You don't take computers on such a precious experience, do you?
;-)
Pssst! Apparantly, the top picture is actually of Belize's Bleu hole and not Dahab's! Well, what do you know! Shame I can't fly and take pics of blue holes from the sky myself, but the BBC can! :-( ... and how many Bleu holes do we have on this earth anyway, eh?!
... Well, thanks BBC! You had to do it Amelia, didn't you?! ... youuuuuuu @@
Well, they say 'if you neighbour the happy, you will be happy too' - too true! So, if PM can make his girl that happy, then he can make the whole country happy ... and impact on the globe's happymometer too ... and it comes naturally to him! So, to those who think it's all PR, I say, learn! ... or eat your heart out! ... and the media loves him because he doesn't hide his emotions, and is reviving romance in Britain ... well, he's overdoing it a bit, or two;-) but then, show me purrrfect!
... and what do you give your favourite Big Boss for a present on his birthday?!
I know! I'll give him an answer, and a prediction, a wish, and a prayer ...
Answer; Although I am a Eurosceptic, I agree with him that now is not a good time for a referendum! Because, if it says no to Europe and we leave, we'd look like someone who leaves friends at their time of need! Not nice, is it?! ... and that will not only greatly harm the country trade and relations wise, but would go down real bad in history and is never forgotten ... forever! So, I've decided to become a 'Practical sceptic' like David and say no to a referendum for now too ...
Prediction; Women will win David the next election - outright! How? He's a natural ... and he's playing his cards right, look at his girl ... so, he knows, you be nice to the kids, and ma will follow ... and bring her friends too ... and the husband and his friends ... the neighbours ... friends at work ... may even campaign too! ... but I must say, that tennis match was ... courageous! ... you don't dare mess with 12 year olds, you know! ... good try though, it put a smile on my face ... and on other mums I am sure ... and kids too ...
Wish; May that child in your heart never grow old David Cameron ...
Prayer; God bless you, your beautiful little family and your Big family too ...
... and I left it to his Sam to sing him his Birthday song ... with the kidz ....
HappyBirthdayPrimeMinister:-)
Nice song ... even though he says he's done having children ... and her too, oh dear! @@
“History, whether bad or good, should not be forgotten.”
September 5
Top hospital to be closed as cash crisis engulfs NHS [click] ... St Mary's Hospital closure allegations [click] ... Now health trust insists that there are no plans to close St Mary's hospital [click] ... More hospital closures 'essential', say experts [click]
September 7
******* Why Eurozone should become United States of Europe, by David Cameron [click] and [google] ... David Cameron warns over 'revenge' regulation on media [video]
September 9
David Cameron: we need elitism in schools [click] ... Education excellence = ''better citizens'' [click] and [google] ******* Celebrate achievement ... reward 'excellence' [click] ******* NHS reforms finally clear Commons [click] and [google] ******* Paralympics rehearsal [click] and [photos] and [video]
September 10
PM's speech on education [No 10] and [here] and [more] ... Eton could create state school: PM [click] and [google] ******* Dying for a burger? Why are trans fats still legal in the UK? [click] and [google] ... Nurses who can't speak English put patients in danger: Lord Winston's stark warning over NHS workers from Romania and Bulgaria [click] and [google]
September 14
European banking system 'in trouble' [audio] and on Greece [click] ******* Why are Britons so gloomy in middle age? [click] ******* Miss Egypt 2011 [photos:]
September 15
******* Vote for David Cameron? Keep working [click] *******
September 16
******* Scrap food sell-by dates, government urges manufacturers [click] ******* Should school children face corporal punishment? [audio] ******* ******* Missing cat found five years later 3,000km away [video] *******
September 17
David Cameron comes out top in poll on party leaders [click] and [stats] and [google] ... David Cameron is nudging us in the right direction [click] ******* New camera for burns victims 'shows blood flow' in skin [video] ******* Dwarf galaxies suggest dark matter theory may be wrong [click] *******
September 19
******* Europe's four big dilemmas [click] ... Greece 'should not be eurozone debt crisis scapegoat' [click] ******* Living to 150 [click] *******
September 20
****** Pursuit of happiness [click] ... Net gain: How to become a youtube sensation and get rich [click] ******* Universities minister defends higher education reforms [click] ... Stimulating brain with electricity aids learning speed [click] ******* Limitless current from microbes [click] *******
September 21
******* David Cameron must back the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN [click] *******
September 23
******* President Abbas receives ovation at UN [click] *******
September 26
******* Six weeks to save the euro [click] ******* Bionic eye [click] ... Understanding Anaesthetics [click] ... Faster than light [audio] ... Birds learn how to build nests [click] *******
September 27
******* A 2-day camp in London dedicated to Egypt’s Art [click] ******* Aye-aye of the beholder [video] ... New species of genuflecting plant buries its own seeds [click] *******
September 29
******* Tens of thousands of surgical patients dying needlessly because of poor NHS care [click] and [more] ... The NHS should debate London hospitals, not Lansley reforms [click] ******* Silvio Berlusconi at 75: A birthday quiz [click] ... Authorities confiscate captive tiger in New Cairo [click] *******
September 30
David Cameron might be juvenile, but he's no sexist [click] ******* NHS chief challenges Andrew Lansley's foundation hospitals plan [click] ... Responsibility [click] ******* Is the internet re-writing history? [click] ... Students' mental health 'at risk', psychiatrists warn [click]
"We have differentiation from other communities. Our history is the critical differentiation. We should be out shouting it from the roof tops - we are an historic community. We are a real town.”
I am not a doctor nor a scientist of any sort. Although I wanted to be one but never made it. I still find science and medicine fascinating to this day and so I have great interest in anything medical and the sciences in general .. and I still wish I was a doctor. But I am now the very proud mother of three junior doctors and a Podiatry graduate ... and they are all gooorgeous too! :-)
Here is the reason why I am here:
In 2007, a year when UK junior doctor recruitment to specility training went berzerk and was grossly unfair because the selection was "lottery" style. The online system did not allow CVs , prizes, other qualifications, etc. The system awarded 1 point for an additional BSc, either 1st or 3rd class, same award! 2 points for a Phd, while if you can formulate a hypothetical story in 150 words on, say, an example of when you worked under pressure, you were awarded 4 points! There were roughly 10 questions worth 4 points each. Doctors were not formally prepared for this type of application and most good candidates were too busy attending to their patients, they just answered as best as they could .. and lost out, not one single interview for a third of all applicants. Of those who got in, some went to private companies @£400-£500 each and had them formulate the proper answers for them and got in, regardless of ability! There were 23,000 posts and 34,000 applicants, nearly one third of all posts were dead end one year posts. Add to this the fact that more than half of all applicants were from overseas in direct competition with British graduates. I never heard of this happening anywhere else in the world, where overseas work force takes over not just fill gaps. We now understand that the Dept of Health was on red alert but could not stop overseas applications because of a pending court appeal case with one of their organisations.
One of my children was a victim of all this and what many families have endured from January to August of that year was unprecedented agony! Our brightest sons and daughters' careers as junior doctors could have been facing total ruin after a life long commitment to the study of the profession they love and of "aspiring to excellence" as is fashionable to say nowadays. For some families, the ordeal continues. I started this blog to try and help remove this injustice because many excellent young doctors out there have lost out and I personally know some of them. We now know there are many British graduates without posts as a result of the 2007 fiasco. Our young doctors are the creme de la creme of their generation. They should be rewarded for their dedication, hard work and commitment, encouragement and not the humiliation and contempt they were treated with and the great injustice they suffered because of this debacle.
Since then, The Darzi Review, came out 30 June 2008 is now healing and fixing, thus providing hope for the future of Medical Training in Britain ...
Hope seems to be on the horizon at last and all our young doctors are finally in very safe hands :-)
I am a junior doctor's advocate
I also support the current NHS reform calling for quality, safety and the right of every patient to same as well as dignity and an enhanced patient experience.
With the launch of the NHS constitution, I feel a new dawn of fairness, transparency and accountability for patients as well as staff .. is just on the horizon ...
Let's hope ... :-)
*November 2009*
Now that Professor Lord Darzi resigned his ministerial post back in July .. and with the projected financial trouble ahead for the NHS due to the current recession .. I am not sure Lord Darzi's vision will be fully implemented as he saw it .. and the future? I am not sure anymore ...
9 May 2010
General Elections - I was so confused with who to vote for, so I didn't. It turned out to be a good decision at the end, because it seems that those who did were confused too, they just ticked any box! We now have 2 big 'united' bosses, Dave and Nick. And there is Andrew, who has now taken over from Andy @ the Doh.
Will they reform the reform? Let's watch, wait ... and see ....