Tuck Som Bong

2009-02-22T10:51:00.003+08:00

No more posts?

There isn't any more motivation to keep the blog updated with new posts anymore. A big thank you to all who linked thier blogs to tucksombong and to those who still check back once in a while although I don't think there are any.

I've removed the tagboard so I don't get anymore annoying emails that they are going to remove it.

Perhaps, in future, this blog might be filled with post again!

2008-08-02T00:29:00.010+08:00

To the mountains of Perth where its nobody's business but ours.

I know you've loved the times when we were in Perth; I hope its as lovely as Perth wherever you are. Look far and keep on walking, and we might just meet someday again.

2008-08-01T13:36:00.002+08:00

Bro,

You took me in when i was at lowest point in my life. You never failed to bring a smile to my face when you were around, the teller of endless jokes, the master of witty dialogue, the procurer of obscure yet horrendously funny you-tube videos, the baker of wonderful delicacies. How can we forget the Creme Brulee at Li's party, or that wonderful chocolate cake you did at mine? Small little actions that meant so much, that spoke volumes. You were always there with a smile on your face, that irreplacable grin that never failed to arrive to brighten up our day. Nobody stayed sad around you for long bro. You were always looking out for us in lectures, desperately trying to keep me awake with your tidbits. I'll miss so much about you dude, I'll miss the impersonations you did, the laughter, the support you gave, always the first to leap forward when help was needed, the spark that drives the darkest days away. Bobo, you'll be dearly missed.

Bro this song's for you. We sang it together once before, and I know you can sing this one well and it sums up how I feel right about now. Here's to you my friend. Rest well.

2008-07-31T00:55:00.003+08:00

Hi..

Rarely blog here but just wanted to say that.

I had thought thru the days that we had spent together.

From the very first day.

Till the days that had just zoomed past so fast.

And till today.

It is a big big 遗憾 that we are not able to be together on that day when we treat each other to 鼎太丰 at the best one in taiwan.

And it was just too bad for us that I did not get the chance to get married on my 22nd bdae.

And the glow in our eyes when we found 摩登如来神掌 vcd in an ulu shop in heartland mall with andy lau sitting on the satellite dish chu power..

And how you wld alws sing ai bia jia eh ya, 天意, and made me sing 飘移 so that you can do the rummmm..ruummmmm... sound effects.

And the pledge that we made not to join the dark side with our NBIWNCC.

And I still remember the days that all the guys will always 抱抱 together.

Thanks for all the memories, the days together and your friendship.

Cry alot doesnt save the day.

Laugh alot doesnt mean you are happy.

I just hope that you were at ease in mind.

如果说一切都是天意，一切都是命运，终究已注定。
是否能再多爱一天，能再多看一眼，伤会少一点。

Yang =)

2008-07-30T23:17:00.003+08:00

Goodbye..

To my dear friend who wanted to slam the photocopying machine on my hands, who wanted to become a spine surgeon so he could fix my back because I love sports cars and may get a chance to drive them, who wanted to paint my car pink, who wanted to pour concrete over my garden, who wanted to buy me a packet of gravel every year for my birthday till the day I buy my house with a gravel road, who wanted to see my future wife henpeck on me, who wanted to high-five each other everyday in the OT when we become surgeons, who wanted to see Dr Wong send his students into the OT just to show either him or me the shit on the gloves after PR-ing a patient, who wanted to once again travel to the mountains of Perth where its nobody's business but ours, who wanted to go out to sea together using our powerboat license, who wanted to drink a can of cold beer while taking a hot shower, who wanted to break out in song to elton john and blue, who wanted to maintain me in the OT, who wanted to see liyana's boobs when she is having her CABG done

He was a friend who wanted to do so many things. He was a friend whom I wanted to do many things with. I may be irritated with you and screw you sometimes but I wanted the both of us to do well. I hope you didn't mind. Take care wherever you are.

30th July 2008.

Thanks for the memories, Tuck.

2008-06-15T18:50:00.001+08:00

Jazz Stuff

Jazz really is cool. Check this out. Its good stuff and might be worth waiting for, well if you are into jazz. HAHA or Saxophone.. wth right??

2008-05-17T19:05:00.002+08:00

Global Warming

If you read the papers recently, they mentioned that fat people are contributing to global warming. Thats too much man.

I think these researchers are contributing to global warming too. Maybe they should spend less time on their computers and stay in caves or in the mountains and don't wear clothes to contribute less to global warming man.

2008-04-27T11:32:00.002+08:00

Being watched

I think we are being watched, everybody is reading the blog even though its not updated. I think government watching, now I think NUS also reading blog.. siao liao... I know they won't admit it but I know... HAHA Sounds like a delusion but I'm telling u, its real... ITS REAL.. THEY ARE OUT TO GET US!!

2008-03-17T19:50:00.002+08:00

Following the hail of gunfire that was the release of our results, it seems I'm still in one piece. Woopie-do-dah. But in this time of rejoicing (for those that us are still alive and have 3 weeks of glorious June Holidays to look forward to, sans our dear JP of course... but thats another story), let us not forget our poor brothers and sisters in M2 who have yet to face the worst exams they would arguably face.

Due to their superior knowledge (Yes definately superior to ours... they averaged 80% for their patho CA and some dude in their batch got distinction vivas for all 3 subjects the previous year), somebody decided to handicap the batch by antagonising BOTH MT and OWY the Doorgods ala Gate Keepers (men shen) of m3. I'll not reiterate the tale here, which is probably legendary in its scope, audacity and sheer stupidity of the person/persons involved. Having seen more than my fair share of m2... let me just say they have my deepest sympathies. Oh and if anybody does find out who he/she is that ratted out poor OWY, I'll be the among the first to put a bounty on the head involved ;P (State of capture of victim would preferably be slightly bruised.)

It feels good to be still in one piece, to enjoy ones postings without having to worry about the sword of damocles hanging over ones head no?

2008-03-02T20:52:00.002+08:00

Fellow Orientals, we are so screwed!

You guys should check this report out. All the years of caning by your parents are gonna make us problem adults like coercing spouses into having sex.

Maybe all of us are problem adults.

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN2761972420080229

2008-02-21T20:33:00.002+08:00

4 Days to Pros!

Heyo. Havent posted in a bit yeah yeah i know slacky me. Anyway ;P Before i chiong back to COFM... Found this video online. Thought it was super cute. Go watch ... 20 seconds of cuteness. Okay fine ... if you get freaked out by wide-eyed lemur's dont sue me. Will be back to wreck more havok once the pros are over. Ciao!

2008-02-06T19:41:00.000+08:00

Angst?

Hardly! I was studying with my friends peacefully till some M1s came and claimed that they were using the room for some tutorial, but turned out that they weren't have some tutorial. There were many empty sem rooms, but they just had to have that one. Dumb asses.

I guess, I'm less angst than disappointed with what Singaporeans have to say about medical students wearing their labcoats in the canteen. First, I must agree, our colleagues did wrong by wearing thier labcoats to the canteen. Second, I doubt anyone of us wants to 'show off' that we are medical students.

After my CHP project and reading all those responses, I must stress again, I'm truly disappointed with some of my fellow countrymen. I feel STUPID, stupid because I chose a profession that allows me to earn less than $2500 a month as a starting pay, working from Mon to Sun, working overnight, getting scolded by angry patients, etc; the list can only get longer. To all those out there, not many of us wanted to join medicine because we want the money and fame. I'm not complaining that our pay is peanuts, because compared to the normal person out there, its really alot, but to those who say we joined the profession for fame and money. I'm sorry, maybe to a certain extent, we like any other human being living in an economical world with market inflations, taxes to pay and what not to pay, we need to care a little about the money we are gonna earn? If I wanted to earn money, I'll in something else, why work hard and earn so little? For your information, the yr3s are studying during the New Year break for our exams, am I complaining? Yes, I am complaining now because I'm questioning that if its worth it.

Most people expect doctors to know everything and to get every needle into the vein or artery the first instance, not possible. My dear countrymen, have you thought of the medical student who was there at your bedside asking you if they could ask you some questions or do some procedures on you. Sure, its irritating or painful, but have you thought of it, these medical students will be the very doctors treating your parents, you, your children, your children's children. You want them to make mistakes when they are doctors? You want them not to learn about your medical condition and not know how to treat other patients or your relative next time?

Compassion, what is that? People expect doctors to show compassion, but tell me; you sure that ALL Singaporeans have compassion? I doubt so, doors slammed in my face when I was doing surveys in Clementi when I told them to help me out because they are the last person I need to administer the survey on and I can go home early.

Robots can't work 24/7. They break down someday. So please, I'm only human, my colleagues are only human, we would like to save the world but we can't.

My friends and I ask ourselves everyday if we are going to be good doctors when we graduate, we ask if we are capable to treat the patients out there.

I'm disappointed, and I really wonder why I joined medicine. Maybe those questions I asked myself daily are no longer necessary and I think I joined medicine out of plain stupidity.

2008-01-10T14:56:00.000+08:00

WRX vs Evo

Check this out! WRX faster than the Evo? Check out the timings at the end!

2008-01-09T12:48:00.000+08:00

Ooo! She's so UGLY! Hahaha... This song has been around for ages, there are funnier AMVs around, but this one is the most politically correct (don't think I should be an advocate of what's politically correct though, after my Big Girls post hehe)... Enjoy!

2007-12-31T23:55:00.000+08:00

Bye 2007, Hello 2008!

This post wasn't easy to write. I don't feel the hype of the New Year. I think we all know why. We are once again studying for a test during our holidays. But wait a minute, we asked for it, didn't we? 'Fuck you' to the person who said that (I doubt she reads our blog)

Anyway, I think 2007 has been an extremely tiring year for us. Studying non stop for end of posting tests, going back to school for patho lessons. I really think that the Dean's Office outta try living our life and ask themselves if they can really cope it with a sane mind. I'm not saying that we shouldn't be studying, but come on, its called a break, a holiday. Its not study period. Stupid administrators like to use the term 'study break'. There ain't a break when you are studying for an exam. So bugger off.

Oh well, Life goes on. No more CNY, gotta study for Pros. Not too bad, 10 days of break after that I guess? Or maybe its gone again?

All the best for patho peeps! We can do it. Patho suxs when you really gotta cram for it.

2007-12-18T20:33:00.000+08:00

Prof Eats!

Emed has come to an end. NUH emed department is one of the best clinical postings that I've been to. Almost everybody is friendly (minus some doctors and nurses) and willing to teach. I've learnt more than I did so at Surgery and medicine combined. Kudos to the fellows there!

So the legend or should I say myth that Prof Suresh Pillai doesn't eat is dispelled when he ate the pao during our revision lessons. But still, he eats very little. As a man with gastric problems, I wonder if he has any. Take a look at the group pic!

Can you spot the difference?

2007-12-07T19:28:00.000+08:00

BIG GIRL YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL WOOHOO!!!

2007-11-20T12:15:00.000+08:00

TIger Time?!

Enjoy!

2007-11-06T20:44:00.000+08:00

Diet Coke and Mentos

Old video, but just in case you guys haven't got a chance to watch it yet. Sterling, I'm sorry if you are watching this, obviously Diet Coke can be used for other purposes other than drinking....

2007-10-28T20:20:00.000+08:00

Man the Mirror

Oh well, it sure did made him change his skin colour! And, maybe, his extreme love for kids! Enjoy!

2007-10-26T16:40:00.000+08:00

Finals Countdown by Amateur Transplants

Discovered this courtesy of my councillee Lydia haha... That bit on public health strikes the nail squarely on the head when it comes to COFM. Enjoy...

2007-10-26T09:23:00.000+08:00

Gotta Lurve Gp Posting

Hey hey, its been awhile since I've posted. Tuck and som graciously holding the fort haha. 3 cheers for Tuck and Som! Anyway with surg and med postings behind us, can finally take a long breather... oh wait we've got pharm one month from now. Dang. Well that kinda still leaves us with our christmas break right? Wait patho on the second day of the new year you say? Bahumbug ;P

GP posting in geylang is pretty hillarious. I mean how often do you see 1/3rd of the patients that enter your clinic go "Doc I got cough la. Need cough syrup. Just cough syrup ah, 2 big bottles okay? I buying for my mother and father also" or "Doc I cant sleep. Very very bad. Last two nights i thinking alot. No lah no need anything la, just give me something to sleep can already... Got dormicum?" Then of course you have your fair share of "hot chicks" walking in, making the clinic really gaudy and colorful indeed. The best patient of the day was probably seen as we were walking back from lunch...

Yeaps hands down the cutest patient of the day. Sadly she forgot to take her queue number so she probably spent the whole day waiting for the doc. Poor kitty. Well its back to my daily 9.30am - 4.30 pm routine. =P Have fun in ortho or psyche or whereever the rest of you peoplez are ;P It certainly rocks over here =P

2007-10-15T21:45:00.000+08:00

Have faith!

I think although I'm super worried for my whole medicine posting because of the lack of cases seen (I apologize to ppl posted at AH for my insensitivity) and the chui tutors that I have except for one who is damm good at presentation, I should have faith in myself.

I cannot deny the fact that I'm jealous of others who have super good tutors who look for cases for them.

But.. hell yeah man.. at the end of the day.. all it matters in the exam room is the examiner, patient and my fear. Just whack!!

Hell YEAH!!!

2007-10-01T23:58:00.000+08:00

Too much time but not enuff time

You know in movies and MTVs people always die either from epistaxis or hemoptasis. In the old days it always usually meant TB, but thanks to the BCG jab and the increase in environmental carcinogens it usually means something like lung cancer nowadays, or even lymphoma(esp if its a young dying antagonist)

I guess maybe its because all these are prob very "romantic" diseases eh? You know someone should just change the trend and have characters with like GI cancers instead. So you can have people dying from masssive rectal bleeds instead. So much more drama then blood on a hankie.

Ok im going mad from worrying about medicine end of posting test...... man im so screwed.....

2007-09-30T00:06:00.000+08:00

Slow Jam

One of my favorite tunes. Check it out.

2007-09-29T13:12:00.000+08:00

2007-09-26T19:53:00.000+08:00

Shit Matters

I'm mother sian today... Ah Well, who says those smelly, lumpy things that come out from your unglamorous butty hole isn't important. Let me tell you, its important because there is a classification for it! I, myself, didn't know that till today! How ignorant can that be? From the chart, you'll understand that Type 1 and 2 are pain the ass but Type 1 is the worst. Type 7... I guess its a pain in the ass too, I mean.. too hard it hurts, too watery it hurts. I guess you can classify people under the Bristol stool chart if they really screw up your day.

Great, I guess people can just make my day better by being truthful bout things. I can take the truth, I'm not a wuss. HAHA

2007-09-25T23:04:00.000+08:00

Too much Time?

Its true, there are people out there with too much time. But, they are doing it for a cause I guess, well, at least they believe there is one. Check these vids out. Well, liyana sent me the links. Have fun watching.

2007-09-22T16:50:00.000+08:00

Happy Birthday Weiyan!

A picture says a thousand words. Check out the cleanly shaved axilla. Enjoy:

2007-09-20T01:14:00.000+08:00

Yo Yo Yo!

Whatssup homies! Its that time of the year again. Say what? Muggin season? Yeah! The time where we hunt all the muggers and shoot them. Well can't really do that now can we? Unless we all grab shotguns and kill each other. Which might actually be more fun then studying for that damn Med end of posting exam. 25% failure rate... woohoo!

Ooooh if you havent seen this medicine video check it out ;P Goes to show that Yr 4s everywhere have waay to much time on their hands thanks to electives ;P The end of Yr 3 DOES have a silver lining!

Anyway, no "banned" advertisements from me... No no no. I'm a clean, innocent guai dude ;P I'm gonna show you a tutorial on the Wenckebach block phenomenon... Aiyah its the Mobitz type 1 Second Degree heart block with progressive PR interval until a QRS fails to show up after the P wave. Cycle then repeats. Still blur about the topic? Aiyah how can like that? 3.5 weeks till end of posting leh... never mind I'll let these Aussies teach ya ... Back to the mugging (Dont shoot!!!!)

2007-09-19T19:18:00.000+08:00

On the roll!

TSB has a funny trend - Burst posting. Many posts at one shot, and we chill a little. Its like a GMPG cover fire gone wrong (Pardon the bad analogy). Alright, gonna attach a few 'banned ads', some are ridiculous but some are really funny. So check it out. Time to mug hard for medicine because I'm so gonna fail it. Cheers!

BMW Video, I never knew the M5 could travel that fast?

The standard Mastercard vid.

Breast Exam. Enough said

2007-09-18T23:37:00.000+08:00

When Heaven and earth collide

Wow i cant believe that just by posting some random crap i can get my 2 other bros to post some weird shit too... the wonders of herd mentality(ok i feel i beating coming up)

But anywayz, if you ever go to the damn dentistry block in NUH before 8 in the morning, the lift is always never working. At 1st i thought that it was spoilt, but for some reason at about 12 noon the damn thing always magically starts working again. So you noe what i think? I think that they purposely turn the damn thing off to save electricity.....

Ok so i understand that they prob restrict the damn lift use to save electricty to save money and "save the environment". But have they ever thought about the poor janitor who is like this poor old Indian lady who has to climb up 4 stories everyday to unlock the rooms and LTs???

But speaking of saving the environment, there was some news report recently about Sheryl Crow, who has declared a war on the use of toilet paper.

Sorry lady while i believe in saving the environment too(in fact i even play my part by pumping the ridiculously expensive unleaded 98 petrol for the family car) but if there's something i love its the incredible feel of triple ply supersoft toilet people against my a**, and not even heaven and hell colliding can stop me from pampering my a**hole after a hard days work.

And speaking of global warming even Singapore is gonna be majorly screwed soon because of the melting icecaps, cargo ships will now be able to pass though what used to be the north pole and hence bypass our port, which means major bummer for PSA earnings.....

And you know what? With so many bloody ships passing by the ice caps the xtra heat generated is probably gonna make the ice caps melt faster.....

Woo good luck to the people living in marine parade or near any low lying region....

Looks like a job for somebody.........

2007-09-18T21:52:00.000+08:00

Wah cool..revival of the TSB blog..haha..I thot it was time for this lah, since we are like right smack (not SMAC) in the middle of postings and there's so much grumblings and ranting to do..eh after this posting got 1 wk holz go somewhere leh (haha i feel i beri qian4 da3..)..

Anw!..Whoohooo!!..I passed my medicine posting!!!..Whoohoooo!!!

Im sure u all will do much better than me lah..

Looking forward to ramly burger this fri..hurhur..i jus looked at the MAC's coupon that was in my mailbox..then suddenly i got so gian of burger, think I had too much of bakchor mee in houseman canteen CGH. The chap chai beng is damn giam siappppp..I think I can lose alot of weight if I eat that everyday..but the soup thingy looks nice..especially on a rainy day..mebbe can try one day..

Cheers!
Yang =)

2007-09-18T20:48:00.000+08:00

Tuck back in Business?

Two posts in such a short time? It certainly compelled me to post something even if its silly and doesn't mean anything! I mean, at least it shows that I'm still alive right? Where are the rest of my buddies? Join in the fun and we can all talk about the crap we are all going through right now.

I know the public doesn't like medical students to ramble on and on about how tough life is for us or complaint about patients the whole day. But I would say we are only human and yes, I know for sure the public hates medical students! Because seriously, we are nuisance, aren't we?

Ok, I don't know what I am talking about here, but I must say, the start of proper clinical postings have been fun and yes, I have two new identities, call me either John or Steven. But it would take me a while to respond to them. I'll be John when I'm pasty white and I'm Steven if I happen to visit ECP during one of the weekends and get a little tanned.

John loves, well, ugly breast and colons and administers drugs to make them look pretty again. Steven loves tubes also known as vessels in the abdomen or lower limbs and just loves using the droppler pen and of course loves scalpels and forceps.

Ok.. enough crap. You discern for yourself who I am and then call me by the appropriate name. As far as I know, I'm Leonard. HAHA

2007-09-17T23:00:00.001+08:00

And for everything else in life.... there's Mastercard

2007-09-15T00:09:00.000+08:00

And the Mad shall walk the earth again

Well well it's been a long time since ive posted anything.... so long in fact that i actually forgot my damn password to my blogger account haha...

But anyway there was this talk in NUS on tuesday for m3 students, where they played some video done by some American college students telling you to well.... basically... don't kill yourself?
And in these video they featured some people who has attemlted suicide and well.... failed....(duh if they suceeded they wont talking would they?) And these people were like saying how failing to kill themselves had reformed them and made them feel new and capable and not lost.....

Well i'm not an advocate of suicide(or euthenasia for that matter) but how does failing to kill yourself suddenly make the whole world better again??? In fact now failing suicide just makes you suck at ONE MORE THING in life.... can you imagine if they had like support groups for people who attempted suicide?

Man:Well my name is John and i tried to kill myself...

Facilitator:Well John would you like to share more with us?

Man:Well i tried to kill myself by overdosing on sleeping pills.... but turned out my wife was just using the empty dormicum bottle to store her vitamins...

*Rest of support group trying to suppress laughter*

Man:F**k i should have just jumped off a cliff back then

But anyway if you really had to do it would there be a "best" method? Well i wouldn't really know about that but i guess jumping in front of MRTs and off HDBs are kinda passe.... so if you really wanted to make front page you would need more...... innovative methods....

But anyway while taking the train today with my cg buddy in a momemt of morbidity we started talking about painless way to go.... and she said that the most painless way is to do the "Car and carbon monoxide method", but i still think overdosing on general anathsesia sounds more painless.....

But speaking of which have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the "Phantom of the OT"?

Fun Things to do as the resident haunting ghost of an Operating Theatre

1)Breathe down the neck of the surgeon as he operates and watch as he goes mad slowly

2)Make lewd inappropriate running commentaries during the op like "OMG look at that bowel! Its so friable!! You're gonna perforate it...... woooo........"

3)Take the diathermy grounding pad and secretly paste it on the surgeon when he's not looking and watch his expression when he tries to buzz.....

4)Play with the hydraulic table during the op

5)After the surgeons have scrubbed in push their hands against the wall and go "Oops.... not sterile anymore are we?"

6)Diathermy weird messages onto the patient like "MOT5 ghost was here"

See i think that it would wayy much better to be an OT ghost rather than the resident ghost of some weirdass dilapidated house in the middle of some forest. I mean the ghost of some dilapidated house only gets to screw around with some dumb kids who wander in every once in a while and the only thing you can do is randomly slam some doors or windows and make the floorboards creek... while as an OT ghost you get all these toys!!! And plus if you're like some chee hong ghost you get to have creeps scrub nurses in your OT everyday....

Ok thats enuff morbid thoughts for one day.... b4 people start reading between the lines too much and i start getting weird sms like "DONT DO IT!! Theres always another way out!!"

but anyway heres some awesomely f**kingly funny video

Charlie and the Candy Mountain

2007-08-06T21:27:00.000+08:00

Being a Doctor

This is what my tutor told my CG, 'Now you know why I keep scolding you all; if you can't take hardship, you can't be a doctor'.

Now eat that Medical Students.

2007-05-19T23:29:00.000+08:00

Woo hoo!

Yes... From Leonard... its always cars.. Check this VW Golf out man.. its really one HOT and FAST Hatchback...!!!

http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/1856/

I hope it comes true... then.. yes.. I can realise the dream of driving a GOLF next to Jp's whatever car he is getting HAHA.... otherwise.. it can only happen in NFS Most Wanted eh?

2007-05-13T16:52:00.000+08:00

Wow I Love Surg!

Why do I love surg? Simple! Being the absolute slacker that I am (as most of you jolly well know by now) I'm the happiest person during surg sessions. Why? Cos we get brilliant and I do mean brilliant tutors that are either saying "Hrm, what should I be teaching you for CSFC ah?" or "I have 1 sick patient and 4 medical students, you decide whats more important" or "Since when was I supposed to take 8 students? This clinic only fits 2" and the Coup de Grace "I'm on my way now" and then doesnt show up. So seriously guys and gals if you think life sucks, that your tutors arent teaching you much, pls do take that short walk from the library and join us, where you will learn absolutely nothing at all! Fun yes? Oh wait in the words of an all so wise senior, here we learn to be "sanitary statues", scrub up and watch and don't touch the dark green things.

Haha. Gotta love CSFC. But I must say despite all the non-pale stools that has been flying our way, must say that medicus-guber has been a paragon of medicalness (if there's such a word. If there isnt, assume that this literary genius created it yesterday.) How many of us sympathise with the patients we see infront of us but don't do anything more than "Thank you sir/madam" after clarking and physically abusing the patient for the better half of an hour? Underneath Ah-peh's crusty, wrinkled exterior actually beats a fuzzy warm heart. Dragging his dear CG mates in formal attire (on a very very informal attire day) down to the hospital to counsel and keep a lonely patient company.

My Surg CSFC tutors havent taught me much, but I have learnt much from a CG mate.

2007-05-06T16:19:00.000+08:00

End of Wk2

Similarity of the last and the current post most probably tell you that I'm not really enjoying myself in the wards. I'm happy with what I am learning but I'm not happy with how we are treated. I guess, we are really treated like junk! haha. I'm fine with it I guess because I've been treated like one ever since sec sch haha...

So lets see, NCC, Sec 1 to Sec3, treated like shit, shouted by secondary 4 seniors in the face like we are deaf. Physically and verbally abused, its actually worse than army. As a CLT trainee, also tortured.

BMT, chao recruits, lowest rank in the army.

OCS, 'the cadet rank is not even on the rank structure!'

Commissioned as an officer, 'lowest in the officer corps, no power'

I hope I can take it haha..

Shit.. I don't know what I'm saying.. I'm posting it anyway... hecks.. haha

2007-04-29T19:22:00.000+08:00

End of Wk 1

Ha, its really been a long time since I sat down and decide to proper entry in this blog, nothing is spontaneous after studying day and night for almost the whole of M2 and even now when every other bugger from other faculty other than dentistry are having fun after thier exams; my dentistry and medical friends are back in school and the hospitals starting out clinics.

End of Wk1, or 1 week after Vietnam? It was a chaotic week, staying up late making presents, meeting up late at night, going for walks in Fort Canning, surprise birthdays and trying to mug when you know you don't feel like it. I'm just glad its all over, its now time to settle down and begin on clinics! Something all of us have been waiting for! Excitement! Apprehension! Can I be a good doctor? Will I pass my clinical exams? All these questions have been popping up in my head over the past few days. I certainly hope I will.

Lack of humour you should say for this entry, I cannot help but agree... let me get some sleep back and talk to more patients! Woooo....

Siao!

2007-04-23T22:40:00.000+08:00

Its Been Awhile

Well the dust has finally settled. Just checking myself for wounds and surprisingly I'm still in one piece. Woohoo! Dunno about you guys lah, but I think the "m2" blogs will eventually find their way to being updated again. I mean with everybody split up and all, what better way to keep in contact? Unless of course we shamelessly decide to spam the yahoo groups hur hur.

CSFC imho is a rite of initiation. The dawn of a new age. The passing of noobish medical students to weary but proficient ones. Enjoy the ride . Was damn amused to see people frantically copying tips on how to relate to people. "Positive reinforcement with posture" & "Empathy is very important!". Tis a damn sad day if we have to teach people how to be people.

Oh btw for those that have had their heads in their books up till now... a quick update. C&C 3 rocks. And Yes MedicusGuber & Som , your 6600GTs can run it, flawlessly I might add. Supreme Commander (The sequal to Total Anhillation) rocks even more, but is a bi*ch to master. And lastly the expansion to Oblivion is hilariously good. If you ever need a distraction from csfc look me up.

The following paragraphs are mindless details about laptops. If you have no interest in em, turn away now.

Ordered a Laptop from Dell a few days back. Seems if you order online, Dell offers a $500 rebate. How do they do that you ask?? Simple. Prices in Singapore are super overpriced for laptops. Especially the more powerful Rigs. I mean seriously, take for example the Asus G1 (the best portable 15.4" Gaming Laptop, Dual Core 2.0 Ghz Geforce 7700 2GB Ram), costs $3500+ locally and comes with a WXGA+ screen. If I order it online from US and import it to singapore, it arrives within 5 working days of them receiving the order. And Get this... with delivery charges included and coverting $US to SGD, it comes up to $3200 AND they give a WSXGA+ screen which as higer resolution than the WXGA+. So seriously if you're intending to get a laptop that isnt covered by the discount given to NUS students, you might want to consider importing your laptop from the US. And yes, most major laptop companies, ASUS, DELL etc do provide international warrenties. For the people who don't want to get a Dell XPS 1710 or the scary Alienware laptops with Dual (Yes DUAL) Geforce 7950 512mb Graphics Cards because Singapore just doesnt carry spare parts for the Dell 1710 and Asia doesnt even have an Alienware office, the next best option is customising a Dell Inspiron 9400. A 17" Laptop, Dual Core 2.0Ghz Geforce 7900GS 2GB Ram with Vista Premium, cost me $3500. ($4000 before the $500 rebate) The Dell Inspiron also comes with a Express card slot, so you can always stick in higher end graphics cards when the Geforce 7900 gets obsolete.

Oh word of caution. The 17" laptops are generally mean as Desktop replacements.In other words, they are pretty darn big and weigh at least 3.5kg. But if you consider that nowadays all we carry is a Browse or TalleyO'Conner, that weight might be tolerable. Otherwise I would recomend 15.4" laptops like the Asus G1 (which weighs a heavy 3.1kg for a 15.4") or if you want to sacrifice graphics power for weight, go for the Sony Vaio. Or on an even brighter note, might wanna wait a couple of months. Cos the Asus G1 has already been out for like 5 months. Taking into consideration the speed at which techno is advancing, its seriously a matter of months before the 8000+ series of graphics cards find their way into the 15" or the weight of existing rigs decreases.

2007-04-22T19:16:00.000+08:00

Back!

So it seems that we didn't have a proper post for a very long time; the one on trimethoprim and sulphonamides doesn't count as one.

Most M2 group blogs are dead anyway, I guess most of my peers don't see a point to carry on updating anymore! Actually, we are all so busy that we kinda neglected this place, or we've totally lost interest in blogging already.

Just got back from Vietnam and yes.. as requested by Sam, I'll post some pictures for you all to see!

Small waterfall in Cat Cat Village, Sapa

Balcony outside Room 404 at Green Valley Hotel, Sapa

Sunset at Halong Bay

Lao Cai Train Station at 5am.

Sapa Market on a Saturday

Chillin' on a Hill, Sapa

Visiting Sung Sut Cave

Never take pictures when crossing the road!!

Bottoms up!

I don't know what Ningyan is trying to do on the plane back....

2007-04-08T10:52:00.000+08:00

Pharmacology of the sulphonamides and trimethoprim

Susceptible microbes require extracellular PABA in order to form DHFA, an essential step in the production of purines and the synthesis of nucleic acids. Sulphonamides are structural analogs of PABA that competitively inhibit dihyropteroate synthetase; they inhibit growth by reversibly blocking folic acid synthesis. Mammalian cells (and some bacteria) lack the enzymes required for folate synthesis and depend upon exogenous sources of folate; they are not susceptible to sulphonamide. Resistance may occur as a result of mutations that cause (a) overproduction of PABA, (b) production of a folate synthesizing enzyme that has low affinity for sulphonamides, (c) or cause a loss of permeability to the drug.

Trimethoprim inhibits bacterial DHFA reductase about 50000 times more efficiently than the same enzyme of mammalian cells. DHFA reductases convert DHFA to THFA, a step leading to the synthesis of purines and ultimately to DNA. Trimethoprim, administered with sulphonamides, produces sequential blocking in this metabolic sequence, resulting in synergism. The combination is often bactericidal, as compared to the bacteriostatic activity of a sulphonamide alone. Resistance to trimethoprim may occur from (a) reduced cell permeability), (b) overproduction of DHFA reductase, (c) or production of a reductase with reduced drug binding. Folinic acid should be given to compensate for the decrease in folate.

Sulphonamide classification:
1. Oral, absorbable - Sulphisoxazole (short-acting) ,Sulphamethoxazole (intermediate-acting), Sulphadiazine (intermediate-acting), Sulphadoxine (long-acting)
2. Oral, non-absorbable - Sulphasalazine
3. Topical use - Sulphacetamide

Absorption of the oral sulphonamides ranges from 70-100% in the small intestine, with peak blood levels occurring 2-6h after administration. They are widely distributed throughout all tissues, entering pleural, peritoneal, synovial, and ocular fluids readily. They also penetrate the CSF, and can cross the placenta to enter the foetal circulation (NB: causes kernicterus in the foetus due to haemolysis of foetal RBCs; it becomes mentally retarded). Sulphonamides are partially metabolized to inactive N-acetylated or glucuronidated metabolites in the liver, which are then excreted in the urine along with the parent drug mainly by glomerular filtration. Dosage must be reduced in renal failure.

In contrast, trimethoprim is a weak base and is eliminated and concentrated in vaginal and prostatic fluids, which are more acidic than plasma (i.e. it has more antibacterial activity in these fluids than other drugs). TMP is absorbed efficiently and widely distributed, including the CSF. It is often used in combination with sulphamethoxazole (co-trimoxazole) but may be used singly for treating acute UTIs. SMZ is chosen because it has a similar half-life to TMP. TMP is more lipid-soluble than SMZ; it has a larger volume of distribution. Dosage of TMP:SMZ is approximately 1:5.

Therapeutic uses of co-trimoxazole include complicated UTIs and prostatitis, respiratory tract infections by the Pneumococcus, Haemophilus spp., and Klebsiella spps. It is also used (in IV form) to treat Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in AIDS patients, as well as enteric infection by Salmonella spp. and bacillary dysentery caused by Shigella spp.

Other clinical uses of the various sulphonamide combinations consist of acute toxoplasmosis (sulphadiazine + pyrimethamine) and as a second-line malarial drug (sulphadoxine + pyrimethamine; a.k.a. Fansidar).

Sulphadoxine is a long-acting sulphonamide with a half life of ~170h and is well-absorbed orally. It is excreted slowly via glomerular filtration due to its high state of plasma protein binding, and undergoes tubular reabsorption.

Sulphasalazine is used to treat inflammatory bowel disease. It is split by intestinal flora to form sulphapyridine and 5-amino salicylic acid, which is released in large amounts to produce the anti-inflammatory effect (NB: such amounts cannot be achieved with oral ingestion of salicylic acid without producing severe gastritis). Sulphapyridine is absorbable and toxic in large amounts (especially in slow acetylators).

Sulphacetamide is used as an ophthalmic solution against eye infections by susceptible bacteria, and also as adjunctive therapy for trachoma.

Adverse effects of the sulphonamides include hypersensitivity (rash may form; SJS in <1% of patients; TEN; urticaria; photodermatitis), haematological symptoms (haemolysis in G6PD-deficient patients; aplastic anaemia; myelosuppresion with reduced WBCs and platelets; FBC should be monitored), GI symptoms, crystalluria due to precipitation of acetylated metabolites in acidic or neutral urine (occurs more with sulphadiazine and less with the more water-soluble sulphonamides like sulphisoxazole; treated by alkalinizing the urine with sodium bicarbonate and increasing water intake). Neonates develop kernicterus if mothers were administered with the drug in late pregnancy.

Adverse effects of trimethoprim include megaloblastic anaemia together with leukopaenia and granulocytopaenia (due to folate deficiency). Folate supplement is given to prevent this occurrence. Note however, that in the treatment of AIDS-related PCP, folate supplementation may instead increase morbidity. It can also cause nausea and vomiting, a drug-induced fever, vasculitis, or CNS disturbances.

Pharmacology of the urinary antiseptics

Nalidixic acid inhibits bacterial DNA synthesis by inhibiting bacterial topoisomerase II (DNA gyrase), which is responsible for relieving the supercoils during DNA replication. It also affects topoisomerase IV, which normally promotes the separation of DNA strands. Its spectrum of activity is limited to the Gram negative bacilli, with rapid development of bacterial drug resistance as a downside.

It has good oral bioavailability, and is metabolized to an active hydroxyl-metabolite (20%) and an inactive mono-glucuronide conjugate (80%). These are rapidly excreted in the urine (i.e. nalidixic acid is only useful for UTI treatment and not for systemic infection). In renally impaired patients, systemic toxicity may occur.

Adverse effects of nalidixic acid include GI symptoms (nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain), skin effects (rash, pruritius, photosensitivity), CNS symptoms (headache, vertigo, convulsions, toxic psychosis), haematological symptoms (decreased platelet count), and musculo-skeletal symptoms (cartilage toxicity).

Nitrofurantoin damages bacterial DNA due to its highly reactive metabolites which are produced by reducing enzymes in susceptible bacteria. It has 100% bioavailability with food, and like nalidixic acid, is rapidly excreted into the urine (by glomerular filtration and tubular secretion). It colours urine brown and has a half-life of 20-60min.

It is indicated in the treatment of acute UTI due to Gram negative (E. coli and the Enterococci) and Gram positive bacteria, as well as in the suppression of chronic UTI or prevention of UTI recurrence. The duration of treatment should not exceed 14 days, and there should be rest periods between treatment courses. Its effects are greatly enhanced in acidic mediums (pH<5.0) It should not be used in renal failure or in pregnant women and children less than a year old.

Adverse effects of nitrofurantoin include GI disturbances primarily (less so with the macrocrystalline preparation, due to its slower absorption), with occasional hypersensitivity reactions (skin rash and pneumonitis, both reversible upon drug withdrawal; chronic use can cause interstitial fibrosis and the elderly and more prone to pulmonary toxicity), chills and fever, along with leukopaenia and granulocytopaenia. It also causes haemolytic anaemia in G6PD-deficient patients. Hepatocellular damage with cholestasis may lead to chronic active hepatitis, and lastly it can cause various neurological disorders (headache, vertigo, polyneuropathies).

2007-01-27T16:23:00.000+08:00

Medicus-Guber OUTRAGED

So it's come to pass, the mighty M2 blogs have faded into relative obscurity, suffering the indignity of having an occasional visitor popping by, only to find us lacking in updates. Well, what can we do? Too busy in the library mugging away and trying to reach M3 with a decent pass.

Anyway, this erstwhile blogger decided to post this up for all the male chauvinists out there (i.e. anyone with a third leg, yes ladies, all guys are pigs at heart). Leonard came across this in his extensive research through vast horizons of knowledge, and true to good humour, discovered that even in medical genetics literature there can still be room for biased FEMINISTIC reporting. Read on gentlemen, and bemoan the fact that we guys are poorly misunderstood, and definitely mistreated in this ever-growing world of self-righteous females:

A much misunderstood feature, both of biometric data and of polygenic theory, is regression to the mean. Imagine, for the sake of example only, that variation in IQ were entirely genetically determined. Figure 4.12 shows how in our simplified two-locus model, for each class of mothers, the average IQ of their children is half way between the mother's value and the population mean. This is regression to the mean - but its implications are often misinterpreted. Note however a hidden assumption in this simple model: that there is random mating. For each class of mothers, the average IQ of their husbands is assumed to be 100. Thus the average IQ of the children is the mid-parental IQ, as common sense would suggest. IN THE REAL WORLD, HIGHLY INTELLIGIENT WOMEN TEND TO MARRY MEN OF ABOVE AVERAGE INTELLIGIENCE (assortive mating) and we would not expect regression half way to the population mean, even if IQ were a purely genetic character.

I completely resent the fact that this is a recommended text by one of our Profs! To add salt to the wound, it's a SHE! Gentlemen, this must not be taken sitting down. Get your noses out of your books and rise up against feminism!

-brought to you courtesy of a deranged, demented fool.

2007-01-25T20:16:00.000+08:00

Could this be true?

A friend of mine (you know who you are) send me a link to this video. Could this be true? Are they truly ignorant?

2007-01-15T22:25:00.000+08:00

<<白色巨塔>>

Ohwell, this new taiwan chinese drama is going to be shown on channel u/8 i forgot which one. Weili finished watching it on youtube liao and im still trying to finish the dvd. if u all want to watch can wait till feb when it is shown on tv. trailer not v nice and detailed but i guess, yan cheng xu is qt shuai. wahaha.

Cheers!
Yang =)

2007-01-08T22:21:00.000+08:00

Still Alive and Kickin!

Well, dunno if you guys and gals have seen this on youtube, has been out for about a year already. But it cracked my up the first time I saw it and well if you missed it, here it is. Kill Bill with super mario SFX added in.

2007-01-01T00:24:00.000+08:00

Hello 2007!

Aiyoh where did 2006 run off to? Just like that and another year has just zipped by.

Guess everybody was watching the countdown on channel 5. If you missed it, i guess one word sums it up. Blargh. Sure vivo city aint no Times Square, but you know you've got a problem when the audience needs to be egged on by every single MC and by practically every single performer on stage to scream. As future doctors, we should seriously do our part to drum up business for the medical community and help build national spirit.

What do I mean? Well simply next year instead of organising Mediweek or even Medix we should form "Cheering teams" and go down to events such as "Countdown 2007" to fan the flames of National pride and get our fellow Singaporeans, expats and PRC scholars to cheer their hearts and souls out. At the same time, booths selling lozenges at $5 a sweet and Maps with directions to the nearest GP clinics can be provided at a nominal sum of $1 each. Proceeds of course would go to charity and the further development of Medicine in singapore, namely by being shunted into the medical student welfare funds. What better place money than squarely in the hands of the future of medicine in Singapore (aka us)?

Way i see it, everybody is happy. Audience has a fun time, MCees dont get a "dead" audience and the performers on stage actually get to feel appreciated. Not to mention the fact that the whole world can see we full of Spirit. So maybe next year, we can raise enough funds from selling strepsils and lozenges and do something about the name of a particular medical school. Woot! Unfortunately that means raising at least $25 million dollars. Aka 5 million strepsils. But no worries, with the increasing amounts of foreign talent and foreign doctors poring in, I am confident we can reach the 5 million strepsil target. Aiyah, foreign talent get paid alot of $$$ lah, they surely buy more than 1 strepsil. Dont forget the inherent Mr. Kiasu that lives in most of us. Surely can sell more than 1 strepsil per person. Even better, we could push a buy 5 get 1 strepsil free promotion.

So common people, lets cheer our hearts out!

*First bit of utter crap to be spouted. Hi 2007!*
*This was a shameless ad for Strepsils.*

2006-12-28T17:27:00.000+08:00

Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you

Crowded House - Weather with You

2006-12-20T23:36:00.000+08:00

Santa Claus is coming to town? You gotta be kiddin'

Right, its the time of the year where people celebrate christmas. Its seems to me that the christmas spirit in me is slipping away slowly. I don't feel it at all this year because I'm studying for my exams that happens to be on the first day of school. Tragic isn't it? Perhaps, this feeling will be lost forever and ever and ever, until something is there to rekindle it again.

Well, to all my friends out there, Merry Christmas and take care!

Something that I got from the same website that talked about the beer and ice-cream diet. Enjoy!

Here goes:

IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?

As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from that renown scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus.

No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist cihldren, that reduces the workload to to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seemes logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once everey 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enourmous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

School of Physics, University of Sydney

2006-12-17T22:51:00.000+08:00

I want to break free

Well while going out with leo recently, i commented that it seems like people always seem to be going to the same places and doing the same stuff all the time. I mean its always either Orchard or suntec city/marina square or more recently, Vivocity...

Well to be honest i'm sure that there's a lot more stuff that people can do when they go out together.... it just that i think people have to be a lot more open and receptive and also less nua/lembeh/lazy...

Well so anyway here's some stuff you can do before your life gets completely swallowed up by your occupation as a professional exam taker...

1)Learn something new together.
Well many times learning something new costs quite a bit(like diving/wakeboarding) but there's a lot of stuff you can learn for free... like free tennis lessons;p

2)Go source out some good hawker food.
If you're like me and sick of NUH food then what you can do is buy one of em foodie guides and go try out the places in the book. Of cos some of the guides may be a bit biased so you can't have too high expectations sometimes....
But i think its really great to be able to just go out, enjoy some good(cheap) food and chill out over some sugarcane juice and talkcock....

3)Go visit the National Museum
Well i heard that it just got a multimillion dollar facelift... so i guess its def worth a second look. Besides i mean it doesnt make sense for one to visit so many museums overseas and yet not seen your own natiional museum;p

4)Go to Chinatown.
Well not only is there good cheap food at chinatown, there's quite a few good deals you can get here. Like you can get really really cheap toiletries at people's park. And if you've got weird fetishes you can buy kimonos and SIA girl kebayas for under 50 bucks at chinatown also;p
(I'm sure little Indian and Arab street are really great too, but since i dont noe much about these places i can't really reccomend you any particular places to go;p)

Well i'm kinda running out of ideas, or rather my ideas have become so bizzarre that i think most people probably wouldn't do them... but anyway if you're ever with a group of people and wondering what to do other then orchard/suntec/vivocity you can just pop by the nearest bookstore/library(not med libs pls) and go look for a travel guide to singapore. I know some of you may gauff at being a tourist in your own country but seriously peeps, there's a lot of stuff you're missing out there man haha....

2006-12-17T22:16:00.000+08:00

Sanity is Overrated

2006-12-17T13:19:00.000+08:00

Hasta la Vista Baby!

I'm sorry, but I can't help but post weird videos from youtube because I am truly bored and I'm not studying. And to all my fellow TSB mates, I'm not STEALTH MUGGING. Bloody hell.

2006-12-15T22:35:00.000+08:00

The name is Bond, James Bond.

Check this parody out. Crude, but nice. Chill and enjoy.

2006-12-15T09:16:00.000+08:00

Doctor Knows Best

My gosh, not posted for eternity, and seeing our resident mai pi gu occifer doing his part, I've been inspired to follow likewise! A long long time ago, doctors were once seen as wise men, and not just as dispensers of medicine or butchers. Can't remember where I found this, but let us all drink cold beer and eat ice cream to this! Oh, and hope that us guys will never have to be humiliated with cheerios... Small wieners... *ahem*

A doctor had the reputation of helping couples increase joy in their sex life, but always promised not to take a case if he felt he could not help them. The Browns came to see the doctor, and he gave them thorough physical exams, psychological exams, and various tests and then concluded, 'Yes, I am happy to say that I believe I can help you....On your way home from my office, stop at the grocery store and buy some grapes and some doughnuts, Go home, take off your clothes, and you, sir, roll the grapes across the floor until you hit bulls-eye in your wife's love canal. Then on hands and knees, you must crawl to her like a leopard and retrieve the grape using only your tongue....Then next, ma'am, you must take the doughnuts and from across the room, toss them at your husband until you make a ringer around his love pole. Then like a lioness, you must crawl to him and consume the doughnut.'

The couple went home and their sex life became more and more wonderful. They told their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Green, that they should go see the good doctor. The doctor greeted the Greens and said he would not take the case unless he felt that he could help them so he conducted the physical exams and the same battery of tests. Then he told the Greens the bad news. 'I cannot help you, so I will not take your money. I'm afraid your sex life is as good as it can ever be. I cannot help.' The Green's pleaded with him, and said, 'You helped our friends the Browns, now please, please help us!' 'Well, alright,' the doctor said, 'On your way home from the office, stop at the grocery store and buy some apple and a box of Cheerios......'

2006-12-15T00:59:00.000+08:00

Yoyo... check this out! Maybe the peeps out there can eat dessert and drink beer without feeling sinful anymore! I really hope this is true!

Beer and Ice Cream Diet

As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.

For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg. F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 deg. F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized. Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.

Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat,the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal. This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories (12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.

Frozen desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (i.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down.

Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.

Happy eating!

School of Physics, University of Sydney

2006-12-14T12:29:00.000+08:00

4 years!

In a bid to keep TSB alive, I have succumbed to writing crap post. I don't give a damm if anybody complains that our posts suxs (in actual fact, they do) but I'll just put up all these lousy posts anyway.

Right! Its been 4 years since I first shouted 'Yes, Platoon Sergeant!'. Woo, time really flies, and I'm already out of army and studying like a mad dick during my holidays. I say, 'What a wonderful world'.

It was nice.... *reminiscing*

2006-12-11T21:30:00.000+08:00

Quiet?

Yeah! The hols are here! But all the promises of more posts after exams and during the hols are going down the drain, why? Because, our saddistic professors have once again decided to put a bloody CA on the first day of sch. Explains, why all of us are studying right now, well, minus people who are really smart. I'm definately not one of them.

Right! Meanwhile, be contented with reading old posts and writing crap on our tagboard, which nobody writes anything anyway. HAHA!

2006-12-05T20:28:00.000+08:00

I'm Still Alive!!!

Well after nearly 1.5 months of continuous muggering and 42.195km..... im still here! Well my timing for the marathon wasn't terribly good.... unlike my dear friend QY who is now the 36th fastest marathoner in SG according to the race results.... but oh well at least i managed to finish it..... maybe next year i'll do sub 5 haha....

You noe.... when people ask me why i like to run so much... well i guess the initial reason would be to keep fit... but i guess the reason now would be more of that i just love the runners high... but then again at 32km the high sorts of turns into more like torture.... but hey pain can be pleasure right?;p

But you know those addidas ads where they get show peoples reasons for running? Well they did that this yr for the stand chart singapore marathon where they got people to write reasons for running and pin it to their backs...

Well these were some of the memorable lame/funny/weird ones i saw along the 42.195km....

1)Becos running is better then sex
Dude are you serious????

2)I forgot that i left the stove on
Ok i guess thats worth some marks for effort...

3)For the free shirt
Well thats being really honest....

4)Because im chasing (Bib No XXXX)
Well i certainly hope thats a girl(this was pinned on a guy)

5)Well it seemed like a good idea 6 months ago
Well said......

Also at the finishing line some guy actually got down on his knees to propose to his girlfriend. I noe some of you might be thinking awwww so sweet. Well i think its pretty nice too.... but seriously after the girl says yes how is he gonna have the energy(and the pain tolerance) to stand up, lift up his bride to be and swing her around?

But seriously this guy is really case of out of the fire and into the frying pan. I mean why endure 42.195kms of pain just to give yourself more pain?? Cos to be honest.... girls = pain. I mean thats just my personnal biased slightly sour grapes opinion.... but man.....

Well if i see the guy running again next year his reason would be (if he's lucky) "For my pregnant wife and my future son!!"

Or if he's unlucky..... "Because i'm running away from my wife......"

Well of cos i wish him all the best....

On just another side note..... while i was typing this the news was actually reporting about typhoon Durian. DUDE!!! typhoon DURIAN!! I mean are there really such a lack of female names???

Oh wait see?? WOMEN = PAIN. See even the meterologists felt so strongly about it that they decided to name natural disasters after women. That's why you have names like Hurricane Katrina....

2006-12-02T19:18:00.000+08:00

Safe Sex!

Its World Aids Day yesterday (1st Dec) well, if you are living on on the right of the GMT. Do read the Straits Times today for information about AIDS patients and how they are leading thier lives; and reflect how we can as normal human beings can help them feel welcome in this society.

As we all know, AIDS can be acquired directly or indirectly. And people who acquired AIDS indirectly are the ones who are most emotionally scarred. I believe we should help them overcome thier fear and also to accept them in society. Ok, I'm talking rubbish but yes, something for you... its from our favourite Huge Laurie.

Some interesting song that Huge Laurie sang, well, I guess, everything is a mystery!

2006-11-29T19:12:00.000+08:00

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny!

Hey all, sorry for disappearing on ya all for like so damn long. My life's been a roller coaster of downs and downs ... wait that didn't make much sense. To the bros and sisters givin me support many thanks!

Caught the Kino 20% off on the day exams ended and after a massive spending spree, am 2 books short of finishing my Terry Pratchett collection. Feel free to bug me for the loan of any book. Compensation of course will be demanded =P

Oh and hey pls pls do give Tenacious D in The pick of Destiny a watch. The previous statement applies only to the guys i know, cos seriously girls, you'll just walk out of the theater and be mentally scarred for life. Its amazing what guyz can subject their brains to and still come out laughing ;P Well minus a few braincells. But seriously, whats a few braincells? Sure you might miss dean's list cos of it, but hey, Tenacious D is worth it haha.

Please do not watch the following video if you are sensitive to foul language and dont want to lose a few brain cells.

Now its on to downloading Tenacious D's CD. Have fun peoples ;P

2006-11-25T22:26:00.000+08:00

Sophisticated Men

Hey...check this vid out by Hugh Laurie who acts as house. Well... I think some guys are like that...including myself! HAHA! Craps... slacking even before exams are over...holidays woooooooo Girls...give me a chance eh? Siao liao!!!!!!

2006-11-17T22:38:00.000+08:00

Police!

Woo hoo...this is one police car you wouldn't want to mess with...

CLS Rocket: 730bhp twin turbo 6.3 litre V12 engine
0 - 100 km/h - 4 seconds

Anybody want to race on the autobahn still? I hope they don't get this in Singapore.

2006-11-13T23:20:00.000+08:00

Welcome to the club Mike~~!

Right, I think chewlip was telling me that about 13 days ago and yes, I'm telling that to xueying... Welcome to the 22 club, where old men of our age start to rot and talk about the good old days when we were sooo fit, and could stay awake despite not sleeping for hours and days.

But, according to wenyang, all 22 year olds should be married, I think xy has a eligible gf waiting for him and yes, of course wenyang is getting married on 2nd feb 2008 when he turns 22 himself.

Right, as you should know by now, Tuck, Som and Bong are all 22 now...so... we need the rest to turn 22 too... so...all of us can get married right yang???

Ok, enough crap, pics for today...

Mike and his nice coffee cake!

Mike and shy fiona

And of course, how can we miss out the trio...
bobo is getting damm gay

2006-11-13T00:52:00.000+08:00

2006-11-13T00:09:00.000+08:00

Guys & Their Cars (Part I)

So what's to do on a Saturday night, when the moon shines bright in the clear blue sky and all is bright and gay? Well, much as I'd like to say pak tor with Mel, she's still stuck in Melbourne for the nonce and only returns Thursday... Boohoohoo...

Anyway, after going nuts singing K-box at Serene's place, we decided to play deviants of society. Were we criminals? I think not... After all, my friend does live in a sweet area with lots of neighbours with nice cars. Wait, let me amend that to ONE neighbour with nice cars. For his privacy's sake, I won't disclose such a car haven, but mark my words: It is SUH-WEET!

I love this guy's cars; he has all the high-end models which I yearn to drive along the surreal European countryside. And no, it's not my darling mid-range Lancer Evo which SOME SAY are for ah-bengs. It's the Lamborghinis... Check them out people. (Oh, and for the more traditional folk, there's the Rolls hehe...)

P.S. At no time whatsoever was a single finger laid upon any cars in the making of this blog post. Ergo, no cars were harmed by our grubby hands. We just went there to drool from afar. Respect other people's property!

Leo, Mike, Sam & I drooling over the Gallardo Spyder

The Rolls-Royce Phantom, I wouldn't mind being chauffeured in this

Right, that's all for now folks. Stay tuned for Guys & Their Cars (Part II) in then next few days. Sorry, this chap's has to buckle down again for another round of hardcore mugging.

2006-11-10T00:31:00.000+08:00

I'm Tired

From the old days, by the better half of oasis

2006-11-09T01:38:00.000+08:00

Nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be this hard

You know, at greyhound races, they have this mechanical rabbit which the dogs chase around the track. The thing is that no matter how hard the dog runs, he never quite seems to be able to ever get it....

Kinda like a horse and a carrot on a stick... no matter how hard the horse gallops, the carrot will always be a few feet from it....

Perhaps some things are just not meant to be...

But on another note... why the hell do they bother listing malaise as a sypmtom for viral infections? I mean malaise just means generally not feeling well, which means that every damn patient that steps into your consultation room is gonna have it...

Unless you some how get a patient like this..

Doctor: So how are we today?

Patient: Well ive been having high fever and sore throat for the past few days, and i have this incredibly itchy rash all over my body, but other then that, i feel absolutely GREAT!!!

right.....

2006-11-07T19:58:00.000+08:00

Narcissism

Yes, yes, I know bloggers are kind of narcissistic but sometimes we don't really love all the attention but being a true narcissist(freakin hell lot of Ss), and I chanced upon a book that spells my name on it and yes, I'm proud to relate myself to the book even though its not even about me. But who cares? Its just about Leonard. What the heck. Check this out.

Yes, I'm sure all of you want this book.

When did I become a mafia boss?
I could be one...

2006-11-05T22:03:00.000+08:00

I know it.

I know it that I will fail when I went out with friends who are not taking exam any sooner and watched this movie called the grudge 2 and was laughing thru out the movie because I felt scared by the bluish ghost who can meow.

I know it that I will fail when I almost fell asleep watching the grudge 2.

I know it that I will fail when I started watching 微笑 pasta tonight and kinda felt that 王心凌 is cute.

Time for neuroscience man.

2006-11-05T18:44:00.000+08:00

You know it

You know that you are going to fail your exams when you post an entry on the blog 2 days before your paper.

You know that you are going to fail your exams when you go driving with a friend at 11pm 3 days before your paper.

You know that you are going to fail your exams when you floor the accelerator when the traffic light turns green to see how fast your car reaches 100km/h.

You know that you are going to fail your exams when you fake the security guard of a condo just go get in to check out the lambos, ferraris and rolls royce.

You know that you are going to fail your exams when you walk around aimlessly around in the house telling yourself you have retro-orbital pain.

You know that you are going to fail your exams when you sleep too much on a sunday.

You know that you are going to fail your exams when you are still looking at cars 2 days before your exams. Check these hot rods out, they rock big time.

Don't worry, I'm sure none of you guys did all these. Because, if you did, you will fail your exams like me? haha

All the best M2s...

2006-11-04T00:43:00.000+08:00

Of Balls And Brains (just for laughs, jangan tension people!)

Joe was a successful lawyer but he was increasingly hampered by incredible headaches. When his career and love life started to suffer, he sought medical help. After being referred from one specialist to another, he finally came across an old country doctor who solved the problem.

"The good news is that I can cure your headaches...The bad news is that it will require castration. You have a very rare condition, which causes your testicles to press up against the base of your spine, and the pressure creates a terrible headache. The only way to relieve the condition is to remove your testicles."

Joe was shocked and depressed. He wondered whether he had anything to live for. He couldn't even concentrate long enough to answer his own question, but decided he had no choice but to go under the knife.

When he left the hospital after the surgery he was without a headache for the first time in 20 years, but he also felt like he was missing an important part of himself.

As he walked down the street, he realised that he felt like a different person. He could make a new beginning and live a new life.

He saw a men's clothing store and thought, "That's what I need...a new suit." He entered the shop and told the salesman, "I'd like a new suit", and pointed one out.

The elderly tailor eyed him briefly and said, "Let's see... size 44, long."

Joe laughed, "That's right, how did you know?"

"Been in the business 60 years." Joe tried on the suit and it fitted him perfectly.

As Joe admired himself, the salesman said, "How about a new shirt?"

Joe thought for a moment then said, "Sure."

The salesman eyed Joe, and said, "34 sleeve and a 16 1/2 neck."

Joe was surprised, "That's right, how did you know?"

"Been in the business 60 years."

Joe tried on the shirt, and it fitted perfectly.

As Joe adjusted the collar in the mirror, the salesman said, "How about some new shoes?"

Joe was on a roll and said, "Sure."

The salesman eyed Joe's feet, and said, "Let's see 91/2 E."

Joe was astonished, "How did you know?"

"Been in the business 60 years."

Joe tried on the shoes and they fitted perfectly.

As Joe walked comfortably around the shop, the salesman said, "How about some new underwear?"

Joe was on a roll and said, "Sure.

The salesman stepped back, eyed Joe's waist and said, "Let's see...size 36."

Joe laughed, "Ah ha. I got you with this one! I've been wearing size 34 since I was 18 years old."

The salesman shook his head and tutted, "No, no, Sir, you can't wear size 34. Size 34 underwear would press your testicles up against your spine and give you a terrible headache."

2006-11-03T01:41:00.000+08:00

2006-11-03T00:54:00.000+08:00

Studying for CAs

Yes, I have just turned 22, and yes, if you ask Yang what I should be doing right not at 22 years old, and his answer will be 'Get married'. So when Yang turns 22 on 2 Feb 2008, he better get married, if not, we will all get him...

Right, studying for the CAs, although I should be studying harder instead of blogging here and showing all the weird pics that I have taken in the past one to two weeks. Well, weird things have been happening and I just pray that weird things like me getting all As for my CAs would happen too! But we all know, its not possible. Here goes:

Well, some people are really shy to take pics, I don't know why, but yeah, we should all be living shamelessly!

Our Towkay is shy?? WTH??

Aileen hiding away from the cam, but look! Someone is trying to pose in the pic...but who wants to take a picture of her?

But, when someone did want to take a pic of her.......

For some people who shamelessly live on this world, check out the man in red.

I'm sure we had enough of Gollem from LOTR

Some other random weird crap I found in the library and while going home.

I'm sure one day, immunology will be made memorable
and live in my dreams forever... like a nightmare...
Doesn't help when weili was holding on to this book..haha

Getting stuck or Lornie Road on 74 because of a bloody tree on my bday??
Luckily, I had Jp to save me..

I forgotten why I took this....but anyway..

2006-11-02T01:18:00.000+08:00

Return of the Jedi

Well well although it technically isnt the 1st of nov anymore.... happy bdae som! I hope u liked the shoes(heel and toe time!) and the cake that we got you. Choosing both were incredibly easy cos i've always known what your fav colour was, but i almost ended up getting u the coffee cake but JP wanted choc so sorry bout that haha.....

Well CAs are next week(for the m2s anyway.... its 1 month away for the m1s), and we all know what that means. Thats right, it's Mating season!! HOO!!

Everytime exams start to get close, people start to stay back late in school to study together... and thats when wonderful wonderful oppurtunites arise for people to get to know each other better in b/w debating about whether IgM opsonises. As my other half of Wenling says, "This is the time where everybody chee hong(girls included haha)". Of cos saying this i would like to state that i've been studying with guys ONLY all this while... so don't start creating scandals for me haha.....

Cos you noe during the exams, everyones all so stressed...... people start to get tired/lonely/sian/emotional........
people start becoming really really siao(aunite honlyn if you wanna throw peanuts can go zoo.... pls don't bully me *sniff sniff*)
people also start becoming cranky and start snapping at people for small things....

So with the limbic centre so actively functioning.... its no wonder that certain primal needs start to surface.... but as Triple H says "Don't hate the player! Hate the game!!!"

So guys, if you wanna go and chee hong girls, go equip yourself with useful sounding bit of info or better still use scare tactics. Like "Neutrophils have Fc receptor for IgG!!" or "CRP and Lectin opsonises bacteria!!" or "Antibody heavy chain got carbohydrate!!!"

So when u tell these to girls they will think that you are damn smart and will ask you to help them..... which gives you a few minutes to flirt with them until they finally realise you noe nothing and you're just full of shit haha.....

Cofm and NS in 6 more days..... better start preparing your dry ice/firewood for that day... Hopefully the haze is not gonna be too bad that day..... if not visibility in the exam hall is gonna be damn poor haha......

Note: All of the above are purely hypothetical thoughts/observations of others and are in no ways praticed by the authour=)

2006-10-31T02:40:00.000+08:00

Podcasts and scare tactics

Well haven't been blogging for really quite a bloody long time.... for the past few weeks it seems that i can't look at a stray dog without thinking "Impending sense of DOOM!!"or look at chiara without thinking of adenoviruses and echoviruses;p

But seriously, i think people are really getting more and more scary man.... for some reason it seems to me that people are studying more for the CAs then for last yrs pros...

Admittedly it may seem that m2 ought to be harder cos we now have 6 tracks..... but still.... seeing people stay back in the library EVERYDAY until the libs closes at 10 ONE MONTH b4 the CAs is still scary.... i guess last yrs... oh wait last academic yrs events kinda scared a lot of people(thx arh picket fence model....)

Of cos i admit that i'm one of the chao muggers also... but then again i have to cos i have the memory capacity of a goldfish.... you noe why goldfishes cant live in glass bowls too small to even fit a packet of maggi mee? Thats cos they have a memory of 3 secs... so by the time they swim to the other end of the bowl they forget where they are liao... so suddenly its a whole new world for them to explore again!!

But seriously... all this mugging is really starting to make me feel the burnout.... so ive come up wif a list of things you can do to destress while studying in the libs.....

1) Go to the 20cent vending machine.
I mean not that i'm that giam siap(ok actually i am) but the walk back and fro can be pretty nice if your head is about to explode from conflicting immunology info from different textbooks....

2) Go look for Sterling
When Prof S Tay said that sterling is a charismatic doctor.... he was underestimating his witty charm..... so go look for him for your daily dose of crap;p

3) Walk to Co-op(office hrs)/NUH 7-11(night time)
Well you can never underestimate the power of retail therapy.... im sure the girls will agree wif me on this one haha...

4) Find some friends and go to the student lounge to look at the mednet galleries together

5)Read this blog in the library
Warning extremely encphalotoxic

6)Attempt to "Sell yourself to the vending machine" in exchange for a free drink

7)Try the new tapoica chips in the vending machine that everyone seems to be so damn bloody crazy about....

8)Go NUH and search for the hallowed secret 10cent vending machine..... which is rumored to be on the 5th floor.... imagine the light shining down on the machine and the music playing in the background if you manage to find it.....

Ok i guess there's a lot of crap u can do while studying... but thats up to your imagination.... but if your really really really bored u can look for me and ill see if im in the mood to bring u to my fav place in med fac haha....

2006-10-30T23:05:00.000+08:00

Car of the month for Oct!

Right...Oct is coming to an end and its the start of a new month and hell, my first CAs! Right, who cares bout bogey-1 who conveniently forgotten about us when she saw some handsome guy standing at Row 10 of Terminal One Changi Airport! We all know, how 'chee ko' she can be, ain't it my fellow brudders?

Right, back on to the Car of the month, and without consulting any of my brothers because its my dad's birthday tomorrow and the car featured here is his favourite car (one of them at least), but something I wish he can buy right now to satisfy my hunger for a car to drive to school!

Yes, its none other than the Volvo S80. Its brand new and hell, its pretty. I know you guys must be thinking, hell to it. Low resale value and stuff like that, but hey, you buy a car to sell it away after 3 years or you buying it to drive? I know a BMW may sound more worth it, but hell, personally, I don't really like the 'empty' feeling of the BMW plastic and the lousy clicking noise of the door closing. So... yes, the volvo looks gd, feels gd. Check it out baby..

Happy Birthday Dad! Although, he doesn't read this blog, but yes, I'll buy one for him one day when I earn my first pay. My mum too!

It ain't the nicest, but it still looks gd.

2006-10-30T13:06:00.000+08:00

Vertigo

It weighs heavily upon me

Holding this terrible burden
A dusty relic
Torture from the distant past.
Every step.

Made in bitter agony.
I cannot go on.
Carrion birds circle above
Rid me of my terrible curse.
Offer me sanctuary and help me
Burn this damn Textbook!

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2006-10-29T21:00:00.000+08:00

TSB & Friends REJECTED

Yes... Read the headlines my friends, this is ground-breaking news. We’ve been rejected; ergo unwanted, discarded, cast-off, abandoned, stood-up, need I say it? PANG SEH-ED. By whom you ask? Who could affect our mood so? There can only be one... Before I go into details, allow me to relate the flow of events that led to this disastrous state of affairs (5 guys sulking is really a hard thing to bear):

Leo pissed off; Ronnie looks on in fear

It all began on an easy-going Saturday morning, when the world was sunny and gay... Ah Tan and Ah Chen were in the library studying together. Misery and the sad drabness of their lives cast a shroud of darkness over the beautiful sky, and microbiology threatened to overwhelm their last vestige of hope.

Recruit Chen, Tell me, WTF is this a sausage fest?

Then, Ah Tan came up with an idea! “Ah Chen... Lim-peh feeling very angsty now, I see all the microbes ah... All I can think of is STD hor... Makes me want to tock diao leh... Wah lau, buay tahan already. Let’s go jio people go supper!”

Ronnie's smiling but he's actually crying, look at the puffy eyes... Bogey-1!!! You made Ronnie cry!!!

So Ah Tan and Ah Chen went around and asked all the M2s they saw in the library, “Tonight Swenson’s onz or not? Chong studies until seh tiao, then go hantum the ice cream there?”

"but I didn't wanna eat with you guys..."

Unanimously, all our brothers agreed! SONG BO! But then we hit our first line of resistance, when we asked two zhar bos to join us: They were Aileen and (so as not to breach she-who-must-not-be-named’s privacy) Bogey-1. Well, Aileen declined on valid grounds, so that was a sort of suck-thumb situation for us.

Si buay buay song

Bo cannot our company alone, what does he do?

So he plugs in...

But oh man, Bogey-1 set our expectations up with a YES! Bogey-1 had a prior operation at a Changi and would’ve been in the vicinity. So we thought we would have a council of Six for that night! Plus I was supposed to be qia-ed for providing Intelligence for Bogey-1’s operation. BOGEY-1!!! BILA ANDA MAU BELANJAH SAYA?

This was supposed to be my treat sniff...

Looks good right? Sigh... Bogey-1 tak sayang mereka!

What do I got to do, to make you love me? What do I gotta do, to make you care? What do I say when it’s all over? Boohoohoo... As my dear readers have seen by now, my brothers and I were devastated. I'm sorry, but I must discontinue here... I'm still too stunned by the tragic turn of events.

2006-10-24T19:41:00.000+08:00

Adventures of the TSB & Friends (minus & Friends regrettably...)

A standard Monday morning, in a standard library, surrounded by the standard paraphernalia, studying with some not-so-standard friends...

Photowhore that I am...

An example of my not-so-standard friends

Thus began my day on the eve of Hari Raya (and here’s wishing all my Muslim friends a Selamat Hari Raya!).

Mugging hardcore through the day (or so we like to claim), it seemed fitting to reward ourselves with a one-times-good-one outing to celebrate this auspicious season. Why do I say auspicious? Cause I am forbidden under pain of death to speak of certain issues. Well, moving on...

'Good' CHEAP food (hark the cheap... chao giam siap)

A hungry student is an angry student, and seeing my brothers were going to splurge on other foodstuff, or more like liquid food, we chose Long John Silver’s over Burger King. I much rather have spent an extra buck at BK for much more satisfactory food personally, seeing I’m the only chao neh-neh who doesn’t indulge! Plus, since time immemorial, Yours Truly is the TSB's de facto chauffeur.

Of course, going by the looks of it, we must have been really angsty/hungry dudes

Right... Enough with the preliminaries, onto the MEN’S stuff. What attracts young ‘uns with a little bit of mulah to spend? Happy Hour, a.k.a. Beer, beer, and more beer. This was our primary objective of todays mission: Paulaner Brauhaus Happy Hour! The following captions say it all...

All ye maggots, 'tis will be the last moments before you're laid out on the floor!

Mike's living it up

For the sake of my brothers, I shan't show the sequelae of too much beer. Cheers!

2006-10-22T17:46:00.000+08:00

Appreciate

I guess our readers are used to me writing serious stuff everytime I post something on this blog. I guess I'm the resident angst writer. I guess a series of events last week allowed someone to sent a stirrer into my pool of emotional shit and tempted me to start stirring once again making me highly melancholic. Right, not to mention the boring weekends! But, no worries my friends. I'm alright.

Well, I was reflecting a lot the past week and I felt that there are some people in our society that are really under-appreciated. I guess my close peers would know who I am referring to. Yes, I am referring to the cleaners, construction workers, garbage collectors, etc.

Have you wondered, without all these people your toilets will never be clean, your tables in the food courts will never be cleared, your garbage filled up to the brim and having no houses to stay in.

Yet, we discriminate against them. We think that they are dirty, uneducated, uncouth, basically the scum of society. But then think again, would you want to clean the table at the food centre after eating your meal? I mean, why families go to the food court / food centres for meals is that nobody is required to clean up the plates and leftover food later. Imagine having to bring your garbage to the dumping ground yourself, having to put the garbage in your car and then transporting it yourself.

Construction workers? Build the house yourself?? haha...

So, next time when you see them on the buses and trains, they may stink but they do the stuff that you wouldn't want to do. Maybe its only right that you stand up and offer them your seat. Studying is definately easier on your body than working out in the hot sun the whole day. Guys who went thru NS should know that digging holes ain't easy at all.. HAHA

Right..

2006-10-21T11:54:00.000+08:00

Life is good, drink beer..

Cheers!
Yang =)

2006-10-21T00:55:00.000+08:00

The Story Game

Right... What do 3 sickos do in a boring COFM visit to the illustrious Health Promotion Board? We play primary school games: THE STORY GAME. Sad thing is, 20 (and 22, some lau jiao so old still want to play... tsk tsk) years of life in this corrupt world is enough to pollute our formerly innocent minds.

We warily present the results of our half-hearted attempts at creativity on a sleepy Thursday afternoon. Please note these stories are only for our most DEDICATED and TWISTED readers. If you read this and cry out, “LAME” that’s because it probably is. So please, read only if you understand the detriment these anecdotes of TSB & Friends pose to your IQ.

Presenting the Wong Brothers:

Long before your time, in the Southern province of China, there lived the Wong brothers... Janus Wong, Leonard Wong, and JP Wong (certain names have been changed to protect their identities). Not forgetting the youngest brother, Wong Wenyang. Why mention Wenyang separately? Because he is the MAN! So... They are one happy family! =)

But they all had one thing in common; a deep, dark-seated secret too shameful to voice out. It’s about Janus Wong... Janus Wong had a weird habit: He scratches his butt 3 times daily. He has a compulsive tendency to do it, if he doesn’t, he will get pissed off and start to morph into a butterfly?!?!? And start dancing around in the room. I mean, nobody knows why, but we know he is weird! Kan... Not very weird right... The weird thing is, his butt must be scratched by his 3 brothers! So, once a day, each of the other brothers scratch his butt...

Then one day, the 3 brothers decided they didn’t want to be shameful anymore... They wanted to be shameless! So they set up a GS table and hatched a daring plan. The plan is to... Buy him an automatic scratcher! Oh my god! But we know Janus doesn’t like it plastic, he needs an ‘organic’ touch to his butt.

Anyway, over the hills and far away, Janus Wong comes out to play. Janus toast, Janus custard. Right...

Janus tried rubbing his butt on the soil! Organic enough? Alas... It wasn’t. He still desired the feel-good factor of his brothers’ nails on his ass. Soil just lacked the personal touch to it. So he decided to catch a rabbit, and forced the rabbit to scratch... But we all know THAT IT’S GETTING NOWHERE!

He tried many other methods to get his relief but to no avail. So one day, he decided to check some medical journals to find out about his condition. Lancet, BMJ, NEJM, and finally, in the Journal of Butt Scratching he found his cure! The earthworm is good at treating his disease.

So how is the earthworm good? It’s so slimy... Cannot scratch lah... But it still works! Because you don’t let the earthworm scratch you... You put it in the...

MOUTH! Lil’ Janus put the 蚯蚓 into his mouth, and suffered diarrhoea from the Salmonella typhi coated on the earthworm. Shit kept coming out so often, and his kar cheng hurt so bad, that he lost all desire to scratch.

The End. Right... You buggers who’ve read till here want to cheer that’s it’s over? I tell you nooooo... THERE’S MORE.

Presenting our Health Hypothesis:

It is said that females live longer than males. Their hair is longer than males too... Which leads us to the NYGH theory as to why women live longer than men: Early exposure in teenage boys’ years to the long armpit hair of NY girls caused their eyes to kena mak chiam. Mak chiam reminds me of MG! Well, it may remind some people of MG. We cannot escape the fact that exposure to armpit hair is both direct and indirect.

Directly, the hair is soooo long that it pokes and damages the retina. Yes, the retina. I’m not joking. I suppose when people look at girls bathing they kena mak chiam also is most probably due to long armpit hair attacking the retinas of the 色狼s...

Therefore, we have come up with a proposed SOP to LAGs (Long-haired Armpit Girls): If LAGs must insist on wearing sleeveless tops, it should be mandatory that they shave. The HPB has further advised the distribution of Gilette shavers to facilitate the shift from the contemplative phase to the action phase.

So where’s the money for Gilette shavers coming from? JP of course! =) Thanks JP! All the girls love JP... Right, right, he is sponsoring a Lancer Evo IX for the girl who shaves the armpit in the shortest time. But waxing and screaming loudly is strictly not allowed. Sia lah... Let’s put an earthworm into JP’s mouth!

The End. AND THANKFULLY SO. The last part was written by the two other BUGGERS who totally deviated from the NYGH Theory sniff... Money doesn’t grow on my hairs I keep telling you all! Terrible man, just terrible... Anyway, to sum it up, I thank those super hardcore fans who’ve read this far, I’m going to sleep.

2006-10-17T22:45:00.000+08:00

Somebody-In-A-Skirt
Sorry for late post hur hur, had to dig up the cable.

2006-10-16T21:35:00.000+08:00

Pick Up Lines

Gawd pick up lines, I mean like seriously who actually uses them? Well apart from causing people to keel over with laughter... wait that just might work. Anyway yours truly happens to have a few up his sleeve and chances are if you actually quoted some of them you would get your sorry ass slapped from here to pluto. So avoid these at all times!

Worst Pick Up Lines Ever!

0. If I could rearrange the alphabet I would put U and I together.
1. OMG! Are you okay?!? It must have been such a long fall from heaven!
2. Hi my name is Medicus-Guber! Can I buy you a drink or do you just want the money?
3. Do you have a mirror in your pants? Cos I can see myself in them.
4. *Lick finger and put on targets shirt* Hey let me help you out of those wet clothes.
5. Do you believe in love at first sight? Or do I have to walk by you again?
6. I not feeling like myself today. Can I feel you instead?
7. Hi my name is (Insert name here). Remember it cos you'll be screaming it later.
8. Hi my bed is broken. Can I sleep in yours?
9. Hi my name is Fred Flintstone and I sure can make your Bed Rock!
10. I may not be the best girl/guy here, but notice I'm the only one thats talking to you.

I will not accept any responsibility for what happens to you if you actually quote one of these lines, but if by some miracle you get attached to the girl of your dreams, please do feel free to make a sizable donation to the medical bill of the sorry sod that actually quotes one of these ;P

2006-10-15T20:35:00.000+08:00

Pick up

Right, call me a mugger toad (when did toads get associated with muggers?) if you want, but yes, i was in school with Jp studying in the lib. Not surprisingly, there were many other M2s in the libs studying thier asses off on a lonely saturday. My life is getting lousy, help me get out of this viscious cycle of studying.

Anyway, after having lunch, Chiara went to the toilet and came back with an interesting piece of paper many of us would have seen in the toilet and I gladly brought it home thinking that I might use it one day in my sad lonely life. Its actually a piece of A4 paper with strips cut out at the sides and type-written on it extremely corny pick up lines and the instruction says:

" See someone you fancy?
Find it hard to speak to her / him?
Tear out these little slips of paper
Ask them out to RingaFling "

Anyway, what the hell is a RingaFling? Please enlighten me if anybody knows... but anyways here are 2 of them, I'll add in somemore some other time for us desperate single guys out there (:

- If you were the new burger at McDonalds you would be called Mcgorgeous!

- Do you have any raisins? No? How about a date?

I hope you guys don't get a slap or a ridiculous laugh from the girl you are using these lines on... lol

2006-10-15T16:13:00.000+08:00

Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Innocent sounding title yes. Well thats all part of the plan. Not too sure how many of you folks out there watch Southpark. Yes yes I know, all of you happy Scrubs + House + Prison Break + Lost downloaders out there already have enough shows to watch but seriously what would another 20minutes of pure entertainment do to your mugging schedule? ;P With great fanfare an aplomb I present to you www.allsp.com, which shows not just 1, not 2, but all 10 seasons of Southpark. Do I hear OMG? Yes thats right folks all 10 seasons of Southpark! And if for some strange odd reason you havent watched Southpark the movie, I just so happen to know where to get it too.

I guess there might be something mildly disturbing about 3rd Graders, thats primary 3 to us (I think...) running around screaming vulgarities and yet seeing Kenny getting killed in every single episode never fails to bring a smile to my face. Poor Kenny, he's been killed by terrorists, shot by american fighter planes, killed via falling of a cliff, sacrificed himself in worship of David Blaine, exploded via spontanious combustion, puked his guts (literally) for saying "Shit" too many times (dont ask ... long story, well in a jist Shit is really a curse word, and saying "shit" too many times invokes a curse that heralds the end of the world), and well the list goes on. And yes yours truly identifies totally with Cartman, who staunchly defends the fact that he is not fat, just big boned...

Just doing my lil bit to keep you guys from going crazy. Take a break already! ;P

2006-10-13T22:09:00.000+08:00

Study

*To the ladies whom I totally respect: This post is for fun, if you at any point in time feel insulted, please stop reading, but being women, we all know you won't really heed this advice and continue reading. No complaints from you all. Only nice words. Thanks.

Apparently, the latest craze in town is mugging (think books please). I mean I've never seen so many people mugging in the library before. Could it be that it derives soo much pleasure that it keeps people glued to the chair and books for hours and hours. Its scary to even think about it.

I mean, people are recording thier voices down into thier mp3 players (labelling it with codes like 听妈妈的话 when they are actually listening to themselves chanting out chapters from Mama Robbins, well, what more can we say?) and reading notes of other subjects (talk about multi-tasking). I'm sure there are other ways people are doing these weird stuff. Well, to get my Lancer Evo IX, I've decided not to study and fail my CAs so I can get retained. But who cares when JP buys me my car? I mean its worth the wait, at least I won't be feeling as miserable right now.

Ahh...lets get back to the actual thing that I've wanted to say, and that is to conduct a study for the sole purposes of writing a book. Well, Suriya, my fellow engineer gave me an idea today, that is to observe the women (or would girls be more appropriate) around us and write a book about girls. I mean, thats a great idea, kudos to Suriya, I hope he reads this article, because I'm eternally greatful to him.

I mean, its definately beneficial to all men that these creatures that landed themselves on Earth many thousands of years back and created misery for all men because they tempted the hearts of men and made them all evil. Setting a thousand ships, getting killed in battle, braving arrows and hearts, its women who caused men to fight against one another, made us talk in the toilet and tearing the only fabric that supports this society. Terrible, understand?

Well, as a good student of COFM who never does his tutorials and copies all of them, I'll be setting out to do a cohort study where I don't give a damm bout the person time, who leaves and who enters at what time, because these girls stay in the same LT and they just create trouble for men in the LT..maybe to men outside too... Of cuz, I need suriya's help. We will be bringing a tape recorder around and then we will tape down whatever we observe.

Recording Example 1:"3rd time visiting store, pick up the same pink brooch, placed it back, picked it up again..turn around..jump twice...smiled..laughed, deep though, turned to friend.. smiled and then put brooch back AGAIN. Walk away... Oh no, they are back at the store for the 4th time in 2 mins, this time she picks it up..and looks at it wantonly... puts it back down and walks back into the LT... Wait, she turns back and pick it up again!! Ahhhhh, I'm not doing this anymore!!!"

Recording Example 2: "Likes to step on shoes."

Recording Example 3: "Smiling to herself for the 10th time during lecture"

Well, I mean, its gonna be based on a cohort and all we need is just ONE girl and we will make a decision to put it as our study. Who cares about its accuracy? But we all know...that its TRUE. With absolutely not SD, SE or whatever and whatever test you use, paired, unpaired, mann-whitely, Leonard's test, wenbo's test. It will all be accurate to the MEAN.

Right...enough crap.... Study time and women..they make me miserable. Although I like women.. haha... see...they are the trouble!!! CHOU

2006-10-13T19:15:00.000+08:00

Ahaaa Give me one bottle Mineral Water

Check out this post on Wikipedia about Hand Gestures. My favourite ones are the "Tsk-Tsk" sign and of cos everyone's favourite, The Finger.... pretty useful if u ever need to enchance non-verbal communication...

And have you ever wondered what the hell all those army dudes are thinking when they do the weird hand signals? Well here's a guide....
Military Hand Signals

And here's a hand signal guide about Guding Vehicles..... i'm sure Som will remember this haha....

And since i'm touching upon the topic of army.... here's something all you buggers ahould look at...

The SAF Medical Corps Song!!!

Now its doesnt matter if you're ORD or disruptee, cos most likely we're all gonna be MOs next time hehe.... and be sure to download the MP3 of the song... oh and if you're a girl this is also a great chance for you to hear an example of an army song if you've never heard one b4 haha....

2006-10-09T22:28:00.000+08:00

Sakit Gila

Yon know, my friend yang always bitches that 22 is like damn old liao(got meh??) and that i should be getting married liao.... thats why i'm now waiting for yang's wedding dinner on 2nd feb 2008 when he turns 22.....

But the thing is, getting married in SG is no big joke man. I'm not talking about finding your ideal partner/the one or all that romantic related crap, but the fact that it's just so darnnn bloody friggin expensive. How ex? Well lemme give u an idea....

HOUSE
Ok most impt of all is buying a new home. The 2 of you being newlyweds, you'll probably be bonking each other as much as possible, and doing it in either parent's houses isn't very fun unless u like your parents to be hearing weird noises from the bedroom....

Well lets say you or your spouse come from a well heeled family who can give u some financial backing. If you wanted to stay in lets say..... a 3 room condo apartment..... that would set you back minimum $800 000.... and if you wanted to stay on landed property, thats at least 1 million..... considering a downpayment of 10%, thats like $80k-$100k instantly.....

So for most people you'll prob get government property, which means HDB or EC(Executive condominums). Not only are these cheaper, but you can get loans and grant for them, which definitely saves you quite a bit i would say....
But lets say u getting an executive apartment in woodlands, thats about $350 000.... i'm not sure if the the HDB grant or housing loan covers the downpayment.... but anyway if it doesnt, thats 35k for the roof over yer heads. Of cos you can't be making love on the floor all the time, so renovations and furnishings/appliances will set you back at least $5k. So thats $40 000 bucks for the home.

CAR
Well some might argue that this is optional, but to be realistic, having a car can make life a whole lot easier, both for getting to and fro from work and going to east coast park to make out. And lets face it man, with girls nowadays being so pampered(and some guys also), you gonna be looking at divorce papers from her lawyer if u don't get a decent ride to ferry her around in. Economically speaking, you can get a Toyota Altis for about $45k, and 10% of that is $4500.....

Wedding/Honeymoon
Well if you're in medicine, there's a high chance you'll be getting "jiggy wif it" with another tabib, despite what some say about not "eating and shitting in your own backyard". Let's face it man.... being medical students/docs you don't really get to interact with people from other facs, and even if u have a "hey hey" outside of med.... maintaining the relationship ain't gonna be easy, esp after houseman starts;p

But anyway my point is that professionals marrying professionals = 龙纵(long zong,grand) wedding, well most of the time anyway. But this will prob mean that at least either side of the families parents will want a big scale 5 star wedding at somewhere like The Fullerton or The Ritz Carlton.

Now saying this i actually feel that The Fullerton isn't that worth it. I mean the ballroom is like damn grand and nice but at the end of the day.... the ballroom is in the freaking basement. And the windows open out onto street level.... not terribly grand unless you have a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themed wedding and the ballroom is a secret base in the sewers....
I'll rather much have my wedding at somewhere unique and special.... like Sentosa.... of cos now that i've said this some of u buggers will prob be stealing my idea 9 yrs down the road=p thank goodness i've got other tricks up my sleeves haha.....

But anyway a table at the Ritz or Fullerton will set you back minimum $1000 - $1200 per table, so if you get 20 tables(10 per side enuff?) thats mimimum $20k liao..... of cos you'll be able to recuperate some of the cost from the ang bao.... but not everyone is that generous=) So anyway let's assume you get back 60%... so thats $4000 for the wedding night alone.

Now since you'll be wanting to do the horizontal tango in exotic places, that means a honeymoon is in order. Lets say you both go on a 1 week europe trip and stay in nice hotels(it's a damn noneymoon for goodness sake.... don't tell me you wanna backpack and bone each other in hostels), plane tickets(and airport tax) about 3k, lodging another 1k plus, food maybe $700, shopping money for the lady.... all inclusive i'll say a honeymoon would set you back about $6k to $8k.....

So wedding plus honeymoon..... thats $12 000, and that's not even including misc fees like wedding photo taking.....

So that brings us to a grand total of......

$40000(home) + $4500(car) + $12000(wedding)= $57 500(highly optimistic number)

Of cos personally i believe that since you only get married once in your life(ok ok i now thats not true in this age anymore but indulge the romantic in me for a while haha), you should just spend as much within your means and make your wedding as memorable as possible.....

So my advice is..... if you find someone you really really really like hold on to her/him like crazy and never ever let go...... and oh yeah start saving too=p

PS: I believe in planning ahead but i'm NOT that crazy to think about such stuff on my own... the only reason why such stuff in on my mind is cos i've been listening to my elder bro talk to my mom about marriage stuff.....

2006-10-08T17:27:00.000+08:00

Alamak!!

Haiyo, why did the haze miraculously improve? I was gonna sell all of you N95 masks at $5 a pop once the school week started =(. Not my fault I happen to have a few extras lying around from my CSFC (its the bit after m2 but b4 m3) posting at SGH. Then the stoopid PSI reading had to fall from 150 to a measly 27. Zzzz I mean if it had fallen to 100 then maybe I could have sold them at $2.50 or somethin, at 27 PSI??? Whose gonna wanna buy them? I mean all they do is make you look funny and get wierd looks on the streets ... hrm then again if I wear my Oakley Visor (a momento which I keep from my M113 operating days) and the damn N95, I could probably rob a bank to make up for the loss in income. Then again I dont have a gun to ... nvm, everybody in the bank will probably be rolling so badly with laughter I wont even be needing the gun...

So anyway, dudes and dudettes, do this poor medstudent a favour and if you hear news that a bank was robbed by a visually impaired dirt-biker/tanker with respiratory problems, pretend you didnt hear anything yeah?

2006-10-08T14:05:00.000+08:00

I can see clearly now the haze is gone(for now anyway)

Sorry for the long hiatus, but for the past few weeks my life has pretty much being travelling（千里之外）, mugging, more travelling（万里之外）, running and more mugging..... and in b/w any of those periods im pretty much quite brain dead...

But after so bloody long the haze seems to be getting slightly better, at least comparitively with yesterdays frickin PSI of 150.... it's like so many people are either falling sick or having their sinuses killed by the damn haze.....

But i'm sure there are some people who are more affected by others...... like for example the DHL balloon at bugis.... i'm pretty sure there's not going to be much to see(or breathe) for that matter when u get up there....

Also i'm sure that a some ant-chemical warfare units in the SAF are swearing and cursing about the the haze right now....

Officer: Good morning gentlemen..... seems like quite a hazy day today..... you know what that means?

Voice from platoon: Sir! Cancel training sir!

Officer: Cancel training your head lah! No....... in order to protect your health.... from today onwards everyday is mask day! You guys will do everything everyday in your masks.... from 5BX to SOC.... in fact now that i think about it that the cookhouse also seems quite hazy.....

Platoon: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Of cos on the other end of the spectrum i'm sure many people are profiteering from the haze.... like the respiratologists and the ENT specialists of cos.... laughing all the way to the bank..... and prob also the face mask manufacturers.... and maybe even the car workshops....

Mechanic: Eh Mr Lim! Eh now arh.... the haze veli bad you noe..... driving cannot see clearly liao! But wait! I give you special deal on the xenon headlight.... turn on liao can shine until Malaysia one! Drive in haze surely no problem liao!!

Lol ok but anyway here's the MTV of the song i've been listening to ever since i heard Ryan"費玉清" Tan sing it at KTV.....

周杰倫 - 千里之外 (Featuring 費玉清)

so near yet so far..... will the chronic inflammation ever heal?.....
or will it turn into cancer?=p

2006-10-07T11:46:00.000+08:00

The Haze

I think some good movie producers or script writers out there might want to write a script or produce a film titiled 'THE HAZE'. The haze itself is scary, it strikes fear in the hearts of every citizen in Singapore (we must learn from Hollywood, that everything strikes the US only and the whole universe revolves around them). Why so scary you say? Isn't the haze just some smoke from Indo, where the farmers cut down trees, set them on fire and then dance around them like some ritual to get themselves sooty black so they can get a better harvest next year? No, it isn't.

The haze is scary, it shows no mercy, it infiltrates every nostril, every orifice in the human (including your pores). It attackes your conchae, down your nasopharynx, oropharynx, larynx (whatever the sequence of that tube). And deep down ur bronchi, into your bloody lungs and gets into your blood. Moves around, activating your macrophages, your T cells, B cells, complement, your coagulation factors, anything you can think of.

Tachycardia, Bradycardia, Tachypenia, dysphagia, anaphylaxis, etc. Your vessels getting clogged. Emphysema, cardiac failure, AMI, subdural hemorrhage, cerebrovascular accident, DVT, DIVC, Herpes, TB, hemiplagia. Whatever you think of, you get it. Hell...now isn't the haze scary? I'm sorry to put in this lame joke...but you might want to tell your friends to change their names from hazel to something else if anybody might want to take up this wierd idea of mine.

Sorry...its 1130 and the PSI is 128 on a sat morning. With the fever I had the past 2 days and having body aches all over. This is some of the crap I can write and check out the pics I took from my balcony and my corridor anyway...

Where are the towers in town? No more UOB? No more Swissotel?

Where is the Changi Airport control tower??

2006-10-06T19:20:00.000+08:00

Boring

I have this feeling that our posts are getting more and more mundane, well, with the exception of &friends who writes occasional good crap here to entertain all of us. Guess, we are all just getting jaded with medicine, blogging and of course with life. It seems that I'm writing most of the post now and a while ago, it was Tuck writing most of the crap. You all must be thinking that there is a conspiracy going on here, but no, guess everybody has issues and need sometime to resolve them.

And, to make it better! I've decided to take more pictures using my stupid camera phone which has highly been utilised. Its 2MP for god's sake and I don't take any opportunistic pics with it? What am I thinking about?? Perhaps the shit that I've been thinking lately has just flooded my head and clouded my thinking. And here is some of them:

Woo...

WTH is wy doing??

Click on the pic, the label there says 'Love us, not eat us'

Qian Tai the hot stuff refusing to take pictures..
but don't we all agree, he looks like some sexy arabian night princess? haha

2006-10-05T21:46:00.000+08:00

We love girls

Well, I guess TSB has a bad rep for being a female bashing site, but other than medicus-guber (fuck..I must say this everytime I blog...its disgusting..but who gives a damm when he is buying us a EVO...I heard he is buying me a Volvo C30) who goes around disturbing girls and writing unfriendly posts about girls. We at TuckSomBong generally love the creatures that originates from Venus (freakin cliche) because they look oh..so fine.

Right, to prove that, check out Simply Red's Song, For your Babies. I know its written about pregnant women but hey its a beautiful song. Beautiful song for beautiful girls out there(no matter how bad you think you look! Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder ain't it?)

One more thing, feminist out there...guys are jerks (yes, I admit, we jerk a lot esp anteroposteriorly) but no we are not bastards (we are not dogs) and no we are not whatever you think we are. We are nice people, ain't we? haha..Ok the lyrics:

For Your Babies (Simply Red)
Youve got that look again
The one I hoped I had when I was a lad
Your face is just beaming
Your smile got me boasting, my pulse roller-coastering
Anyway the four winds that blow
Theyre gonna send me sailing home to you
Or Ill fly with the force of a rainbow
The dream of gold will be waiting in your eyes
You know Id do most anything you want
Hey i, I try to give you everything you need
I can see that it gets to you

I dont believe in may things
But in you I do

Her faith is amazing
The pain that she goes through contained in the hope for you
Your whole world has changed
The years spent before seem more cloudy than blue
In many ways your babys controlling
When you havent laid down for days
For the poor no time to be thinkingT
heyre too busy finding ways
You know Id do most anything you want
Hey i, I try to give you everything you need
Ill see that it gets to you
I dont believe in many things
But in you I do

You know Id do most anything you want
Everyday i, I try to give you everything you need
Well always be there for you
I dont believe in many things
But in you I do

2006-10-05T00:03:00.000+08:00

This is so Badong......

2006-10-01T20:05:00.000+08:00

Smooth Hair?

Check this advert out, its really ridiculous. Girls out there, give your boyfriends a chance, they might not really mean it when they do that! (:

2006-09-30T17:30:00.000+08:00

TUCKSOMBONG CAR OF THE MONTH!!

Yes, being the blog that talks about anything under the sun and being avid car lovers, we definately would like to have a favourite car of the month segment in our blog. So its one car that Tuck loves it red, Bong loves it white, Medicus-Guber (freakin horrendous monikor and damm long to type with hypen inside) and I love it yellow and with a couple of decals. Can you buggers guess it? It has gotta be a bloody Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX.

I apologize that I don't know what yang and &friends like about this car; and I don't know if they like it, but who gives a damm right now after the post is up and the decision final? Absoutely nobody!

Our reasons for liking it isn't very concrete. But one thing we are really sure is that you can go around the track or road shouting 'POWer!' in this car and yes the sound of that turbo and that occasional charimastic farting when changing gears coming from under that hood is hell good enough to make your heart melt. Not to mention that it creates a hole in your pocket everytime you step on the accelerator but who gives a damm when you don't own one)

Isn't she beautiful?

I know what Bo has to say after seeing this post is that I would definately kiss my car goodnight before heading back to the bedroom to kiss my wife goodnight, well..thats not true or... I guess some girl might want to test this theory out with me? HAHA...

Alright, after sooo much shit about this car. There is just one amazing thing about this car: that is JP says that he will be buying a SGD$130 000+++ Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX with full options for each of the contributors of this blog if we all get lousier results than him. Well, for that promise, its no wonder everybody in TSB is working lesser and posting more crap on the blog. We all love JP!!

2006-09-30T12:47:00.000+08:00

The Return Of Duck-Butt

Its been a long long long week. Last friday yours truly was awol from nus cos he was puking his guts out at home. Then came the long period of lying down in his damn bed with high fever and THEN he just had to get a sore throat and flu. Either I'm just majorly immuno-compromised or I'm just daaamn suay. Apologies to som for not heading down for k-box =P. Anyway dragged myself out of bed today for my haircut, and the first thing i hear when i step home is "Aiyah whats that duck butt doing on your forehead?" ... Thanks mom! The last i heard, she was muttering something about snipping my duck butt off when I fall asleep. Gah!!! No I will not be gracing this blog with my "duck butt" (I would but I cant find the cable that links my N90 to the damn pc =P), so you'll just hafta look on monday, if I'm well enough to drag myself to school.

Herez a cute video clip about Toilet Etiqutte. Common guys watch it! I mean there's seriously seriously nothing worse that getting beaten up when you're simply admiring the cool zipper on somebody elses pair of jeans. So remember... do NOT admire zippers when in the toilet.

WARNING: For you cao muggers out there the video is like 10mins long. so Go mugg instead.