bonjour brightside

today i brought two scarves to work- unintentionally. one i wore around my neck, the other i stuffed in my bag (subconsciously, i suppose). to top that, i was an hour late for clinic. and i brought my stethoscope to an orthopaedic clinic (!!!). really! i have no idea why i do the things i do sometimes. i seem to be bordering on the edge of senility- just like my laptop who has become rather slow and cranky lately, what with all the weird noises and shutting down at will on multiple occasions. [edit: H says it's not senility, but my emo getting to me. according to him it clogs my brain and makes me do these foolish things. i say it's rubbish. i haven't been emo lately.]

anyway, crankiness and altered thinking capabilities aside, here is a shout-out to my dear housemate

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBS!!!

we took this photo exactly at midnight- as seen in the picture. it was purely coincidental! p.s. do not ask me what the words on my t-shirt mean. i’ve been asked by a million people and i really, really have no idea.

today we had a very very interesting and stimulating lecture on haematology/oncology. we were asked to give differential diagnoses of a little boy who came in with bruising and petechiae and someone yelled, “idiopathic thrombocytic purpura”.

the lecturer frowned and said, “why would you ever want to describe something as idiopathic? in latin idios means ‘i’m an idiot’; and pathos means ‘i am sorry’. unless you really mean to say to the patient- ‘i’m sorry for being an idiot’, DON’T say idiopathic. use crytogenic instead- it means ‘hidden cause‘, by the way.” etymology never ceases to interest me.

in other news, i spent 7 hours from 4pm to 11pm at the paeds ED today. we saw lots of kids, including a little 3-year-old who managed to get a polystyrene ball stuck up his left nostril. we used suction and forceps and even called in the ENT specialists, but no we didn’t manage to get the ball out. the kid was screaming like a stuck pig, and attempting to restrain him was a nightmare. i saw a kid with Wolf-Parkinson-White (a rare heart condition). my first ever WPW patient! and then the usual asthma kid, vomity kid and fever kid. we see all things amazing and mundane at ED. sorry if i’m becoming boring! medicine is currently taking over my life now. here are some funny pictures to make up for it!

i’ve been spending loads of time laughing over the lolcats, cos they amuse me to no end. such cute creatures they are! i love those very humorous captions as well. it’s usually the captions that make me laugh more than the pictures, i’m practically ROFLOL (rolling on the floor laughing out loud). anyway i’m probably slow to catch on but if you haven’t visited the lolcats site, you need to.

there’s also a similar (spin-off?) site for the dog-lovers as well. particularly loving this one right now:

i haven’t attended a concert for ages! and so i was rather stoked when becky said we should go for this:

i’d been to something similar two years ago, and i remembered how incredible an experience it was, so i was really looking forward to it!

here’s becky and i looking quite excited, before the concert

and here are some shots i managed to (surreptitiously) capture

sorry they’re not very good pictures, you probably can’t see much since i didn’t opt for flash (i liked the blue and purple lighting and wanted to capture it). anyway the concert was awesome, as expected, and at some point near the end of the concert i managed to sneak into the mosh pit and indulge in my happy jumping and hand-raising thingy, which made me feel like an exuberant 18-year-old all over again. there was also a really funny and sincere message about encountering God, and i think i must have laughed at nearly every sentence the pastor said. then after the concert we met H & S and jess for supper and had some more great laughs, because H & S are just sooooo crazily wild and hilarious- it’s almost like watching live stand-up comedy.

these days, time is so very precious to me. a classic case of too little time, too many things to do. actually i think it may merely be a bad case of time management on my part. whatever it is, i want more time! more time to do things like these

like lounging in the sun and licking the icing off the most delicious cupcakes in the world. i want to bake so badly and i have saved so many recipes that i want to try butttt there’s always no time for baking. or doing things that are fun and require little or no thought. so i painted my nails in a creamy pastel pink shade and it made me happy! speaking of nails, the girl in the first picture has a transverse white line across her nails. calcium-deficiency perhaps (?). (sorry i can’t help but notice these things- it’s a med student syndrome, i suppose!) apart from that very random bit of info, i think these pictures are absolutely delightful and if i could live vicariously through snapshots, this would be how i’d like to spend my summer (or what’s left of it) frolicking in the sun.

so it’s nearly 4am and i just got home from what was supposed to be dinner at hotpot with the meddies. finally! i got to meet kellyn and it was lovely catching up with her! our dinner was so long, it lasted 3 hours and then i got dragged to gishy’s party although i vehemently protested because: 1. i wasn’t dressed up for clubbing 2. i wanted to head home for a bit of study. but peer pressure won out in the end so i decided to go with the flow…. and then we got lost for 2 hours! seriously!! (we could have driven to bendigo in that span of time.) we drove around collingwood for ages trying to locate fitzroy street when it was really in st. kilda. so when we FINALLY reached area61 just after midnight, nearly all the people at the party were leaving but i managed to catch up with rupert just for a brief moment and then we danced for 1 hour and spent another 1 hour outside the club talking and inhaling awful ciggy smoke (pffft). no one really wanted to go for supper after that so we headed home and i now have a stomachache from eating all that hotpot! >:s