tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:20:12 +0000Adding two cents worth to ocean of wisdomhttp://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)Blogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-1709529508555206351Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:44:00 +00002009-02-09T17:50:26.156+08:00PoliticsIt is not just any exco, but this racist female politician is going to be made senior state exco member. Sigh... (x3)http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-cannot-believe-my-eyes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-7072557106274053484Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:46:00 +00002009-02-09T15:56:12.177+08:00PoliticsSigh...Don't they have better candidates in BN?A racist politician is among those who have been tipped to be appointed state exco in the 'new' Perak state government. And finally, someone is geting her new Camry.http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2009/02/racist-woman-to-be-appointed-exco.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-5973353533394044863Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:11:00 +00002009-02-09T15:46:21.325+08:00PoliticsThe impending Bukit Gantang parliamentary by-election to be held as a result of the death of its incumbent MP will provide a much-needed platform for PR to demonstrate its strength and popularity among the People.Bukit Gantang, previously a Barisan stronghold but was lost in the previous GE, is a Malay predominant seat. A stronger than before victory for PR will reaffirm the general sentiment http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2009/02/bukit-gantang-referendum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-8666580534136769451Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:45:00 +00002009-02-09T14:53:53.386+08:00PoliticsMy number is 3784. What is yours?To: DYMM Paduka Seri Sultan Azlan Shah, Sultan Perak Darul RidzuanA PLEA TO DEFEND THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.Not, sure if it is going to help, but that is the least that this Perakian can do.http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2009/02/give-voice-back-to-people-please.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-7258998290164517455Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:11:00 +00002009-02-05T16:38:53.339+08:00PoliticsWhen the much-respected Sultan of Perak, who recently celebrated the silver jubilee of his reign, refuses to consent to dissolution of the state assembly to break the political crisis in the silver state, the spirit of democracy is lost in Perak.The aspiration of rakyat of Perak to live under the governance of a fresh administration, with less corruption, more transparency, improved efficiency ashttp://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2009/02/feb-5-2009-day-when-democracy-lost-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-1476593791523965447Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:24:00 +00002009-01-13T13:27:14.049+08:00EconomyPoliticshttp://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2009/01/sime-darby-watch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-5242744756345660148Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:20:00 +00002008-11-05T15:32:50.663+08:00PoliticsLife is full of coincidences. Therefore it should not be surprising for two people who hold similar post at different times to share thoughts that mimic each other's.I call this the co-incidental CAT.http://www.chichang.net/2008/10/thats-palm-oil-in-your-teh-tarik-when.html (published Oct 10, 2008)http://www.thenutgraph.com/where-is-my-susu-pekat-manis (published Nov 4, 2008)http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/11/co-incidental-cat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-1891693142021442891Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:04:00 +00002008-10-05T11:09:38.725+08:00LifeI did not study medicine for the altruistic reason of helping the poor and sick. An honest and dedicated politician would do a better job at this, I naively thought.With many of our top scorers in public examinations scrambling for limited places in medical school, it made me wonder why some of the brightest young minds in the country decide to spend the summer years of their life seeing coughs, http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/10/is-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-6655923753437060919Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:02:00 +00002008-10-05T11:40:57.797+08:00LifeI first met her when she joined the department, where I was working. The department where everyone came to work before anyone else, and only left when everyone did on most of the days.MOs would start doing rounds even before HOs in other department left their house.By the time the hospital buzzed into life, we would have been in the safe enclosure between four walls of clinics looking at black http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-we-first-met.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-7651672405352976169Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:59:00 +00002008-10-05T11:47:39.627+08:00LifeI looked at those photos again. They were taken when she first came to Bidor, which was not long ago. Barely a year, but how things have changed.We are married. That is what the law says.I was crazy about her. We drive each other crazy.What draw two persons together? How do two individuals, with different traits, quirks and quiems, live together in years to come?How do their differences in valueshttp://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/10/now-and-then.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-3349263436224249678Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:46:00 +00002008-09-12T09:50:04.039+08:00PoliticsA Racist Start to Ramadhan By Farish A. NoorIt is not often that I sermonise in my articles, and it has been a month since the OtherMalaysia.org research project was brought to a close. Yet despite everything the tone and tenor of Malaysia's convoluted politics and the country's slide into decline forces us to take stock of how far Malaysia has travelled over the past 50 years of its independencehttp://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/09/farish-noor-what-is-abdullah-ahmad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-1048996019601704523Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:25:00 +00002008-09-11T13:55:21.970+08:00PoliticsSome interesting views from a constitutionally-defined Malay that I came across in the blogsphere.Antara penumpang dan pendatang By Syed ImranPada mulanya saya agak keberatan nak ulas kekecohan yang berpunca ekoran daripada kenyataan ketua UMNO bahagian Bukit Bendera, Pulau Pinang bernama Ahmad bin Ismail. Sama ada benar atau tidak apa yang didakwa dikatakan olehnya mengenai rakyat Malaysia http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/09/ahmad-ismails-ancestors-migrated-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-5907773801551153930Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:12:00 +00002008-09-04T12:04:43.554+08:00MedicineIn treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE), low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) has been proven to be equally effective, safe (if not safer), requires less monitoring but is said to be more expensive.Is it really the case?This inquisitive young medical officer went to find out.Say a patient requires a single bolus IV heparin 5000u followed by 1000u infusion per hour, an average patient requireshttp://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/09/cheaper-but-is-it-more-cost-effective.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-8378614805608168160Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:21:00 +00002008-08-24T11:13:55.236+08:00Politics While the media may view the outcome of the Penang Land Controversies debate differently, two things come to My Thought.First. Guan Eng's talent as a politician is beyond doubt. His ability to unravel goverment's mismanagement makes great read in the media. The inept officials/politicians who squandered people's money never fail to evoke public emotions. However having spent years being groomed http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/08/gentleman-in-wrong-coalition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-5155684411258859183Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:58:00 +00002008-08-07T12:19:35.325+08:00HealthPoliticsEducation"...I have no regret coming home. My only regret isseeing the country going from a nation of excellence into a country of mediocrity, seeing the polarisation of people getting more and more acute, seeing that the great institution of the country going down the drains, seeing that a lot of talents being wasted because they could not get the training they wanted locally and they could not afford http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-have-no-regret-coming-home.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-2058819604195338737Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:32:00 +00002008-08-05T16:38:43.700+08:00PoliticsEducationReading the report "Khaled: Political parties will stunt growth of students" makes me think some people's thoughts never grow with time. The experience of the biggest electoral setback in history has failed to wake our Minister of Higher Education up to the new political wind."The Government believes that allowing university students to join political parties will restrict their development into http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/08/participation-in-politics-will-promote.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-7443076437763786666Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:11:00 +00002008-08-04T14:07:29.908+08:00Politicsvar dc_AdLinkColor = 'blue' ;var dc_UnitID = 14 ;var dc_PublisherID = 52643 ;var dc_adprod = 'ADL' ;By Farish A. NoorAs if this country hasn't got enough problems to worry about, what with the impending global recession, Malaysia's inevitable slowdown and the fear of capital flight from the country and the region as a whole; now we have to deal with the very real and somewhat nasty prospect of anhttp://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/07/some-questions-for-wise-men-of-pas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-318589522852765140Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:46:00 +00002008-07-31T13:09:48.792+08:00Politics<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM);-->var dc_AdLinkColor = 'blue' ;var dc_UnitID = 14 ;var dc_PublisherID = 52643 ;var dc_adprod = 'ADL' ;<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM) -->When Iju left to study overseas, he left a car for his footballer step-brother. However Mat found the four-year-old V6 too costly to maintain.Being paid 20K per week, but thinking he should deserve at least 100K, Mat flaunted his http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-dont-even-care-if-he-flies-on-chopper.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-4711836747934672933Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:59:00 +00002008-07-31T13:10:28.375+08:00Health<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM);-->var dc_AdLinkColor = 'blue' ;var dc_UnitID = 14 ;var dc_PublisherID = 52643 ;var dc_adprod = 'ADL' ;<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM) -->In a clinical case discussion published on New England Journal of Medicine (July 3, 2008), medical experts opined that "Internet search engines, such as Google, are proving to be an invaluable diagnostic tool", as the body of medical http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/07/googling-to-save-lives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-7360267002051177731Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:53:00 +00002008-07-31T13:11:37.206+08:00PoliticsI have always admired the sharp observation of Dr Azmi Sharom, his ability to deliver critical comments in an ingenious and humorous way. Below is his satire on Malaysian flip-flop politicians."The teacher has to rein in the unruly few or the lesson cannot start and the whole class, nay, even school, will suffer."<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM);-->var dc_AdLinkColor = 'blue' ;var dc_UnitID = 14 ;varhttp://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/07/interesting-satire-from-don.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-3616322750146532512Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:56:00 +00002008-07-31T13:12:35.317+08:00Politics<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM);-->var dc_AdLinkColor = 'blue' ;var dc_UnitID = 14 ;var dc_PublisherID = 52643 ;var dc_adprod = 'ADL' ;<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM) -->In politics, the saying goes, "There is no permanent friend or foe." And it cannot be more true in the current Malaysian political climate.The long-standing feud between Dr M and his chosen successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, which has http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-permanent-friend-or-foe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-4827437848241351513Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:46:00 +00002008-07-31T13:12:51.227+08:00Politics<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM);-->var dc_AdLinkColor = 'blue' ;var dc_UnitID = 14 ;var dc_PublisherID = 52643 ;var dc_adprod = 'ADL' ;<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM) -->Is man zheng (literal translation for the people's party in Cantonese) turning into mun zheng (mosquito party)?Gerakan has been losing its sense of direction. Despite claiming to be a Chinese-based multi-racial party within BN, it has http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/07/gerakan-sinks-into-oblivion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-1094992840828354764Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:15:00 +00002008-07-17T10:33:18.373+08:00EconomyPoliticsThe police officers were wearing balaclavas. The roads leading to his house were cordoned off. Order of arrest had been issued, but no reason was given.The crowd had gathered outside. He was bundled into a police vehicle with dark tinted windows. So it is not surprising for Anwar's wife, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah to feel a little apprehensive. Anwar called on her cell phone after being arrested. "http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/07/deja-vu-feeling-as-anwar-is-arrested.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-4507978591937832453Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:24:00 +00002008-07-31T13:13:05.175+08:00HealthEconomy<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM);-->var dc_AdLinkColor = 'blue' ;var dc_UnitID = 14 ;var dc_PublisherID = 52643 ;var dc_adprod = 'ADL' ;<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM) -->Last week, I had the privilege of attending to a pleasant middle-aged lady at our outpatient specialist's clinic. Despite having to wait for hours at times, this lady, whose son works as an obstetrician and gynaecologist (O&G) at a http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/07/seeking-treament-for-inflation-pinch-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061586831564804961.post-5002060191004974510Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:49:00 +00002008-07-31T13:15:07.787+08:00Politics<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM);-->var dc_AdLinkColor = 'blue' ;var dc_UnitID = 14 ;var dc_PublisherID = 52643 ;var dc_adprod = 'ADL' ;<!-- Kontera ContentLink(TM) -->A picture tells story of thousands words. I shall leave the interpretation to you. Shame on the government for its silence on this indecent act, which was shown over prime time television. And mind you, this is the same clown who http://tangwengheng.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-meaning-to-putting-hands-together.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tang Weng Heng)1