Slack Day

haha... my day in the hospital ended at like 11 plus yesterday... supposed to go for ward rounds at 8 in the morning. went to e wards, couldn't find any of the drs... so clerked a patient! sheesh!! i forgot how to clerk already... i was like thinking... okai... past med history... wat's next... hahaha!! my brain still in a holiday mood leh.. i must've looked super blur in front of e pt! but she was such a sweet lady.. even offered to let me examine b4 i asked!

Gastroscopy
anyway, after tt i joined Paul (my charming supervisor) at the gastroscopy centre. saw a couple of oesophageal varices due to Hep C cirrhosis and endoscopic banding which they use for prophylaxis of variceal bleeding in large varices. oh! n i actually saw a primary sclerosing cholangitis!!! wow... one of those conditions which are so rare in Asians that i din even bother to read for the patho exam.

okie... looks like it's time to change a bit of mindset coz i'm in a country wif caucasian population and caucasian diseases. All those strange diseases must go read up liao... otherwise i can't keep going on wif the excuse that "oh.. i dun see tt in s'pore, so i'm not really sure what's tt."

and i'm gonna sing "it's a small world after all... it's a small world after all..." coz i met a melb medical student so i just shun pian asked her whether she knows Grace n Ruba... and she was like "HEY! how do u know them? I'm really close to them!! we hang out together!!" hahaha!! but i was quite sad to find out tt Grace is doing a rural posting somewhere really far, so i wun get to see her... hopefully we can arrange something over e weekend...

anyway, yup... yest was a really really slack day... i had e whole afternoon free... to read some stuff, type blog, reply emails, haf lunch, chit chat, go supermarket, cook dinner, play cards and tok crap in liling's room... haha!! good life huh??

SAFEWAY supermarket
this supermarket's like our NTUC fairprice... haha... even though the products r different but somehow tt's e feeling we got when we entered e place. there's this HOMEBRAND products which r super super cheap for almost everything... so u can imagine two girls ploughing through all e shelves looking for homebrand chicken, homebrand pasta sauce, homebrand pasta, homebrand cheeze. hahaha... when we paid at the counter, everything was homebrand... so funny...

we were too ambitious also, coz we bought too many things n ended up lugging them several streets to get home... haha... totally din expect the distance home to be so long...

Our Favourite Game
liling, ken n i are getting addicted to gin rummy... we can't play bridge coz fengyi refuses to play cards wif us... think it's some principle thingy or just personal preference la i guess... n we forgot how dummy bridge goes liao (someone enlighten me?)... n we were chitchatting while playing cards also... tokked abt really deep stuff... relationships, life, expectations, etc... pretty enjoyable evening i must say...