the uncanny rambler

what happens when you come to a point and realise that fairytales also have expiry dates? 

can someone tell me to take a deep breath, and stand strong darling, 

because swaying to and fro are only cool for rocking chairs and palm trees on the beach. 

in search of inspiration?

arhhhhh.

Rabbi yassir wa la tuassir..

OSCE here we come! bismillah

لَا تَجِدُ قَوْمًا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآَخِرِ يُوَادُّونَ مَنْ حَادَّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلَوْ كَانُوا آَبَاءَهُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ أَوْ إِخْوَانَهُمْ أَوْ عَشِيرَتَهُمْ أُولَئِكَ كَتَبَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الْإِيمَانَ وَأَيَّدَهُمْ بِرُوحٍ مِنْهُ وَيُدْخِلُهُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ أُولَئِكَ حِزْبُ اللَّهِ أَلَا إِنَّ حِزْبَ اللَّهِ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ 

(58:22) You shall not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day befriending those who oppose Allah and His Messenger even though they be their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred. He has inscribed faith in their hearts and has strengthened them with a spirit from Him, and He shall make them enter Gardens beneath which rivers flow. Therein they shall abide. Allah is well-pleased with them, and they are well-pleased with Him. They belong to Allah’s party. Verily Allah’s party shall prosper.

of a h moment

bismillah. 

i was about to rest my eyes, when curiosity suddenly struck me.  my fingers started twitching and without jeopardising my body's need for heat (aka without moving out of the duvet) i reached for the OHCM or what is referred to the Cheese & Onion in the med students world. 

with a deep thought in mind, scrutinising every incident as it happened, looking at the index page for what is appropriate, and finally...finally wondering if the search is over. 

trembling with fear, i was shocked at the distinct similarity ingrained in ink.

page 269.   

Wilson's disease.

am I a victim?

*lol! hypochondriacal moment over* clap2

ok, i was looking through the disease i figured there were some familiarities - labile emotions. or is that just a common feature for a group of productive unpredictable mammals, commonly known as women? 

ngeh. 

a bit of blabbering in the morning sun. 

Alhamdulillahillazi ahyana ba'dama amatana wa ilaihin nushur..

ALhamdulillah for allowing us to breath again this morning and to blabber on for the day. 

-nmj

someone deactivated her fb..since you come here a lot,
wondering how you're doing?

:)

xxx

post long case exam.

bismillah. 

ahah. so i've been fiddling around with the layout a bit.

this is my so called post long case de-stress mode..

and to suit the outlook of things, i've also added in a bit or two to the title. 

a bit of optimism wouldn't hurt insyaAllah.  ;)

yiowzerr!

time flies by so quickly. Friday. Saturday. Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. EXammmmm!!!

I know I haven't been a very good servant, Allah, i really need Your help.

my best friend's upcoming wedding

"Dear Ms 'Atikah Rozhan,
I am writing in misery at this very moment as the reality just dawned on me that i would not be able to make it to my best friend's wedding.

pls accept my apologies and may the force be with you.

...that is, may Allah shower you with His blessing on that day and the many many days to come insyaAllah and may your ceremony run as smoothly as a cup of Tropicana orange juice SMOOTH with no bits in it. Amin.

luvs,
-nmj xx"

6/5/11 - Facebook

of a self-diagnosis

coughing for a week
green sputum for the past 3-4 days
started having snot yesterday
temperature of 38 degrees
central chest pain from coughing

amoxicillin for 7 days, 3 times a day.
sick note for 5 days..wee~

اللهم اشف شفاءً لا يغادر سقماً

La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah

bismillah.

Alhamdulillah, these past few days have really proven La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah.

it started with an easter holiday that was meant to be a period of catching up with the neglected Kumar & Clark, Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, McLeod's and a few others.

but Alhamdulillah, Allah knows best. and indeed, it is the best insyaAllah.

optimistic.

a very simple term with a deep and inspiring meaning. that was the most valuable thing i appreciated from IMAM symposium yesterday.

the speakers were extraordinary medical professionals with incorporated Islamic fikrah. masyaAllah. how often do we get the oppurtunity to draw on their thoughts and experience? so Alhamdulillah, Allah willed for us to make it through the 3 and a half hours drive to Manchester that morning, although we left half an hour later than planned, we made it 10 minutes into the first speech.

a quote from Dr Burhanuddin,

"Maher zain didn't stop singing when he saw there were so many singers,

Mark Zuckerberg didn't stop when he saw many other social networking sites, Friendster, Myspace."

and they won.

so we shouldn't stop trying either.

In one of his speeches, Prof Abdul Rasyid mentioned an ayat from our book of guidance,

وَالَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا فِينَا لَنَهْدِيَنَّهُمْ سُبُلَنَا وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمَعَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ

(29:69) As for those who strive in Our cause, We shall surely guide them to Our Ways. Indeed Allah is with those who do good.

so we should always try to do the most good that we can do, becoming great doctors for the Ummah, seizing each oppurtunity as it comes along, and striving to become the best.

learning to appreciate and cherish knowledge as it is all from The Almighty, and using it to benefit mankind.

"Khairun nas man Yanfaunnas" - the best people are those who benefit others

thus, what is there to hold us back from grabbing the chance to become the best? when we know Allah is with us, those who are doing good insyaAllah.

in a meeting after the event, he said, "Dakwah is not just in usrah, because that itself is actually secularism in Islam".

and I learned, dakwah is in every bit of our life. be it smiling to patients, reading doa to them in consultations, and becoming a role model House Officer with Islamic values insyaAllah.




p/s: notice the highlighted part in the ayat? nahdiya ^_^

-nmj