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I was reading The Star Online this morning and 3 articles caught my eyes.
It seems that Bali is not just a favourite holiday destination among Malaysians but it seems to be a favourite destination to pursue a medical degree. I didn't even know that a Udhayana University existed in Bali. When I was in Bali, I asked the locals if there was any university in Bali, and they answered no university, just college. Unless to them college=university or Udhayana just got built. Anyway, I am not out to bag any university neither am I going to question the validity of the medical certificate there because the paper stat that its accreditation is equal to any other overseas university but I want to write on me imagining if my parents sent me to Bali to study. If may parents told me I was going to study in Bali, I think I would be quite excited. When I was in Bali, there was seriously no sense of time. It was like a Sunday everyday. I can imaging with a no sense of time culture, I wonder will there be deadlines for assignments.
I am just imagining, 6 years of joyous studies. Well, maybe the only sad point is the lodging. I can imaging how lodging will be like, probably dark and and secluded but still I doubt a person like me can actually get any studying done in Bali. I would constantly be thinking of the beach, the cheap Balinese message, eating babi guling everyday (aww.. that's making me hungry now), chilling out in Hard Rock cafe (and pray a bomb doesn't go off) and literally living like a King. I can almost imaging my weekends in either Nusa Dua or enjoying the cool weather in Ubud. So I really wonder, can anyone actually get any studies going in Bali??
This man in the kindest of his heart is offering his hand in marriage to 10 prostitutes who are in their 50s. I don't know, this opens up to a debate. One marrying not out of love but out of sympathy? Let's not involve the Bible or what God says first but let's look at it from a humane point of view. You marry out of sympathy because this ladies plight appeared on the papers that they are finding it hard to get "business" because no men wants to sleep with a grandmother. So to solve it, I marry them. On one hand I take my hats of to this guy but on the other hand I just can't understand how a man can marry without loving a woman? Yes, he says that his take on it is that he gets companionship in exchange... but companionship with more than 3 ladies? I just cannot get hold of the fact that one marries out of sympathy and for the sake of companionship. I may not have been married before to understand the meaning of loosing a wife, loosing a companion. But I would imaging, if I lost my wife, my best friend.. I don't think I can marry someone just for the sake of sympathy and for the sake of having someone by my side, how does this lady even replace the kind of love my wife would have given to me? That's why i say, I take my hats of to this guy. If it was me, I don't think I can marry someone without loving the person. Don't get me wrong, I can accept a girl if she has a colourful past and i dare say I'd marry a girl in that trade but I can only marry only if i love the girl. I mean at the end of the day, marriage is sacred no matter how old you are and not advertising on papers asking if any ladies wants to marry?? Where's the sacredness?? I guess unless I am commanded by God like how he commanded Hosea to marry a prostitute. That too I believe God did put in his heart to love that girl despite the girl's background and despite the girl back stabbing him. I guess at the end of the day it is interesting to see how marriage is taking into so many context. Marry out of love? marry out of sympathy? marry for the sake of companionship? No wonder in marriage counselling, the first question they ask the couple "What is marriage to you??"
And the last article that caught my eye was "Which line do I call for help?". Well, we have 999, 991, 994, 112. Geez, why can't we just be like the US have one centralize number 911. This is ridiculous, previously it was good, 999 reached the fire dept, ambulance and police and after the various agencies took over, there's different numbers now. I can't even understand why in the first place did they even approve the other numbers. It's like the fire department decides to privatise themselves and have have their own unique number 994. Come to an emergency, a member of the public like me is not going to remember was it 994 for the FD or was it 991 or was it 992?? Here we are heading towards vision 2020 and we don't even know what emergency number to call. And now realising the confusion, the authorities are looking into funding to make 999 the centralise numbers again. Talk about reaching for your nose through the back of your head.
It seems that Bali is not just a favourite holiday destination among Malaysians but it seems to be a favourite destination to pursue a medical degree. I didn't even know that a Udhayana University existed in Bali. When I was in Bali, I asked the locals if there was any university in Bali, and they answered no university, just college. Unless to them college=university or Udhayana just got built. Anyway, I am not out to bag any university neither am I going to question the validity of the medical certificate there because the paper stat that its accreditation is equal to any other overseas university but I want to write on me imagining if my parents sent me to Bali to study. If may parents told me I was going to study in Bali, I think I would be quite excited. When I was in Bali, there was seriously no sense of time. It was like a Sunday everyday. I can imaging with a no sense of time culture, I wonder will there be deadlines for assignments.
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