Stress management: DIY studs

Hi,

Buat medic undeniably sangat stressful most of the time. Bukan at times ye, most of the times. Mostly this is due to study load yang banyak, workload- Leeds suke sangat suruh students buat essay especially Literature Review (now every month kene hantar satu bluuerrghh), penat ulang alik placement yang jauh especially bile 5th year ni NHS takde bajet sangat nak kasi accommodation and stress dengan group mates yang pandai-pandai belaka.

So, now I try my best to be positive, tenangkan fikiran, lapangkan dada dengan buat hobi kegemaran during weekend. Just to keep me sane. Usually, I love baking. But living with just us, two people, its kinda expensive sometimes to buy the ingredients. Lagi murah beli kek siap. LOL. Morrisons choc cake only 3 pounds yang sedap. Beli cooking chocolate utk cake pun 3 pounds gak, belum beli tepung gula whatever lagi utk siapkan sebijik cake haha So yeah. I only bake for special occasion only now. Just for the personal touch ;)

My latest hobby is DIY-ing. Because I am kedekut, I selalunye cari project project DIY yang murah-murah je. haha. My latest DIY is putting studs on my old-boring-looking cardigan. For my first trial, I letak studs ni kat bahu je. Google ajar.

I just learned that studs ni murah je rupanya. The cost for a new studded cardigan can easily be more than 20 pounds. Kat ebay I bought 100 studs for just 2 pound lebih. Buy three for the price of two. Berbaloi jugak lah letak studs ni because its a mindless job and can be addictive too!! In the end, I got a more edgy looking cardigan. hewhew. So, its not just a hobby it can saves you money too.

From my boring-looking cardigan (left) to a better looking one (right)

my other cardigan yang jadi mangsa :D

Now I am buying more studs yang rupe lain skit for my other clothes. Hehe. So, if you are stressed and feels like doing something meaningful (at least for me), have a try. Who knows :)

bye now taaa~

5th Year Medical Student

Salam and hi,

I have not been writing in my blog for aaagees now. I mean yes, literally about 2 years. Right after I got married to be exact. It felt somehow good to be back. 

Last year was not so good academically. I struggled a bit to get through the year. But Alhamdulillah, I managed to pass. All praise to Allah. In Leeds, we have something called sequential test. Its an additional test for those who did not do so well in the first attempt of examination, not necessarily meant that they have failed though. I thought I got bare pass for my first exam. Thats why I have to sit for the sequential. I have to do the OSCE one (thank god!) cause doing the written examination for the second time would be worser for me. 

We have all kind of specialties rotations in 4th year. They were obs&gynae&sexual health, paediatrics, acute and critical care, cancer and continuing care, and psychiatry. Of all these 5 rotations, I did not like any one of them. Poor me. I literally thinking about quiting medicine all year long. That bad.

Now, in 5th year. I think things has improved. I learned to like my rotation now. I have cardiology and gastroenterology these 2 months in Pinderfields hospital. I need to mention that this hospital is absolutely superb! They have free breakfast everyday. free shuttle from leeds to the hospital, free lunch occasionally, free drinks everyday (my favourite is ribena!), and they have a proper prayer room inside the hospital (a real necessity for me). The people in here also are a bit nicer than the previous hospitals that I have been to. I don't want to mention any names. hewhew

However, the negative thing about the rotation is the SSC. We need to produce 3000 words SSC in 2 weeks time, have to find our own time without compromising the placement. Its a madness. I am so plagiarising everything to write my ssc. And I just hope I'll pass all of them. 

ok thats it. bye2

Milan tour

Salam and hi,

This post basically is for me having my memories back. kahkah. Behave efi behave. I always lupe apa I buat bila travel. Lagi banyak tempat pergi, lagi lupe ape yang dah buat. Bila orang tanye, I macam "erm erm...well, you can google you know. I pun buat macam tu dulu before pergi" haha Padahal sendiri sudah lupa. So, rasa macam baik buat something sebelum penyakit ni lagi bertambah teruk. huhu

Alrite. So, ni ialah sambungan Italy tour last year. This time, kami ke Milan pulak. We went there by train from Rome. Rase perjalanan macam 12 hours jugak. Overnight dalam train je. Patah pinggang jugak la tido satu malam atas kerusi. Loya-loya dah bile sampai kat Milan. haha. But, of course bila masuk je toilet, basuh muke, gosok gigi ok dah. Cuz we dont stay in Milan that long (tak overnight pun), so kitorang terus naik tube Milan pergi ke Stadium Milan. Good thing Milan provide tube map dekat train station, so senang jugak la ke sini.

Tak ingat perjalanan berape minit, but rase dalam 30 mins or so je. hehe. Akhirnya setelah berpenat lelah dari Rome, sampai jugak ke Stadium Milan. Mule-mule cam tak sure nak masuk ke tak dalam stadium sebab kena bayar 25Euro rasenye untuk tour stadium. But, alang-alang da sampai once in a lifetime, masuk je la walaupun time ni almost pokai dah. haha

 I yang ayu

 budak-budak yang tak ayu

 melompat keriangan sangat

 layan jer :D

again 

and again

 dalam stadium

 dalam stadium lagi. Kaka nye jersey kat belakang

 gossip depan-depan orang

 rase cam lagi cool kalau dok tangga

 ni photographer yang cun

 antare dalam stadium punye pemandangan

 kerusi-kerusi stadium

 kedai official dalam mahal, kedai kat lua stadium murah sket kiki

After dah puas merayau-rayau dalam Stadium Milan, kami pun pergi ke Milan Cathedral. Tempat ni memang favourite pelancong cam kitorang sebab gabak gile church die. Style gothic yang cantik gitu. Rugi jugak la kalo tak jejak kaki ke sini kan. One more, sini macam tempat pembiakan burung merpati sebab banyak gile burung merpati kat sini. Cam boleh pijak-pijak je. Naseb baik kitorang macam ade roti lebih, cam syok jugak la kalau bagi burung merpati makan kan. Walaupun nampak cambest, sebenarnye takut jugak bile banyak sangat burung tu kerumun. Rase cam kene kepung by evil birds yang lahap mahukan makanan. 

 kasi makan kasi makan

Milan Cathedral from front

.....malas kasi caption dah pasni hahahaha

tak tau ni muke excited sangat atau muke tgh takut sangat kasi burung makan gagaga

itu mamat tgh cankung tgk che kasi makan

roti yang kami hancuskan

I geli-geli bile burung patuk-patuk. Terpaksa orang pegang tangan so tak gegar-gegar kegelian. Nanti shaking sangat gamba

Et memang always cool jeee

Seronok la kat sini. Milan pun memang cantik. Rugi jugak singgah sekejap je. But I guess, Italy as overall memang cantik pun. Banyak tempat berbaloi pergi. Makanan halal quite senang cari. Barang ade murah ade mahal of course. Orang-orang walaupun tak boleh cakap English and tak mesra alam sangat, but like I care sgt la kan. Gune je la map mencari-cari tempat. Independent skit. Hehe Walaupun ade experience dicopet duit jugak kat dalam train (ulil nye experience), but I guess we can learn from that. Never evah letak dompet dalam poket belakang especially for the guys. 

Perbelanjaan for trip ke Italy ni ade lah dalam 400pound sorang. But 8 days kot. Include accommodation, transport, makan, beli souvenir, bayar-bayar etc yang dah tak ingat... Memang not bad la. Maybe sebab kitorang 4 orang so memang senang sikit bile bahagi bile bayar something. Contoh macam naik teksi ke Airport sume senang la kan (maximum passenger taxi 4 orang jeks)

Ape lagi nak merepek. hmmmm. takde dah kot. Rindu jalan-jalan. I will definitely go to other countries in the next term!! Azam tinggi hahaha

efi

Strawberry Fruit Picking

Salam and hi,

Dah bosan menulis esei bahase inggeris, nak tulis melayu rojak lak sekarang! hehe. Ok, due hari lepas me, my other half, izzaty, sue, n supposely hanis (but demam on the day so x pergi), halim, ulil, remy, daus and wan farah plan untuk pergi fruit picking kat York. Ni je tempat paling dekat dengan Leeds and paling senang nak reach by public transport. Well, patutnya nak sewa kereta tapi tak sangka yang seramai ni orang yang pergi sekali. Mula-mula serious plan 5 orang je. haha

From Leeds, we took the train to York yang berkala 20 minit sekali and naik bus no 10 from York Train Station. Disebabkan semua pun tak pernah pergi, so, I bukak jugaklah google maps takut sesat barat tak tau nak turun mane. Thank goodness for UK's good internet networking. So, bila nak dekat-dekat dengan Hemsley Gate tu boleh lah kring-kring bas panggil attention driver bas tu soh berenti. kiki

Here's the pictures. 

Strawberry kat farm ni memang comel-comel belako. Merah and manis. Rasa macam nak jadi pekebun strawberry pulak sebab seronok tengok buah-buah comel ni. haha. Bayaran untuk masuk tempat ni free. Kita just kene bayar ikut berat strawberry yang kite petik je. Kalau banyak amek, banyaklah kena bayar. 1kg = 3.95 pound. Agak-agak la nanti. hehe.

Farm ni banyak lagi tanaman lain. Tapi sebab kitorang pergi time Mid June, buah-buah lain belum sampai masa untuk dipetik lagi. Maybe kalu pergi bulan Ogos cambest lagi sebab banyak lagi buah lain yang boleh petik, such as Rhubarb, gooseberries, raspberries dll

Check it out Here

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If perasan, gambar-gambar terakhir tu ade crowd yang ramai kat jalan kan? Kitorang pun just got lucky baru tau yang time tu olympic torch relay akan berlaku in about 1 hour in York City. Fewit. Memang nampak la kesemangatan rakyat Britain ni menyambut count down hari-hari sehingga Olympic. Bukan selalu kan berlaku. Olympic dah lah 4 tahun sekali. And nak jadi host tu, bukan senang. hewhew. 

And fun fact is: The olympic torch tu sebenarnye diterbangkan khas dengan keadaan masih bernyala api die dari Greece ke UK. Untuk menyalakan api die pon ade special ritual die kat Greece. Api torch tu dinyalakan dari altar of Goddess, Hera. Then, dibawa ke seluruh Greece sebagai pengumuman yang Olympic akan diadakan in specific duration of time.  Torch tu pulak nanti disambut oleh orang-orang besar Britain (btw, Beckham pun ade sekali haha) and then diorang hand-over torch tu kat host Olympic supaya diorang dapat bawak torch tu ke seluruh Britain. This is to announce yang kepada rakyat Britain tentang Olympic yang bakal menjelma. ahaks.

By the way, torch tu antara simbol paling bermakna untuk perlawanan game Olympic ni and lastly, akan ditayangkan ke satu dunia semasa opening Olympic. So, lets watch it bebeh.

this is the olympic torch UK

I like rituals and traditions. I like being ancient hehe

K tats all

efi