2006

According to my birthday characteristic, i'm a turtle.

If you are a Turtle: You are near to perfect and nice at heart.The examples of your kindness are always circulated in groups of people.You, too, love peace. You wouldn't like to retaliate even to a person who is in the wrong. You are loved due to this. You do not wish to talk behind one's back. People love the way you always treat them. You can give, give and give love, and the best part is that you do not expect it back in return.You are generous enough.Seeing things in a practical light is what remains the best trait of you guys.

You are near perfect and nice at heart. Hehe. I wish!

You love peace. Yes, world peace. Peace between family, friends, intra and inter cg.

You wouldn't like to retaliate even to a person who is in the wrong. Haha. THIS is definately not true. I will always speak my mind even though i always regret it. I'm definately not loved due to this. In fact, i think i've made a couple of enemies because of my frankness.

You do not wish to talk behind one's back. Hmm...this is a tough one. I definately do not wish to talk behind one's back but sometimes i can't help myself. One of my new year's resolution is to stop bitching.

People love the way you always treat them. This one i don't know. Must ask the people around me.

You can give, give and give love, and the best part is that you do not expect it back in return. Hehe, i guess this is true. I have lots of love to give. If you expect returns, then it's not love already.

You are generous enough. I like to think i'm generous.

Seeing things in a practical light is what remains the best trait of you guys. Yup. I'm practical.

it's only the 8th day of the new year but many things have happened. I have a feeling this is going to be a really bad year for me. This is the advice for doggies like me. "Be prepared to face challenges ahead. Keep a low profile, think twice before you act, and avoid loans."

Grumpy New Year

I don't like new years. I usually associate it with bad and unhappy things like school reopening, unfinished homework, blah blah blah. This year is especially bad. I was definately not in a cheery mood during the countdown. There's really nothing to look forward to. More postings. Exams. The big MBBS. Big sigh.

Tried my best to think of exciting things. Gilmore girls is going to resume next sunday. FINALLY. Don't know why channel 5 keeps postponing the episodes, as though it's not important at all. Desperate housewives coming in febuary, so that's another thing to look forward to. I miss the old comfort shows like friends and buffy. I guess everybody has to move on.

I'm also looking forward to earning my own buck. But not at all excited about the lack of sleep that comes with the job.

And i'm excited about the end of med school. Just 3 more weeks of med, 1 more month of surgery and that's it!! I'm tired of going to the wards and looking for cases. I'm just tired of everything.

oh. And just after we ushered in the new year, i was told that this is a bad year for the 'dog' people. Yup, that's me and the rest of the people born in 1982. My aunt said that the newspaper reported that people don't want to hire workers that are born in the year of the dog. Celebration.....

mysterious tubes

i'm just so amazed that i'm able to upload photos onto my blog. Isn't it amazing?? It's a major step for my IT skills. Took some photos during a "tubes-and-drains" session during my surgery posting. But as i was too busy taking photos, i didn't take good notes and have no idea what are the names and function of these mysterious tubes. Can somebody help?

I suspect the above tube is a Sengstaken-Blakemore tube because it has 4 lumens. But i'm not sure. Hope i'm not making a blunder here. Otherwise pinakin and wendy will have such a good time laughing at me like the antibiotics episode.

I have absolutely no idea about this tube. It kind of look like a sword except it's plastic and prob will never kill anyone.

post-christmas

Had christmas eve dinner at my cousin's place this year. The food was so delicious i couldn't stop praising her the whole night. There were 2 types of pasta, roast chicken, parmesan cheese from parma, parma ham wrapped in melon, cheese fondue, chilli crab, tiramisu and of course the usual turkey. Haven't had so much for a long time. After tonnes of food, some booze, and lots of gambling, christmas finally came. And went.

This is my little niece, estelle. She's such a pretty little thing! Her eyelashes are naturally curled upwards. I can't even get that effect with my eyelash curler and mascara. When we sang christmas carols, she'll put her hands together like "gong xi gong xi" and bounce up and down.

I still have lots of christmas photos to share but i don't have them in my computer yet. Had lots of fun going for the christmas parties and giving and receiving presents. School is going to start again tomorrow. Really dreading it, i'm not sure how i can get into the study mode again.

tired or wired

arts central has a very interesting show on tv tonight. they do experiments like which kind of food gives you most gas and weird stuff like that. I especially like the tired or wired section. it's quite useful for me. they got 2 guys: 1 has not slept for 2 days. 1 has been drinking energy boosting drinks for 2 days. and got them to do 3 challenges.

the first challenge was a game of snap. wired (who drank all the energy drink) kept "snapping" wrongly. tired, although slow, was able to do it accurately. so tired 1 wired 0.

second challenge was a game of balancing on a big ball while balancing a tub of water on their head. tired won again.

last challenge was how fast they could park a caravan. this time wired won. so the final score is tired 2 wired 1.

I could not sleep last night, had an irriating throat and cough. was extremely tired this morning and while driving to school, for the first time, i almost fell asleep while driving!! it's quite a scary feeling because i could hardly keep my eyes open while manoeuvring the bends of PIE. So the experiment proved that lack of sleep really retards driving skill.

they have another experiment called fat or thin. last week they proved that if you were stranded in sea (from a shipwreak) the fat person could float longer than a thin guy. this week, they showed that if a thin guy was stuck in a blizzard, he'll have less damage from the storm than a fat guy.

Quite an interesting show!