tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784256395919400364.post6445018315134109792..comments2023-06-16T21:49:55.940+08:00Comments on Confessions of a medical officer: COAMS #6 - The CULTURAL SHOCK at Medical Schoolconfessions of a medical studenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14072107999155319469noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784256395919400364.post-84349161208284637512010-05-10T19:01:09.310+08:002010-05-10T19:01:09.310+08:00Hi! I came across your blog and find it interestin...Hi! I came across your blog and find it interesting! :D I would like to ask what was your STPM results like to enable you to get into UKM? 'Cause I'm a STPM candidate this year 2010. :Dneegeehttp://www.magnolia-pink.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784256395919400364.post-65785367716795578642008-08-19T09:56:00.000+08:002008-08-19T09:56:00.000+08:00>cute little angel>> i see that you are a...>cute little angel>> i see that you are a medical student too ^^ and a english-educated background too.. i don't like the term 'banana'.. i thought it was an unnecessary segregation.. if they were to term us 'banana', what should we term them? -pineapple? nangka? cempedak??? <BR/>siGh.... <BR/><BR/>p/s: thanks for dropping by, hope to hear from you often :)confessions of a medical studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14072107999155319469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784256395919400364.post-8826378869666049192008-08-19T01:01:00.000+08:002008-08-19T01:01:00.000+08:00hey, i've been through a similar experience too an...hey, i've been through a similar experience too and it's definitely a BIG culture shock. I find that Chinese speaking ppl will never accommodate non-Chinese speaking ppl in their conversations which makes everything so difficult. It's good that you've pick up mandarin. Maybe it's cos all ur frens speak mandarin. As for me, four yrs down the road since the culture shock and I'm still as 'banana' as ever. I end up mixing with ppl in the same boat as me ie the Kebangsaan ppl..sad :(<BR/>neways, I like ur style of writing, you express really well! Keep up the good work! Will be coming back for more..hehe :) Cheers!cute little angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11373304565764938483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784256395919400364.post-39437891432369883792008-07-13T16:18:00.000+08:002008-07-13T16:18:00.000+08:00>Ray>> haha! those funny slangs,..the whole medica...>Ray>> haha! those funny slangs,..<BR/><BR/>the whole medical profession thingy?... hmm.. maybe..confessions of a medical studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14072107999155319469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784256395919400364.post-90350773343089127652008-07-13T15:30:00.000+08:002008-07-13T15:30:00.000+08:00haha! that was funny! Truly Malaysian indeed!Anywa...haha! that was funny! Truly Malaysian indeed!<BR/><BR/>Anyway, my lectures were conducted in English too but some of the lecturers are not from Malaysia. So, imagine the horror when they speak English + their own slang... It's not the British or the American slang but the Middle East or the Indian slang!!!<BR/><BR/>Though sometimes it may be funny as some of their pronunciation is some sort of... like an obscene word... hahaha...<BR/><BR/>BTW, I'm sure blogging is not the only answer right? hehehe... How about lets say... the whole medical profession thingy? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784256395919400364.post-87601093407225446392008-07-12T13:10:00.000+08:002008-07-12T13:10:00.000+08:00wow! this was 4 years ago, reading this brings bac...wow! this was 4 years ago, reading this brings back those memories... so, you had the similar CUlTURAL SHOCK, ey.. <BR/><BR/>let me share with you a story.. it's about my friend,BL.. well, when she first entered university, she had similar Cultural Shock.. and her roommate was a Chinese who had like really really poor English.. So, BL wannted to sweep the floor, so she was asking for a broom, which she didn't know what was it in Chinese.. So, she was doing this imaginary sweeping action with her hands and all.. and her roommate didn't know what was a broom, and couldn't figure out wat BL was trying illustrate... in the end, BL blurred out 'penyapu'.. and all the confusion was cleared!! imagine 2 chinese girls, sharing a room, had to speak BM to communicate... How much more MALAYSIAN can that gets?<BR/><BR/>i have to admit, my English had been deteriorating tremendously too.. i used to write for my school magazine... but now, writing doesn't come as easy as before.. i tried to use as much English as possible,.... good thing our lectures here are all in English, a minor few of my friends spoke to me in English, and i still have my bLog, to make me feel closer to home and my old self... ^^ and my Mandarin did improved..<BR/><BR/>and to your question, after 4 years in UKM, looking back at things, was i glad i took medicine here?? The answer would be YES! Or else, i wouldn't have anything to blog about!! haha!confessions of a medical studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14072107999155319469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784256395919400364.post-35527996460360579422008-07-12T11:07:00.000+08:002008-07-12T11:07:00.000+08:00So, after 4 years being in UKM, looking back at th...So, after 4 years being in UKM, looking back at things, were you glad you took medical there? =P<BR/><BR/>I would say I was in a similar situation as you when I first entered university. For me, my foundation year (note that I did not took STPM) was in Melaka and every Chinese there speaks Mandarin while the Malays would speak BM. Heck, even when you order food in Melaka, you'll have to converse in Mandarin! Being someone from a national school(Sekolah Kebangsaan), I could barely even speak a single word of Mandarin though I'm able to converse in Cantonese. <BR/><BR/>It was a total cultural shock for me. I even remembered there was once where I've tried to imitate someone's pronunciation to order that particular food. Little did I know, the guy spoke in Hakka and not Mandarin! So yeah, when I told my friends back home, they were laughing like nobody's business... Well, at least I got my pronunciation right... though it's in Hakka....<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I was in Melaka for only year but I've learn plenty of things from there. My Mandarin got better but unfortunately, my English was deteriorating at an extreme rate. But overall, it's a good experience for me I would say.<BR/><BR/>So, I guess normally it's the surroundings that shapes us and not we shape our surroundings... More like blend in into the majority~Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com