A Cup Of Eve

Winter the Dolphin

Look at this pretty. She's Winter :)

A LITTLE STORY ABOUT WINTER:

Winter (estimated to be about 3 months when she was rescued) found herself entangled in the ropes of a crab trap on Dec 10. 2005, in Mosquito Lagoon off the coast of Florida. The rope cut off the supply of blood to her tail. She was brought to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium to begin a long rehabilitation. Unfortunately, she lost her tail as well as two vertebrae as a result of the serious injuries that she had sustained.

Pity Winter...she's strong..

At first, Winter learnt to swim "side to side" body motion instead of the normal "up and down" motion. The veterinarians feared that this unusual movement would damage her spine. Kevin Carroll, who had designed prosthetics for other animals (dogs, ostrich, duck) volunteered to help.

Kevin Carrol has fitted Winter a prosthetic tail and continues to perfect the design as the mammal grows.

Now, Winter has done amazingly well in the short time since her stranding. She has completely healed and adapted a new swim pattern with her prosthetic flipper :)

Interesting..

Winter, a living miracle. You're tough :)

Winter lazing on a mat..

Winter was chilling in the pool~~

Winter, I think you like mat so much..

Want to know about Winter? Visit here Oh no, I'm madly in love with dolphins :) I learnt about Winter in a movie "Dolphin Tale". She's the main character in there.

Winter, live on, I believe you can do it!

Drop Bear??

Cute koala bear

What?

I accidentally come to this image when I google search something. I was shocked. Eww...bad animal. At first, I thought it is a koala bear. I didnt know that koala can be this fierce. Shudder.. Then, I learnt of "dropbears". I was feeling curious about this creature, so I did a little findings about this creature.

According to wikipedia, a drop bear is a FICTITIOUS Australian marsupial, which means, it is not real. However, from other sources that I read up, it's not just like that. Drop bear can be likened to fairy, dragon, Philadephia sea monster, alien..urm..basically, no one can prove whether they really exist or not.

Their mode of attack is as simple as it is deadly. When a suitable prey is directly under the branch they have been waiting on, they will literally drop on the animal, from a height of up to eight metres, and set about ripping its head off. They will then take the carcase, or bits of it, back up in to the tree, where they will hold on to it for several days until the meat has rotted a bit, before eating it (that was gross)...

Hmm....I don't like this drop bear. I read this from somewhere: "If you asked whether drop bear is real, that's like asking if GOD is real". So, it depends on you whether you want to believe if it really exist or not. Personally, I still think I should take precaution when I visit Australian bush somedays :D, cause I'm a coward~

Tips to avoid the threat of drop bear:
1) Avoid drop bear prone areas
2) Try to avoid speaking languages apart from English
3) Use the Aussie Lingo (Australian slang)
4) Smear vegemite on your armpits (I lol-ed at this)
5) Hop on one leg (LOL again)
6) Keep moving
7) Wear a broad brimmed head
8) Sing a song
9) Don't declare liberal political views out (huh?)
10) Don't act scared

The tips are taken from here. That's all I wanted to say about this deadly creature.

Follow my heart

Following my heart, I went to National Planetarium. Yesterday night, there was a really bright star. But, I was informed that it is Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system. I was fascinated with the telescope and my 1st time experience of viewing the Jupiter with it's 3 moon with the telescope. Of course, I'd the chance to view the total lunar eclipse of 2011.

The telescope stood there magnificiently.

Apart from that, I'd the chance to enter the National Planetarium completely free of charge. I gained a lot of knowledge there. It was a wonderful experience for me.

Playing with the model of a telescope

I received free gifts of a 3D glasses and Eclipse mints. I bought a T-shirt and a bookmark as souvenirs from there :)

Total Lunar Eclipse 2011

I feel like want to go to watch lunar eclipse at Planetarium Negara this night. OMG, I didn't know about this big event totally. Luckily a friend posted about this at facebook.

Hmm...should I go? Or shouldn't I?

Moon enters penumbra: 2011 Dec 10 19:31:37

Moon enters umbra: 2011 Dec 10 20:45:11

Start of totality: 2011 Dec 10 22:05:29

Maximum eclipse: 2011 Dec 10 22:31:36

End of totality: 2011 Dec 10 22:57:45

Moon leaves umbra: 2011 Dec 10 00:18:04

Moon leaves penumbra: 2011 Dec 10 01:31:30

Live Video Webcasting from National Planetarium, Kuala Lumpur

Animals in Noah's Ark, Part 2

Source: Unknown

How sweet...

One week MC is over~

At last, I resume my daily lives as a medical student.

I felt I missed a lot of things due to this 1 week of chicken pox. I cannot go to the hospital, I cannot go and clerk patients, and most importantly, I missed my chance as a trauma team member.

Topics that I missed due to chicken pox:

1) Musculoskeletal tumors

2) Back pain

3) Wound management

4) Limping child

HOWEVER, I felt happy because I can be with my family for a few days. Mom, dad, bro, and me. All together. My family all come to KL. We went to Sungai Wang, Pavillion, and Midvalley. I enjoyed the time together with my family ^_^

Now, it's time to get serious to study...holiday mood over~

Btw, I saw two cute husky puppies in the Pet Wonderland, Midvalley. My favourite dog ♥

Sabah vegetable

I must be feeling hungry already. I was searching for my favourite food and I came across this picture:

OMG...my saliva gushing out uncontrollably..long time no eat already...

Yun, this is the sabah cai I mean~ :)

I HATE CHICKEN POX!!!!

Ahhh....so itchy..so ITCHY!!! How I wish I can scratched them all!!! I hope I can recover as fast as possible! ITCHHHYYY!!!!!

我喜欢这首歌...

等夏天等秋天

等下个季节

要等到月亮变全

你才会回到我身边

要不要再见面

没办法还是想念

突然想看你的脸

熟悉的感觉

不牵手也可以漫步风霜雨雪

不能相见也要朝思暮念

只想让你知道

我真的很好

爱一生恋一世

我也会等你到老

只想让你知道

放不下也忘不掉

你的笑你的好

是我温暖的依靠

只想让你知道

放不下也忘不掉

你的笑你的好

是我温暖的依靠

My back pain

I have back pain for these few days...I am correcting my postures during my daily lives...

Knee examination

See my knee being drawn like this. Haha...feel funny of my own willingness to draw on myself. I was reading knee examination. I hope what I marked there was the correct surface landmarks.

My friend...

These photos were taken when I was at Sarikei during my mid-semester holiday. I miss that moment, with my friends and family.

Sungai Rejang with a cargo ship...taken at the riverside cafe.

My foot is the one with red slipper. Yun~ I'm whiter than you le....hehehe

My best friend since childhood, knew her since I'm 5 or 6 years old. ^.^

Thankfulness...

Whether it is spine ward, psychiatric ward, surgery ward or obstetric and gynaecology ward, I can see photo frames, cards just like the one below, flowers etc displayed there. These gifts were given by the patients and their family, sincerely. I can feel how thankful they are to the doctors and the ward staffs that had treated and taken care of them. I liked to look at these gifts, they made me felt heart-warming.

This card catched my attention while I was in the ward today. He must had taken a lots of efforts and time to do this card...

Wow..so pretty...

Reflection: I would try my best to treat all patients the best I can in the future.

A day with full cast

I will try to wear this cast till tomorrow. I want to know the feeling of a patient with this hard thing on him. It really didn't feel good.

Saying "hi" with my cast. Today is really a tired day.

A day at library

Today is "Hari Menghargai Pelanggan Perpustakaan PPUKM 2011". I received these gifts because of taking part in their activities. Though these gifts are small, I feel happy ^.^

A cup, a ♥ chocolate (promise to give to a friend), four packets of biscuits, and four sweets.

Animals in Noah's Ark ♥ part 1

These are Atopix Germany Dolphins - Dolphin baby Dolly swims with her mother Delphi in the Delphinarium at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. The little new dolphin was born on Aug.4 and was shown on Thursday for the first time. Her mother was also born in Duisburg 15 years ago. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

source: Jesus Own Kids

Cats or Dogs

Oh I see...

Picture of the day

要减肥了....不然会被杀掉....

Picture of the day

Argentinosaurus, an amazing creature that once roamed on the earth.

New update!

I was now in orthopaedics posting, 2nd week. I was exposed to various new things, and learnt a lot during this 2 weeks. I can say that I am enjoying this posting :D The doctors were kind and willing to teach. I was a bit regret of just realizing the true meaning of this phrase: "patients are your books". I realised that I learnt a lot from them. I can remembered and learnt about the disease better.

There was one event that touches my heart today. I was in the wound dressing room. An old father came in to remove his suture on his cervical region. The staff nurse asked the son to wait outside the room. The son was very angry because he want to accompany his father. The son showed bad attitude towards the nurse. Ermm, personally, I think that the nurse was a bit harsh on the son too. In the end of the procedure, the father whisper to me, saying that he felt sorry for his son's attitude. I can see tears in the father's eyes. I felt sad, and my heart said: "Oh please don't cry, we never blame you or your son". I was thinking of my parents after this encounter. Misses them.

Favourites

I suddenly have strong feeling to list down the food and drinks I like to eat.

1) Mani cai

2) Cabbage

3) Popiah made by mummy

4) Steam fish

5) Ru egg

6) Meat ball from Sarikei

7) Sabah cai

8) Hotdog
9) Ice lemon tea
10) bak-kut-teh

I can't countinue to write...OMG, I become more and more hungry. Till now. :P

I want to tell something...

Lately, I started to enjoy seeing and clerking patients. This feeling started when I was in this posting.

At first, I really felt depressed when clerked them. All about negative feelings, sad life events, etc...I felt pity on them. They have mental-illness, or widely known as crazy. Stigmatization occurs. I also thought them as crazy and had some concept of stigmatization, but as I get to know them and venture into their life, my mind changed.

All the patients here had their own stories to tell, and I was touched by every single of these stories. I realized how weak human can be. I felt really touched when I saw the care and love that the family showered upon the patient, hoping that their loved ones can recover from the mental-illness. I also felt really sad when the family didn't care much of the patient. The family sees the patient as a burden.

I listen to different stories everyday when I clerked different patients each day. However, most of the patients share one similarity, that is they had gone through hard events in their life. Life is so hard that their mind gone hay-wire and even attempted to commit suicide.

In short, I started to love these psychiatric patients.

"One day at a time-this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be in troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering." ~Anonymous~

Do You Have Serotonin Deficiency?

Sometimes...

1) Anxiety

2) Low self-esteem

3) Lack of libido

4) Fatigue

5) Eating diorders

6) Cravings for carbohydrates and sweets

7) Impatience and impulsiveness

I'm now in Psychiatry posting. There are all sorts of interesting patient here. When I clerked depressed patient, I felt depressed. When I clerked a patient with schizophrenia, I thought I was going to "schizo" with him...

Meanwhile, this is a lazy posting, triggering my Type B personality. Haiz...orz..

Mr.Popper's Penguins

Today, I went to watch a nice, warming, funny, and cute movie at KLCC ^^

The cinema was full!

There are six penguins in this movie, all with their own unique characteristics..

YuZhen is this penguin! haha!

This Lovey is very lovely ^^

This is me oo!!

Felicia, don't deny already...this is you! LOL!!

Bite bite...naughty..:)

Pass out flatus anywhere anytime! haha..

I LOVE this movie.

A worth mentioning day

1st: Anaesthesia skill lab

I learnt a lot here...I learnt on intubation devices. Dr. Esa explained sooo clearly and I soooo understand...haha. I also learnt on the technique to intubate a patient using endotracheal tube. Very interesting, although I can only practice it on a mannequin. I love the doctors in anaesthesia posting, they guide and teach us a lot. We won't be wandering around 自生自灭.

2nd: Urology ward

My patient for my case write up during this short posting is a kind and talkative uncle. He had Diabetes Mellitus, but he liked to eat sweet food. During my clerking process, he showed me his 豆沙包. not one, but six. Of course, I started blabbering on him, asking him to control his diet. I said I want to throw those buns away for him. I was joking only, but he then said he wanted to give them all to me. I took them as he kept insisting. Sometimes, patients can be very cute.

3rd: Operation theatre

My supervisor, Dr. Liu was a very dedicated teacher. To be truthful, I liked being spoon-fed...hehe. He taught sooo many things, and I learnt soooo many things. One of it is calculating the amount of fluid needed by the patient. Previously, I was so blurred regarding this. But after his teaching session, I understood. Oohh...I like him very much!

4th: Taman Tasik Permaisuri

I was being forced by YuZhen to jog with her. I was so lazy already because it had been a busy day for me. Immediately after the teaching, I went to her room and borrowed tshirt, trousers, socks and sport shoes. Haha, this was so funny for me, I had never been like this in my life. Then, we went to Taman Tasik Permaisuri. This was my 1st time going there, although I had been staying here for more than 1 year. It was just opposite to the hospital. My stamina was really poor. I only ran a bit, then I was dead exhausted already...haha. So, I was left behind and I walked leisurely around the pretty park. In the end, it turned out to be a memorable experience. ^^

Help me, hives attack!

Since yesterday night, I was having itchiness at the back of both of my thighs. I thought it was due to my trousers, so I changed to another trousers, and continue to sleep. However, at the middle of the night, I woke up because of intense itchiness of the thighs. Scratch scratch there, scratch scratch here, and finally got up to apply Mopiko. However, it still itched. Ignoring it, I tried to sleep, and succeeded.

The next day, the itchiness lessened. I went to hospital as usual. However when I went back and took my bath in the evening, the sense of intense itchiness came back! Damn it...scratch scratch here, scratch scratch there. A phone call to my mum made me realised that maybe it was due to allergy. My mum also had that kind of itchiness before. I took a look at the area of itchiness. OH MY GOD, so ugly. Hives! My skin became like this:

A small area at my medial thigh. My arms looked worse.

I went to a nearby clinic as soon as possible. I could not stand the itchiness anymore. I scared it would become worse and became like this:

My arm is in the process to become like this..T.T

I was given antihistamines by the physician. Hope the attack resolved...I still feel itchiness now after taking the medication and applying cream on it. Sigh...

Fun with Fundoscopy

It was fun playing around with ophthalmoscope, especially when I can appreciate the findings. It was hard in the beginning, when I tried to perform fundoscopy in a correct technique and to appreciate what I saw. So, as the saying goes, practice makes perfect!

My weapon during ophtalmology posting, thanks buddy for lending this to me :)

A normal view

I had seen one fundus similar to this picture this morning in the clinic.

(After laser to treat proliferative diabetic retinopathy)

Ok, time to sleep....zzz

Express my feelings...

I ended my ENT posting, haha. Next week, I will embark on another small journey to the world of eyes next week...

During the last 3 weeks, I learnt a lot from Prof. Sani, he was the best supervisor I ever had. I was very blessed to have him as my supervisor.

I am very excited to enter ophtamalmology posting now....I had the spirit to see a lot of eyes, haha...I wanted to see as many patients as possible, and gained as much experience as I can.

I hope that I can have a supervisor like Prof. Sani later...then my ophthalmology posting would be more interesting and happy!

I had never felt like this before, being so excited to enter a new posting. Maybe this is because of going through the happy ENT posting.

Ophtalmology, here I come!