birthplaces
August 4, 2010Hello from the North!!!
Not North Pole…just North of Peninsular. Hehe.
Ok this is going to be a quick one…will update more later.
But this is just too funny not to post. I was having roti canai at a mamak restaurant and somehow my colleagues and I were having a conversation about our birthplaces. Where we born, what hospital etc.. I was a bit shy to tell where I came from.
But FINE OK!!!
I WAS BORN IN KLINIK BALA…
According to my sister, it’s near some big longkang in Selangor.
Not a fancy private hospital or anything, but literally Dr. Bala’s clinic.
Bless him, don’t know where he is now. Hope he’s still around…He is, after all, the first face I saw coming into this world.
But yeah anyway, Klinik Bala didn’t sound so bad after my director told me about this one hospital in Singapore.
KK Hospital.
But it actually stands for HOSPITAL KANDANG KERBAU.
………
I’M SERIOUS!!!
It was called that ages ago and they never changed the name. Just kind of gave it a shortform: KK. Sounds A LOT better.
They have a website ok!!! It’s a pretty impressive one at that, even. And it is a renowned hospital which the Singaporeans are proud of, boasting professional and capable staff and also international patients from all over the world! The largest hospital for women and children in Singapore. In 1966, it entered the Guiness Book of Records for the highest number of deliveries, and it continued to hold this record for a decade. The old hospital was marked as a national historic site by Singaporean government as a tribute for delivering 1.2 million Singaporeans!!
WHO’S LAUGHING NOW??
Just to show don’t judge something by its name!
Haha, I have one or two friends who were born in Kandang Kerbau (I conveniently omitted the Hospital) 🙂
It’s just a name. Hehe, thanks for reminding me this. Time to catch up with those ppl down south!
adoiii but still right. i cn totally imagine this sort of conversation…
a: so, u lahir kat mane ek?
b:…..kandang kerbau.
Can you please translate kandang kerbau.
Thank you
My social psychology lecturer is a old man named Mr.Bala.
He is very long winded and always side-track from the topic and very blur indeed.
Hope your Mr.Bala is a very good doctor.
BTW, why aren’t you born in private n well-facilitated hospital???
OMG!!!!!Seriously???
(google “ing” RIGHT now!)
Ahahahahahahah^_6
I am from north!!Kedah..Sg.petani to be exactly..
O.M.G(like times 100???)
M laughing my heart OUT.
Seriously,PD never come across such name for HOSPITAL???
Gals,check tis out!
http://www.kkh.com.sg/AboutUs/Overview/HospitalMilestones/Pages/Home.aspx
Hi PD, been following your blog recently. Proud to say I’m one of many to be delivered at KK. Being Singaporean.
I love reading ur blog!!just don’t stop blogging k.. 😉
Im laughing now 🙂
So funny
My mum was born there and she is so proud of it (due to the unique name) hahaha,
i’ve been living in Singapore for the past 3 years (still a proud Malaysian) and i laughed hysterically when i was first introduced to this hospital.
and a friend just gave birth to his son there a month ago, so i was having the same conversation with hubby..
hubby: “so, you like this hospital?”
me: “eh, tak naklah, nanti orang tanya my child, lahir kat mana? then she/he has to say Kandang Kerbau! sure kena ejek!!”
…hahaha it is funny! on the contrary, KK is among the most advanced hospital that i’ve ever visited. the single room is even better than the first class private hospital in KL! and here, KK is semi-gov!! 😀 *am still considering it*
PD,
klinik bala is soo famous laa at that time..i mean ramai je org beranak kat situ 🙂
hey..i was born at klinik bala in kajang la..My Dr Bala now in KPJ kajang..hehe…
It sure does sound funny doesn’t it? 🙂
FYI, more than half of Singaporeans are born in KK Hospital. The hospital was established in 1924. I was born there (am 30 this year). My friends were born there, my friends’ kids were born there. Oh, I am Singaporean by the way.
This general hospital was named as the Kandang Kerbau Hospital because of its location. A “buffalo pen”, or Kandang Kerbau, of the colonial Department of Transport was once located there.
No one here bats an eyelid when someone says that he/she is born in Kandang Kerbau or KK as (Kandang Kerbau can be a mouthful to some nincompoops who cannot pronouce the name). It is NOT semi-govt. It is a public hospital and Singaporeans who give birth in public hospitals get heavily subsidised by the govt.
It doesnt really matter where you are born actually cos the healthcare services in Singapore is ace. Sure you can choose to give birth in a more glamourised sounding hospital like Mt Elizabeth Hospital or Thompson Medical Centre but most ppl arent so fussy and would opt for a public hospital (just to save money and well they did pay their taxes so it is their entitlement).
I see nothing wrong with Klinik Bala, my dear, since well it seems that you turned out alright. Or would you rather be born in a more glamourised sounding hospital with a pathetic low reputation?
Hello,
Kandang kerbau= buffalo pen/shed
OK. Terus i Google Hospitak Kandang Kerbau. Memang wujud rupanya!
Hi!
Sorry PD, I dun think KK sounds funny.
It is a VERY good hospital, a whole lot better than most hospitals in Malaysia
Haha! Well, thank God I wasn’t born there! Yehahaha. Reminded me of those days masa primary school, bila ada health checkup kat skolah, we have this so called health booklet, and then at the front itself dah terpampang which hospital you were born at. Most kids were born at KK and boy did I had fun teasing those ‘kerbau(s)’. Lols.
i’ve heard of the hospital.. i tot it was a joke.
btw, klinik bala was so famous last time in kajang.. 🙂 sapa lahir situ, kira best sgt la..
i was born at Klinik Bala too!! The environment was quite unpleasant but he was the best doctor around in Kajang at that time. Mum got transferred to him cause the gynecologist in KL was far. Just incase. lols
i was born in Klinik Sambhi! haha ppl laughed at me coz it’s not like Hospital Pantai, or SJMC, and the likes…but heck, it was famous back in then! (okayyyy…i’m old! :p)
I’ve been to KK before and it was as huge as shopping malls with gardens and all. And shops, of course (baby stuffs, books, etc) for you to shop around. And no, I wasn’t born there (I’m a Johorean). The medical technologies are so advanced in KK especially when it comes to gynecology and pediatrics. =)