wah liao. it's been like more than a month since i blogged... and last blog was abt damn lame stuff also.

paeds eopt was damn jia lat lah.

the mcqs and essays were damn hard, and prof goh went through all the answers after that, and i got so demoralised i couldnt finish my lunch lah. diao. dunno whether can pass not.

then my osces were all damn wtf.

my long case was DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY. WHO THE HELL will go study DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY?!

and the mother purposely play with me one lor. when i went in, the testor said "ok, can you please find out abt some of the long term problems that the mother is concerned about?"

then i ask the mom "so, i understand that your child has some problems, would you like to tell me about them?" then she said "what do you want to know?" ok, nvm, then i said "so what long term problems does your son have?" then she said "don't have ah, ok what" and i was like diao. and i know her kid confirm got problem, coz he like a bit ADHD, a bit mentally challenged one, and she die die dont want to tell me, and when i dig smmore she told me her son used to have lung infx and gerd. knn. then i spent so long on the 2 before confirming that they are no longer problems. then whole time ask her she say she cant remember anything, ask her whether the doctors did anything she say dont have. in the end the testor told me he had a fundoplication done and a PEG inserted. knn. then at abt the 6th or 7th minute then i ask her what school the kid in, then she finally told me he's in a special school. knn. in the end i didnt have time to ask social history, which i think was quite impt.

apparently, when junyang asked her what she was here for, she said "test lor" and when he asked what test, she said "this test lor, the medical student test lah". DIAO.

then the discussion was abt management of developmental delay, which i didnt know shit abt. then the tutor asked me what test can be done, i said IQ test, and he ask me i know how to do not. diao. boh pian tell him i dunno, then he ask me refer to who, i said OT, which i think is wrong, should be psych... haiz. then i tried to zam social support stuff, like MSW lah, respite care lah, peer support group lah, etc... hope it saves me...

then my short case quite funny... coz it was a kid with hydrocephalus and vp shunt, which i got lah, then the tutor like a bit hard of hearing one, or he not really paying attention... he didnt hear me say well thrived, and he heard my OFC measurement wrongly =S then after he measure (51-52) he said "isn't this very far off from what you said?" and i told him "er... i said 50" and he was like, oh, isit? ok...

so after that he asks me so what do you want to do? so i naturally said, i would like to do a neurological examination, and he says "good! but can you please assess his devt?" and i was like HUH... spent like a few seconds looking for my DA kit, coz i had chucked it aside when i went in coz i thought it was a neuro case... in the end, did DA on a 5 year old kid... ran out of milestones along the way =S coz his vision and hearing and gross motor all ok, just lang and fine motor a bit lag... then when i came out i was like "why the hell was that a DA case?!" but then later at the kopitiam shiling and joanna came up to me, and i finally realised why =D apparently for some funny reasons they did DA on the kid, when it's supposed to be a neuro case, so i think the testor boh pian, has to let me do DA to be fair. but shiling very lucky, coz if joanna had ended up doing a neuro, shiling would be in quite a bit of trouble... haiz. but then i think i didnt do my DA very well, even though i was quite confident in my DA skills... think it was coz too nervous plus too confused with doing on such an old kid...

then the comm station was best... had to counsel a mother on tubefeeding coz her kid got cerebral palsy with pseudobulbar palsy, and cannot take liquids. knn... didnt know anything abt it. all i knew was how to put the stupid tube in... and i think they were told to prompt abt how to insert the tube if we never say anything abt it, and luckily i still remember... then she asked me, will it be uncomfortable for the kid, and i was thinking, eh... pseudobulbar palsy... technically he shouldnt be able to feel it... i mean, that's the problem right, he cannot feel it, that's why no gag reflex right?! but er, didnt dare to say, so in the end i said, it will be uncomfortable, but dont worry, we will be as gentle as possible, and try our best, but if he really cannot, then we wont force him... then when she said that she very worried coz she doesnt know what to do with the tube, we all said that we can refer to the very professional nurses who will be able to teach her how to take care of the tube and the kid, as well as how to feed.. hahhahaha damn funny. we all taiji away =D

then she asked whether can wait and see for 2 weeks not or try to feed him anyway, and i really didnt know can not... so i said "i'm not very sure about that, but i will discuss this with my senior doctor, as well as the speech therapist, and we can come to a better decision after assessing him again together with the speech therapist, but in the meantime we will have to keep him in the hospital to properly hydrate him" but i did tell her that cannot try to feed him at home in case of aspiration pneumonia =D but seriously, it was all trying to cover the fact that we didnt know shit by trying to taiji evthing away, and still stay as nice and safe as possible =D

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but anyway, after that we had a CG dinner!!! haha spent damn lot of time deciding what to eat... in the end settled with NYDC, coz we were at lido and it was the only convenient and not too bad food ard at an affordable price... the girls kept niaoing weisian coz he never goes out with us and that he always pons our outings =D then they insisted on taking a group photo so that we have evidence that weisian was with us =D

after dinner we went to watch (500) days of summer. i think it was a GREAT movie =D as in the story's not too bad, but i was more impressed with the directing, like how the timeline keeps jumping back and forth, and yet it does it so seamlessly without making everything one big confusion, and how the jumping helps you to make sense of the whole movie... and some of the stuff were very creative, like having the internal movies to fit the show, like the part abt the newly weds in the car, when the guy appears in the movie he was watching, and i especially liked the expectation vs reality part, and how the fact that she's engaged's slowly revealed, and how when he runs out, the environment suddenly becomes unreal, and he later becomes unreal as well and fades into the envt. the various collections of cut scenes were also beautifully done, the part where he says the things he hates, which was contrasted with the things he liked, as well as the part where his friends tell about what they think love is.

but i think what i really liked were the various lines that i thought were very well written =D like how there's no such thing as fate, and everything is just coincidence after coincidence, and how basically everybody has this dream girl in their head who is perfect in looks, character, evthing, but in the end, the person you're with is still better, because they're there...

i think i could watch it again =D one of the rare movies that i like so much.

but in the end only me sara and cel liked it =D weisian didnt like it, shaunandshuhui thought it was only not bad, and richmond was damn bored =D this kind of movies seriously not his kind of movie =D

the movie ended at 9+, and richmond, weisian, cel and sara decided to go home. so we went to richmond's car to get their bags, and at the shaw carpark we saw the big screen at ion was showing some concert, and it took us sometime to realise the concert was actually happening in front of ion =D apparently it's carrie underwood (just asked my sis =D) then we decided to walk to the roadside to watch the concert, but just as we reached the 1st floor of lido, the concert ended. hahhahaha.

coz i really didnt want to go home so early, and shaunandshuhui also didnt want to go home, i decided to be a goosebulb and we went to the starbucks outside RP @ scotts to chill till 10... which was quite nice, coz it was right beside that CD shop, which was blasting quite nice music, so we got to listen to songs for free as well =D

anyway, photos!