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Hello everyone again!
Short post before I return to my books! Which I badly need to do!
Yes....whilst on my supposed study break I have made a very premature discovery of the Korean group Shinhwa. Lol!
Yup they are literally legends in Korea. Good looks, good songs and great entertainers!
Yup so if anyone wants their music or some of their albums go to 4shared.com and search for it!
Attached is my current favourite song and MV of theirs - Brand New!
P/s: They sang 'once in a lifetime' for those of your who've heard of this rather famous song!
If I have time, I'll probably do a review on them on Les Ukuleles!
Cheerioz pple!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
I love LMC!!! ( For more info! http://www.jpopasia.com/profiles/1646/lmc.html )
haha this comes from just listening to one of their songs which was used as an opening in Kaitekyoushi Reborn! an anime that I have been following for some time.
Yes...it's j rock! hahaha no! I 've not lost my marbles though i'm quite close to I suppose.
And it's too early for a midlife crises.
But The song 88 as seen in the video below somehow has a very captivating effect on me.
I think it's partly to do with the lyrics and the fact that they have managed to symbiotically fuse pure classic J Rock with a beautifully poignant string background.
Excellent song!
Anyone has a collection of their songs please leave a message on my tagboard or email me! Arigato Gozaimasu!
p/s they also have interesting MVs!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Medical school is weird.
It's just like a normal school I suppose. But the characters in it are different.
Instead of a principal you have a dean and his various vice deans. But just like in school, the vice deans take on demonic roles whilst the dean plays the benovolent, school loving geriatrician.
Instead of teachers and headmasters....you have a weird variety of doctors of all levels of grades. Some which you've never even heard of, FTSA, FY1, FY2, ST, STR....yes, all thanks to the NHS and its miasmic career filing system you get a variety of training options, I see it just as multiple longwinded ways in which u use up your life time and life source to reach the miasmic goal of becoming a consultant. And yes, there you have it ladies and gentlemen, the golden word of your 5 years of medical school : CONSULTANT.
The consultant is your headmaster. He/She orders his 'lackeys' ( the above mentioned variety of acronyms ) around and basically their word is the law. Nobody dares question the consultant because in this day and age where recommendations and paucity of jobs are ripe, you need every bit of help you can get to make your way through the medical hierarchy.
The consultants 'swaggers' around ( well some of them actually do swagger ) sees his/her patient in a flash and makes making a life changing decision seem so easy and apparent.
'' So what will we do with Mr. X and his ....''
'' It will have to come off, there's nothing we can do to save the leg. '' continues walking down the corridor for the theatre suite '' Oh and ask Joe the registrar to come along, I've yet to see him do an amputation yet''
Consultants do one of three things to medical students...
1) Awe and inspire
2) Strike mind numbing and stupidity inducing fear
3) Confuse the already beduffled medical student
Yes....my friends. Life as a medical student is not easy. You have teachers with whom you will need to work with in the next few years. If their old and about to retire then good for you. If not, chug down the diazepam, antidepressants and Irn Bru and make your way to the wards and do your damn well best to make a good impression. If not, you're screwed. Unless you decide to move to another deanery after graduation for your training. But u still need those bloody recommendations.
Consultants in category (1) are true gems. You try too seek them out with each rotation. Usually they are so good that the word gets round from your peers before you even start the block and you know who to look out for and latch onto for a good teaching experience. These rarities are true encapsulation of what each and every wanna be med student blabs on and on about during their interview. They truly want to help and care for pple. They just exude warmth and kindness, not only to their patients but the poor med student as well. They understand our fears and insecurities and understand what a bewildering time we are experiencing being the scum of the scum on the medical ladder and they do their best to nurture and impart their invaluable knowledge. To these wonderful pple, a big thank you to you. If the cynical beasts from category (2) don't traumatise me too much in my final year I hope to be like you one day!
Group (2) are just legendary. There's one in every speciality if your lucky. If not, the whole lot of them are just sickos. I don't understand these pple. They seem to exist just to make your life a living hell when they've clearly had a run of the mill and they know how difficult it is at the start. I basically feelt hat some of them are just either plainly INSECURE so as to desire and execute the need to torture those below them just to ascertain their position in the ranks. Or, they are just sadistic, narcissistic pple who take plain pleasure in ripping the poor junior doc's clerking, shouting at them and just traumatising and harrassing the stricken medical student. Do not be fooled pple when they say that they are 'doing it for your own good and simulating what reality is'' What the hell is good about traumatising a person, undermining them and destroying every last shred of dignity and confidence they have when they are starting on the job? And if they call this reality, they need to seek a psych consult.
The last group of bona fides are just......well......weird. Eccentric is a better word I suppose. But they just seem to have no effect on you at all. Some try to hard, some don't care at all, and some are just....odd. Well, there was always a fine line between the genius and the mad man eh?
Well, so you have it folks! Just felt like having a little discourse whilst breaking from my infinitely slow revision.......