Light outing

Yeah! Came back from Dullsville, going to enjoy a 10- days holiday! (Ang, you laughing again? =.=)

Woohoo~

Went to Leisure Mall in Taman Segar to watch a random movie with Ang and Mohan. So random until we watched this:


The initial reason of watching was because for the time from the point we bought the tickets until the show time, this one was the shortest.

By the time we stepped out from the cinema, my yawning mind still tried to think of the purpose of this movie. I got it:

Samuel Hong still can fight/ Ho yi da dak (Cantonese).

After the movie we chatted a little at A&W.

By the way, cut your hair la, Ang. Looked like a bird nest, almost. Haha.

Birthday~

Celebrated Hui's birthday lo. At KFC.

Fourth from the left, front row.

We were so noisy until a nosy man came up and shouted:
"Silent! This is a public place, not a private place, so please be silent, ok?"

I give you the finger, black skin!

So pathetic... made a little noise on a birthday party and got scolded. He's lucky we did not get crazy and play some creamy game, or else he might get so angry until he has a heart attack.

Anyway, happy birthday Hui! :)

Dobi

Been raining quite often here for the past 2 weeks, and un- dried clothes in our hostel started to give out funny smell.

All of my clothes have been worn and not cleaned yet, not even a single clean underwear.

And exam is 12 more days to go!

Thanks to my smart roommate, I decided to give the Kedai Dobi just outside my campus a try. It just took a full day to turn my 1- week clothes into clean ones.

RM 8 = cleaned + folded clothes

Hmm overall the service provided is satisfactory, just that the price stung a little.

Oh my god I started to feel lazy already! =.=

Birthday

Celebrated birthday for 2 friends, Cher and Shin.

Happy birthday ya! :)

Community placement

Finally, today we went for the oh- so- looked- forward community placement, which will be organised by every small group discussion of first year medical student. My group went to Yayasan Orang Kurang Upaya Kelantan or YOKUK. Our schedule:

9 am - Arriving YOKUK/ Watch introductory videos by YOKUK
10 am - Performance by us/ Games
11 am - Birthday celebration
12 pm - Lunch
2 pm - Interview with OKU
4 pm - Back

Basically it went well. After we performed by singing I Have A Dream, Kenneth said: "Did you see the look on those kids' face? As if they're forced to listen to us!" Well at least they did not close their ears la, so we assume we done great, haha.

The birthday cake, after some AEIOU games. It's specially for kids borned in November.

Hey Kiet, look, his phone is even better than yours. Hmm.

This guy was the only chinese in YOKUK. He looked perfectly fine, just that he had some problem in speaking.

Isabelle. Occupational therapist from Spain. She came all the way from Spain to Kelantan. So noble. Felt so small beside her, haha.

When we were tidying up the premis, all of the chinese in our group did this... Hmm whose idea was this? =.=

After the morning session we had a 2 hour break, and we had our lunch just across the road. As usual, only 2 or 3 stalls were opened in a huge food court. Maybe they left the empty spaces for cat- rearing.

After lunch, we paid a visit to the therapy room, specially designed and equipped with items to aid recovery of the impaired.

These light- emitting optic fibres was aimed to help those visually- impaired and also incapable in sensory touch, if not wrong.

Optic fibres. Safe for the children.

Eh wake up lo, we got work to do.

After the visit, we resumed our activities for the afternoon session, which is interview with the impaired.

The first client my friends and I interviewed. He was actually fine, just light effect from cerebral palsy, which costed some of his speaking abilities. Well he looked ok though, having a wife and a decent job now, in this organization. What surprised me was that he studied electrical engineering last time, before he got infected. He deserved better I guess.

The second and third we interviewed. Honestly, I did not see any problems on the man, and he did not want to tell. Speaking disabilities for the woman. They did sewing work here to earn some living. By the way, the man is looking for his partner, he is perfectly alright actually, so anyone interested can contact me ya, haha.

Went back at 4.30 p.m.. Basically most of the disabled are still quite capable, so I think they deserve a decent job, according to their limits.

Soup

Today a friend cooked a bowl of seaweed soup and shared with me.

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That's all.

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Yaya whatever.

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Anyway thanks ya, kawan. :)

Compensation

Today we had our pratical on method to separate plasma protein by electrophoresis, that is using electricity to separate components of plasma protein in blood based on their different electrical charges. There were 24 groups of students in total, so first 12 groups did it first for today.

When we settled down and turned towards the scientist, he explained the method, and later he said:

"The fact is, we only provided 9 sets of materials. So you guys share among... "

How could this happen laaa?! So disappointing!

But I managed to get 1 set, heheh.

Left: Chun's agar plate. Right: my agar plate.

The above were the result of the separation. Notice that my separation column was shifted lower compared to Chun's.

This is because when I applied the plasma protein onto the agar plate, the plasmas were accidentally applied lower than the expected margin. Thus the plasmas diffused all along the way until they 'collided' with the printed numbers.

Since the resources were so scarce and everyone in my group was staring at me when I was doing the experiment, I was so anxious that it could not make it and that the plamas would diffuse out of the plate.

Luckily the plate was made to be much longer that needed. To compensate careless mistakes made by people like me, haha.

No matter what we do, we should consider also the compensatory action, in case mistakes occur. Isn't that wonderful?

Clock 2

But, what I really want to blog about is the Blue Bear clock. It was given by the students in my favourite class, 6B before I left the school. Honestly, this was one of the most practical present I ever received, especially when I am studying here.

For the past few months, this clock worked well. When it screamed, all 4 of us in the hostel room would jump and be wide awake.

But then, since I came back from Raya breaks, I found that this did not always happen anymore.

When I set my alarm for 7 am, I would find this clock beside me when I awake and it read 8.30 am.

That happened yesterday evening, when I plan to wake up from nap and jog at 6 pm, I found myself started to jog at 7 pm. But luckily, my friends Han, Ying, Jie and Xin were jogging too. So I decided to join them.

But I was actually on training, for the coming annual sports day. And my friends were jogging for leisure purpose, haha.

So I decided to jog myself after they went back to their hostels. Then, when we were about to part, Jie said:

"Since I am cycling, I accompany you 1 round la. You jog, I cycle."

So we were like run- cycling for a round. This was actually quite a good method of training, haha. Now I know why dogs run so fast, duh.

Anyhow, Jie, thanks for accompanying me ya!

Strike to win!

Clock

Another precious sunny day.

Blue bear.

After finished sixth form, I was in a primary school in Kajang, in which I spent 6 months of my darkest life there as a temporary teacher, haha.

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Everyday I woke up around 5.45 am and started to shudder at the thought of spending another day teaching those kids. During a normal Thursday, which was the heaviest day, what I did is:

7.10 am - Awoke from my slumber, grabbed the 六年级地方研究 textbook, teachers' guide and a rotan, sometimes a teaching aid (pictures, models etc.) and walked into class 6A.

8.10 am - Barely alive from answering those kids' bombarding questions like "How did the universe form?" and "Was humans from monkeys?" and slumped into my desk and started marking Bahasa Melayu exercise books. Think it's fun? Think twice.

Rare.

Always.

And you have to do it one by one, no matter how many wrongs, you have to pin it out and make sure that they do correction after returning the books to them.

10.00 am - The time when my adrenaline rush peaked and I felt like running away. Usually I would equip myself with some strings and tapes, and of course, the magical rotan. Then I would duly walk into class 4H (4Hantu?).

Then it followed with an hour of zoo- keeping and monkey- catching that pushed your mental endurance to the limits. Yes I was teaching Bahasa Melayu, but I would spend half of the time disciplining them. This was the toughest class to be controlled. Not only they were academically weak but also, disciplinary loose.

There was just too much to be disclosed. When I was teaching this class, there was never a day that I did not count down to the day I can finally enter university and leave this mess.

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11.00 am - By this point I would not have much difference from a 死鱼 (sei yu).

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But it did not stop there, I have to quickly jog back to my desk, grab 四年级地方研究 textbook and enter 4C. Then started asking: "How is your project going on? Any problem?" Then some kids would come up and feeding me with their ugly but diligent paintings and asked: "老师这样可以吗?" Then later on I had to tell them to settle down and start my lesson or else they would explode and scatter here and there...

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Imagine doing these while you were exhausted!

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12.00 pm - 5C 生活技能. I could only relax a little by this point, since the kids in this class was quite obedient and hardworking. But if you bring them to the working room, you would be shouting until you were so tired you crawled out of the school at the end of the day.

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Then the bell rang at 1pm. The most beautiful sound in the world.

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That was basically what I did in a normal Thursday.

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5 days in a week.

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6 months.

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Of suffering!

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Not entirely, though.