MALE AND FEMALE MYTHS

I am in the process of packing up and cleaning my room. Imagine the amount of junk/books/clothes/papers/bits and bobs/men (ha I wish) I had to throw away/recycle/donate. A lot. Not so good in term of carbon footprint.

I tore of my wall/noticeboard/inspirational board i.e. taking off all the posters/to do lists/pictures/postcards/bills/timetables/love letters (haha) to leave it all bare sans art. Well my kind of art anyways.

So one of the things on the wall was an article. I got this article/list during my 4th year psychosocial teaching and I would like to share it with you guys.

MALE AND FEMALE MYTHS

1. Sex should be natural and spontaneous- asking for it spoils it.
2. All physical contact must lead to sex.
3. Men always want and ready for sex.
4. Sex is for male pleasure- a woman's duty is to fill his needs not her own.
5. Men must take charge of and orchestrate sex.
6. If women arent orgasmic they should fake it.
7. Women expect men to know all about sex.
8. Men should not have or at least not express certain feelings.
9. Anything other than the missionary position is dirty.
10. Women must wait for male to initiate.
11. For men, in sex, as elsewhere, it is performance that counts.
12. Women must maintain a 'good' reputation.
13. Women must be attractive, obedient and passive- because men expect it.
14.Having sex menas having intercourse.
15. For couple to have sex, the man must have an erection.
16. Good sex always ends in orgasm.
17. Good sex means both partners having an orgasm, preferably at the same time.
18. There is something wrong with a man who has lower sex drive than a woman.
19. In general, women receive more stimulation from alarge penis than a small one.
20. Nice girls dont get turned on- and they certainly never move during love making.
21. Dont show affection to men because the will want sex.
22. If a woman shows interest in making love, she must be promiscuous.
23. Most homosexuals exclusively adopt the passive or active role in their sexual relationship.

I kinda have my own opinion for each of the statement, but telling it outright here would mean disclosing too many personal infos (and you guys will know my preferences in the subject matter.) End of story.

So there you go. Myths. NOT!

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Less talk more rokk.
116358 ---> that's my score.
My own personal highest so far. On Medium level.

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Damn that orange fret- wait till I can nail it on Hard level.

I hate my medical school

ooooOOOOOOOoooOOOoo....
This (talking about my medical school) has been quite an area of potential hatred.

Today 22 Feb 09 is a fine day. Sunny and hot-ish.
I was stucked indoor all because I have to write a frigging portfolio piece.
The comm team made it compulsory for each Year 5 student to submit an entry for that.
WTF.

Lets do some maths

Miss P went berserked with what's left of her savings. She bought alot of things in the last two weeks. Please calculate the amount of money that she had actually saved from all the discounts and offers available in smallcity and its sister city.

Original price Sale price Saving
(all figures are rounded to closest pound)

Item 1:Gladiator shoes --> GBP25 - GBP9 = GBP16
Miss P just went ga-ga over this pair of shoes from Dorothy Perkins. "Ohh... It fits me like socks.. I HAVE to get it!" she exclaimed. She then added "This shoes is so gonna go with my safari look for my elective." (Editor's Note: whatever!!!)

Item 2: For both --> GBP14 - GBP3 = GBP11
Novels from charity shops. Its one of few benefits living in such a small city: there are many charity shops here- where you can get novels at a negligible cost. HA! (Ps: Miss P bought her entire Harry Potter set from charity shops- all in pristine condition.)



Item 3: Roxy Belt --> GBP40 - GBP10 = GBP30
Who would spend 40quids on A belt? (well I know a few hehe) Miss P wont. So when this belt was on sale for a tenner- she bought it and left the store with a big grin. The belt can be worn in two ways- the flowery bit and the blue bit.

Item 4: 65L Backpack GBP70 - GBP35 = GBP35
Miss P already has a 45L backpack that she used for the Europe backpacking trip last summer. However for her elective she thinks she need a bigger bag due to extra things (i.e. medical equipments, meds and books) that she is required to bring along. (Editor's Note: You guys should probably see the way she haggled the price with the lil old lady selling it in her outdoor store... priceless)



Item 5: Vaccinations and prophylaxes. Bloody expensive. No saving. Herummmpph!

Yellow fever 1 freakingly expensive injection GBP40
Rabies 3 painful injections GBP15
Malaria tablets- Doxycycline GBP20
Cholera oral dose GBP7
HIV prophylaxis pack GBP180 (i'm not kidding!)
Total: Frigging GBP262



Item 6: Trespass super light weight and fast drying blouse -->
GBP16 - GBP3 = GBP13
Just because. Hahaha. Safari theme again. Hahaha.

Item 7: FCUK blouse --> GBP40 - GBP20 = GBP20
No justification needed, this blouse is cute beyond words. Plus the salesman there was cute too. Miss P just lost it from the very minute of walking into the store. Ha.



Item 8: A lingerie item from CK --> GBP32 - GBP8 = GBP24
So pretty (berdarah hidung tgk ni!)

Item 9: Concert tickets --> GBP26 - GBP20 (student discount!)= GBP6
It was worth every penny. The finale song BOLERO by Maurice Ravel was absolutely heavenly! Click on the picture for a clearer image of the orchestra.




Now please calculate the amount of money saved.
Answer: GBP155 (<-- highlight here)


Total spent: GBP370
(and that's excluding the foods- like 2x italian eating out, subways, ingredients to make authentic malay and italian dishes which costed alot... Miss P is a kind of person who wont think twice in spending 20pounds in one sitting for good food)



Bancrupt la....

(and again excluding the recent indulgence in PlayStation2... whoahh... Miss P do spend alot doesnt she?? Latest addition: Singstar microphones and game)

Fashion week

Isnt this gorgeous???

Saja-saja

I've been a bum

Well, not a surprise isnt it?

Bum for almost everything. Medically esp.

Well anyways... lets talk about some patients I saw in the last two weeks. Confidentiality protected nevertheless.

i) Post coital bleeding in a 77 y-o lady [what?? WHATTTT??]
I struggled to keep a straight face while I was talking to this patient, who was appropriately seated next to her 70-ish husband. Not because I wanted to laugh (well knowing me anyway) but because I was shocked beyond words. I swear in normal unmedical situation, my jaw would probably hit the floor and my eyes would have bulge out of their sockets. Two-weeks referal nonetheless.

ii) Nocturnal enuresis in a 20 y-o young lady.
20 y-o kinda sweet and cute lil lady came to the surgery and started to blush during her opening sentence "I have been experiencing something very embarassing"... And I went "well we could only help you if we know whats been happening + everything that you say will remain confidential". So story was: 6-7x of nocturnal enuresis in the past 3/12. No frequency, no dysuria, no discharge. Dry at night when she was 12 (?late ?familial). Said that she's not in any stress, well, apart from BF now leaving to work with the Army. No hx of abuse (sexual/physical) and no other relevant hx. I sent off her urine sample to exclude UTI/glycosuria and requested a fasting blood glucose. To be reviewed in 2weeks time.

iii) An unfortunate girl who was given the Pills without first-pill-teach.
She is only 16, but honestly when she walked in she looks much older than me (so tall and much tad-too-much makeup on) so much so I had to ask her to confirm her full name, date of birth and address. So I gave her some adv re: the pills and printed out some patient information leaflets. Problem was: breakthrough bleeding whilst on the pills- which is a COMMON thing to happen.

iv) A dead body at a caretakers.

v) A 44 y-o lady with bilateral trocanteric bursitis.
Hx and O/E very typical of trocanteric bursitis. "Why bilateral?" asked my GP- and tbh I DONT KNOW. Very articulate lady. She explained everything without me asking, right down to characteristic and aggravating factors. Ha.

Ok, there are actually so much more interesting patients to write about, but as the title of this entry suggests, I cant be arsed.

Otherwise, pen off.
I'm gonna go and continue reading Breaking Dawn.

******Spoiler alert*****




Bella's pregnant with a vampire baby!

Freaking hell. How did that happen? Of coz I know how exactly it happened (Bella and Edward went for their honeymoon after the much awaited wedding and the birds and the bees bladibla...) but seriously in a real life* situation HOW DID THAT HAPPEN???
FYI- vampire has 25 chromosomes (well according to stephanie meyer anyway) and human has 23 chromosomes (scientifically- not some made-up number). Insemination and fertilization are just NOT possible.

And the baby is now making Bella very unwell and thirsty for BLOOD! Again... how is this possible???

Anyways... I still love Edward. Others can F-off.

*Editor's Note: p53 dont be daft, there will never be a real life situation for things like this.

PS2

Hi Mom,
Look at what I had bought!
I dont know what had possessed me, but I ended up buying this whole lot from eBay.
It was a bargain though. Really.
And now I know what is an addiction. Mom, I never thought that what Iman* says were remotely true. Yup, it is difficult to stop once one starts on any of the games. I play Guitar Hero. Mom, arent you proud of me? Haaaa? What? You would prefer it if I learn how to cook instead? Ooo..okay. Im trying here.

Im trying to be better at the Medium level of Guitar Hero. Its really difficult Mom, it really is. You always tell me practice makes perfect, thats why I'm spending 2-3 hours daily (since the games arrive in the post) on the PS2. Dont worry, I dont have homework these days.

My wrists hurt Mom. I deserve it, I know, but can you kiss it better?

Much loves from me.
xoxo

*Iman is my 10y-o youngest brother.

Pics from London

Hot ladies (as viewed with temperature-sensored camera at the National Science Museum)

Hyde Park
Big Ben

Which one is worse?

Sweaty armpits or smelly feet?

BO or halitosis?

Being blind or being deaf?

Squint or funny teeth?

No arm or no leg?

MS or MND?

Esophageal cancer or colon cancer?

---> Then as a consequent: having a PEG tube or stoma?

Esophageal cancer or pancreatic cancer?

Dying quick but in a painful way in road traffic accident or dying slowly from a debilitating chronic disease?

Having a massive MI or a massive stroke?

Having a stroke or having a heart failure?

Having a heart failure or a kidney failure?

Having stroke with complete loss of one side of the body or having CRF needing 3x of dialysis/week?

Anorexia or morbid obesity?

Being burn to death or freeze to death?

Having a peanut allergy or having allergies for seafood?

Menorrhagia or dysmenorrhia?

Inserting a catheter on male patient or doing a vaginal bimanual examination? The latter for me.

X6

Have you seen it? It a monster! It’s so big and (looks) powerful.

X6 is the latest of the X series from BMW. It’s a type of sport coupe. Well, it does have the characteristic of an SUV- but for my eyes it sneakily is an SUV. Clever trick, BMW! It’s probably as big as a mini van.

Despite being monstrous, the design is sleek all throughout. The exterior is beautiful (although personally I would have preferred a car with slightly lower boot) with boot as tall as me. With curves in all the correct places, it does look like a nice car for pretty girl like me. (Editor’s note: The curves will complete the owner in this case). The interior is as nice as any other car in that range of price.

I can’t really comment on the engine and the other specifications for I’m not interested in those kinds of things. However I would imagine that X6 would be a nice driving machine. Top speed ~ 150mph - haha.. not that I’ll drive anywhere as close as to that.


So here we go again, a car that made me shuddered ages after My Fair Lady 350Z.

Happiness is....

I received this precious thing through the post today and I am already over the moon. Two tickets... guess who's gonna be my date?

Mission Compare Part 1

There are a lot of things that I wanted to blog about my community placement. I just cant be arsed because I'm still in holiday mood.

So instead, I'll be doing a series of comparison. Any of you guys reading this blog wants me to compare anythg interesting- just drop me a line [as comment]- and i'll be much obliged.

Mission Compare Part 1: MY ROOM

East side

West side What the hell?

Exam, result and thereafter

How impolite am I for not giving you readers some sort of updates especially regarding my exam? I apologize. From hereon in this entry, I'll try to tell as much as I could chronologically.

Prior to Jan 09, I was really scared of the finals exam. I felt as if there were so many things that I havent revise yet.

Comes Jan 09, I was practically shitting in my pants- trying to cram in as much infos as I could into my almost exploding brain.

Then the exam week- 14 Jan- 22 Jan came. I couldnt sleep, lost my appetite and lost interest altogether with anythg non medical. How sad.

Had my first exam in one of the big halls in BIGCITY- which is also the hall where I will graduate provided that I pass every single thing.

Got all tensed up in between. Packed up my stuff one night and left smallcity and my studymates. Went to BIGCITY.

Second exam was in the same hall. It was freezing. No heating. It snowed outside. Bloody hell.

Then OSCE on 20 Jan. Almost cried after I finished it. 50-50% chance of failing it. WAAAAA....

21-22-23 Jan- passed in blur. I slept. Slept my sorrow away. By this time, some of my very good friends left smallcity for their elective in exciting places.

24 Jan- Had mother of all headaches. Very hungry too. So I ate I ate I ate and took paracetamol.

24 Jan (night)- 29 Jan (morning): LONDON trip.
- did all thing touristy- went to Greenwich prime time line, took pics along Thames, next to Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Tower Bridge.
- watched two musicals at the West End: The Sound of Music and The Lion King. Super fantastic.
- ate a lot of different kind of food- indon, chinese, japanese, italian, mexican, malay- ahhh bless all Halal food in London; I gained 3 kg in the space of 5 days. Yeay!
- went to natural history museum and national science museum (both for the first time in 5 years of me living here in the UK)

29 Jan: result out... In the hours preceding the result time, I paced up and down the length of my kitchen, sweating like hell. I swear my heart almost stopped when I saw my result. I passed- marginally. pheawh. Few of my dear friends failed. My heart cried out for them. I rang my parents- told them the good news, and rang few other friends to tell them too.

30-31 Jan: Sleep, eat, internet, blogging, buying stuff off the ebay, tidying up my room, doing laundry, vacuuming, collecting things for charity, cook and BAKE!!!

1 Feb: Preparing my timetable for the next two months, ironing clothes, sending out work emails, filling in evaluation form of last block which I proscatinated for almost 2 months. hah.

2 Feb and thereafter: community and hospital placement and elective (yeay!) and graduation (double yeay!!) and going back home for good (yeay 3x).


***Important note: my face suffered the most. Blemished like never before. Arrhrggghh***

Coldest winter in 13 years!

Flipping hell.

Here's somemore snippet:

Sunday will see maximum temperatures of between 2C (36F) and 5C (41F) although temperatures will fall during the course of the day. Temperatures during the night will be minus 1C (30F) to minus 3C (27F) although forecasters predict the mercury could plunge to minus 6C (21F) in some locations.

That's it: I'll be in bed ALL DAY LONG!