Friday, June 29, 2007


Laproscopic cholestectomy


Today I got to do a laproscopic cholestectomy. Managed to cut the gall bladder out, but not b4 poking a few holes (maybe not "a few") in the liver, making blood spurt everywhere. Had to frantically cauterise the leaking blood vessels, and in my frenzy, I let go of the resected gall bladder. It then became lost in the messy abdomen...

Did I mention that it was a computer simulation?

Advanced Surgical Training Centre in NUH. Beats ANY arcade, ANY time. So real that you can feel the pressure of your instruments touching the organs (or getting entangled in the mess of vessels and tendons...)

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007


Did u know....


...how bloody painful it can be to use a stethoscope when you have a pimple in your ear... (juz on the lower rim of the external auditory meatus)

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Monday, June 25, 2007


第一天


First day of a new school term. A new beginning. New challenges. New problems. And also new hopes.

I dun aspire to be the best. Nor to be perfect. I only hope to be worthy. Worthy of my parents, worthy of my friends, worthy of my patients, and worthy enough to make a difference.

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Sunday, June 24, 2007


Nightcycling pics!











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Question.



Its the rainy season... and it has been a particularly rainy day. It has been raining intermittently for the past few hours, and this has caused you to run about closing and opening windows for a few times. A few times you didn't manage to close the windows in time, and the floor was wet. You find it extremely disruptive and troublesome.

Now the rain has stopped again, but the sky has not completely cleared. The room is slightly stuffy, but not super-uncomfortably so. Will you:
  1. Open the windows to let the fresh air and the bit of sunshine in, but at the risk of it raining again?
  2. Save the trouble and leave the windows closed, and endure the stuffiness until you are sure it won't rain again?
Dear friends, what would you do?

Disclaimer: The above scenario is purely fictional and nonsensical. Any resemblance to real life events is purely coincidental and due to your over-active imagination.

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Thursday, June 21, 2007


年少时候




Kaoz... we look so different then... just 3 years ago in San Francisco... Suhan looks sooo...cute..lol... Wenx looks so 顽皮.... Ryan looks as shuai as ever....somemore:





Great team, great work, great time.. Actually did u guys know... I was damn sian diao when I checked the results at 5am before going to sch, and found out that we got 2nd... haha can't stand myself...

We shld go overseas again man... this time w/o our parents....den will be...mwahahaha

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007


Ok, time for a less angsty post...


...if not later nobody read my blog liao...

Anyway I've uploaded some selected photos of our last year's trip in Europe! Can see it at http://community.webshots.com/user/nwxiang

Cos around this time last year, we were in Europe! Fellow Ryan Tour Agency members...go and have ur doses of nostalgia..

(Shall add the link permanently to the sidebar soon)

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Sunday, June 17, 2007


10 Things I Hate


In no order of merit (or hatredness)
  1. I hate being taken for granted. I basically like helping ppl. Cos the act of helping ppl itself makes me feel good. Without any reward. But sometimes, some people just make u feel so un-appreciated. Or stupid even. And make u ask urself "uuhh. Why did I just do that for?" Or worse, make u feel made use of. Sometimes what you need is only a sincere word of thanks for that extra mile u went. But sometimes, u dun even get that.

  2. I hate the feeling of powerlessness/helplessness. I hate being caught in situations where I have no control. Or in other words situations where I cannot do anything to change the direction of where things are heading. Or just plain cannot do anything. And in life, there are too many situations like that for my liking. For example, seeing someone in pain but being unable to help, or things as simple as waiting (for something). And because I hate waiting so much, I shall dedicate an entire section to it.

  3. I hate waiting. It is one of the many situations which I can do nothing...but wait. And I'm damn impatient. Like DAMN impatient. I often get super fidgety or frustrated in situations where I have to sit and wait. Examples: waiting in a long queue, waiting for the bus to come, waiting for a sms/email/msn msg (worse if no reply at all), waiting for the egg to be cooked, waiting for the porridge to cool down (I would gladly dump ice into it if I had some), waiting for a webpage to load, waiting for late friends, etc etc...too many to mention.. in short, I just go crazy if I have to wait...

  4. I hate crowds. Mebbe it is also because of my impatience... I just hate having to navigate thru crowds... It drives me crazy if someone (or a bunch of ppl) is walking very slowly in front of me and I can't get around.. therefore I simply love going out on weekdays... a empty shopping centre/train/bus is just blisssss...

  5. I hate the morning rush. Probably linked to my dislike of crowds. I dedicate a section to it because it is a special type of crowd I especially detest. It just makes me very tired and grumpy if I have to start my day by fighting through the morning rush... Because of that, I gladly sacrifice my sleep time and wake up extra early, just to catch that almost empty train/bus.. Few times, I overdid it and beat the school janitor to school...

  6. I hate hearing any noise just after I wake up. Ok. This is really peculiar.. I cannot stand any small noise just after I wake up... Like, ANY noise. My family members sort of know this.. so they dun speak to me in the mornings.. but over the years, this has considerably improved.. my tolerance level (in this aspect) is much higher now... (maybe due to more and more erratic sleep patterns) so conversations in the mornings are more common now..

  7. I hate celery. No reason. Maybe genetic (but my parents dun have this trait). I just cannot stand the taste and smell of celery. I even wince when I have to cut up celery in the bio labs..

  8. I hate it when my com breaks down. Even when I dun nid to use it at all. I just can't stand my com not working. And I will open it up and keep doing stuff to it until it gets back up... Or else I cannot stop...

  9. I hate it when other people crease the spines of my books. Hmm. So far this has not happened. And hopefully it will not happen. Most of my new books have perfectly uncreased spines, even after I read them 5x.. I take great pains not to crease the spines.. and I always remind my friends who pick up my books, not to crease the spines... sorry, I'm weird.

  10. I hate people telling me what to do. "You cannot do this. Dun do it this way. You must do this. You must do that. You must do it this way. Dun play with the com so much. Dun sleep so late. Do your work." Please shut up. I know what to do.
Why I suddenly write all these? Mebbe to vent my 烦-ness. Actually there are a lot more things I can add to the list... But I must curb my angsty-ness.. Ok gdnite everybody.

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烦


I miss the days when the only thing I 烦 about is not being able to go Ah Ma house to play..

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Thursday, June 14, 2007


I thought...


..that I needed a wide open black sky twinkling with stars to find that calm... but I happened to chance upon this photo, which brought a smile..


Looking at this photo really reminded me of the Hwa Chong days... doing all the stupid things together.. like always going to toilet during Mr Teo's class, clowning about in the lab, playing basketball while other ppl were having S papers, mugging together, going out after sch in sch uniform, eating and chatting until damn late at Prince, tokking crap in lectures (until forget to take down notes), and sitting down at the class bench and niao-ing the hell out of each other... it is as if it was just yesterday.. the memories so vivid..

And now, we are all over the place (the world even), all doing different stuff now... how rare it is to have a chance to sit down together again... Hey Pear, its gd to have u back... (and it's one of the rare photos that Wenx is smiling..or at least half-smiling..) looking forward to the next time we can sit down again and talk our hearts out..

=)

And perhaps with that little bit of nostalgia, I shall be able to find enuff peace to sleep..

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007


After about 5 hours


Since 10pm (the previous day)... this is what I have..
Haiz...

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007


Receptor - Ligand Interactions


One type of ligand can bind to one type of receptor, leading to a type of response.

One type of ligand can bind to one type of receptor, leading to a variety of response. (Think adrenaline on beta receptors on different cell types)

One type of ligand can bind to different types of receptors, leading to more varieties of responses. (Think adrenaline on alpha and beta receptors on different cell types)

Different types of ligands can bind to the same receptor, leading to different responses. (Think adrenaline and propanolol on beta receptors)

Different types of ligands can bind to different receptors, leading to a almost infinite variety of responses. (Think of everything)

This is why biology is so freaking complicated.

This is why life is so freaking complicated.

Nvm. I'm sprouting nonsense...

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Monday, June 11, 2007


请问...


...有高人能指点迷津吗?

I feel lost..

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Friday, June 08, 2007


Seriously..


I wonder who else "chills out" at coffee bean other than us...haha and I think we really should stop drinking ice blended The Ultimates...

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Wednesday, June 06, 2007


Rewind. Fast forward.


Hindsight is always the clearest, yet foresight is infinitely more valuable.

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Monday, June 04, 2007


Previously, on MSN...


And again, we talk about The Question. The Question that is in almost every one of our conversations. The Question that eludes us all. The Question that has been asked time and time again, by ourselves, our peers, our parents, our siblings, our relatives, our teachers, our superiors and even some no-link people. And time and time again, we have attempted logic, philosophy, science, mathematics, probability, and statistics....but all to no avail. There is no solution, no answer. And perhaps it shall remain so...

Haiz. But I really hope that one day, someone (not necessarily myself) can find out The Answer....Till then, we can only try and feel about blindly.

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Sunday, June 03, 2007


Bored.


This is an official SOS. Help me please..

Anyone going out / watching movie / singing ktv / running / swimming / cycling / night-cycling / gym-ing / camping / playing soccer /playing bball / playing badminton / playing pool / chilling out / breakfasting / lunching / dinnering / clowning about, pls jio me...

Otherwise I'll be stuck at home playing com games..

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