'hello world!'
Haha, the above tag is one of the message box windows we learnt how to make in my programming class. i spent the whole afternoon attempting the test at liangyi's place. what a brain drainer.

it's my mid term break this week. not much of a break though. i'm back working at my mother's investment company for 3 days this week. had a very enjoyable hospital visit at KK on tuesday. heard some morbid stories from the social workers there. let me share one.

a social worker was talking about her case with a 16 year old girl who was 6 months pregnant with a baby. her boyfriend was 16 too. abortion was greatly desired by the couple, but it is illegal to abort a child 6 months and above. so the teenage boyfriend suggested bringing her to malaysia to abort the baby underground, or they could elope and raise their family there. the social worker helped them realise that their thoughts were not very realistic, so to resolve the issue would be to inform both parties' families. and so, this young couple left. a few hours later, the 16 year old mother was sent back to the hospital's ICU. upon rushing to the scene, the social worker discovered, to her horror, that the boyfriend had kicked his girlfriend's womb several times (until she fainted), so that the baby will die and drop out. how morbid! but sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

here's more on abortion. the social worker was sharing that if a baby is 21 weeks and below, abortion takes place by crushing fetus and subsequently a tube is inserted to suck it out. alright, what about if the fetus is older? the mother would be given pills to take to induce contractions. so the mother will go through labor just like any normal delivery. when the baby is delivered, it would start crying just like any normal babies. though they are only 4-6 months, they are already very formed and alive. the nurses will just leave the baby there to cry and die. and that's how abortion takes place. it's so sad!

i went to the delivery ward to look at the babies and they look so adorable and peaceful. really cant imagine how people can have the heart to abort their babies. it really must be heart wrenching.

gotta go back to work. update soon.