Early in the morning at 6 o'clock...

it's 9 am and i've just brushed my teeth. i slept in today, and will only be heading for NUH at 10am; sure feels goood...=) i have been doing an orthopaedic posting at NUH the past 2 weeks, and here's how my average day goes...

5.30 am - alarm clock rings
5.31 am - press the snooze button
5.40 am - press the snooze button again
5.50 am - jump out of bed muttering, 15 min to get ready, crap, why did i over sleep?!
6.05 am - got to leave the house... but i'm still getting the knots out of hair and thinking: i need a hair cut!
6.20 am - 'vroom' (the sound of my car starting) =)
6.50 am - milo from NUH kopitiam and banana cake from NUH bengawan solo (not bad for hospital food eh...=)
7.00 am - go to meet my tutor... and wonder the same thing every morning: where does he get so much energy?
7.30 am - do rounds... round and round the merry-go-round...
1.00 pm - lunch = get to sit down
2.00 pm - clinic...
6.30 pm - clinic ends, hopefully can go home... but no...
7.55 pm - home.. home on the range... (at least i won't have to pay the ERP charges on the CTE)
8.25 pm - finally get to see my Bento after >12 hours at school

the days have been long and tiring, but i had a really good tutor who was willing to teach. that was the main reason why we ended so late, cos he could only teach after/before the usual working hours. well, in orthopaedics, basically we study bones and musle and ligaments... boy, have i ever smelt smellier feet! legs that have been cast us are so chou(4) chou(4). and as part of the examination for the knee, i had to sit on someone's smelly feet and even hug the foot under my armpit (around there , not where it'll outrage my modesty!). i had/still have one big concern... varicose veins!! with all the standing, that is such a huge occupational hazard! varicose veins are awful things to have... eeewh... they bulge out and they hurt and they're oh so ugly as well... ways to prevent it? well, not very much that i can do, considering that my family has a predisposition to it... unless i start moving around in a wheelchair... now isn't that a thought... hmm...

ok, gotto run, treated myself to an extra 3 hours of sleep today, but i'm on call tonight, so don;t begrudge me life's little pleasures...=)