Dear readers, When I wrote my previous blog post on “Leadership & Followership” back in August, Khairy Jamaluddin was not yet appointed as our Minister of Health. If he was, I would have already made him as the prime example of someone with natural leadership skills (unlike our previous Minister of Health). This is my …
Leadership & Followership
Assalamualaikum dear readers! I missed blogging last month despite so many exciting things happening in the world of medicine in Malaysia. Namely #HartalDoktorKontrak #CodeBlack. Even though I am already a psychiatrist now, my heart is as young as those junior contract MOs (LOL perasan). I fully supported their effort of organizing this #Hartal in order …
Be On The Right Side of History
Assalamualaikum and good day to all my dear readers… I hope it is not too late for me to wish everyone Eid Mubarak and Taqabbalallhuminna Waminkum. I know it is almost the end of Syawal already but I have been sooooo busy and mentally exhausted that at the end of the day I just don’t …
Ramadhan Mubarak 2021
Assalamualaikum dear readers, I would like to wish Ramadhan Mubarak to all Muslim readers who have been following my blog all these years. I pray that all of us will have an amazingly productive Ramadhan and be granted the much-coveted blessings of Lailatul Qadar. Allahhumma Amiin. Ramadhan is the best of months for all Muslims …
Truth Over Feeling; Fact Over Fiction
Assalamualaikum everyone! I hope this post finds you in the greatest of mood as I am currently in. Alhamdulillah my dear readers, I have said goodbye to life as an MO since early this month as I am now officially doing specialist call. I’ve just had the Temuduga Pakar on 4/3/21, the result of which …
The Price of Fame
Salam guys! Welcome to my blog in 2021. I hope you guys have had a great start to 2021 so far. I personally do not really celebrate new year that much. To me it was just another day. And I don’t really have yearly resolution, to be honest. My resolution is daily and monthly (and …
Moral Injury
I have stopped counting how many incidences regarding house officers have made it in the news since I myself started my journey as a doctor. We are not sure whether this particular houseman had committed suicide due to work-related issues or personal issues. But what we do know for sure is that there was …
Freedom Or Structure? Or Both?
A lot of things happened in the past few weeks since I last blogged that I could barely keep up. (Neelofa has donned on the niqab; the supermodel Halima Aden has left the runways for the sake of her hijab journey, and Khabib Normagomedov quitted UFC to fulfill his mother's wishes. And President Macron has …
Tone-Deaf Politicians
I did not write a single blog post last month because I was suffering from a severe form of writer’s block. I just didn’t have the mood to give words to my thoughts and my emotions because no words would be able to describe them accurately enough. I am just too bloody furious at the …
Are We Truly Free?
In a few days time, Malaysians will be celebrating our 63rd year of independence. In our own language, being independent is translated to ‘merdeka’. People have equated independence with freedom so readily that they didn’t realize that there’s a difference (small, but significant difference) between being independent and being free. I prefer to be free …
