Tuesday, April 26, 2005
saturday's sun was so~ hot. forgot to put on sunscreen on my face and it has turned red after a day at sentosa. an unlucky thing happened to me at sentosa. i put my ripcurl singlet on top of my bag at a pavilion and at the end of the day when i went back, my singlet was gone! i had no other shirt with me so after bathing i had to walk to the nearest shops at coastes to buy something to wear. luckily for me the billabong shop was still open and i bought a singlet from there. if not i would be forced to buy some sentosa souvenir t-shirt that i will never wear again.
went to our class chalet at the chevrons. for the uninitiated it is some sort of a country club for saf people much like safra. wanted to go ice skating at first but turned out we didnt have time to go and most of them didnt bring long pants. the barbeque could have been better had not the fire been so strong. nonetheless i still enjoyed the food and the process of preparing it. i passed out for the first time in my life at the chalet. they were trying out this method of hyperventilating and holding ur breath to make yourself blackout for a few seconds. i've heard about shallow waters blackout before but had never tried it. the concept is that by hyperventilating, u are decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide in your lungs. hence when u hold your breath, ur brain will not feel the need to breathe until there is no oxygen left, causing a blackout. tso rern was the first to try and he succeeded on the first try because he had already done it before. jessie kept laughing when chie sing applied pressure on her chest. after umpteen tries, just when we least expect it, she fainted. i was the last one to try. i blacked out on the second try after fadzillah made me laughed on the first one. thinking back, it was kinda dangerous. anyone with a weak heart or body might never regain consciousness. i only tried because i thought it wouldnt cause any harm as permanent brain damage only occurs after a few minutes of hypoxia (oxygen shortage). luckily nothing happened to any of us who tried and the rest were too scared to try.
going clubbing tomorrow. it's been a long time ;)
thoughts running wild11:43 PM
Monday, April 18, 2005
its been a week since i started my attachment. not what i would say eventful but there was a few interesting episodes. first of all, tan tock seng radiology department really has so much good looking male radiographers. some of them kept long hair, coloured hair, colourful shirts that were tucked out etc. even the radiologists are young, tall and decent looking. it was so funny seeing my female classmates gushing over them. they were even taking photos with them instead of taking x-rays! they were not drop dead gorgeous. but in that kind of setting, anyone above average is already a treat. just like how i would get excited over female radiographers or nurses that werent exactly a knockout but still somewhat attractive ;) . sadly these chances are few and limited.
there was this quite stylish radiographer from hongkong who was hitting on melissa. he would only ask melissa to accompany him to the tentage area to do x-rays and always finding opportunties to talk to her. he even ask her to sing any song in cantonese today so that he can hear her voice...haha. mel got teased by us (me in particular) non-stop for that ;) .
there are some really bad cases in a&e that i wished i can share. but i dun think it would be very professional to reveal such information on my blog. not to mention i might incur the wrath of my patient care lecturer :) .
Stage A (normal) competencies are so few in the a&e and in-patient departments. i have only completed 3 competencies after 6 days. the radiographers were generally pretty lenient. which is not really a good thing. i hate students who just want to do competencies even before they are competent. they don't know the procedure and technique well enough and after the radiographer helped them, they still have the cheek to ask for competency! and the radiographer will give it to them. i firmly believe that tons of practice is definately gonna be more beneficient than the signed compentencies. and that is the problem with the system. it actually encourages students to finish the competencies at the expense of more practice. i heard they used to have a system whereby there is no competencies to do. u have to collect cases. they have to do a number of cases unassisted before passing the requirement for that one body part. that should be the way to assess a student. sighs...i have gone on a long nagging session again. pardon me :) .
shall update over the weekend should there be anything interesting that pops up.
thoughts running wild9:31 PM
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
havent been blogging in a such a long time! was busy with exams previously and had been enjoying myself over the weekend. played game overnight till 7am on both friday and saturday. didnt touch a computer game for very very long le. but someone left a original chinese game chu liu xiang at the void deck and seeing the beautiful box and case, i decided to bring it home. had to wake up at 12pm on both saturday and sunday to go to the beach and rollerblading respectively. not enough sleep :( . yan ne called me on sunday night and asked me to go kbox. reached the ang mo kio k box at 10pm and sang till 2am. marvin sang so like jay chou can...haha.
first day of clinical attachment and i was on mc. no it was not because of the kbox session the night before ;) . anyway was posted to the a & e department. lotsa blood around as expected. however its not as busy as many made out to be. maybe these 2 days are just lucky days :) .
need to hit the gym soon...
thoughts running wild11:28 PM
