What are you going to do when a bald guy who is taller than you,
Comes in and say we are going to lunch now. Well you stop blogging and go for lunch. Sorry to all my readers for a substanceless post yesterday. Anyway continuing what I said yesterday. I been through all the systems and yet they were all found wanting. In capitalism we assume that the individual is good and will make the right choice that will benefit society. In socialism we assume that the government will make the right choice and make decisions that will benefit society as a whole. But the fact of the matter is individuals and governments are humans and therefore are victims of vices such as greed and selfishness. So in all nations there is corruption at all levels and self-enrichment. Though it can be argued that socialism is worse because if you have one bad nut or a group of bad nuts at the top the whole country is screwed like if a dictator wishes to fill his swiss bank account rather than a hospital with equipment. While in a free-market society though most people are selfish but it can be argued that there will be enough people with a conscience to feed and provide healthcare for the poor to make up for it. This is demonstrated by the number of hospitals around the world that is run by private funds though it must be admitted that there are not enough.
As you can see there are a lot of suffering around the world and we can sometimes act to prematurely before we are ready or prepared to tackle which sometimes can make matters worse. But the urge to do something is that separate humans from animals and one of our instincts that we lose too easily when we get older and cynical. Call me naive but i believe that if we hold on to this trait long enough to acquire the skills and knowledge to do something useful we can actually change the world. Unfortunately we most often lose this trait in the midst of getting the knowledge and skills i.e. the years in university and the long years of our working life.

Ballad

• tells a story.
• iambic tetrameter, pentameter, and heptameter.
• sestet.
• second, fourth, and six line rhymes.

The big empty house

Empty big houses, I wonder why,
Not a soul in sight or signs of life,
Dark, uninhabited, ignored, alone,
How did this house become so?

Has the old man died and now the fight the heirs?
Or did some tragic memory happened,
And its owners felt better to leave it alone?
Or something more sinister, a murder, a haunting.

The grass has grown, the leaves strewn everywhere,
Signs a vandal has been here but otherwise,
Most of the windows are intact,
If this house be alive,
It would have been sad,
For it was intended to so uninhabited.

Random thoughts

Ahh. I have a work blog at angryspecialist.blogspot.com but I thought maybe just maybe I to maintain my personal blog.

Thank you Google

Dear Google,
I know sometimes you can be evil but it was awfully nice of you to let me recover my old blog and access to it. So I would like to thank you as a show of my appreciation.

what I thought was lost..

but now is found.

Sieh Jin's Wedding

I finally got down to writing,
Even though his wedding was two months ago in May I just want to record these thoughts for posterity. One of the thoughts that crossed my mind as i helped preparing the wedding is how every human relationship gives us a bit of the understanding between God and us. Though it is a glimpse but the love the groom has for the bride as mentioned in the Bible is made clearer by the illustration of Jin's and May's wedding. And as Jin becomes a daddy:) I think he will even then start to grasp the meaning of the Father's love.
Secondly, I come to realise that in the end no matter how much we try to change something or make them work it is still in the hand of God. Of course give us many choices and if we work towards those choices it will succeed..so there is still an element of choice but anything beyond that parameter will doomed to failure so a certain level of determinism is still there.

Liberalization of knowledge

Why is it that only people who have to medical school can be doctors?
If the passed the same rigorous examination even though they have not had formal training shouldn't they be allowed to practise. The examination already tested their knowledge and clinical skills. However why is it that the exams is limited to only a few? The more people in a field the richer it will be and with that amount of competition. Prices will be driven down and quality will go up as doctors try to outdo each other. In the old days that is how it was done. There were medical schools to speak of so people are apprenticed to a doctor help the person do all the menial tasks in exchange for knowledge and skills and when they are ready off they will go to the Royal Colleges and take their fellowship exams. I believe the current and this old system should be used as both as it strenghts and weaknesses but since they are there why not use them all?

I am back

I've finished my examinations and passed them,
I am happy for maybe a grand total of two seconds because this is merely a small battle in the grand scheme of things. As I move to phase three of the Failure Defense League objective of reforming the way we see things there is a sense of excitement and at the same time weariness due to the fact that many times things don't turn out the way we imagine it. I have a feeling that it will like what happened to Abraham. He was a relatively young man when he got the promise that he will be the father of a great nation and yet it took 50 years before he achieved the prerequisite of becoming a great nation: the birth of his son Issac and then he didn't see the rest of it though God was faithful and fulfilled the promise in the end. Same the thing with the Failure Defense League, we feel we have a such a great calling but you know what probably only future generations will see the fruits of our labour and the members of the league will probably die wondering they have fulfilled God's purpose for their lives.

Sorry

Dear ladies and gentlemen,
As me finals is in two weeks time I would like to announce that there will only the new posts after the 16th. This is just to let you know I am still alive.

Congratulations

To that girl from Bukit Mertajam,
Who got 16 A1's. I think she is hot too. Beauty and brains, always a good combination. Anyway some people might make fun of people who are trying to score so many A's but I sympathise with these scorers because it is getting harder to distinguish yourself from the rest. Look at the current history book which is more like a comic book(sacrilege. Anyway what I suggest to be done is making all the subjects and introducing higher level material and why not? 200 years ago one can only learn calculus from the university of Cambridge. The thing as knowledge increases so does understanding and when one truly understand something it becomes common knowledge. 7 year olds oday know more about bacteria then the great Aristotle. the textbooks should be getting thicker and people spend more so much time studying the basic core subject that they don't have time for 18. When there are people still doing more than 12 subjects you know the system isn't teaching them enough.