govt service, PSD scholarship and getting richer....

 working with the govt as a non-PSD scholarship holder?

I had met a many Public Service Department Scholarship holder during my days with the MOH. Due to govt. policy most of them were Malays except one. Majority of the Malays PSD scholarship holder were bright and cheering persons, they had seen the modern developed country which influences their practice and lifestyle. The only one was a Chinese, he was the first batch who was granted scholarship after the change of policy. He had completed his degree in India and came back to serve. A nice and dedicated person but I described him as a GP type of man…I had forgotten his name and wander did he completed his specialist training and still serve with the MOH…

The thinking process of Chinese and the “Bumis” were different; the most of the Chinese would have to work like a “dog” and save up for their children education fund. The “Bumis” would not have this kind of burden. I had met a master of orthopedic trainee who had bought a car and a house with the govt loan…. And he had 3 kids….

If their children are bright enough – govt. would pay for them. It is not true for the Chinese, the saving would provide enough fund for the studies or a business starting fund for the children.

I had worked under a clinical specialist L during my housemanship. A MU grad, top of the top during his high school. A clinical specialist were mostly MRCP/FRCS holder then, they had to work under supervision for 2 years before they were gazetted as specialist. In the beginning, they had to do MO calls and after a few months, there would be promoted to do Specialist call. The major different was the specialist subsidy of RM800 and the entertainment claim.

However, he had met some hardship during his MRCP examination. He had attempted a few times before he got his pass. He had told me that he had almost given up but his wife had supported him through the exam. He is still working with the MOH and currently posted in Johor as consultant. A very nice and easy going person, he would help us up clerking new patient in a busy afternoon.

There were also some MRCP candidate then – most of them were India medical graduate and most of them were not worry over their financial problem(either came from a wealthy family or not married).

Xian arrival had truly affected my planning. I was getting about 3.5k then and I was posted to MU for my master then. That means a cut of 500RM (a special subsidy from the MOH but not from the MOE –working MU hospital is considered working with the MOE…)

I could imaging 4 of us living in a flat in PJ….Xian and Yun grabbing the iron bate of the iron gate glancing through the “lubang” waiting for me to come back…

I opted to leave…….

The medical officer got paid far more better than a average graduate -> how many Chinese govt. servant could live with the salary with any help from the parents ?

Getting a govt. scholarship means paying back by working as a govt. servant – how many of those “bright” Chinese would ? Govt. should have show a statistic how many of those outstanding student had provided their service and for how long…..it was a bad logic in my point of view,

1.govt. servant got paid less

2.outstanding student was given scholarship and later become govt. servant.

3.Govt servant got pay less compare to private sector – less/no chance of become rich

4.Outstanding student  = less chance of getting big money.

5.Average student do business/ work in private sector = more chance of become rich…

 

No wander the NEP hadn’t succeed of getting the bumis to become wealthier….

Age of not confuse....

It is milestone for me…. Attaining the age of “not confuse” , looking back my life, I am at the peak of it… stepping a pave of I never dream off… fulfilling what my parents have hope me to be – a medicine man and also a specialist. Life is not perfect but I am satisfied at what I have……

Survive a double instrument delivery and also Reyes syndrome(my mother had always told me that I had aspirin allergy during my childhood - but I finally realized that it was not aspirin allergy, the red skin was Reyes syndrome - and I was lucky enough that I survive...) and still standing... I am truly a lucky man with the mercy of GOD...

Trying to learnt more and enjoy life...

Early change..

 

I had Z service 1+ months ago – 3.5 years and I had completed 100,000km with it…Z is such a nice car – safety and driving fan. However the parts were so expansive and the hot weather of Taiwan is not really suitable for a European car. Just like our cardiologist T told me about his Volvo – good car but small problem here and there…I considered him as “car god” – he knew lots about car and an awesome driver. Don’t judge him by what he is driving ( a 10+ years old Nissan Primera P11 – sporty though, I saw him snake drive in front of me months ago…, he had a Volvo 460 before).

Few months ago, there were rumors that the OPEL dealer of Taiwan – YGM is not going to continue their dealership. The YGM is a subsidiary of the CCar (dealing with Mitsubishi and Nissan ). The CCar had however launched their own branded SUV+MPV(LUXGEN) 1 + years ago. Since then, the showroom and service center for OPEL had been shut down one by one. Last months, the rumor had become a truth. It means there would be no OPEL dealer in Taiwan after June. Market rumor had claimed that VW dealer would be taking over the dealership but next year.

My Z would become orphan, even though the service center had told me that they would continue to service my car but I felt unsecure as parts would need to be ordered and waiting time would be much longer….

I had to bring the date for change a little bit earlier(much earlier to be truth…).

My first consideration is definitely a 5+2 seaters. The +2 will definitely come in handy when there is visitors…. And the extra space could load our bicycle and camping equipment as needed….

But I still missed the SUV – better view and safer when driving over some muddy terrain. I had driven my kembara up to the highest road in the Malay Penisula - the Telekom Tower in Cameron highland - hell of an experience...so I had put an eye on SUV again...

It is hard to get a SUV c 5+2 seaters in Taiwan – not many selection . I did not consider any European brand – another walk over the plank trap, had to settle with local assembly one/Imported Asia model. One of my favorite is Land cruiser Prado -  however the only version here is the 4.0 one =>super petrol tiger….just had to skip it. The more fuel efficient selection is Pajero ( the only version is 3.2 diesel) but it cost about 220k RM…still way beyond my budget.

There were owner who add the 3 rows seat to their Outlander and RAV4, but it is not my option as I wish the seat could be completely hidden to the bunker..

There is one car left on the market with the basic requirement of mine – Hyundai Santa Fe. However, the only version is 2WD…. a little short of my expectation.

However last month, I saw the news over the net that a 4WD version speculated to be launch in May. The dealer had officially denied the plan but later I had got a affirmative news from a showroom manager through a church friend.

I took Ving to the showroom and arrange a test drive[2WD of coz..]. Darn, the engine was so quiet, I had a moment thought that it was a N/A engine instead of a diesel one. With 197 hp - >the pickup was good…

Ving did not suffer from any motion sickness and after some discussion we had decided to take the car….

come with twin exhaust ...

a roof spoiler....

10+days before the hand over – it was truly an agony waiting….

hang of it....

It was a busy evening, the ICU nurse had been calling 175 and 196 like don’t know what….well, I had just seen 2 biker who had wounded after they hit a dog. I saw a 2 ladies walked in to the ED with the nurse holding a blanket. I was right on my first guess - a baby was wrapped in the blanket.
The younger lady was the mother and the lady in her 40s was the granny. She had given birth to the child in the house – no one had known about her pregnancy until the crying of the baby shattered them. I did a quite survey over the body and found that she was fine with a little bit hypothermia.
We had no facilities to keep the baby warm, I ordered the nurse to shut off the centralized air-con and asked the nurse to use a heat lamp on the baby.
I then turned to the mother, she was comfortable but looked a little bit pale. I felt her abdomen and found that the uterus was poorly contracted. I started the massage and as the nurse to prepare the patient for me to perform a vaginal examination.
I was lucky – the massage did the job => the uterine started to harden…the vaginal tear was shallow….I did a repaired and the PV bleeding was greatly reduced after I removed abundant of blood clot….
The repair was smooth and I had referred the mother and child to a hospital c OnG and Paeds service….I still had the hang of it after all this year of leaving MOH…..I would have ended up doing nothing if I had had not do my time with the MOH….

crap.....

There was this nurse (so called A) who was considered as unfit months ago. The acting head nurse had decided to let her go. As the acting head nurse was one of the “GANG” member.[the gang had made up of a matron, a few head nurse and nurse leader].  A plot was set up – the management had offered an attendant job to A. They had advised A to take the job on the below ground

1.     She was incompetent

2.     Attendant work day shift only

The cons side was she had to tolerate a 30% cut of salary.

The part which pissed most of the staff was – the offer was made while she was pregnant…

Some had stood up and fight for her, but finally she accepted the offer and nothing much can be done….

Lately, she had wanted to apply for baby sitting leave…and the management had again tried to talk her out of it, by claiming that she was demoted and currently not confirmed on her current job….…however she had seek help and someone had looked up the relevant law and found that she was entitled to the leave and the managment had no right to refuse her application… she had decided to filed the application in written formally.....

 

Regarding baby sitting leave…

1.     Work more than 1 years in the setting

2.     Child/children is less than 3 years of age

3.     The spouse is working

The national labour insurance would pay 60% of the salary….