sHiNwEi
tWeNty
yong loo lin school of medicine
hwa chong institution
dunman high
17march1987

+not get retained
+chio flip phone
+lotsa time to sleep
+Sony Playstation Portable
+volkswagon beatle convertible
+a soulmate
+to see the 7 wonders

ok i have decided. when i become old i am going to be a super compliant and obedient old woman. so my children wun hate me and not want to care about me. just went for lydia's cofm patient home visit and that is what i gathered. the visit kinda left me in a depressed mood cos i realised we cant do anything much to help solve the problem the family had. hai this really makes me realise our inadequacies and how many things are out of ur control even though u really wan to help.

well at least the week is drawing to an end! one day of public hol to look forward to next week! =)) this is the first week of my following of dr srid. i have heard so many horror stories about him dat by the time monday came, i have already braced myself to endure hell. haha. apparently he expects his students to know all the patients and also clerk all the new cases. i ended up wasting time copying stuff from the case files. really dunno where is the learning point. hai. but so far he has been pretty nice (at least not nasty) to me. i really really hope it continues. gosh


hc130 met up for one last meetup before ys leaves for london. venue was of cos MISS CLARITY! haha~ we really shared so much fun and memories at that place leh. the food was as nice as ever and mudooze was just heavenly. we played a time capsule kinda thing there. it was suan's suggestion. so we all wrote notes about the other 3 pple, like how the person will be like in 5 years' time. haha. it was pretty fun. suan is supposed to keep all the notes. den we will all read on 20th sep 2013.

after that we went to national library to play our fav 'superman' game in the glass elevator. haha~ this time we nv stretch out our arms too high cos we are old.
after that we went to take neoprints! haha we were like 10 years older den everyone else in the neoprint shop. i doubt i will ever take another neoprint again except with hc130. hahaha~~


went to t3 on sunday nite to send off ys! we bought a milo package for him as farewell gift. haha~ i was really sad to see him go! really feel v bu4 she3 de2 when he went through the glass door. it will be soooo long till the next time we meetup again!
-Shin- 11:51 PM


ahh its 3 weeks into the medicine posting at cgh and i feel as if i havent learnt anything! tink the only thing i perfected these few weeks is to draw curtains. my most important job during ward rounds is to draw curtains while the doctors are examining the patients. haha~~ and i am too lazy to stay back to clerk patients. i tink i clerk the least compared to everyone in my cg. oh no oh no.

but at least patho Ca is over! though i tink i sure fail. need some divine intervention to pass. i realised skimming through the notes is not enough to pass. cant rem lotsa stuff during the mcq. prac was even worse. i totally had NO IDEA what the first picture was. i wrote that it was a bone in the end cos i din wanna just leave the question blank and stone for 8 mins. haha it turned out that it was the aorta. good job swim.



we had some relaxation time after patho! good food @wheelock place den kbox! as we were walking down orchard road from wheelock to cine we were wondering when will be the next time we can be so carefree. sads.



yisheng's bday last thurs! bowwow and i went down to his house from cgh and were the 2 earliest to arrive after damian! now hc130 are all officially 21! haha hc130 didnt have time to meet up before that to make yisheng's photo board (our unique, one-and-only 21st bday presents for each other!), so suan, ger and i had to hide in ys's room to chiong to make his present. v funny cos we had to ban him from entering his own room and we used his scissors, glue etc to make HIS PRESENT. hehe. but we were all v pro by now since its our 4th board. finished v quickly and it was v chio! haha~~ ys is leaving for london soon so hc130 will be seperated for a longlong time.. ahh i feel sad just thinking abt it!
-Shin- 10:11 PM


feeling like an absolute slacker. haha shopped the whole day yesterday and slacked the whole day at home today. did i mention how i absolutely love the feeling of having nothing to do? haha~ one week break is too short!!! ahhh

lunched at crystal jade lamian xiaolongbao yesterday and had tea at shokudo japanese coffee house. gosh the tofu cheesecake there is super uber nice!!! drooolsssss

i wanna eat again!!

anyway. i was really sad when the usa basketball team thrashed spain. was hoping that spain could stage an upset. looks like team usa is unstoppable so far though. btw, here are 2 of my highlights of this year's games: 17-year-old spain's basketball prodigy ricky rubio, and who else, the one and only michael phelps!!




-Shin- 4:11 PM


had my end-of-posting test yesterday! and it marked the end of my 8-week posting in surgery in sgh~~ was really pretty nervous abt the eopt the day before. felt like i din noe anything and was pretty sure the examiners will stump me with questions. turned out that my examiners seemed to be in a hurry to leave. they only spent like 5 min on discussion after i presented. haha~ din even see my physical examination. they seemed to be pretty happy with me leh even praised my history and said it was 'very sound' and that i had 'a good understanding of wats going on'. haha crazy. the truth is i tink i missed out super alot of things in my presentation. my diagnosis is prob wrong as well. just thank goodness i met examiners with low expectations. heh

after the test ate at fish and co in novena square with my cg! =)) heard about ae's complaints about how 'the 2 girls keep calling me to sign dunno wat shit'. cant believe how imaginative he is. crazy. we only like called him ONCE in WEEKS. crazy fellow. just my luck to get him.

after lunch daryl, elvin, bowwwow and i went to cine kbox! haha~~ fun fun~ one week hols next yay!!!
-Shin- 2:09 PM




haha hc130 met up again this year to celebrate national day together! we met at bugis cold storage to buy stuff to make sushi again~~ heheh..

this time we were so efficient. cooked the rice, cut the cucumbers and carrots, fried the omelette and unagi, boiled the crab sticks!! haha we are pro. so proud of the feast we made for ourselves in such a short time! heh we sat down to a feast and watched the national day parade together with suan's family. matthew also came to join us awhile later! haha~ we saw fireworks from suan's room!

den we hung ard to watch abit of olympics gymnastics while eating mochi, green tea ice cream. heh~ suan's mum made yummy avocado juice!
-Shin- 11:00 PM


ok i am having wednesday-blues now. had an extended weekend cos my cg had nothing on in sgh today, and yuenmei and i decided to pon yesterday's patho lecture and tutorial in nus yesterday. haha~~

anyway, i tink my house's tv is going to explode from all the olympics i watch. i have totally no QC and watch literally EVERYTHING. hah. my favourites are of cos basketball, beach volleyball, and swimming! michael phelps so shuai! haha and i watch gymnastics and synchronised swimming too. i even watch wrestling. spent a good one hour watching wrestling today cos i wanted to find out how exactly does one win in wrestling. i even went to do research cos i couldnt figure it out. here's wat i learnt:


the object of the sport of wrestling is to put your opponent on his back -- to pin your opponent.

A pin (or fall) is when you put your opponent on his/her back with any part of both shoulders or both shoulder blades of your opponent in contact with the mat for two seconds. When you pin your opponent, the match is over and you are the winner.

If nobody gets pinned, the winner is the wrestler who has scored the most points during the match..

There are five ways to score points in a wrestling match:

1) Takedown - (2 points) You score two points for taking your opponent down to the mat and controlling him/her.

2) Escape - (1 point) You score one point for getting away or getting to a neutral position when your opponent has you down on the mat.

3) Reversal - (2 points) You score two points when your opponent has you down on the mat and you come from underneath and gain control of your opponent.

4) Near Fall (Back Points) - (2 or 3 points) You get near fall points when you almost but not quite get your opponent pinned. A near fall (near pin) is when...

both shoulders are held for two seconds within four inches of the mat, or...

one shoulder touches the mat and the other shoulder is at a 45 degree angle coming down to the mat, or...

the wrestler is held in a high bridge or back on both elbows.

If a near fall lasts for two seconds, you get 2 points. If a near fall lasts for 5 seconds, you get 3 points.

pretty cheem huh. haha i tink i will be a much better student if i was as self-motivated in my studies as i am in watching olympics.

btw, my end of posting test is this saturday! haha~~ i tink i am a goner, cant get into the mode of preparing for it with too much distraction coming from the olympics. hai but the olympics is once every 4 years leh...

shall get back to my case write up.. shall update on national day with hc130 once i get my hands on yisheng's new sony-alpha camera photos!!
-Shin- 10:23 PM


okie i have decided to resurrect my blog. i suddenly realised i m aging fast and i wanna keep track of all my experiences when i am still young. 7 weeks spent in sgh's surgical department has made me feel that life is much more fragile den we tink. and that aging is a sin. i remember talking to this 80 year old ahpek one day, even joking with him, and the next day, he passed away of complications from operation.

anyway, after getting over the initial shock of 7am-6pm days in sgh, we started to 'adapt' to life. haha most of the adapting was via reverting to our ponning ways of cos, cutting late lectures and seminars. heh. plus our timetable got slacker as the weeks go by, so life is actually pretty relaxing. i am also getting used to not being able to answer questions during tutorials and feeling like an idiot through and through. haha. all of these just takes enough practice.

of cos there are fun stuff to do too. heh i like my cg more and more. its full of gossip-mongers. =)) and we are pretty drama.

haha since i havent been updating since dunno when, i cant really rem wat i have been doing during this period of time. haha~~
some random photos from some of the outings i went to and still bothered to take photos. =))



bowwwow and i ate porridge @ chinatown today before going school! we had an atypical school day which started at 3pm today~ uber shiok. we ended off our lunch with durian puffs from this famous stall called 717~ best durian puffs i ever tasted!there are even durian seeds in the durian puffs!!!


damian's birthday!


muahaha i went to donate blood with qt and jm! i ended up as the only one who successfully donated blood cos qt had hypotension and jm's vein kept collapsing.


fa lun gong @ kim gary vivo!!



candy floss @ nydc with bowwow. think it must have been some ponning day. cant rem.


mummy and i went for eason chen's moving on stage concert last sat! my lousy camera couldnt pick up any nice photos~ super angry. eason dances v well! though i could hardly understand a word of wat he's saying as he addressed the crowd in cantonese.
-Shin- 9:42 PM


grr i am so angry now. put my money on exact score of 2-1 to portugal on the portugal-czech republic match. and the score was standing at 2-1 all the way to the 90th minute when stupid portugal decided to score another goal. arrgh. disappointment.
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-Shin- 2:06 AM