puppies darlings ~

last week when i came back from lecture, i saw many puppies in front of my hostel. all so cute, 8 brown puppies and 1 white. why white non of us knew - we have a few theories tho, like maybe it is an albino or it was adopted.

anyway Jonas and i has been feeding them almost everyday. we even went to magnit to buy the dry dog food. on Friday i bought milk and boiled it for them because it was raining the whole day + the strong wind. and i bought them burger too cuz i figured they might need some meat since they are still growing puppies. after i fed them with burger, i bought them baton (bread) - no money to buy so many burgers. and they refused to eat the bread, and kept on looking at me for more meat !! spoilt indeed !

but my favourite will always be non other than Valya - Jacy's kitty who stayed with me for 2 years.

other than that, i tot that since i did 2 exams already, it would be more relaxing now. but no it is not, we are having our paediatric cycle now where we need to prepare quite a lot before classes. plus extra practical classes are starting next week. plus we are bringing forward our reanimation cycle. well this is life ~

done with the eye stuff, starting with the kiddy stuff !!

did my Ophthalmology exam yesterday. the relieve i am feeling now !! times like this i just feel very productive. like 24-hours a day is used up to the max. i really do enjoy the cycle, partly actually the eye is a very interesting organ, a genius creation. and also my teacher is young, pretty and super enthusiastic in teaching.

when i was doing practical with Dr. Kho back in Malaysia he kinda told me that maybe i would wanna choose an easier speciality next time - he meant with lesser night calls and all. since he is an obstetrician and gynaecologist he would know what that really means. and since i was attatched with him for 2 weeks i kinda got the picture too. and he mentioned that speciality like dermatology, opththalmology or ENT would be less hectic than things like cardio, surgery, trauma etc. well - ophthalmology is interesting but i don't know if i want to see so many old women with one eye patch! haha.

btw during the exam i got the most unwanted question - POAG (primary open angle glaucoma). reason because both teacher and lecturer gave different clinical classification. so my tactic was to learn both and depending on who would be my examiner i would tell their classification. but since there were only 4 students on my day sitting for exam, both teachers decided to take students together. alas! but anyway i just said both and they did not find it wrong or anything.

Now - Paediatrics. first lecture was pretty interesting, although in my very opinion only very gifted doctors can be paediatricians, and that's not me. i don't even like healthy kiddos, wud more the sick la!

weather is cold. and i miss home !!

new semester! ~~

my 3rd weekend in Nizhny Novgorod - after a very pleasant holiday back at home. just did my practical exam on Wed, Tuberculosis exam on Thursday, so coming up is Ophthalmology exam next next Wednesday. bring it on!

well, though i miss home, family and friends and of course the food a lot, it is pleasant to be back here. all my friends here look great with new hairdo and all. well it is great to be back. this is my place - at least for the next 2 years. miss Jacy a lot and also Valya. but i suppose changes always give an opportunity to learn and to adapt to new things.

went to pay for my room yesterday. well i prepared USD800 because a friend who was living in the same type of room paid about that amount. but then i went to see the accountant and she said that i only need to pay USD690. what a bonus! on my way back in T4 bus i was just thinking up in my head what to do with the unexpected extra money - keep it for next month? or give myself a treat? bla bla bla. so i decided to go to Caramel tonight! Jacy, dont be jealous! i'll eat more for u! haha.

and to my sister Jesmine - this Monday is the day!! it is a new chapter for you. will keep you in my prayers and will see u and Cindy this January! im very determined to save up money to see you (and shop) =))))

the weather is so pretty - but i guess i need to read a lil about the eye.

love is in the air ....

well the reason i put that as the title is - i shall come back to that later.

anyway i am finally back to home sweet Kuching. our 136 Nanas Road is homely and welcoming as usual. i reached home on Friday night, took a bath and Manda picked me up 30 mins later to this new place called Isabella. apparently Kuching has some new places i never even heard of. taha. anyway it was awesome - met up with all the darlings; Nat, Jos (and her plus one John - i am so happy for u guys!!), Manda, Su, Vero, Vanessa, Yian Yong, Peter, Harris, Wilson. all my high school spongebuddies - minus Cindy (whom i really really miss to the bitz!!)

On Saturday went to this new place (again), apparently quite famous for their burger and fish spa called 175. well since i have this fish phobia i did not dip my leg inside but all my other frens enjoyed it anyway.

Sunday - church. it is really awesome to go back to my home church. being in Nizhny dried me up a bit.

Monday - Obs and gyn practicals at Kuching Specialist Hosp. 8am - 5pm.

Tues - practicals again. had a haircut during lunch hour tho. way to short. which part of 'trim' does she not understand? but at least it is neater now. and at night had steamboat at Jos' newly renovated home. the steamboat was superbly superb ! and playing Star wars monopoly with the gang. well it was nice to meet the new and improved Kevin, tho his echoing laughter never change one bit.

Wed (today) - 8am to 5pm practicals. i am exhausted. but i really enjoyed studying with this doctor. he is so nice, treating me more like a colleague rather than a (stupid) student, explaning every single patient to me. well, lucky me - i managed to watch a C-sec, assisted in a few pap smears, some routined ultrasound scans and 3D scans and saw some interesting cases too. well this is the time we learn things that are not written in the text books. and i also took a vaccine against cervical cancer - Cervarix. so girls - get yourself protected against cervical cancer !

well, back to the title: love is in the air - well watching J&J is so intoxicating !! plus my doc is getting married soon too.

make me a new J

these days my mind just can't stop thinking about only one thing - who is going to be my new roommate? well, if i have to choose from the people who are roommate-less, there is a very very small pool to choose from. so i am HOPING, really HOPING that komanden will let me stay with a junior. i am giving her a very very big space here, and i have almost everything so she won't have to buy so many things. and when i grad she can have everything !! so please, give me one of the new juniors !! i'll be an angel to her !!

i am just putting my faith in God to get me a decent, sweet and mind-her-own-business roommate. i am getting out of my comfort zone. i am putting this situation out of my control into God's control. yeah, altho i've not been to church for quite some time. *will tell mummy about it* but i still have faith.

my first plan was to make Jacy fail her exams so maybe she have to repeat year and can still be my roommate. well, my plan to make gain weight may work, but she did not fail any exams, instead she got the red diploma. taha.

ok time to cook. burnt my hand while deep frying the sotong yesterday. now there are bullas at my hand.

a pretty interesting weekend

well well...the exams are over, statrted my practicals in Rheumatology department. i won't say it is super interesting with many things to do. well actually it is very boring but i guess it really depends on ourselves to find something for ourselves to do. and my teacher is not bad actually.

anyway Jacy's most anticipated moment arrived - her mum and aunties came to Nizhny Novgorod. Jacy and i had a massive room cleaning before they come so i suppose they think that we are neat people. haha. well, i had a lot of fun with the aunties. they enjoyed almost everything about NN -food, weather, people, beers and Vodkas. they are on a real holiday mood !! we took a lot of pics, so will upload it soon. well i sure hope that my parents will have this much fun when they come to NN. as far as i know you guys are coming right? haha. well when i was in first year my entire family planned to come. we shall see about that in 2 years time.

and now Jacy is on a tour to Moscow, St Petersburg, London, Paris... and i am here going for practicals, sometimes i will follow Jonas to the gym to play ping pong and to jump the skipping rope a bit, sometimes we would go to the park for a walk in this gorgeous weather, and cleaning up the room. a lot lot lot of cleaning up to do.

now i have a new problem - who is going to be my new roommate??? well unfortunately for me the hostel kommanden said she cannot put a new student in my room because she said that every year she put new students to live with seniors and they ended up crying and wanted to move in with their friends. so i have to find a new roommate from the people who are roommate-less like me. and that is not a lot of people to choose from. i even contemplated to ask Jonas to faster marry me so he can move in to my room, but that is probably the stupidest reason to get married, it might probably be documented in Oddee.com. taha.

i looked into the mirror and saw shrek.

i guess i made enough fuss in facebook about the 'world map' infesting my skin. well, it is actually wheals or hives, big and small, all over my body. so if you try to draw the outline of it, you will get a world map.

it happened suddenly, luckily after my exam. i woke up in the morning with many huge mosquito-bite-like thing on my neck, hands and legs. i thought it was the mosquito since there were some flying around. but there were too many mosquito-bite-thingie , so i figured it must be the bed. since it is not the first time anyway because i had it some years back when i slept on Bernard's (my cousin) bed. took some antihistamine tabs, changed my bedsheets and took away my blanket. and i went to sleep.

about 3 am in the morning today, i woke up feeling itchy all over my neck and i was like 'omigosh!'. went out to the block to have a good look at myself in the mirror - i was mortified. my face have these red spots all over. my neck was swollen like some goiter thing. hands and legs have wheals all over. and it itches like crazy. took my Fitzpatrick Dermatology book and surfed through the net to find out wud the heck was going on. acute urticaria - well not up to laryngeal edema or anaphylactic shock, thank God, but mine was pretty severe and was exactly like some of the pictures in the internet. din wanna go back to the bed, and i can't wake Jacy up because she is having her exam today. so i switched on my com, chatted with Nat, which was great because we've not been catching up for quite some time, and entertained myself with Oddee.com. about 5.30 am, heard Jacy's alarm ring, so i jumped to her bed to sleep. and in the morning Jonas came to give me some antihistamine tabs. but it is my flu meds actually, it is not so strong but it did help with the itchyness. and i missed my first day of practical classes.

going to do a major clean up to the bed, the toys and the room! lesson learnt.

the holiday starts!

did my internal medicine exam yesterday. it was really tiring reading and trying to understand everything. there would be certain topics that i am better at, and certain topics where there is not head and tail. and usually my luck in exam is quite good, i mean i won't get the really easy question but something pretty manageable. but yesterday i got a really sucky ticket. where i just stared for a few minutes at first. but i answered, not so well but good enough.

and now i can declare holiday! im happy that i did not postpone any exams this time, since last year i postponed pharmaco exam and suffered the consequences. i believe that time is a test too.

alright, i am starting my therapy practical this Monday for 2 weeks and maybe Surgery or Obstetrics after that. tomorrow i am going to Mega to give meself a rewarding shoopping spree.
and of course cleaning the room and the block. it is quite a mess.

and i can't wait to go home. home sweet home.

the postdrome

did neurology exam yesterday, a subject where a month ago i absolutely knew nothing about! well since professor drilled us a lot, i won't say that i am such a rotten apple. plus my ticket is an easy one, thank God!

quite a pretty weather outside, too bad i have to sit and study. was just thinking about cycling, going on 'Move It' or the ferris wheel at the park near my hostel. but yeah, the reward will come very soon. in fact this sem i am not really stressed out compared to last year with the combo 5 exams. last year was horrible. give me Pharmaco exam again, i'll probably have to repeat year. taha.

other than that, i really can't wait to go home. to see mummy, papa, Jes, aunty Marg and my frens at home. some of my fren graduated and they are going to work soon and earn money. saw Wilson's farewell party pics so i supposed he finished his ACCA course is sunway. awesome! and i am still here. spending money and not earning money. i know some things have changed at home. mummy is now a headmistress ( oh yea u need to teach me the direction to the school), no more Cindy to bug, Jes will only be around for a while... i used to enjoy having no sisters at home so i can be spoilt and all but now it is just boring. and no pets at home. even more boring. sigh

alright, 2 more exams - Russian and Internal Med. most of my peers did some project so they wont have to do Russian exam but i was just lazy. i just feel that my Russian language really suck and if i do get an avtomat, it is disgrace to both me and Russian language. taha.

back to the books and papers~

the LALA weather!

the weather these days are just splendid!! i don't have to wear a jacket to go out. lovely!
anyway today my group had a BBQ, it was great. after the BBQ i bathed, washed my hair and blowed dry my hair and went downstairs to see Jonas play badminton. Norleen asked me to play for a while and i did. indeed the a while was about 2 hours. haven't played for a few years already and i forgot how much i used to enjoy it. taha.

anyway, to mummy and cindy and jesmine - i guess you all remember my Reebok sports shoes, the one that stinks and it turned black already (from white). well, i was using them a few week back when i went jogging and i kept it in the cupboard at the block. and today i went to look for it because i wanted to use it to play badminton and it was missing! i was just surprised someone would steal my really smelly shoe! sigh sigh....so just a little warning for mummy....either i get a new pair of sports shoe back at home or your brands new Nike Air will go missing just like mine!

so oh kay.. im really supposed to study! exams are coming so soon and my brain is so empty. but it is not my fault that the latest prison break, Grey's anatomy, and gossip girls episode were released! and the weather is so pretty outside and i just wanna go out and have a walk or play bicycle at the park. or eat ice cream outside. anything but sitting here and study.