A weekend with a little swimming
The Malaysian University Sports (MASUM) swimming competition was held last weekend in Melaka, my hometown. I participated with the sole purpose of wanting to gauge my 1500m freestyle swim. I managed to win a silver medal clocking my personal best, 19.28min. Not too bad I guess.
The swimming competition was on Saturday and Sunday. But for some reason, we left for Melaka on Thursday. That worked out just fine for me. I managed to spend some leisure time at home, spending time with family, catching up with cousins and all in all enjoying this unexpected holiday.
At least this holiday served as a compensation for the confiscated 1 week Mid-Sem break which was suppose to be from 14th of April to the 21th of April.
Studying in a military university, holidays are rare and precious. We do not get holidays like other universities, our 'long' breaks are 1 week long and they appear once in a blue moon.
The holidays here are analogous to a deep breath taken after being submerged in water. The breath of life, rejuvenating and reviving us before we plunge back in the water. Hence, holidays are looked forward to, yearned for and lusted for.
But now, our highly intelligent officers deem our short break too long and have decided to cancel our holidays and instead hold a sports carnival during the Mid-Sem holidays. So there goes our holiday along with our morale....
On a more cheerful note, the second year students of the Faculty of Medicine & Defence Health had the rare opportunity to sit in the 3rd ASEAN Chiefs of Military Medical Conference held recently in The Royale Hotel Chulan, Kuala Lumpur.
With the theme "Emerging Infectious Disease", military doctors from their respective countries presented papers on how their military medicine system was coping with old and new infectious diseases in the army and war-torn countries.
It was a nice exposure for us, enlightening us on the role we will have to play in the future. Maybe one day, one of us being inspired by these military doctors will follow in their footsteps, sacrificing the comfort and luxury of being a private doctor and serve in underdeveloped countries.
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| A unique medal which comes in the form of book with the winning certificate |
The swimming competition was on Saturday and Sunday. But for some reason, we left for Melaka on Thursday. That worked out just fine for me. I managed to spend some leisure time at home, spending time with family, catching up with cousins and all in all enjoying this unexpected holiday.
At least this holiday served as a compensation for the confiscated 1 week Mid-Sem break which was suppose to be from 14th of April to the 21th of April.
Studying in a military university, holidays are rare and precious. We do not get holidays like other universities, our 'long' breaks are 1 week long and they appear once in a blue moon.
The holidays here are analogous to a deep breath taken after being submerged in water. The breath of life, rejuvenating and reviving us before we plunge back in the water. Hence, holidays are looked forward to, yearned for and lusted for.But now, our highly intelligent officers deem our short break too long and have decided to cancel our holidays and instead hold a sports carnival during the Mid-Sem holidays. So there goes our holiday along with our morale....
On a more cheerful note, the second year students of the Faculty of Medicine & Defence Health had the rare opportunity to sit in the 3rd ASEAN Chiefs of Military Medical Conference held recently in The Royale Hotel Chulan, Kuala Lumpur.
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| Second year medical cadets with our dean and professors |
With the theme "Emerging Infectious Disease", military doctors from their respective countries presented papers on how their military medicine system was coping with old and new infectious diseases in the army and war-torn countries.
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| Delegates from Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei and Indonesia |
It was a nice exposure for us, enlightening us on the role we will have to play in the future. Maybe one day, one of us being inspired by these military doctors will follow in their footsteps, sacrificing the comfort and luxury of being a private doctor and serve in underdeveloped countries.
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| Yours truly, the Lim Shimri |
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