小乔

Eve of my conversion course

For my honour

Mistakes...

I love Taiwan, 31/7/06 - 2/8/06

Embarked on a 4 days' trip to Taiwan with old pals Junlei(left) and Leonard(right).
had great clean fun over there.


This is my Ah Beng tour guide. He has permed long hair, tattooed eyebrows and paints his last fingernail red, apparently for good luck purposes. His motor mouth rambles non stop that I had a hard time sleeping on the bus. His demeanour really gives Chen Shuei Bien a run for his money.


The apparently quite famous Ah Zong Mee Sua. Look.. no chairs and tables in sight.


That's the way you eat it over here in Taiwan.. Hot mama squating by the streets


Check out Jay Chou and his latest squeeze..


This pic is specially taken and dedicated to our dearest Bro, Dr Yandao!!!

My week in OT

Currently posted to OT this week. Muz admit it.. my interest for ortho has gone up a notch after being in the thick of the action (that is, if you consider holding retractors lah)

Anyway.. great experience.. really like it.. precision carpentry of the human bone, to put it in a nutshell..

Was in fact scheduled to help out on Tuesday, but somehow got saboed by my MO to help out 1 day earlier.. it was 2.15pm on a relaxing Monday when I received a call to go help out.. I went in with mixed feelings as I was in fact planning to meet gf when she knocks off abt 6. As I was scrubbing up, I asked him who is operating. My heart sank when I heard his name. When he added that this pelvic reconstruction + total hip replacement surgery will take approx 6 hrs.. *pause*.. I juz wanted to land a punch in his face. I left theatre 9pm that night.. I shall not say more.

My next day was much better. Surgeon was damn funny.. the mood was very relaxed.. din get to do much, sometimes not even holding retractors (coz there were 4-5 of us in OT).. but it was nice

Today was the best. Finaaly got to be in the same threatre as my mentor.. Wah.. seeing him do a knee replacement is like seeing a master craftsman at work.. completed the entire surgery ( computer assisted + teaching me the steps/details of a knee replacement) in approx 1.5hrs.. quite fast, i muz add. my last case today was hilarious. It is basically this lady who developed knee stiffness after replacement some mths back. plan was to put her under epidural, then manipulate her knee with all our might.. the epidural took abt 1hr and 3 consultants to be in. even then, it din give her enough lower limbs numbness. my MO rolled her eyes when they finally decided to put her under general anaesthesiae. after all the hype, the time has come for me to exert my california gym power. my consultant lifted up her thigh, and then ordered me to bend her knee.. as i cranked it with all my might, i heard her loud crack sound.. I looked up, appearing shell shocked.. consultant said ' dun worry, prob fibrous adhesions you loosened, not the femur lah'.. what a day : )

Graduation night 7/7/06

Great pals from med sch: Lincoln, YY, The One & Only Yandao, Me and The Love Dr.


Blink and you'll miss.. Check out the smartest chick in med sch!!


Beautiful flowers for a beautiful lady..


Finally.. being up close with the one and only, China-peidu-mama-slayer, Yangtze gold card holder.... YANDAO!!!

Medical dinner

Went for Medical dinner tonight.

It was great fun, meeting with old pals again. Nothing beats chilling out with old friends and talking abt each and everyone of our peculiar experiences in the wards. 2mths as doctors have certainly made us grown in certain aspects.. be it the way we live our lives now (night calls after night calls) as well as our perspective on medical practice.

dinner was nice.. free food, so what more can we ask for.. but the company was certainly better. how we used to take each other's presence for granted.. now meeting up with one another is such a hard-to-come-by opportunity, given our different schedules.

never thought life as a HO was smooth going, but hearing one another out certainly gives you an uplift and the assurance that we are all in this together..

of course, it was really nice to see gd old prof Low come up to us and say hi, no thanks to my porcupine hair. he was astonished that we only do 5 calls/mth.. muz be really tough back then yah

anyway.. great get together, to say the least!! : )