dear alan,

hey, your writing keep us wanting to make this our blog and
news updates and... to have a little fun in between our miserable life

congratulation to those that still doing oncall in hospital! pay up.
for me, i think 5 days weeking day is a better news, ha ha.

keep up your good work... not the pencil girl style. sucks

Dear Diarrhea,

Am I too dramatic? Am I as cheesy as the girl in the pencil commercial? I realize it shouldn't be always about me.

Heard some mooing outside my gate today. A cow has pooed in front of my house again, I'm afraid.

Yours appreciatively,
Alan
Baker of Broken Buttercups

Dear Dairy,

Been having recurrent dreams of being sat on by an elephant with a dirty bottom. What does it all mean?

Yours astonishingly,
Alan
Maker of Flower Pots

Dear Diary,

Wanted to watch Tombstone of the Fireflies today but decided I'm not strong enough yet, especially not after these past few months.

Settled finally for my Westlife Karaoke VCD, which doesn't make you cry. Sigh.

Post-call and it's a wet windy day today in KP. Will get into bed and snuggle up with my teddy bear mmmmm.

Ok write again soon.

Yours truly,
Alan
Keeper of the Turnips

It's been around for some time, but you know the 2B pencil commercial starring the 17A SPM girl? Now that's cheesy.

more money$$$
kachink!!

$$ $$

oo

\____/


lemme see.....$150 for weekday call.....$170 for weekend...... a bit shortchanged isn it to do weekend call....i rather do few back to back weekday calls.........

Pretty corny in parts but I found it quite inspiring. Enjoyable liao.

GO PALPATINE!

star wars? well, just glad tat dun hav to line up for the ticket. (though i watched in kl)....it would b a great film if it was shown in the 80's...n there goes the show to look forward to ...

to all who found star wars disappointing....do check this url out....

http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html

one word to describe star wars... bleah!

to those who have not watched it yet, don't bother getting dvd9 for it. don't even get dvd. vcd or even vcr quality suffices it.

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either

Anonymous

kingdom of heaen is really a good movie. sensitive issue. scott manage to make it so hollywood looked, tryin to make it politically correct. well, hav to say, not a ez movie to make.
now to wait for star wall... hopefully it wil not disappoint.... lik prev.....

Alan: You wear contact lens? The writer of Narnia books, is he a contemporary writer or is he dead like Tolkien?

To those who have not watched Kingdom of Heaven, do go with low expectations and you will be pleasantly entertained like I was.

To those who have watched it already, here are some truths...

- balian is actually stepfather to sybilla and there was never an affair between them, not documented anyway.

- balian was never a child out of wedlock and in fact had two other brothers and they all grew up together and fought for the king together.

- balian's father is also called balian, not godfrey

- sybilla was actually very committed to Guy de Lusignon, as the king of jerusalem (sybilla's brother) tried anulling sybila's marriage but she refused

- sybilla was crowned as a sole queen on the condition she divorced Guy but allowed to marry her next husband of her choice. As queen, she remarried Guy and allowed him to crown himself king of Jerusalem.

anyone else interested in history like me can go to this website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balian_of_Ibelin

Also check this trailer out
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/harry_potter/thegobletoffire/

While waiting for Episode III to open, can catch the trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on ntv7 either between 12.00-12.15 pm or 6.30-6-45 pm everyday til May 18 (Episode III opens May 19).

Unlike The Lord of the Rings, I only read The Chronicles about, er, 3-4 times :P

Like my new contact lenses?

Can also access the "Archives of Diseases of Childhood" at http://adc.bmjjournals.com. Free for a limited time after the tsunami.

Good day everyone

As per Lee kien's request, a list of useful websites to gain free medical full-text journals are now displayed on the sidebar below the mug shot of Alan. All websites and username and password were accurate at the time of publishing. Any failure of links please complain to UM Library, the place where i stole all the passwords.

Ciao!

and for those sitting for exams
all the BEST!!

9 days till the opening of the biggest show on earth.....

may the force be with us

be patient... key to being Jedi... it is

to all those who are already mothers, happy mother's day!!

What's worse than evil robots or super volcanoes or world wars or planting your own food?

Last episode of Kim Possible today! WAAAAAAAAAAA

faith and dream is just a line across
religion does not allow us to question its truth -just believe!
being religious is to stay in other end of human mind's spectrum
like schizophrenia being other end of human personality.
sceptic about religion is not much different from faithful in religion.
too serious about life and there after, going in different direction
toward the different ends.

we are just sitting in between......mystery people !

induksi...
6 meals a day...
paunch set in....
no more sunken cheek...
no more prominent cheekbones....
back to work,
hope waistline decrease..

Star Wars akan datang....
been months since i saw THX!

i am back!!!!!
induction was nice. at least for n9 state. manage to get hold of mc in alor setar. seems d penang induction was rather hell. all occupied til today.
final exam was difficult.... if not for the leak q. reminded me of the finals durign form 6... basically a rather heavy pa paper. well, just glad tat was over. now, back to work.....

oh oh and one more thing hesaid will happen, dat after WW3, man will live like how our great great great anchestor used to live (growing and planting our own food)...but if that's the case, y he said man will live under robots rule in 203... or is it b'coz WW3 is between Human and Robots and we human bloody lose to robots........................................thus.................

Hi everybody,
Din know that our blog is becoming so religious nowadays. Thanks to the Cranker to enlighten us to the GMG, the mightiest of the soft, slimy yucky world. Hail the GMG...!!

And speaking bout end of the world, well what i'v to say but to agree (personal opinion only mah) with the mighthy Schemer of The World Destruction (dat's u BTW, Cranker)...just read dat with all the earthquakes and volcanoes in Indonesia partying, the big BIG brother, the SUPERVOLCANO will also awake sooner in the future (heard it'l b in our lifetime).

And hav all heard bout a story in US where a guy claimed to hav come from the future, i.e 2032 (so, the world was still there at that time eh..), said there's a big computer virus outbreak then and he was send via timemachine (what the heck..) back to 198.. to retrace the technology that built the first notebook in order to counter the BIG virus (so, older is wiser is always correct afterall). then he stopped at 2001 on his way back to 2032 coz he wanted to look at his childhood years and parents (apparently,his parents died not much later after 2001)... there, he access the web and spoken to lots of people bout who he is and disclosed a few things, which people claimed he said it and it happened...such as
1. Said US will attack Iraq for no apparent reason
2. George Bush will b president again
3. Prince Charles will get marry this year.
4. Pope John Paul II goes back to God's side this year (no offence to GMG)
....and a few other things,but what he said will happen that's interesting...

1. There'l b Civil War in US this year that'l last a few years (dt dissatisfaction over last election)
2. Olympic in 2004 will b the last successfully staged one (the one in Beijing wont b successfully staged and that will b the end to Olympic games)
3. Beijing and Taiwan will b in civil war in 201... (well, v predicted this one will happen sooner o or later)
4. English Language will ceased to b international language in the future and in place is,...u guess.... correct Chinese Language,.............but more interestingly Arab Language will also b one of the two international languages...
5. US will retire as the world superpower, and ...yes again... China will take over..
6. 3rd world war is looming in the horizon (i think he said it'l b in 201... or 202.. )
7. Things in I,Robot (staring Will Smith) will really happen (man live with computers and robots)... and wat's worse, man will hav to live under robots control too (well, if he's really fr 2032, then we'l probably live to see it, if v r not bombed during the WW3....if that really happen)

....and some other things but i'v forgotten oredi, coz bz looking for rice cakes to appease the GMG...praying that all this things is CRAPS

Well, let's c if this prophecy thing will ever happen,... we'l not hav to wait long to see whether the No.1 will happen or not.....

Thanks for reading...Me Is Stupid Fella,out (as in Ryan Seacrest , Out...BTW, he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for saying the out out thing...hopefully i'l get mine soon too..hehe)

Dear Carren,

The Great Maggot God contacted me via ICQ today and says he will come for you soon.

Good job planting the finger there. Now she will go to jail for grand larceny. You get another 1000 Evilness points! Remember, 2500 points entitles you to a free sandwich maker.

Dear Adeline, dressed up as a Carren,

Good ploy trying to get us to visit you there in Manjung, the deadesEST place north of Kuala Pilah.

I think the GMG is a bit too big to fit in a nostril. And you can always recognize him by his grossly enlarged testes (hypertelorism) and his twenty-four lidless eyes.

Cheers and beers,
Alan

speaking bout maggots, there was a pt in icu here who had 2 of them crawl out of his nose. could that be the great maggot god ur refering to,alan? anyone want to come here with rice cakes to pray for money, sucess n etc?
adeline

miss the induksi boat
but can not gloat
stuck in hospital getting choked

so many stupid patients
amputating fingers all in turns
i must admit it was me
who served the finger with chili!

Great Maggot God
Muted Goddess of Strawberry
take my humble offerings
for i have much to spare!

induction is not as bad as it is.
well, at least in melaka.
havin my one half day break, so back in seremban for clean clothes.
boring, yes, but enjoyin it in a way.
6 meals a day (getting fat). air con room. astro on tv (bringing my vcd machine tomolo). lots, ,i mean lots of sport facilities here. well, let c, ,there is bowling, squash, ping pong, bicycle (yet to do tat), swimming (which i dun), n archery (planning for next week)
well, the whole day is full of lectures til 10pm, but stil manage to find time to do those extra stuff......

well, hav to remind myself to study oredi for the test next week.....

Very poetic Chong Tien.

I've got one too.

Life in Pilah
Very boring
People lead simple lives
No shopping, movies or clubs
Can die liao

I shudder at the thought of going thru induction myself. YECH

The End of the World is coming!

Signs
1. A series of powerful earthquakes kills hundreds of thousands across Asia. Recent activation of scores of volcanoes threatens continued extermination of the people of Indonesia
2. Woman in Las Vegas finds chopped finger in chilli
3. Joseph Ratzinger elected new Pope
4. Motorist driving in London hit by frozen sausage, sustains nasal bone fracture
5. Backstreet Boys release new single

Let us ask the blessing of the Great Maggot God, and his best friend's auntie, the Muted Goddess of Strawberry, to protect us in the awful times to come.

Offer them a rice cake today.

Induksi in Sabah
Stupid course
treating people like kids
wasting time, effort and money
gaining little in return

those who not sure whether want to stay in Govn after induksi dun want anymore
the pain u have to go thru to get promoted is excruciating
and u still have to clean ur boss' boots
irritating

Lee Kien, for the journal websites go into the UM library database. u can use any of the students matriks card number or ur own if not expired

then click database on the website
u will get access to almost all the leading journals in different databases
good medical databases are ScienceDirect, Ovid, Proquest, Springer
Sorry cant give u the username password now cos short of time here... will provide u a list when i back in Keningau if u haven got it yet

frankly, i don't think we are stuck in a rut. more like, our journey in life is at a more relaxed pace. trust me money is not everything. where we are in life is not as important as to how we got there. i would much prefer to stay and work in malaysia than let's say Singapore or japan where almost everyone is beautiful and successful and living on the high-paced life.

call me pure malaysian then.
i love it here
i would never migrate but never say never. anyhow, i love the peculiarities of our malaysian patients as well as the people i work with. compared to 2 years ago, i have learned how to get them to do things for me, my way. in that aspect, i would say my people skills have vastly improved.no point getting frustrated over things which are beyond your control. the last i heard, it was a cause for hypertension.

we are young only once. lead your live the way you want. if there exists hermits in the highlands of KP, so be it. cos if one looks like the man in the pic, i can't blame them - for that face earned a mother's loathing, for a mask was his first piece of clothing.

I know what you mean, Alan.

Like when watching The Apprentice, I don't know whether you feel the same but i feel like, hey we've been good and worked hard, we've excelled like those people, but look at where we are now and what we are stuck with. Things here are like 'tak apa, minum dulu' or 'kerja tak akan habis punye, rilek dulu'. I don't need to elaborate, we all know the culture and people we work with everyday.

It's like, if we are given the opportunity to have a shot at the highest level of the industry, we can prove our potential and our worth.

I have a cousin who failed Physics in STPM, but went to UniSheffield and got a bachelor of engineering and now is working for a multinational company in UK. SeowVoon's classmate who was second place in class back in secondary school, took up JPA scholarship, studied engineering in Imperial College, now earns five digit monthly in Pound Sterling.

I guess maybe every M.O. goes through this phase esp during the 2nd, 3rd year of the service, when everything is so unsure. Hope we will come to the catch-up phase within the next seven years.

Meanwhile, let me know if there is anything I can help in your ploy to destroy the world.

P/s anyone know of passwords to journal sites like bmj, lancet, apart from the 'gracie-bosco' login for NEJM?

This guy



Obtained A* in 11 papers for his O levels.
Got perfect scores in his SATs for Maths and English.
Is well versed in several languages.

Plays rugby, football, badminton and extreme sports.
Participated in British national level athletics.

Taught English and music to Cambodian street children in Phnom Penh.
Climbed Mt Kilimanjaro to raise money for the Mvumi School in Tanzania.

Helped design a cooling system in collaboration with a British engineering firm.

Plays the violin, guitar, piano and drums. Has grade 8 distinctions in both piano and violin, currently working for his diploma from the Royal Schools of Music.
Leads the orchestra of a prestigious school in the UK. Won several British national music competitions.
Played in the KL Symphony and Asian Youth Orchestras. Performed at an international jazz concert featuring Al Jarreau.

Has been offered places in Stanford, Harvard AND Oxford.




Me? I'm just a bitter old hunchbacked hermit, cooped up in the hills, planning to destroy the world.

Reasons Anakin turned to the Dark Side









From www.foxtrot.com

don't worry kai inn! we are listening.
as for petrol prices, i think it will only go up as crude oil prices were at an all time high recently. and the pm would totally encourage it as we will profit from the raised oil prices. ao now i can only recommend bicycle or as u say there is quite a distance from melaka and muar, i can suggest kereta lembu which is totally environmentally friendly! and the manure can be used as source for generating more energy.

keep my small town ideas in mind.
to others who have any other probs, feel free to consult me. me got plenty of time to think up of solutions since me not going induction.

Thanks for the support, guys. I'm better now. It's true what you all said. All of us go through depressive periods in our lives. Life isn't treating me that bad. It just seemed so at the time.
Anyway, for you guys going for induksi, be prepared for not enough sleep and tiring physical activities. One of my colleagues told me that you only get to sleep late at night, have to wake up early for "senaman pagi", listen to boring lecturers droning on and on, don't have time to wash your clothes (so the break in between is for you to do your laundry) and don't have time to study for the exam.
Will be waiting to hear stories of induksi after this.

final entry before goin to induction.had been a tiring week also.will leave for a famosa resort in melaka soon.n still havent pack up yet.anyway, to the rest of the world: happy holiday!

just settling down in OPD muar and a phone line for internet.
guess lots of things has happened ha.
not many in johor got to go for induksi, so far only yeeling is going for it because BT got no other young MOs. johor is having it in Mersing- of cause just a three stars- Seri Malaysia hotel.
have to travel quite a lot from BT to Muar or from Muar to Melaka. stuck in between! petrol is the most concern issue now. hopefully PM can do something about it.
take care everyone! hope somebody is listening to me?!

to those goin for inductin course: enjoy ur holiday!
to those who dun get to go: there is always next year.so cheer up!

Seow Voon is transferred to OPD Kuala Nerang, a rural hospital 40 minutes' drive away from Hospital Alor Star, despite appeals and 'meetings' with the state pengarah. It worries me that she has to drive daily through single-laned rural roads with lori balak and other heavy vehicles. There, she has to bear with a typical family medicine specialist who emphasises on trivial non-practical stuff like punch card, modest attire, cannot leave before 4.15pm, etika kerja, Allah will acknowledge what you do etc. There is also a Paki contract M.O. who sees patients ten times slower that everyone else and flirts with a gatal anak dara tua nurse. Work is mundane and is not encouraging for self-improvement of medical knowledge/skills.

Meanwhile I am still in the solace of Anesth Dept. Wish I could trade places with her.

Hopefully all these will be just temporary.

Life is full of ups and downs, the day we stop to feel and care is the day we die. Take every setback as a challenge, coming out of it scarred but stronger... emotionally, mentally sometimes physically.

If u need an ear, just vent it out. Sometimes all we need is someone to listen to our grouses. Who knows, some one out here may be able to help.

i'm sorry to hear about your predicament and coming from someone who has always been so cheerful and strong, i must say things must be very bad. but the good thing is when you reach rock bottom, you can only bounce upwards.(except for alan i guess). that is what makes good times feel really good. if it is any consolation, i can say that most of us have been through what u have been through and somehow, we always get over it. all we need is to complaint and whine, and then it all just goes away.and when it does, it only makes us stronger and wiser. all the best and we are all ears if u are in need of a shoulder punch. p/s although we may not have specialised training, keep in mind that we come free!

sounds bad.well, gues tat is part n parcel of life. then again. i charge very low for counseling. after all, medically trained...
well, watever it is, dun worry. gues there is stil a lot of us who is lost for directions....

Hi everyone. Been feeling pretty down lately. Disappointed in a number of things which happened around me. Tired of getting hurt again and again. Lost direction...

Dearest Adeline,

I screwed a guy's ass today.
BMA can be FUN.

Chicos and picos,
Alan

hi people,it's me adeline
how r things? i guess most of u r busy as not much messages in the blog lately. i,m in the middle of my anaest daily tagging. pretty hectic esp on ortho elective days when they hammer n saw even up to midnight. been intubating almost every unfortunate person who has op done in manjung hosp lately. keeping my fingers cross, thank goodness no one lost any teeth yet. left upper limb should be getting more muscular now.
yesterday,i had the golden opportunity to do a spinal (in lateral position) for a guy estimated to be 120kg, with ischiorectal abscess. needless to say, couldnt get into the right space but managed to poke a few holes in the fat i guess. specialist failed too n we had to give GA. it was tough trying to control a big guy like that when he was regaining consiousness.
anyone keen on joining anaesth in manjung? we're going to be really short real soon. 3 senior mo's with up to 10yrs experience will be leaving in 1-2 months time, leaving 3 junior ones with less than 10 months experience. i think my boss in going to cry. boss is nice though.
has anyone done their income tax yet? i'm waiting for my penyata gaji to be sent from teluk intan hosp. dont like this sistem taksiran sendiri. it just lets those tax guys lepak more. shall go to their office n act dumb n ask them to fill it up. hah hah.......

Came back to my regular burger Ramli man after a 1 month hiatus and noted a slender thing with breasts leaning on his broad shoulders feeding him a salad.

She helped to make my burger but didn't know where to apply the mayo.

He had cut off his 5 year old ponytail and was sporting a neat new crew cut.

Wishing lots of happiness to him and his monkey.

Carren: hope u had a good time in Dwakula countwy

Yan Wei: hope the Penan people treated u well

same time havin induction. in fact same time nation wide. exam q also the same.
so far in seremban, me, yee siang n fab also got. not sure bout the rest. goin to a famosa resort in melaka. my boss sign oredi.

When the day is long
And the night
The night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough
Of this life
Well hang on.

Don't let yourself go
Cos everybody cries
And everybody hurts
Sometimes.

Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone
Hold on, hold on
If you feel like letting go
When you think you've had too much
Of this life
Well hang on.

Cos everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts.

Don't throw your hand
Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone
No, no
You are not alone.

If you're on your own
In this life,
The days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much
Of this life
To hang on.

Well everybody hurts
Sometimes
Everybody cries
And everybody hurts
Sometimes
And everybody hurts
Sometimes
So hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts
You are not alone.

Everybody Hurts by REM

To Bernard

someday we shall die
we are passing to shadow of death every single day
perhap we know death better than god because they are immortal.
moment of death and there after will be forever a mith. not more than just imagination.
getting old and waiting for 'the day' is a terrible thing.
we all share the same destiny. maybe different destination?
but why not that we all stand together facing death with courage and dicnity
and god shall admire us.... our mortal life.... once and for all

sori to hear tat.
gues death is not an ez subject to deal with. makes u think about the value of eternity.
(getting philospophical while loitering at home on a long weekend)
..n as for tis part of the world, i'm just glad no longer doin HO

My grandmother lost her younger brother today. Sat down all day very quiet.

The death of a sibling we grew up with can affect us deeply.

At 85 she is the oldest surviving member among all her brothers and sisters. Perhaps she also feels the crushing weight of her own mortality.

Old age is a terribly thing.

chiew leng... i think u habe blown a fuse

ppl in keningau, before you guys went there, i have never heard of this town. but guess what, it is not so unknown after all, Akademi Fantasia is going there... WOO HOO!

helloooooo.......

tony....guess wat....de road kimanis to beaufort is gonna complete....so it would take shorter time to get to ur place soon...when u going turtle moor...?
at least now we dun have to swim and swing from tree to tree to get to ur place.....

mc....de goal now is not to look back and see all de holidays and no oncalls........we shud all look forward....towards serving the ppl..........at the private side!.....money, money, money......and no, i mean less...calls....politics....and ##$% nonsense

carren....dun stress de next batch of mrcp/ch-ients....i mean, it's very stressfull to know that almost 100% of all our batch who took so far passed ,u know, and that de exam cost $3000 ...and news spread at the frequency of cable tv.....and ......

yo dawg
signing out.....
peace y'all
(seacrest-randy tone)

greetings to all.
congratulations are in order to the following people!
Seow Voon and Lee Kien for breaking into the US market! - meaning we are one step closer to free accomodation when we go on holiday!

People who have made it through the gruesome MRCP (made worse by the fact that all the top scorers decided to raise the standard by sitting for it at one go - the others just had no chance)

People who made it through MRCPCh - I'm not really sure who you are but if you are one of them, congrats! heard it was really tough too this year.

To those who are sitting for exams in May, whatcha waiting, whatcha waiting, whatcha waiting for.... get mugging! all the best!

The moon is so full and bright tonight.

Have... inexplicable... urge... to... wash... toilet...

Take care guys @ gals,waitin to hear from ya all! 

Just for fun! 

Hi buddies! Gong Xi Fa Cai and happy valentines day to all the lovebirds!

Masyitah...

as i recall no hotel around the hospital area. The nearest you could probably get is the Burmah Road area or Macalister Street area.

Well if u're on a course then i suppose transport and lodging is paid for. Then can even consider the beach hotels. :) Actually not that much further only to Hospital from there.

We just received our USMLE Step 2CS results (the one we took in LA) and we have passed. Now for the hard part: applying for a residency program and visa. The intake for non-American graduates like us is low, especially now after Sept 11. We will give it a shot, and will apply for the 2006 intake.

happy valentine everyone!!!!!!!
was extremely happy today cause finally finish medical posting! and keepin myself sane and alive in the end.
now suddenly dunno wat to do....the day seems so bored

hi all, happy valentines day!
guys in pj, gr8t to meetup wit u guys!
seok hong, not heading north..would have love to meet up with u.
wenjih, edit de film properly eh...and if can,reproduce in dvd form.

Dear Carren it looks like a bunny head that has been ironed out onto the road by the wheels of a 10-ton truck.

Post-call just woke up will now go back to sleep. To those I said I'd call today, er, well, sorry guess it's a bit too late now :P

Big day tomorrow. Am washing my toilet.

Cheers and beers.

ok lah, please use a lot of imagination for the picture i did. if u still don't know, it's suppose to be a heart.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY everybody!
Muah Muah Muah! Hugs and kisses to everyone.


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Happy chinese new year everyone! wishing u a properous year ahead blah blah blah..u know the rest of the greeting so fill in the blanks.

Regretfully, this will be the last day of my leave and i'm on call tomorrow....with several others too. It was great meeting up with everyone. Thank you Liza's mum for the fantastic lunch. Happy happy birthday Ming Chern and Carren. (12th and 21st Feb)
Good luck to Wen Jih in his film recording career if he plans to pursue it.
Alan: sorry we didn't get to see you this CNY. Next month perhaps.
To all those planning to sit for the MRCP middle of this year.. Good Luck. To all those who already took the exam and are waiting for results.. good luck too. Don't try to hide if you have passed, we'll somehow manage to seek you out and demand for a bigger meal so you might as well just admit it and give us a good meal.
For those on call tomorrow - tough luck. we'll probably have to face all the leftover cases from the long break but we'll survive though some of the patients won't.

happy cny everyone, had a fast, tiring cny...sandwiched between active calls, well, just glad tat ending medical.
to those takin exam......jia yiu!
to those not takin exam....dun feel bad, seremban ppl is there to accompany u!

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! People have become so poetical lately.
Heard the MRCP and MRCPCH exams were tough. Now, now people, you might not want to post in the blog that you're taking exam but when you pass, please spread the good news around, ok?
Spent 2 blissful weeks doing Anaes attachment recently. It's a good life-lah. Used up the time to complete my summaries. (Paeds MO have to do mortality reports and discharge summaries for ventilated or complicated cases.)
Most of you went through 5 postings ya? I missed out on Surgery, so the only appendicectomy I saw was during my Anaes attachment!
So, who's doing what now?
Adeline, which posting is Seng Kiat in? Planning to continue staying in Manjung? How's Chun Wearn finding paeds over there?
Chiew Leng, not coming up to Penang during this CNY? If you are, let me know and maybe we could meet up.
Carren, come pay us a visit in Alor Star some time.
Tony, enjoying the sun and sea at your place?

No in this life
I put my strength
How could I go on?
Not a turning
As life goes on
I laid my bone
Hardened my heart
Will I go on?
Many a time
Much foolishness
Too tired it's been
Let it be my life
Oh! I will not
My mind deepened
Deeper than what I see
Reach out for your life
Make it as it will be
but be Like….
Love
Loving life
Like…
Loving you
More than my life
My ruin life.

Happy CNY

i'm here again! (adeline speaking)
yup, NOT WORKING today.
i'm lazing around n reading newspapers. how's that for progress? really getting "smarter" here.

have not watched BJ diary 2 yet. just watched "the village" on rented original vcd yesterday. There's a place renting original vcd's in sitiawan n it's my current and foremost source of entertainment. Original vcd's available to rent few months after the actual release but if ur really desperate u can rent new but "fan pan" vcds- quality unguaranteed of course.
Gonna watch ladykillers next. Looks stupid but who cares.

btw, i have reactivated my hotmail account which was killed for the umpteenth time due to a very sorry rated of accessing it. In the process, i have lost all u guys e mail add and also msn messenger add. invite me again to ur msn messenger pls? (it's safe, i'm not that cranky, for now anyway).

got to go ppl, its chow time. what a life!

chiew leng: it is a good thing too, i didn't have time to get the siew pau!

gong hei fatt choi all!

m back in in this air-noise polluted pj/kl....people driving as though they are in fear factor episode ...so merciless despite seeing "baby on board" signs on cars driving by...getting a place to park your car is a challenge......BUT I LOVE IT!

carren: have gotten rid of baggage.....muahahahaha.....(evil laugh)

ade: mandarin orange got brand wan meh? hmm....chinese patients very 'ba bai' (cantonese) wan ler......i oso cannot tahan....!!!ade, have u wonder y we r de onli ones being so cranky...?wat's WRONG with the other?!!!!

Brian N:
But, fool that i am,
i forgot to give up
the most addictive thing around-
The HArd Stuff:
Chocolate.........

Happpy new year all....may new year bring lots prosperity to all.....

As soon as i
became aware
of my
addictive personality,
i gave up drugs
(illegal ones),
and i never started
on the legal poisons
like alcohol
or tobacco
or television.

But, fool that i am,
i forgot to give up
the most addictive
thing around-
The HArd Stuff:
Love.

And now it's too late.

I'm hooked for life.

An emotion-mainliner.
A touch-junkie.

A love addict...



happy CNY every1......may love flourish in all of us....

adeline: i understand from over last meeting N/S drip does wonders in your hospital, how about some for that cranky woman!

well, chinese pts may be difficult to work with, but i think chinese female bosses are worse!

to others: happy chinese new year and have a nice long hol to the rest.

adeline here again,
Am on passive call today. Crossing fingers, toes n eyes in fervent hope that i will not be called. Managed to get nice n long leave for CNY. Yay!! That's for being the only chinese in my combined ortho surgical dept n for being the fella who covered raya puasa n haji n christmas, etc. At last, justice.... hmm but for how long? last two weekends calls are all mine. sob.... But 1st things 1st, must get through this call....

Likely to join anaest next month. Will start with daily tagging for at least 2 months, meaning stick around till 9pm each day n if there is any emergency op in the am hours will have to lug it back to hosp in dark a.m. hours. Anyway, hope it is nicer than ortho surg. I get real stressed up with polytrauma cases. On the plus side, once i'm really on call n if we're not too short, then anaest mo's can take day off after call. yay! note of interest, our scavenger system for gas in manjung OT is out of order, so everyone has been being gassed these past few days n been feeling real sleepy in OT. ha ha :p

Chiew leng, welcome back to the western strip of malaysian earth. Here's some information from one cranky person to another: Few days back, some (chinese) guy n his dad was admitted due to alleged assaulted with multiple incised wound n some # n one sucking chest wound. well, 3 out of 4 ortho MO's were there in OT for 9 hours repairing them n fixing # (from 3am to 12pm). yesterday, we wanted to discharge the fella(quite well already) n the gorilla-like wife said that he was still in pain (the man himself wasnt complaining, mind you) n how is his mother gonna take care of him, etc. "kalau u semua paksa dia keluar hari ini, kita mau transfer ke ipoh specialist centre. berapa banyak pun kita boleh bayar". No gratitude plus aggresively accusing us of being inhumane!(which we are, to a certain extent) N since we had done all the necessary, ISC would only need to give painkillers n nursing care (wash his butt, i suppose) n they would be loved to death by the patient's relatives. Sickening. Why not go straight there to ISC in first place? dumbos, cheapos. Loads of people rich in money but poor in manners around here. Makes me shy to be a chinese, u know? Hmmm... this job is bad for my soul. Compassion levels running real low.

hey, anyone can recommend which brand of mandarin oranges are nice n sweet? Havent had time to buy any of that yet till now. want to buy lots n eat like 5 a day to make up for 1 year of low fruit comsumption.

Well, got to go now. Happy CNY ppl. N drive carefully, n dont drive if ur post call, n dont speed ok? Be safe.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Dear friends,

Time to get together with our families and friends, and have a good break from work.


Best wishes from,

Yong and Seow Voon

last call today! yippee....!

chong tien: will heed warning

chiew leng: will take the risk.

coming back this saturday too. maybe can catch up an monday when yanwei comes back.
p/s pls inform if you have succeeded in reducing your luggage (mincing of gct). then i won't tah pau siew pau.

Carren...

true... Keningau got Chiew Leng, real life Bridget Jones. go figure. haha

miss seremban siew pao though.

Warning... cranky CL dangerous, will attempt to slap, choke or gouge your eyes out at little discontentment. Advice to keep distance, if u value life.

This is probably my last post before i am systematically chopped up in pieces or poisoned to death. good bye and take care... heed the warning.

hi all!

adeline, u r not de onli one getting crankier......your level of crankiness cant top mine ...
just to illustrate, since when medical dept takes care of any electrolytes problems, on top of that takes care of necrotising fascitiis because patient has 'lots' of medical problems namely hypertension diabetes and esrd, lemme see, bladder tumor with obtructive nephropathy causing ARF...(like duh), or let;s say....chronic tophaceous gout with monoarticular knee swelling diagnosed septic arthritis from arthrocentesis....list goes on and on.....septicaemia due to obvious foul smelling necrotic ulcer (no known medical illness)...

thank god i m taking long break from all the nonsense here....politickings among expat specialist are getting unbearable....

guys in pj....any meet up? this weekend maybe?......will be back on sat..oh come on, let's meet up so u can see de new cranky$#% me!

well... keningau got chiew leng.

seremban don't have bridget jones or chiew leng.

Grief is a quiet thing.
Deadly in repose.
A raging horror, a thunder of abuse.

Raucous-
Demanding-
Incomprehensible-
Tearing all that one has ever loved.

Hopeless,
Forlorn,
Fear-ridden and misunderstood;
Ceasing a moment, and through the years
Returning... to destroy.

To rage,
To curse all that is happy-
or contented,
or trusting.

To threaten every beauty that is true.

Grief?
It's a quiet thing.

Melba Colgrove

er... Keningau no cinema la. no VCD either, no need to even talk about DVD. cannot get TV3, NTV7 dun even say 8TV. thank god for ASTRO.

Chiew Leng watched it in KK

just came back from teck choon wedding. was rather a quiet weddin, but it was superb to meet up with everyone.

hi all,
adeline here.
oops.... anyone did their taxes yet? i think i'm late already, what with my penyata gaji sitting in teluk intan. they better not tax me more cos of that!!
no yan wei, i'm not enjoying the wonderful n potent mix of ortho-surg. nearly sent a pt to UH by helicopter last week(yup, we have a helipad in manjung woweee :O)

just to compare, anyone getting crankier this days? well, i'm crankier n fiercer now in this s@#$ posting. the other day this teacher (patient) asked me not to include the weekends in his MC (meaning if i meant the MC for 10 days then he would add sat n sun for free n wallop 14 days) I stared at him n he din dare ask anymore. incidently, he got banged up in MVA cos he was drunk n driving at 4am. stupid a#$.

well, as for manjung turning down MO's cos they're full, ????? i dunno. full of untrained fellas then yes. their quota is 4 mo's per posting. example, in GA which i probably be joining in march, 3 senior mo's r leaving at once, leaving new fellas non of which got even 1 yr experience.

hey, has bridget jones reached keningau already? it's nowhere near here in manjung yet. i guess that explains why motorbike racing is real popular here.

so, yee ling is sent to BP hosp. well i heard it's a nice place to work. just that HO needs to send lotsa cases by ambulance. better than getting KK i guess but sometimes the KK scenario is looking more n more inviting to me.

have not encountered pukka yet but was myself bitten by some insect called tonggek last year on my neck. causes cellulitic change with little pustules. very painful. sleep disturbed definintely. treatment (very effective) as suggested by staff nurses = CMC ointment... loads of it.

hey,
i got to go ppl. on call tomorrow (sigh...)
miss u guys
take care n happy CNY in advance!
bye

Spent RM 200 and didn't understand a word which Jay said.

Superb concert, tho'.

Very deep. Must be the erosion.

Excellent stuff.

My life has fallen down
around me before
-lots of times,
for lots of reasons-
usually other people.

And most of the time
I was fortunate enough
to have a large lump of
that life hit me on the
head and render me numb
to the pain and desolation
that followed.
And i survived.
And i live to love again.

But this,
this slow erosion from below
-or within-
it's me falling down around my life
because you're still in that life
-but not really.
And you're out of that life
-but not quite.

Peter McWilliams

A pukka is a special kind of germ, with glossy wings of checkered leaves, and eyes, beautiful eyes, like a frivolous sunset dipped in a silver sauce.

Oh skye, skye, art thou a delectable bumble bee, where words do not matter, and giant peaches roll in the moonlight. Your gaze smites them to the middle spleen, and they fall helpless at your toes.

None may help me.

What can they do, but toss the buttoned slipper up again into the shattered night sky? There are a thousand stars, like a thousand cats' eyes, and they look upon the shifting sand and curse my silent underwear.

Midnight is near. I stand before a yawning pit, and there are pineapples.

Everyday I inch nearer. What holds me back?

Almost nothing, almost nothing.

Did you read in the news about the tsunami-stranded boy who was wearing a Portugal football jersey when he was rescued? Luis Figo and Nuno Gomes is planning to donate money to the boy, and Cristiano Ronaldo is inviting the boy to visit him in England. And the Portugal FA is also planning some charity thing for the boy.

Well, I may be wrong, but the shirt was probably a cheap imitation bought from some pasar malam at his village. The boy probably could not name a single Portuguese national player (ok, maybe he heard Figo).

So Chong Tien, should you be kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf or if some tsunami strikes Sabah, be sure to be in your Man U jersey. You may just win a trip to Old Trafford, business class.

bridget jones 2 was funny - go watch
well, that was my first movie in so many months, so any form of entertainment would have been great.
did i tell u ppl that dvd can go at 3 for $10?

hey, yeeling is going to batu pahat hospital on 1/2/05
i am not sure whether i can get BP also or not.
aiyo, too late to get registered now. ha ha .!
anyway, it will be a short separation only. hopefully
i am trying to get into anaes department.
Here lots of 5 th poster been send to district hospital. everyone is scared to hell where about to go to. No escape !! unless you got your MRCP or equivalent or you got string to pull.

good luck to those taking MRCP! god bless

Lee Kien: yes i am in Sabah... and yes i have a dog, who is a constant joy and amusement coz he is funny looking, scaredy, and a bit dumb. just like the average keningau citizen.

I am spending the weekend in Seremban. Today is supposed to be the Kedah Sultan's birthday and should be public holiday in Kedah. (Sundays are normal working day in Northern states). But the Sultan decided to postpone his birthday with just one week notice to sympathise with the tsunami victims. Almost ruined my weekend plans to come back to Seremban.

Alan: Why Kuantan? For ventilator? Will the ambulance drive through Mentakab and all, or double back to Gemas then east coast? Poor houseman. What's a pukka?

Chong Tien: Are you back in Sabah where the procreation rate is high? You have a dog?

Carren: You're welcome. But still, the original Sarah Brightman can beat the movie-christine(Emma watz-her-name) anytime.

Fab: Where are you la?