Fucking Bullshit!!!!

If you said this new blog template was ugly then I'd have to agree with you. But I changed it so I could display the above picture without it being obscured by the sidebar. It was worth it...classic picture. Read the fine print too. (Click for larger pic)

Randomness

Those who know me know that I waste an awful amount of time surfing the net randomly and unproductively (but at least I am entertained). Thought I might start putting up some of the cool stuff I find, so that maybe others can enjoy (if not, then at least I'll have a record of what I waste my time on).

1) http://duke.a-13.net/
Classic...for all you old-skool gamers like me...who remember playing Duke 3d using keyboard, before Quake and mouse-look came along...haha

2) http://www.hemmy.net/2006/05/19/creative-advertising/
Creative advertising...nuff said.

Omen-y

What an auspicious day to have a baby. Given the date, nobody seems keen to have their baby today. I've been on labour ward this week, and the two deliveries I saw today didn't have much choice. Both were caesarean sections, though one was elective for breech presentation so I guess they could've scheduled it for another day. But the other was an emergency caesarean so it had to be done. I was scrubbed in for both, and it was quite exciting, especially the emergency one, seeing how fast everyone reacted to the decelerations in fetal heart rate on the CTG reading of the baby and got the mother to theatre and got the baby out. And to those women who think that caesareans are the easy and painless way to have a baby, well painless yes, but risk-free it ain't...it is surgery after all. Significantly riskier than vaginal delivery in general.

Yesterday was also strange in that the three deliveries I saw were all instrumental deliveries, two were with forceps and the other was with Ventouse vacuum device. Funnily enough, I still have not yet seen a regular uncomplicated vaginal delivery (which should be the rule, not the exception!). My viewpoint is skewed by such experience, but I am a bit put off having a baby now. I mean I would love to have a baby, but the actual process of birth...not sure I want to put my partner through that. There needs to be an easier way...like the Stork can bring me one in the middle of the night.

Anyway, speaking of today's date, apparently Triple M were offering $1000 to any baby born today whose parents name him Damien. Cute...and the midwives on labour ward were saying that media were ringing the hospital PR department and asking how many babies were born today...and one of the midwives said they should've answered "6"...heheh

My mind is kinda numb from only getting 5 hours of sleep the last two nights, since I have to wake up at 5:30am to get to the hospital by 7am for handover, and I'm so used to sleeping at 1-2am that I struggle to go to sleep much earlier. Plus I have cover letters and application forms to fill in to apply for an intern job for next year, so I should go do that...

P.S. Belated congrats to Stella and Michele! Pity I can't be there for your big day -_-