back for a while

Am back in Dublin. It's gonna be a while here till my last paediatrics rotation next year which will be of 2 weeks in Kilkenny. Let's not even try to think about that and focus on the joy of sleeping in my own bed everynight from now on till then..

Anyway, my flickr is updated. Have a view. Critics and comments are welcomed.


Will be in Beaumont Hospital for the next 2 rotations. I actually haven't stepped a foot in that place since entering final year. Amazing. (And why am I not missing it at all). I hope and pray to Allah swt that it'll be a great 2 months experience for me there; on gaining knowledge-wise and also on getting ready for the big exam. InshaAllah.

I realized I haven't spoken any words on my rotation in Drogheda. Well, let's just say some things are better kept in silence. Or in other way I shall say, sometimes silence speaks the truth at its best. However good/bad the rotation was, in the end I know I've gained a lot of things in inadequacy or vice versa. Well I met a lot of interesting characters of people over there and some made me think hard about life and what's it about. Fascinating.

I ended the rotation there with a quote from one of my favourite doctors. He said;

"you don't see a girl with your eyes, you see her with your heart.."

Now you know why he's my favourite.

the end of the fatal affair

Yesterday I found out that Garfield has been playing me all these while. (Felt cheated, big time). He is multi-owned; named Ginger by the lady whose house on our left and Sofy-Pearl by the family on the right. (Who named a he-cat Sofy-Pearl anyway?).

Today I went to the newly opened Aldi not far from my place. (Now you know where a portion of my scholarship money will go every month; heavenly cheap but tempting range of products). Was walking sluggishly, until I reached the rack for catfood and subconcsiously reaching for some packs. Til Sali said, "K.Shu nak beli jugak ke catfood, kata dah merajuk ngan Garfield.." So I hesitated, halted and walked passing the area. Sincerely grateful for the housemates that stood up for me all the time.

On the way home, (the sky was murky dark today) from far I saw one charming black creature sitting on a brick gate of the row of houses on the sideway. He gave me 'that' look, that I could never resist. So I stopped, what a georgious little guy I thot (hot stuff that is). We shared a brief moment of understandings together (we could be chatting in this sense if both party speaks the same language). Then I bade him goodbye, for I didn't bring any umbrella in case it rained, the sky didn't looked promising..

It's a sign I know, maybe it's time for me to move on..


goodbye Garfield, you are no more my dark-lover (literally translated from SO7's Sephia kekasih gelapku that is)..don't come to my window ever again..

coffee talk..

I haven't been checking the news for quite a while. Today I decided to.

Here's the first line that caught my eyes.

Dr. Mahathir diserang sakit jantung ringan, keadaan stabil.

As I literally translate that, it sounds like he may got a touch of myocardial infarction. Which is quite funny. In a way that in the hospital we always see the elderly complaining they had 'a touch of asthma' or 'a touch of the heart' or 'a touch of diabetes' where in reality you would never had a touch of anything, you just simply had them all. Maybe it's mild, but you still have it don't you. Don't get me wrong I'm not making any point here (politically that is), it's just one of the hospital jokes I share with my mates that got us giggled at times when mentioning about. A touch of the heart..ow whateva..

Nonetheless, I wish Dr M a speedy recovery and may he be granted a good health inshaAllah.

Secondly, Republikan hilang kuasa di Kongres kerana Bush.

I had no digital TV in the B&B where I'm staying at the moment. So at 6 o'clock every evening when I usually watch reruns of Friends or any cartoons on Nick at my cosy home in Dublin, I watched the evening news on every channel over here instead. So I can proudly say that I'm pretty updated on things happening around me at the moment. Whatever killing took place in Limerick or whoever died in a car crash in Mayo. I've also been following the current general election going on in the Uncle Sam's country. What a (expected) turnover that is. I guess there shall be a little light at the end of this horrendous tunnel, people clearly had been sick of Bush's stupid acts, and whatever future the Democrats is painting I hope it'll be a true lesser of the evil (these devils) floating around in that coutry.

May Allah SWT save the Muslims all over the world.

Thirdly, hahaha (let me finish my laughs first)

Ramai lelaki tempatan kahwin wanita asing

What a fact. You wonder why there's lack of single males in our country, there's your answer. And I don't blame Siti for marrying Dato' K, good for you Siti. Hehe. OK to look at it more seriously I guess it is true that with these fashion and marital industries running high, the demands to create a perfect idea of wedding is going proportionally up too, and it all comes to the male gender to have to support most of the (necessary/unnecessary) costs; the rings (merisik, bertunang, kahwin), the duit hantaran, the wedding dress, the canopies and tables/hotel ballroom, the food, the many dulang of hantaran..So why do all these when you can marry a Vietnamese girl in a mosque with a Koran as a gift and register the wedding at pejabat kadi right after then you're officially man and wife? Sense? No?

Well, for me it all comes back to the basic intentions of marriage. Why do you get married? Is it because you're girlfriend/boyfriend is good looking? Is it the look in the eyes that goes straight to your hearts? Is it the girl/guy your parents want you to marry? Is it the personality that matches? Is it the lust? Or is it the easy access of fulfilling your lust? Whatever it is, be wise and pick up the strongest reason, the one that you think gonna help you sail thru marriage life till the end, the one that'll last. It's not gonna be easy doing that, the world is one difficult place to fit in. But I believe in faith as the strongest factor of all. If you have faith in God and the religion, you'd be able to cope thru thick and thin.

Looking on a brighter side, our guys marrying the foreigners is not so bad when they have the chance to widened their horizon of da'wah and spread Islam accordingly. Let's hope that most of them get married for that reason (which I supposed not many of them do according to the number of early divorcements given).

Coffee's finished, it's time to work..you go have a great day aye..

suatu petang di Drogheda..

We had a very long day yesterday. The last lecture ended at 5 painfully and the surgical grand round right after was cancelled, thank God for that.

The lot of us dispersed while I went down to the cafe for a cup of coffee to break my puasa enam.

Yani said, "Kalau kita balik terus tadi boleh tumpang Merc Kompressor mamat ni weh..tak yah jalan kaki balik B&B."

I replied, "Malas. Aku dah penat speaking english for the whole day.."

Hee..

Moral: Jangan kawin dgn orang putih. Penat.

EID MUBARAK!

(most loved and missed Wan Ariff Hafiy and Naqib Ikram, Iman Sofea (Pia) is not in the picture..)

I'll be leaving for Drogheda tonight. That means I'll be celebrating eid away from home in Dublin. Sulk.. T_T

Nevertheless, I'm taking this opporturnity to wish all readers a blessfull EIDUL-FITR, and SORRY BODY & SOUL, if I've ever said or did something wrong. Enjoy the day, wear some nice clothes and don't forget to eat before you go out for eid prayer ok. Make visits to friends' house and eat moderately, you don't wanna spoil the joy of eid with an unhappy stomach. Last but not least, please make du'a for our brothers and sisters in Islam in other parts of the world who's celebrating eid in every lackness that we don't even have to think about.

Enjoy the day, I'll see you on Friday inshaAllah~