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November 20th, 2009
10:07 am
My doctor was just showing me scanned images of newspaper articles depicting him in a Sex Quiz conducted the year I was born!
He added that he won every other science quiz that year with exception to this one, which was lost to none other than NANYANG GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Who knew the Nanyang girls were capable of such things.
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November 19th, 2009
09:46 pm
Is it worth it?
Why am I feeling scared?
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November 18th, 2009
03:20 pm
Yesterday on the way home from work, I was sitting in the car watching lightning flash across the sky, lighting up the dark night fractions of a second each time. And I just thought of the song lyric "who has told every lightning bolt where it should go", then I wondered why they were allowed to strike people dead. I vividly remember this newspaper article of this soccer player who was out in the wet field and go electrocuted by lightning. Well, of course there was the whole whoo-ha about lightning striking the Merlion and the debate about whether there should be a lightning conductor attached to it.
But why? Why strike someone dead? Hmmm.
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12:28 pm
I never knew I had this song in my ipod.
It's so going to make my day (((:
The Way I was Made - Chris Tomlin
Caught in the half-light, I'm caught alone
Waking up to the sunrise and the radio
Feels like I'm tied up, what's holding me?
Just praying today will be the day I go free
I want to live like there's no tomorrow
I want to dance like no one's around
I want to sing like nobody's listening
Before I lay my body down
I want to give like I have plenty
I want to love like I'm not afraid
I want to be the man I was meant to be
I want to be the way I was made
Made in Your likeness, made with Your hands
Made to discover who You are and who I am
All I've forgotten help me to find
All that You've promised let it be in my life
Current Music: The Way I Was Made - Chris Tomlin
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November 17th, 2009
10:06 pm
I just visited the supermarket and I saw new product on the shelf!
It's Colostrum.
I really have no idea why anyone would buy it to drink it, but it's nutritious I suppose,
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09:56 am
I was just doing my daily reading of New York Times and stumbled upon this article of geep (a cross of sheep and goats) which look like this!
Which is cute enough, then I chanced across this fake creature that was supposed to be a Man-bear-pig, which is so very scary.
Ah. The ethics of cloning and research.
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November 16th, 2009
04:04 pm
I'm listening to Bolero right now.
Memories of dancing in the field and luminous yellow/golden lycra costumes flood my mind.
I miss dance.
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02:28 pm
While reading up for my work, I found this!
A scallop with BLUE eyes!
Absolutely fascinating!
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November 13th, 2009
05:44 pm
While researching for oysters and pituitary hormones, I found the below profoundly disturbing.
Monosex culture
In aquaculture, one sex is often more desirable for the market than the other. For example, female sturgeon produce caviar, male tilapia grow faster than females, female trout and salmon generally grow faster than males. The production of single sex groups of fish takes advantage of this sexual dimorphism and can be accomplished by manipulation of the developing gametes and embryo. The manipulation can be in the form of DNA denaturisation in the gametes followed by chromosome-set manipulation or alternatively, by hormonal sex-reversal and subsequent breeding.
Administering appropriate hormones can change the phenotypic (physical) sex of many aquatic species. For example, genetically male tilapia can be turned into 'physical' females through estrogen treatments. These genetic males, that are physically female, are then mated with normal males to produce a group of all-male tilapia that grow faster and have less unwanted matings than a group of mixed-sex tilapia. (In mixed sex culture of tilapia, mating at a small size often leads to overcrowding and stunting). Some of the all-male offspring of this process have two male chromosomes and these fish can be used in turn as broodstock for subsequent generations. A big advantage of this technique is that all-male populations can be produced in those subsequent generations without the use of any hormones.
Imagine them trying to do this to humans, far beyond just changing them into transvestites.
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09:51 am
Don't watch TV. Experiments performed by the JPB Creative Laboratory show that watching TV causes your brain to slowly trickle out your ears and/or nose. It's not pretty, but it happens.
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November 9th, 2009
01:47 pm
Sometimes I just need to do things to feel a bit better about myself.
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November 7th, 2009
11:21 pm
There was something liberating in walking up to the altar today.
I can't quite put my finger on it, but something in me broke.
I really should go off to do quiet time.
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November 6th, 2009
11:22 am
I'm listening to music that makes me want to jump out of my seat and dance around a bit. But no, the doctors think I'm weird enough.
It's raining cats&dogs again. I wish I was home tucked under my sheets instead.
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November 2nd, 2009
02:54 pm - a child-like moment to relish
The super heavy rain makes me wish I had a pair of WELLINGTONS and a raincoat to go SPLASHING in puddles and DANCING in the rain! ((:
and of course, try not to get struck by lightning at the same time.
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October 26th, 2009
07:44 pm
I'm sitting in the office, stealing peanut snacks, waiting for my doctor to come back and bring me to the house officer I'm supposed to hang around for the night.
I don't really know whether it is the late nights that are contributing to my pimples or whether I'm just having a hormonal thing. I think these break outs might even be attributed to my brother's chemical laden facial wash that I have been using since I was too lazy to refill my 100% natural one. But now that my skin is in this state, I refilled my bottle and is praying for the best.
My mind always seems to be filled with nothing but blank empty spaces most of the time. I don't think about work, or what I'm supposed to be studying, or anything. Just thinking about why I can't seem to have any intellectual thought processes taking place in my head when most of those around me seem so well-learned. I really should start reading a bit more.
It isn't even 8pm and I am already sleepy. There's a morning clinic session tomorrow with the guy who radiates joy and peace, which usually means they are boring and slow. I really can't afford to fall asleep! Looks like I'd walk out of NCC tomorrow wtih pinch marks all over my arms.
THIS IS NOT A VERY BRIGHT IDEA.
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October 23rd, 2009
12:27 pm
I finally finished the case-report I have been sitting on the past week. It has left me with many other case-reports that is printed one-sided. I would not dare use the paper to print lyrics for worship for fear that my kids would actually read the inappropriate content on the flip-side of the paper. (Inappropriate because I would know what kind of reactions and comments to expect.) It has also given me images in my computer that I wish my brother would never find. But now that is done, it's a huge load off my shoulder.
I actually like being here in the Cancer Centre, though the doctors are cynical and grumpy a lot of the time, but this is all real. I'm thankful to be learning from a doctor that thinks so laterally and knows his specialty so well, as well as philosophical ideas to do with Shrodinger's Cat, quantum physics and more of the Catholic Liturgy when I do, especially when he has no religious affiliation. I'm thankful for my doctor who tells me about life in the real medical world, how the lymphoma team keeps creating work for themselves, sends me music pieces and keeps my entertained with his rantings, occasional tempers and pesky remarks.
He asked me to take up a position as a clinic asst here at NCC starting next year. The truth is, it's a pretty brainless job. But at the same time, it would save me the huge trouble of having to look for another job when the year starts and my internship ends. Yes or No?
My answer is due today.
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October 22nd, 2009
01:00 pm
I promise you that working around doctors for 11 hours a day, 5 days a week, turns you into someone a bit more cynical than you would want to be.
But then again, welcome to the real world.
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October 21st, 2009
11:11 pm
Am I trying too hard? Or is it just me doing everything wrong?
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October 16th, 2009
12:09 pm
I really need to do something about my hair.
It's like this huge wavy mess of hair crinkling at the ends!
ROARR!
I went for rounds with the lymphoma team instead of the usual lung team.
It's different. And the patients made me think quite a bit.
Two separate patients. One playing buddhist chants from an ipod speaker. Another with rosary beads by the side of his bed, reading some book about spiritual healing.
Life is a terminal disease. Our beliefs are the only thing that we take with us when we pass away from this earth.
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October 12th, 2009
08:49 pm
This made me smile for a while today.
Makes me wonder when I'll dance again.
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