hello everybody. thanks for reading my blog. since my last entry, i've been quite sick so the indian experience hasn't been too fun for me. Felt a little unwell on monday night, and will sleeping that night, had chills and rigors. so, i knew a fever was coming. Learnt from the tutorials here, there are 3 types of fever. continuous, intermittent and remitting. Didn't go to school on tuesday, and stayed in bed the whole day. everybody is very nice to me. Sweet little yvonne put all sorts of med, water, hello panda and chocolate chip cookies beside my bed before she went to school. felt so touched. =) and everybody asked about how i was and came to visit me in my room after their lessons. and melvin made milo for me. The worst part about that night was there was a blackout at St. john's! Was having dinner (yucky tomato soup at the canteen downstairs) when it happened and i left halfway to get back to bed. Had to walk up and sleep in darkness. The good thing was i couldn't see any cockroaches that night. haha. It might be the food we ate, Nathan and Melvin vomitted too.
Went to school this morning even though i vomitted and had numerous diarrhoea last night. so poor thing right? Left halfway cos felt like i was going to blackout any moment. While the tutor was teaching us about mitral stenosis, i suddenly felt like a black sheet of cloth covered my eyes and mufflers were put to my ears. Strange feeling. So i quickly excused myself in case i fall flat on my face. Melvin said i looked green, and Jinnie said my lips were very pale.
ok. enough of my sickness. feeling better now after taking tonnes of medications. Just had wanton soup and bolognaise at the food court at forum (shopping mall). Wanted something familiar so that i'll feel better. I miss katong laksa, satay bee hoon, dim sum and porridge!!
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Monday, April 25, 2005
Best day so far
Today is the start of another new week. Will be doing one week of cardiology starting from today. Went for ward rounds this morning and had quite an enjoyable time. Saw cases of mitral stenosis secondary to rheumatic heart disease, aortic insufficiency etc. All the patients have beautiful murmurs and thrills to examine. The doctors in cardio are very pro teaching, quite a stark difference from medicine.
Just came back from our weekend trip a few hours ago. We arrived at Bangalore at 3.30am after lots of bumps, cold wind in the face, and butt flying off the chair. We reached Mysore on Monday, didn’t like the place very much because they have very persistent hawkers who like to harass girls like me who look so obviously like a tourist. We went to the maharaja’s palace which was very pretty and grand, but the locals say taj mahal is way better. We traveled up to Ooty (a hill station) on Saturday, it is a beautiful place. The weather is excellent and the people are nice. That day has been my favourite day in India so far. Went to this lake (in the middle of the hills, dunnoe how it’s possible), and played bumper cars and Viking. The funniest thing is the guys are all so scared! Nathan, who so bravely purchased the tickets, backed out last minute when the ride was starting saying that he ate too much for lunch. He gave his ticket to kok pin who was equally scared. Pinakin wasn’t that brave either. Haha. It’s really quite hilarious. Bought lots of tea back home (ooty is famous for tea), and bought cute little Indian outfits for my little cousin and nephews. Haven’t bought anything for myself yet, surprisingly.
On Sunday, we went to coonoor, it was ok. The weather was still great, but nothing much to see. I have to talk about my bathing experience in Ooty! On Sunday morning, everybody had to wake up at 730 am to get hot water to bathe. It’s really cold there and they boil water using firewood on the roof for us to bathe. So it’s really precious and stressful. I bathed first and I was so worried that Yvonne won’t have any hot water to bathe all throughout my shower. It’s really one of the most stressful bathing experience man.
Just came back from our weekend trip a few hours ago. We arrived at Bangalore at 3.30am after lots of bumps, cold wind in the face, and butt flying off the chair. We reached Mysore on Monday, didn’t like the place very much because they have very persistent hawkers who like to harass girls like me who look so obviously like a tourist. We went to the maharaja’s palace which was very pretty and grand, but the locals say taj mahal is way better. We traveled up to Ooty (a hill station) on Saturday, it is a beautiful place. The weather is excellent and the people are nice. That day has been my favourite day in India so far. Went to this lake (in the middle of the hills, dunnoe how it’s possible), and played bumper cars and Viking. The funniest thing is the guys are all so scared! Nathan, who so bravely purchased the tickets, backed out last minute when the ride was starting saying that he ate too much for lunch. He gave his ticket to kok pin who was equally scared. Pinakin wasn’t that brave either. Haha. It’s really quite hilarious. Bought lots of tea back home (ooty is famous for tea), and bought cute little Indian outfits for my little cousin and nephews. Haven’t bought anything for myself yet, surprisingly.
On Sunday, we went to coonoor, it was ok. The weather was still great, but nothing much to see. I have to talk about my bathing experience in Ooty! On Sunday morning, everybody had to wake up at 730 am to get hot water to bathe. It’s really cold there and they boil water using firewood on the roof for us to bathe. So it’s really precious and stressful. I bathed first and I was so worried that Yvonne won’t have any hot water to bathe all throughout my shower. It’s really one of the most stressful bathing experience man.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
weekend getaway
today is wednesday. Went for ward rounds as usual and joined the medical students for a bedside tutorial on central nervous system. The tutorials are about the same as singapore's except for their accent and the fact that they speak really softly. Patients here are really cooperative and nice, but too bad i can't clerk them cos can't communicate with them. I only only auscultate and palpate =)
After our trip from puttaparthy last weekend, we haven't been doing much sight-seeing. Played pool last night at this pool place which felt like a sauna because the air-con was down. Nathan discovered this juice place that sells delicious fruit juice which is an instant cure to my constipation. They sell the best cheese sandwich there too. It's a triple decker, toasted bread with melted cheese and butter in the centre. they don't have any seats at the shop so we all have to stand outside with all the houseflies and enjoy the meal. Maybe it's the environment and all, but everything tastes so good there. The best part is all is within walking distance to our hospital.
Booked a weekend trip to Mysore and Ooty just now. We'll be leaving on friday morning at 630am (it's a public holiday here so we are not skipping school, although i dunnoe wat holiday it is) and will be returning on monday morning at 5am. Which will then be followed by another week of school starting on monday itself. We are keeping ourselves really busy here.
After our trip from puttaparthy last weekend, we haven't been doing much sight-seeing. Played pool last night at this pool place which felt like a sauna because the air-con was down. Nathan discovered this juice place that sells delicious fruit juice which is an instant cure to my constipation. They sell the best cheese sandwich there too. It's a triple decker, toasted bread with melted cheese and butter in the centre. they don't have any seats at the shop so we all have to stand outside with all the houseflies and enjoy the meal. Maybe it's the environment and all, but everything tastes so good there. The best part is all is within walking distance to our hospital.
Booked a weekend trip to Mysore and Ooty just now. We'll be leaving on friday morning at 630am (it's a public holiday here so we are not skipping school, although i dunnoe wat holiday it is) and will be returning on monday morning at 5am. Which will then be followed by another week of school starting on monday itself. We are keeping ourselves really busy here.
Sunday, April 17, 2005
what the hell are you wearing?
today is sunday. went to puttaparthy yesterday to see Sai Baba. Took a 4 hour bus ride there which was surprisingly enjoyable. We started the day at 6 am. The weather was very cool in the morning and we took at non-aircon bus. I think the best part of the trip was the bus ride. haha. anyway, reached puttaparthy ard noon and we went to the ashram. It's a big compound where Sai Baba lives and has a hospital, museum and some prayer place. We joined the darshan (like mass in catholic church, prayer seesions in mosque) and the guys and girls were separated.
So, 4 of us girls joined the queue to get into this big hall. we had to queue in rows and the ladies in front of the row had to pick a number which determines how near u sit near Sai Baba. My row was number 5 but i had to sit right at the back of the hall like some outcast. Getting into the hall was quite an experience. They let us in late so when Sai Baba went into the hall, we were still outside. Everybody started squeezing and pushing. Luckily they were all women. Then suddenly, 2 young girls will molest ur legs to check for what i think is weapon. then, we have to pass the metal detector, and get further molested by this fierce lady. This is because indian ladies like to keep things near their breast so...you know...they have to check. haha. When she saw us, she shouted, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WEARING?" haha. so paiseh. everybody was in saris but we were wearing tshirt and long pants. I was wearing a black t-shirt and my green darw string pants. Quite conservative by my standards already. But i felt so exposed when i was there.
We ended up right at the back of the hall, apart fr everybody and guarded by the people working there like we'll do something wrong like that. Sai Baba comes out twice a day in this red golf cart-like thing and the devotees come fr all over the world just to see him. He supposed to interview 10 devotees for something while everybody just sit ard and wait. We had to catch the bus back that day so we left after seeing him go round in the golf cart.
hmm...feeling sick today. have sore throat, cough, running and itchy nose, grumpy, headache and nausea. weird symptoms right? maybe it's homesick.
tomorrow is monday again. I kind of like school more than the weekends. The medical students are very very nice. They gave us lots of information on where to go ard Bangalore, and invited us to their hostel. Everybody speaks very good english so communication is not a problem.
spent too much of internet time already. think i have lots of spelling and grammer mistakes but no time to check. don't laugh at me.
till next time!
So, 4 of us girls joined the queue to get into this big hall. we had to queue in rows and the ladies in front of the row had to pick a number which determines how near u sit near Sai Baba. My row was number 5 but i had to sit right at the back of the hall like some outcast. Getting into the hall was quite an experience. They let us in late so when Sai Baba went into the hall, we were still outside. Everybody started squeezing and pushing. Luckily they were all women. Then suddenly, 2 young girls will molest ur legs to check for what i think is weapon. then, we have to pass the metal detector, and get further molested by this fierce lady. This is because indian ladies like to keep things near their breast so...you know...they have to check. haha. When she saw us, she shouted, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WEARING?" haha. so paiseh. everybody was in saris but we were wearing tshirt and long pants. I was wearing a black t-shirt and my green darw string pants. Quite conservative by my standards already. But i felt so exposed when i was there.
We ended up right at the back of the hall, apart fr everybody and guarded by the people working there like we'll do something wrong like that. Sai Baba comes out twice a day in this red golf cart-like thing and the devotees come fr all over the world just to see him. He supposed to interview 10 devotees for something while everybody just sit ard and wait. We had to catch the bus back that day so we left after seeing him go round in the golf cart.
hmm...feeling sick today. have sore throat, cough, running and itchy nose, grumpy, headache and nausea. weird symptoms right? maybe it's homesick.
tomorrow is monday again. I kind of like school more than the weekends. The medical students are very very nice. They gave us lots of information on where to go ard Bangalore, and invited us to their hostel. Everybody speaks very good english so communication is not a problem.
spent too much of internet time already. think i have lots of spelling and grammer mistakes but no time to check. don't laugh at me.
till next time!
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
day four
today is day four of my 8 weeks in india. I'm sitting at an internet cafe at forum (a shopping centre near St. John's). Everything is so new to me. Even using internet in the internet cafe.
India is vert different from Singapore. Firstly, chinese is the minority. everybody thinks that we're from china and they keep coming up to us and say, "CHINA?" haha. the roads are amazing. there is absolutely no order at all. We travel around bangalore via auto-rickshaws which is something like the tuks tuks in thailand. It's is an experience all by itself. The exhaust from the cars and the dust from the ground, plus the never ending honking, makes india truly unique. I think i'll use the horn more often when i come back to singapore.
St. John's Hospital is better than i ever imagined. It has a sprawling campus, almost like a community within itself. It is a catholic hospital. They train doctors here to serve the community. The director told us that only 2 private teaching hospitals in India are losing money, and one of them is St. John's. This is because their graduates have to serve 2 years doing rural postings, serving their people, and after they complete that, they get their post-graduate for free.
I'm posted to internal medicine for 2 weeks. Every morning, i attend ward rounds and join the medical students for bedside tutorial. Seeing the doctors do ward rounds is quite inspirational. Their clinical skills is very good, I'm learning a lot from them. I'm having a backache because their ward rounds last so long everyday, but it's good because they spend a lot of time on one patient. Bedside tutorials are just like the ones in Singapore. The med students make us feel v welcomed and let us participate in class. Had 2 tutorials on respiratory examination. I'm learning much more exam techniques that i never knew existed. They have many interesting cases that we are not exposed to in Singapore. Some examples are, snake bite with ascending cellulitis, pericarditis secondary to HIV, TB TB everywhere...and i think leptospirosis is quite prevalent too.
I don't do much during the afternoons because, just because. =) Half a day is enough for me.
The hostel is very simple but clean. The most amazing part is we have our own attached bathroom! It's just like PGP except no air-con. I finally had my first night of real sleep because the previous 2 nights, we had to squeeze 3 in a room as they did not have enough rooms for us. It was quite a cramp, and our room looked like squatters. I'm bunking with yvonne, jinnie with clara, pinakin with melvin and kok pin with nathan. The guys rooms are much cleaner than me and von's. So weird right? haha. Can't wear slippers into their room but we just wear slipper cos i'm too lazy to mop the floor. So far, i saw 3 rats in the hostel but thankfully not in our room. The guys helped us killed 3 cockroaches and 1 lizard in out room. Mosquitoes. They are EVERYWHERE. If i walk and swing my hand, i prob can hit 2 or 3 mosquitoes.
ok. enough for now. need to go. hope i can blog more often.
India is vert different from Singapore. Firstly, chinese is the minority. everybody thinks that we're from china and they keep coming up to us and say, "CHINA?" haha. the roads are amazing. there is absolutely no order at all. We travel around bangalore via auto-rickshaws which is something like the tuks tuks in thailand. It's is an experience all by itself. The exhaust from the cars and the dust from the ground, plus the never ending honking, makes india truly unique. I think i'll use the horn more often when i come back to singapore.
St. John's Hospital is better than i ever imagined. It has a sprawling campus, almost like a community within itself. It is a catholic hospital. They train doctors here to serve the community. The director told us that only 2 private teaching hospitals in India are losing money, and one of them is St. John's. This is because their graduates have to serve 2 years doing rural postings, serving their people, and after they complete that, they get their post-graduate for free.
I'm posted to internal medicine for 2 weeks. Every morning, i attend ward rounds and join the medical students for bedside tutorial. Seeing the doctors do ward rounds is quite inspirational. Their clinical skills is very good, I'm learning a lot from them. I'm having a backache because their ward rounds last so long everyday, but it's good because they spend a lot of time on one patient. Bedside tutorials are just like the ones in Singapore. The med students make us feel v welcomed and let us participate in class. Had 2 tutorials on respiratory examination. I'm learning much more exam techniques that i never knew existed. They have many interesting cases that we are not exposed to in Singapore. Some examples are, snake bite with ascending cellulitis, pericarditis secondary to HIV, TB TB everywhere...and i think leptospirosis is quite prevalent too.
I don't do much during the afternoons because, just because. =) Half a day is enough for me.
The hostel is very simple but clean. The most amazing part is we have our own attached bathroom! It's just like PGP except no air-con. I finally had my first night of real sleep because the previous 2 nights, we had to squeeze 3 in a room as they did not have enough rooms for us. It was quite a cramp, and our room looked like squatters. I'm bunking with yvonne, jinnie with clara, pinakin with melvin and kok pin with nathan. The guys rooms are much cleaner than me and von's. So weird right? haha. Can't wear slippers into their room but we just wear slipper cos i'm too lazy to mop the floor. So far, i saw 3 rats in the hostel but thankfully not in our room. The guys helped us killed 3 cockroaches and 1 lizard in out room. Mosquitoes. They are EVERYWHERE. If i walk and swing my hand, i prob can hit 2 or 3 mosquitoes.
ok. enough for now. need to go. hope i can blog more often.
Saturday, April 09, 2005
argh!
my luggage can't close! and i haven't even put my shoes in yet! argh!!!!
i don't know what to take out of the luggage. maybe i should leave my textbooks at home. or maybe my stethoscope because the box is taking up so much space. or maybe i should not bring any shoes and wear slippers the entire time. I might need another luggage but then i'll look like a crazy woman at the airport. Think i won't have time to sleep tonight. So many plans, so little time!
less than 24 hours...
i don't know what to take out of the luggage. maybe i should leave my textbooks at home. or maybe my stethoscope because the box is taking up so much space. or maybe i should not bring any shoes and wear slippers the entire time. I might need another luggage but then i'll look like a crazy woman at the airport. Think i won't have time to sleep tonight. So many plans, so little time!
less than 24 hours...
Thursday, April 07, 2005
sorry, no photos
Going for overseas electives takes a lot of work. From getting people to go with you, choosing the country and the hospital, application, confirmation, vaccination, buying air tickets, applying for visa, packing and changing money, the process has taken months. But we are finally going. It's really the highlight of my 4 years in med school. I remember it all started during our psychomed posting at Woodbridge hospital. We were all sitting around waiting for something (can't remember what it was) and Pinakin, Melvin, von and I were talking about overseas elective. and very soon the group included Kok Pin, Nathan, Leslie, Jinnie and Clara. We didn't really have a plan, but we knew we wanted to go to India. And after tonnes of discussion, and sometimes arguments =) we finally decided to go to St. John's. So exciting!
I did some packing today (finally). One of the discoveries i made was packing with zipper bags. you can put anything in them and not worry about them spilling or getting wet. And just stack them up, everything will look so nice and neat. Took some photos of my packing and wanted to put it in the blog, but somehow i can't seem to get the hello thing working. I'm such an IT idiot. Oh dear! This means i can't upload photos during my trip. Maybe wendy can help, she always has so many photos in her blog *wink*
We had a mini farewell party last night at von's house. Had lots of fun cooking our own dinner and playing trivial pursuit. It's quite a difficult game, except when it comes to questions on science. We were all experts!
Lastly, i have to say (although elective-unrelated), i'm so disappointed with the results of this week's american idol. i can only ask, WHY???!!!
I did some packing today (finally). One of the discoveries i made was packing with zipper bags. you can put anything in them and not worry about them spilling or getting wet. And just stack them up, everything will look so nice and neat. Took some photos of my packing and wanted to put it in the blog, but somehow i can't seem to get the hello thing working. I'm such an IT idiot. Oh dear! This means i can't upload photos during my trip. Maybe wendy can help, she always has so many photos in her blog *wink*
We had a mini farewell party last night at von's house. Had lots of fun cooking our own dinner and playing trivial pursuit. It's quite a difficult game, except when it comes to questions on science. We were all experts!
Lastly, i have to say (although elective-unrelated), i'm so disappointed with the results of this week's american idol. i can only ask, WHY???!!!
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Leptospirosis
i went to mustafa centre last night. must really applaud the 24 hour concept, it's really great if u are busy in the day or just can't sleep at night. but finding the carpark was quite a challenge. had a chance to experience what it might be like in India. And i'm happy to say, it was quite pleasant! There are tonnes of things to buy and loads of frozen food. like frozen potato puffs, samosa and even naans! Almost wanted to buy everything but had to stop myself because i will be having Indian food for the next 2 months. Did i mention i LOVE indian food? people always say they lose weight when they go to India, i think i'll be the only person to gain weight. haha. who cares?!
Saw a cute little rat yesterday and i realized rats (only if they are tiny) are not so frightening after all. They are much better than cockroaches, especially flying ones! There's a rat temple known as Karni Mata temple in Deshnok, India where thousands of holy rats run rampant at the feet of worshippers. According to local legend, the patron deity of Bikaner, Karni Mata, was asked to resurrect her favourite nephew. She called up Yama, the god of death, who told her that the boy has been reborn as a rat and that all her male descendants would be born as rats in her temple at Deshnok. According to the guide book that i have, the best time to visit is during the Navratri festival in March, when the temple swarms with people (and rats!). If you are an amazing race fan, u will remember the participants going to this temple in one of the earlier seasons. And if u are in singapore, the new traveling show on channel U showing tonight at 9.15pm will show the hosts going to this temple too! Too bad it's too far away from Bangalore otherwise i'll definitely go and check it out.
For all the microbiology graduates, remember leptospirosis leading to Weil's disease, bubonic plague with it's incredible mortality rate, wiping out almost 40% of Europe's population in 1347-1350 , and some say there's a connection between hepatitis E and rats. So, for all the painful arm and painful butt that we underwent to get vaccination for hep A and B, we are still exposed to E! But fret not! hepatitis E is still very rare in humans and the connection between rats and human hep E is still unclear.
maybe i'll talk about cockroaches tomorrow
Saw a cute little rat yesterday and i realized rats (only if they are tiny) are not so frightening after all. They are much better than cockroaches, especially flying ones! There's a rat temple known as Karni Mata temple in Deshnok, India where thousands of holy rats run rampant at the feet of worshippers. According to local legend, the patron deity of Bikaner, Karni Mata, was asked to resurrect her favourite nephew. She called up Yama, the god of death, who told her that the boy has been reborn as a rat and that all her male descendants would be born as rats in her temple at Deshnok. According to the guide book that i have, the best time to visit is during the Navratri festival in March, when the temple swarms with people (and rats!). If you are an amazing race fan, u will remember the participants going to this temple in one of the earlier seasons. And if u are in singapore, the new traveling show on channel U showing tonight at 9.15pm will show the hosts going to this temple too! Too bad it's too far away from Bangalore otherwise i'll definitely go and check it out.
For all the microbiology graduates, remember leptospirosis leading to Weil's disease, bubonic plague with it's incredible mortality rate, wiping out almost 40% of Europe's population in 1347-1350 , and some say there's a connection between hepatitis E and rats. So, for all the painful arm and painful butt that we underwent to get vaccination for hep A and B, we are still exposed to E! But fret not! hepatitis E is still very rare in humans and the connection between rats and human hep E is still unclear.
maybe i'll talk about cockroaches tomorrow
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
phew!
viva list is out today. didn't get any call to go for viva tomorrow so i think i'm safe. phew! this is the last hurdle to cross before i actually go to india. but even if i failed, i would have to go anyway because i need to fulfill my 7 weeks of electives. If i failed, i would have to lug my robbins and lowe all the way to india and i don't think my luggage will like the extra weight very much. so double phew!
somehow i'm not very excited about the big trip. The thought of leaving my home, sleeping on a strange bed, washing my own clothes....(i sound very spoilt right?)...is quite daunting. And the worst part is i can't even go home at the end of the day and escape from everybody if i'm having a bad day. It's not that i dislike the people i'm going with, don't get me wrong, but the thought of spending such a long time with anyone is very scary. It's like getting married! Even in singapore, when i spend a good part of my life in the clinics, i feel stifled already. And that is when i can go home everyday. I'm going to miss the daily conversations with my sis, even though i always tell her to stop talking (cos she can really talk! haha), it's always a favourite part of my day.
heard from wendy that von said that if i force her to wash her bedsheet when we're there, she'll say that i never wash my favourite pillow. that's quite true. the pot calling the kettle black. BUT! a small pillow and a bedsheet is totally different! when u sleep, your epithelial cells will shed and collect on your bedsheet everynight! imagine 2 months worth of skin!! u can roll them into a ball like ji gong and give it to others as xian dan. and u only smell and niao niao your favourite pillow. and if u just jiggle a bit, all the dirt will drop off like magic.
5 more days......
somehow i'm not very excited about the big trip. The thought of leaving my home, sleeping on a strange bed, washing my own clothes....(i sound very spoilt right?)...is quite daunting. And the worst part is i can't even go home at the end of the day and escape from everybody if i'm having a bad day. It's not that i dislike the people i'm going with, don't get me wrong, but the thought of spending such a long time with anyone is very scary. It's like getting married! Even in singapore, when i spend a good part of my life in the clinics, i feel stifled already. And that is when i can go home everyday. I'm going to miss the daily conversations with my sis, even though i always tell her to stop talking (cos she can really talk! haha), it's always a favourite part of my day.
heard from wendy that von said that if i force her to wash her bedsheet when we're there, she'll say that i never wash my favourite pillow. that's quite true. the pot calling the kettle black. BUT! a small pillow and a bedsheet is totally different! when u sleep, your epithelial cells will shed and collect on your bedsheet everynight! imagine 2 months worth of skin!! u can roll them into a ball like ji gong and give it to others as xian dan. and u only smell and niao niao your favourite pillow. and if u just jiggle a bit, all the dirt will drop off like magic.
5 more days......
Monday, April 04, 2005
first
today has many firsts for me
1. caught in a storm at McRitchie reservoir for the first time
2. wanted to go for the treetop walk for the first time (by the way, never go on a monday because it's not open!!)
3. took public transport. although not my first time, haven't done it in ages.
4. started my very first blog! yeah!
the reason for my blog is so that my family and friends and have an up-to-date account on my trip to india which will be in 6 days time! I'll be going to St. John's Medical College Hospital in Bangalore, India on Sunday. will be in india for 2 whole months. that's the longest time i've ever spent away fr home. feeling excited but at the same time dreading it. argh! heard horror stories about girls (and guys too) being groped in public, diarrhoea after eating, tainted mineral water.....but then again I'm sure no matter where i go, there'll be interesting and scary travellers' tales.
going to miss my dose of tv shows when i'm not in singapore. luckily, i will have my favourite pillow with me.
1. caught in a storm at McRitchie reservoir for the first time
2. wanted to go for the treetop walk for the first time (by the way, never go on a monday because it's not open!!)
3. took public transport. although not my first time, haven't done it in ages.
4. started my very first blog! yeah!
the reason for my blog is so that my family and friends and have an up-to-date account on my trip to india which will be in 6 days time! I'll be going to St. John's Medical College Hospital in Bangalore, India on Sunday. will be in india for 2 whole months. that's the longest time i've ever spent away fr home. feeling excited but at the same time dreading it. argh! heard horror stories about girls (and guys too) being groped in public, diarrhoea after eating, tainted mineral water.....but then again I'm sure no matter where i go, there'll be interesting and scary travellers' tales.
going to miss my dose of tv shows when i'm not in singapore. luckily, i will have my favourite pillow with me.
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