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So, I guess I should apologize for not continuing my story about my Exchange Life in Japan. It's due to my broken phone. I wanted to post some photos to make it clear, but stupid me, I didn't save the file at my google drive account or cloud or anything. Darn it! Ahahahaha So, My life has been a combination of ups and downs in the past few months after I went back from Japan. It was a struggle for me in Internal Medicine Department. I found it hard to adjust with the surroundings, the lessons, and the learning situations. To be honest, I didn't learn much. I didn't know what I did, duh. Thankfully, I still have another 2 weeks rotation in the department at the end of my cycle in the hospital. Well, I hope I will really use it to the fullest since it's the basic of all my practice later on as a General Practitioner. And again, I've been so unlucky in relationship area. I had to endure another break-up after almost a year of relationship. It's been so...

Hi there! So right now I'm back to continue another story for my second week of my stay in Japan. It was definitely a nice week actually. I got so many things to do during my second week. Plus the two skills lab. I did enjoy the pediatric skills lab by the way. To be honest, the equipment and technology are so advance. I wish I had those in Indonesia. I know it will cost so much. During the skills lab, the sensei tried to explain the lecture in English which was pretty nice. It was about neonatal resuscitation. So yeah, it went well and we got to do intubation to the baby. It was at first, but then I managed to find the larynx and inserted the tube to help the baby's breathing. Of course it wasn't practiced in a real one, we used the mannequin. I enjoyed it so much. Then two groups were selected and we were given two different cases to do the resuscitation. The usual schedule went as a week ago. On Monday, there was a new exchange student coming from Ireland. She w...

Hi again! Sorry I've been losing my mood for writing in the past few days while actually I really want to. So in this post I will try to make a  brief story about my first week at Shinshu University. And yeah I did go to the orientation day and met some of the staffs already on Monday. My first day started very early in the morning, which was 07:10 AM (GMT +9). Guess what it was! JOURNAL CLUB!!!! Gosh, I tried so hard not to fall asleep. They spoke in Japanese and thankfully the journal was in English. After that I spent my whole day at the OR (Operating Room). I'm not sure what was the first case but the second one was Cubital Tunnel Syndrome et causa ganglion. The woman got a severe nerve palsy in her hand because the ganglion compressed the ulnar nerve, making it swollen. It was performed by Uchiyama sensei. He was really good in English. Worked at Mayo Clinic years ago. He asked so many things about anatomy and I was pretty much stupid about it. Damn! The doctors in ha...

It's been awhile again, huh? So, actually right now I'm writing from another country. Guess what? I'm finally in Japan. It's been a very long time since I wanted to live here and finally this dream comes true. I currently have stayed in Japan for almost three weeks and I got another one week left. So, I arrived in Japan at July 3rd. It was my first time to come to Japan and honestly I don't know a thing about Japanese language. I've heard so much that the Japanese people are mostly bad in English and guess what? I traveled alone. Totally on my own. To avoid so many obstacles of language barrier, yeah, I browsed some information about the transportation to get to my destination which is quite far from Tokyo. So, I managed to arrive in Shinjuku station safely. And by the way, the fee of the train (even it's not the Shinkansen) is very expensive compared to Indonesia. So, yeah, I took the cheapest one to get to Shinjuku. Before that, I bought a pre...

It's been such a long time since the first time I started writing in this blog. I'm not much of a good writer anyway. My life has changed a lot day by day and I don't know whether I've changed for the better or for the worse. By the way, three years ago at the exact day and moment I wrote in this blog. Not in the same place. Right now, I'm writing this alone while back then I wrote it with my friends. Well, tomorrow should have been a big day if I were like other people who love birthday. Me? I don't really think it's a special occasion. I don't know why I feel this way. Perhaps it's because my family doesn't celebrate birthdays. We don't give any gifts to each other. Well, I guess sometimes ago my brother and I gave present at my dad's birthday. How we celebrate it are just by greeting "happy birthday" in the morning, giving kisses and praying together. We rarely celebrate it by having a party or anything else. Wel...