Carpe Diem

Hello there my kawaii nakama. I watched "Dead Poets Society" the other day, starring the late Robin Williams as Mr John Keating. Besides him, Ethan Hawke from the mind boggling movie Predestination also acted in this classic but magnificent movie as one of Mr Keating's students. I have been somewhat inspired to write a poem after hearing what Mr Keating said to his students in the movie :

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."

Took me a few hours to complete one, but it was worth it I guess. It has been a long time since I did anything fun during this dull, mundane and humdrum holiday. The movie somewhat reminded me of my time back when I was in Victoria Institution, an all boys school, which is quite similar to Welton Academy. Since all of the students are boys, who most of em' have matured physically but actually not capable of thinking like a mature, well-behaved human being. Back then we did lots of pretty stupid things which would make people wonder whether we're actually elite students or foolish neanderthals who somehow ended up in the 21st century.

Just reminiscing about all the stupid yet funny things that we've done back then would make me grin from ear to ear like a child who stands before a candy store with ten grand in his hand. I have fond memories of the institution and hence the reason why I feel that I can relate to the movie so much. Although I'm actually quite morose about certain tragic events that happened in the movie which I'm grateful that didn't happen to any of me and my fellow Victorians back when we're still studying there.

Late night futsal, it's hard to hang out after SPM since almost everyone is separated from each other 😟

Anyway, enough talk, I'm not here to give you guys a synopsis of what the movie is about. I guess I would just fascinate ( or bore you to death ) with my first ever attempt at writing poem.
Well, here goes nothing :

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Every time I feel like I want to confess
To the lady in the white dress
Sunshine and rainbow would always manifest 
Is this some kind of clue to a quest 
Where I need to impress
And show her that I'm the best

Unless she only thinks of me as a pest
Which means I should just give it a rest
Instead of being obsessed
And creating a mess
Because I don't think I'll make any progress

Arggh, all of this is giving me a stress
My head feels like it is being compressed
What is this discomfort that I feel in my chest
Damn I'm so tired it is as if I'm being possessed

O' God I have a humble request 
Please make it so that she will say yes
So I can finally end this great unrest

Now I can study for my next test
And ultimately achieve true success

Hahaha I finally made a poem, simple but it's a poem nonetheless

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How's that for a first attempt, it's not that great but yeah whatever. In the movie, Mr Keating not only taught the students English but to live life to its fullest, hence the reason why I chose "Carpe Diem" as the title for this post. Once again I would like to quote what Mr Keating once said in the movie, "Carpe, carpe. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." He would repeat this "Carpe Diem" thing a few times throughout the movie, which serves as a great reminder to all the students to make the most of their days. I would really really really really really recommend you guys to watch the movie, it's a masterpiece and if I'm not mistaken, Robin Williams was nominated for the Oscar Award for his role in the movie although it is quite a shame that he didn't win the award. "Patch Adams" is also another movie starred by Robin Williams which I would greatly recommend to all the folks out there. He is indeed a talented actor, and quite funny too, one of a kind indeed. 🤣

I would like to end the post with a quote from Walt Whitman's poem, as a tribute to the late Robin Williams :
"O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won"


Till we meet again, goodbye 😘

Me and the squad hanging out before Daniel went to America. (Not a permanent move I hope)

Lost to a fellow Victorian, Abe Amiruddin in the SUKMUM final. Both of us trained under the same guy, Cikgu Zainul "Jeng" Haris at VI. He's the head prefect back when I was in form 1 at VI. I look a bit retarded in this picture though 😆

Faculty of Medicine, UiTM Sungai Buloh

Hello peeps, this post right here will be dedicated to my juniors who will be joining me at my beloved faculty soon. I guess it's not too late say "Welcome to UiTM Sungai Buloh" 🎉🎊. So you've arrived at the next stage of your life, which means new challenges, new beginnings, new opportunities, a new journey, a new plateau to conquer, and of course a whole new life to look forward to. I'm not going to go into details about what this course is about, the syllabus, curriculum, and whatsoever. If you which to know more about that kind of stuff I would like to recommend you to visit other blogs or just click this link right over here: https://afiqzulazhar.blogspot.my/2017/08/what-to-expect-faculty-of-medicine-uitm.html . That blog is handled by Afiq Zul 🐵, which happens to be my housemate and my Ketua Rumah. He's kind, friendly, enthusiastic, and a genius as well. What I'll be talking about in this post, would be more directed towards our life at UiTM Sungai Buloh. However, I can't really say much since I have only spent about 2 semesters here 😆. ( I will be entering the 3rd semester this coming September )

Me and the squad in front of our faculty, they're all my housemates. From the right: Hamidin, Udin, Afif, Aizat, Me 🐟, Badrol, Syafiq, Afiq, Yusof, and Haziq (my roommate)

Ok, first of all, I would like to say that life's very fun and enjoyable at this campus. Even though we're studying medicine which what most people consider to be the "most difficult" course, I believe that if we allocate our time properly, we can always ace the exam 📚😪 ( or pass the exam, some people consider passing the exam as an achievement which is not wrong because the exams are quite difficult to be frank ) Of course, you need to study at your own pace, if you think that you're a weak student then you'll need to study a bit harder than other people, you know yourself better than other people so adjust your timetable accordingly. Anyway, in my opinion, all courses actually have their own difficulties, so you can't simply say course A is more challenging compared to course B and vice versa. It's ok to say that your course is exhausting, strenuous, arduous, onerous, back breaking, but to belittle other courses, that would be a very dumb thing to do. The mind boggling stigma regarding studying medicine is that the students have no life which is a bit ironic since the ones with no life are the one studying so hard so that in the future they can save other people's life. In any case, there's no need to fret about other people's opinions. There are lots of entertaining things that can be carried out around here. 😉

Regarding the accommodation, I would say it is marvelous. There are 3 residential colleges; Residential College 1, 2, and 3 🌇. RC1 will be allocated to female medical students, while female dental students will be billeted at RC3. Male medical and dental students will be placed at RC2. ( Female medical students will move to Selayang Campus during their 4th and 5th year while the male medical students will move to Selayang Campus during their final year ) After registration, all of the students will be placed in a house with 5 rooms; 2 people in each room. Toilets are very clean and comfortable. At the end of the toilet there's a space provided to hang your clothes, along with 2 sets of clothesline. The house is quite spacious so there's always room to carry out any random and weird activities that you have in mind 🙌. We have free wifi but certain houses at RC2 doesn't get the signal. I heard that it's way worse at RC1 because the female students would always complain about how bad the wifi signal is over there. Lifts are provided so you don't need to worry about taking the staircase. Sometimes the lifts will breakdown once in a while. No worries though there's always a technician/repairman/random wizard who will be fixing the lifts when it's screwed up. On top of that, water coolers are also provided on floor 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12. Disclaimer: I don't know if the same setting applies to RC1 or RC3 because I've only stayed at RC2 for the last 2 semester. 🤷

There's even a swimming pool at this campus! Just kidding 😜 This is our post-progress test party at Zaim's condo in Damansara 🏊

At the ground floor of each residential college, there's at least one musolla 🕌. But the musolla that is often used for activities is the biggest musolla which is situated at RC2. It's not that big actually but bigger compared to the musolla at RC1, RC3, and the mini musolla at RC2. No need to agonize if you're a so-dorm ( read: solat dekat dorm ) practitioner, they don't enforce people to pray at the musolla although it's always better to pray in groups. A multitude of activities will be organised by the musolla people and ALIS such as Sedulang Sejiwa every Thursday where 3 or 4 people will eat in a big plate/talam 🥘together regardless of age but of course, will be separated by gender. Tarawih prayers will also be conducted at RC2 along with other programs meant to increase our iman, in sha Allah.

With the committee members of the 1st Class Solah program held by the EMI (Exco Modal Insan) under MESTA. 

If you're looking for a gym then look no further. There's a gym situated at the ground level of each residential college, and recently the gym at RC2 has been renovated and it's so comfortable and cheerful looking, just like the musolla it's open 24 hours. If you're not into bodybuilding 🏋 then there's always the treadmill 🏃 or the bicycle 🚴 for you to use. There's an electronic weighing scale so you can always update your current progress if you're intending to lower your weight. Besides the gym, the campus also provides sports amenities so if you want to play ping pong/table tennis, squash, badminton, volleyball, basketball, futsal, sepak takraw, feel free to do that. There's not a lot of students who play sepak takraw during the evening so I am kind of hoping that there will be a lot of freshmen playing sepak takraw hmm 👉👈 . If you're too preoccupied until you can't even play during the evening, you can always play during the night. One thing that sucks is that the polis bantuan/guards 👮 [ PB ] would stop the game around 12 to 1 am. It's probably logical if it's on the weekdays but to do that during the weekends, I don't think that's a rational move. Weekends are the time that we students use to relax/rest and playing sports is one of the ways to relax. 😞 *sighs* Akhabwhjbcehwkjbyjfwqeiufcjqhwcbjlhwbkenmnojgygkhmjvmbvbmvcfxchwaegxwakjbdjkabqwcjnqiociwrtvgerwhywerhyqjejtrqehtgziqhfgwjehfckqwjfhqwwcfvkjacbwjkqcnfwqeoynfc7ewtewuonnwc

The cool kids 😎 There's no football field provided for the students at the campus 😭 This was during the annual Sports Anthem at SMK Sierramas ⚽

I almost forgot, our faculty have the standard facilities and equipment needed like other medicine faculties: lecture hall, library, laboratories, dissection hall, et cetera. But what makes our faculty unique is that we have our very own museum. How cool is that? I often see students hanging out at the museum. Some even study here instead of going to the library which is not a surprise because the environment is quite tranquil; free from any unnecessary disturbances + there are fewer people here compared to the library 🤓.

I and my PBL teammates along with Dr Ruzain, our group's PBL instructor for the 2nd semester after our last PBL session 👬👭. Too bad we didn't take any pictures with Dr Suhaila; the PBL instructor for the 1st semester and Dr Syed Baharom;  co-PBL instructor for the 2nd semester 

Throughout the year, there will be a myriad of activities organised by either SMF, MESTA, JPK, ALIS, PEERS or other organisations ( you'll know more about these organisations when you enter the campus ), but what piques my interest the most would be the annually coveted Medical Intervarsity Games 🏅[ MIVG ] where medic students from all over the country, IPTS medic students included, would join to compete in various sports event. Unfortunately every year Sepak Takraw is not included due to the fact that there's not a lot of students who want to play Sepak Takraw. There's also a singing competition 🎤 during MIVG so if you think you've got the talent and courage to represent your faculty then come forward and sign up for the event. If you have friends studying medicine from other universities in Malaysia then you might even meet them at this event. Don't worry if you're not an athlete, you can still join the event either as supporters or as committee members of your own faculty. 😀

I guess that's all for the time being. If you want to know more just dm me on Twitter, WhatsApp me or drop a comment below and if I have the time I'll respond. I'm currently free until the next semester starts, which is on the 11th of September so there's a high probability that I won't ignore your message. Good luck and all the best to the freshmen who'll be entering our faculty, Carpe Diem! 😊

With Atifah; the girl taking the selfie and Hamidin; the cool guy with the double thumbs up. We just got back from the Perkampungan Orang Asli at Jerantut, Pahang. Had to travel by boat in order to reach their village, a pleasurable memory that I'll always treasure.

P.S: Sorry my blog's kinda bland and too plain looking at the moment 😟 , do forgive me as I'm new to this thing and I promise I would spend a few time to make this blog look better as I progress. Till we meet again, toodles! 😳

Love?

Hi again 👋, it's been a while since I last posted on this blog, back then when I didn't have a blog I have a lot of things on my mind that I wanted to say but now that I've started blogging, every idea just seems to slip away. Nonetheless, I've promised myself to update this blog once after every exam, which means every year you guys can expect me to have an average of about 10 blog posts and since I have 5 exams per semester, and every year there are 2 semesters, well I guess you can do the math yourself. 🖩

Anyway, I just finished my final year exam last Wednesday and  I swear to god I feel suuuupppeeeerrrr duuuuupppppeeeerrrrr relieved right now. 🙆 I've been studying diligently (okay I lied, I studied and played a lot during study week, but I guess that's what all normal people do hehe) and now that it's finally over I can do things that I've been wanting to do, like updating my blog. For my second post, I'll talk about love 💞since it is one of the most popular subjects out there. First of all, let me clear up the confusion regarding my current situation. People need to know that I have never got myself involved with the boyfriend-girlfriend thing, never have and never will (I hope), and I intend to stay that way until the end of my degree year. What about "A" you may ask, we're just friends, nothing more than that. Initially, I'm ok when a few people joke about us, but when people start to seriously think that there's something going on between the two of us, I think I need to clarify what's really going on. I actually have already tweeted about this stuff but I'm just going to go more into detail about this since it's easier to talk about complex things on a blog compared to using twitter. 💆


First of all, one of the reasons why I'm not interested in this whole boyfriend-girlfriend couple thing is that I promised my mama that I will not get involved in a relationship while pursuing my degree, it may sound funny or nonsensical, but that's what I promised her before entering medical school. I promised her 2 things:
1) I will be one of the top students here (LMAO I don't think that ever happened 😆). In order to be one of the best, you need to really really REALLY study hard, even more so for a blockhead like me, or any of us for that matter, and unfortunately for me, I'm a lazy bum, I study and play a lot, and in terms of academic, I think I'm above average. Barely surviving, but that's good enough, as long as I'm leading a fun, stress-free life that's all that matters I guess.
2) Strictly no lovey dovey relationship until I got my degree.
And since I'm a man of my words I intend to stick to my promise, I don't want to be someone who goes back on his words, that's not me, I want to be someone she can trust, I mean, she's my mama, the number one woman in my life, wouldn't want to lose her trust. 😊


The next reason would be because I personally believe that it's not the time for that kind of thing yet. I'm not ready, not mature enough, I can't even handle myself so how can I handle other people 🤣. For the next 4-5 years, I would prefer to focus on upgrading myself, in all aspects, spiritually 👼, physically 🏃, emotionally 😵, and not to forget my attitude 🕱, not for my future spouse but just because I want to be a better version of myself. As of now, I don't think I'm responsible enough for a relationship, or willing to be committed to someone else. Besides, I believe there is more to life than finding "the one". There's a whole lot of things that we should look forward to, just because you're single that doesn't mean that you cannot be happy. Single is okay as long as you're not lonely. Most of us have friends and families to spend time with, which I believe what people should be doing more instead of spending time with your girlfriend/boyfriend. Yes he or she is your current love partner and might be your future spouse, but do enlighten me on how much time you spend with your girlfriend/boyfriend compared to your parents, and yet you complain that your parents are different, do not understand you, et cetera. You are the one who's not making time for them and you dare say such things about them? 🙄

One of my favourite speakers out there, Mr Nouman Ali Khan once said, all these relationships that we think are so awesome, it's actually a product of low self-esteem, especially for the girls. You think that no one is going to like you, marry you and all of that stuff. On the other hand, we have the guys, who most of the time just have raging hormones and daydream about girls and stuff like that, it doesn't mean that you're in love, it just means that you haven't controlled your temptations yet. You tell me if the girl you like is 50 pounds fatter, or her face got burned or her ear got cut off or something, would you still be in love with her, or do you find somebody else to love all of a sudden? And if you can't answer that question honestly then you're not in love, you're just hormonal, that's all you are. There's a fine line between love and infatuation that people need to learn to differentiate. 🤔

Coming to the end of this post, I really hope that everyone would respect my decision to not get involved in a love relationship. To be frank, I don't appreciate people around me associating me with other girls, if you guys do it once or twice for banter I guess it's ok, but if you do that all the time it's a bit annoying actually, and makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. In any case, owing to the fact that I'm currently on a 6 week holiday I might update this blog more often. I don't know, depends on whether I have the time or not, but sometimes even when I have all the time in the world to do something beneficial I will end up not doing it because that's just what I am, a lazy bum 😪. I guess my friends should call me a sloth instead of keli. Till we meet again, adios. ✌

Why

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So why am I starting to blog? Why now? Why not earlier? Well, I don't really have a specific reason as to why I'm doing this at the moment, I mean blogging is fun ( I think), so why not? To be frank, I've always wanted to blog but my fear prevented me from blogging earlier in my life. Fear of what? Well, to be exact fear of almost everything, fear of making a post with terrible grammar, fear of making a post with bad contents, fear that no one is going to read my blog, fear of people ridiculing me for making a blog, but now I decided to not really dwell on it, I mean if I'm going to make a blog then I should just go ahead and make a blog. Because at the end of the day,

It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I'm alive

(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said, "I did it my way"
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life 

My point is, from now on, I would like to do things that would please myself, other people's opinions are important of course, but not to the extent that it's going to stop me from doing things that I want, it's my life after all C: 

Before this, I've always underestimated the power of literature. They're just words after all, what can they do? How wrong I was back then because words do have a lot of power, words can influence people, they can motivate, bring you down, make people fall in love with you, make people hate you, or if we were to look at the people who've written (or blogged) we would be able to see that literature indeed holds enormous power. One fine example would be Joanne Rowling, or famously known as J. K. Rowling, the author of the famous Harry Potter series, which won multiple awards, enabling her to rise to stardom. Or if we were to look at the local scene, we have akhi angelwearsgucci, whose blog has been both inspiring and wonderful to read, same goes to Dr. Nadia Khan, I don't know much about her blog but I've read a few books written by her and I have to admit her books are different from the rest, hope that I can be a better writer than her in the future or at least at the same level XD After all, no one knows what does the future have in store for us. Anyway, what do all of these people have in common, all of them are super good at  writing and through their work they have been able to influence and inspire a lot of people. Is this why I'm blogging? To become a better writer so I can influence a lot of people?

Well, I guess that's enough for my first post, don't really know what I've been typing but I guess that's what happen when you're typing after midnight, lame, dull, boring, unimaginative ideas would be lingering around in your brain, waiting for your fingers to type them so they can manifest in physical form to appear on this blog you're currently reading. Whatever, it's not like I'm writing to please other people. Well then, why am I writing? Who knows