long long hols!!!

so fast, i've already been in JB for 4 months... and i never left this place, not even once... surprisingly :)

i may have many plans before this, but i only manage to do some of them... kind of regret that i hadn't spend my time more appropriately ==

most of my time has been dedicated to my family, where i was 'Maria' for 4 months... helping with household chores like sweeping, mopping the floor; washing, hanging and folding the laundry that I'm getting so good at these!!!

at night, i would be in front of the screens... be it my laptop or the tv. Logging into Facebook almost everyday, reading theStar online; watching the 10.30pm drama on astro shx....etc

is that how i spent my 4 months???!! i couldn't believe it myself.... i've been living like this, for 4 months!!! add another 1 more month, and i'm going to be crazy....@@

well, of course, i did some other things too.... like...

cooking!!! not the usual cooking which uses the stove, but with the RICE COOKER... haha that's what we used to do at the hostel. At home, it was the only way to cook, after i kind of 'ruined' the only pot at home which can be used on the induction cooker.... haiz :( nevertheless, this rice cooker worked fine for me...

this is barley + 'fuzhok'... the usual dessert our seniors cook for us in campus, or sometimes we cooked ourselves...^^ 

i did some beadswork too!!! a senior taught us the basics after our pro1 exam... there were so many patterns he could make, the cross, hearts, snowflakes, etc...but i just managed to learn one or two from him. :( since i'm a bit slow in arts&craft...

and.... i finally completed a cross-stitch work my aunt asked me to do. this project took 3 years to be completed. oh, or should i say, 3 long holidays--which include my post-spm break, post-matrix break and also this post-1st year break... haha^^ so glad that i managed to finish it!!!

so many things happened within this 4 months too..!!

watched 2 movies-- harry potter and the smurfs. although, it might be 2 'only' for some of you, but 2 is a lot for me, since i seldom watch movies in cinemas... and and.... yesterday, i managed to watch Smurfs in 3d!!! it's one of the thing in my holiday to-do list... i'm so happy!! :) watching 3d is just do different from 2d, everything seems so real...the characters were popped-out from the blurry background....and with technology so high like this, it costs us rm17 per person. but i feel that it's worth the while... chose the right movie to watch in 3d^^

mummy changed her car-- luckily i still get to drive my mum's kelisa when i came back for my hols.  a month after i came back, mom decided to change it for a myvi. coincidentally, perodua launched their latest model at that time, so we were the first few in this area driving the 'new' myvi... too bad we couldn't get the purple colour, but this pearl white is quite nice also.. :)

went out with long-time-no-see friends!!-- with yamnee, kim, warnling+george... it's so hard for us to meet up, with busy schedules, transport problems and everything.. it's a great blessing to be able to have lunch/dinner with them again... going back to the 'craziest', 'childish' times we once had when we were in high school...oh, and almost forgot the brief meet-up with yinsan & susan that day at citysquare...^^

learned how to drive-- or rather 're-polish' my driving skills which will be once again be kept away until the next time i come back to jb. i've already renewed my P to CDL, but for 'safety' reasons, ahem ahem... the P sticker was transfered to the new car too... hahaXD mom really has the guts to let me drive her new car!! and allowing me to drive... heee ^^

celebrated daddy, melissa... and MY birthday at home!!heehee... luckily i'm already at home, that spared me from all those mischievious acts those people in campus could ever think of... hahaha XD

i took this... nice leh Xp

also, kimmy got a scholarship to continue her law degree in London!!-- felt so proud of her.. wow!!that was like great news to me!! :) she'll be flying off to london soon, and won't be meeting her till next year july...

and and... yamnee just registered into UTM today!!!-- after all those 'last-minute' work, she finally got herself there... hope that orientation week won't be too hard for her :) busy lady hardly gets any rest wor...

*looks like it's going to be hard for us to meet again next time... :( will be missing you all... all the best ya!!

well, there goes 4 months, all in 1 post... i shouldn't be so lazy though Xp

next saturday... i'm going back to ulu-land... sad?? happy??? excited??? perhaps a little bit of each.

busy days are coming soon, and i really wished that i could enjoy these last few days of this holidays... i guess i won't be regretting that i didn't rest much during this hols. i must admit that i'm overdosed on sleep.

i shall work hard when i get back to usm!!! but not now ya.... haha

done!! so-long........

in the process of rotting

hey!! so fast, i'm already in Jb for a month... i wonder how did i spend my time during these few days at home?? nothing much, just eat, sleep, watch drama, go online-- facebook most of the time... haiz, i'm really going to waste away

so, another 3 more months?? i don't really plan to get a job, any ideas what should i be doing then?? haha...

after staying at home for so long, and getting used to the daily routine at home really makes me feel lazy to get out of the house.

last thursday, i finally got out of the house and went out with kim and yamnee!!! also, it was my first time stepping into KSL shopping mall!!! first time, after they opened a few weeks before chinese new year... and the three of us went to get our hair cut...

kim's hair was already short enough, but she wanted a new hair style; yamnee, working for popular book fair at KSL at that time, was undecided to get a hair cut..but she still cut it though..i

tadaa!!! our new hair styles...



there isn't much changes in my hairstyle though, just wanted it to be short, no ideas of other hairstyles, even though kim insist that i should cut some style into my hair... :p

hmm... still looking good after my brain stayed dormant for one whole month..

i guess it won't be long before it shrinks... :S should really do some useful things from now on after resting for so long already, and also cut down my time in front of the tv since, the electricity charge has already increased... haha

Phillipians 4:13

''I can do all things, through Christ who gives me strength''-Phillipians 4:13

the dreaded, scary professional 1 exam has officially ended with the announcement of the results last thursday... phew, what a relief. i passed!!!! all glory to the Lord..

actually, i already knew that i'd passed my exam last tuesday, 2 days before the actual results day.

that day, it was supposed to be the announcement of the names of the students who got VIVA, as they need to go for an interview to select distinction students among themselves.

I really didn't expect my name to be on the list... that time, i was in the midst of learning how to make beads heart from gabriel together with rosalind and wanxi. suddenly i received a message from eunice, who told me the news... hmm , i wonder how did she found out about it, as she had already graduated and went back home a week ago... she must have her spies somewhere around in campus.

i didn't believe her at first, and decided to walk all the way to the academic office to check. i couldn't believe my eyes the moment i saw my name among the other 18 candidates... huh?? do i deserve this result???i wonder...

that night, i was caught in a dilemma... should i go for the interview?? hmm.. maybe i should just go for the experience. then again, should i reviseor should i continue watching drama??? i actually went through some of the notes... but suddenly my throat wasn't feeling well, and my head aches due to insufficient sleep the few nights before, so i went to sleep. to tell the truth, the few nights after exam, i was more hardworking than during exam, i slept very late.. almost 4am every day, watching drama... haha

next morning, i went to the interview with a calm mind... hmm.. i don't expect much, just attend for the experience only...

erm... by the time of the interview, i had already forgot most of the things i had study before this... and this is a one-to-one answering questions, with not much time for me to trial-and-error....too bad.. so, i smiled through the interview. the interviewers were quite nice to me too.. i thought they would scold me if i couldn't answer their questions correctly...

well, i tried my best... even though i knew very well that i wouldn't get distinction. ^^

phew!!! finally, it's all over already.. and i can move on to second year. and i'm most grateful that i'm not going up to 2nd year by myself, but most of my friends made it too!! ^^ i really thanked God for that...

too add to the joy of finishing our professional exam, we went for a trip at Pantai Irama, also to celebrate carmen and renling's birthday...

enjoying sea breeze and shouting out loud to relieve stress!!!

this is the kind of picture we always try to get everytime we go to a beach... i'm so glad that i could capture this photo.. and also another one^^

finally, all in all... without HIM, i know, all these would be impossible.

this time, it's really an exam by faith. i didn't finish reading all the notes in this whole year... in fact i left out most of the topics in Endocrine Block.. but still, i passed my exam well...

emm.. i shall end my post now, there's really a lot to say though.. i shall make full use of this coming 4 months to tell more of my life as a JB student in Kelantan^^ haha

1 year in school of medcine USM

thinking of medic as your first choice undergraduate course?? is that what you really wanted??

hmm... i'm sincerely urging you to think this twice.. initially i also thought that it wouldn't be that tough, but after getting a taste of it myself, it's really not easy!!! ==''

a few weeks ago, usm held their interview for the next academic session. that time, we medic 1st years were having our second week of study week, while our 5th(final) year seniors were having their 3rd professional exam, passing which would add another 2 letters in front of their name (Dr.)^^

it was around that time, we were so stressed out with our studies, and started to have ideas of advising our friends or younger brothers and sisters against choosing medcine...rosalind, staying opposite to my room said:''i'm going to tell them: DON'T take medic....because..'' and that same evening, while we were studying at PUMA (pusat mahasiswa) we saw xiangling coming with a friend we don't usually see him in campus.... He's coming for the interview on the next day... no wonder didn't see him before. ==''

xiangling was telling him the possible questions the interviewer would ask during the interview, and me and rosalind got into their conversation as well when xiangling asked us to share our questions too... ^^ that's when rosalind got her chance of 'scaring' the potential usmkk medic student... -- with the amount of notes we need to read(reading wasn't a problem... but read and remember it,it is... and she even brought out the Netter atlas and told him we need to memorise the whole thing... haha


(atlas and notes... all piled up on my bed.. no time to arrange pun, during exam--like battlefield)


(sini ada lagi--poor doraemon on the bed need to share space with the notes.. haha)

see, that's one year's stuff!!! maybe it doesn't look scary like this, but when you pile them up... hmm... that's scary :S and i did not have enough time to finish all of these before exam... only gone through one time after lectures, and then no more... i really thank God that most of those i was not in time to study did not come out.... He really guided me through this exam :) and also He has blessed me with concerned seniors who gave us encouragement throughout this exam week--eunice, carynn, gabriel, waiyen, sarah, may, jeeleng, johor seniors, cf seniors.... also our 1st year friends...family members...and many more ^^

meanwhile, when our final year seniors heard that there were new batch of students coming for interview, carynn wanted wave from the 1st floor, telling them:'' Don't come.. DON't come...''haha... quite scary, the way she said it.... hmm, to quote from another final year senior, ''medicine is not difficult, but it's impossible to finish all within 5 years...what you learn before will come out in exam, what you never learn before will also come out...''--maybe that was for Professional 3 exam... but for 1st years, studying lecture notes would suffice.. but sometimes, reading extra books would help in understanding and memorising :) that's what i planned to do during the long 4 months break, bringing back Netter, Guyton, Essential Haematology.... etc^^ if you wanna have a look at them can come find me la... haha

i guess the biggest problem we faced during this exam was the trouble to memorise all the things in the notes... the things that i was quite familiar before i suddenly forget--blank and there were too many things in the syllabus that sometimes we get them mixed up... and the 'best' part was SEQ-short essay questions, we don't know what's going to come out... and when it does, we were given 2 sheets of blank papers, with the first one having a single line of instruction, e.g. with a diagram, describe the attachments of diaphragm... and we were expected to give 10 points for that question.... hmm.. if got study, can goreng-goreng... no study, how??

as for OSPE- station... i don't like their bell ringing.. we only got 3 minutes for each questions, and after time's up, the bell will ring in a super scary way!! it made me jumped out from my chair and my heart was in tachycardia for the first few stations( from the 1st rest station to the next)... and it can really make my mind blank... by the time i reach the next rest station, i can totally lean on the white board behind me...huff huff... this time we got 3 active stations- splinting for right forearm fracture- kantoi!! , measuring bmi of the subject given-- he's a little overweight, and the next was measuring blood pressure- 130/80mmHg... haiz... i skipped some steps though...

MCQ( multiple choice questions) the normally known as tembak-tembak... this was the last 2 papers... managed to read another few more set of notes before the papers... cranial nerves, fungi, bacteria... etc

and there's really too much to study.... the last few days, my head also pening already :( perhaps brain energy was depleted too easily, i was always hungry!!.. haha

haih, finally it's over... waiting for the results on Wednesday... ish, initially thought it will be out on Thursday, so i bought the Friday flight ticket... now got one more extra day at campus.. nevermind la, got extra time to pack :)

really pray that we will all be able to pass this Pro1 and get up to 2nd year... ^^

Now, it's the time to relax!!! hmm... but really lost sometimes as i could not think of a better way to spend my time here... =='' nak keluar, malas; dok dalam, tak de benda nak buat.... haiz miss those days of studying... ^^ i'll probably go back to library.... read newspaper or storybooks gua.. people will say i'm crazy if i went back there to study.. haha

klah, will be back in a weeek's time... once again, i can embrace the breeze of Johor Bahru!!! >< wink*

Awesome-ness!!!!

Life might be boring and hectic studying in medic school.. sometimes we ought to take a break in between...

well, we just had the chance to do so last weeek. We were having reproductio block, and since it only has 7 lectures, our batch mates planned and managed to shift all the lectures up, hence we had a short holiday from wednesday to the next sunday...cool!! many of them went to buy their bus tickets to go home...

i might have felt sad if that was the case... but thank God that i signed up for a camp before this. It was organised by the LiveWire Media-- ChargeUp!!!2011in DUMC, KL. i didn't knew how awesome it was until i went and experienced it myself.

before this, maybe i should explain why i was going to this camp. Just recently, Pearl.. well-known as the only technical person of our christian fellowship planned to form a media team. I joined without much hesitation as first... since i wasn't sure of many things... maybe it's a way i could serve the Lord... =)

then, Pearl introduced this conference to us... Cool!! after knowing that we'll get to learn new things, me and 8 other friends signed up for it..

however, there were some complications along the way. We had trouble finding transport and accomodation. But God paved a path for us, maybe for them not much for me though.. i'll explain on later.. We decided to go there by Transnasional bus, it turned out to be a double-decker bus... and we stayed at Tune hotel Kota Damansara, which was quite an awesome hotel!!! affordable and the most comfortable bed ever!!! woohhooo....

the challenge was greater for me though.... before leaving for chargeup on wednesday night, i had the worst fall ever on monday morning. i actually fell down from my double-decker bed!!!! @@**!!!££%%... not while sleeping, but when i was coming down. I'm used to jumping down on my chair first before getting down, but somehow, i fell that particular time... maybe i was rushing to get the door, when i thought i heard someone knocking on it at around 6am!!! who would have come at that hour??? but later i found out that it was just my room mate coming in..... ==''

the impact from the fall was quite bad actually... i hit my backbone, my right arm and also the worst-- my right FOOT!!!! i got a lump on my back, a sore on my arm... and my right foot was so swollen that my sport shoe became swollen too when i insisted on wearing sport shoe to lecture.haha... i was quite grateful that i could still go to class in this condition... limp limp limp my way to lecture hall, at night still went out for CG farewell... phew!!! it really wasn't easy limping!!! ==''''

the pain was really freaking me out.. lots of my friends who knew about it kept nagging at me to go for an x-ray... but someone who fell so frequently like me knew very well that it's just soft tissue injury, and refused to go through the hassle of taking an x-ray at HUSM... plus, i was really busy that day.

Thanks to final year senior, eunice who brought me some bandages the next day... bandaging really helps... at least i could walk better.. and the pain subsided a bit. wow!! i didn't know how great the impact of the fall was.... >< never been so badly injured before.

but that wasn't all.. the evening before we departed.. while i was bathing... was scrubbing my head with shampoo.. suddenly, i felt tinggling and numbness in my right fingers... oh no!!! i remembered i had a blue-black on my right hand... did i hit a nerve or something??? suddenly i was so worried, scared... helpless--in the bathroom.. i was afraid that i couldnt open my eyes, and afraid that if i open my eyes i could not see...darkness..... i prayed in my heart... ''God, don't u want me to go for chargeup! ?''.. from somewhere deep down in my heart, i found the courage to turned on the tap again... i rinsed off the shampoo from my head... and i opened my eyes!! i can SEE!!! i can SEE!!! i was really thankfull that i can see the light again,... hallelujah!! but the numbness in my hand still persist for quite some time before it disappears...

and i went for ChargeUP!!!!

1st and 2nd day we had workshops.. while 3rd day we had Project time... when we get to produce our own video..!!! awesome!!!

we were advised to stay in DUMC for the shoot.. our group tried, but can't, so we went out to the city to get out video footages. my injured foot was getting much better, and i didn't need to bandage it already...the experience was awesome!!!... we took LRT, MRT.. went to Bukit Bintang, Chow Kit.....but the editing part was tedious.. our dateline for project was 12am, but we couldn't finish editing by that time... ahem, we werent the last group, ok??

accidents always happen, i'm just too clumsy... that day, my injured toe was hit by the monoport leg, and in the room, i tripped over something... however i didn't expect these to have much effect on my ''looks-to be alright'' leg...

i was awoken from my precious sleep by the numbing, awful pain, aound 5am... it took me quite a lot of effort to go back to sleep again... the next morning when i woke up at 8am, when i was about to go to the toilet to bathe, i couldn't stand on my right foot!!!! shocked, scared, lost-- again. with one left leg, i hopped to the toilet, luckily, tune hotel room is small enough, not so big.. haha.

after bathing, lying on the bed waiting for the rest to get ready... i still couldn't stand on my right foot... it was so painful!! even painful than the first day... Oh no!!! i want to attend church service!! i want to watch the media showcase!! the firsrt thought i have was to stay in the room, but those were the reasons that kept me out of the room. However, EC, the awesome taskforce member who drove us from Tune hotel to DUMC daily insisted that i get an x-ray done... so, unwillingly i went to University Hospital... i hopped into their A&E...and they popped me into a wheelchair...so, that's how i went around in the hospital... haha

went and get that x-ray done... NO FRacture!! thank God!!... see i told you all, it wont be fracture la... but soft tissue injury. The doctor prescribed painkiller for me... just like what i told them... see lah, for no reason RM35 fly already lo...it's worth it also, at least they stopped nagging at me.. :p

the fifth morning at KL.... we went to 1utama from tune hotel. from there we could catch a bus to LCCT... 1utama is really huge man... bigger than queensbay??? i feel that i just can't finish walking within 3 hours, plus my leg like that... haiz... found MPH alas, went in sat down and rest for most of the time... haha next time, when i can walk, i will come again... :p

finally, arrived safely at USMKK... the flight was quite scary too.. due to turbulence.. we had a free fall of some amplitude, to the extend of someone screaming... phew!! i was sleeping at that time...

i'm really grateful, despite all these obstacles i'd met before, during and after the conference.... I really gained a lot of experience through the workshops and projects in chargeup!!... also the bonding with both chargeup and usm awesome people.. :)

very long post.. should stop and study now...
will be back in MAy!!!! can't wait... ><

USMKK chinese new year night

yo!! it's been a long time since i last updated my blog. i've been very busy since october practising and preparing for this event mentioned above -- Chinese New Year night. It's supposed to be a grand event for the chinese not only in campus, but also to the local chinese community.

every year, the second year students would plan and make arrangements for the event... while the first years would be involved in the performances. As first years, we get to go through a series of auditions in order to select the performance/s we want to join. It's kind of like our OSPE exam, 'from one station to another' not answering questions, but to show your talents instead. After the session, we get to make our choices, from 1st to 8th/9th( like UPU application) haha...

normally, most of us will get our 1st choice... and mine was choir hy.

to tell the truth.. i really don't enjoy going for practices at first. I don't know why, especially after christmas night. i was surprised at first when i found out that i wasn't the only one... haha but eventually, as i get to know more people in the team... it wasn't that boring to go for practice. However, another problem arise... i was pressured by the piles of notes i had to study every day, with Selanjar 3 at the corner at that point of time.... X(

nevertheless, it's all over now... all these moments we spent together became a part of our memories we will never forget. Our performance directors choo soon, whom we call 'daddy' and sarah, whom we call 'mummy' and we 38 of us, are their children... heehee :D '' you all must sing with your 'dan tian' don't keep your voices in your throat!!! your voice must project out!!! your voices must have SUPPORT!!!!''-- that's what our 'daddy' said during almost every single practices.

At the same time, 'mummy' will go... ''must put more feeling into your melody... use your bow to express yourself... use more vibrato...follow the conductor (which was 'daddy') beats/hand signals...''

to be an excellent choir team is not easy you know... because most people would see it as a performance where they could go to the washroom or whatever... (even myself would think like that...) =p

however, that night... after our performance, it was the only time 'daddy' was satisfied with our performance... i guess everyone had really put their hearts into it and sang as best as they could.. for the first time, with microphones, there wasn't any problems... normally, there will be a particular someone's voice heard through the mics...

all went well... until the very last end--- my mic started to drop at my very last note!!!! but nevermind, it was already the end of the performance... haha but i might look wierd on stage trying to put the mic nicely in place, so that it will not hit the mic stand..

pictures!!!!


sarah (mummy) mentioned above.. too bad she couldn't stay for the event, as she had to go to Beijing for a language programme. She really helped me a lot, arranged the pieces i played..


it's the year of the rabbit... woohhoo!!! the deco team made a few rabbits from cotton wool...



the choir team.. but this was after the performance though... Our 'daddy' still calling out to the other children who were still not on stage to take the 'family picture'

carmen and shirlene (right,front) acted as mother and daughter in sketch.... while corinne young(left, front) is the narrator... deborah(in red dress) and renling (beside deborah) were from choir... and the one beside me is a 4th year medic student-- tee meng... and together... we're from usmkk christian fellowship!!! haha..

the choir girls in red and black!! :) happy faces at the end of the performance...

ooh...!!! i got my selanjar 3 results... again good news and bad news

(MCQ- multiple choice questions; SEQ- short essay questions; OSPE-i don't know what it stands for)

the good news is, i got A- for my overall results (MCQ+SEQ+OSPE), first time got A for my selanjar... but the bad news is, i failed my SEQ (F+) :(... also first time... but this time i know where went wrong... out of 5 questions, 3 questions 'kantoi' already... but still F+... for F, we have F+, F-, LF and LLF... i really thank God for my result.. i thought i would fail this time.. I wasn't sure whether i wrote my matrics number in the last few questions for OSPE, and MCQ got negative marking.... nevertheless, i passed this time!!! woohooo!! but i should really buck up for my SEQ... ANybody has any tips on that??? :)

i guess that's all for this time... back to studying again... :)

Bye, and God Bless :)

Blessed CNY!! :)

Hey, i'm back.. finally back again after 2 months. However, this time i don't think i can have much time to relax and enjoy like the last.

First, selanjar 3 would be one week after the holidays and i need to do my revision, but on the other hand i can't concentrate on doing anything except for sleeping!!!zzzzzz... can't blame me though.. i'm still sick.. :(

Bad timing... haiz now i can't enjoy all the junk food on the table supposingly.... but who cares, i just eat what i want.. :p heehee...

before coming back, i went for a camp in a school at the kemahang felda area. we went as a group of facilitators to motivate the spm students there... here are some activities that we did...


the students made towers out of old newspaper, some of them were quite stable though.. i'm quite impressed by the way they do things... as they managed to finish this project within 20mins only... :)



here's the singing part.. these boys were so excited to sing the theme song that they rush up to the stage to sing...


in the process of making the tower... smilling so happily...

well, that's all about that program, i think... it was actually part of the Medical Students Facilitator Team project, an outreach program to help the community outside USMKK campus. I didn't want to go actually because i felt awkward being the only chinese in the group... but i was wrong... again... my group mates treat me well and we all enjoyed along together with the children there... and the best thing is, the children can remember my name easily, since i was the only chinese there.. even though they tend to pronouce wrongly.... haha

the next event: ahem.... it's our own Christmas Night!!! our campus Christian fellowship organised this event... of course i took part in it too... dancing tambourine dance... haha my first time though.



back to christmas in Kelantan!!! woohoo!! the 2 days i was so busy... i'm glad i made the decision to stay in kelantan instead of coming back. christmas eve, went for dinner at kelantan trade centre, ya, kelantan has a trade centre... 8 course meal... then on christmas morning, we went to methodist church service, then to crown garden hotel for carolling, in the evening, we went to dr tee's house for bbq... phew what a packed schedule >< but i really had fun... thanks seniors!!! :)


the only picture i took of crown garen hotel.... and it was below this me and rosalind were cracking our brains trying to figure out gabriel's lame joke: 2 o'clock, 5 o' clock, 10 o'clock.... what time?????? after trying many times with wrong answers, we gave up... the answer is: 2 o'clock

it wasn't until the bbq session that i knew the trick to this joke.... really LAME la.. :p

i guess that's all i can update for now... slept a lot but still feeling tired.. haiz
hope that i'll get wll soon, i want my appetite back before CNY!!!!!! haha