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 :(