Tribute to Hajar

I woke up late this morning, it was expected because I slept late last night, trying to finish off my ECG exercises. After a few questions, I stopped because my brain couldn’t function anymore. It just amazes me how some people can stay up late to study until subuh! i am more of a morning person, I prefer to wake up early so that I begin my day earlier. But sometimes this routine doesn’t work for me, because I get very sleepy at class, especially during the days that I have classes until 5pm.

Anyway, this morning, my husband kept reminding me to read surah Al-Kahf, since it’s Friday. So I sat beside him and opened to Quran, and read it… then after a 2 pages, he opened his Quran, and started reading the same surah. What’s funny was, after a while, I noticed he was ahead of me! So I told him to read slowly because he might get the tajwids wrong… so he turned and said that he’s been reading the surah every week so insyallah he wont get it wrong… SHOW OFF!!! He is right though… so just now, I vowed to myself, I’ll read surah al-Kahf every week, insyallah. I am one hell of a competitive wife! (something silly: I even told him that I can run faster than him!)

Later, I slept for 10 minutes before the Friday prayers, woke up… continued practicing my ECG. Chatted with cousin, Hajar, who is smokin’ hot.. and she is the reason why I am updating my blog. (hope you are happy babe!). She’s currently waiting to start her pre-med school. I miss that phase of life where you are about to start something new… very eager to attend classes… trying out new stuff. Hajar, I pray that your enthusiasm remains, it’s very important!

On another note… a few weeks ago, I had been procrastinating my ECG exercises. Dr Ashraf Zaki is my clinical medicine lecturer, and each class, he will give us exercises of ECGs for us to complete and discuss them for the next class. We had about 16 hours of lecture on the basics of ECG and after that, it was time to practice diagnosing the ECGs. I was scared! What was I scared of? I was scared that I cannot diagnose them because when I attempted one of them, I got it wrong. And just because of that one mistake, I built a fear and decided not to face them at all. Until about 2 weeks ago, Dr Ashraf said, for those who keep getting it wrong, re-read the topics and insyallah you’ll get it. So that weekend, I spent the whole day revising what he taught… and Alhamdulillah, I managed to face my problem and overcame it. So the bottom line is, whenever you have challenges in life, just face it… you cannot sweep everything under that carpet wanting to hide it, because it feel appear back! I was glad I got the sense to face my challenge… and lucky I still have months before the exams, so insyallah I have sufficient time to know my common mistakes.



How I wish the ECG qualities are clear like this one!







Tomorrow I have classes with Dr Sherif El-Hawary… we’re learning endocrinology right now. His lectures are so amazing… he has an amazing ability to explain things that are tough, made it simple and insyallah it sticks in your mind forever. I feel very privileged to have great lecturers teaching me…

Good luck everyone!

(oh yeah… my lips are so dry that it’s beginning to bleed, yikes!)