I don't understand, do you?

it's the holiday week. good. ironically, sad for ppl who's on ward duty next week. why? coz we're forced to be back in the ward on friday?

"Why?"
"cek the file, see the patient that you're going to look after next week. just see, don't have to touch."
"alright.. then?"
"then go home. Come back agiain tomoro (Sat), do a simple physical examination on ur patients?"
"do i get to treat the animals, walk them...?"
"no. just cek them up, then leave. come back and start workin only tomoro."

at first when my group mate told me this "good" news, i took it very lightly, "oh yah.. come back early, i can study earlier." but now it seems tat all my CNY programs are stuck on fri n sat, and these are the days when i have to drop by the ward for less than 1 hour to occupy the entire 2 days!

CAN ANYONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME THE RATIONALE BEHIND THIS???

why can't we just cek the file on sat? or sunday? wat's the point in making it fri, and then again sat doing almost nothing??

war against mosquitoes

yesternite i spent at bkt expo, for horse (MERS) endurance race, where i had to sit in the middle of the golf field from 10pm to 10am the next day! wow.. the adventure was horrendous.. zaidi and I were viciously attacked, mercilessly, infinitely by all mosquitoes of the world!! (i dun mind exaggerating here, coz i'm reali in pain!!) They bit through my jeans! ouch!

Goodness! We couldn't even sleep well, every few minutes I heard them buzzing around my ears, then my hand and legs were stingingly painful.. then my lips and face were slightly swollen - all due to mosquito bite! ouch!

Thank God the experience is over. Now as I'm typing this, there are at least eight 2-4cm diameter swellings on my right leg, at least four on my left, at least 6 on both my hands! they're really very temptingly itchy!!

So now.. my friends.. please do something for me.. KILL MOSQUITOES!
"kap sat man lun" (kill without questioning!)

aaaaaa... very itchy.. grr..

*scratch scratch*

draining away

A week ago i experienced the second trial of my life - how long can you stand for sleeping just an hour? That's what happened when i did my last minute studies for the equine test. The test went ok.. but my physiological needs were drastically abrupted. I was nauseous almost all the time, heart pounding, dizzy at times, lethargic and restless, anorexic.. well.. it all went wrong until i went to my dear bed and had a cosy sleep for 15 hours.

Few days later, while my coursemates were enjoying themselves, or the non-last-minuters were starting to revise the ruminants disease, i was trapped in the library and aquatic lab, contemplating of my project. All of a sudden, a big log just fell a head of me, thank God not on my head.. coz i just realize the problem before the holiday begins (our project should start officially once the 4-week holiday starts). I can't find my subjects! I spent an hour trying to trap copepods using my socks (innovative, uh?). Then spent the whole day trying to look for any copepod in my collection. The result was negative. I have had to get more copepods and collections, or my project's stuck! The day before the exam, i was at a pond early in the morning, thanks to HMeng, i was not alone this time. We managed to collect a lot of water... i wonder is there any copepod in it? I'll find out soon. tomorrow.

And now, I just finished my Feed and Feeding test, where i spurted out ideas on how to improve feedings and importance of this and that in feeding livestocks. ruminants, mainly. I hope the kind, cute lecturer accepts all my ideas and give me an A.. :P But, 12 hours before the test, i was busy restructuring my net - tying and sewing up my sock around a broken net. Then 3 hours before the test, i was busily scooping my college pond water, "Copepods copepods koochi koochi gooo.. come to mama...". Poor Pyin was squatting next to me, just in case i trip into the pond. :P

Exactly at this moment, I'm really tired.. my entire body ached. I have not have my lunch (the faculty's cafe is closed! i wonder why.), and i'm scheduled for a discussion and a meeting. But my heart was with my mind yelling at my body, "We wanna go home and rest!"

Oh God.. i'm draining away..

ARRGggh!!!

I've been staying up late at home last fri n sat, and i mean real late.. sleeping merely 2-3 hours daily, spending the entire day trying to finish up, furnish and even preparing my scripts for my upcoming clinical conference, saving them only in a thumbdrive (aow.. how silly of me!)... my beautiful thumbdrive that kept me smiling all day in the computer lab. Never had it crossed my mind tat something could go wrong... until...

Yerternite, in my college, i tried to open the the powerpoint file. The moment the powerpoint software was ready.. there went, "PowerPoint cannot open the file represented..." Gosh! I kept cool, calm, thinking, perhaps the computer which i used at home was Windows XP, and the one in my room was Windows98.. probably incompatible...

Just now.. i hopefully opened the file, oh no.. pls pls pls open it.. i'll go crazily berserk if it cant open the file... and the same window appeared! "PowerPoint cannot open..." Arrrgggh!!! I grabbed Zane's shoulder, kicked uncontrollably, and i thought i almost smashed the computer.. but all tat took place was tears flooding into my eyes...

AAAARRRGGGGGHHhhh!!

any computer expert out thr who can open this file? anyone? just anyone .... :'(

Straying...

The week is finali over (not reali yet tho', but i'm glad tat Friday has managed to make its way thru anyhow). I didn't know how i survived it.. but i did it. (oh yes! Yes!! yes! yes! yes! yes! *clasping my hands held close to my heart*.. *squealing with joy* OH YES! )

it has been a week of forcing my palpebral fissure open (poor palpebral muscles) at 7am (or earlier) and allowing it to "now, go rest!" at 2am (or later in the mornin). 5 hours (or less) to rest? Endurance test? geee.. let's just put tat to rest.. not to mention about the non-sleeping hours during the day.

I was on rotation to work in the Small Animal Ward, where i got to handle cute puppies, naughty dogs, gentle kitty tat suddenly says, 'Don't forget tat i've got fangs!!". All in all.. bz bz bz yet... i duno.. is it fun? :p but surely i learned a lot.. n i love it (not the timetable).

4 days in a row, my mind could never run straight. Who could? when their everyday scarce, dear, cherished, reaching-the-peak sweet dreams are always interrupted by the alarm clock in morning?! Not me. I proved myself a big no-no.

During the classes in the morning, i usually try hard to concentrate on wat the lecturers' been prepared to install into our mind. But these 4 days, my mind was somehow switches off frequently. Dr F was lecturing with those knowledgable eyes.. and my eyes went to his tie. Is tat tie askewed? Is it too short? Hmmm... the hair... Hmm.. the shirt.. buttons.. Hmm.. do the colours match? Hmm.. My eyes glimpsed on the projector. How old is this? Is there any bulb inside? Hmm.. nice black colour. From the back of my mind i heard the trailing voice, "conformation is important..... cow hock.... gait... prone to injury...."

I shook my head. Crazy! I wasn't listening!
Next session. "Coronavirus.... you don' want to... Leptospira... (the class laughed)..." Tat hair? Is it better if.. how does it look if... Hmm.. her eyes... "I only eat ... once a year..." Hmm.. the laugh... oooh.. tat shirt.. is it new?

It was sad n disappointing to realise tat i was drowning when the class was very much alive. I tried hard to concentrate.. jot notes.. kept writing to keep my concentration focused.. but once my eyes were off my notes... Hmmm... tat moustache.. tat hair? hmmm... Wouldnt it be nice if...

These mind-straying were truly not fun. Recalling on a friend's comment yesterday, "Don't imagine too much." Sigh.. if only I imagine ALL-RIGHT.

*ALL-RIGHT = at the right time, right place, right ppl, right words, for the right reason.

First day - underwater world practical

Brrr... been on the bus ever since 9am... n the journey to K. Perlis took 7-8 hours! omg... u can imagine.. i had neck sore.. backsite sore too.. then followed by an hour of ferry ride to Langkawi.. adding salt to my insults. :P
almost reach langkawi..

Nevertheless.. upon reaching Langkawi island, we were stormed by soOoOoo many busines ppl.. especially those taxi drivers... so quickly we picked one n hopped on it. En Shukri.. quite a nice guy.. the journey took us abt 15-25min. i dun remmber looo...

Then the best thing happened. Gues? We went to Langkawi, single mindedly for practical.. YET.. we do not have any letter from UPM. Worse still, none of us (Jun, Ting + me) has any contact with any of the underwater world ppl! gosh! where r we gona stay?? i brought my matric card.. but was i supposed to show around my matric card n ask?? yish yish isk isk...

..........

It was already 7pm... underwater world was then closed.. blur.. wat to do now? we walked around aimlessly... brrrr.... THEN... suddenly.. out of nowhere.. a guy suddenly came to us, "How can i help u?"

Thank God! Quickly i rushed into a serial of long-winded self-introductory sentences.. dun wana lose this chance. Then Ting asked silently, "How can sth so beautiful happen in this world?"

Ngek ngek ngek.. i couldn't help laughing with gratitude in my heart.. something so beautiful is happening?? hehe.. so then we were led to our quarters.. and met a bunch of new frens who introduced us alot of stuff... had dinner together..

hehehe... first day itself.. was TIRING.. but FUN. ;-)

RACE DAY at STC !!

Thr were 8 races today, 5 prof, 3 amateurs.. there were supposed to be differences between the prof n amateur races.. but.. hmm... i just cant figure wat's the difference. Theoretically, amateur races are for horses which have been deleted from the prof race la. Expectedly, they should run slower than the prof's.. bt then.. hmm...

Today is the first time i've been to a horse race, LIVE.. the sun's burning, the crowd's growing, my head's throbbing, my throat's dessicating, sweat's uncontrollable, skin tanning.. but my heart's pounding enthusiastically, followin Dr COOL and his junior vets around the race field, watchin how they diagnose a healthy, unfit or lame horse. Interesting! I guess i have merely 5% of the skill.. gosh o gosh omigosh...

There were a few stages for the horses to go, before they started sprinting.. first, they have to parade infront of the public (for the vet to cek, and maybe public to view, the jockeys got on the horses there). After a few rounds of parading, the jockeys started riding the horses to the starting point, where there was a barrier (horses + jockeys sorta got locked up within it for maybe 1 second or so, before the flaggin). Once the horses got into the barrier, the vets (not all) quickly rushed into a jeep, and follow the the horses by the side.. guess? the horses run at an average speed of 100-120kmph! syok la.. for the riders.. :P fasta than a motobike can go legally.
;)
Tis' d barrier! al the horses n jockeys were chucked in those tiny boxes.. sometimes, a few nervous horses will freak n jump out of those boxes! Horses r powerful yet wonderful creature.. ;)

Wooo HahAahhh!!! bliv it or not,d jockeys' yells r so much more frightening than d cowboys'!

the race started at 2, ended at 5.30.. of course, all of us were terribly tired, worn out, and sunburnt.. on the way out, i saw lots of members of the public sitting, looking depressed around STC.. hmm.. perhaps lost in the bettings..