Thursday, August 26, 2010

Reblog: A letter by a Malaysian in the USA

For people who are always interested in some issues regarding Asian/Malaysian living in western countries, there are some interesting comments going on there.

And guess what, now that I think I can be one of those who also actually write something about it, after months of working for the largest employer in the Europe - NHS and months of living in London.

But, I'm not ready yet with this "A letter by a Malaysian in the UK". Hahaha... Should I say, stay tuned? xD

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

菲前警官騎劫旅巴新聞

菲律賓 血腥悲劇感人情節 夫擋子彈捨命護妻

今早起身 看完這篇 T__T
雖然昨天就從新聞和一些 facebook link 知道了
可是看完報道 還是很難過
沒辦法想象原本開開心心去旅遊最後丟命的
臨死要經歷那麽多小時的折磨
還有殉職的導遊
那些保護家人的 還有那個帶“別人的小孩”下車的婦女 好偉大 好厲害 能急中生智

哎 人性太複雜 社會太多不平衡的人和事
這種受到不公平待遇而心生怨恨最後導致流血事件的 也不少了
要怎樣使人們得到宣洩的管道 怎樣減少不平衡的社會 ==?

或許 社會裏多一點愛 每個人心裏多一點愛
就能改變一個人的想法 就能改變一場悲劇的結局

Monday, August 23, 2010

Part of the Growth

Every time I get some time to talk individually to my ward manager or one of the charged nurses, tears would fill my eyes. At times I've been feeling stressful and confused, but after each talk I'd always be alright. Today again. And I feel they appreciate me so much, that all those hard works and at times some hard feelings are worth, absolutely worth. Phil has been asking me to take some days off, because I've been working so much and so hard. But to be honest, I really like to spend time in ward, despite at times some colleagues are so...

Perhaps what's scary is not the patients with criminal backgrounds, but the complexity of human brain and behaviours. I feel fine working, talking, dealing with the patients, but not some of the colleagues! They are the ones who make me feel stressed. I know there is no perfect and ideal job. And I know no matter where I go, this colleagues-colleagues conflict would appear, and it's something that I ought to learn. I need to stress that I'm not involved directly in any of these conflicts, but perhaps I'm just looking young and innocent, people tend to tell their secrets to me and share the gossip with me.. and I feel soooo 囧 knowing so many things, all contradict to each other lol.

Anywayyyy, I'm fine, still love this job, enjoying the work, and grateful with what I've got and been learning. =)

我們說好的 - 張靚穎

最近很喜歡的一首歌


好嗎 一句話就哽住了喉
城市 當背景的海市蜃樓
我們 像分隔著一整個宇宙
再見 都化作烏有

我們說好絕不放開相互牽的手
可現實說光有愛還不夠
走到分岔的路口
你向左我向右
我們都倔強得不曾回頭

我們說好就算分開一樣做朋友
時間說我們從此不可能再問候
人群中再次邂逅
你變得那麼瘦
我還是淪陷在你的眼眸

好嗎 一句話就哽住了喉
城市 當背景的海市蜃樓
我們 像分隔著一整個宇宙
再見 都化作烏有

我們說好絕不放開相互牽的手
可現實說光有愛還不夠
走到分岔的路口
你向左我向右
我們都倔強得不曾回頭

我們說好就算分開一樣做朋友
時間說我們從此不可能再問候
人群中再次邂逅
你變得那麼瘦
我還是淪陷在你的眼眸

我們說好一起老去看細水長流
卻將會成為別人的某某
又到分岔的路口
你向左我向右
我們都強忍著不曾回頭

我們說好下個永恆裡面再碰頭
愛情會活在當時光節節敗退後
下一次如果邂逅
你別再那麼瘦
我想一直淪陷在你的眼眸
這是無可救藥愛情的荒謬

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Inception (2010)

Your mind is the scene of the crime.


This is definitely one of the best-est movies I've ever watched in my life. Christopher Nolan, I'm going to remember this name (the writer and director of this movie, also the director/writer of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight). Thanks to friends who had been recommending it to me, especially yuan who believes so strongly that I'm going to like it or I wouldn't have watched it in the cinema.

Warning: Please stop reading if you haven't watched but planned to watch it.

Astounding is the word. It's so thoughtful. It made me link to a book that I was reading (and have stopped) "Human Given" (by J. Griffin & I. Tyrrell, 2003), their interpretations about dream was somehow related, although different.

How do we amend people's thought? How do we make people believe that what they believe is wrong? How do people differentiate what is reality and what is dream? How much do we know about subconscious? What can we do in subconscious state? Is collective dreaming actually possible?

I believe everyone has come out with all sort of questions after watching it. And in particular, I'm interested in the following:

How do we amend people's thought? Make them believe that what they believe is wrong or vice versa. For example, in my ward a patient used to believe that he had super power to control many things that happened (e.g. he watched the news that a kid was killed by a gun, and he believed that it was his power that made that happened, and felt guilty about it). What do we do to tell him it is not true? OR, who we are to tell him that it is NOT true? Because it's possible that what he thinks is true! who knows?

This brings out another question. How do we differentiate reality and unreality (whether it's dreams, hallucinations, etc)? We dream, we imagine, we create stories etc etc. In the book Human Given, the authors believed that people who developed schizophrenia, have got problems in differentiating dreams and reality. That is why they see things and hear sound that's not "real", as in in dreams. What make them believe that what they see/hear is real? And when they're cured, what make them believe that those are not real?

How about the ending? What do you think?? Somehow I believe that Cobb (Leonardo LiCapario - whoops my Jack in Titanic xD) got inception, and more importantly, it's by himself. A "scene" that he is so eagerly and desperately wanting to come across. You know the movie itself, even made me feel so eager to see the face of the kids! But how he get incepted? why? I don't know.

I would probably watch it again when download is available =X. Also looking for more in depth reviews, especially regarding the ending, and the connection between dreams and reality.

Inspiring. Amazing. There were tears in my eyes when I finished it. Thanks god this is a movie not a drama series, or I'd probably be thinking so much and get stuck in it xD. Yet I do hope for more inspiring and astounding psychology movies! =D

Friday, July 09, 2010

New Job. New Experience.

I've finally started my first ever full time job after my Psychology degree in the Chase Farm Hospital! What would I describe my job after working for more than 35 hours this week? I told my ward manager that I'm enjoying it, and in fact, I am! This morning had a quick chat with bpeng, I described it as rewarding and interesting yet tiring.

It's basically a forensic mental health trust, a rehabilitation ward. I guess I shouldnt go into any details about any particular patient due to confidentiality issues, but from the words "forensic" and "mental health", guess you can grasp a rough idea of how the patients are like. and YET! it's a rehab ward, so those patients actually progressed from acute wards, and then being transferred to this ward, i.e. they're KIND OF stable. I know all of them by approaching them and talking to them first, all their first impressions in my head are good, nice and stable. But I get some time to look through their files of what they have been through, what kind of crimes they committed, what kind of behaviours they taken in the past, I was really O_O shocked, some of them had been in the system for about 20 years, and are still here.

Having said it's a forensic ward, the security level is actually very high. We're carrying the keys, identity scan and an alarm with us all the time. I felt fun in the beginning, and now I'm getting used to it. But right, the place itself feels like a community rather than a hospital, with most of the living basics. I worked a late shift yesterday, and I could sense a home feeling when I was sitting in the lobby watching tv with the patients xD, and then one of them taught me playing pools.

I've got really really nice ward manager (it's like a quality guarantee as sooo many people said to me that he's really good), and because I'm the only new (and young xD) nurse in the ward, I'm happy that most of the seniors are taking good care of me, sharing their experience and telling me what dos and donts.

And so, what do I do? basically it's surrounding what the patients do, and the only part I'm not involved is giving medicine, in which we would have qualified nurses doing it. Like what the ward manager says, basically, what I do is building rapport with them, ensure they've got someone to talk to when they want to, theirs needs are fulfilled, and when they get unstable or a bit aggressive, I'd be able to calm them down. Other than that, we're doing smoking sessions, activity & meal preparations, planning meetings, care plans, risk assessments, ground leaves, tea bar (there are more, but because it's still a new ward, after a month or so, when things are all settled down, i'd get the chance to learn and see more of it). And there are quite much of paperworks as well, doing notes on each shift of how each of them is getting on, and if you're assigned to be a security nurse on your shift, there are even more stuff, like checking where each patient is hourly, make sure the environment is not hazardous etc etc.

A lot to learn, a very very very fresh and interesting new environment to me. Hope I could make the most out of it.

( to be continue.. I guess )

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Officially a Londoner

I am now in Enfield, Middlesex. T__T
Extremely sore hands and back, carrying that huge luggage and heavy bags with me.
It was good I met some nice people helping me when I had to take the stairs. Very grateful, they were really nice, some were kids! I'm going to help others next time, I promise. =P

Feel so empty, don't feel like unpacking my stuff and doing the cleaning =(
Bpeng, puipui, fel.. T__T

It was even depressing thinking whether George has sent my reference back. Because of this stupid process I can't start working on Monday.. this thought itself depresses me.. I really don't want to sit and do nothing anymore.. Why can't they do things efficiently??????

Hmm anyway, my new room is nice, just that I certainly miss my old double bed =X. Need some cleaning and tidying.. Went to the tesco nearby, it was smaller than the one in Cheltenham, and I felt so lost inside.. the shelf assortment was strange =S.

Ah.. I'm going to stop writing or I'd find awful loads of stuff to complain >"<

Hope things would be in place soon!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

I wonder if I miss you

該怎麽定義想念
因爲習慣一個人的陪伴 所以當他不在時
依然不斷出現在你的腦裏 叫想念?

那如果是很久不見但交情(曾經)不錯的朋友呢?
怎麽說想念? 怎麽說很想念?

Monday, May 17, 2010

Say Goodbye =(

Empty. I thought it shouldn't really affect me, but it still does. Perhaps it was pm's blog post, it seems that everyone either has left or is leaving. =( Nobody is going to be in Cheltenham, a place that I have been living for nearly 4 years, a place that I like the most in England.

I'm going to London tomorrow to meet my future landlord and settle the deposit, contract etc. Somehow I believe I'm going to cope well in new environment, even it's going to be all by my own, but I still feel the unease, maybe it's because that's going to be without bpeng? =(

All seem to be in a very unsettled state, many decisions to make, many things to do. I ain't like this feeling. Yet I'm grateful with what I've got, and hope everything is going well and I can start my new job soon.

Oh and I need to go to London on Thursday again, for the sake of the pre employment occupational health questionnaire. There are so many vaccines bla and bla, I don't even know what vaccines I've taken since young ._. (MMR & BCG for sure, what else?) I think they should actually provide us with a certificates that we must keep in records ourselves =S. Do you know BCG is a vaccine for what? TB! Do you know what TB is? Tuberculosis! Do you know what tuberculosis is? 肺结核. and there are so the hell many types of them, how do they expect me to know? somemore I guess we took some of the vaccines when we were infants?! = = Anyway, the officer said we can get a test if I'm not sure - so this should answer all my questions xD.

Hmm out of topic. I hope pm and Fel are feeling ok now. Both of them really seem "empty" and "lonely" having all their family members gone. It reminds me of last year when we're sending Sammi and Stephy, then Jeff and Kian etc off, we're always the ones sending people off ='(. Why are we still here huh?

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Front of the Class (2008)


A great great movie, based on a true story, Brad Cohen, who has got Tourette's syndrome (it's in the DSM, an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder), from the age of 6, stays optimistic, defies all odds and become a gifted teacher.

Very inspiring!! Highly recommended.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Lets make things clear and make life simple

這次選擇把話講清楚
雖然一直以爲什麽反應都不給 是最簡單的方式
到最後才發現 其實是會有被感動的一天的
尤其對中文字的抗拒能力 很低 囧
不想被感動 不期待那樣的一天
更不想他把時間花在我身上

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Hachiko: A Dog's Story (2009)

A true story of faith, loyalty and undying love

I actually can't believe that I could still tear that much despite the fact that I knew the storyline beforehand,
and I really miss our dogs now T__T

Friday, April 16, 2010

April the 16th


It has been a long and kind of adventurous day for me, waking up at 2 o'clock in the morning, which is the time normally I still not in bed =S, and travelled all the way to London, then taking underground to Zone 4 Southgate station, and next changed bus W9 to Chase Farm Hospital. All of these I have been googling so it didnt trouble me much, the most challenging part, was that the hospital was GOD DAMN BIG!! it's more like an industrial area lol, with NO clear signs at all = = luckily it's always my habit to arrive early to place that I've never been, so I just took my time to walk around and look for this "Camlet 3" (you know, the Camlet 3 building itself, has no sign board saying Camlet 3 at all.. what the.....*censored*).

I arrived the lecture theatre at 9am (the invitation said 9.30am), and there were already about 10 people there!! There were like 60%-70% Blacks (in fact i found the whole Enfield (in North London) has got so many Blacks, unlike Cheltenham), and a mixture of the rest. The manager of the department has given an introduction regarding the trust, a forensic mental health trust (in which, their patients were mainly mentally ill people who were prisoners/offenders), so they talked about risk, security, relationships to patients etc bla and bla... It's what they do that really, really interest me, as I really like forensic psychology and clinical psychology, this is like the part that i really want to explore!! yet she mentioned about how competitive it is, there were nearly 400 applications!! god, four hundreds!! (F the recession!!) and I guess there were roughly 30 of us there today (it somehow made me feel - should I give up and let them have it? xD).

We sat for the tests after the presentation. The literacy test sucks a bit, as it's like a memory test to me.. I'm quite sure I'm well literate = =, yet the paragraph she read was so long, not allowing us to write anything down (but there was a lady writing, and this behaviour was distracting me >"<), by the time she finished, i forgot some of the front and most of the middle part HAHA (the primacy and recency effect). But I'm pretty sure they aren't that demanding (oh ya I saw the guy next to me reading my answer LOL). Whereas the numeracy test was MCQ.. easy la.. quite a bit of counting, a bit of understandings how they talk in maths language. They marked the papers immediately and we got to know whether we're through in about 40 minutes later.. and those were through stayed to let them take copies of documents bla bla bla..

Then I can't wait to leave the place (trust me, it doesnt feel like a hospital at all.. but I can't wait to go to central London xDD) so I failed to take any pictures of the hospital = =. My next stop was Hyde park! I don't know why I have been missing this place a lot, I feel like walking through the whole park again, but I did not when I arrived. Because the park itself was SO DEAD! I thought this is Spring, and there should be pretty flowers in beautiful scenes.. but all I saw was still winter =S, plus Usher's Papers playing in my headphone.. I was like.. /.\ So wondering around a bit and I took the tube back to Victoria station. Then walk from victoria to London eye (dont ask me why didnt i just take tube to westminster/waterloo station.. I just enjoy walking there..), sat by the river.. guess what I did? ... reading!! xDD I did shop a bit in Zara and Topshop.. and on the way back I saw House of Fraser actually having quite big sales.. But I was SO SLEEPY to try any clothes on = =. so I was like walking around like a corpse >"<, get sushi ordered by BeePeng then walked to coach station..


Hyde park corner.. Oh this is Spring?

I revisited some of the places..

All and all, London is the place filled with memories with family, whether it's few months ago when pama gor and jeh came, or 3 years ago when erge came.. And I feel if I were to "feel it", tears would fill my eyes. Anyway, I suppose I'm going for the interview next week.. would just try my best and I would accept whatever comes out =))



They have been there for really long already. I wonder whether this works. and I even wonder whether there is anyone in the camp of strike? =X

Can anyone tell me what this means? Genocide of theirs?

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Tests

I'm going to Enfield, Middlesex tomorrow for ability tests, in NHS!!
I can't believe I'm ganjiong >"<
I used to love exams and tests =S

I'm at the same time excited! coz I'll be going to London (again). On the other hand worry about whether I can get there on time safely, as most should know how bad I'm in directions! xD

Fingers crossed. =))

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Titanic (1997)


Believe it or not
I just finished the whole movie, for the FIRST time ='(

I intended to watch it 13 years ago when I was still standard 4, which I still remember clearly..
(coz we learnt to play my heart will go on with the simplified flute, a song that I can play and remember damnnnn well)
yet that time I fell asleep at the beginning of the movie and woke up seeing the ending part =="
And I had always wanted to watch it.. no chance.. till today, saw it in my laptop accidently =D
(think I took it from my sis when i went back?)

So I guess, I was the last person who never watched this movie? =)
dont think movie of this kind need any reviews or comments or reflections.. but people, do watch it over again..

Friday, March 12, 2010

黃小琥-沒那麼簡單



作词:姚若龙作曲:萧煌奇


没那么简单
就能找到聊得来的伴
尤其是在看过了那么多的背叛
总是不安只好强悍
谁谋杀了我的浪漫

没那么简单
就能去爱 别的全不看
变得实际也许好也许坏各一半
不爱孤单一久也习惯
不用担心谁也不用被谁管

感觉快乐就忙东忙西
感觉累了就放空自己
别人说的话随便听一听
自己作决定
不想拥有太多情绪
一杯红酒配电影
在周末晚上关上了手机
舒服窝在沙发里

相爱没有那么容易
每个人有他的脾气
过了爱作梦的年纪
轰轰烈烈不如平静
幸福没有那么容易
才会特别让人着迷
什么都不懂的年纪
曾经最掏心
所以最开心曾经

想念最伤心
但却最动心的记忆

Thursday, March 11, 2010

New blood!

Just came back from blood donation session in Salem Church Hall.. I'm feeling great, no dizziness or unwell =D, and am going to share my experience of donating blood in the UK..

It was in a hall, which could also functions as a basketball court, when we arrived there were loads of people, young and old, female and male.. and the way people lying there without any expression actually made me feel A LITTLE BIT nervous.. =S (Originally I was really excited, another thing is Jocelyn, she was damnnnnn gan jiong ==). After seeing the nurse at the reception, I was given a folder with information regarding blood donation.. after waiting for 40 minutes or so, a lady called my name (without being able to pronounce my name, as usual, xD). Then she went through those details regarding my personal details, medical history, sexual life, travel history with me.. and here come the first "barrier"! She noticed that I just came back from Malaysia few weeks ago and told me that m'sia is one of the nations of Malaria contagiousness ._. I was like "HUH!!" (in my mind only) and she would consult another nurse to see whether I could donate.. So I waited impatiently.. another Black nurse came to me, asked if I was from "taman negara", "Sabah" & "Sarawak" ("HUH? is there anyone coming from taman negara? xD"), I simply said I was far from all those places.. So yes, I passed through the first barrier and was ready to go, MANA TAHUUUU... the lady sat me now.. said "not yet" ==!!

next I think I've got too long paragraph and it's time to start a new one. Next she let know some information and then wanted to get some blood from my finger to check my iron level.. and here come my second barrier of blood donation. Yes, I haven't got enough iron level. The blood was supposed to sink in the pretty ocean-blue liquid but it didn't!! ._. She gave me a second chance, but same thing happened, "you should eat more chocolate and meat!". I'm pretty sure she could feel how disappointed I was, and then only did she say, she could check with the machine by getting some blood from my arm.. and "who knows? the level could be 125 and you can donate then!" (the minimum to donate is 125). "OK! I would like to try pleasee". ANDDDD, this lady!! I supposed she only know how to do the questions stuff but not injecting (shouldn't be called injecting but I don't know the term =S), she put the needle into my right arm, and couldn't find the vein, instead of taking the needle out and try again like in m'sia, she KEPT THE NEEDLE under my skin and keep TURNING AROUND IN my arm........ then she gave up, holding the needle (which its head still in my arm, my whole arm was in a state of numbness ==") and asking for help from another nurse.. I am very sure my face written "PAINNNNNN, it really hurts", but my mouth keep saying "it's ok" when she apologized.. then come another nurse, which supposed to be more pro when she said "I can do it", thennnnnn.. she did the same thing.. turning the head of the needle under my skin.. then all 3 of us see a bruise coming out ==!!! and the previous lady took out the needle. I looked at the tube.. and it was empty, (my face turned green? blue? purple?) but the lady said, it could be enough.. and next she carried out some procedures bla bla bla.. put my blood into a machine.. and it showed "125" muahahaahhahaha.. so, FINALLY... i was allowed to give blood...

Next I made sure myself had enough water, as it was said that drinking enough water could make sure we are well after the donation (for most people la).. then waited to be called again. Nothing special after that, I accept the pain and the nurse was skilful and experienced enough I'd say.. or perhaps I have experienced the MOST painful version of it, so I could tahan.. (believe me I'm someone who really can resist pain but that friendly-but-not-skilful nurse was really doing it baddddly) She had totally no problem in seeking the vein and it just caused a bit pain =). I was doing great except my blood wasn't running quick enough and she kept asking me to relax.. xD So.. there goes my 475ml bloody blood.. I wish it's all fine and is going to help people in need =D

Now I have got very good reason to eat chocolate =D (not for sufficient iron level! but for the sake that I dont want to be injected by an inexperienced nurse!!!). Also have got 3 plasters on hands and one bruise =S. It would take about 6 weeks to "refill" all my donated blood, and 16 weeks till next time I am allowed to donate again. Oh ya, there was a guy whom Jocelyn spoke to, he has donated for 50 times!! and Joce said he looks at his late 30s only.. I want to go again.... =D

My friend told me that donating blood will make us gain weight.. is that true??

Monday, March 08, 2010

Blog Trailer

I have got sooooo much to talk about. I know it's time for me to start blogging again. Can't believe it's now March and there were only 5 published posts this year =S.

But, I'm not in the mood today.. Give me some times.. Meanwhile I will hopefully still be sharing some stuff..


P.S. Don't ask me what this post is for. I have no idea either ._.

Imbalanced Human Sex Ratio & Gendercide

重男輕女性別大屠殺‧全球1億女嬰消失

(英國‧倫敦)週一(3月8日)是“三八”國際婦女節,但在宣揚女權的這一天,全球已陷入一場殺女胎保男胎的“性別滅絕”(Gendercide)浩劫,其中以中國和印度最為嚴重。

儘管人類社會已邁入21世紀,但重男輕女的觀念仍在全球作祟。根據英國最新一期《經濟學人》雜誌報導,全球因此慘遭墮胎、殺害或疏於照顧因而夭折的女嬰,正以數百萬計的數字消失,稱之為“性別滅絕”,毫不為過!

重男輕女亞洲最嚴重

報導稱,重男輕女的現象在亞洲最為嚴重,因為當地傳統上認為繼承家業、奉養父母、傳宗接代、養家活口,都是男性的責任。

在亞洲部份偏遠地區,刻意殺害女嬰的現象仍然非常普遍,而現代的超音波掃瞄技術,更助長這類歪風,使一心只想添丁的準父母以墮胎手術打掉女胎。

近年小家庭當道,頭一胎是女嬰勉強可以留下來,第二胎還是女的就會打掉。

中國印度男女失衡

據統計,在中國和北印度,1980年代男女嬰出生比率100比108,但現在的男女嬰比例卻是120比100,中國部份農村地區更達到驚人的130比100,失衡情況十分嚴重,反映生男生女受人為影響。

除了中印兩國,包括台灣與新加坡在內的東亞國家、歐洲巴爾幹半島、高加索地區,甚至美國的華裔與日裔,同樣有男女嬰比例嚴重失衡的現象。

早在1990年,印度經濟學家塞恩便認為,因重男輕女觀念而消失的女嬰數量,高達1億人,而現在這一數字只會更高。

《經濟學人》警告,“性別滅絕”的現象遍及全球,且不分貧富與宗教,形同大規模屠殺,對社會的衝擊極為嚴重。

報導指出,性別失衡令許多男性成年後找不到配偶,衍生社會問題,並導致犯罪率飆升,包括販賣女性、性暴力、女性自殺等。

各國性別屠殺情況

中國恐成世界最大光棍國

《經濟學人》報導,目前中國男女嬰的出生比例為120比100,可能是現代人類歷史中最不平衡的例子,在15年內,中國兩性人口數將出現3000萬至4000萬的落差,估計全國有五分之一年輕男性,將因男女性別失衡而無法找到結婚對象。

這是個嚴重的問題,對中國發展的威脅比財務失衡、環境災難更危險,可能使中國成為世界最大的光棍國。

報導指出,中國男性過剩也可能形成永久的下層社會,遭到危險利用。

中國多達1億5000萬的民工,多為失業的未婚男性,而且其中大部份沒有受教育,找不到穩定工作,他們聚集在車站,開始形成幫派。

印度成“缺少女人的國家”

印度寶萊塢影片“Matrubhoomi”(缺少女人的國家),描述印度偏遠村落因為女性寥寥無幾,出現5個兄弟“共用”一個妻子的故事,驚悚情節,反映出印度“殺嬰”和“殺胎”的嚴重後果。

印度“倡議研究中心”稱,這部電影是一個“警訊”,印度重男輕女,殺女嬰也許只出現在少數地區,但婦女被迫“選擇性墮掉女胎”卻很泛濫。

預定週三在《刺胳針》網站上刊出一項研究指出,由於產前的超音波檢驗可驗出胎兒的性別,在過去20年間,印度可能墮掉了1000萬個女胎。

而且不只貧窮鄉下才有這種現象,一項為期10年的研究顯示,首都德里的墮胎問題也很嚴重,尤其是已有女孩的家庭“墮得更兇”。

台灣性別失衡第3胎更明顯

台灣還是重男輕女嗎?數據顯示,是的。國民健康局調查發現,民眾生第一二胎,男女比例還算正常;但生第3胎,男嬰比率立即比女嬰多了20%,第4胎甚至多達近40%,顯然有“人為操作”。

台灣少子化嚴重,政府擬鼓勵生第3胎,防止台灣社會過度高齡化。但調查發現,鼓勵生第三四胎反而可能另外衍生男女失衡的問題。

值得注意的是,大城市跟非都會區全榜上有名。前者不排除是因為醫療資源跟資訊較多,民眾較懂得利用醫療科技做性別篩選,後者則很可能是受傳宗接代觀念影響。

美國科技篩選性別引道德爭議

大部份國家禁止以基因篩選決定胎兒的做法,但美國有少數診所不理會道德爭議或造成兩性失衡的可能,以約1萬9000美元(約馬幣6萬3500令吉)的高價位提供這樣的服務。

3年前,斯坦伯格醫生率先在市場上推出篩選胎兒性別的服務,稱為“胚胎植入前基因診斷”(PGD),準確度高達99%。

科學家從試管受精卵發育成的多枚胚胎各取出一個細胞,從DNA判斷男女,然後再把所要的性別植入母體內。

有生物倫理學家批評,這種做法可能促使性別失衡的速度加快,甚至走向“專屬設計寶寶”或“複製人”,但斯坦伯格堅稱,這個技術遠比印度和中國丟棄女嬰的做法人道得多。

整體而言,他的顧客中,美國人和加拿大人喜歡女孩,印度人和華人喜歡男孩,拉丁美洲國家的喜好約是各有一半。

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

回家吧 回到最初的美好

I'm now at home!!!
have got a lot to write about my journey from Cheltenham-London-Abu Dhabi-KLIA-Klang.. will write about it after I have enough sleep..
These days just had about 5 hours sleep in total.. =/

and wow!!
there had been so much renovation in the house..
I like the changes! Especially the bathrooms downstairs and the one in my big bro's room..
a lot of things going on..
my to-do list is also kind of long.. and, I want to eat many food! but.. seems like I haven't got the selera.. >"<

glad to be at home.. =D