Finished !

Wow my rotation days in the wards is finally over. Now can relax and watch movies, that is after tuesday. I'm having ruminants exam on Tuesday. Still I like procrastinating. I still have more than 18 hours to go until exams. At least I'm on study leave. Yeah! FUCK it.

Went back to the wards for a while without my lab coat on. I wore my hip hop gear today. Imagine: "Eminem in Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up" gear. It's an oversize plain white T-shirt with baggy jeans. Matching I tell u! It's freedom of expression. I'm not wearing anything revealing am I? Except that I am revealing that I have a fashion sense. I was even reminded by some of classmates, in class, the dress code. They even supplied me with a pamphlet with the dress code ruling.In the wards, one of the doctors was staring at me funny. Besides I'm in my final year, who would want to tell me off. If they ask I will answer, " You're the fashion police is it ?"

I found out that my dogs miss me. Esmeralda and Bobo. Bobo, a Shih Tzu, was barking his head off. She quiet awhile when I was there. In my absence they put her into a cat cage. She was in a dog's cage yesterday. Eventhough she is 5.4 kg and small she doesn't deserve the disrepect of being a cat.I will post her pictures soon.

This afternoon later going swimming again. Yesterday went swimming, after completing my usual 1 km swim, suddenly Ivan, an old friend who's doing Master's in Operating System design, came up with his juniors and challenged me for a 300m swim. They were other two of them, both are wannabe life guards. Tired as I am, I have no fear. "It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog" that's what I kept telling myself. Mind you, I just completed my 1 km swim.

If I was a race-horse, I termed myself a finisher. I start slow but until the end of the race I'll sprint, and catch them by surprise. I like doing this. This always catch people off guard when their reserve energy has runned out. The swim started off with two of the juniors sprinting away for the first 100m. Typical. Me and Ivan went slowly head to head at first. Ivan is also a finisher.

150m I'm revving up. Ivan revves up. The two junior has slowed down. 200m, I'll wait for Ivan to sprint first. He sprints at 225metres. I physched myself on, Once Upon a Time In China Music is already playing in my head. Here goes the sprint. 250m, final turn, me and Ivan head to head, the juniors in front of us. Bad turn for me, lost my breath there. It's do or die from here. Me and Ivan head to head. 275m. All of us head to head.

SHIT! My arms and legs starts to get really cold and crampy. Feels like and electric short circuit going through pulsing my arms. Damn, my reserve finish. 285m, and finishing. Pushing my limits. No breath zone, no more air intake, at this point this differentiate the winners (Going out for air will cause reduction in the aerodynamics of your body thus slowing you down). My arms starting to fail me. My vision getting darker. The other three, is getting faster. Damn couldn't do anything. I got last. My time was 6 minutes and 10 seconds. The other was 6 plus and Ivan was under 6.

Have to go back home and eat more protein shakes. Steroids? Nah...

1st Clinical Rounds

Wow, I delivered my first clinical rounds. I choose one of the most simpliest topic which I could find but can still be accepted. The only comment I got from a senior clinician I got was "Weren't there any other interesting case to present?"
Felt like Eminem for a moment before the presentation like in 8th Mile before he raps.
But my friends say I was good, damn good to be exact. Thanks for the support.
Fan Fan say today I got back some respect for my fellow classmates from the clinicians. At least for once the questions died down with respect!

Sorry!

Where's the pictures you all ask. I'm sorry, I was really busy and can't keep my promises but I have been kidnapped by aliens.

There's the prove. No lah honestly, I have tons of assignment to pass up and I'm still in wards. This picture was the Threvallu festival which happened just outside my house.

In the wards, it has been a really wonderful week. My patients has been really joyous to be around with. Everyday is a blessing.


This is my first case I handled this week, her name is Mimi.



Pozzle was kind enough to come back and visit me. She was here last year. Energetic Dog.


Even Ultra-Man send his dog. His dog is a 5-6 month old GSD. See the light coming out from her eye. It seems Esmeralda(the dog) broke her leg. Esmeralda is really special. She seems to remind me of Wolfy. The have the same character. It seems that all German Sherpherds have the same demeanour.


Here is Esmeralda looking cute.


How's Wolfy smoochy? Here's a recent picture of her. She is growing up really fast and beautifully. Now she is 8 months old.


She's too heavy to be my baby anymore.


Here's one of the puppies which was left behind by it's owner. So sad, luckily got me to entertain it. Not to worry, soon it was adopted by someone else.


Beautiful isn't she. It seems that the pup is having too much entertaiment.

Now, I'm in surgery rotation. I hope everything goes well, a week more to go.

Busy Bee

This two weeks I'm in the small wards doing slave duties. Waking up at 7.00 and arriving at wards at 7.30 in the AM everyday and staying until 10.00 pm is not my idea of having fun.
I don't even have time to study.
Jeez, sacrifices. At least my patients(those who cannot speak) seem to appreciates it.
Right now waiting for my surgery, waiting for the dogs to come actually. 30 minutes of free me, myself and I time.
Don't worry I got tons of pictures to upload tommorow.

So anticipate!

A day In Surgery

Surgery, damn interesting thing to talk about, but damn tiring to do. So I decided to put pictures to illustrate the trials and tribulations in Small Animal Surgery.
This week I was the anaesthetist after weeks being surgeon.

Here I, Super ZeroGravity raring up to go and ahead.



This was shortlived as I was tired and needed to sit down and I did Intra-cranial pre-med for anaesthesia.



This resulted in the dog(named Mongkey) going up to Dreamland in super fast mode.



Surgery goes on well for the first few hours.


Looky here, what is this?



Here nearby my table, another super-surgeon, Pamela was deep in her thoughts. Her thinking process was based upon Deep Blue superkinetic superflow deepshit thing. She is really floating up in the air. Thank god for the invention of ceilings.




However, ask on what she was having for dinner, she has no idea.


This is what happens to your hands after 7 hours of Surgery. Peracute Rigidity of Digits with Complications of Chorea Myoclonus.



After a long days work, it was a happy day, some dogs went into doggie heaven. I went back home to sleep.

Everything written here is a joke and not to be taken seriously.
Pam, I was just playing, dont merajuk or anything. Take a break Have a kit kat.

And stop asking me to eat shit.

Back In Kuching

I went back home this weekend. Got a get-together with my family. Did all the family do it all thing together package like dinner and stuff. Got in touch with my communist sister who had just came back home. (She's not really a communist, its just that she studies medicine in Russia.)

I guess I have to always check her ideology. No marxism in the house.

Wow time really flies. I got an equine disease test on tuesday. Still I'm guilty of procrastinating.

Rehomed Sasha just now. It was a bit sad to part with her, but then it was for the best. You all should see her expression when I left her at her new home. It was heart wrenching. By the way Sasha is a 6 year old Harlequinn Great Dane. She was one of my very first few dogs. Now she lives with my aunt with her three adorable little kids which absolutely love her. I had to remind myself not to be jealous.

I got new neighbours today. Kinda of reminds me of desperate housewives. Damn I forgot his name, it was Robert or John something. Let's just call him John Doe I told my sister. Well he got a dog too, and a cat and a few chickens. Seriously chickens. Not the ordinary domestic chicken, its the minature breed-ayam serama I guess. His dog was a Sheep Dog, a Komondor. A rare breed indeed. (description: All white fluffy hair with no eyes to be seen breed). This dog cause a sensation for my dogs cause they couldn't figure out where's the face of this dog. Especially for Wolfy and Frankenstein.

Let me introduce you all to the some of the four legged members of my family



Here is Frankenstein a.k.a. The Cookie Monster and I.



Here's Princess Pei Pei and I.

Well my house internet connection is really slow(56K). I guess you all will have to wait until I get back to the faculty(T1 or T3 I'm not sure) to upload my files.

This is funny!

How to look and act like a professional veterinarian.

How to look and act like a professional veterinarian.

1. When you wake up early in the morning, you dont have to comb your hair, just put a surgical cap on. Just pretend you are going to have a major surgery on. This is important because it can eliminates bad hair day and save money from your barber. Plus it make you look like a specialist.

2. Adjust your spectacles frequently when you talk. If you don't have spec's get one, this is important as clients tend to think vet are nerds. It is better if you have rim-lines on your face due to constant wearing of heavy specks.

3. Never joke or smile and nerver ever laugh. Be serious. This provides an enigma to your personality. Look puzzled when someone tells a joke.
P.S. Even if you fart in front of everybody and observe the destruction dont even have a smirk on your face.

4. Wear a lab coat around. It will be better if you sprinkle some dog or cat fur on it before you go out. Spill some tomato ketchup on the side and say it was blood.

5. When you write, write as incoherent as possible as if youre writing egytian hierogryphlics. If others ask what does it says just shake you head and say what you wrote quickly as if doing a tongue twister. This prevents any medical blame falling on to you. Besides it is a prerequiste to have a bad handwriting to be a doctor.

6. When you talk to others try to include as many medical terms as possible even though people don't understand you. Example when you're talking to your neighbour:-

Normal ppl: Damn last nite nite got a lot of mosquito. Cant sleep lah.
Veterinarian: I notice there is a lot of papules on your skin? Did it illicit any neurological response? Is it pruritic? I hope there is no digital response.

Normal ppl: ( He is blank for a moment and stares at the vet in the face not knowing what the hell is he talking about, but in order to save face he pretends to know what the vet is talking about. So he thinks that the vet is talking about his dog.)
Yeah, the dog seems a bit funny today.

Veterinarian: ( Satisfied with his cryptic message he intends to do more damage). I suggest I do a through physical exam on him.

Normal ppl: ( He is happy that he can understand what the vet says and goes on with the story line)
Yeah, just do what you do lah. (He brings his dog over)

Veterinarian: ( Checks the dog and makes a loud sighing sound eventhough the dog is healthy)
I think there could be an underlying problem, I guess we will have to see the progression.

Normal ppl: OK.

Veterinarian: That will do for now. By the way, I'll let my nurse send you the bill. See you tommorow .( The vet is happy consultation fee will cover for his golf game this afternoon.)
If you don't have a nurse, let your wife or your mother become a nurse, to take care of the money collecting activity.

7. When someone aproach you with their pet, talk to the pet first as if the pet is human an capable of speech, ignore the client first as if he/she is a dog barking his head off. This shows that you care for their pets. Then politely say to the client "Could you repeat everything you just said?" with a smile. Then continue to talk to the pet and ask the client to repeat what he/she says.

8. Complain to everyone that you have not even have your breakfast eventhough it is dinner time. Say that you had a super busy day and had cases here and there to do. This is usually a good pick up line for clients of the opposite sex. They usually instictively offer you a free dinner.

9. Put as many vet-books in your shelf near your examining table. It is better if you put many bookmarks in them. Pour coffee on some of it, as if you doze of and accidentaly spilt coffee on them while you were studying.

10. --This line is deleted to avoid offending normal people--