Before yet another night call to serve....

Time flies really,really fast I guess... especially when your life is hectically filled with many obligations and activities like mine... I've been teaching relentlessly after work, I'm starting to ask myself when I'm going to stop doing these teachings.... yet the undulating demands coming hand in hand with the pay remuneration is satisfyingly quenchable....

Been trying to run and do my gym sessions with my dear fiance after work... other than that, do lots of reading with him over coffee or rootbeer ( my fav drink, tastes better with vanilla ice cream actually )....

The reason why I'm putting up a post today ( after long while ) is because I'm quite bored, I don't sleep in the afternoons and have 2 more hours to rest before I get ready for gym and later my night duty call...

There's not much challenge left at work... so I like to challenge myself by increasing my workload at work by helping other sections as well.... so worried of getting bored, knowing I can get bored easily w/o much challenge ahead of me... my direct supervisor seems to notice this cos he's been ordering me around the lab to do so many miscellaneous work on top of my own... I get irritated by his thunderous voice sometimes when he shouted my name across the huge lab, just to ask me a favour to assist him....

I've watched several movies ( surprisingly )... such as 'Percy and the lightning thief', ' How To Train Your Dragon- 3D', 'My Name is Khan' and 'The Green Zone'....

The animation from Pixar is surprisingly good despite the uncatchy title... and watching from the second row from the front, I felt immersed in the movie... I love the part when I felt as if I was bobbing up & down with only my head on the surface of the sea.... interesting yet foreseeable storyline... but entertaining all the same... ( 3/5 stars )

The first show mentioned above was adapted from a book, but the storyline is rather hard for me to swallow, added with the modern settings... I find the whole show quite humorous but disappointingly nonsensical especially the part when they need to find Hades in hell... situated in Hollywood... so ironically silly ( 1/5 star )

The third one is a hindi show, featuring stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol ( my fav Hindi actor/actress)... They never failed to live up to my expectations with their acting skills... regarding a spastic Muslim man who was detained and beaten up because he was suspected as a terrorist following the 9/11 incident.... just because he wanted badly to meet the US president to declare he's a muslim but not a terrorist, contrary to what most Caucasians in the country believed after 9/11.... A harrowing yet touching storyline with a strong message to non-muslims to clear their general misconceptions regarding muslims worldwide.... ( 4 stars )

The last show was definitely initiated by my fiance, due to his love for war movies... I hate the violence that are inevitably featured in every war movie... the show was heart-thumping, with non-stop action but not much storyline to draw on... the message to be sent across is for us not to deceived by what we see or read in the media, because sometimes they are just propaganda or blinding us to the reality behind the scenes...

In this case, about how the US president fooled the US citizens into thinking they were sending troops to Iraq to uncover and destroy weapons of mass destruction, which were actually non-existent in the first place... the overriding reason is to actually try to gain the natural resources like oil from the country, at the expense of the citizens of Iraq... their welfare, safety and lives are all destroyed in the process... reminds me of a book I've read, 'The Conspiracy Reader'...

(3 stars)

Other than movies, I've recently completed a Nany Drew detective game... just an intellectually stimulating game which I completed over the course of only 2 days... maybe totalled up to 7 hours... too easy I guess...

A book I'm currently reading is called,'Complications', a national bestseller and a New York Times notable book, written by Dr Atul Gawande... This doctor reveals it all in his book regarding the ugly reality of surgeons worldwide... that they are fallible like us, and most of the time struggling and groping in the dark trying to figure out what the problem in our bodies - only after cutting us up.... yikes...

Hard to swallow but true to the bone... I'm an enthusiast when it comes to books like these... uncovering the truths behind the superficial drapes we see everyday... doctors look confident, assuring, intelligent, infallible... but all of these are not true.. they are still humans, and thus prone to making mistakes no matter how experienced...

And these ranging from simple to complex mistakes.... at the cost of putting someone's life on the line... e.g. an 8-yr old died during a wisdom tooth extraction just because the doctor accidentally put the breathing tube through her esophagus (where your food goes into the stomach) instead of the trachea (where air goes into the lungs).... so she died within minutes due to suffocation...

So are malpractice suits justifiable? Most operation procedures are done by the resident surgeons (inexperienced trainees), not the attending surgeons (experienced but just overlook the whole procedure and give advice,or take over when the need arises).... not known to many... because the only way to learn to perform surgical procedures is by practice,not just looking... so patients are guinea pigs most of the time...

Reminds me of the time when I was hospitalized and the trainee nurse poked me wrongly and instead of administering the saline intravenously, the saline went into my muscles making my hand bloated,purple and painful due to internal bleeding... the doctor apologised on her behalf & was clearly outraged but I was the one on the receiving end... it took a month to completely heal... Such a simple procedure can go wrong, yet alone a complex one like surgery...?

A must-read book for nerds like me and my fiance... haha! :)