曾经我送给我一位朋友的礼物不知怎地不见了。我一昧地认为那是因为他不珍惜，尽管他已买了个一模一样的东西来替代那已经失去的。但我认为那是不一样的。
今天和一位久未见面的朋友一起吃午餐。只见他身上带着同样的东西。。。我竟然有种失而复得的感觉。虽然对很多人来说。。那是没有意义的，但我觉得那是一种缘分吧！这也让我明白做人不需要那么执着于一些不可改变的事实。接受已经过去的，珍惜眼前的现在比较重要，不要等到失去之后才来后悔。
Saturday, December 08, 2007
I'VE LEARNT TO LET GO N NOT TO CARE SO MUCH BOUT FRENSHIP. BUT STILL SAD WHEN I KNOW TAT THE FRENSHIP I HAVE WITH SOMEONE IS NOT BEING APPRECIATED :( BUT IT'S NOT GOIN TO GET ME. I PROMISE!!!
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阴天
最近古晋常下雨。平均每两天下一天吧！上个星期竟连续下了五天的雨。。。令我对雨天产生一种莫名的恐惧。
而今天下午当我在开车时看到天空乌云密布，原本自大的太阳被环绕在云里，顿时晴天变成了阴天。阴天是一个很莫名其妙的天气，不晴也不雨，就像黑白之间的灰色地带，没有一个确认的方向。到底这次的胜利会是属于太阳神的或是雨神呢？这样的天气使街上的人们不知该打包回家，还是继续按照计划行事。原本打算到游泳池的我按照我的计划。到最后雨依然没下证明我的决定没错。
在我们的人生中，常常会遇到生命里的阴天，使我们不知该如何是好。前进或后退？不知结果的我们不敢胡乱做决定。虽然心中已有了完整的计划，依然不会轻举妄动，深怕一不小心便把整件事给搞砸。但也不敢什么都不做。反正人算不如天算。。。干嘛要被这些矛盾给搞乱？只要你心里清楚你做了份内的事对得起自己。。那就足够了。
雨到最后还是下了。。。阴天变成了雨天。。。但别忘了。。。雨天过了。。。晴天依然会来
而今天下午当我在开车时看到天空乌云密布，原本自大的太阳被环绕在云里，顿时晴天变成了阴天。阴天是一个很莫名其妙的天气，不晴也不雨，就像黑白之间的灰色地带，没有一个确认的方向。到底这次的胜利会是属于太阳神的或是雨神呢？这样的天气使街上的人们不知该打包回家，还是继续按照计划行事。原本打算到游泳池的我按照我的计划。到最后雨依然没下证明我的决定没错。
在我们的人生中，常常会遇到生命里的阴天，使我们不知该如何是好。前进或后退？不知结果的我们不敢胡乱做决定。虽然心中已有了完整的计划，依然不会轻举妄动，深怕一不小心便把整件事给搞砸。但也不敢什么都不做。反正人算不如天算。。。干嘛要被这些矛盾给搞乱？只要你心里清楚你做了份内的事对得起自己。。那就足够了。
雨到最后还是下了。。。阴天变成了雨天。。。但别忘了。。。雨天过了。。。晴天依然会来
some thoughts....
failed to sleep again today. guess i'm used to sleepin late oledi..when i said late..i mean 4am and to sleep anytime before tat is just impossible for me right now. and here i'm bloggin cos i cant think of anything better to do :)
although i'm back for just a month, i've done quite a lot of things. n once again, time flies...i'm having 3 months break. but no matter how long it is, it never seems to be enuff for us to spend. we always wish for more. wadever it is, we haf to make full use of the time we haf now to do anything that we wan to do and make the long holiday worthwhile.
i've spent some time at kl and seremban before i come back to kuching. almost a week stay in Seremban to visit IMU pals over there. it was really great catching up with them after about 10 months. everyone is still the same. but too bad it was near their exam tat time. so they were kinda stressed up over there when i visit. keke...but we still had some great time there: went for seafood together, dim sum, mamak, drinking session at PD, birthday celebration for Kim Kwan, Sing K and so on. Thanks ppl for the great time!
I'm glad tat distance doesnt really affect our friendship. although we had different experience since we are at different places, but all the time tat we spent together before still hold our frenship tight. sometimes, i might not be able to join ur conversation bout lecturers, studies, but tat doesnt really matter..cos nothing can change the frenship tat we have :)
although i'm back for just a month, i've done quite a lot of things. n once again, time flies...i'm having 3 months break. but no matter how long it is, it never seems to be enuff for us to spend. we always wish for more. wadever it is, we haf to make full use of the time we haf now to do anything that we wan to do and make the long holiday worthwhile.
i've spent some time at kl and seremban before i come back to kuching. almost a week stay in Seremban to visit IMU pals over there. it was really great catching up with them after about 10 months. everyone is still the same. but too bad it was near their exam tat time. so they were kinda stressed up over there when i visit. keke...but we still had some great time there: went for seafood together, dim sum, mamak, drinking session at PD, birthday celebration for Kim Kwan, Sing K and so on. Thanks ppl for the great time!
I'm glad tat distance doesnt really affect our friendship. although we had different experience since we are at different places, but all the time tat we spent together before still hold our frenship tight. sometimes, i might not be able to join ur conversation bout lecturers, studies, but tat doesnt really matter..cos nothing can change the frenship tat we have :)
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Back!!
it's been quite a while since the last time i blogged. when someone is really free as in when they haf really nothing to do eg. someone who is in 3 months holiday, they just dun feel like doin anything at all even though they do haf sth in mind tat they CAN to do. does tat explain why i haven been here for some time?
i'm back in KUCHING!! finally...actually i'm back here for exactly a week for now. and today..i'm home alone. everyone else is away for different reason. funny tat i'm finally back home but everyone else leaving home :) anyway, it's great to be back. home is still the same..except we have one new member in our family, my dog is so skinny like skeleton *sob* as for kuching, there r more building, more shops, more lights and more cars. is tat a sign of development? haven been to the main city itself to have a look tho.
and now i have no idea wad to do for the next few weeks except more food, more hk series, more drama, more swimming session. guess tat's wad holiday is for.
I've finally gotten my ticket to Glasgow..so i'll be away from 16th Dec to 8 Jan for euro trip. will be spendin 3 weeks of my holiday over there to visit the place and ppl there :)
More updates on my trip in KL-Seremban-Singapore-Malacca soon....
i'm back in KUCHING!! finally...actually i'm back here for exactly a week for now. and today..i'm home alone. everyone else is away for different reason. funny tat i'm finally back home but everyone else leaving home :) anyway, it's great to be back. home is still the same..except we have one new member in our family, my dog is so skinny like skeleton *sob* as for kuching, there r more building, more shops, more lights and more cars. is tat a sign of development? haven been to the main city itself to have a look tho.
and now i have no idea wad to do for the next few weeks except more food, more hk series, more drama, more swimming session. guess tat's wad holiday is for.
I've finally gotten my ticket to Glasgow..so i'll be away from 16th Dec to 8 Jan for euro trip. will be spendin 3 weeks of my holiday over there to visit the place and ppl there :)
More updates on my trip in KL-Seremban-Singapore-Malacca soon....
Friday, November 02, 2007
Last day in the house..
goin back to malaysia tmr morning. today will be our last day here in christchurch as a 4th year medical student and continue our 3 months long holiday back home.
oso today, we shifted all our stuff to the place we goin to stay next year. the owner is nice enuff for us to leave all the stuff there over the summer and onli start paying the rental in january. so with jason's help and his car, we shifted all our stuff there within an hour. which is much faster than i expected.
lunch after tat. went pagoda for a buffet lunch which cost us NZ$12 each. normal chinese food with a few dim sum. quite worth it as we can eat as much as possible. after tat the landlord come n check the house before we leave it just to make sure we clean everything n the house will look nice for the next tenant. after 2 days of cleaning, throwing all rubbish away last nite. the house is finally looking good. my biceps r aching as well ;p n get our bond money back. haha
last day at this house. the house surrounded by trees like a jungle. house wif my big and comfy room. house wif all sort of funny insects. lots of spider + web. house wif good fish n chips shop nearby. house tat made me exercise at least 1 hour per day. but we r moving to a better house!! yay!
flying back to malaysia soon..real soon :0)
oso today, we shifted all our stuff to the place we goin to stay next year. the owner is nice enuff for us to leave all the stuff there over the summer and onli start paying the rental in january. so with jason's help and his car, we shifted all our stuff there within an hour. which is much faster than i expected.
lunch after tat. went pagoda for a buffet lunch which cost us NZ$12 each. normal chinese food with a few dim sum. quite worth it as we can eat as much as possible. after tat the landlord come n check the house before we leave it just to make sure we clean everything n the house will look nice for the next tenant. after 2 days of cleaning, throwing all rubbish away last nite. the house is finally looking good. my biceps r aching as well ;p n get our bond money back. haha
last day at this house. the house surrounded by trees like a jungle. house wif my big and comfy room. house wif all sort of funny insects. lots of spider + web. house wif good fish n chips shop nearby. house tat made me exercise at least 1 hour per day. but we r moving to a better house!! yay!
flying back to malaysia soon..real soon :0)
Thursday, November 01, 2007
More photos
sunday nite, went out for dinner again. Keung's place - another andrew's favourite place. they do serve nice and hot chinese food.Honey Pork Spare Ribs - John's favourite
Another surprise for andrew! 2nd birthday cake of the year."An De Lu...this is for u ;p"
A photo taken with the bday boy and his cake :) the usual gp of ppl for sunday outing. haha!
Andrew murdering his Cookies and Cream cake!!Photos
photo taken during the dinner wif my groupmates
went to yin's place after the dinner at around 10pm n started to play pictionary and chill out for the whole nite. and the game ended at around 130am when everyone get really tired ;p
Sunday afternoon, went to JC place to yum cha after church. It's andrew choice as he's the birthday boy on the day. wif churchmate and seniors.
The dim sum tat we had on our tables. there are more of them. yum! really good food :)
post osce 2
no idea why...but everytime when i'm in holiday, i feel lazy to do anything else including blogging. maybe bcos there r more important things to do than just sitting in front of my laptop n typin words.
anyway, my 2nd osce was on friday last week. last day of school, suppose to be relaxing n easy. but not for me. ward round started at 715am, so haf to get there super early and then attende the mortaliy and morbidity meeting. had a coffee break after tat, then went to operating theatre for surgery until around 1. and rush to my osce straight away. osce was fine, got conned by the patient who had epilepsy and told me tat she never had tat before -.-" anyway, my osce finished late and need to rush all the way to the oncology centre for another tutorial when i have a something to present. my day finished at 4pm and i still haven had my lunch. wad a day to end the year :)
but after all, 4th year is OVER! 3 months holiday is finally here.
1st week of the holiday, we spent in christchurch..lol mostly bcos our flight is on 3rd nov and we need to do some packing, cleaning, shifting, shopping.
on saturday, we had a group dinner to celebrate end of the year and andrew's bday as well! indian restaurant...quite good and hot food!
Happy Birthday la Mr Andrew fEng!
anyway, my 2nd osce was on friday last week. last day of school, suppose to be relaxing n easy. but not for me. ward round started at 715am, so haf to get there super early and then attende the mortaliy and morbidity meeting. had a coffee break after tat, then went to operating theatre for surgery until around 1. and rush to my osce straight away. osce was fine, got conned by the patient who had epilepsy and told me tat she never had tat before -.-" anyway, my osce finished late and need to rush all the way to the oncology centre for another tutorial when i have a something to present. my day finished at 4pm and i still haven had my lunch. wad a day to end the year :)
but after all, 4th year is OVER! 3 months holiday is finally here.
1st week of the holiday, we spent in christchurch..lol mostly bcos our flight is on 3rd nov and we need to do some packing, cleaning, shifting, shopping.
on saturday, we had a group dinner to celebrate end of the year and andrew's bday as well! indian restaurant...quite good and hot food!Happy Birthday la Mr Andrew fEng!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
post osce 1
OSCE for the surgery was over yest. it was pretty relax compare with other osce. cos the arrangement for the whole thing is just relaxing. so basically we haf 5 6mins station for the osce which includes vascular exam, abdo exam, emergency medicine, oncology, GI history. but for us...we onli had 4 stations cos for the vascular station, one of the surgeon is on leave, another 1 having surgery, so the station was left without examiner..see how relaxing it was. anyway..it was over...
and a bad thing is tat i got sick right after the exam, sore throat, flu n stuff...common cold symptoms according to john the future GP. so been taking lots n lots of strepsils..til i almost got an overdose. n it's slightly better now. and i still haf to study for the path exam tmr. just haf to go thro the tutes over and over again.
extra bonus for me. another osce on fri..grr! cos i onli got a conditional pass bcos of my "language difficulties" commented by an African consultant wif strong african accent. well, mebe cos i onli speak malaysian english but not african english. but hope it will goes well :)
but still, i'm already in holiday mood. just 2 more days to go wey...and tat's the end of 4th year. well, goin back home in 1 week time!! yay..
another good news from my bro :) my niece is finally here...on 22nd Oct at 10pm. isnt she cute and adorable? cant wait to go back n see her!
Welcome to our family :) Kimberly
and a bad thing is tat i got sick right after the exam, sore throat, flu n stuff...common cold symptoms according to john the future GP. so been taking lots n lots of strepsils..til i almost got an overdose. n it's slightly better now. and i still haf to study for the path exam tmr. just haf to go thro the tutes over and over again.
extra bonus for me. another osce on fri..grr! cos i onli got a conditional pass bcos of my "language difficulties" commented by an African consultant wif strong african accent. well, mebe cos i onli speak malaysian english but not african english. but hope it will goes well :)
but still, i'm already in holiday mood. just 2 more days to go wey...and tat's the end of 4th year. well, goin back home in 1 week time!! yay..
another good news from my bro :) my niece is finally here...on 22nd Oct at 10pm. isnt she cute and adorable? cant wait to go back n see her!
Welcome to our family :) KimberlyMonday, October 22, 2007
Final week for 4th year
To start the last week for our 4th year, we r currently having a day off today because of labour day. tat means we had a long weekend. which is nice especially when osce is comin up tmr for me. so cant really enjoy for this weekend but haf to spend some time studying.
surgery run is finally over soon. just 4 more days..osce tmr, there will be 5 stations in total including stations for vascular exam, abdo exam, GI history taking, emergency medicine and oncology. definately something there to read bout before goin for the exam. but just felt lazy to study at all. guess it's bcos i'm kinda in holiday mood gua...cant imagine 4th year is goin to be over soon just like tat...5th year is comin in 3 months time. goin to be stressful...but!!!! enjoy the long summer break 1st :)
will be staying back for another week before goin back for my holiday. wad we gonna do during tat week is to do some cleaning for our house currently before returning it to the owner as well as to do some packing n shifting our stuff to the new house. at the same time, go around chch to enjoy ourselves as a tourist.
so for today...study study study :(
surgery run is finally over soon. just 4 more days..osce tmr, there will be 5 stations in total including stations for vascular exam, abdo exam, GI history taking, emergency medicine and oncology. definately something there to read bout before goin for the exam. but just felt lazy to study at all. guess it's bcos i'm kinda in holiday mood gua...cant imagine 4th year is goin to be over soon just like tat...5th year is comin in 3 months time. goin to be stressful...but!!!! enjoy the long summer break 1st :)
will be staying back for another week before goin back for my holiday. wad we gonna do during tat week is to do some cleaning for our house currently before returning it to the owner as well as to do some packing n shifting our stuff to the new house. at the same time, go around chch to enjoy ourselves as a tourist.
so for today...study study study :(
Monday, October 15, 2007
Monday blue-ing
1st day of the week...post acute after oncall for the weekend. haf 35 patients all together. crazee...super bz day today..well, i was warned by my reg to appear infront of consultant more often, or else i gonna stay over for the summer to repeat the run...yea rite!! wadever...so, i haf to be working extra hard for these 2 weeks eh..appear in outpatient, theatre n everything else, must be more hard out than the other 2 students. haha! which is kinda impossible.
anyway, today had the ward round until 11 sth and i went to look for the patient whom i'm goin to present durin the pathology meeting. according to my reg, she's at the oncology ward which is at the other end of hospital...rushed all the way there n found out tat she never got admitted there before lo. darn reg!! but i persuaded the ward clerk over there to borrow the pt's notes for me :) so tat i can copy down the details tat needed to be presented. so not too bad. presentation on thursday and i haven done anything bout it yet. another on call day on wed! not goin to haf enuff sleep for these few days la...sien! but look at the bright side...i'm goin back in 3 weeks time presumably i dun haf to stay over the summer for the nonsense ;p
had EBM presentation today, luckily i dun haf to present. just do the power point for the group. so it wasnt tat stressful. as usual, lots of useless photo in the presentation but it's still better than those with on words...i mean lots of word!! it just get really boring. presentation went well, and everyone passed evidence based medicine (expected ba)
OSCE next week...lol! haf to get my presentation done and study a lil for the osce.
monday...blue-ing!!!
Group F's dinner...went to an indian restaurant - "small place, big taste" this is the slogan of the restaurant which is true. the place is small...with 5-6 tables but the food are REALLY good... :)
anyway, today had the ward round until 11 sth and i went to look for the patient whom i'm goin to present durin the pathology meeting. according to my reg, she's at the oncology ward which is at the other end of hospital...rushed all the way there n found out tat she never got admitted there before lo. darn reg!! but i persuaded the ward clerk over there to borrow the pt's notes for me :) so tat i can copy down the details tat needed to be presented. so not too bad. presentation on thursday and i haven done anything bout it yet. another on call day on wed! not goin to haf enuff sleep for these few days la...sien! but look at the bright side...i'm goin back in 3 weeks time presumably i dun haf to stay over the summer for the nonsense ;p
had EBM presentation today, luckily i dun haf to present. just do the power point for the group. so it wasnt tat stressful. as usual, lots of useless photo in the presentation but it's still better than those with on words...i mean lots of word!! it just get really boring. presentation went well, and everyone passed evidence based medicine (expected ba)
OSCE next week...lol! haf to get my presentation done and study a lil for the osce.
monday...blue-ing!!!
Group F's dinner...went to an indian restaurant - "small place, big taste" this is the slogan of the restaurant which is true. the place is small...with 5-6 tables but the food are REALLY good... :)Saturday, October 13, 2007
if u lost ur passion toward certain things and not enjoyin the moment u having, no matter how much and how hard u try to complete it, it just seems to be so hard for ya. u know in ur heart wad u shud do and wad u shouldn't, but fear is standing right in front of u. every step u take, u take it with anxiety and every decision u made, you made it with feeling worried. u lost ur direction, not knowing wad to do next. u told urself " i shall be better tmr as tmr is a brand new day" but more things happen the next day, and more challenges waiting for u.
once again, u got beaten by your biggest enemy - urself. u will start to realise tat u cant control urself anymore! no matter how hard ur heart telling u do sth which might be good for ya, ur body refuse to do so..wad to do next? i got no idea...
Exo 20:20 (KJV) And Moses said unto the people,
once again, u got beaten by your biggest enemy - urself. u will start to realise tat u cant control urself anymore! no matter how hard ur heart telling u do sth which might be good for ya, ur body refuse to do so..wad to do next? i got no idea...
Exo 20:20 (KJV) And Moses said unto the people,
Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
update!
well, dun feel like bloggin nowadays. sometimes can get really busy with the stuff in uni especially the last 2 weeks when we need to prepare for haematology 2 weeks ago. n last week just go busy with the ward stuff and surgery team..when all the 3 consultants r around. so yea...still i dun like surgery tat much. guess i wont be a surgeon next time. dun like their working time, spending few hours for 1 surgery, dun like the hierarchy of the surgeons. anyway...just 2 more weeks to do. hopefully it will be over soon without any prob and then i can go back for holiday.
yea...2 more weeks, just 2 week more of surgery and 1 end of run osce, i will be having 3 1/2 months holiday!!! cant wait for tat time to come. everyone is kinda in holiday mood now. asking wad to do for holiday, any plan n stuff. well, before tat i'll stay here for another week to settle the house stuff before i go back. got a house oledi...finally!! it's at riccarton...which is one of the most happening places in christchurch. the house is 5 mins walking distance from the mall and 20 mins away from hospital..not a bad location. 2 storey town house with 3 double bedroom, nice living room equipped with heatpump, nice sofa and big tv. 13o bucks per week. which is 10 bucks more than the place we staying now. not a bad deal tho. hrmm...guess...i'll be bringin my ps2 here next year. hehe...to kill some free time.
then we can go back n enjoy our last summer holiday!! lots of places i wan to go and lots of food i wan to eat :P miss malaysia's food le. well, see wad plan i can come out with some time soon. definately goin scotland and europe :)
** btw...had a group dinner last monday with all of my group ppl at one indian restaurant. well, it is really good. a bit pricey tho..but still affordable. hehe...good curry, good rice and good meat!! it's so so so so...nice la. never know tat indian food beside mamak can be so nice. LOL...funny to find out nice indian food in NZ ;p must go back again one day!
yea...2 more weeks, just 2 week more of surgery and 1 end of run osce, i will be having 3 1/2 months holiday!!! cant wait for tat time to come. everyone is kinda in holiday mood now. asking wad to do for holiday, any plan n stuff. well, before tat i'll stay here for another week to settle the house stuff before i go back. got a house oledi...finally!! it's at riccarton...which is one of the most happening places in christchurch. the house is 5 mins walking distance from the mall and 20 mins away from hospital..not a bad location. 2 storey town house with 3 double bedroom, nice living room equipped with heatpump, nice sofa and big tv. 13o bucks per week. which is 10 bucks more than the place we staying now. not a bad deal tho. hrmm...guess...i'll be bringin my ps2 here next year. hehe...to kill some free time.
then we can go back n enjoy our last summer holiday!! lots of places i wan to go and lots of food i wan to eat :P miss malaysia's food le. well, see wad plan i can come out with some time soon. definately goin scotland and europe :)
** btw...had a group dinner last monday with all of my group ppl at one indian restaurant. well, it is really good. a bit pricey tho..but still affordable. hehe...good curry, good rice and good meat!! it's so so so so...nice la. never know tat indian food beside mamak can be so nice. LOL...funny to find out nice indian food in NZ ;p must go back again one day!
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Akaroa Trip - Day 2
woke up at 9-ish in the morning and headed to the french fest after we had our breakfast and checked out from the nice apartment. we drove our way to Akaroa Recreation Ground where the festival held. started off with a lil walk and shop for the stalls where they sell french stuff..but looks like chinese stuff with jade and stuff like tat. and then we started our french food hunting!
The crowd in french fest
the food
after we all had enuff food, we just walked around the place and foud out that they haf this snail race goin on. we went to haf a look and..*da dah*
the "fake" snail race...
and the real one
other than eating, we also spent some time for the performance they had throughout the day which are Gastronomique Française and La Première d'Akaroa which cost us NZD10 for each show. and basically they are cooking master show and circus show respectively:)
we hang around there til about 5pm before we departed from akaroa and back to christchurch again :)
The crowd in french fest
the foodafter we all had enuff food, we just walked around the place and foud out that they haf this snail race goin on. we went to haf a look and..*da dah*
the "fake" snail race...
and the real oneother than eating, we also spent some time for the performance they had throughout the day which are Gastronomique Française and La Première d'Akaroa which cost us NZD10 for each show. and basically they are cooking master show and circus show respectively:)
we hang around there til about 5pm before we departed from akaroa and back to christchurch again :)
Friday, September 28, 2007
Akaroa Trip - Day 1
just exactly a week ago, 6 of us (me, andrew, john, steph, raenna and yin after got ffk by rachel with the excuse "i need to get my report checked!") went to akaroa for a 2 days 1 nite trip. the main purpose of the trip is french fest and chill out after the boring integrative week.
around 930 in the morning, we went 2 the car rental place nearby to pick up the car we rented and departed right after we met up with the other car.
Stopped by halfway of our journey for the breath taking scenery and photo taking :P
Les Troupe
The apartment "Les Troupe" that we are staying. very nice and comfy. 2 storey apartment with 2 bedrooms and a huge livin room upstairs which is equipped with tv, dvd player, radio and nice sofa. connected to the living room is the kitchen which has everything that is needed in kitchen. u name it...they haf it ready there :P it costs 210 bucks for 6 ppl which is not tat expensive.
The next destination is definately lunch...since everyone is hungry. the apartment we staying is just at the centre of the city, so we need our car no more and walk around in the sunny day. we decided to eat in a fish n chips shop to try the famous "Akaroa Cod"
Our activity in the afternoon is goin for a 2 hours cruise called "Akaroa Dolphin" for the wildlife and scenery. The weather is pretty good as it's sunny, but it was still cold on the cruise aka boat and windy at the same time
Photos taken on the cruise
The day ended with dinner at 1 cafe nearby and beauty and the geek after dinner...
around 930 in the morning, we went 2 the car rental place nearby to pick up the car we rented and departed right after we met up with the other car.
Stopped by halfway of our journey for the breath taking scenery and photo taking :Pafter around 1 1/2 hours journey..we finally reached the small town - Akaroa aka French Village. and straight away we checked in to the apartment that we have reserved before this.
Les TroupeThe next destination is definately lunch...since everyone is hungry. the apartment we staying is just at the centre of the city, so we need our car no more and walk around in the sunny day. we decided to eat in a fish n chips shop to try the famous "Akaroa Cod"
Our activity in the afternoon is goin for a 2 hours cruise called "Akaroa Dolphin" for the wildlife and scenery. The weather is pretty good as it's sunny, but it was still cold on the cruise aka boat and windy at the same time
Photos taken on the cruise
The day ended with dinner at 1 cafe nearby and beauty and the geek after dinner...
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Integrative week no more
today is the last day of our integrative week! wad a waste of time for this week...after we almost finished our 4th year...which is about 1 year of clinical year, they start teaching us iv cannulation, venepuncture, urinary catheter, nasogastric tube, rectal examination, opthalmoscopy...and it took 3 days for these classes..they could haf teached all these earlier so that we wont haf to struggle by ourselves at the beginning and learn it again after u've tried our best to learned by ourself before this. dunno wad's in their mind..mebe just wanna find something for us to do. lol..anyway, it's good for us to have 1 week of pseudo-holiday.
other than those clinical skills, we haf a few lectures on "cultural competency"...sounds like we r so cultural incompetence. haha...but luckily we not learning anything more on maori anymore, but we haf some random talk bout Samoan, Iraqi and Indian...how bout Chinese? LOL...guess Chinese is flexible enough to fit ourselves in others' culture when we are at foreign countries but not to ask the health system to come out with a framework especially for us.
long weekend starting tmr!! as we've planned , we r goin to akaroa tmr morning for 2 days 1 nite trip over there. there will be 6 of us after ffk by 1 of our friend..which is kinda expected according to john. so 3 of us + steph + raenna from M1/04 and yin from singapore will be goin tmr and 4 of the malay gang might join us on saturday for the french festival. planned to go to cheese factory on the way to akaroa, spend the afternoon on a cruise and saturday on the french fest :D guess it will be fun!!
other than those clinical skills, we haf a few lectures on "cultural competency"...sounds like we r so cultural incompetence. haha...but luckily we not learning anything more on maori anymore, but we haf some random talk bout Samoan, Iraqi and Indian...how bout Chinese? LOL...guess Chinese is flexible enough to fit ourselves in others' culture when we are at foreign countries but not to ask the health system to come out with a framework especially for us.
long weekend starting tmr!! as we've planned , we r goin to akaroa tmr morning for 2 days 1 nite trip over there. there will be 6 of us after ffk by 1 of our friend..which is kinda expected according to john. so 3 of us + steph + raenna from M1/04 and yin from singapore will be goin tmr and 4 of the malay gang might join us on saturday for the french festival. planned to go to cheese factory on the way to akaroa, spend the afternoon on a cruise and saturday on the french fest :D guess it will be fun!!
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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haven been contacting for ages, mails are not replied by you. often staring at the phone, thinkin whose number to dial. give up the thought after all due to number of reasons. From time to time, happen to see u appearing in my contact list, take out all my courages that i've been storing for so long, and start a conversation for u. Time passes so slowly, second by second, hoping to see a flashing light or to hear a sound which indicate the reply from you. after a few minutes of waiting, the only reply i got is ur name disappearing from my list. from hope with excitement to worry and lastly disappointment. all these r just like a broken CD that keep repeating and repeating. thought, you from far away will be having the same feeling as i do, but the truth is always hurting. accept it, take everything that is offered to you and be satisfied, never hope for anything more than tat. i'll be fine just knowing that you are fine too :)
Monday, September 17, 2007
A Brand New Week
today is the 1st day of our integrative week. but all of us are still at home even tho it's 11am in the morning. funny thing is that, the 1st day of the week starting at 130pm. no introduction, no anything but starting wif ECG class. it's bit weird...but it gave us a good sleep :D
integrative week as always give a very relaxing time, but for the next 2 days we got to stay in uni til late afternoon although there is nth much goin on but 1/2 hour gaps in btw classes..which drag the whole thing. sien..
and oso, we got a bad news from the guy who arrange our accommodation in uni flat this morning as there is some sort of miscommunication, we r not given offer for the uni flat but the other uni flat which is kinda bad in condition and looks haunted. haha! so we decided not to take tat offer and find ourself a better place outside. and that uni flat will be taken by 4 of our juniors who are coming next year and 2 m1/04 ppl. so haf to start lookin for houses and this afternoon will ponteng class halfway to go for one of the open house and haf a look at a potential house to rent. hopefully we can get all these done before we go back for our long holiday. *finger crossed*
The DARK side of Surgery:
sometimes it is just annoying when u r attached to a team with other students. it's fine if they are nice and considerate ppl. when someone is onli doin stuff to impress the higer up ppl like the reg or surgeon; ask stupid questions and talk crap when the surgery is goin on; everything oso wan to go and at the end...never turn up and becos of that...others cant go for it as well; onli think for herself and care not bout others...you'll just get ANNOYED!! no matter how much u tried to enjoy the attachment, with them around, the things r just goin to get worse. anyway, i run is over..but another 5 weeks with the same students but diff team. guess same thing goin to happen again. *sigh* why end my 4th year like tatXD
integrative week as always give a very relaxing time, but for the next 2 days we got to stay in uni til late afternoon although there is nth much goin on but 1/2 hour gaps in btw classes..which drag the whole thing. sien..
and oso, we got a bad news from the guy who arrange our accommodation in uni flat this morning as there is some sort of miscommunication, we r not given offer for the uni flat but the other uni flat which is kinda bad in condition and looks haunted. haha! so we decided not to take tat offer and find ourself a better place outside. and that uni flat will be taken by 4 of our juniors who are coming next year and 2 m1/04 ppl. so haf to start lookin for houses and this afternoon will ponteng class halfway to go for one of the open house and haf a look at a potential house to rent. hopefully we can get all these done before we go back for our long holiday. *finger crossed*
The DARK side of Surgery:
sometimes it is just annoying when u r attached to a team with other students. it's fine if they are nice and considerate ppl. when someone is onli doin stuff to impress the higer up ppl like the reg or surgeon; ask stupid questions and talk crap when the surgery is goin on; everything oso wan to go and at the end...never turn up and becos of that...others cant go for it as well; onli think for herself and care not bout others...you'll just get ANNOYED!! no matter how much u tried to enjoy the attachment, with them around, the things r just goin to get worse. anyway, i run is over..but another 5 weeks with the same students but diff team. guess same thing goin to happen again. *sigh* why end my 4th year like tatXD
Saturday, September 15, 2007
End of Surgery 1
Finally, 5 weeks of surgery is over. no end of run assessment and osce for this run..cos will be having one after my next surgery run :) confused? well, we haf 10 weeks of surgery run all together which is split into 2 with one of them is doin more in gastroenterology stuff and the other 1 is oncology. but the teams tat we will be attached to are boths general surgery team. so...still the old boring surgeries...appendix, gallbladder, colon, thyroid, breast and so on. finally seen a lap chole yesterday..and the gallbladder is huge til the surgeon haf to cut the opening bigger to pull it out :S and after they opened the gall bladder...there are like 30-40 stones inside...apparently the guy have the history of gallstones for 25 years!!!
the previous few weeks are pretty tiring. haf to wake up at around 7 to reach uni at 8am for the ward round..join the team for meeting n stuff...on call day to do admission, procedures and helpin out in the surgery. tiring but cool as well to get involved in the team! finally a good weekend rest but haf reports to write up and haematology test comin real soon. haven been studying much wey..anaemia, leukaemia, lymphoma and more...scary!!
next week will be another integrative week for us! means...no more team, out from the attachment and do something else. and for next week, we'll get to learn some of the clinical stuff likePR, intubation, IV lines and so on gua...quite boring oso but at least it's better than previous 2 when we haf to do some research thingy. and we get long weekend...and since we din do anything last holiday, we decided to go akaroa..a town which is 1 hour drive from christchurch for a french festival next weekend...planning to go on friday for a 2 days 1 nite trip..but most of the backpackers r fully booked for now...so still haf no idea whether we haf somewhere to stay or not =.= so sad! cant stand the indecisive-ness of the ppl.. anyway,guess the festival is goin to be fun!
*6 more weeks to go for our holiday!! and 1 more week after tat i'll be back home! hee..cant wait to go back :P
accommodation at uni flat might not be available for us anymore. miscommunication..might need to get on our own. good seniors r goin to give them to juniors! muahahaha
the previous few weeks are pretty tiring. haf to wake up at around 7 to reach uni at 8am for the ward round..join the team for meeting n stuff...on call day to do admission, procedures and helpin out in the surgery. tiring but cool as well to get involved in the team! finally a good weekend rest but haf reports to write up and haematology test comin real soon. haven been studying much wey..anaemia, leukaemia, lymphoma and more...scary!!
next week will be another integrative week for us! means...no more team, out from the attachment and do something else. and for next week, we'll get to learn some of the clinical stuff likePR, intubation, IV lines and so on gua...quite boring oso but at least it's better than previous 2 when we haf to do some research thingy. and we get long weekend...and since we din do anything last holiday, we decided to go akaroa..a town which is 1 hour drive from christchurch for a french festival next weekend...planning to go on friday for a 2 days 1 nite trip..but most of the backpackers r fully booked for now...so still haf no idea whether we haf somewhere to stay or not =.= so sad! cant stand the indecisive-ness of the ppl.. anyway,guess the festival is goin to be fun!
*6 more weeks to go for our holiday!! and 1 more week after tat i'll be back home! hee..cant wait to go back :P
accommodation at uni flat might not be available for us anymore. miscommunication..might need to get on our own. good seniors r goin to give them to juniors! muahahaha
Friday, August 31, 2007
31st August 2007
It's friday today...the last day of my holiday! of cos there r 2 more days of weekend to go..but still, my holiday is finishing soon. so sad..although most of the time i'm doin nothing at home. but it's still better than doin heaps in the hospital n have to wake up early. Ok la..today is Malaysia 50th Birthday! HAPPY MERDEKA DAY~!
so wad's plan for this special day? wanted to go swimmin in the morning but the weather in the morning is cold as usual cos the sun is still hiding somewhere..so the plan is cancelled and postpone to some time in the future. later in the afternoon will be goin to uni for andrew some document thingy and john's free lunch. muahaha..and movie in the afternoon! Die Hard 4.0 which is finally free in the cinema. groceries shoppin after tat and dinner sumwhere. so wont be home til nite time! which is a good thing as our internet is approaching limit. Ish...
just few days ago, we got offer for stayin in one of the uni flat next year. it's so far the best offer we can get after we know tat we cant get the house which is right opposite the biggest mall in christchurch and lots of nice chinese food nearby due to some unforeseen circumstances.
Advantages of staying in Uni Flat:
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so wad's plan for this special day? wanted to go swimmin in the morning but the weather in the morning is cold as usual cos the sun is still hiding somewhere..so the plan is cancelled and postpone to some time in the future. later in the afternoon will be goin to uni for andrew some document thingy and john's free lunch. muahaha..and movie in the afternoon! Die Hard 4.0 which is finally free in the cinema. groceries shoppin after tat and dinner sumwhere. so wont be home til nite time! which is a good thing as our internet is approaching limit. Ish...
just few days ago, we got offer for stayin in one of the uni flat next year. it's so far the best offer we can get after we know tat we cant get the house which is right opposite the biggest mall in christchurch and lots of nice chinese food nearby due to some unforeseen circumstances.
Advantages of staying in Uni Flat:
- 5-10 mins walk from uni
- good deal as we dun haf to pay for the summer break (3 months)
- quite a big room we can get
- It's a 6 ppl flat (? unknown housemates)
- might need to move out after 5th year :(
- house condition isnt tat great
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Monday, August 27, 2007
sometimes u realise, no matter how much have n done and how much of effort u have put into certain things and hopin for something good to happen, things which never like you will never follow ur way and will not turn out to be the ones that u wan them to be. and sometimes, things seem to be on ur way, a small tiny little thing that happen could change the way u think of them completely. this just show how little our power is trying to control our own life and millions possibilities of thing that could happen around us. we as normal human being, are not being able to have control in our own lives but we can surrender our lives to God who have control in everything :)
talked bout this wif one of my fren thro msn the other day. there are lots of fren we can have throughout our lives, and there are some of them u know that no matter what happened u'll have them on ur back and these friendship are the ones that will last forever and will not be affected by distance and any other reasons. whereas there are some of them although u can get quite close with them at some stage but with time and distance, u find urself getting further and further from them and u'll never know what will happen to these friendship that u have. well, this is quite true for sometimes, just like after primary school, u go to sec school and college and uni. at every stage u have some close frens who went thro things will ya. but think bout it now, how many of them u still have contact wif? and how many of them u can still talk all the nonsense with when u meet them? or they have become another "hi, bye" friend?
as for myself, i feel very blessed that i still haf quite a lot of frens whom i met in high school, college and uni and i still haf quite a close relationship with them no matter how long we never contact with each other for sometimes when we r bz with our studies and stuff. n i'm pretty sure these r the frenship that will last forever. but sometimes, there are someone u'll just be thinkin, mebe..tat's the end? mebe there's nothing much more that i can do? when u realise u've done all u can, just let time take its course
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talked bout this wif one of my fren thro msn the other day. there are lots of fren we can have throughout our lives, and there are some of them u know that no matter what happened u'll have them on ur back and these friendship are the ones that will last forever and will not be affected by distance and any other reasons. whereas there are some of them although u can get quite close with them at some stage but with time and distance, u find urself getting further and further from them and u'll never know what will happen to these friendship that u have. well, this is quite true for sometimes, just like after primary school, u go to sec school and college and uni. at every stage u have some close frens who went thro things will ya. but think bout it now, how many of them u still have contact wif? and how many of them u can still talk all the nonsense with when u meet them? or they have become another "hi, bye" friend?
as for myself, i feel very blessed that i still haf quite a lot of frens whom i met in high school, college and uni and i still haf quite a close relationship with them no matter how long we never contact with each other for sometimes when we r bz with our studies and stuff. n i'm pretty sure these r the frenship that will last forever. but sometimes, there are someone u'll just be thinkin, mebe..tat's the end? mebe there's nothing much more that i can do? when u realise u've done all u can, just let time take its course
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Sunday, August 26, 2007
Korean BBQ
Korean BBQ dinner on last tuesday for John's bday..we had BBQ pork belly, squid and beef and a dish called boh gal gei which is beef wif transparent bee hoon aka "dang hung" and a lamb dish...check out the chocolate mud cake..it's super the nice and we got 2 bottle of free expired Sprite from the owner ^^'' Hope u enjoyed urself...mr Hairy Potato!
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Holiday again!
yeah! weekend is here...holiday is here! i'm now having a week break before continue wif my surgery run again. saturday is always great and since i've missed my weekend for last weekend due to my weekend on call, i'm now making full use of my weekend for my mission of doin nothing. and yea, i've spent the whole saturday without doin anything beside eating n watching series..isnt it great to have nothing to worry bout?
for this holiday, unlike the previous 1, we do not have any plan to go out from the town..and we decided just to have a good rest at home before finishing the last bit of our 4th year over here. and i'll be goin to hospital during this holiday as well some days for some work as there r a few reports which will be due pretty soon.
and for yesterday..after our last day of school before this holiday, 3 of us + 1 more went 2 watch "Bourne Ultimatum" in the cinema. with the membership...it cost us NZD9 each. and i get to eat the indian curry wif rice at the same mall. yum! it's really nice. been craving for it since weeks ago. haha!
last tuesday was John's birthday and we went for korean bbq to celebrate his birthday. there r 13 of us all together and the food over there is really good although it's bit pricey. but it's quite worth it still. n we bought a chocolate mud cake for him as well...n it's sooo nice! anyway, Happy Birthday again!
i'll be goin back in 2 months time!
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for this holiday, unlike the previous 1, we do not have any plan to go out from the town..and we decided just to have a good rest at home before finishing the last bit of our 4th year over here. and i'll be goin to hospital during this holiday as well some days for some work as there r a few reports which will be due pretty soon.
and for yesterday..after our last day of school before this holiday, 3 of us + 1 more went 2 watch "Bourne Ultimatum" in the cinema. with the membership...it cost us NZD9 each. and i get to eat the indian curry wif rice at the same mall. yum! it's really nice. been craving for it since weeks ago. haha!
last tuesday was John's birthday and we went for korean bbq to celebrate his birthday. there r 13 of us all together and the food over there is really good although it's bit pricey. but it's quite worth it still. n we bought a chocolate mud cake for him as well...n it's sooo nice! anyway, Happy Birthday again!
i'll be goin back in 2 months time!
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Monday, August 20, 2007
Happy Birthday!
Happy (belated)Birthday to Christine...just a small "Sam Yi" from all of us in christchurch...hope u'll like it! and also Happy Birthday to Imel (13 August) and Kexin (17 August) :P
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
The art of being overseas
wua...3rd post for today! now u can see how free the surgery run is. not many tutorials so dun haf to do prep like any other run.
came across xin chai de's blog with an emotional entry...and emotional stuff does makes a thinker thinks. goin overseas is never easy for a person. some ppl might think that, it is a really good opportunity as an eye opener, and we shouldnt be complainin bout this but haf to make full use of this chance as we haf spent so much money for this. but still, it is not easy for ppl to go for a country where the ppl speak different language as they do, different culture background, differently lifestyle and on top of that, they haf to leave all their love ones for a brand new life. it's never easy
somehow, when everyone is goin away to further their studies, they will brain wash themselves by saying: this is sth good, i must be happy. but that might not be how they feel deep in their heart. they feel uncertained with the unknown future, they feel worried n sad but they haf to put on a brave mask so that ppl around them will not be worried bout them.
being overseas for bout 8 months, i almost forgot my own feeling if not reminded by xin chai de's blog. when i 1st came here, things r so different from what it used to be..the familiar faces are gone and i haf to start meeting new ppl and fitting in myself to the new environment. it wasnt an easy process, bad things happen, feel like complaining but couldnt find any1 to complain to. ppl whom u used to complain wif seems to be far away from u and whenever u met them on the net or any other way, all u wanna share is the good things, share the things that u r comfortable wif and happy wif, but not the others. u kept everything else to urself, as u dowan ppl far away from u get worried bout u. more bad things happened, condition get worse...slowly u become immune to all these negative stuff and the brave mask stuck even tighter to u and u cant find a way to break the mask...u forget the way to express urself...u lost urself...
I really do miss u guys...all my frens and whoever read this post! thanks xin chai de who reminded me this.
came across xin chai de's blog with an emotional entry...and emotional stuff does makes a thinker thinks. goin overseas is never easy for a person. some ppl might think that, it is a really good opportunity as an eye opener, and we shouldnt be complainin bout this but haf to make full use of this chance as we haf spent so much money for this. but still, it is not easy for ppl to go for a country where the ppl speak different language as they do, different culture background, differently lifestyle and on top of that, they haf to leave all their love ones for a brand new life. it's never easy
somehow, when everyone is goin away to further their studies, they will brain wash themselves by saying: this is sth good, i must be happy. but that might not be how they feel deep in their heart. they feel uncertained with the unknown future, they feel worried n sad but they haf to put on a brave mask so that ppl around them will not be worried bout them.
being overseas for bout 8 months, i almost forgot my own feeling if not reminded by xin chai de's blog. when i 1st came here, things r so different from what it used to be..the familiar faces are gone and i haf to start meeting new ppl and fitting in myself to the new environment. it wasnt an easy process, bad things happen, feel like complaining but couldnt find any1 to complain to. ppl whom u used to complain wif seems to be far away from u and whenever u met them on the net or any other way, all u wanna share is the good things, share the things that u r comfortable wif and happy wif, but not the others. u kept everything else to urself, as u dowan ppl far away from u get worried bout u. more bad things happened, condition get worse...slowly u become immune to all these negative stuff and the brave mask stuck even tighter to u and u cant find a way to break the mask...u forget the way to express urself...u lost urself...
I really do miss u guys...all my frens and whoever read this post! thanks xin chai de who reminded me this.
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built in support for HSDPA 3.5G; a new data transfer standard that boosts downloads to a staggering 3.6 Mbps. Enjoy the convenience of near broadband speeds on your device. Gain uninterrupted access to a world of video calls, multimedia streaming, web surfing and send emails at speed anytime, anywhere. but it's around RM3500..isnt it too expensive? anyone have better deal? recommendation pls?
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Surgery!!
this week is the 1st week of my surgery run. after all the medical side of the run, finally i'm doin something that is really different compare to all the other attachments. for surgery, we will be having 10 weeks in total where half of them will be under gastroenterology and the other half under oncology. emergency medicine is oso included as part of the curriculum during this attachment. and oso, this 10 weeks will be the last run for me before my summer holiday in november!! yeah..cant wait to go back :P
surgery run is kinda good so far. but haven tasted enuff of this attachment yet. because there is no patient in the team tat i'm attached to...so nothing happening basicaly and finally today..seen a surgery on thyroid...well, not as bad as i thought, it was pretty interesting and the consultant taught us lots of anatomy...hrm...time to brush up a lil on my anatomy..gee! mebe bcos this surgery is not any emergency case...so it isnt as chaos and as tension as i think it would be...the nurses sat at the side and talked among themselves, anaesthetist talked bout other patients while the consultant teach us anatomy while operating the patient. although we din scrub up and not sterile..but we standing beside the bed as near as the consultant to the patient...so basically can see everything that is happening...just no touching at all. lolz..more surgeries tmr.
oh, my presentation happened last friday was pretty good. lots of funny things happened tho although one of the examiners is kinda grumpy and complain a lot...our group is just so happening. as for my presentation...i presented about tuberculosis and the examiner asked: what is the reason that the patients are non compliance to the medication?
"erm...." (blank look @@") "erm...side effects?"
"well, tat's one of the reason but is there any other reason that u notice?"
"erm...nop!" as i oledi mentioned all i know during the presentation
"there's another reason..it's becos anti-tuberculosis drugs have very high market price"
"(sweat ^^" + speechless)" i think the rest of the group oso have the same expression.
lolz...mebe it's sth good to know. other than tat...everything else was pretty good :)
more surgery to come...cant wait for the 1 week holiday in 2 weeks time...<>
surgery run is kinda good so far. but haven tasted enuff of this attachment yet. because there is no patient in the team tat i'm attached to...so nothing happening basicaly and finally today..seen a surgery on thyroid...well, not as bad as i thought, it was pretty interesting and the consultant taught us lots of anatomy...hrm...time to brush up a lil on my anatomy..gee! mebe bcos this surgery is not any emergency case...so it isnt as chaos and as tension as i think it would be...the nurses sat at the side and talked among themselves, anaesthetist talked bout other patients while the consultant teach us anatomy while operating the patient. although we din scrub up and not sterile..but we standing beside the bed as near as the consultant to the patient...so basically can see everything that is happening...just no touching at all. lolz..more surgeries tmr.
oh, my presentation happened last friday was pretty good. lots of funny things happened tho although one of the examiners is kinda grumpy and complain a lot...our group is just so happening. as for my presentation...i presented about tuberculosis and the examiner asked: what is the reason that the patients are non compliance to the medication?
"erm...." (blank look @@") "erm...side effects?"
"well, tat's one of the reason but is there any other reason that u notice?"
"erm...nop!" as i oledi mentioned all i know during the presentation
"there's another reason..it's becos anti-tuberculosis drugs have very high market price"
"(sweat ^^" + speechless)" i think the rest of the group oso have the same expression.
lolz...mebe it's sth good to know. other than tat...everything else was pretty good :)
more surgery to come...cant wait for the 1 week holiday in 2 weeks time...<
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Pizza Buffet
mentioned this in the previous post. went for pizza hut buffet 2 weeks ago. good pizza but limited choices...still...all of us enjoyed it :)
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Post OSCE syndrome
osce is over!! finally...it means that my cardio respi attachment is finishing soon. this is the last week for the run. the most stressful part of the run will be the osce...at least for me. wasnt really tat hard: 1 history taking, 1 physical examination, 1 patient education and 1 written test. anyway...it went quite well, just tat written test ask all bout respi questions...lolz.
i'm still goin to have an ospe for patho stuff on thursday and presentation on friday. but the craziest 1 is kinda over, so...now having post OSCE syndrome. which is the feeling of not doin any studies since the osce is over and meaning the hardest part of the exam is over. haven finished preparing for my presentation yet...but dun feel like doin it. study for ospe...yea sure...but not too nite. the onli thing i wanna do is sit back n relax. but tat shudnt be wad i'm suppose to do...sigh! lazy lazy...start tmr la! haha...at least i've done a lil bit of studies before this..and bit of presentation stuff as well...not tat bad eh? hah!
surgery run next. 5 weeks on gastro and another 5 weeks on oncology...wish me luck ;p
i'm still goin to have an ospe for patho stuff on thursday and presentation on friday. but the craziest 1 is kinda over, so...now having post OSCE syndrome. which is the feeling of not doin any studies since the osce is over and meaning the hardest part of the exam is over. haven finished preparing for my presentation yet...but dun feel like doin it. study for ospe...yea sure...but not too nite. the onli thing i wanna do is sit back n relax. but tat shudnt be wad i'm suppose to do...sigh! lazy lazy...start tmr la! haha...at least i've done a lil bit of studies before this..and bit of presentation stuff as well...not tat bad eh? hah!
surgery run next. 5 weeks on gastro and another 5 weeks on oncology...wish me luck ;p
Monday, July 30, 2007
Saturday, July 28, 2007
1:38:24am
it's midnite...late in the nite...and this is my usual sleepin time. from a night owl to a morning bird after i started my clinical year. but mebe it's weekend, mebe it's a punishment for myself, no matter how late is it, no matter how tired i am, i wouldnt let myself turning in so early. i tell myself, i need to do some work until i satisfy and agree wif myself of goin to bed.
had a presentation on my case today in the small gp to my mentor. i'm the last one to present as everyone else in our gp has presented in earlier sessions. it went on quite well initially but for my research study, kinda screw it up. haha! my fault, my bad...for not having enuff preparation, din know haf to present tat before this..anyway, no excuse..it's just me being me again! haha...all because i din get to find the most recent article. the mentor oso cacat today, dunno why become so moody. mebe it's friday evening...everyone is havin friday syndrome :)
wadever is over...it's over. sometimes things do change over time, and these changes will be permanent and no matter how much u wan it back, it will never come back anyway. if u wan to blame...blame urself for not catching and appreciate the old ones when they are available :P
i might not be a good fren...but i've done the best i can!! :D
when can i go to bed? dunno...!
had a presentation on my case today in the small gp to my mentor. i'm the last one to present as everyone else in our gp has presented in earlier sessions. it went on quite well initially but for my research study, kinda screw it up. haha! my fault, my bad...for not having enuff preparation, din know haf to present tat before this..anyway, no excuse..it's just me being me again! haha...all because i din get to find the most recent article. the mentor oso cacat today, dunno why become so moody. mebe it's friday evening...everyone is havin friday syndrome :)
wadever is over...it's over. sometimes things do change over time, and these changes will be permanent and no matter how much u wan it back, it will never come back anyway. if u wan to blame...blame urself for not catching and appreciate the old ones when they are available :P
i might not be a good fren...but i've done the best i can!! :D
when can i go to bed? dunno...!
Thursday, July 26, 2007
came across with this phrase before.."If you are my best friend, I'll give you the best of me." it makes me think a lil bit. wad's tat suppose to mean? does it means that people will always appear to be the best of themselves when they are with their close ones? or it could be the other way round?
some ppl they can give almost everything tat they can offer to their close ones and the ones that they care the most. they think of others more than themselves, and put others ahead for wadsoever decision that they made. tat's how a Giver thinks. they not thinking bout their own benefits bout how the things they did make a difference in others' lives. n they will give the best to their friends.
in other hand, some ppl think more bout themselves and they think bout pros and cons towards themselves whenever they make a decision. tat's how a Receiver thinks. they expect from people around him. they sit back n relax and wait for ppl comin for them. n therefore, they might take things for granted and not appreciating ppl around them. and not surprise, they might treat their best fren not better than any1 else?
Are you a Giver or a Receiver? there are both of the characters in us.we just need to balance up and be more a giver than a receiver. being giver onli it not entirely a good thing. if u planted a seed, u haf to harvest it anyway. so there is nothing wrong with receiving after u've give heaps :)
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To do list:
1. finish up my case report
2. prepare for presentation
3. prepare of osce on next tue
4. prepare of path test on next thurs
some ppl they can give almost everything tat they can offer to their close ones and the ones that they care the most. they think of others more than themselves, and put others ahead for wadsoever decision that they made. tat's how a Giver thinks. they not thinking bout their own benefits bout how the things they did make a difference in others' lives. n they will give the best to their friends.
in other hand, some ppl think more bout themselves and they think bout pros and cons towards themselves whenever they make a decision. tat's how a Receiver thinks. they expect from people around him. they sit back n relax and wait for ppl comin for them. n therefore, they might take things for granted and not appreciating ppl around them. and not surprise, they might treat their best fren not better than any1 else?
Are you a Giver or a Receiver? there are both of the characters in us.we just need to balance up and be more a giver than a receiver. being giver onli it not entirely a good thing. if u planted a seed, u haf to harvest it anyway. so there is nothing wrong with receiving after u've give heaps :)
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To do list:
1. finish up my case report
2. prepare for presentation
3. prepare of osce on next tue
4. prepare of path test on next thurs
Clinical years...
after having tasted a few months of clinical year, and more of physical exam..which is not sweet, and think back of our 1st taste of physical examination back in imu, they are totally different experiences tat we have. n by now onli we realise tat how naive we are last time during pre clinical year and without realising that there are lots of things tat we still din know yet.
Real patients vs. "sTimulated" patients
for SP, we get all the ideal patients in imu, a guy SP, with reasonable height and weight making examination just so easy for us. apex of the heart is so easily palpable, the abdomen can be palpate so easily. whereas for real patients, u never know wad patients u r goin to get, usually old patient, usually obese with huge tummy tat u can hardly press on it. another thing is tat, we r just so used to the negative signs for the SP since they r healthy and well and we will just say no to everything. but for the real pt, think before u say NO! cos there might have YES tat u never noticed.
is wad we practice in IMU enuff for us in clinical year? NO!! we need to know lots more than how to do an examination. after i've done almost 4 weeks of cardio respi run, realise tat wad we learn last time is just not sufficient. why did we do collapsing pulse last time especially for aortic regurgitation but not other abnormalities of the pulse? we report no special character all the time but we actually dun really know wad special character present. 45 degree for JVP examination...is tat really necessary? Dr Smyth, a very nice chad from UK told us no matter which degree position they r lying on, the height of jvp will be the same, and u just haf to move the pt up n down in order to see it. lolz...
clinical years..more clinical exposure as well as knowledge exposure as well :D
Real patients vs. "sTimulated" patients
for SP, we get all the ideal patients in imu, a guy SP, with reasonable height and weight making examination just so easy for us. apex of the heart is so easily palpable, the abdomen can be palpate so easily. whereas for real patients, u never know wad patients u r goin to get, usually old patient, usually obese with huge tummy tat u can hardly press on it. another thing is tat, we r just so used to the negative signs for the SP since they r healthy and well and we will just say no to everything. but for the real pt, think before u say NO! cos there might have YES tat u never noticed.
is wad we practice in IMU enuff for us in clinical year? NO!! we need to know lots more than how to do an examination. after i've done almost 4 weeks of cardio respi run, realise tat wad we learn last time is just not sufficient. why did we do collapsing pulse last time especially for aortic regurgitation but not other abnormalities of the pulse? we report no special character all the time but we actually dun really know wad special character present. 45 degree for JVP examination...is tat really necessary? Dr Smyth, a very nice chad from UK told us no matter which degree position they r lying on, the height of jvp will be the same, and u just haf to move the pt up n down in order to see it. lolz...
clinical years..more clinical exposure as well as knowledge exposure as well :D
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
cheerz!
wad makes a good doctor? personality or knowledge?? doctors have been recognised by ppl to be someone who have great knowledge and know almost everything. even when u r talking to the patients..they will said to u:
"you got lots to learn aye!?"
well, i guess so..we study for longer time to complete our course compare to other professions. we study books as well as person. we need to know alot in order to be a good doctor. but will we be a great doctor without good personality? i doubt so...someone can pretend to be very kind and nice in front of patients but act totally differently when they r facing their colleague and friends.
"u've got a lovely smile" some ppl said
"u've been really gentle to ppl, tat's so nice of u" some others will said
but r those personalities great enuff to bring u to a success in the future? but u need to haf some substance as well, being nice without substance..wad type of doctors will u be..if u make a diagnosis wrongly, give the wrong treatment..it will be a disaster as well.
so...Knowledge vs. Personality who will win? which is more important in this career..? both r required but which is more likely to make u a better doctor?
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Had a bedside teaching this afternoon with my usual group ppl. n we were looking at this pt's echo's result as he got pericardial effusion (fluid collection of the sac around the heart). all we see is this little heart just like a little baby struggling in a tiny room...and there is not much movement and the heart is not really pumping and working.
"how does a normal heart look like?" all of us wonder
couldnt find a pt with normal heart echocardiogram.
"why dun we just do it on ourselves to see a normal heart?" a bright idea came to our minds
as the only guy in our group...i've to volunteer myself and expose my heart to everyone ^^
echocardiogram is just like ultrascan that we use to scan the baby for the pregnant lady..but scan on the heart this time. by lying on my side...the gel was apply on my chest...
ahh...now i know how uncomfortable the cold feeling is like especially in winter!! @@ i tell myself...
and there it is...my heart appeared on the screen. it looks healthy (deh..) and pumping real hard. it has been working for 22 years without stopping..and he never complain anything bout tat. LOL
hi...dear heart! this is my 1st time meeting u!...nice to see u :)
no reply...guess he's too busy on his work. better dun bother him...but it looks cool on the monitor...the valves open and close like 2 little hands of a baby. anyway...tat's really COOL!
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without all the hardship and failure...u'll never know how sweet a success is.
"you got lots to learn aye!?"
well, i guess so..we study for longer time to complete our course compare to other professions. we study books as well as person. we need to know alot in order to be a good doctor. but will we be a great doctor without good personality? i doubt so...someone can pretend to be very kind and nice in front of patients but act totally differently when they r facing their colleague and friends.
"u've got a lovely smile" some ppl said
"u've been really gentle to ppl, tat's so nice of u" some others will said
but r those personalities great enuff to bring u to a success in the future? but u need to haf some substance as well, being nice without substance..wad type of doctors will u be..if u make a diagnosis wrongly, give the wrong treatment..it will be a disaster as well.
so...Knowledge vs. Personality who will win? which is more important in this career..? both r required but which is more likely to make u a better doctor?
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Had a bedside teaching this afternoon with my usual group ppl. n we were looking at this pt's echo's result as he got pericardial effusion (fluid collection of the sac around the heart). all we see is this little heart just like a little baby struggling in a tiny room...and there is not much movement and the heart is not really pumping and working.
"how does a normal heart look like?" all of us wonder
couldnt find a pt with normal heart echocardiogram.
"why dun we just do it on ourselves to see a normal heart?" a bright idea came to our minds
as the only guy in our group...i've to volunteer myself and expose my heart to everyone ^^
echocardiogram is just like ultrascan that we use to scan the baby for the pregnant lady..but scan on the heart this time. by lying on my side...the gel was apply on my chest...
ahh...now i know how uncomfortable the cold feeling is like especially in winter!! @@ i tell myself...
and there it is...my heart appeared on the screen. it looks healthy (deh..) and pumping real hard. it has been working for 22 years without stopping..and he never complain anything bout tat. LOL
hi...dear heart! this is my 1st time meeting u!...nice to see u :)
no reply...guess he's too busy on his work. better dun bother him...but it looks cool on the monitor...the valves open and close like 2 little hands of a baby. anyway...tat's really COOL!
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without all the hardship and failure...u'll never know how sweet a success is.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
^^"
2 more weeks for cardio respi run. have learned lots of heart and lungs oledi. work for this run is 1 long case history...which i've almost done and left a part of literature review that i hasnt done. wad else? 1 more critical appraisal on article for presentation. and as the end for this run. we need another OSCE to prove that we have actually learned something from this attachment. 1 history taking, 1 physical examination and 1 patient education on smoking cessation or asthma or sth else and 1 written test. i'm osce-phobia is killing me again. when someone is observing you, u just can do ur best no matter wad...or mebe i'm just tat incompetence! haha!
after being sick for several days, and lack for work for the whole weekend, i need to catch up wif some work after my 3 hours nap :S isnt it too long for a nap? but hey...froggie's name is always from 10pm til 5 am...mine is not tat bad after all. research, article review...ppl here r just so evidence based. or i shud say this carrier has always been like tat? i'm not sure bout back home...mebe ppl in seremban can answer me...but we read more articles than textbook here. textbook's information seems to be outdated and cant be trusted anymore. all the facts tat we have leanred might well be proven wrong some time in the future.
elective...i din know tat we need to pay for it no matter which uni or hospital we r attached to. for instant, for those who wanna come to christchurch have to pay NZD800 as admission fee before u r allowed to come here for an elective. isnt it abit too much? i find it really pricey..not sure bout other hospital.
pizzahut buffet...had tat for lunch this afternoon..when i'm still not so well physically. it's around NZD 10 per person..which is quite reasonable. but it wasnt as good as i expected. 1stly, limited pizza choices...only around 5 types of pizza they served, 2nd, there is no chicken wings..sob! no deli wings nor sweet and spicy wings..miss those! we haf salad and pasta...but no soup! mushroom soup..chicken soup with garlic bread...not here! we haf ice cream...but very watery! haha...as i'm not a pizza person..so 6 pieces make me real full with all the sides of cos. full til now n had apple and yogurt for me supper! lolz...
new week starting...still goin to be bz! well...we r learing to become a doctor mah! LOL
after being sick for several days, and lack for work for the whole weekend, i need to catch up wif some work after my 3 hours nap :S isnt it too long for a nap? but hey...froggie's name is always from 10pm til 5 am...mine is not tat bad after all. research, article review...ppl here r just so evidence based. or i shud say this carrier has always been like tat? i'm not sure bout back home...mebe ppl in seremban can answer me...but we read more articles than textbook here. textbook's information seems to be outdated and cant be trusted anymore. all the facts tat we have leanred might well be proven wrong some time in the future.
elective...i din know tat we need to pay for it no matter which uni or hospital we r attached to. for instant, for those who wanna come to christchurch have to pay NZD800 as admission fee before u r allowed to come here for an elective. isnt it abit too much? i find it really pricey..not sure bout other hospital.
pizzahut buffet...had tat for lunch this afternoon..when i'm still not so well physically. it's around NZD 10 per person..which is quite reasonable. but it wasnt as good as i expected. 1stly, limited pizza choices...only around 5 types of pizza they served, 2nd, there is no chicken wings..sob! no deli wings nor sweet and spicy wings..miss those! we haf salad and pasta...but no soup! mushroom soup..chicken soup with garlic bread...not here! we haf ice cream...but very watery! haha...as i'm not a pizza person..so 6 pieces make me real full with all the sides of cos. full til now n had apple and yogurt for me supper! lolz...
new week starting...still goin to be bz! well...we r learing to become a doctor mah! LOL
Saturday, July 21, 2007
wad a week!
finally this week is over...and weekend is here. been really bz for this week although ppl said this attachment tat i'm doin is suppose to be the easy 1. but in fact, the timetable is kinda pack as well..mebe onli for our gp, but some of the day we haf teaching from 830 in the morning until 530 when the sun h
as set. and the weather during the week isnt great as well. been walkin in the rain everyday to the uni. imagine...30 mins walk everyday in the rain :( and it's freezing cold outside lo. so the pic show how cold i am when i was walking to the hospital. as the consequence of that, i fell sick!
It started the nite after i went for a swim. it was a great swim by the way when the weather is cold, the water is much warmer :P and i had headached when i'm back home. took panadols and flu come right after tat. so for these few days, i've been having flu, headache n stuff. dun feel like doin anywork and been sleepin a lot. tat's why until now i still haven done my report lo and i need to finish it by this weekend. anyway..feel much better oledi! hee...
again, i still cant wait for the summer holiday in the nov. still got 3 months to go...but haf been planning for it oledi. lots of places i wanna go and lots of things to do. the 3 months might not be enuff for me. will be goin back home on 3rd nov and come back here again on 9th feb (3rd day of CNY) yea..i wan to go Penang, i wan to go S'pore, i wan to go Scotland..and definately wan to go back to Kuching! hee...
as set. and the weather during the week isnt great as well. been walkin in the rain everyday to the uni. imagine...30 mins walk everyday in the rain :( and it's freezing cold outside lo. so the pic show how cold i am when i was walking to the hospital. as the consequence of that, i fell sick!It started the nite after i went for a swim. it was a great swim by the way when the weather is cold, the water is much warmer :P and i had headached when i'm back home. took panadols and flu come right after tat. so for these few days, i've been having flu, headache n stuff. dun feel like doin anywork and been sleepin a lot. tat's why until now i still haven done my report lo and i need to finish it by this weekend. anyway..feel much better oledi! hee...
again, i still cant wait for the summer holiday in the nov. still got 3 months to go...but haf been planning for it oledi. lots of places i wanna go and lots of things to do. the 3 months might not be enuff for me. will be goin back home on 3rd nov and come back here again on 9th feb (3rd day of CNY) yea..i wan to go Penang, i wan to go S'pore, i wan to go Scotland..and definately wan to go back to Kuching! hee...
距离
距离究竟是什么?一公分，一公尺还是一公里?
真正的距离是一个人在你的身边，你却不懂他的心。
无论你如何努力想拉近距离，依然无动于衷，
距离依旧存在。
你心想:就算了吧。。。干嘛投资在没有结果的事情上。
你放弃了，不再为它做任何事，
原本的距离逐渐加长,
渐渐地，你再也无法触摸到。
渐渐地，他也消失在你的世界。
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
Engagement Ceremony
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Random~!
Wanted to post some photos up but dunno why these photos appear
Crayon Shin Chan - froggie favourite comic...got the comic from him but haven finished watching yet =S
Crayon Shin Chan - froggie favourite comic...got the comic from him but haven finished watching yet =S
4 poor easter bunnies...
Sweet corn soup...yum yum!
Froggie's art of the year~! got it during my bday! haha...
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