All ready for Psych!

Nafplio - Easter 06

Wow, another 3 months have passed and I've finished my O&G attachment (obstetrics and gynaecology =p) ... Saw a few deliveries and a C-section.. I was really surprised at how quick the surgery actually lasts.. to be fair, getting the baby out is the easy bit. It takes almost twice as long to close the wound afterwards!

After witnessing the live births, I have much more respect for all the mothers who have to go through labour.. just imagine going through the worst pain ever! (yeah I know there is pain relief but they don't always work!) and having a baby passing through the birth canal! *Ouch!!* Am I glad I'm not a woman =)

But what really amazes me is how at one second, the fetus/baby can look so alien/sci-fi-like with no sign of life.. it's head squeezing slowly out of the mother's womb.. it's bizzare! Then the next second, the whole body of the baby just slips out and once it takes its first breath, it lets out his/her first cry.. everything just moved so quickly that it's so surreal. And the funny thing is, once the midwife gets hold of the whole baby after popping out, she immediately wraps a small towel over the baby and literally drops the baby onto the mother's tummy and say "There you go, it's a boy!". It still makes me laugh..

I'm looking forward to next week.. gonna be starting my Psychiatry attachment next. It's gonna be fun! haha. Lots of things to look forward to in the coming months.. I can't wait ;)

I found this in my house! Do you think it's radioactive?

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Last but not least, I am glad to announce that the STAND UP Against Poverty Campaign last Sunday was an overwhelming success all over the world! Here's an excerpt from the official website:

Official Guinness Verification:
The world record for the most people to 'Stand Up Against Poverty' in 24 hours was set on 15 - 16 October 2006 for the United Nation's Millennium Campaign and involved a massive total of 23,542,614 participants in 11,646 events around the globe.

Six years ago, 189 world leaders sat down and agreed to end poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. On October 15&16, over 23 million people across the world stood up to remind them of this promise.

Jump Up! Can you spot me?

Summer Hols

Boo! So 3 weeks have come and past before I even realised. Am now back in the UK and the summer weather is all but gone... now it's just constant grey skies, cold and humid :S

I went night diving for the first time during my holiday, and it was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!

Here are some of the things I saw... (pictures don't do them justice!)

This cute little baby puffer fish was one of many
surrounding us as soon as we descended from the surface.

We got to see lots of crabs... from humungous ones to smaller than a ten cent coin!

This one is tiny as hell! I wondered how my friend spotted it.

Now this one was HUGE! And don't ask me what's on its back lol!

I've always thought that it must be really hard to see anything at night in the middle of the ocean! But the underwater lights were quite impressive. I mean, of course there was a limtied view at one time, but your eyes can only focus on so much at any one time anyways. So it turned out to be some kind of hide and seek, trying to 'seek' for the underwater treasures!

These tiny 'christmas trees' are in abundance on the corals.
They shut when you come to close.

Can you spot it?

This lionfish looks majestic in the water!

This is as close as we can get to the squid. It was fast!

This cuttlefish can change colour according to its surroundings. Amazing!

This is a nudibranch.
It's the cutest little thing ever, and they are hard as hell to find!

And the highlight of the dive was when we stumbled upon this...

A hawksbill turtle!

We followed it around for a bit, since I think we have just woken it hehe. Then it needed to resurface to get some air, and it was 'dancing circles' as it went up, it was breathtaking!

My friends told me I was really lucky to see all these in one night and prepare to be disappointed in my future night dives.. haha, I hope they're wrong!

Oh... and a shout-out to Gee! happy? lol