Of Birthdays And Night Calls

the cg celebrated mother goose's 22nd birthday on friday. dinner was at crystal jade korean bbq and because we booked early we got a whole room to ourselves. private room = crazy antics and conversations not to be repeated outside the room. heh.

after the food we took out the cake:

looks nice -- and it certainly was a most delicious chocolate cake, but not before the guys took over the cutting and totally destroyed it :

makes you wonder why there are so many guys in surgery.

anyhoo, it was a great night. we wanted to go up to the rooftop garden at lido, and spent a great deal of time going up elevators and ending up in creepy parts of shaw tower. those places are perfect locations to film horror movies, and the dingy lift landing was reminiscent of the movie dark water. in the end, we were told by the security guard the place was closed in the night, so we went home.

the next day was saturday, and i was scheduled to do night duty. thought i was late because the traffic was literally crawling on the highway, but when i arrived, there was scarcely anything happening in the wards. had a nice talk with the housemen on call and helped to take some bloods. i must say that my blood-taking skills have improved greatly, and oddly enough because of my gp posting where i drew numerous blood samples for the maid checkups. no spectacular cases, only a pid and a likely pathological fracture of the distal femur. we stayed past midnight to watch the nurse set up a thomas' splint on the second patient, so i would say it was quite a good night call (especially with the two funny housemen) although i was appalled to see my name up on the board under "doctors on call". the list started with "consultant" and ended at "medical students". pretty scary, so it was fortunate that no one really noticed it. heh.