Because I am lazy, I am not able to put up any new post here. 


Because I am lazy, I feel like it's holiday now. It is, indeed.


Because I am lazy, I'll just put up the draft titles instead of concocting a post which was supposedly to be here.

1. Kota Kinabalu Trip + The Proposal?
2. Melaka trip
3. Bridal Studio Hunt: The experience/advice of a groom?
4. If I were to to be in the Education Ministry, the syllabus of the History subject would be...
5. My Medical Check Up in Private Clinic was RM100- RM40(discount)?
   
6. Registration of Marriage: How it works, and my actual day is....
   

I looked at myself in the mirror. My thick hair has always been a nuisance all these while. As I finger-combed my hairr back, I found a new discovery of the lifetime (at least for me). I had temporal balding! It would not have been noticeable if it happened gradually, but the edge of my hair follicles went back in an inch! Oh, I'd be panicky because I'm just 24, young, handsome and being the heartthrob of many females in the world!!! Seeing all these crumble right in front of my eyes would be a sad thing, especially when I'm not even married yet. How on earth did I get into such situation?

I'd googled mald pattern baldness, and yes, it's androgenetic alopecia for you medical people, and apparently, there are a few treatment available.

One of it would be castration. It was found to stop male pattern baldness just as simple as that. But that would mean I'll have to stop my male pattern manhood. And no more Father's Day for me. *shrugging off the idea*

I'd many things to blame at this point of time, as I have yet to settled on the stages of acceptance in grievance. Among them are:

• Hostel food. They are well known for the non-nutritious aspect of fried stuff and curry.
• Medical life. Medical student days are stressful enough for me, though I know it'll be worse in housemanship years. But screw them all for creating enough fat and bald male doctors.
• The Chinese economy rice stall in Sri Permaisuri. I started having food there for 1 month.
• The bad hair day for being stuck in a traffic jam everyday.
• For the professional exams which would be around the corner.
• For the lack of sleep I had everyday. Due to Facebook as well.
• For having some stressful course mates driving me up the wall.
• For the lack of exercise I had for a longg time.....
• For what I feared to be atypical depression. I found myself craving for food when I'm stressed, apart from the highly agitated irritability. The irritable source is external, what I exhibit was.. just an exxagerated response.
• For.. jerking off for the 15th to 20th time a day. Sigh..

And the list goes on and on. Sorry for being hysterical. And that's because I'm trying to get out of it. But maybe I should just embrace baldness. Bald men are sexy anyway. *sigh*



Lemme have a good dream tonight, and to destress....

There's so much issues to talk, to rant, and to dwell on. But my brain are just so saturated with my everyday life, so I'll just give a rundown of 10 items here, in no particular order, compiled over a few days. :P


1. Teoh Beng Hock case: What's gone is gone. My condolences, but life must go on. And why Pornthip should not be trusted? She's a great liar. Mahidol University was never top 5 in Asia as she claimed. It's not about the university she graduated from, but the fact that she blatantly lie discredited herself. Remember when she first came to Malaysia, she concluded that Teoh Beng Hock was strangulated to death by just looking at a photo? As a matter of fact, no one can tell for sure. All she wants is to create some sensation from her arrival, so I don't believe her death threats as well, since there are doubts on her professionalism and integrity.


2. America is not a Christian country, as lots of Christians may think (or want to think) it is. Yes, there are some number of Christian states, but America was not founded for religious purposes. Unlike Malaysia who had Yang di-Pertuan Agong, or Britain who had the seemingly immortal Queen Elizabeth II, they don't have a King, so there wasn't any need of someone to take care of something like that.


3. Not every Chinese speaks Mandarin. A recent dumbhead has written to NST about certain companies/ shops hire Mandarin-speaking employees and label them as racism. Racism is racism only when you strongly think it is. I call this languag-ism (A self-coined term). And any attacks on religion are considered religion-ism.


4. The way to see how a religion see themselves is via their approach to free-thinkers. They may act all hypocrite when meeting other religions, but all hell gets loose when they see a person without a religion. For goodness sake, no religion does not equal no stand/ opinion. If Stephen Hawking believed in God, he would  not have achieved what he had today, neither do Einstein or Socrates. It is because religion feeds acceptance rather than curiosity.But then, I don't blame God. He had never created religion, it was mankind who had created religion to worship God. Oh well, maybe he has a scientific calculator to calculate the cos, sine, tangent, or log multiplier for every single deed you've done. When will humankind do good without the need of someone to tell them or reward/bribe them?


5. 1Malaysia is a good concept by itself, but we do not need little BTN cronies to make a religion out of it. They must have been trying too hard to be the pastors/ustaz of 1Malaysia religion, but I must say: Epic fail! 


6. Namewee who? I'm unfazed by anyone of such. Some people idolize him because they never think, and they had no guts to voice out their dissatisfaction. I made my stand clear wherever I go, of course, with some rationale behind it (at times, but not necessarily). So, what's my verdict? Mr Namewee, NAAAHHHHH!!! *censored action*.. muahaha 

7. Namewee equivalent - Perkasa. Who? I know I lived in Jalan Wangsa Perkasa 4, but that's besides the point. Why are we frustrated by small fry as such? They represent no one but themselves, a small minority, for their own benefit. Perkasa does not equal all Malays.(And neither do Namewee represent all Chinese) Remember that the leader was someone who lost the 2004 election under UMNO ticket when BN was the strongest, and won the 2008 election under PAS ticket and then opted for independent seat. Where is the allegiance and integrity of such person who clearly wants to play the ploy to publicize himself? I'll give him credits for that, because he was a nobody before all these ruckus and hoo haa.


8. Malaysiakini. Their facts are as good as mine. Accurate, balance and fast? I'm sure it's more of fluctuate, sensationalizing + over-exaggerating news, and fart. Come on peeps, whatever you do, read the news with a pinch of salt, or a handful of them if you must. I've seen a lot of people idolizing such sites for their "news" and take in 100% of what they say. Just because you dare to say what you believe in does not mean you are accurate. Or was it Malaysia Today or Insider? I'm no religious representative to halt you from reading them, but a plea to switch on your brain while you take in the news. Articles and opinions are alright, because we know they are opinions anyway.


9. The Malaysian-Indonesian unease is the fault of Indonesia government, not the Indonesians people. The rascals and radicals are just a few, perhaps less than 0.001% of the population. There's bound to be protests by the few who would seem to represent all, just because the majority does not bother to deal with them. But the Indonesian government allowed them to use violence without protecting Malaysian embassy there? That's irresponsible from the government in keeping national peace. And the mass media plays up the issue and giving too much media attention to such insignificant group of people. The majority of them Indonesians are still nice people, it's just a few bad apples anytime anywhere. Who would heed the call of the jobless rascals to abandon their jobs in Malaysia? Who would rather send their maids back because of these issues. These dependence just show that we need each other, so there is no trump card in both sides, just peaceful negotiations and understandings.


10. al-Quran burning by some goddamn pastor. Who says there's no Christian extremists? Extremists exist everywhere, and know no boundaries. It's always the majority rule wherever you go, regardless of country. So the major religion always gets the "priority". US just proved that they are just human beings as well. You may have Muslim extremists as terrorists, you can also have Christian zealots, or even stupid Buddhist monks who know nuts of the world trying to run the country under US influence. Do we blame the religions? Blame the human beings for such ignorance and folly. And of course, people of the same religion as the extremists seldom condemn them, because it does not hurt them. Only when they themselves got involved between the crossfire between two sides of extremists that they get all heated up. And use their emotions(or dick) to think.



I guess that's all for now. No use harping more than 10 issues. I just find it amusing that more people are starting to think with other parts of their bodies apart from their brain (eg. The part the use to sit, or stand, or to pee) The theory that humans use 1-2% of the brain at one time may not hold true anymore. Maybe it's just 1-2% of the 1-2% stated of brain matter. So, starting switching to your thinking cap before the next screwdriver starts turning behind you. :P

Last week was full of theory. Seminars. Lectures. My head was filled up to the brim as I could recall. Although I did doze off some of the time, I admit that I had been awake for most of the seminars. Especially the doctor was giving pointers and not the students. Some students just gave the longest classification ever in medical history, reading every fine print in it. Hey, we're in med school, and you're supposed to present, not to recite every single words in the classification. we can leave that to our own reading time. I'm not that into audio books afterall.

This week? It's officially the start of the clinicals of Surgery posting. Ward rounds, colonoscope, OGDS (again and again for the scopes!) and presentation rounds (screwed left right up down for my own mistakes anyway) again in the evening. It's been a long time since I've been up from 7am to 5.30pm. Prolong standing is the torture. Tommorrow's going to be OT day as well as pre-op ward rounds for Wednesday. And also on-call shift. How on earth am I going to slug through this?

Oh well, I know I may not be the worst off. There's still peeps in the Pediatrics and O&G having worse days than me. This would just be a warm up for the preparations for final year (hopefully final as in FINAL). Well, that's some consolation. But I'm to know that my next posting is Pediatrics followed by O&G (then Family Medicine and lastly Internal Medicine). This is the final push. Sorry for the long rant. I know this may be the last hiatus or another rant coming up. This way or another, this is going to be the start of a series of ranting posting for the whole year. Because happy moments are to be enjoyed and I'll forget to write about it anyway. *sigh* Timne to start my revision and brush up my history taking and physical examination.

The weather has been hot for the past few days. I mean, VERY HOT!! And so finally, I'd made plans for a casual basketball game with friends. 5pm, yesterday. The moment I stepped out of the house and drove the car to pick up my friend, it rained suddenly, with elephants and dinosaurs. I mean, what are the odds to have such a heavy rain just at the moment I step into the car and went past the first traffic light at the main road? The rain was so heavy that the water was one foot deep. We usually only get that when KL city had flash flood. And so I was wet, not from the sweat, but from the generous sky who can't keep its "bladder" under control. Or was it intentional?


And today, evening. The hot weather continued. Because I did not plan for any basketball. And what a fine weather it was.






If this is going to happen, I think I'd rather swim in the rain, because I'll be wet anyway.


Or wait, wouldn't I be an easy target for Zeus? (Greek God of Lightning, for those who had no idea who he was) Lol!


*Note: This is the 400th post in this blog. Another milestone. :P

While the saying goes "Old is Gold", I'm afraid that many had taken it too literally. Here is an excerpt from The Star (at the bottom of the article):

"Sin Chew Daily also reported the case of a 60-year-old Malaysian woman, who claimed she was still a virgin, who was looking for a life partner in Singapore.

Huang Zhen Nee, a sales promoter, wants a partner aged between 58 and 65 and be at least 1.6m tall.

He must also take home a monthly income of between S$3,000 (RM7,200) and S$4,000 (RM9,600) and own a three-room apartment."

Could it be that this lady must be young at heart to make such a demand, or perhaps it was this search that made her to be "single". The materialism does not reflects on the mirror, but try asking for a guy to pay for an old pussy who's just a sales promoter at such an exorbitant price! Anyone who meet that criteria would rather look for a younger (and definitely prettier) companion.

All in all, you'll never know that it could be an April Fool prank that Sin Chew Daily or The Star had taken in too seriously.

Or maybe it's just "OLD IS BOLD"

*Sigh*

Nothing was stolen, no one was hurt. The morning my mother had woken up at around 8am, my grandmother was still sleeping in her room. My grandma should be having her morning wheelchair "stroll" by then. Mother was searching around for the maid and was puzzled by her disappearance. The house was a small one, so it took less than a minute to figure she was gone for good. I came down from my room and there it was, a note on the table:

To mom,

Saya dah balik ke Minah, tak nak jaga popoh lagi.

XXX


And there she goes, even leaving the house keys behind. I'll doubt she'll duplicate one since our "wooden" door is a custom-made aluminium(not like the flimsy aluminium can, I beg your pardon) one and hard to duplicate the keys.

The first thing that came to my mind was, did we mistreat the maid? Whenever I hear a maid on the run, that was the first doubt that came into mind. But heck no, otherwise she would be having her revenge and you'll see my family and I being in a massacre with not just stone mortars but basically any possible kitchen utensils that filled mother's kitchen. So, I must have been glad that I am alive, although I did lock my room before I go to sleep.

Before anything is hurled that I am a rich spoilt kid, I do handle my own chores when I need to, and I don't need 20 over maids to dress me or send me to toilet, and neither to feed me nor be my footrest. This maid was hired to take care of my grandma who had ambulatory problems which the new Neurologist in UKMMC diagnose as a Parkinson Plus syndrome of MSA due to her cerebellar atrophy, urinary incontinence and Parkinsonism. It is hard to tell with her stroke affecting her as well, which Prof Hamidon had initially diagnosed her as Parkinsonsim secondary to stroke. But that's not the point. the point is, the maid just need to take care of my grandma, while mother would still be at home to oversee my grandma's progress. No other house chores are needed.

I must say that this maid is really a smart one, for she had an ambition which would not befit as a maid. She'd run away after 8 months, because she would have repay all her debts to the maid agency, mother, and everyone else before she starts anew, possibly in the restaraunts in Chow Kit where her ability is highly sought after and she was offered more than RM1k a month plus the freedom to go anywhere she wants. She made sure she'd done everything in order so that we wouldn't be too hotheaded to hunt her down.

As sometimes I would think, a smart person would not be contented with such a job, so they'll make it a stepping stone.

Yes, a dumber one may have ambitions too, but they are stuck because of their own folly.

Nothing can be done now, guess we'll get a replacement from the maid agency while mother would have to take care of grandma and I'll need to help out a bit here and there.

For the runaway maid, good luck on your pursuit of happiness. Let's just hope no one get cheated again.

It has been more than 6 months since I really looked at myself in the mirror. The face got a bit tad rounder. The tummy had an extra bulge of Michelin material. Never mind my butt, it has been large all this while with my torso giving a better ratio.

Reality sinks in.

I AM becoming a TRUE medical student.

DAMN....

Let's hope not being sent into certain departments which could even make us all the fatter...

Sorry for the long absence in the blog. Life has been on a vacation on me as time goes by. The first week of holiday was indeed refreshing as I fizzled time as it comes. And I've completed an old PC game after playing it for the 3rd attempt to finish it.

And here goes the game:


Remember the phrases?
"Patients are reminded to keep the germs to themselves."
"Patients are asked not to die in the corridors. "
"Morgue patients are asked to be as quiet as possible."
"Visitors are reminded not to feed the vermins."

Surprisingly, I'd a better idea on how to manage the hospital better than before. Well, I know a kid does not need to have medical experience to play it, but it sure does help. The diseases were played on with humor, and this time, with better administration from the player (me myself), there are definitely less vomiting wave from the patients and the award of the cleanest hospital drops into the bag without much effort.

No more death reapers wandering in my hospital (lesser actually). No uncontrollable epidemics requiring me to be fined. No emergencies can't be handled. And no medical personnel left untrained with the fine delicate hands dedicated to the keyboard and mouse pushing all the way to the final moment of joy. The completion.

And the value of my hospital? More than the total of the 3 other competitors of mine combined. Phew, an ego boosting experience. :P This is definitely a game to humor medical students from the daily routine stress.


On a side note, the Facebook's application Who Has The Biggest Brain has launched its world tournament. Taking the average score of a country's population as the representative score of the country itself, I would recommend this game as another time killer if you're bored. Yes, I've been addicted to it pre-exams, but now it's more of another time-filler. And yes, Malaysians has a bigger brain than Singaporeans from the score. Well, I would love to claim the pride of being a Malaysian, but these scores says nothing apart from the possibility that Malaysians has more free time to spare, or perhaps some to the extent of no life to score a tremendous mark in this game. To find out more on the score, you can always check the forums for this game as it enters the 3rd round now.

The holidays are all about games and movies for me. For now, at least, while recuperating from the stress fatigue and waiting for the results to be out by this or next week. I'll promise to be a good boy for the time being, and be attending Malaysia Association for the Blind (MAB) tomorrow to start my humanitarian elective posting. Until then, I'll just keep updating my blog.


And one last thing, I'm going for the Nuffnang's premiere screening of the Dragonball Evolution movie in 1U tomorrow night! Thanks to my previous Kame Hame Ha post, I'll be seeing it in advance. Then, I'll give my review on whether you should watch this movie which starts on screen on 12th March. But seriously, Chow Yun Fat's presence really spoiled the movie. No comment on the Goku cast although I still feel that I can make a better cast. :P

Until then. Until then. :P

I shall meditate under the Tree of Justice, erm..raintree... muahaha.. Ridiculous crap.

If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

I fork out RM80 to tinker my W850.
Turns out I'm going to fork out even more just to make it work again.

Yes, YouthSays organized an event in PWTC, supposedly for the youth, from 9th-11th Jan 2008. In a way, it is good since such events are rare in Malaysia. So my dear and I decided to have a look.


We were greeted at the booth where entry is free, but they'd insist on a stamp chop on your hand. We'd passed on our preevent pass which was supposed to claim some goodies bags. Unfortunately, the promises were empty, just like YouthSays surveys, as they ran out of it despite having to give it to every preevent pass holder. Furthermore, the receptionists were always seemingly busy despite having 3-4 visitors at the booth at a time. Their rudeness and cold reception is what to be expected from the youth of Malaysia, it seems? A closeup look at the 10-men team at the receptionist revealed that they were more busy on facebooking and doing some trivial stuff, confirming that it is all an act of business. Despite that, we proceed to look at the events as they are the main attractions and not the receptionists.

The age range of youth must have been lowered as we'd seen primary schoolers hanging around too. Never mind though since it must have attracted a family outing here. Here we can see a media member from some EduTV interviewing a very young kid on the experience there. I'd to keep check in mind though, that youth can be as low as 8 years old and as old as 45 years old as claimed by politicians. I guess those politicians must be young at heart to be called youth at 40. :P

There are quite some activities going on inside, so I'd let the pictures do the talking.













After a long day out, it was time to call it a day. The events were rather entertaining and became an eye opener of such amusement. Overall, I'll give it a 3/5 because of the last scenery I'd saw before I left.


We went to The Mall for lunch(3pm) at McD. Before leaving home, we'd saw an interesting business gimmick.

Since when do we buy only 1 side of the shoes? I'm sure they can do better than that by saying buy 1 PAIR and free 1 PAIR. Or perhaps, maybe the shopkeeper really meant it? n_n

Referring to: DBKL hits out at litterbug-partygoers

Yes, it's you, you and you. I'm sure each and every one of us had at least thrown a sweet wrapper off the streets. While it is tempting to free our hands of any trash burden, be reminded that we citizens have the responsibility to throw it at the designated places. If our environment is unclean, would it not attract the colonies of LILATI (Lipas, Lalat and Tikus), hence endangering our health as well? Has no one ever thought of that beforehand? I've even known some friends who wash their hands more than 5 times a day for hygiene purposes, and yet still litter as he/she goes. Have we forget that dengue fever has been on the rise lately? Would we be holding ourselves responsible for such incidences, instead of pointing fingers at the mosquitoes as the culprit? Aren't we ashame of ourselves?

And there is always no end to such cycles of hopelessness, no matter where you are. Well, except for Singaporeans of course, credits to their strict laws who force their citizens to abide by it. For once, they are equally as uncivic when they set foot on the manland of Malaysia, contributing equally as much litter on the street if not more than an average Malaysian would do. Huh.. What is there to be proud of to be the best, when they are just "First World Citizens, Third World Tourists." :P

Finally, I've made it somehow to the final posting of 3rd year, Internal Medicine. While I could not say that I look forward to it, it is not really a dreaded posting. Maybe it's because I am looking past the posting, anticipating a 9-week holiday, one of the longest of all time. Of course, if I'd been doing an elective humanitarian posting (compulsory posting but we had the option to do it in end of 3rd year or 4th year), I'll be left with perhaps a 4 or 5 weeks holiday.

As they say, Medicine is the hardest posting, I'm going to experience it and to be the judge myself. I'm sure no matter bad it turns out, it wouldn't be worse than O&G which sucks out our life and mental capability to remain sane, nay? :P

So, I'll cross my fingers and wish for the best, and hoop la, before I'll know it, I might be in the 4th year very soon!! On a bright note, I've completed more than 50% of my course already. Wouldn't that fit as a pass? n_n

About a year ago, I came across Namewee's production of "Negarakuku". While some ancient Chinese scholars hail him as heroes. I've already looked down on him for his disrespect to other religion and culture. In fact, he's no more of a thrash of the society in the eyes of the sane. I'd never thought that such dinosaur's thinking still exists today. It was in fact, the best idea to kick him out of the country right from the start.

Fast forward to the present, his new creation has entered into the fray of controversy. "The ABC Time of Teacher Khoo” which was more of a cheap publicity that irks rather than impress the public. It showed his ultra alpha-testosterone side with soft porn teachings of ABC, which would draw laughter more of the people of the ultralow socioeconomical side who treasure such "art" where most would despise. After a while of watching, it is more of a repetitive moans and groans of self sexual acts using the alphabets, bores down to nothing but a normal routine of desperation.

What sick people would do that? He'd always claimed of being misunderstood, but is there really truth in it? If his cause is justifiable, are all criminals misunderstood? Only a twisted fiend would thought of portraying such act to display the issues of English education where it is totally irrelevant to the cause. It is of utmost disappointment, to say that it is a pure prank intended to cause commotion, with a devilish intention in mind. If that is passable and palatable, rape cases can be fought for the cause of appreciation of nudity art as a whole. Swearing in foul language is the latest song of the community, and the act of flashing is deemed courageous. Is there an end to such nuisance?

Besides, his refusal of apology to the school where he did the backdrop is a nuisance for the taint of image. I would not think that the backdrop is the matter, but the Namewee, unfortunately is the unfortunate PRODUCE of that school of Muar. Kudos to the school and his parents for doing such a wonderful job of raising him. I'm sure his parent would be proud of him for once and for all, who welcome such cheap publicity with open arms.

For more information:
Rapper Namewee won't apologize to school. - The Star

And more of the disgusted videos, proceed to:

The ABC Time of Teacher Khoo Part 1
The ABC Time of Teacher Khoo Part 2

Part 9 was supposed to be about the presentations and BBQ we had here. I'm supposed to talk of it on and on about the food and of our adventures. And yesterday was supposed to be the last supper in the Tanjong Karang epic. And I'm supposed to be lying down on my bed now for good with the thoughts of "Home Sweet Home..".

And here I am in the complex in full attire for vacation. My belongings are all packed in the boot. There is no single trace of my presence in the rented house. I am to stay for one more day, I mean WE. All because of some small mistake. It's rather costly to be in such a situation. I'm currently at the 7th week of my posting, where we should be heading back to KL for sure this time. It just signifies that this posting is coming to an end soon. 6 weeks of Tanjong Karang proved fruitful and yet also fruitless at times. Seems that it'll be up for us to decide whether if it is beneficial for us, in the present, near future, or the very far future.

But for now, I just can't wait to leave here. I am so not going to change or bath until I get back.

And the message I'm coming home with is:

I was really amused when a post of rodents from Kean had draw lots of attention from rats lover. Such a fact that they had to argue on how to kill a rat by all means. To me, the end justify its means. Would it really matter how is a rat killed if you are going to kill it anyway. So, here's a brief rundown of the top 5 recommended methods preferred to kill rats.


Rat Poison: As effective as it seems, it has basically diminished effect on urban rodents for they are smarter than any dimwit against animal cruelty. Their survival instincts are much stronger than any human, and given ample time, they might even mass produced Ratatouille potentials before you can even blink your eyes. Forget Ridpest or any of their sweet talk on their efficacy. You'd rather treat yourself with a hot plate of Nasi Lemak with an extra fried chicken.

Drowning: As opposed to ancient rat species, there's quite a number of rat swimmers surfacing in the underworld, perhaps somewhat spawned from Splinter, the master of Ninja Turtles. They had mastered the art of swimming enough to beat a casual swimmer in an Olympic pool, not to mention the fact that they would be infesting the whole pool of water with thir friendly germs if it wasn't for the chlorine water. So how would you expect to drown a rat without being infected?

Besides the point, a drowning experience is like no other, for our brain would try by all means to avoid such suffocation. The lungs would be filled with excruciating sharp pain and the breath taken away in a minute or two, but the brain is yet still very alive for another 20 minutes or so, which meant that while you are tugging the rat into the dumps, it may still be alive, conscious of your doings, perhaps given ample time, may curse you to etenal damnation.

Snap Traps: Seen in most cartoon such as Tom and Jerry, this is a preferred method in the olden days in the time when peasants roam the lands. This is mainly suitable for outdoors where sterilizing can be done easily without blood splattering across your favourite piece of Fratelli Berto couch or maggots invasion before you could notice it the day after of even some dramatic cases when the foul stench fill the air. Unless you put it in front of the rat hole, I doubt that all rats would fall for it, since Charles Darwin theory of natural selection would still holds, and those survivors would be smart enough to hold their ground. Besides, there is no guarantee that the rats would be killed as some may manage to escape with a missing limb or two, prolonging their suffering as long as it takes to breed a new army to announce a hostile takeover of your house.

Cats for..Rats..: Contrary to popular beliefs, cats does not eat mice or even rats. Although treated as mortal nemesis, the cats hunt rodents for pleasure, a hunting game valued by cats in the wild. Try putting your favourite pampered Persian cat to a rat, and there is quite a possibility that you would see the rat chasing after your pet cat. Believe you me, not all cats are capable of rat-hunting after staying in the comfort of human love. Even if they do catch one, remember to dispose the rat quickly, for your cat may be bringing the dead rat up and down your house, and it is undesirably for many to have bits of rat flesh or blood stains over the house. And for those keeping the cat outside the house, it defeats the purpose for the cat is out and the rat wrecks naught.

Boiling: There is in fact, two types of misinterpreted boiling terms, where one boils the rat in your cooking pot just like how the witch would boil Hansel and Greetel, and the other by pouring steamy hot boiling water on the rat, just like any mee-in-a-cup would do. While the latter is a proper manner to dispose the rat by killing the germs, it could inflict burning pain to the rat. It may be cruel, but might be necessary for the greater good. It might be just a rat being a rat, but all we are reminded is that we are being human too, so there is no guilt involved to be going that path. Others may object, but it is of their own opinions and shall not be imposed on others, just like any religion.

But if for whatever reasons (perhaps inflation due to the government's policy) you choose to boil it in your cooking pot, you might as well microwave it, or even grilled it with some seasonings, which may be absurd for they are no free food due to hygienic and food safety reasons.


Conclusion: Now, as I've said, there is no best method involved in killing rodents, for whatever you've done, it's still murder. Just as in humans, drowning a person does not make you less guilty than boiling them or killing them with poison. It is still murder.

Even if you released the rats few blocks away, look at it this way. You are inflicting harm to the people in that area and may spread the disease there. Indirect it may seem, but you've just cause some deaths the moment you release them away to multiply in a jolly good fashion. Whatever it is, life is a neverending cycle with actions and consequences, foreseen and unforeseen. Whatever we do, life goes on, so dispose your rat quickly, so that they could proceed to afterlife or a better reincarnation if you believe in them.

Week 6 was a week of freedom, where we have plenty of time to loiter if we choose to. Everything seems relaxing amidst the commotion over the situation where everyone knows nothing of the plans and events of the coming weeks. We just take it as it comes.

Wednesday was the briefing day for the upcoming mobile clinic setup. We were given instructions and briefed on how we are going to get the people going for their medical screening after a lengthy effort of surveys which most of us found bothersome especially the food survey part with 144 ridiculously named dishes.

So it's basically the same old few tests: blood tests, urine samples, spirometry (test of lung function) and electrocardiogram (ECG aka EKG). We were taught to operate the tools and equipments, so that we won't be dumbfounded on that day itself.

All sorts of food waiting to be harassed

Thursday was the day for Dietary Assessment. Calories counting is definitely not my cup of tea, as it seems.

Dr Zaleha explaining to us, as if asking us to eat with passion

There ain't chips here to do fish and chips

Nasi lemak looks delicious, but after such harassment, hygiene is an issue of doubt

It takes 2 medical students to slice a watermelon, nay? :P

Thursday evening was the day where we began to set up our mobile clinic booth in one of the houses in the village. The rain, of course, did not hamper our efforts to shift things into the place. For Friday, our booth would be held in the house of the extremely nice Ketua Kampung, who offered his big house. For your information, we'd only realised that he was the real ketua kampung after we had been conned by the previous one who created all sorts of problems for us. The problem is of political manner, since the previous Ketua Kampung was from BN faction while the current newly elected one was from Pakatan Rakyat who had their throne on the Selangor state. While the fake ketua kampung played a fool and showed no wisdom, this ketua kampung was not even mad at us for showing the approval letter from the the FAKE ketua kampung, but instead clarify the matter later on in a more polite manner.

Friday morning, we started our work. We had asked the villagers to come from 9am-12pm for the check up. But I'd guessed that the villagers are extremely punctual by coming as early at 8.25am. Lolz!! I was in the spirometry section, doing all the blowing (but not blowjobs, please) of huffing and puffing. The stream of people coming in was a neverending one till 12pm where things got a bit slower. Yet, not all were present due to their work, and some due to their political difference with the ketua kampung. And we, the medical students, had to remain indifferent about it.


Before we went off, ketua kampung treated us for lunch with tasty tom yam soup noodles and fried mee hoon. I must say that we received his generosity gladly since we were rather hungry. So, all's in a day, and we traveled back to KL after having coconut water and curry puffs for lunch. :P

Alright, I guess it's already a custom that we "show off" our blogging earnings once we got it. Of course, if I ain't showing it, it just means that I'd quit earning from blogging or else I'd made too much bucks that I need to hide it from tax.




So here's the earnings after 3-4 months! It's nothing much if you divide it into 3/4 portions, but hey, at least it's something, enough to subsidise for my medical books for the coming postings. Or maybe it's worth 1 and half jab of HPV vaccination (Rm300+ per jab) of a "3-course meal" at market value, although the cost price per jab is around Rm100+ or so I heard (Source: External audit of a clinic.)

So, here's a big thanks to Nuffnang! Cheers!!!!

So, all the best to my fellow mates who are going through this with me as well. Gambateh!!!!