A hypertensive day

I see my reflection in the laptop's reflective screen and I laugh. Although it moves when I laugh so I try not to. It's really a strange sight. I'm wearing a face mask that C gave me (my first time using such products). Anws I went into the living room to try to scare my sis after I patted the mask into place. Unfortunately my mom commented on it and thus my sis did not get a shock. Sigh.

Today was a day that got my blood pressure up on more occasions than one.

PHS: I was paired with an M5 who was holding consultations and my job was to assist him. It was really a pleasure working with this lovely lovely M5. He asked permission from every single patient to let me take their blood pressure and lent me his stet to do so. He silently positioned the stet correctly when I used the bell instead of the diaphragm. When I made mistakes, he would beam at the patient and said in his encouraging manner, "We are all learning", covering my embarrassment. When I could not get the correct readings, he assured me that the patient's pulse pressure was really soft (it was true-he wasn't just trying to make me feel better) or that that particular BP was really hard to get. He gave me a tutorial in between patients and let me practise on him though the patients were piling up. When I got him a cup of milk from the free Omega 3 milk booth, he drank it despite his beliefs that milk increases the risk of osteoporosis (which he preached to the patients but I failed to hear as I was trying to master taking BP in my mind haha).

When I become a senior in the clinics, this is the kind that I want to be. (:

Oh! Time to remove the mask!!

And I will remember this day for more reasons than one. ;)

Light me up

You know it's bad when the bacteria with their coated complement look like aliens landing on their spaceship (the macrophage) and your mind is so far away in outerspace and it fails to return to the lt no matter how hard you summon it. Kinda like aliens have abducted your grey matter.

Here I am again, sitting in the dark with only my table lamp as my room's sole source of light. The light blew last night and it's not been fixed. Tell me, how to start preparing for tutorial like that? Note to self: Buy Mama Robbins, Abbas (?), and Pharmaco and MicroB. Note to self II: Winter's belated birthday celebration

I remember running on the all too familiar SN track to the beat of the Band or CO, whichever were having practice that day. One of the random thoughts that came to mind while I was running just now. Anyway I've been pretty proud of myself for an achievement and I thank God for giving me the strength- almost a month now. So Note to self III: Keep it up

Don't tell me it's not worth fighting for

That song is stuck in my head.

Today I fluttered my eyelashes at so many people (at their requests) and now my eyelids are feeling tired and relatively immobile. Haha my levators palpebrae superioris are probably not used to the workload! In fact, I think they are experiencing some muscle ache now.

Winter turns 5

Designed by a friend. (:


Best dog in the world:
Knows how to open doors (that are already ajar)
Knows how to knock politely and then persistently on my door
Squeaks while having happy dreams
Insists on getting a hug every time I come home
Snatches ham from people's hands and gobbles it up in two seconds (though she's allergic)
Spoils picnics by peeing on the mat
Jumps off bicycles and gives me heart attacks
Afraid of the waves. And thunder and rain and cats
Not interested in having any doggie friends despite having many suitors
Embarrasses me by growling at waiters

Happy Birthday silly Sweetpea

Eyes that mesmerize

First week of M2 is over. Rag, watched Up, learnt from a President's scholar cum MBBS with honours Paeds cum geneticist lecturer (!!!) in a tiny LT, one study session that wasnt very successful in the library, ys's birthday, Arts fair, seeing the M1s getting settled into school, a most memorable OG lunch at Aston's- we were seated in a long long row tucking into yummy food when it suddenly started raining, settling CG that everyone has been talking about for some time now- am happy with the arrangement. That about sums up my week, leaving me with a huge pile of readings to do for the weekend. A good week, despite my being sick and not very speedy recovery. I think I'd hafta make another trip down to UHWC (sigh) for some amoxicillin as it's clearly bacterial, having lasted a week.

So off I go to increase my knowledge in leukemia, Down's, single gene defects, AD/AR/XLR.............. before I head down to church and Chomp Chomp with BFFs! (:

Pokerface

School starts tmrw. Officially M2. There's no honeymoon week like last year though, tmrw we dive straight into the unfamiliar world of genetics and genomics. I'm happy and excited but I don't think I can handle the usual 4 lectures/ day cuz I've come down with a terrible bout of URTI. Of cuz I wish the holidays were longer. But still. Happy (: