My favorite month is January

If I had status updates on facebook, they would probably run like this over the last month:

Early January:

Pathology exams were a blip on my calendar that I spend one month preparing for. No really, they were the highlight of the whole month.

Mid January:

Spent 5 days in Hong Kong mainly eating and shopping with random relatives. I ate like there was no tomorrow.

But I didn't gain much weight, surprisingly.

End January:

Rotting at home for the past few days. Really can't wait for electives to start. Still need to iron out some blips with the schedule. Argh.

Someone may be changing university given a surprise, extremely last minute but unconfirmed offer from Monash. Urgh.

And found out first hand from someone that bowel prep is not as simple as it looks - it's absolutely disgusting. Hopefully the actual procedure would be better - though I doubt it.

I prefer end January. Or rather, I'm rather looking forward to the end of January.

Pathology...

...is terribly boring. But sometimes interesting descriptions perk me up.

• Concentric laminated thickening of intima or media – onion skinning in hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis
• Watery Diarrhoea causing Hypokalemia and Achlorydia - WDHA syndrome
• "Sugar icing"appearance of spleen during portal hypertension - copied in lecture notes
• And my personal favorite is asthma:

What do u think are... Charcot leyden crystals?.... ..Derivatives of eosinophil granules?
Creola bodies?... ..clusters of necrotic epithelial cells? Curschman spirals?... ..mucus plugs?

Pathology - There's too much to study! Argh!

It's that time of the year again - Christmas! There are lots of crowd-pleasing, family friendly movies out this season. Coupled with the excitement of finishing my last major posting (and nothing much else to do), I find myself watching Harry Potter and Rapunzel in a short span of a week.

Which movie did I like better?
Harry Potter for its brooding angsty outlook and its remarkably gorgeous lakeside/ forest/ grassland scenes (More for the scenery actually - I need to travel and see these places for myself - or are they just figments of my imagination?)

Rapunzel for the final cut at the end - though I thought it'd would have been better if the hair remained the only thing magical about Rapunzel (reference to the final scenes). Not everyone likes a fairytale ending, haha.

Last major posting - O&G - finally completed! 194,294,429 likes.
Last major hurdle of this year - pathology! 18,472,074,820,875 dislikes.