USS Battlestar Galactica Updates 2

After two long years of waiting the USS Battlestar Galactica is finally open after going through all the safety inspections. The USS Battlestar Galactica: HUMAN Vs CYCLONE Roller Coaster was offically reopen on the 27 May 2015.

The attraction ride was closed on 21 Jul 2013 and RWS only cited attraction review as the main reason. There is no comments on why the organisation close it. They slowly allowed the market and visitors to accept the fate as times pass by. The most obvious reason is the safety of the equipment. WHY? The seat was redesigned and my thoughts is that it had undergone many testing before it is opened. The seat had been change from 4 seaters to 2 seaters. This will provide more space for the rider and extra features to enhanced the safety of the seats. This testing are done out of the views of the visitors, probably when the attraction park are closed after the day.

It is great that they have reopen once again just before the Singapore School closed for their June Holidays. This might overtake Transformer as the hottest ride in the park. But yet Transformer has its edge as it is suitable for kids also. Let’s see whether USS Battlestar can unseat Transformer as the No. 1 ride in USS (Singapore).

Healthcare Lead Times in Singapore

The lead times to get a specialist or DDR appointments in Singapore is 1 to 6 months. This applies to subsidize patients in general. If you are a private patients, you will get a appointment within 1 week to 4 weeks. The reason is obvious as priority will be given to private patients as they pay the full rates.

But subsidize patients demand for shorter lead times is rising in Singapore especially with the younger generation. But they had ignore the financial portion. They are only able to get faster lead time unless they are a private patients. Healthcare institutions on the other hand are also trying hard to improve the lead times for subsidize patients if it is within their means.

Missed Appointments 
Every time an appointment is missed by the patients, an opportunity is lost to see another patient. This will increase the lead times and the healthcare staffs will lose the productivity time. 

Every patients must stick to their appointment or call in at least 2 weeks to cancel prior to their appointment. This will give the clinical operations an opportunity to assign this timing to others who may turn up and shorten the lead time for their patients.

Subsidize patients like us have to be realistic in this type of healthcare model. Taxpayers are paying for the subsidize patients and you are one of them also. You will realize how expensive it is if you are paying the full rate. The government are now building more hospitals to reduce the lead time at outpatient specialist centers. 

Operation We Clean Up 2015

I participate in the Operation We Clean Up 2015 as member of co-organizing Green Committee of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. We organize the event together with the Nee Soon Community Club.

Green Comm

There were more than 100 participants from the hospital doing their part for the community.

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We start off with a warm up exercise before setting off to do little picking to clean up the Nee Soon area.

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Imagine the amount of rubbish either recycle or normal we collected at the end of the 1 hour event.

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Normal rubbish

It was a fruitful morning event for all of us to clean up the town and allowed the cleaners to a day off.

See you in Operation We Clean Up 2016.