Club 30's "Kill The Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 52 Edition
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BWahahahahaaa!!!! You crack me up.Originally posted by elindra:I am a free thinker
I was just exposed to the religion as a child
I dunno about the cow being a sacred beast but it sure taste good -
You're right. Both of you are screwed up. Don't change.Originally posted by elindra:My Indian guy is very Chinese leh
Heck he is more chinese and speaks better chinese then my ex-chinese bf -
Ooh...i would love to see a bunch of Chinese women speaking Tamil....imagine how tickled I would be....wahahaha!Originally posted by jetta:When we were little, we would watch Indian movies with Mum. She would translate here and there. When she got together with her sisters, they would all go on in Tamil. I thought this was a normal thing until I went to school. She taught me how to count to 5, a couple of salutations and that's about it. You know more than me. Power! -
This piece of news disturbs me... because i was told to wait 4 months for the doctor to see me because of my slipped disc.. they were overworked to hell... so, public hospitals are seeing foreign patients while being hopelessly inadequate to handle local volume?
ST – 20 Aug 2007, pH9
Public hospitals seeing rising numbers of foreign patients
Over 20% increase last year, even though patient fees are not subsidised
By Jessica Jaganathan
PUBLIC hospitals in Singapore are taking a bigger bite out of the growing medical tourism pie.
Last year, both clusters of public hospitals - the National Healthcare Group (NHG) and the SingHealth Group - treated more foreign patients than the year before.
NHG, which includes National University Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Alexandra Hospital, saw 52,769 foreign patients in 2005 and 65,125 last year. That is a 23 per cent jump.
The SingHealth cluster, including Changi General Hospital (CGH), KK Women's and Children's Hospital and Singapore General Hospital, which tracks only the number of 'patient visits' by foreigners, saw its numbers jump 25 per cent - from 80,000 in 2005 to 100,000 last year.
'Patient visits' count those seen more than once at outpatient clinics, in the wards and for day surgery.
Nationally, one in about five foreign in-patients now stays in public hospitals.
Dr Jason Yap, director of health-care services at the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), noted that private hospitals are still seeing the bulk of foreign patients, but public hospitals were matching them in clinical and customer service.
One foreigner who was satisfied with the treatment his wife received at CGH last month was Bangladeshi businessman Amanat Hussain Dewan, 42.
He chose CGH to get the lump in his wife's breast seen to after extensive research on both public and private hospitals here and in Thailand.
He said: 'To us, what is more important than price is that the infrastructure and treatment facilities should be good.'
To meet the needs of foreign patients like his wife, most hospitals here have set up a patient liaison centre, a one-stop concierge service that handles medical referrals, follow-up care, accommodation and travel arrangements for patients and accompanying relatives.
CGH, for instance, provides this service through its International Medical Services Centre.
Dr Wong Chiang Yin, the hospital's chief operating officer, said: 'When foreigners walk into a hospital, it can be a little forbidding, so we hope the new centre will meet their needs.'
Half the renovation bill for the $120,000 centre, which was officially opened this month, was borne by STB.
As the hospital is located near Changi Airport, it sees transit passengers needing medical attention, and this adds to its influx of foreign patients.
The hospital also actively recommends its services to potential foreign patients - through its network of 11 medical associates stationed in Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh and India.
But Dr Wong said that providing additional services like these was not an indication that the hospital was going all out to court foreign patients.
'It's not about making money,' he added.
Foreigners accounted for 1.6 per cent of CGH's annual turnover of $266 million last year - too small a proportion to hurt its primary focus on caring for Singaporeans, he explained.
Although foreigners receive the same level of health care as Singaporeans, the primary difference is in what they pay.
They stay in the non-subsidised A1 wards, and, in CGH, pay about 10 per cent above the usual rates for rooms there.
The Health Ministry said the increase in numbers of foreign patients puts Singapore on track to pulling in a million international patients by 2012.
STB's Dr Yap added: 'Singapore is a major destination for medical economy, as we do research, clinical trials and medical conferences, so public hospitals should have a share in that too.'
Hospitals, both private and public, saw 410,000 foreign patients last year, 15 per cent more than in 2005.
These patients come mainly from the region - Indonesia and Malaysia, with increasing numbers from China, the Middle East and developed countries.
Dr Yap added that Singapore needs to have patient volume in order to keep and maintain medical expertise and to afford technology.
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foreign influx will kill singapore.
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Next visit to Sg, I'll introduce you to my mother. Apparently she's so fluent she was interviewed on radio. Just don't ask me what they talked about.Originally posted by Wanda:Ooh...i would love to see a bunch of Chinese women speaking Tamil....imagine how tickled I would be....wahahaha! -
I think coz MPB parents let him take Chinese as 2nd language in school maOriginally posted by jetta:You're right. Both of you are screwed up. Don't change.
Plus his good friends are all chinese n his dad is half chinese too so there are some effects more or less -
So interesting!Originally posted by elindra:I think coz MPB parents let him take Chinese as 2nd language in school ma
Plus his good friends are all chinese n his dad is half chinese too so there are some effects more or less
I flunked Chinese. G10 all the way.
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i fail to see why you say your families or whatever are 'screwed up'
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Lowest mark is F9Originally posted by jetta:So interesting!
I flunked Chinese. G10 all the way.
How can you get a G10 -
they came up with that grade after they gave me an F9.. and figured F9 could not begin to describe the depths of my incompetence with that language and came up with G10
and poor jetta kenaOriginally posted by elindra:Lowest mark is F9
How can you get a G10 -
'Screwed up' as in deviating from the normOriginally posted by the Bear:i fail to see why you say your families or whatever are 'screwed up'
i see a lot of screwed up things.. but from your description, there's nothing wrong whatsoever...
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Exaggeration on my part. But it's true.Originally posted by elindra:Lowest mark is F9
How can you get a G10 
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and.. what is the norm? reallyOriginally posted by elindra:'Screwed up' as in deviating from the norm
Not really screwed up in the sense of a real screwed up family -
BTW, does she or MPB know how to cook Indian dahl curry, like those watery ones served by the nasi bryani stalls?Originally posted by jetta:Next visit to Sg, I'll introduce you to my mother. Apparently she's so fluent she was interviewed on radio. Just don't ask me what they talked about.
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Boy does she. Mum's an awesome cook. Growing up she made that and a whole bunch of other stuff. I'm surprised I wasn't a fat kid.Originally posted by Wanda:BTW, does she or MPB know how to cook Indian dahl curry, like those watery ones served by the nasi bryani stalls?
I tried some from cookbooks but those versions by ang moh really CMI. I grew up eating Indian food. She took us to Indian restaurants and we thought eating rice on a banana leaf using your hand was normal. -
You know the typical Chinese familyOriginally posted by the Bear:and.. what is the norm? really
Buddist or Taoist and pray during the 7th mth with all sort of weird customs -
i got a G10 for my accounts paper once before.Originally posted by the Bear:they came up with that grade after they gave me an F9.. and figured F9 could not begin to describe the depths of my incompetence with that language and came up with G10
and poor jetta kena
17/100.
before that A maths was 18/100.
G10. -
NoOriginally posted by Wanda:BTW, does she or MPB know how to cook Indian dahl curry, like those watery ones served by the nasi bryani stalls?
I tried some from cookbooks but those versions by ang moh really CMI.
MPB cooking is nothing remotely indian
Maybe have to ask my MIL
I love her mutton curry *drools* -
*shakes stella's hand*Originally posted by stellazio:i got a G10 for my accounts paper once before.
17/100.
before that A maths was 18/100.
G10. -
Lucky you! I love indian curries. Can share the recipe if you happen to have it? Or post in the recipe threads.Originally posted by jetta:Boy does she. Mum's an awesome cook. Growing up she made that and a whole bunch of other stuff. I'm surprised I wasn't a fat kid. I grew up eating Indian food. She took us to Indian restaurants and we thought eating rice on a banana leaf using your hand was normal. 
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Was just yelling over the phone at 2 suppliers. KKN, I hate doing that but sometimes really damned tu lan with they way they try to taichi things
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Wow and I thought I was badOriginally posted by stellazio:i got a G10 for my accounts paper once before.
17/100.
before that A maths was 18/100.
G10. 
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Alamak peeps, it's almost 1am here and my eyes are protesting. I can't keep them open much longer. Mom's taxi service starts running again in the morning so this taxi driver had better get some shut eye before her shift begins. Thanks for the chat. Wish I could meet up with all of you someday. Nighty night!
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Yum! Please post it up in the recipe thread if you can get the recipe from your MIL.Originally posted by elindra:No
MPB cooking is nothing remotely indian
Maybe have to ask my MIL
I love her mutton curry *drools*
Strangely, my very Chinese-oriented mom used to be able to cook a very good mutton curry, but after some time, she said she'd forgotten how to cook liao.
Speaking of which, I love the dum bryani from the specialist at Tekka. BTW, pinky bear, did you manage to go to tekka mkt recently?