Still jet-lagged

Crappy timings and getting sleepy in the afternoons. Now I've missed dinner, great. Microwaved this curry-and-rice convenience packet, and:

1) It tastes suspiciously like combat rations
2) It's extremely oily - these people obviously think that curry = oil, fresh milk, chilli and more oil.
3) The chicken was all hidden at the very bottom of the rice. Needless to say, I forced myself to eat all the "curry"-soaked rice before finding the chicken. Great.

Think I shall have to eat instant noodles later. Yx .. can bring CQYD?!? The instant noodles here suck big time!! Really awful things.

So I woke at 8pm, and now my sleep cycle's all messed up again. =/ And the silly muslim family next door keeps switching off the toilet lights - HELLO. I paid for accommodation, including the electricity yah?? There're so many rivers here, go make a hydroelectric dam.

Obviously extremely grouchy about missing dinner. And only now, did I find this extremely black, squashed banana in my coat pocket - too late.

Actually not looking forward to lessons tomorrow. Firstly, the horrid walk. I'll try to catch the bus tomorrow, getting blisters and sore ankles. And secondly, just the monotony in clinics. Somehow I was expecting to see something more .. exciting. Things like the upwards dislocation of the lens in Marfan's, like dendritic ulcers in herpes, and horrid cases of buphthalmos where parents rush in cupping their palms over their kids' rapidly-enlarging eyeballs and screaming. Nope, no such thing yet, although I'll be going to the eye emergency on Thurs. Nice! Time to see perforation wounds through eyeballs and orbital blow-outs! Going to join the other 2 students in their tutorials too .. the teaching here is good, I must grudgingly admit. 2 students to 1 tutor - they got the hang of the ophthalmoscope in less than 30 minutes. The tutors also arrive FULLY ARMED with educational material - mind, these are practicing doctors, not medical educators, and yet they treat teaching like it's their sole purpose in life?!? Shame on some people we know in Singapore! These tutors bring charts, models, examination kits (no such thing as "how come no one brought their tendon tapper??")

Also, the tutors here don't seem to overtax the students, unlike what we get in Singapore. In 1 single morning, we covered:

1) Anatomy of the eye. No nitty-gritty here, my friends. Just about the cornea joining the sclera, which is covered by conjuntiva. Behind the cornea is the lens, behind the lens is the jelly (yes they simply call it jelly, no technical mumbo-jumbo here) and after that the retina with the optic nerve. THAT'S IT. I remember slogging away with ciliary bodies and choroid and lacrimal glands and meibonian glands etc. 15 mins

2) Reading visual acuity charts. This, to me, is the worst failing in our ophthalmology posting. How many people actually know what a vision of 6/6 or 6/5 or 6/12 stands for? How many people know what's meant by 6/12-1? We were never taught how to use the 2.4m Snellen chart properly, even if that IS the most common piece of chart in our standard students' magic bag. 10 mins

3) Diabetic retinopathy. Nice and clear. Simple. 15 mins

And at the end of it, the tutor proudly told us that we covered more than enough for the day and we were welcome to take a break if we liked. I sat there, stunned.