so much for vegging out~

haiz. am sloughed!

before you condemn me for the illegal use of such an abrasive word on something that is, theoretically, unslough-able, let me assure you that it is possible. it's humanly possible to have so many minutiae to tend to that one gets obliviously sloughed and discovers it only later. i'm probably not making very much sense here. haha. oh wells. that's my trademark, isn't it? going off on some inconsequential antiparallel tangent and creating entropy in all of my readers' minds.

speaking of which, most of my dedicated audience should, at this very moment, be sitting for an exam paper, or studying like heck for their next paper. failing which, i declare a charge of academic negligence and OFF TO THE JAILS with you!

mucho things have occurred in the past week of idle life (not). i've realised that human life is an extremely tedious process that tends to add a lot of unnecesary stress. things like deciding what to do first on a to do list that spans 3 toilet rolls in length. realizing that translocation on public transport never fails to deliver one to the intended destination AFTER the estimated arrival time. NEVER. there's a higher chance that you'll strike top prizes for both 4D and toto just by wearing your undies on your head and decorating it with cuckoo feathers and coffee beans than reaching a place you want to go to on time. i swear that living out life in all its exhausting and painstaking details can be just as carcinogenic, teratogenic and whatevernot-genic as consuming a plateful of jellyfish soaked in 100x sodium sorbate and irradiated for 10years next to the leaky nuclear reactor of pyongyang. (of course, children are advised not to try this at home)

it's frankly exhausting, i tell you.

2 friends down recently. if you guys know jiaxin, please pray for her. she went cycling at ECP on monday with my og kakis, fell near the jetty, sustained a small abrasion, and thought nothing of it (like anyone else). unfortunately, her hand swelled up yesterday and she's got some apparent cutaneous sensory loss over the thenar eminence of the affected hand (laymen's translation: hand numb la) so her gp toddled her off to A&E. tried smsing her but hasn't replied - must be tired and caught up in the wonderfully efficient hospital admissions processes. hope it's nothing serious and praying that she recovers soon! (can't help but remember the recent case of that old man who got necrotizing fasciitis but it wasn't the burkholderia pseudomallei the TTSH guy told us about last time. but she wasn't running a fever so that was a very reassuring sign, or rather, lack thereof)
also if you guys know alvin as in the bermuda triangle alvin tan, please pray for his speedy recovery too! he's gone down and out with a viral gastritis (sounds like it to me - note to alvin: food poisoning usually presents afebrile, 12-24hrs onset, double-ended evacuation. viral GE on the other hand usually presents febrile, sudden onset, lasts a week, and can be either end limited or both ends, in which case you'd be just about as dehydrated as a slice of bakkwa and you'd be admitted already.) but anyway he's on the mend now (read: not hugging the toilet bowl) and he's trying to hold down his fluids, so if anyone has a good suggestion for poor old nauseous alvin go sms him :D i was sorely tempted to tell him to not drink at all if he's still puking, but then i remembered that i could afford to do that cos i had a drip then. if he did that in his current state i'd be liable for culpable homicide :P he must be looking as white a a vampire, which probably matches his vampire-ish hair very well but it's bad form to poke fun at sick people :D haha sorry pal.

ah wells. see? decadent lifestyle of liberated medical students - see what freedom does to us. perhaps we'll all really be better off, less whiny and healthier thriving under the constant stresses of committing snell into our heads :D

bets of luck to all my exam-ing friends! and shoo if you're still reading this! :D go study!!