have you heard...?

i think i had something more substantial to write today but i have conveniently forgotten it -_-

today, i have come to the realisation that certain jokes can only be told in a certain accent.

for example, imagine this joke being told in a malaysian accent:

have you heard about the cowboy who came into town wearing a brown paper suit? he was arrested for rustling!

not only will you get a "huh?!" from most people if it were to be told in malaysia, it would also sound horribly unfunny and lame. i even find it totally unhilarious in its written form - it's the kind of joke i used to gag at when reading joke books -_-

HOWEVER, it is also one of my GP's favourite jokes (told to him by a patient), and when he tells it in his english accent (i don't know for sure if it is an english accent - i think it is, but i know he's half scottish and he used to spend quite some time in wales and he has been in scotland for the past 26 years so...) it comes out sound quite humourous and we both laughed like idiots for a while after it was told. -_-

here's another one my GP has told me on two separate occasions, it comes up when somebody mentions the word 'kid':

oh! that reminds me! have i told you this joke before? 'doctor, doctor! i feel like a goat!' 'really, how long has this been happening for?' 'a really long time now, ever since i was a kid!!!'

at which point he (my GP) will stare at you expectantly and with hope shimmering in his eyes waiting for a deserving (and favourable) response to this joke which obviously sparkles with intelligent wit and charm.

do you think i should tell my GP some jokes? i'm planning on telling him this tomorrow:

why did the skeleton go to the party alone? because he had nobody to go with!

ha. ha. ha. i am hoping that it will strike some medical chord in him and that will become one of his favourite jokes...............................................

maybe i should tell him some gardening related jokes as well seeing as how he is totally obsessed with his vegetables and flowers and fruits (he has recently grown some tomato pineapples and he has no idea what they are HAHAHA):

shit i forgot the joke. wtf.

(this is me staring at the screen blankly for 3 minutes)

no. really. i forgot the joke. shit i need to get an mmse done -_- OH YES I REMEMBER IT NOW

which flowers can be found on your face? two-lips!

and with that, i shall leave you paralysed in the wake of the immensity of my punniness.

sekian, terima kasih. :)

HAHA :D

once upon a time

there was a lady who stayed in a little stone house with her third husband.

who was gay.

and who also shared the house with his boyfriend.

overhaul

hello everybody!

i have just given this blog an overhaul and i dare say i'm pretty much loving it! the monotone of the previous one was slightly too dreary... and boring. i mean it was all minimalistic chic at first, but in retrospect it looked like a boring legal document nobody would ever be interested in reading.

that being said, i hope i don't get sick of this layout too soon, seeing as how the previous layout lasted slightly less than 3 months...

haha. this weekend has been an eventful one, contrary to my hopes of it being restful and restorative and peaceful. i believe i have emerged from it a slightly changed person. (as you can see the revamp has not taken any drama out of me, hahaha)

i spent the weekend steeped in anger, frustration and disappointment - this, i can assure you, is not a very nice way of squandering your youth away - and all this culminated in me spending slightly more than an hour in the bathroom. i spent most of the time lying in the (empty) bathtub and staring at the ceiling while trying to listen to myself think. this did not go very well because i think the excitement of doing something only people in indie movies seem to do overwhelmed my brain and i was daydreaming about the profound revelations that would appear out of nowhere and inspire me and shake the foundations of my world views, and how i would then proceed to bestow that inspiration upon the legions of adoring fans that read my blog...

(needless to say i did not get any real thinking done - and it's not that i have (m)any people to inspire at all -_-)

haha besides the one fundamentally depressing lesson that i have taken away from the past two days (everybody is a bloody disappointment so there is no point in having faith in their characters), i guess the biggest thing i have learnt just from writing this blog entry is that i am fully capable of writing myself into a state of mild euphoria by taking things much less seriously and by entertaining my delusions of grandeur. and that it is bloody fun being dramatic! :D

anyway i think i should stop now - i want to continue rambling but that would deprive you of the fun of reading this entry - you know what they say about quitting while being ahead. lmao.

aside from that, i keep feeling annoyed because I HAVE LOST AN HOUR OF MY LIFE. come to think of it, the only day that is affected is the day the hour is taken from but IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE 2233 HRS NOW, NOT 2333 HRS! argh the outrage!!!!

okay i am done. goodbye people! :)

ps. i just realised that my blog looks like the suicide note of a vampire now. HAHAH. -__-

in due time

if there is one observation that i have made

it is that i will more often than not be generally right when it comes to the judgement of somebody's character. i will inevitably be made out to be the petty and calculative one when i make certain comments and/or statements regarding one's conduct, but i will be proven right in due time when everybody else starts thinking and saying the same things about the same person...

just like in this particular case.

cat allergy

thinking of what your housemate said about you and him makes me sick (with worry).

it makes me so sick it's not funny. i don't want to end up hating you. not especially when the both of you are among two of the nicest people i've met since coming over to dundee.

now i'm being all paranoid and hypersensitive and i don't think i can take much more of this anymore.

i believe i am making my life a waking nightmare.

k

talking to k for the past 6 hours or so has made me realise that contrary to my new philosophy in life, there is still at least one person for whom i will always be hovering in the background, no matter how annoying they can be or how they may infuriate me to no bounds.

HAHA.

he most probably doesn't read this blog - but he doesn't need to because he already knows.

HAHA.

sigh oklah i am also slightly emo because that idiot's emoness is quite contagious wtf.

k (pun!) til next time!

PS. watching the second half of love actually, watched the first half a few days ago. this must be like, what, the fourth or fifth time? :)

BBBAAAA

1 more down, 5 more to go!

my next goal - lucky sevens! hohoho.

only human

i shouldn't blame people for being human

michelle the cynic

i will not bore anybody with my sob stories

bob marley was wrong.

nobody who is going to hurt or disappoint you is going to be worth suffering for.

ps. three word phrases that speak volumes: portfolio study group. wrong rotation rota. random chain emails.

cave

please do not do it (again) michelle lim

how is it so easy to see the worst in most people but practically impossible in a select few?

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anyway -

got my job rotations today, haha. was expecting them to be out in 3 weeks time. maybe it's a blessing in disguise - i guess by then i'd have recovered enough from my depression to enjoy my pisa/florence trip (which i am alternating between regretting having signed up for it and not)...

i did not get the rotations that i wanted.

no oncology, no itu.

sigh.

what did i get?

dermatology. cardiology. orthopaedics. surgery in STRACATHRO for a month. however, i got a&e and medicine in pri (which i am totally looking forward to!)...

i was feeling all crappy about it - until my sis wisely told me that i would be learning a lot because i wasn't even thinking about getting jobs in these specialties anyway...

...

i guess i'll have the rest of my life to work in oncology, so all is fine! :)

anyway

these are random snippets that i was supposed to be putting in an email to somebody but am not any more because i have been told by at least 5 different people that i should not bother...

(and here i would like to thank jing, jo, jeat, howai and goblok.. i guess..)

i knew my gp was... different when he brought me back to his house for cereal or porridge at 2 in the afternoon and measured his oats on a foldable digital scale.

(HAHAH i have been rehearsing that line in my head for the past... 3 days)

tarland is a very small village with a population of about 800 540 (says wikipedia - thanks sweeleen HAHA). i ended up taking a bus to the nearest town which was about 10 minutes away by car and having my gp pick me up. to give you an idea of how small tarland is, there isn't an atm. there is only a post office with an old lady of 80 behind a counter with a card machine. so far the post office accepts cards from 3 banks, more to come hopefully.

to quote my gp, being in tarland is like living in a fishbowl - everybody knows everybody. a kid came in with a differential of meningitis but my gp decided that it wasn't it and sent him home. he later then went on to say "if that kid ends up with meningitis and i didn't do anything about it, i won't have to work here anymore"

of course, living in a fishbowl isn't exactly paradise either. to be honest, i feel like i'm in a real life horror movie - you know the kind where the movie is set in a small village and nobody ever leaves, and if anybody ever tries to leave he/she gets killed? yeah. tarland is really peaceful, sometimes too peaceful to be true. it's peaceful but it's not deserted - i guess that's what gives it the creepy vibe. there is a school here, on my first day i saw a class of schoolchildren trooping back to the school from the field opposite the school, and this kid yells out to the gp - it is his son!

you know how everything seems too bright and vibrant and too good to be true and it's because there is a deep dark secret hiding underneath everything? (paranoia much? lol.) get this, my gp leaves his keys in the ignition when doing home visits.

i've been here only 3 days but i've also heard my fair share of dark gossip. how ex spouses end up living to each other after being divorced once the kids leave the house, how a woman goes out sometimes together with both her husband and lover, who lives four doors away, about the scandal happening right under everybody's noses in the practice itself...

my gp's really nice, i'm just not used to hanging around people like him. i think it's because he misses having new people to talk to too...

haha ok i guess i'll end here, i think i must be boring you.

there is so much more to tell, but i'm not in the mood for it because i am now reminded of why i am not sending this email to you.

goodbye.

indifference

is something i will not wish upon even my worst enemies.

idiot

you are reading the blog of one.

how do you manage to do this over and over and over and over and over and OVER again, michelle lim?

4 weeks isn't going to be enough.

short one

just a short one before i hit the road back to dundee

one day, someday, i will be gone.

and maybe you will never care

but you will always remember this to be another friendship you have wrecked.

too kind

i must be really lucky

these serve as a reminder for the days when everything seems bleak and when i think i am the crappiest medical student to ever roam the earth.

"do you know that you're the last student dundee is going to send here - forever? they must have saved one of their best for the last, i am very impressed - and i take a lot of impressing! you're very bright - you don't have much to say, do you? you just listen really closely and absorb everything by osmosis - and you don't miss much. you're really very bright, and you pick things up really quickly! you and medicine just click...  i think you should totally go ahead and do whatever you want to do in the future. if you ever want to come down to visit us or come down for some training, you are more than welcome to do so! if you ever decide against being a neuro-oncologist, there is a role for you here. so keep in touch, you know where to find us, we'll always be here. thanks for all your work!"

-

one of the best dundee undergraduates i have supervised in the last five years. michelle is incredibly hardworking, very knowledgable and has been a pleasure to have in the department. she has attended all of the teaching sessions available in the department, NIV study day and a neuro-training workshop. she has also completed 2 audit projects and presented at our departmental meeting. she is a very good student with excellent potential for the future.

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:)

1 + 1 = 2

2 is the limit (for 2 weeks. haha.)

drained beyond measure.

goodnight peeps!

i am sooooooooooooo ready to return to scotland!!!!

hahahaha. i think it's quite how it took me more than 3 weeks to really warm up to this place - honestly i am slightly sad that i will be leaving really soon, but i think it's time for me to say goodbye!

have been drowned in a flurry of work (again), but all's good! finished my first ever audit yesterday, in the midst of my second one now... it's funny how things turned out, they might have been very small audits, but this only gave me a chance to be fully involved in every step of the process! and to think i knew nothing about proformas and stuff two weeks ago! hahahahaha i feel like an audit veteran now :P

ok i need to go and sleep now because i'm due to present an audit at an audit meeting tomorrow after consultant-led teaching. am slightly worried because i am thinking that some consultants and a lot of regs and fy2s will be attending - paradoxically i am hoping that some medical students attend so that i can imply their moral support HAHAHAHA

(i really want to ace this presentation! i don't think my supervisor believed that i could do it because she told me that i could just tell the people that i'm not ready if i don't feel like doing it. this only served to make me want to do it even more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaah)

ok i don't know what i'm writing anymore - the days and nights have been blurred into a single entity for the past 3 weeks - another 3 more days to go! a new phase of my life starts on monday!

good night people. :)