Not so Grey's Anatomy, perhaps GRAY's?

Well this is what happens when coursework starts to take over your brains and life!!!

So, out of the random, I created this!! ahha

Check it out, and don't forget to get your copy!

LA day today!!

Well, I was in surgical rota today for orientation purposes before I will have my full surgical rota. The same time, it was also to get my competency forms signed, as I wasn't fully through for my Local anaesthetics bit of the module. Now, everything is in place. I am super dooper happy, very happy that I could reach the sky!

The best was, I got the competency paper signed which was not easily done. My mates had tried it but failed to get a lecturer to sign it. With me, it was the other way round, I was being offered! I also got this written "Excellent, clear and well explained calculations. Excellent techniques on the administration and handling, WELL DONE!"

On top of that, I also got my 1st out of 6 signatures that I need to make me qualified for LA certification. This normally happens only in Year 3. None of my colleagues, except Wendy and I got this!!! hehe. But perhaps, the rest of the group who will be going soon will get it, I don't know.

Basically right now, I am tired after the long standing, running around the hospital (and at most of the time, barefooted). Now I think I'm developing blisters as the clogs I wore was the wood sole! Sakit!!!!

I leave you to some pictures. Not easy to get the camera into the theatre. I don't know why I had both hand rested on my waist on both occasions?

Taken before I enter the theatre, in the changing room



Taken end of the day.

It was like summer!!

Had my surfers shorts, and polo shirt on whilst waiting for the prospective fellow housemates to arrive. I knew all of them before hand. It was all wicked!!

Beautiful day indeed, and there were loads of people in town, similarly in their summer wear. The sounds of guitar played in town made the scenery even better. Got my groceries, since it's a beautiful day, I decided not to have anything heavy. For a change, made myself the simplest lunch ever, Cheese sandwich! ahhaha




Oh well, need to carry on with my coursework.

Something behind this face of mine.

About the ESFP

ESFPs are cooperative, "here and now" people-persons that enjoy excitement and love new adventures. Because of their highly social nature, they are especially lively when they are the center of attention and hate being alone. ESFPs have a practical side that allows them to finish work efficiently and are often good problem solvers.

For the ESFP, the entire world is a stage. They love to be the center of attention and perform for people. They're constantly putting on a show for others to entertain them and make them happy. They enjoy stimulating other people's senses, and are extremely good at it. They would love nothing more than for life to be a continual party, in which they play the role of the fun-loving host.

Introducing my Mr Bone - my learning buddy!

I have always wanted to get this to ease my learning. It arrived today, whilst I was busy frying my cucur udang. I am happy, indeed it helped me to understand theories better, and it even helped me to integrate the understanding into my essays. Especially on Biomechanics of the lower limb.

On another note, imagine what would happen if I had this in my carry on suitcase whilst travelling on the plane?? Will I be stopped??

Splintin, Blushing and Macaroni

Today, we did not have usual caseload. All patients were cancelled as lecturers couldn't make it to clinic. They were having an important meeting to nominate the next Head of School. However, 2 visiting lecturers willingly to show us how to do splinting. It's a stretching device worn at night to stretch the calcaneal tendon in patients who are having plantar fasciitis resulted from ankle equinus.

Amanda was showing the splinting, and suddenly Shakira came around. Everyone was pointing at me, and the secret revealed to a lecturer!!! Damnnit! Shakira is a teaching staff, and she's very HOT! And suddenly the story broke, and I blushed. Arrrgh! ahaha But what the heck. Now I don't know how to face any of the lecturers if the news spreaded around, which I bet is going to be the case. They couldn't stop teasing as a result. Anyhow, I got my splinting device done, and I'm happy.

Here's Tristan struggling to cut the hard splint device. Not an easy thing to do...




And here's mine.





After the session, went for a quick grocery shopping and made myself a batch of baked macaroni. Here's the result. Divided it into 4 containers. eheh

The re-birth of my steel pen.

About last month that I lost my lucky pen, which I had gone through together through good and bad times. I simply couldn't "live properly" without it. It's just different. So I looked around online, WHSmith and every stationer I could to see if they had it. Too bad, NO.

Last week, went online on eBay US, saw the similar pen. Finally I got it's real name. Parker Vector it is called. Searched for it and typed in keywords like "Parker, Vector, Ballpoint, UK".

WHSmith was in the result and it costed around £15!!!!! So I thought, there should be a cheaper one. It costs almost $30 anyway back home. So I finally found one on eBay UK. It's £6 including taxes!! Yay!!!!!! So, I bought it, and I got it today. It's replaced, but nothing beats what you had before. In the time of the pen's absence, I had to use the black one which was a gift. It gets scratched easily, that's why I hesitated to use it. But now, I am content.

Here it is, posing for the first time.... 5mins from unwrapping


I also made kari ayam! I think the best I've made so far in my entire life!

Chilli, Garlic and Prawn Aglio Spaghetti

My dinner tonight, a simple spaghetti.

I got my new TOY - Canon Powershot G9

Well, after a week of pain living without a camera, came this new toy of mine. A Canon Powershot G9!!! I'm loving it to the bits!!!

My previous camera, a Nikon 7600 had gone kaput, after lens error during the heavy snow fall.



Image sample below, taken whilst I was reading the manual. This was taken on semi-auto mode, which I like best.

Snowing in April??!?!?

Well yes!

I was annoyed by the gushing sounds that came through my windows. Being a little "blurred" from bed, I drew the curtain and to my surprise, it was snowing heavily (and still is as I type this entry). Looked at the weather forecast, indeed it does show "predominantly heavy snow" until 7pm tonight.

It was nice, sunny and warm last week, now? It's like I slept in Spring England, and woke up in Switzerland the next day! Amazing!!!!!!

Initially I decided to go to town just for a walk and maybe get some groceries. But having all these, no thanks. I'd rather be in bed, or watch the telly with my hot tea! hehhe

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Herne Bay Placement.

Well, it's another weekend now. Can't believe 1 week has gone and that means little time left before it's end of year!! I better pull up my socks and get started with work. Perhaps, literature review to start with.

Made myself a lazy weekend breakfast today. Therese gave me fresh homegrown mushrooms from her garden yesterday, so I made them into stir fried mushrooms. It tasted perfect!!!!




The placement at Herne Bay, what about it? Well it's in Kent, 2 hours away from Eastbourne. Although, we took a longer time as we took few wrong turns. One significant one was when we ended up at International Terminal at Ashford. Gosh, we could have ended up in France!!!!

But we made it in the end. However, there was no woo factor to this placement compared to the one in Brighton. Maybe partly the machines in the lab were not fully functional as they were doing this refurbishment fitting in 120k pounds worth of orthotics making machine. And also, we were exhausted from the long journey.

Well, a shot of remembrance won't do harm, will it? This was taken before we made our long way home.

Ikan Tenggiri Asam Pedas

Made myself some Spanish Mackerel asam pedas with okra. Just the way I always like it.
With a few stalks of cilantro, it's perfect and fulfilling.

Marmite prawns

Been craving for this. But I think the best would be Bovrill, as it has this distinctive beef-ish stew-ish aroma and taste. It's simple to make.

Dust your shelled prawns (preferably tiger prawns as it is very meaty and firmy texture to chew) with cornstarch flour, and deep fry it. Then prepare the sauce from a mixture of water and marmite. Melt a good dallop of honey in a wok, add in mixture, and throw in the prawns. Stir fry until it is well combined and slightly dry. Serve with freshly cut parsley or cillantro.

A day before British Summertime starts!!

When clock strikes midnight tonight, we will put the time an hour forward. Which means, we will have less 1 hr of sleep.

It is also my last weekend before uni starts again.

Got so bored today, and went out for grocery shopping. Bought myself some spanish mackerel (Tenggiri), okra (kacang bendi) to make asam pedas tenggiri. I also got myself which I thought was tanghoon, turned out to be the ordinary meehoon. But I still made it into thai noodle salad. Also got myself MORE tiger prawns than I already have in my freezer, this time I bought the one with its tails intact. I'm making marmite prawns. Will see how it turns out. Got my chicken bought by Shahin from London as well. yay!!

Oh, I lost my lime on the way. Its probably lying down in the streets right now. ehhe. Luckily I'm living in town where shops are proximal. Imagine if that was in Halls, I'll probably be devastated. So I just went out from my kitchen to the grocery store next door to get another 25p lime! ahha

Here's my light lunch.

Thai prawn noodle salad and crispy curry chicken wings.

Easter Holidays 2008 - Lucern, Switzerland and Milan, Italy.

The trip was a fabulous one, simply made this year's easter holiday a good memorable one. It all started with the arrival of Juliana (Cathy's cousin) here in Eastbourne. On the day of her arrival, took her to the most famous Yummy noodle bar, whose noodle is to die for! I also gave her Tim Horton's donut to munch on the way to the flat. Then we just chilled out at the beach before we call it a day.

Got our groceries for the trip done, and just chilling out before we (me, Juliana and Shahin) made our way to the pick up point. We were being a little insecure by the fact that the coach was slightly late. "Scam" was all in our thoughts, but otherwise, nothing was negative. Even if it was a scam, we would just head straight to Gatwick airport and plan a new holidays ala "lastminute.com" holiday package.




After a long ride, we arrived safely at the borders of Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy. So we were warned to make sure we stand on the right ground. Even the shop assistants speak different languages depending where you stand. It was either French, Italian, or German. Merci at one point, Grazie at another point then later it was Danke.

The following journey then got even more exciting. Snow could be seen everywhere. I'm talking about thick heavy snow here. Later, we were told to get off the coach. There we were like little kids overjoyed by the falling snow.

Few hours later, we arrived at Lucern, Switzerland. Without wasting any time, we explored the city and bought tickets to the mountains up to Mount Rigi. It's 1790m high. Up at its peak, the wind was notorious and visibility was very poor. The cable train ride was indeed breathtaking, with magnificent views and scenery. There's always something exciting to see with every inch of altitude we climb. Up at Rigi, we had fun with the snow fights and just mesmerized by the fact that snow was everywhere, as thick as 2metres. We also then rented few sleighs for us to play. The song of the day was somehow christmas songs!! aahaha The sleigh was so much fun than anything else. On the way back down to Vitznau, we took the cable car, before taking the ship back to Lucern.









The next day, we went off for a day visit to Milan. Milan was superb!!! Fashion shopping and foods were excellent! The weather was just brilliant and very welcoming!! I wish I could stay there longer and indulge myself in shopping and good foods.




On the third and last day, went off skiing 3000m at Mount Titlis. My first experience skiing, and I really enjoyed it. I didn't even fall, not even once. We had quick lessons from the management that was worth around £25. We were lucky however, we got it for free as the tour guide somehow favour us more than the rest! ehhehe. We were so baik bah!! Plus.. we're the "BRUNEI" group.








On overall, the trip was excellent. It worth every penny I paid for. Although Switzerland was uber expensive, the place is simply beautiful. I probably pay another visit some other time to other cities like Zurich. And Milan, I will definitely come again next time.

Thai Green Curry - Easter Break

It's easter break once again. The weather is nice sunny and bright, but still freaking cold at -1 deg!!

I'm feeling far much better now. Can't wait to say goodbye to this flu.

Made myself good lunch treat as it's the first day of the easter holidays. Made myself Thai green curry and served with brussels sprouts with oyster sauce. Had it for the first time. I thought it would taste like kailan, and true enough it does. I'm delighted with the curry indeed. Quite easy and cheap to prepare I must say.




I'm off to Lucerne, Switzerland in just few days time. It's a ski holiday, and I'm off skiing for the very first time. I'm not looking forward with the heights of cable car. Yites!!!

Okay people, enjoy the holidays as much as I will!

Bubur Nasi

Feeling much better, but still sniffing before it drips out of my nose! Hahhaa.... gooey indeed!

Had a good time in clinic today, although it was a boring start.

We also had medical emergency on my way to the clinic from the common room. I saw Howard hanging on to the stairs rail and as if he was gasping for air. Tina was comforting him. He looked blue, sweaty and pale. I ran to get him a chair to sit from reception and offered him a glass of water.

I wasn't panic at all, but I realised my nursing skills were just crap! Called out for first aider and I just forgot totally that I was in hospital environment where I could easily do some vitals checking. Bumped into Rosie (surgical nurse) and she offered to see what happened. So the both of us attended him and soon Silin (Cardiac nurse) came with the Emergency defib kit. That was 3 nurses attending Howard. As we were waiting for the oxygen to come, the paramedics arrived.

Being a Cardiac nurse, Silin was worried if it was cardiac problems. But I wasn't worried at all as the symptoms weren't really showing angina. But I had more about gastro problems in mind. True enough, it's duodenal ulcer. He is now admitted waiting for surgery. That's when I realised, my nursing knowledge is not gone and vain afterall, it's just a little rusty. hehe

Clinic ward round session was a little lagged due to short staff. But everything went well, and the lecturer was so impressed with what we had done!!!

Here's our discussion scribblings:



And here's my Lunch, bubur nasi with eggs, carrots, long beans and udang.

Banoffee pie

Made myself happy with a huge serving of banoffee pie as dessert. It's basically a base of crumbs made of digestive biscuits and butter, topped with toffee made of reduced condensed milk, bananas as the filler and topped with fresh cream. Dash of cocoa to top it off.

My nervy Footy

Made a casted foot out of plaster of paris. This is basically a template needed before we make casted orthotics. Since this is for practise, it will just go to waste. I thought why not make use of it? So I decided to colour it and point the main distribution of cutaneous nerve innervations. This is useful for local anaesthetics revision and anatomy as general.

Here's the result.

Fried beehoon and under the weather.

Not feeling well at the moment. Been having runny nose and bad sore throat for a week now. My tonsils are sore and swollen. I'm stuffing myself with juice and paracetamol now.

Today, got myself vicks vapourub and made myself mee hoon.

Later will make bubur kacang and banoffee pie!! woohoo. Will post the pictures if succeed later.