Friday, June 02, 2006

Gungho Janes and Workplace Woes

Late one day of blog posts and I've been chided by no less than three concerned fellas - who are inexpertly hiding the fact that they are obviously wickedly working hand in glove together. Still, it's a good reminder indeed that there are people out there who actually enjoy reading the occasional musing and rant from me. :)

Been a little busy settling down to the new environs, the new workplace and of course, the sudden shift in paradigm knowing that exams are looming dangerously up ahead while I'm still careering carelessly down that imaginary highway of life. In reality of course, the highway I take on a daily basis seems fraught with unforeseen roadblocks, maniacal motorcyclists and painfully slow drivers clearly placed on this earth to teach me sheer patience while driving me slowly insane. To add to my problems, my unfortunate broadband provider is taking a while to set up leaving me at the tender mercies of bartenders at Starbucks as I scurry suspiciously around with my laptop and caffe mocha.

Where does this lead to?
A door to all sorts of possibilities...

There are some perks along the way of course. Working in a new place has given me the chance to renew old ties of friendship with medical school compatriots such as Eagle Eye Eddie and also to observe unusual new personalities such as GungHo Ginny. Classified in an exclusive subset of the intense, overachieving, peptic-ulcer-developing student species - also known as Medicaschoola Bitchiora, medical physicians who huddle together in overly familiar, prison-like working environments ( also known to everyone else as the hospital ) tend to develop odd little quirks that distinguish them from the general population.

Unsurprisingly, GungHo Ginny displays all these abnormal quirks that mark an overambitious, desperately kiasu medical student but these are also the same unfortunate irritating quirks that would have one possibly branded as a deranged madman to be confined to an institution for her own safety. Always barging her way to be first in line, always the first to put up her overeager puppy waving hand to volunteer and always the first to blindly dash through an open door - hopefully one day falling inadvertently into a pool of starving alligators.

Don't get me wrong. I don't hate her. Yet. But that twitching clairvoyant eye of mine clearly foresees my wicked hands nudging her off a cliff sometime in the future for some unknown wrong. Then again, that would probably land me in deep trouble with the long arm of the law - which obviously frowns on doctors taking assisted precipitous leaps off sheer cliffs. Possibly they wouldn't blame me if she tottered off the edge and I was too frail to hold on, rite?

For those who are tut-tutting right about now for my nefarious plans, let's just say that finding someone to bitch about actually does count as a perk! Certainly takes my mind away from whining over the curiously alien workplace where everything familiar has taken a decidedly sinister cast. There's so little cause to celebrate after all...

Well oh yeah, perhaps only one - certainly not forgetting the added perk of being close enough to call up Charming Calvin for a regular meeting of wet tongues and Haagen Dazs. :)

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

what exam?
FRANZCA?

suelynanas said...

have been reading your posts on and off for a while.

your wicked sense of humour makes me laugh and the local slangs that you use make me slightly homesick. (i'm singaporean.)

I have been trying to trace your adventures with Big Bicep Barry by clicking on the links leading back to forever ago. perhaps you can point me to the definitive post on him? i'm kinda lost... and kaypoh at the same time! :p

ananas

pink dolphin said...

hey ther
remember me the medical student? ha ha
havent read yr blog for a while....
Ha ha about that person u wanna push over...tell me about it!! I'm doing the clinicals now, n seriously, this girl, gosh...kiasu gila!! Ha ha. And bitching is the , i mean, THE only avenue where i can whine and whine and whine about her..he he

which hospital r u at anyway?
last i remembered, Malacca, right?

Maximus Leo said...

Cest la vie in a Hospital as well eh? so Doctors can be the envious/jealous type as well eh? :-)

Patrick said...

Welcome back Dr. New job, new environment or perhaps new boyfriend..what a good turnaround

pakcik said...

since when you moved to a new working place? didn't know that.

still in Melacca? cause i still have plan to come down there one of this day liao

Anonymous said...

I hope you're not kissing a lot of asses to fit into the new environment. :-)

Work hard, study hard, and have lots of fun! Happy weekend!

Annie said...

GungHo Ginny.. OMG! LOL! .. we all know these people. Fortunately, I’ve never been the overachiever ambitious type. I prefer to be in the back of the line or class hoping for an opportunity to slip away unnoticed when the lecture gets boring. I read Paul’s blog because he’s wickedly funny and the photos of ho ho homely men isn’t so bad for the eyes either. Of course, when mother is here visiting, one must remember to scroll up past the pictures of magnificent beings and look innocent as she tries to see what you’re doing.

Overachievers like GungHo Ginny must be dealt with. Nothing wrong with say, pick-pocketing her stethoscope, leaving it in some poor unsuspecting patient’s room. When she notices it’s missing, you then suggest maybe she left it back at the other unit and insist she go find it. There really ought to be a international law for annoying behaviors. Some day soon, maybe. One can only hope.

Thanks for the laugh Paul.

famezgay said...

guess u in KL already uhmnn.. well good luck for ur new environment yah!

Anonymous said...

I am way to stupid to understand much of what you are writing about but I still enjoy your humor and the pictures. I don't comment often because I would rather keep silent and be thought a fool than open my mouth and remove all doubt:-(

Anonymous said...

Sounds like Ginny would get more than a nudge. Stay cool, Paul, and the best of luck on the move!

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Life Cafez said...

haha...you have a great sense of humuor :P Well, it's the exam period for me too. Good Luck and All the Best for us! Gambate :)

Wil

Musang said...

i once had one of those ginny type as a coursemate. hate him. because besides all that, he kiss asses too. lecturers' asses. i don't know how his friends going to live with that kind of guy. unless all of them are from the same species too.

you are in HKL? seriously? i'll be back to school in july. lets lepak together sometime soon with holden. chiao.

pakcik said...

U in KL? seriously dude?? where u stay in KL. by the way, whose that poster boy? looks cute enough...

savante said...

How didja know fanzca?! :O

Hi, ananas, glad you dropped by. Definitive post? Don't have a particular definitie post but you could trace it back to September when I met him.

Argh! Clinical years are worst with the kiasu students pushing their way to find the best subjects for their examinations :) Good luck, vas!

Ian, of course they can! We are not saints.

Keep your fingers crossed, patrick.

Moved recently, pakcik.

Unfortunately no cute asses around to kiss, shigeki.

They should all be confined to asylums for their safety, Annieee :)

Thanks, ceusm.

Just leave a comment, ed. Won't be thought a fool :)

Hi, mark! Whatchu doing over there!

Really hope the exams go well, wil!

Didn;t you feel like smacking students like that?

Paul

Alex said...

Welcome to my hometown....
New workplace, new characters... very interesting.... but don't push her over the cliff... pity her...
And we'll keep on reminding to update your blog!!!