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???!!!