Day 3
Woke up at 6am again. Same routine. 4 groups are being divided into 2 big groups where one group will be visiting Hospital Mesra Bukit Padang, while the other group visits the autism centre, Seri Mengasih Centre. My group together with Group 2 would be visiting the latter site. Forgot for how long we've bumped along the bumpy roads in the bus, but when we're there, the extremely noisy bus full of people chatting out loud suddenly kept quiet. We saw a group of kids with a few adults walking on the roadside back to the autistic centre. Some of the kids may looked normal on the outside, but we knew enough from the way they act, they walk, they talk that they're kids with mental disorders, from Down Syndrome, to autism, and also to cerebral palsy. We visited the classrooms where they're divided into juniors and seniors based on their age. There are also a few kids who're preparing to sit for the UPSR exam. We also visited the more adult patients where they're working on handcrafts, making bookmarks, cards, etc. Some of us even bought the handcrafts as a mean to help and also to donate to the centre to make it a better place. There's also motor and sensory integration where its a training centre for kids who are unable to coordinate their muscles and sensory system. The last place we went is the canteen where they're having their meals. We managed to talk to some of them, although they slur their words, no one can understand much what they say, but they're still happy that we listened to them and at least someone's willing to talk to them. We even took pictures with some of them who love taking pictures. Lol. One of us brought home a gift from one of the patients, a drawing he drew himself! Though we don't understand what the drawing is all about, but the chinese words written on one part of the drawing told us that this patient misses his family badly. This is really one meaningful event that the organiser has arranged. Though the patients may be mentally disordered, but they still have feelings and thoughts of their own and people who are healthy shouldn't be looking down on these people. Instead they should be accepting them as normal people in the society and give them the treatment they need. We left with the feeling of sorry not for those patients, but for those who laughed at the kids because of their distorted looks or their acts. Their lack of love for those incapable ones seriously do not earn respect from others, especially if they really become doctors one day.
After the visiting to the autism centre, we went back to UMS for lunch. After lunch, some of the UMS students brought us to their medical museum. Honestly, theirs almost the same as ours, even the size of the room, except maybe the way of arrangement and stuffs. So, basically, ours not bad! =) In the afternoon, we have more workshops from lecturers where they feed us on anxiety, depression, misuse of drugs and health promotion in rural areas of Sabah topics. Learnt a lot as well. =) The workshops ended around 3pm. Then the organising committees suddenly announced that every group of us have to prepare 2 posters for the next day's activities!! I'm seriously not creative and certainly do hate making posters, especially in such a short time given. Our groups were to do on the topic Anxiety and Depression, thus divided again into two small groups of five where me and Lin Hui with Amir, Alyaa and Sindy were to do on Anxiety. Laptop out, fingers tapping on the keyboard searching for informations on anxiety, especially we need to do it in Malay. *faint* So basically whole late afternoon on doing the poster.
We departed to Kudat, up north of Kota Kinabalu, with 2 and a half hours of journey. Reached the UMS health centre there around 8pm. Had dinner and start doing our posters again while our group moderators briefed us on what to do next day. At 10pm, we departed to Kudat Golf and Marina Resort where we would be staying there for one night. Another half an hour to reach there. On reaching there, after dividing us to our respective rooms where we'll be sharing with different people this time (me with Alyaa & Hafizah), we continue on with our posters. Lucky we did it fast with simple information and nice decorations, we managed to finish both the posters of our groups in just half an hour time. While I waited for my two roommates to finish bathing, I also helped out with other groups.
And....after bathing, Shee Ven called me asking me whether to meet up in the lobby with others to discuss on each group's posters as some of us were arranged at the poster exhibition station. Only Lin Hui, Suriya and Thaalitha didn't join us. In the end, after the discussion in the lobby, we changed venue to the side of the swimming pool. Just over the wall is directly the sea. Lol. We chatted under the bright lights of lampposts beside the swimming pool while drinking ice lemon tea that Shee Ven bought for us the day before and eating crackers that we bought until around 3am. Miraculously, no one's tired although the next day everyone has to wake up at 6am. Again. If not for Li-Wei screaming to leave coz of mosquitoes attacking her. And only her. Lols. No one else got the attacks. Even coz of Bernard too coz he was saying that he's scared there'll be sharks and even...urgh....crocodiles in the sea. @_@
Back to the room but can't sleep straightaway. Though managed to sleep a bit. If not for my dear roommate's alarm clock that rang at 5am!! I practically have to tug my hand over to her bed and shake her until she wakes up to turn her alarm off. Why 5am? Coz she needs to do her daily prayer. Oh well, I'm not being racist. Just that I can't stand her sleeping like a piece of log, not budging at all while letting the alarm rings non stop until I shaked her for a long time. Gah~!!
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