2001: Reminisce the peak of R&B

This was one of the coolest song ever to hit the radios back then. A collabo with various artists representing different musical backgrounds, different genres and finally Jermaine Dupri dropping the beats. JD never fails to produce the best beats around.

It’s a mongrel of a mix.

Enjoy.

 

 

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Gods and Generals

HypoGXII has finally updated his blog. It was a 10 month wait and we were treated to a lil’ post on how he is going to con’ someone or something into getting a PS3. Of course I had to tell him to put off the purchase till winter or so. A PS3 at this moment might ruin our preparations for the exams this winter session. Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Оз и З and Opthalmology.

Caught in between practicality, reasoning and logic, he has devised a savings plan to fund his purchase in a good few months. 1000r per week will see a PS3 in 3 months I think…

Just began Psychiatry this week. Should be interesting if I make it to class tomorrow.

Our futsal outfit notched our 1st win of the season. I didnt have a great game as usual, my team makes up a lot for it. GG to them. Just need to start winning as much as we can from here on to end the season on a high note. Top 4 should do the trick.

The MDL looks set to taking off. After all the time and effort spent on forming the foundation, the follow ups should be much easier. This team however, needs some thorough work on it for now. Still yet to set a draft of main 5, most likely we will let Shotfuse to decide. (Which by the way owes me a few sets of roti canai).

Some people go on about  how life revolves around God and the role He plays in everything we do. I didn’t go to class today, was that God telling me to sit at home and avoid some form of danger ? I would like to think so but obviously thats bollocks. When Katrina hit New Orleans, was God punishing 1 person’s ill-doing ? Or the great Tsunami of Xmas 2004 ? Are these mentioned disasters, mother nature’s answer to our abuse on her wealth ?

Don’t get me wrong, I am God-fearing but I’m merely pointing out that there are people who might get too carried away with their spiritual callings. It’s good that humans have appreciation and understanding of the existence of a higher power to set some guidelines on how we should live our lives. Then again, where did this book of greater teachings come from ?

Wasn’t it humans ourselves who interpreted the words of God and compiled those words into books using the common language at that time of civilizations. Yes, ancient civilizations.

Wait a minute, if those ancient languages are not being used in current times, or perhaps during the shift in civilizations or conquering forces have raped or modified these ancient languages, maybe the Holy Books remain questionable. Clearly the proper teachings have been evolving from time to time as we progress into the 21st century.

Well, I’m no historian and I am most definitely wrong in this matter. And I’m sure there are/were people who has brought up this points or ideas regarding this matter. Being a Man of Science, I believe everything is explained by plain logic and science. Science has explained many things, and none of the theories has been disproven or disregarded.

The only difference between humans,animals and plants are different levels of progress or development of CNS and cortical functions. To the cellular level, all living things perform basic functions but the difference lies in how far is that organism developed. Before carnivores appeared, all lifeforms were feeding of greeneries. Someone decided to taste blood and realized, meat tasted better and it provided us with more nutrients and energy.

Science or no science, I believe its important for man to cultivate some form of understanding with God. May it be superficial or deep, as long something is there to keep us on track. What track is this ? That’s for you to determine..

 

LghtfHvn,

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50Mbps ?

Eat your hearts out.

Eat your hearts out.

They say, a picture paints a thousand words.

 

Kyesuke.ru

Epilepsy

Patient experiences a seizure like episode the day after being admitted for a fractured hip.

1. Did the patient have an epileptic seizure ?                            he was probably dancing

2. Which type of epileptic seizure did he experience ?         the one with radiating aura

3. Was it symptomatic or idiopathic ?                                          Definitely the idiotic one !

4. Does the patient have a history of previous attacks ? Drugs or alcohol abuse ?          crystal meth, no further Qs

5. Differential diagnosis.                                                                    nothing else fits the bill

6. Physical examination. Neurological examination. Lab or Radiologic Diagnostics.       waste of insurance coverage

7. Treatment plan.                                                                               evacuate the dance floor next time he steps up.

 

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Adidas TT10

The age old question in field hockey, who is the World’s Best Drag Flicker ?

It may seem simple to the normal eye but the strategy involved in a setpiece is akin to neuroscience. It takes a whole 2s for the ball to travel 16yards out and back into the goal involving 3 players; pusher, stopper and the flicker himself.

In the past 15 years, I have seen the best at their peaks. The list includes  Lombi, Abbas, Aiyappa and finally Taekema. How do we judge the best amongst them ? Which of the many criteria should we assess ?

Speed ? Technique ? Style ? Variation ? Conversion rate ?

The most effective scale to measure the best would be conversion rate ? Then again, defensive players were not really prepared or skilled into countering drags 10years ago despite trying multiple techniques or strats to counter the likes of Sohail Abbas. He had a 80% conversion rate whenever he steps up back then. I remember seeing Chua Boon Huat taking 1 in the knee just to ensure Abbas doesn’t score.

Countering drags these days have evolved and each team have incorporated some sort of mechanism to cover each angle or possible shot from the flicker. Some defenders are trained to sprint 16yards in less than 1s to block the scoring angle or limiting it. Even goalkeepers are trained to rush out in 1s fully padded to block the flicks.

It has to be noted that Sohail is indeed the fastest in the business. Nothing short of top-nets. Sohail’s skills were well honed back in his BSN days, scoring  40goals per season. K.Dharmaraj relied on Len Aiyappa as he was E&Y’s answer to the Pakistani gamebreaker. Malaysia had our very own S.Kuhan spearheading setpieces for Sapura under Coach Sambu.

Then enter the beast, Taekema. He may not have the best conversion rate but in 9 years, he has changed the game for European hockey. It was indeed the Dutch who ‘manipulated’ the short corner rules back in the mid 90’s. Whereby the ball needs to be stopped outside the D, pushed into it prior to taking a shot at goal. The pioneers introduced the dragging motion of the ball into the D with an immediate strike to the goal. This of course stirred an uproar, the conventional stop-push and smack into goal was losing it’s place in the metagame.

Coming back to Taekema, he has the best manipulation to the stroke. Able to assess the defensive line in that split second before deciding which corner of the net he wants to pocket the goal. The other guys just went for simple finishes, results speak more than technique sort of thing. Do not misquote me, the technique utilized by anyone is indeed great and only a handful can perfect it.

Taekema had just this massive aura radiating from him whenever he steps up at the D. Taekema takes the cake when it comes to being the World’s Best in the business. Lomans, Lombi, Sohail are all excellent but in keeping with the current times, it’s definitely harder to be the best now compared to 15yrs ago. With that justification, Taekema should be regarded as such.

I once had the pleasure of using/trying/testing the hockey stick Len Aiyappa uses during his E&Y days back in 2002. A small hockey gathering between my squad and some national players to give us tips and how to play on a higher level. Len’s stick was so bent or curved, we could eat rice or noodles with it. Having a stick specialized for flicking comes with a price, ball control and dribbling goes out the window.

After viewing the TT10, I couldn’t help myself from adding that item into my wishlist. Yes, I do not have a wish list at the moment but I’m planning to build one up to mark my goals and successes. The TT10 merits a place without doubt.

I was trying to search a video worthy of Taekema’s prowess but nothing seemed good enough for the man.

Instead of getting the TT10, I should get Adidas to custom make one for myself. Aptly called the Adidas VK10 limited edition. Get my autograph on it before framing it up.

 

Kyesuke.ru

На Только Правда

Deepavali Greetings to everyone.

Paeds( including Infectious Diseases) and Gynae done. Very demanding rotations and applying what we have learnt is essential at this stage of our medical studies. I feel that most students here suffer and lack the ability to put knowledge into use.

We shall save that for another post.

Right now, let’s get down to the damn rain here.

It’s freakin’ autumn in Moscow and the streets are not covered with snow. Global warming has indeed messed the entire weather patterns  we have grown accustomed to. I prefer walking on snow rather than avoiding water puddles and mud. Sigh.

Made some enquiries into the Kruzhok plans and found out that Neuro team are working on something really cool. If i I’m drafted into the team I will post up all details here. Waiting for their correspondent to reply my mails. 2 weeks and still no progress, excellence.

Have I not mentioned that I’m currently enjoying a dual monitor setup. I realized that power comes with great responsibility. That being said, having the ability to go dual also requires 2 important things; two 24″ Samsung LCD HD Monitors. It goes without saying.

DotA website is up. Took HypoGXII a while to set it all up again despite losing our previous one. Hoping for everyone to come and re-register once more. It’s hard working with a substandard net service. Waiting for the connections to hit the roof at 40MBps.

Just returned from a batch party. The entire hostel is bustling about at 3-4am with people preparing for tomorrow’s festivities. Don’t forget the booze too. Note that I’m sober for 54 days and counting. If I make it to New Year’s, that would be an achievement. People ask me, how do I do it. It’s simple, just get sloshed for 2 months straight. You may never want to feel that experience anymore after that.

Moderation is/was the key here. I didn’t really care seeing that the company I had with me was excellent and I couldn’t ask for any more. Well, that’s that.

Once again, a very Happy Deepavali to everyone.

Finally back online..

Well, it took a whole 3 weeks to get our ISPs up and running. Excellent.

We took the 25MBps line abd right now I’m surfing at Streamyxx speed. Hoping for the technical dept. of I-wave.ru to kick into gear and sort our all their problems.

Skipped 1st day of Paediatrics Infectious diseases today. It was a given, we didn’t know which hospital we would be having our lessons in. Glad to know the rest of my groupmates did the obvious in travelling all the way to Bagrationovskaya to scout for class.

Currently enjoying my dual monitor set up. Multi-tasking never felt this easy before.

I missed 4 golden chances to open my RFL goal account. 2 draws out of 2 games, 5 goals and 1 of the big 4 down. 3 more to go. Our jerseys are imba. I foresee a good season ahead of us thanks to our 2 new signings. Not mentioning the old guard doing well too. Should have won both our games, will make amends this week against DK.

It was my brother’s 27th b’day a week ago. Fancy dress party, imba stuff. Happy 27th Birthday, now go get the RX8.

Will post up some updates from peadiatrics, gynae and other misc. matters.

Kyesuke.ru

Badaboom !! My Baby’s New Heart

It has finally arrived ! !

Big box for a GC and other insignificant thingsDHL #1 customer in Moscow - Khir 'the nigga'Rezza

They say not many organ donors or organs (especially hearts)  are available out there for transplants, they probably didn’t check eBay out.

My semester began on a low note with me reuniting with my baby, who is lacking a heart. I had to do something about it, quick. After hours of surveying, I found the perfect candidate. I placed my order and waited patiently. It’s been 3 weeks on life support hoping for the best while waiting for the replacement to come.

And finally, it came !

I rushed over to Kay’s room to assist him in ripping the parcel box up. He had to whip out his new dSLR, this of course took a while. After we were done snapping a few shots for the opening ceremony, we proceeded to get down to business.

3 Kay poyo-ing with dslr 4 still poyo-ing

 

                                                                                                       I Slowly removed the soft air pillows that cost $0.50 each, talk about luxury cushions. 

There it was, staring at me.

5 Removing the air cushions6 There it lies

 

Nothing ever looked more beautiful at this particular moment in my life.8 Much better 11 Yea, its that awesome  

 

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Having my pediatrics rotation at the moment, busy preparing for class daily and today was no exception. Yea, I was planning to take the day off testing out the new baby but Dr. Semenovich had other plans for myself and a few others by making recite the entire paeds syllabus in 1 day before our evaluation this Friday.

Of course, my baby comes 1st in line. So once again I did the most logical thing any medical student in my shoes would do, cleared my table and started working on the GC. Don’t worry, I did not throw away my text books but instead I just placed them about 5m away. Can’t be having my books distract me today. It’s goes against everything Hippocrates has taught us.

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Locating the ‘patient’. My Gigabyte AM2 all anaesthetized and waiting to be cut open. My faithful who not once disobeyed me for the last 3 years. I will expect her to be with me till the end of my course.

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So I removed my ‘casing’ and cleared all dust. Here you will see the thoracic cavity all open. Bare to the bone.

12 organ lined up next to patient Testing for compatibility.Compatibility  Perfect fit, Gold Label..removing from wrapIn all her beautyMouth watering…

 

Of course, like all major surgeries, there were instructions that we should follow step by step. It’s very orthodox and I don’t like taking orders from a book when it comes to cutting someone up.Instruction manuals for various reasons Like what HypoGXII said, only meant for the dustbin

Instruction manuals; I had to do the only logical and practical thing to do with them, locate the nearest dustbin and junk’d em’. This was of course an advice from our Tech God, HypoGXII. His words in the field of tech and computers are akin to God’s preaching.

Initial placement 
Perfect Fit.
The procedure took around 5mins to fit in the heart. I tried starting it up for the very 1st time. The fan spun, there was a sound but no visual display on my monitor.
WHAT THE HELL WENT WRONG !I pondered for a moment, thinking if it was a mistake to junk the manuals. Did I skip a step ? Did I just fry my new card ? Did I force the card onto the mo’bo and caused some damage on the GC ?I needed professional consultancy, so I only knew 1 person to call at times of desperation. Homes !

 

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He came, explained that new cards require a secondary source of power from the PSU. So I had to dig thru the wiring mess to locate the accessory power cable for GPUs. Like I said, Godlike. No manual would have inserted that particular detail about this problem. Of course, HypoGXII needed to make this trip worthwhile by informing me what I need to send to him later to study for tomorrow. All in a day’s work. Neonatal reflexes, damn the punters.wiring hell There you go..

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It is alive.. Gaming is gonna take on a new meaning after this. Never felt this happy in weeks since I left Malaysia. Before acquiring this beast, I had to choose between investing in a new phone or getting the GC. It took me a whole  2mins to decide that my current phone suffices for the time being and the on-board GPU just doesn’t cut it.

  unwrapping 1Thank you note, kma la

Galaxy had a ‘thank you’ note prepared for all their customers. The note included a toll free tech support, more paper waste.

Badaboom, dont care what it means, sounds awesome

Of all the features available on the box, I was excited about this particular one. It had ‘BadaBoom’ written on it and it looked awesome. I had to feature it here on the blog.

I mean, if you had a feature with such a cool name, you’ve made your sale. Even Anu went ‘badaboom-badabim’ after seeing it. This is how she looked after seeing it;

DSC01089Priceless.

Anu even suggested a name for the new heart, Grimmjow Jaggerjaques. Resembling the 6th espada from the Arrancar arc of Bleach. The Jaguar (with blue hi-lites) on the card somehow fits the occasion.

 

 

Pictures : courtesy of Abz’s new camera.

 

 Kyesuke.ru

 

 

HALO ODST

So it’s been an eventful week, to say the least.

2 words, neonatal nutrition.

All is not lost, my baby will soon get a new heart. I just can’t wait for its arrival.

Just when I thought the good folks at Bungie and Gearbox Software are done developing the Halo trilogy, they pulled 1 more out of the bag. Halo: Recon or also known as Halo ODST.

I just can’t wait the PC version comes out.

Enjoy.

Controversial AIDS Campaign Ad

Like any typical weekday morning, we were on our way to class. I grabbed a free copy of the daily Metro tabloid to keep myself abreast with the local news and improve my russian vocab at the same time. It also serves as good reading material while traveling in the metro.

Today’s headlines, the usual stuff;

Some massive pillow fight at Minsk.
a lil’ on Obama.
Russian atheletes bagging some gold medals.
Live attenuated vaccine trials for H1N1 tested on volunteers in St.Petersburg.
Canadian tourist heading up to space.
Infamous tyrants depicted in AIDS campaign ads in conjunction of World AIDS Day 2009.

Infamous tyrants ?

They say a picture paints a 1000 words, 3 pictures just kills it.

These campaign ads drew flak from all quarters.

Apparently linking Hitler to AIDS is unethical because he never contracted the disease. Same goes to the other 2 figure heads.

Religious genocide is unethical. The holocaust was unethical. The Great Purge seems questionable..

With the tagline being AIDS is a Mass Murderer, the pictures are well justified having 3 of History’s worst dictators ever who are responsible for mass killing and genocide.

Ok, back to paediatrics.

Got to cover Growth & Development, Nutrition, Biochemical Analysis and Infections by tomorrow.

Did you know, dysbacteriosis in neonates is fatal ?

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