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*