Jason n Eeffie @ scouseland

jason and eeffie dropped by on tuesday evening for a night in liverpool. was really glad to see them and chat quite a bit with them. havent see them for months! n i should be visiting Nott on Dec to see eeffie's graduation ceremony :D

took some pics with them, and Jason loved GBK (i just randomly chose to go there to be honest, since they got a very good promotion!)

The author is getting really bald ><
with the couple in front of me flat


Muahahaha... Habanero burger, recommended!

me and the mint lamb burger! yummy!

GBK - Jason really loved it. glad.

wow

had a quick word with my supervisor today about my elective.

he told me my work could be published, quite possibly.

i was shocked. really shocked. i didn't aim to do the report to that level at all.

now, i better smooth out some parts of it, and make it better. wow. that feeling is still sinking in.

follow the flow

hm... even I myself is unsure. so what u read here, could be just plain wrong stuffs, except the part about my cousin's quote and the following things.

somehow, I felt different these days... the direction, seems sure. But I am afraid the way I see it is becoming subjective and not objective. will my judgment be the correct one? am i seeing things the right way it is? did i miss something or did i pick up something that I have noticed a bit too much myself? is tat the old self of me, reappearing??? tat is what, I fear most. tat was a destructive part of me, me tat was too dependent, me tat was childish and not useful.

hopefully, things will b clearer when time goes on a bit.

but surely, it's something I haven't felt for a long time. It changed me, in a very little way. what will happen then in the future?? surely, i don't want to be the old me, tat was full of the wrong things for that. i want this, to work, until the end of time comes.

A funny quote from my cousin's blog:

today my cheeky quotes application says:

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life - Rita Rudner

Congratulations to Melissa and Jensen, who seems to fit this really well! you are not alone though! i m sure Shannon n Dih with their gf will be following your footsteps XD

Accident & Emergency week

I was in the A&E (accident & emergency) deparment of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital (RLUH) from Tue-Fri as part of my course in final year.

why A&E in a hospital? why so far away from the dental area? I could only say it's a requirement for dental students to be attached there for 4 days.

was quite worried the day before, as I have no idea wat so ever I am going to deal with. what kind of medics n staffs are there? the patients etc. would i need to cannulate? would i need 2 do CPR? my anatomy apart from the head and neck, is really really basic.

Well, basically, being there was to observe and see stuffs, to learn from the A&E staffs, and to be like...a nurse ha, well, basically help out with the 5th year medical students. they too struggled at times for IV access, draw bloods and take blood gas; we dental students sometimes struggle with local anaesthesia ( i was, now much improved), struggle with taking tooth out. so, we are at the similar level of the learning curve.

Saw a handful of medical emergencies which was good experience. A stroke pt who cant breathe on her own; an elderly man who was in ventricular tachycardia (VT) who lost consciousness in resus and was shocked and got back into sinus rhythm fortunately. then another elderly woman, whom i was standing in front of her unit, was quite ok when I saw her. Suddenly I heard a wheezing noise, then saw her collapse to her bed. she was moved to resus, had CPR, then shocked, CPR, adrenaline given and then have a pulse back. phew. she wasn't quite well after a detailed examination. very swollen ankles, a sign of severe heart failure n she got a temperature too, so some infection was going on. I guess that was me being closest to see death, in front of me. The medical emergencies were quite an exposure, and I have learnt quite a bit of things from it. hopefully, i do not need 2 manage these cases when I work as a dentist.

having done A&E, I do realise that I have an interest in medicine. i quite enjoyed looking at chest x ray, wrist etc. doing bloods is alright for me too. at the moment, i dont see the point of doing medicine for the near future. holding a dental n medicine degree does make you qualify for maxillo-facial surgery, but that's not what i want to do, i am sure. Oral medicine? hm, a bit too boring for me. doens't seems to do any good holding dental n medicine degree! I know and I want to do Oral Surgery and I don't really need to do medicine for that. but we never know the future, UMS has medicine course, so if I want to do it, it's at home! great! it would be even brilliant if UMS opens a dental school, I can work and teach there!

now, to get back to my normal routine of things, the dental side of things. not going to be as heroic as the A&E medics, but I like doing things around the head n neck more.

Europe - The Vibrant, The Rich, The Messy, The Fun Loving

Part of Rome

Seen a lot of pictures of friends who went to Europe lately, especially from Wivinia. Had spent the entire evening watching pictures with her few weeks ago! amazing. yes the pictures are amazing but the places are even more so!

long have i wanted to go to europe, to see n listen n taste n feel the different rich cultures europe possess (pickpocket as well, but bcoz I am Malaysia-trained, just imagine KL, so should be ok), yet I have only been to 2 countries, Ireland and France. I don regard Ireland as Europe enough as it's very similar 2 UK. Do like Irish music and the countryside tho, dont get me wrong. France, even till now, I really like the language of French.

I am determined, very determined, to do my Europe trip before/after my graduation. the more time the better. I don care even if i do it alone(1 of the reasons i didn't embark mine for the past few years), i don mind doing it alone. But on the brighter note YS might be joining (must do it in Amsterdam YS, we must go see the show!) and I still have some KK frens in manchester, might 'pancing' / '溜' them to join me. really hope we can go over a lot of places in europe that time, summer 2010.

Was thinking of going to see Neuschwanstein Castle / New Swan Castle in Bavaria, Munich, Germany for the x'mas holz, but it's not cheap. might just do a big scotland wales england roadtrip instead. When i saw pictures of Germany, the River Rhine, Heiderberg ( or something like tat), n BEAUFORT in Luxemborg <-haha , no, germany in general, i really like the feel. it's pretty, it's just breath taking! Planning and hoping to bring my parents to see Neuschwanstein Castle when they are over, and Rome. hopefully, hopefully.

People have always adored Australia. Yes i like it there as well, but it's lacking something, something of a mixture, some dimension. I can go to France for a weekend, go skiing in the Italian Alps, Swiss Alps, those aren't things you can really do in Australia for a weekend. Then again, if you don't like Europe, the arguments go the other way. But Europe, (western, specifically) is so rich of history,culture,music, and food. it's a good breakaway, where you want something different, something that offers a challenge, somewhere that doesn't speak English, Mandarin (cantonese is fine haha). Yes, Europe is 古老, and it is here, where we heard so much of the stories of our childhood times, stories in games.

Eventho sometimes life is a bit bored, a bit of a pain over here, i still relinquish it. Probably I like being different. When loads of people go 2 place X and Y , I go to place A. This way, it makes it harder for me, but hey, we learn most during the hard times. If everything is already in place, organized for you, what have you to learn? You might argue, why learn so much?

it's because I believe we are all here to learn from this world and the world, is our teacher.