What is your goal?

Life is all about random occurrences that coincide leaving incidences and circumstantial situations that many would call fate or destiny.


Whichever you choose to believe in -

what is your goal? 

Many of us go through life either taking the backseat or charging forward. Doing so, we end up with different experiences and different expectations. Things that aren't in control are where we're born, who are our family, what country do you reside in initially, what faith are you brought up to believe in? Have you ever thought about that?

Aside from those, we literally decide our outcome in life. You want to be a millionaire - you take the risk and push yourself till you achieve it. You want a laid back life doing a 9-5 job and withdrawing enough for rent and food for the family, you just do that simple job that supplies you enough.

I remember when I was younger and many of the essays or talks as a primary school student revolved around "my ambition". Back then when the mind was raw and unaware of real-life bribery, cheating, discrimination, racism - how simple life is. Though you did not have a luxury house or car neither a nokia 3310, the only thing you had to think of was handing in your homework to avoid scolding from that math teacher.

As I grew older things changed. I developed skills, developed awareness of the situation and surrounding. Dreams were still beyond our galaxy, a voyage to the unknown.

In a gist, I wanted to be a

1. professional pool player,

2. scientist,

3. astronaut,

4. formula 1 racer,

5. musician,

6. youtuber,

7. surgeon,

8. mechatronic engineer

- but look where I am today?
- A doctor that is keen to specialize in Dermatology. It's a really long way.. but for now that's my journey.

One may say what we choose to become is the sum of all our experiences and advice that we have recollected throughout the many years before jumping into college or university or for some straight into work. Yes, opportunity is an important thing. I know of many who wanted to be doctors but due to lack of monetary funds or scholarships, they're doing something totally non-health related. I also know of people who wanted to be a big time business owner, but struggling to make ends meat.

So today I ask you, what is your goal? I made my goal simple yet difficult since I was young.

~ Even if I end up looking like a fool, so long as somebody sees me and has a better day or even a laugh - it was worth the effort. 

In essence, to make an impact on this Earth; 

not a small one if I may say so ~

Have I achieved it? Probably in baby steps. What about you? Are you simply going through life living it for yourself? What is your goal?

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Born A Racist - Malaysia

Judging by the title, you know what i'm going to write about.


It's simple. Humans are Homosapians. However due to differences in our genetic structure, we appear differently. This is what gives us our individual uniqueness. Although, on this very planet - we classify ourselves also according to our origins that give us a relatively similar appearance.

in a word

RACE

Since years before even your great grandfather was born, people were racist. Everyone knows about slavery with the "blacks" and the apartheid. In such an advanced stage of human evolution with technology and somewhat borderless travel, it's interesting how Racial intolerance is still rampant.

Malaysia is one of the only country boasting a multiracial society. Not saying that other countries do not have different races, but here in Malaysia it's very apparent. The "whites and the blacks" are generally the minority. The great thing about the multiracial society is the ability to adapt and embrace other cultures.

That said, as reported on a near daily basis - racism is still the tool of division by many. I would say that their "pemikiran kolot". I personally am from a mixed racial marriage with diverse cultures and hence I strongly stand against racism. Take a look at this video that I stumbled upon:

Born A Racist


At the end of it, I stand to my statement - we need to learn from the children and not from the elder generation or even mine. Teach the young and innocent to grow rightly and the future of Malaysia/ mankind will advance further.

Imagine if one day aliens came to earth and wanted peace? Think of Star Trek and its multiracial/ cultural/ planet/ religious acceptance.

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Damn cheating boyfriends

People give their heart and emotions to that other person who they deemed to be worthy of it. In this current day, finding the right person is like striking a lottery. Many people end up playing with the other person's emotions. With lies, false promises, and worst of all - cheating with another person.





Cheating may just be as simple as a kiss on the cheek or all the way downright dirty sex. Whichever it may be, being the victim of such a truant lover is nothing to shout about. It just ends up with a bitter taste in the mouth and lots of questions mostly causing self doubt. Insecurities will arise and the most common questions would be:

"Why me? 
What have I done? 
Am I not good enough?"




If you've ever been in such a situation, my sincerest sympathy. That said, I made a video just sharing a view point on this. In a gist, calling cheaters ass holes who aren't worthwhile, and telling those cheated on to be happy the have a bad-hat out of their life, and those cheating with - there's a high likelihood they'd end up playing victim in the near future.





do watch and enjoy! share with friends who have been in a similar situation or are currently going through this hardship!

Damn cheating boyfriends




btw, go watch the movie - love, rosie (beautiful show)

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Father, son & alcohol

A father taught his son about the evils of drinking alcohol. He put a worm in a glass of water and another in whisky. The worm in the water survived while that in the alcohol curled up. He asked his son, "what do you learn from that?" His son replied, "when you drink alcohol, you won't have worms."
Haha. Got this from a pastor at a church in Johor Bahru. Funny. :)




- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone5

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5 years, Officially a Doctor! MBBS

As the title goes, this morning I woke up as Benedict Sachdev the medical student from IMU.
I will be sleeping tonight as Dr Benedict Sachdev MBBS (IMU).

It has been a long journey of 5 years.

Began on the 28/2/08 
2 and a half years pre-clinical phase1 at Bukit Jalil IMU campus
2 years clinical phase 2 at IMU Seremban Campus and half a year at IMU Batu Pahat Campus
Ended on the 28/2/13


The past years have been full of wonderful memories from the

mind blowing orientation of ragging and bullying, 

enjoying the daily 2 hour lectures as a holiday, 

memorizing FLM's at the library, 

practicing clinical skills at the clinical skills unit, 

representing the batch, house team and IMU in sports, 

attending life changing talks, 

having tea in the library and hanging out at the student pool lounge,

rushing assignments like a mad person,

waking up as early as 5 am to get to the hospital,

preparing presentations one after another,

enjoying my life staying next to the beach,

watching movies at the cinema on a near weekly basis,

playing games, youtubing and making videos,

talking with people of superior intellect and ... ,

embracing the government health care system with my now fellow colleagues,

sharing memories and tears with patients,

witnessing life and it's middle and end,

travelling back and forth as the only crazy person from Port dickson to Seremban on a daily basis,

running home on weekends to spend time with family and friends,

studying last minute and passing by God's grace,

staying for the first time in my life with a housemate,

food hunting and tasting with buddies,

hanging out at the shopping mall,

football gang/futsol gang,

sitting exams one after another,

and lastly - enjoying this experience of learning with wonderful friends, lecturers, staff, and most importantly family & God.

Truly I tell you, this course at IMU (international medical university) has been life changing, maturity growing, knowledge overwhelming, fun and leisure filled, and lastly one of a kind!



Thank you my dear family, friends, colleagues, teachers, lecturers, university, hospital and clinic staff, and everyone else who have played even a minor role in my journey at IMU. Most importantly thank you God who without I would not have become Doctor Benedict Sachdev!

Congratulations MeDt108 / C2/10! Press on and be a good impact to society. Always remember, you can do it! FAR OUT!


for those wondering, i got a family medicine case for my exam with ischaemic heart disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, fatty liver and alcoholism. I was asked about both my obs&gynae as well as orthopaedics portfolio.

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Final Exam for MBBS

Short note. sorry for the lack of updates. have been busy with chinese new year celebrations and now in 3 days time - Wednesday 27/2/13 I will be sitting for my final examination!

After 5 years in the medical course at IMU(international medical university, Malaysia), it boils down to this:

1. Waiting in the hall at IMU Seremban campus at 7:30am on wednesday. 
2. They call me for exam
3. 1 hour with a patient with any type of disease under the sun - obtain a full history, perform a thorough physical examination, make a diagnosis, plan out the investigations and management
4. half hour with 3 examiners about the patient
5. half hour with another 3 examiners about any of my 10 portfolios/reports I prepared in my final semester

And by then, I go home and sulk/ celebrate.

On Thursday 28/2/13, that is the following day -
I will know if I will continue being regular Benedict, or Doctor Benedict!


Do Pray for me. I reallly realllyy need it! haha.

To the rest of my colleagues, all the best! Here goes nothing!

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Harlem Shake! Do it!!!

From a meme to a viral video that some say has spread faster than PSY's Gangnam Style!

I need no further introduction - Enjoy this video that my cell group made just because it had to be done!

Harlem Shake Malaysia - Chinese New Year Edition

Hope you enjoyed! Like, Share & Subscribe!

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It just gets funnier!!

A short remix of the whole "political" incident. LOL

Dance Remix: Listen! Listen! When I Speak, Listen!

1 comment was to play this in clubs. Farout.

You probably can buy the game soon!

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The Sharifah-Bavani HEAT!

Like the meme? hehe.

If you have read yesterday's post, saw the video, "listened"... You will understand exactly what this controversial rapper/filmmaker "speaks".

[Namewee Tokok] 009 Listen 聽我說 15-01-2013

Still uncertain what I am talking about? I found the video on youtube!

Miss Sharifah Zohra Jabeen VS Miss Bavani di UUM

Check my previous blogpost for a better read!

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Politics, never pretty

I just watched a video on facebook. I am unable to share the video here, but if you are interested to know what I speak of - click here.

DISCLAIMER: I do not endorse any form of politics and am of a personal and unbiased opinion. Please disregard them if you do not feel it is right.


To start, I watched this video as it was being shared all over facebook. I shared one myself! hehe

And to give you an idea of why I chose to share this, here are some user comments who shall stay anonymous.

Now, just as I posted on facebook - i am of the opinion that there are valid reasons and points that the parties involved have raised. I do not agree with their conversational and public speaking methods, but in the heat of the moment I guess we could excuse that (sorta).

In a public forum where people are technically of the right to speak out their mind, I feel that there is some fair amount of time given to the student. I do however am rather disgusted by the way the "speaker lady" cut the student off.

She raises the issue of respecting elders and etc, that make sense, but not in this circumstance. Her tone and speech was in essence to just condemn the poor girl in front of everyone else and to show her superiority of "oh i am the boss here you lil' punk ass". A better means of stopping her would be to explain nicely that she would give another few points for the girl to make then it is her turn.

After cutting her off, we then see the nature of this speaker. She not only criticizes the student for having an opinion. Moreover, making fun of her with hypothetical settings of animals. I mean seriously woman, as you mentioned the student's education level is poor, your intellect is also extremely poor because you compare yourself (humans) to animals. If life were as simple as saying, why can't you be like a dog and sit down when i tell you or etc, then you might as well be a dog and let the dog be a human correct?

You may be reading this and feeling some sort of unhappiness from my writing. The reason being I totally hate it when people claim to be of higher maturity/ intellect/ education/ etc - in front of me, when their actions and words they utter are plain absurd and idiotic.


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Instead of leaving a wall of text on this post, I leave it to you to decide. What is your opinion?
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Mine stands firm, the student needs to take the nations spendings as a whole rather than narrow it down to just the education sector and compare it to other countries. She has to realize many other countries with free education are having taxes of almost 50% for high income earners. It is easy to say charge higher taxes - but for those of low incomes are barely affected and it is very unfair to the rest who work equally as hard in their fields and have to return 50% just for the sake of the nation and others who do not appreciate or acknowledge their hardwork and just condemn the rich.

The speaker should have her brains checked when she asks the student to leave the country from her dissatisfaction. As a born Malaysian she has every right to be upset if she feels that the government is not doing her right. It may not be correct what she says, but there are way better means of tackling such situations. Humiliating people publicly and bragging of your "respect" and so called "educated" nature just shows that you are nothing more than a person who is shallow and really not educated enough. Having a degree or masters only means u are educated in a profession to do a specific task. Not an educated and wise person. Never ever, compare humans with animals because the day you do, you should be treated as one to eat grass like the cows and be kept in cages.

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Kids sex chics - prostitution?

Came across this on the evergreen (or blue technically) facebook wall. It's about how young boys are having sex with chics!


Now i know what's going on your mind. You're either thinking of wow, eew, or liar.

I assure you this is probably as weird as it gets. I've heard of all sorts of sex, but this takes it to the next level. Probably the kamasutra needs to be updated :P

Here's the video :- enjoy? err...

Nicaraguan Boy Likes To Have Sex With Chickens! (Mother Trying To Find Him A Prostitute Instead)

Below is one with a hilarious crude-ish commentator.

Boy Likes To Do It With a Chicken

Not what you were expecting? Yeah he has sex with chics. Not female girl prostitutes but animal chicken chics. DAMN!

On a random note, our creative and innovative homosapien somewhere has created a robot prostitute. Now does that mean screwing this = cheating on your spouse? haha!

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Malaysian Indian minor abused by step-father!

At times like these, i get thrown back into reality that the world is a sickening place. Words cannot describe the feelings that i had when watching this video.

It may be old news for some of you, but I strongly encourage everyone to watch this and ponder at it.

(DISTURBING VIDEO) Step Father Abuses Son!

I hope none of you end up like this man in the future. If you are doing this now - I want to swear all sorts of words at you... May God save your sick soul, mind and body.

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