utterly cliched, but.
Labels: doodles, family, photos
Monday, June 28, 2010 9:30 PM
magic disk
ALBUM'S OUT, THE OLD AJIKAN'S BACK AND IT'S THE START OF GOOD DAYS. :D
Labels: asian kung-fu generation, music
Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:04 PM
having these dangerous mood swings that make studying difficult, because i feel optimistic about sticking to my schedule and then get all depressed when i actually get down to it.
Labels: school
Monday, June 21, 2010 9:47 PM
help
NEED COURSEWORK TOPIC DESPERATELY HELP
Monday, June 14, 2010 10:35 PM
pw is out, outing is in
pw outing yesterday, which is a huge oxymoron.
Labels: school
Sunday, June 6, 2010 4:39 PM
i had a nice nameTAG for 3 days
the coolest part was probably the surgery.
(tumours in the mouth and lymph nodes; they slit the skin at the throat, pulled it over the chin, cut out the lymph tumours, then they hacked the chin into two, and got rid of the lump under the tongue. i could see the blood pulsing through the jugular veins and all the muscles. and they sealed any holes they make using heat, so the room frequently smelled of burnt flesh. then there are the other more mundane but equally important stuff. i wonder how the patient felt after he woke up - i presume it's a he because he looked vaguely he-like under all the green sterile sheets.)
other than that, there were the consultations. (i stood for longer than i ever have in my life, i think.) watched people paying hundreds of dollars to get their earwax cleaned out (!). there was also the endoscope (which costs a bomb once the doctor sticks it in your nose), and interesting cases (possible cancer, that sort of thing). and the balancing test, which is too much of a bother to describe.
(i'm not sure if i'm supposed to be telling you all this, so i put it under expand/collapse just in case. not like it makes a big difference.)
doctor's life: wake up early in the morning, stand around for hours in the wards, get whacked (as the head doctor said) by your bosses, see patients for hours, have 15-minute lunches, multi-task, be in a constantly busy state the whole day, stay overnight for call duty.
but i guess the gratification has to come from somewhere, for each and every doctor/ nurse/ saikang warrior in the hospital. (or maybe if you derive great satisfaction from removing earwax.)
(be kind to nurses. and if you know one, go buy them those feet massagers.)
3 days wasn't much, but it was definitely better than nothing. should i study medicine? i still don't know. but i think i'll be able to make a better decision, when the time comes.
Labels: school
Thursday, June 3, 2010 6:37 PM
the series that started it all for me.
*mourns*
it ended all too perfectly.
but i love the irony - defying the meaning of "fullmetal", then the very meaning of "alchemist" itself.
embarrassing reminiscing stuff.
this was the series that started all the craziness, that plunged me into this world, the turning point that determined how i am now (japan-crazy, as my family puts it, and knowing a lot of interesting things and people).
remember when we were a little younger, and relatively stress-free? we spent our breaks rushing through tankoubons, drawing the FMA symbol on the class board, and all over our worksheets and notebooks and any available surface, fangirling like only fangirls can, and enjoying every single minute of it.
ahh, the days. the discoveries.
i'm glad i was, and am part of the madness. i salute the people behind it (you guys know who you are).
over these 4 years (yeah, i've not quite graduated from a noob yet), i've gone from the volumes, to zomgfta's scanlations, then to the really fast but really bad scanlations on onemanga when zomgfta gave up.
though FMA wasn't the shiniest nor had the prettiest bishies, its emotions were the rawest and its fights were the most interesting. [edit: OMG i forgot - THE MOST EPIC OMAKES EVER. ever.]
and i think i'll still be able to draw that symbol 30 years down the road.
so, it's over. (i suppose it's a good thing it didn't drag for long.)
i guess i can always read it again. or finally get down to watch the anime. or stalk arakawa-sensei. or save and buy the books.
after all, it's just the beginning of many more good things to come.