Minutes to midnight

Music : If god had a name, what would it be?

2007
What a year!
A year filled with smiles, tears, laughter, and a brand new world i never knew.
Truthfully it was an action-packed year, which sometimes i think i could hardly catch my breath.
It's like i've lived for 20 years in this year!!! honestly!! :stars:
Lets see:
In this year, i've been though more tests and stress i've ever experienced, i've met more then a hundred new faces, talked to them about their family, their jobs, their inner secrets :winks:, their toilets (yeah.. we got to know what toilet they are using :gawkk:) and etc etc.. and to see them go through life's tests.., i see my friends going through changes, i get to research, i get to do lotsss of things!

Hm.. talking about talking..
Well, talking to people is.. um.. an indescribableness experience.
Some people have really awesome stories and lifes, some had heart-wrenching tales, and to some extent, some were quite secretive becoz they thought i was selling insurance, even though i reassured them!!!!!! :bizzare: The most touching pt i met and talked to was a makcik who was the one who held my hand to guide me palpate her abdomen. (seriously, you can go really really deep!! :nods:). She's 40 and its her first pregnancy! :wow:

Ahhh... 2007 i've learned to be more humble and "professional", thanks to all my profs, drs, buddies, friends and acquaintances [and of course, because of not forgetting my sweet family members of mine]. It's their snares, grunts and frightening stares.. that i sorta grew up. From the shell to the world.

2007. Opened my eyes to good ,bad and gray people. People who think of the world of themselves, people who think they own others :roll eyes:, people who simply are a**h***s :cant help them:, critics, shoe-polishers, good people, thoughtful people, helpful people, animal-lovers, mixed-personality people..ahh... the list goes on.

In short, that's human,so be human and humane.

Good bye 2007.

Helo 2008.

-xinli-


Somethings i've learnt:Converting docx to doc.
Ever wonder how to open .docx? It's a microsoft office 2007 file. So, if you all are just like me, out-dated :hehe:, download the file from here to convert .docx to .doc , and you can read it in your microsoft office 2003. :cheers:

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Music : Relient K - Who i hates who i have been
Quote : " Life is a circle"

Ahh.... life and it's rantings...

i miss obstetrics!!!
oh yes, i don't mind it even if we have to wake up at 6am everyday!!
and yes, i don't mind that we have to finish clerking 4-6 patients ( depending on your luck!) every night... and to rush back home to prepare for the next day's presentation..
panda eyes, dehydrated, wasted... it's ok ..OK!
i don't mind it because at least it's the happiest place in the hospital...
where i get to see LIFE brought to this world... and not death and despair...
this is where the sound of crying is welcomed most (in the labour room, no crying means baby born dead..!), and where there is hope and happiness etched on each mother's face...
and the calmness you see in the newborn's face... soothing and calm..
hmm... obstetrics.. :D

Ahhh.... 2 days of psychiatry and i'm wanting it to be shorten to 3 weeks! ( evil evil me... kekeke)
Here, i feel like i am once again thrown into the sea of despair and sadness :(

The paintings at the walls have faded, the fan creaking loudly and we were all standing as close as possible (imagine >sheeps) together in the middle of the psychiatric ward for briefing, pretending to be oblivious to the stares you get from some of the patients.. There were some patients singing (quite well actually), and some mumbling and some talking to themselves... and at the same time i have scary thoughts running through my mind while desperately trying to pay attention to Dr. X's briefing..

I must admit, that i have really bad assumption about all the patients here.. I have this scene in my mind where somebody ran amok and started stabbing everyone with a knife and blood spilling all over.. Well, none of that happened, luckily. See, Presumption and Assumption is the biggest barrier here. Even i can't escape from it..

At the end of the day, i figured out that they are just like the patients in the wards, be it internal med, or surgery.. they just need help... and if we don't help them, if we don't try to understand their pain, their internal turmoil and struggle, who would?

Vrooom...

Mood : one word - delighted!

Quote of the day : --

SINGAPORE, here i come again!!!

Yahooooooo :) :) :D
After re-scheduling my research project to next monday, now i have the time to go singapore!!! hehehe... to visit my lovey sister again..
i wonder how is my little brother doing in imu during his ragging orientation week.. reminds me of the old times in bukit jalil..

Certainly i am in a super jovial mood.
Home sweet home. Just love it here.

The air is sweet, the birds are chirping, and i swear i can hear monkeys singing at the back of my house..
Now don't get me wrong... i do not live in the jungle, i stay by the jungle... and at the back of my house there is a big monsoon drain, which starts from the edge of the junglehill.

I use to wonder.. what is the use of that monsoon drain? Well..Taman soga is at a rather high place compared to the rest of batu pahat... Do we actually drain our hill water to the low lying places, causing flash floods?? *gasp*

Talking about monkeys around my place, you could actually see them up close.
Not that they are a bunch of friendly chaps, but i think they have been already "humanized".

Normally, they would "come down" only, on certain time of the day/ certain day of the month. It's like they have their own calendar!! If you watch them closely, you might think they are on a holiday or something like that. They laze around the trees, lamp posts, roof tops and cars, along with their little slightly bald ones.. And, if you hand out a banana, they will ask for more!

During this time of the month, we have to shut our doors and windows tightly because, there was once, the monkeys decided to terrorize a Macik's house nearby.. breaking glasses and decorating her house with soya sauce, flour, salt and sugar- trying to bake a cake?

When i say they, it means roughly about 5-10 monkeys per group. Some of them are the normal brown monkeys. Some, they are black with white faces.. something like the panda's face.

Ah... enough said for the day. :)

Ek! 10 days left of holiday! Enjoy them while it last, mates!

this reminds me of the good old times

sigh...
when i was small, my grandpa will record these disney cartoons for me to watch and rewatch...

Roots that go deep

Backgroud music: Wilferd liu - jiu fen nan you
Mood : sticky funky
Quote of the day : "to become a hero, you must have the courage to cut your heart out"

"quit trying to be cool and be yourself!"
and here i am, prop-ed in the living room [ which i missed soooo much] in my beloved home in taman soga.. relaxing and actually have the time to look at dust settle down under the bright sunshine.

YESSssss.... holidays [grins].. the period that i can stop, breath, and look in the mirror!

3 weeks. thhree weeks! THREE freaking weeks before i'm whisked away again into the roller-coaster-emotional-nerve-wreaking-mind-exploding ride[aww..] and it's already well into the second week [aww.. aww..]

i went to NTU:NIE[singapore lah..] to kacau my sister and was only back yesterday.
IT WAS FABULOUS !!!! everything is.
From the hostel architecture to the library and even to the doors! My sister's room practically look like a hotel room! no kidding! she uses a door card to open and lock her door. now how cool is that?! (xinli: katak di bawah tempurong eh?) and the librariess?! they can wear slippers, shorts ( even those that threaten to reveal your bums), and i suspect bikini-s for those from the north pole.. keke :p ...AND! BAGS are allowed !!!! my jaw practically dropped. Now tell that to our autocratic librarians (*winks)


"family medicine posting was like snow flakes... loving it and falling too fast..."
one word. loved it. it was slow and easy. but not too easy either. Dr Prof_L surely knows how to grind and squeeze the brain juices out of you. In his clinics this is where you get super stressed out and super freaked out...
but still.. surgery is at the top of my list ...

i am going to miss semester six, and all the lecturers who scrubbed us like rugs, who loved us, who hated us ( i also dont know why), made us write and rewrite reports, summaries ...etc etc..., made us realize holistic method of treating patients, and made us a human again...

cookies with choco crumps plus fresh milk
i'm loving it...

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Backgroud music: --
Mood : --
Quote of the day : --

Sometime it amazes me that we all start from one point and then diverge. I want to hold on to this moment, but a part of my brain tells me that this is impossible. You just have to go on and on and on...

I feel i am undergoing metamorphosis...

Mind

Backgroud music: --
Mood : --
Quote of the day : "Everything arises from the mind"

The mind

The human mind is such a complex thing.

Let's see: things you can have with our hyperactive mind-

1.You can get pissed by what you perceive
2.You can be elated by what you think
3.You can be depressed by what you feel.

It is ALL IN YOUR MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hectic

Background music : Mark Harris : Find your wings [http://www.brickmanmedia.com/markharris/]
Mood : ---
Quotation of the day : "faith brightens a rainy day"
7.07.07

wow. 7.7.7 what a day. today when i read The Star, there was such a buzz on this day 7.7.7 . Sales gimmick? You bet. I don't feel any special on this day. There is definitely no gold falling from the sky. But what is so special on 777? All the associations made by the so-called sifus are mere rubbish. Yup, i am very critical today. Maybe i had put too much hope at the beginning of the day...

Last week went like a wind. Time to me is beginning to feel as though it sand slipping through my fingers. I cant get hold of it. There were a buzz of activities. But i feel contented, as compared to the last 2 and a half years in BJ. I've learn a lot of things. Things that never crossed my mind when i was still young and naive. It's ultimately the little things that count. A smile could really brighten a person's day. A simple helo or how'ya doing makes a difference.

Today i visited my index pt-X's dad in KP hospital. Drove for about 1 hour of winding road [hehe.. my driving skills musta hv improved yeh].

I remember that day when my colleague and i picked X. when we walked out of the hospital grounds, we saw 2 rainbows. "aint we lucky? " we both thought. but the truth was, " X's dad is lucky". Well.. the story goes like this. We were visiting X for the 2nd time and incidentally, we found out that X's dad has super high bp with enlarged heart and leg swelling. It was an incidental finding. He was basically asymptomatic[no physical signs!]!!!!

Oh my, scary isn't it? So moral of the story is, do health checkup annually if possible. You don't know what's lurking in your body. Basically daddy X had a silent heart attack looong time ago and have been having diabetes and hypertension since god-knows-when duration.

Yup.
Life's short.
Life's a beautiful tragedy.
It's coated with milky chocolates in which only one thing's definite-sweet death.

Changes

Background music : Incapable [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTECeLewR_8]
Mood : deep in thoughts
Quotation of the day: the only thing certain is .. change

People change.
i changed.

yesterday, then i noticed
your faced changed so much i barely know you anymore.
i used to, you know?
We used to talk
play
do stuff together
exchange pets

what happened?

"Baby I'm incapable
I'll just break your heart
I'm letting go
I don't want to but I need to
To let you grow...

*CHORUS*
You'll go on
I'll walk the lines on the road
You'll go far
I'll live my dreams on my own
(You gotta let go
You gotta let go
You gotta let go of all of me) x2

I'll break your heart
So you can live out your dreams
It'll break my heart
But I want you to succeed

*CHORUS* x2

Baby I'm incapable
I'll just break your heart..."

A little crazy

Back groud music : The Fray : how to save a life [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAIs3tUYOi4]
Mood : Spunky
Quotation of the day : We are only specs of dusts in the universe. so little, so puny..
27.6.07


I dont believe in blogs. Why? Cuz i dont think ppl care and really spend time staring into your space , reading letters after letters . Anyway, im feeling really cranky ever since i woke up this morning; been hyper-energized , probably due to the nescafe and coke i took yesterday...

Been through 2 postings which is a total mad house! ever since i've moved to seeremban, this is the only time i could sit down, breath and think. Yupz, family medicine is more slowly paced then the surgery n internal med. No late nights at hospitals or any of that sort.. Phew.. but; it's still early to say so..

What dr_L said is probably true, you need to be smart to tune in and tune out; which we were only taught on the 3rd posting!! ** BEADY EYES**. I remembered during the first posting, i felt being abruptly ejected into the vast roaring sea of ward life. Pts were seeking the validity of GOD and it's actions ; particularly the terminally ill or newly diagnosed ca pts. Not only we tongue tied , we felt stupid and depressed that we cant answer them this BIG question of LIFE and GOD. Then in 2nd posting where we encountered numerous deaths... no saint was there to ease our internal turmoil. we, med stds have feelings too! ; we are made up of blood and flesh!!

That time; after 7+7weeks non stop, i really felt that my soul is literally sucked out. I feel like a soulless body gliding through the corridors [ xinli... you read too much HarryPotter!!].. i remember i saw a crippled couple trying to cross the road. my heart was thinking "go , go and help!", my head as turning towards that direction but my legs and torso just cant stop walking and walking and walking, like it's pre-programmed or had been jinxed! ; argg..i think i had became a soulless and mindless walking beast organ then.

BUt HA!, that 1 week of holiday had re-charged and i am in cranky mode ever since im back in seremb. cant sleep; cant eat much [but sadly no change in weight .. :p] ;bad food here; just sub-standard to mum's cooking.. could also blame it on the mattress... or , blame it on the weather at night. too humid; too chilly... during classes; too cold; too stuffy..

Oh what the heck..

-Life;
think about it. -