Randomness

For some reason unbeknown to me, my housemate has decided to ask me one random question a week. Well, so far she has been trying and making up for some lost weeks. Pity I can't remember those early questions. Anyways, let's start a list :)

1. Do you drool in your sleep?
2. Can you burp the ABC?
   

Zha Tou

I've had this really good consultant during my stint in Neurology. There were no problems whatsoever during our ward rounds. However, somehow, along the way he seems to have mixed up my name and someone else's. Now whenever we have clinical sessions with him (we as in the entire group of us doing our MHUs) he calls me David - without fail.
The rest find it really amusing, especially since I had him for 3 weeks in Neuro.
Today was our 3rd or 4th session with him, and seriously I expected him to get my name right this time round...seeing how I tactfully reminded him that I'm not 'David' the past few times.

Well, I wasn't surprised in the least when
"Alright David. Your turn" (we were taking turns doing reflexes)
...*I paused waiting for group to stop laughing*...
"...Ken"
"Oh that's right! Why do I keep calling you David? I haven't the faintest idea"

So we went through the session - I was pretty good at it :) Well, all of us were pretty good at it actually, he said so himself :)
Anyways, at the end as we were washing our hands I said goodbye to him. And he replied:
"Bye, David (intentional)"
"Maybe I should give you a new name too" *I grin*
"Maybe. But I'm the consultant." *grins back*

...ouch

Updates, updates

It's official. Sick season is fast moving in. Every other person I meet is either sniffling or coughing. I wasn't spared either - was down with the typical non-specific illness symptoms a few days back. Ended up skipping hospital to sleep at home for about half the day. And even when I was awake I had to wear my jacket cuz I was feeling cold. In the end, I decided "screw this" and started to train. Wonder of wonders I felt much better after that.
The next day however, my current registrar and consultant told me I don't look too well. And that I should go home for some rest. They were also afraid they might contract whatever it is I had since at the moment, the Coronary Care Unit is only the consultant, registrar and RMO. Anyway I had to leave for a tute so I left :)

Today we threw a surprise birthday party for Su Chuen, masterminded by Jebbrine and gang. Was told, in no uncertain terms that it was to be "hush-hush". I wasn't overly concerned since I'm pretty sure they could keep her out of the loop.
Apparently they got her into the room, and to keep her in the room, Jebbrine started screaming whenever Chu-Chu went near the doorknob. Eventually she was said to have rolled around on the bed screaming... o_O"

Anyway, the surprise was a success. Christine held her lit cake while waiting for her. When she came out she was shocked :) She gushed "OMG. I never expected this. etcetc". Then she made a wish and blew out the candles....and then the smoke alarm went off! Hilarious and quite potong stim as well. Fortunately they managed to turn it off before the main alarm was triggered, else we would be celebrating with firefighters as well :P
Chu-Chu giving her speech: "I'd like to thank my mother, my father, my pet goldfish..."

*Yes I know that's one of Eve's favourite lines. I'm just waiting for the day someone actually says that for a celebratory occasion*

The cake was so fantastic! Chocolate cake with fudge covering topped with tonnes of chocolate chips! Lovely stuff. Anyways after the pigging out session, we were entertained with the birthday girl strumming some songs on her guitar. After which Kian and Paul took over, Paul seemingly having a preference for Britney Spears songs. That was hilarious too.
Daniel arrived a little later bringing with him funny pics taken when they all went for some cricket session at Glenelg some time back.
The chocolate mud cake topped with chocolate fudge topped with chocolate chips topped with multicoloured candles arranged in the shape of 2 2s by Christine and Shiau Cern.


The girls.


And guys.

I'd put up the group picture of the guys and girls too but these are clearer.

On the way back to the house, I spotted a shooting star. How wonderful it was to catch a glimpse of an event that lasted a fraction of a second. I've been hoping to see one ever since I came here.

Good Grief

That was taken some time back when my cousin got married. Leng Hui saw this photo and told me:
"Eh...that guy looks so much like you!!"

I stared at her, a little disbelieving at what I heard.

..............."That is me."

She took a closer look, "Oh ya hor. Hahahahaha etc."

?Grossness

Specially for the unbelieving or just simply curious. So I shall walk you through the picture because I'm being nice :)
That's me holding a dustpan and my phone for size comparison. In the dustpan you can see the accumulation of 4 days' worth of floor sweeping. I don't have a zoomed-in pic, but believe it or not, I'm sure that more than 80% of that dust there happens to be skin flakes from yours truly. Surprised? I was too when I 1st came over - it either doesn't happen back home or I don't really notice it. But I've gotten so used to it.
Guess my theory that I constantly eat is because I constantly need energy for regeneration holds some water after all.
Actually, now I'm eating on an almost constant basis - hypothesized that I need the extra energy for heat production now that winter is coming.
Plus a few days back, I weighed myself on our scale and it told me I lost 1 kilo!
If this keeps up, I'm gonna be all skin and bones by the time winter is through. GG.

Adelaide's Weird and Wonderful

Adelaide's Weird and Wonderful is gonna be a post describing the out-of-the-ordinary occurences that we (will)experience during our time here.

• Flies in Adelaide are fannoying! Here the flies are so damn persistent that no amount of shaking, flailing or moving will deter them. They'll land on all the most annoying parts of your face like eyes, lips, ears and stay there. However, persistent they may be but slow they also are. They move like the mozzies back home so one can actually swat them.
  Sure some might say it's disgusting but I'd rather they be dead than bothering me.
  I'm actually doing Adelaide a service then because on the average, I've killed 3 flies per day since I've been here. Today was the highest count of 5 in the span of an hour...wonder if I can get paid for this?
  Note : For some weird reason the flies are mainly attracted to the males. Confirmed by the M204s who recently joined us.
• 16th February 2007 - late night 0300
  still awake due to excessive warmth, only managed to fall asleep around this time. Woke up surprised as I didn't hear my alarm ring only to find out that I had woken up an hour earlier than planned (0830). Couldn't go back to sleep cuz too warm so went and started cleaning the house for lack of better things to do...
  
• 17th February 2007 - It's so hot that I can't study, it's so hot that I just feel like sleeping, it's so hot that I can't sleep! HELP! Too kiamsap to use the aircon. Heh, well I don't think that will be a problem ever again.
• KFC here is just as bad if not worse than back home. Think I already mentioned this before but what the heck. It's tasteless and the pedas-ness is not pedas at all. Not even remotely close. Of course it could just be a coincidence but since Leng Hui also had some which was similar I think it's safe to say what I just did.
• McDonald's here serve smaller portions than back home. Bryan totally agrees with me on this. Back home I could not open my mouth big enough to eat a Big Mac. Here it fits nicely into my mouth. No I'm sure my mouth has not gotten bigger. I upgraded my meal to a large...and I wasn't full when I finished! At least at the one back home I'd be full.
  Oh yeah. They don't have the pump dispenser for ketchup or chili sauce either. Apparently, according to Bryan anyway, you gotta pay for the chili sauce here. Talk about weird.
• 3rd May 2007 - Bryan, Rahul, Leng Hui and myself went to watch Spiderman 3 on it's opening night here. Can you say the word ulu? There was no phone or internet booking for tickets (we didn't need to anyway, the cinema was less than half-filled). The tickets were similar material to the receipts you get at supermarkets. The seats had no cup-holders. Thankfully the screen was clear and the sound was crisp even though the speakers were those large amplifier-like boxes hanging from the walls.
  

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They say dreams are our subconscious interpreting events or working out unsettled stuff in our minds as we sleep. They could also be some kind of sign, or in some cases a premonition of sorts.
I wonder what my dreams could mean...

Original post 3rd May 2007
I've had this weird dream recently where I met this guy who seemed oddly familiar.
I'm pretty sure I don't know him and haven't seen him before.
The setting was in some university, I believe it was IMU.
Don't remember conversations but he was easy to talk to.
Found out that he stays very near my home, just the next street in fact.

And for some unknown reason, it feels disturbing.

2nd post 5th May 2007
A few nights later, there's another one with a morbid tone:
A group of us were having this party in a grand apartment somewhere. Somehow I know it's located on the 10th floor of a building. The wall which faces the outside of the building is not a wall. In fact there's nothing there - just a big gaping hole. The surprising thing is that nobody else seems to take notice of it, if at all.
The party goes on, everyone has fun but me cuz I keep looking at the hole wondering why nobody else is bothered about it. I have a bad feeling...
Someone backs up against the 'wall', sorta like he's shy of having his picture taken or realising he's gonna be the victim of a prank...then he steps into thin air...
Time seemed to slow down, I could see the look of utmost surprise on his face.
We all rushed to the hole and saw him falling slowly.
Someone laughed. Can't remember exactly who. Seemed that person thought it was some kind of joke before realizing what happened. Then everyone rushed down. Everyone but me.
I just sank to the floor in stunned silence.