Meant to blog about Bath and show off some of the pictures that I had taken. But with Facebook, I no longer need to do that! Just upload your whole life onto 1 website and the whole world will know all about you, Wherever, Whenever... at a click of the mouse. Yes I am promoting Facebook because it is actually a website of awesomeness. It keeps you updated about family and friends all around the world and it is good not only for social networking but for intellectual purposes (e.g. news about GE) too :D

Nevertheless, I will still post some pictures here because my printer is still not installed so I still cannot scan my other pictures.

Stonehenge

Keewei + Paula + Me at the Roman Baths

Outside Sally-Lunn which is famous for Sally-Lunn buns. Food was quite nice (: They had duck.

This is the full crew including Patheodore Sammy-Lunn my new bear

This is how I look if I grow fat

This is the new book I am reading. I say new, I'm actually almost at the end of it. It is about an actor who has really random and whimsical ideas and sets out on weird expeditions when he has nothing better to do. In this book he sets out on a journey to find out where jokes come from and attempts to follow the trail of a joke. Super bo liao -.- But I like the weird ideas and quirkiness of the story :D It is keeping me entertained.

Cough almost gone now.

My cough is getting better. Whoop dee doop! Only had 2 coughing fits today one of which was in the library when I was attempting to have a whispered discussion with Sania. Went all pink and teary and snotty whenever I attempted to whisper-reply Sania. She just got back from Pakistan 2 weeks ago and got me.............. an Emirates teaspoon and toothbrush! The toothbrush is actually really cool because it comes in a little clear dome with a tiny cylindrical tube of toothpaste which fits into its own groove (:

Chloraphenamine seems to be doing the trick I think by making me have really deep long sleeps rather than by any antihistamine action. It seems to stay in my system a lot longer than is ideal, though, which makes me feel really drowsy and unwitty the next day. Unfortunately I did not realise that my 2 days off today and tomorrow were not real days off after all, cos I found out this morning that we had radiology teaching today and PUBLIC HEALTH DAY tomorrow O.O So I wandered into radiology in a rather dreamlike state and learnt about chest xray, abdo xray, pelvic xray and c-spine xray. Drifted off happily to Morissons after that :D

Into my 3rd week of A&E at the moment but technically only day 4/5 coz our group had blocks of offdays in a row at the beginning of the block and now we have all the shit in a row. We had started off in AMU and coz it was my 1st 2 days I was very law by law and basically only went for the ward round after which my shift was over. The FY1s were quite nice. Found a good case for my case presentation later this month. It was a classic upper GI bleed guy who presented with PR bleed. The smell of malaena wafts around AMU quite frequently which is good practise I guess for medical students to recognise it immediately in the future. It is roughly the smell of burnt rubber with a kind of sharp quality to it.

Had about whole week off after that whereby it was the royal wedding so stayed home and checked out the pictures on fb. Had the fever and post-karaoke I think pharyngitis over the weekend and missed 1st day in A&E paeds. Had a demoralising past few days where I failed all my bloods and cannulas. ALL. Even the bulging great big man veins. Yesterday was better coz at least I felt I was of some use presenting cases. Got a cannula in more comfortably but the poor old man was very very dehydrated (that is my excuse) so the blood stopped halfway and I did not feel comfortable having another go so got a doctor to do it :/ Ugh. So paiseh to admit I am final year. I cannot even do bloods and cannulas. And most people are going to go in with shitty spidery collapsed veins when I cannot even do healthy man veins. Have not had the guts to try ABGs either. I need more confidence man.

Guess there were quite a few cool cases like gaping wounds with ruptured tendons and hypos and pneumothoraces. At least I have something positive to blog about for my A&E blog. Yea we have to write in blog entries for this block :/ it is very IT savvy. No workbook. Everything online. We even have a virtual ward. Which is actually really quite good and will potentially be made into an iphone app.

Should I go in later? I have green sputum today.