Glorified and Edified

 

Work’s done, barring any unexpected phone calls. What an eventful day. Ward rounds was ok, same old, same old. Ho hum, ho hum.

The eventful stuff came from trying to write Blog Round 12 which drove me to near insanity. I must confess after surfing the the net for local doctor’s blogs in order to glean anything interesting to write about, I have come to a few conclusions:

1. Not many Malaysian doctors (that I can find anyway) blog

2. Those who blog do not update their blogs frequently except a few whom I shall now designate as HABIS people (Highly Active Bloggers In Service); and finally..

3. These HABIS people have probably too much time on their hands, OR, they have in their employment a webmaster, or personal sexytary secretary, or an IT savvy spouse to keep their blogs up to date. I happy (and embarrassed as well ) to say I have no one in my employment, no secretary and no IT savvy spouse to manage the blog. That could only mean I have too much time on my hands!!! :-(

Anyway, Blog Round 12 is ready to be released tomorrow.

The other eventful matter was the sheer frustration I felt trying to send off the article I wrote for the medical talk that took place last week, which I moonlighted freelanced as a writer. I don’t know why but after 6 hours of trying and 8 emails with attachments to various email addresses, I finally succeeded! Phew! Now I wait for the response to see if my writing career will ever take off!

I just had a chat with a friend online and he said he is but a ‘glorified secretary’. Actually he is an ‘engineer in a nursery product company’. Hmm, I wonder what that makes me? A glorified bomoh or sinseh???!!!

The other day, I was in Jusco and was amused to find that nowadays, those powerful small speakers that one attach to  MP3s or handphones are called EDIFIERs!!! oooOOO, how Christian!!! Soon they will come out with MAGNIFIERS, GLORIFIERS, OMNIPOTENTIZERS, etc etc!

Sorry, I rambled like a lunatic. Just feeling tired. Was pleasantly surprised to discover this Thursday is a public holiday. Hurrah!

Tonight, I am going to have dinner with a few guys. Just a simple dinner, not planning on doing anything sinful. Haven’t done that in a long time; I meant the dinner part, of course. ;-P

Tues, 170107 @ 1701

Blog Rounds for Dummies

Many have since asked me what in the world is a Blog Round ever since I mentioned it a few days ago. The Blog Round had its humble beginning in the  MMR a little more than 3 months ago which was started by the highly respected Palmdoc.

In his own words: “This (The MMR Blog Round) takes after the famous Medlogs.com’s Grand rounds. We’ll do a weekly round of the Malaysian Medical Blog scene and update you on what we have found interesting for the week. I think we’ll be concentrating mainly on Malaysian Doctor Blogs.”

So far there have been 11 (or XI, for those of us who are Arabic Numerologically Challenged) blog rounds. You can read about them here: Blog Rounds.

Medical Bloggers were invited to take up the rounds after Blog Round IX (that’s ‘9′ for those of us who are Roman Numerologically Challenged) and thereafter the baton was passed over to George, who targeted Bernard next, who found his next victim volunteer which is, well, moi!

I always welcome a challenge (life would be meaningless without one!) and has set in motion the writing of Blog Round 12. So, watch this space ya.

Tues, 300107 @ 0741