Saturday, October 08, 2005

At the end of the day you're another year older

This comes a little late, I know, considering that my birthday was 6 days ago, but of course I need to blog about it. Goodness knows I have little enough to blog about nowadays (more on that later).

Right, first I need to really really thank all the people who made my 21st birthday so memorable by celebrating it with me one day before the actual day. Special thanks go out to Wee Ming and George for getting everything arranged and getting presents, Liying for getting the MQ juniors and seniors to contribute, and Hope for genuinely surprising me with a mini-cake at dinner. And to all the people who wished me a happy birthday, and who contributed to my presents, many many thanks. Birthdays are fun only because of the people you have to spend it with, so my eternal gratitude for making it such a memorable one. As for presents, I was of course over the moon to get Myst V: End of Ages, and the Swatch watch was also really nice.

Have I mentioned I got an iPod shuffle from my dad as my birthday present. This must be the best birthday present I've ever gotten. Of course I've been hoping to get an MP3 player for a long time now, but I never expected my dad to actually get one, let alone an iPod, so I was really surprised and delighted when he gave it to me. Yay, now I can listen to my favourite songs everywhere I go, and not be subject to noisy TVMobile sounds on buses. (Though Primetime Morning is not that bad, because of Steven Chia ^__^)

Yeah, so again, thank you everyone. I really appreciate all your efforts, and I had a great time last weekend.

Somehow the day itself doesn't seem like anything big. You wake up and it's just like any other day, with the exception of going out and eating really good food (we went to Tony Roma's, where I haven't been for ages). I don't feel more mature or significantly different or anything, and it's like, so what if I'm 21? I'm still going to be as cranky as I've always been, unfortunately. Oh well. It seems that after I turned 21 my annoying wisdom tooth decided that this was the best time to start growing again, so I've been suffering from somewhat depressing constant pain since Thursday. The doctor at the polyclinic referred me to the National Dental Centre to get it looked at, and gave me some antibiotics, so I'm getting better now.

Blogging nowadays is no longer as fun as it used to be. What with lawsuits and warnings flying all over the place one just isn't as free to say what one wants to say any more. When blogging about doctors and patients could potentially land me in hot soup, and the greater part of my every day life is spent in the hospital, what else do I have to blog about? I thought I was standing in a great expanse of free grassland, but suddenly cordons are popping up everywhere, and warning signs decorate the originally featureless fields. Sigh. You'll probably see some decrease in the number of posts appearing at this site, even though there are already few enough posts as it is. I'm beginning to feel I don't have much of a life.

The upcoming one-week holiday will be another exercise in futility, as my mind battles itself in trying to decide if I'm going to spend it reinforcing my medicine and surgery theory, or reading fiction. As it is I've started re-reading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (Book 11 is coming out this month, yay), and I know that I probably can't stop now that I've started. And there are so many other books I want to read. I've set up this little section in the left-hand column of this site, where I've listed the books that I want to read. Hopefully I'll have enough time to read them, without sacrificing my studying time. Right now I've this really bad feeling that my theoretical foundation for medicine and surgery is really patchy.

Being attached to the Urology team for the last two weeks of the posting is great fun, because the Uro people are all really really nice. The registrar has broken a record for talking to us continuously throughout his clinics. Usually other doctors ignore us in clinics because they have so many patients to see and talk to, and we end up being bored bystanders, but Mr. C would stop halfway through talking to a patient to tell us important urological principles, so much so that we were a bit surprised and worried that the patients would feel like we're talking over their heads. But it was great fun, truly. I think, if there's anything about surgery that appeals to me, it would be urology. Don't know what that says about me. But the crack possibilities are endless.

I get really irritated by people who don't do things you ask them to do even when you've reminded them ten bajillion times, and it doesn't even involve much inconvenience on their part, but is important to you. How many times do I need to remind these people before they can get a simple thing done, I have no idea. But I'm getting really tired of asking. I don't feel like doing it anymore. Even more insulting is when these people think I need reminding to get simple things done, and circumventing me to make sure it gets done. If you have no trust in me, fine. End of story.

End-of-posting test occured on Wednesday, so these few days have been relaxed, and will probably stay that way until the end of the posting. I still feel we have too many tutorials in TTSH (I keep saying we should skip them and go for clinics and OT instead, but some of my group members are not very willing to do so. Oh well). Yeah, too few, we complain, too many, we complain. We are so hard to please.

Avaris / 10/08/2005 02:01:00 PM

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