My Walks of Life

these past 2 days i`m doing locum in Home & Work Optometry, Shah Alam. i was almost to say no, when the owner offered but was convinced by a friend that it is a worth experience. what make it the practice is so unique? i wonder. soon, yesterday the moment i stood in front the practice, i got the answer straight away. i `ve never seen a private optom clinic fully-equipped with diagnostic equipements. i mean, all these years refraction and glasses are only the synonims to any optometry practice. but not this one, it is one of its kind, i would say.

here, there are tonometer, slit-lamp biomicroscopy and even a humphrey visual field analyser. (hey..got streamyx also ok?so, i `m blogging..).how i wish i have one like this. i remember back then chatting with a Msc friend on whos and where are the rest of our colleague. our batch year 2000 were only 52 people with 90% were Malays. ironically as it is, all of our chinese colleague are now at least own one optometry practice, to spell it out..none serves at the government hospital as most of the Malays graduate did, including me. to make it more heart-breaking.. their income might at least 10x from us. they are driving luxurious car and have huge homes.

i always wanted to own one too. but never had guts to try it out.why?maybe it is because none in my family have a business background, unlike the chinese. my brother who a bussniess graduated from denver, US is now a teacher himself. i remember few chinese friends whose parent own an optical shop even a chinese guy whose parent sells vegetables at market. i think it is all about the comfort-zone that malays graduates are yearning for. you know, the typical reason.."kerja dgn kerajaan ni terjamin masa depan, takkan kena sacked etc. bla bla. " i was thought the same too.

abang had been pushing me to start my dreamt optom clinic years ago when we`ve got married, especially when the times where we had to be separated, on the reason there`s no vacant post for me in in hospital SM when abang transferred to Manjung back then. i was nearly buy his idea, to quit and join retail optical shop for couple of years, before launching our own practice. but at a slim period., i got the transfer letter to T intan. so, the idea was off automatically. again the comfort zone being around hubby.

anyway, since yesterday i felt the flames again. I still have the wish...wish to have mine, eventhough after I got retired from this `comfort` zone.