common is common..but..

since i was in first yr, i've been hearing my lecturers saying "common is common"...
usually if we asked for explanations of complicated unknown 'theories'...
today though, in Andrology...Dr Hamed Abdullah stress on the rare ones (he still explained about the common ones)

and also, he gave a quote at the beginning of his lecture which reminds me of a medical research seminar i've gone through during the summer...in one of the critical thinking sessions, we were given pictures and were asked to give 10 description in 1 minute...the first picture was easy, a picture of which when we look at one angle is a pretty young woman but at another angle is an old woman (you can picture the women right?)...the second picture showed that if we look in details were Italian people performing on stage with dancers but from a wide scope was a mother smacking her child (unfortunately i can't find this picture)...and the third picture...

i'd like to ask you to describe it...
in one glimpse, what do you think you've just seen?

among 90 of us, most description was about a couple, a picture engraved on a jar...most of 'em i bet r in your minds...*this picture reminds me of christina aguilera song...am a genie in a bottle~~~ lalala...hee
but, one candidate said...i see dolphins!!! (mainly because he's been tricked by this picture before..hehe)
so...can you tell me...how many dolphins are there?

the Dr. who presented this critical thinking session said something like this..
Interestingly, research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated with such a scenario.
*i copied the words from this blog (i lost my notebook from that seminar...mayb accidently left it in malaysia..huu)

so...there are...
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9 dolphins...
*i apologize if this picture is offensive in anyway...

Dr Hamed Abdullah's quote at the beginning of his session was :-
"The eyes cannot see what the brain does not know"
which reminds me of this picture...

*as am progressing in maturity..hehe..ok, serious...this picture ironically got me thinkin...that am gonna face a tougher challenge in raising my future generations than my parents had...not jz me...we all will...some of us already are...
(Ya Allah...do protect Hani, Iman, Ulfah, Umar, Ulya and other muslim children...no discrimination intended, they jz currently felt more closer at the moment...hehe)

plus, this quote is also the reason Dr Hamed Abdullah stressed on the rare diseases...because the incidence are rare we tend to hesitate to give the diagnosis, or we are not familiar with them...but they should at least be at the back of our minds...
the patient who came knocking at your door may b the less than 1% case...but he's the one you are treating now...:)

everyday

as we walked through our days...
some things passed by absent-mindedly..kinda hard to catch up with everything
my surgery professor Dr Hussein Khairy loves to say, "today's sunday?..when sunday comes the next sunday comes by much quicker! time is moving very fast..."
(in egypt we start our weeks on sunday)

life offers us so much, that we.. rushing through our days sometimes fail to appreciate them
so i proposed a game to a few friends...
to write down each day a word...
a word that catches our heart most, that can be felt down to the core...hehe

and here are the words we shared together..:)

1. sarcastic

touched someone's heart because the idea of being sarcastic, can compromise the bond in a relationship...especially if we are being sarcastic to someone who aren't close to us..close people usually put up with us...but for how long...

2. complicated

this one was extracted from our ECG class...the dr who taught us the fundamentals of ECG, trying to explain it...he said " i wish the electrical activity of the heart was as simple as wut i just told you...but unfortunately it's more complicated than that...and that's also life"...and it got one of my fellow thinking, life...how simple it is on the surface...it's complicated beneath..

3. determination

another friend of mine had a trouble of choosing between two difficult choices...one cannot go with the other,
remarkably...she found out that her determination to succeed made her drop the other choice (which if it was me...i'd falter)..a determination helps us get through the roughs

4. heart

a friend told us this word has two important task...heart, literally means the anatomical one which beats 70 times every minute to make sure we stay alive..but it also means our conscience...being human, it is also essential to have our heart put in the right place..a person cannot live with just taking care of the 'one side' of his heart..

5. psychoneurosis

the one who shared this word was tested with an illness that made her stayed out of school for a couple of days...being bedridden all those times, she understood how psycho feels like.
in life, we need people around us..n being alone drives us mad...can't agree more!

6. emotion

everyone has felt being mad at one point throughout his life..this feeling generated from our extrapyramidal tract (theoretically) gives us the sensation of a whorl of emotions...so we'd focus more on the pressing matters and forget the overall picture...this friend said...during this crucial time..we usually made bad decisions and utter hurtful words...emotions compromise the rationales...where in that point...we need to control it..

7. rainbow

because she was forced to rushed through her days with frustration at each stop..just because she made the wrong decision, she began to regret those wasted times...but, when the problem was solved...she saw the "rainbow" of her going through all those frustrations and spending those lost times...lean and hope to the 'Everlasting', will never dissapoint u at all she said

8. mind

this word was chosen because of the powerful ability it has, almost like time travelling or being in the other side of the world in a matter of seconds...she said..once ur mind start working...it's there already, even before ur physical starts doing it...like recollecting old sweet memories, planning on your future..and walla!...it's all in your mind..and positive minds invite positive reality

just thought that sharing this is beneficial..
pause our life once in a while..if not everyday...once a week or once a month...or, if you have too much ample time, try searching for the diamonds and gold every hour or minutes...hehe