bugger.

5 more weeks of O&G left! not sure to cry or rejoice. I'm only starting to get the hang of things in this obscure and diverse field of medicine/surgery. Just had a full day of tutorials that included running to and fro 3 different venues. My feet hurts from all that power walking man. Plus I'm still a bit queasy from the rapid ingestion of my pasta lunch. *ugh*

Anyhow, Paeds results are out! and I'm so relieved and also surprised by the actual percentages when Juanita (the nice clinical officer at WCH) replied my email. I crossing my fingers that I haven't tripled her workload because I just told a whole group of people that she would tell you the percentages if you bothered to email her. opppsie.

It's probably going to be a quiet friday night. Hopefully we will make it to the movies because I'm dying to watch wall-E!! I'm also gonna make dishes and rice for dinner. What I have up my sleeves.....

1. Ginger, Mirin and Soy Sauce Salmon
2. Sausage omelette
3. Choy Sum and Tofu Stir Fry

Yea I know, sounds boring right.

What to dooooooo.

Ok time for a bit of a granny snooze. Hur.

the long and short about labour.

having been rostered onto 2 long days worth of labour ward duties and a morning of c-sections, labour is seriously under-estimated. All the movies and drama series portray labour as something that is relatively short and always commencing with the exxagerated POPPING of the waters. On screen, the baby always comes out perfect and clean and the mother looking so neat and happy.

Well folks, in real life, you get a blue baby with a crunched up face covered in white slime. Midwives have to clean your baby before they look presentable to you. You would have had on average 5 hours of painful and regular contractions prior to the baby even being out of you. This is usually associated with a change of mood, hair getting dishevelled and lots of swearing and screaming before the pain medications are administered.

All you people opting to have caesarean sections for convenience, fear of a long and painful labour process or simply the fashion of the time.. are also WRONG. You always get a big scar, you have more blood loss, recovery takes longer. It's a safe and life-saving alternative but people should stop saying they WANT caesars.

At least it doesn't (thankfully) take away any of the joy and tears that comes rolling down your faces when you see your baby for the first time.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that labour is just the beginning of a long road of parenting. It's not pretty and it's not glamourous. You have to do it only because you want to.

Yes.... and i will save the rant about midwives for another day.

long time no blog

busy with the new rotation.. keeping me on my toes.

anyhow, time is running out! sitting for the BIG exams very soon!

RANT OF THE WEEEK::::


and i'm so pissed. with person that
1. eats bread and leaves crumbs (that amount to a piece of bread) on the table
2. cuts fruits on the kitchen top without a chopping board/uses plates as chopping board. (mankind invented chopping boards FOR a reason)
3. moves stuff around the house without asking for permission. (not your stuff, don't touch!!)
4. thinks that others want to use their things and hence keep it in their room! (am i the only one who thinks keeping kitchen utensils and garlic is just so damn weird?)
5. doesn' recognise/realise that the house is SOOO much cleaner and is blatantly contributing to dirt. (stop shedding hair/skin/dirt/wat have you)


why why why why why!!!!
ain't the above just you know.. COMMON SENSE??? and basic courtesy????

some people just never learn. or realise.



PS: DISCLAIMER: not my household. me housemates are perfect :)

why do we need true friends?

1. spend time drinking alcohol and laughing your heads off at sexual and explicit jokes.
2. so that we can sing unpretentiously in our loud and tone-deaf voices.
3. someone to turn to when the world is upside down, inside out and all the wrong ways around.
4. the ability to reminiscent about the common past together.
5. alibi for all the times you need to hang out late and be sneaky with XXX.
6. feel slightly wanted? nothing beats logging onto msn and having people scattered in different continents saying hi to you. hur
7. people actually looking to you for advice - relationship problems, online shopping - what to buy what to choose?
8. being appreciated for who you really are, and not what you want to be. less the need for impression.

i can't think of any more at the moment.

babies are eating my brains out.
and their very pregnant mothers too.

gahhhhs