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Friends (1994-2004; Season 1-10) People need role models to guide them through the uncertainties of life. Every living day is a new experience. Hence, newbies who step into different stages of their lives necessitate the presence of someone with authority to emulate. Parents and teachers are sparse representations of adulthood. Their paths are dull, unexciting and merely outdated. Juniors need to follow routes that are 'compelling' and approved by their contemporaries. They aspire for someone or some icon to tell them what normality is. For teenagers who peeled their inner eyes of awareness at the turn of the century, the Gen-Y's, the TV rom-com 'Friends' could have influenced their perception of what relationship is all about.  Come to think of it, a generation before them formed their opinions on more significant life issues from Oprah. Oprah Winfrey set the standards on women empowerment, relationship issues, and accepting body image issues. It was as thou...

The latest season of Games of Throne has ended. How do the die-hard fans respond? They totally went ballistic, demanding a re-write of the script and re-shooting of the whole season. The viewers, mostly from Generation-Y and millennials, were brought up believing that they can have everything their way. All they have to do is ask. Nobody is a loser. Living under the umbrella of their helicopter parents who rewarded mediocrity, for them, it is their right. Win, they must, they think they get away with murder. For them, it is their way or the highway. There is only one way, their way. And they want not now but yesterday. What really matters is their desires. Others can just get lost. And they have just the perfect way to air their grievances, their dirty linen to air, in public domain. We have to understand that not everything in life is under our control. We sometimes cannot even control ourselves. Definitely, creative juices cannot be contained. Just because you pay for the media ...

http://www.thestar.com.my/Opinion/Letters/2014/12/11/Were-blessed-to-be-in-a-profession-that-helps/ I AM a registrar (medical officer in training as a specialist) in one of the busiest hospitals in Malaysia. I did my housemanship training here, went for my district posting, got into the specialist programme, and am now back in the same hospital where it all began. Every once in a while, I come across a link sent to me via social media, regarding housemen, and their plight. Like how they are expected to work 75 hours; how medical officers and specialists are their bane; how they don’t get enough time for lunch or tea; and how medical officers have nothing else to do but make their already miserable lives more miserable. Allow me to share the other side of the story. My job requires me to work from 8am to 5pm. That’s a nine-hour job, with one hour for lunch. So that’s 45 hours per week, give or take. That said, ...

Letters Home  >  Opinion  > Letters Published: Monday December 8, 2014 MYT 12:00:00 AM Updated: Monday December 8, 2014 MYT 7:57:26 AM ‘Trauma’ faced by some housemen in hospitals IN the last two years there were a couple of articles regarding the tyranny trainee doctors in our hospitals are subjected to and the unethical treatment they are accorded to by the senior medical officers (MOs) and sometimes the specialists, too. It is also a known secret that some trainee doctors have left the profession in disgust without completing the two-year compulsory internship. Unfortunately, up to this day nothing seems to have been done either by the Health Ministry, Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) or the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) to fix this problem. A houseman in any hospital in the peninsular is required to work for a minimum of 78 hours a week. I say minimum becaus...

http://time.com/3154186/millennials-selfish-entitled-helicopter-parenting/ Millennials Are Selfish and Entitled, and Helicopter Parents Are to Blame Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie Aug. 21, 2014 There are more overprotective moms and dads at a time when children are actually safer than ever Peter Lourenco—Flickr RF/Getty Images It’s natural to resent younger Americans — they’re younger!— but we’re on the verge of a new generation gap that may make the nasty old fights between baby boomers and their “Greatest Generation” parents look like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Seventy-one percent of American adults think of 18-to-29-year-olds — millennials, basically — as “selfish,” and 65% of us think of them as “entitled.” That’s according to the latest Reason-Rupe Poll , a quarterly survey of 1,000 representative adult Americans. If millennials are self-absorbed little monsters who expect the world to come to them and for their parents to clean up their rooms ...

In the limelight but for how long? By now we are all too familiar with the now infamous blog 'Sumptuous Eriotica' with the authors' (s)exploits and public display of their supposedly private expression of their casual love. And the hysteria that had followed suit, by the main stream newspapers who would otherwise have to continue churning out oft nauseating news of praise of the ruling party and bashing of the opposition. The issue, stems from the fact that it is just a difference of importance placed by two different generations. The older generation lived a life trying to pacify the needs of the society whilst sometimes sacrificing personal needs or desires. The newer generation on the other hand live for themselves, to satisfy their needs and care a damn of others. They can all go to hell for all they care. It is already a challenge trying keep pace with others and establishing themselves in this competitive world. Compromising for others is not on their a...

Sex blogger takes to Facebook to blast media, critics By  Lydia Gomez  |  Yahoo Newsroom  –  Mon, Oct 22, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.: When it comes to sex bloggers Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee's attitude towards their expose', the phrase 'taking it in their stride' is a gross understatement. The duo, whose mercurial rise to infamy became the topic of frenzied online discussions and non-stop  media coverage, have bulldozed their way through the harshest criticism with what appears to be confident, sarcastic rebukes. Tan, an ASEAN scholar and law undergraduate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) ,  took to his Facebook account to systematically rebut the highly publicised brickbats thrown at them, mostly through local news headlines.  Taken from his profile, these are his posts:   "I love these NUS Board of Discipline hearings, where the judge and the prosecutor are the same people"  - [The NUS is conducting an interna...

I probably will let my imagination go berserk on this one. It may stink of stereotyping, generalization and gross assumption. I may be wrong but what the heck. It is the only way to keep the neurons firing away and keeping senility at bay. Talking about senility and selective amnesia at will, we have seen many around us guilty by the first degree on this charge! Just the other day, I saw a lassy pushing a deep pram like contraption with three thorough bred puppies sticking their heads looking at passers by. The lassy,  in her mid 20s, in a well confident poise, brimming with self confidence with her equal well sculptured gymnasium time spent thighs and legs and hot pants, stiletto to accentuate her bragging rights and tops leaving little imagination of the modesty that it was meant to cover which was nothing to feel outraged about anyway, was trying to get her 'babies' into her car with her partner. The partner, probably not witnessed by fire, tea ce...