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Now I shall report a bit on my daily life… We have lessons from Monday to Saturday, so it’s quite tiring really… Monday we have class from 9am – 3pm, Tuesday and Wednesday from 8am – 3pm, Thursday from 8am – 4pm, Friday from 8.30am to 2pm and Saturday from 8.30am to 12.30pm… It’s like secondary school again… Maybe worse for those who don’t go tuitions… Hehe…
This year we BDS have Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry at the medical college (Monday to Thursday) while we have Dental Materials (a.k.a. Pre-Clinical Prosthodontics) and Operative Dental Surgery (a.k.a. Pre-Clinical Conservative Dentistry) at the Dental College… Let’s look at the books…
Let’s start from the green book from the left… It’s physiology… There’s another book on physiology beside the embryology… And this book collection is not complete yet (Which they promised to make it complete by last week)… And there’s another book on physiology… I wonder WTH we have so many books for physiology… And it’s kind of crazy you know… We have just finished the blood section… And I still can’t remember the 12 clotting factors… I just remembered that the last one is numbered XIII but the total number is still 12 because there’s no 6th VI factor… Hahaha…
The lecturers are… err… I believed every one of them knows their stuff well, not like in KUTPM… Hahaha… The only problem is their accent especially for some male lecturers, where they like to cramp the phrase together, unlike the females, who pronounce each and every word loudly and clearly…
For the practical session, I think we still have long way to go to deal with blood… And everyday we have to buy our own lancet to prick ourselves in order to count our own RBC… And the method of calculating… Haih… I tried to simplify it but the lecturer say cannot… Moral of the story? They are all brain-dead… That’s why I was putting my display name mentioning how insulting their math is… And something is more ridiculous… General the method is calculating the RBC number in 1 mm3 of diluted blood, and then only you can proportionally get the number of RBC in 1 mm3 of undiluted blood… But got one older lecturer (a.k.a. Ah pek, not Ah gong yet, cause this one is younger, we got Ah gong in physiology also) he say it’s WRONG to calculate the number of cells in diluted blood cause it’s reduntant… Funny eh? Do long method is wrong, do short method is wrong also… Conclusion: They are confusedly brain-dead… LOL. That was two weeks ago… And last week I purposely create a controversy between the Ah pek and other lecturers by asking his advice on whether I should include the part of diluted blood or not… (By showing him the workings written by other lecturers)… And guess what, a debate is stirred up… Wahahahahaha….
And there’s another ngiao ji woman… Not only she blabbered on the incompleteness of my lab report, she also said next time I should have prepared the report before coming… And here comes my chance of revenge… I asked her immediately what are we supposed to do for the next lab session, whether it’s still RBC or other things, and then she say I’ll have to wait till next week then only they’ll inform… Then I “attacked” her by asking her how I am suppose to prepare my report without knowing what I will do next week… Wahahahaha… She just shook her head and leave… Oh ya, one very noticeable thing while you are speaking to IIs is they just shook their head whether to say yes or no… When I say shake head, I meant shake head in Indian way, maybe I can show you all when I’m back… Hehehe… Or maybe I’ll just get influenced by them and shake my head for whatever reason… LOL.
The next two books are for anatomy… The first one is Cunningham’s manual of practical anatomy a.k.a. dissection manual… The nightmare of anatomy follows… Anyhow, after discovering the complexity of other subjects, I think Anatomy looks easier than what I had thought… Haha…. Anyway just as an advice to all my KUTPM friends, I think there’s no need to bring Saladin’s P&A book… The knowledge inside is quite insufficient, and you can really ask all those kiasus and borrow from them if you want… You won’t need the book much… If you think that the textbook is thin, you should take a look at the prominent 3… There are 3 books of the same thickness for anatomy, but for dentistry we need only the 3rd volume – Brain, head and neck… Remember, even 2 books of the same size is already a bit thicker than our Saladin’s P&A, not including physiology, so judge for yourself whether you want to bring that book or not lah…
Anyway, embryology and histology are parts of anatomy… For dissection, we are know still playing with real skulls… Hehehe… But we are already standing beside the bodies… The dissection hall is a long hall (with a classroom’s width) with two rows of canteen-table like dissection table lined in the hall… There’re only fans and “air-circulators” (I dunno how to translate, it’s 抽风机) which is sucking the formalin-saturated air out to the pathway, which means if you are walking on the pathway, you’ll get blessed by the bau yang tidak menyenangkan… Hahaha… And I actually held my breath while I am blessed by the air, I don’t know what will happen if some one draw a deep breath there… Hahaha… Anyway we are assured by the lecturer that the smell we all smelling is not from the body, instead it’s from the fluid they injected into the body… And all the cadavers are guaranteed to be safe from serious disease i.e. wearing gloves are optional when dissecting… Anyway, because of the simple design of the dissection hall (classroom like, and not air-conditioned), dissecting bodies is not as scary as I have imagined… Hehehe… Really… Imagine if you have to go through labyrinths and reach a totally internal part of a building to do dissection, where it’s impossible to see the outside world directly, where all the lightings are artificial (ours have to depend on natural lighting sometime because of frequent power failure, hehehe…), as well as the cool-like-hell AC, it’s certainly scarier than doing dissection under the environment like here…
And for histology practical, I basically figured out one principle… You just have to study the ideal drawing for a particular histological slide, learn how to draw it, as well as some theory shits about it… However practically, you’ll have to remember which slide is what… You really can’t apply the theory practically… You’ll never be able to identify the slides based on theory… That’s why if you are asked to observe and draw, there’s no need to hold the book on your hand and look into the microscope then draw, then look into it again and then draw again, that’s all kiasus’ work (most Indian gals do that)… When the lecturers ask you to observe, they are actually asking you to look into the slides and remember the look… And when they ask you to draw, you’ll have to draw the ideal sturctures, which is completely different from what you see in the microscope… Some times what you see in the microscope is ten times smaller than the ideal structures, and it’s next to impossible for you to see the lines in between the cells, even the nuclei of an simple epithelium are so closed together than you can only see a purple stained line… So tell me, WTH are the Indian gals doing?…
Next is biochemistry, which the text book is not available yet… Namely the chemistry of life, but for me it’s dead-chemistry… Memorizing is the main thing like in other subjects… We have finished carbohydrates, lipids, and now we are in proteins… Damn lot to remember too… And we have a male lecturer who speaks Tamglish… Lotsa phrases are crammed together… Hahaha…
For practical part, we will all be doing tests for sugars for the whole month… One thing you have to know is you have to suck pipette with you mouth… Yeah, seriously you need to do it with your mouth… On the first day when the lecturer wanted to see whether we know how to use a pipette, she wanted us to take different mls of water with the pipette… I thought she was testing us the knowledge of security measures by not giving us the pipette controller… Then I started to see people sucking it with their mouth and I thought she would scold them that it’s dangerous to do so… But instead, when the fella asked her whether he had got it correct, she said OK… Then I asked her whether we have to suck with mouth, she said yes… WTF???… Anyway, we have all gotten used to it… Hehe… Who wanna know the taste of Benedict’s solution? Hahahha… Nono, it’s not me who tasted it, it’s a friend of mine, so don’t worry… I’m still fine… yet… Hehehehe… Do they know that many solution tends to evaporate?… Sigh… Don’t worry, for concentrated H2SO4 we have to take from the preparation room under observation and the container is tall enough that we don’t need to suck… Haha…
Anyway I think I enjoyed biochem practical the most because it’s less confusing (the instruction) and I get the result as I wanted… Hehe… It’s really more detail than what we’ve learned last time… We can be certain what’s the sugar this time… First we perform a Molisch Test (the only test involving concentrated H2SO4) to see whether it’s a carbohydrate or not, only carbohydrates will answer the test… And then we perform Benedict test to see whether it’s reducing sugar or not, only reducing sugar will answer the test in 2 minutes of direct heating… And then we perform Barfoed test using Barfoed’s solution, a solution similar to Benedict, blue colour also, and produce red precipitate also if it’s a monosaccharide in 30 seconds of direct heating… And then we perform Seliwanoff test to see whether it’s ketosugar or not, only ketosugar will answer this test in 30 seconds of direct heating… And finally we perform Osazone test to see which sugar it is by adding something into the sugar solution and put it in boiling water bath for 20 minutes… After that Osazone crystals will form and we have to observe it under microscope to see what’s the crystal structure and determine what sugar it is… So far we’ve only seen crystals for glucose or fructose, it’s needle shape… Hehe…
And now for dental subjects… Firstly I’ll finish the ODS part… It’s basically about basics of conservative dentistry, something about filling or restoring our teeth… We are now asked to prepare tooth models and then make cavities on it according to GV Black’s classification… Till now only I know that before filling the teeth we have to excavate the dental caries and then prepare a cavity by using a rotating handpiece, in which if you have had filling before, you’ll feel that it’s pressed hard on your tooth just to create a cavity for filling for the filling operation… Honestly I think this is the subject with least information to memorize…
And now the nightmare of the nightmare… Dental Materials… The textbook is the book with a prominent Philips’ words on it… It’s pure DEAD physics and chemistry… Which means one have to memorize the physical, mechanical, electrical, chemical and etc. properties of a dental material… If it’s about applying physics and chemistry I’ll be happy but it’s apocalypse for me to memorise all the shits… Bwaaaaaaah… And also all the lecturers teaching DM is the most bian tai one… At first is a short guy who never wears coat… First he take attendance in a WTH-way, if no answer loud enough he just take you as absent (which is normal for us now… Haha…), and no matter for what reason you are not in class while he’s taking attendance (even if other lecturers asked you out to go do something)… And he’s another Tamglish-mouth… For which last time when he asked me question, I huh for a few times then he changed it into a simplest question… LOL. And then he’s damn strict lah… For those who can’t give him satisfactory answer will have to stand…
And we thought he was bad enough but last week it was a lady (who insisted us to call her Madam even if she’s still a Miss) who came in for theory class… That one walao… Lagi kanasai… Iggy was the first one to kena shoot… He was said to be not concentrating enough… And then she wants everyone to write whenever she told some information… And I was pondering what she said and she noticed it and deliberately asked me to write… WTF… And then after the class I referred to the book and found out that what she said is not so correct according to the book… Or I should just say, stop listening to her and read the books enough… Haih… Die loh…
For practical session, we are now currently playing with one of the gypsum products – Plaster of Paris which is used to make impression for casting (go find what they meant yourself) or maybe even primary cast or whatsoever… We are asked to make cubes with sides of 2.5 cm… It’s damn hard… And for the first time I managed to created a few shit like things and a few failures, as below:
Don’t laugh, it’s really difficult to do it with just spatullas (long flat plate attached to a handle) and plaster knife only… I think I’m going to make a mould for it to make it simpler… Hehe… But later I decided to make some more at home because the short guy lecturer wanted to see a cube at next time, this time it’s a bit better but it’s not perfect yet:
I think tomorrow going to try with a mould… Hehe…
And below are all failures created last week in the DM lab and ODS lab… Hehe… It’s plaster of Paris version of Stonehedge… With a failed mandibular molar in the middle… Hahahahhaha…
I think that’s all for my explanation for my condition over here… Hehe… Wish me luck for not to feel tired to fast… I’m starting to feel tired to cope up with the shits over here already…
I guess the complains my mum read in the newspaper last year regarding the KMC’s bad condition are true… I believe it completely… It’s all happening here as well… Chalks and blackboards… Primary school type punishment, for us it’s still standing there yet… Don’t know when it will upgrade to standing on chairs or using canes… Lousy facilities… Eat rice with err… Gravy only… I think it’s Indians’ culture to eat rice with all kinds of curries (or known as kurma, sambal over here)… I’ve tried their main course at a restaurant in the town… It’s a whole pile of white rice with 7 small bowls of curries (one is dessert and one is curd)… Iggy say at Bangsar got a restaurant serves 16 dishes… Maybe wanna try next time go back… Hehehe…
Many people asked how’s the food over here… I can just say it lacks variety, definitely not like in Malaysia, so you guys should really treasure our food variety in Malaysia… Anyway, I am starting to like their curries over here… Hehehe… Hopefully when I go back I can suit myself to curry-less life… And hopefully I will get used to “non-extremities” in Malaysia… Hahaha…
I think I should take a rest for now, I’ve wasted the whole evening and night for today’s post… Hehe… I shall tell more next time… In case you wondered where I got the time and mood for all these, it’s their election day today and we got an off day… Hahaha…
Presenting you a picture, please compare the picture below with the first picture in the 3rd pic report… See how different it is… Hopefully time can fly faster… Hopefully 5 years can end quickly… Oh yeah, we are going to Chennai for the following Hari Raya / Deepavali Holidays… Hope for a fiasco-free trip…
P/S : We actually visited Yercaud (a highland in Salem) during the free time we have before class started… I’ve got the pictures, hopefully I’ll have the time to tell the story…
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