♡ Psychiatry

I really love and enjoy Psychiatry posting, not because of it's a relatively free, easy and leisure posting compared to others, but I really love every aspects of Psychiatry. It really fascinates me about how this mind works, how different personality developed in each individual. And every patients I clerked, they have their own life stories to tell, and I love to listen to their out-of-the-box and amazing experiences they've been facing. 

So, practically my life in these 4 weeks are like being my patients' best friend by listening to their stories and what led them to the psychiatric clinic. I was really amazed by the powerful of the mind. This mind, they can be really tricky and cheat you to the extent you can never imagine. Sometimes I do felt sad for them, but well, we can't really do much to help them, simply because this mind belongs to themselves. We can only prescribe medication to control their symptoms. Only they can help themselves. They have to work hard to make their mind healthy once again.

A message to myself:

If you're mentally healthy, be grateful, because this is your good Kamma. 

Cherish your healthy mind, take good care of your body and live fruitfully.

Do not live life in negligence.

Care more and be forgiving of others.

At least, do not harm anyone.

Once in a while, I nourish myself with some good food:)

Orange Jelly

The weather has been so freaking hot since February

best thing is that when you came back to your room after a long day in hospital

there's a mug of cold, refreshing jelly awaits and greets you

ready to cool down your body and emotion:)

Orange Jelly

1. According to instruction from "Konnyaku Jelly Powder", dissolve the powder in a bottle of 350mL "Minute Maid orange juice". (I just used half a packet of the jelly powder)
2. After dissolved, pour the liquid into the mould and chill in the fridge.
3. Enjoy!^^

Ps1: I did not add any sugar into the jelly liquid. The sweetness from the orange juice is good enough for me. Thus there would be no risk of getting diabetesx)

Ps2: This is a super low-cal snack to be enjoyed. The carrageenans(aka natural collagen) in the jelly is good for your health particularly to keep your skin young!:)

A message to myself: cherish

I was born as a human being
with a healthy body
and a healthy mind

I have a loving family
Daddy & mummy who love me unconditionally
and little mischievous brother and sister who always fight but also laugh with me

Because of my father's hardwork, sweat and tears
there's never a need to starve
and we are able to enjoy the food we like
we can afford to buy new clothes occasionally
and some electronic items that we need like my laptop and Samsung S2

Im studying Medicine in one of the best local university in Malaysia
Im able to pursue my dream to become a doctor
A profession that i wished to become since I was 15 years old

I have many friends
those who will be there to share my laughter, tears
and sometimes, anger;P

My family & I are happy Buddhists
We're practising the dhamma which is the Buddha's teaching
and we have some great spiritual teachers in life

With all these...
what more should I ask for?
nothing.

Im truly a lucky girl

with such good kamma

thus I should not let myself to live heedlessly

Vivian,

You should cherish everything that you're having right now.

Do not take anything for granted.

Because everything is impermanent,

do not wait till the day when you lost something then only you regret.

Cherish

Its indeed an easy word to forget.

Especially when we're not mindful enough.

From today onwards,

Lets train our heart to be able to see 

and cherish everything in our life:)

Ps, I love to have a walk in nature.They calm down and clear my mind of daily junks, eventually letting me to see so many things so clearly♥

Delayed CNY post

Delayed CNY touch-ups^^

For the past few years, our family tradition during the very first day of CNY had always been going for hill-hiking together. My dad would say:" This year we should climb higher than where we reached last year!才算是步步高升！" 

LOL~

2013 is a totally different year for my family as we've found the dhamma. According to Buddha's teaching, the only way that we can improve our life is through gaining good merits by cultivating Dana, Sila & Bhavana. So, on the very first day of CNY 2013, my whole family went to offer dana at Dhammapiti Monastery. We were kinda worried that the monks won't have enough food to eat that day because we thought that everybody will be busy celebrating CNY and won't have time to do dana. 

Turned out, SURPRISE!!! 

The monastery was full of kind-hearted people who are selfless and willing to sacrifice some of their time to do dana. So happy to see that:))) 

And below are the dishes specially prepared  by daddy & i...Ps, i cooked the garlic butter prawns with broccoli, it was so aromatic and nice^^

Most of the CNY holiday was spent at my Grandma's ancient house at Temoh. I still enjoy the atmosphere where most of the relatives will be back and we will have a HUGE family "discussion" around the dining table. Uncles and aunts will reminiscent their childhood stories, and everybody would laugh at the silly jokes at those old days. The children will enjoy playing cards, running around making noises while the adult will play the mahjong. But somehow, as years go by, children has grown up and the whole atmosphere just became not as CNY-ish as before anymore. Just for a change, this year my younger bro suggested to trot around the village of Temoh and took some nice pics.

Of course, the most enjoyble thing is just simply hanging aorund with my beloved daddy mummy bro and sis! Its really funny when i thought of how badly we fought with each other among siblings when 3 of us were still children. And now we have all grown up and become young adults. No more fighting! Surely mom & dad feel glad because of this, no more headache for them!LOL

We had a great dinner and went to Ipoh Kinta Riverfront to have a relaxing stroll, hoping to burn some of the heavy calories eaten. That was actually on Valentine's day, and my dad did the  sweetest thing-sending my mom valentine's roses! Look at this sweet couple^^

And there was my beloved mom's birthday too! I baked mini oreo cheesecakes for her. Nothing beats my love towards my family:) Ohya, besides i also managed to bake a choco-banana bread which was so soft and fragrant! Yum!^^ Thought of baking peanut cookies and oatmeal cookies but i just couldn't spare out any free time to do so. Will reserve that during my next hols!

medical end posting

Finally, and yet once again, another 6 weeks of major posting>>Medical posting has passed! Definitely no doubt that i was once intimidated by other's warnings about my supervisor, and was trying so hard not to let my perception being too affected by others. Because of the fear others was trying to instill in me, i turned that into some kinda energy that motivated me to keep on working hard, not because of im afraid of failing in my exam with my supervisor. But just wanna prove to myself: if i learn as much as i can, if i tried my best and acquired the knowledge that i should know as a future doctor, if i behave as a nice humble medical student, there's no way that he could penalize me. Looking back, im generally satisfied with what i did during these 6 weeks. This was by far the busiest posting i ever had, the most challenging and also the most knowledge gained!:) From the commonest cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, to kidney, endocrine and infectious diseases. The knowledge in medical field is like a bottomless hole, you can never finish learning.

And then, there were times that I was feeling really stressed. I took my bicycle and went outdoor for a ride. The sky was blue and stretching wide, sun was shining bright, pretty flowers died. A sudden thought came to my mind, that everything is impermanent. This stress that im facing is impermanent, any emotion is impermanent, this life is impermanent, this body is impermanent. Only then i realised how heedless i was. Most of the time we're just like that, we tend to see any problem with a magnifying glass, imagining them like they're the worst thing that ever happened in our life. If we're being mindful enough, we will not get cheated by this negative state of mind.

Well, enough of my long-winded story i guess...

Shall share my story with you by some nice pics=)

My cutie partner Grace. We shared the same supervisor in the medical posting. We worked hard, played hard and laughed hard together! LOL~ Really fun to have good posting groupmates^^

On the very last day of medical posting, at the very last short case session at Hospital Kota Bharu, we had an awesome and fruitful time learning from a great doctor! After that we decided to go for supper as celebration...tried this famous BURGER BAKAR!!! It tasted real nice, much nicer than Mc Donald's i think:)

And just now I just got back from buddy Mike's birthday celebration...Found another nice western food restaurant in KB! Wow, nowadays we can really find some nice food in Kelantan already:)))

I think that's about it for today! Need to rest earlier tonight because tomorrow gotta get up earlier in the morning to cook something for dana offering, so happy! Yay^^ Will touch up more with you guys soon! I haven't even share with you guys about my awesome CNY holiday! Anyway, please stay tuned! More coming up soon cz I'll be entering quite a relaxing posting>>Psychiatry! Can't wait!:D