乐游槟城2013

          

         盼了许久的假期终于来临了。好难得的机会可以尽情地吃喝玩！一考完试，我和朋友们就马上出发到槟城。别以为槟城只是美食天堂，它的好多旅游景点都很吸引人呢。第一天，我们去Fort Cornwallis 和 St George Church 哪儿参观。我们去到那时已是黄昏，所以没待多久。只是走走看看罢了。走回去取车的路程中，正巧碰上很多花车准备游行。原来是盂兰盛会。晚上花车的灯光亮着，对比着渐黑的天空，格外美丽。

不知道为什么，茶餐室高朋满桌，于是我们打包了晚餐才回房间开餐。走得累了，能吃上香香的Char Kuey Teow、 蚝煎、煎饼⋯⋯ 有幸福的感觉。

第二天，我们去Penang Youth Park玩。那里是公共的游乐场，大人小孩都可以玩。像我们这样的大小孩就像到了天堂一样，放肆地玩个够。这里的Graffiti Park 展览着很多壁画作品。而我最喜欢的是这幅瀑布的立体画，走了好久才找到它。找到了当然抓紧机会装模做样。;)

天气炎热，我们‘不得以’才想要找地方吃煎堆冰。听说Jalan Keng Kwee那有好吃的，我们就出发去。果然是名不虚传，我们跟着长长的队伍排，终于吃到了。好吃！

走着走着，让我发现了一间很吸引人的冰淇淋店，你说，我怎能错失机会？哈哈

傍晚，我们去Batu Feringghi海滩散布。在那留下短暂的痕迹，拍拍照片，吹吹海风。突然天下起倾盆大雨，无奈，只好归去。

晚餐我们去吃Upper penang road 的"Who's Bryan"。朋友介绍的西餐厅，食物好吃，环境优美。正巧遇到隔壁有一桌家人替叫Bryan的小男孩庆祝生日。下次再去槟城我一定要回去吃！

第三天的早上，我们去寻找壁画。壁画分布在不同的街上。几乎每一个小巷都有个铜铁弯成的作品。我们成功找到街上全部壁画。最后一个是在Chew Jetty那边，我们顺便可以欣赏渔村的风景。遗憾的是，有些壁画被雨水冲蚀了。在那儿和住在那的朋友Jaya见面。她带我们到极乐寺那儿吃Laksa，过后到她的家拜访。晚餐是在Pasar Pulau Tikus解决。我最爱那里了。

Exam + Education

Now I'm entering a new module, FYI, my study is according to modules instead of semesters. Every module ends with an exam, which accumulate marks for the year end exam. With each module is about 6 to 7 weeks long, can you imagine how fast or often i have to sit for exam? And hence this is my source of stress.

I'd been thinking, as we grow older, we are subjected to more and more exams. The duration of study or preparation for exam shorten as we study higher level. Primary we have 6 years before UPSR, lower secondary 3 years for PMR, higher secondary 2 years for SPM. For my experience, 1 year of express classes to prepare for A levels. Now, 2 months + for end of modules exams. Not to mention my piano and violin plus theory examinations. For some moment, I thought the purpose of my life were to sit for exams.

Please understand that I'm not against exams. I believe in the purpose of exams, which is to assess our knowledge on the subjects. However I'm against the need of having to study unnecessary subjects, which waste our time and effort to attend class, prepare for it and sit for the exam. I still remember how i spend time memorising the facts for sports (Pendidikan Kesihatan dan Jasmani) definitions of values in Moral education, details in history, which i couldn't recall anything now. Now, in college, its depressing that there is still presence of invaluable subjects that we have to waste our time to attend, namely Career Guidance and Technopreneurship.

Could you imagine having to attend compulsory career guidance classes in a medical school? It seems like they thought us having difficulties in choosing the right profession. Honestly i think it should be done in the form of seminar but not wasting so much of our time. Techno class is like they are expecting us to memorise the facts of the components of business. I wish you can imagine how tough for me to prepare for the subject that i disliked so much.

I've been an object moulded by our nation's education system, but I've opinion and feedback on the system itself. I hope to have improvements on this matter, to make a student's life less miserable and more enjoyable. I hope.

My first day lesson in medical college

Alright, how do i start this? Today is my first day of lesson in RCMP. The orientations were done in past three days, and there will be more orientation in Pulau Pangkor weeks later. I guess the additional orientation is to built stronger boding among the seniors and us.

Out of my expectation, the first lesson started with a patient entering the lecture theatre. We were required to ask her questions to find out the cause of her condition. She was assigned to be in the condition of Severe Dehydration and answer our questions according to the relevant signs and symptoms. Based on the questions we asked we can know how she get into this situation. Thus we had an experience of first day becoming a doctor.

After taking down all the information, we were divided into small groups to discuss furthermore on this to confirm the diagnosis. I'm fortunate to be in an active group that everyone contributes their ideas that we have to further study on. Lastly the ideas were organised into learning outcomes that we hope to find out and bring to the second discussion later on.

There was a tutor that guide us in the discussion so we can stay in the path. I'm happy that he asked questions to lead us there but not feeding us. It was a nice brainstorming session.

Although the patient is not really having the condition (fake),I feel that the whole Q &As and discussion helped us to think more critically and relate the ideas into main points.

Later on, the first lecture i attended was Anatomy. The proffesor explained so fast that we couldn't catch up taking down the notes.

The way that i'm studying now is different from my study skills earlier. In university level group study is definitely imperial, if not, you might bored to death or couldn't understand the concept well. Most importantly, they are someone to listen to your ideas.