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。

Princess Agents

So I just told Qiu how much I wanna watch this Mainland drama. Unfortunately it's still ongoing.

I hate waiting but this time I might just give it a go coz it looks really interesting and the title itself already attracts me.

I'm not sure if I can handle the wait but I wanna try how it feels like to watch a drama ending first-hand without all the spoilers. It's been a long time since I watch an ongoing series lmao (and a Chinese one). sou sou long.

Here's the MV if anyone is interested ;)

Staying alone

ZH flew back to Malaysia this morning with his hsemates, probably landing soon. memisshome

Ice passed her exam yayyy haha I'm so happy for her. (waiting for my result, fingers crossed)

Since she's in Thailand and Zh is not here, I'm gonna stay alone till I fly back haha.

I realised I've never actually lived alone here apart from the first week when I first came to Dublin. 

I was the one who always left Ice alone, my bad.

Research Summer School (RSS) Program started this week, super glad that I'm not working in Beaumont. I've had enough travelling there last semester, not gonna go there again during summer break lmao.

Pretty happy that 3 of us (frank, fletch, me) are working under the same professor, Dr Sam Anya.

We were supposed to do data analysis for malaria in West Africa but prof wanted us to understand malaria better before we actually analyse the data. He gave us one week to write a 10 pg essay and a powerpoint presentation. (sibeh happy sial no need to go office everyday)

"I want you to learn, I don't want you to just do your job and learn nothing from me. Quality is better than quantity." - Dr Sam Anya.

For the past few days, I've been deep cleaning the house, beh tahan the dust lol.

Now that the house is clean, I'm gonna start experimenting different dishes becauseimtoofree.

Made kimchi tgt with zh few days ago (our 2nd batch, 1st batch was last week at zh's place) and it fermented beautifully :') 

The milk in my fridge is gonna expire soon so I made condensed milk today haha.

Still adjusting with 'single' life but I think I'll adjust well.

Summer time

Ello homosapiens ;) 

I've been busy these few months, now it's finally time to chill. 

Week 1 of April was SU campaign week. Sibeh hectic lol no more.  This year's competition was really tough as there were 3 teams running. Our opponents were strong, I didn't think we stand a chance especially for the popularity votes. My team started preparing last year before winter break and we went through some difficult situations where we had to change our members, twice. Everything's paid off when we won lol too bad I wasn't there when they announced, I was in Limerick for badminton intervarsity (week 2). Literally tears of joy when I saw my messenger haha. Losing in semifinals didn't matter anymore ;)

Week 3 there's a 30% quiz, which I clearly didn't prepare enough due to the distractions I've had for the past few weeks (excuses).  Spent the next 2 weeks studying/cursing/dreading for finals. If I don't pass this time, I'll still be around during summer for resit (lol positivity at its best). 加上考试期间收到学校电邮说其他两组投诉我们搞到要找职员调查到底要怎么专心读书嘛。有了权力政治就无所不在啊还以为医学院的学生都慈悲为怀看来我想太多。

Started travelling 2 days after exam to Venice, Rome & Croatia. Venice is a romantic city, love the buildings, love the food. In Rome, the people I've met were mostly rude. Had to watch out for pickpocket 24/7, even the train ticket machine warned you abt it. Vatican city was DA BOOM. The crowd was unbelievable, thank God we bought the skip-line ticket + guide. SO. WORTH. IT. I sibeh gandong when I saw Michael Angelo's painting in Sistine Chapel (had to bear with people mountain people sea but the place's just beautiful). Flew to Croatia for 9 days after Rome, spent 2 nights in Plitvice Park. It reminds me of SAB camping days :) After that we went island hopping in a private yacht with only 8 of us + skipper. It was fun at the beginning but every island looked the same lol, I realised how much I miss Dublin after spending few days on the yacht. 

ZH waited for me at the airport and I couldn't be more pleased :3 It's been roughly a month since we last met due to our schedules etc but he'll be with me till he flies back on 9th June. Summer research is starting next week, can't wait for the allowance to cover up my travel expenses lol. 

I'll be back in August, see y'all then :)

大韩牛

差不多要飞了，应该非常忙吧。

照顾自己什么的也应该听很多次了。

拼命工作之外，也请拼命的玩，拼命的享受。

把全部不好的回忆都留在马来西亚，别带过去了。

一路顺风。肯定会再见的。

那如拖斯篮当 上

Ending Scene

一路来没有特别喜欢她的歌，但这mv＋她的歌声真的搭配的很好（绝对不是因为金秀贤在里面）。我平常不怎么听这类的，可是完全感受到IU想传达的feel，好厉害，这种感觉第一次有。