Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.: June 2006

i got cheated, 2 times in a row in 2 consecutive days

my body clock and mum's bday cake got totally screwed up at the end of day

i don't like this feeling at all

i am damn pissed and damn sad now... :(

world cup - the once in 4 years soccer tournament that never fails to get my body clock all screwed up. this year, it's of no exception and matters are complicated by the fact that i have no cable tv. so what do i do to curb this prob? hmm.. creative tak went to coffeshop, inhaled much cigarette smoke n drank couintless cups of coffee to sustain his stay. he went to huren's house for the 1st few days and disturbed his family. he stayed on in queensway macs with zhongyang and mark sim and again, inhaled much cigarette smoke (y the hell do pple love smoking so much??? pui!!!). finally, he found the 'da vinci code' of watching world cup live by downloading an online tv programme that he can watch all matches for free!! whee... isn't that great?

stupid world cup, now i feel too tired to run in the morning cos i can't wake up in time and i'm too lazy to run around in the evening, like now. heck it, looks like marathon running training gotta be put on hold till after world cup... boo, i hate world cup... haha...

i'm starting to hate 绿光森林 (green forest, my home) grr, the plot's so draggy and the drama could have been wrapped up in 2 episodes lah!! still, i'm watching only becoz of the female 2nd lead, who somehow looks terribly similar to the girl in 光良's MTV '童话'.

happy 21st to char and daniel! hope u guyz had a great time @ your parties!

school's starting in 1 week's time... how?? how???

med peeps @ char's bday party - very nice durian puffs that i'm holding

me and the bday gal, char~

me, zhongyang and mark sim at queensway macs watching world cup

someone feeding the turtles in queensway macs during the game...

a floating DHL balloon descending when i was studying in the National Library in Beach Rd

what have i been doing for the 1st week of holidays?? basically nothing except but play play and more play. went to sentosa on wednesday, got myself fried pretty badly on the only day of the week with scorching sun and ended up my with skin peeling now. been trying to camp out at home too, trying to finish my james patterson series of book but only got to finish 1 book so far - honeymoon. and for the highlight of the week, it has to go to the Aviva Singapore Badminton Open Championships. i was there on friday for the quarters and sunday for the finals. my my my. i simply love the superb atmosphere (though i went ALONE!! *sadness*) and the high level of playing skills. and of course, the thrill of seeing my favourite players in person! whee! peter gade, ronald susilo, mohd hashim, jonas rasmussen, peter steffensen and many more. amongst them, my fav is the indonesian doubles pairing of budiarto sigit and limpele flandy. they only partnered twice in their life and consist of 1/2 my all time fav pair of budiarto sigit (the master of wrist tricks!)and chandra wijaya (the smasher!). yup, flandy replaced chandra after the latter retired from injury?? hm...no idea... anyway, the new sytem of 3 sets of 21 points is more exciting because each bloody point counts, even service mistakes, and forces the players to concentrate and attack more. bleah, but i dun like the system too because it favours the faster and bigger europeans and force my fav lazy-styled indonesian players out. still, it's an exciting event to be at and i'm glad i was part of it all.

below are some pics (mostly lousy quality tks to my shitty cam) i took at the event:

quarter finals pictures...non-stop action from 4 courts from 3-9pm...

ronald susilo vs peter gade in the quarters...

the most shiok n explosive game: men's doubles between my all time fav indonesia (in black) vs the talles from denmark (in red)

the all-chinese women's doubles finals...yawnz...

the women's singles between France's Pi Hongyan (Chinese import) and Netherland's Mia Audina (Indonesian import)

the all-danish men's singles finals between my fav guy peter gade (in white) and kenneth jonasson (in black shirt)

other shots (in clockwise direction): everyone cheering at the start of the finals, 3 malay guyz hitting drums to get the crowd cheering, clown photographer, the line of tv cameras filmming the court

and so, the curtain to CSFC has drawn to a close. the tests + OSCE over the past week has been a nightmare. just when i've thought i'm capable of taking gd history and physical signs n symptoms from patients, i was proven totally wrong. yuckz.

for medicine tests, i forgot to check for spider naevi n virchow's nodule in a liver mets case and got my patho for liver probs all wrong when probed by the tutor. worse, i diagnosed another patient as having asthma when he had partial lung collapse, all because i din hear my stetho properly (my stetho is really for show only sia!!) and din test for vocal resonance. sigh, for surg test, i did check for vichow's gland correctly in another abdo exam but forgot to ascultate for sounds, din notice hyperpigmentation on left thorax from radiotherapy and din see a super obvious tube that ran from his left axilla because i was inspecting from the right. grr... and as for OSCE, i totally flung it because i've no idea what it was asking. sigh x 3

still, i did enjoy these 6 weeks in SGH because the tutors were very competent and cases that u needed to see were everywhere. also, i had khai wei as my buddy who guided me much along the way as well. i would miss the weekly-almost-turned-daily sessions in the SGH OTs, my 1st stitch on during a hernia operation, the friday 7am M&M sessions when surgeons bicker, my coolio surgeon hiang khoon, the daily coffee session plus the occasional goreng pisangs in the HO canteen, my med tutors dr felicia and william, ward 63 where i terrorized the patients, nurses and HOs, all the patients in SGH, my cg 10, and of course the liero game in medical student centre. oh man, y must i live that place?

next up is the hols before gg to NUH for med den CGH for surg. this is a nightmare come true and i can't elaborate much on why it is so here. help... so before that happens, i'll try to enjoy this last holidays. let the holidays begin... ...