Thursday, March 30, 2006
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Really really interested fans...
happens at all sports days... the forced crowd just fizzles to boredom.
i appreciate the irony that i used to skip the sports meet whilst still studying in ACS. (im basically your non-athletic male model of the "over-the-counter slacker nerd")
yet, today, im taking extremely precious time off my finals mugging schedule to attend a sports meet from an institution i don't even belong to anymore!
life has changed - or rather, i've changed.
past: gee the shade at this meet really sucks, im still really hot! where the !*@&ing hell is the drink machine? And who the *!^&@ organised this shit anyway its bloody lonnng!?
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Lunch at Brewerkz...
mhm.. house microbrew is good! and correspondingly, tiger is frankly piss... haha!
btw, for the curious (as we were) blueberry beer just sucks -its too sour. decent aftertaste though...
"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer."
Henry Lawson
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Low light portraits
Alex illuminated by the fluorescent lamps... check out that "just finished patho" shagged look!
Planning the "Trip"
Nat ponders the massive logistical nightmare...heres my heartfelt thanks in advance for making the trip possible! i'll buy lunch!
P.S I love the almost 3D quality that the 30mm f1.4 produces. and lets not forget the incredible amount of light it lets in! :)
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Visit to the zoo
hmmmmm... gooood stuff! took juniors down to the zoo on monday for a photofest.
i left with two conclusions:
one - CRAP! they keep up the animals at 6. i missed the white tigers due to the over enthusiastic zookeepers. what a waste. still it calls for another trip so theres still hope, expensive hope at that.
two - you know what? i personally think they DRUG the animals in the zoo. all of them were so lethargic! honestly, i half expected some to keel over and die on the spot. what happened to all those visions of the wild nature red in tooth and claw that national geographic chanel keeps pumping us with? *shakes head*
also john lent me his sigma 50 - 500 which i multiplied with a 2x coverter to produce a WHOOPING 1500mm lens. that drew some admiring glances... hehe *ego*
though, *shrugs* it aint MINE. :)
White Tiger
im so annoyed that this shot isn't TACK SHARP... they kept up the tigers before i could recompose the tiger in my viewfinder.
more irritating is the fact that i failed my mission objective of getting at least one *stunning* photo from this big cat during my trip to the zoo. Will probably have to go again after pros to finish up my work.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Academic Medicine
I really wonder why we have to memorise pointless facts over and over again...
for the record, follicular lymphoma is... t(14:18) and Burkitts Lymphoma is...
can you see how amazingly senseless this declarative knowledge is in the wired age?
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Lets focus on the positives!
Having done the previous post on failure, i guess its time to move on and focus on the positives.
at least i got to go out after the exams to Singapore Art Museum with Nat which was very enjoyable! I was pleasantly surprised that they provided more narrative explanations to the works on display than i would normally have expected. Any interested student in asian arts should really take a trip down! generally well thought out representation of works this time round. :)
to end off the day, i trotted down to the new national library to attend my art mentors photog exhibition and was also rewarded by getting to borrow two amazing books from one of my favourite authors! (you have no idea how hard it is to find books by jeff noon) so i expect some good reading done in the weekend.
lastly, snapped some shots as i went home. hehe ie: "failure" and the "red car". :)
p.s the new library rocks! its like mugger heaven... tons of books and plenty of quiet space. the bag restriction is quite a pain though. Both me and Nats first time down and its been "New" ahhaha for AGES. i guess med students don't get to go out much eh?
Nobody likes the feeling of failure.
gee. for the first time in med, im facing (certain; give and take 95% confidence interval) Failure.
With the capital F so don't spare it... don't even try to comfort me with the "nah you won't fail" tack because in general, missing the diagnosis by a MILE counts for something.
of course i'd like you to believe that there were mitigating factors at hand and so in reality.. ah hah... mitigating factors DO exist.
I came down with:
1)Cough, Cold (with production of clear mucous), Fever, Sweats, Jointache, Neck stiffness, mild hypertension 135mmHg, tachycardia and general lethagy. (diff dx pls) :)
2)Then happily loaded up on Chloramphenamine with package inserts which read in easy to understand language: *warning may cause drowsiness*
So well, thats life for you: take an exam with having done ZITCH mugging and SEDATED.
Personally, i think we can safely say, its associated with a poor prognosis. Say like 100% fatality rate in 5 years. HAHA.
I've submitted my MC but i don't think the patho department is going to accept it - because i STILL took the paper and thats what ive been hearing from them. (WHAT WAS I THINKING?) The deans office staff gave me the impression that it was still possible to sit for but disregard the test...and so i did. On hindsight, i should have been wiser and listened to my gut. I guess, you really don't think straight when you're under.
Some points i can bring out of this:
Firstly,
Ive tried EVERYTHING you can do before an exam:
1)Studied for exam (well) check!
2)Studied for exam check!
3)Studied for exam plus Alcoholic influence check!
4)Did not study for exam check!
5)Did not study for exam and had emotional turmoil check!
6)Did not study for exam and was under the influence of drugs check!
Secondly:
WTF is wrong with my Patho tutors? Why focus on TB for every damn pot and ignore the rest...all i could see in the exam was TB, TB and more TB. I think many will share this gripe to varying degrees.
Bronchopneumonia: ahah! TB
Liver Metastatic spread: ahah! TB again (scatches head and begins to worry)!
Its not that the specimens were bad...far from it. i was actually rather puzzled over the presentation of the lung TB due to its location in the lower rather than upper lobes...but if you don't revise and if the only message you take away from patho tutorials happens to BE tuberculousis.. then you know where im coming from.
As a point in fact, i got BOTH slides correct which just goes to show how badly inadequate the tutorials were.
Thirdly:
Diverticulosis. Ha Ha. the diagnosis of?
some people had a tumourous mass on the sample and i saw it too (large in fact!). what were they supposed to think?
Personally, mine had some discolouration and odd micro-reddish infiltrates which i thought was some kinda cancer...bad idea...
summing up. don't take an exam when you shouldn't or are just not mentally capable of doing so. poor prognosis, highly malignant.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
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