Last day of 2011

2011 has gone by in a blink of an eye.. lots have happened this year. Normally other people would be blogging about this year's resolution and whether itvis achieved or not n so on.. but I won't do that, no clear resolution set for the year probably. Should start one for 2012. Tomorrow only laaaaa :p

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Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all! And to all a happy new year!

2011 has just whizzed past so quickly.. many things has happened, good or bad, but lets forget the bad ones n move on to the new year with the good memories! =)



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Oh dear

First day of posting and already I'm feeling tired? Later got pbl summore.. sighh

Looking forward to the christmas weekend!!!

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Test post #2

That is an image of ice rink at aeon jusco melaka.

Now to try adding image using the app..

Think the is only supporting 1 image per post.. not very good in that case

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Test post

Hello world! A pilot / pioneer post on this humble blog that's from my phone. Hopefully with this there'll be more frequent blog updates k

那些年

Just finished reading the book last friday. Short read. Meaningful. e.g.

也许在另一个平行世界里，我们是在一起的

 

Wonder what the movie's like. Hmmm. Probably movie won’t be as accurate as it should be. First thing that I noticed was that the girl’s supposed to be 3cm taller than the protagonist. But it’s reversed in the movie.

Worth the time to read, I think =)

Update

gosh it’s been a while since I last updated this blog. Busy with lots of things  I guess. First was p2s1. After that went to Taiwan for a month’s worth of electives.

The iconic Taipei 101 at night =)

After that was busy sorting through the photos during the trip. I had like 20gb of photo to sort through, and that is not including the trip during the first weekend where we went south of Hualien because I didn’t bring my Nikon D3000 due to bad weather.

Will try to update more about the trip when I have time.

I’m a final year student now by the way, and if everything goes according to plan, then by early september 2012, I’d have completed my days as a student. But the journey to that will not be easy at all. Arghh

I like this a lot. Magic of long shutter speed. hehe. Would’ve been nicer if there’s a Neutral Density filter applied for longer shutter speed without over-exposing the photo. hehe.

Sunset(ing) at 淡水

Next up : MEQ

In another 9 hours or so.. gonna sit for MEQ (Modified Essay Question).. since anything can come out it’s like too much to read. So basically am lost again. flipping through n hoping to get lucky tomorrow from the topics that I was able to cover today.

Anyways. gonna go sleep soon la. Nite guys..

p/s : you may notice a sudden increase in frequency of my blog updates in the coming few days.. which is a bit paradoxical since I’m in the middle of the exam but I’m treating this as my way to vent out my frustration n stress.. n fear also.

Horrific experience..

Had the 4th year University exam today. First part of it, the OSCE.

Objective Structured Clinical Examination. Clinical. Out of 10 stations there were 4 bloody theory based stations. (Surgery, 2x Medicine, Community Medicine) Even paeds n obg also were mainly theoretical stations.

So.. long story short, it was a bloody mess. Forgot perimetry and ophtalmoscopy for ophthal station. Paeds’ peripheral blood smear was alien to me. 10 points out of the drain. The other 10 was examination of abdo – liver n spleen. Did liver, then bell rang. No spleen. at least 5 gone down the drain. Pffft. But if it’s my own problem with time management still I accept. It’s not! the candidate before me stayed for nearly a minute to finish his examination! GERAM!!!

The rest.. manage to answer, but not complete. Hope can scavenge enough to pass 7 out of 10 stations. Otherwise.. bye bye Taiwan electives.. Bye bye final year… URGH.

Gosh better go back to eating books. The most horrendous 7-days of my life coming up.. Geez

WISH ME LUCK GUYS!

Happy Independence Day!

Malaysia’s 54th Independence Day! (not going to debate about Malaysia or Malaya’s independence n all)

AND it coincides with the long raya holiday

Apparently this year’s Independence Day celebration is themed as above.. Transformation Success People Peace.. lol weird grammar. But hey, that’s what makes us special! =P

MMMC New Block Unveiled!

hehehe. like so weird pulak unveiling a new building in campus.

Basically it was just being kepo one day and went to explore around the new block

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about. MMMC has started it’s dental faculty for ~2 years already I guess. And now the first batch is coming back. To accommodate the dental students the management has built a new block of building. And the new block for dental students is nearing completion. It’s really progressing quite fast.. the construction I mean.

Looks great from the outside. Let’s check out the insides

At the lobby

Waiting area for future dental patients

New classrooms on the top 3 floors. Better pray the elevators don’t go out of service. =S

It’s pretty cool, the new buildings. Didn’t take photos of the dental polyclinics and wards but it should be quite busy when it’s fully ready and functioning at 100% capacity.

Stress level elevating

Pah.. commed posting entering the 8th and final week already. Which means my postings for 4th year will be done by the end of the coming week. Which also means that p2s1 exams are coming real soon. The date has finally been decided, to start on 19th Sept. Gosh.. Basically I’ve wasted the whole posting, and not doing the revision that I was supposed to do.. sigh.

Oh and there’s Psychiatry sessionals too. 100 MCQs. =S

Droid!

 

Guess who’s a droid user? =)

Now if only wifi in the campus works.. =.=”

August

Oh crap. It’s august already. Means in less than 2 months, if everything goes well, I should be on my way to Taiwan for my electives already. HMM

Scary. Which in other words show that how near P2S1 exams is! goshhh.. Need to kick into gear to prepare for the exam!!!

For the coming week it’s gonna be challenging.. It’s a short week, Monday being a holiday because of the 1st day of the fasting month..

Challenges:

1. PBL on wednesday to present

2. Methodology on Commed project to present (also on wednesday)

3. Commed block test (guess what, also on wednesday!)

4. Data collection and analysis – MAJOR pain. to be ready by FRIDAY.

Damn. Main problem now with the methodology is that the sample size calculation from last friday is massive. All because we couldn’t extract more info from the table of correlates.. Where’s a real life Professor Charlie EPPES when you need one!!

Where art thou, Professor?

 

Obtaining SPSS software is going to be a pain too. 452mb download for a 14-day trial?? granted, there’s 14 days left on the Commed posting allocated to do the research thingy.. and I need it to analyze the results from the questionnaire..

Totally lost man. HAIH..

Post-709

Hmm. Sort of like a post-apocalyptic period. Where people are trying to save their asses over what happened yesterday.

Other things I don’t know.. but I’d like to see some formal response to the act of firing tear gas into a hospital? A maternity hospital for that matter? If this sort of bad publicity keeps coming up.. Well.. then probably we’d be having a wind of change soon enough..

Now that it’s over, I can finally take out my yellow highlighter to use.. Can finally wash my car (since the paint is a bit yellow), can even listen to Coldplay’s Yellow again. xD

Coldplay’s BERSIH 2.0 song

Exactly what I feel now

Gosh. Sooooo friggin tired now. Just before the most decisive day of Paediatrics posting – Tomorrow. Last day of paediatrics. 7am will have MEQ, rush to muar at 8am.. then come back for my end posting long case at Melaka GH at 2pm. WTH..

Probably will slip into a comatose sleep this time tomorrow. Or even earlier. SIGH.

4th week..

Paediatrics posting. Entering 4th week. Assessment week, I call it. Where everything comes. Block test 2, MEQ, OSCE, Long case.. not to mention 2 follow-up case sheets + 2 assignments + portfolio, where people have to fill up the reflections section. Plus the occupational therapy n nursing activities part.

First hurdle up : Block test 2. Topics.. rather than listing all of them out.. an easier way to say would be almost 90% of Tom Lissauer. That also might not be sufficient. BAH!

And erm. it’s the final week of my “official” clinical posting. final 4 days to be exact. Next week onwards will be 8 weeks of Com Med posting where stuff are settled inside campus. hooray to no muar but.. need to have self motivation to go to hospitals n practice a lot la. Otherwise how to sit for exams.. =S

Cute!

Haha.. bought this as a phone stand on friday.. gotta say it does look cute. hahaha.

it may be the most basic bird yet, but it’s still cute~ lol. too bad they don’t sell the pigs too. I guess they’d be cute also. haha =P

2nd week

Entering second week of Paediatrics posting. There’s a block test tomorrow. There’s 6 topics included. ONLY 6. However it still feels like a lot. Mainly because exposure to paeds topics are really really little. Wonder what the hell the college is thinking. Dah la it’s a major posting, we only get a measly 4 week posting for it before p2s1 examinations. Pfft. And the theory part is also bad. So little exposure to the stuff..

Only 1 week has passed. However it definitely felt like an eternity. An unusual fatigue creeping up on me. Am I falling sick? gosh.. this is soo not the time. =S

BE STRONG! Must go through and learn maximum from it!

Happy Dumpling Festival!

The nice and fragrant dumplings.. oh how I missed you.. Hunted up and down in melaka for you.. Found you at Bukit Beruang’s pasar malam finally.. Expensive you are, but why you are worth it. =)

Happy 端午节! =)

June

Flower? Er.. No relation at all. Just thought of sharing this. haha

no title

random post..

Barca won the Champion’s league again, twice in 3 years. Congrats Barca. kinda expected this result already la.

It’s gonna be an epic day tomorrow.. in terms of my posting in OBG.. it’s the second block test tomorrow morning, AND the end-of-posting exams as well. On the same day. Man.. it’s gonna be tough. the only consolation is that once that is over basically I’m done with the posting. wait. WHAT?? so fast?? I don’t even have time to read sufficiently yet..

It’s a very busy (for me) posting.. first week, there was the elective forms n stuff to be taken care of, second week has the block test as well as protocol presentation.. third week we had the honour of having the surgery sessionals.. and tomorrow, first day of the fourth week, there’s the block test 2 + EOP exams.

WHY so early? well basically it’s because of the Malaysia Medical Association’s Annual conference for medical student thingy that’s going to be held, for the first time, in Melaka.. so basically lecturers are going to be occupied from Thu onwards..

Good news? yeah but the college decides that non-participants should not be let off so easily.. So instead we have to go to the wards and do ward work for both days. pffft..

I guess it’s their way of making things fair for those who are involved with the conference, whether the committee or the participants.. And yeah I do need the extra ward-work time to learn the subject, since as the P2S1 exam looms in Sept, I need all the practice I can get during official class hours. (note : official class hours. I’m NOT going to clinics after hours =P)

Oh well. Time to hit the books. Gahh.. How I wish it was to hit the sack rather than to hit the books xD

ironic..

It is very ironic that for a future health care provider that medical students in general don’t lead a healthy life-style (including yours truly)..

How does one expect to advice patients when one doesn’t even follow one’s own advice? hmm

Wesak Day

It’s wesak day today. Happy Wesak Day

It’s also one of the very very few mid-week breaks for the rest of the posting. After that it’s just full speed all the way until end of semester 8 where P2S1 exams loom..

Nightmare.. So totally need to kick into hardworking gear and not lazy mode.. =S any tips?

Perhaps one factor to help would be most of the shows I watch has reached the season finale e.g the 3 CSIs, Chuck, How I Met Your Mother, while others like Human Target, Lie To Me and Breaking In got cancelled.. T.T It’s a good sign I suppose. Encourage me to study more rather than watch more shows.

BUSY!

finished Surgery posting last week. Kinda miss it now. It wasn’t so bad afterall. The current group have it easy, where Prof MV went off for a month’s leave!

Anyway I’m on OBG posting now. Which is really packed and in turn very very busy n tiring! There are 8 cases to be submitted in 4 weeks, meaning every Friday we have to submit 2 cases! man.. Surgery posting 8 weeks submit 8 cases still acceptable la.. but this? 4 weeks need to submit 8? Plus there’s like damn lot peripheral postings this time e.g. OPD, OT, Labour room.. there’s hardly enough time to clerk cases at the wards, let alone getting 2 complete case sheets!

Man.. and the posting needs a lot of printing. The CISS system in my printer isnt cooperating like it should. pfft.

I want my FRIDAY!

Rebecca Black – Friday

=P

Updated..

Changed the blog template and design after such a long time.. finding the blue theme quite boring indeed. =P Not that I expect a lot of traffic here but.. It’s for myself.. hehe.

Also, I’ve removed the Chatbox since there has been only comments by spambots.. Pretty annoying having to go there to remove all the posts by them. So.. if anyone has anything to say, please drop me a message in the form of comment eh? thanks!

Also if there’s anything not working with this template do tell me.. hehe.

Trusty-ol’-Dell

My Inspiron 6400.

Has been with me since January 2007. Through ups and downs since then. It’s already 4 years and what, 4 months old?

Last Saturday it had a problem with the keyboard. As a result the laptop was stuck in the Dell boot screen for more than half an hour. Was sad to see it be in such condition after such a long time. Eventually it was revived after disconnecting the faulty keyboard.. And now it is dependent on a USB keyboard for it to function.. Sigh. No more portable system. And looks a bit pitiful. Like a terminal stage cancer patient with multiple metastases to the liver and lungs and bones. And brain. You get my idea. But even at this stage it still bravely fights on, day after day. *touched*

At least it lives on. =) Hopefully for some more time la. Since there’s really no budget for a replacement.

Rainbow after the rain

Straight from my room. =)

Was feeling kinda annoyed because for 2 wednesdays in a row I had to get wet to get back.. Last wednesday worse than today but still.. Annoyed.

Then this came.

Then..

=)

eternity

.. it seems. since the last I posted an update here. probably after my harddisk crashed in feb I havent been updating, until now.. finally had the mood to set up Windows Live Writer for my blog again.. hehe =P

Several things has happened, will update if I have time. Currently I’m in surgery posting. Busy as hell. Plenty of things happening every day, every week..

Gosh. gotta study more. =.=

 ciao

24

Nope, not the series.

My current age. =)

Had a celebration here, Dragon Deluxe restaurant at Batu Berendam

Thanks guys! =)

Here’s to a great year ahead! xD

Hop!

It’s the first post for the year of the Rabbit! My year! haha

it’s already the 4th day of the Chinese New Year. Means it’s the day I have to leave home n go back to Melaka. 4 days sooooooo short la… sigh.

Anyway.. wishing my readers a happy and prosperous year ahead! =)

What?

It’s already the last day of January?? wow time flies man.

Starting first day of Medicine posting at Melaka. Had PBL without prior notice = poor pbl. ah what the heck.

Tomorrow got Medicine block test. Damn lot to cover. sigh. after that followed by 5 (maybe 6) hours of lecture. Gosh. havent packed at all ler. =S

So many things happened too. will update soon.

Looking forward to go home!

Weekend ended

And a new week starts! the second week of 2011. The second week of medicine posting.

It’s only the second week and yet I feel like such a long long time has passed. pffft. so tiring the posting at Muar.

Must try and get through! 2nd week means 12 more days of full day posting at Muar!

Well actually the posting is very very short. Medicine is a very vast subject, and to cover it within 8 weeks of clinical posting needs a LOT of motivation. Need to be motivated. No time wasting allowed. =S

Officially 24 days ++ until I touchdown at Kuching International Airport on Chinese New Year Eve. Gonna be back for 4 days. Short, yet hopefully can make full use of this short break.

Oh. Also sent my Nikon D3000 for servicing and clean-up. Gonna take over a month for the process, including logistics. I think a big chunk of the time is taken by logistics. What to do, not at KL mah. If not I can send it straight to Nikon service centre and get a quote immediately. Ah well.. hopefully things will work out fine. AND it wouldn’t cost me an arm and a leg to get it cleaned..

As a routine..

so it begins

The first week of 2011. Beginning tomorrow.

Starting fresh, in a new posting. Medicine. 4 weeks at Muar first before continuing the next 4 weeks at Melaka GH.

 

After 16 weeks of posting I think it’s time to take out the stethoscope n use it d.. hehe.

and the cycle renews

another 365 days to go! =)

haha it doesn’t make sense

anyway

wishing all who (still) reads my blog a

very happy new year!

and a prosperous 2011! =) huat ah! lol