endless calls

i have 4 calls in 7 days... i.e. Q48H call... sounds alarming... the fact that i'm in twh makes it kinda acceptable... but still... no time for family, no time for rabbit... by the end of the week, i'd been working for 20 consecutive days... so depressing... i'll definitely skip the intern's training this saturday... i'm so sorry... just send me the letters...

momochung's exam is still in progress... apparently he's not too happy with his performance... i think he's worked hard... yes, i saw it that he's worked hard... therefore he deserves a good grade... or at least a pass... please please, make his life easier... he's the apple of my eyes... i miss him...

disneyland photos

link to pictures taken in the disneyland

worn-out

rabbit printed the uk trip pictures today... it's only 365 days and we, well esp. me, look so much older... a student came to me yesterday and asked if i was post-call... no i wasn't... he said i was so worn-out... how sad... work made me exhausted... and there're more work ahead... um... think i need to do something...

driven mad

three things happened which drove me mad today...

1. day one twh... already picked up what i have to do before i am oriented... transition from urology to HBP is scary... i had 18 beds and usually less patients to look after in qmh... here nearly 30% surgical beds are HBP beds, always fully occupied... not to mention the high turnover rate... i also cover UGI, ESO and neurosurgery beds... o dear... today i had senior round at 1800 and didn't leave until 2130... bad, very bad...

2. yingyingbird went to the hong kong wetland park for business today... guess what... he saw a bigbig squirrel soft toy in the souvenir shop... can you believe he didn't get me that squirrel!!? very cruel... ai... i thought i wouldn't want more squirrels... but i think yyb should get me that one... anyone going to the park please let me know... please...

3. learnt about this online polling about public washroom from the news... there's a man who's speaking in a press conference kind of setting... and the caption wrotes "chairman, hong kong toilet association"... what... hong kong toilet association??? can't think of anything more queer, seriously...

* just discovered my MO thanked me in his blog... can't believe it... horhor...

goodbye urology

think i'll miss urology... had a whale of a time here... becoz i've already got a job... becoz the workload is light... becoz people are nice... becoz my MO just started talking to me... becoz i have a super gentle consultant... becoz i can meet my dear friends for lunch... would be so great if i'm the one who stay... cannot ask for too much i guess... it's a gift that i had such a nice time resting here...

happy mother's day

mum's in beijing... the weekend's spent as if it's father's day...

tested the new lexus IS with yingying bird yesterday... it's the first time i've ever tested any car actually... now that everyone's got a job... people talk about which car to buy... the lexus is good... just perfect in every aspect for an ordinary car... nothing really special... but then it's just right... like it's the right car for people like me... though i'd love a b-class... but b-class is not quite worth the money... haven't decided whether i'll get it... i really have some sentiments towards my golden-ying... plus i don't think i need a new one yet... so still not decided... perhaps should see more cars first... since there're more new cars to come...

today i had brunch with dad at brown... perfect food... had the nicest cream of celery soup ever... then home and watched two movies... there's this film called "if only"... very sweet and touching... i highly recommend...

bigbig moon

the moon has been so beautiful and bright this weekend... i don't have a proper camera with me (took this with dad's phone)...

whenever i see such a beautiful moon... i think of this old chinese poem... talking about though people are far apart, they share the same beautiful moon... how sweet... looking at the moonmoon, i think of momochung... our hearts are so close...

imaging

i get a bit upset today by this very wrong and unhealthy phenomenon... why is it whenever we arrange an imaging... people like us get to "beg" the radiologists... i mean aren't we supposed to be working partners???

well okay, imaging is a relatively scarce resource in public hospitals... and there's this tendency that doctors abuse this service... so we need some system to sort of keeping the gate and allocate the right thing to the right patient... look i'm trained, too... most of the time we don't book something that is unecessary... in fact i cannot be bothered to do something unecessary... i'm really really sick of this phenomenon once we're down in xray department, it's like the radiologists are more superior... they sit there while i get to stand and present to them and answer all their questions majority of which do not affect their decisions... and consume every single neurone to beg them to give us the appointment...

they think they do something good and save some money by refusing an investigation... in fact not only a CT scan costs... a CT scan costs ONLY a few thousand... if an imaging is done early it can save days of hospitalisation or perhaps a clinic visit... hospital beds and the nurses and clinicians also cost... the sum can easliy exceed that of a scan... don't be so naive and don't think too much of yourselves my dear radiologists...

man-mo temple

real weekend, 1.5 days off!!! made my mood very very good...

i visited the man-mo temple today... it's a task assigned by momochung... he's about to take his exam and he usually visits the temple before exam... to be blessed for good results... literally "embracing-the-buddha's-leg-at-the-last-minute"... haha... anyways... went there with eggu-eggu after lunch... did what mum told me... i brought with me some "clever vegetable" and "hard-working vegetable" and oranges... and i touched the pen and the knife and "prayed" for momochung... and put in the "donation"... wahaha... hadn't been there before... saw quite some tourists... didn't know it actually had such long history...

momochung you'll pass with flying colours!!!

dry

look, life is easier when there're only 3 working days in a week... mine is always the same... a little boring but i don't quite mind... charting results and filing notes are not that bad... because that means i have not much to do... remember i'm transferred from medical to urology for weaning of exhaustion... later on to twh for convalescence...

i made a little conclusion today...
if u happen to see a healthy looking person in patient's uniform alone in the elevator, there're 3 possibilities...
1. he/she is going for a cigarette and/or
2. he/she is going to get a newspaper and/or
3. he/she is going to canteen for lunch/dinner