Friday, April 24, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Reminders
We've got to stop sweating the small stuff.
Because beautiful, precious, and meaningful things are often by character subtle, a moment of ignorance and we loose sight of them forever.
We've got to stop sweating the small stuff.
How much of what we devote ourselves to day in and day out becomes truly important to us in the end.
We've got to stop sweating the small stuff.
A few aged stained Polaroids can tell more truths than any high definition SLR.
We've got to stop sweating the small stuff.
Fragmented memories of car rides, glow sticks and jacob biscuits could feel more real than recent scenes of brashness.
We've got to stop sweating the small stuff.
Procrastination is simply stealing from ourselves.
We've got to stop sweating the small stuff.
Because that will just make us small people.
We've got to stop sweating the small stuff.
A plain as daylight, it is a waste of time but yet we set ourselves up for the fall over and over again.
Stop, breathe, savour the richness and love we forgot when we started growing 'older'.
Friday, April 03, 2009
Done with EOP
Have I ever told you about Subang Parade?
My favourites shopping mall in the world!!
I love it because it is just the right size, not too big like some how malls are that when you are at 1 end and realise you forgot to get something from the other end the very thought of hiking all the way just repels whatever crave you had to shop.
AND
they have
Sake Sushi if you want to splurge, Roti Boy if you dont want to splurge
MPH is you want to splurge, Reader's Corner if you dont want to splurge
Parksons if you want to splurge, Flea Market if you dont want to splurge
Key Ng is you want to splurge, Love It if you dont want to splurge
Handphone dealers and techie shops if you wanna upgrade yourself, maxis reload centre if you cant afford to upgrade yourself
The ambiance just makes me sigh with contentment, just thinking about skipping up the carpeted slopes makes me happy!
(oh ya 1 weird fact about the place though, the architecture might be alil confusing for beginners, because they have slopes connecting certain levels and to get to the other level you might have to make a big round)
Yeap paeds EOP is over and done with, not as bad asa forecasted. My case was a newly diagnosed Diabetes Type1 presenting with a DKA. I never really imagined the social impact of such a diagnosis on a child before; until i saw it infront of me. I listened as the MO was counseling the mother about a "21 food exchange". Diabetics especially type1 where there is near total deficiency of insulin, have to watch the amount of carbohydrates they feed into their bodies. Too much and they can go into DKA like this little girl, too little and they can have hypoglycaemic attacks because of the insulin they are injecting into themselves. In the "21 food exchange" she can basically eat as much fibre, meat, fats, other food groups as she wants, but when it comes to carbs there was a certain formula. In the list given to the mother, there was a section listing all possible forms of carbs one would take bread, noodles, rice, crackers, and next to each was a measurement correlating to portions, like say 2 spoons of noodles equals 1 carb portion etc. So in a day, she was to take 21 portions of carbs, devided 5 for breakie, lunch, dinner making a total of 15; and 2 portions for morning tea, evening tea and supper (if im not mistaken) respectively making a total of 21. Obviously her mother was paying full attention to what the MO was telling her, and i have full confidence from the resolution in her eyes that she would do all she could do to monitor her daughter's carbs intake. But looking at the little girl, i worried. She was four, and still had that mischievousness about her that was expected, could she carry this lifestyle the rest of her life? Knowing that an unaccounted for mentos or ice cold cocacola after sports day could land you in a hopital bed? Injecting yourself with insulin 3 times a day before you even know what intravenous drug users are? Tough.
And we've seen cases of uncontrolled DM1 in teenagers, whether it is rebellion poking its early head or pure lack of motivation (which is logical, how could anyone be motivated to poke themselves with needles day in day out, minus the high drug users get? you're not even entitled to a sugar rush), it is dangerous if someone doesn't get into these kids soon and get them to want to want to participate in their own health.
Okay so that was exam on wednesday, but we have a class that was postponed to friday afternoon (the very class im waiting for now) so i was stuck here waiting for time to pass in my room as the others continued preparing for their EOP on thurs and friday respectively. I could have used the extra day or two i had to do something productive like finish some Paeds MCQ questions to prepare for the paper in May, or finish my IMS also due in May, but
s.o. f.r.e.a.k.i.n.g. h.ar.d. t.o. s.i.t. s.t.i.l.l.
I'm gonna look back on this day and *tsk tsk tsk * myself, for which medical student facing EOS semester completely wastes 2 precious days lazing around doing nothing? I amaze myself.
BUT i read my Neil Gaiman he is good, although abit freakish at times, but goooood! and started abit on IMS lar so im not a total slob, not yet but very close.
Many times this week i found myself with the urge to vent out and whine, about circumstances, humans, myself, things, and i realised how dangerous this blog could be had i not been the forgetful and lazy person i am. Had i not been too lazy to come up with clever ways of writing something but at the same time concealing something, so people would not go "OMG i know who she is talking about *psst psst*", i would have been close to making a big mistake. It is quite a job taking responsibility for our tongue. And although it would have given me GREAT satisfaction to get it all out, maybe get a few "here here" ,i know in a long run it ruins people and relationships. Tough being the one with a brain. When you are expected to be the civil one, you are not given credit for any good behaviour just scrutiny and wagging fingers the minute a strand is out of line, but when four legged creatures start walking on 2 and behaving, all heaven opens up in hallelujahs.
cheong hei matters aside, T-minus 6 hours to Subang Parade!
My favourites shopping mall in the world!!
I love it because it is just the right size, not too big like some how malls are that when you are at 1 end and realise you forgot to get something from the other end the very thought of hiking all the way just repels whatever crave you had to shop.
AND
they have
Sake Sushi if you want to splurge, Roti Boy if you dont want to splurge
MPH is you want to splurge, Reader's Corner if you dont want to splurge
Parksons if you want to splurge, Flea Market if you dont want to splurge
Key Ng is you want to splurge, Love It if you dont want to splurge
Handphone dealers and techie shops if you wanna upgrade yourself, maxis reload centre if you cant afford to upgrade yourself
The ambiance just makes me sigh with contentment, just thinking about skipping up the carpeted slopes makes me happy!
(oh ya 1 weird fact about the place though, the architecture might be alil confusing for beginners, because they have slopes connecting certain levels and to get to the other level you might have to make a big round)
Yeap paeds EOP is over and done with, not as bad asa forecasted. My case was a newly diagnosed Diabetes Type1 presenting with a DKA. I never really imagined the social impact of such a diagnosis on a child before; until i saw it infront of me. I listened as the MO was counseling the mother about a "21 food exchange". Diabetics especially type1 where there is near total deficiency of insulin, have to watch the amount of carbohydrates they feed into their bodies. Too much and they can go into DKA like this little girl, too little and they can have hypoglycaemic attacks because of the insulin they are injecting into themselves. In the "21 food exchange" she can basically eat as much fibre, meat, fats, other food groups as she wants, but when it comes to carbs there was a certain formula. In the list given to the mother, there was a section listing all possible forms of carbs one would take bread, noodles, rice, crackers, and next to each was a measurement correlating to portions, like say 2 spoons of noodles equals 1 carb portion etc. So in a day, she was to take 21 portions of carbs, devided 5 for breakie, lunch, dinner making a total of 15; and 2 portions for morning tea, evening tea and supper (if im not mistaken) respectively making a total of 21. Obviously her mother was paying full attention to what the MO was telling her, and i have full confidence from the resolution in her eyes that she would do all she could do to monitor her daughter's carbs intake. But looking at the little girl, i worried. She was four, and still had that mischievousness about her that was expected, could she carry this lifestyle the rest of her life? Knowing that an unaccounted for mentos or ice cold cocacola after sports day could land you in a hopital bed? Injecting yourself with insulin 3 times a day before you even know what intravenous drug users are? Tough.
And we've seen cases of uncontrolled DM1 in teenagers, whether it is rebellion poking its early head or pure lack of motivation (which is logical, how could anyone be motivated to poke themselves with needles day in day out, minus the high drug users get? you're not even entitled to a sugar rush), it is dangerous if someone doesn't get into these kids soon and get them to want to want to participate in their own health.
Okay so that was exam on wednesday, but we have a class that was postponed to friday afternoon (the very class im waiting for now) so i was stuck here waiting for time to pass in my room as the others continued preparing for their EOP on thurs and friday respectively. I could have used the extra day or two i had to do something productive like finish some Paeds MCQ questions to prepare for the paper in May, or finish my IMS also due in May, but
s.o. f.r.e.a.k.i.n.g. h.ar.d. t.o. s.i.t. s.t.i.l.l.
I'm gonna look back on this day and *tsk tsk tsk * myself, for which medical student facing EOS semester completely wastes 2 precious days lazing around doing nothing? I amaze myself.
BUT i read my Neil Gaiman he is good, although abit freakish at times, but goooood! and started abit on IMS lar so im not a total slob, not yet but very close.
Many times this week i found myself with the urge to vent out and whine, about circumstances, humans, myself, things, and i realised how dangerous this blog could be had i not been the forgetful and lazy person i am. Had i not been too lazy to come up with clever ways of writing something but at the same time concealing something, so people would not go "OMG i know who she is talking about *psst psst*", i would have been close to making a big mistake. It is quite a job taking responsibility for our tongue. And although it would have given me GREAT satisfaction to get it all out, maybe get a few "here here" ,i know in a long run it ruins people and relationships. Tough being the one with a brain. When you are expected to be the civil one, you are not given credit for any good behaviour just scrutiny and wagging fingers the minute a strand is out of line, but when four legged creatures start walking on 2 and behaving, all heaven opens up in hallelujahs.
cheong hei matters aside, T-minus 6 hours to Subang Parade!
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