Cafe Chulo @ Jaya One

…is a really nice place to hang out–especially the upstairs section. Nice, windy, and casual.

I had a really good night tonight, catching up with old choir friends and all. :)

Just a short blurb. I’m pretty happy right now.

Break the Silence

Joel, this is for you.

I’M BACK FROM KKB HOSPITAL ROTATIONS! :))
AND I FINISHED MY EXAMS (for now).

Photos can be found here.

If I feel industrious, I’ll write about the trip. It was better than I expected. :))

Got my End-of-Semester exams to study for, which hit hard at the end of June, so if you wanna hang… Catch me before the middle of the June, yes?

<3 Much love.

Panic (at the library)

IT FEELS LIKE NOTHING’S GOING IN.

HELLO, NEURONS?? DO SOME SYNAPSING! I don’t feed you for nothing…

Friday’s getting awfully close.

Maybe imagining myself on the dancefloor grooving to Daichi Miura/ravex/Adam Lambert/MasaMIXES/BoA while trying to memorize drugs that affect GIT motility isn’t the most conducive way to study. 

But at the same time,

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him who have been called according to his purpose.” — Romans 8:28 (NIV, emphasis mine)

I’m such a worrywart. Comparisons don’t help. Do my best, He’ll do the rest.

As usual. :)

Help me with my unbelief!

Japan’s JT: Daichi Miura

Yesterday, I found a gay hottie who could sing (Adam Lambert).

Today, I find a straight not-so-hot dude who can HELLA SING AND DANCE. He got the moooves yo. And a voice as smooth as a perfectly blended milkshake. Touted as Japan’s own Justin Timberlake, Daichi Miura is probably one of their best-kept R n’B secrets.

BUT I FOUND HIM NYAHAHA TOO BAD FOR YOU AVEX. The song I’m showcasing here even sounds a little like JT. No points for guessing which song. ;) Preeee-senting the talented 22-year-old Daichi Miura.

PHWOAR ADAM LAMBERT ♡

My new celebrity crush. Hawt like a burning dancefloor waiting to explode. One of the American Idol Final two.

He comes from a Broadway background (!!!), but sings like a teasing, taunting sex god. I’d dance to this track anytime. In fact, it made me get up and shimmy a little in front of the mirror.

Got shivers listening to his cover of Mad World. Discovered that he sang Dancing Through Life from the musical Wicked as the character Fiyero–one of my favourite songs.

Adam Lambert, where have you been all my life?
And why, WHY are there pictures of you in drag and kissing men plastered all over the internets?

The hot men are -all- too good to be true.

Send me an angel

…who is male, loves me, smells good, and looks good, please. If I may, let him have chocolate brown hair and blue eyes that are bluer than the bluest blue in the world. He can have huge, white wings and a strong, muscular chest. :) I don’t mind. Then we can fly anywhere–together.

Shojo-manga is really something.

On a more realistic note,

The shuffle function on my WinAmp doesn’t work anymore.
Makes me sad. :(
Now I have to arrange songs in a random order for variety.
Where’s the fun in that?

The little joys in my life (right now) are cherry tomatoes,
Kellogg’s,
highlighters,
singing in the car,
singing in my head in the library,
seeing the to-study pile diminish,
and the daily Bible reading.

I feel very little urge to socialize or smile.
So much effort.

Certain things make me wonder–what’s the point?

Maybe it’s just one of those days. :)

Smiiiile and the world smiles with you!

♡ Happy Mother’s Day! ♡

Happy Mother’s Day to my beloved mum, Anne-mei Wong Wai Mei! :)) When I gave her the cupcakes, she was so thrilled and ate the other “M” vanilla cupcake before I could snap a photo (there were actually 6 of the sprinkles cupcakes– M U M M Y♡ ). Oh mums. I actually wanted to get her some anpan (red bean) buns, but the bakery that I went to didn’t have them! Shock shock. 

Also got her a cili padi plant, because she loves spicy foods and chillies. Now she can have her own home-grown chillies right in her kitchen. Why not flowers? Because my mum, being so adorably practical and wise, once said this, “I don’t like getting flowers because all they do is just look pretty and die… no use-wan!” Can’t say that about a chilli plant, now can you, hee. ;)

LOL. :3

Click to see my message to my mum. <3

<3 Mikado

Today, I profess my love for my one and only Mikado. <3 mikiiii sugarlump honeymuffin pieee. He’s a male shih-tzu, and “Mikado” means emperor in Japanese.

He’s my fluffball. Used to be a wee little guy. Born on an unknown day in November 2002, he’s been raised with the Liew household since Jan ‘03. You’ll be 7 this year, baby! (49 in dog year, oo-er) HE STILL HAS HIS BALLS, but he’s not allowed to date… yet.

Meeks is like me in many ways. He loves to camwhore,

Sleep,

Be the center of attention,

 

Wild party hair, yo.

Sneak into every photograph,

and steal food off of the table when he thinks nobody’s watching.

He also has his weird moments, like when he decides the chair crossbeam is more comfortable than a soft pillow… and just spaces out.

He doesn’t like other boys–

in fact, he gets jealous and sulks LOL. <3 

Meeks loves a good bellyrub now and then, and won’t hesitate to flip over if you give the slightest hint of heading for his belly region. Hee~

<3333 I love you, Meeks. Here’s to many more years together!! 

Isn’t he cute? ;o LOVELOVELOVEEEEEEEEE.

Dear God, Thank You!!

Seriously.

Hit and run accident in IMU today.
The car involved was a student’s, and it was pretty badly beat-up. Bumper fell off, broken glass, and the impact shoved it up the sidewalk, only to hit a signpost and bend it.

Lolita, my car, was the one RIGHT NEXT TO IT. One inch away. No damage.

Wow. God is great. Miracles still happen.

Mobile Clinic @ Kg. Pian, Temerluh, Pahang

This is a little different from the usual events I blog about… it’s about how I spent my Labor Day! :) It’s been the best spent day this year so far, in my opinion. And no, I didn’t kau chai, sing, dance, eat or go clubbing this time, haha.

My dad registered under my church, SIBKL, to participate in a mobile clinics program. So when he got the call to go from the organizer, Catherine Teong, he also asked me & the rest of the family (and friends) if we wanted to go. Me, mum, dad, Weiphin & Jonathan agreed to go for the day-trip to the Orang Asli settlement @ Kampung Pian, Temerluh, Pahang. :)

THUS at the glorious time of 6.45am, we assembled outside church, prayed, and set off to the deep-in-interior Kampung Pian to set up the mobile clinic for a day. The four doctors manning the clinic were my dad, Dr Liew Fah Onn (O&G), Dr Stephen Mak (GP), and this really cute couple: Dr Peter Paul Wong (orthopedic surgeon) & Dr Hon (pediatrician). Then there was a pharmacist, Daniel, and a nurse, Mei Sime. The only other people with a medical background in the group would then be myself, Jon & Weiphin–2nd year medstudents who had no idea what they were getting into. The other people went as support staff and handled food, second-hand clothing, crowd control, etc…

Dr Hon & Dr Peter Paul Wong. :) We sat in their car. Such a cute couple!

I can’t quite remember how long the journey took, but it was about 3 hours, and I kept napping on and off. Jon & Weiphin didn’t quite help because all three of us were squished in the backseat–they didn’t give me very much space in the center. I have stiff shoulders from sleeping in odd positions…

The government-built community hall that served as our clinic grounds. The door on the left is the main entrance where registration was positioned.

We arrived at Kampung Pian at around 11am and started to set-up. My duties for the day were to handle the registration counter along with two other non-medical people from my church, JJ & Helen. Therefore the task of taking history as well as measuring BP & temperature fell to us. Then, because I was the medical student amongst the three of us, I initially had the task of measuring the random blood sugar level. 

I was SUPER panicky!! I mean, yeah, we had digital BP machines & digital ear thermometers so I didn’t have to worry about using the sphygmomanometer correctly and cleaning the thermometer between patients, but I had to PRICK SOMEONE LA FOR THE BLOOD SUGAR. WHAT IF I PRICK WRONGLY?????? (later I was relieved of this duty because for me to take history, BP, temperature AND blood sugar made my station very slow, lol)

When we opened registration, there were SO MANY ORANG ASLI THAT CAME TO THE CLINIC!!!! I was overwhelmed and blown away. I felt so awkward at the beginning only having to use Malay to communicate (and my Malay is really not that great). Jon & Weiphin assisted the pharmacist, Daniel. They got a firsthand taste of doctors’ handwriting, haha. We only ran the clinic until 4pm, but the final count of patients seen by the doctors on duty came up to 157 persons! 

I saw… more things than I had ever seen in my life, ok. Textbook things that suddenly jumped out into life and grinned at me. Sarcoptes scabieii infections (tiny skin-colored bumps–I will never forget what they look like), impetigo (fungating, white, circular lesions), cellulitis, carbuncles (Dr Peter almost cut and drained it), fungal skin infections (large whitish patches), diarrhoea, respiratory symptoms (dyspnoea–literally susah nak jalan naik bukit), cardiovascular symptoms (palpitations! one lady described them as po-pom, po-pom dalam dada bila bernafas), and infected cavities…

And I also learned that in situations like the mobile clinic, all the history-taking methods learnt in IMU fly out the window. There’s just no time to ask all that deeply before I had to pass them on to the doctors. I had to multi-task: take BP & temperature while taking history and thinking about associated symptoms that I could ask about and translating them into Malay in my mind before asking & writing… and trying to calm crying kids when I tried to take their temperature. I don’t know how many patients I clerked, but I do remember the time whizzing by without my realizing it. 

The tired but enthusiastic volunteers debriefing at the end of the clinic session. LTR: Henry, Lee Peng, dad, mum, Mei Sime

IT WAS AWESOME LA. I felt like a semi-doctor, like I was doing something of significance. Way better than lectures/lab/PBL/MMS/CSU. Heee.

Right, so I lied about not eating… Cuz as all Malaysians do, we stopped at some obscure Chinese restaurant on our way back home around the Bukit Tinggi area for dinner. :)) It was sumptuous and cheap. I also liked this health drink made from dragonfruit that they were promoting and let us sample.

 

Dad, mum & Mei Sime tucking in.

What a fantastic day. It was really a pick-me-up and sort of like a nudge from God to remind me why I’m doing medicine and NOT music as my primary degree. :) Anyday, God. I’d do this again. Who knows? From one-day trips to long-term medical missions!