Graduation Dinner

It was one mad awesome night last Tuesday with all the girls really dressed up and the guys looking really smart too. It's a rare yet wonderful sight to see how all 41 of us looked so gorgeous and stunning. I don't think I had ever been more enthusiastic over a dinner or exhausted preparing for a dinner than this.

Nonetheless, it's surely something really fun when all the girls in the class becomes equally vain and gets together to do the girly stuff. I think nothing beats dressing up and looking good together with a whole bunch of your friends. It's like every single girl actually took the effort to want to look their best or at least pretty for the dinner. I started my dress hunting a few weeks back, during my study break to be precise and after searching through multiple blogshops (we got no shopping malls here in Moldyland so blogshopping was our only alternative), I was suddenly hit by this inspiration to tailor made my dress instead hence I went in search for a tailor in KT and lo and behold, I managed to actually find one which did a fantastic job. I'm really impressed at how well the dress turned out, in fact about 99% of the design I desired.

I still can't get over at how astonishing everyone look that night especially the girls. It's not always that some of the girls who don't quite bother dressing up actually went frantic dress and shoes hunting, girls who rarely wore dresses were in dresses that night, those whom never wore heels higher than 1 inch was in heels too, girls who never did their nails also had their nails painted, girls who never had their hair done in a saloon (other than having it cut) also visited the saloon to get their hair done and girls who seldom wore make ups were in make ups. As for the guys, even though their preapration was much more simpler than us girls, it was as impressive to see how most of them decided to take the effort to dress up in the end coming in blazers, suits or vest looking smart and admirable.

It's still quite hard to believe that this time it's really goodbye to all my beloved friends, after so much that we all been through together, it's time to bid farewell. That the next time we will all see each other again will be at our convocation. As we all prepare to move on to the next big phase of our life, I just want to wish every single one of my batchmates the very best. I know we can all continue to survive and get through housemanship! Now this is not the end but just the beginning of many more years of friendships to come. And I don't think I can ever say enough thank you to all my amazing lecturers, for each one of them, even those that had taught me only for a short period of time, everyone of them had taught me well, had helped me improved especially on my clinical skills over the years and prepared me to become not only their students but also their colleagues.:)

"It's hard to walk away 
From the best of days,
But if it has to end, 
I'm glad you have been my friend,
In the time of our lives."

My dress for the dinner - the one and only in the whole of Malaysia. :)

My hairdo for the night.

Our dearest OG specialist who is one super enthusiastic lecturer who forgets the time once he starts teaching but he had surely taught me much and well in OG.

Our very interesting Ortho specialist who never failed to tickle our funny bone.

One of my favourite Paediatrician and his wife, who is also my ENT lecturer.  They are such a sweet couple.

My dearest Internal Med lecturer who will tell you that if you don't die of liver cirrhosis (from drinking), you'll die of heart attack instead.

Another of my favourite Paediatrician. She's really a very nice lecturer and very cute also.

Even though I didn't had much opportunity to be taught by her, but she's one of the friendliest and cutest lecturer.

Our very chio and awesome Dean. Notice that we have the same hair color? :)

Another Paediatrician and our dean of clinical school in Moldyland famous for her 'I'll Kill You' line

My handsome date for the night.

The white angels

Everyone say hi to Dr. Emily. He look so smart in his Chinese traditional top. Proud of my little brother no.1.

Three of my good friends in medical school - very friendly, helpful and humble girls.

Awesome possum housemates for life. <3

Our big boss aka Mr. Consultoid. Despite the fact that he super love to tease and lie to innocent people (like me) so much so that if he is Pinochio, I believe his nose will have gone around the globe twice but deep down, he is really one of the nicest friend I have known. He's one guy who knows literally everything from medical facts to craps and he never fail to amaze us with his powerful knowledge. And he's one friend you know you can count on whenever you need help. By whenever, I really mean at any time of the day or night at all. I'm gonna miss his crap and laughter much.

With the hotties in blue.

I'm gonna miss all of you <3

The medic hunks. Only 6 of them are still single. Guess who?

All my pretty babes. Really love the parade of dresses.

A final one of all the pretty babes

The Graduation dinner was definitely a very memorable night and one of the best night that I had. It's our one and only Graduation dinner, after 5 long years in medical school and looking at how dressed up everyone was having fun capturing moments together, the exhaustion in preparing for the dinner was certainly worth it. :)

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A Doctor Finally

Despite the fact that I'm already quite sleepy right now, I have a good news to share first. So good that it puts me in seventh heaven and I am more than willing to grant you anything you wish for right now because that's just how happy I am. Our result was released today and I had PASSED the final exam. Super happy max. And not only that, all 41 of us in my batch had emerged victorious so a huge huge congratulations to all my awesome fellow doctors. It felt almost like I'm still in a dream that we were all medical students yesterday and now doctors. Earning this Dr. title in medical school is just our first baby step in the medical field. 5 years of medical school had certainly been nothing short of stress, sweat, tears (and laughter) but all those hard work trying to chomp down medical books as thick as the encyclopedia had certainly paid off. I felt that I had not only gained knowledge from the medical field from this 5 years, but I had definitely grown and mature as a person as a whole. I think I had grew from who I used to be to be who I am now which is good because I'm a more secure, confident and understanding person among many other things now. Besides, I had also gained many new experiences that truly colors my varsity life and the many good friends that I'm gonna miss soon. I'm definitely proud of everyone and is also thankful to all my lecturers for their enduring effort, my parents for their never ending encouragement, HT, my houssies, all my dearest friends and of course you readers and twitterers who never fail to support and encourage me whenever I feel stress or in doubt of my own abilities.

Aside from the good result, a lot of things had been happening since exam ended which had kept me rather happy and entertained. For one, our Graduation dinner will be tomorrow night, so I had been doing all the girly stuff with the girls getting ourselves ready for the dinner. We have only so little time since after exam to our dinner so it was like we had to rush to look for our shoes, get our hair done, nails done etc hence the lack of time to be actually sitting in front of the laptop.

Well, say hello to red head now. I had sat 4 hours straight at the saloon the day after my short cases ended getting my hair chopped off some 4 inches and getting it colored some misty red. Then, I had also watched Fast 5 which was like infreakingsanely awesome and Pirates of the Carribeans 4 which was not quite to my expectation. I have always been a fan of the Pirates but I think I like it more when Orlando Bloom was still in the movie. Today I went to did my nails, both the toe and finger nails painted for only RM 23. I also went for a swim after like so long which felt really really good. Nothing gets the mind going like a good swim.

The red hair doctor. haha! (this picture don't do justice to the real thing)

Tomorrow is gonna be a full day as well because I have to go look for the tailor for some minor amendment tomorrow morning, then rush for last minute rehersal for the sketch I'll be playing a minor role in during dinner which I haven't practice a single thing, get my hair done and at last the Graduation dinner at night. I am sure excited and looking forward to it very much. I can't wait to see the parades of dresses of all the girls in my class. :)

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Battle Ended

It's over for now! Finally over and done with! The Final Battle, our final Profesional III exam had finally came to an end yesterday. The most frustrated part of studying was that when you had read something only to forget it in the next few days or even worse during exam. If only we can plug in external memory cards into our brain. After a week long (which definitely felt like eternity) of battling MEQs, MCQs, OSCE, long and short cases we had all emerged still standing tall. Well, actually I'm still feeling kinda tachycardic because our result will only be announce tomorrow so while taking the exam is scary, awaiting the result is even scarier! Especially those minutes where we will all be seated in the lecture hall waiting for the result to be release. Those minutes are my scariest moment; enough to make me feel as though my heart is about to thump out of it's posititon and turn my palm clammy and cold.

After weeks of reading and reading and reading, attempting to cramp every single details into our limited brain space and on the verge of going berserk, I suddenly felt kinda lost now that exam is over. Call it the post-exam syndrome because although sure, I'm relieved now that I can go to bed without having to limit myself to just 6 hours of sleep a day and I dont have to be facing my books almost every single minute of my waking time, but it's crazy that at the same time I felt like I'm missing something. Not that I'm complaining that I dont have to be studying but the circadian rhythm and all the other rhythm had been altered and now needs to be realtered.

Both our medical and surgical based MEQs were generally okay. Some questions were quite tough, some were okay, some were just unexpected. Most of the time, I realized it's not that we do not know how to answer, it's just that at times our brain got fried under pressure and time constraint so disc error occurred and we couldnt retrieved the datas that we had been trying so hard uploading into it. Our medical based questions were adult epilepsy, chronic renal disease, AEBA, dengue shock syndrome, disaster management while the surgical based had chronic limb ischemia, obstructed hernia, GDM, Ca cervix and acute OM. (I'm just listing it all down for keepsake). As usual all the MCQs questions never failed to bamboozle me with questions such as carcinoma penis, carcinoma vulva and carcinoma gallbaldder among the many insanely unexpected questions. Even if you do know the questions, the answers were extremely tricky.

However, thankfully our OSCE was relatively much easier as compared to the previous years. As usual, I was having palpitation the whole night before my clinical long case that it was so difficult to sleep. Although every component of the exam is important, but the most important one is the clinical part because if we don't pass out clinical part, we will still not pass no matter what and the long case had the largest percentage in the clinical part, hence the extreme stress knowing that whatever we had been working hard for was all boiled down to this particular last 2 days. And of all cases, my long case was on bladder carcinoma. I mean, seriously, I never thought bladder carcinoma will ever be ask so I did not pay much attention to this topic. I remember just barely glancing through it and discussing about it from bed side teachings. Nonetheless, God has been really good to me. Despite the fact that this was not a topic that I well grasped, I got two good examiner who hopefully did not 'killed' me. As for the short cases, I'm really glad that my examiners were all quite good instead of those strict ones and they were all cases that I'm familiar with (mitral regurg, thalassaemia and uterine fibroid) instead of some orthopaedic case that I was praying hard not to get.

As for now, I'm just crossing all my fingers and toes and praying for the best that everyone, all 41 of us in my batch will pass. My heart is definitely still thumping hard and not until the result is release, I don't think I can put my mind at complete ease knowing that anything can happen. But well, we had all done our best so till that scary moment, I'm just not gonna think about it as much as possible and enjoy the freedom of after exam. :)

Really glad that the EXAM is finally over.:)

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Job Interview for Future HO

Being a house officer (junior doctor) in Malaysia is one of the few 'privileged' occupation where we will be interview even before we graduate. Well, to be exact even before our final exam. It's exactly 10 more days to my finals. And I just had my job interview this morning. The interview was nothing stressful though I had a little flutter right before the interview especially when suddenly all my friends started talking about who the D-G is, who this minister, that minister etc is and stuff regarding the health ministry. I got too much facts to be stored in my head right now that names of ministers are one of the last things that needed to be further uploaded.

But well, for future medical students who will be going through this interview, I will say there's really nothing much to worry or stress about. The interviewers do varies from one to another, well some might ask some questions regarding the ministry but most part of it was more to a relaxing 'chit chat'. I was lucky no.4 and basically, my whole interview session was like a 5 to 10 minutes chit chat between me and my interviewers. They just ask some basic questions about myself, how do I feel about staying in Kuala Terengganu, how do I feel about being a house officer in future, some basic first aid questions etc. I think it's more to like accessing your attitude and ethics rather than your knowledge about the ministry which is very good in my opinion. The more stressful part now is knowing that you are really so close to being a house officer  (technically you had even went through the interview) but yet, you have not even taken your exams! I'm not going to say anything pessimistic here but it's one of those things that felt like it's already so close but yet so far. ( I think I said a lot of this 'so close yet so far' these days but that's how I really feel of late)

Anyway, dress code for the interview is either formal or traditional wear so since I do not have any baju kurung, I just wore my normal formal wear. I had to stress that it's normal because it's nothing more than a formal top that I bought from a formal wear shop (it's from Zara but Zara sells formal wear too right) and a formal slacks I bought from MNG. There's no accessories, no belt, no high waisted, no nothing. I did not even put on any make up but I can't help it really that I look like a celebrity (thanks to my parents for giving me such good genes) so even in my most normal formal wear, I still look like a celebrity or a movie star (according to a certain 'beloved someone').

My 'celebrity' formal wear

Oh well, whatever it is, I'm just glad that the interview is over too, so now it's a full charge towards the finishing line. 10 more days, Alli. You can do it! :)

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The Final Battle

STRESSED!!!!!!! OMG I'm so so so stressed up right now I can eat a cow. Or rather maybe not. I dont think I have much appetite for food right now. The bed seems more tempting than anything else. Every morning, I just cant pull myself out of bed no matter how much I had instilled the thought into my head the night before to wake up earlier. Argh, discipline discipline! It's exactly 2 more weeks to my final exam, the Final Battle. I don't even want to count how many days is it. I can feel my own heart thumping hard against my precordium, tachycardic and I'm sure if you palpate my apex beat now, it's heaving in nature. I can even hear a grade 6 murmur. Maybe I'm suffering from stress induced cardiomyopathy.

It seems like not too long ago that we just had our last Paeds lecture followed by the 2 weeks of houseman shadowing which is really quite redundant. And now, 1 week of study break had passed and it's already May the 1st! Gasp! I still have plenty to study, why in the world is there so much things to put into our head? It's not like medical students have photographic memory and can remember every single thing that we read. So many diseases, so many presentations, so many drugs, so many doses - my brain is about to explode soon. I only have 2 more weeks to finish all other 4 major posting and wait, there's still community medicine and and oh no.*hyperventilates*

But it's all my own fault really. I think I just procrastinated too much previously and now I'm facing the consequences of my very own procrastination. I don't know why but it just that everything else seems much more interesting than having to sit in front of the books all day, trying to cramp so many little little facts into my already overloaded head. And to think I actually caved in and made up some of the 2 billion viewers tuning in live worldwide watching the Royal Wedding last Friday. I never planned to really watch it at first because I thought the whole thing was kinda overhyped like yeah, Prince William is getting married, so yada-yada. None the less, I was just really interested about Kate Middleton's wedding dress, after all it's such a well kept secret and I just wanted to see how beautiful it is so I sat and watched anyway. It's interesting too to check out what the other guest of honors and celebrities were wearing especially the hats. Well, the funniest of all must be Princess Beatrice's antelope hat. I just cant stop myself from laughing when I saw the hat. Goodness.

Anyhoos, I guessed I just got swept away by the wedding dress the minute I saw it because I immediately fell in love with it. The first thing that came to my mind was 'WOW'. It's something very simple but yet so elegant and timeless. Although it's a bit too safe, but the tasteful amount of skin it showed with the deep V line was good enough. My eyes simply got glued to the dress after that, I just cant get enough of it, so I spent the rest of the time watching the whole wedding. I ddin't regret watching it though because it was one of the most beautiful wedding that I had ever watched and it was really sweet watching the small whispers and smiles exchange between Prince William and Kate Middleton throughout the wedding. Besides, I really love how everything was so British to the core.

I can't help noticing though that the Duke of Cambridge is already balding, centre alopecia to be exact. And at only 28?I never thought it can be quite stressful being a prince too. When I was 10, Prince William was like my ideal dream partner. I thought he was extremely good looking at that time. *blush* haha! Alright, let's move on to look at some of my favourite moments from the #royalwedding. :)

The younger Prince William (and Prince Harry behind). Super lengzhai at that time.

Her wedding dress! Love it max. Love her veil too.

Pippa Middleton's maid of honour dress was really pretty too. Very simple and classy as well. Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen is really talented.

I think this must be the moment when he whispered 'You're Beautiful' to her. In front of like 2000 guests and 2 billion live viewers. So super sweet.

The carriage. So fairytale like.

The Aston Martin DB6 the Duke took his Duchess for a spin in. If you dont already know, the back plate of the car was spelt JU5T WED. Absolute love as well.

This is like my favourite picture though. I mean the kissing couple is sweet but the little bridesmaid unhappy face there certainly is the winner of the picture. :)

The new royal couple seems really happy together and I hope they will have a blissful marriage life ahead. Well, for all the other girls who are still dreaming of becoming a princess, there's still Prince Harry! haha. Kidding. Before I forget, a reader asked me recently if it is possible to fall in love with someone you never met before. Well to that, I said, 'Why not?'. I believe that it is possible and there are certainly living proof to that so I hope I answered the question.

Till my exam is over, I just want to say good luck to all my fellow friends who will be taking this Profesional 3 exam as well and continue fighting aka working hard. Meanwhile, I'm gonna have to face this extreme stress for another two weeks. The only way I can get pass these 2 weeks to finish up the important stuff is by Faith. I hope everything will turn out well. And a pre Happy Mothers Day to all mummies in the world especially my beloved mumsy. Wish me luck *fingers crossed*. :)

Ps : All pictures are credit of various sites from Google.

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