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