lets start living now!

I have just realised that I should stop chasing the future much and to live more on the present.

While struggling for a better future is a must, I shouldn't neglect the current live, the now.

We deserve to have fun and live to the fullest everyday amid stressful work we have to face or whatever reasons we have to postpone being happy.

We don't have to wait to really living, enjoying it and live to the fullest. Do it now as we're not even sure how long we will be living.

Amir's visit.

A good friend Amir came to my hometown, Lenggong in Perak last week. It was our last activity during the holiday before we actually start working!

I took him to many places where we had loads of fun visiting.

After completed his 274km bus journey from KL, first he had to accompany me to Taiping Hospital because I had a doctor appointment that day haha. After done seeing doctor I took him to several places around the town of Taiping such the Taiping lake garden. (The most beautiful garden i have ever been to hence it is my favourite) and later we went to Kuala Sepetang Mangrove forest reserve and also the Taiping Night Safari. I love zoo!

Kuala Sepetang mangrove forest. It's huge!

Amir trying Mee Udang Mak Jah

Taiping Night Safari! It was cool as we can see lions and tigers running around and playing!

On day 2, I took him to the royal town of Kuala Kangsar for some touristy stuffs and then we headed to Bukit Merah water theme park.

Amir in front of the beautiful Ubudiah mosque.

Sultan Azlan Shah Gallery.

At Bukit Merah Laketown resort. Had loads of fun at the waterpark! omg I love water.

Cool ATV ride at the ATV adventure Larut in Taiping! This is Amir's favourite.

Day 3: Took him around Lenggong, the world UNESCO heritage site, then headed to Seri Iskandar to visit a friend there, and Ipoh at night to watch a football match live.

At one of the many caves in Lenggong.

Inside Lenggong Archeological Museum.

Raban Lake near Lenggong.

Lata Kekabu waterfall

We watched a football match at Stadium Ipoh at night. Love the atmosphere!

 Day 4: he headed back to KL to attend the induction course. We're gonna start working soon!

Train fetish

I like trains since when I was small. Even though I was only manage to see the trains when my father stopped the car when we happened to cross the railway on the road. Haha I remember there was one time when the alarms and the warning lights flashing signalling the road will be closed temporarily for the train to cross, instead of going faster my father decelerated the car so that me and my siblings would be able to see the trains. haha. And the very long cars moving on the track really amazed us, or me particularly :p

And like the other normal kids, having a toy train was my dream. But coming from a not so well to-do family, I never asked for one. My parents never actually spent money on such things like toys. The only toys my sister and I had were the donated used teddy bears (argh).

So when I got my first salary later (yay), I promise I will buy one for me, hmm maybe several of them so that I can connect the tracks together to make a long track for the train haha.

Four days ago I took the ETS train from KL to Ipoh and I love it. It ran 150km/hr, maybe faster, and it was really comfortable and smooth as compared to bus or other transports that use the land road. and I felt safe. Really glad the double tract from KL to Ipoh is done. Now the double tract from Ipoh to Padang Besar at the northest part of the peninsular is under construction. I am following the updates regarding the project closely and can't wait for it to be done. They say it is more than 75% complete now.

Few years back, I took the old train namely Senandung Malam, and it was a one long journey. There was only 1 trip per day due to the single rail track and it's a night trip. It was a noisy and bumpy ride. Now it became history.

Just now I checked on the latest development of the KL MRT project. Love it. Love the artist's impression videos, can't wait for it to happen for real.

And every time there's a news about the possibility of  a fast train project from KL to Singapore, I will read every single word of the news keenly. And I hope it's going to happen for real.

I wish the government will extent the double track project to the east coast of the peninsular and also to Sabah and Sarawak. It would be easier for us to travel to places there. Traveling to these places via road is too mush a hassle and energy and time-consuming. Plus the motion-sickness that I have, is not helping haha.

Train is really the future of transportation on the land.

Knowing about how advanced the technology and the engineering of high-speed trains around the world is, really excites me. And I dream of traveling in the Eurostar from London to Paris one day. Enjoying the views from the window.. I want to try other fast trains too like in Germany and China.

So anyone wants to travel with me soon? hehe

applying housemanship in malaysia for medic fresh graduates

This post is dedicated to those who has just finished medical school especially those graduated abroad. There are several sites and blogs that i found helpful but here i will summarize and put it into numbered points to make it simple.

Here are 5 easy steps :)

1) Fill in the SPA8i form online at Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam (SPA) website:
http://www.spa.gov.my/

2) Contact SPA to book an interview (via phone/email/go to its office)

3) Download, fill in & send in the Borang 4: Permohonan untuk Pendaftaran Sementara, Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) and Borang Maklumat Tambahan MMC.
http://efenem.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/mmc-daftar.pdf

4) Download, fill in & send in the borang Permohonan Jawatan Pegawai Perubatan, Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (KKM)

http://www.mediafire.com/?jqggmomhy2lifwo

5) Attend interview at SPA office.

That's it. Read the guidelines carefully as you fill in the forms and get the required documents attested.

Currently I'm waiting for my interview scheduled on 13 March. Wish me luck!

don't be too mean towards cats

I was having a little chat with my Mak Ngah when she told me about her son who's now moving to Kedah from his previous house in Negeri Sembilan due to work. He is a cat lover, he loves to pick up stray cats and lets them stay at his house. As a result he has many cats.

But mysteriously his cats keep on disappearing one by one. My aunt says she thinks it is his neighbors the ones that took the cats and threw them away as to them the cats in the neighborhood is a nuisance.

It got me thinking, maybe there's an answer to my kittens disappearance when I was in Medan, Indonesia. It's weird really, as one kitten disappeared after another within one or two days. It's impossible for them to go to far and got lost or hit by car in such orderly interval.

My kitten Abu, who ran over by my neighbour, without informing me was buried. I knew about it a few days later only after an old lady told me what she witnessed.

This is really sad you know. If that was what exactly these people were doing then they should know how selfish they are. And very unfair towards the innocent cats.

These cats were taken from the streets, adopted and taken care of. Isn't that a good thing? Not only it gives these cats better lives they deserve, it also will reduce the number of stray cats that many people find disturbing on the streets or at the restaurants, (though all these cats are asking for is some leftovers that we not gonna eat anymore).

But still if you are unhappy about cats, talk to the owner. We can control the cats better. And the number of cats can be controlled by spaying these animal. Throwing them somewhere else is not solving but creating more problems.

Last week I found out about this very sad news:


This wonderful person, Nicole took these cats from the streets, adopted them and feed them with love. Unfortunately her neighbours complained to DBKL and they gave her several days to get rid of these cats.

And what happen to those cats on the street of KL captured by DBKL? What I  read in the Mastika January 2012 edition startled me. Those cats will be put in cage and feed for 1 week, and after 1 week if nobody buy them for RM15, these cats will be put to 'sleep'.

we are who we are

I'm angry with myself after reading the title that I just typed. Of course we are who we are. There's no need to tell that to everyone.

Being on a holiday as I just finished my study, enables me to look back and realize something that's quite important in helping me to make choices and how to deal with stuffs in the future.

we believe in what we want to believe.
Seriously, there was a friend who think that I did something bad and though I have had explained to him that I didn't do it, he still believed that I did it. In this case, don't worry and just let him be. Don't let what others believe affect us in a negative way. And we our self should be careful and rational in choosing in what to believe in.

we feel what we want to feel.
You will be happy if you want to. And you can be sad if you want to too. Seriously. it's like choosing what movie to watch or what song you want to listen to. Choose to be happy instead and choose not to be sad for too long.

how we react to stuffs determines our beings.
Having similar problems in the university, I can see how my friends reacted to them. And the way how each of them reacted determines how they gonna feel later. If one chose to be happy and reacted to it positively then he'll be happy, no matter what the outcomes would be. And of course there was someone who dreaded about it every seconds, busy complaining, busy hating and it affected her own self, she ended depressed which was the result of her own action.

we choose what we want to be.
Yes we can choose to be a happy person that light up people around us or we can also be a mood spoiler. We heard people saying "oh why is he/she leaving me, why? why?" and blaming that person for something that without realizing it, is partly our fault. Have we given that person good reasons to stay with us? We might as well just blame our self.

So to dearest reader (if there any haha) and to me, choose to be happy instead, if we can't change what happened we can always choose how to react to it in a way that benefits us. And having said that, lets laugh at the title instead of angry with it haha.

saying bye to my cats

As I am approaching the end of my journey here in Medan, one of the things that bothers me is what am I supposed to do with the four cats that I have. We adopted Ubu our first cat in 2010. She was a small kitten shivering somewhere near Pringgan, Medan when we first found her. We stopped our motorbike and she got on my foot and stopped crying. So we took her home to become part of our family.


Ubu, the mother.

Since then, she gave birth couple of times. Demok, her first child is (now) really a huge cat who was also my fluffy pillow at night. This morning someone came and asked me to adopt him. Although it was such a sad thing seeing him taken away but it's for the best.


Demok, he just loves to stare.


He also loves to stand in front of computer screen to get some attention.

Abu the youngest one died two days ago, ran over by our neighbour who also has buried the cat without telling me. I am very sad as he was really manja and not scared of anything or anyone cause I never hit him even once, but I think that costs him his life as he not even scared of car! But my friend said maybe it's for the best that he's gone during my very last day in Medan. Is it..


The late Abu.

I sent one of my cat to Dr Rosdiana's house. She is such an amazing cat lover. She has lots of cats in her house, I mean a lot! like around 100 cats. And she spends Rp6,000,000 just for the cats' food.

She adopted her first cat in 2002 when the cat she called Nenek Unyang came playing at her house. Since then her very productive cats producing even more cats some of them new ones from the outside.

She is the example of a good cat lover. Well you know not in a kind of annoying way. As we know some cat-people tend to humanize their cats, cutting their nails, bath them every day even dress them up. But not her! And none of her cats have been sterilized. She really thinks it's their right to keep on breeding and producing new off-springs. Though I'm not totally agree with her on sterilizing cats, but it shows how pure her love is towards cats.


Dr Rosdiana with one of her cat who has just underwent surgery!


She has so many stories about her cats to tell.


My cat, Dubuk that I've given to her as a new owner.


Looking at her for the last time.


Some of her many cats.


Super nice of her as she invited us to have some kuih jala and Surabi. yum yum!


Her first cat, she called her Nenek Unyang. haha 


Me in front of her practice.

Cats in some way have contributed to my well-being as I tried to keep myself sane from the stressful and crazy world and being such good companies when I was lonely. Cats are simply awesome. they are innocent and their behavior is actually the reflection of how we treated them, really!

crossing the finish line.

The much awaited time of.. my entire life maybe? is finally arrived. I've finished my medical study a week ago. Now I have 2 more days left before going back to Malaysia for good.

I feel very much relieved after all these years of stressful works, exams, not to mention complicated immigration stuffs and financial problems but I've done it all! it's time to say bye bye.

But this week I feel quite sad, almost everything I see around me makes me realize that I'm gonna miss them. I've lived here for 5 years and a half, that's definitely quite a long time. Lots of places I have been to and lots of things have happened to me here.

Now I realize there's gonna be a lot of things I'm gonna miss. Honestly I feel quite sad now as I type. I woke up this morning and immediately thought 'how many days left? Is today gonna be the last day I'm here?

During my 5 years and a half here, I learn about freedom, friendship, self dependency, trust and having fun. yeah really! I also got the chance to see my country from the outside, far from those biased government controlled media in Malaysia, I got to meet new people, to understand their feelings, cultures and what they really think. Oh, also learned about hardship ones has to go through in their life and all the inequalities in the world. Looking at children begging/working is the most difficult and heart wrenching.

the most precious that I'm gonna miss forever are friends. It is here that I know how a friendship can help you to live in this world, how they ease your hardship, or how much fun they add into your life!