Biting Frenzy

I've always been plagued by mosquitoes back home in Miri. Especially the first few days/2weeks that i'm back.


It's almost like a ritual! A not very good one of course, as those bite numbers can reach more than 10 in just ONE limb. so that's 40 for my hands n legs, plus some on my neck/face other parts etc......

Look at the hutan behind that fence.

No wonder my house=breeding ground for mosquitoes

Frust man...

If i don't get that enrolment pack from AIMST by this coming Monday or Tues,

i'm so gonna forget about them and go to IMU instead!!!

I know you're all busy and so on... but the intake date is 15th September 2008 man....

I wanna get my hands on that pack o stuff man....

man... man... this is so abigail man....

HEHEHEHE

14/08/08- IMU interview

Reached really early, and got to tour around for a bit and had fun getting lost. On the other hand, Spent some time on the papers whilst waiting for my turn/name to be called.

The whole thing took about 15 minutes.

The questons i got:
1. Tell me about yourself in a few sentences
i talked a bit about fam, edu, things i like etc.
(comment: i see that you don't have a problem in speaking english, even though you have rcvd your primary education in chinese eh? *muahahhaha*)

2. Why do you want to be a doctor?

3. Why IMU??
what i told them was true!! really wanted to go what...
(but then... circumstances don't allow it... i'd love to... but........sigh....)

4. Situation: Assume you are a pilot on this plane. A person suffers from heart attack.
Destination A: 2 hours away, thunderstorm, may endanger the others on the plane
Destination B: many many many hours away.
What to do????
Gave a not so creative answer to this one (even da interviewer said so himself):
if i'm da pilot, of cos i would be da best one around and would not experience any problem from those 'difficulties' in landing bah
then extra explanation based on that
(ya a bit muka tembok i know.. but i really didn't know what to say bah)

5. If a patient offers you 'something' (gift/whatever lah), do you accept??
of course not! duh..... explain well though....
If you do accept kan, wouldn't there be a conflict of interest (nolah just wanna show tat i study thinking skills)
professional ethics that you adhere to... explaination....

6. Are there any questions that you have for US??

That should be more less about it, albeit the change in the phrasing, points and all.... There's no right or wrong answer in the interview though. As long as you can present/support your stand well.

Lesley just had her interview... Wonder if they like her?? LOL
I don't think she has any problem getting through the interview though. She only speaks fluent english, malay and weird sounding chinese?? lol!

Personally, I think that as long as you have reached what i call their 'minimum' language standard that they hold, there's no problem acing the interview. Of course they do look at your resultslah. However, even if you have the best results any exam board can give you, but lack the communication/language skills required, then er, let me put it this way:

Will you understand what the patient is talking about/

will the patient understand what you're saying??

I'm diving in the MEDICAL profession!!!

Hola~

I know I know, this is so suprising right?? Can you imagine?? Karen Tan=white jubah at work?? with stethoscopes n specs n being responsible of the many lives that MAY come across her??

Oh well, unbeknownst to many, lil karen had this small fluttering hope to do this for quite some time already, but didn't take the loudspeaker to announce to the whole world. Main reason: scared i wouldn't have what it takes to reach for 'the stars'?? And so there was all this back up plans to go for law/finance/econs n the like.

Anyways, lil karen wanted to medicine. But then, family can only afford a local medical degree OR finance/law n capalang degree overseas that takes 3/4 years.
but lil karen still carry this small fluttering hope. And applied for AIMST & IMU. now, i've received offers to go to IMU & AIMST now!! woohoo!!

Doing the mbbs at AIMST will cost less then rm300k, whereas for IMU, 410k. I would really really like to go back to kl, what with all the ppl i know there, the excellent public transport (comparatively to the ulu ulu place bahhh), the place, the malls, acts etc.....

BUT, i think i'll be choosing AIMST.
Yeah, it's so 'kampung', and the food ala indian (everyday???), and no malls, my church how??, have to depend on the bus provided,v mafan to balik kampung etc.
i've thought about a few good points though. The library is excellent from what i've heard from lesley who has been there visiting, the sports facilities (yay got place to finally work out, but dunno got the motivation to do so or not), SOME ppl i know will be there, like lesley, xl, lily, jas. erm well i think that's about it?? oh yeah it's MORE THAN 100K CHEAPER!!

but jebby, n cs, sy, cc etc. well a lotta ppl are at imu......

OH WELL..... the conclusion is, most probably going for aimst, which starts like in less than 2 weeks!! omgosh, need to pass up my resignation letter, pack, kaotim bank accounts, a trip to dr aziz's....