Manifesto talk...

I had a few discussions with Ving and Yun regarding the manifesto of both the rival.
Yun had favor the "scale" initially as they promised to distribute computer to student and later change her mind as she saw the photography of the computer - it was an IBM deskstop....she told me that it look like second handed product and she would call up her cousin later to double confirm the news, but I doubt that my sister in law with 4 kids would be attracted by such "bribery" act...
Regarding the EPF for wife, Ving felt good but Yun had another view - > some man would dislike the idea: why should I give part of my money to my wife to control ? the new kids on the block had different view than the old hag indeed...
Well, the BN had laid off a few female big gun and I wander if they really won, would there be any female minister ?

GE13 - my 1st postal voting

I had a good 7 hrs sleep before I woke up and enjoy my cup of coffee...(white coffee bean from Aik Chong, I purchased it from the Aik Chong Old shop in Malacca), black of coz...

It was raining when we started to clear up our tent and gear however the process was smooth as this is not our first time packing on rainy day.

We had our breakfast at a noodle shop nearby and headed up to the mission's office which is 12 km away.

outside the mission

There was this Malaysian Student Association members who were around the entrance preparing to educate Malaysians on how to vote...

It was Sunday and there is no office that is working today, the mission had set up a desk with 2 election officials just in front of the lift. We presented our IC to the lady sitting at the desk and our names were crossed and allowed to enter the lift heading to 8F. The kids had to stay at the ground floor as only voter is allowed to enter.

There is another desk in the mission's office where we were handed the envelop which content the ballot paper, envelop and borang 2.

We proceeded to the Saksi room(which is not necessary as we can find any witness as we wish). In the room, there were 2 officers and 4 cubicles with tables just like the voting center. We presented the envelops and borang 2 and had them signed in front of the witness.

During the process a young chap came and started to talking at a raise tone at the envelop collecting desk.

According to him, he had felt that it was unfair as there was serial number on the ballot papers, envelops and borang 2. He felt that the vote would be traced back to him... I looked at him calmly and restrained myself from commenting his act at that moment.

The young chap had queued up behind me and after my borang 2 was signed. He approached the Malay uncle(one of the witness) which I thought was the senior officer about the "unfair" and he had said that he is going to mail it back to Malaysia himself and asked the official how it should be done in ENGLISH. The official politely show him out and told me what to do outside the room.

What I wanted to say to him was:

1.When you met an govt. official, speak Malay if you can, and don't raise your tone especially when you use English while talking to them. ( a message to them, I am a Malaysian and I knew the language well to show that I care about the country...)

2.When you don't trust the system - don't involve = don't vote

3.Read through the internet before you asked- regarding how and where to mail the ballot paper is noted over the net....just GOOOOGLE..

4.I am not afraid of my vote being traced back to me - I want the relevant people to know what I preferred and if "flashing" my vote is not against the law, I would "flashed" it...Lim Guan Eng would not be afraid of letting other people know that who he vote ....so do I... let them trace, if them wanted to ....nothing to shout nor complained. But in fact, I read the borneopost online today morning in which the state EC director of Sabah explained "how secure" it is about the postal voting...

I completed the voting and placed my vote into the bag...a short process and I am happy that I had voted on GE13... 

Syabas to the mission, they had really done a great job on the voting process planning - a smooth flow and great setting of the ballot room...

Post voting: there was another shopping tour at the IKEA nearby and we headed back to our home by 1pm... stopped by Taichung "Red Ghost" steak house for lunch + dinner at 3:15pm...

here I am with the proof of my postal voting...

pre voting day...

here i am, sitting in the camp at the Hua Zhong camping ground in Taipei city..
after 5 hrs of straining drive, we had finally arrived at the Taipei city. Yun and Xian had wanted a tour to the book store and we had our lunch there.
In the evening, we had picked up some food and headed to the camping site...need a good sleep tonight as I have to drive a long long way home after the voting....
after reviewing the candidate profile, I had made up my mind, not a difficult one but yet I hope I could make a difference...

recognition....

I  believe that there is a very small number of the chinese independence school graduate that had joined the government service... well, with an unrecognized diploma, we the one that is left out.
With a high school cert that is unrecognized plus a unrecognized medical degree, the pressure was more tense during my school days. Most of the people that knew my parents had "advised" them to reconsidered their decision and they had to tolerate the comment for all those years.
Well, fortunately those people were wrong. I am one of the countable government servant (ex of coz) in my family and registered with the medical council back in Malaysia. Well, I heard from my parents that one of my cousin is studying medicine
locally at the moment. For chinese providing good education is very expensive if you had planned to send your child overseas, but yet studying a degree in Taiwan is cheaper then doing it in Malaysia in certain field( eg, medicine). The recognition of unified exam does not change anything, I doubt that there would be a lot of chinese unified exam cert holder would join the government service with an junior entry post
The BN could have just announced the recognition of the unified exam on the spot and gain some extra chinese vote to make a difference in some area, but yet ....

preparing for the vote...

We would be heading up north tomorrow. I had successfully booked the camping ground in the Taipei city and would be putting up a night.  Strenous drive but still worth the experience...
The Taipei city council had set up a camping ground near a bridge at the old Wan Hua Area. We had camped there for a few times and it is a well maintained. The fee is a good RM55 for a night.
I had gone through the procedure of postal voting and would be reviewing the candidate information tonight...maybe I would change my mind....

the path for Yun

Yun is graduating this year from primary school and after months of discussion and negotiating, she had finally compromised and wanted to go to the MH high school.
Few years back, after chatting with some parents, I had decided MH is the school for Yun - the reason is simple, I want a school with "normal teaching".
In Taiwan, many secondary school had replace their PT subject or art subject with other subject that is relatively more important - math, science or what so ever. Some of the school had even opened up night self study class and retained the student till 10pm. The "night self study" was however a fake and teacher utilized the period for extra teaching a.k.a tuition and most of the parents love such class like dont know what.
I don't want to add any burden to my children, I wanted them to enjoyed a  easy but fruitful secondary school. life The thinking process rather than the art of memorizing, the creativitiy rather than the scoring in examination
Yun had wanted to go to the local govt school which is mixed of all kinda of student. There is also this "famous" high school which is stressing more on the result. Yun had resisted and protested in a very strong way and finally we successfully persuaded her.
She had taken the entry exam and successfully made it to the top 25 % and enabling her to enroll in the school.
Well, the war had just begun and Yun had shown an interest in Math....hope I could replicate my experience and benefit her in her future life....

HxNx....

There is one confirmed case of H7N9 last night. The news had made it look like a disaster. I had this lady who was seen in OPD clinic 2 days ago for upper respiratory tract infection and came to ED asking for screening. She was afebrile and despite of complaining of worsening of symptom, she claimed that she tolerated it well. She had travelled to the Zhang Jia Jie, Hu Nan Province, which is not at endemic area.
She had expressed that although she had not visit to the related province, however she had contacted with peoples that might had come from the above area. I reassured that she is afebrile and there is currently no evidence that it would transmit from human to human and discharge her.
I do feel comfortable seeing patient with URI symptom at the moment but if there is evidence of human to human transmission, than it would be warzone again for me. I had to don the "full gear" to see feversih patient....risk taking job but still it is my job,unlike the SARS, we had this tamiflu now