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Well lets see.....let's have this ultra summarized list of what has happened since I last blogged in.
and then head back to ward 76 to get the bags and head down to diagnostic radiology to do wat we are paid to do. Search for digital x-ray images and burn them into cds. Realli stressful and irritating process this burning shit.
Yeah so been meeting new pple and doctors. of course there are the same irritating shitty pple who have garnered interesting new names. which they totally deserve. anybody wanna any of the interesting stuff i've experienced in the past week of work do contact me and be prepared to split your sides.
Went to the NUS open house on saturday. Fully confirmed my conviction that I will certainly kill myself or become a permanent resident at the institute of mental health if I have to study there. that place is more like an industrial park. I guess after seeing the uk universities you tend to expect more in terms of surroundings and pple. man....the pple there have got pri 1 english......"everything is cheaper" ...maybe a lower standard. deafness and blindness is chronic. Pedants and rude freaks are around. Bad planning and unsystematicness is definitely evident. man....I guess they just think they can be like that and get away with it coz everyone is goin there.
At the end of another long and tiring day. Well at least today I am able to type this today. Yesterday was truly tiring man....had another night of insomnia. Didn't even sleep at all. So just managed to pull through the long FIRST DAY on the job with a two hour nap the afternoon before. Yeah so basically was the first day on the job. Turned up there at 7.am in the morning. Joint a dr. meeting at the conference hall at 75. MEt with the first disgusting sight of NUS 4th yr med students. They came in thongs, fashion threads and dyed long tresses. Man...they cld have passed as a bunch of pple just trooping into or outta a pub. Go figure. so went on rounds, sat in the clinic to listen to consultations and went to OT to watch surgery. First time i'm seeing major open surgery, previously only saw micro-invasive surgery at Prof chen. So it was kinda fascinating at all the raw work and man handling of shattered femurs.
Well today started off with a blast. Literally, darn ass of a dad spoilt my whole day by instigating a stupid quarrel. Why can't that old geezer just shut up and stop enforcing his pointless points on others? I think he gets hell of a kick out of getting everyone angry and spoiling their day. Selfish PRICK!
Well so today tried out the interviews that we were to carry out. Later on met with dr. Benjamin chua to discuss how to simplify the interview forms so that they could be more efficiently carried out. So we revamped it, made copies and tried it out on another pts. Short, succint, sweet. Good. Next we went and saw Dr. Png at diagnostic radiology where the main essence of our employment is abt. So basically we are to drag out digital x-rays from the records from now all the way to last august. Quite fun realli...running thru the maze of hallways and the best part is that we get to see red tape areas tat normal public are never able to see. so we did tat and then went home at 6.15pm. Much earlier than the 7.45pm last night. whee!
Yeah....now here's the idle chatter and ruminations bit. I'm a very frank and honest person and I dun like puttin on acts. What u see is wat you get. Yeah yeah u have to keep your emotions in control when your dealing with others. Man....that's unrealistic. A ploy to feed the egotrinsical needs of the human animal. but then again the common thought is that it is alright to sacrifice personal feelings so as to fulfil the frail needs of others and it appears even more profitable if by doing so u mite just be able to win some gd impression. guess that's just society. We are too weak by nature.
woke up at 11.45am and went of to Sheraton towers for tea session for the Defence Merit Scholarship. Once again another scholarship tea sessions that does not seem to fit wat I plan to do. Anyways there are no scholarships for medicine and even for my alternative option for biomed science does not appear to have any importance or relevance to what the scholarship offers. It's basically for administrative and executive positions in MINDEF. BUt the tea session realli surpassed itself. 
The army sure does have lotsa money for lovely food!
Right so now I'm reading through some journals regarding hip fractures gonna start on the job tml. Have to be there at 7. am. looks like I wun be sleeping. Actualli from reading these journals I'm getting more interested in this especially when they start considering the psychiatric aspect of dementia and it's effect on mortality and rehab. cool huh?
right back to work then.....nitez!
Well so basically i only fell asleep at 6.am this morning and woke up at 8.30am. Amazing huh? Well anyway I had to go down to Kovan mrt to meet Janise and go down to SGH to meet up with Prof Howe regarding the clinical research and attachment thing that we are to start on the upcoming Monday.
Next me and Janise decided to pamper ourselves with a hearty lunch before we set out to research and brain storm on how to approach and settle the weekend tasks. Went to NYDC at Wheelock place...had a fiasco with beef lasagne, oogled at a rather confirmed gay guy who kept switching this gold band from the fourth finger of his left hand to the fourth on his right to throw us off track, How cunning. Well then we went to Library @ orchard to brainstorm. Turned out to be more of a laugh fest man! 
It's realli surprising the amt of crap two pple can gather. Met a pseud nurse. And an old pseudo pervert man who had supersonic hearing. Man...library outings have never been these eventful or fun.
After finishing, we set off to shop around for a pair of flatties in which we cld run around in. Went around TAKA and the headed to Paragon. Finally managed to find a nice pair and reasonably priced pair of flatties at POA ( Pple of Asia). We both have similar patterned shoes but whilst hers are gold mine is bronze. stylo. I realise that whenever I go for attachments and what not, I appear to spend alot shoes and stuff. Damn heart ache now lah. Haiyah...muz realli work hard to replenish.
HEaded to marche for some light tea then went home.
BAthed and nursed poor swollen and horridly blistered feet. Damn heels! Hope the new pair work or I will just scream. ANyway so complained to parents abt the 'typo errors' that appear in certain people's conditional offers to oxford. TElephone calls have never been that powerful. Then sat down to type out the interview....mid way through received a call from jojo. Wah...talked and crapped abt all sortsa stuff. MArathon man.. but quite fun lah. One of the more intellectual and mature conversations we have had in a long time. that's rather amazing. Started conversing at 9.45pm ended at 3.10 am. I dunno how long that is. Completed the interview sheet. I'm gonna just die from exhaustion.
Right...looks like it's sleepless in Hougang. Think i'll go watch 'Emergency' on discov channel.
Good Morning!
I hate it.
Okie so today was a rather mundane and worrisome day tats all I can say realli. Read the papers, had lunch of veggie and salmon. rather nice. Read driving book infront of the telly. Somehow I feel tat I can't realli get myself down to do anything proper or decisive these days. It realli is a matter of things coming to a standstill until the results are out and the future is more of less clearer. At this point of time if i can meet the academic requirements of the conditional offer from a UK med school I will be overjoyed and satisfied already. 
Talking abt med school and everything brings to mind an issue that was debated in the straits times forun a couple of days ago. It was regarding the questionable and outright outrageous individuals who were being admitted into the NUS Med fac. Man...the medical system in Singapore is highly dependent on individuals who decided, and grudgingly, went to Med school reason being....
Well the sad thing abt all this is that people who realli know wat being a doctor is abt and have that much comitment and passion to the profession are denied the opportunity. Why? Because their personal reasons and proclamations of their passion are deemed as fake and unbelieveable. Yeah so I guess the above reasons will be appplauded coz they are realli truthful huh? Well...the future physicians cultivated from such stock will be pple who are not ashamed to proclaim their absolute disgust at wat they are doing. cheers....
