Saturday, August 28, 2004
Warning: Cerebral Core-Text Overload
I went to school to meet my counsellor today and ended up feeling pretty "stressed". I mean, after talking to him I realised I should be doing a lot more reading up than I was currently doing, because when the time comes to study I might not have enough time to read all the things I need to. Not that this kind of stress is a bad thing, since I think what I really need right now is some kind of motivation to not slack around, and I suppose a bit of reading every day will help a lot in the long run. I have decided against getting Papa Robbins since I think it will end up growing cobwebs and silverfish. I like Stevens and Lowe a lot (because it's British mwahaha)! Have to start saving money for M3 stuff, it seems like quite a lot.
Another thing that worries me is the number of people falling sick nowadays. Admittedly the weather is atrocious, fluctuating between furnace and pouring wreck from day to day. No wonder people are falling sick. To all the people who are feeling under the weather, I hope you get well soon.
I suppose it is some unspoken observation that most people have about doctors, that in their medical school days they tend to be excessively paranoid about themselves getting bizzare and rare illnesses they read about in their textbooks, but after a while they overcompensate for this paranoia and end up ignoring the obvious signs and symptoms when they do get ill. Do doctors hate being patients? It would certainly feel strange being on the other side of the doctor's desk, that's for sure.
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Rather unfortunately, I have become totally addicted to the 7 pm drama on Channel 8, An Ode to Life. (I think Ch 8 shows have abysmal English titles, but that is beside the point) The reason being the drama is very similar to most other Taiwanese dramas that I get addicted to. I know, the storylines are almost always the same with some clever variations here and there, but I still get impossibly captivated. I always love watching how the protagonist surmounts all the schemes his or her detractors put in his or her way and ends up being successful. So exciting!
And with a cast of mostly old-generation actors and actresses now (like Huang Biren, Yang Libing, Sean Say, Liu Qianyi etc) it almost seems like a good old TCS drama that we watched when we were children, before they started producing crap to cater to teenagers or something. They really should produce more of these family-saga-melodramas. Heh I am so biased.
Argh now I spend 1 hour sitting in front of the TV every evening!
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I finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman (finally!) and the ending was pretty good and thought-provoking. Wonderful book. It got a little boring in the middle though, when everyone was just about sitting on their hands waiting for something to happen, and so was I. I wonder if I have less patience than I used to have in reading books, that I like to rush towards the climax of the story. My snail-like reading speed does not help either.
I am now reading Underworld by Don LeLillo, based on certain recommendations, and it seems to be a pretty interesting read, though it's another of those huge book-whoppers. And I definitely need to spend less time on leisurely reading nowadays. I also have Sophie's World on my table. It seems that most people have read it. For me it was one of those books whose name is floating about in your head but you have no idea the name is there until you actually see the book on the shelf and decide to get it. So.
Neuroanat drives me nuts. I cannot for the life of me visualise anything except the four lobes of the brain. Pharmaco is worse. Don't get me started. I never liked memorising receptor subtypes and mechanisms, which was why I did pretty badly for endocrine physio.
Have I said I think the Blogger input system really sucks. It does. If only I knew more html I would get a domain and set up a html blog. But I suck too.
By the way the Tantha Factory of Corny Jokes is in production again. So give me a call when you need a lame joke.
Avaris / 8/28/2004 08:13:00 PM
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