ujian nikmat

this week is quite a hectic one for many, but a moderate one i say for me.

monday was a May bank holiday, which i didn't do quite much, just went to the library, fooling around on the net, go back later in the evening, watched Scrubs and there went the day.

tuesday was an interesting day for me, my tutorial group had our Video Sessions for Communication Skills subject done. basically what each and everyone of us did was a mock consultation with a simulated patient with different given cases= diabetes, cholesterol and smoking, for about 6 minutes. after all of us finished doing our task, we were divided into small group and they showed us the recording they did on us while we were doing the consultation. i got the smoking patient, the case was she didn't want to quit smoking at the first place but her boyfriend asked her to came see me, saying that she'll be treated with dinner if she did. haha wanna know wut happened? i couldn't believe my eyes when i saw the tape (apart from the shame to other groupmates), it was simply unbelievable how this session works. u know when u thought u did well enuff, seeing urself back again on tv really got u into thinking, man how could i do that??

btw what i (the group also) discovered about MY session was,

a) i happened to build up a very very good rapport with the patient, but i personally think i OVERDID it..i had a very good chat with her (we were laughing and all..dammit how does that comes out??)
b) Amrit said "I think she is more like a very good friend to the patient"
c) i didn't make a brief summary of the things i said to the patient at the end of the session
d) the GP (general practitioner/doctor) said "I think u did very good, but u've got to have that barrier btwn a doctor and a patient, u know"
e) i happened to not showing my professionalism as a doctor
f) it's good to make a comfortable chat with a patient, but it depends on the agenda u've wanted to carry out, if it is a serious one then u cannot be laughing around with patient don't u?

but overall it was a very good experience. man it's really awkward to see urself on TV isn't it? btw we created a very good bond between the group members also (gooo A2!!). we went to the cafe and drank our cup of coffee while waiting for the review session, we had a very good chat (my first time chatting with a whole very diversity group of people over a cup of coffee- m'sian, s'porean, norwaygean, bahrain, india, US, dubliners) and most agreed that we like it to be in this group. most of us are going to the same hospital for this term (James Conolly Memorial Hospital in Blanchardstown), starting next 2 weeks ahead till summer hols. hopefully we can help each other over when we go to that hospital.

WEDNESDAY was THAA DAYY!! 2 things u can claim if u're a student of RCSI, one during ur first week in college= Apple Macintosh iBook, and the second one in your third medical year= PDAs, palm pilot or wutever they call it..yeah i got mine on wednesday, it's a Tungsten T3 Palmtop..and now i'm totally in love with it..though i'm not that kind of genius in this whole technology stuff, but yeah i found this thing to be sooo much useful..wouldn't u be looking so classy when u're presenting in front of the class without any paper on your hands, and u don't even need to use acetates or powerpoint presentation, just beam the files or send it via bluetooth to the whole class, 10 seconds just what it takes! and the fun is there also, yesterday i played monopoly with Sarinda (a friend from Sri Lanka) on the bus on our way home, on our very own seats--halfway and his battery went out, so i won! :p not to mentioned other games that were downloaded from the net that i am so much addicted to now. last nite i played while watching Friends, ER and Survivor back to back till i realized that it was past midnite already. gosh this thing's poisonous..ujian nikmat..see how long does the sweetness'll last?

thursday was another interesting day..i had my sign up session for Scrubbing (i thot of JD and Turk while doing this, Turk esp, he's a surgeon so he must be doing this thing all the time..hehe..poisoned mind like me)..on looking at the namelist, at 1st i thot i was the only girl in that group of 6, fuhh luckily there was another girl, Chanud (sigh!) i had all preparations done, for going into surgery everything must be sterile, so i thot they wouldn't let me wearing my hijab while doing the scrubbing (btw scrubbing is wut u do before going into operation theatre, to get rid of every germs, make urself very sterile, so u won't give any harm to the patient on surgery). i tried to wear a turtleneck tshirt inside the shirt i'm wearing to cover my neck obviously, but i couldn't find one so i just wear a usual baby-T shirt inside with collar, praying that i wouldn't have to take off my hijab. gratefully, the person in charged didn't say anything about my hijab before the session began (i was about to beg to her, saying that in M'sia the hospitals provide a sterile hijab to lady surgeon, which obviously doesn't really potray the real general situation in M'sia..hehe, sometimes u just have to lie)

so it went great!!i learn all the steps very well, from wearing the apron, mask, and cap, to washing the hands and arms, till the gowning part. and there was this Arab guy who was kind enuff to facilitate me all the way thru (i was the last one to do, and i had to do it alone while others do it by pairs). though a bit ashamed to show my not-so-good-looking bare hands and arms, it was all part of a learning experience where u can't really run away from it.

going back home later in the evening, thursday was the late-nite shopping for people in dublin where the shops close a bit later than usual (usual close time 5/6 pm). so i decided to walk along the Henry St, searching for something that i was not so sure myself. then i remembered i wanted to buy DVDs as they're on massive sale now, so i went to HMV, Golden Disc and Virgin Megastore. my target was to buy Top Gun and Ghost (Patrick Swayze n Demi Moore, that romantic story) but i turn out to buy the 4 CDs Extended Version of LOTR: Fellowship of The Rings and also I'view with Vampire. gilo, that costs me way much than my actual budget. now i'm thinking of returning them.

and today, nothing much happened, i was awaken by Yani asking me whether i'm going to the 9am lecture, which i totally forgotten at first. so i went, many people didn't came for it, nvm it's their business, and here i am now in the Beaumont Library writing this whole stuff. have to stop now, i've got 2 pathology lectures in the afternoon.

"sometimes i think u talk just to make sounds"