May 2012
4 posts
Headcount.
So today’s the 27th of May.
It’s 4 weeks into THE new job
Just received the first true-blue paycheck
Signed up for credit cards, paid my bills, gave my mum money and feeling poorer than ever now that I am truly financially independent
Delivered several babies, assisted in a couple of Caesarean sections and repaired quite a number of episiotomies
Slogged through 4 calls
Made a...
“Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for...”
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists (via thresca)
April 2012
12 posts
“Remember the enemy is not the patient, not your consultant, not even your fellow...”
– A/Prof Paul Ananth Tambyah
Remember, remember, remember.
Graduation.
I have graduated!
By way of good luck and sheer willpower I have passed my final exams, and gotten a spot in my cluster of choice. I’m glad. Circumstances could be more ideal but I really cannot and should not complain. Happy hunger games! It is how it is.
The best part about medical school, other than character building (hahaha well this can go both ways), is finding true friends amidst...
March 2012
14 posts
So, finally.
A real blog entry but let’s keep it short and sweet because it tends to get a bit melodramatic if I don’t control myself.
MBBS is over! Well, at least my first try is. Hehehe let’s hope that a second try won’t be required cos that costs 6 months, crazy amounts of money and a lot of psychological damage.
It’s been a crazy year. Mad as hell. I really wanted to kill...
February 2012
13 posts
observando:
Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
-Anne McCaffrey
40 days to the end (hopefully).
January 2012
12 posts
The Husband →
by Joseph Mills
He comes every day to eat lunch and sit with her in the sun room. Sometimes he reads letters out loud from their children or friends; sometimes he reads the paper as she sleeps. One day the staff makes her favorite cake to celebrate their anniversary, and he tells how, to buy her ring, he worked months of overtime at the factory, so she thought he was seeing someone else. “As if I...