New Dean of Kulliyyah of Medicine

IIUM Kulliyyah of Medicine will be gatting a new dean soon!!!

This is because Prof Tahir is promoted to the post of Deputy Rector (Academic Affairs), if I'm not mistaken. The farewell ceremony for Prof Tahir was held in Auditorium KOM two days ago (Nazhan attended the ceremony as MSC President)...

As for who will replace him, a trusted source said Prof Fauzi is the most probable candidate. Dr Naznin will be taking back the post of Deputy Dean (Academic). Prof Nasa will remain as Deputy Dean of Student Affairs and Prof Naseer Amjad will be replacing Prof Ariff - who wants to be back in the Dept of Anaesthesiology - as Deputy Dean of Research.

However, these names are not finalized yet. Just wait and see...

Malaysian History

While I was just surfing the blogs this week, I found an interesting blog about Malaysian History....
You can read about the important events that leads to the building of our society today. Let's relearn our history from a new perspective which is not taught in school. I have added the blog in my sociopolitics link..

Some pics from Sg Lembing

Hari ni baru dpt publish gambar2 nih... Bukan apa, malas nk edit jer sebenarnya. Gambar yg lawa skt tu amik dgn kamera Acap.
Our mode of transportation.... the red striking Satria!!!


Kontrol macho sblom mendaki.... pakaian tak sesuai... haha.



View dr halfway-up........


View atas puncak....


Gaya Musa'ab lompat katak....



Posing depan fire hidrant dlm lombong...

Gambar kenangan depan muzium sblom balik....

Welcome Arep the blogger

I've just added Arep to my blogroll. Hope everyone can visit him and give support. He has been blogging for quite some time, just didn't know how to advertise. Let's read out his thought and know him better. I think most of the sisters don't really know Arep as he's quite reserved himself. Haha...

The Historical Sg. Lembing

Last weekend, Arep, Acap, Musab & I went to Sg Lembing. It was Acap's idea. It's just so boring in Kuantan with nothing to do and with so few people. I just tagged along to get away from the ultimate boredom... I hadn't been to Sg Lembing before, although it was just about 35km from Kuantan.

That was the first time in 4 yrs... We departed from Pak Lah at around 8.30am. With Arep's driving, it took us about 45min to reach Sungai Lembing. The town is quite isolated from other towns. It is surrounded by secondary forest and connected to Kuantan by a narrow winding road (seems that I exaggerated a bit). It can also be accessed from other smaller road from Panching.

The town is an old town with shophouses from the British era. Most of the residents are Chinese with a few Malays. Near the town centre, there is a British-Indian-style old Masjid Jamek. The market was dominated by Chinese and from my point of view, the town is quite similar to Benta in Raub.

We started our activity by climbing the panoramic Bukit Panorama. It is located just at the back of the town, about 1km from the town centre. I didn't wear suitable clothes to climb the hill because I thought it was just like walking up a not so tall hill. However, Arep and I regretted it. The hill was so tall and the stairs was steep (luckily there were stairs although not complete to the top). However, in a pair of jeans, t-shirt and jogging sneakers I managed to reach the top in 30min (I had to stop a few times to catch my breath in between). The 'amoi's who we met while climbing up said they took about an hour to reach the top. Luckily, we managed to save our faces despite our unfitness.

We spent for about 15min at the top taking photos and enjoying ourselves with the beautiful panorama. I tried to upload some pics here but the internet connection is not good. Maybe I'll share the pics some other time. Walking downwards was a lot faster than climbing up. It took us about 15min to be at the foothill again where we parked the car.

After taking a short rest and cooling down, we headed to Muzium Sungai Lembing. The museum exhibits the mining activities that were once the pride of Sungai Lembing. In the old days, the town was one of the busiest and most prosperous town in Pahang. It had one of the largest underground tin mine in the region. However, due to the drop of tin price and reduced production of tin in the 1980's, the mine had to be closed down and many residents fled the town. Most of those staying changed their job into agricultural activities. Currently, Sungai Lembing is a cowboy town dominated by the elderly.

After that, we drove around to look at the site of the old mine. The mine was not open for visitors as it was more than a hundred years old and needed major conservation before it was safe to be visited. We just go back to Kuantan after that and didn't have the time to take a dip in the river b'coz we wanted to have a good rest before going to Sri's brother wedding ceremony.

A month of silence

It's been a month since I last posted an article. I just could not be consistent in blogging... (not only blogging, but I'm also not consistent in many things). In the past month my energy indicator dropped from full to just above zero... The past week was the lowest.

For the first two weeks of the remedial, I was in Temerloh joining the 3rd yr group in the paediatric posting. I was quite sceptical at first how they would treat Nazhan and I. But they are really friendly, we were not alienated. I'm not talking about the boys b'coz I've known most of them well since my second yr. All of them really treated us like we are part of them. I was quite happy.

In Temerloh, they really enjoyed themselves going to Genting, elephant sanctuary in Kuala Gandah and also Deerland in Lanchang. Nazhan and I did not join them as we come back to Kuantan in the weekend (as expected of someone who has a family... haha). In the last week in Temerloh, we all had BBQ at night in the sisters' house. Everyone joined and took part in the grilling... a nice memory.

In the 3rd week, we were back in Kuantan. On the first day in HTAA, all of us were demoralized, being scolded by Dr Selva in the early Monday morning surely not the way you want to start your day.... However, the rest of the week ended smoothly. Last week was Papa Zain's week. I really can't stand the long hours of preaching. Haha... My energy level must really near zero, I skipped two days of his bedside teaching ans seminars. If Prof Wahab found out about this, I would be dead. Hehe...

It'll be 2 weeks more before this posting ends, I hope I can recharge myself today. There're so many things to read and I really really lack of practice in the shortcase. Have to struggle in the last fortnight. Chayyok, chayyok. Aja aja fighting......