adeline here again,
Am on passive call today. Crossing fingers, toes n eyes in fervent hope that i will not be called. Managed to get nice n long leave for CNY. Yay!! That's for being the only chinese in my combined ortho surgical dept n for being the fella who covered raya puasa n haji n christmas, etc. At last, justice.... hmm but for how long? last two weekends calls are all mine. sob.... But 1st things 1st, must get through this call....

Likely to join anaest next month. Will start with daily tagging for at least 2 months, meaning stick around till 9pm each day n if there is any emergency op in the am hours will have to lug it back to hosp in dark a.m. hours. Anyway, hope it is nicer than ortho surg. I get real stressed up with polytrauma cases. On the plus side, once i'm really on call n if we're not too short, then anaest mo's can take day off after call. yay! note of interest, our scavenger system for gas in manjung OT is out of order, so everyone has been being gassed these past few days n been feeling real sleepy in OT. ha ha :p

Chiew leng, welcome back to the western strip of malaysian earth. Here's some information from one cranky person to another: Few days back, some (chinese) guy n his dad was admitted due to alleged assaulted with multiple incised wound n some # n one sucking chest wound. well, 3 out of 4 ortho MO's were there in OT for 9 hours repairing them n fixing # (from 3am to 12pm). yesterday, we wanted to discharge the fella(quite well already) n the gorilla-like wife said that he was still in pain (the man himself wasnt complaining, mind you) n how is his mother gonna take care of him, etc. "kalau u semua paksa dia keluar hari ini, kita mau transfer ke ipoh specialist centre. berapa banyak pun kita boleh bayar". No gratitude plus aggresively accusing us of being inhumane!(which we are, to a certain extent) N since we had done all the necessary, ISC would only need to give painkillers n nursing care (wash his butt, i suppose) n they would be loved to death by the patient's relatives. Sickening. Why not go straight there to ISC in first place? dumbos, cheapos. Loads of people rich in money but poor in manners around here. Makes me shy to be a chinese, u know? Hmmm... this job is bad for my soul. Compassion levels running real low.

hey, anyone can recommend which brand of mandarin oranges are nice n sweet? Havent had time to buy any of that yet till now. want to buy lots n eat like 5 a day to make up for 1 year of low fruit comsumption.

Well, got to go now. Happy CNY ppl. N drive carefully, n dont drive if ur post call, n dont speed ok? Be safe.