happy birthday

a bit late... but nonetheless...
yesterday was birthday for me (=
well... i'm not one for birthday celebrations... so i don't have any expectations...
but the two celebrations, one was the "surprise" at midnite 26th... the other dinner on 26th.. were cool (=... quite a lot of ppl turned up which was nice...
so to cut the long story short... here's a short list of tqs...
thanks to everyone who msgd (= although i may not hav all your numbers, but now i do...
thanks to everyone who turned up for either and both celebrations :)
thanks to all those overseas ppl who msgd, taggd or thru various methods let me know that they remembered... it felt great to have an "international" celebrating my birthday... :)
thanks to... mei who called :)
thanks to... feng ko who blogged :)
thanks to... mummy who msgd 1 WHOLE day earlier claiming eagerness.. (i think she forgot)
thanks to... the christina,ss,chinpei,kkwan who hosted the first "surprise"...
thanks to... yeangwee who put a lot of effort into the CAKE!!! (i know he enjoyed himself more there) check out http://www.fengyblogstoo.blogspot.com/ for pics of the cake...
thanks to... everyone who wished me in school... i still get a great kick out of being wished happy birthday even though its belated (ann was quite funny... she wished me once on 26th, again on 27th morning.. and 20 minutes later again... lol)
last but not least... thanks to... God (= who made the whole day special...

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
Psalm 139:14

hariputer

WARNING: HARRY POTTER SPOILERS AHEAD (but then again.. if u can read this, u've probably alredi read the spoiler below...lol)

Harry Potter's is actually Lord Voldemort's Son...
Here's the final action scene as copied from the book

voldemort struck harry's wand away from his hand with the Hand Decapitus Spell...
harry: " wo de chiu arrrrrrrrrr!!!"
voldemort: " lu ah beh bui si..."
harry: " wah ah beh sii liao!!"
voldemort: "harry.... wah si lu a beh..."
harry: NOOOOOooooooooo........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tbJ4HavnKE
i even have a video to go along with it...hahaha



what?! don't tell me you actually believed that happened in harry potter...lol

fengy

today is Feng Ko's birthday :)
yes...
i don't hav any pics of his recent b'day celeb cos' i don't hav a camera...
so a short summary of who feng ko is and what he's done should be in order...

Feng Ko is my housemate... in fact... he's my toilet-mate.. haha, we share the same toilet... cos' his room is next door...
we both have very loud speakers which we sometimes use to abuse our other housemate (hl) who has no speakers....
Feng Ko has recently picked up dotA... he hasn't started going to cybercafes yet (hopefully not :P) but he spends a reasonable amount of time at home playing it anyway...after having trained him, he plays reasonably well against AI and actually should start playing against humans more if he wants to excel now... but that's not important... lol...
his other achievements include being on the Dean's List from Phase I...
He's the resident studies pro in the house, so on matters involving studies i consult him regularly since i'm not so pro...
He's very popular with girls...lol... quite lah... undoubtedly due to his charming personality and dashing good looks, killer abs, pearl white skin and smooth as silk skin, and various other complimentary adjectives... haha... anyway...
for more info, check out his blog at http://fengyblogstoo.blogspot.com/

and while going thru the b'day pics checkout which girl feng ko currently has eyes for :P...
but bear in mind he's still single n available anyway...

tikitikitikitikitikitiktiktiki

heh.. learn a hokkien word a day...
TI KI... means stubborn in hokkien...
yeah...
how did i learn it?
well... my batch has a medical students yahoo group...
and recently there was a super hebat discussion that kinda went a bit out of control...
and it was about a minor point on whether to asucultate(hear) of palpate(feel) first...
anyway...
you know you're in a medical student's group when the discussion that draws the most posts is the one about MEDICINE rather than all the other "NORMAL" posts all put together....
and you know you're not really passionate about the "finer" points of medicine when all that i took away from that lengthy discussion was...

TI KI...
tikitikitikitikitikitikitikitiktiki
haha.. sounds really cute... like some animal...

tire-ing

heh... fam med can also be tiring!!!
the past few days... ok-la... 2 only... have been quite tiring...
today one of my groupmates looked at my eyes and mentioned that i have PANDA eyes~!!
haha... is that an achievement?

yesterday i went to help out at the music nite rehearsal (i got conned into it).. didn't really want to go... but while i was driving on the way there, it struck me that though i may not WANT to be there... wat i WANT is to keep my promise to help out... so the desire to honour my word is the motivation the be there, even though i don't have the basic desire to BE there at all...

anyway... fam med still being fam med... i AM quite free still... in spite of suddenly having a lot of things popping up...
such as CFCS, research, IMS... yeah, a bit of stuff... think i shud start reading a bit also...
but still... i'm free-er... so still "buzz-able"...

in this period of freeness... i've started asking myself questions regarding christianity... i think i'm rediscovering my religion... but i'm going thru a bit of a dry period spiritually...

getting tough to choose

i COOK (=

hehe... i cooked my first meal at home today!!!
i feel so pro today...
although a series of unfortunate events led to this weird occurence, it happened none the less...
i went to jiajia (local supermarket) and bought
1 packet of maggi mee containing 5 servings - RM 2.50
1 packet of Japanese Sawi (or sth like that, can't remember wat its called exactly)- RM 1.41
1 packet of Chicken Sausage- RM 1.99
Grand Total - RM 6.00

ooooo.... that's 6 bucks for about 3 meals or more...(can't expect to make 5 cos' the Maggi mee is really really small, so i put 2 into the pot...

sooo... the basic recipe was reli simple, dump everything into the pot in this order- boil water, maggi mee, soup powder, sausage, sawi.... stir and act as if you're really cooking something... and jeng jeng... you have... FOOD!!!
if you'd like to know... the japanese sawi, i bought 3 stalks... in today's meal i used 3 leafs from 1 stalk which has about 6-7 leaves...
the chicken sausage i used 2 out of about 10 sausages i think...
wahaha... so total cost of entire meal... INCLUDING water (couple of cents considering my water bill for a MONTH is 5 bucks), driving (one week 30 bucks, but this is only to jiajia, so at the most 50 cents? or a buck?), electricity? (i no gas, so can only use electric steamboat machine, one month about 60 odd bucks, but use for such a short while only... probably about 20 cents at the most) errr... labor costs? (i do myself :)
making this meal a grand total of less than 3 bucks...

i'm still full :)... if not i still got apple... and various junk foods....
i'm thinking of doing this 3 times a week... just enough to not be anti social yet save money :)
woohoo... talk about cheap...

gotta push

heh... this is posting is turning into 10 weeks of laziness...
gotta get up and do some studying or i'll really have an empty brain going into sem7...
hmm...
on the other hand... it IS a welcome break of sorts...

court

heh... quite a few people have been asking about this so i'll make a short entry.. it's quite embarassing actually...

last month,
my road tax expired on the 1st of May... i went to watch spiderman3 on the 1st of May at 10pm... but we couldn't find our way into Terminal One where the cinema is (seremban being a small town has no idea what the word accessible means)... so we wandered around outside until we were late for the movie and had to watch the 12am one... to cut the long story short...
i ended up driving us home at about 2am 2nd of May...
Murphy's Law states that: things will go wrong in any given situation... how sienly true...
i got stopped at a road block just outside the road turning into my house (less than 100m)... 2 hours after my road tax expired... (realizing that i'd forgot to renew it didn't really help things)

so yeah... that's why i got a court order to go to court on the 21/6
i won't humor you all with what happened on the day i went to court... that's even more embarassing... o_O

court

hhmmm.... going court tmr..
sien...this is disrupting my holiday...
heh, unless i get sent to jail...
that'lll REALLY disrupt holidays...

home (=

yay!! it's a joyous occasion...
i'm home :)
you don't realize how much you miss home till you're away from it...
home cooked food is still the best :)
clean floors and clothes that you didn't have to clean yourself are the best :)
SOFAS TO SLEEP ON are the BEST!!!!!
yes!! home... i'm lovin it...

on other matters...
i found out on dr. jimbo's blog that a rather famous patient had passed away...
i'm rather... disturbed, cos' i knew him also... not personally though... but still...
if you're wondering... this is the acro guy with multiple pathology due to the acro...
hmm... not really depressed cos' i didn't really know him... but well... wonder how things'll be when i start getting to know patients better... feels scary... +_+

but still... i'm home :)

done

after a hectic 3 days...
i'm done...
and now i'm on holiday...
its been a long wait...

i'm coming home...

zzzzz

sienzzz....
internal med clinical exam next wed...
MCQs for surgery AND internal med next thursday...
zzzz.... i am gg'd...
they should have distributed the groups so that the SMART ppl do the 2 REAL postings together and let the lesser NORMAL ppl do the PSEUDO-fam-med-posting with 1 of the real postings...
hmm....
aaaaannnnd... next week also got report to pass up BEFORE the one week break...
=_=

but i shouldn't complain... heh, i don't feel as if i'm going it alone anymore...
i've got Someone watching over me and Friends in high places... (=

good day

heh... it's been quite a while since i had a good day like this... ^^
what was good?
i went to church :)... that was good... reli good... no.. it wasn't just because worship rocked, or msg was meaningful... it was, i guess... i went looking for God... and i guess God reveals himself to those who ackowledge their weakness and... i guess the word that fits would be wickedness.. yeah, kinda hard to take... that we're all wicked... but i think unless we get the idea that we ARE wicked.. then only we appreciate the grace God has to offer us (=
heh... visited eeyin who was down with fever.. that was nice... heh, reli wish that the idea of a CG had gone thru somehow...
then... went back home and slept... yeah... that was nice... and it rained :)
rain at home is thrice better than in seremban cos' there're TREES at home... unlike seremban which is desert-like...
driving home was fun too cos' it was raining like siao, haha... scary but... fun lah (=

oh yah, the day ended with owning AI+... yeah, that was a nice topper...
all together... a good day... looking forward to a great week ahead with God, the same way today started :)

waiting on the world

Waiting On the World to Change by John Mayer

Me and all my friends
We're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing
There's no way we ever could
Now we see everything is going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it

So we keep waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
Its hard to be persistant
When we're standing at a distance
So we keep waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change

Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would've never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on the door
When you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cuz when when the only information ooohhh,
They can bend it all they want

So while we're waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
It's not that we don't care
We just know that the party's there
So we keep waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change

We're still waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
One day our generation
Is gonna rule the population

So we keep on waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
Know we keep on waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
Waiting on the world to change
Waiting on the world to change
Waiting on the world to change.

its been a while since i've posted songs... this song's been playing recently i think... quite... nice...

yeah... nice :)

its convocation

yay!! it's convocation :)
that ceremony that finally indicates that you're graduating...
that you've stepped out of the shoes of a student and finally become...
a working adult...

guess i won't be going...
cos' this is a pseudo-graduation...
i'm still studying.. =_=

someone died

so there i was in the ward today... just now actually... and suddenly my fren noticed the doctor doing CPR in the cubicle in front of us and asked why not i go help out... cos' this actually wasn't the first time we helped out to do CPR... only thing was the previous time there was a specialist there, and there were no family members... and the guy was alredi confirmed dead when the dr asked us if we wanted to try out...
so well... since i'd done it b4 i went there and offered to help... anyway to cut the long story short... the guy died...
and this time a couple of minutes later the family arrived... i was ok with the guy dying... until the dr broke the news to the son and he burst into tears... and then it hit me... this guy just died... then all sorts of thoughts flooded my mind...
what struck me was that in spite of the family members being so emotional, we as the medical students and drs had to keep a straight face and the most we could do was say, "I'm sorry..."
as i drove to dinner i was complaining about many things... but the thing that struck me was... why can't we be sad? shouldn't we? aren't drs humans too?

well... not all of us are drs... but at the same time.. as christians... aren't we the spiritual drs of this world... do we feel sad whenever someone.. "spiritually dies"... or do we have any compassion or are we trying desperately to save the ppl around us?... as desperately as a medical student doing CPR thinking he can save the guy he's pumping...

have we become calloused and hard hearted.... forcing ourselves to "not be affected" by the sufferings of the people around us... or perhaps it is because we don't know what is "life" therefore we don't know when some one is "dead" or "dying"...

heh... come to think of it... i don't even know the guy's name... only know he's in for ESRF...

really tired today...

happy mum's day

happy mother's day mummy :)

laif

life is good i guess...
i was going thru my frens blogs...
medical students from all over... australia, seremban, uk(not yet go but still squatting in kl)...
non medical students...
i guess life goes on... this week was kinda first week in internal med...
its been quite up and down i guess...
but i think i realize that no matter how busy you think you are... life still goes on...
its a choice i guess.. to rush through life as a medical student rushing for research, case reports, studies, case presentations... but i don't think it has to be like that...
it just takes 5 minutes to pull out of the rush of the hour to look and feel for a patient... or to just stop and stare and the rain out of the window... to feel wind on your face... to just listen to the silence...
and suddenly everything falls back into perspective again...
life is good i guess...

stress

wah... stress...
i just realized that its been ages since i've really been studying...
surgery somehow didn't really have to stretch so long hours... still had to study then... but it seemed accomplishable...
internal med seems...
neverending...

sien like mad... this whole week... wait, no... it's only been 2 days... aaaahhh... these 2 days have been like neverending...

think i'll sleep early today...

tiga ratus

its been quite a while since my last post i realized...
heh.. maybe bcos' nth much to post abt since internal med started...
its so sien...
everyday just go ward, then tbl... sometimes got Case Presentation, but that's also with dr in ward...
if you're especially unlucky that week then u get to go PD which is even more boring... hmm..
internal med is like one big ward posting... hmmm...
surgery was so much more interesting...
anyway...
watched 300 last nite...
also sien...
hahaha... maybe i just don't appreciate the GLORY!! and SPAAARTAAAAA!! and TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!!!!
zzzz...
in the end a line by the narrator some where towards the end appropriately summed it up...
King Leonide's roar was LOUD and LOOOOONG... and yeah, that was abt it...
the whole movie was just like an excuse for 300 men to bash 1million noobs...
somehow i just didn't get what they're fighting for...