Sushi overdose at Robot Sushi

Finally, my sushi cravings have been answered. There was a buy 1 free 1 sushi offer on Tuesdays at Robot Sushi on Tuesdays. We quickly headed over to one of its branches at 1Utama right after work.

With its ultra-modern layout, it somehow accurately depicts what Japan is all about - technology and its unique food.

Between the both of us, we ordered 6 plates of sushi all together. I wouldn't have ordered that much if it wasn't for the buy 1 free 1 offer. The sushi were delicious and the beautiful presentation was an added bonus.

All the different types of sushi. The ingredients were fresh and taste not bad. Was a bit disappointed with the cream cheese sushi but the rest were not bad. We liked Avatar the most. The ocha (green tea) was refillable. I liked how they served the wasabi paste in beautifully cut carrot flowers.

The meal came up to about RM30 each. It's really cheap considering the amount that we ordered. In the end, we even got vouchers of RM10 off for the next meal. Anyone care for more sushi on Tuesdays?

I really hate

patients who can be so selfish that not only they don't treasure their own life, they don't even care about the risks they bring to their loved ones. Go to hell!!!

CNY food post

Celebrating Chinese New Year at home felt just like yesterday. How I miss collecting Ang Pows. Hahahaha.

This beautifully decorated area which looks like a scene from a Chinese movie is actually in MidValley shopping centre. Very impressive.

Reminded me of my past where I used to make my parents follow the truck carrying the lion dance equipments and dancers cause I loved to watch the performance.

Pasta Zanmai - This unique restaurant chain serves fusion Japanese-Italian food. I ordered the Mini Hotpot Seafood Noodles with Crabmeat Tortilla Roll topped with Spicy Mayannaise. Delicious!

Attended RHBcap Market Chat. The atmosphere felt like I was in a real stock market looking at all the live charts. Got a lot of tips and pointers to adjusting my portfolio.

Thanks to my colleague LC, we had Malaysian version of Western food at Gaga roadside stall. Really delicious pork chop for just RM 10.50. Had my first drink of Cincau since I got back.

Pork noodles at Petaling Jaya.




I'm still searching for Japanese buffet around my area cause I miss Japanese food. Malaysian sushi is still much nicer as compared to the Tesco in UK as they use authentic Japanese rice even if it's sold at supermarkets. Had too much of Wasabi at one point that I almost cried.

The Loaf - Tried the newly introduced Tuna Bun topped with olives for RM 1.60 each. So cheap as compared to the usual price of RM 3.20. There was Croque Monsieur available too but I didn't try it. 

My grandmother came to stay with us for a few days over Chinese New Year and she enjoyed tasting all sorts of food including the previous Tuna Bun. I even cooked Babi Pongteh, a Baba Nyonya dish for her to try. That piece of pork was put to great use as my practice area for suturing. Hahaha. No worries, STO (sutures to open) was carried out prior to cooking.

This afternoon, after my half day at work, we went to the corner shop at Petaling Jaya for lunch. The food there was reasonably priced and delicious! I really like the Dried version of Yee Mee which had enough topping on it and the sauce was just nice. We tried the wrapped popiah with seaweed which was something different.

I was really proud of myself yesterday cause I did my first lumbar puncture successfully on first try under supervision from my nice MO. It was my prof who gave me that opportunity even though I was quite nervous about it at first and didn't expect her to be so confident of me. Really, I will definitely miss PICU after moving to orthopaedics next. Who knows I will be carrying manipulation under Bier's block for Colles' fracture or even amputations. Hmmmmm.....

I'm still yet to have my beef noodles cause it's so difficult to find beef in PJ as most Chinese are Buddhists here. At least there's no recurrence of that same dream of searching for beef noodles in my dreams. 

I wished I had more holidays

Started oncall on Sunday, first day after my 4 days leave for Chinese New Year, with 3 exchange transfusions, 2 times for the same patient and another time on a new admission which came in the middle of the night. Didn't even get to rest. All the work was non-stop till Monday and I went home totally drained.

Tuesday, I was almost forced to go oncall as someone took emergency leave. Was too tired and too busy on the ward. Luckily didn't have to go oncall. Managed to sneaked home at 8.30pm. Seriously, I don't know how can people function that long hours and not make mistakes. I get so irritated when we complain and the seniors will answer with, 'Back in the days when I was a house officer.......'. Times have changed and I rather get treated by a well rested medical personnel then someone who is struggling to stay awake.

The eczema on the back of my hands are getting bad again. They have improved tremendously over the 4 days of rest that I had over CNY. All that recovery down the drain. I have been wanting to seek medical treatment but just don't have the time. The irony!

Was thrown to another ward to help out today as one of the senior HO was on emergency leave leaving a freshly started HO on the ward. Felt so frustrated as the patient's folders keep going missing and I wasted loads of time just trying to search for them. I think I ended up doing 2 house officers workload today. SO TIRED! I'm still wondering how was the house officer training in the past. It's just physically impossible to become that efficient and to care for that many patients without compromising some parts of care. Maybe their clerking was super duper brief at that time.

I miss the times before work. We're so underpaid and under appreciated. We live on passion to care for mankind alone!

Note: Do not consider a profession in medicine in Malaysia if you require food, water and rest to live.

Dreaming

'Let's go to have beef noodles. I know a shop which is famous for it along this street', as I enthusiastically led my colleague down the street.

We approached this rundown wooden shack with its low zinc roof  looking so out of place surrounded by modern shop lots and yet it so lively with customers having their meal, cooks preparing the dishes and waiters running up and down.

'Why don't we try this place instead of the corner shop down the road?', I asked my colleague and we made our way inside.

I counted my lucky stars as there were empty seats. Taking in the aroma of the boiling beef soup which was stimulating my saliva glands, I searched for the stall's owner to take our orders.....

Then, I opened my eyes, after all that walking and hunting for seats, I'd just turned 45 degrees from my initial sleeping position after hibernating post-call. Haih.....I was so close to having beef noodles and I could actually smell it!

That was how I started my 4 days leave for Chinese New Year with such a funny dream post-call. Hahahahahaha. Beef noodles anyone?

Gong Xi Fa Cai and may the year of the rabbit bring good luck to everyone!

Last oncall before leave

How i wished everyone is out of town with their kids. then i won't be that busy today till Wednesday morning. want to take leave also so difficult.

Sat in the ambulance for the first time yesterday but it was only for a short distance to bring a patient from A&E up to the ward. It's been crazy again recently but I'm glad that I'm on leave very soon. Hehehehe.

Gong Xi Fa Cai everyone!

I'm living a dream experience

I've removed a chest drain under local anaesthetic and closing the wound with one stitch, removed a CVL, completed 4 transfer summaries, finished my usual jobs as a HO on Paeds ICU, all within the span of 12 hours on a normal working day. This is the first time that I actually felt that I've accomplished a lot and am proud of it. Not sure what else will I be expected to do next.

I'll be going oncall tomorrow from 9am onwards and will only be able to collapse on my bed on Monday evening. This will be followed by oncall on Tuesday till Wednesday morning when my leave officially starts for Chinese New Year! Yay!!! The only sad part to this is, I'm immediately oncall the day I return to work. Haih...

Even after complaining about the workload during the first poster's meeting with the Deputy Director of the Hospital, he said that my complaints sounded like a dream experience. So, complaints have little effect on anything.

I'll be going oncall 8 times this month, including the call tomorrow. This is a dream experience. (Repeats to self) This is a dream experience. (Repeats to self). This is a dream experience.....(will continue brain washing myself till this becomes real)

Frustrated

There's just too many people out there in this world who will manipulate the situation for their own benefits in the expense of others. I've learned that it doesn't pay to be nice. So, if I cannot win them, join them and be as selfish.

Suffering in silence will never be appreciated and some may even take advantage of it. Always try to get something in return for favours asked. Never be as stupid as me.

I never went looking for change but change came looking for me and now my heart is infected. I've turned cold.

Exam for docs won’t cause brain drain

Exam for docs won’t cause brain drain

I'm sure I'm not the first one who wished that this exam was implemented earlier. Such a big potential loophole for scholars who do not wish to do their housemanship in Malaysia after graduation. We can choose to fail this examination in the act of free will and thus deem incompetent to practice in our homeland. Just joking. There are many reasons why we choose to come back instead of serving in a foreign land.

Change of topic.

Almost 3 months into my training and I'm still grumbling and complaining every single day. I blame tiredness for sucking away each and every passion I have for medicine and helping mankind. There are still occasions where I'd reached my breaking point and almost walk away from whatever cruel act that I was carrying out on screaming and crying children or some who are too weak to even make a sound. There are also times when I'd just turned cold blooded and went ahead without caring about their pleas to finish the job so that I can go home postcall. Seriously, I don't know how long inhumane working hours can provide optimum training for house officers. Most of the time, nothing gets absorbed by the organ sitting between the ears.

House officers are not distributed evenly in Malaysia. Seriously, they're not. I hear others boasting about only 4 calls a month, having time to play football, never covering a ward alone. I can only say that the grass is always greener on the other side. I should start accepting my own fate and stop complaining. Our seniors had it worse. I wished that there is a labour law in Malaysia safe guarding sufficient resting time. With the numbers of HOs now, I'm sure we have the capacity to implement safer working hours.

I wonder how many patients realised the dangers of overworked doctors and some even complained that we switch on the lights in the middle of the night while administering IV drugs and even on our technique of drugs giving. Am I supposed to administer drugs in the dark? I almost encourage the father of a patient to lodge an official complaint when he said, 'If you don't know how to administer IV drugs, then don't administer!' when I accidentally caused some backflow into the 3-way tap. Well, I can guarantee that none of the house officers has had proper training in IV drugs administration prior to any of our oncalls. We learnt it from each other. Another thing about some nurses, they're not supportive at all. Some don't even carry out their jobs properly and yet they start criticising you for minor mistakes, even scold you for wrong techniques and worse of all, when you ask them for help, they complain first and then reluctantly drag themselves over to help. That's counted lucky, try walking over to the nurses station to ask for a hand and end up not getting any thus patient's mother had to help out instead. Hmmmmmm......that's professionalism for you.

I was really angry at one occasion when I was asked to remove a umbilical artery catheter from a few days old infant during my oncall and the nurse told me that usually the house officer removes it. I'd never done one before but was pushed (or you can say coerced) by the nurse to do it. Only advice that she gave me when I asked where was the appropriate place to start cutting she said 'Just cut lah!'. Great, whatever happens to this poor baby will be my fault and I wonder who was the super enthusiastic doctor who tied so many knots. When I face the blade toward the catheter, the nurse started scolding me cause I might cut the catheter but it was impossible to even get in between the thread, so when I asked her how else should I cut, she couldn't even suggest anything. Luckily, my oncall MO came to the rescue in the end when I gave up and looked for him for help. Even then, no one taught me the right way of removing until today!!!!! I love my ward's MOs cause they're so helpful and they teach you the correct method before setting you off into the wild. That should be the way. It's only then I felt glad ending up at Paeds ICU ward despite all the stress and long working hours. Will make the best of my placement there.

I'm apologising to all my patients as I am forced to make you my guinea pigs most of the time due to poor training provided for housemans.

Makan-makan

Food to recharge on weekend half-days when I get the chance to breath some fresh air. Been working non-stop for at least a month and only got 1 day off on Christmas day to step foot into my own house.

Corner shop at SS. If you go to the one with most people waiting for empty seats, then you won't be wrong. The food there is delicious but very expensive considering the portion and price. Don't order the Wan Ton Mee if the chef is not manning the kitchen himself as the noodles I had was too soggy.

You don't have to go all the way to Ipoh to have the best Tauge (beansprout) Chicken Rice. You can find this branch really near to UMMC. Do order the meat balls as it's delicious. It's pork minced with dried squid in delicious broth made of squid too. Yummy. Not forgetting to mention that the beansprouts here are really short, fat and juicy.

We complained to our waiter that the last time we ordered half a chicken (RM16), it didn't come with a drumstick and he guaranteed that if we didn't get our drumstick this time, we can ask for a refund. Hahahaha. One of the best chicken rice in town! Highly recommended. The meat is soft, juicy and flavourful.

I am a big fan of Beef Noodles and this is the 2nd best beef noodles that I've eaten so far. Located at Petaling Street, one small run-down shop with loads of people waiting for seats.

Oncall again tomorrow!!!!! I hate it. Been oncall on Friday into Saturday and I've been hibernating the whole of today to recharge for tomorrow. How I wish that I can sleep as long as I want and whenever I feel like it. Miss those good old days of medical school and prior to starting housemanship. Hehehehe.

Working is more than just doing your job and playing your role. Having irresponsible colleagues really make life difficult. Just because of some people who decides to not do their own calls this weekend as they're back in their hometown, I have to do an extra call tomorrow. If I can, I would strangle them alive. At least that's a better reason for not being able to do calls.