Da Sotong

I can't believe it... Spent 45 mintues last night day-dreaming about army and some other stuff :( Argh~!

Was thinking about some stuff again today while studying and argh, couldn't go back to my books after that. So I collapsed on the table and whined to Shin Yee. I felt her patting my head, and then tickling me. But then after that, she started giggling and the tickle felt strange. I turned around... Damn it THURSTON!!! I'm so going to kill you the next time I see you.

Then just as I was about to carry on with my work, Shin Yee asked

"What are you studying?"

"Cardio..."

"It's not coming out right coz it's part of the..."

"Argh! Seen PBLs... Damn, I must be day-dreaming man!"

Can't believe that I spent the afternoon looking at PBLs that aren't going to come out. Only consolation that I have is that I renew my knowledge and that it is kinda relevant to some of the questions coming up :( But oh well. Feel like a sotong now. Sulks~ (And now Shin Yee comes to tell me to do my work and not blog... Urgh!)

Talking about sotong, I was at Ryan's place the other day when Jeff and me saw this article.


Now, this is a species of squid known as the Colossal Squid. I know, many of you are thinking Giant Squid but no, it's not that. Colossal squids are a species of squids that living in the Antarctic waters. This specimen caught measured 10m long and is the largest caught so far. But because of the extreme habitats in which these animals live in, chances are that there are larger ones roaming around in the oceans. At an estimated length of 12-14m, they are the largest of the invertebrates (without spine) in the animal kingdom. While the gender of this squid caught is unknown, due to the great sexual dimorphism (variation) in squids, if this was a male, who knows how long a female is man.

Imagine the number of (huge) calamari rings that you could make from it, lol! And indeed, it's been estimated that each calamari ring made from it will be the size of a tractor wheel (1). Yum yum! Haha. Jeff, you can start having all the squid balls that you want now :p

Okay, back to work...

References:

1. http://zapatopi.net/cephnews/colossalsquidcaught.html

Hey Ah-nie... I see you're enjoying yourself over in the States. Hope you're not feeling too lonely over there. Sorry I didn't get to say a proper goodbye and apology before you left. Enjoy yourself girl~

To the sibling of strawberry: It really hurts to see you like that. Yet I don't know how to help you especially when you can't bring yourself to say a thing. Can imagine how distressing it must be when your exams are in 2 weeks time, coz mine's in 1! Hang in there tiger, will be back soon already.

Coincidence?

Yoz, hope you are all right... Remember, help is always available =)

P.S: And I'm sorry for always making you jealous.

Getting away with things

I feel weak... Why do I allow myself to be bullied easily sometimes? Yew Song is right, sometimes I take it for granted that I come from a well-to-do family and get away with situations by paying fines and stuff, when in fact, all these were avoidable. This is one of the big fines that I've gotta pay so far. Gotta remind myself with this post to be strong and not do it again!

The Ultimate Dream Car

I don't know why I have this bad habit of blogging when it's near/during my exams! Argh~ QR, sorry I can't call you to find out about your Pepsi-cola date with Utt now. Haha. My new phone contract doesn't give me free minutes to Singapore =( Urgh! I swear I'm going to terminate the contract in Dec. And Jocey, how was your holiday in Paris? Let me know all right.

Anyway, just for a break, has anyone ever thought of what kind of car they want to get? You know... Many people in army start talking about cars, modifying the engine parts and stuff, or even what their dream car is. I don't know why I never got much into those stuff. Not sure whether it was because I found it boring or was too practical myself then to even start thinking of what kind of "stylistic" car I would want. I remember... Fabian (my fellow storeman) brought his car to camp once and horned outside the gate. I swear I almost burst out laughing though as I walked towards him... the horn sound was "Oh Susanna". Lol!

So, the question that many (men) always ask themselves: Which car should I get? Will it be a...

Toyota Celica (Wooh, I've driven this car before coz it's my cousin's... Bad thing was I could only hit the 3rd gear at the most, coz I was driving around the neighbourhood with my mom keeping an eye on me. I had just passed then, you see... Lol! Should definitely pay him a visit this summer) ?

RX7...?

Or the... Fujiwara Tofu Shop Car (from Initial D)

Now I have to say that the Fujiwara Tofu Shop Car that Takumi drives is a classic. Many people around the world do indeed have the real-life version of this anime car. Matthew was even upbeat about it at one point and thinking of getting one himself. Lol (Though I think he's switched his mind to a R4). I have to admit that I did too :p Oops!

Just as I was thinking about all this, I stumbled upon this article on the news...

Lol, now tell me... How enticing would it be to drive around London (or even Singapore) where parking prices are horrendously expensive priced at say 3-5 pounds per entry, and not having to pay for your parking ticket/coupon? The article even mentions: Even the police don't know whom they should catch. Lol! No wonder they call it the G-Wiz (it's a slang for" Oh my!" among the Brits...)

Toilet Seat Motivator

Na... Cherie Tan: The Urinal Post is here. I posted it in the last post what. Really never read properly... Haiyo! (Be sure to read the comments else you won't understand what's going on).

Anyway, forgot that the Toilet Seat Lifter was found courtesy of Diana. Thank you Diana =)

Was talking in Floyer with Shin Yee's housemates a couple of days back about some guy who dumped a whole stack of sanitary pads into their toilet bowl and choked it. Lol. All the girls started suspecting which one of the guys did it. Poor Aaron... Oops, haha! And then we naturally got on to the topic of the Toilet Seat Lifter again. Haha. And then Thurston mentioned a story that inspired me to try this at home. Instead of the Toilet Seat Lifter, we now have the...

Toilet Seat Motivator

Lol, imagine waking up every morning to that. I bet even a dog will lift the seat up and pee if it needs to. That's provided it's not a bitch of course :p Have a nice day!

Toilet Seat Lifter

Now now now... Does anyone remember the special urinal and toilet seat lifting post that we were discussing about? It's here just to recap your memories.

Guess what, there is such a thing available on the market!

Link: Toilet Seat Lifter on Amazon

Lol, even I can believe it. If only Junie and I had patented our products, we could be earning US$30 per bucket. (Who knows they may have stolen the idea from our site :p)

Was talking to a friend now... She was talking about the competition to get a job for our future medical careers. Like how results and stuff like that mattered now that the UK's medical recruitment programme is based on school rankings. True enough, results matter to get a better job indeed. But should that really be the driving aim for us? I don't know... Ended up arguing with her, and my phone died on me. I never meant for it to be an argument lor. Why is it difficult for you to respect my idea and me to respect yours? Is it really that hard? We can't always be thinking we're right, can we? Then again, I might have thought that I was right too. Maybe that's why.

Man, it's really sad... I have to admit that sometimes when these sort of competition comes up, it brings out the worst in us (and that includes me I have to say). We start to become competitive and stuff, and it becomes really bad when someone would harm another just to get his/her own way. If only one could bury the attitude, things would be so much more pleasant. Right now, I must admit that I'm studying for my exams to try and do well. Why? Coz good results matter. But at the same time, I'm trying to learn whatever I can to at least feel that bit of adequateness in treating in treating patients in the future. If only one could bury that attitude in being competitive, it would be so much fun to learn from each other, to share and discuss new knowledge for the benefit of everyone. Isn't that how studying is supposed to be?

In a way, it's like a relationship you know... Sometimes you try so hard to make things happen, things just don't work out. But when you least expect, and things come coz you're doing it naturally, isn't it pleasant and nice? Maybe it's still wishful thinking, but let's bury it man. Ah-nie, sorry I didn't agree with what you were saying there. Perhaps it's my naiveity that one can feel good learning and not feel the competitiveness when it comes to applying for a job. Perhaps you're right, I'll be like that in the future, but I'll keep that in mind and try not to let it get too much into me. I understand what you mean, it's not that I don't, or else I won't admit that I may be like that. You know, I just hope we can all be happy.

The Bread Shop (Part 1)

Yawnz (I'm not tired!!!)...

I've been up for 2 hours now and done jack! Still on the first page of my notes. Bah! And my final's in 3 weeks time. Oh well~ Haha.

Why is everyone asking me to blog? Lol, I don't think it's coz I'm popular... No. Don't force me. I'll get writer's block (or is it more of my pure laziness). Finally I can understand why Inoue Takehiko doesn't want to come up with Slam Dunk 2. Anyway, it's finally time to get out of the lazy habit, and do something productive. Like today, I finally washed my muddy shoes from 1 month's ago paintballing. Eewww... Gross! Haha.

I haven't been contacting ppl much. Don't know why... Just feel quite all right to be like this. As long as one's happy I guess. But I still love you guys, so yeah, don't think I've forgotten you all. Jiahui, I'm not sure if I can still come down to Australia. Air ticket company has yet to contact me, and I'll be a little busy and tight. I'll let you know the result whatever it is.



Jeff and me were discussing about this bread shop near our place. I've been walking past it at night, and noticed the countless amounts of bread thrown away. It's really such a waste, when these could have gone to the poor around the Whitechapel (speaking of which... Whitechapel is the area I live in now. There's no white chapel around here... Only a mosque in the vicinity. It's aka Arab street to us) area, or to poor students like us :D

In the end, we decided: why not go ask the shop owner for some? After all, we've patronised her shop quite a few times, and she knows us well enough to put my purchases on the tab when I didn't bring enough money. What a nice lady! But it will be a real dilemma for her really coz if she gives us bread, we won't go to her to buy our own. Yet it's really such a waste to see all of it in the bin. I swear they smell so good I've even thought of picking up the ones which have not touched the sides of the bin while the bakers were not looking. Haha.

So we finally decided to use some psycho tricks taught to us by our other housemates - Make the person feel good b4 getting a request. Just gotta include it in our OSCEs practice revision now. And this is the result of our role-playing:


Role-playing practice

Pei Kee (with Jeff): Hello, it's us again... How's it going? (Does this sound familiar?)

Shop owner: Hello boys. We're fine. What can I get for you?

Pei Kee: Let's see... We'll have the double chocolate and blueberry muffin, the chocolate-chip cookies, one loaf of wholemeal bread, and the cheesecake (I swear it's in no way cheesecake, it's coconut-flake cake the last time I bought it. They just call it cheesecake coz it looks like one).

(Trick: You've gotta pretend to buy loads and make her feel good remember?)

Shop owner: That's quite a handful you've got there. Erm, total's 5.40 pounds please.

Pei Kee (Goes for the kill): Yeah, what to do... We're hungry boys after all. Btw, we've been passing by your bread shop at night, and we noticed all those bread going into the bin. Doesn't anyone want them? It's such a waste really, coz your bread tastes so good.

Shop owner (flattered): Really? Aww, that's so sweet of you.

Pei Kee (The final stroke... Bankai!): Well, if nobody wants them, we'll have some of it. After all, it's a real pity such good bread goes to waste.

Shop owner: Aww, that's so thoughtful of you boys. All right, tell you what... Come at 9pm at night whenever you boys want some bread. I'll get the bakers to keep some for you. How's that sound?

Pei Kee (Looks at Jeff): Perfect. Mmm... Yum yum! I can't wait to try your other varieties. Haha.

Shop owner (proud by now): You'll be impressed, my love. I shall go speak to them lot now. Take care now~

Pei Kee: Okay, thanks a lot. Bye!



Now I'm sure anyone would be flattered by those little tricks of ours. And to prove it, we'll be going by the shop sometime soon to try it. Just you lot wait for Part II.

I was reading your blog and saw this post of yours. I see your tears girl, and I'm sorry I've neglected them. This nostalgic song's for you (It accompanied me through my loneliest times and I hope it'll make you strong just as it has done for me).

**Back to work...

Back

Yeap, I know everyone would probably think this blog's dead. I don't know why... But I finally feel well enough to post stuff up after listening to some nostalgic music. Well, 1 a.m. and I'm tired now. Haha! Well, at least there's a start =)