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Call me Sueyi.
Call me Sue-Sue.
Call me Sue.
Just don't call me lil fry.

A 19 yr old :

Finding her niche in the passionate world of white coats and stethoscopes.

Missing Malaysian food so badly, that she drowns her sorrow by surfing food blogs.

Who watches scary movies only with friends who have high pain threshold (from all that pinching)

Who has very cold extremities, ask my stimulated patients, oops sorry, "simulated patients"

Who loves a good laugh with candid, thick-skinned friends

Who cannot stay surrounded by 4 walls for more than a few hours

Who loves her loved ones so so much


:)

shout outs



endless wishes

char siew bao.

blueberry muffins.

hot Milo and crackers.

a neverending supply of Daddy's socks.

Bear hugs. Warm kisses. Lots of Love.

My own beach chalet.

Bubble baths.

Shining sun and rainbows.

Sexy stilettos.

Dancing.

Me

I wear socks.Even with heels.

I play with my earlobes.

I have a Mongolian mole.

My family means the world to me. "Family means no one gets left behind"

I like cheekiness. You cheeky, me cheeky.

I heart my close friends, the ones who know me in and out, the ones who've grown with me.

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and when she speaks

Saturday, April 05, 2008

I had Chinese food tonight.

My fortune cookie read:

Romance is about to blossom

*winks*

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10:18 AM;;

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

My senior resident said to me
there are perks though that come with the MD title with our names...

There I was, one day, sitting in front of the computer, booking my airplane ticket online...
and they asked for my title- Ms, Mrs, Mr, Dr, Dato'...

I was itching to put Dr... come on, half a year more...... :)
Then someone knocked some serious sense into my inflated head
If someone on the airplane needed emergent medical attention-

"Calling Dr Lai. Calling Dr Lai. We need your services up here immediately. There's a patient who's complaining of serious severe chest pains and is now in respiratory distress..."

*.......uh oh.......* and prays hard for a real certified doctor named Dr Lai...

her
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8:32 AM;;


Numero Uno.

SueSue manis must dispel this all-time myth: Doctors do not make a lot of money. Period.

Most of you guys in business studies will be earning much more than us. Yes, we will be making a lot of money- but, that's in approximately a decade's time.

I still will need to 'hulur tangan' when I get my own apartment, I told my dad ;)

Here's an estimate of how much we make in our first year:-
California Dr- $38,000-40,000 per annum..
New York Dr- $45,000 per annum...
Baltimore (John Hopkins)- $38,000 per annum...

Bear in mind some places incur higher costs of living, some hospitals provide allowances for food and some share the cost for our health insurance... BUT we haven't included one pretty big fat factor yet - TAX ;)

anyway, it's NOT the money we're in medicine for. How many times must we say that ah???

;)

her
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8:19 AM;;

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Now that's who I am.
Because of you
I am standing tall.

My heart is full of endless gratitude
You were the one to guide me through
Now I can see
And I believe

It's only just the beginning.
-Taylor Hicks: Do I make you proud?-

To mum and dad,

I've learned to walk the road that I believe
Thank you for supporting me in making my dreams come true.

Time is flying by so quickly.
This time next year, I will have known where I am going to work- to start the next phase with the MD title before my name.

Mum was talking to me last night, she told me to take half a year off and be with the family or go travelling..

There have been days I have admitted it's too soon for me to pursue my responsibility as a physician. I don't feel overwhelmed, if that's what you're thinking.

I know so many of my classmates are taking a year off to see the world, going on loans to explore and experience- and pushing med school a year later- or postponing residency. I sometimes yearn to do the same- just take off and see what's out there...

Mum says I am in no rush. I agree. Like I said before, my senior resident told me to take a couple of years off because I am way too young. I am not rushing into residency because I want to finish it quick-I just feel it's irresponsible of me to spend my dad's money whilst he's slogging for my other three sisters. I feel I should be helping out in any way I can to lessen that burden even though I know daddy doesn't ever want me to think that -ever.

I realize how much I miss my family and how much they miss me. And it does bring a tear or two. Mummy said yesterday 'Come home Sue - take half a year off and come home'
And I said 'No mummy, it's too long'
And she said 'You're in no rush'
I know. But it's not the right thing to do.

On a lighter note, I told her 'I want to go and work in Africa with the poor people'
And she, worryingly said 'Africa? Don't la...'
'Mum, this is why I'm in medicine. Those are the places that you can really serve'
And you know what she said:

'Malaysia is a third world country too, girl'

I almost laughed my head off.
Oh Mummy... :)

her
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5:41 AM;;

Monday, March 31, 2008

Perhaps there are elements of doctoring that lie in harmony with writing: peeling back the layers to get to the core of an issue; confronting the obvious but being willing to look beyond it; learning where to “cut in,” of course; and, more than anything, recognizing that this object before you – in one case a human body, in the other a manuscript – is on a certain level a miraculous object with the power to astound, and on another level is a complex, dynamic system which can (and must be) reduced to a schematic, laid out on paper or x-ray film.

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