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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

The job application

I've finally put down my 3 choices.. it was a real debate right up to the very end.. mainly because I forgotten all about it. Teehehe. Thank goodness my carpool partner asked.. if not, i would have handed in a blank form which it could result in 3 possible outcomes:
  1. if they are nice : they'll call me up and ask me what are my choices
  2. if they are smart : they'll inteprete it as I don't mind to be posted anywhere (which is very dangerous!)
  3. if they are mean : they'll throw my form into the bin and I'll be wondering when my interview letter will arrive.

HUKM is a certain choice (though no high hopes coz half the class is applying there)

Then it was either another KL hosp or Hosp Melaka? Then i decided Melaka would be a bit too far.. so it's another KL hosp.. but which one? GKHL which is a madhouse? or Hosp Selayang which is lightyears away? I was unwilling to travel an hour everyday to get to work and another to reach my den. So it was GHKL.

3rd choice was Hosp Seremban (which one third of the class is applying also)

Then comes the reason.. what 'alasan' la? Then someone taught me.. Berkhidmat dalam negeri sendiri.. I taught that sounds noble.. but then what about Seremban?? that's not negeri sendiri..

Then another someone taught me .. Menimba pengalaman berkhidmat di negeri lain tetapi masih berdekatan dengan rumah... FOOIYOH!!!

I felt so noble!

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

The eventful March - a month before it all come to an end

I've neglected this thing for some time..

So much so for setting this up to note down my last sem's journey *snicker*

Was busy beyond words these past 2-3 weeks and the whole month seemed to zoomed past like a whirlwind. Let's see..

Let' start with the utterly pointless and unorganised radiopharm visit.. Wait.. Not that pointless.. We got ourselves irradiated with those radioactive thingy.. somehow. Nothing much to see though except the thick and heavy lead vest you gotta wear when you are near those radioactive iodine.. the lady has to wear it everyday! the thing is 0.5mm thickness of solid lead multiply by some physics equation and you'll get the whole weight she gotta lug on her shoulders everyday. Oh.. and a vial of iodine doesn't come like normal.. it's is enclosed in about 1 inch thick of lead all around. Darn heavy wei that one vial.. Other than that.. err..i guess that was just it.. like i said earlier.. pointless la but you came back radiating *roll eyes*

Then it was the all important Oath Taking Ceremony. That is where we are to swear and vow not to kill people, not pose too much in the labcoat, not to wear labcoat to the cafeteria, and count tablets properly.

Later found out that it was the first of such for our programme.. so a bit honoured la that the uni took trouble to arrange us a pre-graduation-convocation-kinda-glamour (it kinda felt like a graduation ceremony at that time.. hehe)

edit: again.. go old blog (for now) if you want pics..

that was us.. showing off our oath cert (yeah, we have a cert.. big time)

edit: old blog..

The whole VIP line-up

So that was over...

Next was "DA bomb".. the anticipation of the whole sem. It was none other than the briefing from SPA, Bahagian Farmasi, and gang giving us a talk (wait.. a few 'lectures' *evil grin*) on the topic of "Our (them) prophesy on your (us) future"

So we listened, nodded and think real hard where we wanna apply.

Different people have different "strategies". Given only 3 choices (and you have to give your "alasan".. the most noble one coming from the mickey mouse herself), one have to plan properly. Not like whatever you write in there weighs much.. but still..

The anticipation of what the future holds is somewhat exciting yet scary.. Maybe because of the uncertainty and the new world holds that makes me feel like I've entered a lucky draw and they are offering a grand price of a Porsche. In our case, the Porsche is equivalent to getting the place you applied for and hopefully not some remote Timbaktuland
Throughout the beginning of this final year, i actually started considering the places i would want to apply.. Being the fickle me, i need that much time to decide because there are periods that i was absolutely insane and those choices are rather ermm.. insane as well.

Part of me wanted a change.. but maybe West M'sia is a bit too drastic. I was tempted to put as one of my choices but then, i am literally buying myself a ticket there.

I've got till Tuesday to decide.. it's up to Him where is the best place for me.

Meanwhile, I shall go back to my thinking.. where? where? where??

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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

"I am present"

The madness has begun.. with each week getting worse and worse.

To add to the madness, we can't skip classes anymore. For once, they mean what they say.. and boy, are they strict about it.

So we are now a irritated, overworked, uncompensated fatigued lot.. not to mention the stress.

Given any normal day, I would gladly skip all of today's classes and work on my endless reports and assignments. No.. Times have changed. We are bounded and forced to sit our ass down on the chair in UCSI's mis-designed geometrical classroom, not out of free will but blackmailed into it.

I took a look around the room while waiting for that liquid paper I just applied on the GMP report to dry, here's what i noticed:

behind: HN squinting at the minutely printed diagnostic test kits notes.. buzy adding colours to it
left: CF dozing serenely in an upright position. If you didn't look twice, you'll think he is listening intently and drinking in every word the lecturer is saying.
right: VF buzy flipping the Psychiatry Handbook in preparation for tomorrow's clerkship
front: other than the lecturer who is so enthusiastically and proudly telling us the wonders of Edward Jenner, WK and D were doddling with the graph paper and some complicated tables for GMP.

I am not alone.

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P/S: And I think I know who I want to vote for Miss World this year.. She made me pay attention to a 75 PowerPoint slides lecture with 18 pages of MicrosoftWords notes lasting about 3 hours. That's quite a feat for someone who hardly pay attention to any lectures lasting more than an hour..

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