clearing up alerts

Right now, I am reading all the alerts in my Google Reader. There are thousands of alerts that need to be clear up. This is the result of not accessing my Google Reader in the past two months.

I subscribed to all of my friend's blogs and it was surprising to read what have happened in the past two months. Few of them quit blogging for good and few of them stop temporarily.

It was interesting to see what have happened in the blogging world. Most of the blog that I subscribed to are Malaysian bloggers and it was fun to see how each blogger responds to each issue happening in Malaysia.

Each person is entitled to their own opinion and despite all of their differences, I learn to respect their own opinion. After all, no one is perfect in this world. If we are able to tolerate each other, and spend time to listen to each other problem, we are one step closer in achieving unity and peace

Manglish

I spend two weeks of medical rotation and two weeks of paediatrics as part of my elective in Hospital Ipoh, Perak. This hospital is roughly about 40km from my home and I was driving to and fro everyday.

This post I would be writing on the language used among doctors in Malaysia. Manglish, that is the mixture of Malay and English; is the most widespread language spoken by doctors.

After four weeks spending time in Ipoh, I never able to speak in Manglish. I was the only medical student who are doing elective in each department and thus, every doctor questioned which university I was from since I don't speak in Manglish.

I find it quite difficult to speak in Manglish. It is akin of breaking up the language and mixes it with another language. For someone like me who has been striving to improve my English, this is a step backward.

I am planning to work in Malaysia next year. I believe that within few years of working as a doctor in Malaysia, I would be able to master Manglish but my aim of improving my English will be diminished slowly.

RAPP

I arrived at Melbourne on Sunday morning. My semester starts yesterday. Today is my second day.

My first rotation is RAPP (Rehabilitation, Aged Care, Palliative Care and Psychiatry of Old Age). My second rotation would be Emergency Medicine and Rural followed by Psychiatry. Each rotation is 6-weeks long.

After two days in the current rotation, I believe that this rotation is not that helpful and wasting my time. It was boring and made me too sleepy. If this is the pattern throughout this semester, I think I should work part time. At least I will get money instead of wasting time doing something that is not interesting.

update

I have finished my 4-weeks elective last week. It was interesting yet boring towards the end. I will be writing more about that later.

I could not believe my eyes when I read the news that Melbourne had high temperatures more than 40 C last week and Australian Open was held at the same time. It must be like oven over there. Hopefully the temperature will be a little bit cooler when I'm back to Melbourne this Sunday.

Malaysia

It has been a busy holiday in the past few weeks. So many things to do and so many places to visit. My elective will start on 5th January. Hopefully I will achieve my objective doing my elective in Malaysia. I hope that I can gain lots of exposure to Malaysia working environment and learn few tips and tricks for my future career.

Bye for now.