old but new dresses :)

university is going well, the chaos of the last two weeks is over and i am settling into a nice routine and getting on top of all my assessments.

i'm definitely just an average student, though. i was presenting an old case to two registrars yesterday, when one of them stopped me and asked me a question. while i was frantically casting my thoughts into oblivion, the other registrar smoothly described what had happened, and the rationale behind it. needless to say, i was pretty shocked.

"you are presenting a patient on the X team", she said. "i'm on team X. if you present a patient from that team, of course i will know the case".

(mind you, this case was from weeks ago, and i was having difficulty recalling it when i only really had to know TWO cases this well, compared to something like two hundred. plus she was not on the team when the patient was in hospital).

"at that time i was away on leave but i still know the patient".

oh okay then. no wait, excuse me? what did she do, come in and read all the patient files during her leave? and am i suppose to develop superhuman memory between now and graduating?

on another note, candice and i both decided to go to an event next week. we've never actually been clubbing together before (i've gone a few times with my brother), outside of big family parties. so this morning we started pulling out dresses and modelling them in front of mum.

it was really fun! as usual, we kind of got carried away and just started pulling out one dress after the other. i didn't see my siblings very much over the summer break, so we didn't get to show-and-tell our shopping purchases like we usually do.

and in the whole process, i discovered even more dresses that i've never worn before. yay! it's the thrill of buying a new dress, without the price tag.

unfortunately, during the modelling process, mum made me drink 1.5 cups of freshly blended juice. when i protested, she said "diarrhoea! then your stomach flat". when i tried explaining that it's not good to lose weight by inducing diarrhoea, she countered with "this is how people detox. they flush out their intestines".

how could i argue with that? she was describing home-made picoprep.