| Monday, 26 March 2007 |
| oh for the lack of entertainment |
I can't believe that I spent the last... hour and a half blog surfing. Just scrolling through various people's archives... not because I wanted to read about their lives (which, I am sure would be very interesting, but now's not the time, especially when I have my books and notes on the table right in front of me, staring at me as if they were breathing down my necks...) but looking for those good old blog quizzes/lists/thingies.
You know... those blasted lists of questions? Which people circulate via e-mail and stuff, and then start tagging each other to do?
Those blasted lists of tons and tons of never-ending, often infuriating, meaningless questions? That once started, is gonna waste like at least an hour of your time, answering and answering questions... while you struggle to come up with interesting answers when your mind is already quite dead.
Yeah. I was looking for those kind of stuff. I must be crazy, because, I know that once I start doing one of those lists, I'm gonna take forever and then, my books will really kill me.
But I dunno, it just hit me that I've not touched a blog list, or quiz for that matter, for quite sometime now. There used to be a time when my blog was filled with such things. Nowadays, you hardly find them on people's blogs, its like they went extinct or something.
Needless to say, I failed quite miserably in finding a quiz/list to do. So yes, in conclusion, I wasted an hour or so, trying to find something for me to waste time doing. Not bad, not bad.
I don't feel like doing any studying today because of the intense amount of work I did yesterday. I covered the whole of upper limb in one freaking day, and I'm quite traumatized by that. Accomplished, yes, but traumatized as well.
And today, I'm supposed to finish Blood and start a little on DNA. But I just feel like resting, and that's the problem about such schedules. You created them, and you just have to stick to them. Or else... well. It'll be like, pointless that you created one in the first place.
Oh oh! I was watching ER yesterday when one of the attendings at the hospital, Dr Mark Greene asked a bunch of medical students, while handling a patient who had a fractured wrist, about the anatomical snuff box.
He asked 'anyone can tell me what bones make up the floor of the anatomical snuff box?' and the students didn't know the answer! And guess what? I DID! So I became damn high and started shouting the answer.
But then the funny thing happened, Dr Greene said 'don't know the answer? its the navicular bone.' To which I went, "NOOOOOOO!" BECAUSE EVERY FREAKING M1 student who has lived through the past 8 months of medical school would know that the answer to his question is THE SCAPHOID and TRAPEZIUM bones! NOT THE NAVICULAR! Because you know why? BECAUSE THE NAVICULAR BONE IS FOUND IN THE FOOT! NOT IN THE WRIST!
WOO-HOO! I KNEW MY ANATOMY! AND THE HEAD OF THE ER IN COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL DIDN'T! WOO-HOO! (which left me feeling very pleased about myself, but then he went on to treat some other patients in a state of cardiac arrest and then said some load of jibberish, so much so I immediately felt quite stupid again.)
But anyway, its just a little anecdote ( I think it would qualify as one...no?) for all my medical school friends out there. There's actually some point in all this mugging. Some level of it has managed to sink in and stay in our brains. We are getting better and smarter at this.
The day will come where we'll be the ones scaring future med students with all the strange talk about 'saline' and 'dopamine' and 'CT scans, blood gas, portable X-rays STAT'.
Sigh.
I still have the urge to do some quizzes and blog lists. Anyone with stuff like that, please recommend me. Will probably do it tomorrow or tonight, as long as I at least manage to finish my revision on Blood.
Oh and I've gotten back to my old habit of watching tons and tons of MTV in the morning. I remember my study break days in secondary school and JC, was all about watching the MTV channel in the morning. Haha.
Brainless entertainment. All the music videos, some of them so bad and just can't watch it. Hahahahah. All the expletives and violence, all the (sometimes) bad singing and rapping. All the senseless punk rock bands (there are JUST so many of them these days. I can't stand them! Whatever happened to all the soft rock/emo rock/non-punk rock bands?)
Bet you guys didn't know one of my former fantasies was to be an MTV VJ? But I bet I'm too short to even qualify for auditions. Muahahahahhaha.
I better leave now. That's already quite a lot of time wasted.Labels: ER, randomness, tv |
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