Cripes! Have to report to SGH at 7.45am tomorrow. I'd better reach at 7.30 to navigate my way (no idea where the car park is etc etc), which means I leave home at 6.30. So I have to wake up at 6, but I'm going to wake at 5.30 just for good measure. Wondering how Dopey is going to do it, she takes almost 2 hours to reach there. =/ It's all very exciting really, I wonder how the docs will be like, how the lesson plan is, whether the patients are nice, how the environment there is like, where we can hang out in-between lessons (the "retail mall" sucks, from what I see on their site) and where the student resources are. Did a bit of reading in the library today, borrowed the giant Apley. It's a very good book, but I figured I'd photocopy it instead. I mean, anyway, the book is filled with mostly x-rays, which are black-and-white. Starting to do some stuff for next week's seminar presentation. Damn. I have no idea where to get epidemiology info about Singapore. Did a search on PubMed and got nothing.

Also, I just took delivery of a sun coral - the chap's in Chem Engineering year 3, and really nice. He drove all the way from Joo Chiat (what is my affiliation with this place nowadays??) with a delivery charge of just $2 to hand me a $15 coral. How great is this service, huh? And that animal's amazing - it's been acclimatized for 2 weeks, been eating well (it's non-photosynthetic and needs to be fed shrimp) and holds a 3-day "if it dies you get your money back" guarantee. Beats the hell out of some lame shops. Like the other day (some months back, actually) I went to this new aquarium. The lady took the blue sponge right out of the water, I had a tussle with her over how she handles sponges (sponge exposed to air = dead sponge tomorrow), and sure as the sun rises, the damn thing died the next day. Should have just refused to buy it, but it was so cheap ($4). Well, this new guy definitely has a satisfied, returning customer!

Grossly overfed my tank today. 100mls of phytoplankton, 100mls cyclops, 2 cubes of shrimp and 2 pieces of ribbonfish for the anemone and Scolymia coral. No more wanton feeding of phytoplankton and cyclops tomorrow. Shall only target-feed 10mls of cyclops to sea fans, 2 mls phytoplankton to each of my 3 sponges, ribbon fish meat to my sun coral and shrimp for the fish. That's it. I'm going to end up with algae problems if I continue feeding like this.



Oh, Mr. Ye - what's that Yahoo Groups thing Ta Ta sent me? I'm going to cook again tomorrow! Any suggestions? No, no turnips and no scallops. And definitely no mangoes! Perhaps an avocado salad? Or maybe I'll just make spiral macaroni and fresh pesto sauce - the basil in the garden's screaming to get harvested.