Holiday~ing = rotting life

I have been staying at home for 2 weeks plus, "Rotting", is the only word come across my mind to describe that.

While packing my stuff back home on the previous Wednesday, i get a call from my mom on a shocking news; my grandma pass away. It change my plan, not return back to Serdang after a short break as previously planned. Hence, i need to pack all those things needed for my Taiwan trip. It takes me few hours to re-pack all those. Get along with all my pet, Zdeslav and a pair of hamsters, i reached my home after 4 hours of drive. 5 days of funeral, keep my night time occupied. The funeral is made according to the buddhism culture, comprising mainly praying. I am not get used to this kind of culture, but just followed as my last respect.

TVB drama, always my favourite, keep another few days occupied. When i finished all the latest drama, it return to boring days...time seems passed very slow~~~Shall i go out for volunteer? But money is a big constraint..... "just stay at home", i told myself.

The days passed in a super relax way; i do not need to drive, do not rush for any classes or appointments, do not study anything. Well, i did read up basics on digital photography, really basic, on how a DSLR works. It is tough for me, as a beginner, to learn what is shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, bracketing, histogram etc etc. However, it doesn't stress me to learn those, it is indeed quite interesting to learn those!!!

I have too much of time, and too little thing to do. Time wasted? doubtfull... or myself is re-charging without my knowledge??? or i'm just waiting for another super hectic semester to come???

Appreciate now, appreciate the long holiday~~~cheers!!!

29th May 2011

          29th May 2011, this is a special day for me, as this is the very first time my girl friend left me for a long period, almost one month. This separation by distance is very far, don't know how many miles away from Malaysia, as now, she is heading towards a place which i and her also very unfamiliar- Santa Cruz, California.

          It has been almost 2 hours her flight departed, i think she maybe somewhere north to Malaysia; maybe Hong Kong, maybe China, or maybe still between the clouds in the sky. My phone call cannot reach her just now, just 5 minutes after the departure time. Wonder when will she arrive at the destination- Los Angeles airport. Hopefully everything goes well~~~

          For the very first time she take flight to oversea, and it is going to Untied States that far, i am quite worried about her actually. However, i never said that to her, as i believe she can make it. From this photo, i wonder how she felt, felt nervous? happy?? afraid??? or other thing else.....

          What i can do for her is just send her to KLIA, for my very first time to fetch people there on my own. Besides, praying in my heart that she will be having comfortable flight.....

It's a long hours flight, i wish she can enjoy the flight!!! 

          Bye bye, she left so happily~~~ The next step she did was check in. And i, left the airport and drive back alone....

          I will see her, not by the time when she come back to Malaysia, because by that time i am already left to Taiwan. Anyway, i will wait her in Taiwan, and wish her "Welcome to Taipei".



 

PostMortem Practical

Another practical completed, and now i'm officially completed the practical requirement by my course. Great!!! There's no more compulsory practical in the coming study year; the final one. I am not saying the compulsory practicals are bad, at least they gave me some exposure and hands on, and a lot of funs with friends too.
To all my practical groupmates: you guys are great, in making my practical meaningful.

For this postmortem practical, it was a very relax one. There's only one case per day, and luckily we got a variety of species; from cat, dog, horse, to wildlife such as deer and baby elephant. The experience of doing a PM on an elephant is a precious one; the pathologist in-charge has not done it himself for his couple of ten years of working life. And, we are the lucky one, to get it on the very last day afternoon. The great news is that the person in charge of this calf is not going to collect back the carcass, hence we perform cosmetic PM on this pity calf, conserving the skeleton to add on a complete baby elephant skeleton to our anatomy museum gallery.

After this PM practical, i found that i'm really very get used to the blood splashing here and there, and i finally can say that i'm good at butchering, hahaha.....

What's coming next???
I think it will be the follow up of my potential clinical conference case and the trip with my family~~~
The holiday still got 14 weeks to go; do something meaningfull, plus get a good rest and enjoy the life...

Small Animal Practical done

Time passed very fast, especially with the busy life in the small animal practice. Without boring arouse, it had come to the end of my 2 weeks practical.

This practical is really mean something to me; exposing me to the private small animal practice. However, this clinic is well-equiped in the way that not all clinics are affordable. This may easily overwhelmed me with those high-cost equipements such as radiography and ultrasonography. Those equipments are good in diagnosing some diseases/ conditions, and sometime the use of such equipements are essential for confirmatory diagnosis. Of course, the usage of those high-end equipments come with the bigger sum that the client have to pay. Besides, they have their experienced technician, nurse and receptionist to help up the veterinarians, which greatly reduced the burden of the veterinarians. Although having them to help up the veterinarians, the veterinarians there are not mind to help up each other, even with the cleaning jobs, really salute!!!

The working atmosphere there is not much of stress, maybe due to i had experience to learn from Dr Tan & Dr Gerry during my practical in Zoo Taiping. Another Dr; Dr Ong, which is also their classmate, is a nice person too. All of them are helpfull, kind and most important is, i can jokes with them, makes my life less tension. I am so happy to work with them, even the working hours is long, almost everyday overtime, but the time spent is wonderfull.

After this first PJ-based small animal practice, i wonder if it will change my mind to divert my future straight away into small animal practice after graduation, or maybe i will still continue with my old thought- just go into pharmaceutical company and involved myself in livestocks production. I need time to think of that, and i have 1 more year to think of that, 1 more year to make the biggest decision in life; career path. Perhaps i shall continue to have more practicals in different practices, to learn more and expose myself more. Don't be lazy is the only thing i would like to say to myself, as this is the main reason that is always hindering me to move forward.

6.5 days a week in Small animal practice

Wow, i did a week of practical in Small animal practice, really eye-opening for me.....

First of all, the working hours is very long; 10.5 hours per day, with no fixed lunch hour, and usually busy throughout the day. With this long working hours, i think one shall be physically strong enough to support the workload.

Secondly, the clients expectations are so high, and some of them are so demanding, but luckily demanding in a good way where they expect the veterinarian to give them the best diagnosis, treatment and advices. They are really very good owner, in the sense that they really take their pets (dog,cat, EXOTICs) as part of their family. Besides, some of the owner can take good care of his/her pets, until the animals (note: not only one pet) can proceed their life into geriatric age, whereby it may denote that the pet ownership have been improved, a good news to pet animals!!! When the pets go into geriatric age with all sorts of old-aged diseases- heart disease, diabetes, kidney & liver disease come up, the owner still insisted to proceed with all special management of the disease, thumbs up!!!
I personally think that such pets are having a very good life, very much better than some of the human beings.
However, some clients demand too much, and for a fresh graduated veterinarian, it may somewhat difficult to handle them as they judged the veterinarian by the seniority. What to do??? If i were graduated to become a small animal practictioner, i think tolerance is the better way to it, and of course, with a smile, i believe it will help to heal the soul much better.

Thirdly, some clients are so nice that they bring some food such as home-cooked porridge, big bucket of KFC, cheese cake, and "shao pao" for the veterinarians as a token of appreciation for their expertise in treating their beloved pets. It is really happy to see clients appreciate what you did to their pets. As a student there, i also able to share the food, really nice life!!!

Fourthly, some animals have had severe health problem/ condition that amazingly healed after some supportive therapy. Besides, some surgical procedures are amazingly relieved animals from the problems, this really attracts my attention, as i think this type of procedures are really needed to relieve animals from suffering. That is where a veterinarian needed i think; to professionally treat the animal, either medically or surgically. I LIKE IT !!!

DVM 4, byebye~~~

Officially ended my DVM 4 yesterday, which is my 8th semester, 2 more semesters to go and i will get my degree. Hurray~~~

Hmm...going into final year soon...what have i learned previously to make me a final year student? i think just a little bit here and there, but the notes collected is about 20 inches high, YES, it's 20 inches!!! and the books used can go up to 1 metre high, omg, can't believe i read so much.

Having said how much material i have, i will like to emphasized that i'm only able to carry less than 10% of the knowledge i learnt to the final year. The rest, lost somewhere~

My immediate seniors, all passed in their comprehensive exam (cover all subjects in 5 years + out-of-textbook question), they really did a great job, welldone!!!
CONGRATS~~~wish them have a bright future after getting their entrance ticket to their carrier.
But, will be lonely of not seeing them in the faculty. I am sure i will miss them. Last but not least, thanks for sharing and caring all these years. Still remember when i and my coursemates come in for the very first week, meeting those seniors, and now they are leaving us to enter into their carrier, so sad to say that, but nevermind, i will join some of them soon, after i get my entrance ticket, by the year 2012, if it's not end of the world.

Back to my academic this semester, it's really a tough semester, with 6 subjects and Rotation, nearly make my life miserable (but i still enjoy my life, with supports of my family, gf and friends). The subjects are tough, like statistic & research method, veterinary public health and canine & feline medicine, these subjects are killing me.
Statistic is about a lot of mathematical formula and their associated conditions, which is quite dry, but important in scientific research, and its usefullness to me is really unknown.
Veterinary public health, is quite interesting to me initially, as it covers wide range of general knowledge regarding food animal products, but it became torturing when it come to foodborne diseases and zoonoses, which encompasses diseases that will be misdiagnosed by human dr, which i do not see a point of studying them. However, i stand to my believe until very last, i study for my test and for my general knowledge, who knows one day my medical friends will ask me about those rare and underdiagnosed diseases.
Lastly, canine & feline medicine, which i will said it is the toughest subject in the pass 4 years. I hardly able to answer in the test, same as in the final exam, it is really a test on the knowledge, the speed of thinking and answering. It is really tough! so tough that it may refraining me from entering small animal practice.
Having said it's a tough semester, i did joined some faculty's activities like vet sport, attending faculty dinner and majlis silaturahim. Although it may mean nothing for those active one, but it is my first step to join more, at least to my ability, hopefully i can keep this up next year, and i should keeping this up--- Life is not about studying (though study is my priority).

How about next semester? terrible semester!!!
You can't imagine how the life will be. Let me describe here, the day start with 7 a.m in the ward, then class from 8 to 7 with 1 hour lunch break, then continue ward rotation by 7 until 9 something, and have to do daily report when you reach home with exhausted condition. where is the breakfast time? 6 something while i'm still sleepy??? where is the dinner time? eating dinner in the ward while cleaning up stools and urine??? Not to forget i still got clinical conference, rounds presentation and FYP proposal to do, wonder how could they arrange such schedule???
What can i do?
Pray hard for next semester, pray for my physical health, for my mental strength, and for everything i need in such a tough semester. <<Life still going>>
All my wish is: be strong, be happy, and with the god bless, i will survive~

Don't Justify by "likely" unnecessary, evrybdy is fair under THE LAW

Recently, my faculty got Big Thief!!!

With the lost of my tupperware at the beginning of the semester, and some other losses prior to me, there were already a lot of things missing.

Our new faculty seems to be very hungry, render it ate up everything? or just that the active thief is still being unrevealed? If there is a thief in our faculty, who will be the skillfull thief then? In fact, the thief had stole off 6 computers, 1 DSLR, one digital camera, helmet, jackets, pencil boxes etc. Wonder how it could happen in just about 6 weeks of using the new faculty.

Come to whom being most suspicous? Undeniable, the cleaners are most suspicious one as they have access to our class, and their presence in anywhere in the faculty oftenly will not raise up one's suspicious. Plus, some did claimed back their lost jackets from the cleaner. Having said that, is there any evidence pointing specifically to them? Is it proven by any statistic (seems taking statistic this semester)?

My first thought drives me to start suspect on them. By human's normal nature, this first thought lead me to think of how to trace if they are the intelligent thief, how to stop this sad event or even how the faculty managerial personnels should do to prevent this occur again and again. Unnecessary thoughts came in~

Is it fair to rank them under the suspicious group? just because their work's nature need them to access across the faculty? just because they are kind enough to return the perhaps "left over" jackets? just because their job does (may) not getting good pay to support the high rising living cost? Who knows??? Nobody knows~~~

Hence, after my second thought, I will say that it is unfair to categorize them into more suspicious group with unsupported "facts". I think it will be a heart breaking for them if they knew how we look on them. I do not want to be treated like that; hence, I shall learn not to impose unnecessary suspicion on others. Respects come in again!!!

While the culprit unrevealed, I can only say that we have to be more careful on our belongings, both valuable and non-valuable one. We need to keep an eye on others belongings as well if they are temporarily unavailable. Cares for each other, hopefully will curb this stealing.

No te rindas "don't give up~~~"

Spanish, a language chosen, from a country wellknown for its bull fighting. Don't give up, saying to myself, "no te rindas"!!!

Bulls never stop running, whilst rabbit will never stop hopping too! i believe rabbit will reach the sky after the hopping efforts it has paid. Falling doesn't stop one from moving forward, similarly, disappointments doesn't deter one from creating great achievements. Instead, they shall be the encouraging factors, to push one forward for the better future. FUTURES is in YOUR hand!

CNY 2011- year of Rabbit~

 

CNY 2011,here comes the 2nd round of Rabbits, so i'm 24!!!

Have to face my relatives and talk to them i'm yet studying my degree, 1.5 years to go and still don't know what to be in future. Of course, i'm trying to get myself clear on my future; which way i want to go, how shall i go, when shall i start to achieve this and that. Thinking remain thinking, haven't come out with a clear plan on my future. What i have to do now and in the days coming, is try to do my best!!!

Hopefully EVERYTHING GO SMOOTH in this rabbit's year: health, wealth, happiness, relationship, etc etc will be good. Not being greedy, but these are the wishes for every years.

Everything on the rise this year, same goes to the mandarin oranges- rise up to 40%, so what to do, still have to buy it for consumption during this merry festive.

The worst thing is that not only the price went up, the quality of the mandarin oranges also deteriorated.

Out of 3 oranges i ate, 2 is quite sour, this may hinder me from trying the next orange.

One thing lacking this year ( as last year) is the fireworks and firecrackers; neither of them appear during the eve, makes the night quite silent. Plus, there is a short raining in the late evening, wash out the hot weather in the afternoon and make the night colder and increase its silence.

One abnormal phenomenon happened in M'sia before the Rabbit CNY arrived is that heavy rains hit Johor, Melaka and east of Penisular M'sia, making them suffer from unexpected flood 3 days before CNY. This severely affects the journey back of many people back to their hometown, quite worried that time, as it affects my girl friend's hometown (Segamat) too.

Luckily, her house doesn't affected by the flood, else her new year mood will be all spoilt.

Having said that flood is everywhere in the southern part, is that mean that northern is safe from flood? The answer is not really as Kedah had flood not long ago, Perak also had severe flood few years back, left with Penang, an island where i was born. Penang island had its limited land and keep on expanding on the sea, consistent with the state's development plan.

Though it keep expanding, the housing price doesn't seems to go down any.

And, will i afford to stay in the Penang later on?

Go back to the flood, will the island get severe flood in future as the ice on Atlantic keep on melting years to years.

Will the island sink due to overpopulation and too dense of concrit, sky high buildings, as what people always said?

Maybe, Butterworth is better choice. Shall consider about it......

20 minutes more to the 1st day of CNY, first time blogging during newyear, a new experience to me, and of course, not forget to wish myself, my family and the persons i know: " HUAT Aaa........"

2011 A, B, C, D

A- Attitute
I had no correct attitute in study for the last year, and this mess up my result~ Having know that, i had no idea where to start with, as i am quite lost on what shall i focus on. No change, still with the attitute of learning something here and there, as long as learn something, better than nothing. This year, hopefully, more positive way of learning attitute!!

B- Behavior
My behavior, is still wild, with uncontrolled demand to play around, which will go really wild if without some restrictions like money. Guys, behave yourself!!!

C- Consistency
Consistency is what i'm lacking all this way, declining since my first year in university. Consistent is what i really need this year. Consistently study, consistently play, and make the result consistent!!! Besides, exercise is another aspect which require more consistency. Life is a long-run race, consistency in making anything will guarantee fruitfull returns.

D- Dream
Who have no dream? How about myself? I would say i'm not quite clear of my dream. Anyway, i believe in reality, which dream only come true after some efforts, or maybe just when the luck strike on you. Find your dream and move toward it!!!

~Vet Sport 2011~

          Wow!!! Can't imagine i made the effort to play for vet sport ping pong this year.....It has been 4 years back since the last time i'm holding a ping pong bat.

          The game started with playing with Randolf, a psycho guy, who keep on doing the funny things you can't expect. And the result was we proceeded to the third game and had a deuce, but unfortunately i lost to him by 1 point. Anyway, that was a great game. The subsequent games were with juniors, as expected prior those games, i lost. Despite i got all losses, our dvm still able to get first runner up. This was attributed to Juwai and Fida, and not to forget also those classmates that came to support. Hopefully, juniors' supporters were not feel bad when bombarded by our strong supporters.

          Apart from ping pong, i was given chance to play darts as Jackie ask me to replace him. Haha, my darting was not as bad as i thought, and i think it may come from the childhood "training" of playing "guli".

          After a night of exercising, laughing and shouting, i was totally exhausted. I rested a lot today, rejuvenated. Vet's sport badminton, maybe i shall play it!!!

2011, another NEW year

2011, another 365 days to go, how shall i gonna spend days in this year?
a BIG question mark.....

Hang out before sem re-open, had dinner with "family lines" on the first night of the sem, and have had dinner with my coursemates etc etc....

Coming events will be faculty dinner, CNY dinner, friend's wedding dinner, feel like this semester will be great with a lot more activities awaiting me~~of course, money flows~~~

Another big news affecting me in this new year is that the coming semester extend into 4 months, which i don't really can appreciate by now. What i'm gonna do in this long long holiday: going a few oversea practicals??? visit famous clinics locally all over M'sia??? or just finish off the remaining of the course requirement and find a part time job??? another hard decision to make as it involves many factors.

One more, had my body check and it doesn't show that good, had some minor problem and maybe i shall rectify it a bit, to have better health!!! I think i shall start with the faculty vet sport, with the hope that playing for some games will help. But just don't want to spoil our dvm's spirit~ not really confident i can play. Lets see how it goes~