anything you say lah!!

Hospital Lingo

Frequent Flyer- A repeat customer to the emergency department, often a patient with chronic medical problems, who can't afford to go anywhere else.

Weekend Syndrome- When doctors covering for a colleague on the weekend won't make important decisions, particularly end-of-life ones.

Code brown- A bed full of excrement.." GOT A CODE BROWN IN 214".

GOMER- Short for "get out of my emergency room"- a patient you dread.

Acute lead poisoning- A gunshot wound.

Words of the day

word: lynching

Lynching is an extrajudicial execution carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake or shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a population of people. It is related to other means of social control that arise in communities, such as charivari, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering. Lynchings have been more frequent in times of social and economic tension, and have often been the means used by the politically dominant population to oppress.

More on lynching:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching (wikipedia)

Used in John Grisham's novel, The Chamber. Page 303

word: pedantic [puh-dan-tik]

adjective

1. ostentatious in one's learning
2. overly concerned with minute details of formalisms, especially in teaching.

Example Sentences

Adjective 

• At times, such pedantic details stop the plot cold.
• Not to be pedantic, but there appears to be a unit conversion error here.
• They introduce a visually inert dimension and force a pedantic reference to Asian antiquity.
• While you're technically correct, you're being pedantic
• Not to go all pedantic or anything, but "irregardless" is not a word.
• He talks quickly, with pedantic precision.
• His pleasantly pedantic essays are no longer either novel or informing.
• It's not pedantic, just practical, and I agree with these guidelines.

Used in the movie Midnight in Paris starring Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard and Rachel McAdams.

coming back one round circle

Recently:

• Option on extra English classes (theStar)

Heavy school bags were one of the issues in the late 90s. (and the issue never seems to go away)

• UPSR and SPM exams may be abolished: Muhyiddin (theStar)

There was the issue of abolition of UPSR examinations and it cause quite a ruckus

The education ministry went back and forth with the issue of what should be the main language use in teaching the main subjects such as maths and sciences subject in school. It's never ending, and I am so glad I didn't have to suffer like this. They ought to pity those school kids.

I think I have the solution:

Why not make English the main subject in schools across Malaysia, but make the Malay Language a compulsory subject to pass( for example to get a school leaving certificate you need to get at least 60 marks or higher) or else there is not way your going to graduate from High school. It's killing to birds in one stone. We will get super highly awesome students who are highly proficient in the English language, while the learning and usage of the Malay Language is still uphold. No/yes?.

For goodness sake, I think its high time the government channel some good amount of money to train and developed well skilled teachers and also pay them higher salary. Mr Prime Minister. Can you give them some pity?

Related articles

• Stop Whining. Malay should be A Foreign Language. (azfarism.wordpress.com)
• Politics in Education (dinmerican.wordpress.com)

Word of the day

ideate • \EYE-dee-ayt\ 

*1 : to form an idea or conception of

2 : to form an idea

Example Sentence:

Joshua first ideated his vision of a water garden for his backyard after he went on a sightseeing tour of water fountains in Kansas City.

Did you know?

Like "idea" and "ideal," "ideate" comes from the Greek verb "idein," which means "to see." The sight-thought connection came courtesy of Plato, the Greek philosopher who based his theory of the ideal on the concept of seeing, claiming that a true philosopher can see the essential nature of things and can recognize their ideal form or state. Early uses of "idea," "ideal," and "ideate" in English were associated with Platonic philosophy; "idea" meant "an archetype" or "a standard of perfection," "ideal" meant "existing as an archetype," and "ideate" referred to forming Platonic ideas. But though "ideate" is tied to ancient philosophy, the word itself is a modern concoction, relatively speaking. It first appeared in English only about 400 years ago. 

English 101

In the midst of getting some oranges for my daily dose of nutrients , I saw this???

I thought what in the world is vitamin X and i googled up the internet and found out that vitamin X could be perrhaps:

For the use of the slang term Vitamin X to refer to recreational drugs, see Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) or 

A hardcore punk band from Amsterdam, Netherlands form in 1997:

OHHH my Gosh!! It can't be right!!!!Must be some fancy marketing ploy to get us buying their oranges.

On another note, according to the Oxford advanced learner's dictionary:

Shat is actually past tense/past participle of shit. (no kidding)