My arms hurt, I feel all battered and am in need of a full body massage which will remain a dream. No, I didn’t just went wild in town (well, maybe on the shopping bit). Just carried more boxes bigger than myself and a bag full of camera equipment all day long around the city. ITAAII~

Full of tourists, buskers, magicians, face painters, balloon-man, a wishing wizard and a statue. Sun + Volvo Ocean Race + free music + pretty colourful shops + end of exams = Us in everything.

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Conversation  with a stranger

Stranger: what do you do here?

Icedteamonster (ITM): just finished studying..

Stranger: and what might that be?

ITM: *pause* medicine (I still don’t like telling people this, it makes me all uncomfortable… don’t know why)

Stranger: ooh.. I have this pain behind my ear here see… bla bla bla (jokingly)

With a taxi driver

Taxi driver: ah, you’re all doctors now. If I have a heart attack, I’ll be fine eh?

Me: o_O thinking Please don’t have a heart attack. I will probably freeze before realizing that it’s ABC (airway, breathing, circulation) first. Which brings me to this thought: how will we react during an emergency? Been through the drill countless times and it’s all infused within our blood, brain etc, but real life is different. Like that time on the plane (which wasn’t really an emergency; the guy fainted and came to. had some pills on him which he refused to disclose the indication). I was still a very, very ignorant med student and had no idea how to proceed when the stewardess asked about the medication. Felt like banging head on that small foldable table, but I merely gave her a grin and told her what I knew (which was extremely little) and left it at that.

Oh yeah, drugs were for anxiety. Dude was afraid of flying I think.

I am (was?) so not a medical student material. Which brings my thoughts to this: I like arts (painting, music, right brain stuff). SO different from what I am doing now. When people were studying their behinds off for finals, I was busy watching Japanese stuff downloaded from rapidshare, looking at those ‘how to do an Arabic look make-up’ on YouTube, cooking (which is essential to life, so, that’s ok), staring longingly at the easel, freaking out because I felt unprepared, sleeping (because it puts the Freak Out Beast to sleep and I always dream of pirates and vampires and flying which makes me happy) and trying to read + practice what clinical skills I knew. That’s Mistress Procastination for you.

Does it mean that I am utilising both sides of the cerebral hemispheres? To make me feel better, I’d like to think of it that way. I am well balanced XD

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I might not have internet connection soon since we’ll be moving out. So, I will be posting as much as I can now. Maybe, if I am not too busy with life.

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Going out to see the Red Arrows and the Volvo Ocean Race at the prom today. Hope I got the place right.

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Breakfast time now. I woke up at 4am again. I really cannot sleep more than 4 hours.

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I’ll call home tomorrow.