Parking experience

Mines Shopping Fair. Parking experience
 
When you insert your ticket into a self-service parking vending machine you would expect the vending machine to flash the amount of fee that you are required to pay before making the payment. Looking up and down and to the left and right side of the colourful machine I couldn't find any indicator to tell me the amount to pay. So I just inserted a RM5.00 bill into what I presumed was the payment slot and hoped for the best. Out came the parking ticket with the parking fee of RM3.00 printed on the ticket and also RM2.00 change.

Actually there is a small panel with a touch-screen menu like those you see in a bank ATM machine located off-side to the right and a little behind the main machine. I presume that you are supposed to poke around the screen menu options and make the appropriate selections before you make your payment. I only saw it after I backed away and walked past the machine to look for my car.

Shouldn't the machine designer simplify and automate the whole process by eliminating the need for a screen menu selection process and place all the indicators in one place on the main panel ?

Tung Shin Hospital. Acupuncture treatment for heel pain

Electrode-acupuncture therapy at Tung Shin Hospital for heel pain. 

After the initial consultation that included reading my wrist pulse, blood pressure and examining my tongue the TCM physician inserted needles on both my heels, feet and kne
es to sedate the inflammation in the plantar fascia (the band of tendon that runs from the ball of the foot to the heel) and then to stimulate more blood and chi energy to flow to the affected area. 

The physician said the inflammation of the plantar fascia is causing the heel pain and the electrode-acupuncture treatment is to reactivate the body's natural healing response. Feeling the warmth of the electric current energy circulating in the legs the 1/2 hour treatment was so relaxing that I almost fell asleep on the couch. 

The TCM physician told me to return to the clinic for a few more sessions if the pain persists. No herbal medicine nor pain killers was prescribed. At the payment counter the cashier billed me only RM18.00 for the needle treatment.