( i just find this picture really intriguing :) )

i have this weird theory that medical students have to get used to being poked before we get the chance to inject/poke others...

on tuesday, i had another immunisation session!! haha... for Hep B and chicken pox (2nd dose)... two injections on one arm... ouch... actually i tot i was there for the chicken pox injection, but they told me i had to take Hep B... then i asked abt the 2nd dose for the c.p injection cos they gave me one before the june holidays...SO, they said ok, better take another one rather than not being immunised, so they gave me two injections!! how kind :P
let me count, i have been injected abt 7 times since the beginning of this year... it is becoming a routine that i am like "want to poke, just poke" haha...:)

moreover, we had a practical today on a glucose intolerance test... during this test, we had to measure out fasting blood glucose then consume 50g of glucose( u sld see the amt of glucose powder!! almost half a cup of powder and we added water... SO SWEET).. i think u can almost bake a cake with tht amt of sugar!!!

then we had to measure our blood glucose 5 times in total over a period of 2 hrs, to see how our blood glucose rise and fell... as u can guess, we were kinda worse than a diabetic patient, cos we had to prick our fingers 5 times over 2 hrs with this device called the minilet lancet...u pushed it down and the needle inside pricks u... we had to plaster all our five fingers after that cos some pple cldn stop the blood frm flowing...it was really weird...5 fingers all plastered... but i didn like the feeling of plasters on my fingers so i decided not to use them...my blood clotted easily, which helped:)

but eeliang, i think, had "clotting problem", not enough vit K... haha.. he just had to prick himself once and used that finger to draw blood 5 times...doesnt seem to clot! lol...

it has been a long day... :) before that glucose prac, it was necessary to fast for 3 hrs and the prac was at 1pm to 4pm, so in total we had to starve for 6 hrs... haha... i started the day at 9am, and lynn brought brownies to PBL, so i took one, tried to finish it before 10am so it wld be three hrs before the prac...but i left the other half in my bag..:)


my fasting glucose was 2.4mM/L, which was really low, ocnsidering the normal range is frm 3.9-5.6mM...n i had a BROWNIE tht morning plus breakfast before that!! haha... HYPOGLYCEMIA i think... overproduction of insulin.. hehe...


finished prac at 430pm, went to tennis court to pass some time cos pj, peter (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!:)!), dickson, paul, geoff etc were there hitting...played a bit, which was hard cos i cldn run in my shoes...


at 530, i had to attend the talk by National Healthcare Group frm spore which was here to invite overseas medical students to do their housemanship year in spore instead...yes, they seem to have to many PULLING factors... might consider doing it back there too:)

anyways, the crowd was mostly 5/6th year students who were abt to graduate, and i was the only 1st year student there... andrew and pamela was 2nd years with me, but i felt so out of place...LOl...things i do for IMSS:) haha... jkjk... it was an interesting talk though...felt closer to home after that as the speakers were all singaporeans and the people there were surprisingly mostly malaysians wanting to do internship in spore...

i realise the route to being a specialist, frm housemanship year, to medical officer, to resident, to consultant to senior consultant, missing some steps in the middle wld take another 6-7 years... they estimate to become a full specialist, u wld be abt 32 and most of them can finally branch out into private practise when they are 40 plus...plus there are endless exams to pass, interviews and hurdles to overcome... wat a LONG LONG journey... seems exciting though...determined to work harder... esp when there is so much competition i realise...!!!

anyways, went to kimchi grandma for dinner with pam and andrew, n i realise that my sem 1 marks wd go into my research year... as in my chances to go back spore to do my research year in sem 6-7... !! i really have to push myself le... average to be above 70 at least.!! my previous avg was like 64?? sighs... hope it gets better:):) i have always tot sem 1 marks were not counted at all!! sobs... but ya, at most i am stuck here!! haha...

gg to be another busy weekend.. have to perfect my mua chee to sell at the IMSS stall at the food festival next week... haha... there are other stuff we are making too so hopefully we can finally raise some funds..:)

i games coming up too... i wanna join!

medleys show next friday!!!:) "dancing with the tsars"!

HP essay is due in less than two weeks!

NDM TEST soon too!!!


SIGHS!!!! BUSY BUSY BUSY!!! stress!!! haha.. :):) at least it is sat tmr:):)



random fact:) i am seriously craving this so much!! will be grateful to anyone who sends this to my door!! :P lols... more like i have to make it myself but i must get sweet potatoes which i dont know where to find!!! sad case:)

jacq has weird cravings i know:)
signing off...