Daydreaming

YAWN!!!!

2011-01-14T03:47:00.003+10:30

It has been ages since I last Blog. Getting lazy to do so these days for some unknown reasons (May be the hectic and busy me can't find the time to blog and when I do have the time I just want to do something else). I started my Obstetric and Gynaecology rotation and it is one of the best rotation i ever had, but too bad I am not interested in O&G. It's not a bad specialty but I don't think this field is something I want to do. Reasons why i can't do it...... well i'll just keep it to myself for now.

Did i mention i love the hospital I am posted to at the moment. It's called Lyell McEwin Hospital. Everything in the hospital is NEW!!!! Haven't been to the wards to see how the environment is. Hopefully it lives up to my expectations.

Oh well gotta go. Exam in a few more weeks (long case and MCQ plus SCT) and i need to do some reading. Cheers guys!!!

Enrolment

2011-01-11T19:08:00.008+10:30

Enrolment started today and i spent 45 minutes figuring out how I did the whole thing when I just started last year. If you guys don't know what enrolment means, let me explain it quickly, its the process where you choose which subjects you are going to study this year in order to complete your degree. Yes, we get to choose what we want to study for our degree, BUT, (yes there is a big BUT for us medical students) we don't get to choose which subjects we want. We have to take the whole lot of subjects that was pre-determined for us i.e. we just do the standard subjects which every medical schools do.

So why the time spent doing it? The answer, the whole process was so confusing (to me of course) and I was lost as to what I need to do. First we had to go through the check list and that was easy. Then came the hard part, the enrolment itself. I spent ten minutes looking for the subjects which i have to take. There was this section which require us to put in the class number and i did not know where to look for it. I search the "subject search" section and it wasn't there. Finally I realised it was all on this Enrolment information leaflet on the MLTU website. Then more confusing things crop up and that was how I spent so long enrolling into my MBBS programme.

Confusing? If you have no idea why I have to do all these stuffs and not just join the programme well I'm wondering that myself.

Oh and this will be my first post for the year 2011. Happy New Year everyone!!!

I Love Holidays cause i just get BORED

2010-12-21T18:58:00.002+10:30

Ok you know how my previous post said i made it to 5th year (so happy that my hard work pays off), well the result that came out only showed THREE WORDS. NGP!!!! Yes just this 3 words which stand for Non Graded Pass.

Now I went and check the Med school bulletin board for any recent announcement and they said they are going to put up the grades/scores for each individual papers. Which means my OBA, SCT and OSCE do have a grade after all, but its just for us to know. No one else will know about it. Oh and they even said that starting from this year, out of the 2 theory papers, we are allowed to have one Grade D so long they did not fail OSCE.

So what is the point of saying all this if half of my friends don't even know what is happening. Its simple, though i passed my 4th year but secretly deep down in me, i hope i don't get a C or D for any papers. Somehow i find that it reflects on "something which I don't know how to tell you guys" and what kind of doc you will be. This is what boredom does to you. It make you think of weird stuff or sometimes negative stuff.

Oh talking about being random, there is a BUNGEE Jump in Malaysia. It's in Sunway Lagoon!!!! I feel like going for it, just a warm up before I try the Bungee in New Zealand (Yes my friends, i have always wanted to try bungee jump and I don't know why). All I hope is that i will not chicken out when I'm there.

Sorry folks, no pictures to see and I know what I wrote is quite stupid and not entirely related to the title. I'm just trying to kill my boredom. If I were to have something to do, I will not even write this post.

I Made It

2010-12-08T15:11:00.006+10:30

My first exam abroad. It was a scary experience but now i know how they do it.

And now i can say i made it!!!!!

Thank you to God, my family and all my friends for their support!!!

I will work harder next year and be more prepare next year for my exam!!!!

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!

Mclaren Vale and Victor Harbour

2010-11-20T16:00:00.014+10:30

Exam is OVER!!!!!! Yeaaaaaa!

Went to Mclaren Vale (another place where winessssss are produced) and Victor Harbour. Walked over the bridge which i forgot its name to Granite Island and the scene was PRICELESS!!! But i didn't get to eat the famous Fish and Chips in Victor Harbour. We only manage to eat the second best Fish and Chips in Victor Harbour.

We rented 2 cars as it was a 3 hours (i think) journey from Adelaide city and guess what, i.......... did not drive to Victor Harbour. I slept throughout the journey hahahahahahaha.

McLaren Vale

And everyone was so happy after exam that they want to celebrate by JUMPING.

If you are wondering where is my jumping shot, well it's at my friend's camera not mine and it's ugly. Between Mclaren Vale and Barossa Valley, i still love Barossa cause there is more wine to drink hahahahaha.

After Mclaren Vale is Victor Harbour which is another 3 hours away. Eric drove cause he has a car while i sleep. Nothing to do on the car except sleep.

Next, pictures of Victor Harbour, the bridge (i think is called Murray Bridge), and Granite Island.

The Bridge which is laden with Horse Poo

Are those Penguins????

The Horse Tram that brings you over to Granite Island

The view on Granite Island!!!!

The trip was fun and its a good way to unwind after the exam stress. One more destination down in my travelling list.

Last but not least a brief mention of the feeling of anxiousness while waiting for my results. Pray that i pass my exams.

Brain Overloaded

2010-10-28T01:31:00.002+10:30

I don't know why i'm blogging at this critical moment (OMG exam is near). I wonder if i am the only stupid one still blogging. I hope Hann Yee do blog during this time as well hehehehehehe so i will not be the only stupid one.

Hann Yee go blog!!!!!

Anyway i think my brain is overloaded with too much information. Past year Questions, IBD, Ortho and spinal stuff, Surgery stuff...................... bah i need to go back to my studies.

Praying hard these days!!!!

Do i look like i care

2010-10-09T17:28:00.004+10:30

Just a very quick post to make this blog "lively". Exam is near, need to do tons of preparation. Study is making a big part cause there is so many things to read. OSCE just started recently and i am more worried on this aspect especially history taking. Practise more!!!!

Anyway like the title of the post, its just a comment on what students here like to talk about. They just luv to talk about stuff which if they were to say it to us (Malaysian or generally asian), i think most of us will just give them a "Do i look like i care about that" kinda face.

Guess that is why its hard to share a common topic with them

Bone fracture and........ brain fracture!!!!!!

2010-09-10T14:21:00.012+09:30

I just finished my Orthopaedic (Or-tall-pee-dick) rotation. 6 weeks of it in total. Overall it is a good experience. For this rotation i was based at Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH), the largest hospital in South Australia and possibly the best in South Australia.

RAH in the morning at 7.15am

When i first started my orthopaedic rotation, i was happy as i would have more chance to talk to patients and the best part of this rotation was you get to help the interns. You help the interns with blood taking, checking on how the patient is progressing and do IV cannulas. Cool right. Its like you are the doc checking on your patient's progress. Sometimes i took a full history and write it in the case notes, but usually it was already written hahahahahaha (Just got too much time, so decided to do something to kill time).

Then there was those Clinics that you have to attend. Either you sit and follow the registrar around or you act like you are the doctor and see the patient and present it back to them. I did the latter most of the time, and i enjoyed it. Instead of following the registrar around which i would most certainly yawned 20 times in 30 minutes and closed my eyes for a rest every 15 minutes. I would rather choose to see the patient, present it to them and learn from them.

Finishing with the clinics and ward work, the next section is tutorial and "micro' teaching. The consultants were very keen on teaching and i really love them. Mr Pohl and Mr Chehade are two of the consultants that love to teach. I would miss them. Tutorial was mainly theoretical stuff which you could just flip open the books and read them yourself. But paying attention on the tut even though you could read it at home is good too, cause you will learn how to manage those conditions base on their opinions (but i usually just want it to be over quickly so that i can go home).

Next is the theatre. I didn't get to scrub in this time. Oh well i don't really enjoy scrubbing in as a student anyway. Its just annoying to change your clothes & wear the protective wears (mask, and the head thingy). Then if you want to scrub in you have to wash your hands and arms with soap 3 times, gown and glove and stand there holding those equipments and pray you don't fall asleep.

Ward work is more fun. Take bloods, see patient to take history (you can practise for exam at the same time), put in an IV cannula. Heck me and one of my friends from another group always fight for it hahahahahaha.

Oh and there was the ward rounds and consultant rounds. Ward rounds are fast (like extremely fast). The first day i did it, i didn't even step into the room and they were all walking out to another room. Basically they finish ward round in 30 mins for 27 patients (average time spend is 1 min for each patient), then they have coffee which they will buy for you if you want (i usually decline la duh. being humble ok).

Consultant round was pretty much easy. Just hold up the x-ray film for the consultants. If they want to have a better look, pass it to them. Take it back when they were done and keep it away. No case presentation, no questions asked.

Oh well ortho is over, now i have to pray that i pass this rotation. PRAY HARD-HARD.

Cheers to those who are still following this boring blog!!!

Of Radiology and Anaesthetic

2010-07-24T17:01:00.015+09:30

My 6 weeks of MSA (elective la) is coming to an end soon. This week will be last week of MSA and my last week in QEH, the hospital i've been going since my 1st semester.

My first elective was medical imaging aka Radiology. I was attached to the radiology registrar for 3 weeks and i think it is ok. At times it could be boring. Oh and i fell asleep in front of the consultant AGAIN (yes again this is not the first time) when he was discussing some CT scan findings with the registrar i was attached too. Hahahahahahahaha. Thinking back, i don't know why i did the sleeping in front of them. Wonder what will happened if i do the same in front of some lecturer giving us MMS session back in IMU (will i be kicked out of the session???). Here are some pictures i took when i was doing radiology.

The X-ray room with the X-ray machine

And the CT scan finding(s) show.....

After 3 weeks of radiology with no patient contact, i was literally dying to have patient contact. So i was actually looking forward to my next elective, ANAESTHETIC cause i think there would be at least some patient contact and i am going back to the THEATRE. Gosh its like doing my surgical rotation which i really enjoyed.

Anaesthetic rotation was not too bad either. At least i get to do something. I intubated a patient (it was mostly done by the registrar), gave 100ml of panadol to the patient and mix granisetron and dexamethasone and gave it to the patient as anti-emetic. I love the registrar for allowing me to do all this. The registrar also bombarded me with so many questions not on drugs and pharmacology but on physiology and ECG (die die die). Oh and guess what, one of the IMU (super) senior is a registrar in anesthetic. She is more to intensive care medicine registrar but as part of her training as an intensivist she has to do her anaesthetic rotation. According to her, anaesthetist are weirdo and even the anaesthetist know that they are weird LOL. Ok here are some pictures i took when i was standing there doing nothing.

The monitoring/ breathing machine!!!

Paracetamol (BIG PANADOL)

Drugs, try guessing the name of the white drug

More drugs

Tomorrow is my last day in QEH and anaesthetic. Guess i will go for one more surgery before i go off. Gosh i am gonna miss that hospital. Made so many new friends there. Next rotation is Orthopaedics in Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH).

Mua Birthday

2010-07-16T19:37:00.006+09:30

This is MY month. Yes people i always love July cause i'm born in July, so i officially declare it as my month hahahahahahaha. Anyway did you know July was name after Julius Caesar, the great Roman leader. So interesting right hahahahahaha.

So today is my birthday and guess what, i am a year older, a year wiser and if i'm vain i'm just a step closer to having wrinkles all over my face. Ok i'll go check on the mirror for any wrinkles now................ done no wrinkles. phew.

Wonder what i can do on my birthday? Sangee just called me and wish me happy birthday (thanks a lot Sangee really nice and sweet of you). Got loads of wishes in Facebook (the power of social network) and i would like to thank them all as well. Wishes are pouring in from very old friends, old friends, moderately old friends and new friends (the four category of friends that i came out with spontenously. Wonder if i can publish it somewhere?).

So Sangee told me not to study on my birthday. In fact she told me not to do anything. Hehehehehe Sangee i would love to do that. If i were at home in Malaysia, i would just sit on the couch and watch TV the whole day. My parents would then bring me out for dinner and i could decide what i want to eat. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Thai food, Western you name it (but i can't go for indian cause my mum don't like the smell they put in the food. Said she feels nauseated smelling it). I would usually pick chinese cause it is everywhere and it's way cheaper than the others and it taste superb too.

After dinner i would come home and watch more TV shows. If you wonder where is the cake..... well my family don't go with cake hahahaha. Dad complains that the cake are too sweet these days. Mum, no complain but she doesn't know how to pick one. The only cake they knew are Black Forest (their favourite), Fruit cake (my favourite), and Cheese cake (no ones favourite). Cakes like chocolate banana and all doesn't ring a bell, but when you buy it and let them eat it they will say "Wow this is good, i really love it. Where did you get this?"

The second part of my celebration is with my friends. Sky, Qian bao, Ling Ling bao, yu gin, Kay Por, Ren Ping, Dororo, the loud and noisy MICHELLE LEE (yea you deserve some attention hahahaha) etc (there are just too many of you for me to name) will all organise a surprise or a birthday celebration for me with a cake. Usually it ends messy with your face smashed on the cake or part of the cake (wonder if they have change their style hmmmm).

Hahahahahaha this is how i celebrate my birthday back in Malaysia. It's so nostalgic!!!!

Well this will be my first birthday in a foreign land. Hope it doesn't get messy.

P.S. really miss you guys (seremban people, Aberdeen people, or wherever you are), when i come back next time we must meet up NO EXCUSES!!!!!

Short and random weird post.

2010-07-01T20:22:00.006+09:30

Hann Yee how did you find out i have a blog? How? How? HOW? Shit man

See my name on her blog. ooooh i saw Sow-my-aaaah name

Now i cannot make funny comments about her since she knows i have a blog. Damn it!!!!! (this blog is suppose to make funny comments about people............ ok i haven't make one yet but i will do so in the future) I wonder who told her...... or maybe she found it incidentally like those pituitary tumour which is most probably found incidentally while doing a scan.

Ok i think i better go back to my studies. These days i am so free cause i am in radiology. I haven't seen or touch a single patient so far by my own (except when i clerk patients with my prof). One of the Singaporean here told me why i got radiology. He said i am too stress up and the posting is to allow me to relax (the Singaporean i mention is not from IMU ok).

Fine back to my studies.

P.S. I shall make some funny comments next time....... maybe hann yee doesn't read this blog hehehehehe.

P.s. I am feeling better these days but i am still scared, like really scared and having random emo-ness......

New Template-EMO

2010-06-23T22:55:00.010+09:30

I seem to have neglect my blog long enough. I haven't got any topic to write on lately. When i login today i found out that there are new templates for selection and so i chose this new template cause i think it's nice. Not too "much" or too "little" if you know what i mean.

I went back to Malaysia for 2 weeks and four days before i came back to Adelaide. It was supposed to be a fun and happy trip initially cause i am going back to my HOME and i could eat all my favourite food. Then something happened and the whole holiday was not that enjoyable any more. It literally changed from what could have been a great trip to a trip which was full of stress and emo-ness.

I was craving for Malaysian food when i was in Adelaide and I told myself i would have 5 meals a day when i am back in Malaysia. But all these came to not. I was in such a bad mood when i came back that i just had 3 meals a day instead of the 5 which i vow to do. The holidays wasn't any special either. I was locked up in my room reading and studying and talking to my friend in Adelaide all the time. (except for a few hours of watching HK drama which i miss so much)

Now that i am back in Adelaide, i think the stress level is higher than when i first came. There are so many changes i have to make (yea i knew i have to change when i first came but....... well the story is long and i don't even know why i did not change in the end, haih). Everything does not feel the same compared to when i first came. When i went out with my friends from IMU, they were literally talking about their holidays and how they enjoyed it while i was sitting there like some stranger from another world. Cause to tell the truth, i think my holiday was not that great apart from being with my family.

Ok this is an Emo post i realise, but hey people have their ups and downs and i'm now in the down side of things. Oh well i better get back to work with the big word "CHANGE" at the back of my mind (work hard, and work smart).

P.S. I find that being around with my friends is not like what it used to be, i don't know why. I felt stupid when i am with them, like real stupid!!!!!!

Quick Update

2010-05-26T18:19:00.003+09:30

Well just a quick update on my attachment in Adelaide. Internal Med is hectic. Tuts here and there and not to mention i wasted 5 weeks not learning anything (its a long story no point talking about it)

Love Respi rounds and my registrar. Even though he is busy preparing for his physician exam, he still took some time off and go through respi examination with us.... oh and he asked us to perform it in front of the consultant tomorrow (now this part is not that fun). Asked him about the management of asthma and STEMI and NSTEMI....... but when it comes to the heart i believe the cardiologist consultant is much better in it.

OSCE on Friday as our end of rotation exam. Heard everyone will pass but i think it is better to be prepared for it. Oh and tomorrow have to meet up with another doc from who knows which hospital for history taking practise and clinical reasoning and it is just for two of us........ i think my fees is well spent.

Since no one is reading this blog i shall curse a bit. What the "tooot" is that stupid she man cooking. Shim always cook so looooooong. I am hungry and he is taking Her/is time cooking. Damn. I have to freaking read my LFT and look through the ECGs for OSCE and the blood films for leukaemias and he is still cooking. (I shall now ask for forgiveness for cursing people. God, please forgive me)

I am so dead for ECG!!!!!

Ok i shall go now. WOOOOHOOOOO i am so excited hahahahahahaha

QEH

2010-04-10T01:10:00.006+09:30

Realising that my previous post topic should be QEH instead of surgical rotation, hence i decided to put this post as QEH the name of the hospital i am currently still in (damn i am going to get so used to this hospital). Anyway as i said in my previous post i shall give a small talk on my surgical rotation and realising that most probably no one will read it cause everyone is so busy these days (actually i am busy too, that is why i am blogging now before all those crazy evidence based medicine, research proposal and studying to show what IMU student are made of comes), so i think i can type a looooooong post or maybe i should do some venting of all the stress here.

Surgical posting i dare say have given me different experiences. I think my previous post mention i was post at colorectal unit and Upper GI the 2 most hectic posting, guess what turns out i am wrong for the 1st part. Colorectal is such a slacky unit hahahahahaha, patient are less but the RMOs are very keen in teaching so sometimes we follow him to the ED and clerk a patient and present it to him. He will than ask for our differential and we will give him the answer even though it is a very stupid answer. The interns are also very keen in teaching too. One of them even brought all his text books for us to borrow home, so nice right. The best part is when they are to perform a procedure such as inserting a catheter or a NGT they will bring us along to observe. Oh and not to forget taking blood which i am still very bad at and doing Jelco (the slang here in South Australia which means IV cannula). Ward round in surg starts at 7.30am and my consulant ward round is at 11am every Monday and Friday. So yea guess this is it for my first posting for 4 weeks (sorry no pic of the team).

So the next team i am posted to is Upper GI/Professorial surgery. One word when i was about to go for it. DIE!!!!! the busiest ward in the whole Surgical division cause it also covers for general surgery too, i have to go for ward round at 7.30am and 7am on Monday and Wednesday. Sometimes there is so many patients that the ward round last from 7.30am to 11am for a surg ward round (its consider a long ward round for a surgical unit). We walked from 2nd floor to the to the 2nd floor at the old wing where the ICU is located, then to Emergency department at ground floor to see all the patients. Worst is i have to cover or clerk every patient to do case presentation to the consultants on Wednesday where we have our consultant rounds. We are expected to present how the patient performed throughout the week and what are their treatment plans, the investigations they have gone and the results of the investigations if there is any. The most many patients i have to present was 8 patient. Luckily the 6th years did help me out and divide the patient equally among them. Oh and did i mention that i have to be there in the hospital by 6.30am before the ward round start which is at 7am just to check on how my patient is doing which include their obs (Temp+O2 saturation+drain output from wound+BP), and the result of any investigations which include X-ray and CT scan which were not out on Tuesday.

After Consultant round on Wednesday, we would have MDM, multidisciplinary meeting between surgeons, oncologist and radiologist than i have to go for OPD (out patient department) to clerk patient, do a PE and present it to the consultants again. haih

But at the end of my posting at this unit, i kinda have a 'miss you' feeling. Maybe cause i am too used to it. After the 2nd week in the unit my crazy mind started to make me enjoy the posting hahahahahahaha. Must be crazy already.

For this posting i manage to take a incomplete team photo which i have it on FB for a very long time. Well might as well show it here too.

So shall i introduce the Upper GI team. From left is Dr Markus, the doc from Switzerland who came here for experience purposes i think. Nice Doc who will quickly come in and help me or generally help me when he sense i am in trouble during consultant round. Next to him is Associate Prof Vijay from India who came here for a different sort of experience. A fast thinker who can associate symptoms and conditions quickly in split seconds and taught me and answer all my real stupid questions. The lady in black is Dr Tiffany the registrar of Upper GI, she is very good and taught me stuff too and i really respect her for specialising in Surgery. She shows that nothing is impossible in this world. The guy next to me is an IMU grad who went to Auckland, Dr Wong aka JT (that is wat i call him). Very nice boss who always teaches me stuff and ask me to look up stuff but ended up forgetting to ask me hahahahahahaha (so i usually did not look it up, shhhhhhh don't tell him) and me of course. There is 2 more interns who is not around but they taught me a lot too and let me try some hands on sometimes.

Oh well guess that it is, now in Med posting with the local students. Now i am seeing the real world. Back to my research proposal (i am SICK of doing pubmed search already)!!!!

Surgical Rotation

2010-03-27T17:22:00.007+10:30

Can you believe it 9 weeks have just gone by and i have finished my Surgical rotation! Looking back i think i should slack more during my first rotation at Colorectal unit cause apparently the consultants did not notice my friend when she was there (but i do remember the consultant notice me and my other friend and kept asking us questions). Then come the one which i say is the most busy unit in the hospital, Upper GI which take in any surgical cases cause they have a consultant who is a general surgeon hence general surgery is under this unit. Upper GI problem is also under this unit as it is an UPPER GI unit and any cases which deals with the liver and gallbladder (hepatobiliary) is also under this unit. So its busy busy busy for this unit.

But 1st lets talk about the hospital where i am attached to for my whole of sem 1 and 6 weeks of sem 2. The hospital i am attached to is called The Queen Elizabeth Hospital or short for TQEH and even shorter way of calling it, QE.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

New Wing-QE

Old Wing-QE

Old Wing and the bridge that connects the old to the new

Old wing car park-QE

Visitor waiting area in the new wing

The Bridge that connects old and new

Colorectal room where i hang out when i have nothing to do in the ward

Interior of the room of colorectal where the intern, RMO, Registrar, nurse and med students hang out when thet are free

QE early in the morning mainly 6.30am (sorry for the poor quality)

QE is a very special hospital as this hospital is a Mini IMU hospital. Yes your eye is not playing tricks on you i just typed out that this hospital is a MINI IMU HOSPITAL. IMU-PMS grads from all over mainly Australia and New Zealand can be found here. In Upper GI team there is 3 IMU grads mainly my RMO and one of the intern who graduated from Uni of Auckland and the other intern who is from Uni of Queensland. In medical unit, one of the unit team is comprise of all IMU grad except for the consultants (which means intern, RMO and registrar are all IMU-ians). My friend met an IMU grad who graduated from Uni of Manchester working here and the other friend of mine met another IMU grad who graduated from Uni of Auckland and chose to work here cause he said most IMU grad is working here. I personally met another IMU grad who graduated from Uni of Adelaide and now is a junior Registrar in anaesthetic and she asked for our number and said call her if we need help (so nicey). Now i wonder when will the first IMU grad from Seremban coming??????

Surgical posting here is fun i guess. I work hard for it cause this is our 1st 9 weeks here so working hard doesn't hurt right? At least now i know how their system goes. The teaching here is mainly at OPD or during ward rounds where you try to pick up what the docs are saying. Sometimes they will ask you some questions and ask you to find out the topic and come back to them. Tutorial is definately a must and guess what we also have some training in suturing.

The suturing equipments

Me gloving and preparing to do suturing (for the 1st time)

The patient (Victim) who is going to be sutured by me!!

My suturing skills

And the cut i purposely made on the patient so i can do more suturing

So i guess this is it for my blog update. Maybe next time i do some blogging about how the surgical ward round are conducted here. Before i sign out, one last picture for you guys of dawn in Adelaide.

Look at the sky. I took this picture when i was on my way to the bus stop taking the bus to the hospital (and was late on that day too)

Cheers guys!!!!

Tired but Enjoyable

2010-03-14T02:16:00.002+10:30

Urrrgh i can't believe i am actually writing this post at 2.16am when i should be reading up on breast cancer and the management and treatment for it or sleep so i could wake up early to do...... more reading.

Life so far in Adelaide.... one word TIRED. I can't believe i have been waking up at 5am in the morning to go for my ward rounds with the whole team (hey i am part of the team too, so i have to go). I can't believe i am still doing follow up for my patients, what they have gone through and all the investigations done and i still can't believe i am struggling to read the drain chart of the patient. You know how after every surgery they put a drain at the site where they did the cut, just to drain off any serous fluid or leaks. Apparently it is important to read it. They don't expect 4th years to do it but well sooner or later we have to do it, so why not learn it now right. So guess what i finally sort of master it BUT the short forms used by the doctors are annoying cause i don't know which drain bag is for which.

But no one would believe that Surgical Attachment here is so busy. I mean we go ward rounds, do patients update, go to the theatre, study, do online questions and do presentation. How much do we have to do really? Haih well 2 more weeks of surgical and off i am to med and speaking of which, history taking in Surg are usually short and concise and after 9 weeks in it, i think i have forgotten how to do a thorough full History taking for med. SHIT!!! Now i have to re-learn everything again.

Overall Surgery is fun. I helped one of the Surgeon in 2 surgeries and for the first time in my life, i hold a laparascope in hand, helping the surgeon in Appendicectomy and Cholecystectomy. Now that i think about it, maybe i do want to do it again cause when i did it last time, guess what i was so bored i almost feel asleep (SHHHHH don't tell the surgeons ok). So far my Surgical rotation is well tiring, hectic and enjoyable cause i think i do learn a lot hahahahaha.

Ok back to study and hopefully by Monday i can read the Drain Charts and figure out how much the fluid has been drained from the patients wound hahahaha. This will be my update for now. Cheers guys (Mate - So Aussie hor, i still think Manglish is better lol)

Left Over

2010-02-07T11:54:00.006+10:30

Don't worry people this is not what we did during our posting in the hospital, this is what we did like 3 or maybe 4 weeks ago when we were still having our bridging course at the medical school. Our life now is sad cause most of us are lock up in our own rooms in our own apartment studying or reading. I think the Med guys are more busy cause they need to type out their case report for patients (like most of you in IMU), do some Evidence Based Medicine thing and all (which i am going to do after 6 more weeks). Surgical or Surg posting as they call it here is not that relaxing but it is not very hectic either.

Ok lets not talk about our SAD life here and focus on the left over pictures which i have in phone and was lazeeeee to put it up cause i was lazeeeee to send it from my phone to my com.

The Barr Smith Lawn

This is us having lunch Ang Moh style, eating at the lawn

Part of the Botanic Garden of Adelaide

University of Adelaide Med School (oops got blocked by the trees)

The Union House at the University (this is where the Student Union is located)

More Pic of the University (back of the Union House)

The Custard we ate at Sangeeta's place where we had Custard Party

The AUD3.50 lunch set i have in IKEA (if you come on Thursday u pay 3.50 for Pasta and you get to eat all you can which means u get to refill your pasta till you are satisfied)

This guy was at Rundle playing with the Keyboard and he is GOOOOOD

Well i guess this sum out all the pictures i took in Adelaide. Hope you guys really like it and to all those IMU Seremban folks happy holidaysssssss. Remember this saying, "The reason why we take a rest is so that we could continue on with our long perilous journey later", it is suppose to be in chinese and i am not a translator so this is roughly what it means, so enjoy your holidays. Crap i need to go back to my studies.

Hospital Posting

2010-01-30T23:46:00.002+10:30

Hospital posting has officially started for me. This means less time to go explore Adelaide and less pictures to be posted. So far my life here before hospital starts is like i am here for vacation but then after a long daydreaming of a carefree life, i reckon is time i wake up from it and start working my lazy ass and work towards my goal.

Hospital here is so much different from those back home. For a start they are all air conditioned lol. Back home only private hospital are air conditioned but here public hospital are also air conditoned. Next difference is that Med students are part of the team in managing patients. Which means we are very involve with patients and this means we are obligated to go ward rounds together with the doctors. Ward rounds can be interesting sometimes but it will get ugly when the consultant (layman term is specialist in Malaysia) asked you questions and you just fumble right there.

Anyway i am on surgical posting for 9 weeks and i will rotate after 4 weeks to another surgical ward. The next big surprise is that i am at the 2 most busy ward or surgical posting. Currently i am at Colorectal which some say is the 2nd most busy ward and my next posting is called Professorial posting which is an Upper GI and the busiest ward in surgery. And as the name of the posting implies the Consultant there is a Professor and the Professor likes to hammer 4th year med student. Guess i am screwed this time (really screwed when i am at the ward as the one and only 4th year). Too avoid being screwed i am currently preparing for my Upper GI attachment and at the same time tackling the Colorectal attachment, but i still think i am screwed no matter how hard i prepare.

Just a bit info about the team in my ward, it consist of a Fellow which is a going to be Surgeon who had just pass their surgical test, a Registrar someone who is going to take the surgeon test (i think), the RMO which is same as Medical officer in Malaysia and 2 interns plus me and my friend, 2 4th years. The consultants only come for ward rounds on Monday and Friday so other days it is usually the people i mentioned above. Just to mention, the interns are really nice and friendly and so is the Registrar, RMO and Fellows. Of course for Colorectal ward the consultant i met so far is nice but my senior said there is one "evil" one there. Hopefully i don't encounter him/her.

Well that is all i can tell right now. Need to go back to studies for my ward rounds with Consultant where we have to read up Colorectal cancer, hernia, Bowel obstruction (small and large), Diverticular disease, all the anorectal abnormalities (where i have tutorial for it on Monday) and if i have time i need to do my preparation for my Upper GI ward. Well how nice is that.

Henley Beach

2010-01-25T22:47:00.009+10:30

Alright this will be a picture post as i am very lazy to really type anything. Holidays are ending soon and my posting is starting soon. I am starting off with Surgery. Everyone says its fun, hope i really enjoy it but after hearing what the seniors here said well....... all i can say is i hope i still have more holidays. So here are the pictures when we went to another beach called Henley beach which is less touristy and more relaxing.

The houses by the beach with a view. I want one!!!!

The Aussie loves to bring their dogs for a walk at the beach.

The Australian wave!!!

Sunset in Adelaide!!!

Last but not least a picture of me by the beach doing nothing hahahahah!

How to speak Australian

2010-01-22T23:34:00.005+10:30

OK people lets have a class here for once shall we. Today i shall teach you guys about Aussie Slangs and pronunciation which means this is not a picture post but a WORD post. So if you don't want to read it then shoo.

Ok so lets start with the slang first shall one

(1) Nick Off -eg. Siew Kim just "nick off" from class; so the meaning is run off or left

(2) Barbie -eg. Lets have a "barbie" tonight (not barbie doll ok); it means BBQ

(3) mozzie -eg. Shit that stupid "mozzie" just bit me; means mosquitoes

(4) ambo -eg. Haih its the "ambo" siren again; means ambulance

(5) cheers -eg. "Cheers" mate; means bye guys

(6) Mate - refers to friends generally, boys and girls

(7) cuppa -eg. i would like to have a "cuppa"; means a cup of tea

(8) whinger -eg. That person is such a "whinger"; means a person who whines a lot

(9) get stuffed -eg. Oh why not you just "get stuffed"; means to shut up or get lost

(10) in the shit/poo -eg. Did you know Yu gin is "in the shit" laaaaaa; basically it means yu gin is in deep shit which means in trouble

Ok next we shall go for 5 basic pronunciation

(1) how old are you is pronounced as how ol dare you(link the d to are and pronounce it like are but with a d in front)

(2) do you have any drug allergies as diu have any dru gallergies(they shorten do you to one word which sounds like what i typed and yep link the g of drug to allergies and pronunce it)

(3) Does this pain affect your sleep as duhcyst pain affect chore sleep(again they shorten it so does and this is pronounce as one and your is pronounce as chore)

(4) How many times did it happen as how many times didit happen(they shorten it again)

(5) have you ever smoked in the past as have you ever smoked in d past(here the is shorten and pronounce to d)

Well this all for aussie pronounciation and slangs. Oh and they like to use the word "reckon" too. Example: What do you reckon or I reckon this is not what it seems to be. It actually means i think.

Hahahahaha enough of english lesson for a day.

Glenelg Beach

2010-01-16T23:22:00.009+10:30

The next thing i would like to blog about is the beach here in Adelaide. The most famous beach in Adelaide is calleg Glenelg beach where again you know what the caucasian culture are........ drink till you drop that kinda thing. Well the beach is busy just like any other tourist destination, the difference is the weather is not hot. The temperature was around 20-19 degree celsius and guess what a bunch of us wore short pants and some wore ultra short pants out to the beach where there is big wind, making everyone feel so cold. Heck i actually wore a T-shirt which is more suitable for Malaysia weather and hot summer together with Shorts. So i was one of those people freezing away when i was at the beach. We took the Tram from Victoria Square (the nearest station from our accomodation) all the way to Moseley Square which is the last stop. And so we walk for say 1KM+++ to the station under the cold sunny weather.

A bunch of "Jakun" people Jay Walking

Oh by the way if you are caught Jay walking (don't know if the spelling is right) which means crossing the road not at the designated crossing area or cross when it shows red (which as Malaysian we do that all the time) the police can fine you for AUD 200..... OUCH

Me taking Pic in front of my Accomodation

One of those balconies there is my room (which is facing the main road)

So as mention we took the tram at Victoria Square all the way to the last station called Moseley Square.

Victoria Square

Here comes the Tram

Saw the sign, it says "Glenelg Moseley Square". Well the tram took us pass the suburb of Adelaide and the houses are so nice (sorry did not take picture of the suburb) and finally we reach the beach which was windy and COOOOOOOOLD. So we took pictures there, flipping around, jumping around like monkeys and did i told you about the wind. It is so cold when the wind blows and Aida was like almost blown off hahahahahaha. Things didn't help when almost all of us were wearing short pants and t shirts. Some brought jackets but unlucky me was freezing.

Glenelg Beach

The cold wind

Well we basically did nothing there. It was too cold to do anything. The wave was rough too but i still saw some people swimming at the ocean. It was so cold that some of us went and look for a shade not from the sun but from the wind. I was one of them. Can't stand it anymore.

By 8 something we decided to head back but i was yearning for ice cream (i know the cold weather and the ice cream don't really mix but i want to have some ice cream) so we went McDonald and get the cone ice cream which is sold in Malaysia for RM1++

The ice cream cost around 0.70cent for chocolate and chocolate mix with vanilla and 0.50 cents for vanilla which i think is reasonable.

After savouring the Ice cream we decided to head home and the temperature drop to 19degree celsius with strong wind. AAAARGH COLD!

Glenelg beach at around 8.40pm. Well as the night draws nearer i bet it gets more pack with people. Even when we were on our way to the beach a bunch of people came on the same tram we were taking and they were making a hell lots of noise, excited with the after night party.

Ok i think i shall stop here. Next stop Adelaide Zoo i wanna see the Pandas

Adelay

2010-01-15T20:56:00.003+10:30

Blogging live from Adelaide and I have spend one week now in Adelaide (am surviving though i am still home sick sometimes) and I have started my bridging course..... well who wants to know how it goes, i think most of you guys would want to know how is Adelaide like. To sum it i can say the city centre if compared to KL is pretty small like small small if you know what i mean. We can just take a bus and go all the way to the city centre for free and the Uni itself is at the city centre though the hospital is not.

So far the people here in Aussie are nice and warm. Example when you pay at the counter they always say "Hi there how are you?" which really caught me by surprise cause i don't know if i should answer them or ignore them, so far i answer back saying i'm fine and after paying and getting my change i would usually say "thank you" which they would say too hahahahaha.

Shopping here well there is only one in the city centre called Rundle Mall. I'll show you the pictures and see if you still want to call it a mall or not cause i don't really get it.

Yep the above pic is what Adelaideans call their shopping street Rundle Mall. But to me it is a Street like Petaling Street in KL. We don't call it Petaling Mall do we, we call it Petaling Street, but they call it Rundle Mall....... well cultural differences i dare say. Anyway to avoid confusion i am calling it Rundle cause i still can't call it a Mall yet. To me a mall is fully air conditioned not in open space that kinda thing.

So far Adelaide have been a pleasant place apart from the Home sick i have i think it is really nice. Of course i am not here for vacation so i think most of the time i would be stuck in my room and mugging all those books i need to read.

I think that is all folks next post i put out more pictures cause i think most of my picture is in Facebook. Oh by the way Yu Gin the temperature maybe high but i am definately not roasted ok hahahahaha.

P.S. hopefully i can get my "real" internet connection soon then i can Skype home, really miss my family and my cute lil doggy and of course i miss you guys too.

Just a short notice

2010-01-11T21:34:00.001+10:30

Hey guys i am so sorry that i havent u d any update since i am here in Adelaide. Well this is my first post and it is gonna be short cause i still havent get any internet of my own and i am currently using the university one

Anyway i will do a full update ASAP when i got my own internet connection until then this blog is pretty empty.

On the eve of my departure

2010-01-06T01:59:00.004+10:30

Guess what i went Pavillion again, the perfect paradise for shopaholic to shop for Gucci, Prada, Chanel etc.... but don't worry i am not there to shop just went there for movie (i'll never buy Gucci, Prada or Chanel unless money fall from heaven for me).

So on the very eve before i left for Aussie, i went to Pavillion with...... Ren Ping lo. She is the only one free enough to layan me. Others are so busy in Seremban for their ward rounds so it is always Ren Ping and me going out for movies. I took this session as my official farewell with her lo since i would not be around when she leave for Aberdeen.

Pavillion as a shopping paradise sure is nice and great. Everything in it is so high class, even the food are expensive. The cheapest would be the food court, Pizza Hut, KFC or any other fast food. Since i am a poor med student where every cents count, i suggested to eat at the food court in Lot 10. My mum read about the food court there which sell all the famous hawker food or more like all those famous hawker food out there open up a stall in the food court and guess what it sure is one hell of a food court.

The food court is like a maze. Food stall are scattered everywhere. So when Ren Ping and i went looking for food separately we were lost unable to find each other. Ren Ping said she was lost in a Maze of Food (if only this maze of food comes free). In the end we found each other sat down and get our respective food.

The Dim Sum we ordered (so expensive, must be the rent)

Siew mai another expensive dim sum we ordered

my bowl of Asam Laksa (sweet taste, no sour or spicy)

Ren Ping's food i forgot what it is called in cantonese. Ask her if you wanna know it is good or not?

So after lunch we walked back to Pavillion to catch our movie, Avatar. Heard it was a good movie, though at first i thought it was a cartoon or something. We watch it in 3D so we paid 19 bucks each (OUCH) for the movie. The difference between 3D and the normal movie we watch in theatre.......... i don't see the difference. Since this "watching movie in 3D" is a one time thing for me, i guess i will not waste extra money for it anymore. I thought the 3D would be much more real but it looks the same to me. Nonetheless this is my opinion, i think everyone should try the 3D movie themselves and see if they like it. Ren Ping was worried that she will puke and so was i, so i suggested that if i were to puke i will puke into the popcorn box hahahahaha.

So this is it my last outing here in Malaysia, Pavillion KL, food and movie.

Happy "Belated" New Year

2010-01-03T23:52:00.002+10:30

Ok i know it is a lil late to post something about new year, so i added an additional word for the title of this post, but hey this is my first post for the year 2010 so i think it is still consider a new year new post for my blog (besides i was busy on new years day so no time to post a new year post). Anyway with the coming of January means my holidays are going to be over and i will be leaving for Aussie soon. So my new year wish is that i could do well in Adelaide (despite not studying much) and pass every exam i am going to have, major and end of posting exam (whatever they call it there as long is exam i wish i could pass), stay healthy and hope that i would strike the lottery and get rich all of a sudden so that i can sponsor my studies without using my parents' money.

As for new year resolution...... geez i never thought of it. Maybe one of it is to learn swimming (cross my finger i got time to do that there and i would get a friend who is willing to teach me swimming or not i will have to learn with the kids). As it is a resolution so one doesn't necessary have to fulfil them as we only hope we can fulfil them, therefore if i have to learn swimming with kids, i'll pass (i rather drown). Any other new year resolution....... nope not that i can think of. So lets go with this one resolution first, will update more when i can think of any.

Next, as in every new year we recall back all those memorable events, happenings and dramas that occur throughout the year. So the most memorable events for me is when we graduated from phase 1 in IMU. Time sure fly and now we are in our clinical years. No longer are we the innocent med student struggling with those anatomy and pathology jargons (and of course we look old in front of all those new comers too). Other memorable events such as studying in library for EOS 5, EOS 5 itself which is a torture, IMU Ball, and of course how can we forget Qian Hui's Birthday celebration where she "ahem" kiss "ahem" someone "ahem". Maybe i can post those picture when she finally got a husband with kids. Remind her of her most fond and memorable birthday celebration ever hahahahaha. I think that is all for now. Happy New Year everyone. Keeo in contact ar.

Seremban Trip

2009-12-29T21:41:00.017+10:30

Seremban, the town i never visit in my entire life cause according to dad, it is a place with no tourist attraction (literally translate to "no good food to eat") and it is a boring place. But i went anyway on Monday with Ren Ping to visit our friends and to go "kepoh" some stuff back since we are so bored sitting at KL doing nothing. This time we are smart, we drove from IMU (the waiting point) to Seremban cause the KTM experience was....... too "traumatising" for us when we went down last time. So who drove? Of course is Ren Ping la. She asked me to drive her car but i said i will do so if she signed a paper that state that if there is any damage to her car I AM NOT LIABLE hahahahaha and because of her refusal to sign so she drove throughout the journey.

Of course the true purpose going down to Seremban is not to "kepoh" stuff la. I don't think we are that bored to do so and if i am really bored i think i will just go watch a movie or enjoy my hobby (sleep). For Ren Ping she went down to Seremban to hand over her letter to some people in Seremban Hosp asking to do attachment there on January for a week. For me i just want to meet up with my friends before i go off to Aussie and of course for Qian Bao's birthday celebration which she is suppose to cook (but she did not cause her house ran out of GAS)

Took some pictures with my friends (smart ones, funny ones, screaming ones etc) and also some real obscene pictures which i am thinking whether i should actually post it up here. It is not just one obscene picture but maybe 2 or 3 of it. Haih those Seremban fellas i think they are too bored of studying till they decided to play "making obscene scene" during people's birthday. Anyway lets have pop quiz. "What happens when your camera falls in the hand of a person who have claimed the award Cam-whore Queen?"

Jo jangan la malu....... hahahahaha

Wonder what this bunch of guys are doing

Cheek aka the cat.... why open mouth so big?

The very high girl that nite (haven't drink alcohol already so high)

i don't know why the finger is there... i think is Jer Ming's one

The Food serve at the restaurant/cafe was nice and it was cooked by Ang Moh (the pizza only) i forgot what is the restaurant's name but it is somewhere in Seremban, near Tesco.

And of course there will always be games to entertain a few people. See how these two people are so deeply into the game they are playing

and the guy who lost twice and won once in the game made a "peace" sign hahahaha.

Then it was time to cut the birthday cake, bought from Secret Recipe and it is an entirely a chocolate cake.

Well the cake is nice but if you look carefully i think someone ate part of the cream off the cake, i do wonder who ate the cake before having the birthday girl cutting the cake. (or it might be the cake coming into contact with box that carries it... so it explain the "lost" part)

So after cutting the cake, making a wish or maybe wishes, its time to torture the birthday girl (wonder if this is tradition or just maybe their batch tradition) and what did the birthday girl did....... well it is quite obscene la, she said no pictures here so i think no pictures la. After destroy her prospect of getting a husband. After all the cutting cake, torturing the birthday girl and eating cake, the camwhore session officially begins.

Ek Guan here, the guy who helped me a lot during my 2.5 yrs study in IMU

This is the Baozzz family (Kay Por Bao not here though)

After the cam-whoring session, everyone decided to go to Qian Bao's house to give her another surprise (put it in other words, the torture session haven't officially end yet). This surprise sure is big hahahaha. Almost put the all time Qian Bao mummy to tears.

The culprit and his weapon

To make a long story short, Qian Hui got her face decorated with cream, almost cried, wash up, Ding Yang decided to express her love to Jer Ming then a big U turn occur where everyone decided to decorate Jer Ming's face too with the cream he is holding in the picture.

So the birthday party ended with Qian Hui thanking everyone, then we ate a fruit (i don't know what it is called in English) Yap brought for us an guess who was slicing it to be served?

Ling Ling Bao!!!!

LOL, it was a fun trip considering that most of the people who can bring Ren Ping and i around is on Family Med posting which according to them is a damn free posting. So since these people (Dorothy and TJ) is so free and due to Ren Ping wanting to go Port Dickson (i also want to go too), so after the party end we drove all the way to PD and actually spend sometime at the beach. Well at least before i fly off to Adelaide, i get to go to the beach.

The Bar in the Hotel by the beach

Those are the pictures we took in PD. Hahahahaha finally get to see the night sky full of stars. So i guess this concludes the trip to Seremban, of course there is more stories the next day but it is a real boring story. According to Ren Ping, Seremban is a dead city at night (no cars on the road) and it is so bored till u can get muscle cramp. Good Luck Ren Ping with your 1 week attachment there hahahaha

P.S. I have one more week till i leave for Adelaide and i am so not ready.

Merry Christmas

2009-12-23T14:28:00.006+10:30

Christmas is around the corner (actually it is this Friday), so maybe i should have some Christmas picture posted up here. As usual there is always a Christmas tree for Christmas, lots of presents underneath and if you have a fire place, there would be socks hanging there as Santa Claus is suppose to come down from the chimney.

Those were the decorations at home but i don't celebrate Christmas la and i don't have a fireplace with chimney, so i don't have those decorations. Besides if i were to put a Christmas tree in my living room i think my mummy would scream at me saying "How am i to wipe the floor if your tree is there? Clean up, put it outside" hahahahah. Anyway doing the deco for Christmas would be a lot of work and putting it away after that would also be a lot of work too. So i don't do Christmas deco. Rather sleep zzzzzzzzzzzz.

Despite me not doing the decoration for Christmas, we can still feel the Christmas mood in major shopping malls in KL and even the "ang moh" wanna take pictures of it hehehe. First off, Times Square.

The decoration in Times Square. It wasn't complete at the time i took the picture

The Christmas Tree at the entrance of Times Square. It is also not fully operational when i took the pic.

Next we shall look at Pavillion's Christmas deco and it is really a "WOW" kinda of decoration. If they were to held a competition for the best Christmas decoration, i think Pavillion would have won. Just one word to describe the decoration. GRAND.

The deco at the main atrium of Pavillion. Pic taken from (i don't remember which Floor)

Another picture of the main atrium of Pavillion

The deco seen from the main entrance of Pavillion

Where is Santa Claus?

Next would be the decoration done outside Pavillion. Wow they even decorate the compound outside, really making it feel more like Christmas.

The final picture would be the Christmas decoration in Midvalley megamall. It is simple yet nice.

The deco at the Centre court of Midvalley

So here you have it the Christmas decoration in KL's shopping malls. Haven't seen the one in KLCC though. I think they would most probably put up the giant Christmas Tree again. Now am wondering if the Aussie do such decoration for Christmas. (Now am looking forward to the Chinese New Year decoration can someone snap pictures for me to see)

The inevitable

2009-12-19T15:32:00.003+10:30

It is ineveitable that i am about to leave soon. Checking the calendar on the side of my computer screen shows that i would be leaving in 2 weeks and 3 days time (not counting this week of course).

Already i show signs of homesick even when i am not abroad yet. Oh how i'm going to miss every single thing in my house, the tv, the load of tv programmes i can watch, the ever delicious ready meal prepared for dinner, my comfortable bed, my parents, my aunt, my sister and of course the ever cute lil dog of mine which i love to disturb when i got bored.

I am both excited and scared i suppose, that i am going abroad. Excited cause i am going to a whole new place (who would not be excited when you learn that you are going to a whole new place, new world, meet new friends and new people and have a total different experience). Scared cause...... I am travelling alone. My first time doing it and it doesn't really help when Renee was saying that how i am going to miss my transfer plane and how i am going to call her and complain for not listening to her advice. Oh and it doesn't help either with the various scary stories i heard from my dad about how a simple journey like travelling and arriving on an airport is such a dangerous thing to do. Gosh airport is so scary le.

But right now is more to treasuring every single moments with my parents and love ones. I don't think i should complain much here cause i told Renee once that this is our choice and we should not complain about our choice. We chose to walk this journey and so we should not complain about it and finish walking this journey of ours cause there will be no turning back and if we were to turn back........ well you know waste marney (donate to me la if you got so much marney to waste) and waste your "Qing Chun" (youth for those who can't make it out or am a Bana...... you know what i mean).

Vatican City

2009-12-12T13:09:00.014+10:30

After so long neglecting this blog(sorry la was on vacation), here i am continuing my post on my tour of Europe. In Europe most of the time we would be walking from one tourist spot to another. Initially you will be energetic and gets happy seeing a new historical building, churches and site, but try doing tat from say 9 am all the way to 1pm in the afternoon where you get to rest for lunch and continue on after say 1 to 1 and a half hour of lunch. I think many of us would be tired by then, especially if the weather is dreadfully hot (it is so hot in Italy and Paris). So if you want to do some slimming down or reduce weight go to Europe for a tour cause trust me you will be walking A LOT. Ok lets cut short on the talking and have a look at the majestic Vatican City.

The building i saw when we were entering Vatican city

The Swiss guard
The basilica standing on the St Peter's square.

I think this is the Church, (actually i forgotten what building is this) inside it are many works of arts and sculptures of previous Popes and also an Altar for people to pray.

I think that would be the Office of the Pope (i also forgotten what building this is)

Well i think it is pretty obvious that it is statues placed outside and the middle one i think would be the insignia of Vatican City, see the 2 keys.

Next would be a quick tour of the inside of the church(the 4th picture) where it is filled with works of art and sculptures. As i am not an art student and i don't really know much of the history of each of the art pieces, i shall only show the pictures.

The entrance into the church

The painting found on top, at the ceiling. So nice (i wonder how they do it)

Another ceiling with amazing paintings on it

The altar for people to pray.

Yet another ceiling with painting (seriously how they do those nice painting on there?)

The insignia of the Vatican City

Finally i shall end the post with the picture of the Swiss guard up close. Guess what their uniform is actually designed by Michaelangelo himself. Ok gurls go admire and see if they are "leng chai" a not.

Guess this post make up the weeks i neglected my blog.

Finally its here

2009-11-20T14:08:00.004+10:30

After waiting such a looooooong time, and after ranting about it in my previous post, the offer letter from University of Adelaide is here. Yipeeeee. And it came in with another letter or statement which they called it PCI. Don't really remember what the P and C stands for but i think the I stands for Infectious. (The PCI thingy is actually about your Hep B and C status and also about your HIV status). That letter was so long that i gave up reading it half way and decided to just sign the damn thing.

So the first reaction when i got my letter was..... SHOCK. The fees was so high, beyond my wildest imagination, way off from the estimate given. Die la. And later on i got so worried about it. Luckily Renee console/comfort me and asked me not to worry about it, and so did my parents.

Next reaction after reading through the letter....... I miss everyone le, like my family, my doggy, my friends, my house, my room, my cute teddy bear my mum bought me when i was a kid and still keeping it and many more. I am leaving an environment that i am very familiar with to a whole new land of the unknown. Haih already having such feelings, wonder what will happen in the Airport, CRY LOUD LOUD and don't stop like when i was a kid hehehe.

Anyway so far i have settled my plane ticket, and i would be flying on the............. na tell later la i think it is still early now. All i need to do now is to treasure every moment and not think about flying off.

Pantang la

2009-11-20T13:01:00.006+10:30

Ok this will be my 14th post because according to the "ang moh" having the number 13 on a friday is very pantang one, remember Friday the 13th the movie where many many people died. Like died in a horrible way. So i am adding this one more post making it the 14th post.

But then according to the Chinese the number 14 is also pantang. In fact any number related to the number 4 is very pantang for the Chinese. So pantang that in a tower like my office here, there is no Floor number 4 but you will find Floor number 3A substituting the number 4. So i already have the 15th post ready to be posted hahahahahaha so no more bad numbers stuck there in my blog.

Ok i know this is a bit stupid and all but don't mind me ok. When you are on holiday and have too much time in hand, sometimes you might think about all this pantang stuff. hehehehe

Historical Pictures

2009-11-18T23:20:00.006+10:30

No it is not the type of historical pictures of our forefathers fighting for independence and no it is not the pictures of ancient Egyptian and their great pyramids. These are pictures of my friends and me during our days in IMU Bukit Jalil. Most of it are taken when we were in Sem 4 but some were taken during the days before EOS 5. So i think this can be categorise as historical pictures since it is almost 7 months ago and some of it are more than 7 months. Oh and all the pictures i have here are actually found in my cell phone.

The pictures i am showing first are pictures taken during Michelle Lee's Burpday celebration.

First picture: Ling Ling Bao. See she is so happy.

The next picture is of Ah Liang and Ling Ling Bao. See they are also very happy.

Ah Liang wearing Pink and holding Pink Balloon.

A group Photo, Qian Bao is in it so is the Lion-ess.

Japanese food. The set that we ordered and shared among 4 people

The Bao and the Lion-ess

Another Group photo with Michelle (da one wearing the crown)

My notes - Base of Skull........ Those were the days of studies and memorizing stuff

Who else the SS queen la, playing with my phone when she is too stress during EOS 5.

The pens, pencils, papers, books and lecture notes i used for my studies.

IMU Ball Pictures. Only got two of the pictures here.

Me and Lui Yee Lin

Me and the Lion-ess

And finally i shall show you Ling Ling Bao taking a Nap (SHHHHHHH don't tell her ok or i am in trouble)

This is what EOS 5 looks like. Not enough sleep, want to sleep but cannot sleep so Nap lo.

Picture post 2 - Europe

2009-11-17T21:11:00.017+10:30

Ok i shall continue from my previous post with pictures from Europe. First i would like to clarify that i actually skip lots of pictures which i took in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg primarily cause the scenery i took from Germany was breathetaking and since i showed those pictures first, might as well followed up from there hehehe.

Those pictures i showed earlier in Austria and later on in this post are all taken at the city of Innsbruck. I think the city held the Winter Olympics before but i dunno which year was it. So enjoy this picture post.

One of the historical or was it an important building here. I forgot. lol

Swarovski, they sell crystal and they have some sort of exhibition centre here.

A alleyway in Innsbruck which is so clean. Safety wise at night..... not so sure.

The Alps which is seen here behind the buildings

The entire city of Innsbruck is actually located at the foot of the Alps and it is surrounded by it, so you could always see the Alps when you are in the city. Wonder how the scenery would be like if it is winter?

This is my Lunch in Innsbruck. It is Fish and Chips i think but yea i didn't eat it in London which one of my friend said i should. I ate it in Innsbruck.

And this is the restaurant where i ordered my Fish and Chips. Recommended by one of the people joining the tour who so happens to be from IMU pharmacy batch P1 intake.

Next are the pictures of the villages located on the Alps itself(not surrounded by it but on it) and boy it is really breath taking. Really would like to visit some of the villages next time. But where should i stay....... in the barn? Anyway enjoy.
(P.S. i took a lot of picture on this but since i was in a moving bus, most of it are very blur. This are the few which is really nice)

One of the peak of the Alps which is high enough to be covered by snow during summer.

With that i cross the border from Austria into Italy where the Romans build the great Coliseum, where the Age of Renaissance starts, home to Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci and the place where the Vatican City home to the Pope is located. Maybe i should show the picture of Vatican City.

St Peter's square in Vatican City.

Hope you people enjoy this posts.

I WANT TO RANT RANT AND RANT

2009-11-16T19:07:00.010+10:30

Ok i am not mad so i don't need to see a psychologist. Generally i think is time i do some complaining or ranting of my own just for the fun of it. Not like if i don't rant i will die but i just wanna make my blog more interesting. You know some "Drama" like all those stories i've watched on TV and heard somewhere out there which is almost comparable to the soap drama on TV. And in a Drama some people need to rant or complain a bit or maybe B*tch a bit hehehe.

Ok first, i shall rant about my offer letter (the main thing i am complaining about). I will keep it short.

1. Before i go UK got an email asking us to apply for their Uni. So i did and i told them i am going to UK for like a month. They panic and said the offer letter will come like very Fast and Furiously. I panic, faeces(a polite way of saying Sh*t) what if i miss the deadline. In the end i dunno how we sort it out and i left for UK.

2. Came back from UK offer letter not here yet, so i waited for hmm lemme count (August, September, October and November) 4 months. Last i heard was they say it will come out 2 weeks ago. So i wait lo............... Eh nowadays they so high tech one, paper they make invisible already. Geez i must have just crawled out from a cave or something.

You see la wait for one letter that said you are offered a place in our uni, we start at "GOD KNOWS WHEN" and you have to Pay this much, and they take forever to do it. The latest news is that they are waiting for the name for the M2 batch then they will send over the letter (WHAT?! thats just great, just keep waiting, waiting and waiting!) I've been wanting to get the letter fast primarily i want to get cheap air tickets, but at this time i should be laughing if the air ticket is not 3K++ and MAS ticket is now already at 3K++. How?. Thought of flying with Air Asia but then they don't have direct flight to Adelaide. So i actually calculated the cost of taking Air Asia to Melbourne and then from Melbourne i take a train to Adelaide (its cheaper you know), but mum and dad object to this. Say i should not suffer for my first trip abroad alone. So i check out Singapore Airline and luckily the price is at 2k++ only (Thank you, [starts lauging]). Bad part, i have to stop over at Singapore and wait at the airport, then from there i continue my journey to Adelaide. Sigh.

So much trouble just because of the letter being late. I also eyed for Matta fair tic but now it is all gone, GONE! So much for the letter coming Fast and Furiously.

Next i shall rant about........ oh wait i have nothing else to rant. Guess i have one stuff to rant about after all hahahahaha.

Of Beautiful Weather and Typhoon.

2009-11-10T17:38:00.007+10:30

The weather was plain hot on Saturday and i was sitting in my study room clear of all those med books, surfing the web with my newly installed wireless (Muahahahahaha i got wireless at home i am still very happy and hype over it) ahem.

The study room was so hot and there i wonder. Why can't it rain to bring down the heat. Some more its a Saturday and tomorrow is Sunday, means i can sleep late again. If it rains now then the temperature in my room would be cool enough for me to sleep till 11am.

Then within a few minutes the weather changed. Dark clouds started gathering followed by a loud thunder. So i look up to see if it is really going to rain, and there it was just as i wish, it is going to rain. (sing song faster: its raining, its pouring, the jungle man is singing [shout like tarzan]) ahem i didn't do the singing by the way.

And now i started cursing that of all times it has to rain, it gotta be right now. My lap top is still under going Defragmentation le, after hit by thunder how? (see no rain rant, rain coming rant also.) Anyway to cut the story short, the rain just pour all of a sudden without any warning. It is not a gradual thing. It is like a sudden big down pour and it took a bad turn where big gush of wind started blowing (i tell you if Si Ling go out at that time i think the wind will blow her all the way to UK already), lightning strike here and there like in the movie War of the World.

This is the picture i took using my Cell Phone. I think by that time the thunder storm wasn't that bad anymore.

I thought that we were hit by a Typhoon, or maybe the end of the world is here, but it is just a thunder storm in the end, so no worries. See how the weather have changed. The thunder storm even flooded my garden/porch/recreation place whatever you people call it these days.

Then all of a sudden the storm started to calm down and the rain stop altogether. Next is the hard part, cleaning!. Have to do cleaning after having the wind blowing all the dust and dirt into our yard/garden/porch/recreation area, aaaargh, and the roof was leaking, so i need to wipe the wet floor (luckily nothing was blew off) before someone slip and fell.

Alright i think that is enough for this post la, i need to go back to my studies before i give everything back to my lectures.

(My letter from Adelaide is still not here yet. So what is the learning outcome from this, figure it out yourself)

Coffee Beeeeeeeean

2009-11-07T16:27:00.007+10:30

Its Saturday again and boy does time flies fast. I felt like its just Monday yesterday and next week Monday is already looming. Since time is going by so fast lets talk about the past (Friday) shall we???

Friday as usual was a working day for me. Go work early in the morning at 9am, sit in the office and wait for work to be passed to us and not to mention picking up calls (those annoying, F*#ck calls which sometimes makes you go berserk). When it comes to lunch hour i would usually camp it out in office, bringing my well packed lunch from home and eat it in the office conference room, but on this very Friday (yesterday of course) Renee wanna belanja makan (she said that very long ago), so i took up the offer. At first i suggested roti canai la since cheap ma but she don't want, she said got promo in San Francisco steak house where the set lunch is RM 9++(happens a very very very very long time ago). So to cut the story short after saying it for so long finally on this very Friday we went to KLCC for lunch again. I suggested pizza but then kind Renee after knowing i have never drank Starbucks or Coffee Bean before took me to Coffee Bean for lunch (well of course in between the eating part and the looking for food part is another whole new story to be told). So here i am having lunch in Coffee Bean for the very first time and i drank my very first cup of Mocha from Coffee Bean.

This is the half drank Mocha from Coffee Bean and with Cream too.

Well so sorry for not taking the picture of the drink before i drink it. Only realize that i should at least have a picture after drinking that much.

So in the end i end up getting a very nice meal and feeling bloated (thanx to the cream added into the Mocha). So THANK YOU again RENEE hahahaha.

i vow to never have cream in my Coffee anymore though it taste nice.

Picture Post

2009-11-05T22:54:00.020+10:30

Haih since i am so free nowadays (i did study CVS just not very productive only) i think i should blog more. So far my only fans is none other than Renee Lee Ren Ping. Yes Ren Ping got a a English name. Don't play play and she has been using it in office telling our client her name. So people, call her Renee ok.

Anyway this is a picture post. I can't guarantee that there will be lots of pictures in this post, cause i might get lazeee half way through and the pictures will mostly be pictures i took in Europe. So enjoy.

This is the Neuschwanstein Castle i mention earlier

The Castle taken from a hill overlooking it and it is under repair (restoration)

And guess what, it is this castle that gave inspiration to the famous trademark that everyone knows, the Cinderella castle in Disney where everyone see it in every Disney movie and theme park (so said the tour guide la)

Another picture of the surrounding area of the castle.

The lake nearby the castle

See such a nice relaxing spot.

After visiting the castle, we took the bus, cross the border of Germany and enter Austria, home to some of the most famous musician in the world (forgot their names sorry). Anyway on our way around the Alps we stop by a beautiful place. It is really mesmerizing and relaxing if you have the time to lazee around, but the bad part...... it is laden with Cow Poo. So smelly.

Nice lake with the Alps behind it. This is the Austrian side already.

Aaaaaah what a nice place to relax. Wait till u see and smell the Cow Poo all over the place

Look a Cake. Soooo Big. It is actually a house ok (if you do believe me than i am really speechless). But it do look like a cake and the tour guide called it "the house that looks like a cake".

And finally a house where the roof is made of GOLD. Wonder if i could scrap it out and sell the golds. Just wondering hehehehe.

Well i am lazeee already. So i leave this post with this many pic first. Maybe next time i put more pictures.

Bored

2009-11-04T14:11:00.007+10:30

Another day at work doing nothing (Pray that my boss don't see this). Wanted to study, like read up my stuff such as CVS since i think there is posting in Cardiology during my first year in Adelaide. But sometimes you just don't wanna study especially when there is some particular aunty who is ever so annoying asking you to do this and that and in the end you will not have the time to really concentrate and read, not to mention the aunty bragging when she see that you are studying. So now i am bored, having nothing to do.

So what i do when i am bored. Blog lo. But i don't have any idea on what to blog unless i rant la. So guess i will rant after all and rant about what, my offer letter lo. Haih i got an email saying that the offer letter will be send to us this week, and as of Wednesday the letter is still no where to be seen. I thought that it will come on Monday or Tuesday since we need to make payments and all this have to be done during the weekdays where the banks are opened, but no it is still not here yet. Lets just wait until Friday and see if it is out. I am now hypothesizing that whoever who needs to sign the Letter must have some joint problem in the fingers, either Osteo or Rheumatoid arthritis but i think Rheumatoid is more likely since it affect the smaller joints first.

Oh and talk (ranting) about those annoying sales person. I tell you, this sales person are from the same company but they keep coming to the same place over and over again. Each time they represent a different branch somewhere in PJ la, USJ la, KL la, etc. The worst was that the same company have sales person coming to our office twice in a row and each of them are from a different branch. Hallo don't you people actually share the information? With computer this days, a client info can be shared at all the branch offices you have right. Must you come and keep annoying us.

Haih enough ranting la. November is here and it so happens to be my last month here working, and the biggest lesson i learned is that money doesn't come by easily (no money don't grow from trees or fall from the sky ok you rich brat). The amount of hard work and stress during work is something that could change one person from being a big spender to being super thrifty (unless again you are rich so working basically doesn't change your perspective). Enough said, countdown starts now. I think i got 18 days more of work. I THINK.

Work

2009-11-01T23:17:00.006+10:30

Its Sunday (so fast) and tomorrow is Monday and i am having the Monday blues now on a Sunday. Too early? The thought of going back to work and type those documents are a bit boring (sit at my place whole day look at the computer and type) but i don't really do that, i think my job is more to picking up phone calls and all. Sometimes i do, do typing for my boss and some aunty who doesn't know how to use a computer but said she has a super "chunted" computer from America that seems to be able to do everything (which she is using)

Yea guess i am back to work tomorrow like it a not, but i will be going back to my university first. Need to get something done from the student service office. Oh and since it is November, i think is about time i seriously study for my clinical years.

Oh and another picture i took when i was in Europe. The place is the same as mention in the last post but a different view. Enjoy

Gasp...... "Tom Cruise" came

2009-10-30T17:38:00.022+10:30

I always look forward to Friday, and the reason is very obvious to everyone cause tomorrow is Saturday which means no work and Friday is also the day where the new episode for Naruto and Bleach (the manga ok not the real bleach) is released. Hehehehe so if i ever get bored from work can "curi-curi" go read the manga.

Enought said i should go back to the topic of this post. About "Tom Cruise" coming. Don't get me wrong, its not like the REAL Tom Cruise came ok. Just a friend of ours came. So we decided to have lunch in KLCC. (But in my blog cbox he called himself tom cruise la)

The Petronas Twin Towers-see so nice and tall.

The best part is that "Tom Cruise" purposely came and have lunch with us and he brought along "Luk Mei Tang Shui" le. So touched la hahahahaha. Anyway there is nothing much to say la besides Ren Ping and me asking him this and that about his life in Seremban and how are the others doing there...... basically it is something like asking the latest happening in Seremban la. You can call it gossip if you want but hey dun blame us ok. We are on holiday and we seriously are too damn free.

So thats it nothing special about the visit by "Tom Cruise" lol. Oh and to Ms Lee thanks for saluting me on how i am the "Pro in crossing roads in KL". hahahahahaha. And i shall salute you as the Pro in lying la when we came in late lol. (Liar liar pants on fire) hahahahaha. Anyway another picture/scenery and this is taken by me when i was in Europe more precisely in the state of Bavaria, Germany where the Neuschwanstein Castle (in English it is called New Swan Stone Palace thanx to Wikipedia for the translation) is located.

Random Post

2009-10-29T17:23:00.005+10:30

Ugh i just over ate for lunch. I am very sleepy and bloated now and i vow never to eat junk after having bread and milk. Now have to get back to work. Work, work, work. I wanna sleep!!!!

I am totally speechless

2009-10-28T00:00:00.000+10:30

This is my 2nd post on the very same day and this is thanx to my friend (not mentioning names ok or not my friend come and complain to me) who thinks that i should write two posts a day. One while working (when i got nothing to do la of course) and one when i am at home (again when i got nothing to do). So here we are, me writing another post in my blog i still can't believe i am blogging (but then again i have totally nothing to do so why not rite).

Anyway just wanna say i am totally shock today when i heard on the radio that most (not all) people are addicted to the games on facebook.

What is happening to this world? Are those games that fun? They even said that aunties are playing all this games on facebook. See the aunties of today are so high tech (I think is time i have to seriously learn to use my com besides using it to go online and play games). Well truth be told i am also playing all this games on facebook too hehehehe. Example, Cafe world (replace restaurant city), farmville and mousehunt but i didn't play the country story la. Heard this is the game that most people are addicted to. Heck they even spend money on the game. Waaaaa so rich hor, i think they better donate to me instead of spending it on those games.

On the other note, i can say that i am so free these days that i don't know what i can do at home. Study erm....... no thanx, the minute i open the book i will almost for sure snore and fall asleep. Die la how to survive clinical years in Adelaide. Open my med books feel like sleeping. Read lecture notes feel like sleeping, even when i see the cover of the med books i also feel like sleeping. Need to think of something to start looking through those books and notes. My senior in Adelaide said that it is super stress there and ask me to prepare for it..... like read up what they taught in IMU and cover more in depth for some topic. ok i am scaring myself.

Oh and talk about Adelaide, i am starting to believe what one of my friend told me ages ago. Adelaide are full of old people and they tend to do things slowly. Why do i think so? Cause my offer letter is still not here yet and maybe cause the admin is taking their own sweet time to send the letter out since you know old people tend to do things slowly. But now i don't really care when the letter comes (but of course make sure they come before i commence my course or i will start cursing) cause the longer they take to send it, the more interest i get by keeping the money in the bank hehehe. See the positive side of waiting for the "oh so hard to type and send offer letter". Alright I think this post is quite long, so i shall stop talking and go slumber or laze around and before i go another picture which i really like.

My second post

2009-10-27T17:49:00.000+10:30

So this post is suppose to introduce myself........ well ok maybe i should make it simple. A medical student waiting for his offer letter from University (as of 27th October 2009, why so long one?) used to be very talkative but now a bit quiet especially in front of people i don't really know, but can go crazy if they are my friends. I think that is all i can say about myself.

Oh and i learnt how to get a Cbox for my blog from Ren Ping without her knowing that i have a blog hahahahaha and the best part is i even asked her to teach me how to upload photos into my blog when she said that i am suppose to start a blog, then only she will teach me. Guess she forgot about that statement since she can even forget about the photo which i am suppose to send her. So what else should i write here? ........ no ideas now Maybe i should upload some photo to make it nicer instead of words, words and more words. Maybe next post i will get some nice photos la to make it interesting. I think i should take a nap now. Oh before, that since my friends in Seremban is having exam today, well people all the best people.

OMG i got a Blog

2009-10-27T00:36:00.000+10:30

Ok i can't believe it either, but yea i am blogging but i am not so sure whether i will continue posting anything when i re-start (technically i haven't graduate yet, just having a long break) my course aka clinical years. And out of boredom and some pestering by none other than Ms Lee Ren Ping (well she is not reading yet hehehe) so i decided to start one. As for an introduction of me, myself, well i save you the energy and time ok since most of you who would be reading this blog (or maybe no one would read this blog who cares) knows who i am. Maybe i do it next time. Right now i am living up to the Blog URL i am pretty lazeeeeeeeeeeeee at the moment. I think instead of writing more i should go slumber. Will try to learn how to get a cbox n upload pictures later. Right now i am just plain LAZY.