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!