It was a post-call day.

With the irresistable screenplay of The Hunger Games , plus an obvious overestimation over my energy span, there I called up sister and dad for the premiere at 10pm. a pretty reckless move!

Story is taken from the original novel by Suzanne Collins , centering on an annual national event, where boys and girls are randomly picked up from each districts as tributes, and put into a survival game where there allows only one life remains. Katniss , the 16-year old

Oh my God.
This one is a big surprise.

As far as I remember, it has never been publicized too much locally (despite having starred Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield! ). As recommended by a nice MO during an overnight call, I traced my to-watch list - and I did put it down few months back!

Without hesitation I picked it up as my weekend choice - and BAM - it blew my away instantly.


The story is and straight, it goes with 3 ordinary childhood friends Kathy

I was first recommended this film by a good friend and teacher of mine in Oncology. Sadly missed several chances in theatre, I was now finally able to capture it again when the DVD is out. And indeed, what a powerful piece of drama!

Don't be misled by the trailer, The help isn't about how a white saved the colored. It's story of bravery and courage - on how the discrimated spoke for themselve.

The Help , with almost all-female casts, is deeply

Its our anniversary again, time for picking up something for my love one.

In the past I tended not to go for the styles and fashion thing - you know girls, sometimes, went really unpredictable and intuitive on their tastes of fashion. I've tried few times when shopping with Landico, to make some boy-guessing on her pick on clothes, bags, boots, accessories; unfortunately the hits rate went low - really low.

This year I decided to make it a challenge.

Going into boutiques I

Reel steel is indeed a wonderful masterpiece, much much outplayed the so called robot-classic Transformer series .

The chemistry between Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo is simply phenomenal. Though that the perfect musculine outlook of Jackman still possess a faint shadow of wolferine, he did play the pure yet complex father-and-son bonding so well, that for every robot battle they played - there is so much warmth in it, apart from the metallic crushes. Still, I believe that its Goyo 's sincere, pure, cute

Millions thoughts raced through my mind but the packed overnight calls left me with no room for sleeping, let alone blogging! Roar!

Here are some bits and pieces:

1) Perhaps being an oncologist, the first thing one should equip with is to know where to stop. Be decisive on cure, be realistic on palliation.

2) Sometimes, words of genuine care are way more comforting then offering the 3rd 4th or 5th lines of chemotherapy.

3) Never overlook suffering and pain.

4) Presentation

Its obvious and true that we are overinvestigating and overtreating our patients. But knowing the very fact does not change our current mode of practice, why is that?

As usual I had my overnight duty last Sunday. It had been a very miserable night and I could bearly take a breath until 3am. While still busy preparing patients for cardiac cath the other day, I received a call from nurse informing me of a old gentleman complaining of chest pain.

Attending the patient, after only a few lines of chat I

Let me share a recent story.

Well, he is a businessman in his fifties. Living with his family he enjoys quite a good past health. Only that he found himself a lingering headache for a week, together with on and off cough and occasional sneezes. Coming to the emergency department, he met a busy doctor, diagnosing him with chest infection, X-ray taken with some bloods drawn, he was then sent to our unit.

Few minutes after entering ward, nurses found him with fever. With the

Well, Horseshoe crab (Chinese:鱟) is indeed a phenomenal creature.



While reading the latest National Geographic mazagine this month, this ancient and evolution-proof creature is written about again. By ancient, I am refering to 450 millions back then, even long before dinosauers came ruling the earth. How could we not be interested by this very organism, which has happened to survice through all the major extinction events, and presenting themselves in the form almost unchanged all these years?

But what amazes is not