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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2053653 | Oct 27 09:29 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: **Lost in...**<BR>  <BR> Bigger: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymr4sv7ZG1r3drlao1_1280.jpg) <BR> #art #urban #train #graffiti | Oct 27 09:29 |
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| schestowitz | "I wonder how many people this is lost on... (please don't spoiler just prove how smart / old you are!)" | Oct 27 09:29 |
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| schestowitzi | [19:12] <iophk> Hi, Roy, the techrights site is down and does not respond to ping or SSH. | Oct 27 19:13 |
| schestowitzi | [19:12] <iophk> or to HTTP | Oct 27 19:13 |
| MinceR | indeed. | Oct 27 19:13 |
| schestowitzi | copilotco.com is down also, I think there might be maintenance going on - will call soon to verify if it doesn't come back online | Oct 27 19:14 |
| schestowitzi | I asked, "Any maintenance going on?" | Oct 27 19:18 |
| schestowitzi | We'll see... | Oct 27 19:18 |
| schestowitzi | Below is the transcript of the talk of Dr. Richard Teo, who is a 40-year-old millionaire and cosmetic surgeon with a stage-4 lung cancer but selflessly came to share with the D1 class his life experience on 19-Jan-2012. He has just passed away few days ago on 18 October 2012. | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | Hi good morning to all of you. My voice is a bit hoarse, so please bear with me. I thought I'll just introduce myself. My name is Richard, I'm a medical doctor. And I thought I'll just share some thoughts of my life. It's my pleasure to be invited by prof. Hopefully, it can get you thinking about how... as you pursue this.. embarking on your training to become dental surgeons, to think about other things as well. | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | Since young, I am a typical product of today's society. Relatively successful product that society requires.. From young, I came from a below average family. I was told by the media... and people around me that happiness is about success. And that success is about being wealthy. With this mind-set, I've always be extremely competitive, since I was young. | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | Not only do I need to go to the top school, I need to have success in all fields. Uniform groups, track, everything. I needed to get trophies, needed to be successful, I needed to have colours award, national colours award, everything. So I was highly competitive since young. I went on to medical school, graduated as a doctor. Some of you may know that within the medical faculty, ophthalmology is one of the most highly | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | sought after specialities. So I went after that as well. I was given a traineeship in ophthalmology, I was also given a research scholarship by NUS to develop lasers to treat the eye. | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | So in the process, I was given 2 patents, one for the medical devices, and another for the lasers. And you know what, all this academic achievements did not bring me any wealth. So once I completed my bond with MOH, I decided that this is taking too long, the training in eye surgery is just taking too long. And there's lots of money to be made in the private sector. If you're aware, in the last few years, there is this rise | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | in aesthetic medicine. Tons of money to be made there. So I decided, well, enough of staying in institution, it's time to leave. So I quit my training halfway and I went on to set up my aesthetic clinic... in town, together with a day surgery centre. | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | You know the irony is that people do not make heroes out average GP (general practitioner), family physicians. They don't. They make heroes out of people who are rich and famous. People who are not happy to pay $20 to see a GP, the same person have no qualms paying ten thousand dollars for a liposuction, 15 thousand dollars for a breast augmentation, and so on and so forth. So it's a no brainer isn't? Why do you want to be a | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | gp? Become an aesthetic physician. So instead of healing the sick and ill, I decided that I'll become a glorified beautician. So, business was good, very good. It started off with waiting of one week, then became 3weeks, then one month, then 2 months, then 3 months. I was overwhelmed; there were just too many patients. Vanities are fantastic business. I employed one doctor, the second doctor, the 3rd doctor, the 4th doctor. | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | And within the 1st year, we're already raking in millions. Just the 1st year. But never is enough because I was so obsessed with it. I started to expand into Indonesia to get all the rich Indonesian tai-tais who wouldn't blink an eye to have a procedure done. So life was really good. | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | \[ | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | " | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | "Don’t let society tell you how to live. Don’t let the media tell you what you're supposed to do. Those things happened to me. And I led this life thinking that these are going to bring me happiness. I hope that you will think about it and decide for yourself how you want to live your own life. Not according to what other people tell you to do, and you have to decide whether you want to serve yourself, whether you are | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | going to make a difference in somebody else's life. Because true happiness doesn't come from serving yourself. I thought it was but it didn't turn out that way." | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi |  | Oct 27 19:33 |
| schestowitzi | [19:17] <iophk> ok but it's been about 30 minutes, MinceR spotted it and I caught up about 20 minutes later | Oct 27 19:33 |
| qu1j0t3 | schestowitzi: nice story, but there seems to be a bit missing | Oct 27 19:43 |
| schestowitzi | qu1j0t3: yes, I cut out bits I liked | Oct 27 19:46 |
| schestowitzi | the wife had it in FB, I can't link to the whole | Oct 27 19:46 |
| qu1j0t3 | it seems you missed out the important bit, where he realises that all the programming w.r.t. social norm being pursuit of money as an end in itself -- was false | Oct 27 19:47 |
| qu1j0t3 | i'm sure he's glad there are some oncologists left | Oct 27 19:47 |
| qu1j0t3 | that they didn't all join the beauty farm | Oct 27 19:48 |
| qu1j0t3 | (not that anyone was made more beautiful by surgery) | Oct 27 19:48 |
| schestowitzi | So what do I do with the spare cash. How do I spend my weekends? Typically, I'll have car club gatherings. I take out my track car, with spare cash I got myself a track car. We have car club gatherings. We'll go up to Sepang in Malaysia. We'll go for car racing. And it was my life. With other spare cash, what do i do? I get myself a Ferrari. At that time, the 458 wasn't out, it's just a spider convertible, 430. This is a | Oct 27 19:56 |
| schestowitzi | friend of mine, a schoolmate who is a forex trader, a banker. So he got a red one, he was wanting all along a red one, I was getting the silver one. | Oct 27 19:56 |
| schestowitzi | So what do I do after getting a car? It's time to buy a house, to build our own bungalows. So we go around looking for a land to build our own bungalows, we went around hunting. So how do i live my life? Well, we all think we have to mix around with the rich and famous. This is one of the Miss Universe. So we hang around with the beautiful, rich and famous. This by the way is an internet founder. So this is how we spend our | Oct 27 19:56 |
| schestowitzi | lives, with dining and all the restaurants and Michelin Chefs you know. | Oct 27 19:56 |
| schestowitzi | So I reach a point in life that I got everything for my life. I was at the pinnacle of my career and all. That's me one year ago in the gym and I thought I was like, having everything under control and reaching the pinnacle. | Oct 27 19:56 |
| schestowitzi | Well, I was wrong. I didn't have everything under control. About last year March, I started to develop backache in the middle of nowhere. I thought maybe it was all the heavy squats I was doing. So I went to SGH, saw my classmate to do an MRI, to make sure it's not a slipped disc or anything. And that evening, he called me up and said that we found bone marrow replacement in your spine. I said, sorry what does that mean? I | Oct 27 19:56 |
| schestowitzi | mean I know what it means, but I couldn't accept that. I was like “Are you serious?” I was still running around going to the gym you know. But we had more scans the next day, PET scans - positrons emission scans, they found that actually I have stage 4 terminal lung cancer. I was like "Whoa where did that come from?” It has already spread to the brain, the spine, the liver and the adrenals. And you know one moment I | Oct 27 19:56 |
| schestowitzi | was there, totally thinking that I have everything under control, thinking that I've reached the pinnacle of my life. But the next moment, I have just lost it. | Oct 27 19:56 |
| schestowitzi | This is a CT scan of the lungs itself. If you look at it, every single dot there is a tumour. We call this miliaries tumour. And in fact, I have tens of thousands of them in the lungs. So, I was told that even with chemotherapy, that I'll have about 3-4months at most. Did my life come crushing on, of course it did, who wouldn't? I went into depression, of course, severe depression and I thought I had everything. | Oct 27 19:56 |
| qu1j0t3 | it's a pity that many plutocrats don't get this kind of hint | Oct 27 20:00 |
| qu1j0t3 | look at murdoch | Oct 27 20:00 |
| qu1j0t3 | or gates | Oct 27 20:00 |
| qu1j0t3 | ill-deserved health | Oct 27 20:00 |
| qu1j0t3 | life's like that :) | Oct 27 20:00 |
| schestowitzi | what about jobs? | Oct 27 20:09 |
| schestowitzi | poetic justice? | Oct 27 20:09 |
| schestowitzi | " | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | See the irony is that all these things that I have, the success, the trophies, my cars, my house and all. I thought that brought me happiness. But i was feeling really down, having severe depression. Having all these thoughts of my possessions, they brought me no joy. The thought of... You know, I can hug my Ferrari to sleep, no... No, it is not going to happen. It brought not a single comfort during my last ten months. And | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | I thought they were, but they were not true happiness. But it wasn't. What really brought me joy in the last ten months was interaction with people, my loved ones, friends, people who genuinely care about me, they laugh and cry with me, and they are able to identify the pain and suffering I was going through. That brought joy to me, happiness. None of the things I have, all the possessions, and I thought those were supposed | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | to bring me happiness. But it didn't, because if it did, I would have felt happy think about it, when I was feeling most down.. | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | You know the classical Chinese New Year that is coming up. In the past, what do I do? Well, I will usually drive my flashy car to do my rounds, visit my relatives, to show it off to my friends. And I thought that was joy, you know. I thought that was really joy. But do you really think that my relatives and friends, whom some of them have difficulty trying to make ends meet, that will truly share the joy with me? Seeing me | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | driving my flashy car and showing off to them? No, no way. They won’t be sharing joy with me. They were having problems trying to make ends meet, taking public transport. In fact i think, what I have done is more like you know, making them envious, jealous of all I have. In fact, sometimes even hatred. | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | Those are what we call objects of envy. I have them, I show them off to them and I feel it can fill my own pride and ego. That didn't bring any joy to these people, to my friends and relatives, and I thought they were real joy. | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | Well, let me just share another story with you. You know when I was about your age, I stayed in king Edward VII hall. I had this friend whom I thought was strange. Her name is Jennifer, we're still good friends. And as I walk along the path, she would, if she sees a snail, she would actually pick up the snail and put it along the grass patch. I was like why do you need to do that? Why dirty your hands? It’s just a snail. | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | The truth is she could feel for the snail. The thought of being crushed to death is real to her, but to me it's just a snail. If you can't get out of the pathway of humans then you deserve to be crushed, it’s part of evolution isn't it? What an irony isn't it? | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | There I was being trained as a doctor, to be compassionate, to be able to empathise; but I couldn't. As a house officer, I graduated from medical school, posted to the oncology department at NUH. And, every day, every other day I witness death in the cancer department. When I see how they suffered, I see all the pain they went through. I see all the morphine they have to press every few minutes just to relieve their pain. I | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | see them struggling with their oxygen breathing their last breath and all. But it was just a job. When I went to clinic every day, to the wards every day, take blood, give the medication but was the patient real to me? They weren't real to me. It was just a job, I do it, I get out of the ward, I can't wait to get home, I do my own stuff. | Oct 27 20:10 |
| schestowitzi | " | Oct 27 20:10 |
| qu1j0t3 | schestowitzi: 'poetic justice' doesn't exist. :) | Oct 27 20:11 |
| qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/jasonball88/status/220496716825247746 | Oct 27 20:12 |
| qu1j0t3 | bot? :/ | Oct 27 20:12 |
| schestowitzi | server down :( | Oct 27 20:15 |
| qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/jasonball88/status/220496716825247746 | Oct 27 20:27 |
| qu1j0t3 | hm. | Oct 27 20:27 |
| qu1j0t3 | https://twitter.com/rogerhadgraft/status/162117256741007360 | Oct 27 20:27 |
| schestowitzi | the downtime has been known | Oct 27 21:06 |
| schestowitzi | they're working on it right now | Oct 27 21:07 |
| schestowitzi | I've just phone San Diego | Oct 27 21:07 |
| schestowitzi | *phoned | Oct 27 21:07 |
| schestowitzi | qu1j0t3: wife and I spoke about that article | Oct 27 21:07 |
| schestowitzi | her sister works in that hospital | Oct 27 21:08 |
| schestowitzi | anyway, it's good when people know the important stuff in life BEFORE or WITHOUT getting terminal cancer | Oct 27 21:08 |
| schestowitzi | "A gay Christian is like a chicken who supports battery farming." | Oct 27 21:08 |
| schestowitzi | but the bible does not promote intolerance of gays so much, I think there's something about sodomy in the Old Testament BS and little about gay culture in the New BS. But none of it is quite so "the word of God" | Oct 27 21:09 |
| schestowitzi | "There are now more iPhones sold than babies born in the world every day http://zite.to/yjEcrx via @zite" | Oct 27 21:09 |
| schestowitzi | BS | Oct 27 21:09 |
| schestowitzi | Spin | Oct 27 21:09 |
| schestowitzi | Because the real news is, | Oct 27 21:10 |
| schestowitzi | Samsung sells twice as many phones as Apple does | Oct 27 21:10 |
| schestowitzi | which basically means Apple can now just compete with some illusionary thing like "babies born" | Oct 27 21:10 |
| schestowitzi | a baby has a longer shelf life too, and it's likely to explode | Oct 27 21:10 |
| qu1j0t3 | from my pov i'm not really interested in apple-v-samsung, i consider them both part of the problem | Oct 27 21:20 |
| qu1j0t3 | it's like Glock v Smith & Wesson :) | Oct 27 21:21 |
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