Hello, again. First, I would babble about the minor issues surrounding my life, then I'll delve into the gist of this blog, that of a 2nd year med student in UQ med school in Oz. Met my cousin and her family while I was doing some grocery shopping at Coles. What a surprise! They haven't moved in yet, probably will do so at the end of the month. I also seem to have some probs with the car that I'm going to buy. It won't start. the battery is as flat as a pancake. Gonna have to call a mechan...

!st Feb 2005 Finally paid the car rego and CTP insurance, which is compulsory down here in Oz. The only hurdle now is to get the car transferred to my name. Which can't happen until I can get hold of an authorization letter or when the owner (soon to be previous) returns to Brisbane to clear up some of his matters. That will be March! Long time to wait. My trial drive was to get familiar with the layout of the road to PA hospital, at the same time getting used to driving an automatic tr...

Hello, again. It's been quite a while since I typed. Med school life is picking up. Got faculty LOs to take care of. Now I'll try to recall the events I think shaped the past week. This will be the last week I'll be by myself, alone in this apartment before my new house mate moves in. Quite cool, him, paying his part of the rent eventhough he hasn't moved in yet, and in advance. I'll give highlights of what happened this past few days: Welcome Back Keg aftermath: Some people still come...

Friday night is Keg night, or more specifically, the welcome back keg, for us med students and also to welcome our wide-eyed first years.I decided to go there late, as it was still too hot outside. I left the house at 6.30pm. At the time, it still felt quite hot, but by the time I reached to Student Union Complex, it already felt quite cool. There, I met my former PBL tutor, I'll call her ex-tutor. She was waiting for another of her former PBL group to come as arranged, but he didn't turn up....

PBL time! I was the first to present my PBL today. Mine was about sputum samples and hemoptysis. I mentioned how to describe the spit and what it all meant. He didn't interupt me, saving his tough questions at the end, unlike some of my other PBL mates, where he actually interrupted them halfway, such that they didn't get to finish their presentation. Buck up, he implied. Instead of a list, categorize systematically. Organize. Ask why and how is it clinically relevant? Which is the most comm...