Dr Sattar

I had a scrub group last Thursday and it kinda clashed with my lecture. Luckily it ended early so I was able to attend the last 15 mins of surgery lecture abt head injury, our first lecture with Dr Sattar.

This old man has long, white beard prob near retiring age. To my surprise, his lecture was so good that it got me hooked within that 15 mins, the only lecturer after Prof Leader whom I actually like the way they teach. Anyway, I told Addy abt my pleasant discovery and he asked me to search his name on Google.

I did. Thank goodness I did it after some revision.

Apparently, Dr Sattar lost his entire family (wife and 3 children arrd me n my sibling's age) due to arson attack 4 years ago. 8 teenagers (yup, oldest 24 youngest 17) wanna seek revenge for their buddy who got killed hours before the attack BUT THEY FOUND THE WRONG HOUSE.

It happened in Leicester at midnight coz the children studied there and the father was in Dublin, still working in the hospital (he's a neurosurgeon btw) when they informed him abt the tragedy.

I was stoned when I saw the news, couldn't imagine that happened to him. I started stalking all the news that were related to this case. He's a devoted Muslim (good one) and was quite popular among the local community. During the funeral he said "I am not angry, yes my heart is broken. I cried a few times today carrying the coffins of my family (but) I am going to continue the work my wife and my children have left for me." Since then, he dedicated his life to our hospital and his religion. 

I was beyond impressed at how strong his mentality must be to be able to endure and move on after such tragedy in 4 years time. However, the part that got me really upset was the comment section below. Random people with racist comments saying that he deserved it coz he's a Muslim etc, worse still, those were the comments that got many likes.  I had adrenaline rush reading those comments and totally lost my study mood. 

lol I spammed Addy's messenger for almost an hour after that to release my anger. 谁叫他跟我讲 :P Anyway,  I respect Dr Sattar even more after knowing his story. Will defo go to all of  his lectures from now on.  

四个多月后

我这是多久没写部落格了啊。。。

搬家也搬了，新学期也不新了，考试也考几次了。事情接踵着来，虽然忙，浪费的时间也不少哈哈。

最近终于搞掂了明年的 research elective， 在新加坡。下学期我们会有三个 block: 1 research + 2 rotations。 因为天时地利人和的关系，第一个 block拿research 是最明智的选择，所以我争取了block 1。8th Jan - 16th Feb 在 SGH，19 号之前必须回到爱尔兰。新加坡那边超麻烦的application真的给了我不少麻烦，不过为了回家和短暂的新年，再苦也值得。

学生会的事除了开学前几个礼拜和一些活动之外基本上就没那么忙了。 上个礼拜才参加了PMCSA game，我打篮排羽。 这是RCSI和UCD的“友谊赛”。在这比赛之前练了一个多月的篮球和排球，羽球就照平时club training。羽球对到了新加坡国手，结果我就不多说哈哈，至少其他人都赢了 4-1 羽球那边我方获胜。排球包括我在内，大多数都是菜鸟，结果也可想而知，不过很好玩。篮球是我练得最开心的，有种完成to-do-list 的感觉吧。想当年看slam dunk 的自己，一直都很想学篮球的说。比赛我们赢了，30-29，好险，那时激动的心情挺感动的。

哦对，十二月大考后我会找冯几天，然后回马。原本父母要来的，不过基于种种因素就变成了我飞回去，20号晚上到，一月一号凌晨再飞回来。

有点奇葩，但我回来上了一个礼拜课（听说不能skip）后，又飞回去for我的 research。
现在是一有机会就想回家，可能上次回不够，回去了又忙，没好好享受。加上明年夏天大概不会回去了，因为要准备一个额外的考试叫USMLE。 为了让自己以后有更多的选择吧，这考试除非fail了才能重考，啊不然要等七年才能刷新record。这次夏天很多senior 都是因为这考试而没回去，明年就到我了哈哈。

现在几乎每两三个礼拜就有30%的考试，下一个是拜一，得准备了。啊不然final剩余的70%很煎熬。

不论是为了什么，我们都一起加油吧。