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Archive for June, 2008

Capturing Salthill

Even though there are no coconut trees where I can test my limbs at climbing (and falling), this beach is still a lovely place to go. Just for a walk. I’m thinking of going there again today to do some serious kite running. More on that later. I have so much to tell. So many [...]

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we joined the tourists, taking hundreds of pictures around Galway. The route I took was: UCHG – Town centre – Spanish Arch – Salthill – Westside. So, here they are:

Spanish Arch. People everywhere. Japanese tourists, the lady from the tart shop, people who look like hippies with guitars, a cameraman, seagulls, swans..

A little girl, looking [...]

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Girl in red – Is she smiling for the camera or what? Trying to run away maybe. I like the red. Well, anything red looks lively. That’s why blood looks nice.

Lamp post – My interest with lamp posts must have originated from Mr Tumnus in Narnia which inadvertently brings me back to Frodo who resembles [...]

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In Dublin

which is fine. Not wow or anything. Yeah, meeting dearest papa is great but I don’t really like Dublin. I guess I’ll always like small, quaint places like Galway. Dublin’s too… loud, big, dirty at times. It felt like I was in a different country, with strange people. I am officially a country bumpkin.
Went [...]

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I feel…

… like my legs are made of timber… sooo heavy. My brain is numb. My tummy is growling. Translated into: I am absolutely tired. Didn’t think theatre would last that long. Nine whole hours of being on my feet the whole day, observing, assisting, doing, yawning, humming during hysteroscopies, c-sections, mirena insertions bla di bla… [...]

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Fuuuuuuuh

exhale…
I still haven’t seen the head of the team since he’s always busy. I hope he won’t think that I’m some lazy student just because I was never with him.
What I’ve done:
- emergency admissions: normal stuff like checking the breathing, heart and I did a speculum after months of leaving speculum-y things behind.
- ante natal [...]

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OUCH!

I took off my earring for a while because it hurt.
2 days later, I see the hole is no more.
So, I went to the not-yet-qualified-surgeon of the house, Lorraine and from her stash of hospital equipments (various sizes of venepuncture needles, alcohol swab, several IV cannulas, a speculum! – dunno what she’s doing with a [...]

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