UM Class of 84/89 (Med)

2013-01-17T12:21:00.000+08:00

Dear Dr,

We trust you are doing well.

We are a coalition of Malaysian Medical Practitioners with the umbrella name of MPCAM (Medical Practitioners Coalition Association of Malaysia).

We wish to bring to your attention that the Medical Practitioners especially the SOLO and Group Practice GPs are faced with many uncertainties of late and one of the most pressing issues are the SEPARATION OF DISPENSING (drugs and medicine).

We believe that you also realized that GPs does not have a predetermine fee to patient for professional consultations and have been balancing their services with profit from dispensing.

Removing dispensing rights will spell doomsday for the livelihood of many GPs in Malaysia.

As a result of the latest ‘PUSH’ by many governmental departments and policy makers, We, the stakeholders wants to highlight this matter to the concerned parties that we are objecting to this new policy without a consultation.

The Pharma companies have all along been ally to the GPs and we hope that they can support us too.

You can support us by helping in one or all of the followings:

1. Printing out to pass to the medical reps who frequented you (ask them to pass along to other clinics)

2. Email to your medical colleagues (FWD this email)

3. Personally visit your neighborhood clinics...someone so near yet you have not met before. They will be surprise when you GIVE them a copy telling them what is going on.

Note: The SAY NO to SEPARATING DISPENSING RIGHT CAMPAIGN started on 07 Jan 2013. (Till date we have received 200 letters faxed in…MORE TO COME)

Think of how this can affect you or your family’s future. Have a nice day.

Click here to sign up and show your support!
http://www.mpcam.org/uploads/1/4/7/1/14717844/mpcam_signature_campaign_edited_with_logo.pdf

RED ALERT! Chong Yuen's email account hacked!

2010-09-17T22:26:00.002+08:00

Hi all,

I just received a phone call from Wong Chong Yuen.

Apparently his email account has been stolen by a hacker, and the hacker is sending out emails to everyone in his contact list asking them to send him some emergency money, purportedly because he is stranded somewhere in Europe.

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THAT REQUEST.

Please ignore any requests coming from Chong Yuen's email. IT IS NOT FROM CHONG YUEN, but from the hacker.

Tien Kwan

Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir dan Batin

2010-09-11T09:10:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone,

Wishing all of you Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir dan Batin. May you have a wonderful Raya holidays.

Settling Outstanding Amount from our Class Reunion dinner

2010-09-03T14:58:00.000+08:00

Just a note to inform everyone that we will use RM1,497.90 from the collection for the next reunion gathering, which is under the safe hand of Wai Yue, to settle the outstanding amount for our previous reunion dinner at Bangsar. This is as agreed upon by all those who have replied to the committee's request for the above.

Yasmin has uploaded more reunion photos

2010-07-30T16:03:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone,

Yasmin has uploaded quite a good selection of our reunion photos to our Facebook group. If you are a member, please log in and view them. If not, why don't you sign up? Else, you can view a small selection here...

Felice has uploaded her photos of the Reunion at Facebook

2010-07-14T11:30:00.000+08:00

Everyone, just a note to inform you that Felice has uploaded some photos of our reunion dinner at Madam Kwan's to her Facebook account. You can view them here. If you have a Facebook account, simply log in after clicking on the link and it will take you to the photos. If you don't have a Facebook account, you will need to sign up for one before you can view them.

Below is just a small sample of what you will see:

To view all the photos from Felice, go to this link.

Yasmin has over 300 photos of the reunion, ready to be uploaded. I've suggested that she uploaded them to her Facebook account too as it would be very tedious to upload them to this blog. However, we can select a few nice ones to be uploaded here.

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2010-06-22T10:35:00.002+08:00

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Updated Class List

2010-06-21T20:11:00.004+08:00

I've updated our class list with the new information some of you supplied when you registered for the reunion dinner recently. Thanks a lot to those of you who took the time to update your information. Mucho gracias!

You can download the updated list here.

Please check to make sure that your own particulars are accurate. If you see an error, I would appreciate if you would e-mail me and let me know so that I can rectify it. My e-mail is also in the list. Look under Ong Tien Kwan and you will find it.

P.S. You can also give me information pertaining to other classmates of ours, if you have.

This blog is for all of us, so I've invited all the attendees of the recently concluded Reunion Dinner to be authors and post here. If you would like to post but have not receive an invitation to be an author here, kindly let me know and I will send you an invitation.

21 Year Class Reunion Dinner at Madam Kwan's

2010-06-20T06:26:00.000+08:00

Wow! We’ve had a very successful 21-Year reunion dinner at Madam Kwan’s restaurant in Bangsar last night! More than 40 of our classmantes turned up for this rare event, surpassing our expectations. (Our first reunion was more than 10 years ago.)

People travelled from great distance simply to keep in touch with old friends, chat and look back in nostalgia at old class photos. We have Hisham who came all the way from Kota Bharu, Lee Pon from Penang, Guna from Alor Setar, Anjalai and Chong Yuen from Ipoh, Bee Kheng from Muar, Ballan from Johor Bharu, Felice from Kota Kinabalu and Mathew from Miri. Special mention should go to Beng Leong who flew in from Hong Kong and Beng Beng from Brisbane, Australia. Thank you very much for your effort, guys and girls!

Most of all, we need to thank Yasmin for taking all the trouble to call each and everyone personally to make this reunion a success. At one point, it looked like we had to call it off due to poor response. Nothing like a lady’s touch to get things going.

Yasmin even took the trouble to create a power point presentation for us – a collection of old photos during those good old uni days – and presented each attendee with his or her own personal copy. Soma made some beautiful key chains as souvenir for this special event, and some of those who came contributed some extra food and beer to the already sumptuous dinner arranged by Boon Ping for us at Madam Kwan’s.

Everyone was so eager to talk and catch up with old friends that it was a monumental task for Soma and Yasmin, our two emcees for the night, to settle everyone down so that announcements can be made.

Ah…. all those good memories came rushing back! Those innocent… nay, naive years! Physically, some of us have not changed very much. Some, like Azlan and Beng Leong, have noticeably expanded sideways. And Teong Oon and Yong Guan were competing for the shiniest head category. We have a handful of Datoks and Datins, and at least one who is a real datok. Some have kids who are already in universities! Yes, that’s how old we are now, folks!

Before we ended the night, we had a group photo and extracted promises from Tamil and Felice to organise our next reunion events 2 years and 4 years from now respectively. We’ve even made a tidy collection of hard cold cash from almost all the attendees for the next one. Just so you know, we handed the money to Wai Yue.

All in all, it was one huge memorable night!

Yasmin brought along a professional cameraman to take pictures for the night, so you can look forward to these photos in future updates.

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For your info, the committee members for this event were Boon Ping, Say Fatt, Soma, Surinder, Ranjeev and Tien Kwan. We also had inputs from Wai Yue and Swee Looi. And of course, our life saver – Yasmin!

P.S. Those of you who had taken some photos, please send them to us so that we can publish them here.

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Attendees for this event:

Anjalai Pathmalingam
Alan Khoo Soo Beng
Azlan Md. Nor
Ballan Kannan
Chai Fook
Chan Lee Pon
Chan Wai Yue
Felice Huang
Gan Eng Cheng
Gunasegaram /l Krishnan Chetty
Hisham Mohd Hidir
Ismail Ibrahim
Krishna Kumar
Lee Say Fatt
Lee Wah Sang
Lim Boon Ping
Marsita Mansor
Matthew Kho
Mohd. Ezani Md. Taib
Mohd Mahyuddin
Nor Aishah Malek
Norashikin
Ong Beng Beng
Ong Teong Oon
Ong Tien Kwan
Raja Kumar Menon
Ranjeev Prabhakeran
Ravi Krishnapillai
Ravindran Ramasamy
Somasundaram
Surindar Singh
Tamil Selvan
Tan Bee Kheng
Tan Swee Looi
Tay Beng Leong
Tay Yong Guan
Wong Chan Heong
Wong Chong Yuen
Yasmin Osman
Zanariah Jaafar
Zainordin Hj. Ibrahim
Zulkarnain Md. Rawi