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  • Akhirnya Diterima Fakulti Perubatan NUS Setelah Cuba Tiga Kali

    Akhirnya Diterima Fakulti Perubatan NUS Setelah Cuba Tiga Kali

    Bukan sekali tetapi dua kali permohonan Encik Muhammad Mirza Syafiq Rahmad untuk memasuki sekolah perubatan di universiti setempat ditolak.

    Namun, tidak sesekali terlintas dalam fikiran bekas pelajar Maktab Rendah Nanyang (NYJC) itu mahu melupakan impian menjadi doktor yang membara dalam dirinya sejak lapan tahun lalu.

    Akhirnya berkat azam kuat itu, yang termasuk usaha cuba lebih memahami tugas seorang doktor, Encik Mirza, 21 tahun, diterima Sekolah Perubatan Yong Loo Lin Universiti Nasional Singapura (NUS) tahun ini setelah tiga kali mencuba.

    Beliau akan memulakan pengajian lima tahun itu Ogos ini.

    Selain NUS, beliau juga memohon untuk mempelajari bidang perubatan di lima lagi universiti luar negara, termasuk di Britain dan Australia – namun permohonannya turut ditolak.

    Impian tunggal menjadi doktor berputik dalam hati Encik Mirza apabila beliau melangkah ke sekolah menengah, setelah melihat neneknya bertarung nyawa di Unit Rawatan Rapi (ICU).

    Selepas mendapat keputusan peperiksaan GCE peringkat ‘A’ dua tahun lalu, beliau memohon ke sekolah perubatan NUS dan Universiti Teknologi Nanyang (NTU). Beliau dipanggil bagi temu duga oleh kededua universiti tetapi ditolak.

    Namun, anak muda itu tidak sekadar goyang kaki sementara menunggu permohonannya diterima.

    Semasa menjalani Perkhidmatan Negara (NS) bersama Pasukan Pertahanan Awam Singapura (SCDF), Encik Muhammad Mirza memohon ditugaskan sebagai medik ambulans agar dapat lebih memahami tanggungjawab pegawai perubatan dalam situasi kecemasan.

    Beliau turut meluangkan beberapa hari bersama pakar jantung di Hospital Raffles, Dr Abdul Razakjr Omar, dan Dr Zuraimi Mohamed Dahlan di kliniknya, Banyan Clinic, untuk lebih memahami tugas dan peranan seorang doktor.

    Selain itu, beliau dan beberapa kawan memulakan projek memantau kesihatan warga emas di Ang Mo Kio yang dipanggil Our Health, Our Elderly (Kesihatan Kita, Warga Tua Kita).

    “Saya melakukan itu semua setelah semua permohonan saya memasuki sekolah perubatan ditolak kerana saya mahu meyakinkan diri saya bahawa menjadi doktor benar-benar sesuatu yang ingin saya lakukan,” kata anak pasangan ejen hartanah dan kakitangan sokongan perkhidmatan di sebuah hospital itu.

    Mac lalu, beliau sekali lagi memohon kepada NUS – dan menerima berita gembira itu awal bulan ini. NUS sebelum ini menyatakan dalam menerima permohonan memasuki sekolah perubatannya, ia turut menilai ciri-ciri seperti keihsanan, empati dan kebolehan berhubung dengan orang ramai daripada pelbagai latar belakang.

    Kali ini, beliau turut diterima Universiti Perubatan Antarabangsa di Malaysia dan sebuah sekolah perubatan di Ireland.

    “Pengalaman yang saya raih semasa menunggu diterima membuat saya yakin saya boleh membuat perubahan pada kehidupan pesakit. Ia membawa saya lebih dekat kepada dunia perubatan,” kata Encik Mirza.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • Roy Ngerng: Don’t Let The PAP Change The Law On Lee Kuan Yew’s Image Rights To Protect Their Own Interests

    Roy Ngerng: Don’t Let The PAP Change The Law On Lee Kuan Yew’s Image Rights To Protect Their Own Interests

    Now is the time to make fun of Lee Kuan Yew before they make it illegal. For goodness sake, he is not my founding father.

    “We’ve built a nation with our hands, the toil of people from a dozen lands” – this was what the National Day Song in 1990, One People, One Nation, One Singapore, started with.

    So before we go all crazy over one man, let’s not forget that it is the hard work of each and every Singaporean that made Singapore happen. And unless we are going to protect each and every Singaporean, there is no need to change the law to protect one single individual, especially not a dead one.

    Do you know what this means? This means that in future, if anyone wants to write a book or make a movie to talk about Lee Kuan Yew and the atrocities that he had done, they wouldn’t be able to do so and the PAP can criminalise them if the PAP wants. This law would allow the PAP to whitewash the truth about what Lee Kuan Yew did.

    Don’t let the PAP pass or change the law to cover their own ass.

    If the PAP so believe in self-reliance, then let’s stop relying on the over-glorification of one man and please start running the country.

    There are more important things to do, like reducing poverty and income inequality, and increasing wages for Singaporeans, rather than spend meaningless time evangelising over one man. It’s mortifying.

    The man is dead. Dead. For crying out loud.

     

    Source: Roy Ngerng Yi Ling

  • Amos Yee: Christians Against Pink Dot Don’t Know What They Believe In

    Amos Yee: Christians Against Pink Dot Don’t Know What They Believe In

    So in lieu of the upcoming event that is Pink Dot, fundamentalist Christian cunts have gone onto Facebook and tried to hope for the worst possible things to happen on that day, huge rainstorms, Jesus to open their eyes to their horrid sexual orientation, pray the gay away, as they say, the assonance is remarkable.

    So let’s imagine, that we are in some kind of alternate reality, and all the bullshit in the Christian bible is for real.

    And if that’s the case, then yes, we should condemn all the fucking gays and lesbian demons from ever having existed, those unnatural homosexual spawns of satan:

    ‘If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. -Leviticus 20:13

    However, later on in the bible, God also tells us to:

    Not wear clothes of mixed fabric:

    ‘Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.’ -Deuteronomy 22:11

    To hate our families:

    If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. -Luke 14:26

    And in all circumstances, not to save money:

    ‘Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal’
    – Matthew 6:19

    So which verses do I follow? Oh my gosh I’m so confused. I mean the priest obviously takes and saves a lot of money, that church seems really fucking big.

    As an Athiest,I have the luxury of not having to deal with all this shit, but for Christians, you guys must be stressed as fuck, which words of God do you follow? You guys aren’t following the words of god aren’t you, you’re just following whatever the hell you guys want and saying that it’s the word of God.

    Ah hah, I got you there Christians, you can’t fucking hide from me.

     

    Source: Amos Yee

  • Mohd Khair: Hidup Berlandaskan Pegangan Agama Boleh Bantu Membanteras Gejala LGBT

    Mohd Khair: Hidup Berlandaskan Pegangan Agama Boleh Bantu Membanteras Gejala LGBT

    Berdasarkan KISAH SEBENAR…buat renungan bersama

    Ayah: Kau duduk sini diam-diam. Kau ingat apa kau buat tu betul? Mana aku nak letak muka. Buat malu keluarga jer…tak pernah ada keturunan aku buat kerja terkutuk tu…
    Anak: Apa ni ayah? Senang-senang nak tuduh macam-macam..
    Ayah: Ustaz, saya mintak Ustaz nasihatkan anak saya ni…
    Ustaz: Nasihat apa Pakcik?
    Ayah: Dia ada kekasih…
    Ustaz: Anak awak tu ada kekasih?
    Ayah: Ya Ustaz
    Ustaz: Betul ke kata ayah awak tu yang awak ni ada girlfriend?
    Ayah: Bukan girlfriend Ustaz…!!!
    Ustaz: Habis, awak jugak yang kata anak awak ni ada kekasih?
    Ayah: Bukan cewek Ustaz….anak jantan saya ada cowok…dia ada boyfriend…!!!
    Ustaz: Kawan lelaki?
    Ayah: Betul tu Ustaz…
    Ustaz: Apasal pulak awak kata dia ada kekasih? Padahal yang dia ada tu kawan lelaki?
    Ayah: Sama lah tu Ustaz….kawan lelaki dia tu lah kekasih anak saya!
    Ustaz: Apa awak cakap ni?
    Ayah: Saya malu Ustaz…
    Ustaz: Cakap terus terang dengan saya….
    Ayah: Anak saya ni gay…
    Ustaz: Astaghfirullahal azim…awak ni cakap baik-baik sikit. Jangan tuduh sebarangan. Ini anak awak sendiri…
    Ayah: Betul Ustaz. Dia sendiri yang mengaku. Saya malu….
    Ustaz: Betul cakap ayah awak tu…?
    Anak: (Tak jawab. Pandang arah lain…)
    Ayah: Ustaz, nasihatkan dia, biar dia tinggalkan kekasih dia tu…
    Ustaz: Betul…? (dialog kena potong dengan anak)
    Anak: Ustaz, sebelum Ustaz cakap apa-apa pada saya, Ustaz cakap dulu dengan ayah saya ni. Cakap dengan dia…kenapa dari dulu lagi dia tidak cakap dengan saya yang jadi gay tu salah, haram, masuk neraka! Kenapa? Kalau dari dulu dia hantar saya belajar agama dengan Ustaz, tentu hari ini saya tidak duduk depan Ustaz! Kalau dari dulu dia siang-siang dah cakap, saya tentu tak jadi macam ni! Sebelum Ustaz nasihatkan saya, Ustaz nasihatkan bapak saya ni dulu…!!!
    Ayah: Kurang ajar punya anak…!!!

     

    Source: Mohd Khair

  • Jae Andrew Lim: Sexual Identity Matters In National Belonging

    Jae Andrew Lim: Sexual Identity Matters In National Belonging

    I thank the writer for a crucial insight noted in her letter “Continue to promote family, but recognise others” (May 18): That the eradication of laws must not be conflated with progress.

    Changes in law should, theoretically speaking at least, be in response to particular contextual contingencies and concerns of a nation rather than progress. Yet, it is precisely this contingent, changing notion of progress that the writer fails to consider.

    The assertion that a nation is progressive only if it protects the natural heterosexual family is built on the assumption that this family form is universally valid.

    Arguably, the valuation of the heterosexual nuclear family was set in Singapore’s post-colonial days, when the nation required industry, economic growth and a constant workforce to progress to the First World.

    This developmental and economy-centric notion of progress has shifted in recent times to accommodate more subjective concerns such as happiness, belonging and identity.

    As we continue to extol the natural family, it is perhaps unfortunate that the current situation does not reflect the writer’s injunction that we “recognise the existence of other family structures”.

    Section 377A, too, represents another facet of non-recognition of homosexuals.

    These two concepts matter not only in self-identity and personhood but speak also to feelings of national belonging.

    Sociology professors Jeffrey Weeks and Diane Richardson have encapsulated this millenial phenomenon in the concept of sexual citizenship, where sexual subjectivities are coming to matter in national belonging.

    To move us forward, I echo the writer’s call that Singapore’s future depends on the promotion of wholesome family values — values regardless of sexuality that uphold love, compassion and children’s wholesome growth both in and outside the family.

    Arriving at this stage requires inclusive dialogue governed by logic, empathy and a desire to negotiate assumptions of sexuality and family, and not purely in terms of progress, but also feelings of belonging, which are just as crucial.

     

    *Article written by Jae Andrew Lim was published in Voices, Today, on 23 May 2015

    Source: www.todayonline.com

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