Good friday

Collected my repro results today, seriously doubting if it would be possible for me to justify what I got. Can still remember the many mistakes I made in that paper, the most major of blunder of which was committed in the matching section, where I cretinously combined ‘Cervical in-situ carcinoma’ on the left with ‘The treatment of choice is mastectomy’ on the right. Not very difficult for anyone to envisage myself turning into one of those particularly distinguished type of doctor who never seem to have to wait very long, if at all before encountering their next subsequent lawsuit. It brought me back to just the other day when I had smugly dismissed as mental the incident related by one of our batchmates where he had said that one of his mum’s friend who was supposed to be admitted to a hospital for hysterectomy, had her bladder removed instead by the surgeon.

Was supposed to be having a session of tennis this evening with a few other batchmates after our csu at four. And much as our enthusiasm and gusto was to be commended, I wasn’t exactly sure how it was going to turn out if it did at all as out of the five of us only one had ever had any experience with the game. Of the other four, one had never held a racquet before, one had difficulty understanding how scores were kept, one wasn’t sure what the difference was between a singles game and a doubles and one had insufficient blood running through the veins and likely to collapse in the middle of the court ala a pack of cards and in serious need of artificial ventilation halfway through a match.

Mercifully our plans had to be postphoned when by thursday all five of us still were unable to find a court on which to play on, although i wasn't sure if we knew where to look in the first place. Hopefully in the coming few weeks at least one of us would have the blissful serendipity of being able to stumble upon one while the rest sits at home and continue in our epic struggle to pursue enlightenment on our presently negligible knowledge of the game…. and maybe then we would be able play tennis.