Sunday, September 28, 2008

8 Facts about me.......

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Simple Rules:
1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.
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Thanks to Yi Chin of tagging me ....:P


8 Facts about me!!
1. I love travelling. I ady travelled to all the states in Malaysia with my own limited finances. I visited 2 World Heritage National Parks in Malaysia: Mulu and Kinabalu National park, and conquered to the peak of the highest mountain in South East Asia. Even now in Australia, I visited New South Wales and Queensland only in last year. One of my dreams is actually travelling to every corner of the world, at least to all the continents in the world…

2. Eating chocolates. I am so happy in Australia that I have so many selections of chocolates. And I almost finish trying all the chocolates’ brand in Australia.

3. I love to sleep. May be people would say who doesn’t like to sleep?!?! Yes may be I am not the odd one out.

4. Flowers. Now is spring, also the season I enjoy the most with so many types of flowers blossoming.

5. I love photo taking..not just taking photo of myself, I just love the scenery especially the nature. U can imagine how many beaches, sunset, sunrise I had seen and captured with my camera. May be I should get another better camera soon if my financial status allow me to do so.

6. I love to read map.. Even when I was in college, I ady had the maps in my brain, and I could go anywhere I want. Mayb I really love travelling, and I love to go around, when I was in INTEC, people thought I was from KL, in fact that I am from a small village in Pahang!! :P

7. Curiosity. I am really curious on everything which can attract my attention. And I would always like to try on sth new… so I did try scuba diving in Sipadan Island, and I loved it so much. I really wish I can have my diving licence and dive all around the world.

8. I like to knock on ppl’s door and chat with them….. mayb those who are my neighbours would ady experienced it…LOL

Who should I tag?….: Jessica Tan, Li Ping, Christina, Yu Wan, Ling Weng, Yit Yung…
(mayb just 6)
Have fun :P

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Rural Swan Hill updates 3 - FINAL

30/8 (Sun)
After such a long discussion and visit to the Swan Hill information centre, we decided to go to Nyah State Forest, Murray Sunset National Park- Pink lakes.
1. Nyah State Forest
It is just 15 min North from Swan Hill town centre. The state forest represents a good example forest of the Murray River. The river gum trees lined along the river as great habitat for kangaroo, and other wild animals. We saw a big group of kangaroos hooping around in the forest. The kangaroos were really cute and agile, especially with baby kangaroos. We managed to climb up to 5 trees in the forest PLUS we took heaps of photos on the river bank.

2. Murray Sunset National park- Pink lakes

National park = 4 WD. Fortunately, this national park was with 2WD accessibility track to the pink lakes, the main attraction in the national parks in the shire of Mildura rural city. Along the journey, one of the roads was so greenish with rice estates!! The scenery along with the sapphire blue sky was really great. Conversely, the other side of the road was just bald… the first sight into the lakes, it’s really pinkish!!! The lake floor was so pinkish with the condensation of the salt crystal. It’s not surprising that the water level was so low, and we could just walk on the water…like those in the movie, walking on the lake!! And we left the national park under the colourful rainbow. The sunset on the way back was marvelous and coloured the world into golden.


Is it pinkish?!?

1/9 Mon
First Aid course for 3 hours + Rural ambulance presentation.

2/9 Tue
GP visit in Swan Hill. I was with nurses for the morning, and I did some practical stuff, like cutting the suture, injection, ECG, skin biopsy, ear examination..etc. The best experience was assisting in the biopsy of lipoma, a benign neoplasm of adipose tissues. And I just realized that how big the lipoma could be!! The interview with a patient was really lengthy and interesting. A patient could really get all the diseases in the body!!! Myeloma, Atrial Fibrillation, Osteoporosis, bowel cancer..etc etc……

3/9 Wed
Life story project..presentation and afternoon tea with the old folks. I bought a colourful recipe for the lady I interviewed, if she had no chance to bake, at least she could enjoy looking at the pictures of the yummy food!!

4/9 Thu
A long day with all the presentations: GP, OHS, Panel discussion, Veterinary...and the day was ended with a visit to a dairy farm! The dairy was really big with almost fully automated milk production. The while rotary was so big and could fit 92 cows at the same time!! the cows were really trained to be multi-tasking!! The cows were eating, while the milk was sucked by the pump, and they poo and urinated at the same time!! amazing! :P

5/9 Fri
It’s the final day of the 2 weeks rural placement in Swan Hill, we eventually decided to have a trip up to Macedon ranges for the Hanging Rocks.. we stopped by Bendigo for lunch and when we reached the Hanging Rocks park, unfortunately it’s closed.. then we made our way up to Mt Macedon for the sunset..again!! it’s so magnificent to be immersed into the golden brown world.


Sunset (MT Macedon)

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Rural Swan Hill updates 2

30/8 (Sat):
It’s the day we went out for our own day trip…only 4 of us: Shu, Xin, Hamon & I. Initially we planned to go to Mungo National Park IN NSW outback which we decided on the night before!!..it’s the World Heritage area which would add another world heritage area in my list (other than Malaysian Mulu National Park and Kinabalu National park). When we arrived at Balranald, the gateway into Mungo, it’s raining heavily and we decided to ask for further confirmation before we continued our journey north up to Mungo. Unfortunately, Mungo was closed on that day due to heavy rain. Eventually we decided to change our plan to Mildura!!! We took the longer way from Balranald via Euston- Robinvale to Mildura.

After visiting the Information Centre of Mildura, we decided to go Woodies Gem Shop before we headed 30km north to Wentworth, a small town in NSW. I got Jessica’s birth stones for Jess’s birthday present, earings for Yun Ying and another key chain for myself. Why Wentworth?!? The visit was really worth it…we had lunch overlooking the junction of Darling & Murray river, the 2 greatest river in Australia. Then we visited Old Wentworth Goal before we went to Perish Sandhill. Perish Sandhill was the highlight of that day…I was so proud of myself of discovering it via the postcard sold in Mildura!! The sandhill is like a desert in the middle of the barren land. The view was so magnificent…due to the rain, the road to sandhill was so muddy and the mini pinky Nissan Micra was sliding like drifting…luckily I managed to control the car and to stop it!! Here is a picture on the sandhill….



Then we went to Wentworth Show, which was just a rural community show event with all the competitions… we watched the equestrian and enjoyed the celebration ambience. And eventually we headed back to Mildura for the Indian dinner…( P/s: we didn’t even have Asian food so frequent back in Melbourne). When we’re back, it’s ady 12 am!!! We spend like 16 hrs out for the day trip…it’s so fruitful even though we didn’t manage to go to Mungo. It’s so exhausting on driving for the long journey luckily Hamon and I shared the load…


For more picture click the links below:
Album 1 - http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=58832&l=86512&id=503833486
Album 2 - http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=58833&l=31041&id=503833486

Rural Swan Hill updates 1.

Rural in swan hill
I know it's quite late for the update, but I was really too busy with assignments!!



25/8 (Monday)
Depart from Clayton to Swan Hill which took us about 5 hours to reach there. On the way, we stopped by Bendigo for bunch andthen I took the turn to drive all the way up to Swan Hill. The drive was really boring with the road was just straight and with very few turns… The scenery was still almost the same with farm land and some of the barren and flat land of Victoria. We had a short introduction period and then had our PCL (Part A & B) in Aboriginal Co-op centre with a GP.

26/8 (Tuesday)
It’s the aboriginal day which we paid a visit to Tyntynder Homestead, a settlement of the migrants back in hundreds years ago. We learnt about the culture and lifestyle of aboriginal, as well as the history. The place was great with an underground showroom of the collection of aboriginal and the amazing building of migrants which is already more than 100 years old. We paid a visit to Murray River bank for more details observation of the aboriginal lifestyle. Then we went for a meeting at the aboriginal co-op centre, for some presentations of the services provided for the aboriginals. Had a great delicious dinner of roasted pork….etc. yummy

27/8 (Wed)
We had some free time before the visit to a nursing home in Nyah West. I did an interview with a nice, friendly lady. She was really enjoying chatting with me and talked about her life story. It’s so interesting, and luckily I got a good interviewee. Then in the afternoon, I join Chunk, Daves and Matt to Kerang for a pharmacy visit. It’s so cool to look at how the pharmacist work, but the job wasn’t much interesting to me. Anyway, it’s good to have a good understanding of the pharmacy services provided in compliment to the doctors’ prescription. It’s the night we cooked our 2nd dinner. Lin, Sheryl and I were in-charge of it. We cooked tasty mushroom egg noodles soup and with mouth-watering roast-chicken. It’s so satisfying.

28/8 (Thu)
I had my hospital placement and ambulance visit. It’s so packed but I had a great day. Hamon and I were allocated to Acute ward in the hospital and we’re there at 7 am for the shift-handling meeting. I followed a nurse in completing routine check-up on her patients. Interesting, I did some temperature, BP taking and also learnt some new knowledge of medical care in the hospital. Hamon and I walked around and interviewed some of the patients. We also conducted physical examination on a patient and we found shifting dullness on his abdomen!! (which was never found by any doctor!) Initially we just wanted to do percussion and auscultation on the patient’s thorax for diagnosed consolidation of lung! We also met a patient with a very rare disease called vanishing bone disease. We felt so empathy towards the patient. Eventually the session in ward ended a bit late about 4 pm.
In the evening 5.30pm, I needed to attend to ambulance station to have a shift with the paramedics. Unfortunately, there’s no case or call. I was just sitting and relaxing there. Plus I watched a movie there on the super cosy sofa. It’s great that a kind paramedic cooked a yummy dinner for me and also I made some new friends there. It’s such a good experience although without any cases!!

29/8 (Fri)
We had some presentations of the allied health services, like physiotherapy and counseling services. The programs ended earlier today in the afternoon, and I had an interview session for my assignment. We had a picnic and walk in the pioneer riverside park, enjoying the beautiful Murray River bank with the rows of river gum trees. It’s almost spring, all world became alive and awaken from the cold freezing winter. During the day, the weather/temperature was good..while in the morning/ late at night could reach 0 degree. It’s really freezing. (the temperature difference was really big..it’s Australia and inland…)

Monday, September 22, 2008

Food scare :(

Singapore finds more melamine in food

September 22, 2008-The Australian

SINGAPORE has found the potentially deadly chemical melamine in a third milk product imported from China, authorities say.

New laboratory findings showed White Rabbit Creamy Candy from China is also contaminated with melamine, the city-state's government announced late yesterday.

Melamine is at the centre of a widening food safety scandal in China, where authorities said nearly 13,000 children were in hospital yesterday after drinking toxic milk powder.

On Friday, Singapore suspended the import and sale of all milk and milk products from China after local tests found samples containing melamine, which is used to make plastics.

"These products include milk, ice cream, yoghurt, confectionery such as chocolates, biscuits and sweets, as well as any other products containing milk from China as an ingredient,'' the agri-food and veterinary authority (AVA) said.

Retailers and importers have been told to recall these products.

AVA said its tests first found melamine in samples of Yili brand iced yoghurt, and then in the Dutch Lady brand of strawberry-flavoured milk.

At least four children in China have died from drinking poisonous baby formula.

Melamine was initially reported only in milk powder but Chinese authorities later said they found it in some regular milk as well.

The chemical can make milk and other food products appear to have a higher protein content than they actually do.

It has become apparent in recent days that people in China have been deliberately watering down milk and then adding in the melamine to boost the protein content and make the product look normal.

Countries from Brunei to Burundi have barred Chinese milk products as a result.

Melamine can cause chronic nephrotoxicity and finally acute renal failure. It is excreted poorly by the body.

There are also some other food which maybe complicated eg Snickers, M&M, Biskit,
Dove chocolate bars, Mentos yogurt balls, Oreo wafer sticks, and Want Want Take One Baby Bites.

I don't know how true is that, but my friends, be careful!

Saturday, September 20, 2008

生命靈數..你的心靈力量有多偉大?

姓  名: 李劲彦
出生日期: 西元1987年3月22日 (農曆76年2月23日)
靈  數: 52

這組數字顯示

  你是一個運勢特殊的人,非常聰明,反應很快,生命力量強大,能夠成就大事的,但卻天生有一些特別的使命,讓你的命運顯得神祕不可測。天生的使命,有時是個性或身體上的問題,比如在個性上有超乎常人的敏感,特別會重視面子的問題,或人際關係上的問題,在別人看來你都是過度敏感想太多了;或者是身體上的缺憾,但問題都不是很大,是命中注定你自己要想辦法去克服的地方。
  在小孩時代,你便背負著眾人的期待,但是你卻一點也不在意,悠哉悠哉的過日子,還喜歡四處惡作劇哩!
  長大後的成就,第一步需要看你能不能和人協調,協調成功以後,則要去進行實際的事情,才能達成目標。因此一般來講,你如果找到目標,事業運會很好,但是在你沒有找到目標前,會是一付漫不經心的樣子,花很多時間在找人生的目標,直到找到目標,才會全力以赴,也才能將你生命中潛在的爆發力,完全發揮,當然,那股強大的力量,會讓你成就一番大事業。
  你的生命目標是展現個人的才華,並且享受人生的各種變化,但是你最好的生活方式是跟別人一起合作,比如是事業需要伙伴,或是人生需要伴侶,最好是夫妻倆一起合作創業,合作經營。
  由於你的生命目標覺得人既然來到世間,就是要到處旅遊,不斷的變化成長,吸收知識,常常出差增廣見聞,你就是有這種想法的人。建議你有伴侶的支持,更能享受人生的快樂喔!
  你的個性特徵是有獨到的想法及意見,思考靈敏,立場堅定而不易被動搖,喜歡批判性及說理性的表達方式,常有驚人之語和特殊見解,但有時候不理會他人的想法,會顯得太獨斷了!
  你的優點是人緣好、口才佳,富快樂開朗的一面,因此很適合出來跟人交流,建議你選擇一個方向,努力去達成與人的良好互動吧!。
  你的缺點是太隨性,有時會無法控制自己,一下子忽然興高彩烈,想到什麼就衝動去做,到處發揮精力,缺乏明確的目標,可能浪費太多精力了。
  你的天賦潛能是在變動中求生存,如果歸納出一些趨勢,則偏向比較動態的,因此你可以選擇的行業很多,需要發揮口才的、隨性一點的自由業最適合,比如公關,外交,或業務,推銷這類的人,所有需要靠人脈或朋友的工作都很好,而如果是在固定的行業裡,則最好做些變動的職務,或必須常常出差往外跑的,都可以發揮你出你的潛力。


http://www.kindheart.com.tw/cgi-bin/element1.pl


P/S: 个人觉得这心灵测试相当准,你们说呢?
=P

Monday, August 25, 2008

Olympics closing!!! + Updates

The most excited and spectacular Olympics eventually closed today!!! It's really the best ever olympics I watched and always in my memory!!!
GREAT efort and Good Job, CHINA!!!


P/s: Start from tomorrow I'll be going for rural for 2 weeks, wouldn't be online for this period of time, Hope I 'll have fun in Swan Hill!!! See ya with more updates after that :)