SOS: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...4966&sec=nation

KUALA LUMPUR: Twin sisters Aimee Teong Chuin Ai and Charlotte Teong Chuin Yi have been offered seats to study finance and economics from several top universities in Britain, Hong Kong and Singapore.

However, the two top STPM achievers had to decline because all they wanted to do was to study medicine at Universiti Malaya (UM).

The dreams of the 20-year-old twins finally came true when MCA Youth chief Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong presented them with the offer letters during a ceremony at Wisma MCA yesterday.

Dr Wee said the sisters had selected medicine, dentistry and actuarial science as their top three choices.

Initially, elder sister Aimee obtained the offer to study actuarial science at UM while Charlotte was offered the same course at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).

“However, after giving much consideration to the courses available, both of them realised that they wanted to pursue their favourite subject of medicine,” he said after a press conference here yesterday.

Dr Wee said the two approached the MCA education bureau and hoped it could help them obtain places to study medicine at UM.

“The MCA central committee agreed that the party should provide assistance to the sisters as they are the country's top scorers and should remain here.

“It is also in line with the Prime Minister's call to encourage talent to remain and serve in the country,” he said.

He said the party managed to submit their cases through MCA central committee member Datuk Dr Hou Kok Chung, who was also Deputy Higher Education Minister, to minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Noordin.

The ministry agreed to offer both of them places to study medicine at UM.

Aimee said she did not feel sad when she had to decline the offers from overseas universities.

She added that it was her dream to study medicine at UM.

Sister Charlotte said she was thankful for the help rendered to them by MCA.

“I have faith in our education system,” she added.

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Fools, only know how to study but thinking so naive.....don't they know that bankers rule the world?

This post has been edited by eXTaTine: Aug 16 2011, 10:54 AM

welcome to Universiti Malaya, home of Champions.

LOL they will regret ....

THe only job that can make you live like king/queen are in the field of finance and economics

Our tertiary level is OK... it's the primary & secondary where the probs lie

i think if u wan to study medicine, it's better to study in our own country..

Quoted for the lulz

This post has been edited by eXTaTine: Aug 16 2011, 10:59 AM

Oh man. I beg to differ.

can u tell me what's the prob with our primary and secondary education??

both faceproblem

i guess thats why they good in study...

foreveralone.jpg

nahh just like us all, the keyboard warriors!

I think if they know how to dress and make up...they can make themselves look quite hot...

This post has been edited by eXTaTine: Aug 16 2011, 11:01 AM

textbook people of course they will get rejected.

i think their face r quite ok..not that faceprob..

it is fiction... u work like a slut in that field.. everyday stress stress stress... sometimes need to go service this and tat..

UM>NUS+Cambridge?

owh NOT ALL tertiary level in msia as well as mmu?

my their bad then...

See what great work MCA is doing?

wall of texts mang... wall of texts

the fact : after completing their medicine courses....they will end up working as insurance agent/MLM

The girls wan to learn medicine.. the overseas uni offer them finance and economic course not medicine..btw it's better to learn medicine in our country if u wan to find job in our country..

thanks to Chua Soi Lek..to show appreciation, lets watch his video...

Fixed. Totally.

sometimes people just want to do what interest them or their lifelong dream. not everyone goes for money.

Fixed.

This post has been edited by fared isa: Aug 16 2011, 11:10 AM

Even a top scorer can't get first choice of their course, and how about other who their result is slightly less then them.

It show that totally unfair condition during the selection of course by upu to us.

lol when want to go oversea, ppl say not patriotic, too rich lar bla bla, when want to do local, rejected, because they are textbook people. so after all there isnt anyway out of this right?

The sisters wanted to study medicine. Only UM gave them this. Of course they went for UM. It's their INTEREST.

Overseas uni gave econs and other courses that the sisters were not interested in.

What a no brainer.

confirm, those girls will be awesome just like me

btw they no faceprobs?


u ting which college they'll stay??
McD UM her i kam... tehehe

This post has been edited by 8difier: Aug 16 2011, 11:24 AM

why wont they choose usm?? i think usm is better in the field of medicine..

eh apa lu orang bising?

bukan ke korang selalu buat bising pasal takdapat course yg dimintak? diorang dah dapat course yg diorang MINTAK, sudah2 ler.

ask ate

If overseas gave them MEDICINE and they chose UM, then talk.

Faith is believing something you know ain't true. - Mark Twain

Takdak bising. We are applauding the wonderful work done by MCA.

I thought you would like that.

I like this quote

top students who kenot get their 1st choice course?

dat d problem

azarimy likes this.

See how they spin the story? The offers from universities in UK, HK and Singapore does not even relate to the article, but they put it in to give an impression that it is better to study in the local universities.

mcd um celah mana? they are probably gonna stay in 2nd college i think

They will regret their decision. There are currently 32 medical schools in Malaysia...producing about 6000 doctors per year. If we include graduates from India, Russia, Indonesia, Egypt....you know what I'm trying to say.

Go study dentistry instead. Too many doctors already in Malaysia.

got offers doesnt mean got funding or scholarship

major reason i guarantee its they still cannot find the $$ and deadline for accepting the offers reaching

6000 medical graduates doesnt mean 6000 good doctors.

luls.. top uni in britain, etc oso dun wan

eh yang dekat tasik kayak tuh bukan mcD ker? ahahah... kaler macam mcd dowh

takpe... kita tukar dabel date @ gerai ali balai bomba

This post has been edited by 8difier: Aug 16 2011, 11:34 AM

and why never mention the NAMES of the TOP UNIVERSITIES

if OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE, NUS, HKUST... why dun name them

Do you guys realise that without MCA's intervention they would have only have had actuarial science?

What does that tell you about the system in place now?

Even top students do not get the choice that they want. They are only getting it now after MCA intervened. Why is this so?



This post has been edited by joe_mamak: Aug 16 2011, 11:40 AM

Lol.... same minds think alike

got mcd meh? rasa macam dah lama tak masuk um sebenarnya
pergi kfc lah haha

Those girls are not very bright after all...

i have faith in the system............man........that's dumb

My dear UTM lecturer,

You fail to see the big picture. All these 6000 doctors will be absorbed into Ministry of Health to serve their housemanship. You have no idea how serious it is currently with such a big number of doctors flooding the hospitals. One department has up to 60-70 house officers when the number of patients remained much the same. Previously 1-2 house officers is in charge of one whole ward but now one house officer is in charge of 4-5 patients.

With so many procedures to perform, to observe, to learn there is inadequate exposure. The govt is so desperate that small district hospitals e.g. Hospital Tanah Merah in Kelantan is opened up for housemanship. No specialist, no expertise, no facilities, what do you think these doctors will become?

This post has been edited by seiken: Aug 16 2011, 11:42 AM

these 2 girls will vote for BN till the end of days bcos they r so so so grateful to the system of "doing them a favor"

The system farked them and they still have faith in it? Lulz...

QFT. My bro's gf who is working as a pharmacist in Sungai Buloh Hospital told me that there is a ratio of 10 doctors to 1 patient in the hospital.

I mean, seriously? What you think this is - House MD?

This post has been edited by ZeroSOFInfinity: Aug 16 2011, 11:43 AM

Lots of ppl out there have no idea how's the situation in the hospitals right now. To be a good doctor, you need the necessary knowledge and good exposure to all the clinical scenarios, procedures, protocols and the way the hospital runs.

What the current house officers lack is the latter. Of course the situation is even worse for graduates from Russia, Indonesia, etc. With their poor knowledge and poor exposure, these doctors have been given the license to kill.

yup yup.........

the head of the doctor that retired told me that there's so many doctors now.......not like last time

and i know from HO and MO that the OT system will be replaced by shift system............so basically this means......there is a lot of doctors....maybe too much for the gov to handle liao

“I have faith in our education system,” she added.

reality check.....yupyup

realistically speaking.....gov hospitals are run by HO liao...........

and i do know that mistakes happen and patient pays dearly for that......

actuarial science actually a course that also hard to get..there's alot of top student who choose UM medicine but the place for it is limited..if u think about it almost all top student wan to be a doctor and im sure most of it will apply for UM..so these 2 girls just use backdoor to get in..

That's right...starting Sept with the exception of HUKM (October), all hospitals with house officers will start the shift system. Shorter working hours, no on call allowance.

It's a sad situation. Seriously dentistry is the way to go. Less competitive, not saturated and you get to treat patients as well.

I know actuarial science is difficult to get in.

But my point is they are amongst the top scorers yet they couldn't get the course that they want without intervention from MCA.

yea cuz there's alot of top scorers now..so that's create the new grade A+ for spm and use the 10% cocuriculum system to find the best among the best..

And don't forget pharmacists. They are quite in high demand now, I hear.

Best of the best? What is this, a merit based policy?

What about the Bumiputera?

so what about it??

mcm ni pun nk gado

ugh..........

in malaysia they are mere convenient shop with license to sell drugs.......

without a law that says only pharmacist are able to dispense drug.........nothing to look out for actually

hey....i even see pharmacy selling chips, ice-cream, junk food..........yeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh....F that crap

Heard on the radio, they were reducing housemen working hours so that the housemen can get adequate rest and would not be stressed out.

Or perhaps the large number of housemen has something to do with this too.

Well, there's Guardian, Caring and Watsons springing up all around nowadays....

But if there is such a law, means doctors can't dispense drugs. Maybe I am just too used to the way things are now at the moment, you go to the clinic, you go see the doctor and you get the drugs as well.

i've seen housemen at a gov hosp before. he got the late night shift, all he did was tidur in the office. but of course this is just one person, cannot generalise it to every housemen.

this.........definitely got to do with it

hospitals always need a certain number of staff........

gov can reduce the hours meaning there is extra staff

isnt pharmacist the 1 making the drug??

Jelly gonna jelly.

wow......this make me LOL

That's 2 chinese who stayed. Meanwhile 200 Bumis use MARA funds to go enjoy 2 year study holiday in other countries.

PM sendiri cakap sendiri syok.

Wow. Seems they are reducing housemen working hours from 90 hours/week to 54 hours/week. Huge reduction.

Source - http://imedik.org/2011/08/pros-and-cons-fo...n-working-hour/

Not for STPM, these twins are 2 of the 8 persons who scored 5A 4.00CGPA in STPM. SPM is nothing compared to STPM.

So they couldn't even get their first choice initially?

You are not wrong actually. My company runs a clinic, and previously we have a pharmacy set up in front, so that when the doctor prescribed drugs, the patient will go to the pharmacist to get it.

When we realised later that the doctor can *actually* prescribe drugs WITHOUT going through the pharmacist, the company decided to scrap the pharmacy. Only when the patients require a "refill", the doctor will write a prescription letter for a nearby pharmacy.

Yeah, the irony. The question is why should they depend on MCA to get into UM med in the first place?

Staged play...

They are quite smart in going to MCA. If they went to DAP, DAP will point out why 2 of the 8 top scorers of STPM cannot get into their first choice course, i.e. medicine.

They will regret more after this, when no one can help them in unfair competition in college and career. Should choose country based on merit system not race.