SIP boredom

the new SIP rotation to endocrine simply sucks. there are 4 MOs , 1 HO , 2 registrar and 1 consultant + 4 SIP students = 12 people rounding at any one time. that's a ridiculous figure, and it's far far from the usual SIP student-HO-MO-registrar-consultant team i am so used to in Resp. It is that kind of time when you feel you are sometimes just wasting your time, but you have no choice but to stay. I seriously feel 6 weeks of SIP is way over the top when 4 weeks was suffice -- no doubt it provides students a very good learning experience, but i believe a 4 week intro was more than suffice to initiate us. moreover, it's not as if as SIP interns get to see everything a HO does -- because we are still unlicensed, we still don't get to see the full picture: we don't prescribe, we aren't allowed to run our own ABGs etc

anyway good food awaits.. had a bursting good meal at Orient Ocean restaurant at Miramar Hotel, where the buffet was a tad cheaper than Dragon Gate. unfortunately there's a point at which when you overeat till your overdistended stomach presses on your diaphragm and makes you feel breathless. and that's needless to say after plates of baked crab, soft shell crab, crispy duck, thai jelly-fish, seabasses, "soon hock" and 3 plates of mango pudding, gui ling gao and sago and etc etc.. i was nearly crawling my way into kossie's car like christy chung on aphrodisiacs.

sunday was horrid. boring and pointless ward-round in the morning, with the usual boring miserly changes to be done. at least we ate in peach garden at thomson plaza (very exp !!! but the wasabi prawns was reallly worth its status as the signature dish). topped it off with island cremery..(inferior to daily scoop.. mud pie, eskimo pie and baked alaska so-so.. i felt baked alaska was slightly better than the others)

drats.. monday blues sinking in .. the usual 12-person ward round beckons again tomorrow.. the word meaningless knows no boundaries.