Was on call on Deepavali, 1st, 3rd and 5th day of Raya. Damn tired. You guys must have also heard about the quintuplets. Sad that we couldn't save even one of them. The last one deteriorated on the day I was on call. On top of that, we had a set of triplets and another set of twins. It's been multiple pregnancy week in Alor Setar. Our chronic ventilated patients in PICU also decided to turn bad during the long break. Luckily the quintuplets came out on a working day so that a few of us could stand by at once. It was chaotic in OT and NICU but at least we were a bit prepared. Too prem at 26 weeks and too small. Wish we could have saved at least one of them for the parents' sake.

Happy deepavali and selamat hari raya to those who celebrate!
Was on call over the deepavali weekend and only 4 people broke their noses and one broken ear!
hip hip hooray!
of course one of the broken nose also had broken his zygoma, maxilla and mandible. All because he was trying to hit his wife during his drinking bouts and was pushed to the ground by his son.

Happy deepavali and Selamat Hari Raya to those celebrating.

And good luck to all those doing calls over the long holidays

add me to the list of ambivalent people, yet dumb enuf to hand in the form...

to master or not to master
that is the question

submitted application already
am sure that i will regret during the masters programme itself - that is, if i get it...

paper chase - guilty as charged

Master advert out today. Can check in today's NST or Berita Minggu. Can start applying online via www.mohe.gov.my
Good luk to all

finally got my confirmation, after numerous calling up to putrajaya. well, not necessary to get transfer with or without confirmation, just apply for places short of staff, n u wil get sent. yet to do btn also, no black n white sayin tat must do rite.. tryin to evade as much as possible... n stil ambivalent on doin master this year.....

Guess what guys? I just went for my induksi. Yup, after 3 years in service. I had mine in a hotel in Sg. Petani. Attended with all the juniors. Went with low expectations after hearing all the stories from those who went before me. But it turned out to be all right (except for the exam of course). Tiring but not as hectic as I thought. Food was great. (I heard stories of how at one induksi, the same food was served over and over again). We didn't have a lot of variety each meal but different food was served almost everyday. We also had steamboat and barbecue dinner. The team building was fun. We also had repelling and flying fox. I hear not all centres have these facilities. My induksi only lasted for 12 days. And have yet to attend BTN. Organisers say they are having one in November and all of us who went for the induksi this time will get to go. Hope my head of department releases me.
Hear that we will know our results after one month but the paperwork for confirmation takes 1 - 1 1/2 years to settle. So, guess I won't be able to apply for Masters soon. The other thing is, they say it's easier to get transfer after being confirmed. Thinking of a change of environment since have been at same hospital since housemanship.

hi adeline,
no star spangled banner....
PTK 1? i heard that it's not easy...but i think should get over and done with it as soon as possible...good luck to you...tell us all bout it after that....sejarah/ wawasan/ tonggak bla blah.....

first thing i did on this glorious merdeka day is to watch O....prah .....discussing on craniopagus parasiticus (?? wat der....?) tell me....what could me more interesting than that!

i've called siti rokiah many times. probably can get hold of her like 20% of the time. it's quite frustrating cos she will be just saying the thing was sent to spa n gotta call those guys there yadda yadda. by the way, she's a new girl if that gives anyone any further comfort.
apparently its not 2 weeks. the spa bunch needs 1 month to process the thing. my stuff's been in KKM since late july. got myself a confirmation date verbally told by some spa guy but no paper. equals zero progress.

my HR clerk has put me up for PTK 1. Hmmm....
anyone got any idea what we gotta read for that?
pls advice.
Happy Merdeka! remember to fly those stripes!

yes, getting our confirmation done is a hassle and they say waiting time to see dr is bad!

i'm sure by now, most of us have done our induction. after getting the certs, proper surat aku janji, med check-up and surat pengesahan lantikan jawatan, these set of papers will be sent to your state office which will make a cover letter and send it to KKM who will send it to SPA with another cover letter. And should u any time find a delay and ask them how's the progress, they will pick little problems in it and shift the blame to other ppl to cover their inadequecies.

Anyhow, in KKM, the person in charge now is cik siti rokiah. in SPA, there r different ppl in charge for different files. So, no specific names.

Yes, by choosing pencen scheme, we fall under another protocol where they process our pencen scheme applications and confirmation together hence the delay since like in my case, i got my forms signed before i completed 3 years. i had to send down the form back personally due to the lacking of knowledge in the management side.

well, good news is once u have the above forms sent to kkm and spa, they will each take 2 wks to process and should be sending back the documents on your confirmation. unfortunately, as our putrajaya is somewhere in bermuda triangle, postmen there have much difficulty travelling in and out of that zone.

till then, we can only pray for the brave postmen who are fighting part of the battle for us!

(alan went to putrajaya and has not heard frm him since. that was 2 weeks ago)

hi ppl,
i'm changing my e mail add to adechensm@yahoo.com. cant stand reactivating my hotmail account over n over again.
i heard alan got into HKL. is that true? why's he so silent? crushed by the workload?

chiew leng, i n my whole desperate induksi gang bought school kids baju kurung (primary school) for BTN. i think we depleted the entire pangkor (our induksi was there before BTN).
we even bought big pieces of big white cloth-to pass off as selendang.

in the end, no need baju kurung or selendang. just white top n black or dark colored(better dark blue) pants or skirt. one cheap skate way - ask ur nurses to pinjam u la. i borrowed skirt from my staff.

never heard of BTN need for masters.
my PERMOHONAN for sah jawatan is still in SPA- just great!!!! seng kiat's one is somewhere in between ipoh and putrajaya- headed toward putrajaya n not back to ipoh unfortunately.
maybe partly due to our induksi in sept last year - late la
anyone know who to pester?
the lady i called (AINON) seemed bored and uninterested.

apparently, if u choose the pension option, ur permohonan for confirmation only can send from ur hospital once complete 3 years service. terrible.

our fates r in the hands of some pen pushers in cushy chairs.

tan kooi yen is that you....?
yea, i guess putting my names down for btn wont hurt...

went cambodia trip 2 months ago...must-go place!

wanna go to bangkok next trip. anyone got travelogues to share?
maybe i shud start a food blog or travelblog

HEY guys...

Must go BTn or not for masters?? i mean...i am confirmed oredi in service...
i know to be promoted as part of PTK, need btn la.

to those who went BTN, must wear baju kurung putih and selendang?i mean...check this website on BTN http://www.btn.gov.my/bm/?page=7

PLease answer somebody.....

supposedly civilized people in tertiary education centre turn out to b barbaric after all.... wanted to make some cynical remarks here but afraid tat ISA will come after me, even though with the internet nic ...

take a look at this videoclip , happened inUPM...

sad... whats this country coming to?

remember the big fat red shirted thugs face, he'll probably be a minister someday....

ngou, apparently it is not so weird. The incidence of laryngeal/ hypopharynx ca is higher up north. that is what my specialist said. good la, got eayly training, see one, assist one and do one! haha

dunno what happened in Sg Petani.
had lots of laryngeal/ hypopharyns CA lately......had total laryngectomy almost every week for nearly 2mths....had to go home late(>9pm) nearly every op day although not oncall.......sa cham...after having good life for so long..post op care is even more troublesome..

weird patient with weird stuff do exist.....
recently removed a piece of rusted nail from a guy's nasal cavity which had been inside there for >50 YEARS!!!! but he presented to me only c/o tongue pain!!. i check his nose as well as he c/o rarelt had min epistaxis, but no other nasal s/s. So dudes, weird stuff do happened, check all places that we think should be check whenever we see our patient...hehe...