Now and Then

Attended Tini's reception on Friday night. Last weekend, it was Shikeen's. Looking at the pictures now and back then, it was like walking down the memory lane. It was lovely for Tini to put us all ex-UWAFY on one table. The ones missing were Tini herself (duh!), Rizal and Ikhwan. But chatting about how we were 6 years ago and how we are now, it was wonderful.





Just within the span of 6 years, so many things changed, yet some things remained the same.

What more if it's more than 10 years of knowing each other ^^





More of Tini & Ikhsan's reception:
- Abadi's shots
- Mine- Now & Then : UWAFY-Perth-2003, Shila's reception, Zura's reception; Ila, Shikeen & I, Shikeen's reception

CONGRATS, TINI!

#miracleboy ?

Hey you,
who turn 27 today~
Congratulations!
Please stay as 'genki' as ever,
And do take some rest when you're tired, okay?

^^v

Two's

2 successful intubation. Alhamdulillah

2 packages arrived, from 2 different countries overseas. Yay!

2 Hungarian cookies (which have turned into crumbles). Yum~

I'm a happy camper today

Other two's:
2 'kenduri's on last weekends
2 long badminton sessions this week
2 exams done

^^

To the group, 嵐 who was announced as first ever "CD, DVD 4 category champions" in 42nd Oricon Yearly Rankings 2009, CONGRATULATIONS!

... (Lots of 'bleh')

Weeks of frustration. Highlight was on Friday morning. Great, isn't it?
Let's see how it goes on the final week.

What are the odds of getting the chance to do it if you're not even given one with your own batch's project? Bleh.
Professionalism? Apparently the other group was very tired as longer time to 'rest up' was requested. 65 compared to 75 (with the same persons running them compared to more than 2 people per group) apparently was more taxing. Know I know Math. Another bleh.
Kudos to the smaller group; I apologize for not being there to join in the fun.

Two more years? How come that was the first time I heard of that?
Thing like that, there's only one thing I request: Don't say it in front of the only one person that I don't want to listen from >.< This has now become a stressor. Double great.

And perhaps the third bleh.

Cameron: Part 2

I just got the photos of our family trip to Cameron Highland (in which, that's my SECOND time going there THIS year). Most of the pictures were taken by my brothers. And since I posted the first set of Cameron with lots of flower micro shot, I present to you the drool-worthy reasons to visit Cameron Highland!


I took this photo because of the bee inside the flower. Can you see it?


This wasn't taken by me. But I loved this shot. It would probably have been nicer if I enhance the green in photoshop. But I'm tired of using photoshop for one whole day already =/


Hello, Mr. err... Fried Crab. Found in the famous Night Market in Brinchang. Trust me, this guy wasn't alive anymore.


Brownies @ Cameron Bharat Tea. Two main tea plantations that you HAVE to go: Boh and Bharat. Boh Tea plantations are situated at 3 places; choose one but I loved the one in Gunung Brinchang- the scenery was exquisite. Bharat's situated alongside the road from Ringlet to Tanah Rata. Okay! I'll stop promoting that place now =/



Steawberries and more strawberries!!


The rest of Cameron Part 2: Family Trip is here

Post-scriptum:
We have started new posting. I'm doing Specialty posting at the moment. It include 4 disciplines- Anaesthesiology, Ophthalmology (I'm doing both at the same time for a month now); ENT and Radiology (for the rest one month left). I've done Ophthalmology before. Anaesthesiology is something new and I was really looking forward to it.

What surprised me though is, I found that I like being in the OT (operating theatre). It doesn't matter if I'm on the surgical side or the anaesthetist side, I just like OT's atmosphere. I'm interested in anaes at the moment, probably because I'm intrigued and confused about the drugs. But intubation excites me; and I wanna get the chance to mask and bag and intubate too. Okay. I'll stop before I bore everyone to death.

I got 2 wedding invitations on December 12- one in Semenyih and one in Klang; one of childhood friend, and one of high school friend. And 12th is also my best friend's (of 18 years) birthday (and I still have no present >.< ). PLUS, I will probably be just arriving from Sungai Petani Kedah, that morning, depending on if we're driving, taking the flight or bus (in which, I have to reconfirm with the partner in crime).
I hate dilemma.

Favourite Shots of the Moment

Since this has been neglected, I present to you some of my favourite shots at the moment. These were taken in Melaka while we had our Psychiatry posting and had our Mental Health Community Project.


I liked the background, how it turned that way after a colleague suggested to change the setting, so i snapped this (above) and this (below):


and I'm still not too happy with it =( I wanted to experiment more but I planned to take pictures of the rest of the group there too so I delayed it (the experiment). Unfortunately, it rained soon after. That was the only free early evening that we had in that one week, sadly.


Don't you just love the coulourful pens? It's my laptop's wallpaper at the moment =P


Just because.

This week is Week 8 of Psychiatry. I liked this posting, had lots of interesting encounters and it did change some of my misconceptions (even though I did Psychiatry in Perth already). And 2009 is almost at the end as well. Interestingly, I met lots of lovely new people, traveled TWICE to Cameron Highland, had a blast in food-hunting (I fear that it will not stop even though Psychiatry is finishing soon) and attended International Humanitarian Conference at PWTC last weekend.
My cousin gave birth 2 days ago, I have a couple of wedding invitation before this year ends AND there's still Le Tour de Kedah that I want to join.

And something to look forward to this weekend! Something similar to this:

I haven't met the girls for a while now, I hope it would be fun meeting them again ^^

P/s- I've learned one definition of 'sleeping early' yesterday- yes, indeed, 1 a.m. is early.
Please note the sarcastic remarks in there

I promised I'd post something about food shukudai here, right? >.< will do that this weekend, I hope.

Popia or Cakoi?

'Ayah' said this is 'popia'
Twice

People, meet 'popia'

No. That was a joke. This is called cakoi. It's really nice for evening tea.
With hot tea, of course.

Photos: Purple Flowers

This came on August 28th, at around 3 p.m. when I was about to go out.
I've been outsmarted this time... but it was really a pleasant surprise!







Tidbits for the day:

Opthalmoscopy- looking into one's soul~

This is not a quote from anyone, just some lame joke I made with Amal. Doctors use opthalmoscope to look at the retina and people say eyes are windows to people's souls. Put two and two together and you get the lame joke I'm trying to give.

(p/s- can I look into certain someone's then? xD *flees*)

Tidbits for the Day

"Dia" = right through
"Gnosis" = knowledge

"Dia+Gnosis" = Diagnosis

^^

Lecture by the Dean today sort of reminded me the reason why I chose to study medicine in the first place. Insert stories by him are always FTW <3 I didn't feel sleepy at all in his class today- alhamdulillah. Yay for me.

But having students from 3 unis in the same ward... o_o. And tomorrow's on-call >.<

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Rhi & Rachie received the letters. So did Silv, Ana-sensei, Diana, Kak Fad and Ija. Earlier was Pan, AiAi, Kitten and Angel. I'm aiming for Adrumon & Nelly next; maybe Kato-poo too- I just have to figure out what. Pan's bday is coming in 6 days- self reminding.

On the other note, I was studying in the kitchen/living area when I felt the dining table moved/shook. And when I looked on the floor, I realized the ground was moving. I seriously thought it was the house, until I saw Denise's post on an earthquake in Sumatera O.o
Sham felt it too, so we weren't imagining things!

Footnote:
coming post- Photos: "While Waiting in the Car" ; Food Shukudai: Coffee @ Boston
list of things to do: psy-catching up/assignments, lj-catching up, sending the youngest one to KLIA, raya-open houses(?), crimson & circle

Photos: Mom's Little Garden

Theme: Mom's Little Garden
Venue: KL Home, Kuala Lumpur
Date: August 28th, 2009

On the lighter note, I guess I post this here. Got a phone call from a friend of 18 years (2 more years and it'll be 20 years of friendship! yay!) and that somehow lightened up my mood.

I've been wanting to capture some of these since the plants were sent from Sungai Petani last June. When I took the camera out to take the purple flower shots Rachie sent, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to get some from the garden too; after all, the evening sun was lovely. Please enjoy this~ ^.^



















Yes, if you're wondering, I love macro shots. Another favourite of mine is capturing people- candid, because I think that's when the emotion comes out. But of course, with capturing people's picture, it'll be more of personal collection, right? Sometimes when I look at some mag scans, I wonder if I can pictures like that too.

At the moment, in our (read: me and my brother) wish list is the 18-200mm lens... but err... yeah, that will take some time seing at how it's out of our budget at the moment.

Next: Purple Flowers // While Waiting In the Car...