The End of the Beginning??

Is this really the end after 2 and a half years in Bukit Jalil? 5 Semesters, dozens of PBL and CSU sessions and hundreds of hours of lectures. Having spent 5 semesters, I realise that my first thought on studying medicine in Semester 1 until now hasn't changed much. I've always known that studying medicine is going to take lots of reading, time and brain power but what really surprised me was the ample time that we had. We have so much free time....really too much considering for a medical student. Even lecturers, will agree that medical students even have time to go shopping after lectures, which is without a doubt rare in other medical schools.

Even as we start our final semester a few months back, despite all the hullabaloo on the pressure on winning the IMU Cup (for the second time) and Convo Mag (me), surprisingly most of us can still handle the pressure of studying and extracurricular activities. Otherwise, I wouldn't have even considered singing for The Wicked Pitches, which has by far been one of the best experiences in my life. With just less than a months time to the end of our course here in Bukit Jalil, I really wander how other medical students in other universities care coping. Is time spent so freely and luxuriously on other extracurricular activities.

One thing I will sorely miss, would be the friendship that I've developed with my colleagues, most of whom will end up scattered all over the globe. Of course, some had great potential to be long-lasting friends. To avoid being long-winded and elaborated on why M204 one really great batch, these are some of my personal experiences which I believe will have long lasting memories.

1. Being introduced to one of the Most Fun Orientation Group. STD!!!! who came out with one of the Best Cheer..."I'm loving it.." inspired by McD. Chern Huay, our great group leader, the famous "Why Cows should wear Bras debate?" and of course getting 3rd or 4th in our overall group placing...:)
2. A wonderful IMCC champion, Ashwin
   
3. A sort of Batch Cheer " Fly Kite Fly Kite" which up to today some of us still remembers...
4. A fantastic batch with a good mix of brilliant people, sportswoman, sportsmen and always getting praises for being the Best Batch when it comes to academic results which some of us dreads. Look at the number of As on the Chart if some of you can remember.
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. IMU Cup Champs 2 consecutive times for the year 2005 and 2006 A feat unheard of in the history of IMU!!! Most outstanding in Football, Futsal, Cross Country Running, Athletics, Volleyball, Carrom, Darts Badminton and Netball. But terrible DOTA players...
6. Won Gold for Carrom this year and got silver for carrom and football in the previous year.
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Great fighting spirit among our cheerleaders
   
8. Formed a band "Rubberband" for Friday Night. Composed a song for them too!!
9. Graphic Designer for our batch Convomag
10. Ganesh n Nana our batch rep. Very Responsible reps.
    
11. Koay Yeang Wee our funny man. Everybody laughs at him when he picks up the mic and says something even if it isn't funny.
12. Poh Sen the next most funny man, most entertaining and sadly most bullied also.
    
13. Loudest Person: Yoke Sin. Also very much adored by Francis Achiike for her intelligence.
    
14. Video Specialist: Kenn Fong. Plans and Edits video for our batch's events
    
15. Mac Freak: Tan Chern Huay and Iggy
    
16. PDA sepcialists: Alex and Iggy
17. The Wonderful CSS Bunch
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
18. Organized trip to KK and climbed Mount Kinabalu.
    
19. Wong Chee Keong, our most changed friend and library specialist. He spends most of the day lost in the realm of medical knowledge amongst the thick Harrison, Patho, Surgical and piles of lecture notes. He should be our source of inspiration. Became a changed man after one very important incident in his life. But also behind the pair of glasses and books, another personality emerges, the Chee Keong who talks about sports, friends and other non-related book stuff. SHOULD NOT BE REFERRED TO AS LIBRARY FURNITURE.
20. Photographer: William and Chern Huay with their expensive toys.
21. The Three Little Pigs: Stephen, Ding and Chun Peng for their humorous and entertaining performance on stage
22. Attention Seeking Duo: Ding and Diva (D&D)
    
    
    
    
    
23. Ball 2006 Marriott
    
24. Dance Master: Jay Lo who recently got picked to the finals in the Stepped Up dance competition and also performed at 1 Utama. Master of freestyle and hip hop.
    
25. Rajendra Rao also known as Raj to the batch and is known as the batch's Computer and Projector Fixer. Whenever, a powerpoint presentation gets screwed. The natural response would be "Raj....Raj...Raj" or sometimes Ding, oddly. Pls refer to 22
    
26. Organized a wonderful talk-show for our BS selective called "The Doprah Weedfree Show"
    
27. Events like Diwali Nite, Chinese Singing Competititon, Friday Night, Drama