Damia...

a video of an "interview" with my niece Damia , right after she returned from Kuantan today..my mother went back to melaka today to clean up the house in Masjid tanah together with tanti and my pak itam..
and my brother with his wife and damia balik kuantan using my father's car..

Kelantan Part 2.. the food.. (not ramadhan approved)

please read this after buka puasa.. if ur not fasting. .then by all means go ahead.. if you are fasting and u still want to read the post.. by all means do so.. but don't say i didn't warn you aaa...

Well... going to Kelantan.. wouldn't be complete without sampling the array of food you can find.. more or less the sweet array of foods.. you rarely find anything but sweet there...
basically the main activity there was.. going around and sampling food..
doing the selectives.. was like the minor part there..
if any of my tutors are reading this.. doing the selective was the MAJOR part and i spent a lot of time concentrating on the posting.. (fingers crossed) never does a minute pass by without me thinking of how to improve my selectives..

CPT a.k.a. Cendol Pulut Tapai.. we went to place which was somewhere in front of a school in Pengkalan Chepa... dekat2 rumah Kak Meha gak le.. i think it was one of the days in the first week when we were in Kelantan.. that we went for CPT
we went there about 2-3 times.. in the afternoon right after classes..
most of times we go there i just take Cendol Pulut je.. minus the tapai.. i'm not really a fan of tapai.. but once.. naik perangai gile.. nak try le jap.. tapai kuning.. not the one that i normally would take ( tapai and vanilla ais krim during wedding dinners)..
and the end result was.. as soon as i reached home.. terus pengsan.. i think i had a very bad headache sampai ke malam la.. no more tapai.. tapai kuning in particular..at least in the near future..

well.. the only thing i can say is.. look at the size of that.. this was in kedai Nasi Ulam in the Crafts Centre, Kota Bharu.. anytime we wanted to go for lunch dekat nasi ulam..
i think more or less we had to leave a bit early as entering KB.. would be a hassle during lunch hour. anyway.. most of the time me, annas , faiz and pakcik would go for lunch together..
maam and pak iwan.. seldom go to lunch together with us..
anyway regarding nasi ulam..
let me list out the menu that we had there.. 2 quarter chickens. the above pictured ikan keli.. lauk ikan patin, sirap 2 jag, ulam2, budu tempoyak and nasi tambah..
was brought to a grand total of .. rm30.00
cheapo.. good for us cheapskates..

even when we were on errand.. sempat lagi melantak.. we were actually out that night sebab nak beli roti.. utk dicecah dgn kuzi daging mak annas buat(which by the way... SEDAP)
anyway.. sambil2 lalu kat Pulau Melaka we stopped by the shop and had some kerang bakar and kelapa Jelly.. pakcik suka benar kelapa Jelly.. i wasn't really enamoured by it.. but okeh la kot..
air kelapa dalam bentuk jelly..

we do really go for nasi ulam quite a lot.. we would normally go to the one in KB.. but the last week.. we went to the one in Pengkalan Chepa.. could see the water towers of MRSM pengkalan chepa... nostalgia nya.. oh wait.. i'm from jasin.. lupa lak..

intermittently i do tend to open the odd book.. i was amazed and awed by the collection of books available in USM Kubang Kerian, but bearing in mind that this was a public university with a few thousand odd students.. you expect the library to be stocked well.. even with books by Steele(the love novels etc)

take a break.. take a kit kat? heck and i added more sweet things to my already sweet diet.. haha

this was a teh ais that i ordered the night me , pakcik ,and wispala went to see kodeng..
makan dkt pulai chondong gak le.. somewhere around that area.. safe to say.. this one would be one of the 'errgkhtt' drinks i've taken so far.. i think they poured the condensed milk almost separuh penuh dah... i couldn't really taste any teh or anything.. ordered another glass of plain water.. but even that wasn't enough.. in the end.. i didn't even finish the teh ais..

after..
they may have added steroids to the ikan keli's diet.. this one was humungous.. we forgot to take the 'before' picture.. baru ingat after melantak to take the 'after' picture

during one of the weekends.. we decided to go to Jeram Linang.. mandi2 sungai and everything.. i'll post pictures of that later.. but here are some post-Jeram Linang pictures in Wis Pala's house..

after a day of thrashing about in Jeram Linang.. air oren yg manis seperti biasa.. i think i should have checked my blood sugar over there.. probably would've been sky high..
notice the wallet getting thinner.. haha and kunci kereta aveo.. main mode of transport in Kelantan

ditambah lagi dengan kuih tepung pelita.. maybe i zoomed in too much.. but the kueh agak besar.. more so than the normal one you get in KL or seremban.. and just nice..
had a very bad experience during Ramadhan last year.. bought some tepung pelita's that tasted like soap.. probably washed the leaves with soap i think.. huhu

after tepung pelita and air oren.. ditambah dgn buah limau mandarin.. huhu

we were once invited over for dinner kat rumah faiz.. i recalling bertolak a bit late in the evening.. maybe dalam after asar to machang...can't really recall makan ape sgt.. i just recall 'pigging' out as usual.. probably nasi ayam.. mak faiz masak.. then we had this for dessert..

this would be the kedai nasi ulam in Pengkalan Chepa. infatuated with ikan keli.. haha

other notable places..
Kedai Abg Mie.
most of the time we would have lunch here as it would be nearer.. it's near langgar , before entering KB.. the normal menu would be nasi bungkus with freshly fried chicken.. ayam panas2.. haha.. can't remember the price.. 3 ringgit kot.. but quarter chicken la.. u could add on lauk2 lain . this would be one of the few places yg "macam pedas" sikit in relation to the other places in Kelantan.. where pedas would mean .. manis2 sikit

Kedai Nasi Kerabu in Kedai Piah..
this place would be on the way to rumah faiz.. we stopped by masa on the way to his house.. can't remember.. rasanya masa pegi Jeram Linang .. this one would be one of the nicest nasi kerabu i've taken i think.. sebab ada lagi.. daging salai yg baru dibakar...
heck i'm hypersalivating now.. lapar lak..

Rumah Annas..
makan je sepanjang masa in his house.. anytime makan .. me and pakcik would have to act as "majlis perbandaran kota bharu".. in conclusion, we never starved here..

Kedai Nasi Cikgu Lama Annas yg ada jual ikan Keli percik..
this shop would be the one nearest to Kubang Kerian (where we were based, rumah annas)
so most of time we would go here for lunch.. pakcik pun dok gile makan keli percik..

Bekwoh Pok Him..
pok Him(pronounced Hem-ada unsur2 izhar dan idgham digabungkan..)
is a family friend , my parents kenal die when they were living there masa zaman2 my father menanam tembakau as area manager in Bachok for MTC..
my late first brother was born in Kelantan but passed away at the age of 6months due to jaundice.. buried in Langgar.. sister was also born in Kelantan.. my 2nd brother in Melaka and me in Pantai Dalam..
anyway.. pok him buat bekwoh..(kerjakahwin)
and the peculiar thing about kerja kahwin in Kelantan is that.. it starts very early and ends quite late.. and they do it during working days.. which is quite foreign for people from Malacca.. we went for the bekwoh for an early lunch together, i think 11a.m. dgn Uncle Lazi(my relative staying in Kelantan)
as usual.. pig out lagi la.. and we were the first to start eating

Rumah Uncle Lazi..
Uncle Lazi.. who isn't really my uncle.. is a relative on my father's side.. from parit melana.
went to his house sekali tuh for dinner.. the element of "pedas" dah attenuated dah kot since his been staying there for quite a while.. (Kelantan i mean)

then there was once.. we went for dinner in the food court in front of USM..
me and pakcik.. had our first experience of eating belut..
annas yg kononnya org kelantan.. was apparently hmm unsure.. afraid maybe of makan belut.. ape daa.. anyway.. the belut was .. MAHAL NAK hmm GILA.. and portion sikit betul.. we were asking the guy.. cukup ke makan dua org.. apparently memang cukup if sorg makan a very small segment of the belut.. and we were charged RM12.00 for that..
but the nasik kukus sgt sedap la.. then we also have had nasi air.. kat mana tah.. lupa the name of the place.. nasi air okeh la.. but yet to find tempat yg sedap utk makan nasi air..

in conclusion.. kelantan.. was a delightful culinary affair.. which could be translated.. was a chance for us to pig out.. and we took the chance dgn gelojohnya.. haha

this is it for now.. later..
assalamualaikum

p/s:post originally drafted on the 11th of september..

Al-Fatihah..

Nurin Jazlin , an 8 year old standard two student who disappeared a month ago when she left for the pasar malam near her home , has been confirmed through DNA tests that she was the girl which was found in a gym bag in PJS petaling utama a few days ago, we offer our condolences to the family of the late Nurin.. may they have strength to come through this ordeal insya-Allah..

sesungguhnya kita datang daripada Allah, dan daripada Allah kita akan kembali..

they have been certain quarters, parents and people pointing the finger to the parents.. and saying that they were negligent.. this maybe true.. but you have to cut some slack for the family.. no one in their right mind would allow this to happen to anyone in their family and it is impossible to expect 24-hour supervision.. they may have erred..
but the important this..
you never expect this to happen in our society in this day of age..
apathy has allowed this problem to creep in..
among the suspects are the so called Kampung Baru Molester..
a few months back they were a few other cases reported where two girsl ranging from 5-6 years old who were abducted by a man on a motorcycle.. who were asking their help to find his so called 'cat' and offered them ice cream in return..
what happened after that were that they were sexually assaulted in the same way as Nurin Jazlin was and was abandoned.. but they were found alive..

unlike Nurin who was found dead, and stuffed in gym bag in Petaling Utama..
to those who are responsible, be sure that justice will be severe.. if not in this world.. in the next world.. and Allah's retribution is unimaginable..

CCTV footage from the building where the gym bag was found.. has picked up a number of leads.. among them a suspected couple in a Perodua Kenari.. a woman was seen with a bag and leaving the building together with the male partner who was waiting in the Silver kenari..
there was also a footage of an unidentified motorcyclist.. we hope that the leads will bring the police to the suspect so that justice is meted out.. insya-Allah..

the person who did this must surely be a sicko.. but if anyone abetted the sicko.. then they are much worse..

Post-mortem results revealed that Nurin died after a brinjal and a cucumber were forced into her private parts, rupturing the intestines.

Nurin, a Standard Two pupil of SK Desa Setapak, suffered bruises to the head and cuts on the lips, signs that she had been beaten.

there has been an alarming increase in the number of brutal rape cases and crimes against children.. and yesterday a Sabah women's group called for the death sentence to be implemented for this type of cases.. click here

just today, there was a person who was convicted to 19 years of jail and 5 whips of the rotan for raping an 11 year old.. a few days back.. a brother to a disabled person.. raped a child who was their neighbour when she was at his house to take care of the disabled brother..

we've heard so much about deterrent sentences meted out to people who committed these crimes.. but is it really deterring them ? we rarely hear sentences.. and it's not really working in terms of preventing them to commit these crimes.. with all the cases that have been reported nowadays.. when anytime calls for the death penalty come out.. there would be a whole lot of NGO's and individuals plus foreigners who say that the death penalty is a violation of a human rights , we should give them a second chance, he was not of his right mind etc

"Wahai orang-orang yang beriman, diwajibkan kamu menjalankan hukuman qisas (balasan yang seimbang) dalam perkara orang-orang yang mati dibunuh." (Al-Baqarah :178)

well i put to you this question
what about the victims whose human rights has severely been violated..
the perpetrators have forfeit their human rights when they violated the human rights of others..
do the victims get a second chance?
who is going to make up for the loss of the family?
what would you feel if this happened to someone dear to you? you would scream for bloody murder of the persons responsible no doubt..
and lastly.. you need a sentence that is going to be a REAL deterrent to others.. maybe once awhile we should publicise and telecast the sentences being carried out.. the whipping, the hanging then only maybe we can deter these lunatics..

qisas..
to the person who committed the murder and the inhumane acts on Nurin Jazlin..
when anyone catches him.. we should shove a bagful of cucumbers , and brinjals up his emm.. alimentary tract.. before we stuff him/her into a gym bag..
and then we have justice..

sure then some "bigshot country" from across the seas.. would protest this 'violation' of someone's human rights.. but we really should look into the criminal statistics of that bigshot country where the brave and free live..
last time i checked they had the highest number of criminal cases in the world.. look up the statistics..

malaysia also spends too much money on our prisoners .. did you know that we spend RM 1.2 million a day for upkeep of our prisons per year and

Bernama

rm 500,00 is spent on "warganegara asing"
and we spend this much on our drug addicts..

"Sementara itu untuk menanggung warga negara yang sanggup meracun diri sendiri dan masa depan mereka yang ditempatkan di pusat serenti, kerajaan terpaksa membelanjakan RM500,000 sehari bersamaan dengan RM182,500,000 ( RM 182 juta ) setahun. Ini diambil kira dengan adanya 28 pusat serenti di seluruh negara yang menempatkan sekitar 10,000 pelatih bagi satu-satu masa dengan jumlah tanggungan untuk seorang penagih yang dirawat di pusat serenti sebanyak RM50 setiap hari."
(Sumber Berita Harian)

in total we spend rm 647 million per year on the outcasts of our society..
undeniably some do come out from the prisons and serentis rehabilitated with a sense of purpose and motivation to start over..
but we also have some very dodgy characters too..
we either should look into the prison system .. whether it's really achieving the goal or are we just going to produce repeat offenders who are not reluctant the flout the law or even violate it..
or think of sentences that can really deter people from committing crimes against society and themselves(drug addicts)

you wouldn't really want to work hard and in the end pay taxes to keep this lot cozy and comfy in the prisons..

p/s: Al-Fatihah buat Nurin Jazlin and also the others who have been a victim of these senseless crimes.. may Allah bring the people responsible to justice as soon as possible.. insya-Allah(God Willing)

Ramadhan....

assalamualaikum..

i have to apologise for not being able to update the blog in the past week.. with the arrival of ramadhan and a few events that happened last week.. i was knackered and wasn't up to putting up any new posts.. maybe when i've recovered sufficiently , i'll provide and account of what happened last week..

i digress and would like to bring the main point of this post.. which is to celebrate the arrival of Ramdhan Al-Mubarak..
bulan penuh keberkatan daripada Maha Pencipta..
i urge readers , reading this post.. to take advantage of this blessed month, and as a preparation for the coming months..
it is said that Ramadhan is a Madrassah where you prepare yourself for the other months..
Ramadhan is where you try and do as much good and beribadat etc.. and the main point is that it catches on during the other months in the year..
it defeats the purpose of you.. doing all the good things in Ramadhan, and eventually.. returning to doing our misdeeds in the other months.. so here's to wishing everyone a good and prosperous ramadhan.. and JANGAN INGAT NAK RAYA JE..
it was said that the Sahabat2 Nabi S.A.W. would mourn the passing of ramadhan and eager for it to arrive again..
it is said
which is quite paradoxical to what happens here.. i don't think i'm going to tune in to radios this year.. last year , even before puasa they started playing the raya songs.. aiyohhh bruder..
selamat menyambut ramadhan.. and selamat berpuasa...

Harapan Ramadhan

Ku mengharapkan Ramadhan
Kali ini penuh makna
Agar dapat kulalui
Dengan sempurna

Selangkah demi selangkah
Setahun sudah pun berlalu
Masa yang pantas berlalu
Hingga tak terasa ku berada
Di bulan Ramadhan semula

Puasa satu amalan
Sebagaimana yang diperintahNya
Moga dapat ku lenturkan
Nafsu yang selalu membelenggu diri
Tiada henti-henti

Tak ingin ku biarkan Ramadhan berlalu saja
Tuhan pimpinlah daku yang lemah
Mengharungi segalanya dengan sabar
Kita memohon pada Tuhan diberikan kekuatan
Ku merayu pada Tuhan diterima amalan

Selangkah demi selangkah...
Dengan rahmatMu oh Tuhanku...
Ku tempuh jua


an excerpt from an article..

Al-Syaikh Abdul-Qadir al-Jailani r.a. pula membandingkan ketiga- tiga bulan tersebut dengan perkembangan sepohon pokok. Rajab itu hari tumbuh daunnya, Sya’ban itu hari keluar buahnya dan Ramadhan itu hari panen which i presume implies (memetik or something) . Lebih jauh disebutkan lagi, Rajab menyucikan badan, Sya’ban menyucikan hati dan Ramadhan menyucikan roh. Dikatakan juga, Rajab bulan maghfirah (keampunan daripada Allah), Sya’ban bulan syafa’at (pertongan daripada Allah) dan Ramadhan penggandaan segala kebajikan.

Salty story of the day...

'A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer's burger was too salty - so salty, he says, that it made him sick. Kendra Bull was arrested on Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1 000 bail. Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who "tried to thump the salt off"...City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged because she served the burger "without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it" - Associated Press.

apparently the employee.. tried a burger made from the same salty burger meat during break and it didn't make her sick.. she also raised up a very good point..
if at the first bite , the cop felt it was a bit too salty.. why did he even finish the burger..

imagine..

Cop taking the first bite of the burger..
thinks to himself..
hmm a bit too salty...
maybe another bite.. who cares about my hypertension...
hmm still a bit too salty.. maybe it's just this side of the burger..
let me try the other side..
hmmm still salty..
heck.. my vision is a bit blur now..
maybe the other parts would be a bit less salty..
another bite wouldn't hurt..
eh.. i've finished the burger?
God.. i feel sick now..
i'm just too lazy to get up and change the burgers..
let me just make a report and put the mcdonald's girl in prison..

apparently the cop took 8 bites of the burger..
for full details of the stupido story...
Click here

p/s: i don't think eating this burger really promotes health of any kind..

El Stupido of the Day..

the 'cleverness' of our friends from the other side of the globe.. does not cease to suprise and shock us...

a GOP presidential candidate Tom Tancredo created a lot of buzz in 2005 for saying that the United States should consider bombing Muslim holy sites if the US was attacked with nuclear weapons:

“Well, what if you said something like - if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites,” Tancredo answered.

When the media brought the issue up again a few days ago, Tancredo went even further:

“If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina,” the GOP presidential candidate said. “That is the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they would otherwise do. If I am wrong fine, tell me, and I would be happy to do something else. But you had better find a deterrent or you will find an attack. There is no other way around it. There have to be negative consequences for the actions they take. That’s the most negative I can think of.”

Problem: Mecca and Medina are holy sites not only for Muslim extremists, but for all Muslims. The worldwide Muslim population is approximately 1.61 billion. Does Tancredo really feel like creating one billion more US enemies with one click of the button?

Tom Casey, a deputy spokesman for the State Department, told CNN’s Elise Labott that the congressman’s comments were “reprehensible” and “absolutely crazy.”

But his subordinates had this to say..

“This shows that we mean business,” said Bay Buchanan, a senior Tancredo adviser. “There’s no more effective deterrent than that. But he is open-minded and willing to embrace other options. This is just a means to deter them from attacking us.”

and these are the people who claim to be the proponent of free speech , freedom , justice and democracy...
what a load of garbage..

D'oh

if u swallowed that amount of batteries.. i would bet that something in your brain would have been damaged before

err.. nervous?

got this from www.engrish.com

those were the days...

on the 14 th of February, the wednesday after osce exams, me ,hanisyam , pakcik , huda and faya went back to mrsm jasin.. biasa le.. anak2 didik mrsm jasin.. i was the one driving then, it was a long time since i last went to jasin.. can't even recall the last visit.. maybe when i was in bukit jalil.. that was with zaizul and pakcik gak kot...

i recall the old road that we usually used to reach jasin.. we would go out at ayer keroh, pass by seri negeri, and just follow the sign board to jasin.. apparently they've built any exit which comes out directly to jasin.. but wasn't really sure about that.. just found out that it exited near simpang kerayong.. which was from the tangkak side of mrsm jasin.. just foound out recently..

well, the first stop as usual would be the teacher's office.. the first one i met was Cikgu Rae and Cikgu Noreen.. my Biology and Chemistry teacher last time around.. then seperti biasa wajib mencari Puan Maimunah.. she being my homeroom teacher last time around in jasin..
Met Cikgu Amin my BM teacher.. didn't manage to find my BI teacher tough..
i was also dragged into the Head of Department for social science as she wanted to inquire about medical courses for her children who was interested in doing medicine.. i was stuck there for quite a while , and at the same time both Puan Anizah ( Mat Tam teacher) and Cikgu Rae was calling nak belanja lunch.. huhu. selepas habis borak2.. was on the way to the canteen.. met again Cikgu Amin yg nak belanja makan.. in short semua org dok nak borak le.. should have came earlier.. we reached there around lunch time and there wasn't really enough time to see all the teachers..
well here are some pictures..

pictures in front of D. Burn(aptly named as the infamous batch of '92 tried to set it on fire.. u could see some burn marks on the ceiling during my time.. not sure about now..)
we managed to get a student to take the picture for us.. he was loitering about there.. and funnily enough he didn't notice that he had a hole in his pants the size of singapore.. maybe seremban..

the teacher's block

this is where i set a thunder bomb(mercun) last time after spm.. it was me and zaizul.. haha bagus le.. sorng Ketua Biro Rondaan dan Kawalan and lagi sorg EXCO Badar dok main mercun..
after setting it off.. we were moving away from the crime scene.. went some staff saw us and gave chase.. i dun't think we've ever ran so hard..

that night we also set off another one on the basketball field after getting chased around by Abg Rohaizat( who is in MARA headquarters now)
he was making his rounds in the Form 5 academic blocks and did chase some of us with his motorbike. hampeh tul..
we decided to go deeper to the field to escape him.. and thinking that he gave up.. we set off another mercun at the field.. suddenly after lighting one up in a plastic bottle.. about 20metres from us there was a flickering of a torchlight..
we ran for it.. there was me,zakuan(EXCO rondaan Badar),baras(pres LDP), zaizul, ameer, mawardi and bal saidi... i think me and zakuan made a run for the field and jumped from the basketball field down into the rugby field.. into overgrown lalang.. aa tajam tul..everyone went separate ways and went in pairs.. wasn't advisable to go it alone near the field..
we've encountered a lot of strange things before.. i remember hearing footsteps near the academic blocks when doing my rounds with pok nik.. we chase after the footsteps then suddenly the footsteps were behind us.. made a run for it again.. haha

also remember hearing furniture moving a lot at 2am at the form 4 block.. itu tanda2 utk pegi balik and jangan ngada2 nak ronda..


the same night yg kitaorang main mercun tuh.. ustaz rasdi did a roll call..
semua org dah gelabah dah and everyone was adamant if he asked we would just all confess as i think my group made the most amount of noise that night..
but he just said..

Ustaz Rasdi : "Saya tahu le Yang Dipertuan Agong baru mangkat, tapi kamu takyahlah susah2 nak ambik alih tugas penembak meriam.. kalu nak main pun jauh2 la.. anak saya nak tidur.."
that more or less amounted to a green light.. spent the rest of the night doing a barbecue kat ATM Giro..
a group of 20 form 5's that night kantoi fly when the walked in the front gate.. not knowing that Ustaz Rasdi and Ustaz Akmal @Cikun was joining our BBQ in front of the Bank Giro.. sia2 je ada yg kena push up.. haha

we also went and saw Puan Mahibbah, my old club advisor masa 2001, Kelab Hidroponik.. haha she was asking whether we would be interested to give talks to form 5's who were interested in doing medicine.. felt old suddenly..

after leaving mrsm jasin.. went to bukit katil to see Cik Hajah Zaherah, my old Cikgu Pakar Sejarah who recently retired. she was home alone and just sustained a colle's fracture of the left hand.. we spent quite a while there as she went through quite a lot of gossip about mrsm jasin..

those were the days...


that's it for now.. later. insya-Allah..

Umrah - just a teaser...

anything interesting on the board?

masjid nabawi in madinah

u should know this.. masjidil haram in Makkah

I've delayed long enough... Kelantan part 1

Background information:
After confounding myself and passing my semester 7 exams..
I duly proceeded to do my selectives which ran from the 5th of March to the end of March.. i think around 28th.. if im not mistaken.. couldn't be bothered to check the calendar

Members:
The people who were supposed to do electives in Kelantan were

1. Numero uno - me
2. Pakcik
3. Annas
4. Wis Pala
5. Pak Iwan
6. Maam

i was supposedly doing internal medicine with the rest of the guys apart from Pak Iwan and Maam who wanted to do O&G.. Maam pulled out di saat2 terakhir seeing as he had to do Gynae.. a subject which we haven't learned yet..
So only Irwan was the one who was doing a different posting.. the others were doing the same posting which was internal medicine..

Me and pakcik were the only ones who weren't from Kelantan.. i chose internal med because of the fact that i wanted to find some motivation to take up internal medicine for postgraduates seeing as i'm discouraged to do so by certain lecturers in Seremban.. and also due to the fact that it would be interesting and the majority of my group members were from kelantan.. my mother was guessing at the time that i had a "special friend" in kelantan.. haha

So i and pakcik left off from LCCT on the Sunday.. which was the 4th i think..
flight wasn't crowded.. it was pakcik's first flight.. after the flight.. he was hung over for about a few hours.. couldn't really acclimatise to the experience yet..

we were planning on staying in annas's house as he "generously"(strings attached) offered to take us in.. seeing that we were doing it in Hospital USM Kubang Kerian.. which was.. around 2-3 minutes drive from his house..

I initially planned to drive from KL to Kelantan .. but didn't really get the approval from FAMA in the cited reason was my back pains.. hmmmm... so basically.. my mother+my uncle and aunt would drive the car from KL to kelantan and they would come back by flight..
well.. it was a good excuse for my mother to go to Pangkalan Kubur.. shopping2 sakan.. they had to post some of the things home from Kelantan.. illustrates the amount of shopping they did..
well anyway , i wouldn't really want to pass off a free flight..

arrived there around lunch i think.. or around after zuhur.. i'm not sure..
but annas picked us up at the airport.. brought us home and here would be the first picture i took there



that day, we waited for my mother to arrive , they were going to stay in the hotel near Langgar.. forget the name.. hmm kat jalan sultan ismail petra tuh.. well this was to make it easy for my mother to go and ziarah kubur diraja langgar tuh.. my eldest brother , Kamarul Shahrin , who passed away due to jaundice when he was 6 months old was buried there.. both my parents would go for an annual visit there.. if he was still alive.. he would be 38 years old now..
Al-Fatihah

That sunday night.. me, annas and pakcik decided that we had to do some shopping beforehand, seeing as that we were not very well equipped for ward rounds.. being that i had not really a lot of stationery with me.. so we went to pustaka seri intan.. which is ubiquitous in Kelantan.. everywhere i go i see them.. aaaa tensen..
but returning to topic..
i was browsing through the notebooks and i found this..

i get it that some people are fans of an artist.. but i think u cross a line when u buy a notebook with the guy's face on it.. imagine u doing a case presentation with DK, and suddenly he notices u using the book.. think of the torture you'd get..

the next day , we went to HUSM for our first day of selectives.. we left at around 8.30a.m. , we took our time to take breakfast seeing that no one was really in the mood of doing anything academic at the time.. had trouble finding parking.. we finally managed to find parking quite far away in the student's hostel.. annas was driving that day..
had trouble locating the elective student's liaison office( forget the real name, so i'm renaming it elective student's liaison office)

we were given forms to fill up, application letters and everything..
we were quite shocked to find out that everyone of us was assigned to the different clinical specialists..
annas was assigned to a respiratory physician.. who i bet was from the northern regions
pakcik was assigned to a neurologist, he had to go straight into class after briefing.. a seminar i think
maam and pak iwan - i'm not sure to who.. maam changed later to internal med after that and got a registrar.. clinical specialist.. not sure in what..

wis pala- think it was a gastroenterologist.. the specialist just left him a list of things to do and wasn't really keen on meeting wispala anyway..
me- Dr Lee Yeong Yeh - gastroenterologist.. i was brought to the clinics to see the doctor.. who was a very very very nice person.. he was in charge of the intensive care unit and gave me the option of joining his ward.. but i wasn't really interested in that.. i wanted to do more of general internal medicine.. so he allowed me to join any ward i wanted.. i went to 7th floor, both Utara and Selatan as they are called there.. i joined the male ward more..


funky chair..
this is a picture of the chairs in USM's library..
think of the amount of lewd things rahman would do when he sees this chair.. i shudder to think of the possibilities..

so i stop here for now.. i'll carry on as soon as i remember what happened 5 months back.