Any Singapore Ferrari owners?

Creative is such a stupid ass. Repeating the same mistakes as Apple did when Microsoft was still a small fry and MS-Dos was at its infancy. Apple together with IBM developed a superior software that was far ahead of its times, but Steve Jobs refusal to license third parties to use it software and restrict it to the Mac platform restricted its growth and gave Microsoft a jumstart and to the level where it is near dominant now.

Creative too started with the Sound Blaster and refused to license the technology to OEM manufactures for plug in solutions. Now see what happen? In the red, delisting, and finally after so bloody long decided to do what it should have done to increase market share and penetration a gazillion years ago.

SWHoo needs a woman. Too long wearing his casio, donating his lexus and wasting money buying cheap imitation china wares blah blah blah....i hate pricks who blow good opportunities by being bull headed cause it reminds me of myself.

kdk if u comment, i will ***** slap u, i swear!

Dun mind me just bored.

 

I have an Enzo.....................on my desk

 

Different folks, different strokes.

Some are rather good drivers, but the cost of life itself far outweighs the thrills for most.

Accidents happens the least u expect of it

 

Friendly? Kinky

 

i shall oversimplify the answer, by speaking thro my arse. take a dollar threshold. how much is the lp640? i am too poor to know. let's say sgd1.2m. hope i am not off by 1 decimal place. that works out to be sgd1.2/2.37 (2% more for gst come 1.1.07) = omv of sgd506k.

so any car in sg that is blisteringly fast and priced at or above sgd1.2m is a supercar. sgd500k threshold before tax for rest of world.

 

ok, me anal purist, hor! lol

 

thanks. gonna print & slap "FVD" on my porker's shweet arse

 

dem. gotta re-read my critical illness rider. *shudder*

 

Within the hospital lies an invisible conflict. you could call it a battle of the sexes, or if you would like a Battle Royale of sorts. you might think of it as a struggle for power, or if you're not the literary, metaphoric, 'I-Can-Understand-Shakespeare's-Sonnets' type, i will just simplify it for you and call it a battle. either way, there's is an existence of a pointless struggle between the two most domineering parties in the hospital, namely - the Doctors & the Nurses.

having worked in the hospital for quite a while and seen the clashes on a daily basis, i can't help but relate the whole experience to ninja skirmishes carried out in the dark of the Japanese woods. shurikens are released and poison darts let fly, yet none of the patients or the relatives can comprehend or even see what is really going on beneath their stay in the hospital. it's only those with 'The Eyes' who get the big picture. those who have worked in health-care for an amount of time, those who patronize the hospitals on a regular basis, those from the Allied Health-Care team (eg. radiologists, physiotherapists, medical products sales rep, etc) - they are the ones with 'The Eyes'.

the two teams obviously have their capabilities. team Doctor is filled with people of intellect. people who have studied for so long, immersing themselves in books and one would assume, cadavers. the catch is that the hospital is not filled with cadavers, but rather real, breathing patients who expect a certain amount of bedside manners from them. most of the players in team Doctor are lacking in this aspect. however, this is where the nurses excel. they really do care, they really do give a **** about the patients and their relatives most of the time. but equally so, emotional quotient alone never got anyone anywhere in the first place. truth be told, a majority of the nurses in Singapore lack the intelligence aspect where the doctors are adept at. evidentially, the writer of this post can save a life with great style and etiquette. the catch is that he doesn't know exactly HOW to save a life (insert that song reminiscence of Gray's Anatomy).

this situation would be perfect if the doctors and nurses worked together trying to solve problems and deliver the solutions with great empathy and intellect for the patients. and most of the time they do. however, when it comes to crunch time and the saving of one's own ass, this concept of covering up for each other's incapabilities is practically non-existent.

case in question? about a month ago, a doctor who took morning bloods for two patients with similar names got the names mixed up. patient A's bloods were dispatched with patient's B's blood forms and vice-versa. fortunately, patient A previously had bloods taken before in a group and cross match and her blood was identified to be O+. patient B's bloods that were dispatched under patient A's name were identified to be A+. a huge ruckus was kicked up and an investigation was launched. the official story that came from team doctors was that the nurse didn't assist in the taking of bloods which resulted in the doctor labeling the bloods taken with the wrong patient's identifications. it was a great twist of words and it seems that team Doctors won in the end.

the protocol in the organization would be that the nurses attempt blood-taking on a particular patient twice before requesting the doctor's assistance. also, when the doctors doing their bit of phlebotomy, the nurses (on top of taking care of an average of ten patients and all their ****) are OBLIGED to assist them. but as you know, protocol goes to the dumps when it transits into reality. the routine at the workplace is that none of the nurses are usually free to assist the doctors in blood-taking. in fact, the doctors having understood this concept just help themselves to the equipment they need and take the bloods themselves. all we have to do is dispatch the bloods to the labs for testing.

perhaps in the case mentioned above, the nurses were the ones who did the labeling and they were the ones who got it wrong. from the hospital's well-connected gossip mill however, it seems that the doctor was the one at fault here, having handed the wrong bloods over to the nurses. but it's perhaps a biased point of view given that most of the staff in the hospital's gossip mill interact more with the nurses than the doctors, thus forming a natural kinship with the former.

post-investigation and covering up everyone's asses, a study has been launched to reduce the number of blood-taking errors in the ward setting. for the entirety of this month, the nurses have to chart down the attempts they have taken bloods and inserted intravenous plugs. the also have to chart down the number of times the doctors have done so and the reasons why the doctors were the ones doing it instead of the nurses. not helping is the really bad layout of the charting which is so minuscule that you would need the dispatch the entire survey to the labs and their microscopes just to get the results.

like i said before, when it comes to crunch time everybody uses both hands to cover their asses. unless you've got really big palms or an extra appendage, no sane person who values his career would spare you a hand to cover yours. the only people who would prolly do this would be the gay men. or at least me. i would spare my non-dominant hand to cover a hot ass anytime.

jokes aside, this 'cover your own ass only' mentality is the reason why i'm perhaps so particular about writing every single detail of what i have done for the patients in my reports. it also helps that i'm adept in all things literary. certain words can be used to mean 'A', but for the sake of my own safety, can be turned around to mean 'ABCDE' complete with a very thick smokescreen. the only catch is that it's extremely time-consuming to write elaborate reports. i always end up having to stay back twenty to thirty minutes after shift hours to finish up the bits and pieces that i have not completed. but at least i get my ass-covered and people get to enjoy my excellent penmanship (i have very messily neat hand-writing). so my advice to all the nurses-to-be out there, attempt report-writing as if your life depended on it. but your career and perhaps your life even, really does depend on it.

and my advice to all the doctors-to-be out there?
well, my non-dominant hand is rather free if you need some ass action.

 

Hey Ghost, u crack me up....haha

 

Thanks for the brilliant review of our public health care system. It happens doesnt it?

yeah I was one of those blood sucking machines many years ago and I think it was from pure fear of killing someone that thankfully I never made a blood mix-up.

Just glad those days are over but it irritates the hell out of me that the ground is still not getting much better. Lets face it, mistakes almost invariably occur because of fatigue and patient overload. If you have got 20 fasting bloods to take in one hour, that isnt very palatable isnt it? Do they realise, like you rightfully said, that we are dealing with human lives? not some biochemisty lab flirting with precipitates and crystallisation.

Unfortunately for all the micromanagement that they impose (usually as a reactionary measure to something like you described) - it only creates more work for staff, makes staff disgruntled, morale drops, people get frustarted, and the cycle repeats itself.

When the day comes in which someone realises that "Nope - polyclinic doctors cant be seeing 80 patients in one day (or 50 patients in one morning)", mistakes will continue to adorn our beloved health care scene. And if you read yesterday's newpaper in which the doctor from polyclinic incorrectly ticked a "hepatitis carrier" box in a young girl which caused much anxiety and distress to her parents, you would just say "ah..... aiya whats new."

Hur.

 

err... didnt know where else to post so I guess will try my luck..

anyone happen to know anyone who booked the granturismo? as in confirmed bookings (not the refundable ones) with choice of colour, trims etc.?

Heard there are at least 5 confirmed ones, which makes me the 6th. I chose solid black, red leather with black stiching, alu grey trims, red callipers and the extra included options (20inch birdcage rims, skyhook suspension).

Just wondered what colours the others chose cos its really choosing based on "feeling" with nothing to see!

As I was at hongseh handing in my cheque, couldnt resist opening the door of the F430 spider in the showroom and sitting my butt in the driver's seat. Awesome man....simply awesome.. just sitting in it..phew..

knock knock.. sorry back to reality.

Ok.. anyone knows any future granturismo owners?

Cheerios.

(I really hate hate hate the long wait.. 6-8 months..never waited so long for a car before. sigh...)

 

Some are travelling, some not interested & a few have many but rather take the Lotuses out for a fews spins.

Come to think of it,this is the annual track-day. We have more than 70 Gallardos & 20 over Murcielagos. I hope the Malaysian ones will turn up, they do have a few Diablos there.

Max, there was a new Telesto Grey SL @ ES yesterday with the wing but I didn't check if it has the ceramic.

 

My neighbour & I think his friend bought one each & they asked if I'd like to place the order together to enjoy some savings. So far, the pictures look very good & your specs sound delicious, I've always wanted a glossy black car with blood red cabin, something like a vampire's home

 

After almost 6 months of relationship with the Gallardo, a trip to motherland, hearing my 46yr-old bachelor friend who crashed @ 150km/h in Kuantan on an R1 (broke his right hand then went on a fishing trip one week later) & reading part of Robin Sharma’s book..... I decided that I should get a life.

This wait is furiously painful & more nervous than my wife’s delivery (don’t tell her that when you boys see her )

Mysteriously, like my orange one. I actually have a scale model with the exact colour & similar specs sitting in my cabinet & I can’t help but grinned every time I steal a look @ it. My wife would’ve thought I had a fling It feels like a revelation & oh O I have a 1:12 Enzo but that can come 30yrs later as a vintage. Think I should stop buying scale models.....lucky I can’t find a scaled Zonda F

I think most of you boys here have the same syndrome like me above

The G was like a dream that I woke up to on a spring morning from the cold winter. Kind of time machined from a 90s Testarossa & 80s 911 to a post-millennium UFO.

It was fast like a bullet, built like a German Panzer, dates like a supermodel & there was so much attention everywhere but there was not much love. It never quite connected with me since day one, the electronics & hardware didn’t communicated. As what I described it after the first test drive,very clinical. It is an experience some enjoy but to a nut-head like me who likes to talk to my cars, hmmmm.

Oh but what the heck, without this there wouldn’t be another.....Oh yes & Tiong is to blame for this since I offered him the deal who simply threw it back @ me

 

Err off-topic. What happens when a person is dripped with wrong blood group?

 

If you can't help yourself..... Just give me the G model k.... hehe
Or if not the Enzo would also be fine...

 

hmm.. they get what is known as an acute transfusion reaction. potentially fatal.

no joking matter.

I have heard a couple of near misses when I was roaming the hospitals.. very very scary.

 

haha... vampire.. nice description! never struck me as that but very apt indeed.

 

Hi guys,

I'm new to the forum, and just bought my first ferrari a 360. Hope to get some valuable advise from all you expert out there.

Today, i went with a friend of mine who owns a cayenne to the Gemballa dealer at loyang to enquire on some Gemballa parts for his car. Besides doing porsches, they also work on Ferraris and are currently restoring a testarossa.

My car is out of warranty and i'm thinking of doing my servicing at this place. Any of you guys service or maintain your ferrari at other workshops or do you only send it back to HSM.

Thanks

 

Welcome to the forum : ) ..... And congrats on ur 1st Ferrari.. So ready to take a ride with a 15 yr old??-LOL..

 

Hi welcome here,did the place in Loyang has any parts for Cayenne?

 

They do have quite a fair bit of parts for the cayenne like 22"rims, brake kit and bodykit.

 

yup. mel brought in another identical SL for himself. unfortunately for him, it was sold 2 days ago ...



but now he's trying hard for an orange SL ... hopefully soon.