Sunday, November 23, 2008

A picture of my secondary school's teachers

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

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Trip to Genting Highlands

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Interesting pictures

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This lady could write words upside down and backwards

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This man could hold 20 coins in his ear

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They are made of junks


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Biggest Shoes and Smallest shoes

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Biggest chair

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Biggest palm and smallest palm

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Gold coins all over the car

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Tallest man and I

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Slanted room

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Even the window is slanted

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Weird mirror

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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

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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.

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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.

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Alison, Michelle and Su Ann

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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

Monday, November 10, 2008

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

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

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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.

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

Homo erectus eating at pizza hut
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Hazel and Nicole

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Sze Ying and I