its thursday! just had lunch and now im in my room trying to study anatomy of thigh and gluteal for my dissection pract in like 2.5h time. saw the cadavers yesterday. wasnt quite what i had expected. i was actually afraid to touch them at first! i think the dissected head on my cadaver is actually less daunting than the ones that are untouched. makes it all too real. like their hair, nose, eyelashes, facial features etc. the large cadaver near my table scares me a little because i keep thinking that he will start moving all of a sudden. when i stand at the end with his head and look right down to his body, i can see his expression and somehow i just start imagining how he would have been if he were alive. its just this body. maybe because it is not as wrinkled or leather-like like the others. just freaks me out a little. the bodies are just too pale, too hard and too real. (of course they're real.)

guess when we're dissecting we wouldnt really be looking at the entire body but rather just the thigh (this time round) so the other parts would be covered up and out of sight. thank god my cadaver doesnt have nail polish. that would be freaky.

went to clinical school earlier and had lectures on surface anatomy and intro to history taking as well as how to conduct an examination for musculoskeletal problems.

1. inspect
2. palpate
3. move
4. others

so yes those are the things we have to do for our OSCE that will be coming right up.. >< i think this semester is going to be a really busy one. with pasar malam next friday again and singapore night coming up on national day. there will be AGM and committee retreat too! so i've gotta be on top of my game if i'm going to be able to complete my work AND handle all these extra things. was actually made emce3 for singapore night but with my workload, i really dont think i have the time to prepare and rehearse the speech etc with jer3my! told sal3h after the meeting and he said we'll discuss it next week. seriously its not that i simply dont want to do but there are a few reasons that contribute to my decision.

1. no nicenice appropriate clothes to wear (HAH excuses)
2. presentation the day before
3. test the next week
4. 9-5 pm timetable almost everyday

see so it is almost impossible for me to handle all of that at once! i dont want to fail man! my kids and family programme (KFP) grouping is out! thank god i think the people in my group are people who can work and people whom i already know! :)) AND they are nice wonderful peeps too! so yes, let's hope that we can work together happily throughout the entire course of the programme (1.5yrs)!

just claimed back money from med1bank too! yay! so at least i didnt have to pay a cent for the blood test, consultations etc. its weird how they reimburse you differently everytime? i think it depends on the category they key the information into.. hmm..

ok shall head back to my butt muscles (gluteal) and then prepare to go back to school for fractures lecture and dissection!!