Finally, after 2 years of procrastination I've finally able to bring myself to open an account in Facebook.Why after 2 years?Well, becoz of this :
SISTER : Hey open a facebook account will ya.I wanna keep in contact with you.
ME: I have Friendster.You can find me there.
SISTER : Oh my.. are you still using Friendster? Do you know only auntie uses it?Nobody uses Friendster now.Everybody is in Facebook.It's the "in" thing now.
ME: But I like Friendster though I have not signed in for sometime.
SISTER: Oh my! You are transforming into an auntie.
ME: (Look puzzled)
On another scenario while I was sms-ing a long lost friend.
FRIEND: So how do I contact you in Malaysia.Maybe we can go out for a drink?phone no?
ME: I have forgotten my Malaysia no.
FRIEND: Its okay.Then we'll keep in touch through Facebook k!
ME: Ermm.. I dun have a Facebook.
FRIEND: Hey gurl you know that this is 21st century right?
ME: (Speechless)
So in the end I decide to open a Facebook account but for my identity as Clichegal for me to keep in contact with my blogger friends and not the real me.And voila here's my Facebook account.
But one big problem. After I have created an account, I have several pending invitations of friends to be confirmed under my Clichegal account.I mean they are not suppose to be there.I dont want everybody to know that I have a blog.I dont mind them reading my blog but I find it rather funny when they read my blog and instantly labelled me.For instance :
FRENS : I always see you laughing laughing but you portray yourself a bit too sad la in your blog.
ME: hehe... am I?
You see what I mean. Of course I'm thankful.It's just that I find it awkward..Anyway now my mission is to edit my name to my real name cause I cannot change my friend's list.
So ... I'm going to have fun with facebook now..Chao!!
Finally I have Facebook!
Hellboy 2, Kungfu Panda , Hancock , Incredible Hulk , Superhero Movie
This summer,coincidently movies that I have watched are all superhero movies .And of course I'm anticipating the release of The Dark Knight especially the role played by Heath Ledger's last film - the notorious Joker. I have watched Hancock, Kungfu Panda, Incredible Hulk and Superhero Movie and Hellboy 2... So this is my review on it..
CLICHE'S BLOCKBUSTER OFFICE :
1. Hellboy 2
This is an A class movie.This movie starts off far more funny than any other movies that I've watched recently.The action sequences are excellent and visual effects were simply amazing especially the golden army itself and the forest God.So if you like fantasy, this is the movie for you.
2. Kung Fu Panda
This is an action comedy computer animated cartoon. I don't really fancy cartoons but the movie throws me into amazement and amusement.I love Po, the big fat and lazy panda.He is just so adorable.This movie is simply delivered funnily and franticaly.
3. Hancock
Well I love Will Smith.But as much as I love him the story is a little offbit to me.Its funny but dramatic in parts.I was expecting more.
4. Incredible Hulk
The story is a little bit straightforward to the point of being way too simple for me.I was expecting more. But I like the part where Hulk and Liv Tyler was in a cave .. the scenario was pretty romantic and funny when Hulk hit his head onto the rock.
5. Superhero movie
My worst movie ever and I want my money back.This is a terrible spoof to Spiderman and trust me its full of toilet humour.Watch only if there's really nothing to watch or if you have lots of money.
Phew.. finally ....
License to Kill
This morning I've learned a very important lesson... I'll tell you at the end of this post.
DOC : Now,tell me what is the contraindication of Metformin?
ME : GI upset
DOC : No No No ... Contraindication... Not side effect..
ME : (taking a deep breath and starting to put on my thinking cap)
DOC: So?
ME : I think its contraindicated in patient who has renal failure and heart failure.
DOC: That's all?
ME: Just smiling.
DOC: Well, Its contraindicated in patient with liver,heart,lung and renal failure, with the creatinine levels
>1.4 mg/dL . One day if you were a HO (house officer), please remember this as Metformin is widely use in this country especially in the country where Diabetes Mellitus, Heart,renal,lung and liver failure is sky rocketting.Other wise you will kill your patient. (At the same time, he is looking at his HO)
FRIEND1: Its also contraindicated in people who has high lactic acidosis.
ME: I see. Why didn't you answer him just now?
FRIEND1:Like you I only remember Heart and renal failure plus high lactic acidosis. I have done my elective posting with him last year and I've learned my lesson.That's why I prefer to be silent cause I've tasted his sarcasm.
SO THE LESSON I'VE LEARNED TODAY IS :
To some certain doctors, if you know a little and don't know the rest,it's okay cause at least you know something. But to some certain doctors (like this DOC) , if you know a little,it simply means you dont know anything. Given it some thought, its true.With little knowledge store up in my head could gain me a license to "kill".
I am still alive and kicking
Yes people... I'm still alive and kicking.The reason that I don't update much is that I'm using TMNET dial-up ..(an internet service provider in Malaysia). I know I know nobody uses dial up anymore. But what can I do. Nobody uses the internet at home. Thus,its not worth the money if I use broadband.Wow.. switching from a 6 Mbps (moscow) to a dial up (malaysia) sure needs a long time to adjust. I did try to post something but it was so slow that I just gave up. I couldn't even upload a picture. But today the wind seems to be blowing on my side and so "vuala" or "viola" or "voola" here's my post.
I sure do regret why I do not use my time wisely in fourth year. That's why I am suffering during my attachment now. Everytime when the specialist ask me a question, my BP will rise probably up to 160/100 , Pulse rate 110 and cold sweats all over. Why? Maybe because I stand for alot of medical students from Russia and if I screw up, so does all other medical students.But thank God, till now the specialist is satisfied with my answer.But I know myself where my knowledge falls between and it doesnt look good. So I'll just end here and continue to study about basic stuff like Lab analysis interpretations,ECG, Chest X ray, CT and Auscultation..
P/S : From today onwards till the end of my attachment i will be posting some of the questions that was bombarded to me ? The reason for this is to share with my fellow juniors and friends what I've learned during this period and not meant to boast about myself as "one individual" had claimed.
Q 1. I was asked to auscultate a patient's heart and what I heard was murmur from S1 till S2 with uniform intensity.
DOC :So what have you heard?
ME :Murmur from S1 to S2 especially on the 3rd to 4th intercostal spaces along the sternal border.
DOC : So?
ME : (Starting to put on my thinking cap ) ... Pansystolic murmur
DOC : What is the grade?
ME : (hmm I remember reading it yesterday) ... not sure doctor (..start to grin)
DOC : Do you hear thrills?
ME: Yes.
DOC: So?
ME: (haiyah!! die die la... just tembak only ) Grade 3
DOC: Ok ( looking satisfied) It's Grade 3 because the murmur is audible but not palpable
ME: (haha.. 4 years in Russia tembak-ing ... Dont play play.. but I guess he knows that I tembak..haha)
DOC : Does it radiate?
ME: Nope
DOC: So?
ME: Huh? (eyes wide open) You mean diagnosis?
DOC: (Nodding His head)
ME: (Luckily, he didnt say "aboo- then") Ventricular Septal Defect
DOC: Ok (and continue his rounds)
ME : (relieved... Thank God I read about that yesterday)
So..stay tune tomorrow .. same website and same blogger... for more...
From Dubai with Love....
From Dubai with love.. its 3.46am in the busy morning of a Dubai Airport and My next transit is in 10 hours time...Oh God help me go through this freaking boredom.
Yay...I've survived Russia ... At least for this semester. I cannot believe with my eyes that I'm going into the realm of 5th year . Day by day I'm getting closer to my dreams.On another note,
I've been on a chocolate rampage this week. I am scared of getting diabetes but the urge to eat is overwhelming.
Exams are over-I'm so relieved. Exam results were way much better than expected. It's all God's hand in it because I can honestly say I had nothing much to do with the exam results I got.
Does absence makes the heart grows fonder?
P/S: lazy wanna post picture.. so bear with me k coz if you really like what i write I guess picture doesn't matter much right..
Woo hoo... I'll be back home in a few days time and I realise how much I miss the people and places I have taken for granted earlier.
As I was typing this I was imagining how I wish to spend my summer back home...
Hmmm.. probably...like this :
1. On the way back home on daddy's car from the airport,I saw a famous malaysian "duit kopi" scene and I shake my head wonderingly at the sight of a potbellied policeman keeping the money into his pocket while other drivers roars past them in blatant defiance of traffic laws.
2. I sit on the beach, curling my toes in the crunchy sand and watching the timeless waves rising and ebbing, rising and ebbing, rising and ebbing...
3. It must have felt great to be back home, to catch up with old friends and see they haven't changed at all. To go to all my usual hangouts and relive memories of what were, in many cases, happier times. To learn of the problems, triumphs, romances, expectations, plans and adventures of all those who matter to me. To call up and rebond with friends who have left for foreign lands, pursuing dreams vastly different from mine.
So much to do, so many people to meet, so many places to go, so much emotional baggage.
4. The images imprinted in my mind at this moment are of mamak stalls at 12pm, eating laksa all day long, Kampua, nasi lemak, tomyam... (im salivating hehe)
5. After a while memories in Kl will definitely come flashing in my mind with birthday bash followed by a mad dash for cake, discussing life with close friends until 5 in the morning,Chor Dai Dee the whole night till morning and then going to mamak at 5
6. But I also find myself, very strangely, missing Moscow. Already. So much so that I call up my classmates all over the country, just to ask them what's up. To hear their voices and feel the warm emotions that course through me as we both realise it's simply awesome to hear one another's voices again.
Haha... I couldn't stop smiling thinking of the days Im gonna be back in Malaysia.
I guess opening up to people and realizing that I need a shoulder to cry on just as much as the next person, sharing and caring like I never have before, getting used to the fact that I instinctively call the room I'm staying in Moscow 'home', making friends and building relationships that really matter and that I hope will last all my life.Why do I feel like I sound like I've graduated and never gonna come back.
I guess absence from my home both in Malaysia and Moscow makes my heart grows fonder of both places
The guy whom I treasure and love most...
He is the first guy whom I met in my life.
He cooks the best food in the world.
He is my biggest influence and of course my mentor.
He is a man of big ego but the ego shrunk when I'm around.
He is someone who never says NO to me.
He is a man of great guts because at the age of 50 he shave his head bald.
(sigh dunno what was going on with his mind)
He is someone who aspires to be like "Donald Trump"
but never accomplishes his dreams because
kids like me spend all the money he has.
He is someone who smokes non stop when he is worried. ( stop smoking k)
And He is a stubborn man and I have his genes.
He is the most handsome man I've ever seen in my life (Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder k)He is someone who tells his children that Dinosaur actually do exist and yet they believe.
He is someone whoose wife too wants to be his children for she feels that he is a better father than a husband.
He works very hard for his family to enjoy the life they have today.
He is someone who grew up lacking of love and yet gave me all the love he had.
He is the perfect blueprint of the man I want to find in a life partner.
He is my Daddy.
I miss you.
Euro 2008
Personally I won't be supporting any team so just for once I don't have to go through all the heart break that brings and enjoy football for what it is - the beautiful game.
At this moment, Austria is playing against Poland with 0-1. Im happy for Poland for now coz they are playing a good game at least for now.
May the best team wins.
P/S: I am looking forward for tomorrow's match , Netherlands against France . Wonder who will win though.. I know I just said that I won't be supporting any team but I really do love Netherland.Really want Netherlands to win.
GO NETHERLANDS
Wow at the 92 minute Vastic from Austria scored 1 point through a penalty kick.
Official --- 1-1
I guess Poland must have felt devastated. I too thought Poland was gonna win.
well well, isn't football a beautiful game. You will never know who's gonna win until the referee blows his final whistle.
Do dreams really come true?
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams,of course I've got dreams.Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yup they are still there.
I've heard this a million times but still "my dream is still a dream".Well to be frank, I am one of those few who loves to dream but never try to make it happen.I guess this is the "procrastinating instinct" that I have in me.
Speaking about dreams,life has an odd way of changing my course of life.
At a moments notice,I woke one day and realized that I am somewhere
I've never planned/expected/dreamed I would be.
For instance, Russia or even studying medicine.
No doubt studying medicine is something that
I really want to do cause I cannot see myself doing anything other than this.
I guess that is the beauty of experiencing life.
I've awaken in a place I could never imagine in my best dreams or worst nightmares.For instance, what I really want to be is "a doctor who is compassionate,understanding,honest and an expert in my field".
Thus studying medicine is just one of the keys to realizing my dream which seem to be so far cause life in Russia teaches me how incompassion , inconsiderate , immoral & untruthful one can be.
Sometimes
I shut my eyes and try to rationalize just what my dreams were and where they went versus what my dreams are.Do you get what I mean?Sometimes dreams can be so far apart and yet so close,edging on the brink of reality.
Recently I've been talking to a friend and he's running his family business now.
He once had a dream of being a pilot.
I have often wondered what would have happenned in each of our lives if we were to let go of the dream that was, to reach out to the dream more achievable and yet still satisfying, but not soul-nourishing. Did we give up? Stop believing in our abilities, our potential?Or did we grow tired of the search, the hunt the challenge and settle for the less stressful, less taxing more simple life? Still full of twists and turns, but always heading in a direction away from the self you thought you were, the self you always believed you could be. I wanted to ask him that but I guess I dont have the guts.
Sigh...
At last the end of my rambling....
Korean Guys are the most sexiest guys in Asia.
Korean guys are the best because (I'm not discussing about caucasians k but even if I do Daniel Henney
will outwit,outplay and outdo any of the caucasians k... haha) D::1. Koreans are generally the tallest of the three nations ( Korea, Japan ,Chinese from you know where.)
2. Japanese guys are too small. They will make me look extremely big if I were to date them. (starting to fantasize)
3. Korean guys' masculine faces - small eyes, well-shaped noses and high cheekbones. (I know many will not agree with me on this... but I dont care... "Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder" )
4. Chinese guys do not care about their personal hygiene that much.They always have the attitude "aiyah... never mind la") but Koreans (---grinning---)... (no explantion needed)
5. People dont scream at Koreans and yell " You male chauvinist pig" (but they do for Japanese and chinese guys.. haha at least I do.. haha)
A tribute to all the handsome koreans in the world..
SOng of the Day : Korean songs
