Just returned from the first day of the houseman orientation programme. Learnt BCLS and all that stuff. Lectures were boring, but tried to keep awake cos i realise that i would need the knowledge in the future.

Can't believe that the dummy can be so zai... can tell me whether the depth of my chest compressions and the volume of ventilation that i was given is sufficient or not. Had to take 2 attempts to pass the 1 man CPR station cos i didn't fully relax when i was doing the chest compressions. But the tester was nice enough... a Mr Tan. Gonna try to take the effort to remember more names now... think it's nice to remember ur patient's names during the ward round or if u bump into them out there in the streets, not that i will hit the streets very often from now on anyway.

Any highlights of the day?:
1) My wacking my baby dummy's head loudly on the table when trying to save the bugger from choking
2) Was supposed to be paired up wif JS during the relief of choking demo... haha... of cos she refused to act the obese or pregnant lady. Wonder what would have happened if it was Chris instead of me.
3) Freezing in the auditorium beside lihua n leslie
4) eating rice cracker coated wif pork floss wif amelia n lihua and spilling crumbs all over my new polo T. Dun ask me if polo T is real. Me comin from thailand doesn't mean its 200 baht. It's actually 140 baht.
5) The soya bean drink was lovely... esp when it's cold.

Got some thinking to do... something that has got to be done at transition points in life.