~WeLcoMe To My LIfE~

I came across this article today :

Ah Soh: I came to you because my legs swollen only
Dr Liew: Alamak! Since when?
Ah Soh: Long time liao lor.. the Sinseh I’ve been frequenting all this while told me I’m out of his hand and I need to seek alternative medicine. That’s why I come to you.
Dr Liew: Me?? Alternative medicine?? WTF??
Ah Soh: You want to treat me or not???

Hahahhaha… I was trying hard not to laugh in the library today after reading that. I guess, what the writer said about some people considering bomoh and sinseh as their main healers is actually true. I mean, studying here, people go to the Doctors first before they go and seek for alternatives. But in Malaysia, especially in small villages, where doctors are scarce, and bomoh, pawang or sinseh are easily found, no doubt they’ll go to them first before seeing doctors. Not to mention the fear of being injected or ‘cut open’, and the thought of possibly having to take regular medication make people less want to see Doctors. This is especially true in elderly population. Even though they might not particularly like seing bomoh or sinseh, if they were given a choice, they’d go to the bomohs first before seeking ‘alternative’ and see the doctors. Of course, by the time they see the doctors, the condition is already getting so bad, they had to undergo operations and what not. This will then make their friends don’t want to see the doctors. Although to be fair, the situation can increase people awareness and cause people to seek medical advises earlier so that they don’t have to be ‘cut open’.

I guess, this whole ‘real’ or ‘alternative’ medicine issue actually depends on the population. I mean, it’s just so happen that western medicine is the standardised globally use practice, hence other way  of healing people are considered as alternatives.

thehealthinspector: and here I thought I’m learning ‘real’ medicine

Okay, this is actually old news. If you guys wondered why I haven’t updated this poor thing is because my pc decided to die on me. It had enough. Lucky I haven’t started doing anything for my SSC project yet. Kalau tak, sure stress giler lah. Even now, rasa macam bosan sbb tade pc. Although, I’ve to admit, that since I’ve got nothing better to do now that my pc is gone, I get to do more studying and less playing around. Which is good, right? I mean, I’ve got exams in about two months time, and considering our workload, I’ll probably just be able to finish revising just before the exam. Although, based on Roba (one of my coursemates), I’ve already failed the exam as I haven’t worked from the very beginning of the year. Hahhh!! But you can’t lose a battle you haven’t fought, aite?

So my weekend.. Nothing exciting, except that we’ve been busy practising for our performance, and now I can’t get the song out of my head. It even haunted my dream. Speaking of dream.. I had a weird dream last night. Well, takde laa malam sgt, more like after subuh.. heheh. Anyway, I was walking home from somewhere.. or I was walking from home. I think I was on my way to my grandmother’s. The route is like one of the small path in my kampung. Anyway, on the way I met my kakak angkat. Kak Yati, the first and only kakak angkat I’ve got. Somebody wanted to make me her adik angkat later on, I agreed, but then she was jealous of Kak Yati so she sent me a ’surat cerai’. Hahahaha. (mind you this all happened when I was in primary school). Anyway, back to my dream. Yeah, I was walking down the path, and there she was. I ran up to her and hugged her.. I soo miss her. We walked together and arrived at my grandmother’s. Apparently there was some sort of kenduri going on. Tak tau laa kenduri apa, and orang adalah sangat ramai. Went in to the house (masa ni rumah lama lagi - before kena renovate), and there on the stairs, was my first crush. With a broken nose, and a broken arm. Macam baru lepas eksiden, or bergaduh. I dunno. I went to him to asked him to turn the air-conditioning on, we were having a very nice time chatting (or at least I did :p), then I woke up. Cesss. Tak sempat nak ngorat bebetul. Kalau tak bleh laa fulfill my childhood dream…hahahahahahahahahahaha (okay, ini adalah tipu semata-mata, I liked him, but I didn’t realised until much older, that that what it was - a crush. hehehehe - betapa innocent nye saya pada masa itu :p). 

Anyway, I woke up with such a warm feeling, and only a few minutes later I realised that it was only a dream. It was such a nice dream though, and it felt so real (okay here I’m referring to my meeting up with my ‘kakak angkat’ - the part after that is too much to be true.. hohohohoh!), as if I’ve actually met her and talked to her. I guess, she’s the closest of a big sister I’ve got. I dunno what she’s doing now. I don’t think she’s married yet. I heard from my brother that she’s working somewhere in Melaka, but not so sure. Maybe I should find a way to contact her, and who knows I might even be able to contact my old ‘crush’. (and how those two related to each other? I haven’t figured out yet :p) hahahaha.

thehealthinspector: a dream is a wish your heart make.. ;) 

Today has been interesting. I had clinic with Dr Chua in the morning. It was a bit chaotic as she didn’t realised that one of the new Dr is coming today, hence she had to sort him out before her clinic. Anyway, the first consultation went well. Then we had a lady with hearing impairment. She was supposed to have a BLS interpreter with her, but for some reason, there weren’t any. Luckily one of the staff know how to use sign language, although he wasn’t very fluent at it, and we managed to do the consultation with the help of pen and paper. (If it were me, I won’t even be thinking of using pen and paper..betapa slow dan tidak kreatif nya saya dalam menyelesaikan masalah :p)

Then we had another couple of patients who speaks Urdu and didn’t speak much English, so basically there was only one English consultation today.

Then, I went to the Psychiatric Ward in Lynfield Mount Hospital. My first time being there, and the weirdest thing happened. Tian Ling was standing in front of the reception with one Asian lady. I approached them, and this lady started asking my name, and asking my age and stuff. She kept holding my hand after every sentence, and gave me hi-5. At first I though she was one of the staff, but after a few mins, I realised that she’s actually one of the patient. I don’t really mind talking to her, and me trying to be nice and all, I just melayan her lah. When she put her hand on my shoulder, I started to feel a bit awkward and I knew I had to get away. Soon. The thing is, I didn’t want to offend her, and I wasn’t really sure how to react. huhuhu.. Siap ajak tour ward lagi. Adalah cuak seketika.. tskk.. Luckily, the nurse came back with the patient that we were supposed to see, so she let me go. pheww!!

thehealthinspector: I will never ever do psychiatry.

I’ve got an appointment with the optician this morning and got myself a new specs - the specs here are so freaking expensive, even with the NHS voucher, so had to settle for the standard free lenses - mintak2 orang tak perasan laa spec ku tebal sebelah. *sigh*. Am thinking of changing to the thinner lenses once I’m back in Malaysia. I went alone, and since Ija adalah tak reti pilih spec mata sendiri, terpaksalah percaya cakap mamat yang jual spec tu. So, if my new specs look awful, it’s all his fault. hohoho. But I think he was quite sincere. heheh :p

Anyways, had a very good week. I skived on Friday. And since I’m too lazy to do anything, asked my kanda to give me a hair cut. Hehehe.. suka!! so sekarang Ieja berambut baru, yeay!!! Thanks to my kanda kuda :p. Then Wada called at about 630pm ajak gi main bowling. Poor Jiejah had to wait in town for an hour before we made our way to see her (Wada laa mandi lama giler LOL). Arrived at the bowling place about 845pm, tapi kena tunggu since they were having some sort of tournament going on. So we spent the next 45 mins playing air hockey, and dancing. Hahaha. Gila cacat lah aku rasa diri sendiri menari. heheh. It was good fun though :D.

Wada came over Saturday untuk belajar, but didn’t really discuss anything since we were busy making notes. Then semalam Jiejah came and joined us (sebab dia nak menjauhkan diri dari komputer dan katil..teehee). Maka bermulalah sesi diskusi, beginning with Jiejah asking questions about fertility and stuff, pastu campur dgn peads dan soklan-soklan Gynae. Then Yat datang, dan dia pun terheret sama untuk belajar, although dia baru je habis exam last Friday. Hohohoh. Dia pulak yang stress jadik cikgu. Terpaksa mengajar orang-orang yg slow ini memahamkan konsep acid-base yang dipelajari sejak beberapa tahun yang lampau tapi tak pernah berjaya difahami. Well, actually I thought I got a grip on it while I was doing anaethetics, but since tade practice since then, I forget and got confused untuk kesekian kalinya. Hahaha. Let’s hope it truly stick this time. And to Yat, jasa mu dikenang hihih

Pastu, bila dah belajar macam lapar laa pulak, so we ordered a massive family size pizza (Yat was having trouble trying to get the pizza through the door :p), dan makan sambil sambung diskusi hingga hampir pukul 3 pagi. Giler kagumlah dengan diri sendiri. I hope whatever we discussed yesterday will stay in my tiny little brain cells and can be taken out whenever I deemed necessary (ie when one is being asked by one’s GP or consultant, and of course during exams and for lifetime benefit, insyaAllah..aminnnn). They ended spending the night over. It’s been ages since we actually spend any time together, due to everyone’s tight schedules, plus this time it’s purely educational compared to before - and I mean PURELY, there weren’t any gossiping at all - hang on, eh, we could actually spend time together without gossiping. Impressive, don’t you think? I never realised we could actually do that!!! hahahaha. Bravo, bravo!!:p

Oh yeah, I called Mala on Saturday.. and we were bitching about some homo sapien (although towards the end I was feeling rather hungry, so had to stop the conversation :p - sorry babe!). It was good to talk to you, and hope you’re feeling much better now

thehealthinspector: true friends are like diamond, precious and rare, bad friends are like autumn leaves - found everywhere