Author: Arthur Chan Page 6 of 32

3 years after glorious graduation day, the first decision I made was to continue my further study.
So, there were two choices that was where would I study?
If I want to continue my study inside the country, I definitely will have to join the civil service.
My mentors advised me not to join civil service since it was too stressful and too many steps for further study.
I followed their advice.
On 2015 February, I decided to study abroad by applying a scholarship.
Before that time, I used to believe that scholarship was for outstanding students.
I was not an outstanding student in the university, didn’t get high credits either.
But, many people told me not to give up my dream, there were many opportunities if you really wanted to apply the scholarship.
Yes, they were right.
There were so many scholarships awarded every year to Burmese students.
First and foremost, my English language proficiency skill was needed to upgrade urgently.Therefore, I attended some IELTS classes in order to understand about the test.
I realized myself that the weakest ones were writing and speaking.
I tried to improve myself by self-practicing.
During that time, I was researching about scholarship providers and the subjects I might interest.
Fortunately, I met a grateful teacher who can guide a lot of things about scholarship,IELTS and even shared about her countless oversea experiences which has truly inspired to me.
At this time, my situation is not quite satisfactory.
No permanent job, although working part time in one of UN organizations.
I am not sure saying part time is true or not.
Mostly, I work over the internet and nobody sees me in person. That is why I felt like a shadow sometimes.
But, I believe, I will be able to overcome all these obstacles before mid 2017.
I am quite confident that my English is in satisfactory level to take the IELTS test.
I must keep going not to lose my goal.
Meanwhile,I will be seeing my friends and my colleagues who are progressing day by day.
I won’t let the depression overwhelming me .

Finally, I would say..
I believe.. I can fly..

​People might want to ask me why didn’t I publish my posts on facebook.

The reason is I just wanted to write freely rather than listening  the feedback from people on my writing.s

Whenever I tend to wrtie on facebook, I confronted a lot of distractions such as, notifications poped up, friend message alerts, newsfeed update and so on.

Beside those, my fingers can’t freely go on its way, my thoughts are like under controlled . I was afraid of somehow , my writings would unintentionally insult someone in my friend list.

Yes, I can not write freely as I wish.

Aa a result, my facebook is mess up with garbage posts day by day instead of strong ,knowledgable posts.

It can be assumed as unproductive.
Most of the time, facebook posts are not really funny though they say it’s fun.

Sometimes, I feel like being lectured by big words,attitude, disciplines, moral ,blah blah…

I have seen most of them already, I don’t need to read again and again.

Besides, crimes, battles, gosspi and advets are everywhere.

I was really pissed of them.
I only have 2000 friends in my list.

I barely knew some of them even though I didn’t accept the requests too easily.

If it was possible, I want to deactivate it for a long time but I can’t.

My pages ,groups and apps need an admin before I quit them all.

So, the only thing I can do is change password which I can’t remember easily and note it down somewhere.

In that way, I couldn’t login my acc effortlessly. 

Whenever I tend to use facebook, unable to login easily will always give me a second thought.
I finished 2 novels, one in english and one in burmese while I was off from fb.

Another english novel is reading in progress.

And I have time to practise a lot of english lessons including reading and listening.

I have a plan to sit a test in december , wanna get high score but the result is still unsatisfactory.

Especially speaking and writing is still bad.My targeted bandscore is overall 7 , individual not less than 6.5.

I know my reading and listening bandscore could not be lower than 6.5, writing is actually incompetent even though I used to practise on this blog.

Ah!

11:05am already.

I should off to bed.

Sleeping late at night usually makes me dizzy in next morning.

Good Night.

p.s I know non of my friend from facebook would be reading this, I will still writing..

It’s fun.

Better than writing in my notebook.
Arthur

9.10.2016

Today , doctors on facebook are getting rage for a speech by one of the MPs from Ayeyarwady region.
She said ” All the government doctors have to arrive their duty on time , every late arrival will be taken an action according to rules and regulations.
No wonder, doctors in service are gonna be raged out . There are so many unfair things in their working environment ,that made them less tolerant and be sensitive to any words which seemed to be burden for them.
They’ve been doing works days and nights .May be they are not able to arrive in time but they aren’t also dismissed at the exact time .
If a doctor has to work for 24 hours from 8am to next day 8am, he usually leaved from duty at about 11am or 1pm ,sometimes even missed their lunch.
And then, they get back to the work next day .
It’s quite difficult to consider every aspects of the problem.
Like the MP who said that words is also a doctor but not in service. Thus, she can’t understand well about the feelings of in service doctors.
She will have an idea to consider for patients but forgetting the capacity of government doctors.
I am also a doctor who didn’t join to service . According to official data , there are about 10000 doctors currently serving in government hospitals among 30000 registered in board. Therefore, 2 out of 3 doctors are not serving in government work. May be they are not practicing medicine or may be they don’t want to join to government service.
On the other hand, government itself can’t afford to assign all those doctors in hospitals. They can not pay sufficient money for the welfare of health care staffs.
1500 doctors were currently picked up by union civil service board and they are under training in the civil service institutes.
It seems the current workload of doctors will be reduced a bit after those 1500 reinforcements have finished their training.
But, even with these numbers of doctors and health care staffs, we can not give sufficient health care to 51 million people.
There are patients in rural and remote who are not having enough care ,they are going to quacks to cure their diseases.
I don’t know how the system error can be fixed to run smoothly again.
People are dying everyday without receiving necessary treatments .Some of them even died at tertiary hospitals for the late arrival or for inadequate treatments.
The inadequate treatments doesn’t mean health care providers are not caring properly them at the hospitals.
Sometimes, the hospitals can not hold the growth of patients admission. Each and every patient need thorough investigation, rightful diagnosis and treatment and proper counsellings for mentally distressed conditions. However, our hospitals can not provide that far , they are lack of services in one area or sometimes in multiple areas.
There is no insurance policy to cover health care fees for those needy patients.
Government’s free health care policy didn’t work out .A lot of corruptions and unable to use budget wisely caused the allocated funding already in vain.I am really afraid of having illness. You can not get tender loving care at the hospitals , that’s true.
Your illness will be taken away at the hospital but you won’t see the smiles in their face.This is not because of they don’t want to , this is because they are in stressful condition, always worrying about their insecure lives .

The health care system in Myanmar must be changed .
We should not be sheep , we should not be spent our days and efforts in hospitals only by hoping a new day to come.
Outsiders will not understand the pain of health care persons.
Health care staffs,their very low wage incomparable to regional annual salaries , they hate it but they can’t escape from it .
The government need to develop a wise plan for the welfare of health care staffs and patients.
The solution will not be realistic if it only favors the patients and not considering about that of health care providers’.

Arthur Chan

11.9.2016