There was a bit of furor last night trying to suddenly gather references for my placement at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital during my summer break. The Girlfriend found it infinitely amusing that I’m applying to work there and already alerted her pharmacist friend in the gen surg ward of my January plans. I’m actually quite fired up about all the attachments I’ve got over the holidays. I filled in the application forms right away, though I must say, 3am form filling makes for very dodgy results.
Say, for example, the little box which said “affix passport photo here”.
The Girlfriend is one of my references, though we were having a conversation about whether it would count against me since she had left KTPH a few months ago. I highly doubt so though. I was sorely tempted to list her occupation as “muffin gnome”.
All these traveling to different hospitals to do attachments is a truly fascinating prospect I hope to be able to experience some time.
The house hunt over the weekend turned out to be another bust. Shall not go into all the horrid details, but basically I got screwed over by real estate agents again. It’s almost like they’re trained to make you feel like crap and be terribly rude. My parents have picked up the hunt instead and almost instantaneously found 17 houses without so much as an eye strain. Granted, they picked some real dodgy ones (a converted garage that looked vaguely like the scene of a horror movie. My mom even said she thought it looked like a scene from The Shining and that’s why she picked it). They also picked up some gems which I would love to rent provided I can find others to share it with. Think that will be an immense challenge at this stage though.
Study is going painfully slowly, though I do get my short bursts of motivation in between the long lulls. I really don’t know how to begin studying for this exam and as a result I’m going about it in a “bird shot” fashion, studying anything and everything with no real structure to speak of.
Let’s end with pictures from the internets.
