carol's scribbles

One of the many written by him

2011-12-14T23:14:00.000+08:00

This morning is indeed auspicious
For I’ve never seen honey so suspicious
My woman drew me a beautiful picture
Filled with wonderful features

She makes me realized
That I will not be forever tantalized
I’m glad to have you as my soul mate
Owh, how great is our fate

-M-

Santa Claus is coming to town!

2011-11-27T22:15:00.001+08:00

Oh great! It's Christmas season again, and the malls will be decked with holly and berries and sparkling stars and bubbles and green trees and small gifts and mistletoe and everything else that's Christmasy!!! Alright, its not that soon but, in less than one month, Christmas will be here again!

I'm trying to remember what I did last Christmas, I think I went to my lovely mentor's house back in India and it's awesome to go caroling from house to house and fill our tummies with Indian delicacies, mind you I was in India and yes, no turkey or lamb chop whatsoever but it was nice Indian homecooked food that I missed so much. Its actually so hard to find good Indian food in KL, everywhere I went, it all taste totally different from what I'm used to back there. I do miss good Indian food in Manipal.

I'm actually starting to plan my Christmas holiday *wink* My tummy growls at the delicious thought of dessert awaiting. Keep telling my tummy *Y U NO FLAT* but I will definitely go to swim more so that I can indulge in awesome chocolate cakes and cheese cakes. Yummy!

Oh well, I shouldn't blog too long. Should get back to my work. Good night!

In Time

2011-11-26T19:27:00.001+08:00

Had a fun movie outing with 3 girls and 2 guys to watch In Time. Thank goodness there's only one couple there that would remind me of him. It's pain in the ass to watch couples in love when you're in a long-distance relationship,never mind the fact that it is 12500miles apart.Being in a different time zone sort of tunes my body into an auto-NJ clock. It rings at the most inappropriate hours, and it winds down just when he wakes up to sunshine. Being a medical student doesn't help much either, with all the long hours in ward and lethargy seems to hit at the most inconvenient hours.

But still, I'm loving every moment with him, being with him is like lounging on a couch with a bar of chocolate and a good ol' intriguing novel, with warm blankie and sound of rain pattering down the windowsill. It's the peace and quiet from the all the hectic routines and endless rote memorization that I love most.

A sudden realization dawn on me when I was watching In Time. It was a mere memory of myself from the past but it hit on quite hard, a smart rap on the head like Prof M does it on everyone. Would I still be hanging on to the past, like what I have been doing all these while, or would I start to grow up and listen to my own heart like it should have for the last 22 years and 355 days? Time is something that I've always take for granted. It has always, another day for me, another week, month or year, thinking that I have many of them to come.

But realistically speaking, no one knows when exactly we will leave this world. I would have many many things to be done but being a perfectly healthy girl, I wouldn't think much about life and death as much as a person should at my age. It's called pessimistic ain't it if I were to start thinking about it?

Everyone takes things for granted, young people eat unbalanced food thinking that it's okay to flood the body with grease and chemicals, leaving another day to the deadline of assignments, and couples bickering like they have a lifetime to do it. It's pretty much annoying to me because to hear those bickering, to hear those tiny arguments and conflicts drains the positive chi around me. It matters not what you are bickering about, but its those piercing words and raised tones that irritates me, why the hell do you even wanna raise your tone at someone you love?

Okay, I might have overreacted but believe me when I say I have my share of crazy arguments when I was young. Now, it's time to grow up and stop acting so melodramatically over small matters.

Off for dinner with a couple of great friends, will miss them so much when medical school is finally over!

On Kids + Job Satisfaction

2011-11-22T07:28:00.001+08:00

I slept off at 10.30pm last night, woke up to talk to my man and slept off again because I was so tired from posting in Paediatric ward. I had a good day yesterday, clerked a case of probably acute exacerbation of bronchial asthma *because specialist didn't wanna label her off as asthmatic yet* and stayed till 4pm even though we were left alone without supervision due to unforeseen circumstances i.e. one of my Paediatric professor decided to leave MMMC *still am skeptical about this because she's not the kind to leave suddenly without informing us* hmmm..feeling a lil' sad, will kinda miss her eccentric giggles.

I left the ward feeling absolutely elated, maybe it's because of the Kopiko sweet I'm currently addicted to, or mainly because the patient's mother actually asked for my name yesterday, after a long talk with her at bedside, not merely a one-way conversation whereby I asked for details of her child and she replied with tons of medical symptoms, but a long conversation where I answered her doubts and we discussed nutritional plans for her child. Not that I'm a nutritionist but I believed I've read enough and knew a lil' bit more than her on what to feed a growing kid with chronic long term illness like asthma.

Anyway, it may sound silly and a little narcissistic to others, why, she's only asking for your name but, believe me, when you have so many patient and family members that you see each day, none cared enough to even ask for your name because they think that you are troubling them every day by asking so much details but yet not able to contribute to management of the patient. That's why I had the best job satisfaction day ever! Off to lecture now. Ciaozz

2011-11-21T20:35:00.001+08:00

A brand new blog, with a brand new chapter of life and a someone important I've yet to introduce here..now off to do group study with Faten..ciaoz

Major Overhaul

2011-10-30T19:03:00.000+08:00

I'm getting tired of this blog's interface, the design, and everything else.. this calls for a revamp on this site.
So look out for brand new blog next week!!

Signing off,
Carol in pensive mood

The Day I Could Smile Naturally and Confidently Forever!!!

2011-01-30T00:38:00.000+08:00

yippee..no more nerdy braces Carol!!! Happy New Me!! New Year New Smile!! :)
New Fit Bod too! will aim for goal of ultimate health bod!

Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight

2011-01-28T21:20:00.000+08:00

Diet has become a strong 4-letter word that isn't.Diet is not starvation.Dieting is not about 'going-on' a diet.There is no such thing as going 'on' or 'off' your diet.Eating correctly has to be a lifelong commitment .What is more important is that you treat yourself well ,feel good about yourself, be committed to eating properly and exercising!!

This is the wisest word I've heard so far about D.I.E.T.

It's no longer about calories.
It's no longer about fat content.
It's all about healthy portion, fresh food and good amount of exercise!

LIVE HEALTHY IS A PROMISE TO MYSELF FOR YEAR 2011!!
( I refuse to call it resolution because if I can't achieve my resolution its okay, but I've made a habit of not breaking my promises any more. I must be a responsible human in life :p )

On Republic Day of India..I

2011-01-27T01:42:00.000+08:00

It's my first time watching the parade during republic day. I've always wanted to watch but for the past 2 years I've never gotten enough of sleeping hence never making it to watch my college march. This year, I've made a promise to myself to wake up early whenever possible. I've watched horror movie the night before and I've slept over at my friend's place but I still woke up at 8am to drag myself home and grab a tuna sandwich before walking down to KMC Greens. It's been a great parade to watch I definitely must say but personally I feel Malaysian students can march better...not just our college people.. any uniformed bodies would have marched better. Have you seen the marching competitions? and the band competitions in Malaysia? I must say that it is an awesome sight to see the absolute synchronization.Don't believe me? Try youtubing it and watch for yourself.

On the other hand, I've just finished my community medicine and I must say it's been a great 3 weeks-journey for my holistic mind. Not only I've so much free time for myself to do the things I've wanted like catching up on my TVB Hong Kong dramas but also on the novels that I've abandoned for so long. And also going to gym everyday without fail (okay, honestly, I've skipped a day or two).

Community medicine used to be a stranger to me, I've not fully comprehend the actual point of doctors leaving the more challenging and interesting, not to mention, lucrative fields like surgery or internal medicine but now, finally after 3 weeks of being in their shoes I've realised that the doctors in community medicine and public health are the ones with the greatest ambition. They are not only passionate towards patients as a person but they are passionate to improve the country's health system as a whole. Without them, there would be no health system working in order, no patients referred from primary health care to tertiary health care (hospitals), no medications supplied on time etc. It would be chaotic to work as a doctor in hospital. Nursing staff , hospital waste management, even though they seem to be irrelevant to us doctors, but working in a hospital is just like working in any office. You need teamwork, you need good organizational skills and communication skills to be able to survive. As for knowledge itself, it is a must for any good doctor.

So , for future medical students going for community medicine rotation, observe and watch the whole system play. You will realise the importance of this branch of medicine once you learn to open your mind and heart to a whole new level of passion in medicine. I've wondered to myself, why a doctor would want to take up public health when in fact he could be like any doctor working in hospital or private practice. I've wondered, I've wanted to ask. But I held back my question and I've wanted to observe. I've read once about Pulse Polio Programme in India from a surgeon named Atul Gawande who authored the book "Better" . I will recommend this book to any medical students undergoing community medicine rotation as you will see a totally different side of community medicine. It will definitely be an eye-opener and by the time you flipped to the last page of the book, I hope that you will place importance to community medicine as much as you've placed importance to the other branches of medicine. I hope that you will see community medicine as I've seen them.

Come tomorrow, I will start my paediatric posting. What to expect in paediatric posting? I've googled some and these are the links to some interesting articles. Hope it will be of use to some :)

Guidelines for the MBBS Students during Paediatric Posting

http://www.prsharma.com.np/students/MBBSStudents.pdf

Examination of a newborn baby

http://www.newbornwhocc.org/pdf/teaching-aids/2010/Examinationofanewbornbaby-ENC6.pdf

Examination of the Newborn

http://www.adhb.govt.nz/newborn/education/Teaching/5thYearsNewbornExam.htm

Excellent Care from the Moment of Birth

http://newborns.stanford.edu/

-till next, signing off with lots on her mind, carol -

2010-12-24T03:25:00.000+08:00

that's me in 2007 and 3 years later this is me in 2010..hmmm how much I've changed??
Physical changes and definitely cognitive maturity increased...I hoped :p
As the end of 2010 draws nearly, it's again time for reflection of the past year.
Achievements and mistakes, good things and bad things..they come and go as they wished and it's not under anyone's control.
So fear not of the new mistakes that you may make in 2011 and focus on the goals to achieve in 2011!!

Resolution of 2011. Coming after Christmas..since it's time to do some serious thinking plus have fun!
P/s: I'm going camping and sleeping in a real tent for the 2nd time! too excited :) can't wait to take lots of photos!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY READERS!! MAY THE SANTA BRING YOU MUCH JOY AND HAPPINESS FOR THIS JOLLY SEASON!!

I'm Back!

2010-12-14T00:43:00.000+08:00

I'm sorry for my leave of absence for see...urm 6 months? I kinda thought I would abandon this blog but my love for writing(I talk a lot,ask my room mate) overwhelmed my laziness.Okay.Updates I know,

1. I passed my year 2 and i'm officially in year 3( In another 2 months plus, I'm leaving Manipal for good and I'll continue my education as a medical student in Melaka,Malaysia)

2. I was elected as the class representative for my batch and student president for the fiscal year. Technically, I play the role of bridging the lecturers and students together

3. Inter-batch 2010 is almost over and I hope the rest of the games will proceed as soon as possible so that we can finally close the chapter of Inter-batch (It's a month long-actually more than that-event that consist of two parts :sports and cultural, we have 20-30 events to organise and thank god I'm almost done with it)

4. Annual Day 2010 was successful and I manage to grin stupidly the whole time I was on stage because I didn't want the photographer to capture my frowning face.(just in case it goes into college magazine like that). Congratulations to my dear friend,Elora the Gold Medalist 2010 and all the prize winners :)) I'm so proud of you all:))

5.My birthday was celebrated with much joy and surprise element because I was bluffed into it.But I absolutely love it this year.Probably because the tension of examination is no longer there.

6.The parade for the inauguration of Manipal University Convocation 2010 went smoothly with me wearing saree (weee second time:)) ) Lucky me because it's inaugurated by the President of India, Smt.Pratibha Patil so I get to see her but really she looks so sombre..I think because she feels so hot in her professor-Harry-Potterish-gown :)

7. Lagenda!!! It's a Malaysian food festival and cultural event whereby we invite all Malaysian students from all over India and showcase our talents and culture to all the local Indians and international students here.Too bad I didn take any photos because I was too busy preparing for my stall. HO CHIAK=TASTY
We sold fried wanton, fried chicken meat ball, coleslaw , mash potato and pandan green bean soup :)) It was a lovely evening of all food and people :))

8. Lastly, I'm currently in Psychiatric posting so I'll update more about my studies instead soon :)

Till next, Carol

What Hurts The Most

2010-05-27T21:28:00.001+08:00

I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house
That don't bother me
I can take a few tears now and then and just let em out
I'm not afraid to cry every once in a while even though
Goin' on with you gone still upsets me
There are days every now and again I pretend I'm okay
But that's not what gets me

What hurts the most
Was being so close
And havin' so much to say
And watchin' you walk away

And never knowin'
What could've been
And not seein' that lovin' you
Is what I was tryin' to do

It's hard to deal with the pain of losin' you everywhere I go
But I'm doin' it
It's hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I'm alone
Still harder gettin' up, gettin' dressed, livin' with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade, give away all the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken

What hurts the most
Is being so close
And havin' so much to say
(Much to say)
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowin'
What could've been
And not seein' that lovin' you
Is what I was tryin' to do, oh
Oh yeah

What hurts the most
Was being so close
And havin' so much to say
(To say)
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowin'
What could've been
And not seein' that lovin' you
Is what I was tryin' to do
Not seein' that lovin' you
That's what I was trying to do, ooo

100 Books to read before you die

2010-05-22T18:27:00.001+08:00

~~1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen~~

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – I seriously doubt this..i read one chapter of it and returned it to my friend’s brother. I can’t stand the font! I’ll be blinded at the end of the book one I’m sure

~~3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte~~

~~4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling~~

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

~~6.Better –Atul Gawande~~

~~7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte~~
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
~~11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott~~

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – a little skeptical about finishing this because Shakespeare is really not my thing
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger –I love the movie and will definitely read this
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
~~37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini~~
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
~~39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden~~

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
~~42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -~~

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
~~54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen~~
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
~~71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens~~
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
~~73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett~~

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
~~81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -~~
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
~~89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -~~
~~90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton~~
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
~~99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl~~
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

82 more to go…phew…

Tuesday in ink

2010-05-19T22:40:00.001+08:00

My beloved parcel reached in 3 days.Yippee!!

I admit.First time I’m buying books online and had good experience. Books were freaking cheap!!! I bought 6 books for *ahem* Rs900! oh em gee! lucky i save up for this month. I was sooo happy..imagine the price is like 25-50% of MPH. *MPH go bungkus and lompat*

I’m already thinking of saving for few new books next month :) I can finally indulge in buying new books without the guilt of paying so much for it. Gosh! Back in Malaysia, a trip to MPH would cost me rm70 for 2 fiction novels. Here? I could get at least 4!!

Now this September I’ll be coming back to Malaysia so I’m planning to buy more novels back. If you want any title just text me and I’ll quote you the price :) Though be clear that I’m staying in Subang and you have to come collect the books from say maybe Sunway Pyramid or SS15 :)

I know that it’s an old book. Who Moved My Cheese.I remember seeing my mother read the chinese version when I was probably still in primary school but I couldn’t read chinese so I wasn’t interested at all till I stumbled upon this title few days back.

1st Love

2010-05-17T17:53:00.001+08:00

I think everyone remembers their first love. And the first time they hold their beloved’s hands. May it be the corny grab over the same soft toy while shopping or the sudden awkward groping in the dark cinema or even the worried grabbing to protect your loved ones from crossing a busy road.It’ll still be etched in your mind. It’s funny how time flies.For me it’s been 8 years since my first love. Yeah. How bout you? Sometimes life really flies by so quickly that in a blink of an eye a year had passed. I once read,” Do stop to appreciate the beauty of the flowers and smell of the fresh dews along the journey to make the end of your journey worthwhile.”

Just to say,if you have it then hold it tight.

Random doodling.

A Sunday of my life drawn in ink

2010-05-16T20:25:00.001+08:00

Suturing Banana(Edited version)

2010-05-02T01:23:00.001+08:00

So since I’m a wannabe surgeon I have to learn to suture.Actually it’s a must for all doctors to learn how to suture.

My first experience with the sutures was way back when I was young(probably about 9 years of age). And being an excellent cyclist then, I could cycle without both hands (not that it’s a great achievement—kids don’t learn this stunt please) it was almost always a great joy to cycle speedily and stop pedalling right before a bump.Ah bummer!! I remembered how I heroically speed on my bike across the bump on the road and of course landed on my bum off the road. I barely got scratches and I picked myself up. I’ve decided that my adventure for the day should come to an end.

So I picked myself up and made a turn to turn into my lane. Suddenly, the nieghbour around the corner who was watering her flowers called out to me and beckoned for me in such hurry that I was kinda shocked. I stopped in front of her house and asked kindly, “Auntie, why? What happened?”

She replied, “Come girl, aiyoh, what happened? You fell down ah?”

“Oh how you know ah? You saw me right?”

“No!! Look at your shirt!!And look at your chin! Come, I walk you home now.”

I was dazed when I looked down, the front of my white tee was looking as if someone had thrown a red paintball at me. I turned and walked back towards my bike slowly. I swung my leg over the seat and sat atop of my bike, pushing my bike forward to leave when I was stopped by the lady again.

“Come girl, don’t ride anymore.Just walk with me.”

I was reluctant at first because I just wanted to reach home as soon as possible but I got down and pushed my bike instead. The walk home was a long walk. I was nervous to go home because I knew I would get a good sounding from my mother.

When I reached home, my mother thanked the lady and brought me into the bathroom to wash my wound. I laid down on my bed and closed my eyes.I wasn’t feeling the pain at all.

It’s strange, I thought to myself as I thought it would actually hurt seeing how much I bled. My mum shook me gently and told me that we should go to the Klinik Kok and let Dr Wendy have a look at it. I told my mum I felt fine and it’s not necessary but she persisted anyway.

She told me, “Kai hua liao” ( Translated from Mandarin meaning, sudah berbunga..lol my skin split like flower petals blooming")

Dr Wendy had a look at my chin and decided it must be sutured. I was scared but I put up a brave face(you know the ego me :p) Anyway it was over in less than 5 minutes, I got 7 stitches in total.

I barely remember the details but I remembered the weird feeling of the needle pulling and tugging at my skin yet I didn’t feel the pain at all. Which is darn good ok! If not I would have cried but I didn’t.

Ok fine. A little. But not the wailings and screamings ok. Just tears rolling down.

So that concludes my experience with the 1st needle in my skin. Now let me show you how it’s like.

You’ll need this

From up to down

Scissors

Toothed forceps

Blunt forceps

Needle holder

Needle

lastly the black roll of thread and oh you need a patient

~~Cut your patient up if he's not already wounded~~

1. Sterilize everything, in my case no need since my patient is a fruit (banana)

2. Next wear gloves, in my case also no need since my patient won’t be infected with microorganisms anyway..and even if infected also neh mind. No need antibiotics also

3. Use syringe and inject 1% lidocaine ( local anaesthesia so that your patient don’t feel the pain) In my case also tak payah cuz my patient don't know how to howl in pain.

4. Stand by facing the wound like this

5. Left hand hold tooth forceps.

6.Right hand hold needle holder( left hander too bad lar..i don't know how to teach left hander)

All nice photos courtesy of NEMJ

Start by threading the needle,use needle holder to clamp 1/3 of the needle like this

Then use a toothed forceps to lift up part of the skin.

(oh I missed the part where you need to clean the wound with iodine..neh mind my patient very clean, cuz I cut him with sterilized knife) Right, where was I?

Oh ya lift the skin up and push needle through the skin of your patient. Make sure bite width is the same which means like this.

Lazy spray paint my patient.Anyway it’s the same patient,duh.

Make sure your bite width is the same. about 0.5cm-1cm depending on the size of wound and location of wound. (if thick skin then bite width more to ensure maximum tension equalling to original skin tension)

Then bla bla bla.. then surgeon knot

Ok this is a little tricky. 1st, throw aside your toothed forceps. Then pick up blunt forceps with right hand.Release your hold of the needle ( unclamp your needle holder- actually its the one looking like scissors here) and place it parallel to the wound.

Use the blunt forceps to clamp lower end of the thread like the above picture. This is the starting position.

Then make two round around the needle holder.End product look like this.

Without letting go the grip of both blunt forcep and needle holder, turn your left hand (your needle holder) 90 degrees and grab the upper loose end of the thread while maintaining the position of the two rounds of the thread around it.

End like this. Then remember to pull it tight (not too tight..your patient’s skin might overlap or worse tear..if overlap very ugly scar will form..if tear prepared to be sued) till the edges pushed up slightly. So that the wound heal without a scar.

Just in case you are confused with my small diagram..this is bite width A and X must be of equal distance :)

Remember to repeat surgeon knot twice for each suture. Second time, place blunt forcep in same direction parallel to wound but right hand holding the needle holder need to clamp the opposite end of the thread ( meaning if you hold the lower loose end just now, now you hold the upper loose end as the starting position)

After surgeon knot, pull both end of thread to one side of the wound and snip off the extra thread. This is one suture done. Then continue the same till you get this!

Pardon my photos, I took it with my 2mp phone camera so it’s a little fuzzy.

Remember to check bite width and bite depth

Surgeon Knot No.2 (NEJM version)

Extracted from

The New England Journal of Medicine

Basic Laceration Repair

Todd W. Thomsen, M.D., Derek A. Barclay, M.D., and Gary S. Setnik, M.D.

Department of Emergency

Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge,

MA (T.W.T., G.S.S.); the Department

of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s

Hospital, Boston (D.A.B.); and the

Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard

Medical School, Boston

To begin the first knot, place the needle holder parallel to, and over, the wound.
Hold the needle end of the suture with your non dominant hand, allowing the needle to rest on the sterile drape.

Next, wrap the suture over the needle holder
twice. This forms the surgeon’s knot, which prevents the first “throw” from loosening.

Rotate the needle holder 90 degrees, grasp the free end of the suture, and then use your hands to pull the two ends in opposite directions across the laceration,tightening the knot only enough to approximate the wound edges.

Begin the second throw by again placing the needle holder parallel over the laceration. On this and all subsequent throws, wrap the suture over the needle holder only once
before grasping the free end with the needle holder and tightly securing the knot.

Place a total of four throws. After the final throw, pull the knot off to one side of the laceration, so that it does not lie on top of the approximated wound edges.

NOTE: It’s different ( bold words) from what I’ve learnt in class so I put it up just in case there’s contradiction with what you might have seen before or learnt before :)

THE END!

XOXO

wannabe-surgeon

Still going to practice more and more times till my left hand doesn’t shake anymore whenever I apply pressure on my forceps.

My Big Sista

2010-05-01T02:57:00.002+08:00

Since my big sista posted my fugly photo on her blog…gosh jatuh saham lar aku… i have to seek revenge by putting her fugly photo too right? well..say ni easy…shit i dont have any of her fugly photo..well this proves something..my sis don’t have fugly photo because she’s too pretty :p i tolong naikkan saham you tau..since a lot of my friends are hot soonish-dr

noooo this is me ok not my sis

ok lar…wait..i found this photo while browsing so i decided to put it up..i think this is me when i was seven^^ my neighbour actually thought i was a boy note: with pierced ears *wtf* and actually asked my mum why you dress your son in pinafore..WTF!! I know i have short cropped hair with thick bushy brows!! I’m a girl yo auntie!!

ok now back to my sister’s picture

She lights up my dull life whenever she’s around..

*why do birds suddenly appear..every time you are near…just like me,they longed to be..close to youuuuu *

it’s just funny how life has brought me so far up till now.

It’s such a coincidental/fate/pure myth that has made me think maybe this is destined.Let me try and explain the gist of it.

My sister and I both have a mole on the sole of our feet..mine on the right feet and hers left. So weird right??? Anyway according to Chinese fengshui/face reader/mole reader i don’t know what you called it.. it’s a sign that reads we will both travel far and to many places. How true is that we never knew till now that i think of it, it’s so ironic that she has been to many places which according to this moleology is fate.

First,she was drafted to National Service (wow hard to believe this midget… she’s only 5 feet..wait is she even that much? i think slightly below 5ft :p) in army service right? Then she got into UNIMAS, Sarawak which was when she decided to jump ship to UMS,Sabah and holla! Since then, there are numerous places that she’s been that have lead me to believe in it too!

And I’m drafted to India! kidding..i came to India to fulfil my life-long dream to becoming a doctor. Now, I’m almost 25% done( I’m only in my 4th semester out of the 10 semesters to go through with-GOSH!!!)

Conclusion, I think it’s a coincidence but I like to believe it’s fate. I never thought I’ll actually come to India..I have imagined myself in Moscow, taking metro (subway) to lecture halls or even Indonesia(speaking indon) but India wasn’t in my planned daydreams definitely. But I’m glad I came anyway because this past years have made me realise how attached I am to my family and especially my sister whom I’ve shared a room with since I was born till even now (when both of us are back at home that is ) SISTERHOOD ROCKS!!

Anyway it’s great to reminiscent about good ol’ times.

I missed sitting on you (since i’m way bigger :p) and seeing you protest in vain Hahahahaa!! And hearing your stupid excuse of not being able to breathe to get me off your back but hey! guess what? I’m not that dumb to trust you! So I’d continued sitting no matter how red your face turned into(like tomato)..ignoring the screams of pain and fake acts of gasping for air (interlaced with smiles and laughter so I know you are faking it!)

I miss you too! Can’t wait to sit on you again! @.@

p/s: I can imagine your silly laughter now after reading this HAHAHAHA

XOXO

your baby angelic sis :p

I-am-so-lazy-to-blog Day

2010-04-21T21:25:00.001+08:00

Omg I'm so blardy lazy that all i wanna do is sit and stare at the screen

So I'm not moving anymore to save strength today

I'm so darn excited at the new sports complex yet I'm so lazy to describe it and I happen to come across my buddy Izza's post..soooooo....

Lazy people like me tend to link you to somewhere else so HAHAHHAHAHA enjoy MY FRIEND's POST Lol..http://whenthoughtcounts.blogspot.com/2010/04/in-love-with-new-arena.html

Being alone or lonely is just how you define yourself

2010-04-18T15:29:00.001+08:00

Being alone or lonely is just how you define yourself

Sometimes I surprised myself by being able to do things alone when I thought I needed company to be able to do it.Sometimes I am pleased with myself for being able to cross the finish line alone.

Close friends think I’m sometimes a loner.Acquaintances think I’m a loner at heart.Strangers think I’m lonely girl.

Maybe I was just raised to be independent.

I don’t have the need to be chauffeured here and there by my parents when I cycled or walked to school.

I don’t have the need to be chauffeured to tuitions far away in KL or Puchong when I can pretty well take a bus,LRT or even drive there at times.

I don’t have the need to be accompanied by my parents when I fly alone to India to start a brand new chapter of my life.

I don’t have the need to be accompanied by my friends when I am determined to take a 15hours bus ride by myself all the way from Bangalore to Manipal.

Everything that matters is how determined you are to reach your goal.

I don’t mind walking alone when I have classes to attend

I don’t mind walking alone when I have things to buy

I don’t mind travelling alone when all I want to do is be home

I don’t mind being alone

I love being alone at times. Sometimes I wish the whole world would disappear and let me have some ‘me-time’. It’s my time.It’s my day.

I just don’t want to answer the door when it’s my time

I just don’t want to answer calls when it’s my time

I just don’t want to care when it’s my time

It’s my right not to answer you.It’s my right not to care.It’s my right and I should be prioritizing my rights and my time.

I’ve learnt to say no to things that eats up my time

I’ve learnt to avoid people that eats up my time

Fight for your time. I’ve learnt well. What about you?

Happy Sunday readers ^^

15th April 2010

2010-04-16T03:00:00.001+08:00

Today was my problem-based learning(PBL) presentation day.

Topic: Food poisoning

Aetiology:

Clostridium botulinum

Staphylococcus aureus

Bacillus cereus

Clostridium perfringens

I got the subtopic of lab diagnosis,prevention and treatment of Clostridium botulinum. Did well I guess, I practically studied 5 hours before presentation. I was getting so lethargic after first draft that I went to sleep and woke up at 6.30am.Then I took my own sweet time to dress up and I was so fickle at my choice that I changed 3 outfits before deciding on this..

Some say I look like Korean, lol with my eyeliner and black tie and straight bangs.rofl. I miss wearing a tie!

I *heart* my belt-turned-tie :p

So anyway,today was the shortest day of my lecture days in year 2. Wooh! 30 mins of carcinoma of pancreas and ta-da free till 10.30am for presentation.And it’s the shortest of all.1 hour of presentation.That’s it.

Came back and watched My Sister’s Keeper.OMG Recommended movie wei.*I know I’m outdated but I only have access to this now ok*So touching!I love the fact that this movie potrays the book well.Unlike many other book-turned-movie, I feel the directors left out much essence of the book that the authors want each reader to feel. It’s so disappointing when you read the book which is so good and when it’s turned into a movie, you looked forward to it and at the end of the movie, you thought, “That’s it???” It’s definitely worth your time watching it.I cried so much during the show.Oh and the medical terms were ear-catching. I don’t know.Maybe it’s because I’m exposed to the medical world and I learnt about them that I got what they were talking about. Oncology is fun!

There’s one part where the guy goes: Hi, I’m AML

The girl goes : Hi I’m APL

Guy: ooh a rarity huh

Girl: Yup

OMG I understand that!! I’m so happy!!

AML: Acute Myelocyte Lymphoma

APL: Acute Promyelocyte Lymphoma

Then… I woke up after nap…

Cooked condensed milk chicken! and my roomie V cooked sambal sardine! Damn nice wei!! post recipe now

canned sardine in tomato

onion cut in small pieces

potato cut in small pieces

throw everything inside, smash the sardine into small pieces, and add curry powder and chilli powder.Wonderful recipe.Try it damn sedap ok!

Ok laa..i used 2 hours to type this post because I was distracted by calls by Shijia and Yipin zzz. anyway I gotta go sleep now.Though it’s been a short working day, I wanna rest well for tomorrow’s class :) Look forward to next post!!

SUSHI DAY!

2010-04-12T03:58:00.001+08:00

Oh how much i miss my sushi!! Thanks to Vi Vian that brought back wasabi in tube for me, I could enjoy my favourite food of all!
Don't they look so delicious?!! Oh I made some extra so I gave it to Kuhan and Cheng Lin as their birthday present :) And we threw a not-so surprising birthday party for my roomie Vanessa ( for convenience sake, I'll called her V in my blog ^^ ) She already expected it..blergh!! Failed planner haihz.. still remember how i spoiled the surprise party for Dot just because I laughed too loudly in front of her house and she overheard my voice from her room ( that sounded as if I laughed like thunder roars but seriously it wasn't THAT loud right?? It's just so happened that she has sharp ears! !! * alah alasan banyak-banyak carol ni*

Anyway I better go back to my drugs and their adverse effects ..Fuiyo!! Banyak giler ni!! Nak giler dah!!!

Ciaoz/.. Oh and i forgot to mention I donated my blood too!! Wanna see?? haiya never take photo of it. Too excited since it's been so long since i donated blood.. on the plus side, I'm so happy i lost 3 kg over the holidays!! muahahha keep up the good work carol lee!!
WOoh!

A Mission To Complete

2010-04-10T14:19:00.003+08:00

I woke up this morning at 9.30am only to find my roommie still happily sleeping so I dozed back with intention of waking up at 10am.Blergh!! *annoyed* It's already 11.34am when I opened my eyes next.

I think only medical students think that sleeping is a waste of time. Or maybe I should start practicing like the Japanese boss my dad used to tell me about.He only sleeps 4 hours a day(or so) so that he doesn't miss any deals happening in the world.*wtf* so money-minded.

No offence to Japanese.I don't think it's being money minded.I think it's being practical. An hour less of sleep means an extra hour of life-saving *in my case i think it's an extra episode of IRIS* LOL

I wake up with the intention of finishing my to-do list.Here goes

1. Pharm- Finish IL topics + SDL test topics

2. Micro - Update class notes

3. Patho - Update class notes

No procrastination Carol Lee!!! Obstacles is when you lose sight of your goal!

P/S: On the bright side, I can't wait till tomorrow comes because I'll be donating blood! Weee...ok fine..shut up..I know it's not a big deal but for me it is because I've not been constantly donating my blood even though every 3 months you can donate once because I've been wearing dentures and apparently Eunice said that it's not allowed for donors to have dental procedures done within a year. But I called the social worker impulsively and he/she said it's okay!! But there's a series of criteria too and I might not be able to donate blood after all so we'll see tomorrow how it goes :p It's the one time I'm happy about my weight *wtf* because I'm not so underweight that I can't pass as a donor! Weeeeee....

Outfit of the Day

2010-04-09T15:50:00.001+08:00

As If You Couldn't Get Enough Of Me!

Note: Do ignore the white patches on the mirror..I've yet to scrub them down with soap! Bahh..my Dettol is still with beloved Izza

Outfit of the Day
casual long army green buttoned-down shirt from Forever 21
with absolut fav black legging from errr dunno where because mine was holey and Sarah gave me hers instead:p
and red belt from Sunway Pyramid
Oh heels is just for the purpose of making my pins look longer..
bah i have short legs so heels are my best friends..though not to class..
OMG!!! Envy girls that can wear 5" heels for 24/7..
*mummy says heels are bad for back!Oh yeah..Dr.Ortho says that too*

Mood: just-too-free-Carol-ignoring-the-calls-of-Mims&Roitt-procrastinating-with-the-reason-it's-Friday!!-equivalent-to-No-Work-Day-Wooh!!

For A Special Belated Birthday! Happy Birthday Mum!!

2010-04-09T04:45:00.002+08:00

For A Special Belated Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mum!!

I've already posted this last Tuesday if I'm not mistaken, by registered post this time so hopefully it will reach quickly!! Can't wait to let you open the package and see this! :) You will definitely call and would sound so happy on the phone..one thing though..I'm afraid you'll be disappointed by all the elaborate packaging and open to find just this..Hmmm let's just see what you think then :)

Happy Day!

2010-04-08T19:29:00.005+08:00

Happy Day!

You know there's just this one day when everything goes well for you.When you don't worry about your studies,or you don't worry about whether you look hot in your clothes *I wasn't saying that I looked hot today* it's just a metaphor..anyway you get what I meant don't you.

Sooo story of the day is I'm so happy for once today. And what made me happy? Let's see..

1. Clinical Skills :) Suturing!! I always loved practicals because that's when you get to walk around and talk with your friends and yet learn something new.It's so fun now that I know how to suture wounds even though it's just basic suturing. Nothing great like herring bone suture or continuous suture because according to Prof Anna the time is yet to come to trouble us with all these complicated sutures.We'll learn it when we go for Surgery next year..YO!!! DAMN FUN!!!

2. One hour of lecture for the day!!!

3. Get to hangout and talk with Shi Jia and Eunice today!!! It's been so long since we sat down and chat like before when we once all stayed in the same hostel

4. Got to know that my blog is source of entertainment for my batchmates.HAHAHA!! This is so hilarious!! I thought that my blog is only read by my friends back in Subang..Hmmm maybe i should start a live traffic feed.. yeah..I should..

5. Oh yeah and I'm done with my MSP project!! So fast!! We did it in 3 weeks:) Many thanks to my group members, T.E.L.L.M.E acronym for (you know how medical students love their acronyms :p) Tan Lip Sheng.Elora Ong.Lee Pei Shin(me lar).Lim Shi Jia.Menaga.All is left is editing and making posters for the presentation on April 24th!! Can't wait!! Woooohhh!!

Downside, I've been having this irritating flu since yesterday!! Gosh..i took Clarinase but I guess I have to up my dose because I've been eating them ever since then..Maybe I should take the Indian med instead but I've been afraid to take Indian med since my allergic attack! Who knows what I might be allergic to.. I have been having this doubt of whether telling everyone that I'm allergic to penicillin med or should I keep this to my doctor and myself since it would be easy for them to kill me with it..but I guess I think too much at timess...bahhh the effect of watching too much Mentalist..

Ouch, stomach gastric juice flowing out..gotta go grab a bite..Ciao..! Merci beau coup for stopping by and reading my rantings :)

2010-03-16T02:45:00.002+08:00

Enough is enough!!

STOP STOP STOP!!!

I need to learn what's best for me

I need to learn what's my priority

I need to learn to say NO

SAY NO CAROL SAY NO!!!

Exam Week = Stress = Destressing Activity like….

2010-02-12T21:12:00.001+08:00

When I’m just too stressed, I…

~~go for retail therapy~~ go for camwhoring therapy

Now you might ask, it’s Chinese New Year!! What is there to stress about? I’ll tell you.If you are me you’ll be..

1. Mugging books for the coming block exam on 18th which is like 5 days from now! * and yet I’m still sitting here blogging lol :p pardon me.. It’s been too long since I’ve abandoned my readers

2. Thinking of reunion dinner tomorrow.I’ll be cooking something special.Will post it up soon ( and don’t trust my definition of soon..really..because I can’t trust mine too hahaha )

3. Laundry – sooo lazy just gonna bring it to the laundry akka ( sister in tamil,hindi) akka is just about anyone elder than you that you wish to call. I used it for grocery shopping purpose and talking to the hostel cleaners and admin lady sitting in hostel lobby..versatile.. it’s like calling ‘kak’ to the lady selling pisang goreng

4.Clean room – for CNY purpose lol..gosh i gotta clear out my closet to rearrange everything nicely but I’m just too lethargic to do it.Maybe tonight after I’ve settled my revision for tomorrow’s Microbiology class test IV

Now as I said, library is a good place to study and also to camwhore ( no one bothers about what you are doing except maybe your next-cubicle neighbour…but anyway that’s what partitions are for right? privacy^^ )

My essentials for camping trip in Library 3rd floor

view from my usual seat

My best friend Mr Gandhi

My colourful quills

My tanni ( water in tamil )

My dentist say i must chew gums.. sugar free of course so that i don’t die of diabetes

For ~~kissable~~ lips..~~Muawwhhh~~ Nothing to kiss here except textbooks

My Zen..to listen to my current obssession You’re Beautiful OST

Look!! you can see him here!! Jang Geun Suk!!!

WOOHH CUTE CUTE CUTE!! Saranghaeyo oppa!!

my course book

Jang Geun Suk!! I meant his character “Tae Kyung” in You’re Beautiful Korean drama

close up of my drawing :p

my Shin Chan :p Now i have to like pharmacology because got shin chan on it

what i was doing in library

Block 2 ending.. exam soon..half a year gone..wow..another half a year then I’ll be in 3rd year..so fast *sob sob* Peter Pan Syndrome..still wanna play..

See.. I got 9/10 and a “Good” for my lab reports in Block I.. aiming for 9.5 in block II..let’s wait and see

My purse and tisu lembut Carrefour..in India also must promote tissue. Btw toilet rolls are not sold in a dozen or so like in Malaysia…it’s expensive..they sell it per roll for like rm2 or 3 so one dozen would cost you..say about rm 25 siao!!!

Gandhi’s signature..lol jk.. it’s mine..money is always considered a sacred right..you aren’t suppose to write or draw on it..but in India.. since paper is scarce what they do is..

jadikan nya kertas conteng..lol

Tanpa ini, kehidupanmu sekadar menunggu saja…

tunggu apa?

menunggu orang lain untuk ‘scan’ bagi you keluar masuk

lecture hall,

library

hostel

Kalaulah nasibmu semalang-malangnya…tunggulah kau lama-lama

Oh yang ni juga kad ATM..tapi I tak guna..tak suka..hilang nanti habih oku.. habih..

2009-10-25T04:55:00.000+08:00

Being one feet away from death

The title says it all. My first autopsy.My first encounter inches away from a fresh dead body. The foul smell of death. The fresh stench of blood.

While I was happily watching X-Men: Wolverine The Origin, a call came from Elora. "Hey girl,come faster to the KMC Forensic Department.There's an autopsy.Wear your labcoat.Come quick." I stood stunned for a moment. What?? Now?? I am going to an autopsy?? Oh shit!! My heart started beating like I've ran 40km marathon. Oh gosh! Oh gosh! I hasten to wear my contacts and changed to my tees and black pants, thinking "Oh God! Will I puke later?Oh no, I haven't eaten my lunch!" I quickly raid my fridge for a piece of chocolate, but I'm vegetarian! Pausing, thinking, ok I'm eating it.The Nine Gods will forgive me for this since I'm just gonna eat for once and no way I'm puking in the mortuary!"

Slipping into my sport shoes,I ran out of my hostel and towards the dreaded place. I took a moment to straighten my labcoat and buttoned it up and pulled my phone out from the pocket to put it in silent mode. I check for the current message from Elora. "Just come in" What?? just walk into the hall?? I'm gonna see a dead body now? LIKE NOW??? Oh shit. I walked in cautiously taking deep breaths. Ah! sighs of relieve. My batchmates and some KMC students are still gathered in the hallway.

Chatted a little and made some small jokes on puking and fainting. Suddenly I caught a glimpse of a pair of small feet in a metal tray across the hall in the inquest room.Oh no! It's a kid!! And two men carried the body of the poor girl, looking about the age of 5-7 years old ( you can never tell from the height and weight since a lot of malnourished kids are seen in India) into another hall.

We continued our discussion on the kid and Desmond was saying how you could smell the foul smell if you stand right in front of the hall. So trying to prepare my senses to the smell, I boldly walked to the hall and sniffed. " No...there's no smell yet," I told Desmond. "Got..smell properly" I took another deep breath.."Nooo..where got???" A man walked out and beckoned me to go in. Freaking out, I said " Eh can go in already!! Faster Faster! Sun Quan and Desmond walked in followed by me and Fred and the rest of them.

Ta Da! The girl was lying on the metal trolley.I saw the eyes was closed but not fully. The wrist was broken few inches above the radioulnar joint. The body was still limp and flaccid.No rigor mortis yet. Her head had a bloody wound and a few small cuts on her leg. Other than that, she looked perfectly at peace.Nothing that suggested a violent death.Autopsy starts with measurement all the body parts and wounds. Then without warning doctor just took the scalpel and cut right in the middle from the chin down to the abdomen and pelvic region. The skin and muscle are separated from the rib bones, sliced apart easily like cutting off the skin from the chicken.

Took all the organs out by cutting through the oesophagus and larynx and tongue and the whole body content comes out hanging like a bunch of bananas from its stem.( I can't find a better metaphor)

Then the ribs are examined.Fractured ribs. From the force of accident. Spleen ruptured and fragments of it went into the thoracic cavity,puncturing the diaphragm.And skull was cracked open and brain is removed and weighed.approximately 1. something kg ( Every organ is weighed) Can't remember.
Then organs are sliced and examined. Saw that kidney looks fine. And brain had a hemorrhagic state. Parietal and occipital lobe injury. But nothing compared to the internal haemorrhage of the organs.

Cause of death: Spleen rupture leading to internal haemorrhage from the force of collision. RTA :Road Traffic Accident

Postmortem of This Experience

Emotional Status : I can't believe such a young life, such precious life can so easily be taken away. As I see her dead body being cut open in that way, I can't believe how fragile our human body is.

Physical Status : Still fine.Didnt gag or faint because the smell reminds me of the pig stomach and chicken being slaughtered. So just a strong stench of blood. The sickening salty irony smell of blood
Though my taste bud is completely altered I felt. I drank lime juice in food court with Sarah and Desmond and it didn taste at all like lime juice.Sarah said she could still smell the blood and Desmond told that he had a flu for days and couldnt smell a thing till today when he just got his sense of smell back, he had to smell the bloody stench

Conclusion : Very good experience and considering it's the first case, Im lucky to not get a putrified or drowned body. They say it smell a 100 times worst. Gosh,I can't imagine that.

2009-09-26T20:01:00.003+08:00

Exactly one month after...

Thanks to Yeem,I'm gonna update a little about my life since finals. Ok i passed year 1 with much toil n sweat, I've gone back to Malaysia and enjoyed my life in Subang n Penang, I broke my molar band and had it replaced with a high-tech band ( braces stuff,dun worry if u don't understand,it doesnt matter) celebrated Dot's n Yeem's bday, dined at Jogoya with my family,pictures yet to come, left my pencil box and name tag in my bro's room, and flew to Bangalore last night,overnight in the airport,left for hotel in morning,check-in,visited some temples and camwhored, bought bus ticket back to Mangalore then Manipal then now finally, blogging about it. That's in short the summary.Oh ya forgotten to mention that i saw some Indian film shooting some scenes in front of our hotel. And now Im blardy hungry but one of my fren is sleeping and another didnt want to eat.Gosh...apa jadi now? shud i go alone then? Anyway im leaving Bangalore alone..Im so happy to be back to Manipal (at least i gain some normalcy in life rather than living on the go like backpackers with 32kg of luggage + 10kg of hand carry + 5kg of backpack!! damn! why did i bring so much stuff back to Malaysia? now i have to bring them back..aiyoyo..next time il bring ntg back!! for sure!! For now..im so so lazy to post my pictures up in facebook! wait til i reach Manipal la..using hotel wifi..damn slow to upload..
Till next
I miss home!!! *sobs*

THANK YOU NOTE

2009-08-28T02:23:00.001+08:00

A long time ago, I once said

A breakdown would be inevitable

I hope, at that time, someone will slow down to walk with me,

To regain my motivation, to shift my paradigm towards life and death,

To at least make sure I don’t beat myself up too much over the mistakes I’d do

And I could regain my strength and willpower to continue running to cross the finishing line.

This is to my family and friends,

Who stayed with me and held me tight when I needed them the most

You know who you are;

Mum&Dad for your endless support and believe in me when i didn’t believe in myself

sis Cheryl,who stayed up with me all night to study

bro Alvin,who bought a gecko and happily telling me just to make me happy *wtf*

bestie Wood,who woke me up with ur endless miss calls..and well wishes of course especially the one before anatomy paper:)

buddy Ian, who tolerated my calls at insanely weird hours and still called to make sure I’ve not gone mad

the rest of my family in India who never fails to comfort me with their moral support! Gambate!! no need ad lah now gambate what..

AND the subang family with all their lucks n wishes!

I THANK YOU ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!!!

MIA

2009-07-28T02:11:00.001+08:00

Carol’s gonna be missing in action for sometime till 26th August ya….having finals..don’t bother to check til then :) Have fun! Wish me luck! Don’t miss me so ya!

My personality Test-which i think i damn accurate lo….

2009-07-13T20:35:00.001+08:00

copy paste from fb lol

You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. *very true*

While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. *isit?*

You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. *what is it i wonder*

Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. * ya ya im fickle…no im not fickle..im just not sure whether right or wrong my decisions*

You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. * hmmm thinking shifting to wordpress.com then i will be able to lock my post from unwanted eyes*

At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.* hahaha i like day dreaming..my once favourite day dream was to receive an award from Dr Mathathir for being top student in SPM ..of coz it didn come true…since i took only 10 subjects…but i was thinking how proud my parents would be…hhmmm *

Physiology Practical Nightmare

2009-07-13T12:18:00.001+08:00

I just came back from a nightmarish practical examination

It consist of two performance test which I have to perform on a subject(patient) aka.some unknown tempe that I think they just pay to do it..Sit there act patient..*smart way to earn money*

and there are eight more stations where there’ll be some graph or pictures or questions to answer

So smart carol started with station 2 which is spirometry ( graph that depicts ur lung capacity*jeng jeng jeng* confidently answer and smirked at opposite neighbour to show off..oh so easy

Then come station 3, renal(kidney) function.Mmmm panicked a moment.eh shit…formula formula tubular load,excretory rate,urine flow rate, urine concentration of substance X…*mind raced through the formula I read just a moment ago outside the multipurpose lab* Then started calculation…and voila..net secretion by renal tubular! err…doubt for a moment then shud be ok..carol lee dun think so much

Then station 4, Cushing syndrome.Shit i think i just wrote decrease secretion of ACTH ARGH!! shit 1 mark gone

Then station 5,performance station.Heart races a bit.Shit i’m having palpation. Scanned the sheet of white paper which lies my fate of 3 marks.Oh thank god. Measure BP by palpation method.GREAT!!

*walked in confidently into the cubicle hidden by those green partition you find in hospitals… Good morning.I’m going to do the palpation method to check your BP. Picked up the sphygmomanometer * cheh showing of some medical tongue twister* Hold tempe’s arm and check for brachial pulse.Then wrapped the deflated arm tube over it. Then start palpate for radial pulse ( like to TVB old chinese manchurian drama inside got those “chung yi”-- err chinese medicine doctor. Tested it 3 times to double check…ok 110mmHg sir :) Grins broadly as i walked out.cheh so easy summore i remember to tell patient thank you :)

Then next station is rest station.Lip SHeng did his BP and sat across me. He was mumbling something.Couldnt catch wat he said but I know he was hinting about next station. Couldnt be bothered.Scared I kena tangkap for cheating:P

anyway, next station 6, ovulation by temperature method. So to educate the women and families out there, if you plan to have a baby pls ask ur wife or if you are a woman, consistently keep a diary of your temperature. Measure it when you wake up in the morning, dont do anything yet. Wake up and measure. Better result, measure it without getting out of bed which means you have to keep the thermometer at bedside. Track your body temperature it should remain constant at about 36.5 to 37 degree Celsius (not Fahrenheit) Then the day you noticed increased temperature by about 0.5 to 1 degree you may have erm … sexual intercourse ( coitus) lol there’s an increase chance of getting pregnant because you just ovulated mah…form 5 also got learn lo…

anyway next station 7 cant rmb

station 8 stupid acromegaly..how can I change my answer! stupid carol..think think think so much…bodoh punye budak…3 marks gone…blardy @$%@$##%$@^%#$^#@%$#%@

station 9 sensory ataxia.Oh shit..performance test..errr think think carol think what sensory ataxia…incoordination of movement..errr upper limb test rapid alternating movement?? shit shit..walk into the cubicle.The best part? the examiner himself took this topic for us. He must be eager to see how many students fail to master this portion that he taught. Gosh Gosh.

Carol to patient: So I’m going to do this test on you……………….

*paused for about 30 seconds which is pretty long when you have a patient and an examiner staring down at you..staring up in this case..they are both sitting..ermmm… ok carol’s pathetic brain keep flashing through the pages of her practical manual..stops at the page.ahh found it sensory ataxia..what is down there…the titile in bold…AHHH ROMBERG’S TEST!!!!

Yay!!! Sir…can you please stand for me.Put your legs together and close your eyes please. Yay!! Turned to sir, Sir!! No swaying sir! sensory ataxia absent. ROmberg’s sign negative. Hmmm nods.. What are the romberg’s test significance? Confidently blurt out cerebellar lesion. Examiner stares back…cerebellar lesion ?? Stupid.. summore say again…Yeah cerebellar *thought to myself,maybe he heard cerebral lesion* Then pause oh wait…. equilibrium…DORSAL COLUMN LESION!!! Then examiner nodded OK… passed…maybe will minus mark for this…but at least i didn do anything else that is wrong..I remember hearing some people whacking the tuning fork which is for auditory test( hearing test) wah….then the fella ma wrong kau kau?

lol

smiling again went to last station. Oh great microscope. Scanned it, adjusted the focus and voila…my pretty eosinophil came in focus. Happy wrote. Eosinophil, 1-4% in circulation Paused shit what is cause of eosinophilia( high eosinophil count) just read this morning..confused with so many disorders then just trusted instinct of my memory that remembered it to be bronchial asthma..or was it typhoid fever..gosh…then rmb typhoid fever supposed to be for eosinopenia ( low eosinophil count) aiya pun only la…trusting my heart

Then looked up , smiled and frown a little *doubtful face* LIpSHeng mouthed 50-70% huh? aint that for neutrophil? Isnt it multilobed?? Check the miscrope again No ah distinct bilobed…scans the brain again..YEs…CONFIRM EOSINOPHIL…frown at LipSHeng again.He mouthed 50-70% again..SUddenly lecturer shouted NO TALKING!! shhhh… paiseh…caught red-handed but not like he helped me also…im so sure he’s wrong..

then SOmething clicked in his brain! OH OH! then after they collected papers…Lipsheng said “ oh you save my life” thank you keep reapeating that i saved his life… But i burnt mine!!! Stupid acromegaly…why did i change my bloody answer! STupid CAROL ! ARGHHH

10.30am – Dissection Hall Anatomy revision Fine…go study now…zzzzzz

til next..carol

Saturday Black Pepper Chicken Rice Fever

2009-07-11T20:03:00.001+08:00

To celebrate the end of Biochem practical I decided to cook a storm up..Nah…it was alright though there’s a few silly mistakes here and there…anyway..i curi tulang wan...Cuz i use the prepacked sauce:P

my masterpiece :) ciaoz…gtg savour my chicken rice :P

Nah…let u all salivate a little

Black Pepper Chicken with mixed veg

My Hainanese chicken rice..of course not ori lah…i Teochew mah lolx

Plain Porridge never tasted better

2009-07-10T21:37:00.001+08:00

ham yu pak chuk ya hou hou mei ( translates to salted fish and white plain porridge also tasted good )

Really I never liked plain porridge and canned chinese side dishes that go along with it back home…i always think how could my parents grow up eating plain porridge and sardine fish only..

Now i know.Gosh, i miss mummy’s cooking so much…i want to go back…..if only i can fly back now..now for dinner itself! Argh frust frust

Clockwise: Sardine,my favourite braised peanut,pickled lettuce and porridge with olive vegetable :)

Ahhh dinner never tasted so good..satisfaction* patting tummy*

Gtg.Tomorrow I’m sitting for biochem practical and I cant afford to screw it up kthxbai

Supremo Ball 2009

2009-07-05T16:57:00.001+08:00

I dont know why some pictures are rotated that way..so rotate ur heads k.soli lor…i rotated it in the album k.stil no changes when i posted it.:P anyone that knows how to fix this can leave me a comment…btw im using windows live writer

Pictures speaks a thousand words so ~~I’m lazy to blog~~

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Honey Lemon Chicken

2009-06-26T21:14:00.001+08:00

My favourite dish of all time. Easy like ABC

Well I admit this i curi tulang wan. Because the sauce is ready made

All i need to do is….

Beat up one egg…Marinate my chicken with salt and pepper to taste and dip each piece of chicken into the beaten egg and then sprinkle cornflour on both surface.

Then pan fry the chicken till golden brown.Drain the oil and put aside

Add one tablespoon of oil then add the LeeKumKee Lemon Chicken Sauce (one pack) then pour the chicken back into the pot and mix well.

Serves 2-3 person.For me 2-3 meals :)

My recipes are all hostel-friendly.

All you need is a rice cooker:) And the ingredients of course

Today’s Special

2009-06-26T14:41:00.001+08:00

Mixed vegetable chinese-style

1.Cut up your favourite veg. Mine : Cauliflower,carrot and green pepper

2.A tablespoon of oil,heat and throw some chopped garlic in.Stir fry til fragrant

3.Throw in all the veg and add a cup of water(250ml..about there lar..depending how much your veg is.more veg more water) Cover and let it cook for 15-20mins till soft.

4.Add 2 table spoon oyster sauce and stir in cornflour mixture to thicken the sauce.( 2 teaspoon of cornflour and add water…dun add hot water…just cold or room temperature water)

5.Add salt to taste. No MSG needed :) *Don’t eat MSG!*

( p/s: tell you a secret tip my grandmama use to teach me..add sugar instead of MSG..taste wayy nicer:)

Then stir and serve with fried rice or plain rice :)

Gosh I’m becoming such great cook!

Till next,carol da great chef-to-be

Carol’s Meal of the Day

2009-06-23T19:51:00.001+08:00

Decided to cook something to eat. Lazy to go out bah.More recipes to come:p

Ghee Rice

1. Throw in ghee, fry the cashew nut til golden brown then throw in rice, stir fry then throw in an egg, then stir summore then add raisins then serve :)

Curry Potato

1.Throw potato cubes in slow cooker, add water just enough to cover half of the potato, throw in curry paste. ( Note: I used slow cooker because i made in batches. You can use rice cooker and just add curry paste without diluting it)

Ta-da!

Ghee rice + curry potato

A Week’s Worth of Tale

2009-06-20T18:49:00.001+08:00

Monday- Read Gray’s Anatomy ( the Henry Gray..not the drama Grey’s Anatomy) Found out that my Head of Department of Anatomy,Dr Somayaji (secretly our Soma tata ~ roughly translates to grandfather,yeh yeh,gong gong,ah kong,whatever language) where was i? ah…apparently he’s gonna be mentioned in the newest edition of Gray’s Anatomy ( up to now already 150 years, 40th edition is the latest if i’m not mistaken ) because he found a new muscle!!! mmm…i wonder would he name it or would it be in some latin name again..somasus, soma muscle, somayajisus
Tuesday - Watched Bride’s War.~~Didn’t study.~~Slept at 9pm
Wednesday-Crammed 4 weeks worth of Biochem and slept at 6.30am.Procrastination finally caught up with me.
Thursday- Biochem class test.Only managed with a 88.75% though could have gotten 100%*pissed* *my personal drill sergeant kept drumming in my head “stupid Carol so easy also cannot get 100 dungu punye budak!”
Friday –Another cramming session from 4.30am to 7.30am.. this round for Physiology. Bad luck:( only got 80% *goodness me..carol lee!! How could you be so dumb?? How can you not learn from your mistake? Cramming don’t work!! Not when you have dozens of materials to work with! *
Today – cooking curry potato! Woo..sedap :p Orthodontic appointment at 2pm. Prognosis of the day. Read Chaurasia and Ganong

Current Addiction

Bananas. Ate 8 today
Gray’s Anatomy. I know I know.. waste of time..too much info…
http://www.lumosity.com/games/memory-matrix
See how long I could last without spending unnecessary money at all.Up to now, record remains at 7 days
Remain at RS0.02 credit so that I have no excuse to text buddies in Malaysia.For as long as I could:p

Gosh! 1.48pm. I need to run

More updates on Carol’s mundane life err…soon :p

Kiam Siap a.k.a Stingy a.k.a. the new Indianised Carol

2009-06-08T23:56:00.001+08:00

Ok so right…my plan now right…is to be kiam siap(Hokkien for ~~stingy~~)

Ok now hor…i dongwang to call myself ~~stingy~~ …i just checked the meaning..

stingy

~~One entry found.~~

: ~~1 : not generous or liberal : sparing or scant in using, giving, or spending <stingy with the salt> <stingy employee benefits> 2 : meanly scanty or small <stingy portions of meat~~

THRIFTY!!

Yay me!! I found a new Carol-to-be- description and a new goal!

10 Easy Steps to be ~~kiam siap~~ Thrifty

1. Don’t buy junk food

like Lay’s even though it’s damn cheap. Cheaper than Mister Potato ~~( Only RM1.00)~~ Scratch that

2.Don’t buy calling card

crazy expensive Rm160 for erm… at the rate of Rm0.20 per min

3. Snack at home before going out to dinner at somewhere posh

like Blue Water. Less temptation to order second serving

4. Go Veg!

Porridge, bread,jam,biscuit and Milo… WEEE!!! * frown* ~~That’s not food~~ Scratch that too

5. Dun reply sms from Msia.

SO BUDDIES, If got anything email or Facebook or MSN me k? or drop a comment here. Pls use ur brain. Private matters of course may direct it to my email. KThxBai

6. Shop with care.

Only buy what is absolutely needed. Quote Carol’s fren, Wood,” Spend on what is necessary” Duh who dunno that… Wood let me teach u another phrase I came up with. “ If you think you need it, stop turn around and go home, come back tomorrow if you didn’t die from the lack of it”

7. Go home for lunch.

Go home for breaks.Prevent temptations like Subway, Thailin and BlueWater, Manipal Canteen… Anything that involves food think of home 1st:) ~~Home sweet home!~~ ( err hostel sweet hostel? )

8. Cook in bulk

For both lunch and dinner at once.Better still one whole week! So that there an excuse to not go out to eat :p And kiam siap ppl cant stand to see food go to waste. *Think of the kids in Africa* Fine. I’m in India. Think of the kids in India

9. Walk.

Everywhere I wanna go. Walk. Which means, leaving early for dental appointment, waking early for class ( late means paying rm1 for auto ride – freaking expensive – blardy hell!! I can go to KL and come back for RM1!!!! in school uniform of course – another way to save *peace* )

10. Everything second-hand.

No new books, No new kitchenware( I’m kinda obsessed with kitchenware..really…~~i want a rice cooker, i want a table to put all my slow cooker and sandwich maker,i want a hot plate, a frying pan and knife and chopping board)~~, no new school bag :( always wanted a Nike school bag like elora’s or lipsheng’s BUT will i die tomorrow if i don’t have it today? ABSOLUTELY NOT. So no new Nike school bag for me

P/S: I love you.

Kidding

P/S: You didn’t read wrongly. School bag. Yes. A backpack. Not a sling bag, not a hand bag. A back-to-school bag. I’m nerd. That’s what nerds carry ( no offence elora & lipsheng :p )

And pardon my england for this post.cuz hor i very de busy lar…

31st May 2009

2009-05-31T16:33:00.001+08:00

At some point of your life,you ponder upon all the mistakes that you have done.

All the chain of events that eventually made you you.

And as for me, I do dig up all the paths that I have chosen,

Then I ponder upon the road not taken,

The very reasons for not taking the road not taken,

The very reasons that I’m me.

These events made me me

I didn’t regret a single event that brought me to where I am now.

And the road I took will be a long one

A long,windy road

A doctor once told me, he’s already at the ending checkpoint while I am just only taking the first step to a thousand miles marathon

And I chose to run the journey myself ;no regrets

No matter who caught up with me or who I caught up with during the marathon,

At the end,

It’s just me alone crossing the finishing line

And I know, along the journey, I’ll make new friends, I’ll meet strangers, I’ll meet new competitors and excellent motivators that may or may not run the distance with me.

But deep down inside, I’m me

I’ll always be me

I may act indifferent toward my family and friends

I may be missing in action for most part of their life

But deep down inside, I’ll still be me

I’m saying this not because I want to give excuses to myself for my absence

I’m saying this because at some point of my life,

I know, and I hope I know,

That everyone that I love and loved would cut me some slacks for my absence once in a while

Once in a while, I’d like to be perceived as a good friend and not an always MIA friend

And I shudder at the thoughts of me running the marathon alone,

I shudder at the thoughts of how I would look at myself through thousands of miles,

Because someday my mistakes could take away precious life,

And I’m not a perfectionist I know.

I act like one but deep down I’m not,

And the day when my mistakes cost someone their life,

I can’t imagine what the amount of self loathing and guilt I would face

I wouldn’t allow myself in that situation now but sometimes life just brings the worst-case scenarios

A breakdown would be inevitable at that time

I hope, at that time, someone will slow down to walk with me,

To regain my motivation, to shift my paradigm towards life and death,

To at least make sure I don’t beat myself up too much over the mistakes I’d do

And I could regain my strength and willpower to continue running to cross the finishing line.

This is to my family and friends,

Who stayed with me and held me tight when I needed them the most

-emo- wuuhuu

Amigos para siempre

2009-05-31T12:58:00.001+08:00

No one likes to lose control.

But as a medical student there is nothing worse,

It’s a sign of weakness;

Of being not up to the task.

And still there are times when it just gets away from you.

When the world stops spinning ,

And you realise that your stacks of medical books and the world of knowledge of medical sciences isn’t going to save you,

No matter how hard you fight it,

You fall.

And it’s scary as hell.

Except,

there’s an upside to free-falling

It’s the chance you give your friends to catch you.

Flashback on 2006

2009-05-26T00:31:00.001+08:00

KKKRINNNNGGGGG…A bell rang in the background so loudly that I was startled back to the scene in front of me. Oh it’s not over?? I asked myself. God knows how long she’s gonna take for her welcome speech.Might as well I daydream over my dreams of stepping into medical school..Mmm will I get Ireland? Nah..I doubted my 10As is good enough..Mmm How about Russia? I wouldn’t mind though even though it’s like Arctic there. “Ketika anda berada di sini, matlamat kami adalah untuk membantu anda mencapai kejayaan and merealisasikan impian anda,” said the Headmistress of SMK Seafield. “Ah! Lantaklah” Not like I’ll be here anyway.My appeal will be approved I’m sure.

Fast forward one month later..

“This is your new president of the Malam Perpisahan Tingkatan 5&6”

“Yerrr….. who is that girl…So lan si… I don’t like the way she conquers everything during meeting…like she owns Seafield ( actually truthfully after knowing her, she really owns Seafield) and she don’t like the rest of us outsiders ( non-Seafieldians) especially me.” But the outcome is, I found my newfound bau bau bacang relative, Jessica Loke a.k.a. da pig, and I found myself a bunch of great friends!

Fast forward two months later..

“Does anyone in this class wants to go to Miracle Youth Camp?”

Great.That is a great opportunity for me to mingle with the rest of the form 6 people…who ever that is going …. and great opportunity for me to test my independence skills. Meanwhile….all forgotten about the appeal and no news anyway so I decided to settle down in Seafield.

During camp, err..”Hi :) You’re from Seafield right? I’m Carol from 6E.”

“Hi:) I’m Karine”

That’s how I meet Karine a.k.a. sam pat girl who worked with me through the whole camp to make things right. And also not forgetting she worked with me till 4am to make the suit for the model and finally we slept at 4am and woke up again at 5am.It was totally killer camp but we loved it sooo much. We got so addicted to the square dance. Damn farney ok!

And it was Shiny’s birthday during the camp. We celebrated but giving her bahul cake!! 18 bahul if i’m not mistaken:)

And we bonded like ji muis(sisters), like Petaling St deep fried ghost (yau char kuey) , like we’re glued on with elephant SUPERglue. Lolx

Then came something else that I have to continue next time:) gotta go draw histo. Maybe not. I shall go emo abit. Will tell you guys soon about it. Tata!

22nd SnifflesMay 2009Sniffles

2009-05-22T15:21:00.001+08:00

I woke up this morning at 5am. It was so cozy and so warm in my bed under the sheets that I didn’t want to get up and read my books.Suddenly, I jerked up and turn to the other bed. Oh shit! Did I wake up to open the door for Eunice? I squinted at the fuzzy blue human-shaped blanket opposite and sigh. Yes. A blur memory of me pulling the door open slowly formed in my brain.What is wrong with me? Why is my memory getting from bad to worse? I can hardly fall asleep last night. Words keep appearing through my brain…lateral relation,medial relation,transverse sinus,….urgh… I find myself recalling the day’s lectures before falling asleep.And i find myself waking up to stupid dreams about me failing exams or being late to class. And I find myself waking up to alarm buzzing off,telling me to wake up to study,study and study.*Sniffles*

“Is this all to my life in university? Is this all to my life in 5 years time? Worrying about passing exams,worrying about not getting enough sleep? worrying about getting to class without being late ?” I thought to myself.

“Ah,screw it.” I pulled the sheets over me and rolled over in my bed.Pulling my favourite pillow under my chin, I closed my eyes and fell back to sleep.*Sniffles*

BRRUUUUUMMMMMM!!! Roar of thunder jolted me from my slumber.

Oh no! It’s raining! How am I going to walk to class? *Sniffles*

I showered and pulled on a skirt and a long sleeve black tee.I expected it to be chilly in class.As I poured hot water into my orange cup half-filled with Milo powder,my mood lighten up at the prospect of walking to class in the rain. And since the thunderstorm had reduced to mere shower of rain, I brighten up quickly. I pulled on my stockings while letting my Milo cool. I sat at my lone chair and poured cornflakes into my Milo. Wincing a little at the pain of my tongue brushing against the metal ring around my molars,I thought of how much I miss morning drive to Seafield every morning.And then I thought of how much I miss walking to USJ4 back in the schooldays. A glance at the digital numerical flashing in orange glow told me that I’m in good timing. I threw my files in my Fila Italia sling bag and grabbed my Zen. Pulling on the earphones, I slipped my feet into my blue Crocs and skipped out of my room.It’s the first day in Manipal that I get to walk to class in the rain.

I walked down the corridor and down the steps,passing an Indian girl busy studying at the stairs.It’s inspiring to see her studying so hard in the morning.Pulling out my combo card, I scanned the card and exited my hostel building. I looked up into the heavy clouds obscuring the blue of the skies and I can’t help but smiled a little.It is definitely my favourite weather in the India. No sweaty sticky back and no sweaty sticky strands of fringe that I have to pull back and pin. *Sniffles*

It wasn’t so bad after all.Seniors said we would arrive in class with muddy shoes and drenched wet feet.I avoided few puddles of water. Though the rain did cleverly escape the shelter of my umbrella and manage to wet my bag, I silently thanked my mum for choosing this waterproof bag for me.I hopped up the steps leading into the lobby in time to catch the lift. I was surprised at my luck this morning.Usually I have to either squeeze in the packed lift or I either had to take the stairs as I miss the lift or I’ll risk being late to class.

The view that greeted me was a pleasant one. A few dozen of open umbrellas are placed randomly on the floor outside the lecture hall 3B. It was a very colourful backdrop against the pale colour of the wall. I wanted to snap a picture of it but I remembered that I left my camera in my drawer. Hence no pictures of ella. *Sniffles*

I think I shall bring my camera tomorrow if it rains again. And since I swear to study everyday,I shall return to my skull and brain now. Block 4 started last Monday. This block I’ll be learning all about brain and central nervous system. The toughest block of all.And in 3 months time it will be my final examination.

*Sniffles*

Wish me luck peeps! Enjoy the rest of the beautiful day!

Cold cold go away *Sniffles* come again another *Sniffles* argh wtheck.

Two Million Minutes

2009-05-03T03:12:00.001+08:00

So you must be wondering what is this girl gonna blog about next.

I got tired of Anatomy and started blog-hopping and stumbled across and old post of Jessie Chong (USJ4 junior –18 yrs old and currently in first year med in Liverpool! WooHoo!

So ok back to the point *kids nowadays are getting smarter and smarter*

The PTS system shouldn’t be abolished I felt.It gives a chance for kids that are more advance than their own peers to develop their mind in more stimulating environment . Nevermind the stress of missing a year worth of class (standard 4 science and math is like peanuts k)

Now the point here is, this old post of Jessie’s is regarding this documentary

Two Million Minutes

what is two million minutes? Two million minutes of what?

Say…4 years of high school from grade 8 to grade 12…means typically our form 4 & 5 and form 6 or A Level or Matriculations

60minutes X 24 hours = 1440 minutes

1440min X 365 days = 525,600 minutes

525,600 min X 4 yrs = 2,102,400 minutes

This Two Million Minutes of education determines your future

Determines where you stand in the world

This documentary talks about the education system in 3 big powerhouse of the 21st century

China,India and USA

The more i watched the more i realised how wonderful actually this system is. Though flaws are there. Less practical on hand.

How is that Jessie could take BP, give injection and had done per rectal examination (PRE) in 1st year itself?

Though no complains about the fact that sticking my finger up a patients anus and twisting it 360 degrees to feel the entire wall of anal canal PLUS palpating for the prostate and the dip in between AND THEN checking your finger for any discolouration other than the supposing BROWN colour isn’t really 1st thing in my agenda now…

Anyway, need i say more? Just sit and mug peeps. That’s India. That’s what you get when you are paying 3o% of what they are paying. 1 million ringgit to learn from the British. Nice.

Jumbled Brains of Medical Student part I ( since there will be more coming i thought I'll be smart a bit to label it first XD)

2009-05-02T17:06:00.001+08:00

So one fine day, Kahun, Nadesh, LH (Luteinizing Hormone) and I decided to have lunch together at….

Carol : Eh Kahun! Where you gonna eat today?

Kahun: erm…your choice lar

*My choice will be USJ14 chicken rice, apollo pan mee, penang char kuey teow,state hokkien mee… starts to drool over her biochemistry file*

*Snaps back to Interact Hall*

~~AH screw it~~

Nadesh: Aaaahhh (usually trademark) Your CHOICE LAR!!

LH: Come kawan! today i makan with you

Mega: So Carol where you eating today?

Carol: My choice is your choice…

I’m not trying to flirt here. Mega is a girl. Indeed, the shop’s name is Your Choice.

Then, while eating, we were trying to memorise the list of inorganic substance found in urine in order to prevent facing the sarcastic and at the same time you-can’t-resist-liking-him HOD of Biochem Dr Ullas Kamath

Kahun : Eh listen , C.S.I.Carol. and (N)

Nadesh … Obviously to busy gobbling down his chicken manchurian to listen

Carol: What?? what new disease is that?? How come I don’t know?

*PentiumIII starts whirring recalling all the diseases taught*

*And yes PentiumIII due to my lagging brain power*

Kahun happily replied

“ Hahahhaha,look i found a mnemonics for this list.”

C for chloride

S for sulphate

I for inorganic phosphate

Carol for Calcium … ~~wtheck~~

N ( and) for ammonia

Carol : why N for ammonia?

Kahun: Hahahhaha what’s after N? M lar!!! so AND-MO_NIA!!

Nadesh : Wah Kuhan! Smart ah!!

LH: Mmm…good good…very good

Carol was thinking on the evil thoughts today.She secretly let them be. So what happen next is….

Back in interact hall 3b

Fet : Eh so how? I haven’t finish memorising the urinalysis paper

Sara : Ya…me too.Die lar…

Nadesh proudly exclaimed, “Ah kawan-kawan, mari saya ajar”

C.S.I.Carol.N…so whats after N? M!!! so AMMONIA!!

Fet & Sara stared blankly while Carol exploded in laughter. Kahun walked over, “What lar you laughing like baboon, Carol?”

Well I’m sorry guys.You can’t expect me not to laugh and blog about this.

~~Moral of the story: Medical students are wacky~~

~~*oops whole MMMC will be after me*~~

Moral of the story: Nadesh and Kahun are wacky

The names in the story has been changed to protect certain party’s privacy. If the names are similar to anyone, it is purely unintentional.

Carol's Quote of The Day

2009-04-30T19:00:00.001+08:00

Watch your thoughts , they become your WORDS

Watch your words, they become your ACTIONS

Watch your actions, they become your HABITS

Watch your habits, they become your CHARACTER

Watch your character, they become

your DESTINY

MORAL OF THE STORY IS… THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS

ART OF ANATOMY PART II

2009-04-25T16:42:00.001+08:00

Liver

Kidney

Ovary

Graffian follicle

took me ages to finish this.Better give me another “good”

Life is uncertain

2009-04-19T21:58:00.001+08:00

How would you choose?

How should you choose?

How could you choose?

Life is really full of choices

At times it’s difficult to make the right choice

Choice One hurts a person you loved

Choice Two disappoints yourself

How do you choose between two of the things you love most?

How do you choose between two of the things you want most?

How much would you sacrifice for someone you love?

How much would you sacrifice over pleasing your loved ones?

How far would you be willing to go to make yourself happy and contented?

How far would you be willing to go to make your loved one happy and contented?

How deep do you love someone to be able to let her/him pursue his/her dreams even

though it means hurting yourself?

How do you choose?

How would you choose?

How should you choose?

How should I choose….

1000 Years

2009-04-14T22:16:00.001+08:00

by Kang Eun Soo

Moment, you came to my heart just by chance
To me you don't seem to be a stranger
It was so long for you to finally find me

For 1000 years I’ve been waiting for you
More than million tears fall in eternal love
Remember forevermore,
We will stand for 1000 years

Sometimes i know it will not be easy with you
Until then i will pray for our true love
Don't ever forget, my love
We will be together

For 1000 years I’ve been waiting for you
More than million tears fall in eternal love
Remember forevermore,

We will stand for 1000 years

Don't say i don't want to hear you say good bye
Please promise me you will always be my love, my love

For 1000 years I’ve been waiting for you
More than million tears fall in eternal love
Remember forevermore,
We will stand for 1000 years

2005 movie that never fails to touch my heart every single time I watch this.Again and again and again.Watch it if you haven’t watch before - Innocent Steps

ART OF ANATOMY

2009-03-28T01:11:00.001+08:00

My art vs Atlas diFiore’s

Histology of colon (large intestine)

I forgot my lymphatic nodules.. (the bluish circle in picture 2)

anyway i still have one more to go….haihz….gtg ciaoz

oh btw i didn’t get placing for western dance..anyway i love the stage so much that i don’t think i ever regretted..it was damn cool to be dancing live on tv!!! woohoo!!

this is how ur appendix looks like under microscope :) have fun peeps:)

IT’S SHOUTING HOLIDAY TOMORROW!!!!! WOOHOO!!!

2009-03-25T16:11:00.003+08:00

hey guys..been out of touch for a few days.Been busy with UTSAV 2009.It’s a cultural event of Manipal University.The event runs for 5 days and it’s a competition between 22 colleges in my uni. Well to cut short the story,it’s quite a big event since Manipal University is the pride of our state Karnataka and the most intimidating part about being on stage is that it’s broadcast live on tv channel..but i don’t think it’s national tv since they use different official language. I participate in one of the evnt.The Cultural Parade and i’m suppose to be the one showcasing the modern culture by dancing waltz with Wei Yi my classmate.I don’t have the video though, will try to get it and linked it here. For now just a picture.And tonight i have another dance as ke leh fe( backup dancer) for my college too.Western dance group.So wish me luck!! Gotta go practise. I just learnt it yesterday from 3pm to 1am.Poor ankle. Gonna strain it again tonight.BUT FOR THE LAST TIME!!! I’m gonna break from all social activites for a week till i caught up with my work. Anatomy!!

oh btw,i must mention this:) my dress is as short as this.. and i couldn’t find a full length gown.

So the creative brain of mine created this!!!

and while i’m at this camwhoring phase i can’t help but notice that the salsa shoes are pretty cute isn’t it? :) it belongs to Winnie though..it was lovely of her to lend it to me though her shoe size is US 6 and i’m a 5.5

Tata my final creation.Hair by Charles.Makeup by YuhHui. Dress helped by Sarah :)

If only…..

2009-03-20T23:16:00.001+08:00

If only i didnt agree to go basketball…

If only i went jogging instead…..

If only I bought a basketball sneaker…

If only I didn’t feel sleepy….

If only I didn’t hear the phone ringing…

If only I didn’t jump for the rebound…

If only I didn’t hear a crack…

If only…

Then my big plan A (remember?) would not be disrupted…

I’m not angry

I’m just mad at myself for landing wrongly on my toes instead on my heels

Me bad

Now i can’t jog or swim for another one week..

Ish…

Great plan A will have to do without this slot for a week

No thanks for the sympathetic look

I brought it on meself

Sometimes you just gotta live with your own mistake

Swallowing the guilt and living the life at the moment

There’s more to this

I’ve learnt my lesson well

Gotta go Snell-ing now

buh bye till next , RolRol

B.I.A.

2009-03-19T01:26:00.001+08:00

Alright!Alright!

Scold me all you want! Curse me all you want! My bad I know for abandoning my blog.

…………….5

…………4

………3

……2

…1

Fine. Satisfied? Wanna hear me out?

Ok. Back to where I left you guys at Xmas 08 right?

I remembered.

January 2009

New Year Celebration together with Kathy’s birthday
~~Busy listening to CNY songs on lappie and decorating me room with red stuff :P~~
Busy with studies .

2. February 2009

Chinese New Year… boo hoo…where’s my angpau peeps :P
6th – Busy packing up and stuffing my belongings into the store room for safekeeping till I’m back in March ( At this point…where to?? )
7th – memorable trip back to KL !!!!!! Landed in Bangalore and had lots of fun :) For pictures..refer MukaBuku :P
8th – Landed in KLIA at 8.30am
- Ate dim sum the first thing i’m back….unpacked and shows me parents my 7kg books… ( ~~&@$%@$#$@ ..DIDN’T EVEN TOUCH IT THROUGH OUT THE MONTH..WASTE OF LUGGAGE SPACE ARGH )~~
12th – Went disguised as Cheryl Lee ( my sis ) to my buddies’ houses… Ian,Carrere, Jowliie and DOt ( in that order…gave everyone a surprise :) except for DOt..argh waste of plans ) then YC at errr…McD lolx..Fries!!!
14th- Went back to Penang and ate lots and lots of food!!!!!
16th – Drove to UPM to surprise Ben.~~Plan failed.He recognises my voice.~~Went for “Inkheart” and “Tony Roma’s” Had a great day :) Thanks Ben :)
some trip to UPM again..cant rmb when…thursday though… seludup into hubungan etnik lecture, had much fun watching others study when i don’t need to..lolx…then got caught red-handed by lecturer but she was so kind…she just OH…Pelajar Asing…and smiled :) hahahha
A day in life of Ben Sim continues as we went for dinner at a nearby shop…and met up with his friends…and while he was busy writing in test pad ( english test :P) i had much fun hanging out with new found friends in UPM…for Malam Gongxi in Kolej Tun Perak
Then the next day…had fun going out to do survey in Sek Wawasan in USJ 15..took a few photographs and did an interview..tat’s all :)
Oh before that…on 18th went SS2 with Shiny,San,Tracey,Ben & FLip…Wong Kok CHar Chan Teng..Not bad…food there…the drink Koo Tin Lok 2 was good :) hahahhaha Don’t ask what it is..just order :)

3. March 2009

1st : Shoot..7 more days…argh..so much to do…yet so little time
2nd: Die die…havent touch my Ganong at all
3rd : wah so expensive my Netter in Kinokuniya… RM360+.. guess what? less than half the price I got it for in India :P
4th : Oh no 2 more days till Singapore
5th: Busy packing again..haihz…overweight overweight!!! Both me and Luggage!!!
6th : LCCT Last meal of Mcd before i leave again..haihz…
SIngapore : Err…where are we huh Eunice?? HOw to go to departure hall wei??
Eh boring la…sit down chit chat la wei
Met almost all my gang that came back on the same day
6TH; zzzzzzzz at 11.00pm in India ( 1.30am Msian timing) Argh…7 hrs to next flight…what to do in Bengaluru International Airport? zzzzzzzzzzz
Oh time to board..lets go..Jet Airways…nice service..will definitely fly them again..after Tiger AIrway… Jet Airway felt like heaven…even though it was domestic flight…nice breakfast..nice seat…Tiger was a killer on board…seat was too uncomfortable…they should rehaul the seats…make it like Tiger..sure better business…i would rather fly MAS next time..dinner served…don’t need to walk god knows how many kilometers from landing strip to custom…practically walked the whole length of the strip..can’t Tiger provide shuttle bus for us from plane to arrival hall like Jet Airway? That Budget ah? haihz…
7th- Busy shifting room from Sonia Hostel to Indira Hostel.SIde by side but now it’s double room for me :P with Eunice…for pictures see MukaBuku again :P
9th – Settled down and classes starts again
10th – Practise dance for Junior Orientation .For Video see Muka Buku..this is the orientation official welcome video..intro to life in Manipal.You might catch a glimpse of me here and there…lolx :)

11th – Successful performances…2 dances one catwalk..settled!! My job is done..at least I did help out..don’t say I never did try giving my best :)
12th – schedule resumes to normal

4. Today

Anat dissection. Saw my table lecturer actually laughed for the 1st time.Lolx Mixes up oblique popliteal ligament ( knee ligament ) and oblique umbilical ligament ( abdominal ligament ) and he laughed at his own mistake!!! Had a fun dissection today.Though i still don’t know his name..I’m in Table 5.. ( highest table 6…not table 1..i’m nt that teruk in my studies – though still getting only ONE PATHETIC DISTINCTION FOR PHYSIOLOGY!! ARgh…thank goodnesss i got it though.@$#%@#^ who calculated my marks?? ^#@^%#^@ had me a hard attack! I thought my essay was that bad 43/60…where my 8 marks went missing before this?? Luckily i recounted…Was pleased i actually got 51/60…That’s like so near to Evelyn’s standard (Everlyn is my senior…smartest girl in her batch…always scoring 90 plus if she evr scores 80 plus she says it’s bad…haihz perfectionist )….My ANATOMY is still a little below distinction and BIOCHEM haihz…yeah a little more below distinction…gotta work hard though to get my distinction in FINALS :)

Notice lots of sigh??

Yeah but I’m not sighing my life away..just wanted to release some tension here. ..

Gotta go wash my laundry…urgh…my least favourite chores of all..

Ciaoz

Wish me luck for my BIG PLAN!! I have got BIG OVERHAUL PLAN A!!!

~~Just a name…no Plan B or PLan C…Plan A sounds cooler than Big Plan :P wth~~

2009-03-01T02:54:00.001+08:00

She was beautiful,

Her smile was magnetic,

Happiness puts a smile on her face that is nothing short of wonderful,

Sadness does not tarnish her beauty rather it makes her all the more enigmatic.

Her beauty reminded me of lilies,

Her smile shone as brightly as the pristine white of the petals,

Bringing instant relief to all my melancholies,

However the alluring white is something she could never be,

Because to me, she was all the colors in my garden of life.

-Ian-

2009-01-24T23:45:00.001+08:00

NOTICE FOR ALL READERS

With regards to this special notice, I am pleased to announced that there will be an announcement regarding me soon but the content of the news shall be disclosed only on 5th of February 2009 as there are certain protocols and much obligations to be fulfilled. Hence, co-operations are much needed as speculations will not be tolerated here.

I wish all of you a very very prosperous and Happy Chinese New Year!!

Gong Xi Fa Chai

Sincerely,
Carol

Note: Please do keep all your angpau-s for me ya! I'll be back soon to claim it;)

2008-12-25T14:14:00.012+08:00

So what did you guys do during Christmas eve?keep me updated pls

I had the most memorable Xmas ever..it was so different and yet so amazingly fun. Sitting down for the best meal ever in Manipal..go Lasagne n risotto! not forgetting Subway Apple Pie!... singing along to john's guitar and at times weiyi's and fred's ..just purely hanging out and camwhoring hahahhaha just a night alone i had like 100 pictures...proves that we medic students are normal too..lol..the shameless family!! I *heart* you guys!! my dearest subang family...dun worry i'm still part of you guys:) subang family still has a place in my fist-sized heart...guys heart are bigger...mmm i wonder if that is the reason they can keep more girls in their heart..

MERRY XMAS!!

Batch23(partly not all 126 of course)

Weiyi looking sweet--ooooo--poor kuhan

loi.... tree huggers...

this is how our kuhan parks himself

poke weiyi--tak jadi--too dark

posers of the year..eminem n hero

wannabe amber chia

constipated desmond

*swt*lipsheng looking happy with his new found crown

the guys

nandhesh ..rmb the grinning clown??

fred the eminem-ed one

statue of liberty coming to life...scroll down you will understand

NOW THE GURLS OF BATCH 23

yuhhui...

sin yen

eunice ( my neighbour)

sarah

elora

kuhan ( class rep)

this is me posing for Xmas!

the cute grinch

spastic kuhan

johnny boy

L-R: me,vanessa,suzanne,winnie,wei yi da great.... vanessa and winnie are from seychelles

elora so excited at the lens

now you understand? hahhahaha

there subway apple pie:)

2008-12-24T20:20:00.002+08:00

Dear Santa,

This year my wishes are pretty simple and easy to fulfill
So hopefully they do come true!

Have lots of fun for Xmas
Everyone back home and everyone in Manipal will have fun and enjoy Xmas away from home:)
Why keep having fun? zzz materialistically i want McD! pls DHL pls pls pls
Cute black pump preferably Charles&Keith cheap cheap peeps rm150 for a four inch heels...not bad wat...hehehhehe
Andy Lau no-more so chocolates!! Lots and Lots of Chocolates!!!

That's all my dear Santa..I wished for nothing else more:)

2008-12-14T23:34:00.003+08:00

He shook my shoulder, trying to loosen my rigid pose. "Let me finish! I'm a good liar, but still, for you to
believe me so quickly." He winced. "That was… excruciating."

I waited, still frozen.

"When we were in the forest, when I was telling you goodbye—"

I didn't allow myself to remember. I fought to keep myself in the present second only.

"You weren't going to let go," he whispered. "I could see that. I didn't want to do it—it felt like it would
kill me to do it—but I knew that if I couldn't convince you that I didn't love you anymore, it would just
take you that much longer to get on with your life. I hoped that, if you thought I'd moved on, so would
you."

"A clean break," I whispered through unmoving lips.

"Exactly. But I never imagined it would be so easy to do! I thought it would be next to impossible—that
you would be so sure of the truth that I would have to lie through my teeth for hours to even plant the
seed of doubt in your head. I lied, and I'm so sorry—sorry because I hurt you, sorry because it was a
worthless effort. Sorry that I couldn't protect you from what I an. I lied to save you, and it didn't work.
I'm sorry.
"But how could you believe me? After all the thousand times I've told you I love you, how could you let
one word break your faith in me?"

I didn't answer. I was too shocked to form a rational response.

"I could see it in your eyes, that you honestly believed that I didn't want you anymore. The most absurd,
ridiculous concept—as if there were anu way that I could exist without needing you!"

I was still frozen. His words were incomprehensible, because they were impossible.

He shook my shoulder again, not hard, but enough that my teeth rattled a little.

"Bella," he sighed. "Really, what were you thinking!"

And so I started to cry. The tears welled up and then gushed miserably down my cheeks.

"I knew it," I sobbed. "I knew I was dreaming."

"You're impossible," he said, and he laughed once—a hard laugh, frustrated. "How can I put this so that
you'll believe me? You're not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved
you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I
was away. When I told you that I didn't want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy."

I shook my head while the tears continued to ooze from the corners of my eyes.

"You don't believe me, do you?" he whispered, his face paler than his usual pale—I could see that even
in the dim light. "Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?"

"It never made sense for you to love me," I explained, my voice breaking twice. "I always knew that."

His eyes narrowed, his jaw tightened.

"I'll prove you're awake," he promised.

i'M OFFICIALLY IN LOVE WITH TWILIGHT

PLEASE STOP ME FROM READING BOOK 3 THIS VERY MOMENT

I NEED TO DO MY PRESENTATION

PLEASE TAKE THE LAPTOP AWAY

TAKE EDWARD CULLEN'S MESMERIZING SPELL AWAY

PLEASE DO

REALLY DO

2008-12-13T15:41:00.002+08:00

FLY AWAY FROM HERE

You gotta find a way
Yeah, I can't wait another day
Ain't nothin' gonna change
If we stay around here
I gotta do what it takes
Because it's all in our hands
We all make mistakes
Yeah, but it's never to late to start again (yeah yeah)
Take another breath
And say another prayer

Then fly away from here
To anywhere
Yeah, I don't care
If we just fly away from here
Our hopes and dreams
Are out there somewhere
Won't let time pass us by
We'll just fly

If this life
Gets any harder now
It ain't no nevermind
Ya got me by your side
And anytime you want (fly fly fly)
Yeah we catch a train
And find a better place
Yeah, 'cause we won't let nothin'
or no one keep gettin' us down
maybe you and I
Could pack our bags and hit the sky

Then fly away from
To anywhere
Yeah, I don't care
If we just fly away from here
And our hopes and dreams
Are out there somewhere
I won't let time pass us by
We'll just fly

Do you see a bluer sky now
You could have a better ride now
Open your eyes

Because no one here can ever stop us
They can try but we won't let them
No way-ay-ay-ay-yeah-ah

maybe you and I
Could pack our bags and say goodbye

Then fly away from here
To anywhere
No honey I don't care
If we just fly away from here
And our hopes and dreams
Are out there somewhere
Fly away from here (ya ya ya)
Yeah anywhere
Now honey, I don't I don't I don't fly (yeah)

We just fly (fly away)

inspirational song..hmm..just fly..i wish life could be that simple..

but then again, why complicate things when life could have been lived in a simpler, happier version?

Troubles come and go...

But friends do stay..

Thank you for being there for me guys..

Love ya all lots...

2008-12-12T13:08:00.004+08:00

Benadryl + Larynx + Twilight

To-Do List

1. Carol shall stop procrastinating today
2. Carol shall study anatomy since class test is on next next Monday
3. Carol shall reorganize her physiology and biochemistry lecture notes
4. Carol shall go offline as soon as she finish blogging:p *no taunting carol at this point*

Today is different.

This morning is totally different.

Carol woke up feeling more afresh than ever but after this

Carol can't even concentrate on this
But Carol decided to just study from Netter's (this book here)

Smart of her. Easy to follow Narendra's lecture today.

Carol knew answers to his questions today.

A good sign

Good karma for not killing the pathetic small ant that hid between the pages of her Anatomy file and sneaked into lecture hall with her yesterday

A sign

Good sign

May all the merits be given to all the departed souls that couldn't join the other world.

P/s: even though they are around us and according to Carol's source in her very own hostel

And btw,

Carol peep a little at Twilight in pdf form.

Shall Carol read it?

I think Carol should not read it because once she starts she can't stop.

Yes that bad.

Oops it's becoming longer and longer.

Gotta nap to work the Benadryl

...till next...

2008-12-12T02:12:00.002+08:00

HISTORICAL MOMENT

guess what. I cooked today. WooHoo...carol lee cooks? my dear classmate was telling how girls are supose to know how to cook and bla bla bla but hello...back in Malaysia I have a perfectly good mother who cooks good meals...Why would i bother fighting with her in the kitchen? She used to shoo me out of the kitchen because I was such a nuisance..Lol... Anyway the point is, I steamed chicken ( which was too salty by the way :p poor roomie Eunice had to use the soup to wash off the salt ) and fried tomato egg and boiled ABC soup! Accomplishment done! I doubt 'll ever cook again this week. My cooking skills are off the chart. I have to go back Malaysia and train more. Anyone wants to try my cooking? It's actually edible you know, other than the fact it's salty :p

Anyway, what am I crapping here? I'm suppose to do my pharynx and larynx and yet I'm blogging. Shoot... thanks to pig that seduces me with all her new posts.. great now I'm really babbling...

Had my dose of chocolate today. I have to drink lots of water to compensate for my indulgence in case my sore throat attacks again. Goodness me....Please dont let me fall sick...please don't let me fall sick...i dont wanna be sick again...I'll be good..no ranting or gossiping...i just study all night long...now I really have to go...ciaoz ppl..sorry for this short post :P hehehhe

Did i mention i walked 15 mins to the shop at 11.30pm to buy the chocolate? lolx

2008-12-08T21:31:00.002+08:00

Lau to wed girlfriend of 23 years

By SYLVIA LOOI

Chu: The former beauty contestant met Lau in 1985

IPOH: After 23 years of keeping their romance under wraps, Hong Kong heartthrob Andy Lau Tak Wah and his Malaysian girlfriend Carol Chu will walk down the aisle next year.

The couple, who got to know each other in 1985, has chosen Pulau Redang in Terengganu as the site for their lavish wedding ceremony to avoid the papparazzi.

Hong Kong magazine Three Weekly reported that the 47-year-old Lau got the idea of getting married on a faraway resort island from his buddy Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who recently tied the knot with Chinese beauty Carina Lau Kar Ling.

The magazine reported that the star had been vehemently denying his relationship with Chu for fear of losing the support of his fans but Chu’s appearance at Lau’s concert early this year had sent the rumour mill into overdrive.

Lau also set tongues wagging when he asked his fans if idols could have girlfriends and get married as a way of testing his fans’ response to his marriage plans. Fans responded that he should be open about his love for Chu.

Chu’s romance with Lau is believed to have started not long after she was named second runner-up in a beauty contest in 1985.

In May this year, he was spotted at the wedding ceremony of Chu’s sister in Kuala Lumpur.

Best buddies: Lau (right) got the idea of getting married on a faraway island from his good friend Leung (left).

When contacted by press, his former girlfriend Yu Ke Xin said: “I am very happy for him. It is time he settled down.”

Extracted from staronline.com

Oo why must he marry when i'm not in Malaysia? Morever with a girl named Carol too....hahahhaa but I'm happy for my Idol..It's time to get Andy Jr.

Darn it..holiday packages in Redang's gonna be costly next time.

2008-12-08T06:22:00.006+08:00

Lecture Hall Antics No.1

What MBBS Students do during their freetime...

Some student like John would pose for the camera

Some would catch up on their sleeping quotas

Some too would like to catch up on their sleeping quotas but due to unknown reasons didnt do it, so body biologically compensates by yawning
Note: Jeremy here loves to yawn...don't believe me? scroll down :0

Some loves to turn around to chat:) like our own Elora here

Or if she finds Carol busy photographing she would stare into space instead

Or some would use the time to discuss on things...studies-related huh...like Mr Kuhan ( our class rep) and Ms Know-It-All @ Ms Anu...far behind in blue top, Ms Winnie Low from Seychelles...sleeping too...

Or like John, busy text-ing while kepoh-ing on the other side

Caught another one sleeping...hehehhe...Mr Frederick Yee

Or chit-chatting with girls

Or studying like Ms Loo Huey

Some will pose for the camera like Jeremy and Nandhesh here

Or un-pose for the camera

Still chit-chatting with Shi Jia

Then here comes our Jay Chaw Sui Wai, loves photography like I do..with Mr Desmond Khor ( both backbenchers of Block 1)

LipSheng: Looking pissed off at the lens

Acting cute in front of camera

Fred woke up drinking water feeling afresh....while Gayathri studies lecture notes

Lip Sheng: Eh Carol Lee...enough ah....
Terasa giler...i'm trying to prove my theory that jeremy yawns alot only ma..

See i'm right:p

Some daydream too .... focus here is my bottle and my files...woohoo...rajin giler carol..banyak files

Ooo commotion over there

Aiya boring la....*yawn*

oops...argh better run this time...LipSheng looks scary....Grrr...

Thanks peeps...

No copyrights were paid for all pictures published. No permission was taken and no laws violated ( i've double-checked) but still if anyone that wants me to remove their pictures may drop a note at my comment box. Thank you for your co-operations.

2008-12-08T04:15:00.010+08:00

Lecture Hall Antics No.2

Block 2 commences and I decided to take some shots again during lunch break

Randomness-not in lecture hall but in food court
L: Nandhesh R: Chaw

Introducing MBBS students' favourite books

Crashed other's seat to get better shots

My seat....the one with brown bag... Kuhan whacking Jeremy i think..

Notice that now I'm second row from behind...switched place in block 2

Nandhesh,Jeremy and Kuhan...Fred behind with peace sign... Kuhan look so gay here... careful o jeremy

Acting cool..cheh

Hardworking Jo Sheen(colgate girl~she smiles all the time)

playing with gadgets, samsung Mp4 ( damn cool, it can act as bluetooth headset and even cooler is you can make calls or receive calls from the mp4...darn it...i'm in love with it...)

And my Zen, and Nandhesh so amazed by my Tv function ( he's watching hindi drama ~below)

Pang Han playing with his "100" iPod

Jeremy happily on the phone.Nandhesh looks weird.Fred poser with his peace sign again

Melu@Singaporean who doesnt know Malay,...studying

Jeremy playing with his phone..Nandhesh looked weird again..Fred forever looking cool

No comments...zzz

My hair looks different here....mmm...should i get a haircut? like Jloi? or like Amelia?

Okay now that you guys have seen the sampatness of the guys is my class...how about a constrasting picture?

Jeng Jeng Jeng

Infernal Affairs IV

Standing (L-R) : Tan Lip Sheng( Shawn Yue), Chaw Sui Wai( Tony Leung), Lim Wei Yi(Gordon Lam Ka-Tung, Desmond(Chapman To)
Seated (L-R) : Jeremy Wong(Anthony Wong), Frederick Yee(Andy Lau)

2008-12-08T01:08:00.008+08:00

Stepping into 20's in India

It's the celebration of my 2 decades of life on Earth and it's also my 1st celebration away from Malaysia. It's definitely memorable I can say since it's my first time stepping into the adulthood! WooHoo!! Big welcome to the 20's club. Oh both me and Elora too:)

It felt weird at first because my overly excited mum text me on 5th and sudden pang of realization came upon me. "Hey I'll be 20 in 24 hours time" Which is good! But only 21 is officially of age. Darn it. " Come, come 6th Dec 09, come quickly" Like what Jow Liie said. Yeah, part of me does not want to grow up so quickly yet another part wants to skip through the years ahead and see what lies in the future for me.

I absolutely love my birthday cake or rather ice-cream sundae:)It's Baskin Robbins! In Manipal! You'll be surprised that there's Baskin Robbins:) But i can definitely tell you it's the best ever ice-cream i've ever tasted other than Haagen Daaz. You think they'll have a franchise over here too?? *Hopefully*

This year is special in another way. Every year I wished for the same thing again and again.5A's, 7A's, 10A1's, medic school.I think I'm very blessed since every single wish of mine came true.I have good karma:P So this year, I didn't wish for a single thing. I blanked out before I blew my candles. I thought I've wasted my wish but all I want right now is Peace to The World!! Say No to War! Say No to Terrorism!

It's unfair that life are wasted in this way. Bombing,threats, civil war,war against religions....Now that I'm living in the country affected by terrorism, I have a strong feeling about this issue...why are we bothering to even fight against each other, against the same people of our own, against the citizens of the world when we could have been fighting to stop poverty , to stop starvations of the world, to stop killing Mother Earth...

We could have been well saving the children of the world,fight against poverty and raise awareness on human right issues like child labour and child soldier. And people. DO SAVE THE EARTH. Every small attempts like stop using plastic bags, if u can help it,girls, do not accept plastic bags for shopping if you do not keep them, reuse plastic bags as many times as possible and conserve energy. No question of car pooling here. But walk to your campus, take public transport (people complain of the time wasted but if everyone uses public transport sooner or later they would have to upgrade the service )

There...here you go...a year wiser Carol :)

Bla bla bla... picture time!

By the way, just wanna thank everyone for their well wishes :) I'd a happy birthday!

My birthday cake!!! Lolx ice cream sundae actually:)
Zoom in people.. it's Baskin RObbins!

WooHoo!! Happy 20!

Elora and I celebrated our bday together since her's on 7th

L-R: Elora , Jo-ve, Izza

L-R: Wee vian, shi jia ( Ooo guess what?? Shi Jia is ShihMun's cousin...no kidding people..yes, our subang Lim Shih Mun ) and loo huey

with Desmond before dinner

Nandhesh and Lip Sheng

Johnny boy

Posing with my "cake"

Now the babes....

5 guys and a gurl and a cool place
L-R: Jeremy, Desmond,John,Nandhesh,LipSheng

Ready...1million,2million....wait wait wait

Ready...1million, 2 million, 3million...cheese..

Sarah a.k.a the cutie among our gang

Sin Yen. Same hometown.WooHoo! Butterworth rocks!

Yuh Hui. Currently sits behind me too

Izza. My basketball captain

Take 1: Not nice

Take 2: Laughing non-stop

Take 3: Alas, something better. Jeremy a.k.a my left winger during lectures

Wee Vian, Shi Jia ( she sits behind me) and Moi

Pang Han the latecomer. Joined us after dating with "100"
Sits on my right in lectures

Overcrowded scene in BaskinRobbins

2008-11-30T10:33:00.002+08:00

All right peeps, carol's blog is finally alive. Gonna start with oldest event, Deepavali, or Diwali as they called it here. Fireworks with my classmates on the eve and the actual grand event with 45mins firework show! Pictures say 1000 words.Enjoy the pictures!

L-R: Deepa,Kerryn,(Kuhan;behind),me,Gayathri, Nandhesh

Kuhan the class rep

Nandhesh grinning clown. He grins all the time

Almost all the Indians in my class of 2011

With the girls

2008-11-16T19:09:00.004+08:00

i have an idea what to update but i'm seriously too लाजी ( लाजी to what happen?? why everything i typed turn into kannada? shucks...oo ok already...sorry peeps noob carol. Lazy. the word is lazy. or busy whatever u wanna think it is.

To fulfill your cravings for more of me ( stop vomitting at this point) i shall post pictures of me:P camwhored pictures

view of my knees after basketball match against batch 21

View after match against batch 20

Annual ball coming up this friday.lolx.
i'm gonna need to wear long dress to hide the ugliness of it
That's if my dress comes on time.
If not...errr saree??

2008-11-16T18:55:00.000+08:00

Top 5 Facts for Carol Lee

50% of the letters are vowels. Of one million first and last names we looked at, 2.2% have a higher vowel make-up. This means you are extremely well envoweled.
In ASCII binary it is... 01000011 01100001 01110010 01101111 01101100 00100000 01001100 01100101 01100101
Backwards, it is Lorac Eel... nice ring to it, huh?
In Pig Latin, it is Arolcay Eelay.
People with this first name are probably: Female. So, you are constantly overcharged for beauty products.

Name Origin and Meaning:

Forename:
Origin: Old French
Meaning: Melody, Song

Surname:
Origin: A pasture, meadow, lands not plowed, a common, a sheltered place; Lee, a river, a stream, from Lli, Welsh, a stream.

3 Things You Didn't Know:

Your personal power animal is the Giant Otter
Your 'Numerology' number is 8. If it wasn't bulls**t, it would mean that you are motivated by material success and have an aptitude for business, managerial and financial matters. This comes through your uncommon discipline and persistence.
According to the US Census Bureau°, 0.571% of US residents have the first name 'Carol' and 0.2502% have the surname 'Lee'. The US has around 300 million residents, so we guesstimate there are 4,286 Americans who go by the name 'Carol Lee'.

2008-09-21T17:22:00.002+08:00

HEY YA!!

I finally can online!! anyway its in my library's computer lab
I'm suppode to be researching for plasma proteins. Presentation due next week. Ermm stole an hour to post a short message here. I'm fine here. I can't uplad my pictures yet. So you gotta wait for the next post which i hope is pretty soon :)

It's cheap to online here. My cable connection unlimited cost me rm40 per month.Streamyx speed. So its alright i guess. not that ulu as i thought. And now i limit myself to one hour of online session only. cost me like rm0.80 okay!! hhahahha anyway i'll just check back later on

I miss you guys so so much!!

Hope to be online soon :)

Grrrr

Not me growling...it's my stomach

I cant cook my precious maggi mee because my kettle boomed. shucks...

Maybe later order delivery since all restaurant deliver food for free to the front of hostels.

And there's lots to tell!! But i better go check on my emails and go back to my physiology.LOL

Till next...

2008-09-12T15:23:00.003+08:00

Introducing My Newest Baby

ZEN Media Player

Courtesy of cousin Girly,Suan & AikHin :)

Thanks a lot cousins :) love ya all!!!

p/s: I don't only love ya all because of this gadget ok :) lolx

WooHoo...new gadget for me to play with...lalala...

Btw i'm not done packin yet..still not done with my stationery and books..its definitely overweight...HELP!!

2008-09-03T14:28:00.006+08:00

Night-Out Session with Antiques(missing Yeem)

Dinner at Nirwana USJ 9 banana leaf rice.
I'll miss it so much!! Yeah right..i'll be having it for every meal soon. blueekkk

Dot and Car posing with papadam

Puyuh with her new hairstyle

A sick Yen and a sick Carol before digging in the Indian cuisine

Dot the cam-whore and Car the poser who refused to look at my Ixus70

Then smart Yen decided to go restaurant-cum-cafe-hopping

So we hopped over to OTK for Car's fav drink : SI MUT ( translates to stocking- really ladies stocking. They use it to sift out the tea drink.Lolz a tale actually, the sifter is made out of materials like ladies stocking but really it isn't )

More cam-whoring session and gossips....

Sugar and spice. And everything nice

Ji-muis ( From left : Car, Moi, Yen, Liie and Dot ...puyuh flew back to her nest )

Err this wan not ji-mui
A guest from Scotland

2008-09-02T16:02:00.008+08:00

OMG OMG This is my 100th Post!!

Happy 100th Post-Day For Carol's Scribbles!!

Lol the other sakai-s a.k.a. Wood a.k.a Joke a.k.a. Dot must think that i'm one of them too

Anyway there's lots to update for the past few days. My cousin from Penang came down KL for so-called merdeka celebration which they adults did by drinking till 3am and left us poor kids to fend for ourselves from the annoying mosquitoes that according to my mum do not bite. All they do is buzzed around. Yeah right...first time visitors to the Desa Park City huh...swt

And i must tell you all about this park which i do not have pictures for. So you have to trust me when i say they have the world ( probably exaggerating urmmm Malaysia?? ) biggest swing you will ever see. The size of a 2 men-trampoline!! Which probably could fit like 10 kids at one go. About 5 adults depending on the weight. Good for couples too...where you could lay down side-by-side and do a bit of star-gazing...mmm romantic giler.

And all the playstuffs are designed for teens like us...They have a spiderweb thingi where you can climb up- about a storey high- sit up there on the steelbar and reliving your childhood superhero fantasy.

Or you could challenge yourself to experience the skateboard designed to simulate the real skateboard-you know where skater-boi fly up and down the U shaped wood thing ( what's that called huh ,anyone knows? )

And there's something else very extreme too. It's shaped like this and two person sitting on it will produce the momentum that spins the thing very very quickly- you will feel lke falling off because of the G-force. WOW noob carol knows something about physics here.Lol that's because my mech eng cousin told me. Hehhehe

So the park is fun.Anyone who wants to go can called me up for direction. It's behind the Desa Waterfront, Desa Park City Kepong. That's 2 tolls after the Curve. Pretty near for entertaiment :) Something different. Desa Waterfront is a small open-air square like Plaza TTDI where restaurants and cafes like Secret Recipe,The Steamboat Village,Kluang Station, New Zealand Naturals and Rakuzen( i think it's the same as Zen Pyramid) can be found.There's a Jusco-owned hypermarket called MaxValue too..its pretty syok at night..after dinner and a walk in the park...very peaceful and quite unlike Subang...everywhere you go also cars and people

Now This

Etched with Carol Aug '08

My first fine writing instrument given by my student :) Job satisfaction of seeing your students improve with time. Ahh what better present than this?

Then this

My new baby :) So gonna post lots of pictures of India for you all to see :)

Oh and the smart thing I did was I went to Eye On Malaysia on 31st Aug around 9.30pm ( guess what jowliie,carrere,julia,lai yen were there around 7.30 to 9 pm .So coincident!! ) with my cousins and family and I bought this camera the next day on Sept 1st so no pictures to show you all.It's pretty nice and for rm 15 a ride for 4rounds should be worth the money for cam-whoring session up there

LaStly this

View of my arm after injection

Vaccine for Hepatitis A

Joke will never take this.Oh how i remember her flooding the St John's room in the queue for Hep B vaccine back in Form 6.Hahahahha.Sweet memories that is ^^

And being a responsible citizen i'm gonna inform you all about this vaccine and the importance of it. 2 doses in a year so twice injection that means :) Cost about rm95 per dose

What is Hepatitis A?

-A highly infectious disease of liver caused by the Hep A virus

-It can lead to various degrees of illness,hospitalization or even death

-Illness due to Hep A cost an enormous amount of money

How can it spread?

- From person to person through faecal contamination and then hand-to-mouth contact

-This can happen when someone simply forgets to wash his or her hands after changing diaper or using bathroom and then prepares food or touches his or her mouth

- Through contaminated food and water

- From child to child at childcare centres

-From international travel to places where Hep A is endemic

Why is it highly infectious and easily transmitted?

-Hep A virus is extremely resistant and will survive in the environment for a long time. It can survive in seawater for a number of weeks and is not destroyed by freezing

How long do you feel sick?

Several weeks up to 2 months

Symptoms include fever,fatigue,loss of appetite,nausea,abdominal discomfort,dark-coloured urine and jaundice

We need to be particularly careful with young children because children less than 6 years of age often do not have symptoms if infected but can still spread the infection to other family members

Can HEP A be treated?

While some of the symptoms ( such as nausea,vomiting and diarrhea ) can be relieved, there is currently no specific cure for Hep A

What can we do?

First, good sanitation and personal hygiene are always important especially for children and toddlers who may not have yet developed good hand washing practices

When travelling, wash your hands carefully and as often as you can especially after using the bathroom.

But just because you practice good hygiene doesnt mean others around you will.So your best protection is get vaccinated.

There you go.In support of healthy community:)

2008-08-30T14:42:00.002+08:00

September 14th

Looming near...

Shoot...it seemed so long period more once upon a time...aiya long time more...but i only have two more Saturdays here in Subang!!! Argh...reality kicks in for Carol the blur

No I haven't pack my luggage

No I haven't buy my Milo & Maggi Mee

No I haven't buy anything to wear to lecture ( no T-shirt& jeans..darn it)

No I haven't transfer my files from my desktop to laptop

No I haven't prepare my god-knows-where brain for anatomy of homo sapien

No I haven't revise any biology for the past 9 months ( Form 5 considered?? )

No I haven't take my STPM cert from Seafield and go visit teachers

No I haven't visit my primary school teacher and mentor

No I haven't had any mental,emotional and physical preparation to leave Subang...arghhh

HELPPPP!!! Who would like to help me to pack?

Who wants to go shopping with me ???

2008-08-09T17:17:00.001+08:00

Hi peeps!! Sorry mia so long. Will post about my trip to malacca soon. :) Take care till then

2008-07-25T15:30:00.002+08:00

Oh btw go here to check out the photos and the details on lunch date with maeyue, em, wei kit & i...which happen like i dunno when..Last week? Anyway just check Em's blog up

http://chocoholic-ems.blogspot.com/2008/07/mexican-puppies-and-catch-ups.html

2008-07-25T14:53:00.003+08:00

Shopping With Em & D.O.T
( Department of Transport LOL)

Spotted this really cute dress from Dorothy Perkins. Lo Behold! Way above my budget.

So temptations run across my mind.

Fighting the urge to run to the counter with my purse

First step....

Second step....

Third step...

Ahhh... what a relief...

Managed to walk out of the store not getting it

ALL HAIL CAROL!

but then again....

I've shown the picture to my mum and guess what? She said it was nice.

So planning to pull her to Dot Perkins and pursuade her to get it.

Nyeh Nyeh Nyeh...Shhhh

2008-07-23T23:01:00.003+08:00

The Dark Knight

Gordon " No. He's not a hero. He's Batman"

Aikss

*thump*thump*

Dot threw her shoes at the screen

Lol. How i wish that happens so I can you-tubed that

Anyway

Real story

Gordon " No. He's not a hero. He's the Dark Knight"

Oh...sudden realization Ohh..that's why dark knight....

Plot spoiler coming up. Close your eyes whoever that haven't watch

Wayne looks much hotter in the new suit. He can finally turn his head. And the motorbike.Oh my god!!! Such a turn on man!!! So YENG
Rachel is old....Katie Holmes hotter...way hotter...
2.5 hours of sitting in cinema... worthy yeah...plot's nice
joker's make up is scary
Unexpected plot especially with the ferry at the climax
Too bad Batman lives with the bad name..

So anyway went for Dark Knight with Em Dot and Adam ( Dot's bro) Suppose to meet Car but she's sleeping when we called her at 1pm!! Not surprising.. it's Car.. the owl

So we decided to eat at Laksa Shack at 1st but then when we pass by Secret Recipe there's a set lunch promo for only Rm 10. One ice lemon tea + either Black Pepper Chicken or Bbq Chicken or Mushroom sauce Chicken which comes with salad and fried rice. So it's good& reasonably priced :)

And I like to acknowledge the fact that nooby dot managed to find out how to lock my hp since it's touchscreen and everytime i put in my pocket will accidentally touch the screen and open my applications. So 1st time nooby dot did something for noobier carol LOL

That's all

Ciaoz

Gtg work on transferring songs into my hp :)

2008-07-22T22:34:00.005+08:00

HEY PEEPS!!

The tech nooby carol finally posted her 1st post using her laptop!!!!

Hahahahahah

Guess where am I now?

Outside in my garden!

Swt

That's the only place I can receive the line

I shall not comment anymore in case Benbi and Joke calls me a noob again

Anyway I wanna say Happ 20th Birthday Stace!!! Many happy returns of the day!! :)

Today I went to High Commission of India to make my visa

No actually the girls ( Em Yen Car and I ) went MSPJ to jog this morning. Lol Surprisingly Yen could wake up. Well she just slept ( no NAP ) for 2 hours and zombie-jogged together with us all. Lol And we even sprinted for 100m twice. I was astonished to find Em's sprinting was better than Car's. Well, at least she reach to blue tong sampah ( the finishing line) LOL

Boycotting (.) which is why she's not mentioned

So back to my visa story. And since I reached home at about 10am, my mum stared nagging at me "Where have you been? You're suppose to make your visa today" Like I dunno " Have you filled in everything needed?" " Yes Ma!" which I actually have not because I dunno when is my probable arrival date. Yes. Stop glaring at this. Don't ask me when is my flight because my uni parcel have not reach yet.

So what I did was to call up the admission office but again that workload hoarder ( I like to think of her that way since she's the only one that knows how to solve all my problems. No Sheila nothing gets done ) is not around. Darn it. So i went to the HCI without knowing what is happening. To make matters worse it was raining heavily in KL. Everywhere jammed like hell. So I kept quiet in the car as to not provoke my parents again. So I waited for half and hour before they asked me to make my payment at Jalan Ampang. They outsourced the visa centre it seems. Darn it. Another troublesome thing. Luckily at the Jalan Ampang visa centre not many people. Almost empty. Waited for about 5 minutes and I got my receipt. Was told to get the visa tomorrow at 4.30pm. Oh no! My Dark Knight! Luckily they say whoever also can collect with the receipt. So end of long story on visa

Ok my dad's back. Awaiting my Nokia phone. And see see it's some chapalang China hp! cost me no my dad RM500 leh... The camera sux like hell

Ok wait

Let me show you the pros & cons

PROS
1. Sleek metal design. Front ok. Bad sux like hell.
2. Can watch TV on it. Anywhere in the world. Like portable tv. Just change the country setting.
3.MP3 and movie also can watch.3" screen. Not bad
4. Touch screen too
5. FM Radio function
6.Charger in form of USB port. So i can just charge it as long as my laptop's with me
7. There's even a backup battery for me so I can travel without charging it

CONS
1. Design err... as I said the backpart..but actually can blingified it
2. Camera sux. Only applicable for documents. Take words damn clear. Take human. Ekkk
I'm freaked out a little. There's a little shuffling sound from my left.

3. NO 3G!!
Ok. That's about it. Seems like the pros outweigh the cons right but but but..........

Gtg That sound really freak me out!

I'm back!! In my living room still with the line. MUAHAHHAHA

Anyway I forgot to mention that I could have two sims card in a phone. So i can switch between my Indian no. and Maxis no. easily :)

Ok fine. I'll take it. Damn heavy summore. I'll just use it and see in a month whether i still want it or not. I want my Sony Ericsson :(

Who wants to trade???? :)

Now really gtg

2008-07-19T13:49:00.002+08:00

Hey I found this interesting article. Go on! Read it!

Lessons in Love, by Way of Economics

By BEN STEIN
Published: July 13, 2008
AS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated his 96th birthday) used to tell us, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services. What could be scarcer or more precious than love? It is rare, hard to come by and often fragile.

Philip Anderson
My primary life study has been about love. Second comes economics, so here, in the form of a few rules, is a little amalgam of the two fields: the economics of love. (I last wrote about this subject 20 years or so ago, and it’s time to update it.)

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In general, and with rare exceptions, the returns in love situations are roughly proportional to the amount of time and devotion invested. The amount of love you get from an investment in love is correlated, if only roughly, to the amount of yourself you invest in the relationship.

If you invest caring, patience and unselfishness, you get those things back. (This assumes, of course, that you are having a relationship with someone who loves you, and not a one-sided love affair with someone who isn’t interested.)

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High-quality bonds consistently yield more return than junk, and so it is with high-quality love. As for the returns on bonds, I know that my comment will come as a surprise to people who have been brainwashed into thinking that junk bonds are free money. They aren’t. The data from the maven of bond research, W. Braddock Hickman, shows that junk debt outperforms high quality only in rare situations, because of the default risk.

In love, the data is even clearer. Stay with high-quality human beings. And once you find that you are in a junk relationship, sell immediately. Junk situations can look appealing and seductive, but junk is junk. Be wary of it unless you control the market.

(Or, as I like to tell college students, the absolutely surest way to ruin your life is to have a relationship with someone with many serious problems, and to think that you can change this person.)

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Research pays off. The most appealing and seductive (that word again) exterior can hide the most danger and chance of loss. For most of us, diversification in love, at least beyond a very small number, is impossible, so it’s necessary to do a lot of research on the choice you make. It is a rare man or woman who can resist the outward and the surface. But exteriors can hide far too much.

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In every long-term romantic situation, returns are greater when there is a monopoly. If you have to share your love with others, if you have to compete even after a brief while with others, forget the whole thing. You want to have monopoly bonds with your long-term lover. At least most situations work out better this way. ( I am too old to consider short-term romantic events. Those were my life when Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were in the White House.)

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The returns on your investment should at least equal the cost of the investment. If you are getting less back than you put in over a considerable period of time, back off.

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Long-term investment pays off. The impatient day player will fare poorly without inside information or market-controlling power. He or she will have a few good days but years of agony in the world of love.

To coin a phrase: Fall in love in haste, repent at leisure.

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Realistic expectations are everything. If you have unrealistic expectations, they will rarely be met. If you think that you can go from nowhere to having someone wonderful in love with you, you are probably wrong.

You need expectations that match reality before you can make some progress. There may be exceptions, but they are rare.

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When you have a winner, stick with your winner. Whether in love or in the stock market, winners are to be prized.

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Have a dog or many dogs or cats in your life. These are your anchors to windward and your unfailing source of love.

Ben Franklin summed it up well. In times of stress, the three best things to have are an old dog, an old wife and ready money. How right he was.

THERE is more that could be said about the economics of love, but these thoughts may divert you while you are thinking about your future.

And let me close with another thought. I am far from glib about the economy. It has a lot of pitfalls facing it. As workers and investors, we know that many dangers lurk in our paths.

But so far, these things have always worked themselves out and this one will, too. In the meantime, they say that falling in love is wonderful, and that the best is falling in love with what you have.

Ben Stein is a lawyer, writer, actor and economist. E-mail: ebiz@nytimes.com.

2008-07-17T21:47:00.005+08:00

The Meaning of Friends

What are friends to you? People who hangs around to joke? People who helps in your studies? People that you think knew you well enough to be the worm in your stomach?

I’ve never felt the urge to sit back and think about the deeper meaning of it. In my context, friends means people that I love enough to care and people I don’t mind talking to everyday or even every single second.

I guess I’m a very bad friend. I’m always not around when people needed me. I’ll always MIA and not bother about their feelings. I do things the way I want without much empathy towards my friends. I pretty much suck at being a great friend.

And now, I realize that I really do understand the meaning of friendship after two decades of life. When I finally have time to ponder over the meaning of friendship, only did I realize the impact my friends have on my life.

It’s no longer the how much we spend on each other’s birthdays, it’s no longer measured by how many hours we see each other in a week. It’s no longer how many movie dates we had; it’s no longer who sacrificed more in the relationship.

It’s no longer how many times I did you a favor or how many times you pull my ass out of the fire. It’s no longer how many sleepovers we had or how many greeting cards I’d made for you.

The only one thing that measures the bond between each and everyone of us is how much everything in my soon-to-be busy life and your already busy life that constantly reminds us of each other.

May it be the SLK ( Small Little Kelisa ) on the road , every number 7 that comes in my sight, every image of cute pigs, every single “shiny” I read, every single frizzy-haired girl I see and cheesecake I bake, every time I catch a whiff of Sunsilk fragrance, every single dot I happen to see, every single blackly dressed girl I happen to see, every image of Charmaine Sheh, or even every single time I happen to pass by each of my friend’s house. Oh and every tall mini-skirted girl with specs driving kembara too! hehehe..

This I think is the ultimate thing a good friend can give.

Constant thought of a friend!

Just to let you all know, I’m thinking of each and every one of you constantly. So do appreciate my thoughts for now and I hope I continue to constantly think of each and everyone of you when I’m living my soon-to-be hectic life.

Yours truly,

Soon to be MIA friend

P/s: Cool or not my own ambigram? Hehe.. Created it myself! Gonna try a few more since I'm not busy yet.Lol anyway I'm such a genius..Muahahahha..

2008-07-16T21:53:00.002+08:00

Oh-this-is-too-free-Carol-doin-this-damn-free-thingi-that-Dot-did

Ok this is so freaky!!! I had like the same #4 as dot!! Even though I'm from SK which allows us to keep long hair but I always had short hair. So here goes my #1

#2 I have the habit of taking shower in the dark. No lights on. Don't ask why. Just love to embrace the darkness.

#3 I don't take hot showers unless it is raining.Not even in the morning. Conserve energy ppl. it's 35++ Celcius outside!!

#4 I use to make my own Jumanji set. You know it was such a hit back then. And I make my own doll house, sew my own Barbie's clothing and that's why I've such an infatuation towards fashion =p

#5 Once, when I used to live in my dad's business partner's apartment in Brickfields, about 7 years old, my sis and I literally broke the bed. We were hopping and jumping on it till it crash down. Hehehe sorry Uncle Robert for breaking your bed. * innocently twirling my fingers*

#6 I used to keep a diary when I was in primary school till my brother was old enough to understand what I wrote and had a great instinct on the whereabouts of it.

#7 I used to drape a blanket around me acting princess like in Cinderella :) childhood fantasies..hehehe

#8 My maternal grandfather was a goldsmith and he was a great opera singer. Not the Bocelli style. I meant the Chinese opera. He used to sing on the radio once a week. At that time, it was a big thing to perform on radio since that was the only form of entertainment. No such thing as television yet.So I think I inherited his passion for music :)

#9 I've always wanted to try out deep-fried honey-coated cockroach and scorpion from Thailand. According to wood, I eat weird food. What weird food?! It's challenging to put something exotic in your mouth ok! See, I've tried deep fried bat,roasted pigeon, rabbit meat which I spitted out immediately after my dad told me ( I was rather attached to my pet Rabbit you know ) , deer meat, terrapin soup ( sui yu in Canto ) , frog porridge ( tian ji in Mandarin ) mmm wild boar meat, mm that's about it. Oh and dried snake gallbladder from China.Very freakingly bitter. Seriously bitter even for me who can take bitter bitter herbal soup. Oh and talking about herbal soup, I hate the seahorse soup my mum cooks. Very fishy smell. EEkkkss

#10 Jigsaw puzzles. Lots of it. That's my current obsession which can't be fulfilled due to financial constraint. I never imagine a 1000 pieces jigsaw puzzle can reach up to rm300 for really nice ones.

#11 I play pretend with my cousins when we were young. I used to be act like a student since my cousin Cindy loves to hold the cane and red pen. Darn it. I have to act dumb and naughty ( though I think not much effort was needed to act naughty >.< ) all the time just to be a "real" student. I was older than her by the way.

#12 I have goldfish memory. Often when I got out of my chair and walk towards the hallway, I can't recall why I got up from my study table. Lol

#13 I have a thing for guys with pretty nails. Lol I meant well-manicured nails. I figured that if he cares enough to look after his nails, he'll be observant enough to notice small tiny details about me.

#14 I always tell my crush that I used to like him after the sparks dies. Just to see his reactions. That's pretty fun! Try it! Tell your primary school crush or long-time crush and get a good laugh out of it!

#15 I blushed a lot. Most of the time. But my rosy red complexion hides it. Thank goodness!

So that's it. That's my 15 weird things/habits/little known fact about me.

Now I'm gonna wash up, take my blanket and little pillow and my bottle of water and my chocolates and plop in front of my com to watch Fool's Gold

Tata

p/s : please don't comment anything. I know I'm unique >.<

2008-07-15T22:24:00.006+08:00

All right. Ooi's family celebration.These are the pictures from my aunt's 70th birthday banquet + cousin Suan Suan's birthday + Win Vien's 2nd birthday

Cindy, Win Shen and I. My fringe is annoying. I should cut my hair again.

Pei Yong and Pei Shin :) My only cousin who's same age as me

my cousin Irene, niece monster Ann (she's such a big bully) and the Ant's mum,my cousin Aik Hin

Suan Suan my cousin and her two beloved kids, Zi Yee and Ben

See the monster Ann, blowing Win Vien's Barney cake. Why all kids like Barney? Why I don't have a Barney cake?

Cousin Pui Si and moi

Miss Cindy Lim & I

Shi Min my niece

Shao Shen my sweet cousin

Ah Hwa.That's the SKII pose I asked for. My niece once called him kakak because he was so dark. SO nice of me to recommend SKII for him. Lol

Look what look? Never see cute babies before?

Baby Ann back from Dubai. See the cream on her mouth? She stuck her finger into the cake before her grandmother even blows the cake.

Left to right : my niece Zi Yee, my nephew Ben Teoh, my nephew Richard ( in Chinaman suit) , Win Shen, Win Nie, Alexandrea, Alvin and Win Vien

All my grandparent's children. 11 in total.No comments

Me and my dearest grandmama at the banquet

And these are the photos from the trip to Sunway Lagoon with my cousins and nieces and nephews

Don't ask me what my niece, Win Vien was doing. She was not asked to pose like that.

Me and my sis relieving our childhood memories in Sunway Lagoon

That's me and my cousin, Shao Shen before the 360 degree upside down view of Lagoon's brick floor

Left to right; my sis Cheryl, cousin Cindy, my bro Alvin and nephew WinShen. Yes, he's big and he's my nephew. My cousin's son. Nephew right? Anyway he used to call my bro Uncle Yee Chern until he decided to drop the title. Lol

Wannabe crime offender

2008-07-14T23:05:00.002+08:00

Great. Writer's block now.

What to update on?

I really have no idea. Mmm my friends are away to university and here I am in Subang with nothing to do. My sister is back in Sabah too and my grandmother is back in Penang. I'll be having the bed to myself again. Strangely though, I thought I'll be happier to not be sleeping on the floor again but it seems that when they all left, the room feels empty. Mmm.. and my laptop is useless. I have not made the backup disc and I don't dare to download stuff in case virus attack. So now I only play games on it.

I've just came back from Penang.I really enjoyed playing and babysitting those toddlers. They are so cute and Iim so gonna miss them when I'm away. Gonna post some of their pictures soon. Maybe now. Maybe later when I've the time.

The other update is I finished my Grey's Anatomy Season 1-4. Darn it. I know I shouldn't finish it so fast but I was too excited to know the ending of Season 4. I hate Rose, the new love interest of Mcdreamy. Kills off the fun between Mcdreamy and Meredith. But anyway, since the US Writer's strike GA seems dead. Can't they see there are hard-core fans like me who loves GA and can't live without it?

And I bought three news books to read and kill time. Kiyosaki's Cashflow is a good lullaby it seems. I fell asleep reading the first chapter itself. Lol I guess economics is my melatonin.
But I will finish the book. It's not me to not finish what i started.

Oh ya, and I'm working part-time as an English tutor. Lol Can you believe it? Me as English tutor. I was a little freaked out at first. Doubting whether I can do it or not but it seems the students that attend my classes are really weak in English so I'm like so qualified. Hahaha. So I've gained confidence over the two weeks and enjoying the change of environment. I mean how often do I get to play with those kids. Yeah. Kids. I'm calling them kids.Makes me sound old. But then again, I'm a teacher. That qualifies you to be old.In their eyes you are old. Darn it. But I enjoy learning grammar again. Makes me kinda like the grammar expert now. For secondary level that is. When you teach, that is when you know how ignorant you are.

Oh and last Thursday, Dot, Em and I went pyramid to shop. I bought myself a new black spaghetti top and a knitted vest from Forever 21. This was my 1st item from Forever 21 and I loved it so much! Gonna show you the picture of me wearing it soon... as soon as I get Dot online. Lol I was fighting against the urge to get both the black and grey ones but i at last decided black is easier to mix and match. So black it is! Gothic man. Everything I get now is black and white. Goes with my mood I think. Mmm. Or subconsciously I'm turning into Carrere. Hehehe. She's the other black sheep of the family. The MIA sheep.

Great! I've written a post and for now I think it is more than enough. Too much of my crappiness is toxic.

Till next, carol

2008-06-20T02:38:00.002+08:00

I GOT MY 1ST CHOICE!!!
The best architecture school in Malaysia.
Too bad i have to menolak ( decline)
Still my passion lies in medical field
Maybe i shall design my own Hospital next time
Or even design my own dream house
At least i fulfilled both my dreams in my lifetime
No regrets though
Looking forward to future!!!
Can't wait to start studying again
Please take note: I'm not nerd.
I just love studying.
At least you wake up with a goal in mind everyday.

Saudara/i,

TAWARAN KEMASUKAN KE UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA,
SEMESTER 1 SESI AKADEMIK 2008/2009

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FAKULTI ALAM BINA

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5 TAHUN

Pendaftaran Pelajar

Tempat

DEWAN MERANTI, KOLEJ RAHMAN PUTRA, UTM SKUDAI, JOHOR

Tarikh

29 JUN 2008

Masa :

8.30 PAGI - 11.00 PAGI

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carol's scribbles

One of the many written by him

Santa Claus is coming to town!

In Time

On Kids + Job Satisfaction

Major Overhaul

The Day I Could Smile Naturally and Confidently Forever!!!

Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight

On Republic Day of India..I

Examination of the Newborn

Excellent Care from the Moment of Birth

I'm Back!

What Hurts The Most

100 Books to read before you die

Tuesday in ink

1st Love

A Sunday of my life drawn in ink

Suturing Banana(Edited version)

The New England Journal of Medicine

Basic Laceration Repair

Todd W. Thomsen, M.D., Derek A. Barclay, M.D., and Gary S. Setnik, M.D.

Department of Emergency

Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge,

MA (T.W.T., G.S.S.); the Department

of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s

Hospital, Boston (D.A.B.); and the

Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard

Medical School, Boston

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15th April 2010

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stingy

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Two Million Minutes

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ART OF ANATOMY PART II

Life is uncertain

1000 Years

by Kang Eun Soo

ART OF ANATOMY

If only…..

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