TGIF! and saturday, and sunday :D

yesterday i crashed mark's anat tutorial class, where they were learning about the heart and mediastinum. surprisingly, i managed to answer most of the questions from his tutor, so everything was going well. that is, until he asked for 2 volunteers to demonstrate how to auscultate the heart. (and here you should note that auscultate is really just a fancy word for listening to the heart with a stethoscope). anyway, it turned out that mark and i were in for a big time saboh- we were both forced up in front of the class and he had to pretend to be my patient. so then the tutor started asking me questions like 'how would you know where to hear the apex beat?' and so i gave him the rib positions surface marking the heart sounds. but of course, the real problem isn't giving the rib positions, but finding them on a person, and so the next question was 'how would you know where the ribs are?'. and then, before i could say anything, the whole class chimed 'you pALpaTe him!' and burst into huge rolls of laughter. omg i was so embarrassed i wanted to die :x

and in case you're wordering, palpate just means 'to touch or feel'.

so that was my friday afternoon. at night there was mass organised by the catholic med society, and 'living rosary' before that. the living rosary was kinda weird cos everyone had to hold a tealight and pretend to be a bead of the rosary, but it was something different at least. then i did the offertory with thomas, which was the first time i ever got to do the offertory. so exciting!

and a quick corn update! good news is that the corn has finally hardened and is half-off, meaning that it's stuck to my foot only by a bit of skin at the bottom. i'm sure i can peel it off already, but as i foresee it might involve a bit of pain, i am too much of a pussy to do so. bad news is that it looks grosser than ever now, like a piece of rotting chewing gum all rolled up and yellowish. and it is on MY foot- yucks!