Thoughts beyond my life & my travel - Bel

There was headline news about some cough syrup having some substance that can make ones having huccination. It is strongly advised not to give such medicine to small children. So I sat in a doctor interview when a reporter was trying to do a follow-up story. An interesting interview! I learnt to realise that most of the medicine don't quite help with most of the cold but just relieve the symptoms. Therefore, I decided to take a "natural therapy" against the cold that I just went through, that is, to drink plenty of water, to have vitamin C droplets and have warm honey water so as to make my throat feeling better. Of course, it takes time to heal no matter you takes medicine or not. Believe me, it's not a good experience. But I felt that I had too many pills these days and having too many medicine won't do me any good. While I was having a chat with one of my colleagues about medicine and drugs, she suddenly came up with an interesting ideas, "won't antibi...

It's only been a few years that doctors here require to label their medicine. Believe or not, patients usually feel better when they receive a few packets of medicine rather than one or two kinds. So I brought the medicine that the specialist gave me to the Phamarcy, and asked the pharmacist and my GP to learn about what the medicine the specialist gave me. Surprise! Of course, the antibiotics and the cream should mean something but the rest of the three pills do not make a lot of sense. One is probably multi-vitamin, ok - did the doctor think my skin needs more vitamin intake? The other one is the gastro-related medicine, according to my GP, only lessens the impact of the antibiotics. So the specialist is worried about I will have gastro pain after taking the antibiotics? Or does he want more consultations? What's the third one - I totally forgot. So, should we opt for bringing home a lot of medicine? Psychologically maybe but as a matter of fact, we just have more medicine in...

I hadn't thought I would go to see a Chinese Medicine Practitioner as I'm never a fan of those Chinese herbs. Nevertheless I just had my first experience of seeing a Chinese Medicine practitioner last Sunday. I must say that it is quite an interesting experience but drinking those herbs are not funny. As I wanted my experience to be more delightful, I decided to go to the HKU Space one where it's nicely decorated. It's bright, convenient and doesn't have bad herbal smells. Well, it's a bit pricey but these doctors were supposed to be teachers so I bet I should be more relieved. And guess what? I didn't expect them all to speak Mandarin. And I didn't expect there were more than one student to sit in. Imagine there were three people checking your pulses, checked your tongue colour and your skin. Did I do anything wrong? I probably didn't have so much "close attention" by many others for so long. The most challenging part is to drink the bitt...

Advertising needs to be more creative during the financial tsunami. I heard some corporations hired people to have their logos tattoos on their bodies or even their bellies. Some people were paid to have their hair shaved to certain slogan or corporate logos. I saw an smart ad when I walked past the newstand the other day. See what McDonald did!