Thursday, June 23, 2011

Not I perasan!!

Seriously, today was just too obvious.

The surgeon kept asking questions and ALWAYS point at me expecting me to answer. Even though my head was down looking at my paper, busy jotting down notes, he'll make some noise to attract my attention and ask me the question.

Even the girl who was sitting beside me realised too!!

Jeez....

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It's summer and it's cold, wet and damp. Everyday, it's drizzling or sprinkling. Today's rain was quite heavy and the wind was horrible!! My whole anterior part of my pants were soaked and I was feeling so cold!!

Grrr.....

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

So far...updates

This is my 2nd week of my 1st block. Last week I was in Nephrology department and this week I'm in GI Surgery ward.

Nephrology ward was great because Dr. Millar was so nice and so eager to teach and he's so funny and I miss him =(

GI Surgery ward is OK thanks to the FY1 (houseman) that are ex-IMUians and whom I know after the senior junior party. Justine (another J senior LOL!) is in my ward and Fabian is in the next ward so he occasionally come over and talk to us.

Anyway, I've been helping Justine with her work aka I was acting like a FY1. Clerk patient, do examination, write report then take blood and do ECG. All on my own mind you!!

So far, yesterday (1st day in this ward) I saw 3 patients and took their blood successfully. ALL 3 TIMES on my FIRST DAY on MY OWN!!! So proud =)

Luckily I read thru my ECG before going to the hospital so when I first arrived at the ward and after putting my bag down, Justine saw me and she went "you wanna do ECG??" I went "of course! But I've never done it though" So she talked me thru at the residents room and I pushed the ECG cart to the patient's bed and started my day =)

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Now under stress during tutorials because this surgeon who gives the tutorial likes to ask me question after I kinda managed to answer a question the locals couldn't on our 1st day. After I answered that question, he went ''did you do your basic science in M'sia?'
Later, a senior told me he likes IMU students because we know more and since then, any difficult questions, he'll point to me and ask me!!

This morning, one of his powerpoint slides mentioned cholangiocarcinoma and he pointed to me (again) and ask me what is it. This was not stressful but he added 'IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, I WILL BE SO DISAPPOINTED!!'
Omg.....I was stunned and err...STRESS!!!!!

But so far, everything is fine =)
Saw 2 surgeries today - fundoplication and hiatus hernia repair & adrenalectomy (both done laparoscopically).

Friday, June 3, 2011

Drunk during initiation

I had my presentation yesterday morning and I did OK I guess. Anyway, my group mates and I went to a pub for a small celebration. Nicos let me try his ginger beer and I thought it was nice so I got one for myself.

It was so sunny (24 degrees!!! Normally it's 6-10 degrees so it really was a nice sunny day) and we sat outside of the pub under the sun. I was not tipsy nor drunk, just red like usual then my friend got me another pint of cider and after that, things just went out of control.

I got so tipsy.
I lost all my balance even when I was still sitting.
I was like floating and I could not walk straight.
Got to rely on things around me to walk.
I WhatsApp my mom telling her 'ma, I'm drunk' =P

My friend who sat beside me keep pushing me asking me to go home but the more she pushed me, the more I felt nauseous so I went to the toilet and puked. Then I came back and drank some water and puked again.

The other locals who are my batch mates too (I think) keep saying 'welcome to Scotland' =P

They were very very nice because they let me taste their liquor and was telling me it's ok to be drunk and Ewen (my another group mate) was reassuring me that as long as I am not dancing and singing on the table, I am alright LOL. More batch mates came and joined us and they met me in my tipsy state, so embarrassing but they keep saying it's alright and keep asking me to have a soft (coke or smth) or water and Nicos eventually got the water for me.

Just a few pictures taken with my new toy =P
My group mate who is from Aberdeen
Nicos and Janice. Nicos is the friend who's from Cyprus
The pub
The pub is called the old school house and standing there was a new friend
My 1st ginger beer (4% alcohol)
The 2 friends who were so nice
The other group mate who has PhD in philosophy =)
He had 5 pints of beer!!!
The ginger beer bottle
See how red my cheeks were!!
My 2nd pint of alcohol but I had cider instead of beer
The amount of alcohol all of us had
The friend who made me nauseous. She got drunk with her 1st pint of cider and see how drunk she looked!
My SSM group mates =)
Aileen was missing because she went for work.

I managed to walk home with the help of Nicos and the moment I went into my room, I slept for 1 hour. I know my phone was ringing but I was too tired and tipsy to move. Anyway, woke up feeling better but still tipsy and giddy and puked one more time to make myself feel better.

I didn't have anything to eat the whole day hence drank with an empty stomach and got tipsy so easily.

Half an hour after I woke up, I forced myself to join the other malaysians for dinner to celebrate someone's birthday. I bathed and changed and went to Frankie & Benny's with them and had dinner.

My head now is still throbbing and pounding but besides that, I am ok =)

Tomorrow going for party with Aileen and Nicos at night. I think they're bringing me for clubbing whee~~

Thursday, June 2, 2011

My New TOY!!!

Yes, my new toy (that's what the older J bro called it) is out from it's box =P
Got the phone on 4/5/11
Got the cover that I bought from Amazon on 12/5/11
Got the phone out from the box on 30/5/11

Got it jailbreaked by the senior (young J), got another senior who's also a Dr.J to stick my screen protector and another senior (T) to download a lot of stuff in it =P
Oh ya I got another 2 covers. 1 genuine leather flip cover and one free transparent plastic cover from the older J brother =)

The best part is, my contract is not 24 months but 21 months and instead of paying 159 pounds for the phone, I paid 69 pounds only =)

Thank you so much older J bro aka Dr.J (he seriously don't like me calling him Dr)!! =]

I went and downloaded a lot of games and currently addicted to Jump and Fly.
I got to let the fly jump up as high as he can by jumping on the clouds and board and score points by moving and tilting my phone around LOL...FUN!!!

Monday, May 30, 2011

Sunday out

This morning I went to church just for fun and it was a weird session for me. There were lots of singing and talking and more singing. It was awkward in the beginning but after a while, I got transfixed with the drum set. Instead of singing along, I was trying to catch the tempo and the style of the drummer. It lasted for 2 hours and the bible talking part was interesting at the start but I started to feel sleepy so I went and observe my surroundings.

Next, went for lunch with seniors and spent 10.90! But it was kinda worth it because it felt like having dimsum buffet LOL and tomorrow I might be able to start using my new phone because the older J might be having a day off since he's gonna be a locum tonight =)

Then went shopping with the girls. I just accompanied them but it was fun. This is one of my 1st time hanging out with girls and shopping and all, never did these back at home =)

OK, I am tired and I'm just blogging for the sake of blogging. Nothing much then so bye...