Small Things.....

....that make you feel big. Hope I won't grow to hate this bugger too soon.

Breathing a New Life....

I can see that she is getting more and more restless as the days went by. Getting weaker and weaker,she is not able to perform daily activities the way she used to be doing without much fuss,moving and jumping around and making lots of noise,never failing to make me smile.She was there when I needed her most,in the darkest of hour and the most terrible fear.Probably her heart is failing.Falls and knocks were not able to knock her down but no one can win against the wind of times,the wears and tears brought upon by the ticking of the clock. It was with a lots of uncertainties and fear I went into the operating theatre with her.It was my first operation of this kind I am to perform.Who could be a better patient or teacher in this field of mine than the one whom you come to know dearly?When you are put into such a spot,all the training and knowledge you have learnt by heart before would goes down to nothing if the operation fails.It was all or nothing.Pass or fail,nothing in between.A pass would breath a new life into her,if a fail,she might have just said her last words to me before we went into the operating theatre.Luck and instincts might just be your best friend in the operating theatre.I am supposed to remove her heart temporarily and replace with the one from the donor.Thus,there would be a few minutes where she would be nothing more than a corpse without a heart.We would place the donor's heart into her and restart it with a mild shock from the defibrillator at the touch of a button to start her into a sinus rhythm.After that,it will all goes down to luck. Who would expect to experience this sort of thing during the surgery posting of an aspiring medical student?No one would..... Hehe.Actually I just managed to successfully replaced the aging battery of my T3 with a new one I just got from Ebay.All the data stored was lost due to the removal of the previous battery(volatile flash memory) and the restore from the backup was successful and it is up and running again.WOO HOO~~~~~~ Anyone need any help with T3 battery,I would be happy to help.Till next update.Adios

Fall From Grace

And so the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 has been concluded with the Azzurri as the winner.The match would most probably be remembered as the wizard of the modern game,Zinedine Zidane,having never completed his last competitive game by getting himself sent off for headbutting an Italian player.15 years of greatness lost in a 15 second of madness.I really want to know what was exchanged between Materrazi and Zidane that causes him to short-fuse.It will take a lot to get an experienced player like him to lose his head.The world is probably going to argue whether his sending off contributes to the eventual loss to the Italian.It is going to be the all the "what if" arguments normally heard in football commentatories.So what if you were right then,would it change anything?Anyone can reflect on the past and churns out these possiblities.No one can foresee the future for sure though but one can definitely make it happen. On another note,sometimes it really sucks watching the game from a country which participated in the World Cup.Commentatories are so biased that sometimes it really pisses me off.Luckily,the commentator during the match itself that they employed was Martin Tyler whose voice is commonly heard in English Premier League on ESPN.Now they are going to keep reminding us that they lost to the eventual winner by the narrowest of a margin.Then again,I am technically a foreigner here,so maybe I should keep my mouth shut till I got back to Malaysian soil. Outside,the Italians seem to be over the world.Honking and shouting at the success of their national team.Really have to applaud their team for coming together at such a troubled with their scandals-plagued Serie A.Maybe would get down to the Italian street and have a look.Who knows I might have some free pizzas or pastas. Till then,adios.

Living skill

I think one of the best living skills to have would be knowing how to cook. Well,I have to admit,I am not one who frequently step into the kitchen before I came here. My Granma doesn't like me to be in the kitchen either.She always tell me I am helping when I am not helping.No,Maggi mee and its like cannot be regarded as cooking to me unless you can fry till the whole wok in flame while doing a few stunts with the food,tossing it 3 feet up and catching with your eyes closed. I haven't seen anyone cook instant noodles like that yet. If you do,I wonder what you can do with things more than instant noodles.Ok,a bit exaggerating here. I doubt no one can disagree that cooking is a very useful living skill to know of,especially when you are studying in a foreign country where costs of food and everything else are multiplied a few times.It will save you a lot of money and might just be your hobby if you find it enjoyable.More often than not, you might be forced to cook on your own for economic reason.For those of my friends who are heading out to further their studies in the coming months,especially guys,take up cooking lessons.Might just win you some female fans.Ok,I haven't got to that level of skill as yet.Hehe. Come to think of it,since I was here,I have learned something about cooking,from buying the raw materials till the finished dishes.Before this,I was limited to those instant products and a little thing of two of "Backwood cooking",some simple cooking skills I learned for use in the jungle while I was in scout.The coolest thing I learned then was something that involves cooking rice in the jungle with nothing more than a bamboo. Food I cooked may not be as tasty as I would like to be but I will get there eventually and hopefully. If you are still considering whether to try cooking yourself,I say,why not?"What's there to lose besides your pride?"as to quote a favourite saying of mathematics lecturer of mine.Understandably, most of us,if not all of us are afraid of making mistakes.I guess that applies for cooking as well.You most probably won't get it right the first time.Think carefully,what would you do if you are not afraid,of let say making a mistake?Fear of being wrong sometimes hold your life back a little too much. My suggestion,start small,like helping your Mum buying and preparing the ingredients,then you move on to the frying and etc.Then you will learn more as you go on.Like my Dad says to me so often,"As long as the food is cooked enough,nothing will go wrong.Next step will be improving its taste." Maybe I will talk about some simple basics about cooking next time(not that I am qualified though,but just something useful to share)Till next update,Adios.