Demam Babi Klasik

Demam Babi Klasik is Classical Swine Fever or Hog Cholere disease of pig. Pig Medicine was the last paper for my final exam this year and thats marked the end of DVM year 4. Thats also mean, i'm no longer DVM4, I'm going to DVM 5 when i come back next semester. Time flies! 7 papers of the semester had been successfully answered (whether meet the standard or not i don't know) for the past two weeks. And honestly this semester is the 'most relax' final exam so far even the timetable was quite packed as compared to previous years. I woke up in the morning, went to the library to study (kononnya, PC monitor --> facebook, Euro updates, emails, etc) and by 5pm i will go back to college, had dinner, watch some episodes of drama and off to bed as early as 9-10pm. Thats how my 2weeks of exam was. At night i almost didn't study at all, thanx to the timetable coz all all my second week exams were in the afternoon. Besides revising for my finals, i also busy checking on seniors who were having their COMPREHENSIVE EXAM, the biggest exam of vet student's life and the most crucial one. By just looking at them make me nervous because at the same time next year will be MY TURN! Scary really. 


See now, i have more things to think of. My clinical conference cases, which most of my mates already have at least one. Me none still, and hopefully i will find one during this holiday when i'm going out for practical. Not only clinical conference, i have to start think of my Final Year Project topic.  Hahaha.. the thinking process can wait. I shall enjoy myself before i step up to DVM 5. I have to extended my stay in college as i need to settle my pathology attachment in the faculty. Hopefully this time around i will get to see cases as during my whole year of dvm 4 rotation, my group did not get any PM case. After that i'll be off to Indonesia for volunteer work at International Animal Rescue (Primates Rescue Center). I'll be attached there for 1 whole month of July and i'm getting excited now. Hopefully everything will go just fine. After one-month-get-away in Indonesia, i'll be back in Malaysia for another event by the faculty. For this particular program we will partner up in student from France and help them around with their project. So mine will be ruminant and will be covering Selangor and Negeri Sembilan. Again, whole new experience, to work with the French.

I'll update again later. Maybe just before i start to think of my clinical conference and FYP.

They Don't Judge You, So Why Jugde 'em?!

 In the '70s they blamed Dobermans,

in the '80s they blamed German Shepherds,

in the '90s they blamed Rottweilers. 

Now they blame the Pit Bull."

When are they going to blame the HUMANS!!!

                                                                                                                         

~ Cesar Millan (The Dog Whisperer)

They Don't Judge You, So Why Jugde 'em?!

** Photos courtesy of Google Image ;)

Something Stupid

Last week i received a Volunteer Guidelines from International Animal Rescue of Indonesia. I'm so excited about it so instead of revising for final exam i went through the 34-pages manual on things that i should and should not do before i register myself at the rescue center in 2weeks time. As part of the requirement for the volunteer before they can work with other people from around the globe we have to get vaccinated against certain diseases as recommended by WHO. As Malaysia is quite a 'unique' country by itself so we do not usually compulsory to get that certain vaccination. For example, Hepatitis A and B. I can't remember whether or not i got vaccinated against those two diseases. But again, if let say i want to get vaccination against Hep B, i have to get myself checked for antibody titre. So here the story begins *what a lengthy introduction, if this is exam answer script sure my lecturer will deduct my mark for the unnecessary introduction*. So I plan to get myself checked on the next day after my paper. I had my friend of mine dropped me at the University Health Center (PKU) located somewhere near the one of the colleges. Well i did not stay anyway near the colleges, as the vet students will be placed together with students from medical faculty in 17th College, about 15minutes bus away from the main campus. So in conclusion UPM is VERY BIG! So i went to get myself checked and i can only get the result after 4working days. So, it was time for me to go back as i got nothing else to do. I stepped out of the PKU building i saw one bus coming from the opposite way and stop just across the building when i am. I saw bunch of students rushing to get onto the bus, well normal phenomena in UPM, students cramped in a bus, a bit worst than 'tin sardin'. So, i ran towards the bus without even thinking and try to get on the bus myself and competing with the students and yay, i managed to get up even i can't secure a sit. But good enough, i'm in the bus and i do not have to wait any longer for another bus which i don't know what time the next one will be. I looked around, all look very young and fresh, so i told myself freshies kot. But who cares, but somehow some of them looked at me with weird look, who cares? I don't... I played with my phone as the bus started to move. After a few minutes of ride, i noticed that the bus took a different way, but i don't dare to ask anything because me myself do not have a very good sense of direction so i thought to myself maybe it just a different way that i don't know or its just the normal way that they usually used that i don't know 'cause that the first time i used their bus. So who cares? I don't, as long as I get to my destination. As the bus went further i started to panicked as the bus went towards the highway (pass by the UPM stadium) which mean really away from the main campus (see, my sense of direction is not that bad after all). Still i refused to ask other students in the bus, but there were still weird looks. SHIT! The first thing came out quite loud as the bus make the turn into the entrance of Ladang 16, where usually i go for my ruminant rotation. HOLY SHIT! What the hell is going on here! To calm myself, i still telling myself that maybe the driver just want to drop some student at the farm and then will get back to main campus after. Ain't that a stupid of thought?! The bus stopped inside the farm and half of the group get down the bus and half still sitting there. So, with all my gut i asked one of the girl;

''Dik, lepas ni bus ni pergi mane? - Sis, where will this bus go after this?''
''Tak pergi mane-mane. Sini je la. - No where else. It'll be here''
'' Eh, tak pergi main campus ke?" - Shouldn't this bus go to the main campus?"
" Takla, ni bus khas untuk kelas kitorang" - No, this is the special bus for my class.'


Shit! I got on the wrong bus!!!!!! And on a special BUS with a group of students that are 'classed' together except ME!!! That moment i think, most of my blood was pumped up to my face *my system must be confused with what's happening* I just can't explain how i felt that point of time. Interestingly, why on earth nobody is telling me that i'm on the wrong bus, and what am i the weird stranger doing on a class-trip-bus??? Why why why???? Why you no tell me? That was the biggest joke of my life as a student so far. EPIC! So i went to the driver and asked him whether or not he will go back to the college, where i got on the bus or the main campus anytime soon. He said he will not go anywhere and will wait for the student to finish. What time that will be, 5pm?? Then, what should i do there, wait weirdly at the farm, as i am their supervisor like that. Damn it, what should i do. 2minutes later, the driver told me that he wanted to go and refill petrol, so i told him to drop me at the farm entrance and i called a friend which is kind enough to help me to pick me up at the entrance. I'm so sorry to disturb your nap time Shaqie. I'm thinking of walking back to college, but come to think of it, its quite far and very hot, 3.45pm. Thanks to this friend of mine for willingly to pick the stupid-stranger from the farm entrance.

Well from the this map, the crescent sign is the PKU, where i did my Hep B screening and I supposed to take bus to somewhere near Faculty of Food Science and Technology (North of the map) before i can get a bus to my college but that lucky day i went to you see the round about at the bottom right of the map?, just 1-2minutes in front of it is the entrance to Ladang 16, that is where my "main campus' is.

What a stupid mistake. EPIC!!!!

On the Day of Seniors' Oral Examination

On the afternoon of seniors first day of examination, 

I always study in the faculty's library as i feel comfortable there or less because too comfortable i'll be sleeping already. So same for today, woke up early and off to library. Lunch hour, it's break time. Cafe i went. Took foods, and obviously the dishes were as usual, nothing new. Paid for it and sat down. A group of lecturers came for lunch as well and they sat next to me and one lecturer well decided to talk to me.... here's the details


Dr X : Alone? Where r the others?
Me: Yes Dr. The others studying in their room i guess.
Dr X: So, hows your oral exam? Boleh jawab?
Me: *Laugh* Saya belum lagi la Dr.
Dr X: Bila? Petang ni ke esok?
Me: I'm Year 4 still la Dr. Mine will be next year. XD
Dr X: Laa.. you're DVM 4 ke, i tot you're final year already.....
Me: Belum Dr, lagi setahun
Dr X: *Laugh* Kalau macam tu lama lagi lah...


Hahaha.... thats remind me that i only have another year left in vet school. Time flies, and really fast. 

Before the Season Finale

Guess what, today is FRIDAY, June 1, 2012. What so special about Friday 1st?? Nah, nothing special, and seriously nothing at all. But is a just another Friday of my life and which is also happened to be the last day of class of me being DVM 4. Yeap, put a side the study week, i just done with all the classes for DVM 4. If it is not a vet course, i surely celebrating it right now, but i'm a vet-to-be so i have to bear for another year. I'm pretty sure it'll be pretty fast and pretty stress as well. Meaning i'm exactly 1 year away from finishing or the starting point. Am i ready, hell no! I can't wait to finish but in the same time i'm not sure whether i'm up for it or not.
For example in a case of blood donation. To donate a blood i must go some check up first before i'm qualified. Its not like you go to the hospital and simply tell the Dr that you want to donate blood and he/she will take your blood without any examination. My blood parameters must first be checked, most of the time my hemoglobin level is quite low. So, as a consequence until now i still don't have a chance to donate blood because of the hemoglobin level. I tried so many times but i still unable to. What should i do, to enable me to donate blood in the future. I'm taking supplement and now my hemoglobin almost reach the normal value and hopefully by next year i will be able to give some of blood to be shared with others. See, life is not that easy also not that difficult. 

Once a teacher told me, if you want something, work for it. Do not wait for it to come to you, because it will never be. I hope by that time i'm ready for it, but even if i'm not i'll have to be.

This semester has been good to me, good on my definition, not others. Others definition of good might be totally different than mine. Good and bad things happened and i really learnt a lot from it. Get scolded is just a part and parcel of student's life and you will somehow get immune to it. And thats how we learnt, but i'm not saying that i want to be scolded at all time in order to learn something new. Sometime someone else has to push the button to wake us up.

Haish, tthe final exam is so near, yet i still here lying on my bed and lazying in front of my lappy. How am i going to enter the final year with this attitude. Hahaha, but who cares, this is how i carry myself. I'm happy with who I am.

Coming after the final exam, 11weeks holiday will come, which is not a holiday for me. My weeks is planned in such away that i will not have any break in between. Hopefully this will help me in becoming  a better vet in the future.

Week 1: Post Mortem Practical in the faculty
Week 2 - Week 5 : Volunteer Practical at International Animal Rescue Indonesia for a month
Week 6 - Week 10 : Malaysia -France Colaboration (Ruminant)
Week 11 : Small Animal Clinic Practical

Now, after looking at this i feel tired already. And i dont know what else to be written out here...