ooooh. i lurb my chardonnay

You Are Chardonnay

Fresh, spirited, and classic - you have many facets to your personality. You can be sweet and light. Or deep and complex. You have a little bit of something to offer everyone... no wonder you're so popular. Approachable and never smug, you are easy to get to know (and love!). Deep down you are: Dependable and modest Your partying style: Understated and polite Your company is enjoyed best with: Cold or wild meat

What Kind of Wine Are You?

jokes from the psychiatry world

my psychiatry registrar at glenside thinks he is bloody funny.

just a bit of background, the horses in australia are currently down with some flu outbreak. and apparently there is some horse racing thing soon so the horse industry is getting worried.

psych reg:

poor horses!

students, nurses, anyone else in the room:
yeah, it's so terrible!

psych reg:

well especially since it's difficult for horses to take tissue paper out of the box since they have such big hoofs.

students, nurses, anyone else in the room:
-.-" *bee buzzes by...*

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and about a minute later.

psych reg:

it must be a nuisance having a "horse" voice.

rest of us:

*OUCH* STOP IT ALREADY!

25 degreeeess!

it was a HOT day. had to bring on the sunnies, short sleeved tops and sandals. it was such a lovely day but i had to spend it indoors or stuck on someone's sofa the entire day. i went with the ACIS (acute crisis intervention services) team today and did home visits to patients living in the eastern adelaide area. (my home inclusive!!)

yesterday martini, vic and i went swimming at the aquatic centre. apparently the water is extremely chlorinated because they can only change 10% of the water in the pool everyday due to water restrictions. South Australia has been pretty rain deprived and we are still practising water restrictions - ie: no watering plants with hose, no hosing down the car, no sprinklers and stuff.. but i swam 26 laps. felt SO good to swim. and we even used the heated jacuzzi and steam room as well. so i guess it was 5 bucks well spent. sigh i know i know, it cost only SGD1.50 to swim in the public pools in sg. argh. >.<

it's already week 4 of psychiatry. argh. 2 weeks to the vivassss!

teenagers - my chemical romance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6EQAOmJrbw

i am totally digging this new MCR (my chemical romance) song.
the weather is getting warm.

i am happy!! :)

i have been egged!

T.S of chicken egg. Magnification 1x

Rocked up for patient interview today at the rah at 9am.
bloody hell, doc did not appear, even though we hanged around for an hour.

ian and i decided to leave because there just wasn't much point in staying in the nurses station doing nothing. besides, there were only 3 of us today. the rest of the group evaporated into nothingness and thus did not attend. we headed to the etc cafe for breakkie.. vic joined us (he had a very very slack day too). and then mel called me to say that the doctor is 10 mins away. -.-" (that was like 10.30am already) ian and i were like... ponder ponder... den.. "NAH...."

because eggs for brekkie is more important than interviewing psychiatric patients anytime mate.

which reminds me.
i had eggs florentine (2 poached eggs)
ian had smoked salmon with scrambled eggs (5 eggs involved)
vic had baked omelette (5 eggs involved)

cholesterol levels must have skyrocketed since.

die hard!

just got back from watching die hard 4! felt it was quite a good show, considering it was a spontaneous decision to watch it. we were in the area getting post-dinner ice cream from baskin robbins and i suggested watching a movie since it's cheap(er) tuesdays.

went to brentwood, which is the ICU for psychiatric patients. i'm not sure if it is because i was so sleepy, but i felt that the patients at brentwood do no differ too much from the patients at cleland house (just a normal psychiatry ward facility). how do u distinguish the crazy from the crazier? must be difficult.

sunny days ahead :)

according to the weather folks, we are going to have a really nice and sunny week ahead of us! 21-23 degrees cloudless days on tues and wed! YAY! bye bye trenchcoat. bye bye scarves. HELLO sandals! hello sunnies! :)

with regards to my stupid flu, it's finally resolving. i'm really glad coz i managed to play quite abit of badminton yesterday and didn't die or something.

week 3 psychiatry. WOO! it feels like it's been going on forever and ever man... *ughh* didn't have that sort of feeling in ACC... -.-"

oh well. time to rock up to c3 (mental health ward in the hospital) and have lotsa FUN (bold and large font fun) with dr kopowitzz... king of soft speech. have a great week guys!

Picture of the day: "strong wind, take care!"

We saw this bloody hilarious sign on our drive to Kangaroo Island in Year 2 Med. We found it so funny we made a mental note to take pictures with it on the ride back from Cape Jervis. and the best thing was - it was really really windy on the way back! Hans nearly flew away!

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rotfl. actually Jinquan was holding his legs up for that effect.
It took us something like 10 unsuccessful attempts before getting our KONICA moment
now all i hope for is that ham boy wouldn't run after me with a sharp object. TE HE HE.

my story :)

The story of Daphne is an example of an etiological myth, one that is strongly explanatory of why certain things in their culture were a certain way.

There are many examples of Greek myths that explain why certain religious rituals were performed, why some peoples may be named what they are, or even why varying objects, plants and animals were symbols of their gods.

The gods were known for punishing mortals for offending them, but occasionally they punished each other. The gods were a vengeful folk, and they did not take kindly to being insulted, by mortal or god. Apollo made the mistake of insulting one of his fellow immortal.

Apollo was a great archer, but sometimes he was a little full of himself. One day he caught sight of Eros, the son of Aphrodite. Eros was also an archer, and his arrows were responsible for instilling the twists and turns of love and lust in a person's heart. Apollo teased young Eros, putting down his abilities as an archer, claiming that one so small could make no difference with his arrows.

Angry at this insult, Eros shot two arrows, one tipped in gold, one blunted and tipped with lead. The arrow dipped in gold had the power to create insatiable lust in a person, while the other created absolute abhorrence towards all things romantic and passionate. The unfortunate soul who was struck with that arrow would have no desire to love anyone. The arrow dipped in gold struck Apollo, but the arrow dipped in lead struck fair Daphne.

Daphne was the daughter of the river god Peneus. Apollo chased down the maiden, desperate for her love, but she wanted nothing to do with him, and she ran from him endlessly. Soon, she grew weary in her running and that Apollo would ultimately catch her. Fearful, she called out to her father for help. As all gods of water posses the ability of transformation, Peneus transformed his daughter into a laurel tree. Suddenly her legs took root, and her arms grew into long and slender branches.

Apollo reached the laurel tree, and, still enamored with Daphne, held the tree in a special place in his heart. He claimed the tree the as his special tree, and adorned himself with some of it's leaves. And that is why the laurel was, and still is, a symbol of the god Apollo.

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and so that's the story of daphne :)

feng shui :/

poor jess :( she has been so sick! nausea and vomitting.. diarrhoea and abdominal pain. we brought her into the ED just now. waited about 1.5 hours to see a doc who told us that she got gastroenteritis, as though we couldn't figure that out ourselves. gave her fluids and IV maxalon. she seems slightly better. at least more hydrated. anyway its 3am now and that's the story of why im still online at this hour.

I CANNOT SLEEP.

we were talking quite abit in the ED and we really think this year has been a bad luck year for so many of our friends. let me do a little list

Martini - 'moving appendix' which turned out to be a rupture cyst
Ian - ankle fracture thus handicapped for several weeks
Hans - 4th MCP fracture thus cannot punch people.
Chris - appendicitis
Alfred - gastroenteritis....

O.O SEE!

we need to change our feng shui already.

surprise!

just got home from christine's SURPRISE party.
gosh, she got kinda teary when she saw her apartment filled to the brim with people she knows :)
but it's fun to know a surprise worked. hee.
we were suffocating. apartment for 4... was occupied by like 30+ people.


the cookies we baked were a success!! :) ^5 martini girl!
we got good feedback from the crowd. yay us!

glenside tmr.
gosh i want this rotation to be over soon!! :<

*runs off to bed

junkies

been loading up on vitamin c.
hopefully that will help me fight the infection!

anyway we are going to bake cooookies tmr!
oatmeal and chocolate (again) but this time with martini girl :)

and new tagboard..using an old configuration (thus the msgs from 2005)
feel free to leave msgs!..

and now. it's the time of the year where we experience renting blues.
apparently the rent IS going to increase. argh. why!??!
not sure of the future plans yet... but yeah i like living with martini girl and jess.
even when we have 2 rabbits in the living room. te he he. maybe i should get my own pet? hmmm. vic reckons i will torture it and leave it to die and decompose. -.-" so annoying.

anyway we attended this drug&alcohol clinic this afternoon. and we had the pleasure of speaking to this patient who was on a detox program for heroin. this patient was only 18 years old! and he started drugs when he was 15... but i guess the point is not how much drugs he has taken but rather the fact that he is determined to quit, go get an apprenticeship in building, and start a new life.

sometimes i think people always focus on the fact that they are junkies (drug addicts) and never really provide them the opportunity to prove themselves otherwise. a drug addict's life is really quite pitiful and sad. a large proportion of them suffer from anxiety disorders and depression. they often go hungry and lonely. they never really have the chance to build real relationships with other people. there is no stability in their daily routine. so i think clinics like the one i attended today are a very positive thing for them. go clinics! :)

anyway. it's late. i should stop rambling.
good night world.

feeling down and out

been feeling croak since last night. sore throat, productive cough (blood tinged!!) and headache. i feel hot and cold and just really really tired. i have officially caught the martini bug. a virulent strain of influenza something something that just puts med students house bound for a couple of days.

i was supposed to do the patient interview session today. but my dear Mr soft-spoken consultant psychiatrist did most of the work. it was a simple schizophrenia case.. argh. i couldn't even follow what the patient was talking about half the time simply because my brain was just malfunctioning. argh. oh well. but then again he was talking about the universe on one leg and the world on the other leg when he plays soccer. and how Pele uses telepathy to make him talented in soccer. hmm. but maybe i wasn't hearing right. *shrugs*

and the best thing? we were supposed to go see a patient with frontal lobe problem but he died over the weekend. that's right guys, the psych team takes that l-o-n-g to get around to finishing their consults. patients actually die waiting. how distressing is that!

so after getting over the 'shock' that patient number 1 died, we very swiftly shifted our attention to patient number 2. he was, according to the referral form, considered a 'treatment resistant schizophrenic.'

i was imagining the worst. catatonic patient who is devoid of insight and judgement, and probably exhibiting signs of extra pyramidal side effects like dystonia/akathisia/blah blah blah from the antipsychotic meds. but no. my patient could engage in a really decent conversation, minus insight and alot of other stuff.. but mostly there if u know what i mean. in fact, i think i was probably on par with him in terms of performance in an interview. argh

anyway the point here is..

i am sick.
i need rest
and i should stop talking about psychiatry.

and vicky bought me the truffle Parmesan!!!!............... all 400grams of it. i'm going to turn into one of those smelly old woman who eats cheese and knits or something.

and i had su chuen's muffins.
which were a better pick me up than the stupid sushi from sushi train on grenfell street.
err especially if i don't think about the fact that i might have consumed unhealthy levels of aluminum today. te he he.

more pics

veni - joanne - ian - me - kerri anne

alvin and veni - dancing away

irene - me

minnie - me - joanne

lazy sunday

very unproductive day.
most Sundays, i can boast of how i played badminton, or gone to the farmer's market or even did all my laundry. but today, today is the epitome of slackness.

i have not left the house yet.
no proper meals yet.
no studying done yet.

just reading books, being online and sipping tea :)

and i just finished the last glass of the dessert wine that we opened 2 days ago.
*yummm*

and last night.. last night was great. the thing that totally blew me over was the freaking cheese platter. it was omg-ly yummy. now i'm trying to look for the truffle Parmesan i had. no links yet. dammit.

a week gone!

it's already saturday.

i survived a week of psychiatry. the psych peeps decided that this called for a mini celebration. seriously, one week and im starting to go all kuku already. thus we made our way down to chocolat, a cafe that served yummy desserts, drinks and gelato. although it must be stressed that cibo's gelato is better, chocolate bean's hot drinks are better. but i guess chocolat is relatively empty in the afternoons and the atmosphere is relaxed and there's heaps of swishy cushions on the seats :)

the slackers who are doing their MSAs now (namely quinnie, vic and su chuen) joined us at the cafe, AFTER spending most of their life prior to it in a starbucks cafe. they were truly on a cafe crawl or sth. heh.

the crappy talk as usual...

and we got back to vic's place. and we freaking napped till 9.30pm at night. O.O so we had 'dinner' at like 10plus. which is like... unbelievably late.

on a completely random note, i just filed all my psychiatry notes from this week. you know those big big big ring files? it is 3/4 full already!!!.... argh. no wonder people always say psychiatry is all talk and no action. guess to talk efficiently you need to read up yeah? heh.

dinner tonight at magill estate. hurhur
but it's at 8.30pm! -.-" looks like my bf's planning skills ain't as superb as mine.
quinnie has already self-appointed herself as my official hair stylist.
i ain't complaining.. :)

hope tonight will turn out great! :) :) :)

heh heh

oooooooh!
LOOK!


FLOWERS!!
(ignore the unglam kitchen backdrop)

happy day to us!

i must say my thanks.
thanks to a hippie bf!
thanks to a 'surrise' flower bunch! (u are truly a typo king)
thanks for tolerating all my idiosyncrasies
thanks for making me laugh (and laughing back at me)
thanks for calling me smelly burger -.-"
thanks to the great times we have had.

and

you should thank me for the following!
1. that i cook for you (yea yea you do the washing but so? suck my toe! all the way to mexico!)
2. that i am nice sweet and much cuter den you.
3. that i bought u sushi cufflinks
4. that i am making you thank me. rotfl

here's to surviving 2 years! (phew!!)
we made it!
and here's to better times!

*big hugssssss!*

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it's tuesday already

i am so tired. have had 2 long days in a row. wait, let me correct that. it should be 2 long, boring to hell days. everything in psychiatry occurs in low-motion.

the consultants speak slooooowly and softly.
the ward round goes on for like ever and ever but it doesnt seem like the patients will live happily ever after.

the lecturers are slooow too. and not very funny people.

i'm just hoping things will pick up after tmr. it'd BETTER pick up.
or maybe i just have to go speak to some patients. that should keep me entertained.

and btw, i'm a huge facebook addict. *heeelp!*
all the sheep throwing and graffiti drawing on the wall is distracting me from reading about the mental state examination. which is something i have to read and apply by tonight because i think i will be picked on tmr for the 1st patient interview session.

and tmr's THE DAY!!!!!!.....................YAY!

morale booster.

On msn one random sunday night.

Ray says:
daph

zickzen: says:
yes

Ray says:
u'll make a good doc

zickzen: says:
why?

zickzen: says:
that's really random

Ray says:
cos ur a responsible person

thanks bro :)

halfway dinner 2007

halfway dinner:
a time to have fun, catch up with mates.
it's also the time to reflect on how far along we have come, and how much more we have to do.
it was a great night. despite the fact that the venue was pretty difficult to find.. the food was decent. the drinks were well priced. the awards were hilarious... and the video made by ken was so funny and touching!... made me realised how much we have all grown even though we still think we are young at heart :)

vic and i all dressed up! waiting for the ham car.

da boozer bros. (alfred,vic,alvin)
without them, my life will be bubblywine-less and cornyjoke-less.

Chelsie, Me, Steph
Su Chuen, Jebrrine, Joanne
THE GALS! notice how jebbrine is the odd colour out.

Jess, Martini and Me
HOUSEMATES UNITED

3am in oxford
me, daniel, minnie, ian, sakiko
we survived the night of jaeger bombs and tequila shots!
we went danced to music (that i cant remember the tunes of)

I could post up more pics at another stage but right now i have to conquer level 89 of my game.
heh heh! oh last day of ACC was quite.. pale in comparison to halfway dinner. shall tell u more about it in another post. :)

update

I JUST GOT TO LEVEL 89!!!....
this game is sooo addictive.

haha and victor only got to level 13.

hippie tales

oh my gawwwd.

scrubbed in on a total hip replacement.
it's really like what people say it is -- crude and gruesome!

oh well, not really. only some parts. especially when they clean out the insides of the femur (thigh bone) and make sure it fits well with the prosthesis. the patient's entire leg shakes and moves violently. whilst the poor bone marrow from the thigh bone gets flying in all directions.

and so sorry to whine but my poor feet and back hurts so much now. all that standing for 3 hours. O.O im lying in bed typing this. and all i want is for a warm tub of water to soak my feet in, plus a good massage, plus nice aromatic scented oils to spice things up a lil and tickle my senses, PLUS someone to cook my dinner for me.

Is that too much to ask for? >.<

PS: i have been totally addicted to this: http://www.sobicsschool.com/fun/fun_game2.swf
I AM CURRENTLY UP TO LEVEL 53!! :)
that took my an hour to accomplish man.