CNY Reunion

Was great. We sat there and just talked for hours ( I think it was 6 hour-long chat) and drink and eat tidbits. Didn't get to influence them to play cards:P
Though there were only 4 of us, mien, tpt and hy couldn't join us (one in Glasgow-UK, another in Queensland-Australia and another one in Relau-PENANG) it was fun!
I can't remember the last time we actually sit down in penang and just talked. Must be ages ago.

How time flies. 4 years ago at this time of the year we were still waiting for our STPM results. Now three of us graduated (Jo, HY, Mien) and another 3 more graduating this year (according to Ariel, HanNee, Ping Tee, they will surely pass and graduate, it's just a matter of grades) while I will graduate next year if I can pass the professional exam in March/April.

4 years ago I don't think I'll be contented with just chatting for 6 hours and doing nothing. Now I am thankful for this precious moments where I can gather with my family and old friends. I realized too that I keep on comparing my oldself and how I've grown (according to the three of them, I did). It's either moving away from home, or medicine, or time or all of them that made me reflect on life.

Will be going to Chiang Mai and Bangkok next Saturday!
Though it was suppose to be my choice where to go for holidays (dad said I can choose), my parents decided that Chiang Mai is a safe enough place for me to go with my mom.
And plus, in Bangkok there's always shopping! Hopefully I'll buy more useful stuff rather than accessories ( I bought dozens of those and ended up not wearing them).

I've not been in touch with the outside world, pretty much since last year. Was drown in the whole conference preparation thing. But I just realized that No boundaries (Adam Lambert version) is awesome!!

YES!!

RESULTS day (just end of year four)
I have been holding my breath since this morning.
yesterday, I had to wake up because the heat was too overwhelming.
but today, I was waken up by sound of piano played by my inconsiderate brother.
Still, I took as a good sign that good news will come my way today. (i slept at 5am coz I was reading another book, not as good as the first one by lisa lutz, but I had time to kill)
So anyways, I asked around and told Yee Ming to check out my results for me. And he said ok.
He knew I was anxious.
By 1pm, wanted to go out for shopping but had to wait for the news just in case I received bad news when I was shopping. I think if that really happened, I will be traumatized forever and I won't shop anymore. (Just like how everytime I passed that corner in Orthopedics Trauma Male ward where my FAVOURITE-the funky one backpack, 2 week old laptop and wallet was stolen during my 5 minute absence for ward round. long story.. But I try to avoid that corner when I can..)That would be even sadder. I mean the part where shopping being taken away as my hobby.

Back to the story. As you can see i PASSED!!! yay!!
The whole thing was dragged until evening 7pm instead of the afternoon that we all anticipated. I thank all the coursemates who sat outside the academics office (or somewhere in ktdi) waiting for our results since 1pm this afternoon. thanks!!
I went ahead with shopping, didn't really give it a thought until 5pm where I started to panic. Yee Ming told me the results were suppose to be out by 5!! I called him and he said not out yet.

Sorry, the outcome was: I was told at 7pm that I passed!! YAY! Ok i think I mentioned that too many times already.
I was always concerned everytime results were pending but this time i had real fear (i think) coz i screwed up my short case real bad. don't want to go back to that. I promise I WILL WORK HARDER this year!

didn't want to express too much of my joy on FB coz some of my friends didnt' get to make it to the exams, Long story.

I am happy and contented. Now I can get my real holiday!!
Apart from all the reports and post mortem etc...

Note to self: item no 7?? on my list: Not to use the word STUPID as many times as I did in year 2009. But i think i used too many from January 2010 till now. Those won't be counted.


I AM GOING FOR VACATION! Not sure where yet. hehe.
Happy Chinese New Year!

2010

I have always wanted to write something but didn't seem to have the time to do so. Or I was too lazy to do so?
Found out one interesting blog last Sunday when I was suppose to use my housemate's laptop to find X rays online for my upcoming exam. Instead, I read this: http://rumorsweretrue.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/pancakes-every-morning/

So totally true. Now I hate pancakes. And I think I need to procrastinate less often.
Everyone was trying to explain to me that it's totally ok to slack of last year coz we were organizing a conference etc but i know it's not. Coz I KNOW I should've done more than what I did.

BUT, let's hope that I'll do better than that in final year. Results will be out tomorrow so hoping that I can pass and have a real holiday.

It's been a crazy year for me. I spent my holidays doing conference stuff and other things like shopping but it was mainly conference stuff. Still have somethings to be done but I think I need a break. Like a real one where I can just rest and not think about anything.

My resolutions for year 2010 (I know it's a bit late but I promise I will look back at this and try to achieve them for once):
1. STUDY at least an hour day during SCHOOL DAY. (Note that i didn't use read coz I think that applies to non-fiction as well)
2. Ensure that room at least 50% as tidy as Ariel's room in Singapore EVERYDAY.
3. To spend less money on shopping and save on my post-graduation trip.
4. To pass the professional exam! That's for 2011
5. To blog more often than the year 2009. (not difficult to achieve)

can't really think of anything else to put down to the list.

I think I can read fast but that only applies to fictions. This book made me cry so hard and make me think about life.

Since I don't have you-Louise Candlish

It's thought provoking really. And the sad things that happened the past few months. The young lives lost during the dragon boat practice tragedy and the consequences of what my friends did. Life is short and we don't get to undo what we have done or said. Sometimes when you think you are helping someone, you may do more harm than good or worst, get yourself in deep trouble. And shit happens.

I thought about Nian Ning when I heard the news about the chung ling students. All of them so young and had bright future laying ahead of them. So much possibility of what they couldn've achieve. We can't really do much about the arrangement the person up there decided. yes I believe things happen for a reason and sometimes you just can't fight fate.
But what my future profession can do is, to at least to give hope to the patients' family and friends.

It sounds sad but medicine is not just about life and death as I once thought. It is also about providing quality to the patients' life. For instance, a baby can be prevented from having cerebral palsy if only the O&G people do their work better. I can actually see the picture better now but I doubt it's more than 10% of what medicine is about.

So in conclusion, I should strive harder to be the person who can at least make a change in one patient's life even just for that tiny moment.

Note to self: Item no 6. To make my thoughts more organized. As evident from the above post, I think I didn't improve much since I graduated from high school.


Happy Chinese New Year to you if you're reading this:)