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.