I love to work on christmas and boxing day (26/12). Firstly, the hospital will organise the taxi to fetch you to work and home, such a luxury treat for once a year !! Therefore I don't have to take underground train for a change. But this year the taxi company gave a lot of reason that wanted to fetch me at 5.15am on christmas day, they must be joking, its only take 20 to 25 minutes by car to central London without any heavy traffic, and I strongly disagreed with them because if not I have to wake up at 4.45am, no way !!!!! After the small negotiation, we agreed to 5.30am at the end. For these two days I arrived the hospital at 6.00am and had to wait till 7.30am for the day shift to start, worst than normal working day. I were not the only one faced this problem, most of my collaegues also had same complaints, we are going to file a complaint against the taxi company, hope the hospital will not use them again.
Secondly, lot of foods for these two days. Every shift will have a theme for the staff to bring the food, i.e Italian theme, Universal theme, Asian theme..... Well, I just cooked curry chicken and rice for christmas day, and seafood udon for the boxing day, forget about the theme because we like to eat real food. For these two days we just eat, and eat all the times, and later on claimed for the need on diet after the festival, hi, hi,...........are you sure ?????
Thirdly, funs ! But have to depend who you work with on that shift, thank God most of the colleagues were nice to work with. We had slightly longer breaks to enjoy our foods. After the breakfast, we opened our first present (£20 out of £30 from the unit fund for 14 nursing staff and 2 medical staff to share), a special decorated photo frame for everyone who work on christmas day. This was a secret present, therefore all of us were so surprised to open our present. These presents were special made (Limited Edition) by one of the staff...........Guess who ????????????
More to come, on that day all the colleagues brought in three items for Hampers lucky draws which was told in advance. We made 6 nice hampers and two bottles of wine (£10 from the unit fund) for lucky draws. Of course I was lucky on that day, I had one small hamper as well.
In Year 2007, I enjoyed my christmas day out and worked on Christmas and Boxing days, who say Christmas day in the unit were sad, because we didn't have place to go or celebrate ???? We had lot of fun and food to eat, and and free transportation as well.....................
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Kai Ma! So nice hor! Gosh you really don't look like your age lo.. You look like 30 only. Not trying to flatter you or anything... hehehe... Hope to see u soon when u are back~
Sorry boy ! I am still 30 something, o.k ! C U when I get back and will get together with your mun and I would not forget your CD.
QUICK BACKGROUND ON DARKO TRIFUNOVIC - self-proclaimed "terrorism expert"
By: Dr. Richard Johnstone
(lawyer and human rights activist from Toronto, Canada)
See his blog: http://darko-trifunovic.blogspot.com
On March 12 2002, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia & Herzegovina (comprised of Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats) fired Darko Trifunovic from B&H diplomatic services due to his involvement in document forgery.
Only after expulsion from the diplomatic service of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Darko Trifunovic became self proclaimed "expert on terrorism" writing mostly against Bosnia and Herzegovina and labeling anybody who criticized him as "Al Qaeda terrorist."
As an experienced document forgerer and identity thief, he offered his services to defense teams of various indicted Serb war criminals at the International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY). In 2001, he stated for B92 he even had evidence that indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic (who on numerous occasions threatened the total destruction of Bosniak Muslim population of Bosnia-Herzegovina) obeyed Geneva Convention. It would not be surprising to learn that Darko Trifunovic forged and submitted those kinds of documents for defense teams of many indicted Serb war criminals.
Here is an archived press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, quote:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted the decision on suspension of Darko Trifunović, who has worked at the MFA BiH since 2 April 2001, performing diplomatic function - the First Secretary at BiH Mission to UN. In accordance with the rules of service, Trifunović will be deprived from BiH diplomatic passport and he will be unable to obtain a travel document for his return to BiH, since it is about the man who falsified BiH citizenship.
Following the conclusion of BiH Council of Ministers to review citizenship of all employees in state service bodies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of BiH asked from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Communications of BiH to review the way in which Trifunović gained BiH citizenship in 1996.
By the review, it was established that Trifunović cancelled his registration on 27 March 1996 from the register of residence in Belgrade, where he was born, and on the same date he registered in Brčko. According to the fictive residence, he obtained ID card of BiH on the same date.
Since the procedure of the issuance of ID card was illegal, Police Service in Brčko District cancelled residence and BiH ID card, Decision dated 25 February 2002.
On the basis of these facts, Ministry of Civil Affairs and Communications of BiH, in accordance with legal procedure deprived Trifunović from BiH citizenship. Results of several months' investigation as well as documentation that prove the conclusions will be submitted to the competent prosecutor's office that will adopt decision on possible criminal charge and judicial prosecution against Darko Trifunović.
After a multi-ethnic and multi-religious group of Muslim, Christian and Jewish journalists from Bosnjaci.net Magazine criticized Darko Trifunovic for Srebrenica Genocide denial, he sent them threatening messages and labeled them as terrorists. For Srebrenica genocide victims, he stated: "I wish Mladic killed them all." Soon after, Bosnjaci.net was brought down due to hack attack (known as Denial of Service attack) from sympathizers of Darko Trifunovic's extremist ideology. Darko Trifunovic blamed Muslim, Christian and Jewish reporters for fabricating E-mail against him, however, as influential Srebrenica Genocide Blog reported, quote:
Contrary to Darko Trifunovic's claims published at "Serbian Unity Congress" website in which he alleges that information against him was "fabricated," the fact of the matter is that he was the author of an E-mail in which he stated: "I wish Mladic killed them all." We got in touch with contributing authors Haris Djapic and Alan Jusufovic and asked them to provide "Full Header" copy of Darko Trifunovic's E-mail. Then we compared IP# of that E-mail with IP# of several other E-mails in which Darko Trifunovic threatened to the New York based magazine. The IP# was the same. Due to confidentiality reasons, we will not release IP#; however, we have forwarded this information to Bosnjaci.net and requested inclusion of this information into FBI investigation of recent threatening E-mails coming from Darko Trifunovic (his E-mail is publicly listed at the Serbian Unity Congress web site).
The public should exercise caution in dealing with Darko Trifunovic, his extremist supporters and his published writings. Darko Trifunovic has been discredited by respected journalistic agencies in the past. According to the "Freedom of Speech in South East Europe: Media Independence and Self-Regulation" (ISBN 978-954-9396-05-8) published by the South East European Network for Professionalization of Media, quote:
An exemplary manipulation article can also be found on p. 2 on March 9 entitled ‘Abuse of religion and faith’ by D. Majstorovic. It reports that Darko Trifunovic, portrayed as “leading Serb expert for international terrorism” from the Belgrade Security Faculty, in one of his recent “lectures beforemembers of the US Congress” stated that radical Islamists from all over the world, who have been assigned in all almost all European states upon order of the terrorist network Al Q’Aida, abuse religious facilities and use them for spreading their fundamentalist-like ideas. Reportedly, Trifunovic also “warned that Kosovo and Metohija and BiH are unfortunately brimming with persons likeTalovic (Sulejman, 19-year old from BiH who killed 5 people at Salt Lake City recently) and Bektasevic (Mirsad, sentenced to 20 years prison term for planning terrorist attacks in BiH), mostly thanks to people from the top authority, who at some point inthe past brought the most brutal terrorists of the present timeto these regions. Hereby he refers to “Haris Silajdzic”, aprominent Bosniak politician.
Although attributed to an “expert” thus fulfilling the formal requirements of the Press Code, these absolutely wild speculations presented as “serious” information are an insult to logic first, Bosniaks second. (Sulejman Talovic was Bosnian American, but his crime was much the same as earlier Columbine crimes, or a subsequent massacre by a Korean American – work of teen angst. Confounding him, a wannabe terrorist Bektasevic, and bringing them in context with a legaland legitimate political representative is a sign of uttermalevolence and lack of elementary ethics).
Thank You!
Richard Johnstone
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