My Basil Plant is Growing!

My basil plant is moving to a bigger house now! Yay so happy to see it growing so well! Hopefully it will grow more basil leaves so that I can use them in my cooking!

My Ashie posing with the plant.

Awww.. watching it grows makes me feel accomplished. <3

This is the before picture for comparison. See how much it have grown in the past few weeks?

My basil plant 3 weeks ago.

Btw, 5 weeks down and 1 more week to go! I will miss my patients dearly but I'm also looking forward to the many activities that I have planned after my clinical placement. Among the list are: Standard Chartered KL Marathon, Level 2A Korean Language Class (I'm finishing my level 1B next week!), new workout routine, fitness course, more outings and many more! Can't wait!

That's all!

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Clinical Placement Update!

Harlorh! Here's a quickie update about my 7th clinical placement! I'm seeing many spinal cord injury patients in the physio centre that I'm currently posted to. Most of them are as young as me or even younger. They visit the centre everyday or in alternate days, just to learn how to walk or get up from the bed. What I've seen in these patients is sheer determination and strong will, things that are rarely found in able-bodied persons like us. Despite the unfortunate events that happened to them, they never gave up and they enjoy their life as much as we do. One of the patients I know is about to finish his masters. Some patients who were totally bed-ridden 2-3 years ago are now able to walk with walking aids and assistance. One of the things that I like to do in the centre is to sit and watch the patients undergoing their daily rehabilitation training, noting their progress with admiration. The past 3 weeks has been a fruitful learning experience which helps shape my path to becoming a physiotherapist.

The basil plant that one of the patients gave me. Hope it grows well!

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Clinical Placement at Terengganu Part 3 - Nasi Dagang and Nasi Kerabu

So whenever we travel to some places, food ultimately becomes the main concern. Apart from our homecook food, we also occasionally crave for some local delicacies and luckily we have Jac's boyfriend, who is from Terengganu. He recommended us to try out the famous Nasi Dagang Kak Pah which is only 10 minutes walk from our homestay. 

Tadaa! The famous Nasi Dagang! My impression of the sardine curry was that it tastes a bit like canned sardine with tomato sauce, which isn't bad but not exactly magnificent. The queue for Nasi Dagang in the morning was usually quite long. Local people wake up as early as 7am to have their breakfast.

This famous Nasi Dagang Kak Pah is located in a sudut selera makan near the big green park and Batu Buruk beach.

On the other day, we saw the queue at another store near Nasi Dagang Kak Pah was quite impressive too hence we decided to try out their Nasi Kerabu. Surprisingly, it tastes even better than the Nasi Dagang and all of us like it so much!

Nasi Kerabu comes with fish crackers, a fried chicken, some fresh vegetables, salted egg, sambal, dried minced meat and blue-coloured rice. The blue coloured rice is a result of rice cooked with butterfly-pea flower petals.

Another close up shot by Joycelin. I miss Terengganu's Nasi Kerabu! I wonder if I can find any Nasi Kerabu as nice as this in KL.

Was invited by a local friend's family for lunch at their place. This is their home made Hokkien loh mee (or known as lam mee in KL) and it is sooo good. We actually asked for the recipe and let's see if I can remake this dish soon.

Another photo taken at the beach with Jojo.

This was me doing Plaster Of Paris (POP) cast for Christy at Hospital Terengganu. Looking pro? Haha.

That's all for now! There will be one last post about Terengganu and that's it!

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Clinical Placement at Terengganu Part 2 - Pantai Batu Buruk

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Yay! Another post about Terengganu! As I have mentioned in my previous Terengganu post (link here: part 1), the five of us manage to find accommodation near the beach which is also known as Pantai Batu Buruk. Pantai Batu Buruk literally means beach of the ugly stones. It is the main attraction of Kuala Terengganu as it is located near the town, the hospital and our homestay. There are many beach activities at the beach such as kite flying, pony riding and two-wheel driving. It is also where you can find the famous Nasi Dagang and Nasi Kerabu which I shall blog in my next post. =D

On my way to the beach. I heard that Batu Buruk is Kuala Terengganu's Mont Kiara or Desa Park City so you can see many nicely renovated bungalows near the beach. Moreover, the beach is also where Sultan Terengganu's mother and the state's ketua hakim reside. Very expensive area indeed.

Although it was supposed to be Monsoon season when we arrived, the sun is extremely bright and we had to shield ourselves with umbrella most of the time. The typical heavy monsoon rain only came when it was around the start of December. Apparently, news reported that flood was everywhere in the east coast once we had left Terengganu in late December. We were lucky as we did not have to deal with the flood and heavy pour. 

Weeeeee stepped foot on the sandy beach. The sand is not as fine as those from Pulau Redang but still walking on the beach with bare foot is a must!

Footprints everywhere!

Many local people spending their leisure time on the beach. Those tiny black dots in the sky were flying kites!

The waves. Shaaaa Shuu Shaaaa Shuu.

Happy me! I remember I wore the same shirt when I went to Pork Dickson with bestie Hui Ming which was the last time I went to a beach before Pantai Batu Burok.

Not forgetting to leave a love message to hubby! CSY ♡ CYK

That's all about Pantai Batu Buruk! Next post will be about the famous food in Terengganu, Nasi Dagang and Nasi Kerabu, Chinatown, Pasar Payang and my fun experience in the hospital. Stay tune!
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Clinical Placement at Terengganu Part 1

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Finally able to retrieve some of the Terengganu trip photos from my phone! The trip was one month ago but I will try my best to recollect every single detail from the trip.

Every end of the semester, we have to choose one hospital from a given list to determine our clinical placement area. However, last semester I couldn't get a place in Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya (PPUM) which is very near (right next to Mahsa) because many of our classmates wanted PPUM too. To solve the problem we held a mini lucky draw event to determine who gets to go to PPUM and I was just not lucky enough. In the end, Christy, Jojo, Joycelin, Andrew and me, the 'unlucky ones', decided to go for Hospital Sultanah Aminah in Terengganu instead because apparently no one was willing to travel to Terengganu that time. 

Booked our flight from Air Asia because Air Asia was having this cheap promotion and we quickly grabbed our cheap flight tickets before it's too late! It was less than RM100 for a round trip flight including luggage fee and insurance. It was more time efficient and comfortable to travel by plane too. A long bumpy bus ride is not what we would prefer in the first place.

Ahhh my first time taking domestic flight since my primary school graduation trip to Sarawak. The queue for the luggage check-in was very long and caused us to be late for the flight check-in. Luckily we still managed to make it on time with Jojo running all the way to catch the flight not to mention she was carrying her heavy luggage at the same time.

 Air Asia! I was admiring the pretty clouds during the flight not knowingly we had reached Terengganu in just half an hour!

We managed to find our accommodation near the beach at Batu Buruk thanks to our clinical educator from Hospital Terengganu! We had to walk for 25 minutes every day to the hospital but we were not complaining. Walking is good exercise!

This was how our mini kitchen aka dining room looks like. We bought fresh vegetables and meat every weekend from Pasar Payang so that we can cook dinner with our rice cooker everyday. Yes all the food cooked with just a RICE COOKER!! Hahahaha. And the dishes came out really good. Look at some of the dishes we cook:

 Fried tomato with egg.

 ABC soup! We can even boil soup with rice cooker! Andrew, the only guy in the house was bemused and he simply could not figure out how to cook with just a rice cooker. But when we did, he was finally convinced haha.

Soy sauce chicken. Jojo style haha. The dishes are all well cooked and taste yummeh thanks to the multi functional rice cooker!

Food storage that last us for a week. =) All from Pasar Payang or Mydin supermarket.

And here's the beach we had been talking about! It's very near to our homestay and the beach is pretttyyy!

Oh so pretty~!! Look at the blue blue sky and the fine sand.

Random old man walking along the beach.

Me at the beach! That day we woke up early to watch sunrise at the beach but the cloudy weather did not permit us to do so.

Still we managed to capture the moment the sun rises. It was plain beautiful = ). Thanks Joycelin for the photo.

This is me looking exhausted after a long day at the hospital. Everyday after I got back from the hospital, I would stare at my laptop skyping with boyfie or search for information while studying. Only weekends we would go to the market or chinatown. Kuala Terengganu is a small place with not so much entertainment but I still like the place for its friendly local people and slow momentum of life. 

Shall continue to blog about Terengganu soon!

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