Short notes.

Went Lumix-hunting this afternoon. Came home frustrated. Thought of doing something drastic. Drove to Saberkas. No parking space in the whole freaking complex. Drove to Hopoh. Dyed my hair red. Then decided to add some streaks. Cost me a freaking RM130/-. Now regreting it a little. Had so much for dinner. Now having heartburn. That's a predisposing factor for stomach cancer. Shit. Can't seem to google pictures of the Raj brothers. Can't decide who's cuter. Now watching Judging Amy. Cool. After that study. Good night.

Salient points

Yes, this is the Panasonic Lumix FX01! Gorgeous!

• Panasonic Lumix FX01 has arrived in Malaysia! Was obsessively checking out the Malaysian Panasonic website for the past 2 months, and wahlau today so shocked to see the camera on the site! (Eventhough I was waiting for it....) *Finally* Check out this site for more info on the little cutey.... :) Now just have to wait for it to cross the South China Sea...
• So inspired by our national men's hockey team playing against Pakistan in the Commonwealth Games this evening! Grrr! (like the tiger... hehe!) Though they went down 5-6, I was so impressed by their spirit and passion! (There were a few pretty cute players too!)... they edged India out by goal difference and now has a chance at a shot of a medal! Good luck guys!
• If my calculations are right, I have 53 DAYS to my professional exam! *aiks* Now for some war strategy planning...
• Cheers!

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Happy Birthday Jo!

I know, I know a bit premature... Jo's birthday's not until Sunday but what the heck, we had the little celebration tonight... yes, my suspicion's quite right, impromptu's always the best... got a call in the afternoon about the dinner, and couple hours later, we were enjoying the food and each other's company.

Jo's the one siting on the right and next to her is Sue-Anne. Standing from left is Min Yen, Jane and ME!

Had dinner at this little Thai restaurant at BDC area... food was ok, service also ok, but I guess nothing quite spectacular because I have nothing much to say about it... but enjoyed the catching up the most. Half-way through dinner and conversation I felt like we were like the milder version of "Sex and the City".

Happy Birthday Jo!

Standstill

Life's stalling a little bit at the moment. It's like I'm just living the now for something better tomorrow. When actually I should be savouring every moment of my existence. NAh, that's too idealistic.

Enjoying my surgical posting a whole lot, but really wish I'm done with medical school and having a LOOONG break. I'm so envying Jane and Wendy at the moment. They can actually toss their watches away and be "lost" at the moment. Heaven.

Was talking to some friends about it the other day. What to do for our upcoming LOOOOONG break? SHOPPING. Find a place to backpack. SHOPPING. :)

Lumix FX01 is out, but I forgot I'm actually staying in Kuching. I'm actually a bit embarassed now because I sort of left my no. with a few camera shops in the city for them to call me when the "stock" arrive... they may call me when I start working in KK or something. OOpps. I suspect I shouldn't expect to see little gem for a couple of months. Great. At least it may come out the same time as S3 and Ixus 800. Then I have a another headache. I've successfully battled that ghost and now it's 2nd on my priority list. :)

My Juan Carlos (laptop) has not been the same since he came back from the service centre. We've grown apart. Now it's strictly business. Miss him though.

Bumped into a lecturer on the lift in my faculty. She cornered me on the ground floor when we were out of earshot of the other passengers. She actually grabbed my right shoulder.

"What happened to Josh?" she asked in a whisper, with the most painful expression I've seen recently.

I was taken aback, but managed to reply in a composed manner that disciplinary action was taken against him because he stole some library books.

"So it's true the incident with the library books?" she asked.

"I supposed so... he's been suspended." I replied.

"But he's a good Christian, isn't he?"

I was more taken aback than the first one. I was like "huh?"... WTF. Why am I put in this weird position. Of all people, me. I hate Christian-related questions.

"I don't know him personally Dr..." I managed to reply.

She looked terribly disatisfied with my response and I think she repeated the same Christian question but I just made myself look in a hurry and excused myself.

I thought she beat her breasts and shook her head... "What a waste! And such an intelligent boy...."

Yay... I agree... such a waste... and I scurried away like a cockroah from the distraught-looking figure of the lecturer. I can only wish Josh the best.

Best wishes all around. I know a lot of people are needing it. Cheers!

Good luck my friends!

I really wasn't intending to blog anything tonight until I heard from my friend Wendy who's a final year medical student in UM... they are having their finals starting tomorrow! I was like going OMG! By the end of next week, they will be so liberated, and by the end of next week, I'll still have 2 more case write-ups to submit, one end of posting exam to endure, all before my final professional in MAY, yes MAY. It seems too near, but my first reaction was of profound envy when she smsed me some 2 hours ago. I wish I could get all this masquerading and stalling over with. By now, if I can't manage asthma, I'm shit. Can't manage heart failure, I'm shit. Can't manage MI, I'm shit. Can't manage acute abdomen, I'm shit.

Other than this excitement and roller-coaster of emotions, today was quite a good day. Extremely tiring, but nevertheless, a good and meaningful day. I had a great time in the wards... got to do a lot of procedures, even had the oportunity to assist the house officers in inserting a chest tube... and today for once after so many weeks (or maybe even months) I felt like I was in sync with what I was supposed to be doing, if you know what I mean... I've been dragging my feet day after day for the past couple of months, and then BOOM! I felt so alive today! I felt like I'm actually doing a great thing. And the news from Wendy, I guess they are just signs of what coming, some reminders for me to buck up, to brace myself for the final test.

Cheers!

Feeling touchy

I have the afternoon off to nap, and what I do? Spent 2 hours watching "Redeemer" (which made me cry) and a rerun episode of Judging Amy (which also made me cry). Feeling touchy today I also don't know why. Then after that opened my Bailey and Love's Short Practice of Surgery (24th edition mind you, 1522 pages) and fell asleep on the book. Luckily I woke up in time before I drool on the new glossy page on thyroid cancer.

Then I decided the hell with book and when online and checked my email, received some nice pictures from my uncle, then read the latest updates of the PMA (Photo Marketing Association) 2006 that's going on in Orlando at the moment, and after that visited Kenny Sia's blog to find a laugh or two. All I can say is thank you Kenny! I don't know this guy, but's he's been entertaining me for the past month that I've started folllowing his blog.

The excitement and the craziness of camera-hunting has tonned down quite a bit because of the PMA 2006. Because I'm greedy and want to get the latest and the best that's in the market now, I may have to wait for a couple of months... if I had bought one last week or buy one next week without waiting for the ones that are being featured in the PMA 2006, I would kill myself. So now I have to learn some patience.

Remember I was going on and on about a Canon S2? Now there's a Canon S3! And I was going on and on about an Ixus 750, now there's an Ixus 800 with image stabilizer! And worse still, now I'm beginning to be more "educated" about this camera stuff that I'm actually looking at other brands of digital cameras besides Canon and Sony... I'm now loking into Panasonic (the brand of my hair dryer), Olympus (which sounds like a sports brand), Kodak (which just sounds katak, todak, kodok)... hey I'm just human and materialistic... name and looks matter... big time!

I was actually very interested in the Panasonic Lumix FX01, until I saw the the S3, and I'm back in the dilemma of the form factor yet again.

Let's see, something strucked me this morning. 3 of my colleagues indirectly said, "Whatever la, if want to have the discussion with Dr. Mra about our exam also can la, don't really care la. It's shit posting. Really demoralized me. Made me lose interest in Medicine... Luckily now Surgery posting, at least feel a little bit more motivated to study again...."

Ok la. They all didn't exactly say it like that, but I think I didn't derail too much summarizing it.

I felt a great sense of relief and even some degree of happiness, hearing that, because for the first time in many months, I didn't feel so lonely.... "Hey, I thought I was the only one feeling so lousy..." I chirped, and I thought I wanted to reach out to all 3 of them across the table in the side room of Male Surgical ward and squeeze their hands, but I don't remember what happened, but we were interupted and our conversation cut short, and I felt overwhelmed with some strong emotions... maybe that's why I cried watching Redeemer and Judging Amy just now... totally unrelated, but I think my threshold was lowered from this morning.

But I'm feeling more recharged after. Tonight I'm oncall, and for once I'm kinda looking forward to it. Planning to get my procedures done.

Hope you all have your own little, little happy stories in your lives right now. Cheers!