I am actually doing post op right now.

Thursday.

Happy diwali.

Sunny.

Had a pretty tough week previously, been riding several emotional roller coasters actually. These days I am actually busy encouraging one old tata (tata= grandfather in kannada) for post-amputation physiotherapy. [Yea the same tata that I mentioned in the previous post]. Sometimes I get very angry at him when he isnt cooperative during physio sessions, but I keep telling myself to be patient and give lots of positive reinforcement. And now, finally he has started getting down from the bed and tried walking!!! *claps* Seeinf him everyday makes me feel happy and contented, even though I am so frustrated with all other stuff at the same time.

It makes me feel all my stupid work are worthy. All those screaming from seniors are worthy.

Especially when discharged patients come back to the OPD for follow up and they want to talk to you. They want to let you know that they are good, and their "hello doctor how are you?" means soooo much to me.



Yesterday when I went shopping I met a salesman who greeted me with a generous smile. and asked if I could recognise him. I apologised and said no. He then introduced himself and asked if I remember a girl named Bharathi who was admitted a few weeks back in the hospital. I think I came across this name but still couldnt exactly remember whos that. It was actually her daughter who was admitted in Paeds Surgery for VUR repair and that I remember post operatively that poor girl suffered with alot of pain.

But afterwards she improved day by day and she used to give me high five every morning hehe. The salesman said thank you so much for all those times and I was so touched. I was only in Paed Surgery for 5 days! and people remember what I did *wipes tears*

Sometimes I rant so much about how terrible my life is, how insignificant all my works mean, how much oxygen I am wasting in this globe.

But people like this keep me going. They keep me reminded that I imprint on their life. They tell me not to forget why I chose this path at the first place.



And I am writing these stories down so that if one day I really want to give up, I have things to look back and tell me to hold on. 

Scribbling like an artist.

I have a friend who is an artist, and when I say artist I mean she does arts. Those kind where a simple scribble looks so artistic and worth RM300. 

I love her instagram because she always has all these cute drawings with captions which dont match at all. and its usually beyond imagination. I feel this is what we called as talent. 

Just yesterday I was talking to the plastic surgeon about talent. He asked me what am I interested in doing.

Him: So medicine or surgery?
Me: Medicine, Sir. 
Him: BBBADDDDD PHOEBE BBAAAADDD. WHY NOT SURGERY?
Me: I dont know. I think surgery needs talent, and its not something that you can gain from hardwork. It is something you are born with. 
Him: Hmm, I dont know how to respond to that. 

HAHAHAHHA. I love making people speechless. 

He said till the end of his MBBS he has never pictured himself as a surgeon. Most of the time he didnt know what he was doing. This is kinda shocking especially when it comes out from the mouth of such a wise man. I adore him. I adore his sense of humor. I adore his knowledge. Deep inside I am dying to know his life story. If its not because of that damn phone call I think he must have shared alot with me. Damn it. 

This is one of the stories I want to document it down. Because I loveeee having a conversation with wise men. (Its the same as talking to my best friend's dad, a physician who has built his own family hospital from zero). These people are simply amusing.


(leaves space)

And the other one I want to write down is this:

Today as usual I was doing rounds and talking to patients. Theres this old man in post op whom we have performed a below knee amputation yesterday. And as usual I asked how are you. 

He was smiling and looking at me, and he said: What how are you you have chopped off my leg how good can I be. 

He wasn't being rude at all, but my heart sinked a little. 

We take things too lightly, an amputation sounds so common to us. For us an amputation means omg this is so cool we should study and come, and fight for a chance to scrub in. 

We forgot how to think from a patient's point of view. We forgot to think that oh no from now on he is not able to walk. We are all so busy saving lives that we forgot what a leg means. 

Pathetic people. Us. 

Happy Friendship Day!

Okay basically I don't do all these things, but I didn't know it means so much to my best friend. yea we celebrate valentines, so why don't we celebrate friendship day too?

Honestly speaking a lot of Malaysians are not really close to Indians here because we don't stay in their hostels, we don't speak their languages, we don't play their sports, and we don't understand why they can eat the same annasambar (dhal rice) for lunch everyday. 

And some localites (they call them Tempe) have really bad attitudes. They throw everything they don't want at you, make you suffer in class, don't update you with news that you are also supposed to do, bunk classes and make you absent also (eventually they are the ones turning up) and the list goes on. So yea, we don't really like them in general.

But I am so lucky to meet people who are different. My two best friends who tolerate all my shit (yes I tolerate a lot of theirs too)! No other Indians can bear with my level of meaness trust me. When I say I'm funny but not mean, they will reply together: no, you are mean but not funny -.-

Rebekah made a video of us when I complained to her that we don't have much photos together. 

I was so surprised with what she found, and on top of that, I noticed every pic that we took together has a story behind it. 

"This was taken when we went to Keerthana's house for the first time"

"This was when we wanted to ditch Ufi so much that we went to a corner and started taking selfies when she was on the phone"

"This was that Pizza Hut time where you were trying to overhear others conversation" 

"This was during graduation party" "This was when we sneaked into the casualty with frappe in our hands to look for your crush" "This was after exam" "This was when we got to know your bf for the first time" 

And so many more. 

They are people whom I can laugh and cry with, people who pour out real emotions to shower others with love. I really love them. To the extend that if Rebekah and I have someone who we can never be with, we would rather Keerthana has him haha.

(Yea it's that stupid South Indian race religion and caste thingy) 

Just wanna cherish them for the remaining days left in Mysore. After all we know that it's almost impossible to meet frequently next year onwards.

Love you, my two silly cheapens. 

EURO TRIP

Bangalore- Dubai- Prague. 2days after I finished my last practicals and officially the end of my undergraduate life. My previous blog post has already storied about how suffocated that exam was for me and I am not gonna repeat it again because it was a nightmare.

Bangalore-Dubai-Prague-Paris-Prague-Dubai-Bangalore. 6 flight trips in a month, all at different times. I saw horizons which are much more beautiful beyond words, and it only shows how little can a camera captures. Travel more, sitting in a plane makes you realise how miniature you are to this world. 

I didnt really plan the whole trip- it was just a spontaneous one. I want myself to fall into the beauty and pace of ancient European cities. I want to sit at the roadside and watch people. I want to smell historical cities. I want to find myself back. 

So this time I went to
1. Czech Republic
2. Germany
3. Poland
4. France

And everyone was like WHAT? Only 4 places in a month pheebs? I went to 11 countries in 14 days!

Yea, because you are a duckling and I am not (in Chinese we call this type of tour as duckling trips 鸭子团)

Prague. Just right outside my sister's house.

Till now I still think Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe. Yea maybe because I haven't been to many yet. But the weather the scenary the pace the people the wall the churches are just like a rib eye plus a wine, they fit each other in so perfectly. 

Charles Bridge. I call this paradise on earth.

Beautiful, no?

Introduce to everyone a good travel blog that I have found when I was planning my trip

http://ericro2010.blogspot.in/

But its in Mandarin so sorry for people who dont know the language. And he only covers Prague, Czech Republic, Paris, and Austria. 

After a few days in Prague my sister and I started our 10 days trip to Germany <3 And came back to Prague in between because we got stucked in Heidelberg. So we missed Cologne and Dresden :( 

One thing fun about trips is that its always unpredictable. Teehee. 

To be continued. 

I lied to get a day off. We call that casual leave.

As an intern we are entitled 1(ONE) day of casual leave per month (and that includes Sundays okay), not to say too hectic, but sometimes you just get tired of your routine and decided to laze around the house when your schedule allows you to take a break.

So I applied for a day off on an ordinary Wednesday without even stating the reason. Anyway I dont understand why you have to give a reason since the name itself is casual leave. CASUAL. which means I can take it casually without explaining to anyone right?

HOD: Give me a reason why you want a CL.
Me: Erm, no, just like that.
HOD: You want to take a CL because everyone else is taking too?
Me: No, my friend is coming from another state and I wanna bring her around.
HOD: Okay go, come back on Thurs.

I lied lalalalala~ Theres no such friend and there is no such plan.

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Anyway congratulations to a friend who just got engaged and another friend who finally got his PR in Aussie. Yay to my free accomodation when I visit next.

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This year is a mentally retarding year because I hardly use my brain. But I forced myself to read two textbooks in Med posting and am moving on to the third one. I need to keep updating myself because the world is moving and I am not. That feeling sucks.

Keep asking myself what I have achieved in 2014 and what I want to achieve next. But pathetically its so blurred. I cant foresee whats happening next, and it scares me.

Things that I have to accomplish before this chapter of my life ends:

Volunteering work in Calcutta
Andamans
North East India for Christmas
Europe again but this time is Italy
Start reading financial magazines
Save money for the above plans


Who on earth doesnt want a life like ladyironchef? Yea I cant be like her travelling around having yum food and still earning, but at least I can try to make my life a little bit closer to her level right. Teehee.

Positive thinking makes a girl more attractive. I believe so. 

我又回来了。

今天是在家的第三天。三天就这样过去了，时间溜得好恐怖。

在印度拼命奔波变瘦，然后回来用仅有的时间去吃喝玩乐，然后再回到没人想回去的地方。这是一个圆圈，我兜了五年。感觉有点累了，回家竟然会累，真可笑。

回家竟然还会思考人生，something is seriously wrong with me. 

回家竟然还会想起医院，是疯了吗？

每次回来从第一天妈妈就会说要买什么什么回去，然后我就会说：才刚回来又要准备走了吗？

还有我最近很喜欢懒散的生活，还有放空，还有发呆。

确保自己的脑细胞action potential = 0, 是件快乐的事。

疯完了，吃火锅去！ 

Stay tuned.

I am supposed to blog about my Euro trip 3months ago, and of course life in obgyn. I have so much to talk about these two things, but blogger is so not user friendly that I find it difficult to use somehow.  And I don't want to abandon this blog as I have used it for 7 years by now. My first post was on KEPUTUSAN BIASISWA JPA on 23/05/2007 lol? This blog was initially meant to accompany me throughout the medical life as a student and everything I encountered. So yea no dumping my dearest blogspot until it dumps me.

And if you are alert enough you must have found another difference. Tada! Playlist updated. For your info theres a small tune symbol on the rightest side of the music bar so yea please click and select what you want to listen to. Those are like my favorites as of 11052014. If nothing suits you then on the leftest side there is a pause button thank you :p

I combined three pictures to make this piece of artwork. All three are unedited pics I clicked in three different cities namely Prague, Heidelberg and Paris. (This is like a teaser of the travel journal I am gonna post later)

Stay tuned dearests.

活着，难道就是存在吗？

多少人走着，却困在原地？

多少人活着，却如同死去？

多少人爱着，却好似分离？

多少人笑着，却满含泪地？

谁知道我们，该去向何处？

谁知道生命，已变为何物？

终于把最近超火热的《来自星星的你》看完了。男主角活了四百年，看尽了出生，活着，死亡这些模式，不和任何人交朋友，一直以来都是孤独地生活着，直到遇到了她。

遇见她之前，生活的每一天叫存在。

遇见她之后，存在的每一天叫生活。

因为存在有了意义，他才觉得自己真正的在生活着。

以前回家是必然，现在想回家是因为有个人在等门。

以前从不和别人吃饭，现在一个人吃饭竟会觉得空虚。

以前觉得苦等400年后终于可以跟地球告别了，现在却不想走了。因为遇到一个值得留恋的人了。

觉得这部剧好看的不是我有多爱你，而是爱上你之后我才知道什么叫生活。

一个人孤独地活400年，应该很痛苦吧？

他不觉得，因为在这400年里，他都不知道拥有是多么幸福的一件事。拥有一个想守护的人，生活才叫生活。

不管是家人，朋友，或爱人，我们在生命中都注定要守护着他们。其实如果世界上没有感情这一块，不知道什么是亲情友情爱情的人们，活着是有意义的吗？

有了感情才觉得生活是充实的，是值得留恋的。活过了那种人生，才觉得离别是痛苦的，死亡是恐怖的。

“害怕我离开后你会活不下去，所以我宁愿你比我先走，因为我爱你爱得不舍得让你经历那种痛苦，那种没有我的空虚和寂寞。” 以前好像曾经有个人跟我说过：我希望家人和爱人都比我先死掉，由我来承受失去的痛，应该是我最爱他们的一种表现了。

全智贤在剧中最后说的一句话是：每次不知道你几时会消失是很辛苦的，但是有了这些过程后，才知道拥有你的每一瞬间，是多么地值得珍惜。

不标题。

如果一个人说他设法在别人身上寻找你的影子，你会感动吗？

我有觉得感动，但是感动背后有的，却是更多的愧歉。对不起，我真的没办法。

有时真的很想跟你说不要对我那么好，但是不知道为什么你就是没听到。是我们的频率不一样吗？上次去朋友家时跟他聊了一个晚上，6年来都没聊那么多了，真心觉得他变了。想法变得很开放，谈吐变得很洋人，但是唯一不变的是-我们还是那么 CLICK.

他问我如何define CLICK, 我说就像跟你一样啊，不会解释但是彼此都感觉到我们是一样频率的。坦白说我们很click 但是没有feel, 所以一直以来大家都以为我们之间有些东西，但是彼此都知道除了友谊我们完全没别的。

我要说的是，“click" 这个东西对我很重要, 不要再叫我试试看了好吗。

我身边的人，你们对我越好，我就觉得越愧疚。那么善良那么好的人，我舍不得伤害你们。对不起。


讲完。我到现在还秉持着宁缺勿滥这四个字，所以大家不要再为我担心了 :) 

repost: dated 20140206

Today is the 6th of February, I'm currently on the plane to Prague. The post exam feeling is just amazing! Every time when I think back about January it makes me shiver a little. Really didn't know how I made through it, those cold sleepless nights, from hearing neighbors switching off TV and go to bed, till they wake up and brush up at the dawn. Yea I'm awake throughout. The journey was tough, somehow I think I was so depressed throughout the whole January. I couldn't foresee that it would all end one day, I just know that I gotta pull through it, day by day, little by little.

And yea it's all over now thank god. Hope it pays off! 

This morning was incredible, I woke up to the sunrise on the plane to Dubai. That shades of orange and yellow that blends with the blue sky, the beautiful mother nature which stands out like a pageant. Haven't felt so blissful for such a long time, even the end of exam didn't make me feel so :) 

Ok this marks the start of my holiday, the start of something good. Just pray hard for everything to go smoothly! 

This exam makes us all realize how important it is to pray, and hope. 

One day I was awakened by a thought/or maybe a voice. The thought says, why did you forget that god will lead you to where you belong to. Yes, God will lead us all to where we are supposed to be. Just have faith. Have lots of faith. 

Current status: watching justin bieber live in Paris on the flight teehee.