavily outside now and judging from the thunders booming, there must have been a lot of lightning striking across the night sky too.
I wish I had a camera with the most advanced technology so that I can take pictures of the lightning. But these cameras are usually priced out of my reach. So I can only contend myself with lightning pictures posted by other photographers on the internet. See some of the interesting lightning pictures that I found just now:
They are so lovely and well-taken! Kudos to the photographers. I couldn't have taken such excellent photos myself, man. To take lightning pictures, you will need the right amount of time and especially luck. Lightning strikes anywhere in the skies and there could be some difficulty in pinpointing the exact strike location of the lightning.
I don't have much skills to talk about. Perhaps the experts will shed more light on that. Hmmm... I will need to do some research on the technique of taking lightning pictures. Then in the near future, I could take some lightning pictures of my own.
For now, my flu seems to have gotten worse and I hope the weather won't be making it worse. *sighs*
I wish I had a camera with the most advanced technology so that I can take pictures of the lightning. But these cameras are usually priced out of my reach. So I can only contend myself with lightning pictures posted by other photographers on the internet. See some of the interesting lightning pictures that I found just now:
They are so lovely and well-taken! Kudos to the photographers. I couldn't have taken such excellent photos myself, man. To take lightning pictures, you will need the right amount of time and especially luck. Lightning strikes anywhere in the skies and there could be some difficulty in pinpointing the exact strike location of the lightning.
I don't have much skills to talk about. Perhaps the experts will shed more light on that. Hmmm... I will need to do some research on the technique of taking lightning pictures. Then in the near future, I could take some lightning pictures of my own.
For now, my flu seems to have gotten worse and I hope the weather won't be making it worse. *sighs*
Monday, September 22, 2008
53,000 Children Affected by China's Tainted Milk
According to this report from Telegraph, 53,000 children has been affected by the tainted milk powder from several local dairy companies, two noticeable big brands being Sanlu and Yili.
That's an astonishing number of babies that could be facing a bleak future with failing kidneys. As it turned out, people questioned why checks were not conducted to ensure that the baby products passed stringent health tests.
Now it appears that China has this special exemption granted to major domestic brand names from any product testing. I think this is mostly likely due to corrupted officials taking money from the big companies' top executives. Corruption is a well-known and well-accepted practice in many parts of China, especially for rural areas where the poor are often exploited.
It remains to be seen how the Chinese government intends to clear this scandal, which has already eroded whatever good image that was created during the Beijing Olympics. The scandal is simply too big-scaled for the Chinese government to contain. After all the glory comes disaster.
As each day goes by, more negative news reports come out of China as well as its surrounding neighbours. It is a nightmare that no government wants to wake up to.
Whatever the situation is, stay away from China products infinitely is the only best way out. Especially if it concerns food and health.
Stay away from CHINA.
That's an astonishing number of babies that could be facing a bleak future with failing kidneys. As it turned out, people questioned why checks were not conducted to ensure that the baby products passed stringent health tests.
Now it appears that China has this special exemption granted to major domestic brand names from any product testing. I think this is mostly likely due to corrupted officials taking money from the big companies' top executives. Corruption is a well-known and well-accepted practice in many parts of China, especially for rural areas where the poor are often exploited.
It remains to be seen how the Chinese government intends to clear this scandal, which has already eroded whatever good image that was created during the Beijing Olympics. The scandal is simply too big-scaled for the Chinese government to contain. After all the glory comes disaster.
As each day goes by, more negative news reports come out of China as well as its surrounding neighbours. It is a nightmare that no government wants to wake up to.
Whatever the situation is, stay away from China products infinitely is the only best way out. Especially if it concerns food and health.
Stay away from CHINA.
Bad, Bad China!
It's been a common knowledge that China-made products are usually belong to a group of inferior products and that's the main reason why the cost price for these products are so low.
Now it's getting even worse. Lately, there have been lots of news about tainted milk products causing 4 babies deaths in China and left thousands of babies inflicted with kidney stones. Things are from bad to worse and in Singapore, China dairy products are totally removed from stores' shelves as per AVA's directive.
No one knows who's exactly in the fault. The manufacturer? The cow farmers? Or the middlemen? No matter what, in just the short few weeks after the euphoric high of the Beijing Olympics, all consumer confidence has been effectively destroyed in the tainted milk scandal and it's yet to be over.
More and more China products are getting pulled off the shelves and the latest product is Nespray's milk powder. The food scandal is going way bigger than that of the tainted canned luncheon meat earlier this year.
The tainted milk had apparently been contaminated with a harmful chemical, melamine, which makes milk appear to contain more protein than it actually does.
China people are always unscrupulous in their quest for wealth and fame and in this case, it's no different. The only consequence is that they gain wealth at the expense of babies' health and they are not feeling guilty over it. This goes to show how horrible the true characters of the China people are.
On one hand, they appear to be gracious host and open up to the world. Yet on the other hand, they are selling poisoned food back to the same world. There's a saying which goes like this, ingrate bites the hand that feed it. This is certainly the scary truth here in China's food scandal.
Moral values do not exist in the China people's lives. They know no shame and humanity. Only greed, money and fame matters the most to them. All these disgusting behaviour only results in scandals such as this tainted milk.
In fact, the best thing is to NEVER, EVER buy any China products, be it food or clothings or accessories or even toothpaste for they can prove to be harmful to your health.
For me, I totally condemn anything that comes from China, especially food as that could mean death in a second.
So, do not ever buy China products again. They are DANGEROUS. And that goes for their people as well.
Now it's getting even worse. Lately, there have been lots of news about tainted milk products causing 4 babies deaths in China and left thousands of babies inflicted with kidney stones. Things are from bad to worse and in Singapore, China dairy products are totally removed from stores' shelves as per AVA's directive.
No one knows who's exactly in the fault. The manufacturer? The cow farmers? Or the middlemen? No matter what, in just the short few weeks after the euphoric high of the Beijing Olympics, all consumer confidence has been effectively destroyed in the tainted milk scandal and it's yet to be over.
More and more China products are getting pulled off the shelves and the latest product is Nespray's milk powder. The food scandal is going way bigger than that of the tainted canned luncheon meat earlier this year.
The tainted milk had apparently been contaminated with a harmful chemical, melamine, which makes milk appear to contain more protein than it actually does.
China people are always unscrupulous in their quest for wealth and fame and in this case, it's no different. The only consequence is that they gain wealth at the expense of babies' health and they are not feeling guilty over it. This goes to show how horrible the true characters of the China people are.
On one hand, they appear to be gracious host and open up to the world. Yet on the other hand, they are selling poisoned food back to the same world. There's a saying which goes like this, ingrate bites the hand that feed it. This is certainly the scary truth here in China's food scandal.
Moral values do not exist in the China people's lives. They know no shame and humanity. Only greed, money and fame matters the most to them. All these disgusting behaviour only results in scandals such as this tainted milk.
In fact, the best thing is to NEVER, EVER buy any China products, be it food or clothings or accessories or even toothpaste for they can prove to be harmful to your health.
For me, I totally condemn anything that comes from China, especially food as that could mean death in a second.
So, do not ever buy China products again. They are DANGEROUS. And that goes for their people as well.
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