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Back from Singapore

Just back from Singapore last night. Still remember my last visit there was almost 5 years back when i was still a year-one med student..

This time i went with dear dear. We didn't actually plan it beforehand. It was just that we found cheap flight ticket (only MYR2 and MYR11 for to and fro per person) a day before we departed so we went. We didn't tour around the island but just visit our siblings there..

Another main attraction that drove me there was jie moved into her new 4-storey house !! It is indeed a very cozy place by the sea.. i love the view from her topmost floor---- the seaside view with the green simply mesmerized me!! so regretful that i thought i would be able to snap some photo back the next day so i didn't take any during my first day there and only realized that i was running out of time the next day before we headed back to airport :(

mmm... really looking forward for a well-planned vacation there. Shall arrange one before i finish the next posting.. (haha, not even started the posting but already looking forward finishing it :P)

haha, as what dear dear said, this was only a testing trip for the next, ha...

Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord that He gives me everything that comes to me.. if it is not Lord, i won't be able to make all this possible. Last Friday was my last day in medical before i go on leave, i was so delighted that my specialist told me that i passed my posting very well, few of the MOs even asked me to go back for my MO-ship. When i tried to recall back everything happened to me throughout the past 4 months, this rushed into my mind... the long-lost memory.. Not long after i joined medical posting (approximately 1 month), a then soon-to-leave specialist (now left) told me this, "Liau, you are good, keep up your work, take up your exam faster, don't waste too much time." Praise the Lord for all the compliment, thank God for His guidance. May God continue to bless me and guide me through, Amen.

*the ECG up there belongs to one of my patient that complained of chest pain during my call, it's a perfectly normal sinus rhythm ECG with heart rate of approximately 75bpm. I kept it in my pocket and totally forgot to attach it back into his folder :P

My studio apartment

Everyone has been wondering how's my hostel looks like since i started my housemanship. Ha.. Sorry for delaying in updating, here are a few pictures of my studio apartment.. Once entering into the room, there will be a kitchen on my right. (I added an induction plate that papa bought me in between the kettle and fridge)

Then here it comes a big mirror in which i'll look at every time i left for work :)

And this is a super single- sized bed for me. I'll usually sleep soundly soon after i lie down despite how much effort i put in keeping myself awake for some reading. (used to sleep for 15 hours straight in the weekend after my call, from 2+pm on Saturday till 5+ morning the next day before i prepared myself to ward again)

At the bed end, there's a corner i spend most of the time if i'm not too tired for the day.. :)
And my bathroom is on the left.. hot shower is 24 hours ready! The nicest and most enjoyable part after a whole day in the ward :)

Convo- 15/8/2009

I've been wanted to update my blog for so long but just don't seem to have time to do so till now... Praise be to Almighty God, i graduated on 15 August 2009 after 5 years of hard work. Thank to all my family members who had been praying unceasingly for me. Thank also to friends that went through this hardship together with me. May God bless us throughout our career. Going to miss my 5 years in FMHS, Unimas, Land of Hornbill, Borneo Island....

The Art of Racing In the Rain

Borrowed 'The Art of Racing In The Rain' by Garth Stein from friend soon after my exam as i was told that this is one of the popular and best-selling book. This indeed is an interesting book and it touches me in certain point.

Enzo knows he is different from other dogs; he has a human mind, he is obsessed with the opposition of human thumbs and has its own explaination why his couldn't oppose just like any human. His master, Denny, a well-known F1 racer shares everything with him including his life, his family and even his TV programmes. So, Enzo has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the race track, everyone can successfully navigate all of life's ordeals. Prior to his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through: the sacrifices Denny has made to succeed professionally; the unexpected loss of Eve, Denny's wife; the three-year battle over their daughter, Zoë, whose maternal grandparents pulled every string to gain custody etc.

What an uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope! As only a dog could speak....

Vincy is HERE!!

looks like this blog has been abandoned until Min 'sound' me so tat both of us can update the blog... huh, i hate literature and yet she ask me to write something here :'(

ya, here it goes, my BTN (biro tatanegara) ll be held next week Monday (25 May) till 29 May at Pontian, Johor and im goin to drive there w ex coursemate, Jie Wen. She jus updated me tat she's goin to bring a pail...zzzz...for clothes washing.. huh. and my induction is on 29 May till 11 June at Goldcourse Hotel Klang :). Pray for my journey and the courses there :)

Btw, i jus got my temporary license today, and it is orange in color!! looks ugly...z.z..z.z....goin to laminate it or else i ll use it to feed my hamsters.. 

Tah~~goin to post my little hamsters here when im free :)

What's the Meaning of Life to you?

Thanks God i had my SPA interview this morning and it went smoothly. I managed to answered most of the questions with a breeze except one... "What's the meaning of life to you?". This was what asked to me and i paused for nearly 1 minute before i answered them. This really made me think of it seriously. Praise Lord i answered them from a Christian's point of view though they are Muslim. Yeah, the meaning of life to me is not to eat, enjoy or to accumulate property in this earthly world but to continue to walk close with God and do whatever God has granted me to my best in order to honour Him. Thanks Lord You remind me through the interviwers before i embark in my career.

14th May 2009

It's been nearly half a year since i last wrote here... all coz i was busy with study and of course the exams! i took them one after another, unwillingly, reluctantly.... Till the end of April and early May, as my Professional exam was approaching, the stress level was so unbearable.. During the revision weeks, i'd dreamt of my theory exam, my clinical exam.. Every night, i fell asleep while recalling the stuff i read for the day and then only to find myself shocked to waken up in the middle of the nights coz of the jerk of my legs and crampy limbs..

My adrenaline surge made me having early satiety most of the time followed by loss of appetite. I'm sure nothing went wrong with my hypothalamus. Things just seemed so gloomy. In a few occassions, i broke into tears when thinking of i just couldn't handle this. O Lord, pardon me for being such a faithless one. I prayed so hard to Abba Father and words kept telling me that God is with me, He won't test us beyond our capability but i just didn't seem to have faith in Him. Forgive me, o Lord.

A day before my OSCE, i really couldn't calm myself down thinking of the 5-minute bell. What if i went blank in that 5 minutes and the next station and then the subsequent ones? Thanks God He's really with me, my worry only proved to be groundless..

Few days before short and long cases, i was so restless... my mind was so busy at most of the time.. Few minutes before i was called for my short cases, i understood why the DSM-IV criteria of 4/13 peaked in 10 minutes for panic attack. Thanks God He was with me and is still with me that i didn't fulfill the criteria =)

Now, all was over. God was with me and is still with me and i made it, I passed the exam. Glory be to God!

Really thankful to all my family members & dear dear for praying unceasingly for me. thanks to dear dear that you repeatedly reassured and calmed me down whenever i was so stressful. Thanks to my friends and study group members (jun & ang) for being with me throughout the period. Congratulations to you guys! Thanks to angang for the dinner that night and of course, your reassurance.

Will continue to pray that God continue to guide us through our housemanship.

p/s: sorry angang u are not in the photo, i think you know why =p

Teko

It's been really for quite some time i last wrote somtheing over here.. Just finished my last case write-up, but don't feel like reading though exam is around the corner, so stop by here...

This photo had been taken for quite some time ago when i went over my friend's place to practise physical examination just before exam. Well, its name is 'Teko', meaning dog's lice in Iban. It's given this name coz according to my friend, it looked like one (flat). Anyway, i've never seen any myself but if it would be just like this lovely 'Teko', it would be exciting coz whenever i look at it, i'll smile. As if it is smiling to me all the time... =)

Hari Raya Haji = CPR

I m late to ward today...supposely going to ward to clerk patient for seminar and for tuesday's ward round in the morning but end up sleeping soundly till 2pm (woke up and sleep back of coz). Thus, i clerked a TB case n Ward 6 then i head to my ward (Ward 2) to cover beds, i have 3 beds to cover. Well, after clerking 1 patient, i decided to look into the case note and write down the important notes. At tat time, i was still be able to joke ard with the nurses over the counter. At 3.13pm, a relative of a patient came to talk to the nurse, asking her to see her relative. after the nurse saw the patient, steadily, she said to other nurse, "patient collapse". And she take out the emergency trolley from treatment room, and i too, follow them to the patient. Once i approach the patient, there was no attending dr or houseman, i checked the pulse, listen to the breath sound, auscultate...no pulse, no breathing. Immediately i start chest compression. While the nurse there busy settling up high flow mask, in fact, i donno y they put the mask on the patient as she is not breathing. So, i ask them to put oropharyngeal airway into her mouth, and later they recovered the ambu bag and start bagging. HO comes 2 min later, she ordered to give Atropine, and Adrenaline 1 amp each. And i keep doin the chest compressions...and...i broke 3 ribs, i heard crack sound..3 times. 4 min later, MO on cal came, he said my chest compression technique was soft :(..thus ordered the nurse to do it... The MO order the nurses to give more amp of Atropine and Adrenaline, in the end 6 amp for each drug hav been given, and yet patient has no response. The MO intubate the patient but i think he intubate the stomach more likely as the abdomen getting distended and distended. Hm..Hm...20 min has past, no respiratory effort, no heart beat and pupils are fixed and dilated, she is pronounced dead..at 3.31pm. Then, i cont my work clerking the next patient :)...wat a CPR day...

Finish Exam...again..

Haish....my last blog was about finish exam in O&G and now i hav finish exam in Paed. I got a pale child with hepatosplenomegaly and developmental assessment for a cute baby:). The examiners are very nice. I think im safe for time being. Thanks for praying for me, Min.. Next, my very last posting before prof exam...Medicine. Yeah...we strive together!!!

Professional Exam is approaching!!

Oh my God!!! i still have 130+ days left till my prof exam. i have to study hard from now on. No movies, no drama, no games from now on!! Oh gosh, i cant stop imagine wat would happen if i fail the exam!! Just pray hard... But, i bought ticket to kuching this christmas, hopefully the holiday can destress me before facing the real challenge!! God bless us dear dear!!!

ABC & Rojak!!

On the Sunday evening before i departed back to KL, min took me to Boon Kai Delights. She was craving for rojak and ABC since Saturday but i was so tired on that day so we postponed to Sunday.
As we arrived, we ordered 2 bowls of ABC!!!

Then, the cucur udang with mixed donno wat...













Lastly, our beloved RoJaK..but...too little ingredients..no prawn crackers:(

Kolo Mee

I am here in Sarawak for nearly 5 years. Still remeber my first meal in Sarawak was a bowl of Kolo Mee... And whenever i have no idea of what to eat, i'll opt for it even till now. Kolo Mee -- one of the Kuching's popular and most available food. As I went through one of the blog, it was stated there Kolo Mee in Siang Siang Corner, Tabuan Jaya is the top second tastiest Kolo Mee in town, so i went and and had a try there with friend and dear dear after church service last Sunday. Well, it turned out to taste good. Different from the rest, it was not that dry and i like it as it was juicy while the noodle was springy! Yummy...

Santubong Trip

Few weeks ago, we made a trip to Santubong. On the way to Santubong Resort, we stopped by entrance of Mount Santubong for hiking...

With my sister- in-law on the suspension bridge nearby a waterfall... We had been trying our best to bend our bodies but still unable to make the waterfall into view...

In our room... in fact, this was the third i was there. The room was clean and tidy with 2 queen sized beds. A very comfortable one with reasonable rate...

While everyone was running to the beach, we made our way up the slope at the back of the beach just to wait for the sunset but unfortunately it was not our day, the clouds obscured it...

While waiting for the sunset, we capture this... the slope was filled with this type of little flowers, what a nice scene..

Although we did not push ourselves up to the top of Mount Santubong, we conquered it from below!! Yes, from the foothill! :>

When we went back to the beach, sun had set, croud had deserted the beach (except for a couple busy posing for their wedding album). So, the beach were ours!! Pls: my bro enjoyed swimming at the far end.

Finally, i'm relieved.....

Since the very first day of my O & G posting, i was worrying of how to complete all my 15 deliveries and 10 episiotomy repairs within 3 weeks. Most of those who went through it and came into contact with the staffs in labour room gave me negative feedback. And after my rotation in maternity, it's my turn for all the procedures in labour room since last week. I do admit that it was not an easy job to "survive" there with a number of unfriendly nurses complicated with the stress to achieve our targets within a certain limit under the competition from a great number of nursing students! But finally, i completed all the targets this early morning after i conducted a 'Syawal baby' (the mother called him so), really thanks God for that. Only God knows that i prayed so hard for the mothers when i helped them to deliver their babies-- praying that it would be a smooth one (not end up with Caesar, vacuum etc), praying that the mothers would have good maternal effort, praying that the fetal heart would be good and a long long list that whoever can name it. Though it was a hard one eg. on-called every 2 days for 24 hours, standing most of the time while TCM patients every half-hourly, scolded by certain nurses when u missed out something (sob...), i really learned a lot within this short period, i learned the proper way of VE & ARM from the doctors, practised setting line onto the newly admitted mothers (my skill rusted since i didn't practise it for quite some time), learned the various methods of episiotomy repair from different nurses (really thanks them), made a few nursing friends etc. Thanks God for everything! Amen.

The Two Bananas

Last few weeks, we had our lunch together in 'The Two Bananas". It's just a few minutes drive away from our faculty.



It offers a great variety of food and drinks prepared with banana.

At the far left is its banana beverage. For those who likes banana, this is a must to try on.

Recommended Banana chicken rice. Mm... For me, it's not that special.

My friend's orange chicken rice. I like it but my friend kept complaining it's too bad.. Well, things can be quite subjective at time ;>

My 'Special Fried Rice'... I think this was the nicest among all! Or maybe it was because i was craving for fried rice last few weeks? ha...

Mooncake Festival is coming!!

Mooncake festival is just around the corner. In fact, there are just 2 more days from today! Dear dear sent me this cute little lantern for it. It's a Pooh's little lantern with music that need to be blown up manually. Ha, the night after my on-call, i found a parcel on my table and it was this little lantern from dear dear. As i was too tired, i fell asleep straight away after i blew it up. It's so cute that i like it so much!!! Thanks dear dear! Happy Mooncake festival!

FINISH EXAM (2)

After a week of waiting, finally the post mortem of the final O&G exam is held, today. To cut the story short, it was a shock, as the coordinator did not announce our results one by one..because she is very disappointed with our results. Although all of us pass the MEQ (1 obs, 1 gynae), there is 25% failure in MCQ. Thw worst thing is, 33% failure in clinical (9 of them fail both obs and gynae short cases and 7 fail 1 short case in either obs or gynae make a total of 16 out of 48). Thus, in the end of the session, the coordonator did not announce the results one by one but just want to see 3 students, who has not doin really well.:( But however, we are very piah you see..most of us see the coordinator again to get our exact results, actually to see if we fail clinical exam coz most of us do badly in clinical exam. Guess what, i pass all, the mcq, meq, and both clinical short cases:). Thanks Lord. And thanks so much dear for praying so hard for me. It is you who held me to go through all this hardness, i really thought i fail my obs short case but thank you for giving me such a hope that i can still survive:(