Will write something here soon, but currently i seem to have encountered multiple problems that have taken a multi-facated approach to me .___. Sigh. “doesn’t really feel like Christmas at all”

Coldplay – Christmas Lights
<3 good seasonal songs

Yeah, this pic is all black but it’s actually a picture of a really nice starry night. You can’t see anything with my iPhone camera but still, the stars were there and they were pretty.

oh yeah, another big thing i do when i’m not in the above-mentioned state is to hunt for, download and crack software i don’t exactly need. its strangely satisfying somehow. makes me a mini-mini software pirate :/

Here’s a picture of some ducks from paris, taken in 2010. they’re really the loveliest creatures :D awesome fluffy ducklings. Always liked how they floated like pros on the water, i’m probably inclined to like things that move on water. Have never seen ducks fly though.

Okay suddenly reminded of something i read a few months back about ducks’ penises. (yes, i read the strangest things. anything becomes a good read when i’m trying to study). something about how the duck’s penis was crazy long and spiky and shoots out or something. was quite o.0 about what i read, i mean come on theses ducks look like the complete opposite of how i’d expect a demon penis monster to look like.

This clearly warrants further reading. Annnnddd on further reading – the horrors.

“The shape of the female duck’s vagina is a physical barrier that prevents the male from launching forth his ballistic penis to its fullest extent. It won’t stop a drake from ejaculating (and those in Brennan’s trials always did), but it does limit how far the semen is deposited along the vaginal tract. Not all males are hit equally hard by these defences. Those that the female actually wants to mate with have an easier time. If she’s into a male, she strikes a pose that signals her receptiveness, keeping her body level and lifting her tail feathers high. She repeatedly contracts the walls of her genital tract, relaxing them for long enough for favoured suitors to achieve full penetration.

Males who try to force themselves upon her receive no such help and have to cope with vigorous struggling. The female may not be able to resist such advances, but her convoluted vagina gives her ultimate control over where the sperm of her current partner ends up. The fact that only 3% of duck offspring are born of forced matings suggests that females are indeed winning this battle of the sexes.”   -the internet. (yes lazy to find sources)

“ballistic penis”. wow.

ARGH. I’m sorry, whoever reads this blog. If i know you and you know me you’d know that i’m not usually gross like that but wow what on earth is that?!?  ballistic penis is not an exaggeration. DAMN NATURE, YOU SCARY. but still undeniably amazingly cool. first reaction: ARGH MY EYES. followed by: wow this is really cool. awesome nature! still gross but very amazing.

so much for me and ducks. what i intended to talk/type/ramble about here was ducks and duck rice D: something along the lines how i love both ducks and duck rice and yet somehow i’ve no problems eating duck. 

and this is the picture of my beautiful duck rice lunch, which i thought was great with the copious amounts of unhealthy fatty duck. it was originally meant to go with the cute fluffy duckling pics. never mind, i don’t have much to talk about it anymore after the duck penis.

i will stay loyal to my favorite bird and still eat duck, once i wipe my memory of that demon penis everting. lucky i have really terrible memory, a few hours of youtube and other internet distractions should do the trick. shall not attempt to find out more about the female duck’s convoluted vagina. phew. i still love ducks and duck rice.

Being a kid must have been fun :)

Rank Specialty Score
1 pediatrics 39
2 emergency med 39
3 gastroenterology 38
4 obstetrics/gynecology 38
5 radiology 38
6 dermatology 37
7 infectious disease 36
8 radiation oncology 35
9 urology 35
10 neurosurgery 35
11 nuclear med 34
12 colon & rectal surgery 34
13 endocrinology 34
14 cardiology 34
15 general internal med 33
16 hematology 33
17 med oncology 33
18 rheumatology 33
19 pathology 33
20 psychiatry 33
21 occupational med 33
22 plastic surgery 33
23 physical med & rehabilitation 32
24 aerospace med 32
25 preventive med 32
26 thoracic surgery 32
27 general surgery 32
28 otolaryngology 32
29 nephrology 32
30 anesthesiology 32
31 allergy & immunology 32
32 orthopaedic surgery 31
33 pulmonology 31
34 neurology 30
35 ophthalmology 30
36 family practice 28

oh my. what strange results!

and now did this test again, 1 year and 1 day later (in the  middle of internal med, procrastinating once again)

wish i were more decisive :/

(i get wtfpwned by derm lectures. what on earth is derm)

maybe i should try this quiz again in m5. doing online quizzes instead of work is a sure sign of champion procrastination ): the quiz had 130 questions, does it count as hard work too?

some highlights though -

“i go to the KFC for dialysis”

“uhhh the doctor checked my… HSBC, blood sugar is good”

so many more but i can’t recall. these things cheer me up almost too much.

What am I doing wrong or what am I missing??

2) elephants have no pleura

3) if it looks like a cow, then it is a cow. not a camel.

4) the cat’s clavicle does not articulate with any bone

yep, it floats embedded in muscle.

5) the thickest cartilage in the body is at the patella- 7mm of hyaline goodness

6) SGH has pretty HOs

7) lithopedion – “stone baby”. In an ectopic pregnancy where implantation occurs elsewhere (eg. fallopian tubes/peritoneal cavity) other than in the uterus, if the dead foetus is too large to be re-absorbed by the mother’s body it becomes a foreign body to the mother’s immune system. To protect itself from possible infection the mother’s body will encase the foetus in a calciferous substance as the tissues die and dehydrate.

As the calciferous wall builds up, the foetus is gradually mummified becoming a lithopedion. “stone baby”. Apparently , the oldest reported case is that of a 94 year old woman, where the lithopedion had been present for upwards of 60 years.

8) caterian pneumothorax from thoracic endometriosis  - ectopic uterine tissue grows in the thoracic cavity, and every month during the period it bleeds (as normal uterine tissue does) and causes a pneumothorax and the lung collapses. hemoptysis is possible too, i guess you end up coughing up period blood which sounds pretty nasty.

okay typing of random trivia got slightly out of hand. note that there are no sources cited and the points are thus unreliable but i’m feeling lazy and am in a mood to believe.

left the hospital today for 3x 400m warm up, 5x 400m, 2x 800m, 2x 1200m. pretty nice night but i should be studying D: and actually doing more in hospitals. intestines still cramping after a hard run ): why are my bowel loops pretending to be a uterus? (an uterus?)

internal med is pretty content heavy!

Unicameral?
…. Caramel?

D:

Damn you, pseudo dyslexia.

losing the touch ): getting mixed up on priorities and focusses again.

F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 or cmd+r, cmd+r!

“you like this kinda show?”

“yes. the girl is very brave”

i check and make sure its tangled, and show him the movie poster.

“yes this one! with the saucepan and the naughty horse”

my dad is still pretty cool, plus he has good taste. i really liked the movie too even though i’m not the musical kind. and now i want to rewatch it as well, hmm possible father-son bonding over tangled.