I miss Kuching

It is 5 more days to home sweet home. I will be going back to Kuching next Friday night. =D My exam is on the 31st of December. What a day for an exam. Anyway, I will be back in Kuching for a week during my study break. Two weeks ago, I went to Sunway Lagoon with Sze Ying, Hazel and Wei Thing. That was during their last weekend in KL. Sze Ying and Hazel woke up earlier to make sandwiches for our lunch there. We took a taxi there and as soon as we reached the entrance after buying our tickets, the security guard wanted to check our bags to make sure no outside food/drinks. We had to pour our mineral water away and bring in our empty bottles. I find it ridiculous as they asked us to pour our water away and refill the free water from the water cooler.. We managed to sneak in the food as after showing our empty bottles to them, they didn't check our bags anymore with the food inside. Hehe It was drizzling at first so we decided to go to the water theme park first. When we wanted to go to the toilet to change, we went into the wrong toilet. We walked into the Male toilet and I was shocked to see all the guys there. It took me a while to realize that we went into the wrong toilet. Haha Basically, only Sze Ying and I played most of the rides there because the other two didn't want to. We were pretty exhausted by the time we reached the amusement theme park. Haha Especially after walking across the 400m+ suspension bridge. At first we planned to have dinner at Sunway Pyramid but by the time we reached there, we were too exhausted to even walk so we decided to go home to sleep instead and just have dinner by buying the food outside Vista B and eat at Hazel's place.




Can you spot Sze Ying and I? Haha



As for last Saturday, Gerardine came down from Singapore for 2 nights and she stayed with me. We went out to eat dim sum at Sri Petaling for breakfast on Sunday. She chia me for breakfast there. Then I went home to study and she went out on her own. At night, we went to Ampang Point for dinner. She chia me at the Korean Nak Won Restaurant. We had korean food for dinner. hehe RM100+ but it was worth it considering the food we had there.




The rm58 meat. haha!


My pork belly





She bought a steamer for me to cook over here as my christmas present. Anyway, before going back to Singapore, she bought the chicken and the emperor chicken herbs for me to cook too. I shared the emperor chicken with Galvin and we ate it for lunch and dinner that Monday. As for this weekend, I will not be going out. I will just be spending my time studying at home. hehe

A picture of my secondary school's teachers

Mr Teo, Pn Tan, Mary John, Skip 2 teachers, Pn Euphrasia, Pn Fu, Skip 2 teachers, Cik Sita

Trip to Genting Highlands

Nicole and I went to Genting Highlands to join her mum for a night yesterday afternoon. It was fun. We reached there at around 2.30pm and we felt hungry so we ate wedges at KFC.



After that, we decided to walk around. We didn't play at the theme park. For dinner, Nicole's mum brought us to Mushroom Farm Seafood Restaurant. It's been a long time since I had such nice food for dinner ever since I am here. We had butter prawns, fish, mushroom and soup with rice. For dessert, we had fruits including durians. hehe



After dinner, Nicole and I went to Snow World. It was really fun especially when we sat in the floats and played with the ice slides. We threw snow at each other and took pictures in there. Haha





Anyway, we went back to our room after that to sleep. The next morning, we went to Ripley's Believe It or Not. We spent an hour+ in there.


There was a mirror next to this picture for people to try to roll their tongues like the man in the picture. I tried doing it many times and after that, I realized the mirror wasn't an ordinary mirror. People from the other side of the mirror could look at me doing stupid faces at them. Lol I looked like an idiot to them.






Interesting pictures


This lady could write words upside down and backwards


This man could hold 20 coins in his ear


They are made of junks



Biggest Shoes and Smallest shoes


Biggest chair


Biggest palm and smallest palm




Gold coins all over the car




Tallest man and I


Slanted room


Even the window is slanted




Weird mirror


Collection of ties

We checked out at 1pm and we waited for our taxi to drive us back home. It was indeed a fun and memorable trip. =D

Patient Interview

We have our patient interview starting from this week onwards. It's under our Behavioral Science. For my semester and the next semester, we only have to interview normal patients. As for my semester 3, we have to interview patients who are very angry and come to see the doctor by banging on the door or wall. Then, for semester 4, we have to interview patients who are very sad and depressed. We have to break very sad news to them too such as they have cancer etc. Anyway, the lecturers taught us how to interview patients in the correct way. We are not allowed to use any medical jargon at all. I didn't know words like symptoms, associated symptoms, history, radiate are considered as medical jargons. We are not allowed to use those words when we talk to patients as they might not understand. We were asked to use lay-man terms and explanation instead. Our assessment on patient interview will be in a few weeks time. Now, we get to practise to interview patients.


Our lecturers showed us videos on good and bad interviews with patients and they even acted out for us to see in our lecture hall this morning.

After my lectures, I had to go for my PBL session on digestive system. Then, my orientation group friends and I went to KFC for lunch.


Alison, Michelle and Su Ann


Yi Wen, Agnes, me and Shu Ling

We ordered one big bucket of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, wedges etc and we felt very bloated at the end of the day. Haha We started to talk about how many more weeks to our exam and most of us started to feel kiasu except for Michelle who is so used to Kiasuism since she's from Raffles College in Singapore where everyone is kiasu. Haha

A Busy Week

Last week was a rather busy week to me compared to my usual weeks. We had lectures, pbl, case study for behavioral science and new air (assigned independent reading) topic to work on with the deadline on the 31st of December which is also the date for my final exam. Anyway, for the air topic, we were asked to write a report on Human Genome Project and we must include the techniques used to sequence the human genome, key findings regarding the human genome in terms of number of genes, % of coding genes etc, the benefits in treating diseases and the ethical and legal consideration that has arised from this project. Since the references were given for us to find, KIASU people (I was one of them) ran straight to the library after lecture to get hold of the journals. In the end, we shared. Haha Yeah, kiasu but sharing. Other than that, I went to play pool at the student lounge with Agnes and Shu Ling after lectures. Yes, it is still a very addictive game to me though not as addictive as it used to be when I was in secondary school. I haven't play pool since I left Kuching and now, I am back to playing pool. Haha





I also went to the Universiti Hospital with my group to help out at the children cancer ward last Wednesday.


I made rabbits for the cancer children and drew those faces. Haha

During the weekends, I went out with Nicole, Hazel and Sze Ying to eat at Sri Petaling. We accompanied Hazel to the clinic to clean her wound at there and at the same time, we had dinner there. Oh yeah, that was my second time going to the clinic with Hazel. During the first time, Hazel went to tell the doctor that I was doing Medicine and that doctor asked me so many questions about her Sebaceous Cyst, when I am just in Semester 1. Lol I couldn't answer any of his questions. Here's the conversation I had with him.

Dr. Cheong: Do you know what is a sebaceous cyst?
Me: No
Dr Cheong: Do you know the symptoms for sebaceous cyst?
Me: No
Dr Cheong: Do you know when do people get a sebaceous cyst?
Me: No
Dr Cheong: Better read about it.

I was sick of saying no that in my heart, I felt like asking him a lame question back. "Do you know how to kill an Indian? Just press the red button on the forehead and the indian will explode." Guess what? Luckily I didn't ask him that because after a few days I found out from Hazel that his wife is an Indian.

We were unlucky as there was no electricity. We wanted to eat at pizza hut but they couldn't serve us. Then, we tried KFC, MB etc but to no avail. In the end the electricity came back and we had our dinner at pizza hut.


We couldn't wait for our food so we bought cream puffs to eat

Homo erectus eating at pizza hut

Hazel and Nicole


Sze Ying and I

Happy Deepavali

We have Monday (tomorrow) as a public holiday for Deepavali in IMU. I came back to Kuching on Friday afternoon right after my morning lectures. It is so nice to be at home again right now. I reached Kuching at 2.40pm and I had my pork chop noodles with my lover milky tea with pearls. I reinstalled my microsoft office too. For dinner, I went to Jalan Song. I miss the food there! haha Anyway, the next day, I went to eat Penang Kueh Tiaw and cha kueh for breakfast at Bormill with Gerald. He passed me stpm trial papers for my cousin who will be sitting for stpm too next month. I managed to meet up with Cheryl and Edmund too in church. Today is a Sunday and I just came back from a morning jog at friendship park. Other than that, I have been spending my time with my family and revising my lecture notes and books at home. I enjoy it here because it is so much more comfortable to be at home than kl. I have just completed and submitted my assignment online last night. It was a report on Reactions towards Illness where we had to write about the crisis theory, illness related factors, personal factors, physical factors and the coping strategies for illness. I will be going back to Kl tomorrow afternoon. It is definitely very worth it to come back for 4 days. I have to wait for another 52 days to be back in Kuching again for christmas after this. By then, it will be a study marathon break for me since my finals will be on the 31st of December.

Wei Thing's 20th birthday

Last Sunday was Wei Thing's 20th Birthday. We planned a small birthday party for her at her Vista C. First of all, we ordered a half kg chocolate cake for her. Then, we bought super duper ah lien clothes for her to wear during her birthday. Other than that, we ordered food from Domino's pizza for her birthday party too.


The chocolate cake which we ordered from the IMU's bakery


Hazel presented the birthday cake to her and asked her to make a wish.

She was very reluctant to wear the ah lien clothes. At first her housemate pretended to say that there was an insect in her room so she quickly rushed into the room with a broom. That was when she got trapped in her own room because they locked the door and they didn't let her out after that. They forced her to wear the ah lien clothes. Haha

My friends and I who are from Vista B only saw her wearing those ah lien clothes when she came out from the lift.


We ate in her living room


Wei Thing and happy looking Nicole. Haha


The birthday girl and I


A silly pose from Rachel, Hazel and Sze Ying before we left the party.

My blood group is A+

I only found out my own blood group two days ago. During that afternoon, I had to go to the lab for my basic haematology practical. All of us had to perform a finger prick using the softclix pro lancing device and then prepare a peripheral blood smear.




My blood group is A (Row 2)


I am Rhesus positive (Row 2)

After doing our blood grouping, we prepared our own blood films.

We stained the blood film using Leishman's method.


My blood film

We managed to see our own blood cells under the microscope.

My erythrocytes


My neutrophil with three lobes


My monocyte with the kidney bean nucleus


My lymphocyte


My platelets.

It was very worth it for me to prick my own finger to see my blood cells under the microscope and other than that, I found out my blood group for free. Haha