Bad influence?

Since young, I have been taught that I should not mix with those that are bad guys, and stay away from bad influences. ‘the bad guys!’ And that if I mix with those people that are positive, I will stay positive.

But… I have also learned that I should not judge people and no matter what’s their past, what bad things they have done… I should embraced that and tolerate each other.

Then I thought… most people stay away from people that they don’t like, including me as well. But these people that has been isolated, hated, and ignored… it’s such a pity that they are alone and no ones like them etc. I was just wondering.. maybe we should give these people a second chance? Not like as if we have the power to renew their… I mean just be a little friendlier and nicer to them…

Some people don’t realize they have offended others, or irritated people… or said the wrong thing to others thus causing them to be labeled ‘mean, irritating, annoying, even stupid’… how many of us actually tell them face to face? ‘hey, that wasn’t appropriate, she was offended by your words, maybe you shouldn’t have said that…’

Some take it negatively…’who are you to tell me that, F*** off’

While some will take it constructively…’okay, I shouldn’t have said that’

It’s just a random thought… the way we treat people…

Being hated

I wonder how he feels, to be hated by everyone in the class.

Well, the better question to ask is does he even have the insight that everyone hates him?

Everyone just hate to be around him, hate to listen to him, hate to have any eye contact with him, just HATE him.

He so need to learn when to shut up. Chinese have this saying ‘ If you stop talking, no body would think you’re mute!’

HE thinks he is superior than everyone else and he always like to ‘EDUCATE’ people. Geez… unless you’re my professor, just speak like a normal person please.

He bullies those that never fight back, he feels good that way I guess.

And that cynical laugh… just literally make people go ‘ARGHHHH!!!!’ It’s not even funny.

Making fun of people, taking pictures of my friend’s legs who happen to be wearing a skirt, pictures of people who are darn tired taking an afternoon nap and putting them up in facebook… not very attractive.

He’s like… freaking 3 years older than me… but acting like a kid seeking for attention… it’s just laughable…

Sometimes I get so angry with him… but when I stand back and look at the big picture… it’ll be childish to fight with a child.

MIMSC 2009

4-6th September, the 1st International Malaysian Medical Students Conference was held in Palace of the Golden Horses and IMU Bukit Jalil. As part of the program secretariat subcommittee, though the hard work, I have came to realize how much I love to organize. I strongly believe it’s a gift.

I also presented a scientific paper entitled The Efficacy and Patient Satisfaction of Radiofreqeuncy-induced Intradiscal Nucleoplasty. Even though I didn’t win, but I have learnt so much about scientific presentation and also enjoyed all other scientific presentations. IMU has 9 scientific papers presented out of the 30 presentations, that’s HUGE! We don’t just have the numbers, we have the quality too! As Chester won the Oral Presentation! So happy for him.

Overall I am very happy that the conference went well and I have gained such a great experience.  The sad part is that I have been busy throughout the conference that I didn’t have much time to get to know other delegates.

Singapore Ear??!!

Today is my first day in Otorhinolaryngology aka ENT posting, and I learned something called Otomycosis.

I searched in wikipedia… and it’s shown:

Otomycosis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Otomycosis (also known as Singapore Ear) is a fungal ear infection, a superficial mycotic infection of the outer ear canal. It is more common in the tropical countries. The infection may be either subacute or acute and is characterized by inflammation, pruritus, scaling, and severe discomfort. The mycosis results in inflammation, superficial epithelial exfoliation, masses of debris containing hyphae, suppuration, and pain^.

The ear came from Singapore?

Singapore, here I come!

Just received this e-mail from Singapore today:

Dear Lee Dai Wee

I am pleased to inform you that your request to undertake the following posting are approved.

Paediatrics, National University Hospital

2 November to 20 November 2009 (3 weeks)

Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital

23 November to 11 December 2009 (3 weeks)

The hard copy of the approval letter will be forwarded to your postal address soon.

Thank you.

Regards
The Dean’s Office, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Well I so wanted to get Internal Medicine + Surgery. I got Paeds instead of Medicine, SAD! Med is my favourite, and if you know me well, Paeds ain’t my piece of cake. But it’s alright, maybe it’s time to buckle up in Paeds. It was not an easy process to get the spot.

Looking forward to 6 weeks of fun and learning, I am sure it’ll be very enjoyable, coz I will going with my fellow housemates Kajen and Dejun. Woohoo!

Tak ada harga…

2 days ago I went grocery shopping with my grandmother in Tesco Selayang. When waiting for all my item to be scanned at the payment counter, there was 1 item without price tag and bar code.  Then the cashier just stare at me saying ‘tak ada harga, tak boleh key-in’.

I said ‘ cari-lah, find-out about it’. She got pissed off and reluctantly asked her colleague to find out about the price. Then her superior came and settled the problem, without apologizing.

There was also some bystanders commenting on my action that I insists on buying that item.

Is was a very unpleasant experience. That cashier did not solve the problem, but just throw the problem to me, the customer. I was pissed off of course. It is not my problem that the item has no price tag, and she expects me to give up that item so that the line so be cleared up faster. Well, that item was the most expensive item in my shopping list, and I ain’t gonna give it up just because she can’t solve the problem. Such a simple problem but she can’t solve it. The company might have just lost the sale of 1 item, because of one’s foolishness.

Punctuality

It is sad to know that medical students don’t know how to be on time, well at least some.

I am not trying to say I am always on time, sometimes I am late as well. But I just can’t stand those that absolutely don’t care about being late. Being on time is such a basic thing and I think it’s 1 of the most important thing employers look for in their staff. It a basic means of respect, and if you’re late they won’t even care how good you’re in anything else. Late means late.

The other thing is that being on time doesn’t literally means being on time. A class starts at 2pm, you arrive the classroom at 2pm SHARP on the dot, you think you’re punctual? I think its a BIG NO. When an agenda is scheduled to start at a certain time for example 2pm, it means the program has to start 2pm on the dot. So to me in a classroom, before 2pm everything should have been prepared like computer, LCD projectors, Powerpoint presentation etc. So my standard is that if you’re not 5 minutes early, you’re late. In med school, it’s very common that lecturers are late mostly 5-10 minutes as they’re working doctors with tight schedule.  I find it hilarious that usually it’s those who are late that keep complaining about the lecturers being late.  Such a funny scenario, yet irritating.

I think punctuality is such an important attribute that would definately increase your value and your bosses would be so impressed.  I personally have great respect for those who are on time i.e. 5 minutes early.

Exciting plans in a mess!

I have many exciting plans coming up for year 2009. I mean exciting! But things are just in a mess!

1. Fellowship of Doctor’s Conference 2009 on 20th to 21st Aug which I am so looking forward to as it is perfectly right after my finals…. BUT… today the exam coordinator just announced that they exam results will be released on 21st Aug and everyone needs to be present to collect the results. Means I can only make it for 1 day. SIGH SIGH SIGH….

2. 1st Malaysian International Medical Students Conference on 4th to 6th September which I have submitted my research abstract so I will be presenting my research paper in the conference and hopefully win something.

3.  Medical selective in Singapore for 6 weeksin Nov till mid December. I applied for 3 weeks in Medicine and 3 weeks of Surgery. I got a place in the Surgery department, but for Medicine it’s UNAVAILABLE! SIGH! So I am hoping they will give me a place in another department. Really really hoping to a get to do 6 weeks of attachment instead of just 3weeks. Pray hard!

Final exam will be on 11 Aug till 19 Aug. Plz plz plz do well!

Helping people?

I have realized how much my petrol bill has grew. Pumping petrol more often than ever!

So this is the thing, I help ferry people using my car on a regular basis, almost everyday! Most of the time it’s not ‘on-the-way’ so I need to make detour to pick up/drop people.

I have no problem doing it, but it just struck my mind this few days that… hey! I can be the kindest person who would give people a lift using my little car… but it’s not me that’s paying for the bills. My mum is!

It seems like I am not helping people with what I have, but taking something from someone else and make it sound like I am the great person who help people.

My mum work like hell to get me through med school and miraculously a car and also its maintenance. I always never dare to ask for extra coz I know it’s difficult… but lately I slowly realized how much she needs to pay for my petrol that I just happily use the credit card to pay for.

So… I don’t know. I myself never realized when I get a ride from my friends… how much more time and money they need to spend to do me this favour.

I am so confused. What do you think?

No offence?

A : hey…. bla bla bla.. bla bla….. no offence ya!

B : oh…no la no la….

The conversation is quite common right? I am sure you have encountered people saying that million dollar phrase after they made a statement – ‘no offence’.

Person A felt that he need to say that coz he knew deep down in his heart that his statement has actually offended person B. Then why bother saying it?I guess it prevents person A from being punched… coz it leaves absolutely no room for person B to react. What else can B say?