Painful exhibition

Some exhibition held by Sokka- Gakkai in an attempt of peace- making. The theme was anti- nuclear warfare and several pictures of the aftermath of nuclear detonation in Nagasaki and Hiroshima were displayed.

When I was small, I used to think that atom bombs were cool. I used to go and look out how atomic detonation occurs and asked question about critical mass etc.

How naive.

I like this one: make love not war.

First time!

Hey look, this was the first time I had the chance to sit so near to the lecture stage! Heheh.

Although I shall have numerous chances to sit here in the future, I wonder why.

Sick

One of the things least hoped when you are staying outside in a hostel is falling sick. That can be quite messy.

Might due to late night baths, or other unknown reasons, I had a bad fever since evening and it got worse at night. Walking properly was a challenge.

I thought I can made it to the morning without seeking help...

But I had to pay a visit to the Accident & Emergency Department in the end. And believe it or not, you better strive to live long enough to stand a chance to see a doctor there. Once you are classified as a Green Zone patient, they will make you wait until you forget the purpose of visiting them.

I had to tell them:" I need a doctor!", only then my name is called.

P/S: Thank you Patrick for your nice flask of liong cha. :)

CF Welcoming Night

Went to the Christian Fellowship (CF) Welcoming Night, and surprisingly, it was pretty fun and relaxing.

We sang some songs, had some ice- breaking games like this...

No, they're not biting the string. They were, uhh, trying to blow a piece of tissue paper across to the other side.

But they were really nice people. Adeline, thank you for your chocolate! :)

Noobs

So Nursing block, as told by seniors, was a 'relaxing' and 'simple' block during which we wear white lab coat and fancy tie and visit and walk around various departments in the hospitals.

Dr. Othman Mansor, our lecturer once said:" You guys look so shiny and pretty now, wait till you go further and pimples and all sort of things will start coming from your face."

Proving him wrong? Easier said than done.

Start of block

In my medical school, each topic is referred to as 'block'.

Today is few days after the start of Nursing block, and some medical personnel were invited to share their respective experiences.

In this field, one man show does not exist. Doctors need pharmacists to dispense drugs, raadiologist to handle medical imaging, physiotherapist to take care of impaired patients during their recovery, dietitian to give advices etc.

Left to right: dietitian, radiologist, pharmacist and physiotherapist.

Food hunt

So it is a Friday. What does it mean?

Means no food in the campus.

But of course, after all, who wants to sell foods when they can let other hawker to have a chance to cater to our needs? Sharing is happiness right?

We have our lunch in a hawker shop known as 'Green Roof' (Just because its roof is green in colour). This is nasi goreng banjir...

No lah, they told me this is nasi goreng Kung Fu wor.

TGI Fridays, did you hear me?

Library

Perpustakaan Hamdan Tahir.

I like the library... From the day I started being a librarian, I never thought that a library can be that quiet.

So quiet, you feel uneasy. Eerie, perhaps.

But the good thing is the amount of books in this compound is huge. Especially academical references, you can get it all here.

Although what I see every time was messy collections on 'popular' shelves with nothing much left. Like these people have not read a book for centuries.

Shrink to fit

My desk in my hostel room.

It was a quartet room. 4 desk with 2 double- deckers behind them.

So when your roommate walks past you, you have to shift your chair forward a little, or else your coffee will spill.

The hostel management said nothing regarding this.

Yes they did. They said that if you are not active enough in extra- curricular activities, you will be kicked out and forced to stay outside, instead of giving you another room like this.

The golf- course area covers half of the entire campus area!

One of the things being looked forward

Yes, do not cry, do not laugh... We actually looked forward for this.

Pasar malam.

It was so boring here, that strolling and picking foods along the night market street was one of the rekreasi we looked forward.

What's installed? Keropok goreng, pisang goreng, ayam goreng, kangkung goreng, babi goreng...

Yeah we wish. But the truth is most of the foods were fried.

You might get a nasi kerabu or mee goreng for... RM 2.50- 3.50?

DO NOT BUY ITS LAKSA!

Painful decision 2

But I decided to ignore the interview. Because

the time required for the whole course... is just too long.

and other reasons.

Burdens, and love

of which I am not confident enough to bear.

Painful decision

This is a letter received by my friend, Lynn. She was invited to attend an interview by the embassy of Japan, since she was shortlisted as 1 of the 24 candidates who did well in the previous scholarship exam.

600 plus eager students sat for that exam.

24 shortlisted for interview.

I was 1 of them!

My mom told me that she received my letter, from the embassy.

Lynn flew back to KL for the interview.

Communication?

If I'm not mistaken, they were having a short sketch on one of the types of communication.

Gossiping? You are probably correct.

Second Day!

Today we had a lecture with the topic : " Respect for teachers".

Then I talked about Miss Tan, my form six Pengajian Am teacher. I respect her, as a teacher, the most.

I miss them.

How are you, Miss Tan? And Miss Lim? Madam Ho? Is Madam Teo alright? Mr. Koo, any new and prettier anak angkat? Haha.

First lecture!

First lecture!

Our class is super big! Around 360 first- year taking medicine and dentistry, including 80 repeats. Sometimes I wondered why shortage of medical personnel still happens with this kind of enrollment rate...

But then, maybe many of the graduates disappear upon graduation... Where are them?

Anyway when I got into the lecture hall at 9.45 am, this is where I sat.

OK lah, not very far from the stage lah. Not yet the back row lah. =.=

Explore!

Immediately after the orientation, we had a few days holiday... So me and some friends took this opportunity to go out and walk around Kota Bharu.

Actually we only went to KB Mall lah. This is a nice mall with branded items and everything under the sun...

Cinema is not under the sun. It exists in your mind only, my friend.

As expected, the mall was flooded by people... mostly malays.

But of course. =.=

Last day of Orientation

We had a blood donation campaign in the afternoon.

You donate blood if you feel sick or burdened.

I donated blood.

I felt sick.

Of orientation.

Which ended today.

Yeah.

Anyway this is my 1st time donating blood! *applause*

Fresh air, new start

Finally! It was orientation closing ceremony! woo hoo~~

After the ceremony, we took photos and exchange numbers like there is no tomorrow... In this pretty confined Main Hall. Fun, heheh.

This is Kai Hui, our very sweet PPMS(pemimpin pelajar minggu suaikenal). Thanks to her, our orientation week became more refreshing and interesting(I guess)

Dance, brothers and sisters~

Some dance by our seniors, as a reward for our tolerance during their "ragging" week, haha.

Orientation! =.='

So the one week you-don't-get-enough-sleep nonsensical orientation flew by...

Actually i should felt grateful, after being poured by those horrid orientation stories from people in UM, UPM, UKM etc. Heard that their handphones were confiscated, and they have to write their seniors' name for dunno-how-many times and bow to seniors when meet face to face blah blah blah......

Cut it, don't they have any better ideas? Like asking juniors to wash their underwear. Opps, that happened already... according to my Mathematics teacher in form 6.