Till we meet again

Time flies! It is time to start blogging again! I was so busy throughout this whole semester that I did not even have the time to blog. My final semester before going to clinical years was a really stressful semester. I had to memorise all the systems with only 2 weeks of study break. It was crazy! I am glad I passed and it is over now. Thanks to my helpful friends, lecturers and not to forget, my mentor from Kuching. =D I will miss my friends who will be going to overseas instead of Seremban to do their clinical years especially Sin Dee and Hui Hwen. Not to forget Jonathan as well who was so willing to be my patient for me to practise my clinical skills.









I love you all! Happy Holidays!

2 days of field work for Community Medicine in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan

We just started our Community Medicine on Monday. We were divided into many groups to carry out our Community Medicine project. My group was assigned to Nilai. There were 36 of us. We further divided our tasks among ourselves. Some of us studied the organizational structure in the Klinik Kesihatan Nilai. Others did the household survey and the research project. I was involved in household survey. For the household survey, we did a survey to know how much the people in Nilai know about Diabetes. Our instrumentation was a questionaire. Wow, I thought questionaire was an easy job. It was not at all. We walked so much in the hot sun around the big neighbourhood in Nilai and it was from house to house. There were dogs in some houses and we were rejected by the people in some houses. We had to collect at least 250 data and we managed to collect more than 300 data. For our research project, we did a cross sectional study on how much people in Nilai know about Dengue. Tomorrow, we have to start to key in all the data and use the SPSS software for our data analysis and results interpretation. Next week, we have to present it to all the doctors who specialized in Community Medicine.


Klinik Kesihatan Nilai which is opposite the bus station


One of the many housing areas that we had to walk around


One of the departments in Klinik Kesihatan Nilai

Doing a household survey is not easy at all.

People were scared of me when I tried pressing their doorbells so many times. No one wanted to come out to answer my questions.


We walked from lorong to lorong. It was super tiring.


The Klinik Kesihatan Nilai was so creative to educate the patients there on breast feeding. Stocking as the skin? They were really creative.

A new semester, a new beginning

I will be starting my new semester tomorrow. No doubt that it was hard to leave Kuching but I have been telling myself that I should not be sad as each time I get back here, it is coming nearer to the day I get my certificate. =D Instead, I should work hard from tomorrow onwards!! I am satisfied with my 4 weeks break in Kuching and now I should put the holiday mood aside and tune in to the study mood. I am ready to face Community medicine, Musculoskeletal system and nervous system for this coming semester! Not to forget, my 7 other systems. Yes, I have 10 systems for my final exam in December and I should start burning midnight oil from Day 1.

Penang

While I was looking out from the window in the plane back to KL last Tuesday, I suddenly thought of going to Penang. Haha I told my friend, Wen How who is staying in Penang about it. I finally bought a bus ticket to Penang after we confirmed about the plans. I asked Sze Ying to come along with me. We both reached Penang on a late Friday night. Wen How brought us back to his apartment and we stayed in his room for 2 nights.

The next morning, he gave us his car and GPS to go out because he had to work and he could not bring us out. We drove the car WITHOUT any LICENSE. Sze Ying and I started our day off with dim sum at Tian Tian Lai for breakfast.


It was a nice breakfast.

After the breakfast, we went to the Toy Museum in Tanjung Bungah.


I drove past USM and I was wondering whether Crystal was there.


I doubt Crystal plays football.


We depended on the GPS throughout the whole journey.


We finally reached Toy Museum.


Look alike 1


Look alike 2

We wanted to go to P Ramlee's house after that but our GPS ran out of battery. That was when the REAL adventure began for the both of us. Two lost Kuching drivers in Penang. We decided to go to Gurney Plaza instead to find a handphone shop to charge the GPS. It took us an hour to find the directions to Gurney Plaza. We asked so many people, from going into a church to going into a hospital to ask for directions. We drove along Jalan Pangkor for more than 5 times. When we finally reached Gurney Plaza, we were so relieved. The shop charged us rm10 to charge our GPS there. We went shopping while waiting for it to be fully charged.


Actually, we planned to eat Penang Char Kueh Tiaw for lunch after going to P Ramlee's house but we had to give up that lunch for a sad lunch at A&W in Gurney Plaza instead.

When the GPS came back to live, we went to P Ramlee's house.


P Ramlee's house

For God sake, I didn't know P Ramlee is no longer alive anymore till Sze Ying told me about it and said I was so dumb. We went back to Wen How's apartment after that. It took us so long to reach home just because we missed a turning. So near, yet so far. We didn't have time to shower when we reached home because Wen How said the place for dinner was pretty far and we had to go earlier. We went to Bukit Genting for Thai Food with his other 3 greenian friends.


Sunset in Bukit Genting


A nice place to have dinner


We ate durians first.


Cangkuk manis


Fish


Tom Yam soup


Spicy fish


Squids


Time to pay bill

After dinner, we went to Batu Ferringhi.


We walked along the streets there.

There were so many tourists as well. Despite the fact that I was so exhausted, I managed to survive till after midnight.


Wen How brought us to eat Fried Bee Hoon with fried fish at Jalan Macalaister for breakfast before leaving for KL.


It was a nice breakfast as well.


I had a great time in Penang and I want to go there again next time. Thanks to the great host!

The only drawback about Penang is, most of the Penang drivers are very rude. Not only that, the bus environment was bad.


People putting legs up.

People in front pushing their chairs way back till we had no space in the bus.

Children behind me who kept kicking my chair and touching my hair till I could not stand it anymore and scolded them. Guess what did the big brother tell the small sister? "Jangan kacau. Nanti AUNTY marah lagi". I actually looked so old to them.

Why am I always hungry during Pathology lectures?

During Pathology lectures, I am always hungry because I always think of food.

Strawberry gallbladder


In a strawberry gallbladder, the mucosa tends to be red, and is flecked with numerous yellowish spots.


Dilated Cardiomyopathy with a banana shaped septum


It is 100% genetic as a cause.

Chocolate cysts of ovary



This old blood has the appearance of thin chocolate.

Cheesy Necrosis


Tissue is soft, dry and cheesy, occurring typically in tuberculosis.

Strawberry haemangioma


Red or purple-coloured vascular skin markings that develop shortly after birth.

Carcinoma Breast with Peau D'Orange


Breast with skin looking like an orange peel

Fish Mouth Mitral Stenosis


Extreme mitral stenosis

Broccoli Vegetations


These vegetations can be seen in Infective Endocarditis.

Joke of the day

Few weeks ago, I was having lunch with Sze Ying at Elephant to celebrate her belated birthday. After ordering our food, we sat down to talk.

Sze Ying: Let's watch Eclipse together when you come back to KL.

Me: Ok. Which date?

Sze Ying: Any day in the cinema.

Me: Cinema??? Oh, it is a movie?

Sze Ying: Yeah and obviously you are not a fan of it.

Me: Yeah, I thought you meant the eclipse in space which you get to see once in a lifetime.

Smokey eyes

Last Saturday, I went to Fiona's house to hang out. We could not think of what to do so we decided to try out smokey eyes on each other. We went to look at Michelle Phan's Smokey eyes tutorial on youtube and we followed the steps.


It turned out fine for mine. For Fiona's, I guess I didn't have any skill in using an eyeliner. Haha

I showed a guy friend of mine the same video when he came to my house and he tried out the smokey eyes on me. He tried his best but to no avail because I look like..


THIS. I looked as if I just got beaten up with black eyes.

How did I spend my time in Kuching so far?

Since I came back to Kuching, I have been trying to balance my time between playing and studying. At first, it was rather balanced but right now, it seems like my playing time is more than my studying time. I have been hanging out with my childhood friends back in Primary school most of the time here. It feels so good to talk about the good old times together. All the silly moments. haha We tried playing Zero point again but since we are older now, our stamina decreased. When we jumped for too long, we would feel dizzy as well. I guess the game is no longer suitable for us anymore. We prefer to sit down and talk instead now. We developed a new hobby. We go for karaoke now. That doesn't mean that we can sing. Usually, we lose our voice after singing and screaming in the room. We eat more since we can drive around now. We walk less compared to last time. We watch more movies now because we prefer to sit and relax. I am glad I manage to catch up with them when I am back. =)

First attempt to cook tomato noodles

One Sunday afternoon, I decided to cook tomato noodles for lunch with my friends at my place after learning how to cook tomato noodles from my godmother back in Kuching.


We used chicken meat


Wei Thing tried to cut the chicken meat but since I forgot to defroze it earlier, it was very hard for her to cut


To save time, I went to defroze it with the hot shower


A Dietitian, a food science expert and a pharmacist were trying to start to cook the sauce for the tomato noodles.


We fried the onions with the chicken meat and oyster sauce


Then, we added tomato sauce diluted with water and sugar


Last but not least, we added starch


Happy faces while cooking


We bought the crispy noodles


Nicole and Hazel


A group picture before we started eating