A few weeks has passed by since I flew back from my home country back to Russia in order to continue with my studies. With the passing of time, my will of studying hard and changing over a new leaf has also been dying down. Though, because I'm in the education committee for the Malaysian Student Associations, the responsibilities there has kind of forced me into doing a bit of studying. And with more time, I think the momentum will grow and the small bud will grow into a large tree.
Other than being lazy on my studies, the rest during summer has also deterred me from going to the gym for my workout sessions. In compensation, the badminton outings with my friends in Malaysia has made me regain my interest in badminton once again and with that my weekends has been filled up with sport activities for an astounding 4-6 hours on these days.
As you may have known if you follow my Facebook, in conjunction of my town's 980th Birthday, they had a lantern lighting up festival(放孔明灯）. It was the first time I had ever been able to see this up close and also got a chance to actually light one up and make a wish.
The event was planned to start at 9pm and hence we had a couple of friends come over to my house for dinner. From there on, we went to the event together. As we had quite a heavy dinner, we decided to have a walk there instead of taking public transport.
While walking there, one of our friend who went ahead to help us get the lantern called us and said that the people were already starting to light them up and asked us to quicken our footsteps. We were still about 5 minutes walk away from the point of gathering when she called.
All of a sudden, from the far side, we could see small colorful lights starting to float up the sky, lighting up the dark night skyline. The sight was just amazing to look at. With that, we hasten and willed ourselves to reach the area as quick as possible.
Though we only realize the amount of people that had gather when we began to approach the gathering point, the place was so crowded with people that I ended up my two friends that I was walking with.
When we finally meet up with our other friends, most of the by standers had already light up their lantern and there were only a few people left that were trying to light theirs up.
In order to gather up some other friends of ours, one of my friend started to wave with the lanterns on her hands, that attracted a whole herd of locals to us asking how much is the lantern for and where can they buy it.
At last, when everyone was gathered we tore out the lanterns from its plastic and prepared ourselves to let them loose.
Seeing them fly up the sky and crossing our fingers in hope that it will float up steadily and that hopefully our respective wishes will come true!!
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
Lengthy post
It has been quite sometime since I have uploaded a new post, with holidays and practicals taking most of my time, I could not find any spare time to take a rest and write down about the recent happenings.
Now that I am back in Russia to continue with my studies, I have more time to waste and spare so I can finally fall back and recall the sweet memories I had of this summer break.
This summer, I had to do practicals back in my home country - Malaysia. I was attached to a military hospital and I had loads of fun there. From going to lectures and learning from the doctors, and mixing around with nurses and other trainees, I really found myself enjoying my future job and my posting there.
After my posting, I had more time to go about and meet up with all those friend of mine which I have not seen in a year. Because of my hectic schedule of meeting up with all those long lost friends I spend very little time with my family, and for this I feel very very bad and also regret for not spending more time with them.
This year I also had my very first time have friends sending me off in the airport. I was so shocked and happy when my friends told me they would be sending me off. What made it even more shocking was that these friends are mostly from a group that I only meet not a month ago. I am really happy to have found this group of close friends and deeply hope that our friendship will last.
A small post on what I have been doing in Russia. Only yesterday, after a lecture I went to in the University, on the way back home, me and Tabitha found a women lying on the ground unconscious. We were a bit worried about her safety so we called the ambulance and waited patiently for it to come. What shocked me was how the team responded when they saw here. All they did was check her blood pressure and gave her some ammonia so they she would wake up. When she took a sniff of it, she only turned her head away and not wake up. They then carried her into the ambulance and sent home. From what I have seen, they do not plan on giving her any treatment. They even wanted her to go home by herself at the beginning. I guess this is because the Russian have seen way too many drunkards for their own good that they have become numb to it.
Now that I am back in Russia to continue with my studies, I have more time to waste and spare so I can finally fall back and recall the sweet memories I had of this summer break.
This summer, I had to do practicals back in my home country - Malaysia. I was attached to a military hospital and I had loads of fun there. From going to lectures and learning from the doctors, and mixing around with nurses and other trainees, I really found myself enjoying my future job and my posting there.
After my posting, I had more time to go about and meet up with all those friend of mine which I have not seen in a year. Because of my hectic schedule of meeting up with all those long lost friends I spend very little time with my family, and for this I feel very very bad and also regret for not spending more time with them.
This year I also had my very first time have friends sending me off in the airport. I was so shocked and happy when my friends told me they would be sending me off. What made it even more shocking was that these friends are mostly from a group that I only meet not a month ago. I am really happy to have found this group of close friends and deeply hope that our friendship will last.
A small post on what I have been doing in Russia. Only yesterday, after a lecture I went to in the University, on the way back home, me and Tabitha found a women lying on the ground unconscious. We were a bit worried about her safety so we called the ambulance and waited patiently for it to come. What shocked me was how the team responded when they saw here. All they did was check her blood pressure and gave her some ammonia so they she would wake up. When she took a sniff of it, she only turned her head away and not wake up. They then carried her into the ambulance and sent home. From what I have seen, they do not plan on giving her any treatment. They even wanted her to go home by herself at the beginning. I guess this is because the Russian have seen way too many drunkards for their own good that they have become numb to it.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
One hell of a scare
As you know, I have been doing my practicals or what the locals call elective posting in the hospital lately. While I was there, I did a full blood test. What I did not prepare myself was when the results came back with me being detected to have Hepatitis B antigen.
A short note on what is Hepatitis B - It is a virus that attacks your liver causing slow degradation to the organ and lastly liver failure which can be fatal. It is transmittable via blood products, sexual intercourse and hence can affect one's sexual life and also career for someone who works as a doctor or nurse (which I am). Hepatitis B antigen detected means that there is a high chance that the virus has invaded into your body. Whether it has started attacking your liver or is remaining as a carrier is not certain.
Hence, when I received the results I was really afraid. Anyway, upon returning home yesterday, I told my mum which as expected freaked out (but worse than how I thought she would) and rushed me to the nearest lab to get my blood retested. That night, I think all 3 of us(me, my dad and mum) did not have a good nights rest due to the shocking news.
The next day, I was still anxious to get the results and was afraid of what the outcome might be. Never in my life have I be so afraid of getting a single lab results. I now understand what those people who were told some serious illness such as HIV or Cancer feel like.
I came back earlier today because my ride had something coming up and had to leave before the time was up. I called my mum and asked her if she has taken the report (it was supposed to be out at 12noon and I called her at 1pm). She said "the report is out but your dad didn't want me to go get the test results by myself, he asked me to wait for you." I told my mum I would go get it myself and if they require the receipt I will ask her to come then.
Throughout the walk to the lab to get my results, my heart rate spiked and my adrenaline was pumping vigorously in order to anticipate the shock I might have to face upon receiving the results.
When I finally got there and the results given to me, a wave of relief washed over me upon seeing the words "NOT DETECTED". I couldn't thank God or whoever is up there more for it.
A short note on what is Hepatitis B - It is a virus that attacks your liver causing slow degradation to the organ and lastly liver failure which can be fatal. It is transmittable via blood products, sexual intercourse and hence can affect one's sexual life and also career for someone who works as a doctor or nurse (which I am). Hepatitis B antigen detected means that there is a high chance that the virus has invaded into your body. Whether it has started attacking your liver or is remaining as a carrier is not certain.
Hence, when I received the results I was really afraid. Anyway, upon returning home yesterday, I told my mum which as expected freaked out (but worse than how I thought she would) and rushed me to the nearest lab to get my blood retested. That night, I think all 3 of us(me, my dad and mum) did not have a good nights rest due to the shocking news.
The next day, I was still anxious to get the results and was afraid of what the outcome might be. Never in my life have I be so afraid of getting a single lab results. I now understand what those people who were told some serious illness such as HIV or Cancer feel like.
I came back earlier today because my ride had something coming up and had to leave before the time was up. I called my mum and asked her if she has taken the report (it was supposed to be out at 12noon and I called her at 1pm). She said "the report is out but your dad didn't want me to go get the test results by myself, he asked me to wait for you." I told my mum I would go get it myself and if they require the receipt I will ask her to come then.
Throughout the walk to the lab to get my results, my heart rate spiked and my adrenaline was pumping vigorously in order to anticipate the shock I might have to face upon receiving the results.
When I finally got there and the results given to me, a wave of relief washed over me upon seeing the words "NOT DETECTED". I couldn't thank God or whoever is up there more for it.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
OT
It has been more than a week since I started my elective posting in HATTM. For me, being here was very fun(though of course there were dull moments). I was first sent to the A&E department where I got to handle a lot of different cases and experience the way Malaysian health providers cope with them.
Further down the week, I was sent to the department of my choice -O&G. Here I was tagging with a doctor and learned the ways of basic clinical handling of outpatients. Also here, I attended a seminar that was given by a drug company which was promoting their drug to the hospital and only yesterday, another company which sent one of their staff over to promote their scar healing drug(for cesarean section scar wound healing) was being pushed away by the doctor as she had a busy morning and had not taken her lunch despite it turning to 3pm soon. I then told her about my burn wound and scar and then got some samples to apply on my wound. Hopefully, it will all turn out good.
Today, I was able to go into the Operating Theater and there I saw a few operations one of which was a C-section. And later on, I managed to witness a natural delivery.
All in all, I really enjoyed my time in the hospital learning stuff. Hopefully, with the passing of time, I would make a good doctor in the near future.
Further down the week, I was sent to the department of my choice -O&G. Here I was tagging with a doctor and learned the ways of basic clinical handling of outpatients. Also here, I attended a seminar that was given by a drug company which was promoting their drug to the hospital and only yesterday, another company which sent one of their staff over to promote their scar healing drug(for cesarean section scar wound healing) was being pushed away by the doctor as she had a busy morning and had not taken her lunch despite it turning to 3pm soon. I then told her about my burn wound and scar and then got some samples to apply on my wound. Hopefully, it will all turn out good.
Today, I was able to go into the Operating Theater and there I saw a few operations one of which was a C-section. And later on, I managed to witness a natural delivery.
All in all, I really enjoyed my time in the hospital learning stuff. Hopefully, with the passing of time, I would make a good doctor in the near future.
Monday, July 2, 2012
First Practical in Malaysia
With the return to my home country - Malaysia, the summer holidays have officially begun. Even though it is called my summer holidays, I still have to do an attachment with the hospital of my choice in order to brush up my skills to prepare myself for the up coming job upon graduation.
The hospital I choose to work at was Tuanku Mizan Hospital, which is a newly opened hospital that is located some 1 hour ride away from my house and to top that, it is a military hospital. This means that the hospital is used mainly for the purpose of checking the health of militant personnel and also to give treatment to them and their family.
The LRT ride from my house to the one nearest to the hospital took an estimation of 45minutes while the walk from the station to the hospital is another 10-15minutes of walk.
Arriving the hospital, I had to pass the guard house(where I had to leave my IC in order to get a pass to go into the hospital) before reporting to the commanding officer. It was quite a scare for me as I have never been anywhere which has any relationship with the military forces, hence the way things work around the hospital was pretty scary (the constant attention and salutation to one another and their seriousness).
After going through the admission department, I went to the A&E department (accident and emergency) instead one of the 2 departments I requested for (O&G and also Therapy).
Over here, I found 3 other interns - one which studies in Moscow, another from Edinburgh, and the last which is a foreigner that studies in Texas, US. After some basic introduction, I went along tagging after the doctors and getting an idea of their work.
At the beginning, the flow of patients were pretty slow, but slowly, as the doctor were busy with other stuff, the amount of patient grew and I got to see a few different cases, ranging from basic flu to heart failure. It was a pretty amazing experience.
We were allowed to go home at around 1pm but since I found the cases so interesting, I told myself I wanted to stay for this case and after that another one. Just like that, time flew by and when I knew it, my watch showed me the time with its hour hand pointing at the figure "4".
I then headed home after a tiring but fruitful day. Hopefully the next few weeks will continue to be this exciting.
The hospital I choose to work at was Tuanku Mizan Hospital, which is a newly opened hospital that is located some 1 hour ride away from my house and to top that, it is a military hospital. This means that the hospital is used mainly for the purpose of checking the health of militant personnel and also to give treatment to them and their family.
The LRT ride from my house to the one nearest to the hospital took an estimation of 45minutes while the walk from the station to the hospital is another 10-15minutes of walk.
Arriving the hospital, I had to pass the guard house(where I had to leave my IC in order to get a pass to go into the hospital) before reporting to the commanding officer. It was quite a scare for me as I have never been anywhere which has any relationship with the military forces, hence the way things work around the hospital was pretty scary (the constant attention and salutation to one another and their seriousness).
After going through the admission department, I went to the A&E department (accident and emergency) instead one of the 2 departments I requested for (O&G and also Therapy).
Over here, I found 3 other interns - one which studies in Moscow, another from Edinburgh, and the last which is a foreigner that studies in Texas, US. After some basic introduction, I went along tagging after the doctors and getting an idea of their work.
At the beginning, the flow of patients were pretty slow, but slowly, as the doctor were busy with other stuff, the amount of patient grew and I got to see a few different cases, ranging from basic flu to heart failure. It was a pretty amazing experience.
We were allowed to go home at around 1pm but since I found the cases so interesting, I told myself I wanted to stay for this case and after that another one. Just like that, time flew by and when I knew it, my watch showed me the time with its hour hand pointing at the figure "4".
I then headed home after a tiring but fruitful day. Hopefully the next few weeks will continue to be this exciting.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
I'm coming home
With graduation of some of my seniors earlier this week, and the summer holidays arrival, my drive to study has been quite low. But thanks to my exemption from the first examination, I had extra time to prepare for the only final that I will be taking. I just hope that everything will go smoothly and I will soon find myself on the plane with its final destination being - Malaysia.
The thought of being able to go back brings excitement to the core of my body. Thoughts of seeing family members which I have not meet for a long time, close friends that I miss dearly, have made me look forward to the trip back.
But, (ah, yes. The infamous but that always appear) the thought of having to do practicals in a hospital where I have no friends around is pretty scary. I'm afraid because I might be deemed stupid and ignorant for not knowing my materials (which I think is quite true) and also afraid that I'll be wasting my time there since there might not be anyone willing to teach me or allow me to tag them. Furthermore, after hearing that there are quite a small number of patients due to the hospital's policy, I am really afraid that my time there will be boring. At the same time, I'm also quite excited as this will be my first chance to really act as a doctor (the last time I practiced, I didn't do much back in 3rd year I acted as a nurse assistant, and on the 4th I went to follow the ambulance). I'm looking forward to be able to do some manipulations and be able to witness some surgical procedures.
I'm writing this entry as the time ticks away with less than 24hours away to my final paper and around 4 days away from my arrival back in my beloved home country (love my family members there and food only, the rest - not that much).
Wish me luck guys !! Hopefully the next time I'm posting, it will be either from the airport or from Malaysia!
The thought of being able to go back brings excitement to the core of my body. Thoughts of seeing family members which I have not meet for a long time, close friends that I miss dearly, have made me look forward to the trip back.
But, (ah, yes. The infamous but that always appear) the thought of having to do practicals in a hospital where I have no friends around is pretty scary. I'm afraid because I might be deemed stupid and ignorant for not knowing my materials (which I think is quite true) and also afraid that I'll be wasting my time there since there might not be anyone willing to teach me or allow me to tag them. Furthermore, after hearing that there are quite a small number of patients due to the hospital's policy, I am really afraid that my time there will be boring. At the same time, I'm also quite excited as this will be my first chance to really act as a doctor (the last time I practiced, I didn't do much back in 3rd year I acted as a nurse assistant, and on the 4th I went to follow the ambulance). I'm looking forward to be able to do some manipulations and be able to witness some surgical procedures.
I'm writing this entry as the time ticks away with less than 24hours away to my final paper and around 4 days away from my arrival back in my beloved home country (love my family members there and food only, the rest - not that much).
Wish me luck guys !! Hopefully the next time I'm posting, it will be either from the airport or from Malaysia!
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Summer
Summer holidays are round the corner, most youngsters are trying their best to get back in shape to attract one another for a short lived fun. The sky is filled with the heat of the sun. These are what we know about the summer weather.
But these few weeks, instead of having the forementioned weather, I have been stuck with the gloomy rainy weather of autumn. The floors being filled with puddles of water, the sky crowding with dark ominous cloud.
This gloomy weather has made me much of a laze. I’ve been spending my last few weeks on my bed doing nothing except sleeping and eating. I haven’t been to the gym for a week or so, and the condition has worsened till that I’m lazy to even cook and eat a proper meal.
Now, all I have in mind is to get over with my exams as fast as possible and get home to where my parents are so I can have the comfort of my family
But these few weeks, instead of having the forementioned weather, I have been stuck with the gloomy rainy weather of autumn. The floors being filled with puddles of water, the sky crowding with dark ominous cloud.
This gloomy weather has made me much of a laze. I’ve been spending my last few weeks on my bed doing nothing except sleeping and eating. I haven’t been to the gym for a week or so, and the condition has worsened till that I’m lazy to even cook and eat a proper meal.
Now, all I have in mind is to get over with my exams as fast as possible and get home to where my parents are so I can have the comfort of my family
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