day 2


unkle: can put down the railings (aka cotside)?
me: okay. but why?
unkle: so that i can close my eyes and squeeze the railing when you take my blood.

!!??

don't know whether to think he's cute or feel insulted.

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singfest was awesome.
despite terrible organisation, spoilt microphones, mother long queues, waiting waiting and more waiting, massively overpriced food ($10 for a plastic cup of beer?!), blazing "1000degree" hot weather, overcrowding on the grass with people stepping all over you/randomly sitting down beside you uninvited, annoying teeny-punk ass UWC kids (who i will grudgingly admit are rather hot)... the artistes made it all worth it. seriously.
from "who the fuck is this guy" to "ok he's damn cool", bryan is now a jason mraz convert. haha.
i fucking love jason mraz!
pussycat dolls were HAWT. they actually like put up fans or smtg in front of the stage to get their hair blowing all sexily.
one republic and panic at the disco were good too. panic was especially funny cos the mic was spoilt so there was absolutely no sound but the lead singer was like screaming his lungs out and getting all carried away. in silence. hilarious.
alicia keys was freaking awesome. i'm a convert. although her tight white pants weren't too nice,
but her voice and performance was amazing. and i now actually like her semi-new song which i originally hated. haha.
not so well known was this jamie scott guy from UK which bryan loved, and RICK ASTLEY (yeah baby c'mon) who was damn hilarious. he's this oldish guy from the 80s-90s who sang MAMBO SONGS. like the 2gether 4ever and never 2 part and never gonna give you up. people actually threw panties onto the stage at him. PANTIES!!? like did they bring a new piece or did they throw actual panties!!!! nasty.

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also, special thanks to some random friends who tried to make my birthday really special. but unfortunately i pangsehed my own surprise party. that's just the ultimate self sabotage isn't it.
extra special thanks to manny and wayne, the nicest cg mates in the world (for just that one day).
I LOVE MY PRESENT AND THE CAKE AND MY CARD AND THE BIRTHDAY SONG!!!!!! (though i haven't heard it but just the thought of it tickles me hahahaha)

THANKS GUYZ!!!!!!!!!!!!
this thanking is really just to spur you guys on to creating another surprise! ooh anticipation!
nah, just kidding lah. SIP is sucking our lifes out.

i weasled out bryan's secret surprise - we're going to singfest!
:):):):)
like womad, only better cos i'm more inclined towards commercial junk. haha

sunday's lineup includes jason mraz (i like!!), one republic, pussycat dolls (sexshayy), panic! at the disco, stacie orrico and alicia keys. and other people that i don't know so i don't really care about them.
but this is awesome enough for me! :) like, JASON MRAZ!!!!! the geek in the pink!!


!!!!!!

now this is the perfect cure for pms.

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one day, a found a cd among my junk.
and inside the cd was -




JC days!
feels like a damn long time ago.
now i'm feeling all old wrinkly and saggy.
plus its damn weird looking at me with black hair.

anyway i'm so glad i found all these photos cos i thought i'd lost them all with my first com crash (i have had about 2 more com crashes after that and lost more photos).

so double cure for pms! :)

ward rounds, copy file, case presentation, copy file, PT/OT session, copy file, no jag to go back to school in, damn long talk about SIP till 645pm = fucking sian.

but NEH MIND, cos a shiny brand rubber stamp and this made it all ok:




waiter: you're not allowed to take photo of the food!
me: !? ok then can take humans? take for us.
waiter: ok then i will focus the camera on the food.
us: wtf!?


but anyway, fun!

sucks to be back

its been more than a week, and im still having withdrawals.

i did miss people back home. but i was never one bit homesick and never ever missed singapore food.
seriously, whats there to miss when yu've got shake shack burgers dripping with shack sauce and fried portobellos oozing with melted muenster cheese paired with root beer floats. fluffy yet brown blueberry pancakes with that special clinton st maple syrup that costs $1.50 more to top up as gum learned the hard way. chili cheese dogs with papaya juice. endless choices of cheap and good mexican food instead of just taco bell/cafe iguana/margarita's back here. oh the list is endless.
ok so i did enjoy my bachormee, oh luat, bbq chicken wings, sambal stingray and satay so far. but i am in severe need of pinkberry with rice cake yoghurt chips and blueberries and some jamba juice. for serious.

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i miss the sugarcoated happyness of themeparks, yelling idiotically on coasters for that fake adrenaline rush, walking the skin off my soles, lazing on the beach, floating in the sea, burning my skin till i get new moles, shopping at outlets like there's no tomorrow, spamming timeout for good food to eat, pretending to be one of the purpose driven in new york, sunsets at 830pm,

argh. its just killing me.

oh, and not to forget studly harrison.

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doesnt help to start off with the ultimate in boring - geriatrics.
ok so some aunties and uncles are kinda cute in their wrinkly prune way, but there's only so much of incontinence odours, shitpelleted wards and hokkien i can take.
plus we start off with chiongster monstarr ultimate pwnage tutor.
" its not her problem, its yours"
wahhhh okay. some niceness on day1.

and though i suppress the nagging at the back of my head thats its goddamn m5, all those chiong shits around me bring it all back. but manny and me just wanto sleeeeep. i dont know what to blame my need for sleep on anymore but just pure lazyness. sigh.

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sian sian sian sian sian sian sian sian sian.

please just bring me back to 1st of may and i'd do it all again.

boston

back from a super weekend in boston with my sis.
which was great fun, even though something bad happened to me every single day there.

first day was raining like a bitch and cold like frozen hell. carrying heavy ass bags and walking uber long distances in that kinda weather aint no joke man.

second day, i dropped my camera while attempting to take some retard photo. hard. and the lens smashed in assymetrically. so the lens couldnt be retracted in anymore, and the images on the camera were blurry so the camera just couldnt function. and so i spent 30 minutes in faneuil hall marketplace whining and blaming all corners of the world while my sister patiently waited (secretly dulan with me). after all our pulling and pushing, i got my cam to work again. although the lens doesnt get covered by the protective metal anymore. i was so happy, i honestly cried. and what did my sis do? - take a photo of me looking absolutely retarded crying in the middle of boston. sigh.

third day, i decided to spin a souvenir penny to add to my collection. i spun once, and the coin came out wonky. so i tried again, and it was still wonky! tamade, wasted 1 dollar and 2 cents!!!!!

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but still, i love boston. for the perfect weather, awesome architecture, beautiful views along the river and wharf, jealousy-inducing campuses, idiot-proof clean safe subways, the easy accessibility of everyplace with just a pair of legs, the chill vibe and most of all - LOBSTERS.
baked lobsters stuffed with cheese and scallops = intestinal orgasm. combine that with new england clam chowder and shrimp and garlic. absolutely button-bursting!!!! i did wear a button shirt that day. haha.

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i also went down to MGH to kiss the wall.
it looks way nicer and more zhng than mount sinai.
daym.

and, the coffee seller wears labcoat!

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following the red brick road of the freedom trail was fun. but being photo-whores and with the trail running right through downtown with all the awesome shopping, we obviously didnt complete it. hah. but nvm, cos next year i will be going back! :)

i am a little disturbed at seeing graveyards smack in the middle of downtown though.

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ok library just shut the lights out on us. so update again later

the irony


the geriatrics in paediatrics is driving me crraaaaaaaazzzzyyyyyyy........

newyorkin!


and so after SGD3000 worth of admin stuff, we're finally in new york!
with air-con weather and warm blue skies. which is great cos it means less pimples. which is also great cos it means nicer photos.

thai airways was okay, worth the $600 less. but we kept getting mistaken as thais. i dont like it, cos that means people might think i'm a bapok when i'm really just a girl. -.-
also, you either get a good seat with bad tv, or bad seat with good tv. some overzealous freak pushed the recliner button right in, so poor manny had to shift seat to sleep. i didnt really know howto take advantage of a double seat and ended up giving myself an ulnar claw while sleeping.


bkk was big and glassy, but a disappointment cos there wasn't much stuff in the transit lounge like singapore has. there wasn't even enough seats! we tried to check in to the gate early to get a seat. and checking in involves a molestation procedure that i took a picture of and markosim got scolded for. but he got body searched by a girl, so all is good lah.

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on day 1, lunch was famiglia's pizza. the italian cashier dude was extremely amusingly funny. his mouth shoots off faster than rabbit shit pellets:
manny me and an old hag who cut queue were in line- "hey, you guys charlie's angels or something?"
i was a bit blur with ordering- "hey you want a soda? or you actually just wanna stand there and watch me work all day?"
then we did auntie stuff like get groceries, toilet paper and garbage bags with coupons and discounts no less.
next, we actually wento the MOMA with krispy kreme glazed eyes cos it was target free day. it was amusing how we would chiong the benches at the galleries to sit down and doze. low min then took us to a japanese restaurant for ramen. which is retrospect is funny how we ate jap food on day 1 in america.

day 2 was waiting in the cold for an hour alone for my sis to arrive. attracting lots of weird stares from the cao ang mohs, cos the wind was really strong and chilly. and the first thing my sis said to me was: "wah! your hair damn ugly! what did you do to it?!" referring to my golden blonde orange hair that no one else but me likes. -.- some love.
then it was shopping at soho and dinner in koreatown. 2 consecutive days of asian dinners!

day 3 was some brooklyn love-hate. subway systems on weekends are the bane of my new york life. renovations, service changes, low frequency trains and piss-filled corridors don't make for the best travel journey. i promise to not complain abt singapore MRT for at least 1 week when i come home!!
we took 1 1/2 hours to get to our destination. but when we exited the subway, the weather was warm and sunny. so everybody loved brooklyn. and the brooklyn brownstoner flea market was good fun. so we still loved brooklyn.
then we went to the cherry blossom festival in the brooklyn botanical gardens, the main highlight of our borough excursion. it was beautiful. the cherry blossoms, the tulips, the bonsais ( bonsais are my weird fascination), and the other random flowers. and yes, lynn layed on the grass.
my absolute fav and almost my main aim of going was honestly the ORIGINAL SUSHI PILLOW. <3
then the real shit started. thanks to service changes, one way trains with no prior warnings and shitty weekend subways in general (tmd long waiting time), we ended up spending 2 fucking hours in the subway. which is damn smeally too.
first we couldnt get to our foodie place in caroll gardens, then we couldnt fucking leave brooklyn to get back to manhattan cos the stupid train was one way. anyway, after much backtracking and train waiting and kaobeing and fuck swearing, we all hate hoyt-schermerhorn and UTICA AVENUE. (yah, the stupid station is red.)
seriously.
so in the end to make up for the shit hole, we headed to katz deli for dinner of the famous pastrami on rye. which was not what i expected and was expensive, but it was okay lah.

and today was first day at elective. i was given wrong directions and ended up reporting to a dietician in endocrinology -.-
then, the first case i saw was NAI with subdural haematoma and retinal haemorrhages. o_o
then we had a pseudo code yellow and spent about half an hour searching for a 4year old kid. which we never did find btw.
then i tried to call my sister and accidentally called 911 twice!
what a good start eh.

ah well, new day tomorrow!

pictures up soon!

<3

this is why i'm with M1.






table 4 pani!
*ring ring*
hello, mr india curry house
yes we have chicken kebab, butter
okay one butter chicken,
yes sir, we deliver everywhere, no restriction on area
ah okay, i repeat your order,
one butter chicken, one spicy bryani
ahcha, give me your address!
can you repeat that?
sin-ga-pore..
another country?
HEY! mumbai da! INDIA!
singapore!
butter chicken! parcel! hmm!

am i awesome?

fuck

elective is great and all..
but elective posting with writeup? that's just wtf... my most hated part of postings. fuck.

rotavirus


as punishment for my abuse of the grasp reflex, i got 3 episodes of incredibly terrible colic that woke me from a snooze on the sofa followed by 1 episode of constipation then 2 episodes of explosive diarrhea. like, have yu ever had a shit wake yu from sleep?! gawd, damn terrible lah.
the initial constipation scares me though, cos all i can think of is spurious diarrhea and despite not being hardworking much in GS, i know that is BAD.

this incredibly cute kid who looks slightly syndromic (i'm starting to wonder if i'm sane and normal, cos i'm increasingly finding some syndromic kids cute) with a rather nice name (adel rais, although sometimes sounds like edelweiss) was cutely lying in his little bed and looking at me above his CPAP nose prongs. so i decided to abuse the grasp reflex: where yu offer yur finger to the kid's palm and cos of the grasp reflex they'll hold yur finger. its a cheap thrill thing, like as if the kid likes yu so much that he won't let go, when actually he just can't help it lah.
anyway, turns out he has rotavirus. and BOs 13x/day.
AUGH!
touching wood and everything else, but so far i've not shitted since last night's explosive episodes. basically cos a nurse saved my ass and yelled not to touch the baby cos he got rotavirus, so my finger stopped like 1cm away from him.

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today we wento measure mantoux. damnit, 20mm requiring CXR. i was in expiration phase when the lady zapped me, so i'm feeling paranoid and really hope they don't make me take again cos inadequately inspired. argh.

i wento the mount sinai webpage to print the medical status form. and daym, those bastards have upped the prices of an elective! USD300 application fee and USD500 tuition fee. DEAR GOD!
luckily i'm not affected. poor future buggers have all my pity. i'm already getting drained dry at the current price.

as proof of expensive living in new york, a hooker cost some guy in a current scandal $4000+!
like, wert.

i don't believe in perfect love.
for me, love always comes with a little bit of hate sometimes. just a fine line between the two.
but that's okay, because if a person can evoke such strong feelings of love then its quite natural that they can get yu so mad that yu feel like yu really just hate them like the scum of the earth.
plus, some love-hate relationship makes life interesting. and maybe a little bit depressing.. but then, there's make-up sex to cure it all isn't it. haha. unfortunately i am not getting the make-up sex part, so i am getting a bad deal in it all. daym. someday lah.

btw i am not "emo-siew" lah. just some trainride-thoughts.

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with each passing day, i love him more and more <3
not bryan lah.. prof wong is my new love.
today, he ordered lunch into cardiac cath for us! he's the first ever tutor to order lunch into OT for me! zomg, some love. chicken chop and spaghetti/rice in super cute microwaveable containers that i wanted to take home. unfortunately, some very hardworking cleaner auntie threw them away when i left it outside the ICU during mini-tut. fark.
anyway, i am so loving paeds cardio more and more each day. and it has alot to do with prof wong's uber teaching. and i can now pick up diastolic murmurs! such an achievement :) awesome lah! love this posting, but its only 2 weeks..

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we met the cutest, funniest and most intelligent down syndrome kid today. she was just randomly standing in the middle of the ward, and when we reached she gave us a welcome sticker! and she was smart enough to give girls a snow white and boys a dwarf!
she shook all our hands real hard to thank us when manny gave her a sticker. and gave uber high fives. and dragged us to stand in the middle of the ward to fa zan. just so darn cute.
after making friends and giving her fans to give out to the rest of the ward, some friend told us that apparently she has a murmur! talk about friends with benefits! and then she positioned herself in bed all ready for us to examine!
cuteness.
down syndrome kids are actually darn cute, cos they have like no inhibitions and are super friendly. and happy, despite all their problems. the way people can be simple and happy makes me look at myself and feel completely retarded sometimes.

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today prof told us to go catch a movie in the afternoon, and i did just that. so i caught 10,000 BC.



and i think camilla belle is a total babe.
she looks a little bit like lindsay lohan to me in the show, i don't know why.




i really do think she's damn pretty lah!
the guy is not bad too lah. though he looks damn dirty, he has rather good abs. plus, he can talk to the speartooth!

the show is kinda crap though, the plot is full of nonsense.
but jumper is still more crap. that got bryan real mad, cos he was kb-ing 10,000BC so i told him flat out that jumper sucks worse (he thought jumper was good. like wtf, seriously)
i think i am a bit of a sucker for shows with like big time action shit with battles like lord of the rings style.

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ok, time to read up on natural history of TGA if not my natural history with be death by strangling/whack on the head tmr.

i kill you!

so i am reunited with manny again, and ssrb too!
and i remember once again why i freaking love prof wong.
great teaching within short periods of time, funny acromegalic expressions and comments.
only 2 days into the posting, and he has already almost whacked manny and me to death. "scared!!!!" haha manny, yu are adorable.
he also highly doubts the ABRSM for my grade 8 cert. no thanks to my horrid sense of picking up murmurs. ah well, at least heart sounds S1S2 are heard! :)

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tuesdays used to be gangrape days, but now tuesdays are great cos prof absconds in the aftnn.
so we had a good lunch at bugis! at manny's recommendation from the fat girl's recommendation in urban, we had:
yellafellas freshly fried fries with all kinds of uber topping.
manny had chili crab, i had the poutine (beef gravy and cream cheese!) and ssrb had the cheese and sour cream topped with bacon bits.
ABSOLUTELY BUTTON BURSTING!!!!
thats my new term for fab food. cos i was wearing a button blouse, and after that i felt that way.
we were so hungry, we started eating while walking before even finding a seat. so no pics.
but go give it a try!!

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i blew tons of cash this IT fair.
i bought:
3x ink for my photo printer
1x laser printer - which is damn sexy in the printerworld now cos it has a sexy black skin.
1x laser toner
1x thumbdrive
50x cds

and today i bought a nelson's.

argh! brokebrokebroke!!!
new york, how!

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EH WAYNE:

i told him. and then
prof wong: who is wayne. handsome anot?
manny: no.
me: i did the ernest uncle tremors thing which means not wolf ugly but drunk fuck only

and then prof wong didn't care about you anymore.
haha too bad, not hot.

quote of the week

"neurology is medical masturbation"

cos yu run millions of tests to find out what's wrong, but yu can't do jack shit about it.

i don't really understand his explanation, but i still think its damn funny. cos the immediate thing that came to my mind was manny. and manny+wanking in the same thought process is just zomgwtfpwnage. sorry manny!! haha ;)
i suspect it has smtg to do with wanking not orgas enough as real sex (ie surgery) lo..
surgeons all love to describe things as sexy.
appendicectomy is sexy (actually i do think open appedicectomy scar is sexy haha) and fancy surgeries are sexy..

back to the point..
damnit lah, more than half my posting is neurology! i got 10weeks worth sia.
and more paeds neuro than general neuro. wert.
all freaking mt sinai's fault. angmoh kids better be hell cute.

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anyway, GS is officially over.. though i still have to go back do project lah..
but daym, no more drinks!
me being a typical kpo shit, i frickin love all the gossip that goes around at drinks sessions.
more informative than a tutorial on BGIT or wadever. not that i had a tutorial on BGIT lah.. haha

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IT fair is evil.
it deceptively makes yu want almost every single freaking thing there. cos it appears cheap, so good deal must buy!! yes, that's the auntie in me.
i wanted an ipoddy, and then a laptop with my excuse being going overseas need to store photos in laptop and use internet keep in contact with people! (but my apartment no internet, so..), and then a laser printer, and a secret frivolous desire for a new camera cos they are just so hot. like wtf smile shutter. i wanted to be irritating and say, like wad if im trying to take a dao ah lian photo? haha
i have successfully eliminated 3 of them evils, but i still want the hp laser printer. $149 and it comes with cool skin.. so convenient for printing notes, which confirm chop sticker and stamp in m5 sure do hell alot. now i always have to run to photocopy auntie's shop in NUS. freaking cross country lah.
but after m5, i wont need it to print notes anymore.. plus, i just bought new inks for my photo printer at the fair. fuckk... today last day, need to decide asap!

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eh, christine siew chiu hsia, reply my email lah!

quotable quote

" i am very happy you are not so brave. cos if you are, i would be very scared."

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i am indeed glad i wasn't hardworking enough to stay for the full duration of yesterday's AAA op!
i stayed from 3-8pm and felt uber tired already from all the contorting and more humping than the cage in MOS.
apparently it ended at 430am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what the bla!

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anyway, today is like my perfect day.
i woke up at 516am and it was raining beautifully. beautifully cos it was the perfect rain for perfect sleep. so i decided to pangseh jeremy the mongkey for SDA and skip my last chance for witnessing the m&m catfight.
i woke up at 830am and it was still raining so that it looked like 7am. so i slept some more.
till 11am.
then i woke up and found that my face is significantly less swollen. i can now smile and chew!
then i weighed myself and found that i had lost another 1kg.
then checked my email, and got some good news from mt sinai.
then i received a call from krisflyer that my missing miles have been credited. (they initially refused to credit the miles cos it's been more than 6 months since my flight)
then i had a good lunch with my momma.
then i wento NTUC and found my favourite mandarin orange green tea! its only sold during CNY and my usual TM branch has run out of stock. so i bought 2 x cartons :)
then i reached sgh in 20minutes for a super good 2hour tutorial with sookitchi (i am purposely spelling it wrong cos his name is damn cute lah)
then ben chua said we are having brunch tmr after rounds. he said we're gonna have the biggest steak we can find! i don't know if he's just diao-ing me abt my wisdom teeth, cos since when people eat steak for brunch!? but it has gotten me all excited!! like, steak!!
and then i went home for an absolutely scrumptious dinner.
and now i am just bumming around doing nothing.
i am just in a super good mood that its so unlike me its disgusting
:):):):):)

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in the true spirit of being in a disgustingly good mood, i shall do something super un-me. which is load photos!

xian's 23rd!

happy birthday xian!
leaf spectacle
to all judo girls: yes this is xian's present! and yu guys owe me 10bucks haha.


shokudo

between us, xian and i ate 1)unagi fried rice 2)fried seafood udon 3)shitake mushroom tempura 4) 3 sticks of yakitori 5) sashimi platter
my excuse was that it was my last day of food freedom cos i was extracting my wisdom teeth the next day. i guess xian's excuse is that it was her birthday. she's so small and skinny anyway, must eat more lah!!

starbucks
to satisfy the birthday girl's green tea frap crave.
i used to hate making the green tea frap. cos we used real green tea powder, so whenever yu open and close the container, the green tea powder poufs up like a atomic bomb cloud.

cartel
for half-price cakes to celebrate the end of xian's birthday and the coming of beng's birthday

stupid xinyi insisted i take a photo with her. haha
ok lah, i wanted to take a photo with yu too lah!

next top model wannabes
version: watch

pseudo-serious
there was actually a much more pricelessly hilarious picture, but i was laughing too hard and missed the shot. daym.

happy

seductive/sexy
damn, i can't help but laugh every time i see this!

i don't know what to call this. amp chio?
damn, my watch doesn't even look like a watch! haha
like my tuition kid said last time - "teacher, this watch damn good lah. when someone irritating asks yu the time and yu don't wanna tell them. yu can just say, 'this is not a watch'."

anyway little xian, don't destroy yur watch again!!!

stupid is as stupid does


fine, so maybe its retribution for laughing at stupid people and doing twit dances at them.
today was my ultimate stupid day. gawd.
yu know those things yu say that yu didnt realise was so goddamn stupid till yu've already said it and its too late cos everyone will forever think yu're a moron already? i did it multiple times today.

i asked the neurosurgeon when we would know that we have drilled into the ventricle.
like hello, yu drill thru the skull, not drill into the brain lah!!!!!!

i insisted it wouldnt be possible for blood to flow to the kidneys through an iliac-renal bypass cos that would mean flowing upwards against gravity.
like hello, even my mum can tell me the carotids are the prime example of flow upwards against gravity!?

then to top it all off i called myself using sirui's phone so we could exchange phone numbers.
within 2 minutes after we parted, i saw a missed call and called the number. completely forgetting that it is obviously sirui lah. zomg. how fucktarded is that.
the conversation was like
"hello this is caroline, did anyone call my number?"
"its me lah!"
"huh?"
"me lah! yu used my phone give yurself missed call remember?"

and then i drove home at 8pm without my headlights.

i would like to believe all this is only because i woke early today. hardworking and me don't seem to go well together.

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something else disturbing is that i am increasingly finding dr obama rather hot. it may have something to do with his super surgical skills and his ngtzekiat aura. and maybe also cos he's obama, cos i do seem to have a thing for brownies.

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i also recently discovered an incentive to the disgustingly far off zhangde carpark- at night, it's guarded by the occasional cute mat. the cisco mat is dressed like a hazmat lah, so its the next best thing!

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ok i think i shd stop being more stupid and procrastinating, and go do some proper stuff instead.

a post with no point

so 3 weeks of GS have gone by.
no actually 3 weeks of vascular surgery have gone by, cos i've been sufficiently lazy to have not seen patients from other teams in GS.
in fact i've been so lazy that i still haven't clerked a single patient!

listening to hardworking stories of those in gen med and emed makes me feel slightly like a shit.
like i'm wasting time and money.
but then again, elective is about electing what yu wanto do right?
or at least that's the poison wayne has fed into my mind.
but ultimately, at least we're squeezing a project out!
and i've seen some interesting surgeries, which involve marinating a graft in the patient's blood. like, !!?
and i have done some stitching, although it was terrible enough for dr ben to say i should just go do cardiology. which isn't bad actually, cos i do like cardiology lor.

but actually, i think my favourite part of this posting is the fact that i have had the time to do what i like.
i have met xian and xinyi almost weekly since cny day 3, which is so pricelessly rare. and i was able to meet beng too, which is so extremely super rare cos beng is like the busiest person ever.
i have had early days so i could go out for movies with my mom.
i have met the harderworking bunch of med friends over sushi tei (my absolute fav) and juno with wacky subtitles.
i can take off whenever i want, so i was able to make time for wisdom teeth extraction. yes i kinda look like a chipmunk now..

so even though i may ultimately seem like a lazy shit in terms of medical students, i do feel pretty pleased actually with what this month has become. because life does not and should not solely revolve around med school, especially since this is the last 4 month break without exams bitches!!

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i am also pretty pleased cos since i extracted my 4 wisdom teeth on friday, i have lost 1kg/day!
that makes it 2 kg so far, but i think it'l stop here now, cos i have progressed from porridge to kway teow teng already..

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in other happy news, my genious twit sis got into MIT for her masters and i got a spot in mount sinai for electives!
which all fits in great, since she can come over from boston to new york to visit!
i do wish i had gotten either gen surg or cardiothoracic surg instead, even plastics actually cos i do wanto see these parts of surg that i haven't got to see as yet.. but paeds neurology is ok too lah. cute angmoh kids!!

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ok this post does sound a bit too happy for my standards, but actually i'm not really that happy lah, cos i am so craving pizza but i can't have any cos of my wisdom teeth op :(

one night this week i got an sms:

"hello.. sorry to disturb u this moment i like to ask is skipping rope makes me grow taller? & wad age will i stop growing height?"

my ex-tuition kid is damn cute lah!
but i must say his english sucks. i am rather embarrassed since i spent the past 4 years teaching him english. fuck eh.

i thought he was worried abt being short cos he wanted to ask a girl out for valentine's, but his reason was actually

"is just that all my friends taller than me then i like a short kid"

haha really damn cute. i actually kinda miss him, esp watching retarded you-tube videos with him. haha.

the only thing worse than sitting thru a xray conference is standing thru a xray conference.

we might seem rather hardcore- reporting at 730 am for xray conference, joining ward rounds, attending scopes, watching bypass, seeing reviews and blue letters, and zomg staying for night call!

but not much active participation was needed actually, and i had a rather long burger rush break. (damned admin removed mame32 and banned all games websites. bitches.)
the only interesting thing in scopes was chilli in a macik's gut, bypass isnt the spectacular heart bypass but a femoral-tibial artery graft watched from about 3m away (ie cant see shit lah), blue letters are the usual crap with lots of kb-ing of "oei stupid lah yu read textbook and manage lah wad for refer to me", and night call was 1 x kfc chicken for dinner.

the thing that gets me the most is all the standing and walking. oh well, been having too much of a sedentary lifestyle these past months. its so damn cui but my feet are actually aching. gawd.

anyway, the 1 x kfc chicken was like a tea snack and i was autodigesting. so we went for dinner at the new japanese marche-concept restaurant shokudo at raffles city.
its not bad, but stay away from the steamed bamboo rice which is plain rice with unagi/salmon/chicken thrown in a shallow bamboo thing and steamed with absolutely no seasoning. it costs only $3.80, and with good reason. dont find out the hard way like cheapo wayne did.
otherwise, i liked the fried rice, omelette and the dessert crepe.
unagi fried rice is my current favourite jap thing to eat, replacing the sashimi salad with sushi tei dressing. its a tough fight with sushi tei golden roll though, but golden roll has been shrinking so not so satisfying anymore (ok shit, prawn story)
oh and drinks are disgustingly overpriced, so must sneak in yur own drink!

aiyah, i proved my own theory right. i only have stuff to blog when doing posting.
one of today's funny moments:

dr 1: (about the pt with nasal carriage of mrsa) oei! why is she on the -poke nose- thing (nasal prongs)?!

dr 2: oh cos she said she is breathless when we remove it. even though sats dont drop

dr 1: aiyah! then poke the things in but don't connect the tube to the oxygen lah!

no prizes for guessing who is dr 1.

blue magik


i'm super free now, but i have absolutely nothing to blog about!

i watched some good movies, but they're already old news and it'd be boring to talk about them.
otherwise, there is really nothing much interesting about eating sleeping and tv.

i do have an awesome video that i will upload one day. it involves gummy foo, wavy fibres and pink rubber bands. sounds retarded already right? ahahahha.

i have come to the sad realisation that i mainly blog about retarded stuff that happens during postings. and now that we aren't going to hospitals already, that's probably why i have nothing to blog about!!!
tragic!
wtf's happening to me!

sequelae of patho mugging has left me with the compulsion to attempt to incorporate everything i read into memory for regurgitation. fuck!

and everytime i read about death in the papers, i automatically do the coroner's system in my head and feel sorry for the person that they gotta be mutilated by an autopsy.
yes i know, i am so weird.
thinking about death makes me go all warped. i don't like it.

plus i couldn't stop thinking about heath ledger whenever i studied forensic patho.
strangely i feel sad about it, though its not like im a big fan or anything. plus there is the slight morbid interest in reading the articles abt him. how weird.
at least i didn't go watch brokeback like gummy!
though i must say that the dark knight trailer looks really awesome.
why so serious? yikes, some disturbing last role.
but anyway, i can't wait to watch it!

but first, 27 dresses tmr!