lavanderblues

Friday, August 12, 2005

ok im fairly disgusted. haha.. had my first anat pract today... and whilst i wasnt too put off by the sight of 10 bodies lying on neatly arranged dissection tables in the anat hall, nor the sight of naked, preserved shrivelled up human forms... nor touching (w gloves of course) skin, muscle, tendons and veins, i was totally put off by the smell.. this bak kwa, roasted meat cum acrid eye-watering formalin smell that permeates your every pore quite disgusted me.. haha.. and lost my appetite for lunch..

but otherwise, seeing the human body in its real (albeit dry, smelly) form, was really quite interesting.. and haha some of the faces of the corpses are still fairly intact, with the skin removed. HMMS. haha.. oh and my cadaver (each tut grp was split into 2 grps and assigned 1 each) had his head all wrapped up. he was an indian man, dark skin, well developed muscles, and well this particular specimen was quite fresh. haha. then the other grp had an old lady, whose bones were really frail... and u cld still see her facial expression. sorta anw...

well classes are really quite interesting so far.. abit pained that i've spent so much on textbooks already.. close to $380 if i get the $80 guyton today... hmms.. yeah.. enjoy reading up and stuff abt all the things we learnt in lectures =) haha.. and my anat tutor who's a doctor doctor doctor (haha go figure, an MBBS, PhD, DSc all in one!) woohoo! hahaha...

well just for now, maybe i wont touch meat... go vegetarian for abit.. walked past the roasted meat stall at arts canteen and felt nauseous... now and then a wave of that smell still wafts by.. haha and i think next CNY i wont be eating bak kwa already... haha..

ladida! its friday!!! =) =) =)

lin~*
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