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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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Kimchi Cha Cha
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: was Suncheon, now Brisbane
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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I saw the doctor this morning and received my second blood test results, and thankfully both this (and my first test) have come up negative. It's been three and a half months since I stupidly had unprotected sex with a person I hardly knew in a country I was only visiting for a brief while on holidays. It was very against character for me to do so, and the only time I've ever had unprotected sex - but, it can only take the one time with HIV ...
It looks like I've been very lucky though I've definitely learnt a strong lesson for my stupidity. I'm a fairly anxious person at the best of times so the past 3 and a half months have been fairly challenging, thinking of all the scenarios should I be positive.
The doctor said how unfortunately she saw a girl a few weeks ago whose results came back positive, and this is in Australia where the rates of infection are quite low (yet many people here seem quite complacent about HIV, thinking it's not a big risk here).
Unfortunately, I think we haven't even got close to seeing the global peak of HIV infection. AIDS is starting to rip through much of Asia and the Pacific, where doctors are predicting sub-Saharan type rates of infections in a few years time in several regions of Asia-Pacific.
Unfortunately, East Asia could well become a hot spot (it already is in China) largely due to complacency on the Governments' and peoples' behalfs. |
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Gollum
Joined: 04 Sep 2003
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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There was one of those "barber shops" that wasn't really a barber shop near where I used to live. I would often see the ajummas coming and going to/from work, since it was near my school's entrance, and they seemed to change shift the same time I was leaving work.
One of them had these weird black sores on her legs and sometimes her face from time-to-time.
Reminded me of an AIDS movie I saw once.
Scary. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Kimchi Cha Cha wrote: |
I saw the doctor this morning and received my second blood test results, and thankfully both this (and my first test) have come up negative. It's been three and a half months since I stupidly had unprotected sex with a person I hardly knew in a country I was only visiting for a brief while on holidays. It was very against character for me to do so, and the only time I've ever had unprotected sex - but, it can only take the one time with HIV ...
It looks like I've been very lucky though I've definitely learnt a strong lesson for my stupidity. I'm a fairly anxious person at the best of times so the past 3 and a half months have been fairly challenging, thinking of all the scenarios should I be positive.
The doctor said how unfortunately she saw a girl a few weeks ago whose results came back positive, and this is in Australia where the rates of infection are quite low (yet many people here seem quite complacent about HIV, thinking it's not a big risk here).
Unfortunately, I think we haven't even got close to seeing the global peak of HIV infection. AIDS is starting to rip through much of Asia and the Pacific, where doctors are predicting sub-Saharan type rates of infections in a few years time in several regions of Asia-Pacific.
Unfortunately, East Asia could well become a hot spot (it already is in China) largely due to complacency on the Governments' and peoples' behalfs. |
I went through a similar process, after going a bit hard in SE Asia. Next time I go it'll be purely to see the temples.
Strap on before saddling up, even in korea:) |
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osangrl
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
Location: osan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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Wow.... im in a state of shock right now. In my office , there are my boss' twin 19 year old daughters... i was explaining this thread to them (their English in near Fluent), i was explaining about that girl who was weak, and told she may have HIV and didn't know what it was. So i was like "can you believe it?" and they were like "what?"... i said "HIV AIDS... can you believe she is so ignorant???" "and they said, HIV, AIDS? huh? What is that?"
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| osangrl wrote: |
Wow.... im in a state of shock right now. In my office , there are my boss' twin 19 year old daughters... i was explaining this thread to them (their English in near Fluent), i was explaining about that girl who was weak, and told she may have HIV and didn't know what it was. So i was like "can you believe it?" and they were like "what?"... i said "HIV AIDS... can you believe she is so ignorant???" "and they said, HIV, AIDS? huh? What is that?"
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The famous Chinese poet SuShi was visiting his friend, who was a Buddhist monk. SuShi asks the monk what SuShi is like in the monk's eyes.
The monk replies, "In my eyes, you are a Buddha."
SuShi is very happy with this response.
The monk then asks SuShi the same question, and SuShi answers, "In my eyes, you are dung!"
The monk smiles, and SuShi is delighted, because he thinks he is better than the monk.
Then some days later, SuShi tells the story to a friend, and the friend tells him the truth, "The monk sees you as a Buddha, because he sees everything as Buddha, because he has a Buddha's heart and eyes. You see the monk as dung, because you see everything as dung, because you have a dung's heart and eyes!" |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:35 am Post subject: |
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| osangrl wrote: |
Wow.... im in a state of shock right now. In my office , there are my boss' twin 19 year old daughters... i was explaining this thread to them (their English in near Fluent), i was explaining about that girl who was weak, and told she may have HIV and didn't know what it was. So i was like "can you believe it?" and they were like "what?"... i said "HIV AIDS... can you believe she is so ignorant???" "and they said, HIV, AIDS? huh? What is that?"
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I rang the AIDS information/helpline here once, and the receptionist answering the phone didn't even know what it was!!!! Believe me, the levels of ignorance here are profound, utterly stupefying...
Don't parents educate their Kids about sex here in any way???Its crazy...Korean women show such a lack of knowledge and girlish skittishness about the subject, its dizzying... they don't even care if you wear protection or not. They probably think babies are delivered by a white stork in a basket .......... |
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:56 am Post subject: |
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strange.. most, if not all of my 800 odd high school students know what aids is.. not hiv, but aids..
we did it in a lesson on common abbreviations.. |
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: ...Enlightenment...
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 4:23 am Post subject: |
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The famous Chinese poet SuShi was visiting his friend, who was a Buddhist monk. SuShi asks the monk what SuShi is like in the monk's eyes.
The monk replies, "In my eyes, you are a Buddha."
SuShi is very happy with this response.
The monk then asks SuShi the same question, and SuShi answers, "In my eyes, you are dung!"
The monk smiles, and SuShi is delighted, because he thinks he is better than the monk.
Then some days later, SuShi tells the story to a friend, and the friend tells him the truth, "The monk sees you as a Buddha, because he sees everything as Buddha, because he has a Buddha's heart and eyes. You see the monk as dung, because you see everything as dung, because you have a dung's heart and eye |
Delightful ... |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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YES!
Any chicks wanna go get a soda? |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
YES!
Any chicks wanna go get a soda? |
Pyongshin Sangja, I like attractive chicks with their clothes off.
HTH |
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