Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[Phage]

I think it maybe is a typo and should have said "selling the sow".

 

[Latestarter]

1630 hours Christmas Eve.

"...the pig left for Bacolod today so I don't need to scramble in the morning. I more have until lunch time to leave.

that's the third cull. just mama pig to go. Bernie will still her a week after weaning

I know that Bernie is good at a lot of things but, stilling a sow?
Scott

I think it maybe is a typo and should have said "selling the sow".

Ahhhh now THAT makes a LOT more sense

 

[Phage]

Med and vet school training has many similarities, but vet training makes you to think generally. It gives you a broarder but more superficial understanding of diseases, whereas medical training is much more in depth and focused on diseases that humans get.

Med school in the US takes 4 years plus about 5 years of specialized post graduate training for example to be a radiologist/surgeon/ GP.
In the UK to be a radiologist requires 4 years med school, then 5 years in medicine or surgery, followed by 4 years of radiological training. So 5-10 years post graduate training to specialize.
To be a vet in the UK usually only takes one year post vet school to specialize.

However in the UK you do directly to med/vet school from high school at 18. This is fine because from age 15 you just focus on math, chemistry, biology and physics for the last 2 years of high school and leave with a much advanced knowledge base of fewer subjects.

I really do not know why US med/vet students need to go through a massively expensive "general education"'degree before training in what they want to do which is also massively expensive. For sure it increases the cost of med/vet services in the long run as they can be starting practice with more than $ half a million in educational debt to pay off.

 

[ozexpat]

Ahhhh now THAT makes a LOT more sense  

yes it was meant to say sell. I could not get back on the internet to correct it. I am up at 2:19 am on Christmas morning to try to do so but as its been quoted so many times... too late but edited anyway lol. chalk up another mark on my hall of shame.

now if the sentence was not given context by the preceding line referring to culling, "instilling" could have been a worthy replacement as she would normally be getting AI at the time she will be sold.

ho ho ho

 

[ozexpat]

Med and vet school training has many similarities, but vet training makes you to think generally. It gives you a broarder but more superficial understanding of diseases, whereas medical training is much more in depth and focused on diseases that humans get.

Med school in the US takes 4 years plus about 5 years of specialized post graduate training for example to be a radiologist/surgeon/ GP.
In the UK to be a radiologist requires 4 years med school, then 5 years in medicine or surgery, followed by 4 years of radiological training. So 5-10 years post graduate training to specialize.
To be a vet in the UK usually only takes one year post vet school to specialize.

However in the UK you do directly to med/vet school from high school at 18. This is fine because from age 15 you just focus on math, chemistry, biology and physics for the last 2 years of high school and leave with a much advanced knowledge base of fewer subjects.

I really do not know why US med/vet students need to go through a massively expensive "general education"'degree before training in what they want to do which is also massively expensive. For sure it increases the cost of med/vet services in the long run as they can be starting practice with more than $ half a million in educational debt to pay off.

if I did not know you better I would guess you are both a radiologist and a mum with a kid at college

education is out of control in the USA. I would be very happy to have my kids come back to the Philippines and study at UP Diliman. LaSalle or Ateneo. All three are ranked in the top 200/colleges works wide.

if they didn't, then I will be dying in debt

 

[anjovi6]

All that Oz said about the Philippine people is very true. I am returning to our home in Philippines Feb 8. My wife will be on time to meet me and that's where the promptness ends. It will probably take 4 hours to make a 1 hour drive. Have to stop at the market which means she will have to talk to a hundred people. And like always I will have to be introduced to all the people that I have already met before.

Labels does not mean anything to my wife but, our two girls is a whole different story. It has to be the best phones, the best tablets, and as many name brand clothes from the USA as possible. The will skip lunch to have a little more money to buy something that their friends don't have. It's all about image. My in-laws are pretty much the same.

A book could be written about the Philippine people and their attitude towards life in general and their attitude towards material things.
When you get to know them you can only fall in love with all of them.

 

[anjovi6]

It is now 4:17 AM Christmas morning in the Philippines. So I will say Merry Christmas to my family and all those on the other side of the world. And wish everyone everywhere a peaceful time filled with love, joy, and happiness with their families.


MERRY CHRISTMAS all.

 

[ozexpat]

0630 here

the kids will get their presents back in Bacolod. mother's rules.

I am cooking breakfast. bubble and squeak after a roast last night.

the kids are on the beach with mom.

Merry Christmas.

Be safe

Oz

 

[piglett]

A book could be written about the Philippine people and their attitude towards life in general and their attitude towards material things.
When you get to know them you can only fall in love with all of them.

it's already been written

Culture Shock by Alfredo & Grace Roces

it's a good read

 

[ozexpat]

I have yet to read that book but I have heard its a must for anybody contemplating romance in a cross cultural relationship.

I met Mrs Oz at work in LA and did not know what country she was from when I asked her out. Her accent is extremely slight. only one or two words give her away as a non American.

I talk a lot about the Filipino psyche but not to rag on them. I love this country and it's people. I bring it up so as to give the readers of this thread an understanding of what we go through and why.

Its such an anomaly when compared to it's ASEAN neighbors. From food to language to culture. The colonization by the Spanish and then Americans really did a number on it.