Another rating on my 'busy-ness' for me coming 6 day break (2 days mc, 2 days national day holidays, 2 days weekend).

1.) Call fiancee to keep her worried informed.
2.) Arrange for my year 5 classes for tomorrow to combine with another class
3.) Arrange for colleague to take over my lesson with my form class
4.) Arrange for colleague to exchange my lesson with my year 4 class (can't afford to lose lessons now)
5.) Arrange for colleague to take over my form class duties and update noticeboard
6.) Arrange with student that I can't meet her up for consultation tomorrow
7.) Inform colleague that I can't perform special task for her this week
8.) Inform year 5 class about the changes to the lesson tomorrow

So my busy-ness rating went up to 8 this time round. Weee... So much for a 8 period day tomorrow. And I'm getting married in 8th day of the 8th month too... what a coincidence! Or I'm not making sense at all...

....Random Rants bit starts here....

Singapore claims to have a great medical system in place with the network of local hospitals and affordable polyclinics. Being a Singaporean, naturally I'll go to polyclinics when I'm sick ever since I'm an adult. (Also they open very early mah, plus civil servants pay bills through salary lor) But the doctors in Polyclinic cannot be compared to those found in private practice.

In general, the doctors in polyclinics usually prescribe cheaper medicine (SAF type) that seems to be less effective (no choice mah, basic medical care). They take like 20 seconds to listen to your lungs compared to private doctors who patiently and carefully listens to your ailments. Private doctors will use an ice-cream stick and a proper torchlight to inspect your throat. Polyclinics just get you to say 'ah' and point a cheap LED flashlight for a while. The private doctor explains the problem to you slowly and informs you how he intends to treat your sickness and what each of the medicine will do, the polyclinic doctor doesn't even tell you your temperature that she took.

There's a lot for improvement in the polyclinic doctors. Charging a lower fee and providing service to mainly elderly and poor folks is no excuse to provide inadequate medical care to patients. Even if they brand it as 'basic' medical care.

---- excuse my random rant as I'm on medication (5 types of medicine now) and I feel like a pill box right now. So what I said here is under the influence of drugs and I shall not bear responsibility for whatever information or mis-information presented in this post that result in any loss in the kind of financial or otherwise ----

Man... the 3 types of cough drug works.. I'm no longer coughing thanks to the more effective black colour cough syrup with green colour phlegm remover and the pill for reducing throat itchiness... but I get a bit itchy in my hands now... The same thing that happen when the same doctor prescribed Cipro as my antibiotics.

Go ahead, click on the link to see the chemical stuff on Cipro and learn that this potent little drug is used in severe infections and also to treat anthrax!!!. Plus 1% of patient experience rash after taking Cipro. (Learn more about side effects here). Looks like I'm excused sunlight for quite a while too... Maybe the private doctor is too eager to treat me with extreme drugs...

Oh... Cipro makes me a lunatic too... serious! lol...

Lucky me that lecture starts only next week