*Yawn*
Mon morning is here again ... another week of yuckiness in hospital. It's starting to get depressing, with all the feeling-dumb actually getting to me. I'm surprised the tutors haven't made me a dunce hat to wear yet. Seriously - "What is the cause of caput-medusae in chronic liver disease?" ... "Inferior vena cava obstruction!!". Gosh, I'm starting to get blond!! The end-of-posting test is in about 3-4 weeks' time, and I feel hardly prepared for it! At least the school had the sense to dampen the Mon blues by setting a series of lectures every Mon morning in NUS. Gah ... just got reminded by yx that i need to ask my patient about the COFM house visit. Seriously, how daft can the syllabus be? And the COFM department should be ashamed of themselves, hitching onto other departments' schedules like that. As if we don't have enough to do for the medicine posting already! Burn, COFM, Burn!!!

Not really making much progress in studies this morning. And I'm going to have some difficulty sticking to this week's Mad Activity of the Week - no carbs at all! Perhaps I'll just starve, and spend the time reading. Really got to finish the chapter on Grave's Disease today, at least! Must, must, must! Energy!! Motivation!!! Where art thou?

Right ... first signs of delirium. Talking to something abstract and inanimate.

Just browsed some websites, and hmm .. I'm actually starting to drool over some equipment. Of course I can't afford a beckett skimmer, but I'm eyeing this really yummy needle-wheel skimmer from Macro. It's rather cheap (200 bucks?) I guess, but of course I do NOT have 200 bucks to burn. Shall have to wait a few months till my bank interest comes in eh. OK, I'm being ridiculous again. Not solving the problems at hand, and rather, dreaming about what can be done to further complicate my life. First things first, I'd need to get that carbon for the tank. Went out yesterday with that aim, actually, but ended up buying livestock! Muahaha .. but come on, can you blame me? That blue crab was simply screaming for me to carry it home! Alas. Now my tank's going to be full of crustaceans, which means yx can't get that 6-line wrasse she wanted. Maybe I'll be stupid and set up a simple FOWLR (fish-only with live rock) tank in my room or something. Nah .. it's going to be noisy. I need absolute quiet to get my quality sleep. A FOWLR sounds tempting though - it means I can buy some non-reef safe fish that I've always loved. Like boxfish, cowfish, triggers and oooh!! Maybe a lionfish! Yeah yeah, go on dreaming ...

Sigh. I miss having proper holidays. I'd be meddling with my plants at this time, and doing a spot of tank maintenance. On the bright side, I'll be having a week off after this posting - oh, joy! This is sad. Almost all my CPs are in dormancy now, so no plants to accompany me. And those Tillandsia are just simply boring on their own. Surprisingly whatever's left of my Lithops are still doing well (touch wood!). Or rather, they are surviving. Is there really no way we can grow lovely plants like these here? I'd love pansies too. Doesn't make sense why petunias survive in our climate but pansies don't.