Friday, April 01, 2005
four things i picked up from the news today..
1st) 15 patients from SGH have caught this vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) virus.. hence, SGH is halting all non-emergency operations for 2 weeks.. its like a biomedical nightmare come true.. this type of virus is resistant to all (?) kinds of antibiotics, hence it is really hard to bring it under control.. its really scary.. when we study it in biotech, it sounds so foreign and detached.. but when you think about it in depth, you can't help but feel afraid.. hopefully these 2 weeks will help to "eradicate" this virus.. imagine.. all the plasmids being exchanged about during conjugation.. the whole world will be in a mess.. *shudders* biotech firms will be racing against time to find a new antibiotic to bring this super virus under control.. and perhaps after a few years, another strain of super super virus will emerge.. oohh no, when is this cycle gonna end.. some people might say we brought it upon ourselves.. those anti-progress or anti-medicine advocates will say its our fault that we invented these kind of antibiotics, but of course i'm not gonna agree that our progress in medicine is bad.. god knows if i'll still be alive if i didn't take antibiotics at some point in my life..
2nd) the earthquake in sumatra. sigh.. my mum says that this region is struck by one disaster after the next because the people there do not lead "very moral" lives.. some religious thing.. something like the people there are "evil", that's why disaster strikes.. i'm not too sure about that idea.. would prefer to think about it as we singaporeans are lucky that we do not live near faults or volcanoes.. we are surrounded by water on all sides.. god knows what will happen if some earthquake occurs in the waters around our teeny island.. there'll be nothing left.. so i guess it's good in one way.. no need to rescue efforts to pour in from all over the world.. cos there's nothing to rescue anyway.. haha.. come fishing? but ya.. i used to think its very noble that all the nations are offering humanitarian help.. but ya, someone told me that the reason why SAF offers help so instantaneously is because it is a good time to showcase of military powress and operational readiness to all over the world.. some sort of military deterrence.. i'm not too sure which is the main driving force for the organization, humanitarian aid, or an opportunity to showcase.. it "irks" me a little to hear the news broadcast our readiness and spontaniety with such pride.. but i guess there are really people who really do want to help.. cheerios to them.. hopefully those who lost their loved ones will be able to deal with these permanent wounds.. grieve, mourn, and then move on.. and hopefully, their ability to move on will not be hindered by financial or resource limitation, or worse, another natural disaster.. god bless them..
3) i'm quite fed up with political stuff.. i mean.. oh man.. china and taiwan.. when will this ever end? it will never end! both sides are so.. to put it in a nice way.. determined to get their way (good traditional chinese value?!), to put it in a not so nice way, stubborn.. taiwan will die for independence (figuratively and literally, they yearn for independence, and if they really fight for it, the anti-secession laws in china will really cause deaths) sigh.. if you minimise it to a much smaller scale, its so childish.. but i guess it concerns a country's sovereignty, so its not so childish anymore.. i dun understand why taiwan wants to be independent so much.. ok, they become their own severeign country.. but with the heavy price of trade embargos from china and her allies to pay.. i dun understand.. political matters are so.. ughx.. unfathomable.. yucks
4) i will never ever marry a politician or someone who intends to go into politics. i can't imagine myself having to "set the example" for all the tais tais in singapore.. that heavy responsibility.. can u imagine newspapers headlines "minister's wife shakes legs in public" and then below it is a videoclip of me shaking and fidgeting.. haha! ok.. i am daydreaming once again.. that thought is just plain disgusting. if you visit a foodcourt, people will make a big fuss and take it that you are advocating having meals in foodcourts, or in particular, that foodcourt.. ok, i think i am exaggerating.. and imagine that poor child! how much stress he or she faces? if she is not smart, people will say "how come minister's child so stupid".. if she is smart, people will say "she thinks she's so smart, minister's child wad!".. and then things your child do will be in the limelight.. think of beckham's romeo and so on.. oh man.. caught a snipet of the newly promoted minister's sons and daughters taking a picture after they sweared in on tv.. yep.. that's the cause of this passage.. haha..
ok that's the end of my ranting.. biased.. unreasonable.. but ya, that's what i think..
