Friday - End, exams, end!

Usual dreary commute to school, then shuttle bus to the exam hall. Today's paper is Community, Occupational and Family Medicine.

What it really means is, Academic-Medicine-Not-Otherwise-Covered. Anything that doesn't fit the pigeon-hole headings of Pharmacology, General Medicine and stuff.

In short, we get modules called Evidence-based Medicine, Public Health in the Community, Disease Prevention and Control. Health Promotion and Behaviour, stuff like these.

There's alot of role-play involved. Questions usually go like 'MrTan blah blah. You are the family physician of Mr Tan. How would you manage the patient?'

It's quite alot of crapping and all, but ONLY if you crap properly.

Sunny day today. Perhaps too sunny. And in my half-daze, I stare out of the window, trying to get the worry out of my mind- I'm an expert crapper. I ought to do well in this.

Hoardes of students swarming the place, busy cramming in the last few bits that had escaped their revision. Did my usual rounds of idle chat with my classmates, trying to perk each other up, distracting each other from the looming worry that is the exam.

Everyone's lugging around stacks and heaps of annotated and bookmarked books and notes as Paper 2 is open-book. Sorta feel inadequate with my single file of notes - no paperclips, no post-its, no intricately-prepared notes.

PGP's really hot and shadeless.

Exam went quite OK. Not good, but OK. Everyone swarmed off, everyone's got their own thing to do.

Felt quite lost againt, like I don't belong anywhere. Usually when exams finish, classmates celebrate together. But here I am, alone, milling about. Everyone's here got their own lives, something to rush for afterwards.

Hey, at least I'm not ALL alone. There's Marvin. Exchanged jokes, stuff like that, ate lunch.

The canteen there's not too good, but the waffles are great. Yellow waffles! Not the usual pandan kind. Been looking for them for years, and finally found them. Tasty, yummy, delicious, all at once. Boy oh boy it's good.

Went to buy my Emergency Medicine text for the next posting. Next posting's going to be busy. Saturdays burnt, overnight calls, long hours. But the previous batch loved it, so oh well...

Decided on an impulse to go to the IT Show in Suntec! Crazily crowded. Sorta went paranoid when 2 leaflet-givers in a row snubbed me.

Checked my zip. Nopes. Hair. Nopes. So, why am I, erm, invisible?

Didn't feel so invisible when the Samsung lady tried to show me the new K3 MP3 player. Looks quite sweet, though the user interface's quite weird. It's getting rave reviews in the USA though. Pitfall: there's no 8GB version.

Wanted to get the microSD card for the flash cartridge I'm going to get for my DS, but they aren't really cheap. Bleagh.

I hate the crowds, weaved my way through all the distracted people walking in circles, stopping in their tracks in the middle of the path, women clutching their little kids, et cetra. If they drove motor vehicles, everyone'd be dead by now.

Home. Surfed STOMP for awhile. Argh dammit Ryan was there but didn't get a chance to just hang online with him! Hope he's out soon!