Results were finally out on the 16... I did better than what I expected though I think I am capable of doing better... However I am still grateful to have graduated. Clinicals has always a luck component to it, except for the superb students who will do well no matter what cases were thrown on them. I dun think anyone deserves to be retained for another 6 more months after all the effort put in for those 5 years. 6 months will not make much of a difference in my opinion.

I will be going to CGH medicine for my first posting- my first choice since CGH is so near to my house... Hope that everything will go smoothly...

A good start to hols...

There seems to be so many things to do for hols, though I'm not going abroad...
Things to be done:

1) Pack my room. =( My room is cluttered with books and unfiled notes... SIGH. but lacks the motivation to pack.
2) Watch Naruto... ( a total of 150 episodes...)
3) Buy clothes
4) Exercise.
5) Go out with friends

Finally the dreadful MBBS is over. It has been an exceedingly long year for all of us... I am glad that I am finally out of the system. No more 2 weekly tests, no more osces, osses, mcqs or gimmicks that were created to "enhance" our learning. Most importantly, no more anxiety and worry. When I look back, I really wonder how did i manage to go thru all these? I believe it's the same for most medical students except for the exceptional few who make studying their hobby.

I look at future batches with much sympathy. Cos they will be going through an additional hurdle of mini-mbbs in year 3, and other "innovative" stuff created by the brainwaves of others ... I finally realise why there are no Nobel laureates or great innovations in Singapore... Cos all the students are burnt out by the time they reach their adulthood... Most of us would choose the tried and tested way. We shun risks not because we are afraid of the unknown, but that we are simply jaded and tired...

ok... enuff of my ranting... got to go pack up my cluttered room and make new resolutions...