The urge to travel has come back to me . I am planning to go to Manchester when Air Asia X launch it's inaugural flight to the UK in June/July 2008 . I have registered with Air Asia to be on board on it's maiden flight to Manchester . I hope my request would be successful . I then hope to cross over to Dublin to visit my daughter Eileen there . This however does not mean that I would not be coming to attend her convocation in 2009 . Insyallah in June 2009 I would be going there again , this time with my wife to attend her convocation . I hope my June/July 2008 flight to Dublin would be a reconaissaence attempt prior to our visit in 2009 . I reckon I have to dig down into my savings to make the journey come through . My last trip to London was about 10 years ago and I foresee there would be alot of development having taken place . However I might not be able to walk for long distances as I did when I was in London . My knee problem has not fully recovered yet . I enjoyed walking the streets of London and travelling on it's MRTs .
In 2009 our daughter Fareen would also be graduating from UTM . So that means in that same year two of our children would be graduating together . She is just 20 years old and would be too young to work . I hope she would be able to procede with her Masters degree programme either in Germany or in the UK . From her exams results so far , if she continues to be so , I foresee that she would get at least a 2nd Class Upper degree . The University of Bath , UK and the University of Karlsruhe , Germany have made positive reponses to her overtures .
I hope our daughter Eileen would procede to do her housemanship in Dublin where the pressure is not that great as in Malaysia . Moreover the housemanship in Malaysia has now been extended to 2 years beginning 2008. It would be too taxing for freshly qualified doctors to work in Malaysia . The senior doctors with the encouragement from the Health Ministry are out to bully these young graduates , the majority of whom are bumiputras . I suspect there is a hidden agenda behind this - that is to discourage bumiputras from taking up Medicine so that this profession would continue to be dominated by the non bumiputras . The Prime Minister recently announced that the government would allow medical graduates to extend their stay overseas to obtain specialisation in their fields of interest . The world too is getting smaller and we could come and go to any part of the world without much hitch .
My wife's niece Amilea has now regretted her return to Malaysia . She is applying to do her specialisation at the University of Malaya . But I doubt her application would be approved by the Ministry of Health considering the long waiting list . My doctor friend told me that the waiting list could be as long as 10 years before one could be even considered .
