Elective in Hospital Teluk Intan

Just finished my 3 weeks of elective attachment to Medical ward in Hospital Teluk Intan.

First time for me to stay in a new town all by myself, without any friends or family around.

First time to drive around alone in a new town.

First time to get to know & explore a new working/learning place by myself.

First time to learn medicine & share knowledge with med students from other varsities like UKM & UiTM.

First time renting a room and stayed with an old couple. Turned out that they were super kind and nice people! They were like my own family members even though i only stayed with them for as short as 3 weeks!

A wonderful experience indeed!
Learnt alot from the specialists here and from other hosp who came to teach their varsity's medical students.

Its time to spend & cherish the remaining 1 week+ holiday with my family.
In the meantime,getting ready mentally and physically(which is not a problem now as i've been gaining weight during hols!haha!:P) to resume my final year in USM MD studies!

Ps: Life's too short & unpredictable. Live fruitfully for this very moment. Do good whenever you're capable. Cherish & be contented.

Yea its definitely easier to be said than done! It takes time to train ourselves to always be mindful. Just don't give up hope:)

End of 4th year MD study

ALOHA READERS!!!:D

Another long interval from my last blogpost, sorry for that:)

Just finished my end posting exam in Paediatric... It was of so much fun! Lecturers and specialists were all so motivational, informative and gave us lots of encouragement^^ Initially i thought kids have always hated me, because I tend to make my baby cousins scream and cry during family gathering in CNY. But the kids in the hospital seemed to get along so well with me. Hmm~good sign! A pat on the back for myself haha!

Now, my fouth year MD studies has come to an end. BUT I HATE PACKING!!! The only motivation to urge me to pack is my parents' face... Really missing my family, my home and my pets alot... Can't believe that Im actually been away for about 3 months until one day when Daddy called, he told me about shifting the furniture arrangement in our living room, then only I realised I couldn't recall how my living room looked like anymore! How sad is that huh:'(

But that doesn't matter anymore as I will be heading home in 2 days time^^

My next blogpost will be something lovely & warm from home:)

stay tuned...

 

O&G

Hi dearest readers, so sorry for the temporary abandonment. I've been quite busy lately because Im currently been posted to Obstetric & Gynaecology posting. A posting that evokes fear in most people. Full of malignant examiners(strict specialists), torturing oncalls and of course, highest exam failure rate compared to other postings.

Just finished my long case clinical examination a few hours ago! That's why Im free to spare some time in blogging, besides I also need some relaxation period to calm down my mind.

Lets ask yourself some questions:
Have you ever feel that your life is always full of obstacles?
Have you envious of others because their journeys are much easy and smooth as compared to yours?

Personally, I did felt that way! Especially when I tend to get the scariest, strict-est, high-ranking Profs as my supervisors/examiners in each postings. Don't ask me why. I...just...tend...to...be...SO "LUCKY"!!! At first I was feeling really frustrated: Why always me??? But, as time goes by, posting by posting... I was able to recognize that its actually a blessing in disguise. Seriously, its such a strong motivational force to urge me to be more hardworking, always push myself to study more, read  more, clerk more patients and learn from them. Without having that fear & anxiety of failing or getting scold by specialists during exam, I won't be that motivated on pushing myself to the extreme. So, in the end of the story, no matter what the outcome will be, Im still thankful for any scary Profs that made me learn so much in each and every postings. Just wish that the knowledges can stay longer in my brain:) Hopefully the knowledge that I equipped will be helpful when I start my work as a HO in one year time.

Obstetric & Gynaecology, its one of the toughest major posting that I've been through. Reason is that we were not exposed to much O&G stuffs during our first 3 years of medical studies. That means its actually our very first time to learn everything about pregnancy, and how to manage a patient from any antepartum>intrapartum>postpartum complications. I was being put into a Heavenly Team A, in which the specialist will listen patiently to our case presentation, discuss and teach us alot! Utmost grateful for that^^ It's also the only posting that we will be given chances to improve our skills of blood taking, setting IV lines etc etc. Although oncalls were such a torture, but nevertheless, its a good exposure to us to anticipate how our HO life will be when we are working in O&G department later. We had 2 weekday oncalls(6pm-6am) and 1 weekend oncall(24hours), when we need to fulfill logbook requirements of conducting 5 normal deliveries. That's the most messy yet exciting and interesting part. For me, the most enjoyable moment is watching the mother cuddling the newborn in her arm after endured hours of pain and torture. That could simply moved me to tears. Of course, it also reminded me of how my mother suffered through the pain to give birth to me and my siblings. Labour pain, I heard that its actually beyond and transcends all the pain existed in this world.

6 weeks ended like rockety fast! Im gonna miss those moments of oncalls, where I sit beside moms in labor, chatting with them to somehow distract them from labour pain, and encouraging them to push when they start the delivery process. Thinking back, when I was assisting HOs to do suture at 3am and I was practically falling asleep while standing, that was hilarious! Not to forget about the BABIES!!! Looking at you with such innocent eyes after they just survived tunneling through the birth canal. Nevermind, I will meet with more BABIES starting from next week>entering Paediatric soon, which is my final posting in 4th year!^^

This is the thing: Although I may complain relentlessly about how miserable my life in USMkk might be, I still love my medical school. Simply because it has a good teaching policy, a student-friendly teaching hospital, specialists that are so willing to teach, and cooperative patients! Its still one of the best medical school in Malaysia, I must say. So, a message to myself and also juniors who are reading this, cherish and grab every learning opportunity given to you in USMkk Medical School, and may all of us succeed in our career in terms of providing service and taking care of the sick! Never to forget our starting point of chasing this dream: to help cure the sick, or at least relief their sufferings.

Wow, this is really alot! Better stop here, strive for my MCQ paper in 2 days time!
Tata~

Elements that constitute L.I.F.E

There are so may elements that constitute life.
Your academic result,
Your social status,
Your wealth,
Your job,
There are not everything.

Because there are things that money couldn't buy.
Time spent with your loving family.
Faith and trust from your friends.

Our parents are aging.

Siblings are growing up.

You can't stop time.
The clock is always tickling.
Without you knowing, you're losing some important moments and persons.

So,
for students who are busy chasing A's in their result slip,
for working adults who are preoccupied with earning money and job promotion,
for most people who take materialism like electronic gadgets, cars and houses seriously.
Stop, step back, and look.
What is more cherishable?

From LCCT

03-04-2013

8.54pm

Blogging in the cafe at LCCT

while waiting for my beloved YoYo Bus to send me home:)

Just finished psychiatry end posting exam! I just lurv this posting so much! I had an awesome supervisor, and those psychiatrists specialists they were all so fun, so kind and so willing to teach! Everything about psychiatry, about the mystery of the mind just fascinates me so much! 

Although sometimes the theory part can be quite intricating, but once I start to read and understand Sigmund Freud's theory, I just found it difficult to stop doing research and read more! To me, this specialty is not as rigid as other specialties in medicine, one needs to be creative and open-minded while listening to patient's story, and one needs to be able to empathize patient's feelings, and from there one needs to interpret and make a diagnosis.

Hhmmm, perhaps... I shall consider this specialty in my future:) Haha! Im kinda extreme, before this I actually prefer surgical-based specialty like General Surgeon. And now, Im SO into Psychiatry, which is the complete opposite end of the spectrum... 

My first attempt of making, or should I called "baking" Bread Pudding using my jar rice cooker! It was quite a successful attempt, was leaving half of it for my breakfast the next day...but...BUT! The ants invaded my tasty bread pudding:(

This is Broccoli Stir Fried with Mushroom and Tuna... Made this for dana offering last week^^ It tasted real yum!!!:)

♡ 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