oh man, i wish i could be like everyone reflecting on the past year now. but i can't!! cos i'm way to overwhelmed by c h p and c m p s. and yes, school has started.

something funny happened today while i was studying the paracetamol overdose.

i've been having gastroenteritis (like gastric flu) since friday. so i had diarrhoea and fever. anyway, at home, i only had panadol, which i used to take for the fever. then on saturday night, my dad bought charcoal pills for the 'food poisoning'. anyway, i've been taking over 10 panadols over the past 2 days. and it was only after i read the paracetamol notes again, did i realise WHY MY FEVER WASN'T GOING DOWN!

ok. anyway, it's cos activated carbon ( aka charcoal pills) is a treated for paracetamol poisoning. and should be taken at least 2 hours apart. if not the activated carbon AVIDLY BINDS to all the paracetamol.

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don’t much care where--" said Alice.
"Then it doesn’t matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"--so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you’re sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

m&ms for breakfast.

i miss hall. being in my own little room, closing my door and not caring about the other people living around me. being able to walk down to the comm hall and just shooting a few balls in the net. watching those pretty birds with my binoculars. hearing the hypnotic sound of the room fan. having really fast and stable and free internet connection. being awesome at sports there. coming back late from floorball trainings. walking back alone from fong seng. knocking yk's door with her dustbin every morning to wake her up. refusing to walk down sheperd's path and insist on taking the bus every morning even though we'll be late.

aman.da says:
 eh
 there was a snake in KE
 http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=179501500662&ref=mf
yk says:
 there was one long ago also right
aman.da says:
 oh
 this was 2 days ago
yk says:
 OMG IT'S HUGE
 OMG
aman.da says:
 hahha
yk says:
 IT'S REALLY LIKE A PYTHON
aman.da says:
 it IS a python
yk says:
 omg..........
 KE is really a jungle

playing with the opthalmoscope is so fun :D :D :D

my printer is dead. gah

i'm back from australia. sydney was really beautiful and gold coast was super fun :D i think i wanna go snorkelling again. this time, in non-freezing waters. i'm not surprised why the flu outbreak in aus is so bad. it's cos NOBODY CARES. nobody wears masks, and the news doesn't say anything about it. the newspapers only have a small tiny little section in the middle of somewhere.

anyway, the food in sydney is really good. i think many of us will not look at scrambled eggs and hotcakes the same way ever again. and the oysters and calamari at the fish market is super worth it. no pictures right now. maybe another time.

the cycling tour was super good, it was really windy though. i think i've never experienced so much wind before. cycling across the harbour bridge, it kind of felt like i was gonna slam into the side of the pavement cos the wind is just so strong.

okay, so much was packed into that 10 days, i think i need more time to review it.

just so that i don't forget such an interesting experience...

yesterday, during osce, i was so stunned and traumatised after having to perform an impromtu GALS examination (none of us had ever done a GALS exam on a patient before, cos we only learned it a day before and no one bothered learning it because all the tutors said it was unimportant compared the the other stations), at the next station, i put my OMR form on my table, and i thought to myself "wow, this station is so short. 5 whole minutes for 2 questions." after the 5 mins, the examiners rang the bell and it was time to move to the next station. it was only when i lifted my paper off the table that i realized that there were 3 more questions stuck to the table under my OMR form.

went on the flyer today. i cabbed down immediately after A-V examination lecture. and i reached earlier than dione.

it was really quite boring. okay, certain views were quite nice, esp if it's during sunset. but about 60 degrees of the 360 degree view is just construction sites and the jam on the ECP.

i really want to go back to hosp. we are learning so much, so fast, and everyday is so eventful and exciting. i guess they decided to suspend our clinicals i think more because we are walking fomites rather than for our own safety. anyhow, life must carry on. let's all not be depressed about no clinicals, or it eating our already-paid-for trips during our holiday.
it's a good thing that i had a good last day on thursday, before we received the sad news that thursday was the last day we'll be allowed into hosp. i finally felt like we could actually do some good in the hospital rather than be feeding parasites on the healthcare system.

i have a very bad feeling about this. i think it's only a matter of time that a case of  type A swine flu will travel and pop up in sg. it's so virulent and deadly, 81 people dead in just 3 or 4 days[?]. good thing we've been stocking up on tamiflu, even if it was to relieve public concerns regarding the govt readiness against h5n1. i feel quite scared. i don't think it's wrong to feel this way, after all, all flu cases will be sent to TTSH, at which about 1/5 the class, myself included, is posted to. this flu is most deadly to young healthy people and i don't think i'll survive an infection, given my wonderful respiratory system. at least by being kiasi, we are more hygeinic and cautious. they've started wearing n95s in a&e depts, i think we may have to start wearing at least surgical masks in other wards, and wash our hands 10X more often. i think we all should be ready.

school has been so tiring. we've learned so much in the past 5 days, i hope i retain at least 80% of what we've learned.

in the meantime, i have calf cramps, quads cramps, backaches and shoulder cramp.

oh, i forgot to mention. school is fun =)

the rain seemed to have brought in some unwanted visitors in my house. there was a snake in the toilet downstairs. it was a small, long, thin black and green snake with yellow stripes on it's head. it was so sly, hiding in certain corners. haha, my dad had an epic battle with the snake and it kept wriggling out of the stick, and even out of the bucket. after many attempts, managed to put it in a bucket and we quickly sealed it with a cover. we brought it to the nearby jungle and released it.

haha, the snake made my day =) =)

i can't believe i'm aching from walking around in a playground and sitting on a seesaw.