Sunday, May 29, 2005

Patch Adams!

Watch the movie today on com and I love this great guy! Finally understood why so many medical students were raving about this old movie from the past! His lofty ideas and undying love and concern to patients serve as an inspiration for all medical students. What I find amazing about him is how he can shed his pride off and be his true self in front of his patients (whom he considers his friends and 'doctors' as well) and touch them sincerely from his heart, curing them of their diseases with his love. I love it when he made kids laugh with his big red nose, calmed a hostile pancreatic cancer patient with his song and agitate his professor with his compassionate work and high-flying results. This is the only movie so far this year that made my lacrimals work overtime and I'm not shy to say I was really touched by this movie, esp the scene when the kids came to the court to support him in his suit against being kicked out by the medical school for 'excessive happiness' syndrome.

Ratings: 5 stars! 10/10! A must watch for all medical students and doctors about our common dreams and ideals!

Saturday, May 28, 2005

For 2 weeks in a row, I got walloped in badminton matches. First, it was by a Perak state player in the MUNUS game. Then, the epitome of my standard came today when I played this old foggy in the NUS Med Staff-Student match. Damn, I got raped 0-15 in the 1st set and the 2nd set wasn't any better either. Think it's time for me to hide in a cave in a mountain far far away and start thinking about life after badminton... *Sob*

Friday, May 27, 2005

F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S

Today has never been better and it seems that 27/05/2005 can go down in my history books as 1 of the greatest days alive~!

The morning was kicked off with a fantastic Liverpool win in the European Cup! How in the world did Liverpool manage to comeback from 0-3 down to score 3 goals in 6 mins to tie the game and then win 3-2 comfortably on penalty kicks?? Impossible!! Now I must churn that strength they possess into my supp paper, for I shall conquer it the way Liverpool conquered the entire Europe continent.

Next up in the afternoon, I had a nail-biting time watching my RJC juniors thrash their TJC opponents 3-2 in both the males' and females' badminton finals to swipe the double gold again for the 3rd time! I'm so super proud of them for proving themselves yet again to be the best in the country and for continuing RJC's prowess and legacy in the game! Later, some of the old foggies aka seniors, including myself, joined them for the champions' dinner @ Genghis Khan in Taka. Boy, the seafood buffet is really expensive and I don't advise anyone to eat there unless they're really hungry or have no better place to spend their money. Rather, I enjoyed the company of some of the juniors whom I've not seen in years and we had much catching up to do.

Yawnz, I'm tired now. Should really be studying hard... My only source of motivation now comes from the Taiwan trip that me and Qingyuan have planned for in July. I need to get out of this place for fresh air! K, enuf of whining, shall conquer endocrine now...

Monday, May 23, 2005

Munus! Bagus!

Okie, I hope this works! Haven blogged in donkey years and am unsure whether the post would be rejected again or not!

After 2 days in KL for MUNUS, I finally got the continuous sleep I needed so badly. The Malaysian commando mosquitos managed to break through the barriers set up for them and sting the shit out of me to make me sleep deprived for 2 straight nights! Hate them!

Anyway, back to MUNUS. I was very happy to be able to travel up to KL proper this time round, with so many of my classmates, and for a totally different purpose - that is to play games with our medical counterparts in their home-ground. I love the people there for their hospitality! There's this traditional kampung feeling when they went all out to borrow cars from their relatives and friends at 12am just to bring us out to the KL night scene when we arrived. Not only so, they did that for 2 nights too. Wow! I wonder whether we'll ever do so if they come over.

Okie, I think I had dreadfully worn myself out for the past 2 days cause I think I was the only mad idiot to play 4 games, Hockey, Badminton, Futsal and Touch Rugby, straight from morning till night and again on the next morning. It was very interesting to play with the Malaysians because they were outright skillful in Hockey and Badminton and as such, I lost with a smiley face and no regrets! :) But who would ever thought about playing in hospital grounds for badminton and table tennis? The playing areas came as a shocker for the slippery backyard was so crammed and we were playing just outside patient wards so loudly that I think we woke the entire hospital up!

Futsal at night was way cool! For the 1st time, our team played with guts out and we actually managed to beat the malaysian teams to avenge for Singapore's loss to Malaysia in international scenes. Haha! To those who decided to go shopping at night, sorry but you missed 3 great matches that our med guys showed what they can do with their heads and legs! We topped the league, injured some of our players and endure some taunts from the 'mats', but man, I can safely say we played like true men and indeed was proud of our results! This surging energy continued the next day when we brought our winning 'streak' to the rugby fields. Actually, we kinda won because they din know how to play. But who cares...we won! Haha!

Other interesting stuff that took place:
- clubs and pubs @ bangsar filled with nothing but indians...gosh~!
- morning breakfast comprising of rice and chilli
- transporting huge humans in the miniest of cars --> the powerful Kanchils!
- saving a mother cat aka pussy from the hostel window ledge
- frightening malaysians with sg frisbees
- walking along the hilly road to travel from 2nd residential college to 6th residential college and back even though motorbikes and cars are plentiful
- driving out in the night to watch FA cup, only to return back to the hostel because there's no space out there in the hawker area. Man U lost!
- supper (1 ice-milo, 1 pattaya mee goreng, 1 ramli burger) at 1am in hostel grounds for 5RM
- walking around in KL streets with a walletful of ringgit but there's nothing to buy!
- eating buffet dinner 1/2 hr before futsal kick-off. What a ploy by malaysians!
- eating deep fried and heavily-floured chickens for chicken buffet dinner
- taking 5 nauseous rides in Times Square indoor theme park after the buffet dinner. Nearly puked out the chickens from the stomach.
- shoppping around in Pertaling Street for 1hr only to buy 1 pack of longan drink
- playing cards in KL street
- a ride from SG to KL took 8 hrs, but only 4 hrs on the return trip. Did the roads contract at night?

Made several new malaysian friends from Universiti Malaya. Hope this new friendships continue to last beyond the MUNUS games. I'm starting to miss KL already...