:: BïtS 'N' PiëCÉS ::

domenica, maggio 30, 2004

:: evil rules once more ::

this site is for ALL my frds and all those who've stumbled upon my blog and especially for lulu: http://www.happytreefriends.com/#

enjoy!

Dopey @ 7:32 PM | 0 comments

martedì, maggio 25, 2004

:: Prof LCH ::

this is one great person! the all-in-one, fantastic tutor, senior, zhang3bei4, surgeon, lecturer, and person. i'm thinking of nominating him as best tutor but on second thoughts he's already so good i don't know what this additional nomination could do for him, so maybe i'll nominate LKE instead. i believe that nominations are not only for giving recognition to already great tutors but also highlight and thank the efforts of potentially fantastic tutors-to-be!

Dopey @ 9:44 PM | 0 comments

lunedì, maggio 24, 2004

:: CK vs Calvin Klein / Emporio Armani vs Giorgio Armani ::

Finally, i've found out the diff between CK and Calvin Klein, EA and GA. drumrolls... ...

nothing much just that CK and Emporio Armani are the newer lines fr Calvin Klein and Giorgion Armani. The formers are both cheaper and also considered 'less branded'.

mystery solved.

i'm utterly exhausted but i'm happy to have elicited successful tendon reflexes. UL still remains hard.

Dopey @ 10:50 PM | 0 comments

nah i didn't go shopping after all, anyway just barely two weeks before i'm free so i shall curb that urge. eh eh eh...

i have decided to vote dr LKE for best tutor!

btw if anyone's wondering where to get a very compact self retracting tape measurement that's yellow-orange in color, go chk out the metro cashier at paragon. plus 2 bux only! hurry! while stocks last! lol...

Dopey @ 8:13 PM | 0 comments

domenica, maggio 23, 2004

:: da tuan yuan ::

today was cool! got to catch up with lots of pple, like shing, cheryl, lulu and a few other peeps. noticed that ALL the guys have much shorter hair (including shing, though she's a girl), with the exception of KJ. n i'm still wondering if Iv has gone to cut his hair short, as i was telling delice, he's got two choices, either cut the pony tail off or bun it up!

ohhh today was so cool manz... saw lulu.. sashaying down the aisle of the canteen in this blue floral (looks a bit like batik pattern) with spag straps whoarh... maybe monday's lunch gossip topic among the guys in my CG will be: who knows the girl in blue with long curly hair? hehehe...

today's lectures... aiyoh. so killer, but i like this LT, easier to sleep! ;) first lecture, useful. second lecture not useful (dr Dyspnoea has done the topic to DEATH! and we've had lectures on that liao so i slept). third lect, super sorporofic lecturer by the name of DIANA. ( i wonder why the 4th lect kept mentioning, i'm sure my friend DIANA has told u.... makes me wonder.... ironically, i didn't listen in 3rd lect but i know the lecturer is DIANA but i listened in 4th lect though now i can't rem the lecturer's name!) read bit of GIT during the 3rd lect. finally, 4th lecturer, she reminds me of ms chong aka jinbin so much. i think jinbin muz be a HO now. hehehe... i think she'll be a brilliant clinical tutor! really, she's a great teacher, i had her for bio as subteacher in HC. the 4th lecture was pretty interesting (significantly due to the ability of the tutor to ENGAGE not drone on n on n on...) i just felt that they ought to give us this lecturer in yr 5 or do it again somewhere after our MBBS finals. cuz the topic she did today was really crucial, and we definitely NEED a recap right before we become HOs. ren ming guan tian ah!

i'm so tempted to go shopping tomorrow! argh!


Dopey @ 12:40 AM | 0 comments

giovedì, maggio 20, 2004

in the preface of a surgical textbook:

a good surgeon knows how to operate;
a better surgeon knows when to operate;
the best surgeon knows when NOT to operate.

how true it is...

Dopey @ 10:37 PM | 0 comments

lunedì, maggio 17, 2004

i see.... blogger.com has revamped their blog administration pages. i haven't blogged for ages. too much eye strain. haiz... i'll do a quick one and go rest. nice revamp by the way.

seems like the results are coming out soon for most pple in NUS, well, good luck folks! hahaha i can't believe it, you guys have almost two more months of hols left! so shuang! and my end-of-posting test is just two weeks away. oh noooo!

i think that the more 'high' up the food chain in the hospital a person is, the more humble and nice the person is except for dr dyspnoea. i don't like some of those HOs and MOs, most are nice but a few really black sheep tends to spoil the entire flock. dr pinheiro is fantastic! loads more are just as good as him too. makes me feel even more motivated to learn and perfect the art of physical examination. i think that it's wrong to be DRIVEN to learn and perfect our skills just because someone was sarcastic and mean to us. sure it might be a good impetus but then, i feel that you're learning for the wrong reason then.

today had a tut by a doc who.... as TR mentioned looks like william hung. at first i didn't see the resemblance but later the doc mentioned, we have to smile when seeing patients... be nice then he smiled. lol... then... oh manz, the resemblance was uncanny! hahha and best part the doc then said, don't smile too long or the patient might think u're not that right up there. lol...

today we compared ourselves to the lowest of the food chain in the hospital. i said: we're the plankton. then delice said: we're the plant type of plankton.

ps: lulu, i'm not sure whether u received my reply that day abt my eyes. i hope u didn't get angry.

Dopey @ 7:27 PM | 0 comments

mercoledì, maggio 12, 2004

this is madness:

just look:

i was chatting on icq. and the nick shows a flashing message icon in the contact list before the actual chat box in the task bar starts flashing. i think those with icq should know what i'm talking about (unless extremely blur). anyway, the first thing that struck me was... radiofemoral delay -> -> coarctation of aorta.

duh.

brain burning up.

found out something new today: eyes often described as PEARL meaning pupil equal and reactive to light. (dunno who's that cg mate tt tried to con me manz... tell me pearl color or what... ) and one more tt got ALL of us baffled.
if you read it, it could be losoko. but it's actually l0s0k0, meaning liver not enlarged, spleen not enlarged, kidneys not enlarged.

all of a sudden, i realised that i'm learning a new language!

cool! way cool!

Dopey @ 10:41 PM | 0 comments

guys... why are they so gossipy?!?!

hahah but i really do lurve my CG grp now (despite being ditched a couple of time lol...) fear not... think they'll cling on to us if they ever do O&G with us. just too bad can't be with the whole gang till year 5. HAIZ!

i have such a wonderful CG! YAHHHH!!!

Dopey @ 7:24 PM | 0 comments

domenica, maggio 09, 2004

:: van helsing :: eat slug ::

it SURE is MY type of film! 'the whole world's' been telling me that when i told them that i would be catching it this saturday. he he he... ok... it's v fun! and every minute is really good action and pure unadulterated fun (haha i sound like a commercial now) basically still v sian, it's the stupid heat. killing me and everyone around me. now feel like 'bian-ing' someone. anyway, if you're thinking of watching van helsing, stop thinking and get into action! :)

slugs... gross. i've never really felt like puking before when i see gross stuff (not even dissection) but on sat evening, nico n i ALMOST ate a slug. we were having dinner.... we got like two pieces of pizza, potato wedges and this grilled vege sandwich. then half way while eating, i lifted up the cup of wedges and something gooey fell on my hand. i thought maybe it's the brinjal fr the vege sandwich or sth, then anyway tt gooey cold thing simply fell next to the pizza on the opened box. luckily both of us just left it there. haha... cuz later on after dinner, when nico got up, he realised tt there were slugs on the back of the stone bench and also luckily he wasn't leaning on them, GROSS, they would be all squashed and gooey and euw... yucks, to think we almost ate it! argh! gross, then can go join fear factor or survivor already.

pui pui pui

but i still like brinjals. ;)

Dopey @ 8:53 PM | 0 comments

sabato, maggio 08, 2004

:: OT experience ::

em.... now feeling v sianz but since i said i'm going to blog, i'd better than. basically, we can't learn that much in the OT now because we aren't acquainted with all those sophisticated surgical procedures but it's a good enough experience and can actually learn a few basic tips here and there. so far, i've only seen one op, for inguinal hernia. we could have seen more but we spent more than 50% of the OT time slot just LOOKING for the OT itself. haiz... so i'm looking forward to my next OT slot to see more stuff. or maybe my CG will stay back one of these days to view more OPs in the evening/night.

sianz... so many things to read for next week. haha.... CVS on monday, Head n Neck on tuesday, neuro higher functions n meninges on wednesday, breasts for thursday and respi part 2 for friday. then stupid lectures on saturday, i might not go. i don't find those i had all that useful and necessary either. talley mostly gives all the answers already anyway. 'hmmph'.

Dopey @ 12:24 PM | 0 comments

giovedì, maggio 06, 2004

:: night duty ::

did our first night duty this tuesday... hmm waited all the way from 7pm till 815pm for the doctor to come. we were kind of passed around like a rugby ball fr one HO to another, only no one wanted the ball. (haha.. no lah, they were just too bz. really, the hosp seems extra bz at night too, all kinds of activities going on as usual like xrays, ops, venepunctures...) i realised tt HO do a lot of work tt actually the nurses can do, i guess it's just a year for them to really practise and drill in the practical stuff they have learnt. so i saw plenty of HOs (all v blur, cuz they started work on 30th apr) doing venepuncture, delivering drugs by iv bolus, doing blood cultures and so on... i heard the starting pay is like 1.2 or 1.8? not sure... but MO seems like 4.0 liao. not sure, but i think it's possible.... i shall double chk my sources on monday.

i'm home alone (wif a [i]pulex irritans[/i]) cuz my parents went to bangkok, just for 4 days however. it's back to my brinjal diet for now. haha...

anyway, back to night duty, at 815pm, we got an 'assignment' (oooo) to clerk a pt in ... ... (can't say or they'll sue my pants off) then we talked for like 1hr, and we split into two grps, one went to find another pt elsewhere and the rest of us went to followup on a pt, n see how they do venepuncture for bld culture. (rem! v impt, change the needle after blood taking, so that you don't intro skin flora into the tubes for culture!) ok after tt, in the end we still didn't get to follow any HO around. though we got to hang around two of them just to see the bld stuff. i'm getting v lost at the hosp, with all those secret passages tt link here and there and those places tt req access card... oh manz... we went in rounds tt day just to get out of the ward to the main lift lobby!

i shall blog abt my OT experience tomorrow.

Dopey @ 10:35 PM | 0 comments

mercoledì, maggio 05, 2004

:: back ::

after the mad mad mad rush right after clerking to polar cafe to grab a puff then tou tou mo mo eating in the mrt station, i got to the airport 15min in advance of nico. phew! i was so worried tt i might miss him and he would be in a taxi before i can reach the arrival hall. haha... oh n thanks mengqi for chking up the flight details for me. :)

he really didn't bring much with him, i think close to half the suitcase was 'my stuff'. lol... his papa gave me a really cool painting he did himself! wah, i'm so jealous cuz i can't paint for nuts! it's an oil painting of the mountains near their house, where they went for a sumptuous easter lunch. his mama gave me a wooden chest tt had angels decorated around it, with sweets inside. heh heh... my lucky bro is going to benefit fr those sweets n maybe kok kok will get a patient wif cavities soon! also a bottle of wine made by his uncle for my father to try, a wide variety of facial creams, products and watnots that we haven't gone to sort out yet, tt i probably can start using... i think the supply will last quite some time. and he gave me a summer colour tommy girl perfume, nice smell. :) then there was the DELE bk n tape tt he bought on my behalf... then we realised tt oops, he forgot to pack in his towel, his toothpaste, his tie, his charger and some stuff. lol... so gao xiao!

hehehe he wasn't really expecting me to go pick him up fr the airport today cuz he thought i had a tutorial, indeed i had one but we managed to shift it forward to the morning! so lucky! then after unpacking (we took only 15min to do that), we went out for dinner, his fave green jiaozi at ding tai feng. :)

lululu... lululu... lululu... u can catheterise me, iv me, jab me, NG me... lululu... lululu...

Dopey @ 11:44 PM | 0 comments

lunedì, maggio 03, 2004

extreme fatigue

tomorrow will be worse...
0800-0900: abd examination/history
9030-1100: OT
1130-0100: knee examination
0200-0430: bedside tutorial
evening: ward rounds following prof.
0700 onwards: report to HO cum night duty
i hope i'll be home by 1130pm.

Dopey @ 10:04 PM | 0 comments

domenica, maggio 02, 2004

:: Signs of Aging ::

My pale green n pale orange highlighters are dying. And it's only the first week of school.

Hmmmm anyone seen the $1.60 pale yellow-orange highlighter they sell around? at Co-op and other places? the color is one of a kind type, cheryl has it too, me too. anyway just hope u guys tried tt colour before, i like that colour a lot, but nico says tt it's not bright enough. the last time i misplaced that highlighter and was kind of upset about it, he offered to give me his own orange highlighter AFTER the ink is more or less used up, so as to get that pale yellow-orange colour.... wey.... too much liao lor. :P

Dopey @ 1:37 AM | 0 comments

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