bonjour brightside

finally! a picture post! after exams i got my life back partially (i say so because i got myself a vacation job so i’m working weekdays. ugh)

anyway

my wonderful housemates took me out for a belated birthday dinner on sunday! we went to chapel street and had japanese- undoubtedly my favourite- and ordered tons of food! sorry i meant to take pictures of the food as well (we had yummy sashimi, sukiyaki, eel and avocado sushi, tan zaru soba and deep fried eggplant with miso paste) but evidently we were too ravenous and digged in before i could whip my camera out. and then my housemates, knowing that my love for cake… suggested that we adjourned to chapelis for dessert they told the waiter that it was my birthday (although it wasn’t) and we had a lot of laughs from that.

housemates

sher and her dream ride!

R: so does it feel like it’s your birthday today?

E: yes it does!

R: ah, then we have succeeded.

thank you my dear housies for a great night out! love xx

naturally i have this amazing ability to procrastinate just days before my exam. i feel like i have to blog more during exam times because it helps take away the stress when i write it down. anyway today i spent 9 hours in the hospital! amazing. like J said, i could camp there and no one would know. i had osce practice with this bunch of really committed medicos, we’re a good mix of international and local students and it helps that everyone is really nice and encouraging. we couldn’t find any available room to practice in, so we went to the outpatient clinics and used it as our venue! which i must say, worked really well!

then i bought myself a huuuuge slab of sticky date pudding from the cafe. i said ‘hi can i have a slice of sticky date pudding’ and the guy who served me was very cheeky. he said ‘how much are you willing to pay?’

i laughed and said ‘for as much it’s worth’. anyway i was pretty pleased with my sweet treat (it was actually my breakfast and lunch) and devoured it within an hour. and ended up feeling a bit sickish…

i finally left the hospital at 930pm and just as i left i heard a helicopter! and i thought OMGGG a helicopter is landing! so i ran towards the helipad with my bag and books in tow and there it was, dazzling lights and revolving huge blades… a helicopter! it was exciting. possibly the most interesting thing that i saw in this week, apart from last tuesday when i sat for my paper and saw a jockey riding his horse when i looked out of the window.

ok exams in less than 48 hours! press on! i’m off to traralg0n for the osces! i hope i get lovely examiners. i’m excited i can’t wait for exams to be over. i’m already making my things-to-do-after-exams list. haha!

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

- As You Like It, William Shakespeare

happy birthday to me! no one should have to spend their birthday studying and cramming on the eve on an exam. it is a shame and i would be lying if i said i wasn’t a tad disappointed…but that’s life… so i choose to accept it with grace and then i’ll have a proper celebration after the exams are over. wooo double joy!

THANK YOU for all the lovely FB wall messages, to the amazing friends who surprised me at 12midnight sharp, and also to my wonderful family… much love xox

p.s. i will reply the FB messages after my paper tomorrow! it would be impolite of me to leave all the kind messages unreplied!

exams in 4 days! i am officially in panic mode now. anyway i was reading through my paediatrics notes, and i can’t decide if medical people love or hate food. here’s why

• intussusception : red-currant jelly stools
• pyloric stenosis: olive tumour
• Maple syrup urine disease
• Sturge-Weber syndrome: portwine stain
• Transposition of the great arteries: ‘egg on its side’ chest x-ray finding
• Prune-belly syndrome

and these are just some of the references off the top of my head. of course there are references to animals (eg.spider naevus, stork mark), plants (eg. ash-leaf pigmentation in tuberous sclerosis), objects (eg. scissor legs in cerebral palsy, cogwheel rigidity in Parkinson’s), events (eg. cocktail party syndrome), weather (eg. thunderclap headache of subarachnoid haemorrhage), and of course people (the eponymous syndromes like Down’s, Tay-Sachs, Marfan’s. Turner’s, Edward’s etc)… as you can see i derive joy from making a list like this. anyway, going back to the food references, i have no idea why they are so rampant in the wonderful world of medicine. you would think i would be repulsed by now, but no actually i’m slightly hungry.

p.s. can anyone think of more food references? share, please!