I have a few random thoughts running through right now that I can't seem to arrange in a proper thematic post, so I'll just label them with numbers and you'll hafta make sense of it yourself. aha.

 

1. I repaired my discman (myself! orthopaedic surgery here i come!), got myself a pair of new earphones (Ya, I'm kinda picky about these stuff), and John Mayer's Continuum album. I love Mayer's music. He's like a contemporary Clapton - great guitar skills, blues-rock cool, and so much soul. For the uninitiated, go hear Mayer's 'gravity', 'slow dancing in a burning room', 'belief', 'I'm gonna find another you' and 'dreaming with a broken heart'.

 

2. My current elective is a blast! Gen Med with a great tutor and team, and at year 4 when you actually know what they are talking about, is great. Prof K has a way of teaching us without making us sound/look/feel stupid, although that is what we are. aha.

 

3. Today something rather unpleasant happened, and I guess the ugliness of medical students (or is it of mankind by extrapolation?) was on full display where it does the most damage - behind someone's back. I plugged into John Mayer to tune out the barbs, but maybe standing up for what is right would have been better. Somehow I seem to always have more courage after the occasion passes.

 

4. My overseas electives are coming closer, and I've (finally?) been hit by the realisation that the 2 months are a real, exciting, maybe dangerous and probably diarrhoea-inducing venture into the foreign unknown. Ah, at least I've had my shots (except Rabies...Cheryl will hafta delay the mad dogs while I try to run on a injured knee).

 

5. I guess that's it.