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Monday, August 27th, 2007
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10:03 pm
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wah.. so many things have happened in the last 6 months... the last entry was about my MRCP ceremony... that was a lovely day.... but since, so many things have gone on... the ups and downs of going through MMC and MTAS... all the news.... stress of waiting to hear the results of shortlisting, followed by interview, followed by several rounds of allocating jobs... it was all a chaos... but praise God, I just could not believe the day I received the offer from Yorkshire Deanery...
Even since that day, loads have happened.. the stress of moving.. the stress of new job, new place, new surroundings... and being a Reg, which is actually very scary at times... but among that, it was so great to see Team and Yee graduate, and see Sum Sum again, plus go on trip with them to Belgium...
then it was back to stressing again.. moving, finding accommodation... Now i've been in Wakefield, my first placement in Yorkshire region.. I have had my doubts about being here... it's lonely, the job is so different, i'm not used to it... the people are all new... i know nothing about endocrinology (the specialty i went into)
but then again... i keep telling myself... why would God put me in this place, if He didn't think i was up for it.. furthermore, there is always a reason why i have been put here... at present, what has really kept my spirits up also, is that at least i'm really close to my friends now.. to visit them is just over an hour or so.. not like travelling all the way to aberdeen... mind u, i did really like going to aberdeen though... hehe... anyway, it's abit of a scattered entry.. just to give a flavour of what's been happenning...
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| Saturday, February 17th, 2007
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5:15 pm
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sob sob.. mummy left today... she came 2 weeks ago to durham, to attend my MRCP admissions ceremony at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 9th Feb. It was a lovely evening, despite just finishing a whole week of nites that morning. Tommy, my dai lo, came too, and it was great to see him again. hmm, he seems thinner again... Team and Yee Yee also came. They happenned to be going to Glasgow that weekend for their Scottish Uni badminton tournament, but because of my ceremony, they didn't play their doubles... a bit "hmm ho yee see", but at the same time, would have be so sad if they didn't come.... hehehehehe....
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| Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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9:57 pm
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oh again... i haven't updated this live journal for long long time... almost forgot it existed... doesn't this statement sound so familiar??? ... haha.. what has happened.. well, since March 06 ... actually it's not as bad as i thot.. could be worse.... lots of ups and downs the last 6 months... i got an extension in durham, which was a little unexpected, as initially the plan was to try and go back up to aberdeen after 2 years medical rotation here. but some times, u just don't know what happens... i did mention passing my MRCP part 2 (written) last time.. well, since, i have taken PACES once, and failed, but have just recently sat it again and Praise God, I passed this time!! really really not expected, as i was totally disappointed with how i performed this time, knowing i could have done better... but again, some times u just don't know, and God is real good! That means now i have MRCP!
i spent a little while reading through my entries over the last couple of years, and my... it's all really quite interesting to read back what has happened in my life actually. .. haha... the last few months, since staying on in durham, i have met some lovely ppl. One of whom i really have to pray about her relationship with someone, and her exams ... some nice F1s living with me in the Res are good fun too ... some colleagues, who i totally didn't expect to be Christians, and are, and have brought them to my Church! haha .... only after looking back, u see alot of good, despite how miserable i was at one point 6 months ago....
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| Saturday, March 11th, 2006
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7:41 pm
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i can't believe it's almost a whole year (another week to go) since i wrote in this journal... becos it's such a long time, i read back some of my own entries, and wow, what a memory. i wouldn't have remembered writing all that... and it's really nice to know what had been happening to my self last few years. anyway, i happenned to be reading some entries about my complaining of the nurses when i was working in raigmore as a prho... well... i've been in durham for over a year and half now... and well well, things are totally different.. i'm totally impressed with the nurses here, especially in the cardiology ward... but the most important thing is that they are so much more approachable!.. they are just so lovely.. even the not so lovely ones, can be lovely at times... they are the odd one or two still little disappointing, but hey, i can't complain really with the quality of nurses here...
now, i've also passed my MRCP part 2 (written) recently, in december, but found out the result in mid january... i'm really nervous for PACES in june/july but got to do it some time.... i went home in october last year for a couple weeks, which was good. home was being renovated and it was really noisy, but i went out shopping most of the time... so it was ok... last summer, august 21st, i will never forget, i got baptised!!! ... sum sum, team, yee and jacqueline came, which was so nice of them... but yee yee was here like for 2 months already doing a placement in middlesbrough... apparantly not so nice a place woh.... wow, so much has happened, but i think these are the big bits of 2005... i hope i can remember to write more often next time....
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| Friday, March 18th, 2005
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9:48 pm
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wow... i almost forgot my livejournal exists now... hehe... well, many things have happened since i last wrote. my SHO job is going reasonaly well... truely learning lots and even though it's busy, but certainly enjoying it. i so sometimes like it when it's busy... haha.. crazy huh.. anyway, one great news, which we have to praise the Lord greatly for is that I have passed my MRCP part 1 exam!!! amazing.. for those of u don't know, it's a tough exam... and it's all because of God, that only did I pass. Without his help, I really won't have made it. ... anyway, so one down, 2 more to go, another written paper (more clinical), and then a clinical examination, til i get my qualification "MRCP"!!
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| Monday, September 13th, 2004
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6:52 pm
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yet again, it has been a while since i wrote in this thingy... well, i have moved down to durham from inverness on 3rd august to start my new job on 4th here are the University Hospital of North Durham as a Senior House Officer training in General Medicine for 2 years. The rotation includes Elderly Medicine, Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine and Gastroenterology, and then in the different rotations, there will be touches of Dermatology, Rheumatology, Haematology and Diabetes. so it's a good rotation i think.
anyway, durham is a beautiful place. not a big city, but very pretty. mostly a student city, cos the city is practically dominated by university buildings. there is even a japanese university in durham, which has nothing to do with University of Durham itself! it's called Teikyo university of Japan in Durham. how wicked is that..
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| Thursday, June 24th, 2004
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9:22 am
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| Thursday, June 17th, 2004
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9:57 am
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| Monday, June 7th, 2004
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12:05 am
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err... sorry for not updating this for ages la... hehe... been very lazy actually. also i don't exactly have the best internet access to do this stuff so... anyway, i've been back in hk for the last 9 days. having a holiday really. but am flying back to the uk tomorrow already to restart work again... been doing loads of shopping. it's almost 2 years since i've been back... not sure when is the next i'll come back again.. anyway, let me try to go back and remember what happened last few months to update this journal abit.
first thing is first.. i have got my SHO (senior house officer) post sorted out. i've been offered a 2 year medical rotation post in Durham, which is in northern england, only about 15 mins away from Newcastle. i think more people know newcastle than durham. this is exactly what i have been looking for, so that's great for me. cos i was so worried, it would be so difficult to get into a rotational training post (there are others like surgical, psychiatry, paediatrics, O and G etc etc...), and thought i might have to resort to doing a 6 months stand alone post first before trying again in february. but anyways, it's sorted now, so ok..
next is, went with a friend (Sum Sum) to visit the orkney islands back at around the end of april. there are 2 sets of famous islands at the north of scotland. one is the orkney islands, and the other is the shetland islands ... not well known, unless u have lived in scotland. but very pretty places. worth visiting if u visit scotland. we drove up to near a place called Wick from Inverness, and then took a ferry, as in drove my car onto the ferry to get over to the Orkney islands. took about an hour. cos public transport is realy crap on the islands, it's better if u take or hire a car. maybe see if i can post some photos later on...
also, i totally forgot that we have now another Dr. Kyaw Tun in our family! yes, jims has passed his finals and is unofficially Dr. Kyaw Tun. not graduating till the 23th of July though. our whole family should be going there.. so that will be nice....
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| Thursday, February 12th, 2004
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10:48 am - missed December entry
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u know what, i was just reading through my recent entries of my LJ and i just realised that i never mentioned the most important thing that has recently happened to me... now wonder why the whole thing doesn't make sense... the big thing is basically i have accepted our Lord! Hurray!
yah, it all happened after visiting Tom, my older brother in Dublin, which i just realised i never mentioned in this LJ. well, i can say it probably happened even before i went to his place, when i was talking on the phone to him... basically, for those who don't know already, Tom is a very strong Christian... so yah, i went to visit him around the beginning of December, and we can say all things happen since then... now i guess the whole story makes more sense.. or does it?
ok, so flash back to Dublin then. Dublin is quite nice actually.. then again, it is the capital city of the Republic of Ireland.. but everything is very expensive. and err... u go into any tourist shop, the only thing u see is Guiness... yes, Ireland means Guiness, and Guiness means Ireland... well, ok, i guess there are other bits and pieces.. they also have celtic, like in Scotland, and in Wales.. man, i used to think that celtic was only a Scottish thing... maybe not... ok, and then what, but apart from the city centre and few other places, didn't really go much places... anyway, Tom was working most of the time so no time to take me to places... and anyway, he keeps saying there's nothing to see in Dublin.. but i'm sure there's more than in Aberdeen!
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| Friday, February 6th, 2004
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4:46 am
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my last nite! ... for a while i mean... and wow! i had another busy and productive nite... after yesterday's really boring and quiet nite... there was basically one major case which took up most of my time tonite... it's kinda sad too of what happened... the story is too complicated to explain and i will need to use too many medical terms, so i won't bother...
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| Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
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11:48 pm
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SO BORING ... ZZZZZ .... i had a very productive nite last nite, but tonite, NOTHING, and i mean NOTHING has been happening. it's only approaching midnite.. i really hope it does not stay quiet like this for the rest of the nite man...
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3:31 am
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okay, my mood became slight better this morning after my ex-consultant bleeped me to go and take a photo with him. he said he has worked with so many people, he has to take photo to remember how they look like...
anyway, it's now 3:30am in the morning, and i must say i had a much more interesting nite tonite. got a call from a GP around 11pm last nite, and asked to admit a patient with heavy fresh rectal bleeding... he didn't come in till 00:15 or so. initially he was fine and stable. But he just kept bleeding so much and started to become slightly compromised haemodynamically. there was so much to do. he's fine as i write now. but i have to go and check up on him later... OMG! just i as speak again, i just got a call from another GP wanting to admit a lady with possible gallbladder problem. this is so not usual at all to get 2 calls during the night... so off i'm going now...
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| Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004
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8:32 am
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i had a very uneventful nite and then this morning, when everyone came in, i got full scolding from one of the consultants... ok, maybe it's my fault, but if the other house officer actually emphasised the point that it is very important, then i would have done it much earlier. i'm talking about taking a blood sample off someone, which i took at around 7am.... so my mood this morning is very poor. this consultant is really scary anyways. he's highly highly demanding. he makes his house officers work their sweat dry. never smiles and finds as many people as he can to operate on because he loves his surgery. the crappest thing is that when i finish my nites and hols, i'm going to work for him....
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| Sunday, February 1st, 2004
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10:53 pm
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6:35 am
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i was just reading yona's LJ (i have not done so for a while! solly!) and ha! she also found someone who has the same birthday incl. year!
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5:52 am
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okay.... i'm gettin bored now. it's almost 6am and nothing really has been happening throughout the night. not to say that is bad, but bit of drama would be nice to waken me up a bit. then again, the moment i write this, my bleep may suddenly go on!
well, since i have the time, i better write something... hmm. let me think, i think the last time i wrote something properly in this LJ was in November, just after wing left. So, what has happened since. I finished Medicine and miss it very much. Then i went to visit my older brother in Dublin. Dublin is a very nice place actually, but things are really expensive. Of course, naturally my brother brought me to his church and stuff. For some of you who don't know, my bro is a very stong Christian... in fact, i think i haven't annouced on the LJ, that i have also become a Christian.. but i must admit, i'm not a very disciplined one yet....
ok, what else happened.... spent xmas and boxing day working, which was not too bad actually... spent new year with my colleagues. spent my Bday playing Taboo with my flatmates, which was so fun! then i think the next thing big that happened is knowing this friend who has the bday as me....
anyway, talking about this person, it's actually my medical student who is attached to me here in inverness. she's also from aberdeen university and also is one of the malaysian exchange students. it was indeed very spooky when we found out. in fact, we found out cos we saw that a patient of ours had the same birthday as us too! but he was like 50 years older or something! how wicked! i have a twin sister too?!! :p anyway, the whole thing is very funny and weird, cos we almost would not have known each other, cos she almost was not going to come to Inverness this block, and I almost was not going to do this current post if I had not swapped with someone else. I think though the most interesting thing is that she's a very strong Christian, and this is really making me think.....
right, enough of that.... since i still have time this morning (i still have a couple of hours before i finish work and can go home to sleep)... i will write more in my LJ. Basically i thought i would write what would happen in the next few weeks, in case i don't have time to write later on again... well, when i finish my nights at the end of this week, i'm on hols for a week and am visiting jims again in leeds... plan to do some shopping, download loads of cantopop from the internet and just chill.....
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| Saturday, January 31st, 2004
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1:02 am
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ok, i'm starting nites again! err... now it's 1am in the morning and really really tired already. but hey yona, i will be on icq at night if i'm free, so may bump into u.
anyway, my first nite, not even half way through, but the nurses are already pissing me off so badly. just cos u're a junior house officer, they just automatically look at you with these evil eyes and talk so rudely to us. see, there is this board in the ward with non-urgent jobs to do. anyway, one of them said to put in a venflon in a patient. so i went to check with the nurses just to make sure it's needed. then they said they don't know anything about it. i said but it's written on the board. and they say they didn't write it. but surely it must be a nurse who wrote it on the board. i know they just started night shift, but if they made a better handover, at least they will know whether it's needed or not. for goodness sake.... more and more stuff which i'm just so pissed of, but sometimes i can't explain it properly, unless u are a medic too.
hey yona, wing, i really have not heard from u gals lately, must write something, cos even i wrote something.... and oh, i plan to go to hongkong for 2 weeks around end of may/beginning of june.
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| Wednesday, January 28th, 2004
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7:10 pm
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again... apologies for not updating this thing for ages... i really have lots to say, especially about certain annoying nurses. i stress that not all nurses are bad, but there are some incidences which are really bad.... but i wanted to say today, that i can't believe, i found someone who has the exact same birthday as me, obviously apart from my twin, jims. i mean exact day, month and year!! what a coincidence!!!
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| Friday, January 16th, 2004
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8:14 pm
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sorry for not updating this thing for so long. cos just so busy. i have so many things to write but just no time. and i think i'm soon going to forget what happened... how to do??? well, basically many crap things happen at work, although i still like my job. just dislike some of the nurses... i really have no idea why some nurse just automatically don't like junior doctors... seriously something wrong with them.... if i have time later, i will write more about it..
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