The evil GSS is here again! Besides the obscenely incessant shopping that i've been doing, good food is also in danger of becoming extinct, thanks to my ravenous appetite now that the electives are almost over. Not having to wake up at 5.50 am and rushing like a mad man during 7.30 am ward rounds does wonders for the mind, heart, body and stomach. Dr Lim, my ortho tutor, has flown off for his conference in portugal thus effectively orphaning zp and i for 1.5 weeks, which is a blessing in disguise as we are then able to concentrate full time on our project. There's a certain sense of urgency in getting our GS trauma project done as i'll be flying off this friday (yay! x many many) and i certainly do not want unfinished work at the back of my mind. We'll also need to submit our elective portfolio with all the evaluation forms and project abstracts to dean's office by the end of this month before hellish year 5.

We met at the KK library this morning and made a lot of progress indeed! We've written all the way till the discussion part, leaving us with just chicken-featy limitations (small sample size, duh!) and conclusion (summary king here!) before TA-DAH! Looking back, we've really spent a lot of effort on this project, from when it was first ambiguously conceptualized by our GS tutor Dr. Chong's "I want you guys to do a project on trauma, maybe you all can look at pelvic fractures". We then embarked on literature search, then coming out with the initial plan and data collection table, begging the MOs to let us use their iSoft accounts to access patient's records, finding out which data were missing then getting the MRO to trace the hardcopies of the case notes with missing data for us, ploughing through them in the small cramped MRO and finally trying to make sense of the data. Although labourious, i must say that this has been a very good thought process and we've learnt quite a lot about formulating questions and then collecting data to answer that. =D Now now, if only some big publisher of a reputable journal is nice enough to publish it for us...

Back to the GSS! It's barely started for a week and i've already bought myself a billabong lanyard (to match my red beach vball ref whistle as the prev one was blue, how himbotic) and 2 billabong wrist bands for tennis. No, i've not decided to rename myself billaWong nor have i gone Bongkers; it's just that there's a newly opened billabong outlet store in anchorpoint with 50 - 70% storewide discount. For e.g., the $8.90 wrist bands cost only $2.70 each after 70% discount, which is a steal! I also came across this pair of brown leather shoes at pedro which i really liked the first time i saw it, but it being a new arrival without any discount, i didn't buy it on the first occasion. However, i kept thinking, "hey i really like that pair of shoes, i must get it since i can afford it" and hence i went back to buy it the second day, There is 10% storewide for citi card holders, and 15% if you spend more than $150 so for that 5% more, i actually bought another pair of black formal shoes. Gosh, too much retail therapy already.

Treated my family to Zhou's Kitchen last night too as i promised to treat them before i fly. There's a current promotion with 10 dishes being $10 each and we ordered quite a few to share amongst us. The coffee ribs and t-bone lamb steak was really good~! The chilli crab at $10 each was really cheap too, and it was just my luck that both my mum and sis love crabs so we ended up ordering four chilli crabs, which came with 16 fried man tous of which i ate 10. This was in addition to 1.5 bowls of white rice and the other ala carte items! At the end of it, we still went to the basement for dessert lah. Good stuff. I hope i don't look too different when i come back form hongkong eating this much everyday =P
wongy was here on 11:04 PM