Life Is Something Like That

It's been three weeks into the O&G posting already. And it is my first posting. Now that we're in clinical years, things are just different. Really different. It's like a very big leap, from the start of a staircase to the end of it, in a single jump. We are expected to perform procedures and stuff. And they didn't bother to have a teaching/learning session for us. Luckily, we have seniors, staff and some doctors who are helpful. They guide and teach us things. Though some others would just ignore us. It's the system - self-learning, they call it. But then, they are practical things, we certainly have to learn from someone, don't we? We couldn't just insert a needle into a patient's arm just like that, without knowing how it should be done. Well, in my opinion, an educational institution should be conducive for the learning process of its students. Another problem is that different doctors have different ways or should I say, desires, of how something should be done. The real problem comes when they become the examiner for our examinations. Are we supposed to know all the different ways and apply the right one when we meet him/her in our exams? Is there anything wrong if we just follow the standard ones, those in the textbook? What's more, if it is set as a criteria for passing - to please the examiner by following his method, it's just plain ridicule. Well, that's what I heard. I'm not sure if those conflicts are real, but if they are, *smack*.

Just a few days back, I managed to conduct a delivery of a baby. I monitored the mother from 12am to 4pm. And when the baby's head was coming out, tension abound. People were just shouting, giving motivations. And since it was a first pregnancy for the woman, it was expectedly longer than usual. When the baby was out, I can tell how relieved the parents were. After the on-call session which ended at 6am, I had to prepare for ward round and classes next. Non-stop. Finally, at 2pm, I could go back to my room and have a good rest. A whole day's rest actually, for apart than having my dinner and bath, I was asleep till the next morning.

Fuh, what a day, what a posting.

Webify Me is an amusing feature brought by Mozilla. Its page starts by asking what your unique Web looks like. Indeed, as it explains, the Web is a huge giant of information. However, it is everyone's choices on the Internet which leads to a personal Web, unique to the individual. Media and entertainment, engine searches, news and journalism, weblogs, social networking, and much more - they define the person's Web. Hence, Webify Me seeks to create a visualization or a collage of your personal Web, for the fun of it. All you have to do is answer 20 simple multiple choice questions (I have to say, some of the answer options are hilarious), type in the title for your collage, and it's done! You'll see a wall of objects which portrays your Web, or in other words, they define you and your personal Web. You can click on each of the objects to see the descriptions. Also, you can save a snapshot of it to your computer, for use as your desktop wallpaper, maybe?

Funny, yet true in a certain sense.