Dear Seok Hong,

Thanks for the invitation. I remember u guys have a great home theatre system. Did I mention I can only get 3 channels on my new TV in KP? I'm mistaken.. actually I can only get 2. But think will stay here till the end. Loneliness is not new to me have had it since forever; I treat acute exacerbations nowadays by sleeping them away.

No plans for MRCP or FRCS or ABCD or BABY. Just want to get thru HOship! Starting mid-May will have only 2 HOs in Med Dept. That's not too bad considering the other HO, who hasn't arrived yet, wuz supposed to be retained in O&G but they're letting him go so I don't go insane doing both 1st and 2nd calls everyday.. Now it's EODs till mid-June. But then it's Med n I'm always stoned for abt 2 days post-call.

Previously tot they'd be retaining HOs in the Depts due to shortage. They're not thank goodness. But that's also why there'll be only 2 of us soon. Catch-22.

1 HO arrived from KK last month (prev in Surg Dept n knows Roddy) asked for Med in KP, came for 2 days, took MC for 2 days, came back for 4 days, disappeared for 4 days then resurfaced in Surg Dept.

Another HO from O&G Dept in our hosp came 2 wks ago tagged for 1 and a half days then took MC for depression. She's now in Surg Dept.

Will KP be worse off than TI? Will I beat Adeline in terms of workload and calls?

Don know.. Stay tuned!

Back in KL now after abt 2 months! Miss all the shopping centres and bright lights. KP is getting a bit dreary. Hope to obtain a phone line hence Net access after June. Don think will apply for Astro too costly! Thinking of writing again but no ideas.

That's it for now. U write me one line, I write you an entire letter. When will all of us get to meet again? In the meanwhile stay connected on this Blog.

By the way u guys look out for Chee Foo ok. Hard work can be distracting but it's often not so! Hope he's ok tho'.. Also he can drive you around town :P

Cheers and beers,

Alan, the Mad Cabbage

Hi guys. Just a little under two months to go in our housemanship. What are you people's plans? Who's taking MRCP, who's planning to make a lot of money as GP, who's getting thrown to district, etc.?

MC is taking his MRCP (Paeds) Part I soon. Lee Kien and Seow Voon have plans to go to US. I hope I can stick around a bit longer in Alor Setar. Want to do my Paeds posting here and probably Anaes. Becoming an A&E MO might not be too bad either. At least they work in shifts and there's no on calls.

Tony - So jealous of you with 32 HOs in O&G.
Alan - You're welcome to join us in Alor Setar if it gets lonely in KP.
Chiew Leng, Chong Tien - Great to see you guys never lost your sense of adventure. Scuba diving. Wow!

tailo: cheefoo, let life shines like the morning cloud grow from the distance horizon
in the edge of darkness, blossom into gigantic skyline potrait
let life meet great obstacle but still courage stand and dreams stand holding on and
for us bird of mission of life shall never fail to see the wonder of nature......keep you going.
you are once again a free man, aren't you. god shall worried not we. good luck

kai inn - sorry i couldn't go out the other day when you were up here. labour room was like some mad house. good to hear that the guys actually entertained you.

chee foo - i'm sorry things didn't work out.perhaps it is a good thing that HOship is busy.at least it'll keep you on the go.Keep your mind off from the sad stuff.

lee kien - good luck in alor setar. if you consider going to another state, do consider perak.we are damn short and we have very stupid system of allocation... hmmm,that didn't sound very appealing. what the heck,come just to make up the number.

alan - planning to go home again 3rd week of april.if you are around give me a call.i'm meeting up with liza. will call the people in klang too.

chiew leng - good luck with scuba diving
kooi yen - if u are listening. happy belated birthday april fool! sorry i didn't get to meet up last week.will make appointment again some other time.

Hi, guys and gals, all my best frenz out there... so sorry to keep u all in the dark.. Well, the terrible thing is, as some of u might have oredi known...sigh....sighhh... Lian Sing had decided to left me. Been in Hell basically in the last 3 months. Crying practically every nite and most moments...Worst thing is we had oredi registered... as there's no more chance for reconciliation (as she firmly STRESSED to me), r in the midst of working out an annullation of our marriage.... Feeling slightly better now after all those terrible months..hav to learn to pick up my life again..although i might not feel like it, but life hav to go on, HOship has to go on....but stillll....... But who am i to bog u all wif my problems, what wif all dis HOshit..... sorry guys...just feeling the need to SHOUT ALL THIS PROBLEMS OUT LOUD..... may God bless u all.....and also her....

went to ipoh hosp this monday to tranfer one baby, i was very tiring but i was glad to be welcome by those guys in ipoh GH after a long 9 hours drive from JB. happy to see them and they look much more confident and MO-looking. we just had a short talk for tea but anyway i had enjoy it. good luck and fortune to you in ipoh hosp. thanks sathiya, peter and chuen wern.

greetings from seremban.... surgical had been time consuming... not tat bz, just occpied, workin daily til 9pm, n tat includes sat n sun.. cheap labour.
just when i start pickin up ping pong again....gues hav to giv up those games..but stil manage to find time for pirate vcd...
after 1 whole month of workin daily..... finally take 2 days off to sleep at home...

Am in Alor Setar now. Am very glad that I am with Seow Voon again. Got myself a room, well furnished and very near to Seow Voon's house. TV reception here is excellent. Channel 8 and 9 are clearer than my house in Seremban. There are chinese foodstall near here also.

Tomorrow will be my first day in Hosp Alor Setar.

Will need to get used to friday and saturday being the weekend and weekdays start on sunday. I think it's pretty stupid, and Alor Setar is not like under PAS or something like that. The banks here dont follow this system, because of the obvious reason of being impractical... how can they make transactions to KL or the rest of the world on Sunday when eveyone is off. ..... getting sidetracked, let's go back to my main point.

So I was saying ... I will report to the pejabat pengarah negeri kedah tomorrow. Starting tagging during weekend will be a drag, because not all the staff will be there, and being a tagger, I will probably just run errands for the on-call person, and have to clerk most of the new cases. When Alan and I were tagging in medical, we clerked 90% of the new cases between us during the period. I probably wont see how things run regularly, u know like the usual weekday, until Sunday when everyone starts to come backand work. Wonder how many days they will want me to tag.

Spending the past 9 months in KPilah with Alan has brought us together like brothers. Alan, hang on tough. I understand how monotonous things can be there. Fight back by being among the first to pass MRCP Part 1 when you are a junior MO. Will contact you by direct email/sms.

Soon Hock's baby is probably due some time soon I would think. Any news anyone? Fab?

Ok, will sleep earlier today.

taking leave next week, taking up scuba next wk!

Sorry to see Lee Kien go... Kuala Pilah will be quieter than ever. Suffice to say I wouldn't have made it this far thru HOship if it weren't for him there. Feel like absconding sometimes...

Have purchased a new 21" Philips to break the boredom. Unfortunately can only receive 3 channels in KP.

Medical posting is really bad and will be worse now with a shortage of HOs. Keep myself afloat by thinking that the end of 1st year is near. 10 wks to go! Meanwhile have to go on battling severe exhaustion, sleep deprivation, weight loss and sugar addiction.

Have developed a gastric ulcer. Am starting Losec this week if my hospital is not too cheap to approve a 2-6 wk course.

Am renting the whole house now by myself in KP. Nice place just nice for 1-2 persons in a nice neighbourhood. However in the past 9 months have encountered all kinds of resident fauna including termites, spiders, centipedes, lots and lots of ants, a snake and a mouse. 2 months ago the electricity got shut off for one whole night when LK wuz in S'ban left me in total darkness with only my hp as a light source... would have gone insane if were still in my darkness-fearing younger years.

Am rambling think am developing Adeline syndrome. Where is that cow anyway not heard from her in millenia

Irritating Tony is basking in freedom in that horrible posting that is O&G. 32 HOs and they practically are jobless. All other departments are relatively short. It's coming to the point where whenever you go to canteen there's bound to be some jobless O&G fella there.

Today was my last day in Kuala Pilah. Sorry to leave Alan alone there. There will be shortage of housemen there, and it is probably going to be really busy.

I guess all of us are in the same situation- not having enough housemen towards the end of this posting. Sometimes I wonder where all those Ukrainian, Indian, Indonesian and Middle East graduates are. Looks like we will not get new recruits until the local uni grads come out.

Cheers to all of you.

Yeah, Lee kien. We heard the news. What a pity you can't come to O&G. Chee Foo and I are suffering here. This is the first time I'm back home since starting my O&G posting. There's only 12 HO in O&G now. We are doing EOD calls like crazy. Before this we have 5 HO on call a day. We had to revise it to 4 so that none of us will collapse. And there's still 3 months left! New people won't be coming in so soon. We don't have time to learn anything as we are just focused on getting our work done. And yet some of the specialists are not understanding at all.
Anyway, you'll learn a lot in medicine. They're short of people too but the working environment is not so stressful. By the way, where are you going to stay?

Effective April 1st, I am transferred to Hospital Alor Setar. I will continue Medical posting there. Seow Voon and I will be switching phone numbers. I will be using 012-6361850 and Seow Voon will be using 012-4103274.

ah boy ya! admired you le. got such a girl willing to do this for you. you know what i mean. i think i am going to 'tiru' you la i might thinking to ask to tranfer to Muar hosp after all this bullshit hoship.
i went to ella wedding on last last saturday. happy to see a few of our batch mates.
anyone knows what happen to chee foo? pls announce it!
paeds is sucked.....

hey....who deleted my work?!!!

Am going to Medicine. Supposedly really busy. Am glad will be in the same posting as Alan.

hello... officially survived through O&G without any untoward incidents. Going to Paeds next... now can start scolding O&G HOs for referring lousy cases at lousy time of the night!

What happened Chee Foo?

4 more months to go... we are already being ask our choices for the district postings. CL and I choosing Keningau, went to see the new hospital there and it was damn impressive. Look up the map if u dont know where it is. It is about 2 1/2 hours south east of KK.

CHeerio, and i hope everyone survive the next 4 months and live to talk about it.

cool. more than 8 months down the line, n stil alive n kickin.well, mange to go past 8 months without killin anyone, yet (or at least tat i know of), so wil b a bit sad tto leave paeds to go to surgery... with the mad workin hours there. o well, everyone has to die once.
bryan: hang in there.
ju ann: mushroom? someone is stalkin u in klang, izit... wat else could possible lead u to sarawak.. or perphaps.....

by the way, manage to meet teck choon, lee ding, chew gek n wai hong during new year.. n everyone is so alive. seems havin quite a ok life over in sarawak.
mc wil b stoppin by in kl this weekend too. manage to c him in ijn the other day when both of us sent babies to their clinic.
now, back to enjoyin my leave... n back to my bed.....

hi, everyone...
nice to hear dat all of ya r still kicking and alive.
As 4 me,...well.....the worst WORST WORST thing that can happen in my life had happened........well hopefully it's all just a bad bad nightmare...
Am going to KL next weekend to mourn the BIG BIG loss.....
GAd been very very sad these past few days due to the loss.....am so sad and down.......miserable...feeling so useless and God fucking stupid..........damn stupid me....AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......sob sob sob.....

i am finishing o&g so for those who are going into it remember just do it don't let it, i mean VE. don't drown in the sea of liqour, just swim across. and sing aloud with your patient ' teran lagi teran, panjang panjang lagilagi sambung lagi' and surprisingly instead of "tahi" you got baby out of mother! good luck. i am going to paeds, my god tds round. yeeling going to ortho.

m goin surgery

Yeah Lee Kien, the butterfly must not forget it wuz once a caterpillar too. Zen, Zen.

Hi Esther great to hear ur voice in here again. Lookin fwd to ur end of posting I guess since u'r keeping your hols for it. Take a load of this: Ju Ann hoarded her leave too so now she's takin a nice long stretch off. She's joining a UM research programme in Sarawak for a week researching mushrooms for anticancer substances isn't that cool.

Kai Inn u can use the panties to wipe the sperm off the floor.

Have a good Raya Masyithah, can go shopping in JB. Can also help Kai Inn clean his room.

Signing off from a little Internet cafe in Kuala Pilah. Am on-call tmr, also yesterday (sigh).

Cheers

back to the world of torturing....beware of the power of dark force in your ward. bring your life to the new age.... god bless

Happy CNY everybody.

Chill Fab. I agree with alan, and i think the most important thing is to not do the same to our subordinates/juniors when we become M.O./specialists later. Break the vicious cycle.

Enuff about that. Let's enjoy our CNY weekend and spend time with our family and friends. Take care y'all.

Hey Happy New Year everyone...

Took 1 day off on Wed and, since in Kuala Pilah not working on public hols and weekends if not on-call, have 5 day stretch off till Sun. Too bad it's already Sat today :(

The best way to get thru HOship is to let it wash over you. They're like a river trying to sweep you away but you're like a rock, dude, secure against the flood. Pretty Zen. Numbness is da way. Don't let them get to you, coz they're not important in your life. Allowing them to make you sad or angry means giving them too much power over you. These are insignificant people who have no right to influence what you think or feel, and getting upset because of them is not worth it. Only people who are important to you have the right to make you feel this way.

Hmm if only this works...

HaPpy NeW YeAr to all.

Gosh, serembah that bad no wonder everyone starting to ask for transfer out.

Anyway, many happy ang pow pickings

and for those non-chinese, thanks for covering for us!

i am not ccomplainin...i got my cny leave approved til tues...n stil hav 4 days leave for end of posting..
anyway, just wan to wish everyone happy cny.....hav a nice year ahead... n feel free to monkey around, while we r stil HO.

....and wish to see those in malacca during CNY. pls contact!

hi, i hope i am not disturbing the net community by updating some of news from south, jb. oh i just bought a dell notebook so definitely i am putting lots of efforts and money in doing this matter. our HO private life has been invaded by our fucking deputy pengarah of hospital. he spotted checking our room and comment in the group meeting on our dirty room, sperm on the floor, hanging panties and luckily he didn"t find out my X book and X VCD collection. it is really irritating and ridiculous. i am moving out i guess but where too? hey...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I am officially on leave from today till the weekend, then going to work for 1 1/2 week before breaking for CNY!! what a wonderful feeling!

Finally finishing O&G! to those who have not done the horrible posting... enjoy. To all those who actually LIKE the posting... u're nuts but to each one his/her own preference.

LoTR was nice, but i agree with Alan that at the end everything was too rush, we probably have 1 hour extra scenes in the extended version.

Ju Ann... be nice and dont keep us in the dark.

happy new yr everybody....belated tht is...
17more days to monkey yr....
50 more days to new posting and tagging again...
170 more days to (junior) MO-ship....(shiver....i still know nuts.....)
since i'm late in wishing all a happy new yr.....happy chinese new year to all.....logging on to internet will be less frequent this month...since calls are all cramped up before taking long leave for CNY....

I AM STILL having this dammed stupid EOD call however i still managed to catch ROTK and overall still one of the best movie of the year but get a bit bored by same way of fighting. a lot that the director can't made into movie but it is good enough already. oh, by the way, happy new year and happy monkey year to those who believe in chinese astrology

By the way the lady wuz discharged maggot free last week for home care nursing. Thanks to the student nurses who carefully picked every single worm from her face.

Leavin KL again today will miss the bright city lights and lack of cow dung...

Caution: don't read further if you've not seen LotR: RotK

Gosh more departures from the actual feel and characterization of the story. Nearly fainted in the cinema. Too many to comment on, and hardly bother anymore. Instead will give you my envisagement of the story vs. the portrayal on film.

Scenes I'd have liked to see, or seen done differently
1) Confrontation between Gandalf and Saruman where Gandalf breaks Saruman's staff and casts him from the White Council. It'll probably be in the extended version
2) Confrontation between Gandalf and the Lord of the Nazgul at the gate of Minas Tirith after it is thrown down by Grond. It might be in the extended version
3) Confrontation between Eowyn and the Lord of the Nazgul. Eowyn, having realized she will lose everything she cares about on the battlefield and having had her love rejected by Aragorn, stands unafraid before the Witch-King, sword in hand, golden hair streaming in the wind, tall and beautiful yet cold as ice and hard as stone
4) The Witch-King, stabbed in the popliteal fossa by Merry, stumbles and bows before Eowyn, and she brings her sword down between his crown and cloak. At the death of the Witch-King a long sorrowful wail is lifted into the air, and fades slowly into nothing
5) The knights of Minas Tirith sweeping out of the city in force to join the Rohirrim on the battlefield. In the real story the attackers never manage to get through the broken gate to enter the city. The host of the Dead never come to Gondor and it is through the own efforts of Gondor's army, with aid from the Rohirrim, that Sauron's forces are defeated on the Pelennor. In the movie version one wonders why Minas Tirith is so significant to Sauron since it has no substantial army of its own and is obviously dependent on Rohan for its defence. The inclusion of the Dead in the battle of the Pelennor is SO deus ex machina. And the inrushing of luminous green figures into Minas Tirith to clean out the invaders looks incredibly like a detergent advertisement where oil and filth is washed clean away by nice lemony soap suds
6) The great black ships of the Corsairs of Umbar sailing up the river, seen from the city and the battlefield, bringing yells of joy from the uruks and cries of woe from the men. Suddenly a flag unfurls from a tall mast of the leading ship and it is the banner of Aragorn, fluttering like a white flame in the breeze
7) Denethor revealing that he too possesses a palantir, and with it, perceiving the full strength of Sauron, is filled only with utter despair. Yet he was still a shrewd and able commander, organizing the defences of the city to the end, and was only broken down when Faramir was brought in wounded and dying, realizing how much he really loved his son. Portraying him as a useless creep from the beginning was absolutely ridiculous. And the flambe scene in which Denethor leapt from the wall like a piece of cooked pork was pure drivel, reminiscent of the other similar stupid Nazgul flambe episode on Weathertop in FotR
8) The long march of the combined armies of Gondor and Rohan to the Black Gate through a silent brooding desolate land with the Mountains of Shadow on their right. On the way they come to Minas Morgul which is nearly empty as its inhabitants have been destroyed in the battle of the Pelennor, and Aragorn orders the burning of the field of rotting white flowers at the entrance to the city of the Nazgul. Towards the end the movie seemed rushed for time and everything seemed to move abnormally fast compared to the beginning of the movie. Bad pacing, but I guess the audience needs to go to toilet
9) The force led by Aragorn and Eomer arrayed before the Black Gate, rank upon rank of grim horsemen and knights in shining armour, banners flying, challenging beyond hope the might of Sauron. The army of many thousands in the book was downplayed to a ragtag band of few hundreds in the movie
10) The vial of Galadriel, flaring to spectacular brilliance in the hand of a selfless brave young hobbit, pours light into Shelob's wounds, causing her unbearable pain and forcing her to flee from Sam
11) The statues of the Watchers at the gate of Cirith Ungol casting an invisible force field preventing Sam from entering to rescue his master. It'll probably be in the extended version
12) The fall of Barad-Dur, with its innumerable towers and battlements, a fabulous sprawling city, great and invincible, sliding down its mountain throne and crashing down in ruin. Somehow in 14 years I've never imagined the Dark Tower as an erect penis with an Eye on it.
13) Romance blooming between Faramir and Eowyn, and both of them standing on a wall in Minas Tirith, watching the Mountains of Shadow from a distance, holding hands and fearing for their friends who have gone into battle. At the fall of Sauron in the distance they see a vast black cloud rise above the height of mountains, crowned with lightning, and a tremor runs in the earth and up the walls of the city. Then slowly the darkness departs and the sun breaks out, and a fresh wind whips up their hair, mingling gold and black. An eagle flies in from the East crying that the realm of Sauron is ended forever, and throughout the city the sound of rejoicing is heard.
14) The same dark cloud seen by Gandalf at the Black Gate, rising from the destruction of Barad-Dur, towering to the sky, reaching out to engulf the world but is torn away helplessly by the wind.

Scenes I liked because they're better than I personally imagined, or because they don't exist but were put in to good effect
1) The lighting of the beacons
2) The attack by the Nazgul on their flying mounts on the men in the field and on the city walls
3) Pippin singing for Denethor
4) The battle between the Eagles and the Nazgul above the Black Gate

On the whole the special effects were quite fantastic, and I liked all those quiet emotional moments between the characters :P

2 years ago I gave FotR an A for the movie itself and a C- for the adaptation making the overall grade a B; TT got a B for the movie and a G (1 grade lower than F) for the adaptation making the overall grade D. RotK again gets A and C- with an overall grade of B.

i think the premiere is today isn't it?

I'm sure everybody will be eagerly flocking to cinemas everywhere they're working to catch the final instalment. Too bad for places without cinemas... they'll just have to sit down and pluck maggots out of rotting flesh. Half as exciting, but that's life.


Raya week here in Sabah was so so surprisingly quiet. Delivery was at an all time low that at one point there was only 6 patients in postnatal ward. So much so the staff nurses outnumbered both mothers and babies put together.

Now tho... they are starting to file in with multiple problems. Horrible pregnant women.

2 days to the official opening of The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King!

ASH NAZG DURBATULUK! Hope it won't be disappointing tho'...

Tomorrow, Dec 16, is the beginning of the 2nd half of the 1st year of housemanship for the most of us!

Except for some of us who started late, and some people who actually started a week earlier, for some unknown reason...

Well life might be less exciting with less emergencies but at least there's less chance of making mistakes and ending up extended. The scare factor of labour room night duty is always compounded by the fact that we're the only doctor there.

Gosh there wuz a lady who came in end of last week with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth from years of taking sirih. She hadn't been taken care of properly so the cancer has eaten away the whole of her right cheek and jaw so you can see the teeth and tongue. That part of the face is also a boiling mass of maggots, crawling and squirming among the crags and crevices of rotting tissue. When I opened the bandage that day the maggots lifted up their tiny black heads in my direction so it wuz as if many little black eyes turned to stare at me from the ruined flesh. Ugh!

The problem is that after a few minutes all of them creep back deep into the face so it's really difficult to catch them. We've ruled out turpentine dressing as the lady can aspirate, and suction didn't work as we could not reach into the many pits and recesses to draw the maggots out.

At a loss of what to do. Any ideas?

Raya season wuz hell in Kuala Pilah. Casualty unit wuz flooded with MVAs. I'm in Surgery Dept but there is only 1 call list for both Ortho and Surgery meaning Ortho and Surgical HOs have to see both Ortho AND Surgical cases while on-call. They called me back at 5 something am on my call day on the first day of Raya to start the call coz the ppl the day before were too exhausted *sob sob*.

But yeah nothing sucks like O&G. One night I had 4 PPHs, two of which happened at the same time, 1 severe pre-eclampsia requiring MgSO4 infusion, 1 acute transfusion reaction, 1 thyrotoxicosis and 2 flat babies requiring resuscitation. But we've never had 2 eclampsias in a day tho' *ugh*. Anyone doing O&G now or in the coming posting: ENJOY!

I SURVIVED O AND G! HALLELUJAH!
MERRY X MAS TO ALL CELEBRATING
AND TO ALL NOT CELEBRATING AND NOT ON CALL IT"S A REASON TO CELEBRATE TOO!!!!!!
I'LL B ON LEAVE..YIPPEE!!!!!!

yala those stupid pregnant lady tahan tahan tahan for raya and now post raya they start streaming in with all sorts of problems. Imagine la, 2 eclampsia case came in on the SAME day!

Anyway its now 1 1/2 past O&G... i am beginning to be able to see the end... thank god!

Time sure flies... hope it flies faster this 2 1/2 months

I am doing the call list here... time to abuse my power hehehe

hi, anybody home? anybody around? you all are either too busy or still having fun with raya.

even though we here non muslim houseman have to EOD but i think it isn't so bad as there much less patient hence less work load. like me now oncall for 2 ward approximately 100 beds but there are only less than 20 patient need your attention. sent them all home that is our policy here ,anyway as long as they bring alot their red card. they can deliver anyway they like. yes sent them all away.

To all Muslim friends, SELAMAT HARI RAYA. To others, happy EOD call. But think on the bright side. It's not long before Christmas, and then New Year and then Chinese New Year! Time sure flies...

i think it is not too bad tony. keep it up and should you can do better next time but not worse,

nice one tony....though i haven't seen it on any raya cards yet....

o+g is killing us all. and of cause killing us softly and slowly. here JB, everybody seen a bit quite so i think i should make some updating from the south. me and shikin are doing o+g as you can guess. my girl is doing medicine alone. pity her alot but this is what she meant to. yahya, hani and zaini are doing surgical posting. oh i think ella is also doing surgical. good lah they have anice posting for puasa month. zakiah is still on maternity leave i think. take care i friends and selamat bepuasa to all muslim.

yeah thanks sathiya. I anticipate the longest 4 months too... brain atrophying by the minute. By the end of 4 months it'll be the size of a pea.

to all muslim friends, selamat berpuasa!!

Tony is having so much fun in Medicine he refuses to come back from the ward till late at night!

I on the other hand, can't wait to get out of O&G, and that after only 2 weeks

Hi guys,
Syitah, I don't have Lenie's number but Guan Fook should have it. His HP no. is 0124233412. Lenie, Farah, Qamariah and Guan Fook are all doing O&G. MC, Azlina and Chee Foo doing Paeds. I'm the only one doing medicine, so feel a bit lonely in this posting. But it's been ok so far. MOs and specialists nice. Our head of department is not well liked but haven't had any dealings with him yet. Do you guys have to go for vivas and do case summaries? In this posting, I have to go for a viva every month and hand in 15 case summaries. Nevermind, I suppose can cut and paste.
Everybody, enjoy your second posting!

I am going to O&G next! yucks, the only consolation is that i get it over fast...

4 months sure seemed like a short time. There were bad times, and there were good times, all part and parcel of the job. Keep hanging in there... the next few months should be interesting... what with Matrix and LOTR on their way! Thank god Sabah has a cinema, a pitiful one, but one nonetheless

Hi, everyone. Greetings to all de senior HOs out there. Glad 2hear fr all of u again. It's really been a long long time since i heard fr u guys n gals (as SH mentioned, we din hav internet connection at our home) Sur posting in Alor Star was quite enjoyable, except 4 de lots of oncalls, n GF said he enjoyed his Med posting very much too. Still remember Lim Kheng Seang?? Our PM when we first attended de Haluansiswa back in the good old days. He's senior MO in Med now n will b sitting 4 his MRCP part 2. Not many people like him over here, he kind of had a change of personalities compared to the good nature, patience loving super senior when we were in UM.....

Am having my last few days of holidays now. just watched Identity in Sg. Petani wif my GF. it's quite an interesting movie and worth a watch.

Lee Kien...u r the man..mayb it's just me only but i din even finished one topic of subjects related to my posting...sigh...i'm dat pathetic...hope to at least finished 2 topics in my next posting, which is Peads by the way....will b doing Peads wif MC

Other than dat, i'v seen lots of movies, tv's and play lots of PC games (although they'r still de same boring one) in this posting. Hoping to hav time to do the same next posting....

I dreaded the time when we'll hav to tag all over again.....siiiigggghhhhhh...

Hi.

Much ward-wise now after first posting. Getting to know better the selok-belok of hospital work, administration and the undercurrents. Had some beautiful moments when I actually helped someone, had lots of ugly moments feeling futile, disinterested or disheartened.

Oh, the loser pakistan-grad M.O. that I kept criticising has gone to join the army medical. So Alan wont have to work with him when Alan come to Surg.

Found it quite difficult to juggle between working and studying. Had to really fit in every minute for optimal time management. Now I really admire our seniors who worked as M.O.s, doing the calls, pregnant or already having kids, doing locum and still can pass exams like MRCP.

Am going to O&G next. Seow Voon still has 2 weeks to go because she started later.

GOOD-BYE O&G! GOOD-BYE PUSSYCAT!

Hello Senior H.O's!! Hip hip hooray for the months that have passed...Penang has been kewl so far,but the rain is terrible! Flooding everywhere,around the hospital even.Gosh...and to think that even that didnt stop patients from flooding the ward when i was oncall...darn sampans!!

God bless everyone :)

i know is bad to drink but now i realize nothing can beat alcohol in blunting our feeling especially the bad ones. find it too bitter !why not adding some sprite into beer, malta into stout, lemon into vodca, syrup into wine, soda into brandy, pineapple in rum, icetea into whisky and after all we've got to blend it well just like our lives-a colourful one. find way to light up your life and you shall find yourself burning bright one day. happy end of posting.

going to singapore to waste some money before going into the hell of o&g!!!!!!

endin ur first postin very soon... well, times fly.
......1 down... 5 to go....

err, kalis, if i didn't read shakespear wrongly, macbeth's "period of duty" ended when someone cut his head off. u ought to find another quote.

Hi guys. No internet access in our rented house so only get to read this blog when I go home. Not too busy at the moment. When I'm not on call, I'm glued to the TV. Bought some books to read. At least now can spend some money on books without feeling too guilty. Always fall asleep while watching VCD with my housemates. Oh gosh, I think my life is going to be pretty monotonous. Somebody help!

who said anything about showing concern for people who mean nothing to us?

nicely put Suraya, just be grateful things are not as bad off as they were last time

Why am I in a profession which forces me to show concern for people who mean nothing to me, and at the same time takes me away from those I truly care about?

EPL EPL EPL!!! Life has begun!! Football season is back again and boy is it promising to be good. MU still strong, Arsenal still playing beautiful football, Chelski buying up all the players in the planet, and Liverpool... er oh they're all the way down there. oops

Saturday and Sunday just wasnt the same without football. Now there can be life after work

All seems quiet here... guess everyone must be busy with working life. Sigh... so lazy to work after convo break. Must apply for next leave, at least got something to look forward to.

If you've driven us into the darkness, will we not despise the light?

Happy convocation everyone! kind of anti climax since we have all started working

syitah: how did the rehersal go?someone must teach me how to wear that gown.

Wow Kai Inn does Yee Ling know abt Mary?

i intubated a patient last week my very first one. i failed once where the epiglottis is almost coming out from the throat. i don't think i will become a anaesthetist. wah. it was very underpressure when the ett just could not past through the larynhx and the spo2 is dropping. hey, what to do you are the only doctor in the ward, MO was in OT, nurses staring at you. luckily mary is with me that night.

anyway. i will be back to KL on monday, 11/8. looking for any kaki to go and have a couple of pint if possible. see you guys, bye.

Hi everybody,

Alan and I went to Bahau last week. It was a spur of a moment decision. Bahau is about 15km from K.Pilah. Bahau is definitely bigger than KP. More shops and food choices. Population mainly Chinese. Guess what, we played Daytona there.

During my last call I had to send a patient with GCS 6 to Hosp Seremban at 2am for an urgent CT brain. He was intubated and I had to bag him all the way during the 45minute journey. The road is windy and I was nauseated. This is evil, but I was secretly hoping that he will have a bleed so that he will have to be admitted to Hosp Sban or even neurosurgery HKL. The CT scan showed no obvious bleed, but the Seremban Surgical MO oncall decided to admit him anyway. I took a sigh of relief and (happily) pushed the patient to the Surg ward at 4.45am ... and guess who was the Surg HO oncall? Fabian. He must have been damned chuak to see me with this patient at a crazy hour like that.

... that's not all. When Fabian was attending to my patient, the staff nurse said: Dr Fabian, patient yang kat belakang itu asystole lah. Long live all housemen in the world!

oh what hell ipoh sounds like compared to the rest of you. anyways, no big complaints since i'm already stuck here. was on first call yesterday night. had two polytrauma cases left over from the night before. damn man's BP going up and down all the time. the other guy has been transfused with like 7 pints of blood already, gone through 2 DIVC regimes..... i hope he doesn't overload tonight.

had to attend some orientation today. stupid people. we have all been working for more than a month already and they are teaching us how to fill in lab forms and check blood now. might as well do it when we end our postings. radiologists are people from hell as usual. kept insulting HOs like they are God and knows everything. well, well.... mustn't blame them....afterall, they are the only ones who can see so many tones of grey.

on call again on friday. first call also. no light from heaven shinning at me i guess.

one more week to convo!!! cant wait to get a break!

post call right now... time to zzz

hello!! glad to hear about ur life in the other hospitals! Looks like u r all adapting quite well.

We here in KK seem more free compared to u guys, since we seem to be oversaturated with HOs, though that means that u can find more people snaking around.

Here in surgery we are expected to do appendicectomies, but due to the many HOs some are graduating without even doing one! this is a bad thing as once sent out to the district if they dont know how to do appendicectomy means have to send back QEH, leading to curses from specialists, MOs and HOs who have to clerk patients.

You can do practically anything here, the natives are generally very trusting towards doctors and allow us to do anything we like on them! Procedures are at a u ask, u probably get to do basis. Heard medicine more procedures but also oversaturated that they are only doing like 4-5 calls a month!

Taking 1 week leave for convo, from 10-17th of August! see u all then!

seok Hong: u r back in Penang meh,??!! Went to our home just now (~ 5.45 pm) but ur car still there. Thot u hav slept. What form do u meant we hav to sign??

And people, if we wan our representatives to get our jubah 4 us, how do we sign the surat kuasa? Do we hav to write one ourselves or the is any particular form to sign?? Well, cant wait to c u all again in convo...

Like SH said, life in HAS not bad at all, at least 4 me in Sur. However, i'm posted to this ward call K1 (just opposite SH's ward) where we start our morning rounds with our head of departments at 7 am!!! So we hav to b there earlier than him to cover all the cases n do our rounds b4 he came, but i think some other places might b worse...however, sumthing crazy bout my ward is that it is a acute emergency surg ward, so all the specialists n consultants, heard me ALL will come to our ward to do their own rounds, OWN rounds throughout the day. So we usu end up with at least 5 ward rounds a day and do not really hav time to do the ward works which we will be scolded for later...hhhaaaiii...what luck.

There's 2 chronic HOs here who never promote to other posting, not to say to MO....they r like in their 30s...1 Chi n another Ind...they never do any calls though..the Chi only works fr 8-4.30 pm (office hours) n disappears after that...the nd HO even more "kheng", only follow the morning rounds, then disappears for the whole day. Luckily they r not in my ward. But i think they r quite 'smart' though to keep life as a chronic HO...no need to do calls, 8-5 working hours n can do locum at night. They might even end up earning more than a MO.

Doing sur here in HAS is not bad. We got to do many procedures that the Head (bog boss) said we had to do at least 3 Appendicectomies, 3 chest tubes b4 we can 'pass' to other postings. Surgeons here r crazy, they manage everything even though they don't hav the sub-specialist to do dat. Thus, neurosurgeons in Penang and Ipoh r very gratefull to us here coz we seldom refer cases for them. Those considering Surg post-graduate might wanna consider working here coz as a trainee specialist, u get to do MANY procedures, n they hav proper tutorials and conferences for training specialists, even for us HOs.

Well, enuf bout my life. On 2 days leave to settle some convo stuff. Went to a tailor just now to made the lounge sut for convo. Hopes it'll turn out nice.

Everybody out there, wish all of u good luck and all the best.....hoe we can hav get-together during the convo.

Hi guys! I'm back at home for 5 hours because have to sign the convo form to ask buddy to take jubah. Alor Setar half day on Thursday, what.
I'm doing Ortho. Not bad. Some days work from 7 am to 4.30pm. Some days until 7.00 pm. Nurses and MOs nice. Did 5 passive calls and 3 active calls already. Next active call tmrw. Passive call have to go to OT for emergency cases anytime. Active call have to see cases which come in via A+E and cover the wards after office hour. Luckily here got MAs to do CMR and POP. Glad to say at least I can insert Steinmann pin. Haven't done Ray's amputation and refashioning yet. Having aching limbs after carrying patient's leg in OT.
Alor Setar good for surgery and paeds. Ah Ngou in surgery now. The surgeons here do everything, even neurosurgery. HOs have to do at least 3 appendicectomies.
MC in O&G. Workload not too bad because can go back 4.30 pm if not on call. But said gynae nurses not so helpful.
Guan Fook having a very , very busy time in Medicine. Even have to go back to hosp. fr 8.00 -10.00 pm to do research for the department.
Food here o.k. Can get Malay food and Chinese food quite easily. Our house comfortable but don't have much time to clean it.
Great hearing from you guys. Will see you all during convo:)

Hi guys....today and yesterday was my full day off!!! wah....such a liberating feeling...finally have time to explore KK town...went to watch Terminator 3 ...wah liao...here got Golden Screen Cinema man....
Gosh...seeing pregnant ladies here up to gravida 15!!! makes me wanna take O&G (which i hate) just to become BTL specialist!!! I mean, if u calculate....(taking a gravida 9 )....there's extra work for housmen times 4 each time they come for delivery and antenatal check up (taking Para 5 at the most) After each patients that i see...i give a stern look..."mesti ikat selepas ini eh!"

cant wait to go back for convo....1 week of break.....very much needed.

Wow...i almost forgot that the blog exists! By chance someone reminded me,gosh again! So hello + warm greetings everyone! I'm in Paeds in Penang GH and now recovering from a grueling call! Ever heard of Pandas syndrome? Whoa! This 'suspected' case came in late at night and started a chain reaction of crazy investigations and numerous other admissions!The patient had myoclonic jerks of the head and left UL + vomiting + ...... Where are all the URTI's when u need em?hehe....
The abundance of houseman terror tales here could make Apartheid look like a small issue,hehe..oh well,we'll PREVAIL!muahaha!
Hope i have not lost it yet..
Penang GH is a nice place, i mean Paeds.Quite a number of kewl people,even some of the consultants are nice! My nickname in the ward is 'KOJAK' ! Numerous PMC students,i mean Penang Medical Students roam the ward i am working in,and some are babes!hehe..There's always hope,even in the darkest of times...
Do take care people + happy H.O ing. Seeya at graduation :)

wow, now i know what luxurious life you people lead in KK. Over here in ipoh we hardly see each other.I mostly see sathiya around. Chun Wearn is like getting hell in surgery. Didn't sleep a wink throughout his call. and fell asleep in the hall during CME.Almost dropped his head on the Malay girl's shoulder next to him... then again... maybe it was intentional.

Well, sathiya has said it all... we are getting the raw deal here. and today, the ketua pengarah came to bullshit. I was post call and fell asleep.
Peter's the only one enjoying here. He's in paeds and the ratio of HO to patients as we counted the other night is 1:2. Meanwhile Nissa gets 30 admissions a day in medical. The other day she somehow landed herself with two pagers (2nd and 3rd call) and was running approx 8 wards throughout the night. She has filled in more death certs than any one of us. Of course, if sathiya (O&G) fills in one, he might as well sign one for himself .

Kooi Yen: I heard about pekki going to penang. Well, enjoy yourselves. Try not to fight. Then again, you probably won't see much of each other.

Got to build up some muscles. All these ortho cases involve either fat guys or atheletic ones and holding up their limbs is a sheer agony.almost collapsed in OT after the call.

hi yeeling here. in o+g jb hosp, the supposed the largest production unit in msia. hectic as expected. the worse is the responsibilities i suddenly have to assume like having to arm 20 pregnant ladies and insert 10 prostin 5am in the morn by myself. both of which i had no experience during medical student days. i believe half of the prostin dropped out and half the babies have incurred suspicious lacerations on their head. agreed with lee kien, good to keep low profile and act blur (not too difficult a task for me). a lot of time i was given strict warning not to include my grandma stories into the clerk sheet. (don't write the pt NBO for three days post op because the mo wants to discharge pt).

and yes tony, i do miss those uh stickers. do you people have to do a Bleeding time / clotting time? a funny, time consuming test which consists of deliberately pricking the patient's finger to assess how long it will bleed and fill some blood into a tiny cylinder , then keep turning it until it stops flowing. i really hate that one. nobody really know how to interprete the results.

Howdy everybodee?

Another week has passed. The weeks seem to pass faster now that tagging is over. Calls were ok so far. Keeping low and acting blur, but asking a lot of questions. I find that keeping a low profile works better for the houseman. A few times I noted some things and asked about it, the reply i got is: jangan buat/tanya yang pelik-pelik.

During tagging, I had a MVA pt with some upper limb fracture, and he complained of pain in excess of appearance despite sedation and I kind of asked the MO during the night round if compartment syndrome could be a possibility; and he gave me this "shut up and dont give me extra work" look and said "wah, if like this, i will be very busy everytime u r oncall". Deep inside, I was hoping that the next morning the limb would pulseless (I know this is evil and not fair for the patient) and teach him a lesson. However, the pain subsided the next day (good for the patient).

During my call at 3am this morning, I saw this patient who c/o haematemesis and while I was clerking him, I realised that he actually is having a new stroke. Then, in front of me, he aspirated vomitus and started gurgling and gasping. Quickly I set up mask, oximetry etc and called the MO. When he arrived, first thing he asked was did i do a PR. Of course i didn't, and he was displeased. I was thinking like, come on, I am more concerned about this pts ABC at this point but there he was asking about PR. Felt like PRing him there and then. The pt subsequently required intubation and ICU admission (which cost my night's sleep).

Ok, that's my rambling this time. One good thing is that I got my pay cheque for the half month too. Happy happy.

til next week.

Hi guys,

Wow, the Blog looks spanking new and cool :) Am writing from my grandma's house in M'cca. Came back here this weekend and wuz back in Subang last weekend. However will be on-call the next 2 weekends. Can't complain I suppose.

Work in HKP is quite light compared to other hospitals. There's more free time and less pts. We get to go back at 4.30 everyday, if we've finished all our work, and we get weekends and public hols off, assuming we're not on-call. The bad point is the learning experience is quite limited. I don't really mind I guess if I can go back during weekends and I actually have time to myself to do the things I want to do. It's a trade-off. Depends on the person and what he wants in life. Currently I walk around the hospital with my log-book in one labcoat pocket and Asimov's Prelude to Foundation in the other :)

However they're not sending many new HOs to KP. Because of the new 2 yr system, the Ministry counts the 2nd year HOs into the total no of HOs in the hospital. However in the hospital the 2nd year HOs are considered junior MOs and are doin MO duty and calls. I'm in O&G and by the end of August there will be 8 MOs compared to 5 HOs. In September because the HOs are spread so thin I'll be running the Labour Room on my own and having EOD calls *yuck*

People here are nice. I do get scolded now and then for doing the things I do: mostly for dreaming a lot and being slow at work :P But at the core the MOs are friendly compared to those in some other hospitals I've heard. The nurses here are like my own aunties and the specialists are ok too.

I wuz told that KP and Sungai Petani are the only 2 hospitals where HOs are off on weekends. However last weekend I met Suraya in Subang Parade and she said that in HUKM they've weekends off too. We were so glad to see each other in Parkson we screamed. Gosh it felt so good to see one of you guys again.

It's a bit quiet in KP and thank goodness Lee Kien is there with me. As you know we both are renting a house outside, despite not gettin any housing allowance, and it's quite comfortable, if not a bit bare.

Liza's mum has called the uni and has been repeatedly told that convocation IS on Aug 12 until further notice. *Sigh* why does no one believe me. UKM's convo is on Aug 16, and USM's is on Aug 8. I do think they changed it because of the clash with UKM but I'm not sure.

I don't have time to send individual greetings to each of you guys so good luck to u all, the others in your hospital, your luopos and luopizahs. Will write again sometime from a cybercafe I expect.

Cheers

tony, i don't think the conjunctivitis' virus is originated from chicken, please. and mine believe to be bacterial in origin if not it won't reponse so well with CMC eye drop. i miss my student day where i don't need even MC if i have attended more than 80%. going back to work tmr. ha i am back from heaven to hell. where is earth?

Hmmm... i heard the reason they changed the date is coz it clashed with UKM.

Anyway, Tony and I are having damn big headache securing leaves. That's bcoz there are 6 of us UM people in Surgery, and if we all go it is like 50% of the HO available leaving at the same time! The rest will just suffer. So we have to sit down and planned out our leaves so dat some go earlier, some later.... but cant do all that if date not confirmed!


I heard that Teluk Intan has only 10 HO? dats like 2 HO per posting... so EOD call maut maut ke? no wonder havent heard anything from Adeline.

my conjunctivitis is improving. going back to jb to work soon i think maybe this sunday. can't afford to spend too many days MC. ah it is a nice break but not worth it!

i am worried that our convo might be crushing with the UKM's. heard theirs in also more the less same date as ours. ah ya! how to apply for leave then.

roddy: long time never heard from you? are you alive?

Alan just told me it's on the 12th afternoon. But seeing the way they keep changing the dates... who knows?

kalis: you are lucky already to get your pay so soon or at least you have something to be glad with in contrast to the hell of your environment. don't know when will i get mine......

no one will really believe me 'cause i am taking a big break now goyang kaki at melaka. i have an unilateral red eye now and was forced to take a eight day MC. my god, it is going to use up my entire leave for this posting. don't laugh or admired it! it is no fun at all. saw an eye MO before i got back home, he said it is most probably is a bacterial conjuctivitis-pus and pseudomembran in my right eye.

yanwei: do you remember your form six classmate, irene. she is now in JB doing Hman also(paeds). jb was not in her choices. poor girl eats only bread almost everyday. i wanna help but you know lah not convenient ma with my loupo around.

tonny:i suggest that you become our penghulu in this blog 'cause you appear more frequently but you know what, i am coming in after you.

kooi yen: i know lah. but sometimes both are busy and it makes not much different even if we were apart. you take care.

oh some said our convo will be 15-18 of august. not sure yet. any one got any idea?

1 more day of tagging....yeah.....
tomorrow must present somethiing in front of the dept...cincai lo.....
am eating more nowadays...snacking here and there.....
heard that there are 2 types of HO...one that puts on weight...while the other type loses weight.
at the rate i'm eating..think i'll end up the former.
the banana goreng here super delicious....dunno why. must be some super kadazan flour.

post call.... so tiring... one critical patient is enough to spoil ur night.... blurrr

hey ppl....i'm counting down....3 more lousy days of tagging! and guess wat...! the day after tagging ....kena on call pulak...
today, got my my way out tagging at 6pm....that means 5 extra hours of rest...
gosh...hate O@G....the only consolation is that it's one of the more demanding posting in terms of stress and schedule of work...so by the time i do other posting...it might be a breeze......cei....as if....mana tau, still blur blur...

Hey guys,

I am in Surg too. Much more free compared to Seremban. I get to go back at 4.30pm everyday unlike Seremban where surg ppl go back at 9pm. I have 6 calls this month. Did one call already. Luckily no MVA case that night, so it was pretty ok. The roads here to Seremban and other districts very winding one, so higher chance of MVA especially after happy hour.

Feels like surg patients here are not managed properly. Got only one surgeon and he is more like a tukang bedah, he rarely actually delves into patients problems and addresses them. He just do the op. Morning round with him also super fast. The actual ppl making decisions for pts are the M.O. (there is no registrar here). The M.O. also 2nd or 3rd yr in govt service. Management here is more like symptomatic, the underlying cause not addressed and pt keep coming back. Any sakit abdomen that is not a/appendicitis - buscopan. Epigastric pain? -Cimetidine. RIF pain not fitting description of a/appendicitis - "subacute appendicitis". Renal colic - M pot citrate. No ultrasound for surgery here. OGDS also is the rigid metal one. No tube with camera. All radiology inv must be sent to Seremban. Usually before their TCA SOPD to review their IVU/US/CT etc, the pt will be readmitted bcos of the same symptoms.

This is not a place for ppl aiming for FRCS. Sure, we houseman get more chance to do procedures, but donno the way they teach us to do is correct or not.

Anyway, the good part about it is I really get a lot of free time for myself, which I really need for my own reading. So, I kerja pun tutup sebelah mata, just follow the M.O instruction only lah. Next time when I become M.O./registrar then only I try to do what is right for the patients.

I am in female surg ward. At the max also 17 + 3 beds at ony time. Last week only 6 pts for 2 days. Workload is really ok.

Remember the senior Lim Choo Ghee (i think is 3 yrs older than us), he is preparing for MRCP but he is put in O&G by the pengarah.

We got morning assembly (like school one) every first monday of the month where we line up and sing negaraku and the pengarah talks. Ridiculous, dont u think. Wonder if u guys got this also.

There is also this UPM chinese senior houseman at O&G (Alan is at O&G now), whom I think is full of himself.

Alan and I live in a rented house all by ourselves. We have not found time to make the house cosy.

Take care.


P/S BM phrases are creeping into my conversational speech, since working in govt hosp. I heard here for the first time the expression "jonah"(really unlucky; many admissions). Do they use this phrase also at ur place?

Apala u tailo. What no kaki, u staying with lao puo should be fun what. 2 weeks liao mah ok lo. can syiok syiok go over to singapore.

actually i think those who got surgery first are really lucky in the sense the we got time to adapt to this alien world. we are like a lost troop venturing into this unknown galaxy far far away at somewhere near M12?.
wah !really admired those in KK can stay together with friends, must be fun at least when you all are free.
me here hardly find kaki to cho tai ti(big 2).
chiew leng: samelah here o&g also have to do tagging from 7am to 11pm for 2 weeks leh. i hardly see my luopo around.
tonny: did u still owe me money?

kai inn: haiya...convo that time can get from me le....your stuff still safely intact...

halo...

i hate o @ g!!!!
counting down.... 15 weeks more to go....
1 more week of tagging...tiring....645am till 11 pm everyday....
makan makan here very limited....the places where we get food here is kat "bawah pokok" or "tepi longkang" or just in hospital cafetaria....3 lousy choices...
am craving for so much food.....

hello hello hello!! nice to see that some ppl still got time to go blogging. U'll be hearing more from us blokes in Sabah coz we got our own apartment and phone lines and all. So no problem with internet access.

Dunno why Tony on EOD calls considering that there are 23 ho in the same posting! he just too kind that he changed with someone and ended up with EOD. TOny, Jeklin, Donna, Elsie and I are in surgery, the indians in ortho (all indians end up there), chee chan in medic, chiewleng in o&g.

Surgical life here is not bad. people here are nice, nurses dont scold. not on call can get to go home by 4.30pm if work finishes. Had my second call yesterday, slept from 12am to 6am. SO unlike my first call last saturday. berlambak-lambak admissions, barely got any sleep.

Dengarnya UH like lepak sungguh. hai... somemore can bully medical students clerk case for u. so practically no work.

Havent got much time to go exploring KK yet, gonna get a car soon.

U guys stay in touch as much as u can.