ATTENTION PM3-IANS! (who still check this DEAD blog)

OKAY PEEPS! So it seems mr chong tzelin will be leaving malaysia on the 11th of august. So he wants a gathering before he leaves. he said preferably this week! SO! ANYONE IS FREE? IF SO WHEN AND WHERE IS THE MEET UP? oh yes. and he is goin to penang this weekend. so i guess it has to be a weekday or monday next week.

ps i have no transport again. so... im afraid my attendance is unconfirmed. im just helping out mr chong since most of us haven't seen him yet!

and theres a same post on the Taylors pm3 2007 fb group. reply here or there. better BOTH.

Sorry for the picture. but it seems appropriate with amount of attention this blog has been getting. =.=

Gathering no.2

Hey guys! Anyone up for japanese buffet this sunday at rakuzen?? its a japanese restaurant in kl, price is about rm60. Its quite good worth the money!!

Gathering no.2

Hey guys! Anyone up for japanese buffet this sunday at rakuzen?? its a japanese restaurant in kl, price is about rm60. Its quite good worth the money!!

Gathering!!!

Yoyoyo,

Vin Fei will be at KL from this Sat to Sun. A reunion is called.

Place? Time?

And and, to those who are studying anywhere around the world but not Malaysia, who's back and who's not?? Updates updates!!!

CPR

Here is a video for those of you who have forgotten the CPR they learnt in Basic First Aid classes or an intro for those of you who are planning to take it. Its not that accurate but at least you have a rough idea.

Super Sexy CPR from Super Sexy CPR on Vimeo.

You know you're a medical student when...

Saw this on facebook,thought it was really funny

GOOD LUCK IN FINALS EVERYBODY!

You know you're a medical student when... 
- You take forever explaining to people how long you'll be in school for, and realise you’ll get a medical doctor title the same time your friend gets a PhD doctor title.

- You contemplate anything between dropping out and suicide after you finish each exam, even before knowing the results.

- You get depressed and emotional just thinking about how bad a doctor you’ll become in a few years.

- You answer every question with, “Hmm (pretending to think for a second), I don’t know.” And you know the most correct answer is, “It depends, sir.”

- You diagnose every single abnormality on yourself/family/friends as a life-threatening condition. You think the tiny haematoma on your finger is a risk for PE (Pulmonary Embolism). (In due time XD)

- You watch House and ER, and think you can score in the exams and get through medical school. Wrong, only Dr.Wikipedia helps.

- You instantly feel that you want to bang your head against the wall whenever someone says “You’re a medical student? You must be very smart then!”, because it’s an unbearable accusation. (SO TRUE)

- You work out so that you get a six pack, so that you will make a good simulated patient for the seniors. (Interesting..)

- Your friend/cousin zooms in front of you with his brand new car and treats you to lunch with his own paycheck and on top of that, talks about property and houses to buy. And you’re still struggling to buy second hand reference books. (T.T)

- You have exams in a few days and when you try doing practice questions, you don’t know what to do with your pen besides underlining the key words in the question.

- Conversations with people involve “So tell me what happened.”, “So how does that make you feel?”, and “I understand it must be very difficult for you.” (That's BS for you ;D)

- You have a peak moment in life when a senior says “good” or “well done”; it’s so relieving to know you’re not a complete drain on society. (:D)

- You’re content knowing that you actually do lead a normal and sane life. Even if it’s just a few hours in a day, while you’re asleep. (Hahaha..)

- You’re completely socially retarded when you hang out with non-medics as you don't know what to talk about besides your miserable life as a medical student. (Oh no...)

- A patient/doctor asks if you've done a procedure before (e.g. cannulation, suturing) and you say "Yes", without revealing the fact that the previous patients were plastic models. (Soon.. soon... *grins*)

- You don’t understand why summer vacation is only one month, although summer itself is three months. (Yeah loh)

- You wash your hands after meals and the loo using the 6-step technique. (Not.. YET)

- You’re secretly happy that the really smart guy stopped medical school and start complotting who next to eliminate. Just so the normal distribution skews to the left so you won’t fail. (*evil smirk*)

- Your roommate, housemate, neighbour, boyfriend, girlfriend, any close friends and practically everybody are not spared from being your simulated patient.

- You can’t wait for weekends, so that you can catch up on your readings.

- You have a list of pathologies that you don't mind dying from. Definitely not cancer though. (AGREED)

- You count the days till your next more-than-two-days-weekend-break, which is at least 4 months away. (Normally... YES...)

- "SOB" means short of breath to you. (Might be a sign of CHD...*thinks*)

- You know the size of a RBC. (7 microns in diameter LOL)

- Your eyesight has worsened by 10 pts or more in the last year. (I think got leh...)

- It doesn't matter how much you study, there is always so much more material to learn.

- You are more familiar with last names such as Netter, Moore, Grant, Guyton, Robbins, etc than the last names of your classmates. (Hmmm...)

- You wonder when you'll have time to get married and start a family. (No joke..)

- You check the nutritional chart in the boxes of everything you eat. (!!!)

- Right before exams, you have a hard time remembering why you want to be a doctor. (You mean like.. right NOW?)

- You don't have "backpain"; you have a somatic dysfunction on .... (XD)

- When you wonder why people are giving you weird looks as your friend explains the latest perverted mnemonic to you as you sit in a cafe.

- ER begins to make sense.

- Getting a B is actually pretty darn good.

- You often mumble to yourself, “F***! Am I supposed to know that?” as soon as you see or hear about some disease/symptom/sign that you completely have no clue about. Then you blame it on the medical school for not teaching you that.

Facebook Page:

http://www.facebook.com/medical.student.syndrome

Hello World

Hello everyone! the blog is so dead as everyone is busy preparing for exams. in fact, the last post was in february :O so to make this blog not look so dead let me post an update full of random shit!

first things first! Danny choo! I don't know if you guys heard about danny choo but he is the son of jimmy choo, the shoe designer. but he isn't really interested in making shoes and took a totally different career path. the story to his success is kinda amazing cause he was a very motivated person. currently he is based in japan so do read his blog at dannychoo.com. lotsa stuff on japanese culture, manga and anime. if you are interested. :) I had the pleasure of meeting him since he came to london to give a talk at his uni SOAS.

Secondly, the fit finder. haha this is a site where you post up hot people you see in your uni. sadly it is only for the uk unis but do check out some of the comments and stuff they put up cause some people say kinda mean things. something to destress during this painfully annoying stage we have to go through every year. check out the fit finder here.

Thirdly, I want that suit.

oooo and i didn't know mark got maxis scholarship! :D congratulations. :)

see you guys in summer. can't wait to go home.

all the best for your exams people. :D

Doppleganger comeback.

 

well well. there you go. Yan Shengs doppleganger. Him from Powerpuff girls. Dont know why I didn't see it sooner. I mean look... the resemblance is uncanny!

LOL :D

Happy chinese new year guys! :) i wanna go home. its doesnt feel like chinese new year here.

Doppelganger week 2 :)

I could only think of one doppelganger:

Jaclyn's doppelganger

LOL.


Happy chinese new year everyone
:D

THE YEAR OF THE TIGER

TO all PM3-ians,(in UK,Australia,India,Singapore or Malaysia)

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!!

to those at home : Enjoy the holidays.

to those far from home: Though its cold and there will be no holidays or fire crackers or shopping malls decorated with cny deco playing cny songs or cny TV programmes or lion dances,or ang pao's from random married person, WE KNOW THAT THE OTHER MALAYSIANS AROUND US DO NOT HAVE SUCH PRIVILEGES TOO!!HAHAHHAA...

Happiness to all!!

All the best everybody in studies and the stuff wen peng mentioned.

Relationship Status Update

Dear fellow PM3-ians,

Since we are caring people and we care about each other, its time to update everybody regarding our relationship status. Hehe.. (pls respond in the comment box below.)

Since I am the one who came up with the topic, lets start with me.. Haha..

Doppelganger week

Michelle Flaherty aka Emilias doppelganger. According to Mr Poh. he suggested this picture. She is best known probably for her role as Lily Aldrin in How I Met Your Mother. :)

Masi Oka aka Vinfeis doppelganger. He acts in Heroes. Have to admit. some similiarities.

                                                          Ryan Stiles aka Nuts doppelganger.

               He is in shows like Two and a Half Men and Whose line is it anyway? Well theres also Phua Chu Kang but thats too easy. :p

    Kungfu Panda. aka Poh.. oh Pauls..doppelganger :D DEAD ON! totally looks like Poh! hehe.

I'm bored. So yeah.. who else in pm3 have doppelgangers? Post it! (if you want to.. whatever) lol. Chinese New Year is coming. such a bummer! I wanna go home. blah. Hope you guys are doing fine! :D Take care!

Reality Check

After about 18 months living overseas/away from home I am sure everyone has gotten comfortable with their place and living conditions. Well I just got a reminder that we are still in a foreign place and we should still be vigilant. To those wondering what this reminder is, I shall enlighten you now. My house which I share with 3 others was broken into last wednesday. It happened in between 11a.m. and 1p.m.. Thats right, it happened in a 2 hour time-span. Fortunately nobody was at home and unfortunately we lost 3 laptops and a DSLR. The funny thing is cash was not taken and so was many other stuff. Well standard procedure followed, called the police(gardai in Ireland). Gardai came and saw promptly but nothing seems to be able to done since laptop thefts are common. So all in all, this is a reminder to all Pm3ians you are students and are targets. So don't be predictable, ie. don't park your bike where people can see whether your home or not. This is to keep people guessing whether your home or not.

My Germany Trip

Yo... I am dam happening ok... I went to Germany and then Dublin!! Take that... I dun study all the time.. hahhaha. AND DON'T DISS MY NEW HAIR STYLE JAC.... IT'S COOL.

If anyone wants to go Germany, I recommend the Wombats hostel.

Anyway these are the highlights:

Christmas Market in Germany is dam awesome. I bought one of this (mini version) as a souvenir.

Christmas market

Neuschwanstein Castle build by a king who loves swan. The Disney Castle is a replica of this castle. If you are wondering who are they, (William, Tian Huey, Wen Jun, Howie, Me, Michelle). And i look dam gangsta with that beanie right?

It was snowing and the castle was so pretty. Supposed to be able to see the whole castle from this bridge, but it was too foggy cos of the snow.

Us giving a Dulan face at the Berlin Gate

Taking photo at a random palace.

Enjoy bullying girls.

The green thing is amplemann. It is the green figure u see in the traffic lights in East Berlin.

Memorial for the killing of the Jews during WW2

Random photo. It's beer btw.

Dachau concentration camp. This is a crematorium where they burn all the dead prisoners after torturing and killing them.

It was really fun in Germany. You guys in the UK should try to make a trip there. We had sausages and pork knuckles and german beer too! The food there are quite salty, and I am not a fan of alcohol, so I can't really comment on the beer. But the sausages from the Christmas markets are AWESOME.

Term is starting soon, and i m gonna have a mock exam. Sigh.

Happy Holidays to IMU people.

Ciao.

Yet Again. REVIVING THE BLOG.

Come on guys. Killing me here.. Keep this blog alive. yeessh. :D

Okay. I went to London this christmas. So some of the pm3 ians managed to meet up. There was actually another meet up but I forgot to take photos of that one. In that gathering, Xiaowei was there but not Ken and Vinfei. Vinfei was in Poland i think,so it was understandable. but KEN! Ken decided not to go because he wanted to go shopping.(eventhough he hasn't seen xiaowei yet) That noob. So me and Ys have decided that Ken is no longer invited to any pm3 gathering :D Anyone supports this decision? Feel free to express your opinions in the chatbox. :)

                                   Chinatown in London. where the restaurant was.

   

Four Seasons Restaurant. Yan sheng wanted to eat roast duck so badly for some reason. =.=

 The food we ordered. I didnt take picture of the roast duck. Forgot. haha. sorry guys.

Mr Ban and Mr Tan. :)

   

I want you all to guess whose Blackberry is this? :D

                                                           GROUP PICTURE! :)

This is another gathering picture. taken in Ireland when poh poh came to visit. look at his hair. Looks like he just woke up. New style konon. :P

Just kidding bout the boycotting Ken thing..

or am I? :D

Ps someone post something else in the blog please. Its hanging by a thread.isk. =.=

Reviving the blog

Okay the pictures are no way in chronological order. And uploading the pics were hassle enough.. soo, who cares! as long there are pictures!

Well, you guys can tell from the pictures. Someone came to visit again. *ahem* he didnt bring presents. but at least he cooked dinner for us. :D thank you joel and yiyun! :)

 

                    The dessert that me and xiaowei brought to the dinner. Apple crumble~

                     Mint chocolate chip ice cream that we all ate straight from the tub. We finished it too. yum yum~

 Group picture~ :) As you can see, joel ruined the picture. But it looks like he is being stabbed in the neck by my spoon. so all is good. :D

                                                                  Me and Xiao wei!

                                                           Sorry xiao! Blocking you.

                     Not suitable for NUT or ppl allergic to NUT.  This pic is dedicated to nut. :D
 

                                             Yiyun and joels cooking! yum yum~ :)

               *CAUGHT IN THE ACT* As usual, joel being his "winking-too-much-self". Tsk tsk.

It was a great night! Had loads of fun. A typical PM3 outing. Teasing, gossiping, bitching and bad-mouthing. I just LOVE our class! :D The only problem was... there weren't enough pM3-ians! Perhaps on Christmas! Reunion in London! :)

PM3 is rocks.

ps i hope my efforts were appreciated. Exams in less than 3 weeks. GGGAAHHH.

Since the blog is dead....

Hello fellow pm3ians, since the blog is so dead and everyone busy preparing for their exams, here are some videos to entertain you. :D







the guy's name is peter chao and samurai and ting ting ting are obssesed over him. I think they wanna marry him or something :P

have fun and good luck to all!

McGurk Effect

Our lecturer showed this during one of the lectures. Follow this step by step.

1. See what this person is saying.

2. Close your eyes and play it again, and listen to what he is saying.




Firstly you hear the person saying DaDa, then when you listen to it with your eyes closed, you hear BaBa. Cool right.

It just illustrates that our brain integrate information from vision as well as hearing when we interpret what a person is saying.

Oh ya status update: Apparently YS has a girlfriend in London.

An update from IMU

heellLLoooOOooo....

Here's an update from IMU, since we are usually so busy we have no time to update our class blog.

Yuen Herng and Mark are cheerleaders... LOL... Wen Peng is a loser cause he didn't join...

IMU recently had its IMU Cup which is like a 2 month sports events which they have loads of sports and yada yada.... We were divided into 6 houses named after mythical creatures (Harry Potter-ish)

Here are the videos...

Yuen Herng's house (Phoenix) which got 3rd place

Mark's house (Draco, which is a dragon, not Draco Malfoy) which apparently got 4th place

Try and spot us out =P

You can watch the rest of the houses cheers on youtube lah. Ours were quite lousy actually. That's why we only got 3rd n 4th place. The 1st (Griffin) and 2nd (Pegasus) places were pretty good...

Yay yay...

Time to start studying. Exam's in exactly 3 weeks...

Imperial College London

Greetings and salutations my fellow PM3ians! Sorry for this super late post and the lack of updates as I have too much work during term time! At least now the samurai will stop pestering me to update the blog.

After an arduous and tiring 8 and a half months, first year in uni is finally over. Honestly, despite the workload and coursework etc. first year was actually pretty fun.

A signboard on the entrance of exhibtion road

This is the entrance to Queen's Tower
Access is restricted and the tower is open at certain times of the year only cause they said the structure is not stable anymore. But I heard people say that they closed it cause too many people commit suicide by jumping of the tower.

Queen's Tower, located right in the heart of South Kensington Campus.

This is the main adminstration building. According to a certain source, they said it looks like a Rubik's Cube.

Statue of the Queen. The only statue like thing in the whole campus.

The Exhibition Road Entrance to Imperial College.

Mata London. I got a free ride up there as it was part of my coursework to study the structure, supports etc.

The Palace of Westminster. Taken from atop the London Eye.

The River Thames. The boat cruise is quite nice actually.

Chinese New Year Eve party organised by the first year Malaysian. No chinese new year celebration at home for us for the next 3 years. Damn sad.

It is kinda cool cause it snowed the heaviest for the first time in 18 years in London.

It snowed like 8 inches! This is the street outside my hall.

People playing snow in Queens Lawn. We got the day off cause the transportation system in London collapsed. lol.

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View from outside my window. Snow is awesome.

They have live dinosaurs in London.

View inside the Natural History Museum. Epic

This is what every Malaysian fresher in Imperial dedicates their free time to: Malaysian Night.