And Life Goes On..

"We DID IT!!"
congratulations to everyone in my 2002-2008 batch of medical students in Russia!!
we finally made it safely to the other side,
and now we're doctors!!

so what happens now?
this is the end of a chapter in our lives,
and a beginning of a new, bigger and insyaAllah better one..


oh the usual... nearly everyone's registered with the MOH,MMC and SPA, and waiting for their posts.. some like eric opted for the army..
some are getting married like gmi in kelantan. He's going to move to bangi in a rented house with his wife..he sounds pretty happy on the phone,hehe good luck mate
some like yik, bought cars, computers, clothes etc for work..
a few others are taking their licenses..usen, yik, wen im (i think)
the sarawakian girls (wan tsien, beatrice) are undergoing btn as we speak
some, like Jana, are going places, like India.most of us had a few trips to other cities in Russia namely kazan, moscow, sochi, and st petersburg (i think the moscovites have recently finished their trips,they'll be backe on the 25th)..undoubtly most of the volgogradians have visited their families and kampung..
the nizhny novgorodians have come back too. They brought back taiko and jimis' documents from the embassy a few days ago..
some spend their holidays meeting friends and meeting families..
i stayed at home and *cough* read comics and a few books like the annotated sun tzu's art of war for management, some mags, and *cough* a few medical books..and was online virtually every waking minute...but neglecting to add anything on my blogs and stuff..dunno, I just didn't feel like it. No pearls of wisdom from me..seriously, this is the only thing i could come up with.

But all this will end soon..and so begins a new chapter- work!

I'll begin mine soon- on the 31st of july will be my BTN, followed by the induction till the 19th of August. I'll be there with a few volgograd students- li fan and ragesh (so far).

I'm skipping almost everything- gmi's wedding, zulfaizal's wedding, nadiah moscow's wedding, some ppim and other camps and stuff..but i wont be in most of them anyway, i was in Labuan, and i promised to take care of my older brother while my parents go to my younger brother's graduation this august..(and all this seem to fantastically clash as if the dates for everything was pins and a bowling ball of 2-3 days crashes into it with a strike)
So in short i wont be going for any of them. Straight to work for me. Work work.
I'll keep to myself first, which hospitals did I choose. Most of you reading this already know, or can readily guess, I think.
You'll know eventually.PS: I love Kartik's look searching for his mortarboard. Priceless.
(you should have seen the others' too..miliseconds later)

Why did the Chicken Cross The Road?

I had too much time recently, but I don't feel like writing a story of my life just yet.
instead, I tried solving the more difficult questions in life, like
why did the chicken crossed the road...
here are some opinions from well known figures

BARACK OBAMA:

The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!



JOHN MC CAIN:

My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.


HILLARY CLINTON:

When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.......



GEORGE W. BUSH:

We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here. If the chicken is against us, it must be dealt with quickly and severely. A loose chicken can be a dangerous terrorist threat to the free world!



DICK CHENEY:

Where's my gun?



COLIN POWELL:

Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...



BILL CLINTON:

I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?



AL GORE:

I invented the chicken!



JOHN KERRY:

Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.



PAT BUCHANAN:

Obviously the chicken intended to steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.



DR. PHIL:

The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.



OPRAH:

Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to

give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.



ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:

We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been

allowed to have access to the other side of the road.



BARBARA WALTERS:

Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.



NANCY GRACE:

That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.



MARTHA STEWART:

No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No 'little bird' gave me any insider information.



DR SEUSS:

Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.



ERNEST HEMINGWAY:

To die in the rain. Alone.



GRANDPA:

In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.



ARISTOTLE:

It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.



ALBERT EINSTEIN:

Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?



COLONEL SANDERS:

Did I miss one?



JOHN LENNON:

Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.



BILL GATES:

I have just released eChicken2007, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken. This new

platform is much more stable and will never crash...#@&&^(C% ......... reboot

any other ideas?