Forget about the Golden Globe press conference, and who knows whether we'll have red carpets for Oscars this year. Rotten Tomato is my trusted movie review site. I'm glad some of the best movies in 2007 I've enjoyed made it on their list.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Golden Tomato
Forget about the Golden Globe press conference, and who knows whether we'll have red carpets for Oscars this year. Rotten Tomato is my trusted movie review site. I'm glad some of the best movies in 2007 I've enjoyed made it on their list.
emotions
I've yet to doing some reading on this, but surely humans are emotional beings. The advertising industry largely relies on consumer's emotions to their ads for a living. Kevin Roberts wrote that famous "lovemarks" book, still sitting on my shelf untouched since it was first published over 3 years ago now. One of the reason why economist can't predict the markets with absolute certainty is because, we don't often act logically; that is, cognitively.
May "love" be the predominant emotion that rules us, rather then anger, paranoia and antagonism.
Photo credit
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The way we live
It has been a busy and interesting start to 2008..a few interesting observations
My trusting mortgage broker friend told me we all have to work on our relationships. Working hard on our "day" job is not good enough - for before you know it, your "day" job will be all you have.
Rather then just listening to Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB and the occasional switch to The Edge, the BBC world service on 810AM is rather refreshing. Although it's not till I saw the flags at half mask on the harbor bridge that I learn Sir Ed passed away
Whilst we live in a "free world", we have access to internet.. can express different opinions.. etc. We have to try hard to keep a wider perspective. We do this whilst holding on to our beliefs hence doesn't make us "principle-less".
The anger of one angry person should stay with that person. For anger is like fire, it spreads in no time.
We see what we seek for, and often nothing further
The writers for Boston Legal are brilliant
Two interesting links:
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/
http://faithinsociety.blogspot.com/
One of the things that makes my life interesting is, the consult is never about "a case of heart failure", it is about one person touching on another person's life.
My trusting mortgage broker friend told me we all have to work on our relationships. Working hard on our "day" job is not good enough - for before you know it, your "day" job will be all you have.
Rather then just listening to Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB and the occasional switch to The Edge, the BBC world service on 810AM is rather refreshing. Although it's not till I saw the flags at half mask on the harbor bridge that I learn Sir Ed passed away
Whilst we live in a "free world", we have access to internet.. can express different opinions.. etc. We have to try hard to keep a wider perspective. We do this whilst holding on to our beliefs hence doesn't make us "principle-less".
The anger of one angry person should stay with that person. For anger is like fire, it spreads in no time.
We see what we seek for, and often nothing further
The writers for Boston Legal are brilliant
Two interesting links:
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/
http://faithinsociety.blogspot.com/
One of the things that makes my life interesting is, the consult is never about "a case of heart failure", it is about one person touching on another person's life.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
doing our job
Doctor: I'm going to ignore the troponin, there's no evidence of heart trouble
Nurse: What do you mean you're going to ignore the trop, it's up
Doctor: It's been up before, he has no chest pain or ECG changes
Nurse: What is it normally? 0.28? this is high, have you talk to someone?
Doctor: Yes, but he has no chest pain, no ECG changes, I talked to a consultant, a chemical pathologist to get a Trop T done.
Nurse: So who are you?
Doctor: I'm the medical registrar, he won't arrest on you in the middle of the night
Nurse: Oh... ok, have you documented all this?
Doctor: Yes i have, here you go. Do you want my home number just in case?
Nurse: Yes doctor! haha..
You can't blame the nurse for being annoying, she's doing her job, afterall, despite in a very confrontational manner.
Everyone is better off with a laugh.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Christmas lights
Much has been said about Christmas in the printed media lately. From the forever controversial Anglician vicars publicly debating their views and theology (Garth George, Michael Hewat, Glynn Cardy) to a Catholic Malaysian Chinese columnist. The Herald perhaps had the last word - Merry Christmas.
I'm puzzled as to why anyone can get their knickers in a twist over this. Christmas is exactly as what is described in Wikipedia - an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. Period. Granted, it carries different meaning to different people, but so is life. I can't understand why Mr George and Mr Hewat is so upset.
Whilst everyone is entitled to their opinion, some are certainly more inflammatory then the others, drawing parallels between Tony Blair being a Catholic with a vegatarian in a meat-eater club is certainly one.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
70th anniversary - Nanjing massacre
I love traveling to Japan. Safe, good shopping, and, nice food.
For some, the memory of anything to do with Japan is one of horror.
Why, and how, did the massacre of Nanjing happen? One is left to ponder.
It is no wonder some younger Japanese have no comprehension of it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7140357.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7142092.stm
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/28/1030508070534.html
Sunday, December 09, 2007
back to work
Back to work today, to the start of a challenging 6 months.
A dying patient's view, and all those around her in "A piece of my mind"
An article on issues around Advanced Dementia
An excellent piece to read when the going gets rough at work - the role of doctor
Friday, December 07, 2007
Sunday, December 02, 2007
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