June 19, 2008
more pics on graduation!!!
June 19, 2008
Conferring Ceremony 2008
Today I graduated with the Medical Degree (BMBB) from UCC School of Medicine. Definitely one of the happiest day of my life!!!
Too tired to tell you all the details but here are the pics. The conferring was in Latin (and Gaelic)…huhu
June 12, 2008
A friend told me…in life, give the impossible a go.
Might not work out, but you won’t spend your life wondering ‘what if’….
May 19, 2008
The End and The Beginning…
The End of my exams…alhamdulillah…and The Beginning of my career…
You guys can call me Dr. Ashiqin now! hehe
I’m officially a qualified doctor on 19th June 2008!
May 9, 2008
The Bamford (Oxford) Classification of Stroke
I’ve been struggling with the Bamford classification of stroke for the exam on Monday. This video really helps simplifying the classification system.
Hope it’ll help my colleagues as well. Good luck to everyone for the final blast!!! 
May 1, 2008
Something random…something weird
Just been tagged by Hamdi a few days ago…so here goes:
So, it’s like this….
Rules
1. Link to your tag and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog
Now, 7 random and/or weird facts about me. You decide which one is weird….
I love seafood…and anything possibly related to seafood (including aquarium
)
I have all my books, PC, printer, duvet, and pillow on the couch in my living room for several weeks now for my exams. I can study, do my research project, search the Medline, check emails, watch tv or cook whenever I want without having to go back and forth to the bedroom. Darlene is hogging the other couch with her laptop. So both of us are literally living in the living room right now. Our bedrooms are just for sleeping, prayers and changing clothes. (hopefully we’ll live a normal life again when the final exam fever subsides!)
I always switched off my phone at night so I can sleep peacefully (and put the home phone as far away as possible from my bedroom).
I really want a cute pet tortoise but decided not to get one since I won’t have time to clean its aquarium (or it may die of loneliness).
I love watching documentaries, whatever topic that can keep me glued to the seat!
Traveling on the bus make me sick. I’d rather walk than suffering from the motion sickness.
I hate shallow people more than anything (sorry shallow ppl…no offense to anyone).
There, 7 random facts about me…I’ll decide whom should I tag later…*wink*
Have a nice day ppl…and pray for my success in the finals!
Wassalam….
March 25, 2008
Need new SLR…
Just a lonely dandelion amongst other colourful flowers…I took this pic at the park ( near the Student Union building) during Spring in UCC…a day out with Aydeya..hehe
This next picture is just a piece of Monaco. Among all the pictures that I captured in Monaco, this is my favourite. Monaco is definitely an amazingly beautiful country!
March 23, 2008
The 2 common woman ‘life goals’
I’m posting this article from the ScientificBlogging…a part of it is true indeed. But we can’t just push aside the hormonal contribution in human pattern of mood and psychological effects. So it’s more like a combination of those two. I just wanna emphasize on some points that’s highlighted in this following article…
Submitted by News Account on 13 May 2007 - 9:12pm. Psychology
Professor of Women’s Health Psychology at the University of Western Sydney, Jane Ussher, has been researching the issue for 20 years and says that women are being controlled by medical practices which position their unhappiness as a biomedical condition.
Women are being sold the idea that their bodies are biologically faulty and they need medication for PMS, post-natal depression and menopausal outbursts when in fact the pressures of being ’superwoman’ are more likely to blame.
“I would argue that PMS and PND are essentially a form of repressed rage women feel rather than a medical illness. Our research has shown that their distress often stems from women trying to do too much for everyone - except themselves,” says Professor Ussher.
“The tags pre-menstrual syndrome, post-natal depression (PND) and menopause, have become catch-all diagnostic categories that attribute women’s unhappiness to their reproductive bodies and legitimise medical management of their condition,” says Professor Ussher.
“The problem with this view is that it ignores the fact that female unhappiness is often an understandable response to the realities of women’s lives.”
Professor Ussher has recently published a new book ‘Managing the Monstrous Feminine: regulating the reproductive body’ which explores the issues of PMS, post-natal depression and women experiences in mid-life.
Professor Ussher draws on in-depth interviews with British and Australian women and argues that women’s premenstral, post-natal and menopausal distress or anger is often connected to the way women feel compelled to be the ‘good wife, mother and emotional nurturer of others’.
“It’s a form of self-censoring. Women feel that they are expected to cope with the gamut of responsibilities - including their job, partner, children, extended family, housework etc - without complaint.
“They become distressed about the state of their lives and seek help only to be told that it is likely to be the result of these three diagnostic tags.” Professor Ussher argues that while medicine has constructed menopause as a disease requiring HRT medication, the notion of the menopausal woman being in a state of psychological turmoil is a myth.
“The rates of depression in women actually fall with age, with only 7 per cent of women aged 45-54 experiencing depression. The notion of the menopausal body causing upheaval and depression is nothing more than fiction,” she says.
Professor Ussher says the common theme emerging from her work is that women often feel unsupported and misunderstood during their early reproductive lives, but that women are happier in their later years when their responsibilities ease and their lives become their own again.
“The post feminist body is a mirage. Women can now choose how to live their lives - to work, raise children, take time for themselves and be sexy to boot. They can have it all or so we are led to believe,” she says.
“Our accounts from women challenge the two common life goals that frame women’s lives from puberty onwards: the notion that a woman’s happiness is to be gained though love, romance, meeting ‘Mr Right’ and living happily ever after; and that a woman’s greatest satisfaction comes from caring, mothering and self-sacrifice.
“From our research it appears that for many women they only reach a position of equilibrium and peace when they can leave these myths behind, or realise they can’t sustain them any more, or feel they have paid their dues, and can now turn to their own needs for the first time in their lives.”
Professor Ussher says society needs to move beyond the ‘blame game’ and stop viewing women’s bodies as the reason for their distress.
“Our studies have shown that women cope with changes and stress at different times in their lives if they are given time-out from their responsibilities and provided with some self-care options,” she says.
“Taking steps to put themselves first reduces the impact of their symptoms and empowers women to refocus and not be afraid to ask for extra help or support if they need it.
“Women need to understand that it is okay to be vulnerable at certain times without letting it overwhelm them. It’s also okay to say no - for many women, this is the most difficult technique to master of all.”
Source: Research Australia.
March 23, 2008
Countdown!
Exactly 4 weeks left before exams!!!..final of the finals!!!…but i still need to finish my final project presentation first before i can really concentrate on the studying. Tomorrow we have another session with Dr. Mike O’Connor the geriatrician for Neurology revision. Haven’t started anything on the Obs&Gynae stuffs. lalala…so much to do, so little time. What am i doing here then?………….laterzzz
p/s: can you read what it says on the picture?
” If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for! “
