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And I found Skechers. They are so sneaky (excuse the pun)! Those shoes are virtually sneakers disguised as casual/formal flats. The tough bit is: they are really expensive at £45-£50 a pair.
However, I managed to get my first pair of Skechers at TK Max - a clothing/fashion store selling branded goods at discounted prices. Then, I managed to get a second pair online for £15 (including delivery). Good stuff! My feet loves me now.
The movie was mediocre at best. Robert Pattinson was good eye-candy, but his acting was so wooden and his American accent was really distracting. Bella didn't grow on me. I just liked the baseball scene and the fight scene. Otherwise, there was no chemistry between the two main (oops, I nearly typed *male*) leads.
I've bought the book last year, but never got around to reading it. I bought it because I heard rave reviews about it, and it was going for £2.99 at Amazon. I thought I'd give it a try since there are a lot of people comparing the Twilight series to the Harry Potter series, which I love to tiny bits.
I'm halfway through *Twilight* (the book) now. The book is slightly better than the movie, but I'm not very attracted to the series. I couldn't put Harry Potter down, but I could put Twilight down to do other stuff.
Is it a sign that I'm growing older?
1. You Don't Mess With the Zohan
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. Kungfu Panda
5. Ice Age
6. Ice Age 2
7. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
8. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
9. Night at the Museum
10. Get Smart
11. The Wrestler
12. Red Cliff 2
13. The Accidental Husband
14. The Lion King
15. The Wedding Singer
16. Coach Carter
17. Hitch
18. Twilight
19: Borat
20. The House Bunny
21. Dragonball: Evolution
22. Wolverine
23. Bride Wars
24. Angels and Demons
25. Terminator Salvation
26. Confessions of a Shopaholic
27. Hancock
28. Bad Boys
29. Bad Boys II
30. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
31. New in Town
I know I haven't updated in ages, but yeah, I'm still alive and kicking. I might do a large round-up in a couple of days.
I love the iPod touch! Rob, my boyfriend has given me his iPod touch because he has an iphone now. There are so many different apps that I could install on the device. I could even put medical-related calculators and formulas on it.
Probably, the best function is the wifi capabilities. As long as I can access a wifi network, I can check my email, facebook, livejournal, msn, etc. I'm a newly converted apple fan!
More to come. Pity the hospital doesn't have wifi hotspots.
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In one of his last acts before death, Jesus forgave a thief dangling on a cross, knowing full well that the thief had converted out of plain fear. That thief would never study the Bible, ever attend synagogue or church, and never make amends to all those he had wronged. He simply said, "Jesus, remember me," and Jesus promised, "Today you will be with me in paradise." It was another shocking reminder that grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.
Beautifully written.
Last Thursday was the most stressful day in my working life as a doctor.
My entire team was away/on-call/in another hospital/in operation theatres. I was left all alone when I received a fast bleep.
Nurse: Mrs U has a pulse of 150 and a systolic blood pressure of 60. She is pyrexic too.
Me: How long has this been going on?
Nurse: Since this morning.
Me: Didn't the other house officer notice this?
Nurse: He said *patient's ok, just continue.*
Me: O...kay. I'll be up shortly.
Ten minutes later... After assessing the patient, doing all the basic stuff, and waiting for the ECG to be done. Patient was obese and immobile with a long list of cardiac complications, diabetes and a laparostoma. PLUS, she doesn't speak/understand English. Recruited a Gujerati-speaking janitor to help with the translation.
Me: Ask her if she has chest pain.
Janitor: I'm in charge of feeding her, you know.
Me: JUST ASK IF SHE HAS CHEST PAIN. NOW.
Me: *starts to panic* ****** ****.
ECG showed supra-ventricular tachycardia, most likely fast atrial fibrillation. Heart rate was 200/minute. Patient looked like she was about to expire anytime. Shouted for the nurses to push the arrest trolley down from the end of the ward and tried to ring my reg on his mobile, but he was scrubbed up in theatres with the patient opened up already. I grabbed the ECG and ran down the Emergency Medical Unit to get help. Fast bleeped the medical registrar. Medical registrar turned up in record time.
Med reg: Where are your seniors?
Me: They are not here.
Med reg: Are you all alone?
Me: Yes.
Med reg: This is unacceptable.
Recruited the janitor again to translate. Med reg thought that patient has had a massive heart attack. Reckoned that patient only had hours to live. Started discussing 'Do Not Resuscitate' orders and who to ring the family with me. Suddenly, the janitor who was listening to the discussion butted in.
Janitor: I have an important question to ask.
Med reg: Go on then.
Janitor: Should I still give her lunch?
Med reg and me: ....
Med reg: If you're hours away from dying, lunch would be the last thing on your mind.
Janitor: But lunch is very important! I'm in charge of handing out lunches!
At the point, the med reg and I just walked away. The story didn't end there, but there's already a lesson to be learnt.
Moral of the story: Horror stories of janitors feeding dead patients tea ain't very far-fetched.
Funny story of the week:
*bleep (pager) goes off, and I answer the page*
Me: Hello, Dr Wong speaking. Somebody bleeped me?
Nurse: Yeah, Mrs XXX has a blood pressure of 80/50 (hypotensive) and not passing any urine. Can you please come down and see her?
Me: Okay, will be over in a minute.
*10 minutes later, and after assessing the patient.*
Me: I've written up some fluids for the patient because she's very dehydrated and she's also post-surgery. Can you please put them up stat (ASAP)?
Nurse: Okay, leave it to m.
*One hour later, I went over to check on the patient*
Me: *horrified look* Why is the patient still having a blood pressure of 83/50? Have you put the fluids up?
Nurse: Oh, sorry. I went for my break. I just got back.
Lesson of the day: tea breaks for nurses are more important than the patient's life.
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1. Doctor
2. Electronic/electrical engineer
3. Professional musician
THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY LIKE THE OPPOSITE SEX:
1. I don't like doing housework at all.
2. I don't like the colour pink. Refuse to wear pink if possible.
3. I crack disgusting jokes sometimes.
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:
1. I love food.
2. I want to be a surgeon.
3. I'm in love with a friend.
THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A GIRL:
1. I love shopping, make-up and dressing up.
2. I can't resist a sappy romantic movie/book.
3. I enjoy receiving flowers, although I think it's a waste of money and I'm allergic to pollen.
My folks have flown in from Malaysia, and I'm being pampered by mummy. :)
Life's good at the moment.
Only a couple of weeks of doing poplocking properly again, I'm starting to see and feel the changes to my physical state. My arms are more toned, my abs are starting to feel firmer and my stamina/ muscle control/ flexibility have definitely increased.
I had a fitness level showdown with the guys over at church last Saturday, and I beat them hands down at flexibility and muscle control! And that is only after 1 week of proper crunches, push ups and hardcore poplocking foundation practice.
Poplocking foundations include hitting (as in controlling muscle tension according to the music beats) and muscle/joint isolations. Although poplocking isn't popular with girls (mainly because it's not exactly very feminine-looking), it's great for getting a toned and beautiful figure. :)
Watch this space! Photos coming up!
My current weight-loss programme:
(a) Diet
- cut out as much carbohydrates as possible. That means, no bread, less rice, no sugar in coffee/tea. Luckily, I don't have a sweet tooth and I don't like desserts very much. Therefore, cutting out sweets, chocolate bars, ice-cream and cakes shouldn't be too hard.
- Instead of carbohydates, I'm eating more protein. That means, more hard-boiled eggs. As opposed to traditional health myths, you can eat as many eggs as you want, and the cholesterol levels aren't as bad as eating a pack of fries.
- Drink more water so that I won't feel so lethargic and dehydrated.
(b) Exercise
- Loads and loads of walking briskly around. I am walking an average of 5-6 miles a day. :) It helps when the surgeons walk very fast when it comes to ward rounds.
- Plains ol' working out in my room with stuff like sit-ups, stretching, push-ups, etc.
- I admit I'm very rusty when it comes to dancing. Back in my 1st and 2nd year, I danced quite a lot and I had a pretty good figure (IMHO). I wasn't stick-thin, but I had curves in the right places and I could fit comfortably in a UK size 8 dress (that's a US size 4?). Last week, I even had problems fitting comfortably into a size 10 shirt. Thankfully, it's getting better. Therefore, I'm taking up dancing again - mainly hip-hop and poplocking. Hopefully, the girl living below me won't complain of the noise I'm making.
So there. I have the ability to make my weight balloon down if I really put effort into this. :) I can't wait to fit into a cheongsam by this date in July!
*jaw drops open* And I thought I was the only one who could do all those weird contortions and double-jointed moves for party tricks... You know, stuff like touching my forearm with my thumb. I have never seen contortions being incorporated into traditional popping and locking. This video is just sick.
Hugh Laurie (on Dr House): First of all, he heals people. That's attractive in its own right.
Craig (the interviewer): Yeah, that's sexy.
Can any other doctors testify to this? :p
Over the past few months, I have been following Malaysian politics very closely due to a lot of issues that has popped up recently. It kicked off with the infamous Lingam Tapes. The Lingam Tapes are a collection of short video clips featuring a telephone conversation between a senior lawyer and the chief judge of Malaya talking about 'fixing' their own men in top judiciary posts in the country. When faced with the video tape, the star of the tapes denied everything by saying these (in)famous words: He looks like me, he sounds like me, but he isn't me. *boggles*
Why are the Lingam Tapes so influencial? In the past, there have been whispers of miscarriage of justice due to political influences. The Lingam Tapes were solid proof of judge-fixing in the system. In a nutshell: provided you know the correct people, you can 'make things go away'.
That opened a huge can of worms. One thing led to another:
- the BERSIH rally - calling for electoral fairness, allegedly on the phantom voters issue in past elections.
- the HINDRAF rally - whereby 20,000 of the country's Indian ethnic minority took to the streets to protest on racial discrimination. Up to this date, five of the organisers are still detained under the Internal Security Act which the original intent is to detain people deemed dangerous to the nation's security - i.e. terrorists. One of the organisers was even voted into the Parliment while under detention!
- The Lina Joy case - if you are born a Muslim, you are forever a Muslim in this country, regardless of whether you want to leave the religion or not. Last year, a Malay Muslim lady converted to Christianity. In Malaysia, you have to apply for apostasy through the Syariah court, and this lady was fighting to get the label 'Islam' removed from her identity card. She failed. This raised the question of religious freedom in Malaysia.
- The Keris issue - the leader of the UMNO (ruling Malay-based party) youth organisation repeatedly took a keris (a Malay dagger) to the UMNO assembly, waved it around and kissed it to show 'Malay pride'. More like arrogance, if you ask me. Although he apologised eventually after the ruling coalition suffered a humiliating defeat in the recent elections, it was a half-baked and insincere apology.
There are loads of other issues like the Terengganu oil money dispute, the Altantuya murder case, corruption, etc. That resulted in a political tsunami in the March 2008 General Elections whereby the ruling BN coalition lost its 2/3rds majority for the first time ever since 1969. Five states in East Malaysia (my home state included) fell into Opposition hands.
Today, I came across this article talking about how humble and reluctant the Chief Minister of Penang is to spend the people's money for his own leisure - http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/conte
In the past, there has been reports of YAB Lim Guan Eng refusing to spend RM100,000 of the people's money to renovate his official residence, and he was still living in his father's old humble house. I was a little skeptical of this 'I wanna stay in my dad's old house because I don't wanna spend the people's money on my personal comfort', but a picture speaks a thousand words.
A politician like him earns my respect. Most other Malaysians would be left the country after being thrown into jail for apparent libel against an ex-Chief Minister in his old constituency. If they haven't left the country, they would have grown tired of the monkey business going around and quit politics. His love for Malaysia was so deep that he put up with the bullshit, made his way from a convict to the Chief Minister post and still lived humbly after he reached the top.
There is hope after all.
Anyway, I have been reading the Bible consistently over the past week. So far, I have managed to finish up 2 books from the Old Testament and 4 books from the New Testament. Currently, I'm halfway through 2 Samuel (OT) and Acts (NT). In the past, I have only read bits here and there, and haven't really read huge chunks at any one go. Still, each time I read the same passages, they always *feel* different.
Other than catching up on spiritual food (:p), I have been stuffing my face full of food every day. I have quite a few photos on my facebook account... but I'm too lazy to repost them here.
I have been watching quite a fair bit of tv as well. I found this Chinese language website which provides streaming videos - http://www.youku.com. It's rahter similar to youtube, but it has full length episodes of the latest tv dramas. So far, I have been catching up on C.S.I. New York (I'm a sucker for Mac Taylor), The Tudors (I know, I know. That show is somehow very addictive although there are very cheesy lines and horrid acting in it.) and a few other shows.
On the less pleasant side, my allergies are acting up again. I suspect I'm very allergic to mould spores... Every time I come back to Malaysia, I'll have very itchy eyes and they would start streaming tears all day long. My nose is perpetually blocked too, and it gets worse if it rains.
*sigh*
My title is now Dr. instead of Ms.
:)
