Documentary: Sicko

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This is an amazing video by Michael Moore who investigate the american health care system. He is also famous from filming the documentary Farenheit 9/11. Its the kind of video everyone should watch.

Sicko talks about US health insurance and pharmaceutical company who operate base on for-profit. The insurance company deny many policy claim although the patient need them critically while the pharmaceutical company bribe many US congress including George Bush to pass a policy that enable the pharmaceutical company to charge their medicine at a high price/watever price they wanted.

In US there is no free medical care. So those who could not pay are usually abandon by sending them away in taxi cab to union rescue mission. After that he compare US with Canada, UK, France and Cuba that have universal health care (meaning free health care).

Spoilers ahead~
Some of the part that caught my attention is the guy who accidentally cut his middle and ring finger while working. He went to the hospital and the doctor told him that his middle finger will cost $60k while his ring finger cause $16k. He decide to keep the ring finger and throw off his middle finger. Another part that are interesting is that Hilary Clinton has tried to past a bill for the universal health care but due to many protest from big company, she could not past the bill. Eventually instead of fighting to pass the bill, the health care paid her off for her silence. There is also a touching scene where Michael Moore brought some 9/11 volunteers who suffered illness as a result of the collapse building (they could not claim anything from the $50 million fund to help rescue worker of 9/11 because congress make a difficult process out of it) by bringing them to Cuba. A rescue worker who suffer breathing problem found out that the pharmacy shop there sell her breathing medicine for 5 cent while in US it is sold for $120.

After all this i begin to appreciate universal health care in Malaysia. Malaysia government health care is practically free and i am very great full for it. However they still have many things that they can improve on. For starters I think it would be nice if they can cut short queuing time :)

Taking out the first 2 side teeth

I have to take out another 4 teeth near the front/side. Hai.... feeling sad that i have to take out so many teeth... normal human being is 32 teeth... while mine will eventually be 26 teeth... i think i am fast becoming an alien...

In this dentist date, i took out 2 teeth first cos i am too chicken to take out all 4. Have to inject twice to the right to take out 2 teeth. After injecting, i will have to wait about 15 min for my mouth to numb. Haha funny thing happen is after he inject, i will have to gargle my mouth. I was very sure that i close my mouth when i gargle. Then the dentist look at me in surprise... "hey u are spilling on the floor lah~!" The water was spilling from the part that are injected....the sight is so funny.

The pulling of the teeth is rather fast. I didn't realize the teeth is out so fast. First he wriggles the teeth back and forth to loosen its hold. Then he tug out the teeth real fast. But the after effect is terrible. I had so much blood spilling out, i look like a vampire....

When the whole thing is done, i went downstairs to sit in front of a massage shop.... my mum wanted to go market and ask me to look after the car. And i was like alright, i will wait for u. Many passer by walk past me in that alley and ALL of them stare at me. I sat there a whole 15 minute thinking that they are all morons and that they had never seen ppl with a cotton sticking into the side of the mouth. I am especially piss with an old man who stare at me continuously although he had already walk past me... self consciously i touch my mouth and realize its wet all the way to my chin and neck. In shock, i look down at my shirt and realize my shirt is red and wet with blood and saliva! Wow... i was so surprise and paiseh.... i will never forget this experience.... no wonder all the ppl is staring at me. In the end i ran to the car and stuff tissue into my dripping mouth...

A few hours past and the blood is still flowing... all my tissue is soak. Once it stop, i am so glad and i doze off a little.... I took back the tooth and my tooth is really big.... when i am eating rice.. the food stuck into the gum hole... haha its really terrible... my gum now look like a food storage hole... after a few hours my mouth recover and i even went sg after i felt better. The next day i had buffet :)

Horror at 2nd wisdom tooth extraction

I just had my second wisdom tooth taken out one week after the first. Thats a few weeks ago. It took me a while to write in blog cos i had a bad experience with it. The doctor arrive late for half an hour and he seems to want to do things in a hurry. He was rather rough that day. Things goes smoothly after the injecting and cutting the gum (though the injection still hurt). Then he proceed to cut my teeth in half. This time around, he tried to pull out my teeth even though the teeth havent been cut into half. Its terrible painful! It is like he is trying to pull out my soul... unsuccessfully. when he realize my teeth haven not been cut into half completely, he then grind it some more. He repeat this process 3 times. I am almost in tears then.

When i come back i realize that he accidentally cut the side of my mouth and he stitch it up. I was so upset cos it bleed when i brush my teeth. I am glad that i only have to pluck out 2 wisdom tooth. Although this doctor is skillful, i think he lacks TLC... it stands for tender loving care. Haha too bad they don't really care about patient opinion and i can either continue or switch dentist. If i noe there is good dentist then i will switch. Too bad i dont knw.... sob... sob...

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Today i pluck out my first wisdom tooth~

This morning had my wisdom tooth operation. I am very scared about it. When i do the surgery i try to think about anything else while the dentist inject, cut the gum, crack the teeth into 2, take out the teeth then sew.

In the middle of the surgery there is a machine failure! The doctor was like oops something is wrong. It scare me like shit. But overall i think he is efficient in term of his skill. He had my teeth out in minute. There is still pain but not as much as i imagine. Injection was painfull but after a few minute i feel that half of my mouth and tongue dont belong to me. Its so numb. I dont feel painfull when my gum is cut and my teeth is crack. But when the teeth is being tug out and when my wound is sewn then there is a slight pain and a very eerie feeling. I can feel the thread going thru my gum.

Just when i thought the worst is over, the after math is even worse. My gum bleed for 2 hours and my mouth swell like a golf ball. The swelling make me unable to chew or talk. I have to wet a towel with warm water and put it on my face (hem.... why warm water? thought when there is a swelling shd cover cloth with ices? anyone knows?). My mum blend the porridge for me so that i dont have to chew. Beside the swelling i feel a bit feverish and i feel very hot when i want to sleep. When i brush my teeth i am carefull not to brush near the wound and gargle the mouth wash that they gave. I am rather worried that there is dirt stuck on the wound but i could not open wide my mouth and see. Hopefully nothing got stuck~~ end of first day. Hopefully tomorrow feel better :D

Movie: Ratatouille (Animation by Pixar)

I really love this animation. Its a heartwarming film that shows that dreams do come true if u persevere. This story is special because it talks of a rat who wanted to become a famous gourmet chief. The idea of a rat who cook for human is a repulsive idea but Remy is more of a out of water rat. I really like the ending too~

This story tells of a Remy (rat) that loves to cook. He is inspired by 5 star world famous chief, Auguste Gusteau that "anyone can cook". Auguste later died because a famous jaded food critic (Anton Ego) criticize his food.

Remy has a family/colony of rats but when he got seperated from them during an incident, he stumble into Auguste Gueteau restaurant and met Linguini who are young and has no talent for cooking.

Linguini is a new staff. His job is to throw rubbish and clean the place. On his first day he mop the floor and accidentally spill the soup. Fearing that he will be in trouble he added spices and water to repair the soup.

When Remy saw what Linguini did, he was horrified and quickly went to the rescue. When no one was looking, Remy crept into the kitchen and help to repair the soup but was caught by Linguini. In the tussle Skinner walk past and thought that Linguini was tampering with the soup. Before Skinner can stop the head waiter, he scope up the soup and serve a food critic outside. The food critic love the soup and Skinner promoted Linguini position albeit resently. From then on Linguini and Remy start to pair up to cook delicious meal. Linguini become very popular and Skinner's resentment for him grows and at the same time he is skeptical that he can cook so well suddenly. Meanwhile jaded Anton Ego, the food critic came back again to judge Linguini skill because he did not belief that they can cook.

Game: Wii - cool video game console^^!!

Just tried Wii recently when bro in law bought it. Its really cool ^.^!! I held onto the remote and when i play tennis, its really like i am at the tennis field playing tennis. i am not really into playing games but Wii really get me going~~ Its easy to get hook and time passes quickly. Without realizing it, after a few hours i am actually sweating from playing! Haha its really a great exercise device too :D