Life Is Peaceful There

patients booked, cephs traced, table tidied. what more could i want for the new term? besides Bill Gates dropping 60 million greenbacks in my lap in a big paper bag...

Peijun will be starting up work in NDC on the 2nd level. im still here in NUH on the third level. wish i was in NDC, even if it wasn't the 2nd level. dont want to lose the interest in what i do...

2 weddings to play for in a week! i guess i must be getting old, i find myself starting to take note of the way the weddings are organised to gain a better understanding of how i want mine to be conducted. at the very least, i want one that goes according to plan! no little kids-who-toss-petals freaking out or swallowing the ring or whatever. no unexpected catering problems. no screwed-up music.

Staying Alive - Eldissa

Every Time

council gathering at Suat's place yesterday night. guess ive probably detailed in earlier posts why i feel so strongly about my school and why i joined council. and now, so many years on, people i served with have turned into old friends with whom i can reminisce and play Munchkin with. people to relive the good old days with while we eat ice cream and brownies. people whom we can needle with old jokes as we lead into new jokes. people who im proud to call my friends.

Casa della Suat has some amazing stuff. a Wii as well as an XBox 360. and so i got to try out 2 consoles of which i have only been able to see in ads and on VGCats. the Wii is a fascinating thing. is it meant to be pronounced the japanese way as Wi-i or ang-moh style as Wee or what? and waving ones hands! how novel! now i understand all the crude rude mean nasty things from VGCats. they were absolutely spot on. played Gears of War with Meng as the rest indulged in a spot of bridge. the game sure isn't Halo, for one thing the interface is one heck of a complex. for another thing, i couldnt find a way to alter the sensitivity. running and shooting felt like trying to fight while drunk. slightly slow and disorienting. on the other hand, i guess the felon-soldiers of Delta Squad arent exactly as agile as Spartans. nonetheless, the puzzle elements of the game made it feel at least a bit harder than the usual point-shoot kind of fps or 3rd-person game. but will i ever get a Wii or a 360? yeah, dream on. maybe if the damn school decides to pay me for the help i give the juniors *broad hint!*

Winter Love - BoA

Taimu Reapu

please watch The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. its the freaking best movie all bloody holidays. its got solid plot, character development, spectacular director vision, and good soundtrack. support good movies. bollocks to Pirates 3: At Wit's End and Shrek The Turd. put your money where the quality lies.

Streptococcus

one week of holidays gone by. what have i achieved? what great leaps forward? what riotous fun?

watched Fantasic 4 with Peijun on wednesday. having not watched any of the previous instalments, i come to this series with a clean slate. and let me put it to you that this movie didnt seem to be worth the ticket money. a poorly-fleshed major character. a greater-evil type character as a mess of rocks. and ridiculous plot development. awful awful awful!

seems like i wont be getting my cluster allocation letters like the rest. Peijun got her email from SingHealth, but i'll have to wait until i come out before i found out what cluster i belong to....

went with Peijun to Settlers Katong to meet Pinfen, Siewping and John, and played Saboteur! looks like this really was a great christmas gift, even tho i havent had the chance to take my set for a spin. its the kind of game which can quite literally occupy you for 4 hours straight! decently fun because of the inbuilt hook of deceptive play, and it doesnt get stale because rounds are short. but of course it doesnt match up to my first gaming love of CBT. my dice still call to me in the darkness....

Nobody Knows - 伊藤由奈

Under The Moon

one day of holidays over, and for the first time since ive come to FoD, i'm struck by how little holiday we actually have. the date is already into 2 digits, and at the end of the month i'm back into the grind, and PJ is going to work. the transcience of life's little pleasures is at once a warning to treasure what we have, and also a warning to expect all good things to end at some point.

its kinda sinking in that i am now attached to a Dr Chia. and she'll have to move ahead of me in life as i complete my unfinished business in school. i guess the good thing is that anything that i experience when i go to work wont be entirely a surprise, since i have a 6-month early 2nd-person preview. at the same time i'll be having to support her during the adjustment phase. oh well, maybe better one than both at once.

bought Yuna Ito's CD. good shit! having heard it on YouTube doesnt take away from the fact that its good songwriting and good singing. just wish DAI were still together...

what to do with the rest of my holiday? what to do?

Precious - 伊藤由奈

Poco Voce

so my lungs have shrunk. got another month to grow them back before i play for Matt and Cheryl's wedding. need to regain my sightreading skills too. just feels like its been too damn long since i picked up my flute. if only there was some way to get in regular quality playing time... especially with a school schedule. and no, the Worship Team does not count as quality playing time...

what to do with the holidays?
1) regrow lungs
2) go and swim
3) organise for next term
4) do up patients' cephs
5) play excessive CBT!

really want some of item 5! my dice call to me to sieze them, ride forth and lay waste!

Stupidity is never more daunting

as when it is systemic. why do we do the things we do? multiple steps to nowhere? break our hopes and pray that they reassemble? and why am i here in the middle of the night blogging in the lab, a can of Red Bull sitting in front of me, when there is work to do?

sometimes doing the right thing just doesnt feel rewarding. i finally got round to bringing in a patient i havent seen in a million years. literally. i dont need any of this guy's requirements, but on the other hand it isnt honest to let him sit and rot. so i update his xrays, TD his caries, chart his resto, perio and even his recession. and suddenly noone wants a backup exam case. noooooo! 3 crowns to go, anyone? please? im even preparing provisionals in case the ones i put in screw up!

finally getting in an ortho patient. prescreened by the boss himself, no worries about a screwy indication. hope i can work fast tomorrow.

damn i wish i could be overseas...

Unchained - Love Psychedelico

Leaf On The Wind

seems like sometimes the world changes around us, and we're left standing wondering what happened to all that we found familiar. my lab is now populated by the incoming D3s, and while theyre a nice bunch, they sure arent my old class. half the class is overseas, and the rest are in the process of going. and me and ZX are left here pottering around in the lab chasing the dream of leaving NUS to spread our wings and fly off to some distant polyclinic where we can caries free in peace.

what is my role in life now?
1) i need to graduate. stat. the work i do, the things i study, must lead towards this eventuality. i must improve my hands and my mind to write well in my papers and stand tall during clinical dentistry.
2) i want to help my juniors not to end up like me. will this end up at odds with (1)? how much time can i afford?

擱淺 - 周杰倫