19th to 24th

This week's achievements:

1. Learnt some more cooking recipes, courtesy of my mom's enthusiastic shopping spree and Faz's culinary skills. I am steps closer to becoming a better "cooker" and surpassing the person who THINKS they're a KPI just because they can cook butter chicken and salmon.
   
   
2. Attended Sunathon (Sunat Marathon: Mass Circumcision) Training. Practiced on how to do Clean and Drape, apply Local Anesthesia and suture on skin and tube. I didn't realized applying anesthesia was that complicated. Suturing was fun though! We were practicing on a tubing (a 'model' in replacement for the male genitalia) and using real suturing equipments. Njh Faz and Fifi who were sitting next to us were gossiping about how me and Cah were looking so serious on doing the suturing like we were doing a heart transplant. They, on the other hand, were profusely apologizing ("Sorry adik, sorry adik)" to the tubing.
   
   
3. Just now we had yet another Medical training- Basic Life Support. We learnt the steps of DR ABC - Danger Response Airway Breathing Circulation. It was honestly really interesting and Prof Ikram was undeniably adorable in demonstrating BLS to a baby:) Tomorrow we'll be having Medical Checkup training. For the first time I'll be using my very own stethoscope!:D
   
   
4. My grand master plan is still on its way... I have managed to do more research and enhanced the details of my plan. I'm really pleased because I came across great resources; exactly what I needed! My housemates are really perplexed at what I'm planning. Don't worry lahh, I'll let it out to the whole world once it's more or less organized:)
   
   
5. Biochemistry this week was fun though as always my marks are unsatisfactory:( Due to the many long processes that we needed to memorize, some of us had come up with methods which some I found were extremely interesting. Syafiqah 'Agag' Shuhel taught me a really awesome way to memorize the Krebs Cycle. Thanks to you, I've memorized all components! Thank you darling:D So here goes the Kreb's Cycle:
   
   Cipan Idaman Akak Succi Suke Family Mak Orang
   Take the first letter of the word and voila!...
   Citrate, Isocitrate, Alpha Ketoglutarate, Succinyl CoA, Succinate, Fumarate, Malate and Oxaloacetate.
   
   Omg you're awesome, Agag!:D

I'd say it has been a very productive week... More goals I'm looking forward to achieve next week!

Motivated!

For the past few weeks, I have been feeling quite inadequate and unaccomplished. For this week, I've set out goals, found inspiration and ultimately feel extremely motivated at the end of 5 days!

1. I suddenly had the drive to cook this week. Yes, I did not actually know how to cook "filling" meals. I've learnt how to cook Nasi Goreng Cina, Kampung, Pataya within these 5 days, under the supervision of Faz, Sara and Cah. My culinary spirit has finally realized that it's been dormant for far too long and has now surfaced (I knew I had it in me... somewhere). 1 Exp level UP!

2. My sudden cooking spree has enabled me to save more! Unprecedentedly, I had to pay the RM38 bill for the month. Seeing that I only hold rm50 per week, I was only left with rm12 on Monday itself. I can't believe it but I really did survive with rm12 for 5 days with rm3 saved. It's amazing what you can do when you realize how much you want to save. Although I didn't reach the rm20 that I was targeting per week, I'm really proud of myself:)

3. Dr Hirji Adenwalla's story had such an astronomical impact on me that I am now inspired to embark on a personal mission. The secret I will indulge only after the execution of my action plan. Rest assured, whether it is a success or a failure, I will blog about it. I am honestly excited about it and have been thinking about it nonstop since the revelation on this awesome project!

4. Biochemistry, so far my dreaded subject because of the "chemistry", has really sucked the soul out of me and left me wriggling like a fish gasping for air (this has taken all logic out; but this is what biochem does to you). Even then, Alhamdulillah, I managed to scrape an A- for the week assessment. Most surprising because this is my first A out of tests of Anatomy and Physiology.

I think it's because I've been so motivated with my savings, Dr Hirji and my cuisine-creating development. Plus, I found out about your story and I found out that you're still alive; that inspired me as well. You know who you are:)

"Find your motivation and thou shalt find thyself" -me

Selfless: Dr Hirji Adenwalla

He has got to be one of the most amazing man I've ever heard of. I want to be just like this. Surgeries free of charge and getting money from giving speeches!

Smile Train Partner Spotlight

A Man On A Mission: Decades Of Helping Children Who Have No Place Else To Turn.

The Webster's Dictionary definition of "selfless" — "without regard for one's own interests" — is certainly clear and concise. Should the dictionary ever desire an alternate definition, however, it might want to consider three words: "Doctor Hirji Adenwalla."

To know Dr. Adenwalla is to understand that no one, anywhere, is more emblematic of the word "selfless." What better way to describe a unique man who, as head of the Charles Pinto Centre for Cleft Lip and Palate in Kerala, India for the more than 40 years, has devoted his considerable skills to improving — some might say "salvaging" — the lives of more than 7,000 underprivileged children by giving them the life-transforming ability to smile. Equally remarkable, Dr. Adenwalla has performed every one of these surgeries himself, free of charge, on a budget historically so modest that much of it has resulted from speaking fees. He typically spends his annual vacation making speeches to social service organizations in order to raise funds for the Centre.

Since 2001, the first year that The Smile Train was privileged to provide the Charles Pinto Centre with funding, Dr. Adenwalla has performed cleft lip and palate repair on more than 2,000 children who would otherwise have never received it.

"With the help of The Smile Train, we're able to reach out to many more children and change many more lives." says Dr Adenwalla. "I am very excited about what the future holds for this partnership."

A longtime professional associate described the Charles Pinto Centre's work as "truly remarkable,"and Dr. Adenwalla as "a legendary surgeon who has touched thousands of lives with his heart, his head and his hands. A very rare combination of huge talent and tiny ego."

Dr. Adenwalla himself, of course, dismisses such praise and deflects all compliments. But he reveals at least a part of what motivates him in a speech he made recently at a Smile Train Celebration of 100,000 Smiles, "The lessons that we learn from human misery are to love�To never forget and to never, never look away."

WAK

Sayang,

Sorry for the lack of a "WOW!" birthday present. The poem could have been much better if not for the fact that Physiology Finals are inducing excessive stress neurotransmitters. And also, it's a bit mixed up with another poem I had in mind which was in reply to your ANadh poem.

Say hi to Wammey for me:P

Happy Birthday my dear:)

WAlina

Alina;

Sorry hun, I just only came across your blog update because you've not been updating:(

Thank you dear. It brought me close to tears.

ANADH

victory

I like this.

How do you imagine the taste of victory? � sweetness of triumph and jubilation, spiced up by determination, sacrifice and rush of adrenaline in dire situations � an intoxicating concoction that accelerates the rate and volume of secretion from the salivary glands (of those who aspire).

I want to taste it.

Always be there

Maher Zain

Watching is unnecessary. Listen to the lyrics.