Friday, December 30, 2005
A tribute to the girls of my clinical grp (hehe)
you need girls in your CG for many reasons....
1. they double up as chaperons
2. they bring all possible textbooks (except Hong'ai who IS the textbook)
3. they have that knack for persuading patients to let us clerk them again even if its the end of the day and they have been interviewed a billion times by pesky medical students
4. they bring that motherly or human touch to the whole experience with the patients
5. they are hilarious to work with
6. they are damn smart
Hanying was initially remembered for her irresistible urge to keep repeating the same question to the patients... or repeating the question posed to her by our tutors. Of course for the latter, with the skilled flutter of her eye lashes, a tutor's impatience is quickly changed to eager forgiveness. In recent times, she was single-handedly responsible for the discovery of the sasha breast reflex - whereby a bicep jerk can now be elicited (or attempted to be elicited) with the well timed stroke of the tendon tapper onto a woman's pendulous breast. the subject should be an elderly chinese lady who doesn't speak Hokkien and is pretty much contented with life. studies have shown that one has to tap at least 20 times on each side for the desired effect.
Irene, the one with the great voice and musical talent. The 9th tallest person in the group (with Youyi a close 8th) but the 3rd tallest girl in the group. Also the 6th tallest girl amongst the 2 sister CGs and the 17th tallest person among the 2 sister CGs. haha no lah, Irene's the organiser of events - birthday parties; and the buyer of presents (except her own birthday present).
Linxin - hails from a family of doctors. As such, her medical student white coat is not just any ordinary white coat. It can house, and I mean house, a portable x-ray machine, an ECG machine, Harrison's, and sometimes when she feels like it, an ultrasound scan machine. For a girl, her handwriting is atrocious... perhaps only understood by her and her fellow blue bloods. Really, it borders on Tamil or Arabic.
Friday, December 16, 2005
Return of the chucky
To all those who were part of such a memorable GII camp - I praise and thank God for the gift of your fellowship, your spirituality and your beautiful singing during mass. To Adrian, Andrea, Anthony, Brenda, Christopher, Clara, Daniel, Daphne, Darryl, Dione, Dominic, Duane, Edmond, Elden, Elizabeth, Ferdinand, Gerald, Gerard, Gregory, Jasmine, Jeremy Bek, Jeremy Chai, Joanna, Jonathan Chia, Jonathan Lim, John Kong, Jude, Kenneth, Marilyn, Marissa, Melvin, Monica, Nicole, Noel, Priscilla, Sandrine, Stacy, Zachary and Father Valerian!!! GII rocks big time with you guys in it. And special thanks to Sr Mary and the caretakers of FMM. Thanks also to the resident FMM chicken and scorpion, for adding that kampong flavour to the camp.
I would like to say more, but the gala premiere of the chronicles of Narnia beckons..... gotta change and go!
To all those who were part of such a memorable GII camp - I praise and thank God for the gift of your fellowship, your spirituality and your beautiful singing during mass. To Adrian, Andrea, Anthony, Brenda, Christopher, Clara, Daniel, Daphne, Darryl, Dione, Dominic, Duane, Edmond, Elden, Elizabeth, Ferdinand, Gerald, Gerard, Gregory, Jasmine, Jeremy Bek, Jeremy Chai, Joanna, Jonathan Chia, Jonathan Lim, John Kong, Jude, Kenneth, Marilyn, Marissa, Melvin, Monica, Nicole, Noel, Priscilla, Sandrine, Stacy, Zachary and Father Valerian!!! GII rocks big time with you guys in it. And special thanks to Sr Mary and the caretakers of FMM. Thanks also to the resident FMM chicken and scorpion, for adding that kampong flavour to the camp.
I would like to say more, but the gala premiere of the chronicles of Narnia beckons..... gotta change and go!
