Of work, work and more work :)

Heys all~

So I skived work today. Erps. Lol. Well, I figured that everyone deserves at least one off-day right? So since I was out till really late last night, I decided I would make today my off-day and put in more hours tomorrow. The great thing about this job is that I get totally flexible hours, and as long as I am progressing at a fairly okay pace, I'm not required to stay in the hospital from 8 am - 5 pm every single day.

Work is tedious, but interesting in alot of senses. I don't do any practical work at all, nor do I actually do hands-on research about new advances, randomised controlled double blind trials of new drugs or so on. Haha. All I do is help them type and analyse the data they have had in the CCU (Cardiac Care Unit) into an Excel spreadsheet so that the correlation between age, gender, race, time of admission and different heart diseases can be investigated. So basically, we code the data and I type them all up....which actually amounts to alot, because there are 6 years worth of data to be analysed (2001-2006), and so far, I am only on Jan 2003.

I know this might sound like an utterly boring and meaningless task, haha, which was what I thought at first when Dr A told me I was supposed to help them key in data so that it can be presented later on as a research study. But it's amazing how little I know about the pathology of the heart, or rather, how many different types of heart diseases there are, and that they can be classified into certain more general categories! And because in the beginning I was a little blur about Dr A's amazing ability to abbreviate (STEMI, NSTEMI, PCI, IHD, ACS) Hahaha, I spend most post-work time on the net looking up stuff I don't know and reading up on diseases so that I have a clearer picture of what is going on with each case history.

And as Dr A enthusiastically told me two days ago: "Wow! You're getting really good huh?" Hahah, it felt really good. Not just because I happen to like Dr A ALOT. He's the friendliest, coolest consultant I have ever met in a very long time. Plus, with 12 years of experience in Bristol, I'm sure he really knows his stuff, and yet his public relations skills are amazing. I learnt alot from him, although when I reiterated the very basic knowledge I had read up on Cardiomyopathies, Atrial fibrillations, heart blocks, Ischaemic heart diseases and so on, he took it a tad too far and it reminded me vaguely of vivas. Hehe. Which was good all the same, because I ended up learning even more.

So, Manda, here's all that I promised I'd tell about my research attachment. Hehe. Turns out it wasn't really the kind of research you and I had in mind. Oops. Looks like SGH isn't still as 'canggih' as we expect them to be, eh? Nvm, nvm....maybe in the future :) hehe....

On a lighter note, last night was madness. Absolute madness. Dinner at some hyped up newly-opened Italian restaurant with the crew plus a few outsiders...Lol. Basically, Jane, Yun and I could have had our own private girls party, we were so out-of-sync with the guys' DOTA madness and annoying talk. And when Yun left, Jane and I had to endure it further. Post-dinner plans saw us standing around in circles again and Lai being so embarrassed that he pretended not to know us before proceeding to SoHo. Which was where the madness began. Shall not delve further. I will scare people off and nobody will want to hang with the Lodgians of Class 2003 again. Oh, plus Sam. Haha. How could I forget Jane's new sidekick.

Got a call frm KM at Jo's house at about 12-ish am. Was pretty surprised, but not as much as when he first called me a week ago. Spoke to him for a really long time, though I was straining to hear some of the things he was saying due to the havoc the ppl were causing nearby and due to my lousy pink phone's reception -_- I don't really know what to say about it. I hope I managed to talk some sense into him, though I doubt it, and well, there's really nth that I can say.

All I can say is I hope God will guide him through a brighter path in the future. I was a little off when he first called me, and I suppose I sounded a little too upbeat for his solemness, but he managed to bring my tempo down a little after the hour or so convo. Which was good.

~* To the one mad-laughter-inducing, bursting-into-song in public, chinese-phrases-loving chio bu I will love best in this world. Hehe. You are and will always be my bestie. I was watching Greys a few days ago on lunch break, and I realised what Meredith Grey can be defined as. She doesn't want to let go. Everyone doesn't want to let go. We want to cling on to the past of security and good memories and believe we can build a world where everything goes our way. But life sucks in that way. Not everything goes our way. But it is the bravest who forgets and moves on.