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Which kind of music do you like to listen?

When I was feeling down and bored, I used to listen some inspired music .Sometimes classical tunes and sometimes club beat :D.

Yeah, I like to go to club but I’m not a party animal. The first time I went to club was  in 2006 with my best friend. We both were just 16 years old at that time. He just lived in an apartment next to the hotel. And there was a club in hotel. My very first club experience was really awkward. I was hesitated to dance with other people . Techanically we both were under age and weren’t supposed to drink. But as usual, there were no strict rule . So, we shared a mug of beer . Every one dancing under spot lights seemed to be older than us.

College student life in mandalay was not like in Hollywood movies. We didn’t have home parties or other places to celebrate events. Yes, no club either. Local authorities didn’t allow clubs in mandalay. Sometimes, we had chance to go to clubs which were not legally opened.

But, most of the time, we faced with fights in the club. Some young men didn’t like to enjoy peacefully. That was a problem.

Therefore, I had very few club experiences .

When I had chance to stay longer in Yangon, I went to some clubs. Of course , there were friends to celebrate together. I understood the culture of clubbing when I have visited to most clubs in yangon. I used to enjoy to dance under lights and with DJ music. My favorite DJ was Avicii. A memorable time in a club and the music I heard was “Waiting for love -by Avicii”. Everytime I hear that song , I was like in the club.

The moto I always hold is “Work hard, Play hard” . I was a conservative man before .Though  I always wanted to be happy like other young people, I used to control myself very strictly. When I realized that I didn’t have much time to celebrate my youthful life, I always let myself free . I allow to myself to explore everything what I haven’t found yet. I decided to live happily while I was torturing myself with suffocating thoughts .

I believe everybody should have a night life to relax, to  reborn strength for another day..We should pass our daily lives energetically ,actively with fresh ideas.

 

 

Arthur

June 1 2016.

 

Today I want to tell you how did I learn English .

My former English skill was terrible . When I was in high school, English is one of the essential subjects in curriculum.

But even about 10 years of studying English in school can’t help me to be a fluent speaker. So, what was wrong with that?

Most of the time, our English teacher instructed us to memorize vocabulary by heart and to learn English grammar structure. There in exams, they gave us sentences to convert one grammar to another style. So, we had to remember formula to be able to convert such kind of sentences. Memorizing vocabularies were the most difficult part for me. English is one of the subject in matriculation examination. In exam, there were closed up type questions to fill up the blanks with proposition ,conjunction and so on. But all the paragraphs were from text book . So, if I can memorize all the essay in text book, I could pass that test. There was an letter and essay writing in exam , but I could not write with my own style either. Seems like my English foundation was a bit weak.

When I was in medical school, all the subjects were learned in English . 2^nd Year was my most difficult time because I confronted with many strange terminologies and reading and writing were still weak. But, some how I did pass all university years .

When I was young ,opportunity to watch English movies and English speaking programs were so rare in my hometown . My home didn’t have satellite TV and there was no English speaking television programs either. Therefore, my listening skill was also zero. During my first year of college, the country became more open up and English speaking movies were easily accessible.

At the time, I could not even read English novel and watch English movies without Burmese subtitle. I was starting to use Internet . I watched many movies and series during my student life. I tried to watch with English subtitle whereas Burmese translations were unreliable. Since then, I always watched and listened only in English and totally neglect Burmese subtitles.

I practice my English writing in facebook .In that way ,I possessed a satisfactory level.

I didn’t have a partner to practice English .Therefore, I used tools like internet, e-dictionary,ebooks,music,movies and grammar check software to improve my engish.

It doesn’t actually reach a certain level I really hoped for .But, I have reached a certain distance and I am keep walking .

One day, I must be the one who can fluently speak  and write as a native English speaker.

 

 

When I was a little boy, I read a story in comic book for children.
It goes like this..

“Long ago, there was a professor and his students. He taught to his students according to their intelligence.
Therefore, some students had chance to learn more than one subjects so they possessed  many skills.
There was a least intelligent one among outstanding students. Meanwhile, his friends were discovering more than one skill, his capacity was limited and only able to learn one learning.
So, the professor taught the easiest one to raise it as his career. That was pottery.
After all school years passed and professor believed his students were ready to go into realy life .
And then each and every one returned to their nations and applied knowledge they acquired in university.
But, the students who had learned more than one skill were not quite successful as they anticipated.
But, for the stupidest student who learned only pottery.
He didn’t learn other things, he only did pottery everyday and eventually he became a professional and getting rich by making pots.

When other students heard about him, they complained to their professor that why he didn’t teach them the way to rich,why the stupidest one became more successful than any of us.

The professor didn’t give an answer immediately, but asked his smartest student to climb along a bamboo tree in his backyard.
When he was on the tree, the professor asked other students to shake the tree hardly so that he could fall off.
The guy on the top of tree jump out to another one when the branch he hold was shaking.
When he reached on another , his friends  on the ground did the same way to tree he was holding.
He was moving from one tree to another whenever he almost fell off until he realized to hold a strong and bigger tree to keep stay on top.

Finally, the professor told his students that you will never be stable and rich if you are switching your career one to another..”

That story always remind me of the work what i am doing.
I am not smart , but .. still doing many things. And no profession anywhere.

 

Sometimes you have fought the whole day and you are feeling weak ,looking for a comfortable place ,kind of paradise. If you ever need that kind of moment in your life, music are the best companion to make you relax.

The rain is falling outside. Drizzling rain ,smell of ground and the chilling breeze slip through on my cheek. I was sitting in front of my notebook . My sub consciousness is thirsty for a music.

The rain usually make us feeling miss to someone in our past memories. The song I have chosen was

“Finding Hope “ (You & Me) .

Nothing would be perfect than a song, quiet place except the sound of rain drops on the roof and the breeze.

I was angry , sad and feeling miserable when I came back from work. I felt like I was totally lost and I am worthless, useless . There is nothing I can do .

But , the bad vibes influencing me has gone away since I hear this music.

I have regained my strength from music.

That’s why I am being a music crazy.
I still want to reach the horizon I can barely see. I totally want to escape from my environment .Even it won’t be forever , I still wanna try .

I want to rewrite my history starting from a new chapter.

Bless me GOD.

I know I am weak and fragile, easy to persuade, not have strong decision. But I want to achieve something in my lifetime.

 

 

Arthur Chan

10:00 pm

21.5.2016

Kason Fullmoon Day

Everybody thinks being a doctor is a miracle and he can make big money and assume as noble career.

But, for me although I finished my study in medicine, I don’t want to be a doc anymore in Myanmar.

Seriously? Why?

I have some reasons that I don’t wanna do. Check out the following to know life of a doc in Myanmar.

Low Salary.

The official salary of a doc is about 2.5 lakh per month which is equivalent to 250 USD . If you open GP clinic by your own, maximum amount you can charge per a person is 2.5USD .I am saying about ordinary medical doctor not specialist level. Sometimes patients think 2.5 USD is too much for them and they want treatment with cheaper prices. Because of very low treatment fees, most of doctors who are not descendent from wealthy family choose other high salary jobs such as product specialists in pharmaceutical companies, project officer in NGO, medical doctor in private hospitals and so on. Although they still want to study more and want to be a consultant , there are many bars limiting them to be so. Government salaries is the lowest but it can give you an opportunity to obtain a master degree. Therefore, young doctors always want to be government servants regardless of low payment and high workload. But, they can not survive with their salary alone , their families need to support them or find an alternative incomes by opening GP clinic and some other works. In some countries , though monthly salary is not very high, other social welfare services are still supporting to ease the life of government stuffs.

 

High Workload

Shortage of medical professionals are countrywide crisis in current Myanmar. Former government produced large amount of doctors and nurses in previous decades. But , the government can not hire all those produced medical professions to assign in their vacant positions. Therefore, unemployed doctors nurses and doctors are queuing to answer civil service exam while few number of doctors and nurses are running the hospitals with their uttermost efforts. In a recent years, government conducted  free healthcare services in hospitals . As a consequence, the more patients went to hospitals . Free services hospital can provide and quantity of patients needed to care always imbalance. As far as I know , hospitals should take responsibilities for every patients they are able to care. But now, primary and secondary centers are always referring patients to tertiary centers. Some of the patients are not even need to admit in tertiary hospitals. That’s why, hospitals in cities are always a crowded place. No matter what the government is developing more and more building , hospitals can not offer satisfactory care to that patients. So , in Myanmar to get a tender loving care from a doctor is like a miracle of a patient . That’s because of high workload of doctors ,they  can not give sufficient amount of time to look after patients.

 

Competitive

 

The world is a competitive place .Yes, I understand. Doctors also want to get promotion which can make them breathable in daily struggling . There is two way to choose for doctors if you have been graduated from college. First , will you join civil service or will you answer oversea medical exams and work independently in foreign countries ?

Yes, to answer civil service exam, you need to have generage knowledge about current governments .

In my own opinion, the exam held for doctors are not quite fair. Most of the questions asked in civil service entrance exam are nonsense and nothing related to the doctor career like which bridge in Myanmar is longest ? answer the speech delivered by president in which events ? list the name of leaders in which countries? And so on. So, doctors have to attend tutions to know all these kind of questions. In my personal experience, the smartest student in medical school can even fail in that exam while the dumbest one can pass easily.  That’s why I am saying the exam is not fair.

You have to pass through if you want to be a government doctor. Another step is 4 month training in central government servant training school. They have to do exercise , carry guns and practice to shoot and listen boring lectures which are just propaganda. It’s more like a soft military training.

If you successfully overcome these steps ,you officially became government doctor , that’s why you have to go to place you are being assigned.  You still have to wait another year to sit entrance test of master class. Most of the doctors failed in first time because few candidates are selected from many doctors . It also depends on the subjects you choose. Some peripheral subjects are less popular and you are easy to win while popular subjects like medicine and OG have less chance to pass.

Another way apart from government staff is answering oversea medical exams like MRCP, MRCS etc.

It is also not an easy way also. You need to have sufficient amount of money to have a chance to answer these exams. Tution and exam fees are very expensive of an ordinary doctor descendent from middle class family. Total cost might even reach 5000 USD for one attempt. If you failed in that exam, all the money lost. That’s why you need to be qualified before you answer that examinations. That’s why these oversea exams are like for doctors with rich family background . Meanwhile ordinary doctors who needed to support families are opening GP or work in high salary NGOs and pharmaceutical companies .

 

I will continue to write this article…

Let me stop here.

 

Arthur Chan

 

Hello.

This is Arthur.

I am writing this note in my bed via zenbook.

You know , today is May 20 and the rain was fallen around the city.

It can cooled down the city which has been heated for a month.

I was working temporarily in Sangh Hospital ,dialysis unit.

Actually I could not really work in dialysis center . Because , I have never been assigned in renal ward when I internship in hospitals and I am currently not practicing medicine either.

All I interested to do is working computer related work. But ,my father is also in board members of Sangha Hospital and they are needing doctor to start running dialysis unit. So, I involved as a medical doctor. Most of the dialysis work are done by senior nurses who are working in Singapore hospitals. And there is a nephrologist who has worked in UK for many years.

Therefore, their procedures and methods are really standardized and even hard to follow for local trained ones. I have seen patient relying on our dialysis unit for their daily living .

A patient even sold his house in mandalay and eventually moved to pyinmana and decided to stay here. So, it is really getting important to sustain the dialysis center for these patients.

We have a staff shortage . Well trained nurses are involved in major roles dialysis process. Because caring patient , operating dialysis machines, and sterilizing are processed by them. Doctors are not included in that process. Doctor role is only in case of giving emergency management to patient.

Sadly , I can not give that management.  Since after 2013, my brain was only trained for IT things.

I could not think about patient management and even forgot what I have learned.

According to the decision of board members, salaries for doctors and nurses are even increased.

We are recruiting staffs to sustain dialysis center. But , it is more difficult than we have imagined.

Most of the people don’t want to work in our town . I am afraid of failing this very startup dialysis unit .

It was the kind of the first non-profit dialysis center in Myanmar and we are offering dialysis with very affordable prices. I am seeing happy faces of patients. I don’t want to lose their hopes.

But , I don’t know how to help. Our dialysis center is like a pilot project and if the first step was successful , they have plan to spread out dialysis centers across the country.

I have nothing to give except my time .

I am not rich, I have no money , no job.

But, still thinking to help as I can.

Most of the people my age are working for money and so what they are richer than me.

Everybody says working for money is not good and meanwhile they are working for that money.

And for me , I am not fitted in anywhere. I always feel like I am lost or may be I haven’t found something I belongs.

But I don’t understand why people are thinking I have incomes and so I am not worried for anything.

Actually it was not .I practiced myself to live without money. I always wanted to do I love.

I have big dreams like other guyz who want to change this world. Still not impossible…

I want to live not worrying about money by doing works I love.

Sorry for the last paragraph. My fingers are obeying what my mind says and so they are typing to catch the words inside my head.

There is no filter between my head and my typing.

Thanks for reading this note. If this writing included grammar and spelling errors ,plz forgive me that I am not native English speaker nor very good at it.

I will keep writing on this blog every time I have thoughts to say.

And I bought a new notebook which is very good to write essays. Hopefully I will be using this to write more and more.

Thank you and Good Night.

It is 11:46Pm here.

Nyein Chan Ko Ko( Arthur Chan)

Naypyidaw

Myanmar.