PU-RCSI

Officially, I want to announce that I'm going to enter Perdana University in collaboration with Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland(PU-RCSI) to do my 5-year medicine course. For more info, hit this and that.

After I've successfully got an  admission into PU, I was called for the second interview held by Public Service Department(JPA) to get the scholarship so as to enable me to study in PU. Once again, I travelled to KL together with Bobby on August 11(Thursday) to attend the interview.

I've been anticipating eagerly for the JPA interview result since then. I'm quite certain that if nothing went wrong, I'd be able to get the scholarship. But still, the JPA result wasn't out until the day I've to fly over to KL(September 6), to be ready to enter my supposed local university---UPM the next day. (I was so reluctant to enter UPM that time.)

Stayed in hotel that night(Sep 6) with my parents, out of boredom, I attempted to check the JPA result again, very hopeful that it's out. Out of blue, my random thought was realized. The time was about a quarter past nine. I'd an onrush of joy the time the JPA result hogged the screen of my lappy. Yeah, you guessed it right, I was offered the JPA scholarship to do RCSI programme in PU.

That means I need not report myself in UPM the second day. BTW, I hadn't pay for my fee to enter UPM, if the JPA result still wasn't out that day, I'd have to pay it in the bank the next morning before I set off to UPM. What a relief! I could see God's work on me.

My parents were on cloud nine too. Well, it's risky for me to go for PU since it's newly-established and I'd be the pioneer of the medical school. There are too many pros and cons to weigh. Many petty and trivial problems begin to surface overtly after discussions by a group of selected freshmen of PU-RCSI programme on Facebook. Discussions after discussions and, I've to be upfront about it, I'm a bit cynical about PU-RCSI too. I'm also on the horns of dilemma. I've foreseen all those possible predicaments beforehand, but I cannot yield,  I know I've no route for retreat.

Malicious rumours and feedbacks about PU are peddling, "PU is for mercenary reasons, PU hasn't gain accreditation...". All of us in the group, who are going to be pioneers of PU-RCSI programme had known all the consequences and the shortcomings we would be facing in the future.

We've all foregone our original medical school and decided to go for PU, which is still considered not fully-fledged. We take moves to forge links among us, all psyched up and determined to build the reputation of PU-RCSI. It's incumbent on us to endeavour to do our best so that we won't be called quack doctors.

Each of us has our own personal reasons to opt for PU, whether to believe in the deliverance of Irish medical curriculum or whatsoever, but it's the same goal that unite us, that we hope to make PU-RCSI a success en masse.

So stop being a worrywart. We're all doctor-to-be, all those menial and lilliputian challenges won't gonna defeat us. Put your faith in and stay positive for Law of Attraction.

"In his heart, a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps." ~Proverbs 16:9

So, I'll just defer to what HE plans for me.

♥ coffee

Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.  ~Terri Guillemets

Yep, I totally agree with the statement above, that's why I'm doing it everyday.

The morning ritual of making  a cup of coffee, the aroma that perks me up before I take a sip and, the delicate flavour that diffuse and dissolve into every bits of my taste buds, very tantalizing.

I just love coffee the way it is, I don't wanna weigh the pros and cons of drinking coffee here, cuz it's too controversial, if you wish to find out, just google it.

But to ease your concerns, moderate coffee consumption isn't detrimental, but beneficial. The negative effect of coffee tends to emerge in excessive drinking so it is best to avoid heavy consumption. =)

It's me, lim kopi. XD

There was once, my friend and I read an excerpt saying that coffee will cause our busts to shrink. (that time we said "crenate") o.O But who cares, haha, I shall never stop drinking coffee cuz I'm not a quitter. XD

Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.  ~Stephanie Piro

Purple

I love PURPLE. But I'm not gonna paint all the alphabets purple cuz it might be torturing and tormenting for readers. HAHA. As we all know, purple is a range of hues of colour occurring between red and blue.

Red is focusing, dynamic and active energy, which is associated with passionate love and lust, fiery heat and warmth, and also anger and temper.

On the other hand, blue is calming, cooling and expansive, which encourages peace and solitude, enhance qualities of communication, and also relaxation to counteract chaos and agitation. 

Being the combination of red and blue, the warmest and the coolest colour, this dichotomy--- purple is believed to be the most ideal colour.

There's an disagreement over exactly which shades can be described as purple since there are so many purple of different saturation! Here are some instances found on web:

amethyst, eggplant, indigo, lavender, lilac, magenta, mauve, mulberry, orchid, plum, pomegranate, puce, royal, thistle, violet, wine

(Even me myself can't really recognize all the exact shades of purple!)

From a survey, surprisingly, most of the people like purple. The proof is here.

Common connotations of purple: royalty, spirituality, creativity, mystery, nobility, wealth, wisdom, luxury, extravagance, passion, independence, dignity, inspiration, power and calmness.

Purple rose, symbol of LOVE at first sight.

 



He's handsome, I'm gorgeous

Hah, this post would be a lil bit too narcissistic. Just sharing some photo.

This is my birthday present received from him this year---Book of Memories.

The end.

Some photo at eatery.

With love,

IRene

PU-RCSI School of Medicine Interview

Previously talking about the interview I attended in Serdang, together with Bobby. I've been preparing for the interview for days after I was informed about the interview. Well, just some basic works to do before you're going for an interview. Spotting questions that might be asked, googled all the medical school interview questions, researched on the medical school and also RCSI, kept on practising, reading newspaper(in case they asked you about the current issue), preparing the proper attire to be worn to the interview and bla bla bla...


It's a medical school interview conducted by Perdana University in collaboration with Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland(PU-RCSI). It's a newly-established medical school, very new. And if we managed to enter this school, we'd be the pioneers! HAHA. Erm, which is actually a very bewildering and flummoxing situation for some people. Cuz some may think that it's so raw and unexampled that they're not convinced to study at there. However, for some people like me, I think I'm willing to take the risk and I'm very positive to further my study there.


The reason is simple, cuz it offers an Irish medical degree, which is generally recognized by Irish Medical Council and Malaysian Medical Council and can also further my postgraduate training in European Union(EU), United States(US) and Canada. But the chief and main reason for me to apply to the medical school is that the Public Service Department(JPA) is offering full scholarships and also living expanses to study in PU, which is a great news! So, I'm very hopeful that I can enter this PU to study my medical degree. But I know that all these things are in the control of God's hand. HE will guide me and I should put my faith in HIM.


It was a within-24-hour trip back and forth between Sibu and KL. We were in a total rush for the whole trip.
Surprisingly, Bobby and I were told by the lady sitting at the service counter there that we were the last two candidates! I wasn't nervous, just that I was worried that I would be stunned by their questions and got stuck and posed. Hmm, is that consider nervous? XD


However, the interview turned out to be a comfortable and relaxing one. The two interviewers were both professors from Ireland and as I know from the website, one of them is the Dean of PU-RCSI. They're fervent and greeted me earnestly, besides, they always smiled at me that made me feel easy. They started asking me lots of questions. Well, I think basically, I responded to all the questions well, just that I think that they're a bit too rush and hasty. For every questions, I would like to elaborate more, but seems like they're already satisfied with my answer and wished to proceed to the next question promptly. Is that a good sign or the other way round? Huh, who knows?

Let me recall the questions I was asked.

1. Tell me the use of Putrajaya. (Whoa, this question is really outta my expectation!)
2. Tell me about yourself and your family.
3. How do you come here?
4. Where did you study? (Of course I told them about my matriculation school and also my secondary school that I'm always proud of, and even told them that SMK Methodist Sibu is honoured the cluster school! XD)
5. What is a cluster school?
6. How's your results?
7. What is your strengths?
8. If there's so many strengths of you, I'm sure that you have weaknesses too, so tell me about your weaknesses.
9. Do you join any club before?
10. Do you dance? (Ahah! I got a cert for participating as a Chinese dancer in my matriculation school, that why I'm dare to say out loud. XD)
11. Do you watch movie? Tell me your favourite movie.
12. What do you always do during your leisure time?
13. If there's a Chinese Club set up in PU, wiil you join?
14. What about an Irish club, will you join? Why are you joining?
15. This year is the year of Rabbit, tell me what is meant by the year of rabbit and what does red symbolise to Chinese?
16. Tell me why do you speak good English.
17. What does RCSI mean?
18. What do you think you will be learning in the first year if you manage to enter PU? (Whoa, luckily I did researched on their learning schedule. XD)
19. Do you watch football? Do you support Manchester United? Which team do you support? (HAHA. I've to thank Albert and Ian for this, cuz I know some info about football through them during the Red Crescent years, so I managed to bluff a bit. XD)
20. What do you think is the most critical disease these days? What are the factors and the ways to reduce the percentage of this disease?
21. Do you have any medical experience? (Oh, sure, I've been to attachment in hospital for 5 days before going for JPA interview last time.)
22. What is the attachment about?
23. Do you apply to other medical school?
24. If you successfully got the medical school and PU, which one will you choose?
25. Do you have any questions?

Well, basically, these are the questions that I could remembered.

After a week of waiting for the interview result, my dad called PU to check for it on 22nd July. To our greatest relief and excitement, Bobby and I were both managed to pass the interview. Praise the Lord! That means, we're going to have our second interview in the mid of August, to get the JPA scholarships.

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." ~Philippians 4:6

I've to always bear in mind the above bible verse.

On Sunday(24th July), as usual, I attended church mass with my family. After the sermon, a pastor sitting behind us greeted me out of concern. When I told her that I'm going to enter university to study medicine for the first year this coming September, she praised me.

牧师：“你很棒！”“以后要做医生传道人啊！”
Pastor: "You're so great." "Be an evangelistic doctor in the future."

This is what I always think about. Her words really touched me and further assured and affirmed that my desire and decision and also reminded me that God is always with me. I should do something in return as a Christian and with God's grace, I'm sure I can achieve it. Yes, I can.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." ~Proverbs 3:5-6

Useless life

Today, I flipped through a "tome" in a bookshop.

It was written, an useless life is far worse than an early death. For every years since your heartbeat, the moment you emerged from your mother's womb, if you're poisoned by failure and frustration, heartbroken and discontent, defeat and self-pity, you better terminate all those miserable existence, immediately, and start commencing--- reconstructing and rebuilding yourself, to have love and satisfaction and a peace of mind.

This is the paragraph that I could barely remembered. I couldn't recall the exact whole writing but this is the thing that I could shoehorned into my brain cuz I discovered the paragraph interesting. =)

Hope that you guys will like it too.

It's a broken heart

Well, though it's my holiday, I think I haven't been updating my blog since a long time ago. Hmm, probably because of my tiredness and fatigue for resuming to become a temporary teacher in SJK(C) Chung Sing, Sibu. Or maybe it's just an excuse that I'm actually too indolent to update it. HAHA. I'm saying resuming because I wasn't able to teach after I fell down and broke my leg last time. So I was halted from my work and thanks to Jia Yi who helped me to continue teaching in that school. =)

Recently, I'm diagnosed with a broken heart.

But don't worry, it's recovering in full speed.

The UPU results just released on 15th July 2011. It's the time we get to know which local universities we got. Doing Medicine in Universiti Malaya(UM) is always my first choice. Secondly, it's medicine course in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia(UKM). I always thought that I'd get either the first or the second choice. But the results turned out to be out of my expectation. 

It's medicine course in Universiti Putra Malaysia(UPM) that I got. When I got to know this fact, I was just passing by that particular university, which seems so coincidental but yet so sarcastic. I was sitting in a taxi, together with Bobby, on the way heading to a newly-established University Perdana(PU) to attend an interview. Both UPM and PU are located in Serdang, which takes a 25 minutes trip from KL.

Did you hear the cracking sound of my heart?

It's hard to accept the fact (for me), since I've put so much hope in the first 2 choices. But I kept on calming myself down that I must not break down at that typical moment cuz there's still an interview ahead of me. I won't allow this sense of failure to affect my mood and my performance during the interview later. I'm strong enough to survive the truth. When we finally reached the destination, I called my dad and inform him about it. I hate myself saying out the words, cuz I know that my parents must be disappointed too.

There are lots of thoughts rushing through my mind at that moment. Am I that terrible that I can't even get the first 2 choices? What's the reason for getting UPM? I can't honour my parents. Then I start blaming. Blaming myself for not doing good enough. Blaming the lectures in my previous college with injustice co-curriculum marks. Bobby's facial expression looked sorry for me. ARGH! I adhor and abominate that kind of feelings, that you seems so pity that everyone starts to give you a look of sympathy.

But then I tired to restrain my thoughts because we're rushing for the interview. I want to act professionally. So I deleted the painful thoughts temporary and prepared myself for the imminent "fight or flight" situation. Fortunately, I know that God's still and always with me that HE brought me through the interview smoothly. After interview, I immediately phoned those friends who sms-ed me and asked me about the UPU thingy. Firstly to Pauline. I know I'm at the brink of bursting into tears when I talked to her about the disheartening matter, but I managed to hold back. Cuz I don't like to reveal my weakness to anyone and everyone, including my loved ones. But it's still a nice chat with her. =)

p/s: but now I'm posting it here cuz I've settled my own upsurge of emotions. And it's actually not a big deal too right? Since I'm such a sanguine and optimistic person.

However, I know I have to be thankful and grateful already. Seems that I still managed to get a medicine course, which I yearned so much since I was young. Praise be to the LORD, our God! BTW, I know HE has HIS own purpose for every decision HE made for me.

Vampire Diaries

Oh, I'm not a serial freak but I'm kinda obsessed with Vampire Diaries recently.

The few main actors in the serial are gorgeous and stunning too!!! The Vampire Diaries Season 2 had been released and kicked off. The Vampire Diaries Season 3 is upcoming soon I think. Eager.

The show stars - Nina Dobrev, 21, Ian Somerhalder, 31, and Paul Wesley, 27.

Never Say Never

Oh, I LOVE this song so much after I heard it on Vampire Diaries!!!




Some things we don't talk about
Rather do without and just hold the smile
Falling in and out of love
Ashamed and proud of, together all the while


You can never say never
While we don't know when
But time and time again
Younger now than we were before


Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go


Picture, you're queen of everything
Far as the eye can see under your command
I will be your guardian when all is crumbling
I'll steady your hand


You can never say never
While we don't know when
But time, time and time again
Younger now than we were before


 Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go


  We're pulling apart
And coming together again and again
We're pulling apart
But we pull it together
Pull it together again


Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go
Don't let me go

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Trailer

OH MY GOSH!!!

It's coming up soon!

I'm looking forward to watching it!
 ♥

Just For You ♥

He's my paramour. ♥


In this frantic (ARGH!) and fast-paced (everyone is in a hurry) milieu, LOVE had once been deleted from my mind, early in the journey of achieving my own aspiration.
His advent has totally revolutionized everything.
 He bears bushed eyebrows which made him has great and striking resemblance as Crayon Shin Chan. (Erm... I meant for eyebrows only. HAHA. CUTE!!!)


p/s: Click the RED words above if you don't know who's it. XD

He has a pair of beautiful and stunning eyes, with naturally long eyelashes, that doesn't need to lengthen by mascara, and always yearned by every girls and women. Charcoaled iris but tinged with a little chocolate and some more, doubled eyelids that made his eyes seductive. LOL. Owh, his eyes are prettier than mine!!!


 His lips are really extra-ordinarily ruddy, always cherry-red or bloody-red. Some people may think that he applied lip-gloss or even lip-stick. But it's completely naked and somehow appeared crimson by nature.

He always told me that he's the dazzling star of SMK Sacred Heart, Sibu. Hmm, yeah, somehow he proved that to me when he passed his SPM results with flying colours and also claimed that he's the typical representative of his mother school in every kind of competitions. And for sure, he met many of the elite from every schools.

He's an amateur break-dance apprentice. He always claimed that he's a novice who has ample rooms for improvement. He always has the zing and vim to dance whenever he heard popping music.

He's also a foppish dandy. He always has much concerns on his appearance, visage, coiffure, attire, footwear and apparel. That makes him rather narcissistic and soigne. He can spruce up meticulously and showed up ostentatiously trendy and voguish.

He taught me lots of things and always with great patience. Arguments and quarrels are inevitable in a relationship when there's disagreement. We appreciated each other a lot but sometimes we squabbled a lot too. But we never meet impasse. It's always his effort to resolve the problems. Thanks to him! ^^


 It's because I always try to parry and eschew the problems, which seems menial and petty to me. To me, I've great revulsion towards negative thingy and it's a sore point too.  However, he always try to dig out the scourge of our quarrels and take remedial steps to unriddle our problems. To him, albeit it's a trivial thing, it's analogous to a small snow ball which will ultimately avalanche into great disasters!


 He's always the one who will humble himself and apologize to me in the first place, no matter he's the right or wrong one. How SWEET!


 Sometimes, our grudge stems from my nonchalant frivolity or my lilliputian peccadillo. He always impart to me about his own philosophy and correct my downside, which made me a better person. HEHE. XD


 He always pontificates (as if he's always and only the right one), but every words that he speaks really make sense! OK, I really admire him for this kind of prowess, maybe it's because of his strong belief in Law of Attraction. XD


 He emphasized greatly on communication. He claimed that it's the crux of every relationship. Moreover, what's the use of language? Human invented language because of our deep-seated needs to voice out our thoughts.


 He doesn't want any of those bad feelings to smoulder in between our relationship. Therefore, he will vent out anything that he finds awry so that the it won't turn up to be indelible bad memories that continue to fester in our relationship. Also, he confides everything he knows to me (this act gives supreme secureness to ladies! XD) , he said that he wants me to become the one who understand him the most. =)


 Now, our aspirations are going to become FAIT ACCOMPLI!!! This immense honour is totally attributed to our Dear Heavenly Father. =)

DR LEE

Lord, thank you for this wonderful guy and

help us to gain unparalleled success.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen.

Recovering

I'm now sick of ennui. I really wish that I could recuperatre real soon, get up on my both feet. Now I am like bedridden. But I know I just have to be patient enough.

By the way, I really appreciate a lot for my friedns and relatives who care for me and even vistited me.

I'm touched. =)

And thanks to Bobby Lee, Pauline Chuo, Ho Jia Yi, Victor Ting, Rachel Hii, Ling Rong and my other friends who planned to celebrate my birthday at my house. It's really a surprise! LOL.

p/s: Pauline, your mom's cake and jelly are really appetizing, savory and taste-buds tantalizing!!! XD

Lord, please put your healing hands on me and let me heal soon.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen. =)