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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:02:11 GMT

LAST DAY IN SINGAPORE!!! PLEASE LET ME GET OUT OF THIS PLACE!!!

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:19:25 GMT

SG host till the lan shop closes, which is around 3 am. you see, in order to preserve law and order in the country, and in order that all good citizen in Singapore should have maximun productivity in the next day, all shops and pubs have to close at 3 am here. very reasonable...

Hong Kong should learn something from Singapore about how to prevent a public food scare: not a single government lab here performs toxicology test. Ignorance is a bless, yes~~

Monday, June 18, 2007

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:51:08 GMT

juz back from melaka and KL. if not for the time constrain and $$ issue, i would love to stay in meleka for a bit longer, and maybe even settle down there for long. but life is life...

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:13:58 GMT

Risk factors for a Dengue Fever diagnosis were travel to the Malay Peninsula (odds ratio [OR] 4.95; confidence interval [CI] 2.92 to 8.46), age 15-29 years (OR 3.03; CI 1.87 to 4.92), and travel duration >25 days (OR 8.75; CI 4.79 to 16.06).

i am not sure about how to calculate the cumulative risk, but it is definitely high alright...

Monday, June 11, 2007

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:43:16 GMT

nurses are the same everywhere... they are juz a bunch of social animals who will flock around and bitch about whoever that is not there... the same traits here, juz in different language...

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:36:07 GMT

my bowel is so sensitized by the chilly now that food of any sort (even the plain O' bread and butter) will trigger off an explosive 'spicy' diarrhoea. but the pros of this is that i can eat as much as i want to without gaining a single pound, and i can now accurately tell you where the Dentate line of my anus is...

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Tue, 29 May 2007 12:30:16 GMT

i am now sitting on a time-worn leather chair in a starbucks, sipping camarel macchiato, immersing in a sea of broken singlish, and eye-grazing on all the party-going chicks behind the glass. this is what i call life~ oh yea~~

Monday, May 28, 2007

Mon, 28 May 2007 11:27:52 GMT

when you are attached to a doctor who only has clinic once a week, and who, despite claiming to be responsible for all the wards on the entire floor, only goes to see three cases in the morning, you would have only two judgements of him: one that he is a super slack king who is about to get fired by the hospital, or, he is a too good to be doing anything mundane...

the doctor i am attached to apparently belongs to the latter... as i juz found out that he is the co-editor of the Clinical Approach to Medicine, the Singapore's equilvalent to Asia.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Mon, 21 May 2007 03:00:32 GMT

The worst patients are those rude and uneducated ones who think they know everything.

and everyone here seems to fit into that...

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Wed, 16 May 2007 11:59:04 GMT

Notes fron Singapore, writen in a sea of shooting and killing of computer games:

It was totally out of my expectation, that a should-be holiday would turn out to b something tougher than what is to come in med 5. My grand plan of going sun bathing every afternoon has to be foiled as we now have to rise before the sun rise and can only come back after the sunset. Life here certainly isn't as slack as what I have left it. I am literally under strict surveillance and have to sign in and sign out everyday. There is scarcely little time left for meal and sleep, let alone play. And although Singpore is reputed to be a place of boredom, we find everything non-medical utterly interesting because of the prolong deprivation from them. I am not sure if it is the climate, the food, or the monotonous patriotic statement from the every taxi driver we encounterred, but i am really starting to like singapore. And i am even beginning to adapt the local accent. Lee Kuan Yew must be so pleased to hear this. Maybe he will even let me indulge in a little fun of gum-chewing.

As for the elective, one verse from Shakespear would sum it up well:

That we call rose,

By the other names would smell just as sweet.

And for others who are also in Singapore, please call me at 82046507. We can arrange a little rendenvous maybe~~