05/08/2010

Having one of the busiest summers of my life this year. With short holidays, bank cards expired, and so much more random stuff to do.

Got invited to an art exhibition by my ex-art teacher Mr. Woo, which I'm NOT looking forward to attend, and then I'm going to Toon Shoppe (hope it's still there) later with Wei Lin to check out their stuff. Hope I can get some good nendoroids/PVC figures, I don't care, as long as I get my characters!

Been rewarded pretty nicely this summer, got a Lumix absolutely FREE from the drug company, and coming soon is either an iPhone OR a HTC.

Looks like this summer might not be so bad after all!

A Tribute To The Greatest Bear/Friend

He was 21. He had just crossed 21. He had a bright future ahead of him. He was going to become a doctor, a father, and even a grandfather. Heck, scratch that. In 7 days he was going to go home to his family. But God cruelly denied him all of that.

Prapagaraan Loganathan Magendran

17 May 1989 - 22 July 2010

   

Prapa was a true friend, a real brother who never hesitated to put others’ priorities above his own. He was ever willing to help, ever willing to listen. Truth be told, a tolerance such as his is truly a rare finding in a world as this.

He was a man of many names too. Prapabinho, Praps, Maxkiller in games, hell in pre-med he called himself Mr. Romeo! Days with him were fun, and worth spending. He will always be remembered for his smile, his kindness, his “cock face” and his signature summoning jutsu.

Thank you for coming into our lives, Prapa. You will dearly be missed, your words and smiles will always be in our hearts and warm us in times of sorrow.

A dedication to you, Prapa:

 

<My Most Precious Treasure> – Lisa

 

Whenever our faces met, we would only fight
Even those were good memories

You taught me this. I’m not afraid anymore
No matter how difficult it is, I can grab hold of happiness, so…

Even alone, I’ll go on, even if it’s painful
I’ll definitely take along the dream I saw with you
Being with you was so wonderful, you and not anyone else
But when I woke up in the morning, you're not there

I felt like we could just have fun forever
I understand that I only felt that way
I no longer regret that I was born
Like the feeling after a festival, it’s lonely, but it's time to go

I’ll go anywhere with the things that I learned here
I’ll show that I can make the dream called happiness come true
Even if we’re apart, no matter how far apart we become,
I will live on in a new morning

Even alone, I’ll go on, even if I want to die
I’ll hear your voice telling me that I must not die
Even if it looks painful, even if I’m crying in loneliness,
Deep in my heart I feel your warmth

Turning and flowing along, time is transient
What happened then? I can’t remember
But if I try closing my eyes, I can hear someone’s laughter
Somehow, that is now my most precious treasure

 

Rest in peace, dear friend. Chaoz, buddy!    

 

ISML 2010 Ruby Period — Round 4 Balloting

ARENA 01: Hiiragi Kagami [Shiina Mafuyu]

ARENA 02: Asahina Mikuru [Fujibayashi Ryō]

ARENA 03: Sakurano Kurimu [Misaka Mikoto]

ARENA 04: [Katsura Hinagiku] Holo

ARENA 05: [Minami Chiaki] Furude Rika

ARENA 06: [Kawashima Ami] Ikaros

ARENA 07: Konjiki no Yami [Shiina Minatsu]

ARENA 08: Saber [Sengoku Nadeko]

ARENA 09: Furude Hanyū [Akaba Chizuru]

ARENA 10: Nymph [Kushieda Minori]

ARENA 11: Sunohara Mei [Abstained] Maria

ARENA 12: Shana [Abstained] Tōsaka Rin

ARENA 13: Fujibayashi Kyō [Fate Testarossa]

ARENA 14: Izumi Konata [Nagato Yuki]

ARENA 15: [Aisaka Taiga] Hirasawa Yui

ARENA 16: Ibuki Fūko [Haramura Nodoka]

ARENA 17: [Furukawa Nagisa] Hiiragi Tsukasa

ARENA 18: Takamachi Nanoha [Saten Ruiko]

ARENA 19: [Saginomiya Isumi] Hirasawa Ui

ARENA 20: Okazaki Ushio [C.C.]

ARENA 21: Suzumiya Haruhi [Sakagami Tomoyo]

ARENA 22: [Fukuji Mihoko] Illyasviel von Einzbern

ARENA 23: Nakano Azusa [Abstained] Akiyama Mio

ARENA 24: [Senjōgahara Hitagi] Sanzen'in Nagi

ARENA 25: [Louise Vallière] Ichinose Kotomi

ARENA 26: [Amamiya Manami] Onda Aka

10/07/2010

Honestly. Does a heart attack affect your brain? Prapz’s patient struck again today with his haircut comments. Albeit with major errors.

Apparently:

1) He thought Shafiq was me.

2) Shafiq has short hair.

Dude was ranting all the while when the nurse was getting his drop infusion system administered. Something about wanting to get a pair of scissors and cut Shafiq’s hair himself.

Couldn’t take it anymore and for the first time in my supposedly work-only report file, I scribbled “Note that heart diseases affect patients mentally too.”

Worse thing about practicals is that things got really boring since Monday. The nurse on duty was an arrogant bitch who wouldn’t stand for accepting any of our help (not even when she was holding an IV stand in each hand and balancing a medical tray on both her wrists) and wouldn’t even let us watch her performing her chores.

Saturday nurses, however are nice. They were polite, willing to let us try, and explained stuff even when we didn’t even ask.

And one thing that is annoying is that it’s getting really hot here. It’s sweltering, and I’m walking to the hospital in the morning, walking back to the hospital at midday. Which means my arms and parts of my body not covered by the shirt and jeans are obviously much darker. And I come back home with a semi-transparent shirt wet from sweat. Feels kind of icky peeling that thing off your skin.

Icing on the cake for this week was seeing that my dear li’l bro failed his chemistry. HAH.

ISML 2010 Ruby Period - Round 3 Balloting

ARENA 01: [Shana] Minami Chiaki

ARENA 02: Haramura Nodoka [Akiyama Mio]

ARENA 03: [Nakano Azusa] Ibuki Fūko

ARENA 04: [Nagato Yuki] Ikaros

ARENA 05: [Shiina Mafuyu] Takamachi Nanoha

ARENA 06: [Saber] Fukuji Mihoko

ARENA 07: Sakurano Kurimu [Asahina Mikuru]

ARENA 08: [Fate Testarossa] Furukawa Nagisa

ARENA 09: Aisaka Taiga [Nymph]

ARENA 10: Hirasawa Yui [Saginomiya Isumi]

ARENA 11: Illyasviel von Einzbern [Sengoku Nadeko]

ARENA 12: [Kushieda Minori] Holo

ARENA 13: [Hiiragi Kagami] Ichinose Kotomi

ARENA 14: Fujibayashi Kyō [Hiiragi Tsukasa]

ARENA 15: Konjiki no Yami [Louise Vallière]

ARENA 16: Senjōgahara Hitagi [Maria]

ARENA 17: [Saten Ruiko] Okazaki Ushio

ARENA 18: [Misaka Mikoto] Hirasawa Ui

ARENA 19: [Sakagami Tomoyo] C.C.

ARENA 20: Suzumiya Haruhi [Shiina Minatsu]

ARENA 21: Fujibayashi Ryō [Katsura Hinagiku]

ARENA 22: [Tōsaka Rin] Furude Rika

ARENA 23: [Sunohara Mei] Furude Hanyū

ARENA 24: Izumi Konata [Kawashima Ami]

ARENA 25: [Akaba Chizuru] Sanzen'in Nagi

ARENA 26: [Asagami Fujino] Kamura Reiri

ISML 2010 Ruby Period - Round 2 Balloting

ARENA 01: [C.C.] Hirasawa Ui

ARENA 02: [Akiyama Mio] Louise Vallière

ARENA 03: Furude Hanyū [Saber]

ARENA 04: Ikaros [Akaba Chizuru]

ARENA 05: [Fate Testarossa] Furude Rika

ARENA 06: Nagato Yuki [Abstained] Sunohara Mei

ARENA 07: [Katsura Hinagiku] Okazaki Ushio

ARENA 08: [Izumi Konata] Holo

ARENA 09: Kushieda Minori [Shiina Mafuyu]

ARENA 10: Aisaka Taiga [Saten Ruiko]

ARENA 11: Ichinose Kotomi [Fujibayashi Ryō]

ARENA 12: [Sanzen'in Nagi] Ibuki Fūko

ARENA 13: [Tōsaka Rin] Sakurano Kurimu

ARENA 14: [Suzumiya Haruhi] Asahina Mikuru

ARENA 15: Haramura Nodoka [Maria]

ARENA 16: [Illyasviel von Einzbern] Senjōgahara Hitagi

ARENA 17: [Hiiragi Kagami] Saginomiya Isumi

ARENA 18: [Sengoku Nadeko] Fujibayashi Kyō

ARENA 19: Kawashima Ami [Abstained] Sakagami Tomoyo

ARENA 20: Minami Chiaki [Takamachi Nanoha]

ARENA 21: Nymph [Shiina Minatsu]

ARENA 22: Hirasawa Yui [Nakano Azusa]

ARENA 23: [Fukuji Mihoko] Furukawa Nagisa

ARENA 24: Hiiragi Tsukasa [Shana]

ARENA 25: [Misaka Mikoto] Konjiki no Yami

ARENA 26: Erurū [Suzumi Tamao]

06/07/2010

Practicals started on first of July as they promised. Though the first day was an assembly at the Regional Hospital. After waiting for them for about an hour or so, we got our assigned timetables and places.

My group was assigned to Hospital No. 3. Pretty ideal, considering it was just a 5 minute walk from the hostel to the hospital. The first day I went there, we picked a patient and interviewed her.

Poor lady was hospitalized for angina pectoris. She had a history of diabetes melitus, hypertension, arrythmia, and to top that off she was overweight. Though she looked really young for a 74 year old lady.

The second day, we were given permission to perform injections. Of course, it was to be kept a secret from our dean, otherwise he'd be so totally pissed. The nurses there were kind and polite and often gave us chances to do things. I thought things wouldn't be as bad as I first thought they would be.

Until yesterday. The fourth day of practicals. The nurse was a stubborn arrogant stuck-up bitch who refused to let us touch anything, who refused to let us help. I mean, she was having difficulty carrying an IV drip stand in each hand, and balancing a tray on her wrists, and she wouldn't even let us help her carry the stands?

Another infuriating thing was when I was interviewing a patient, a doctor came in, shooed me out and asked me to close the door. And when I was closing the door I heard her say, "what's with them?" in a haughty tone.

And I learned the lulzy way that not all patients are as nice as the first lady we approached. My friend Prapz was interviewing the patient who was in the next bunk beside mine.

Prapz : How's your family?
Patient : There's only one girl in your group?
Prapz : Uh yeah.
Patient : Are her parents white?
Prapz : Err... they're all Chinese *waves an arm at me* so yeah they''re all white... I guess. So, sir, do you smoke?
Patient : Why? You want to smoke now?
Prapz : .... *stands up and leaves*

Patient now turns his attention to me and my patient

Me : So... what's your name?
My Patient : Slepov Pyotr Nikolaevich.
Prapz's Patient : He's Slepov.
Me : ... What were you hospitalized for?
My Patient : I had a very high pressure.
Prapz's Patient : He's been here for a long time

goes on and on till I'm down to my final question.

Me : Well I guess that's all for today, best of luck and health to you, Mr. Slepov.
My Patient : Thanks. You should follow the path of researching, go work in labs. You'll make a good lab worker.
Prapz's Patient : You know what, you should do cut your hair. It looks horrible.
My Patient : *looks at Prapz's patient* It's OK! No one cares, as long as he's a good doctor!
Me : Thank you Mr. Slepov. *shoots Prapz's patient a dirty look and leaves*

Damn practicals.... so fun yet so boring at the same time. On a random side note, if it were not for practicals, I'd already be home for.... 3 weeks?