Blasts from the past...

renegade and outriders..





king arthur and the knights of justice.. ran for a short while on tv..



conan the adventurer.. still on tv nowadays..



kickers... kakeru and gang..





the turtles.. cowabunga!! turtle power...



G.I. Joe..

Hell?

A man dies and goes to hell. There he finds out that there is
a different hell for each country.

He goes to the German hell and asks,
"what do they do here?"

He is told, " First we put you in an electric chair for an hour.
Then we lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then
a German devil comes and beats you for the rest of the day."

The mean does not like the sound of that at all, so he moves
on and checks out the USA hell as well as the Russian hell and
many other countries. He discovers that they are more or less
the same as the German hell. THen he comes to the Malaysian
hell and finds that there is a long line of people waiting to get in.

Amazed, he asks someone in the line
"what do they do here?"

He is told
"first, they put you in an electric chair for an hour, then they lay
you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the Malaysian
devil comes and beast you for the rest of the day."

"But that is exactly the same as all the other hells, so why are
som many people waiting to get in here?" asks the man

"because the maintenance is so bad, it leaks and the fires goes
out, the electric chair does not work, to extract the metal
someone has stolen all the nails from the bed ; and the
Malaysian devil is a former government servant, so he comes
in late, signs the register and goes to the canteen three times
a day."

Felda Raja Elias...

So basically...

i spent the whole of March - doing my selectives ( internal medicine in HUSM Kubang Kerian)
April was spent doing my electives which was "penternakan kambing Boer" New Zealand.. and also doing my umrah for an unknown period of time..

After returning from Umrah.. i was loafing around in Seremban kacau the people who were preparing for Sem 9 exams..

fast foward to April the 21st.. rahman had asked me whether i would be interested utk buat community project dekat2 area Kuala Pilah under the state health office punya team together with a few of us from IMU..
as at the time i didn't really have anything better to do.. so what the heck.. let's go..
little that i knew.. Felda Raja Elias.. shouldn't really be classed "around" Kuala Pilah.. it took around a 1 and a half hour drive to reach there...

when we reached Felda Raja Elias.. i found a signboard that stated.. the border of Pahang wasn't really that far away... cilakak.. punya la jauh..
tapi ikhlas kan niat *uhuk*claim*uhuk*

what a very loonggggggg journey... not to mention that we were lost..
see the imu van in the distance.. driven by abg asri..

the school.. my jawi is bad.. i think that is Sekolah Kebangsaan Serting..

didn't know that somalia and libya was that way.. ape lagi.. jomla..
for all i know it could just be pointing to the south pole..

seeing that this was around 5months ago.. i can't really recall anything much from the trip..
i just remember i was the one who had to take care of the Snellen Chart for the visual eye test
apparently the .. "nice" organizers were warning us before hand.. katanya they were expecting people in the thousands..
with all the ADUN nak datang le..
the fact that maybe it was just a few hundred people.. maybe tak sampai 200 pun..
and that we were the ones who had to force them to come for health screenings..

suprisingly.. ramai je org2 yg denial..
didn't want to believe that they were myopic...
and in the process i managed to screen one kid.. malay boy.. dalam 8-9 years old who was from one of the orphanages coming for the screening..
he had colour blindness..
SEVERE colour blindness.. if there is such a term..
he couldn't differentiate the colours when i was flipping through the Ishihara chart..

my task for the day..

beribu2 org le... we were bored...
rahman and natalia hard at work.. counselling people

they also had a few other associations doing their displays their..
i remember there were a few people from NADI i think(Diabetes association) and another from Thalassemia rasanya..

and then there was this one couple who were selling something.. they brought the thing for display.. we couldn't really believe what they were selling.. tahu le the FELDA people ramai OKB tapi this is too much.. hahaha.. this is what they were selling...

they were selling a SAUNA.. of all things...

and this are pictures of our way back.. went back at around after Zohor or maybe a bit later than that.. reach Tasek Mewah dekat2 nak masuk asar rasanya.. maybe we stopped to pray on the way back but i can't recall what happened. i just remembered that we were stuck in a jam in Kuala Pilah due to some road construction.. and that the 2 monkeys.. err friends.. were sleeping after just 5 minutes.. nasib rahman ada..

batu kikir pun ada seven eleven wa cakap lu..
batu kikir is a name of a place in between raja elias and kuala pilah..

quite.. hmmm developed?
i was bored waiting in the car.. tunggu rahman beli barang kat seven eleven..
took this picture.. don't know what they were selling..

p/s: post originally drafted on the 12 of September 2007 12.44am

something light for the day...

These four classified ads appeared in a Kuwaiti newspaper on four consecutive days, the last three ads desperately trying to correct the first day's mistakes.

MONDAY:
For sale - SK Shah has a sewing machine for sale.
Phone 2555-0707 after 7 PM and ask for Mrs Mani who lives with him cheap.

TUESDAY:
Notice: We regret having erred in SK Shah's ad yesterday. It should have read:

One sewing machine for sale cheap.
Phone 2555-0707 and ask for Mrs Mani, who lives with him after 7 PM.

WEDNESDAY:

Notice: SK Shah has informed us that he has received several annoying telephone calls because of the error we made in the classified ad yesterday. The ad stands correct as follows:

For sale - SK Shah has a sewing machine for sale. Cheap.
Phone 2555-0707 after 7 PM and ask for Mrs Mani who loves with him.

THURSDAY:
Notice: I, SK Shah, have no sewing machine for sale. I smashed it.
Don't call 2555-0707 as I have had the phone disconnected.
I have not been carrying on with Mrs Mani.
Until yesterday, she was my housekeeper but she quit.

what a day...

after a week of holidays... mondayitis.. was very apparent today as most of the people on my group.. had trouble starting up for the case presentation.. wasn't really helped by the schedule
let me give a brief overview of the past two days..

sunday afternoon..
arrived in seremban around 5.00pm
in the wards by 7.50pm
helping the doctor(CPR on a hit and run victim) 8.40 more or less
9.10.. patient had regained pulse , still unconscious, sinus rhythm
9.30.. patient flat-lined again- asystole..
9.45 stopped CPR.. patient passed away..
10.30 finished clerking and went back home.
2.30am went to sleep
6.20am woke up
7.15 arrived in imu
7.20 CP with Dr. Hamid
9.15 CP with Dr Hamid finishes
9.15-11.00am - patient clerking and ward round
11-12pm- CP with Prof Ramesh
12-1.30pm - makan ketupat.. metaphorically
1.30pm- solat zuhur
1.45-4.20- TBL with Prof Ramesh
5-7pm- R and R
8-9pm- dinner
9-10.30pm- ward work 3A
11-12 something- R & R ( different method)
1.30am.- blogging about my day..

the day in pictures..

of surgery , ramadhan, eid ,birthdays and space travel...

just came back from futsal..

this would be the last post from now to maybe the 3rd of raya..
don't really have any time to blog anything much during surgery posting..
to say that surgery has been depressing would be a gross understatement..
with all the pe'el of different people..
i can't really wait for raya.. and especially the one week holiday..
a time to catch up and rehabilitate..
for the week after raya..
we will be in 3A..

anyway..
just wanted to wish a happy aidilfitri
drive carefully..
insya-Allah.. selamat bertolak dan selamat sampai..
don't be a statistic..
insya-Allah..

and jangan melantak je..
can't wait to get down to manual labor this friday..
for sure kena bakar lemang lagi..
muahahahaha ( a hint of sarcasm.. maybe..)

also i'd like to wish a happy birthday to another old fart who has succumbed to the process of aging..
happy birthday to kak dija..
may all your wishes come true..

goodbye to the month of Ramadhan..
hopefully we would be able to see you again next year..
and hopefully we've become a better person..
and to translate this change to the rest of the year
insya-Allah
need to cut down on the ketupat consumption and daging rendang manusia..

also.. today is a historical date for malaysia..
to congratulate our astronaut/cosmonaut/can or not..
Dr. Syeikh Muzafar on his achievement..
may this be bring about a paradigm shift to our society
and initiate and influx of interest in science and technology in generations to come
(lifted and parapharsed from NST)

-end of transmission-
drive safe...
be safe...

bismillahi tawakaltu Allahlahu..
roughly translates to..
In The Name of Allah.. I place my faith in Allah..

It is Thursday

thursday 6.34 pm to be exact
i just came back from ward 3B at 6.00p.m.
i have 5 patients to clerk..
we have CP with DK tomorrow at 8a.m.
i've clerked 3 patients... another 2..

need to read up about
testicular tumours
inguinal hernia
sigmoid volvulus
colorectal carcinoma
intra abdominal injury

berbuka in 30 minutes..
going back to 3B at 8.15
and someone has suggested for us to also cover ward 3A for CP tomorrow.. bijak..
Allah.. berikan ku Kekuatan.. hiyeakkkk... haha Insya-Allah

p/s : Liverpool lost 1-0 to Marseille.. i think the kick up Liverpool's backside has been overdue for quite awhile.. nasib tak tgk the game

You'll Never Walk Alone
can't wait for Friday...