it is seen as perfectly normal in Asian cultures to discuss medical matters in gory detail, even with strangers. Why do you think there are so many Asians working in the NHS and other health services worldwide? 😉

95% of my extended family actually work in healthcare, either for the NHS or private organisations. The remaining 5% who are not are constantly talking about how ill they are… 😉

mby there’s a slihgt diferance in reasonings from indain asia and asia east of that big bay (or gulf) ? or does that sound silly that 2 places so close could have the same ideas but for diferant reasons? …

i don’t wanna say ur wrong cos i don’t think u are .. obv u seen it first hand in your family .. but talking to some indian asians has given me a diferant impression .. alltho that might just be my perseption of the reasons rather than the actual reasons if you get what i mean

yeah it’s silly really to put a mental diviade between places not so far from each other ..that pretty much have borders touching ofc there is going to be a mix of people. The reason i got the idea it was more pride for doctors then a lawer for instance was i was sugesting what jobs she could do with the qualifications she was going to get at the uni/college she had got into and he had his mind set on her being a docter and seemed to reject any other idea so i made the assumption it was down to pride … even tho he said it was do do with cash and demand for people of that proffecien it was the way he was reacting that made me think this .. mby it was just him tho rather than a general consencus

not the badly dubbed tv seris? LOL

@Holeydel 366676 wrote:

I met a bloke called Buyoo recently in Indonesia. We were slowly chatting away and he was talking about his family, but with his broken English and my bad hearing I thought I was hearing him wrong when he was explaining his wife is ill is a Netherlands hospital – her stomach looks like she’s pregnant, but she’s not pregnant. And he was doing the whole hand gently caressed over his stomach manoeuvre, usually that’s done to explain when someone is pregnant. So anyway, at first I thought it was a tumour, but quickly dismissed the idea – until he showed me photos of his family using his trombone. The first photo and there it was – a 5kg round bubble of a tumour cut out from his wife and now resting peacefully on a plate. A plate of all things! The only things missing from the picture was a knife and fork either side of this grotesque lump. Moving onto photo number two and we see the tumour being tied into a bag. Meanwhile I’m thinking, ‘What next? And he’s me placing the tumour into a rubbish bin’ It was like seeing some twisted holiday snaps from a weekend away in a hospital operation theatre. Photo number three was finally a picture of his wife – laying unconscious after the op with about half a dozen tubes going into various holes in her face. Probably not her best side I imagine. Whatever happened to showing pictured of your family enjoying themselves in a garden or something? Anyroad, she’s getting better and he’s keeping busy showing pictures of his wife, so they’re both happy.

It was a strrange moment I thought I’d share with you…

ez dude, im off to indonesia soon, you still there? where abouts in indonesia were/are you?

also you been to any parties there? :weee:

How are your travels faring you Holeydel?