heyhey! haha anusha ur dad was very funny lah!! i'm not sure if he was funny because he was really funny, or i just want to laugh when i see him. i mean, NOT in a bad way...but i just remembered how funny he was during the attachment. anyways, he gave us a summary lecture on upper limbs which we learnt for anatomy. i think the way he talks is very funny!! haha and he was speaking in a relatively fast pace. he started by standing somewhere in the middle of the aisle and shot questions at the person sitting beside him. hahaha and then he'll go to another topic or question and say "next" (as in the next person's supposed to answer), then "next!", "next!" and so on. hahaha. i just can't help laughing. i think that was a major factor that kept me awake during the lecture (since i had only 2.5 hr sleep the day before). there was this instance when he said this guy will not be allowed to enter the clinic for his attachment cos he was inappropriately dressed (he was in t-shirt. during attachment to hospitals u gotta wear formal/office wear). then he looked around and realised every other person was in t-shirt. hahaha i think he forgot he was teaching year1s who don't have dress code yet.
oh, and for medical students here we don't have other non-med modules. so yeah we don't get a chance to study things like anthropology and whatnot. and we don't get to dissect bodies..cos apparently they changed the system (cos doctors learn to heal, not dissect bodies, unless u're a pathologist) such that the bodies are already dissected to the muscle layer and we just observe from there. but unlike in ireland, i think there's hardly anybody who would willingly donate their bodies to science when they die..so most of the bodies are actually unclaimed. which i think was pretty sad..cos it's bad enough that u have no kin to collect your body and prepare a funeral and all..and now u have first year medical students who are still so unprofessional, probing at ur muscles and bones and pulling on ur nerves and tendons. we did say some oath thing to honour the cadavers as once living people..but i think people sometimes forget. and yes! the chemicals can get so strong that they sting my eyes!! and have very strong odour too. my neighbour's afraid of the labcoat which i wear during anat pracs. and she refuses to even wash her socks together with the labcoat. haha she's super funny lah!!

anyways, abt the block comm..the elections were held yesterday and oh well, i didn't get elected. i think i did alright..and i'm glad i got the support of alot of friends in the block. but nevertheless i was disappointed cos when i finally put my heart into running for the comm and being serious abt it, i just didn't get elected and that definitely didn't make me feel good. but i figured, after feeling a lil crappy for some time, that maybe it's a blessing in disguise..cos now i probably can focus more on other stuff..and i can have a shot at being an ogl for med or kr next yr! haha..i'm just trying to make uni life more colourful now cos i was talking to a year2medstudent and we decided that the 1st 2 yrs in med is when we have the most time to do whatever we want to do, before we start going for attachments and drown ourselves in hospital work when we graduate. :)

and, anusha, u'll need to sign up for ur own blogger account with ur own username so that u will sign off with like "anusha" or something. can send the invite to ur email again..only qing can send invite i think?

ok lah that's abt it i'm gonna crash..(or go movie marathon in the lounge!)

love yall babes!!!

Posted by joce! at Saturday, September 23, 2006