i'm bk fr sabah trip! ho...

yup, tat's right. i'm back home now. finally. well, i guess words got around - i didn't get to the summit.

guess, tat day was the day of my worst health in 5 years - i got flu, fever, sorethroat (which is stil ok..) plus severe vomiting. i practically vomited every 30min, i lost all my energy. i took some choc, thought tat it could boost my energy, but vomited it out later. How i wished i brought metoclopramide there.. but i didn't..it didn't sound good at all, but trust me, i'm all very satisfied,happy, and enjoyed every single moment of it. though it's a suffering, but suffering with a smile (after the ordeal, of course!).








i'm lazy to type here, coz i need to post quite some pix.. so for more info, do ask me la. i'll be glad to tell you all the details. ;) but i've got more pix to come - those from chanling n fanfan camera - my camera batt kept running out of energy - so i've got the least # of pix. and oh, how i loved the clouds, greens and blues of sabah. Hey sabah, get ready for me - i'm coming back! ;D

it is finally.. over.

2nd May. Last day for our oral paper with the external examiners (Prof. Lloyd n Sasaki) for comprehensive exam. The very same day, our beloved TDA Dr W announced the names of ppl whose results were in the borderline status to redo their oral exam the next day.

3rd May. Stressed n tension moment for ppl who resat their oral exams. Sweet memories for those who attended the graduation dinner. I dun wana elaborate long here, but those who went would have agreed with me, yup. =) we had fun... taking pix! :p

4th May. Scariest moment for everyone - coz today was the day where our comprehensive results were announced. To our amaze and cheer, everyone passed! well well well.. it was officially the last day of the semester for us - the last day in the faculty. then off we went to genting.. some went to casino, some walked around.. and all took pix. ;)

5th May. Had so much fun in genting outdoor theme park! wow.. it's been a long long time... really! ;)

7th May. Off to Kuantan to visit Dr P with WYee. It was a tour indeed.. =) I'm really lazy to elaborate.. but there are pix of Kam as well.. i havent get it yet. Rite now i've got tons of things to think, pack, throw, clean, wipe, decor..etc.
11th May. Off to KK.... fly fly fly away...

i cant stand friexxster blog!

let me giv u the few reasons.. oops, the very desolee.. i mean the very many reasons.

1. the blog address is too complicated, u cant easily visit the blogs site.
2. u must b a friexxster member in order to read the blogs.
3. u must sign in first.
4. u must click on "Blogs" or your friend's name first. there's no direct path to read the blog. Then you click "view Blog" or your fren's name.

5. uploading time for blog page is more than 2 sec. to read the blog, (including downloading friexxster home page) the total downloading time took more than 20secs.
6. in order to give comment u have to click on "comments". which is reasonable. but after tat, they request u to sign in (again?!!).
7. after re-signing in, you have to repeat the entire process to read the blog again.
8. then u tot of giving the same comment, then the entire process from #6-7 is repeated. hey, when can i every put up a comment??

9. ok, friexxster finally BELIEVES tat you're a friexxster member. happily you typed your essay-long comments. on clicking "post", the entire page is gone. (??!)
10. so you click Back, you see your comments are still there, so you click "post" again. process #9 repeats itself.

11. total time spent in order to post a comment took more than 2 min. good. tats efficient. Finally your pc got tired it hung. or perhaps, explorer got tired beforehand and simply tell you tat "The page cannot be found." Dun blame them, they're realli tired. So ARE YOU.

12. so you restart ur pc, or restart a new explorer. finally after 10 minutes of trying n repeating #1-11, friexxster finally REALLY BELIEVES tat you're INDEED their member. So ok.. they let loose abit. you retyped your essay-long comment again (which took 5 min). heart pounding very fast, eyes staring hard at the status bar, adrenaline shooting high, you click "Post" button.

deng deng...

finally, after 30 min of trying, you finally get ur comments uploaded. good.

finished all exams n presentations.. and yet?

last sat was the last paper for me.. in UPM.. the papers which I must sit in order to be a vet..
last mon was the last time i'll ever present anything in my uni.. ever.. as a vet student..

on coming out of the student surgery theatre where i had the final oral exam with the smart-lookin (but unfortunately smokes alot) professor.... i didn't had the feeling of jumping and shouting "yahoo!" well partly coz i didn't do so well.. but partly bcoz i'm beginning to feel the waves..

waves drifting me apart.. further n further from my current lifestyle..

psychologist, behaviorists all agree tat most ppl dun like changes.. wats more with changes in lifestyles? right now as i'm typing all these.. i'm reminiscing the happy moments i had in upm..

there were bitter.. and sweet moments.. it's the sweet ones that captured my heart most.. where will i ever find those feelings again? those wonderful ppl again? will anyone so nice ever walk in my life again? the laughters.. jokes.. will I? as i packed my bag last sat, i mean packing 50% of my college room stuffs.. oh.. i felt my cheeks flushed and eyes jammed with salty water..

i remember few days ago when i was having lunch with a fren of mine, as he mentioned, "we're gonna grad soon, can't believe it." my throat got groggy right away.. chokey.. nevertheless, hard as it was, i forced a smile across the horizon of my cheeks.

I remember how much i wanted to leave upm and start working.. meet the outside world.. oh.. how i had wanted! but wat's going on now?

yet many ppl agree tat school life is the best life one could have.. and i'm walking out of it now..
working life... u wun get as much fren as you have in school days.. partly true..

i truly do not know what's going to happen to me in a few weeks' time.. i do not know..

it's as though i'm standing in pocahontas' position now.. sitting in a canoe right at a juncture... should i turn to the narrow river on the left? or should i turn right to the wider river?

I do not know.. but she took the left turn.

But i do know one thing for sure.. God will surely guide me. Amen.

an easy lending hand - great relief

there is this female cat, which i called miaw-miaw (i know this is a lousy name, but hey, it's passionate! :p) in my college which has just given birth to 4 super cute litte kitties 2 months ago. plus the fact that miaw-miaw is very manja and playful with me, i often visit her little family (mom n kitties, no dads of course) a few doors next to mine, in my hostel.

This morning miaw-miaw looked weird, she looked at me, ran towards me as if she wanted something to me. i felt weird. When i looked at her closely, wow, she's drooling badly, her chin seemed ulcerated. expectedly i tried to touch her mouth, which she resisted (usually she would just swoon at a touch of mine). And she did not allow her kitties to suckle. hmm.. weird... Then my junior who has been taking care of her came out and told me tat she had not been drinking for 2 days. She wanted to drink, but everytime she touches water she'll just walk away. Oh wow, water phobia, i was thinking, "Rabies." My junior was shocked at my quick diagnosis. For your information, I WAS JUST JOKING. "She's eating ok," my junior added.

Then i told my cute junior to hold her firmly, while i open up her mouth. Miaw-miaw struggled a great deal, i thought the entire block heard her well. Anyway, I found this in her mouth - floating, stuck on to her mouth's roof horizontally, was a little bone fragment, abt 2cm long, long enough to get stuck between both her canine teeth. Her gums were abit hyperaemic, slightly bleeding. And her breath was ewww! I suppose she was so dehydrated her kidney function was temporarily compromised causing the blood urea level to build up which resulted in that ugly smell. i took a forcep, and pulled the bone out.

The next thing was she started drinking non-stop. guess she was terribly dehydrated.. and then she allowed the kitties to suckle.. =)

yep! case #1 diagnosed and resolved. =)

Moral of the story? don't feed bones to your animals - be it dog or cat. you won't know they're in trouble, until they're SERIOUSLY in trouble.

Final Yr Project Presentation!

last sat n sun (1&2 Apr) was the final yr project presentation for the DVM5s!! oh wow.. after such a torture in researching, we finali got the chance to boast abt our project! hehe.. tat's the very optimistic version to describe how we felt. the practical version is of course.. "tension! stress! gila!!".

generally, i conclude this project as the best my class ever presented(compared to comprehensive), for most of us. coz, in comprehensive, most of us read the script n dun care a single thing whether the audience existed or not.. and the projected questions during Q n A session usually dun get the answers. while in this project, most of us presented very smartly, it is as though a sales man talking abt his product, and i was truly amazed, *salute!* and the best part was the questionin n answering.. most of us answered the right thing..
and these made the presentation ever more interesting!

here are a few interesting snaps for you to ponder on. hehe.. courtesy of Mr. Ting - the official technician of DVM5 2006. =) free advertisement for him.. good buddy ma.. :P

so these is the line of ppl who loved the Q n A session to the maximum... ;) look at their gesture and body language. haha. .to make life more interesting, enlarge their pic n zoom into their faces. ;p










n the judges of Group B were saying.. "hmm.. hmm.. oh ya kah? oh wow.. beautiful... haaa.a.." can anyone explain wat made Prof T smile tat way? n do take a look at mr macho beside prof T. and the audience was magnificient! ;) all kinds of ppl askd questions.. n of course.. many were planted ones as well. ;)



and this was me..
and this Mr Syahar - the bird guy..






oh wow.. when did these superbs sneak into DVM5?! they've been disguising under the name of L---, P---Y--- and F----! how dare!








and that's the -END-


Let's celebrate!! ;D yahoo!!!

it's the final countdown!

oh gosh.. it's already been a month since i last blogged! do forgive me (for my frequent visitors, hehe). life wasn't busy nor hectic.. but just couldn't find an urge to blog. right now, i'm doing discussions, revisions everyday.. relaxin n sleeping at the same time.. eating... nae.. not much variety to eat.

it's now 20days to go, until my comprehensive exam, where i will be tested on every single little detail i learned since first year, right to the end of fifth year. wow.. worse than PMR.. SPM.. but i still vote STPM tougher than this. no play play with stp..

so i won't update much here.. just a few announcements.. first abt my looming exams.. secondly, i'm graduatin! haha.. tat's after i pass the exams of course. thirdly, i'm scheduled for a sabah trip in may. ngek ngek.. finali get a chance to smell sabah.. fourthly, i'm moving back to kB!!! oh... finally.. ;)

till then.. cheers! ;)

Av Influenza Surveillance

Last Thu I received a call from Unc Ash, " Ei, Pamela. Come to DSV (main faculty hall) at 1.45pm. Emergency. Must come." It was 1.40pm.

So I quickly returned all the patient files to the front office (clinic registrar) and headed to DSV. Thr, my class was told to join the Avian Influenza Surveillance Team, and we were to stay at Institut Pengurusan veterinar at Cheras, probably for a duration of 1 week. It was not a good news, (at least to me) for I had already lined up the list of "things to do when I go back KB". But it's ok.

"Berkhidmat untuk negara!" "Mari kita berjuang!" I heard my classmates cheering. A-hem.

So there we went on the very same day, ate and slept in the same place. There were more than 60 DVM5 (my class) who went there, and about 40++ staffs from all around Malaysia, which summed up to be more than 100 people helping the nation to fight. We were divided into 30++ groups (at least 4 ppl/group), and on the next day, each group gathered the stuffs and headed to different directions. We carried the swabs (ear cotton), transport media, masks, gloves, disinfectants, water, food, nets, and other stuffs in 4-wheels.

We were supposed to visit the area, watch for any bird or chicken, and take at least 1 cloacal (anus) swab from one bird from a population. The swabs carry the mucus or epithelia that will tell us whether it's positive or negative for HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza strain virus). So we'll send the swabs to the labs later lo.

On the first day (Fri) my group surveyed Sentul, where we covered La Salle, Convent Sentul n other nearby areas within my assigned 1km surveillance area. The next day, miraculously, my group was assigned to Kepong area, good enough, it covered my home n neighbourhood, including my 2ndary school (SMKB). I took some time off to visit my family, and the feeling was undescribable. How i missed home. It's been 4weeks since i last went home. Watching Toffee crying terribly for me, and I can't even hug him (for I consider myself "contaminated", coz i had direct contact with chickens) was the worst feeling.

Thank God, the survey is now over, and I'm back to faculty. Hopefully all the results for the swabs will be negative. God willing.

wisdom..

thousand apologies for not updating my blog for almost 3 weeks, (or more? cant recall). was too busy medicating, nursing dogs n cats, then attending surgeries.. then retrieving long-lost notes, searching for endless calls for information n stuffs. my project thesis is not fully done yet, and havn start a bit on my conference. Thank God, i finally got a case, a good one i think, on the last day of my rotation in the small animal ward. :) Praise the Lord.. ;)

today i'll be talking about wisdom tooth, hehe.. too bad for those tricked by my hanging title. :P *sengaja*

I believe tat many of us (esp young adults) are having the same prob - wisdom teeth derived pain, crooked teeth, stress..etc. for more info on the physiology of wisdom teeth, u may click here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_tooth. not sure whether the info is reliable, though.

basically wisdom teeth are the 3rd molars which started growing when we reach adulthood. some ppl got it earlier, some later. for ppl who have enough spaces on their jaw for the teeth to grow, then there's no prob for them. for ppl who unfortunately didn't have enough spaces, this spelt trouble to them (includin me) - they'll get the wisdom teeth syndrome, which included pain in the jaw, teeth, headache, mild fever for a week or so, some infection like sorethroat, and sadly, they'll start noticing their once beautifully alligned teeth (which they're proud of) started to get crooked.

the syndrome comes and goes, until the wisdom teeth grows out entirely. For people whom the syndrome never seem to go off, it keeps comin back despite the 3 (or more) years that went by.. it simply means tat there just aint enuf space for the smart teeth to grow. they have to opt for..

Remove tat teeth. surgically. which is an awfully painful procedure, despite all the analgesics n anti-inflammatory supplements, it's painful.

otherwise...

the teeth will grow onto your cheek bone - which could cause other complications, infection being one of them. Hmm... wonder is facial deformity one of it too?

TQ Mr. gentleman

Oh great (?!) the CNY holiday is finally over. This week I'm stationed in the small animal ward, where i have to treat and tend to sick cats/dogs, beginning from 7am, all the way till 9.30pm at night. how many hours is tat? 8,9,10...14.30hours. as i stay in a rather remote hostel, i need transportation (coz at 6.45am and 9.45pm the sky is pitch dark alrite, a rationale girl won't go home alone during these hours) back n fro my hostel to the faculty, where the veterinary hospital is.

So i've got this fren, Kamha (bukan nama sebenar) who stays in the same hostel as well as working in the ward with me. It was really kind n nice of him to send my frens n I (all gals) back n fro everyday.

However, yesternite was indeed a surprise. He had to stay back to help his group mates settle some prob. It was 9.45pm. 3 of us gals were already complaining of tired.. sighing.. etc. waiting to go home n SLEEP. instead of asking us wait for him, he offered to send us home first, and then drive back to faculty to again to help his groupmate. When he offered this, I was dumb-struck. "hey.. is he kidding?" When he elaborated more, my mind was running haphazardly, "He's not joking, is he?" "Is he consciously conscious?" "Maybe i forgot to clean my ears this morning?"

I was still dazed, when everyone started packing n moving towards the car. "oh boy.. he was a real gentleman."

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??

a fun-filled day

yesterday was a fun-filled day, n i mean, whole-day. well, maybe not tat fun when my facial muscles started cramping due to excessive smiling, laughin n talkin...

In the mornig, tx to NChiann, the superb-in-keepin-in-touch gal.. i first met my long lost fren, gaius, we last met 14 years ago! coincidentally, i came across his name while reading the bible last week. he couldn't recog me, bt thank goodness, he remembered that "Pamela Ong" once existed. then off we went to look for my primary school teacher, a very dedicated, caring, lovely lady, Ms Pearly Yap whom i havent seen for the past 10 years (i think)! meeting them forced me to dig n recall all the buried memories within, little by littl they came to light.. but all were stil in pieces. it was really challenging.. most of us looking blur sometimes recalling flashes of scenes which once were our life. as we sent gaius home, we met another primary school teacher - Pn Jason Ng.. ooo.. really, 14 yrs never seeen her.. well, she stil looked the same. ;)

Later we continued the day at my secondary teacher, Pn LenaGan's hse.. makan talk as usual.. this time not so much of recalling things, much to my relief! then i played a little with her 5 n 3-yr-ol sons, unfortunately, due to hyperactivity, the 3-yr old hurt his abdomen after jumpin off the sofa. *ouch!

then was dinner to send an ol buddy, winnie off to aus.. we (pLee,Su, Ma,NC) went to the curve's (which some of us ulu ulu ppl never been to, hehe) viva pizza. mm.. i stil prefer pizza hut lots lots much. then off to u-chen's hse.. there i became a hair-stylist for children. honestly, it was a lousy touch, but just as long as the children liked it, I'm glad to do it. FOC. ;) it was reali fun keepin in touch with one another, understandin wat each other is bz with currently, learnin abt other fren's updates.. it was fun. plus all the jokes n laughter n nonsenses tat came along it, it was simply happily fun. after so much time not seeing/hearing from each other..

then at night, my family had yee-sang.. n we shared a lot of thoughts together.. it's really been a long time since we last sat together, sharing such thoughts.. Bless the Lord for all His blessings.

an onus

Pak Sheikh (a respected lecturer) used to repeat his old phrase, "it is your (student) onus to find out what you do not know".

i couldn't disagree with him. who can? if someone wants to learn, how can he expect to learn if he doesn't go seek for the info in the first place? In a common scenario, many students tend to grow senses of "anti-certain-teachers", particularly teachers who really meant good for the student. Strict, but it's for the student's sake. Unsurprisingly, most students will dislike, if not hate such teachers. Well? Some gutsy students even got the phrase, "Go lodge a complaint!" at the tip of their tongues. students.. students.. *shaking the head*

Some comments took my attention, which were quite laughable. Some students, despite knowing damn sure that they don't work their onus, started blaming those teachers who meant good for the students. Other students who finally realize that the onus lies in their very own hand, started questioning each other, "is this the result of our education system's failure?"

Well? I won't say tat our education system is fool-proof.. yet...

As the old saying says, "Gajah depan mata tak nampak, nyamuk seberang sungai nampak."

Please appreciate what people are doing for us. Look at the bright side, be optimistic. When you started seeing things at the wrong direction, you get shadows, and not sun shine.

Pls spread d newZ

This is how DBKL Klinik kembiri looked ilke. Located in Setapak, it's a place where everyone should make an effort to visit, esp the vet-to-bes. Here u'll get the idea of how severe is the stray cats'n dogs population in Selangor n KL alone. For more info, u can visit my previous post at http://pam-pam.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_pam-pam_archive.html. Here r some pix i took today.


Dogs are kept in cages accordin to the dates they were caught. Poor bitch with 6 shiverin n withering pups, whose yelpin and whining has no one, except their mama, to tend to.


Many of these dogs have collar and license on, which means they had an owner. Owners have few days to claim these cuties before these cuties are given the sleepin-beauty jabs. In just a matter of days...

Glad to see that many of these dogs are lovely adorables which hunger for human love and touch. Sad to know the bleak future lying ahead of them.

Last but not least, please neuter your pets if you could not afford to find their youngs a good home. You're being kind to them, and the unborn animals. Not cruel, definitely.

* neuter = to make the animal sterile by removing the reproductive organs (uterus, testes)

eye-dropping.

I was checkin my mails today, when i saw a mail from SPCA Selangor in my inbox, then somthing attracted me "Dog and Cat's fur in China".

Huh? I couldn't believe what i read. so i clicked on it.. and waited.. and guess? once the page was completely uploaded, i started hearing dogs barking cats meowing.. crashing sounds.. and chinese speaking men talkig and laughing about behind the camera.

My God! How could we allow these to happen?

My friends, please spread the message around - stop wearing fur. whoever's fur they're wearing. It's disgusting to have someone's skin atop of our own skin. yucks!

* to view the video, visit, http://www.furisdead.com/feat-dogcatfur.asp.