Down with Flu

Assalammualaikum wrt wbt.

18 more days. 18 more days for my final exam, the exam that is gonna test the knowledge I accumulated (and kept in an unknown area of my brain) throughout these 5 (5.5actually!) years of medical school.
I hate this kind of exam. Why can't they give us exam after each posting? Like a lot other med schools, the exams will be held after the posting hence we need to gobble up all the topics in that block only.
In this exam of mine, I need to revise every little thing from acute asthmatic attack to myocardial infarction (heart attacks), to premature birth, to soiling in children, to menopause, to intrapartum care (care of the pregnant lady in labour), to taking cervical smears and swabs to administering oxygen, performing ECG and prescribing medications!
Such a wholeee lot of things to revise! Thank God they won't be many questions of the basic biochemistry; Kreb's Cycle and all. I cant even remember them properly now.

And I've been down with flu since like, 3-4 days ago.
It started with simple sore throat which progressed to blocked nose, some sort of sinusitis and headache and stomach "dizziness" today.
Most of the people in my house are walking around with rhinorrhoea (read: running nose, and we have to catch them). One of them asked me, "Could it be because we did not take the flu jab this year? Did you take yours? I didn't"
And I can't help but to doubt that could be the contributing factor.
As someone who works in a hospital, my friends and I are always offered free flu jab as part of the occupational health "requirement". I've never taken one, for the past 3 years. I can't remember if I was down with flu as well last year. But another of my housemate, the only one who took the flu jab this year, is not walking around with nasal voice and blocked nose. She's studying happily comfortably. And I had to drink litressss of water to "flush everything out" of my system and of course, run to the toilet several times during the day.

I've been reading a lot of headlines on vaccines these days, with one of my teachers being one of the most influential anti-vaccine person in my life. Hence, I always doubt vaccine that's why I did not take them for the past 3 years. And to be honest, I haven't read in detail about how vaccines are dangerous to us, but I can understand the fact that they may not be that beneficial to us, the pharmaceutical company may be just making money out of us.
I did read however about the autism and MMR vaccine, and that the link was apparently made by a doctor who published a fraudulent paper in The Lancet. I had to read that article because I need to convince mothers that vaccines are very good for their children. It came out in my mock OSCE that day! I can imagine how much my teacher is gonna hate this kind of station; brainwashing future doctors to brainwash future parents and damaging future children.

Since I have not read any further about any other vaccine (because...I have so much other things to readddddd~ *facepalm*), I cant really say much. If vaccine is not that beneficial, why bother injecting something that is potentially dangerous in the kids' bodies? But why have they been telling us that the incidence of certain diseases have remarkably reduced after the introduction of vaccines? Haemophilus influenza B, the causative agent of acute epiglottitis being the most "sold" to us. Acute epiglottitis is a very dangerous condition where the child can lose his/her airway at any time but thanks to the Hib vaccine, we don't have them that much anymore now. Paediatricians sell that stories to us. "I've been working for 10-15yrs, I've only seen 1-2 cases of it"

Anyway, I gotta get back to my notes (and water) now.
Enough of rantings.
Bye!

-Because life is a test-

-AkMaR-
http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com

Two Weeks in Renal Medicine

Assalammualaikum.

Let me start with a bit of introduction on how year 5 in U.o.Manchester is structured.
First of all, we have 8 blocks altogether - each block is 4 weeks.
Blocks 1-4 is before the exempting exam while blocks 5-8 is obviously, after the exempting exam but before the final exam.

What's with these two exams?
Well, an exempting exam is in January and the final is in June.
If you pass the exempting exam in January, then as the name implies, you are exempted from sitting for the finals in June.
That means, if you pass the January exam, you are pretty much in your honeymoon months from Febuary onwards. If you don't, you bury yourself in books and stethoscope, sometimes with a tendon hammer or fundoscope and try to put everything into your brain, revengefully while the bulk of your friends enjoy their blocks 5-8.
Clear on the exam bit?

Now let's get to the blocks per se.
Blocks 1 - 4 are the blocks in which you will do ONE community block; that means you are gonna travel to a GP surgery (basically klinik kesihatan in Malaysia) and see patients on your own and try to make these poorly people well. The other two blocks are in the hospital and one more block is an OSS (and I can't remember what it stands for). Anyway, OSS block is the block where you revisit all the skills you've learnt for the past 5 years (wow) such as poking needles into patients, sticking a catheter up their urethras (that's where people pee from), perform blood cultures etc etc. On top of that, the OSS block is also your Oncology block (that is what the "O" in the OSS mean).
So juniors (if any of you ever read this), you'll know roughly what to expect.

After block 4, is the winter break (read: crazy last two weeks b4 finals). And then the Jan exam.

Blocks 5-8 are hopefully, my honeymoon months. I really hope I can pass this exempting exam (which will be in 58days time!)
So out of these 4 blocks, 2 will be elective blocks ie you can go anywhere in the world to help doctors save ppl or, you can do what I will be doing, go back to Malaysia and enjoy life as a medical student in a Malaysian hospital before coming back to work as a junior doctor.

One more block is a Student Assistantship, which basically mean you are gonna shadow a FY1 (the most junior doctor in the hospital) and help him/her with everything so that you can do his/her job when you start working. It doesn't really apply to me since I am not going to work here in the UK but I think it'll be a good exposure to know the system in and out. The other block could be another hospital or a community block, just like in blocks 1-4.

So for my fifth year, my blocks allocation are:
Block 1: Endocrinology (Hospital block) in Royal Blackburn Hospital
Block 2: Community (in Accrington. The bus fare cost me £51 per month and two hrs of journey everyday)
Block 3: Renal Medicine (which is the block I am in now)
Block 4: OSS

EXEMPTING EXAM!!!!

Block 5&6: Electives in Malaysia woohoooo!!
Block 7: Student Assistantship
Block 8: Hospital (cant remember what exactly)

Blocks 1-4 can be switched around, you may start with OSS and end with Community etc.
Same goes with blocks 5-8. That means you will nvr do electives before the exempting exam in January.

As I've said earlier, I am in block 3 (already third week now!) and I am doing Renal Medicine.
Guess what, my first day in this block was in a Renal Clinic.
And within that one morning, I know for sure I do not want to do Renal Medicine for the rest of my life. It is definitely one specialty I am going to avoid specialising into. Last year, we were asked to rank the blocks we'd like to do for fifth year and I think I put Renal Medicine as my second choice. That was because my mother has diabetes and I know it inavariably affects the kidney so it WAS always the specialty I consider. But after that first clinic, the interest and consideration went down the line. There is nothing wrong with my supervisor, NO.
It is just the fact that a Renal Medicine specialist could not do much for the patients. Kidney is just so important that when it goes, we cant really do much anymore. But because our kidneys are very good, we can lose about 60% of the function before they pack up.

You see, chronic renal failure (that is the failure of the kidney that happens over a long period of time, most commonly caused by diabetes and hypertension) is divided into 5 stages according to the severity.

Stages 1 to 3 can be managed in the community, means any doctor can deal with it with the patient coming over yearly or 6-monthly for health review. But at the same time, optimise diabetic or blood pressure control to slow down the damage to the kidney. Most of the patients will not progress further.

When it reaches stage 4, the guideline in UK recommends referral to a Renal specialist. I don't know at what stage do the doctors in Malaysia refer a patient with chronic renal failure (CRF) to the specialist.
And what will the specialist do? Not much, apart from keeping the diabetes and the blood pressure in tighter check. Well, most commonly CRF is caused by these two culprits. If it caused by any other diseases, then it will be a diff story.
Since the patient is now in the specialist's renal patient list, any deterioration of the patient's condition can be acted upon faster. Ultimately, when the kidney fails, we will be looking at either dialysis or renal transplant.


Hence in the clinic, patients will come in with a creatinine level of 280 (the normal level is less than 100), and the doctor will not be surprised, because the patient has been having a creatinine level of 260 and 270 all these years (remember the renal failure is already stage 4 when the patient is referred). Hence, the doctor is going to do the usual examination of the abdomen and BP la and everything and really2 monitor the medications the patient is taking (since so many meds can effect the kidney) and stop/slow the kidney damage. Hence a specialist might see the same patient for many many many years monitoring his/her renal function all the way, without actually treating it because we can't cure diabetes or hypertension.

That idea of seeing the same patient for 10 years but not being able to actively do something for him/her apart from keeping an eye on his/her renal function two or three times a year does not appeal to me, at all.

As a dramatic and active person, I would love to see my patient get better and not just monitoring them waiting for the kidneys to pack up, on one bad day in the future.

They say Orthopaedic Surgeons are very proud of themselves because their patients come into the hospital having broken their bones in an car accident or something and under their care, the patients can then literally walk out of the hospital. So I think literally, the patients of an Orthopaedic Surgeon will have the greatest improvement in their physical appearance, from a bent, bleeding almost crushed leg to an almost perfect leg (in a lot of the cases).
But no, I am not going into Surgery :)

'til then,

-Because life is a test-

-AkMaR-
http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com

Electronic Devices and Final Year

Assalammualaikum.

Hands up for those people who agree that electronic devices e.g. handphones, laptops, mp3 players, cameras etc are not made to LAST as long as they should be.

Photo by Edward Cisneros on Unsplash

*both hands are in the air*

You see, they either break, simply do not work, get slower, hang all the time, the screen breaks, the connection loose, the battery weakens or more commonly, get out of date.

I really hope one day there is this service where you can try a device for a week or two before committing to buy it.
Since my first laptop in 2007 (the year I entered INTEC), I've had 3 more laptops.
That's 4 laptops in the course of 6 years!
The laptop in INTEC, an ACER (Oh God I forgot the model now, Diana might still remember. We had almost the same model) lasted me around 2.5yrs.
After one year in IMU, the laptop screen was gone, something was wrong with the processor or smthing inside there (I am terrible with hardwares, softwares are alright).
What happened? My brother charged it for hoursssss and it just shut down. Old computer (eh?)
I brought it for repair in Low Yat, charged RM200 for screen replacement. The man said it might last, it might not last.
True enough, within a month the screen went off again.
If I want to repair it again, it'll cost me a few more hundreds. AND.....by then I was very interested with the idea of having a netbook.

Netbook; small, compact, cute, and cheap! It's not powerful but hey I am not an architectural or engineering student who needs fancy designing softwares to work on. I need basic Microsoft Office, web browser and that's it.
And the beautiful Ms Hezlin, my biology lecturer in INTEC had it. It looked so good on her!

And I even wrote some tips on looking for a good netbook.

And so, my second laptop was a pink Toshiba netbook. I sold my ACER to the repair man. He said he cant sell it second hand but he can take my hardwares as spare parts. Whatever la uncle.
Which, I find annoying because it is very slow and takes forever to load.
It is very good in the sense that the battery consumption is very very little.
It can last for hours just on battery. At least 4 hours if I am not mistaken.
But to load a powerpoint of lecture slides especially if the slides are full of pictures and graphics, urgh!
So, by the time I got really really tired of this netbook, my brother is almost going into his foundation.
So.....I started searching for a new laptop, again!

This time, I told my brother that I will give (read sell) this laptop to him when he started his foundation program in college. So, I dragged him to look for the laptop that he want, the specs and everything. Even the design.
Our deal was that I am gonna use that laptop first, for abt 6 months or so before I buy a new laptop to bring to UK.
And he agreed. Boys are easy, aren't they? They are not fussy, at all.

So I gave (read sell for a very low price) my Toshiba netbook to my mum. Well actually, not sell. I gave it to her and she gave me some "compensation". Heheh..
And my third laptop was a HP G42. It was an i5 with 8Mb RAM with NVIDIA Graphic Card and some other things I could not remember. But I always go for the moderately powerful laptop.
I cant stand waiting for things to load.

By the end of my course in IMU, I started to take interest in macbooks.
They said macbooks dont hang, they said it's beautiful. Macbook owners are so proud and full of themselves they macbooks to everyone they know are in search of a laptop and even ridiculed Windows. But they are expensive!

But I received quite some money prior to departure to UK.
So....I got myself a macbook.
Was thinking to buy an iPhone too at that time but because I do not want to spend more money than I should, I refrained.
So, the HP G42, as promised went to my brother and I got my macbook about one week before I flew off.

And I've been using this macbook till now.
Who says macbooks don't hang?
Mine does, sometimes.
Who says macbooks wont give you trouble?
Mine gave deafening siren and the screen froze few times before.
Who says macbooks are the best?
It is heavy! And I feel so reluctant to bring it for travelling.

But the battery is wonderful. I can watch a whole 2 hour movie only on battery and I still have roughly 30% battery left.
And the design is beautiful. I mean the softwares, they look unique. Mine is a macbook pro so I am not proud of the outer design. I prefer macbook white but they dont make new macbook white i3, i5 and i7 series anymore.

And I intend to use this macbook till the day I graduate, at least (that'll be next July insyaAllah!). And if I am to buy a new laptop again, should I stick with macbook or revert to Windows? What say you?

And oh, I am in final year medical school now.
Time rockets, doesnt it?
And finals (THE REAL FINAL) is in 113 days!
Gaspsss!


-Because life is a test-

-AkMaR-
http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com

Travel:: Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva and Paris with Mum

Assalammualaikum.

Final year is coming soon, one week left.
How time rockets.

Unlike last year, this year I did not come home to Malaysia for summer break. Instead, my mother came and spend the raya with me and my brother.
Together, the 3 of us travelled to Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva and Paris *grin grin*
Our first Raya day was supposed to be in Paris, but it turns out I miscalculated the dates. Or rather, I misread the calendar. Hence, we spent our first Eid day in Geneva.

Amsterdam!

The Iconic I amsterdam :)

Surprisingly, Amsterdam has many Indonesian restaurants hence it was not hard for us to find halal restaurants to break fast.

Brussels

But Brussels has even more Muslims. I see Muslim women everywhere, with their scarves and robes (err, jubah?).
I can't recognise Muslim men, they all look the same!
It was harder though to find halal food in Brussels, this is because most of the halal restaurants were closed, I am not sure why. At last, we found one kebab restaurant and to my horror, all the menu was in French (or maybe it was Dutch)! I had to subscribe to travel mobile data to Google Translate the menu and with the help of the pictures, we get a somewhat clear view of what we are ordering. Wasil and the waitress were using sign languages. Fortunately, "Assalammualaikum", "Muslim" and "Halal" were conventional.
We will always start with "Assalammualaikum!" followed by "Muslim, halal?"
We spent only one night in Brussels.

In Brussels, we went to Mini Europe.
This is a place where all the landmarks of the EU countries are displayed. But they are only miniatures.
It is fun to be able to see all the landmarks within 2 hours of walking.
Mama enjoyed it very much, she said she felt as if she has just toured the whole of Europe.
We were given a booklet with brief information about the buildings and both of us walked around reading the booklet.
Wasil, being a man (read: boy) was more interested in the buildings than reading it.

Mini Europe, Brussels

Geneva, Switzerland

Our next destination was Geneva, Switzerland.
It is a very expensive city. Since we started traveling, we've been surviving on kebabs and kebabs till my mum got very sick of it hence we treated her to a Western restaurant. And it cost us approximately CHF 60 for 3 vegetarian pasta! *facepalm*
We converted CHF150 per person and indeed, we finished almost everything in the 2 days we were there. Of course, most of the money went to souvenirs for people rather than food.

The tallest water fountain in the world. Geneva, Switzerland. 

Paris, France

All these while I've been hearing bad stories about Paris. How my friends (or friends of friends) were pickpocket-ed (what a word), tied one hand to the other while the bad man rummaged through his pockets and many other scary stories. I have a friend in Paris who denied all that and insisted these stories were exaggerated. But still, I stepped into Paris feeling very cautious, and apprehensive.

Turns out I was right.
But we were not "bullied" by back street people but rather by the authority!
From Paris Gare de Lyon (the train station we arrived from Geneva), we took the metro and changed to tram in one of the station. We thought the same ticket we used on the metro can be used on this tram, since usually, the transportation tickets are valid for 1 hour.

As soon as the tram departs, ticket inspectors came and asked for our tickets. We gave them our tickets and they started making noises saying that our tickets were invalid and we are fined €30 per person.

Mum and Wasil tried to explain that we did not know and stuff but in no time 5 of them were already surrounding us and demanded money. We even missed our stop.
Some of them can speak English and kept asking us to pay or they'll bring us to the police etc etc. It was so chaotic.

Not long after, I took out my debit card and grudgingly handed it to one of the officers who was holding a card machine. He quickly inserted my card into the machine after I agreed to pay for all 3 of us while another officer started writing in his record book.
After paying €90, we stopped at the next stop and had to take the opposite direction tram to get back to our hotel.

I really felt like cursing all of them.
Such a bad experience within the first hour of arrival into Paris.
The situation turned sour and all of us weren't really speaking to each other since everyone was trying to calm our anger.

My God, even thinking of it now made me feel like kicking those gangsters as hard as I could.
How could they surround us and forced us to pay?
I should not have paid, should I?
I should have just let them bring us to the police station, if they really wanted to.
Maybe they were just threatening us.
If they wanted to send the summon back to our house, we could have given our Malaysian address. Let's see how they want to force us to pay.

Haih...
Anyway, we had our lunch after that and calmed ourselves down in the hotel room before going out again to visit Paris. This time, we made sure we validate our tickets every single time we board any transportation.

Eiffel Tower, Paris

After telling my friend about the incident, he said trams are different from any other public transportations.
Usually, our tickets will be valid for 1.5hour but that does not apply on trams.
Sigh...

Alright, let's stop here for now.
I have to tidy up my room, heh.

-Because life is a test-

-AkMaR-
http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com

Helping in Year 3 OSCE

Assalammualaikum!

A year ago, I had my end of year 3 OSCE and it was in my opinion, very terribly done. But I passed, Alhamdulillah.
I'm not sure if I wrote abt it here, let's check.

CHECKING......

CHECKING......

CHECKING......

CHECKING......

CHECKING......

Err, no.
I did not write about the exam itself. I wrote on how I felt before the exam.

Anyway, I splashed a good amount of IV fluids onto my (simulated) patient.

For this exam, I was the simulated patient for an Arterial Blood Gas station.

That means, I sit there and pretend to be a lady who's suffering from pneumonia and needs ABG.
The students have to talk to me, explain the procedure, gain my consent and then proceed to take blood from a dummy wrist next to me.

There were 8 students altogether. Generally, they did well.

But there was one who did not know what he was doing! I felt so bad for him.
He looked like a nice boy, who studies a lot. But looks can be deceiving, can't it?

And an exam is always nerve-wracking anyway.

He did not clean his equipment, neither did he wash his hands with the alcohol gel.
He took a pair of gloves and then throw one away. He tore a packet of alcohol swab and left it there next to me. He really looked as if he did not what he was doing. And I felt so much for him. Haish...

Too bad, but not surprisingly though, the examiner failed him :(

In conclusion, the experience of becoming a volunteer in an exam gave me a whole new perspective. Being in an exam but on the side of it. Not as a student taking the examination but someone backstage. I saw how the skills centre staff busily set up the place for examination. How they gathered the simulated patients and what briefing they give.

After this I won't be afraid and scared of the patients anymore :D

They're just students like me. Haha

Apart from some who are real patients with real findings, the rest are normal people :)

-Because life is a test-
-AkMaR-

http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com

General Election 13 - PRU 13

Assalammualaikum!
Heyyya hey!

Hmm.. There were loads of things in my mind before the GE but I decided against writing about it.
Now that GE is over, I feel like writing about it but I've delayed it for so long I became lazy and became dry of ideas and desire.

It's been a month now that the GE has passed, and I have since lost interest in reading the news in The Malaysian Insider (TMI). It felt as if the news are not "news" news but rather opinions from someone from some party about something. If you know what I mean.
It felt like our politicians are talking more than they work hence we hear their opinions more than we see the advancement of something. Only today that I see "Section of Second Penang Bridge Collapse". The headlines have been "GE13 shows DAP’s ‘Chinese racism’ in bid to rule Malaysian politics, says Dr M" or "Khir Toyo says made scapegoat by Najib’s anti-graft fight" or "Dr M, Daim will decide debate on Najib’s future, says veteran newsman" which are actually nothing but opinions from certain people. I don't think they should be the headlines, I've not seen any news about the latest Turkish turmoil making the headline in TMI which explained why I know nuts about the chaos until I've seen some pictures being shared about Turkey in fb. Shame shame...

I've always (like I think most other people) not liked someone being oppressed and bullied. And PR has somehow managed to appeal to the public as the "oppressed parties". They don't get publicity, coverages as much as the government does in mainstream media. They claimed to be oppressed financially, Federal govt gives less funds to the states ruled by the PR than the ones under BN.

PR managed to appear as the "hero" and "hope" of the people, hence gathering a lot of support in the virtual world. I've not seen even one comment/posts in fb by my friends (which are unsurprisingly largely made up of Msian students studying/studied overseas) that slams the PR or support BN. It looked as if PR is going to win, by at least a 90% majority. And it got me really nervous, waiting for the day of the election. The losing party will not give up, for sure. Either way, the people will suffer.

And Anwar is freaking me out too.
If someone were to ask me who would I like to have as the PM, Anwar will not be in the top 5 list.
I am afraid his motivation is personal revenge rather than the good of the people. I can't prove it of course. It is just my gut feeling. His name is too tainted to be a Prime Minister.
His daughter and his wife have good reputations. So do Rafizi Ramli, Khairy Jamaluddin and Lim Guan Eng.

BN on the other hand was doing almost all possible wrong things they can do for a campaign.
The "One Vote for DAP means One Vote for PAS" adverts by MCA was so ridiculous and offensive to the point that it is almost laughable!
How could they harbour hatred and fear towards a party that is known nationwide to be bringing the values of a religion (Islam)? Be it the correct Islam or the false one, it was not their main concern. The advert's main point was to reject a party that is bringing up a religion. If the advert was saying something like "Islam has never said XXXX but PAS kept saying XXXX is correct hence we should reject PAS" then it will be a totally different matter!

And there were also many supposedly campaign posters by MCA candidates claiming the candidate is a champion in singing, cooking, beauty pageant etc. I've never shared all these in fb, because I do not know the authenticity of them. They could be photoshopped you know, or even designed by some irresponsible people. But if they were genuine, OMG, I can't possibly say how frustrated I am at the quality and qualification of our "future" politicians. Who needs someone who promotes herself of being a beauty pageant? We are not choosing a Bond girl now. I'm sorry I could not find ANY of the posters now. I've searched over and over, even stalked some of my hardcore PR friends, could not find those posters anymore. Oh I should have saved them in my computer!

I wished (and still am) these posters are fake, as much as I wish Rosmah Mansor did not actually answer "I saved money from my schooling years to buy the jewelries" to the newspaper when people questioned her financial sources. One of my friends pointed out that Rosmah has been very quiet during the GE campaigning period. And I think that was a very wise thing to do given how unpopular she is with the people from the virtual world.


Some of the supposedly "exposure" by PR supporters were also ridiculous.

Pictures I find most troubling are all the Bangladeshi pictures.
Banglas in uniform lining in the airport, supposedly just arrived in Malaysia to "help" vote for BN.
How true are these? How could these people be transported here but the pictures are all from the same angle? And don't tell me BN is such a thoughtless party that they will make all the Banglas wear the same uniform and make them form lines in the airport? Come on.
And, suppose they ARE being flown here to vote, who can prove that they were paid to vote for BN? They could also vote for PR, can't they?
And people start posting "Banglasia" as their fb status-es. Disgracing!

The authenticity of all these pictures are very questionable because not only are they too illogic but also too embarrassing if they are the truth.

I oppose strongly to the act of leaking "internal problems" outside. I value privacy a lot.
A household problem should never be sold outside.
Why would we tell everyone in class that our parents fight every day at home?

Or if our fathers are a drunk?

Or if our sisters got pregnant with her boyfriend before marriage?

Or if our husbands do not want to help with household chores after work, he prefers reading newspaper, watching television or football.

Or even as simple as our husbands has a scar on his forehead because he was chased by a chicken (read hen) when he was 15, fell down and knocked his head onto the stone outside his grandmother's house.

All these are nothing to be proud of and as conservative (as some people might brand me after this) as I am, I truly believe these should not be told to the public UNLESS, something can come out of it (maybe some people do not see the scar as something shameful. That's alright. I don't either. But if he does, then we should not tell, should we?).

If we told these problems to a friend, even if she might not be able to directly help but if she can help ease the burden in our hearts, then that is alright.
If we told the police about the constant beating our mothers get from our fathers, she can be protected. Then do so.
But if it was simply to gain sympathy from the others, better not. Because not everyone gives unconditional sympathy.

Hence, I dislike PR's way of getting the attention of the international media.
What can the international media do? They can put pressure to the ruling government to give more/equal airtime in the mainstream for both opposition and the govt, yes. Or some other form of pressure for that matter. But doesn't that come with a price?
A price where all the common people pays for it.
An opportunity for the "internationals" to meddle with our internal affairs has been created.

All these nonsense campaigning gave me a truly mixed feeling; they were sick, shameful but funny at the same time.

Anyway, the GE is over.
And if I were to talk about what I feel and think during and after the GE itself, this post is gonna bore everyone (if anyone ever read it).


'til then,

-Because life is a test-

-AkMaR-
http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com