Day 15

9th October 2017

This is it. Today is the day where I will begin my official Medical Studies at RCMP (Royal College of Medicine, Ipoh). Although the classes had started 2 weeks ago, today is the first day that we learned about Anatomy, Physiology and etc. I woke up early today, around 6.50 a.m., and was full of enthusiasm to begin my days although I realise that what I will be embracing would be a huge storm. Anyway, the first class was Fundamental English in which the lecturer introduced herself and made us to form groups of 6 people. As usual, my group was the last one to be formed since everyone already have their groups of friends from their Foundation. There are 4 guys and 2 girls in my group and I think we would make a great group. I just don’t want them to be lazy and unproductive like the previous students that I dealt with. Then, after the class ended, I immediately rushed to Blue Lecture Theatre as I wanted to get the front sit and thankfully, I got the front sit and the other boys joined me. “A good start is essential for great success”, I silently thought. The first lecture was about Introduction to FOMS – 1 where Prof. Muniandy was just explaining about the module. The next lecture was on Anatomy – Cell division. I have went through the slides yesterday night and it was not that hard to comprehend. The lecture was really fun as Prof. Myo Than made a lot of jokes during the lecture. He also highlighted on certain things that we should concentrate as they ‘may’ be tested during the exam. While I was in the lecture theatre, I pondered on the knowledge that lies in that brain of Prof. Myo Than. If only I can see through it, how wonderful it would be. I think I also got myself confused as I did not know whether to write my notes in the slides or in a notebook. After much self-debate, I decided to write notes on both – main notes in the notebook and notes relating to images in the slides. The class ended at 12.30 pm and all of the students rushed out of the theatre. I had a question to ask Prof. so, I stayed until other students left. After that, I decided to have spaghetti for my lunch and planned to go to Padi House. Unfortunately, it started drizzling and I was forced to resort to the library. After the rain had slowed, I walked to Padi House and had their Tomato Spaghetti that cost me RM13.50 (after student discount). I came back to the library to make my notes for today’s lecture and also took recording of a lecturer for IMedik event. That’s all for today, folks. 

Spaghetti from Padi House

Day 1 at Medical School

The first day of Medical School. I have started my MBBS programme at Royal College of Medicine Perak (RCMP). In general, it was good but I was still missing certain aspects of Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia.

Let’s hop on.

I basically arrived at the campus around 7.30 am and sat near the hallway since I did not know where to go for my first class. When students finally started flocking the hallway and made their way to the Purple Lecture Theatre, that is when I realised PLT stands for Purple Lecture Theatre.

The day started by the Dean delivering an impromptu speech to all of us. He was kind of amusing and serious at the same time. Then, Dr Malhi came forward and started the day with PPD lecture (Personal & Professional Development). It was basically about how to develop yourself when you are in a medical school.

Not long after that, another lecture on Etiquette was given by Dr Tham ( I can’t seem to remember his full name). That is about it for the morning session.

I quickly headed to the cafeteria and ordered my lunch which consisted of Fried Rice and Fried Chicken as I had to print and collect certain documents from home.

The afternoon sessions kickstarted by a brief on eLMS (Learning Management System) by Dr Gopal and as a Group 1 member, we headed to the IT lab for our hands-on session. I was surprised to see the computers as they were huge and better I guess than those I used in NUMed.

Since we were not able to access the VLE, we spent the afternoon answering questions on Kahoot, introducing ourselves and listening to Dr Gopal on how to use VLE.

Ya, that is pretty much for the first day. Not hectic right, just wait for the next few weeks. That is when the real fun begins. 

A Gloomy Week

Hello to whoever is reading this,

This may sound like I am ranting about my life but I don't know where else to exonerate my feelings. This week (you can consider the whole month) has been the worst. Last Friday, I got my semester 2 results and although I got CGPA 4.0, I felt I really did bad like really bad compared to my peers. All together there were around 20 plus students (out of 45 students) who got 4.0. I calculated my position in the whole foundation and for the first time I felt I have failed so miserably that I need so much support now. Do you know why? After around 6 years this is the first time I have fell out of the top 10 league. Oh my god why. Ya I know you all must be saying be grateful that you got 4.0 but that is not my point. How do value someone's intelligence? By looking at the relative position of his or her. The only thing that separates all of us is our intelligence and we need to take it into consideration seriously. Back to the topic, I also did terrible in my English. I don't know why. I got 80 whereas many other students got like 88 plus. Maybe I am not used to the format, I don't know. Uggh.

Adding fuel to the fire, the dreadful situation isn't over yet. Now I feel so lonely. Even my circle of friends are isolating me. I mean what the hell dude. Why? WHY? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?
Even some of them are making some gruesome comments when I tell them something. Sometimes I just feel like smacking them so hard especially that one person. I think all of this started when one new person came into existence in my group. Literally that person stole everything from me. I mean I told that person to join us because IT was feeling sad and no body listened to that person. I took pity of that person and told that person that IT can talk any of us. After that, that person came in and took over my place. Furthermore, how could my friends be so blind to this situation. We used to have lunch together but recently they started sitting in their own table and never once told me that I could join them even though I am sitting alone. This is all so depressing. I can see through their eyes they don't want me but I am still keeping silent because I am engaged in an assignment with them.

Since they are doing like this to me, I had to find some other alternative method to chill then. I am trying to keep myself happy but I don't know when I will break loose. I don't want to go down that route I was few years ago. I know the outcome and I hated it. I just want some people to be good to me.......

After a Long Time

Bonjour,

After such a long time in the wilderness of studying and college, I finally decided to instigate back blogging. I obtained my admission offer from Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (it's in Nusajaya, Johor) back in May 2016. That marked a new chapter in my jejune life.
I have to say that it was totally different than I had thought (you know like in the TV dramas) but it was an explicit experience. I met so many weird, interesting, extraordinary and colourful people here. But that's not what I want to bat around. I have finished 2 semesters till present and just started semester 3 three days ago. After so long being hidden in the delusion of my achievements, I just here and now get thoughts in my mind that in fact there are many people who are better than me academically, socially and physically. I had to say that semester 2 was not a plesant experience. It was like going through SPM twice. I thought I had studied all but it was near the exams I felt like I had not done much as I should had. I think I personally have problem of spending too much time of a single chapter in any book for a particular subject. Despite that, I somehow managed to finish all my studying during the exams. Now, I am just waiting for the results which I was told will be released after Chinese New Year holidays. So may God bless me.

I have always have this attitude problem, I would say, that I do not give up even at the last time and I think it has helped extensively to great lengths all these years. What I would like to say all the folks who are reading this: In order to achieve something in your life, you need to work towards it eventhough it requires copious amount of commitment, sacrifices and hardship. I was in Johor Bahru city last Saturday and I decided to pay the JB Gurdwara ( a Sikh temple) a visit. During my short visit to the Gurdwara, I was sitting there alone and thinking hard about my dreams, purposes and goals. One of them was to become better than my peers in academic aspect. Out of the blue, an idea or you could say it as a method popped up. The method involves early preparation, repetition in a designated intervals, constant exercise, becoming inquisitive and of course meditation. I would expound on this method after implenting it and obtaining the results in another post in the near future. Back to the track, as I am approaching the climax of my Foundation course, the university has asked us to send in out medical application forms. I think I am going to do it these coming Chinese New Year which is like 3 days from today and hopefully they will interview me after me. I am still perplexed of how to write the personal statement. I think I am going to read some blogs pertaining this topic and I will make a summary of the interview experience later here.

Oh ya I also decided to start writing blogs again because there are no writing exercises in uni so I don't want my English to deteriote and I think writing blogs coul
d fill the empty gap. I am still in consideration of making vlogs but I don't think that's a good idea as I am introvert lol. Better get back to studying and preparation for tomorrow's presentation.

Bye.

p.s This is the first picture I took of my uni