Bizarrely Dreadful

That was an adjective used to describe a horrendous audition on American Idol 4, dished out by the one and only, Simon Cowell (he rocks!!!). Another term used was 'excruciatingly awful.' I love watching American Idol. It's been a while since Fantasia Barrino won the 2004 title... I remember that I would try to watch every episode. And it's also thanks to American Idol that a great talent like Clay Aiken was discovered... :P Somehow Malaysian Idol doesn't really do it for me. I mean, Jaclyn Victor was good, and I did vote for her in the Finals, but it wasn't as exciting for me. Probably because the other singers were mediocre. Especially Andrew. He was one heck of a kayu performer. And no one can compare to Simon Cowell. Paul Moss doesn't even come close.

But as medical students (and in the future, doctors), I know we'll receive far worse insults from our future clinical school lecturers and senior doctors. They may not be as witty or macho as Mr Cowell, but their words would definitely cut deeper. I've heard some horror stories from my brother, of how this particular doctor was mentally abused by the senior doctor and suffered from a nervous breakdown. He underwent therapy for a year... after that, he was particularly racist towards that particular senior doctor's race. All that hate... I feel sorry for him. He didn't ask to be conditioned that way.

Another houseman I talked to was really keen to specialise in Obs and Gyn. But her interest vapored off when... the same old story-lah... the senior doctor treated her really badly, to the extent of putting the blame on her when a newborn died when the senior doctor was also to blame.

I don't want to be affected that way. An awesome lecturer once gave me this great advice: "Never allow yourself to be emotionally antagonised by the examiner (or lecturer or senior doctor)" because such fire would inevitably come. There will always be constantly PMS-ing doctors. And there are the perfectionist doctors. In the end, it's all for the greater good of the patients. So it's very important to keep your cool and your head together after getting burned and recover quickly. He told me that AFTER he made me cry. Funny man. :)

Hmm. This post suddenly took on a serious tone. I actually started out wanting to make fun of the 'deaf' people who went auditioning for American Idol. Interesting.

On a lighter note, the living room tv is now okay... all by itself! Maybe it was just PMS-ing... or feeling a bit 'off-colour', haha!

Ciao.