First semester. Second year.

It's 2016 and ESOT is closing and I'm writing. Second year has been... fun! Really. Of course it is more tiring but all that tiredness are gone when I see fruits of my labour. Looking at the half way denture that I made, the feeling in simulation clinic when lecturer looked at the wrong side of tooth that I restored. (TERBANG KE AWAN NANOOO!) :D Still can't stop smiling.

crazy classmates

half way there

The subjects are more interesting too. I can ask my mom, and maklong what meds they take and relate them to pharmacology. Pathology, on how the disease really progress to manifest itself and see all those gross pictures. And microbiology... well, if everything is fun it won't be life. (geleng kepala T.T) Dental material is so so. I hate memorising blindly that's why the two subjects are not in my favourite list.

                                                                                                                                        

  

budding yeast cells seen through light microscope

           studying using laptop because printing is too old fashioned
(padahal malas nak print)

I've tried something new too. The quiz was a great reminder on how shallow my knowledge is. At least I have the courage to join. Basketball is awesome too. Now I kinda regret not joining the team during high school. People should try everything in their teens. And and, I tried taking selfie. Hahaha kuno kan.

Lately I've seen so many people saying, his course is the toughest, her subject is stressful and many more. Just insert a negative adjective and voila, their hardship is worse than everyone. I think they are  too full of themselves to just admit that their struggle is not unique. There are people going through the same thing that they are facing and there are way more people who have it worse. Let's stop complaining, just be grateful and remember that Allah knows best.

Till then,
Assalamualaikum.

Viva voce

I'm writing so I dont forget. I tend to delete memories of my pasts so here I am trying to make them permanent. Viva voce. I'm not sure what language is that or whether it is correctly used at my place but it is there when students have to answer questions from lecturers in a face to face manner.

After my first written professional examination, I and few others were invited to this viva voce, viva for short. When I received the email, I had cold feet. One written examination is enough, I dont want to answer another sets of questions, not to mention having to answer them FACE TO FACE with my lecturers. There are lots of things I don't remember and much more things that I don't know, how am I supposed to not embarrass myself and the lecturer who taught me.

Nevertheless, I went for the anatomy's viva.  I had some revisions done, but nothing much because you see, the exam was just over, who would have the momentum to start again when you've just finished one. Inertia... remember?
I was the fifth to be called in, and I don't really have fonds memory of interviews(hint:usm dental interview). Of course I was nervous as hell. We can't talk with the person before us so I don't have a clue what was happening inside the viva's room. We were made to wait in another room along with some other year twos.

So after about an hour, my name, uh no my number was called in. I went to the room(upstair). And....

There were four of them(the lecturers) waiting in the room. The head department of anatomy, my antomy lecturer, year one coordinator and the external examiner. Imagine yourself in a meeting room with the curve table like you see in the parliament except much smaller and only one level. Two of them on right and the others another on left. I sat in the middle where the speaker would sit and in front of me there are few models.  The next 20 minutes was the longest day of my life.

I was asked what seems to me like thousands of questions of head and neck anatomy. Something like questions of the subclavian triangle which I never cared about before and trace the course of taste fibers from tongue upward. I realised now, how 'not-that-complicated' those questions are but having to recall them when 4 other people are staring at you was quite intense. Worse when my brain stabbed me in the back and ran away with all the answers(drama yeah!). So after 20 forever minutes, it was done. Each lecturer except my year one coordinator asked a set of questions of their designated area of the head and neck anatomy. They were not that scary, only intimidating and for some questions, they even tried to give clues for the answers. It was the settings that gave me cold sweat.

Anatomy's viva was on wednesday and dental anatomy's on friday. Dental anatomy's viva was different. It was less complicated I guess. There were 10 questions if I remember it right. There are few terms and some teeth morphology but that was it. Only took about 10 minutes and only one lecturer in the room. The 10 minutes wasnt the longest 10 minutes of my life but Im glad it was over.

Afterwards, my friends and I went skating. So, all was well.
P/s: please ignore grammars. I have not write in ages.

Till then.

Dental student. First semester. Mahsa University

Well, I thought maybe some STPM or A Level or foundation or any of it's equivalent students are still wondering what is it like to be a dental student, especially a dental student here in Malaysia's IPTS(Mahsa University). First of all, I might as well introduce my dental faculty. Right now, our faculty is located at Pusat Bandar Damansar(PBD) but we are going to move to Saujana Putra soon. Here, most of the dental lecturers are from other countries but nevertheless, qualified lecturers.

In my first semester, I have to take 4 subjects; Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry and Dental Anatomy but there are also other dental subjects such as Dental Public Health and Prosthodontics that were taught during our first year because the subjects are too broad to be covered in just one year.

The lectures are given quite as expected, almost similar to A level only with more students but the most significant difference is the amount of histo labs(anatomy and dental anatomy) and also all the exciting(except prostho) labs. I have done some wax carving classes(I'm an artisan! lol), some simulation lab for conservatives and impression making for prosthetics(not fun). Oh! Did I mention that I'm an artist too? (LOL) I've been drawing and colouring all those histo slides like there's no tomorrow.(Ok, a bit exeggeration there) For the medical part, physiology is the most exciting with ECG and blood pressure practicals. Anatomy as expected, lots of remembering weird names.

A tooth out of wax!

Draw and draw and draw and draw.

And after all these fun, of course, my sem one examination. Wish me luck!
Till then. :)

2015. A new year. A new life.

It might have been a little bit too late to update a post about the new year but as an analyst myself, 1/1/2015 is not that significant anymore. Saying so as I started my dental student life hmmm 4, no, 5 months ago, here in Mahsa University. Yep, proud to be a Mahsa student. :D

Honestly, this semester(yeah, semester not block like the medical students) has been too fast. It's near to the final semester examination. Fuhhh. Time does fly. I should start my readings now. Wouldn't want to lose my scholarship don't I?

Till then, Assalamualaikum.