Lessons on Life..

Today I went to listen to a talk by Prof Sharir, one of my most respected lecturers and idol.
One of his quote caught my attention," Before you care for your patients, you must care for your friends and juniors first."

This is true. But sometimes I don't really see what's the point of being caring towards people nowadays, (no offence) especially to medical students. Perhaps Prof have more experience in life than me, which is why he tried to make us a "caring lot"

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Sometimes when you care for a friend, especially if its one of your best ones, it will rebound back to you, in the opposite direction. Remember Newton's 3rd law of motion? "For every action there is a reaction of equal magnitude but of opposite direction". Somehow thats what i think often happen to me. When i am kind to people people will repay my kindness with stories which is "beyond my imagination".

Lets take one example. When i tried to be kind, people may think that i am gay. When I tried to share my knowledge, someone says i am consultoid. Even the way i walk invites stories. When i tried to help my lady coursemates, someone will say that i am after her. When I share my experience with juniors, someone say I'm arrogant. When I go to the Medicine wards to guide the junior, again news circulating that I'm trying to show off. The list goes on and on.

I am seriously considering to become an insensitive and totally indifferent person. Its so terrible to be caring when all you get is negative snide remarks. It is equally terrible if even someone close to you started doubting you, started to become suspicious of you when you are kind. To put in Joee's words, people will think that I am "pretending to be kind".

I am sure this is not the first time i felt this way. But i am sure this is the last time. No more lessons from me in the future, no more anything from me in the future. Why should I? I did not owe the world anything.

I failed to establish a caring society. I can't go on because it will really affect my studies if the people i cared for started doubting and saying all sorts of things that is not so nice to the ears.

Perhaps future generations can establish one their own way, i don't know. But my impression is being caring(or pretending to be caring) makes you gay, arrogant, action,show off etc.

But by being indifferent, peaceful life awaits. There goes~~~ I'm coming,peaceful life:)

Pengajaran & Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris

So in the year 2012 Sains dan Matematik will be taught in BM.

Frankly, I oppose this decision. But for a different reason.

The Government seems to have forgotten the purpose of teaching Science and Math in English. They seem to think that teaching science and math in english is to
1) improve level of english in primary school children
2)improve the result of Sains dan Matematik in UPSR

To tell you the truth,Malaysia is the first country in the whole universe to use Science and math to improve english. Nobody have done this before ^^

"Muhyiddin said studies carried out by local universities found that students’ mastery level of English during the entire policy was around 3% while the level among rural students was low.
“Based on these observations, the Government is confident that Mathematics and Science should be taught in languages understood by students, which is Bahasa Malaysia in national schools, and Chinese and Tamil in the respective vernacular schools,” he said."- The Star

The reason Tun Dr Mahathir introduce PPSMI is for the future generation. How can the government gauge the success of PPSMI after only 6 years??? Most children who is under PPSMI is only in Form 1 now!!

Let me reiiterate the purpose of PPSMI: To make sure students are competent and familiar in the Scientific english when they are in the University and outside world

How can you use the declining UPSR results as a "strong-point" to discontinue PPSMI??


Imagine what will happen to the form 1 students now. They had learn Science and Math in English for 7 years. They will continue learning in English up to PMR level. Then in form 4, suddenly constant become pemalar, hypothesis become hipotesis, Newton's Law of Motion become Hukum Gerakan Newton (Thank goodness its not Niuten). And they will learn all this till form 5. Then, in form 6 they will learn back all these terminologies in English!
Then we will produce Rojak graduates. Not proficient in BM or BI.

Memang dah sah gomen ni stupid. Even if you want to revert the policy, wait till the pioneer batch of students under the PPSMI students to enter higher education. Assess their level of english then. If they have mastered english successfully by then, it means that PPSMI is a success. If there is no difference or worse, then by all means scrap it if you want! This is how the success of PPSMI should be assessed, not based on UPSR results! (Of course, pakcik muhydin will say "cis...budak ni tau sikit sikit, sudah trying to teach me what to do")

You scrap it in 2 years, what good will it do? We will not even see 1 Malaysia University student who have Science and Math taugh fully in English in school. We will get rojak students!

We are going down. Keep digging our grave, dear government, but don't take us along with you.

Starting Paediatrics!!

Starting Paediatrics tomorrow! Yay!

Hopefully i won't be "yay"ing for only 1 day. Some said Paediatrics is like Internal medicine...well, doesn't sound too bad.

Some said Paediatrics is like O&G.......OMG.....its going to be hell~~

Look at Yi Hui, Paediatrics seems to be more like Surgery......relax only..can go marathon somemore~~:D

But cannot compare myself to a Super Medical Student la...

So I assume Paediatric is like O&G&IntMed....so much to learn yet so little time. Wait a minute...isn't all posting like that?

Arrrgghh...no need think ady la.......just go and play with small kids tomorrow. Scared oso no use rite?

Cheers replace tears for SPM top achiever

Luckily, being rejected by the JPA doesn't make me cry and stop my meals back then. If i did that last time, no politician of any sort will be coming to my aid. :P

I hope this girl here realise what's in store for her for the rest of her life. And i certainly hope to see her "serving the country" without complain next time. That's her vow, isn't it? All the best~

From Calcium to Bone

Orthopaedic posting is over......it's been a very very nice posting bcuz there's so many new things that is learnt throughout this posting

Before coming to orthopaedics i am worried i will suffer because of my poor basic in Musculoskeletal anatomy. Now that orthopaedics is over, i understood why i despised Musculoskeletal in the past : its because in the past i dont see the purpose of memorising lengthy muscle names. It seems so silly. Now that i've completed orthopaedics i finally realise that it is fun to know about muscles and tendons and ligaments.

Special thanks to my 1st week "supervisors", Prof Amara, Dr Rashidah, Dr Musfirah, Dr Masri, Dr Kartina and all others in the Rehabilitation team for igniting my interest in Orthopaedics during the first 2 weeks. If i am not interested i will end up like in O&G walking around pointlessly in the ward.

Going on to Paediatrics....If i take Yi Hui as the standard, looks like Paediatrics is not so busy also..hahaha but I will be prepared for anything which awaits me in Paediatrics~~~
Here comes the Paedophile~~~~~~~~~ :P

Specially dedicated to my housemate cum ex roommate

My previous posts all have made you worried and uncomfortable although none of them is referring to you hahaha :P so now i really am going to write something about you~~ muahaha be prepared

It all started in the year 2006(or 2007?) when we were just freshmen in KTDI. Either God wanted to punish you or God wanted to change me by making us roommates. Whatever the reason is, we are roommates.

Remember the time when I can't pronounce your name properly? Ok...it took me 1 or 2 weeks to remember your name. But after remembering i have to learn how to spell. Thats our national language syllabus "Bercakap, Membaca dan Menulis". Often i wonder what's the purpose of putting a H in front of a word when you need not pronounce it. So your name always end up being Siung, and I've already told you that Siung in malay means "fang"(taring)~. So i guess the H has a function after all, either to make your name appear early in the alphabetical order, or to make you less carnivorous by being 1 "siung" less.

Suddenly i got the name Dekan from a "super medical student" who himself is superbly gifted in the art of Paktorlogy, especially Pedophilology. As far as I remember, you are the only student in our "faculty"(Not graduated yet).

Being from a family who rarely(alright, i lied..the right word is never) spoke Chinese, it is a blessing for me to have a room mate who is gifted in both written and spoken Chinese as well as being fluent in English. My room mate never once laugh at my lamentable enunciations of the Chinese words(okay...perhaps sometimes he laughed when something i pronounced sounds like a vulgar word), instead he will patiently correct me. Thus, staying with him 3 years have really improved my spoken Chinese, although some tongue-twisting words are still a problem to me now. However, an ex-classmate of mine whom i've not seen in 3 years commented on my drastic improvement in spoken mandarin(bangganya :P)

We have gone through thick and thin together(sounds gayish kan) haha but that's the word to describe. In the past 3 years, i have been through a lot of problems, and i don't think i will still be here in 4th year medical school if it had not been support from my siblings, as well as my good roommate here. He lend me his ears for my endless problematic stories,without fail. Looking back, i felt very ashamed for disturbing him. After all, it's my problem, its not his. Somehow, he has always be a source of comfort especially when my mood is at the lowest. ---> (i dunno how to write la.....however i play with words all sound romantic.....inborn ability) :)

We are still here, we are good friends. If half of our DNA is the same we might have been brothers. Whatever it is, you are my best friend. That's the most important thing.

Zhen Hsiung,
Thank you for all your support and sorry for all of my wrongdoings(especially my laser laser punya words)

Cepat cepat kahwin la...........i retired as dekan ady leh.... :P ooops there i go again :D

The return of TB

Due to our government's generousity in accepting foreign workers without proper screening, TB has returned to Malaysia! Welcome back, old friend(or foe?)

Return of disease linked to foreign workers

Because i foresee that our government will continue to be generous for many years to come, I think its essential for us to equip ourself with the knowledge about our old friend here.

As usual, basic sciences are essential
1) What is Tuberculosis
2) Describe the etiologic agent
3) Clinical features
4) How is it transmitted
5) What investigations need to be done
6) What other organism or disease that can mimic tuberculosis
7) Complications of tuberculosis
8) Pott's paraplegia-what is it?
9) What are the regimens for anti TB drug? how long it should be given? Based on what do we decide the exact duration?