Archive for October 2007

Oct312007

Halloween special : Pumpkin Cake~

Trick or treat!
It’s Halloween. Let’s not waste the pumpkin as candle holder. Come come, let’s make pumpkin cake!

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Pumpkin Cake recipe
4 eggs
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 cups pumpkin
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup oil
1 teaspoon salt

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1) Combine eggs, sugar and oil. Beat and mix well.

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2) Add in baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add in 1/2 cup of flour little by little each time. Mix at medium speed then high speed.

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3) Add in next 1/2 cup of flour, mix well, then continue with the other 1/2 cup then mix again till finish adding in the flour. Each time you add in flour, the mixture will become thicker and stickier. Don’t worry, it’s normal.

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4) Later, add in 2 cups of grated pumpkin. Mix well and the mixture will become less sticky as previous.

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5) Preheat the oven while you line the baking pan with butter/oil/baking paper. Bake the cake at 180°C/350°F for 45 minutes.

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Ta da~ Ready to be served to “hantu chai” that will knock on your door and say “trick or treat”.

Oct312007

If I could live…

I’m studying infectious disease now about typhus fever and it suddenly reminds me of Anne Frank.

Anne Frank died in March 1945 of typhus, hunger, and maltreatment at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - as did countless others. “If God lets me live . . . I shall not remain insignificant. I shall work in the world and for mankind.” A.F.

Anne Frank is that brave little Jewish girl who wrote a diary about the last years she spent during the Nazi occupation during the WWI.

A lot of people do not know how precious is life. Those who have long life to live choose to waste it. Those who doesn’t have a long life to live, wish for a longer life so that they could do more meaningful things in this world. For those who manage to escape death and prolonged their life, we will definitely be someone better.

*sigh, last minute i decided to postpone my final exam on paediatric bcos I’m not confident enough to sit for the exam yet. I need to cope with subjects at the moment, it’ll be pretty hard for me. Infectious disease, oncology, paediatrics, if possible I want to study and do well for all of them.

Oct302007

Silent cry

I saw a child today in my teacher’s clinic. She’s an orphan and she has oligophrenia (low IQ, learning disability, cognitive development disorder, mental retardation). I’m not sure what happened to her parents though, maybe they passed away in accident or maybe they abandoned her when she was born. This poor child can only understand basic instruction from my teacher like “taking off the clothes”, “don’t cry it will not be painful”. She have pigmentary changes in her skin, primary diagnosis given is skin cancer.

She reminds me of the time when I was in the other children hospital for class. Everyday many babies were abandoned by their mother at birth. 40 babies were left unattended in the ward. There are not enough nurses to take care each of them.

My heart cries for these children. Irresponsible adults. Why did they make babies and abandon them? If they know they couldn’t afford to take care of the child then why not take precaution? Condoms and contraceptive pills not working meh? Not only in Russia, even in Malaysia, got people throw a newborn baby down from the balcony in Penang. I wonder what happen to humanity?

Our medical degree from Russia certainly not regarded as good as those from other better countries but however the experience that we get;the poverty, sadness, and broken lives that we saw, we felt is unexchangable. I wish I could do more to protect these little ones. I thought of adopting a child from here and bring her home with me when I graduate but according to the child adoption policy, I have to be married right? I can’t save everybody alone but if I could, I would want to help as many as possible.

Ciao~ continue my studies. 2 more days left.

Oct292007

To the last days of Oct~

Student Name: YuinYin
Age: 22 yrs 1 m th old
Profession: 5th yr medical student 1st semester
Current activities: butt glued to the chair, study STUDY STUDY!!!~
To do list: final exam in paediatrics on 1st Nov, 2 uncompleted case history need to hand in this coming friday, 1 individual report undone, laundry undone, marketing undone, armpit hair unshaved

Rate of knowledge input = 0.01% per hour
Rate of knowledge output = 10% per hour
Time left before exam = 3 days

Current mood: sleepy, started to hallucinate…. hey Bie bear just talked to me!
Last thought: I want to eat!

sooo…. who got porn movie to borrow? this is just to keep me awake to study…. dun think the other way round. I don’t even have a dildo… duh!

Do you believe that when you work really hard, put in all your effort in doing something regardless of the outcome…. eventually God will open a way for you. Yes! tomorrow infectious disease teacher going away for some conference, so I got extra time to study for paediatrics.

Haiya… so boring la! I’m so bored of studying liao. Entertain me pls!

Oct282007

I got extra 1 hour today.

Today I slept extra 1 hour. I woke up at 9.30am thinking it’s 10.30am. So from now on, the time difference between Russia and Malaysia is 5 hours.

It’s getting colder as well today. November coming. Usually the 1st day of snow will on Deepavali night every year. I remember this because I have to run to the Deepavali concert under the snow in whatever I’m wearing (cheongsam, saree, punjabi suit etc etc).

I have only another 4 days left to study for paediatric final exam. *stress *stress until pain in the head, pain in the ear, even arse also pain. At one point I thought I must have contracted some disease from the patients in hospital. Acute otitis media. Diptheria. Whooping cough. Meningitis. In case I fainted and never woke up one day, then you know why la.

I’m immunodefficit person now. Sometimes the teacher forgot about this fact. Even in children hospital, diseases which will only affect small children because they have weaker immune system also can affect me. I have been coughing non-stop for 3 days now. Don’t know which day, in which hospital I got infected. Pokoknya, I have classes in hospital everyday. Maybe I should go see a doctor but the procedure here is very troublesome and wasting time so during this busy period, I can’t afford to waste even 1 minute doing nothing. And don’t bother to ask my teacher, they are not helpful at all.

I have to study for Oncology, infectious disease and paediatrics in a day. I wish that 1 day consist of 48 hours. Time is not enough for me. I somehow feel very tired and exhausted due to my immune status now. I hope all my effort now is really worth it. When I reach home in winter, I hope someone would treat me good meals. I miss Korean and Japanese food.

And I miss him very much. How nice if I could fall asleep in his big arms now.
Right now I am still debating with my jealous father about me going over to UK for Valentine’s day because I might have to sacrifice spending CNY at home. BUT I have 5 weeks at home already, not too much to ask for if I only spend 7 days in UK with Ken right? Not like my parents will give me EXTRA big angpao if I stay at home for CNY. I know my friends, they all have generous relatives which give them minimum rm50 for angpao money. Hell, I have rich aunts but they are super kiamsap as. Even when I tell people, I got only rm10 angpao money from my aunt also they would laugh at me. =_= So does it matter at all to celebrate CNY or not? Some more, all the food eaten during CNY are very oily and unhealthy. I’m sure my mum will restrict this and that again, so what’s the point of celebrating? No money, no food.

Romance, suprises, Ken. I prefer this one.