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When it's time, nothing can defeat that

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Hospital. This is a place where no-one can ignore reality, where life presents itself as a vision of all that is monstrous, unfair and inhuman. Well, some people think that. Once a hospital was to medicine as the cathedral to religion and the palace to monarchy. It is the heart of the enterprise, the site where medicine was practiced at its most advanced, specialized, innovative, complex and costly. In the developed world, I mean nowadays, hospitals claim the lion's share of the medical budget. Which to me, is a good thing. I've always seen a hospital as a place where a hush hangs over the endless corridors and swinging doors. The rooms where night and day are an irrelevance. Artificial low light maintains a clinical 24-hour world. Beds, patients swathed in tubes, oxygen masks, wires. Machines whirring, clicking, beeping. There was one time, I visited my auntie in the hospital where beside my auntie laying a girl, and which I got cognizant of ...

I'm with you

Assalamualaikum :) "In God's name shall be its course and it's berthing." - Hood:41 Bersabarlah bagi yang menerima bencana. Insya Allah kesabaranmu dicatit dengan sebanyak-banyak catitan di bahu kanan. Allah itu sifatnya bukanlah kejam dan tidak adil kerana Dia pernah berfirman kepada Nuh di sebalik kejadian bah yang dasyat satu masa dahulu. Apabila usai kejadian bah, Allah telah mengarahkan Nuh untuk membuat pinggan-pinggan dari tanah liat dan Nuh menghabiskan bertahun-tahun lamanya. Tetapi kemudiannya Allah mengarahkan Nuh untuk menghancurkan pula hasil-hasil tanah liat tersebut. Maka, bertanyalah Nuh akan Allah Yang Esa: "Why did You have me build up this huge pile if You were only intending for me to break them up again? Why did You make me take much trouble with this work which has been all in vain?" Dan Allah menjawab: "I did this to show you, oh Nuh, how it feels to a creator to destroy his own creation. You give so much value of these ...