Exams

After wearing boxers around the flat just this week, 4 people have already saw my... (phd) ... Gosh, I so like them, but am reluctant to wear them now. And they called it weeny! You asses, I'll get back at you!

Anyway, today's paper was crazy! But still do-able. Most of us just finished in time, someone finished in 1 hour, instead of 2, while another had loads (she estimated 15) of questions unanswered. Mixed feelings everywhere... Ah, let's just pray. And continue studying for the remaining papers. That's about the only thing we can do now right? So step on the gear man. This is the last week...

Clinical Skills

Okay, the paper B next week, otherwise known as OSCEs, carry a huge 50% for the entire year's marks. It basically consists of looking at histological slides, identifying bones, etc and demonstrating proficient clinical skills such as cardiorespiratory/abdominal examinations, CPR, etc.

I never knew that practising clinical skills could be so fun and funny! Our dear 'auntie' yesterday intended to check my back for sacral oedema (water retention in the lower back). Instead she said "I'm checking for his scrotum (instead of sacral oedema)..." Wahahaha! I just burst out laughing. Okay, let's not be so bad to her.

Then I went to the kitchen to wash my dishes later on, and the 'auntie' said "Come and look for me before you go to bed". Now she got me really curious and suspicious there. My perverseness started kicking in again and I was thinking what on earth did I do just now. Well, I taught her how to perform a cardio examination so maybe she might reward me with... ... ... Hahaha! What stupid thoughts... And before I knew it, my parasympathetic system was activated again, and my little brother stood up, parallel to the ground! And I was wearing my boxers... Argh! You know when the inner part (glans) of your ehem touches something, it will hurt. To conceal my 'little brother' and stop the pain, I had to bend over at the sink to allow the boxers to expand at the front. Well, the trick didn't last for long.

As I thought I wasn't feeling anymore pain, I concluded that 'he' was no longer in the flag raising position. So I stood up normally again. Just then, the 'auntie' asked me some questions, and I started to talk to her. And suddenly, she exclaimed "Oh my god! I can see your little brother sticking out there". I looked down and hold and behold, it was! And oh no, that wasn't the end of it. She went around the flat telling everyone to come and take a look. Thank god 'he' quickly went down and took cover in time. That's it! I don't care what people say anymore. I'll continue being a commando! I love being commando!

Today's England match wasn't that impressive but I'm hoping they'll improve on as the matches continue. Exam stress does get the most crazy part of you! Rama and I had a bathing competition just now to see who could bathe faster. Of course I won! Went into the toilet, took off clothes, bathed, and wore back clothes. All in all, 4 minutes. Still slow compared to army timings when we only rinsed in the water for 30 seconds on the first day. Gosh, I do miss army days even though I'm dreading having to go back this summer. How ironic! But back to studying...

Antihypertensives

Okay, finally got to see the GP today. She said that there was stress on the heart on the ECG, while blood tests were normal. Sounds idiopathic (unknown cause) to me. Just for some of you to know... Idiopathic hypertension is also known as primary hypertension or essential hypertension. Why? Coz people thought that this sort of hypertension was necessary and thus termed it essential when it actually isn't. Hello! I actually do not need hypertension here. Have been changing my diet. Chips's got no salt now, have to use less oyster sauce, and drinking yoghurt drinks to lower down my blood pressure. Urgh!

Anyway, on ACE inhibitors (a class of drug) now. Let's hope that I still ACE the papers when I still have to go to the doctors 2 more times to follow-up: one next week, and one during exam week.

Get Yourself Together

Many people have said that I still am unable to let her go. Haha, I don't know if it's true though I doubt it is... But was studying in Rama's room when he played a song that I had not listened to in quite a while. Helped me pick up myself and get up on my foot.

For Jiahui, Yiling, Junie and Yiwen...

And all you bums who are still slacking and not studying!

The Urinal

It's so weird... I'm blogging more during exams period! Argh, I'm so gonna die. Then again, I've gotta admit: Blogging's a good way of relieving stress.

Don't know what came over me last night. Was peeing halfway when I suddenly thought: You know how girls always complain that guys wet the whole toilet bowl because of 'poor aiming'. Well, you gotta understand that sometimes, when guys wake up, (okay I shall put it in medical terms here) their parasympathetic systems (conserve energy) are activated. Okay, for those of you that do not understand, I meant erection. If you think about it, blood doesn't need to flow to our leg muscles since they don't require the oxygen then. So where do they go? Well, they gotta flow to 'somewhere else' definitely.

But it's normal actually. After all, our autonomic nervous system was designed to help us with our sleeping patterns. When waking up, the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) is activated. But it takes a while for the adrenaline to pump around our body, for the blood 'there' to flow to other more important areas (1). So guys, if you do notice, when you wake up at 3am suddenly just to go and pee, your dude's pointing up to the sky, whereas if you take an hour to get out of bed, it's probably flaccid. Perhaps impotent men should have the habit of waking up early and quickly to do it with their wives. Okay, enough for the scientific literature over here.

Back to the story, I was just thinking yesterday that perhaps I could fix up a urinal in my future home next time. That way, the kids could use the urinal without their moms screaming into their and my precious ears. Had enough screaming over the past 20 years. Hahaha! So the toilet has got to be quite posh and big. But what sort of urinal should I get? And suddenly, I remembered about the urinal I saw in Italy.

Now, if you look carefully, this is no ordinary urinal. Why? If you look carefully, the flushing system's operated by a tap, not a button or sensor. How cool is that? Turn on the tap, and water flows out to wash away all the stuff. You don't even have to worry about it running out of water unlike our usual toilet bowl. If I do get one, it'll definitely be this design.

But after thinking for a while, the kids will probably just 'shoot' around into the urinal at home. What about other people's house. I wouldn't want them to go around wetting other people's homes. Have got to start their training from the home. Perhaps I could follow what the army does - Having a sign on top that says "Aim before you shoot!" Haha, I do miss army days. But in any case, after careful consideration, I can say the kids are not going to get a nice big posh toilet with a urinal in it after all!

References:

1. Wikipedia (2006). Sympathetic nervous system. [Online]. Florida: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Available: URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system [Accessed 04/06/06].

EDIT: With regards to our dear friend iphris's comments, she's submitted a picture via MSN to support her claims of how her toilet bowl will work.

EDIT 2: Now M.O. also wants to put up his own photo when he was supposed to go and meet Crystal and the rest. If he was late, you know what he's been doing... (Notice the extra little thing... Why didn't you make the seat hit it M.O.)?

Guys vs Girls

Okay, I'm not trying to say whether I prefer guys or girls. Some of you might know how I'm able to communicate better with girls. And this is in no way a sign of me being gay!

All I just want to say is... I miss my guy friends... Yew Song, Steven, Randy, Zeke, Matthew, Rama... You guys are always there in a way girls can never understand. You don't have to say much... Yet, we become stronger just by going out or being aware of the other party's presence. Thanks so much.

And this in no way changes who my best friend is... (Even if you found out about ***** first).

One more thing before i forget...

HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY MISS PRESIDENT OF THE FAST SPEAKERS ASSOCIATION!

And also HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY MISS FAT CAT in advance first.

(Still love you guys for your own special traits).

Sky-dive

Thursday's story starts a week ago. Matthew and I qualified to go for skydiving after RAG. It so happened that Matt chose 1st June coz Sarah called him first to confirm the dates. And when Matt told me the date, I was so shocked I could hardly say a thing. Had promised to go out with Yiling today since late April I think. But yeah, I thought that perhaps skydiving would only take till late afternoon max so I decided to go for 1st June as well.

So Sarah called and I told her I'll go for 1st June as well. But when she told me the location, my jaw dropped again. It was at Peterborough, which is 2.5 - 3 hours away from London. But she told us that we'll leave in the morning at 0830 and it'll just "take the whole day" so I was quite relieved. As long as I could go out with Yiling for dinner, it's fine.

Called Yiling and told her, and of course got yelled at a little coz she had to go shopping in the afternoon all alone. Lol! But that girl didn't tell me that she had called up her aunt, and said she was going there for dinner with me! I was like... "So you want me to pretend to be your bf for a day now?" Haha... I haven't had this kind of honour for such a long time. And then she told me that her aunt had probably assumed I was going to be girl, coz she just said that she's bringing a friend along. Wth~! What will your aunt think man? I could just imagine her aunt's expression later on.

So anyway, woke up at 7+ to go to the Tube to meet everyone else at 08 30. Well, the skydiving centre called up and told us that the weather wasn't good in the morning, and we had to wait till 9 for further news. And after waiting in the cold weather, all we got was that we had to wait till 10 30 again. My hopes really sky-dived then! I began calculating the time, and realised that I'd only be able to reach back at 6+ at the earliest. There was no point in me going then coz I had already promised Yiling. So I told Matt I wasn't going, and he went "Huh? Now I've gotta go by myself." And why? Coz I didn't tell him that I actually didn't want to go on 1st June. But thank goodness, that boy was still sane, and decided to go. Haha! I wouldn't want my friend to miss out on sky-dive just because of me. Sometimes, it's better to say whatever you don't feel comfortable with to your friend.

So I became a good boy and went for lessons, and met Yiling at 13 30. I'm telling you... That girl is never early, in fact, you can't really trust girls. They go like "Hey wait wait... Let me put on my earrings..." then "Hold on, I forgot the make-up"... Urgh! And why they say? "It's a free show for you guys. You all better appreciate it." I'm telling you... I can't stand all this make-up thing. Don't understand what's so pretty about it. It's all fake! Prefer someone to look natural. I mean what can I say, I preferred how my mom looked when she was wearing pyjamus rather than office clothes.

Okay, then we went to the VS (not Victoria School... Vidal Sasoon) education centre for her to have her hair-cut. God, we spent 3 hours there. Thank goodness, I brought some lecture notes to study, or else I'd have killed you Ling. Haha, and this korean translator kept talking to me... Urgh~ I wanted to study. And then I called Matt to ask about his sky-diving. And they didn't go. Weather wasn't good. For once, the weather I had checked on BBC was wrong. Haha. But will probably miss the post-poned sky-diving coz it'll probably be after exams when I'm back in Singapore.

So we went to Yiling's place for dinner. She went "Hello Aunt Peggy, this is my friend Pei Kee..." Her aunt turned around and said hi, turned her head back to her chopping board, and then turned around again. Haha, I couldn't stop laughing thinking she must have thought "Am I seeing a guy?" And then when she asked for my name again, Yiling said "Pei Kee..." and she pointed to herself with a big question mark on her face. She was just so funny! And having an ang-moh husband allowed her to be the 'head' of the family. She was just shouting around, and saying "See... I've got to take care of these 3 kids (when she only had 2)". Lol, thank goodness her husband is very friendly and patient. In chinese families, I can just imagine the husband abusing his wife for saying that, like what Yiling said. But dinner was good and healthy... Roast chicken, bah kut teh, blah blah... And she even recommended anti-hypertensives for me. Lol, she reminds me of my dad.

But yeah, I really enjoyed myself. We caught a wrong train on the way back, but thank goodness we realised soon enough so it only cost us an additional 10 minutes. Felt sad when Yiling left with Fontaine. Really haven't seen her in a long time, and she had to go off so quickly. Will miss you girl. And I've got to admit something here. You're right Crystal Goh. I'm a big flirt. I can't protest anything against that. I'm speechless.

And so it is... Someone said that it's too late to apologise. Yeah, I think so too. I had actually typed sth for Miss Goh 2 days ago, but I guess I'll not put it in here. No point as well. I mean... There's no point in me saying anything now other than making amendments in the future. Besides, Mr/Miss No Name will probably tag the same thing in here anyway. Yar, but it was really foolish of me to doubt you... The last person I should be doubting. Stupid old me.