Birthday..............

Today is my 36th birthday and tomorrow is Khadijah's 6th birhtday. Unfortunately I am on call today and will be working tomorrow too...so we will have a small celebration after office hour tomorrow. This week has been a hectic one for us....
Update: still in the hospital at 11am...just finishing anaesthesizing a D4OL baby.

Semeling, Kedah

Ever heard of Semeling? It is near Sg Petani, where the AIMST University is situated. AIMST will be organizing the Human Patient Simulator Network (HPSN) workshop, and they are inviting me to be one of the adjunct faculty. We were the host for the HPSN last year. Our university has bought a RM 3.5 million medical simulation technology from METI. What is medical simulation? Well, that needs another entry later, as I am now in the car looking for Semeling, blogging from my HTC.

The Lost World Of Tambun

As promised to my daughter, our next trip is to the LWOT. So here we are, enjoying ourselves. We bring along my mother. Our overall experience- it is much much much better than AFamosa. The best part is the Tambun Hot Spring....I really submerge myself few times in the hot water (temp is around 40 to 50C). Also manage to persuade my mum to do the same. Khadijah also has so much fun in the water and also at the carousel. There are less people and the food is much better and cheaper.

We also take a ride on storm-rider! The last time I was in any ride was the frightening Kamikaze which I rode back then at the fun fair at St Andrews. The experience of Kamikaze indeed was very frightening for me to ever ride any ride or roller coaster again. However my adrenaline push made me take the ride, Khadijah cries, people vomit and me...I close my eyes all the way and mengucap tak habis2. That's it, no more ride....ever

Good Bye Tadika Sri Ayu

Goodbye Tadika Sri Ayu...Thank you Teacher Roselin, Teacher Kanna, Teacher Erlinda, Miss Yong, Teacher Sandy, Teacher Thilaga, Teacher Janet, Teacher Ng and all the teachers at Sri Ayu. Thank you for a lovely and memorable year. Thank you for making learning fun...

Anaesthesia?

16 October 1846
The first successful public demonstration of general anesthesia by William Thomas Green Morton.

I was often asked what specialty I am in. When I mentioned anaesthesia, many are often curious of what does it means or is it all that I do? As an anaesthetist, apart from managing anaesthesia for surgical patients, we are also involved in patient care in the intensive care unit, acute and chronic pain management and obstetric analgesia service. It is a young specialty as compared to other specialty, and very often the general population are not aware of it. That is why now, 16th October is celebrated as anaesthesia day...one of the aim is the increase the pubic awareness and knowledge. It is the day when William G Morton first did a public demonstration of anaesthesia....

Quite an interesting reading on anaesthesia is on Wikipedia
Anesthesia, or anaesthesia (see spelling differences; from Greek αν-, an-, "without"; and αἲσθησις, aisthēsis, "sensation"), has traditionally meant the condition of having sensation (including the feeling of pain) blocked. This allows patients to undergo surgery and other procedures without the distress and pain they would otherwise experience. The word was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in 1846. Another definition is a "reversible lack of awareness", whether this is a total lack of awareness (e.g. a general anaesthestic) or a lack of awareness of a part of a the body such as a spinal anaesthetic or another nerve block would cause. Anesthesia differs from analgesia in blocking all sensation, not only pain...............taken from wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia

Daily Blessings

Alhamdulillah............

Streamyx....at last

At last, we signed up for a streamyx connection, after being so frustrated with the Digi line at our house...maklumlah dok kampungkan, mana dapat EDGE or 3G. Anyway, I think I got a good offer at the recent PC fair. The bill includes a the TM net fix line, so I don't have to pay RM26 per month for the line which I don't use!!! That is the major factor that inhibit us from signing up before (lokek betul, nak sedekah buta2 kat TM ye). Already bought a wireless connection, can't wait for the connection to be set up.

So now I really have the internet assess all the time....at UIA, hospital, home and even mobile in my HTC (from the Digi Edge connection)....to justify these, I really need to start writing up scientific papers! Now ni, banyak main2 je..........

A very sad moment

Got bad news today, my BIL had just lost his twin babies at 22 weeks of pregnancy....after almost 8 years of marriage and 2 attempts of IUI. The whole family were very sad today. We spent this morning at the mosque, graveyard and hospital before being stuck in this meeting!!! So sleepy today, since can't sleep last night after hearing the news. This is all Allah's plan. This makes me very grateful for our only child. It is not our place to question Allah's plan, only He who knows everything.

Khadijah's Birthday Party

Her birthday is on the 27th November. But she has been pressing me to celebrate her birthday as soon as November comes. Since we will be quite busy at the end of this month with travelling and my on calls, we decide to celebrate her birthday this weekend...on Saturday. It will be kid's day only..as opposed to our other makan-makan hostings. I have prepared few games for the kids activities.