The Expendables

Gosh.

Just look at the cast.. So many action stars man. MUST WATCH!

hopefully they’re still showing by the time i reach home! else must watch on 2nd Sept then.. hehe..

As a routine..

Going Home Countdown

Long way to go. =(

Rays of hope

I like this very much. Taken at 6.54am on 18 August 2010. From my hostel. =)

I just woke up so was lazy to take out the dslr. So this was taken using my Cyber-shot T20. still not bad eh. hehe.

Here’s some more :

Composition is poor i know. And would’ve been better if i had more zoom. but oh well. =)

End of semester 6

Well there’s actually 1 more day of posting left. Then only finish semester 6, the clinical postings portion. Coming up next would be the sessionals. SIGH.

Ward Work tomorrow. To go or not to go.. hmmmm….

med school causes obesity

Just a hypothesis anyway.

Here goes

my points would be:

• Being a med student is almost equivalent to high levels of stress, inevitably
• Cortisols are stress hormones secreted in response to stress
• which, essentially means that med students have high levels of cortisol

Also,

• we know that elevated cortisols causes Cushing’s syndrome.

Hence,

• So there will be obesity, specifically truncal obesity, due to abnormal, centripetal fat deposition in the body.

lol basically another crap post on a sunday.

But seriously stress hormones are definitely on the high side nowadays. Sessionals coming next monday (23 Aug). AND there are soo many revisions to be done until then. IF there was a study week then still ok la. but noooo.. It’s the final week of medicine posting.. There’s EOP on Tues, Prof Choo’s coming on Wed, Wed afternoon there’s Medicine 2nd Block test, there’s a case sheet due, PLUS the need to revise for sessionals. Gosh even if i get 48 hours a day i think i’ll really have to struggle to finish all these.

=(

i guess pretty soon it’s going to be “coffee more than blood in my blood vessels” (Eugene Mah, 2010)

Anyone else has got a better solution to control sleepiness?

Emergency Laptop-otomy

Yesterday evening while using the laptop, all of the sudden the CPU fan became very.. noisy. Abnormally noisy. Like the sound that failing fans in the cooling pads sound. CPU temperature shot up to 85 degrees Celsius. Had to immediately shut down the laptop and perform an emergency laptop-otomy. =P

So, i borrowed Kelvin’s old laptop, fired up Dell Inspiron 6400’s Service Manual, and the operation went underway.

and when i reached the innards of the laptop, this is what i got:

 

Note : the following image may be gruesome to some, so please do NOT consume any form of food when viewing to avoid undue emesis

 
Is that fungus or dirt? *Holy crap*

the growth/dust collection was honestly gross. Basically need to scrape off the whole thing from the surface of the fan. And then slowly brush out all the other dirt from inside. Well i guess that’s what you get for never cleaning it up in what, 3 years of almost twenty-four-seven use. Very impressed by the fact that it still managed to spin with all those things growing on it. ewwww

After waging war on it for roughly 20 minutes i got this:

 
Not bad for a first attempt eh? =)

Here’s the difference between before and after the cleaning

That’s a LOT of difference! Suffice to say now it is working well, and it managed to lower my usual CPU temp of around 66-70°C to the 56°-60°C now.

Total time used for the whole procedure?

2 and a half hours.

Verdict : Success!

Hopefully no complication will arise la. =)