Away and away
What sets me apart this month with those other months that i'd experienced? To sum up this month, it's a totally brand new experience for me. Usually, i would be enjoying myself on December, indulging in PC/PS games, going out day in and out, watching movies, hanging out with friends and etc. But for this very month, it's the first full month i'd ever worked.
My industrial training took me to the laboratory department in SMC. All the details? Posted up in past posts, lazy want to re-phrase it. Nonetheless, working almost an entire day in the lab, it left me pondering why M'sia is so "behind" in this field.
It's not that i am trying to criticize my country, but the facts are all out there. M'sia started it's IT era at around the same time as S'Korea did. Up to this point, S'Korea is leading the IT part faraway while M'sia is still left in the dark.
As for other departments, it won't take long as to figure out why M'sia failed to expand it wings into other commodities. I am studying BioMed/BioTech and many of us in this field knows best is still considered backwater in M'sia. As far as i am concerned, BioMed graduates are thrown into a vast diversity of oppertunities in other countries, even in S'pore. In M'sia, most have no choice but to take a job as lab technicians when they graduate, up to an extent that they have to compete with lab technicians who only obtain a diploma. While the government are hyping about expanding into these kind of fields, one would have to ask, is it going to end up like the IT programme? Just hoped that by the time i graduate, there would be at least something into this.
As for my work itself, this week is my last week at cirrology and immunology. However, i don't think i had enough first hand practice on these stuffs cause throughout the entire 2 weeks that i am assigned to this department, many MLT are taking leaves, which left the lab often seriously shorthanded. I am often ordered back to Biochem and Haematology department since there are more samples to analyse there. Just yesterday, i am "proud" to annouce that i single handedly handled all the uralysis testing myself cause for some reason, those urine samples kept on coming in hordes.
Today i followed another MLT for "jalan", which literally means following them up to the wards to collect the samples. I could only observe them collecting blood from patients and doing minor tests, but soon, it would come a chance where i would be "forced" to do it. Part of the training.......................or so they said.
Out of the job, and to X'mas part...................................pretty boring for me. There are no gatherings or whatsoever on X'mas eve, and even my parents decided to just have dinner at home =_=" On X'mas day itself, went to my aunt's family annual X'mas luncheon. Missed it last year since i was celebrating it in Beijing...........................and did i mentioned before that i'd "proudly" received a present during the tour?
Nonetheless, there wasn't anything fun at all, except for the part i played chor tai tee with my sis and she lost till she frustratingly quitted the game =P
And a month has since almost passed..........................boring-ness is starting to creep into me while my friends are having better times in the day. Yet, the fact remains that i myself had chosen this path and i am determine to walk it to the very end...................but slacking still remains in my veins /gg
My industrial training took me to the laboratory department in SMC. All the details? Posted up in past posts, lazy want to re-phrase it. Nonetheless, working almost an entire day in the lab, it left me pondering why M'sia is so "behind" in this field.
It's not that i am trying to criticize my country, but the facts are all out there. M'sia started it's IT era at around the same time as S'Korea did. Up to this point, S'Korea is leading the IT part faraway while M'sia is still left in the dark.
As for other departments, it won't take long as to figure out why M'sia failed to expand it wings into other commodities. I am studying BioMed/BioTech and many of us in this field knows best is still considered backwater in M'sia. As far as i am concerned, BioMed graduates are thrown into a vast diversity of oppertunities in other countries, even in S'pore. In M'sia, most have no choice but to take a job as lab technicians when they graduate, up to an extent that they have to compete with lab technicians who only obtain a diploma. While the government are hyping about expanding into these kind of fields, one would have to ask, is it going to end up like the IT programme? Just hoped that by the time i graduate, there would be at least something into this.
As for my work itself, this week is my last week at cirrology and immunology. However, i don't think i had enough first hand practice on these stuffs cause throughout the entire 2 weeks that i am assigned to this department, many MLT are taking leaves, which left the lab often seriously shorthanded. I am often ordered back to Biochem and Haematology department since there are more samples to analyse there. Just yesterday, i am "proud" to annouce that i single handedly handled all the uralysis testing myself cause for some reason, those urine samples kept on coming in hordes.
Today i followed another MLT for "jalan", which literally means following them up to the wards to collect the samples. I could only observe them collecting blood from patients and doing minor tests, but soon, it would come a chance where i would be "forced" to do it. Part of the training.......................or so they said.
Out of the job, and to X'mas part...................................pretty boring for me. There are no gatherings or whatsoever on X'mas eve, and even my parents decided to just have dinner at home =_=" On X'mas day itself, went to my aunt's family annual X'mas luncheon. Missed it last year since i was celebrating it in Beijing...........................and did i mentioned before that i'd "proudly" received a present during the tour?
Nonetheless, there wasn't anything fun at all, except for the part i played chor tai tee with my sis and she lost till she frustratingly quitted the game =P
And a month has since almost passed..........................boring-ness is starting to creep into me while my friends are having better times in the day. Yet, the fact remains that i myself had chosen this path and i am determine to walk it to the very end...................but slacking still remains in my veins /gg
