The Fat Vampire Strikes Back

I will know when i have been lazing too much on exercise and eating too much despite the lack of physical activity.. (When i wake up in the morning and stare into the face mirror while brushing my teeth.. a "fat vampire" polishing his teeth (fangs?) will stare back)

Pale, slight moon-like face, dark eye rings.. I'll only lack the long black cloak to pass off as 1

I always thought the human body is apt for homeostasis.. If i lack physical activity, shouldn't my appetite reduce accordingly? Or even if i had been using my brains more despite the lack of exercise (ya. right.. *cough* *cough*) Then the increased intake should only replenish the lost nutrients in the thinking process and not accumulate as body fat..

Well.. guess i have to resist temptations of good food and go for a lower caloric intake. Don't know how much more weight i will put on if i carry on eating before my body decides to find a balance. (already about 2 kg over the past 5 weeks liao..)

First impression

First experience with Dr K was at an interactive session on cardio..

"Well this is supposed to be an interactive session, not a lecture.. so you all should ask questions." he said.

So well.. 'Pop' comes a question and he ended up asking the same question to the student. "What do you think?"

I didn't have a good impression of Dr K from then cos i thought:"You call us to ask question then you dun want to answer?" Well, anyway maybe it's his way of teaching.

Yesterday was a day of lousiness, weariness and "panicness". 4 plus after Prof I's tutorial and i was already dead beat. Somemore assigned to go cardiac clinic run by Dr K.

"Seow liao la.. Brain not working still go, if he grills me with questions i will end up telling him stuff like "the heart is located in the right hypochondrium and it moves up and down with respiration"" But i went anyway yearning to hear murmurs..

Ended up hearing none. But found that Dr K was not bad after all.. (错怪他了) He took the initiative to motion us to listen and also sometimes ask the parents' permission for us.. Also didn't blame us for not hearing what he calls a 2/6 ESM. "You all can't hear it la." He reassured us..

Guess it takes time to really know a person.

(Still wondering who is the 高人..)

100GB HDD?

I guess it takes big and important postings to bring out this sense of inadequacy..

Paeds.. I wonder why it's always like that.. I can memorise a topic when i'm studying at home.. Write out the stuff that need to be memorised by heart and then happily tell myself:"Hor se la! I know about this condition liao!!"

Then the very next day when the tutor asks me a question on the topic i will be:"Er... Ah.." If the tutor's not very nice, he/she will probably give me a:"This one also don't know??!!" look
But most of them are nicer and will give the:"It's ok, you're stupid but it's alright.. i'll teach you or ask your more intelligent friends.." (Quote from Jere)

Then Lo and Behold when my friends are asked they will regurgitate the whole stuff, then i will go:"Oh Ya!!!" and feel like banging my head on the wall for forgetting.. And that's not all!! They can even go on to stuff i haven't heard about!!

I propose that there's a few degree of severity for forgetting:

Grade 4 --Learn and forget: The most severe of all.. everything that has entered the brain gets washed off after a night's sleep.

Grade 3 -- Remembering new things learnt but forgetting previous knowledge completely: Not as bad as 4.. At least can remember the newest thing learnt

Grade 2 -- Remembering new things well but vaguely know the older stuff: Hope i can at least reach this stage.. At least got something to say when asked..

Grade 1 -- Remembering everything but memory wears off over time (i.e over months): Lagi better.. Can at least cramp stuff in the last few months

Grade 0 -- Forgetting the ability to forget: What more can i say?

The higher the grade the worse is the prognosis for the 5 month survival rate for what is left of year 5.

Lao Jiao Doctors

Friday and this is the first time in my 2 weeks paeds posting i went to a clinic. Had a choice of the "great" Dr W.L, a nephro clinic or neuro clinic...
kena rejected by a "middle aged jiao" registrar while trying to join her nephro clinic.. quite sad but anyway... luckily it was a blessing in disguise..

WQ and me decided to wait for a room 6 neuro clinic instead. We were expecting another middle aged doctor to come by but... Along came a grandfather looking er... uncle? (Ah Peh) who was in shirt and tie and was holding a NTUC plastic bag. He walked past us and went on to enter.. room 6!!

Well that was like one of the last clinic left unless we want to risk a Dr W.L garbage collecting session.. So anything goes..

"Grandpa" was so kind to let us into his clinic and even warned us that there might not be anything good to see.. But at that time anything is better than Dr W.L

I really like lao jiao doctors.. "Grandpa" asked us questions and praised us when we answered correctly but kept quiet and allowed us to redeem ourselves when we made mistakes.. until he decided we were not intellegent enough for the question before he enlightened us in a subtle manner.

There are other nice lao jiao doctors..
One who takes exams and says "Come feel this lipoma and tell me what is it?"
Some who always tell grandfather stories during lectures/tutorials and never fail to smile.
And i dun often see an old doctor terrorizing students (unless i'm so lucky not to meet one of them)

I suddenly want to be like them.. benign, nice but knowledgeable.. but before reaching that stage, i would still want to enjoy the many things i can now..

鸟话

"Concerns for febrile fits (*chirp,chirp*) include 1)frequency of (*chirp*) recurrence.. 2) (*chirp*)..complex febrile (*chirp*).."

"Wa... how come i suddenly like studying in bird park?!"

I looked out of my window and thought batman was here somewhere...




Well not a very clear photo but the sky was literally filled with mynahs, swallows... all returning to roost on the opposite block. Their chirpings were relentless for about an hour before they ran out of 鸟话 to 讲.. Or maybe they too shaq must koon... Nevertheless, quite a spectacular sight..

I wonder what they talk to each other about... "Eh you know hor... i today eat 3 worms leh!!!" or "Eh.. you must go to XX kopitiam.. there hor the people always leave leftovers and the cleaners very slow to clear one!" Anyway.. if life was so simple as to find food, find lodging and procreate and yet got so much to talk about.. no wonder we humans sometimes can go on for hours talking.

(Hmm.. wonder when i can achieve the ability to upkeep an interesting conversation for hours?)

I walked by the opposite block this morning to get to the bus-stop and to re-iterate their presence, the birds left a whole lot of 'bombs' on the floor of the block. Almost no inch was spared.. I was very tempted to look up to see if they were up and flying already early in the morning, but chose to take cover under the block instead... just in case..

Feel Cheated....

Why? Why was i cheated in primary school (1987-1992)?

Why did the teachers say we will have robots doing housework, cooking etc for us in the 21st century.. Why did they say we can have an underwater housing estate, looking at fishes swimming by everyday and worst of all, why did my art teacher praise those who drew flying cars when we were asked to portray an image in the 21st century (i.e. beginning from 2001)? How come 2005 already still almost the same one? Where's the robot maid? Where're the promised flying cars that can make transport so much more faster?

Now i still have to wake up at 5am if i'm posted to a far hospital cos i need time to prepare for class and take the land roving bus to the hospital... Then return home at 6+ alomst 7pm if i knock off exactly at 5pm to be left with 4 over hours of time to settle everything i need to settle before rushing off to sleep to avoid zzz monsters attacking me the following day.. (Where're the flying cars?!!!?)

Hopefully i'm feeling this fatigue because of NSC's posting only.. Glad it's over.. (Where're the flying cars?!!!?)

Read an article today about a man trying to sue a driver for reversing very quickly over a long distance in a carpark that resulted in the car knocking down the man's wife, leaving her in coma.. He lost.. because the judge said the lady was partially to be blamed too, for not looking out for traffic properly..

Well.. i dunno if i was feeling sympathetic, but looking at the diagram depicting what happened.. It looked like the lady felt the coast was clear when a car moving in the correct direction passed her and she then started to cross, not taking note of the culprit car reversing in the same lane from the other direction. I really think most humans would have already developed a habit and cross the moment the coast is clear on the nearer lane.. and of course not expect a reversing car from the opposite direction in the same lane to come rushing..

Hai.. quite sad for the family.. maybe the judge is judiciously correct. but humanely? Reminds me of those who unitentionally allow illegal foreign workers with fake IDs to rent their homes. Judiciously guilty but humanely?

Well, the car incident wouldn't have happened if cars could fly above humans and avoid pedestranal accidents. (Where're the flying cars?!!!?)

RETURN ME MY PRIMARY SCHOOL'S ART LESSONS' FEES!!!

(kee seow liao, must be too little sleep...)