Archive for June, 2006

Moscow bandar paling mahal di dunia

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Link: Utusan Malaysia Online - Luar Negara.

Moscow bandar paling mahal di dunia

NEW YORK 26 Jun - Moscow menandingi Tokyo sebagai bandar paling mahal di dunia, menurut satu tinjauan terkini.

Berdasarkan tinjauan yang dikeluarkan hari ini, ibu negara Rusia itu
naik tiga anak tangga berbanding tahun lalu berikutan pemilikan harta
yang meningkat secara mendadak manakala ibu negara Jepun jatuh ke
tempat ketiga ekoran nilai yen yang lemah.

Seoul pula menduduki tangga kedua senarai tersebut berbanding tangga kelima tahun lalu.

Tinjauan Perunding Sumber Manusia Mercer itu melibatkan 144 buah
bandar di seluruh dunia dengan mengambil kira kos perbandingan lebih
200 butiran seperti perumahan, pengangkutan dan makanan.

Tinjauan itu dilakukan bagi membantu majikan multinasional
menentukan nilai pampasan kepada pekerja mereka yang tinggal di negara
asing.

Perunding kanan Mercer, Rebecca Powers berkata, dengan kenaikan
perbelanjaan yang banyak di kebanyakan bandar di dunia, terutamanya di
negara membangun, majikan perlu melihat semula kaedah pampasan yang
diberikan berserta faedah yang diterima oleh pekerja mereka.

Menurut tinjauan itu lagi, secara keseluruhannya kadar pertukaran
asing bukan menjadi faktor utama kepada perubahan kedudukan dalam
senarai tersebut, namun dalam kes Moscow, kos telah terapung berikutan
pertambahan harga perumahan.

Namun begitu kedudukan bandar-bandar tersebut jatuh berbanding tahun lalu ekoran kedudukan mata wang euro yang tidak kukuh.

Antara bandar-bandar lain yang turut tersenarai ialah New York di tangga ke-10, diikuti Los Angeles dan San Francisco.

Hong Kong pula berada di tempat keempat dalam senarai, Beijing di tangga ke-14, manakala Shanghai di kedudukan ke-20.

- AP

Ha ha ha….

Pharmacology- quote from the exams….

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

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huhuh..salah satu dari "meja" study aku masa exam pharmaco

Before the exam:
1. Only 3 days gap since last paper..
2. 100++ question, with each question consists of drugs classifications, its mechanism(s) of actions, adverse effect, indications, and some with pharmacokinetics & pharmacodynamics properties.
3. Over 60 obligatory drug to be memorized complete with it forms & specific dosage (as well as it indications in case u were asked)
4. Over 250++ (anybody really count this??), drugs being discussed in the whole question list

Outcomes:
A desperate, half-hearted student, studying continuosly (with 15-20 mt break for each 1 hour of study, amboi!!!), and with everything blur in my mind, the only thing that keeps me moving is the obligation to fulfill the princips that " He does not change anything to mankind, unless man work for it "…

Consultation day (1 day before the exam):

Igor yg bagi consultation
Kehadiran : Safwa, Rita, Anis, Aku ngan 1org budak India,…lagi 2 org datang lambat

quotes from Igor:
"Only 4 people????"
"You should prepare according to Kartzung book"
"Dont read the ukrainian book, the information is misleading & it isnt enough"
"If u dont know one question, your mark will not be more than 3"
"If you answer according Ukrainian book,I hope your mark will be 3"
"this answer is being discussed in Katzung…bla….bla…kartzung…bla….bla…Kartrzung…bla…bla…Kartzung"
<– berapa bnyk la royalti dia dpt dok promote buku Kartzung ni
"are you attempt to make a "phantom???" ..<– upon seing my flash card I used for memorizing drugs names…ceh, ada ke patut dia ingat aku nak meniru…ingat aku budak rusia ke??

The examination day:
Sir Vadim:
"without white coat"
"Guys, please enter!!"
"Guys, more guys"
<– pompuan tak yah jawab ker?

aku dah x ingat apa lagi dia hentam muhana ngan khalid, tapi aku duk betul2 depan meja dia..cuak aku dengar..berkerut2 muka aku tahan cuak, n nak pikir jawapan lagi…huhuh, mmg penyeksaan betul..dahla bilik tu panas…

Cikgu perempuan yg aku jawab dengannya (tak tau nama dia)-a.k.a cikgu "HA-HA-SORI"
"Ha ha..sorry.."
"Ha ha…your patient will die.."
"You should write SLOOWLY"
<- i put indication for CaCL as inject I.V. , lefting out the word "slowly’"

"What is sulfadimezone?"
"A sulfa drugs" <- me :)
"Ok, how many times we give sulfa drugs"
(adoi..mana la nak ingat)
"err..it depends on patients condition" <– taktik cover no.4
"Yes, but usually how many times a day" (adoi, tak makan la pulak)
"err…2"
"No, 4 times…oh , SORRY, 6 times i think" <– ceh, dia pun x sure

"Please think what is the classification of vasodilator"
"er..er..Ca-Channel blocker"
"Thats one of it..what more?"
"er…er.."
"Dont hurry, I give you time to think"
<after 20 seconds>
"you dont remember? sorry…next question.."
(huh, 20 saat nak pikir apa cikgu???)

"Your mark is good (4 la tu)…" sambil tersenyum2 lepas menyelak jurnal kelas aku..apparently markah purata sem aku utk pharmaco adalah 4-.adoi, nak jugak vadim tu letak "-"
"You will get your credit (zachut) after you return our book to the library..good bye"

Hmm…sedih jugak sebab aku sangkut satu sub-question jer, tapi dah dapat 4..pikir2 blk, ada jer org kantoi langsung satu whole question, tapi dpt 5 gak…erm..agaknay sebab markah purata kelas dia mantap kot..takpela, aku redha jer…lagipun , kan blajar demi ilmu..
eh..tapi ilmu aku pun tak byk mana ni :P

teringat kata2 ni, yg aku guna dulu masa pujuk diri sendiri lepas dapat B dlm BA utk PMR (walaupun dah nak rak study,tapi aku mmg sengal BA pun)
"sedihlah dalam redha"

n that is exactly what I’m doing now :)

The new & improved AFIQ!!

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Hahah..afiq mesti cuak choy ngan title post aku ni..

aku letak gak gambar ko…haha, tapi takpe, dah disensor sebaik mungkin.wakakakaka..

sehari sebelum exam, afiq buat satu perubahan besar(dia kata dah biasa, aku baru 1st time tengok), ..aku rasa mende ni lagi memeranjatkan daripada nampak Vadim / Dmitry tersenyum..

kih kih, comel seh,,tapi still aku rasa suara ko cam tak sesuai ngan rupa baru ni…haha, apa kata ko gi tukar suara lak :P

bravo Afiq!!
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adoi la..cam temuramah ngan Pramugara terlampau lak main censored2 nih

Path Physio - quote from the exams….

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

PAth PHYS

tak byk quote yg menarik…aku redha jer tak dapat pekna…jawab ngan zaf kafedra..

paling menarik

"Hmm..I give u 4 only because before this you get 5, your answer to me today is 3.."
"thank you " –> kata aku sambil tersenyum

exam ni mmg huru hara..sebab cikgu lain2 ilmu lain2…
aku dah pasrah awal2..walaupun result ni record-breaking utk diplom aku
(p/s diplom adalah sehelai kertas yg ditandatangani rektor)
seb baik ingat pesan kawan2..

"kalo study berlandaskan markah,mmg la kecewa…kalo study berlandaskan ilmu, membawa ke syurga"
"meletakkan markah keatas ilmu bagai merendahi darjat ilmu itu, sedang ia adalah ciptaan Allah yang mulia dan tinggi nilainya"

bagusnya ada kawan2 camni….

Theraphy- quotes from the exams

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Alhamdulillah…dah lepas pun 3 exam…tapi ada lagi 3 bakal menjelang..
Theraphy, Path Anat n PAth Physio dah lepas….
Pharmaco Hygiene n Surgery bakal menjelang..

Macam2 perasaan menghadapi exam ni..
takut..
cuak..
menyesal..
berharap…
dengki (especially kat yat yang dah abis exam)
dll……

Smalam sampai la puncak metabolism badan, apabila setelah 2 minggu
dok tidor tak betul, tiba2 semalam kepala menjerit kesakitan dan badan
mendambakan tidur … letih tak terkata..lalu terlenalah aku di atas
katil buat kali pertamanya pada jam 1 pagi (slalunya 3-4)…ingatkan
nak bangun lewat sket lepas solat subuh, tapi kul 7 matahari dah
memancar masuk blk…

awal lagi takde mood nak stadi pharmaco,,.post blog ah
aku nak quote perkara2 berlaku sepanjang exam aku ni

THERAPHY
antara exam yg paling aku cuak..tapi tak la sangat sebab
mmg blajar betol2 dalam kelas..so tinggal nak kira ingat ke tak
jer..tapi dengan kemunculan cikgu2 yg mempunyai method2 tersendiri dan
tak bersetuju dgn method2 cikgu lain, menyebabkan keadaan menjadi
huru-hara

question card aku mmg melelert….
ECG aku tersalah tafsir..
analisis…ada x-ray ngan graf amende ntah ..aaaaaaaaaa!!!!

quote2 sesi aku ngan dmitry (atau DIMA bak kata haneem)
<dia angkat ECG aku n terus tgk m/s belakang..tersirap darah aku sebab ingat blakang tu takde pape>
"Ok, how can u evaluate this ECG"
"Uh…er…its
a Myocardial Infraction, most probably a small foci type, located in
the anterior left wall" - ni la jawapan aku yg plan tadi
"No"
(adusss!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
"I think its more probably a heart block"
(apsal la aku tak tgk belakang tadi…."
"but, as u know, MI can lead to heart block, thats why the picture is more or less alike"
"Yes, I’m agree with u" <— ayat2 cover apabila dah kantoi ngan cikgu..hahahahah

"Ok, what about the analysis?"
"It would be probably a glomerulonephritis"
"Well,
I can said that u are right…(apa lagi ni??)..but I cant say u are
wrong either (slamat)..I would agree there’s an affection to the kidney"
"I see…" –> ayat cover gak

"Ectopic extrasystole is subdivided to Extrastole A & V, Paroxysmal Tachycardia n Flutter & Fibrillation…bla..bla…"
"Actually when we talk about Ectopic, we only talk about extrasystole" (eh,dlm lecture lecturer tu cakap lain)
"Well in that case, then I’ll elaborate more about extrasystole"<– cubaan aku mengalihkan perhatian

apa2 pun, DIMA ngan baik hatinya memberi aku 5…Alhamdulillah, walaupun aku selalu escape lecture dia..

hmm..lagi 2 exam aku letak dlm post lain la..kang panjang sgt korang malas nak baca..huhu

Path Anat - quote from the exams….

Monday, June 19th, 2006

PATH ANAT

dgn tak blajar ngan proper…mmg ni la menjadi exam yg aku cuak, especially ngna lecturer (aka cikgu kelas aku aka bread n sosej) menjadi pemeriksa yg mem"fail"kan beberapa anak muridnya sendiri…
ok, so I’m one of the eligible calon utk difailkan

a night before, tak putus2 aku doa kat Tuhan supaya esok dimudahkan, malam masa tidor, aku bleh dengar jantung sendiri berdegup ….cuak seh..

pagi esoknya, berita lebih buruk, profesor yg disukai ramai tak menjadi pemeriksa..ada meeting kat mana ntah..so chance aku utk kene jawab ngan lecturer pun meningkat…

masa berdiri sebelum masuk hall exam, aku msg kawan2 n mak abah, mintak doakan aku..aku pun tak putus2 doa agar..
1. tak kene jawab ngan lecturer
2. tak dpt soalan merepek
3. ingat blk jawapan dulu
4. redha ngan ketentuanNya
lama aku menunggu kat luar, tiba2 mata aku terlirik ke arah question "shock" kat dinding tu..dlm hati..kalo le kene soalan ni mati aku..moga2 tak dapat

guess what, bila aku bukak soalan aku…
Soalan pertama : Stroma-Vascular dystropy of Fat"
Soalan kedua ; "SHOCK" waaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soalan ketiga : Cholera
okeh…..doa kedua aku dah x makbul…byk dosa la ni kan….

Macropreparation " Nutmeg liver"
dah dapt describe sumer..malangnya preparation ni dah x clear sebab dia pakai larutan salah…aku tak ingat dianyer path process, rasa cam venous congestion, ke lipfuschin accum??
there goes my 3rd doa…huhuhuuh..padan muka aku

sampai la giliran aku menjawab
"ZAKARIAH MOHD HELMI" laung laborant tu….
aku angkat kepala…
dan di depanku…
satu2nya meje pemeriksa yg kosong ketika itu…
dia…lecturer yg penuh anggun tersenyum kepadaku………
aduss…………………..
doa 1st pun tak makbul gak :(

lemah longlai aku melangkah …dalam hati membaca doa menghadapi org zalim (apa aku ni??dah tu jer doa reelvan yg aku ignat masa tu, takkan nak baca doa masuk jamban lak)
dan aku duduk…
"What;’s ur name??? n group no???"
(adoi…ko cikgu aku pun tak ingat aku group mana n no brape?"
"Zakariah Mohd Helmi, group 42"
<matanya melirik ke arah rekod lecture>
"Ok start answering"
"bla..bla.."
(dan tiba2 dia nak bercakap ngan laborant sebelah) " continue answering.."
(dan aku pun bercakap seorang diri)
"ok, next question…." (sambil tangannya mencoret 4 ke atas markah soalan pertama tadi

the cycle continue up to all question…

then macroprep…"ok , explain me"
"bla..bla..bla..the path process is venous congestion in liver.."
(mata dia berkerut) "again? what is the path process?"
"uh…lipofuschin accumulation"
"No, this is bad answer"
(adoi)

dan di akhir jawapan ini, dia mencoret 4 sambil menyatakan kata-kata hikmahnya kepada aku
"BE HAPPY!!" dan tersenyum…

aku melangkah keluar dari bilik exam, dan tersenyum sendiri…dah tentu lecturer tu dah cukup baik ati bagi 4..ialah, ngan prestasi aku selama ni, aku kan candidate fail….walaupun jawapan tadi rasa2nya ok, tapi Allah lebih mengetahui…

dan aku berlalu meninggalkan department Path Anat tu dengan penuh perasaan bersyukur kerana akhirnya, doa ke-4 ku termakbul…
aku redha….. :)

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malam masa x dapat tidor ni…gi dapur jap..lawanya fajar..tangkap gambar sket…uh, patung tu mamaev kurgan..huhu..

how many times u’ve spent with him?

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

The sun was just declining to the east, when we heard the news that he had passed away. I look around for reactions.
startled..
confiusion..
denial…
ignorance…
symphatize…
emphatize…
regrets….

I, on the other hand, had a  mixed reaction. But I strongly remembered the feeling of uneasiness and denial. Hoping that its a misinformation, we waited for further news. And still, it made the news clearer..
He’d gone…
And I..startled…

Whoever said that becoming a doctor u’d be facing enough death to avoid the post-traumatic phase, let me tell you, you’re totally wrong. If u think that by becoming a doctor, u’d be having enough experiences of death, well, think again.It will not make u less susceptible for having a kinda emotional stage upon receiving a death news.

And for the whole night, I couldnt concentrate on my study. Exam is coming, but I hate myself whenever I thought about exam. HELLO!!! there’s a guy dead, and it’s one of us here, and all I could think is exam??? boo to me..
Then there’s some guy gathering up donations around. And in those less-than-hour interval, people remembered about him. What made it so cliche’ is that, soon, people are gathering around, facing the television for the long-awaited BRAZIL-CROATIA football match. And they shout, and they cheer..and they..so on..shame on us all…

Some people said, he’d passed away, ok, we sympathize, but life must goes on…

Ok, I’m agreed with that. But c’mon guys!!! He lived for more than 20 years. He’s been around us more than 3 years. During that time, he exist..his words, his laugh,his joke, his personality is still in the air..It’s not like he left us ten years ago…he left us less than 48 hours..
and when he left, we only thought about him for merely an hour….and then..life goes on..
see? an hour…that is totally unacceptable for me..

within the crowd, I tried to find a face of sadness, regret, miss, or any emotion at all.But nada, all I could see is excitement around the football match..

Oh, well maybe some of you will ask, why does it become a huge load for me. Its not like I was close with this guy?
Ironically, that is exactly the reason.
I felt guilty for not even trying to know him a lil’ bit closer than how much I knew him now.
Of course I knew him. We met. We said hi. We shake hands. We smiled to each other. We talked. We laugh…but in the midst of all these, I knew somehow I could do more….he even live in the same town as me in Malaysia, but that lays to me as merely a fact. A fact that I never consider as a factor to get to know him better..
And to hell if I said that I’m too busy … that’s bullshit…life’s too short for us to get busy…
life’s too short for us to become ignorance…
life’s too short for us to give 10001 reasons of why we didnt knew someone better…

Ok, and some people said, maybe not all people have a deep feeling like me..or that I’m a melancholic person, or ..whutever…

to these people, I’d just wanna throw u one question…

One day, when it is your turn, how would u like to see everybody going around,minding their own "so-important" business, as if like u never even existed before??

when u passed away…do u want people to remember u for only 15 minutes??????

p/s: sorry, this post never meant to hurt anyone’s feeling. I knew different people have different way to react. And i didnt even sure if it come up due to the examination-stress. But one thing I’m sure, I dont want to die like a nobody…

Study dengan efisyen!!

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Image515Gaya study yang penuh efisyen…

Huhu..inilah nasib kalo studi last minute :P …Uh, pakai headband bukannya nak jadi Nobita atau pura2 bersungguh2 masa studi…sekadar supaya rambut yg panjang tak menutup pandangan mata…Headband ditaja (akceli dipinjamkan) oleh Junior 1st year..timasih ek…doa2kan kitorang nak exam ni..

Oleh sebab x nak kotor tangan (susah la nak selak kertas) jadi kita pun makan Lays dengan chopstik!! Ha ha..bergaya tak? Pikie pun tak camni…

Uh..sebenarnya banyak jer cara lain x nak kotor tangan tu..contohnya, tak yah la makan ye tak??? tapi tensen2 studi, mmg best mengunyah…adoi la…sekilo lagi..huhuhu

one day….and still counting…..

BBQ batch..

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Aiseh..x banyak gambar menarik yg aku simpan..kamera org lain ada la..nnti la aku upload gambar lagi..wat sementara ni..inilah gambar2 yg aku ada..

4th of June, (5 days more to exam), in the mid-day of Russian summer, (mind u,its up to 37 here), we held another annual BBQ party. Thanks to Cerap and all he guys who made it possible even in the middle of pre–examination session…

Well, it goes like other typical BBQ party, first you came, you grill, then you eat. Later,when you’re full enough, you play until you feel like vomitting out all that you have eaten. And finally, you "tapau" all the leftover, clean the places, and call it a day…

So, I’m just gonna highlight some of the nice event that occurs throughout the party:)

1. MOVIE ACTING…
    Well, each group was given a title of a movie, and u need to act accordingly so  that u’r groupmate can guess the title. My credit to Judeen and Zack who acting out for the Movie MATRIX. I mean, Judeen with his sunglass and the slow-motion bullet avoiding act….no one can ever mistake it with anything else..
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2. GROUPING..
ok,so you were given the name of your group,which happen to be animal-themed. So, you need to imitate the sound of these animals to find your groupmate in the chaotic 30-seconds .A big hand to Izzat who manage to find her group (Kump AYAM) ,eventhough she hardly can make out the chicken cuckoo (hehe.u know what I mean Izat:) no hard feelings ok..

Well, overall, its a succesfull event I suppose.the food is good, the games are fun, the only thing I didnt really glad about is the weather…if only it could  be a little bit less-sunny :)

Thanks to MAMA (Rita) too who worked hard to manage the games..it must be hard for her, because most of the time she is too kind-hearted that she couldnt decide which group to expel even when they are clearly disqualified..I think there’s event a moment when she had her brain short-circuited..dont believe me? Just look at this picture I took..Yeah, concentrate on the way she wear her cap :)
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huhuh..comel seh…

I’m gonna post another blog bout this BBQ when I have the time and "appropriate" picture (quoted from Margarita)..for the mean time, as I’m still wore-out from sitting in front of the grill the whole day in the middle of the hot afternoon, I think this is all I can spilt out…

Well, where’s my cute little pillow? hehehe…

what’s on my desktop

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

On_my_desktop_2Inilah rupa desktop aku sekarang (sebahagian daripadanya)..dipenuhi widget2 yahoo yg digunakan utk memperingatkan aku tentang perkara seharian..maklumla..pelupa

well, our centre of attraction consist of a calendar, which have been marked with various color. Yup, that’ indicate my exam date :
10 / 6 - Theraphy
15 / 6 - Pathological physiology
19 / 6 - Pathological anatomy
23 / 6 - Pharmacology
27 / 6 - Hygiene
1 / 7 - General Surgery

aaa…melelert la aku!!!

Widget kat kiri atas adalah utk meraikan kedatangan World Cup 2006…maklumla, tak dapat tgk sangat sebab exam, so dapat update dari internet pun jadila…sama2 meraikannya :)

widget kat kiri …hmm..menyenaraikan mende2 yg perlu dibuat dan dateline dia sumer less than a week !!! wawawawawawawaw….

kanan atas…jam tu saje je nak memanifestasikan waktu2 biasa seorang budak medic TIDAK TIDO n terkebil2 mata menahan ngantk…konon la tu cam studi..sedangkan sibuk tgh surfing..huhu (study gak k, onlline :)

kanan tengah - waktu semayang…apa2 pun..semayang kene pada waktu ok?? jgn tinggal ni..ni la kita punya essence of life

kanan bawah, cuaca hari ni…mende tu tak tepat..kurang2 kene tambah 3 degree lagi..tu malam 24 - 27..kalo siang..30 -33 ..adoi , aku yg lama duk msia ni pun rasa bahangnya..cemana la agaknya org rusia ni leh tahan x mandi cuaca cam ni?? patutla asphyxiated bila masuk dlm masyrut :)

ITULA SEDIKIT SEBANYAK PASAL DESKTOP AKU….HUHU..DESKTOP MENCERMINKAN GAYA HIDUP ANDA :p