Thursday, June 21, 2007
Day 2 in Chiangmai, Thailand!The plan for the day was for us to conquer Chiangmai University, snag all the good-looking Thai guys and make them accompany us to the Night Bazaar!!
I had, in my bag, a sharp blade, a net and masking tape to tape up their mouths so they wouldn't call for help from the Head of Department or their respective lecturers!! Muahahahaha!!!
So we set of in a red cab (bigger version of the tuk-tuk) eagerly; each of us hoping that the poor dude whom we capture is stinkingly rich!
Me, Xueling & Mei Ping with our impish grins before our adventure!
KIDDING LAH!!
We were supposed to go to CMU and every pair of students will visit a different department. I was kinda hoping to get into the Pediatric Department... but the lecturer chose Tami and Tham to join her. So bo bian, Nura and I had to go to the Orthopedic section (which turned out to be really fun!). Initially i thought to myself, "Huh?! Ortho ah?! Boring leh... everything also about bones and joints... I wanna play with children!!!"
But little did I know....
Before being assigned to Ortho department (wear blazer damn stylo... but the heat can kill!)
Group Shot! The guy in yellow on the extreme left, Yo, was in-charge of Nura and I for the day.
Somehow or rather, I look like I'm wearing nothing under my blazer in this photo!Once in the Orthopedic section, Yo showed us around and explained tonnes of stuff to the both of us patiently and IN GREAT DETAIL, despite knowing that we're nurses and not physiotherapists.
Thanks Yo! It's all very much appreciated!
He then let us try an experiment.
Visualise this: A boy who fractured his arm had his entire forearm wrapped in a cast for 6 months. So when it was finally removed, his palm area was a little numb because he was unable to move it when he had the cast one. Therefore, there was alot of muscle tension. (Phoebe, if my story is inaccurate, please close one eye k? Hahaha!)
Moving on, so HOW TO RELIEF MUSCLE TENSION?!
Let Nura and I show you how!!
Step 1: Insert your hand into a tub of paraffin. Temperature of the liquid has to be at least 40 degree celcius.
Make sure all your fingers are submerged ok! (Nura has the ability to create web-like structures too)
Step 2: Wrap it up in a plastic bag, followed by a towel and wait for 20 minutes.
DON'T LAUGH AT NURA! It's not comfortable! And the senior physio students were peaking at us. So you can imagine how pai seh the poor girl was. In case you're wondering why there's a towel around her neck, well, it's for the relief of muscle tension at the neck region. (Correct or not, Ting Ting??)
You guys get me so far?
NO???!!!!
Ok, we'll go through it once more...
Step 1: Insert your hand into the paraffin (and smiling for the camera helps you gain points as well)
Step 1: Insert your hand into the paraffin (and smiling for the camera helps you gain points as well)
ENSURE THAT IT IS FULLY SUBMERGED UNTIL THE WRIST!!!
Step 2: Wrap it in a plastic bag so it would dirty the towel
Then you use a towel and go over the plastic bag and let it stay in that position for approximately 20 minutes!
-20 agonising minutes pass by-
The paraffin loosens and there you have it, a cast of your own hand!
The paraffin loosens and there you have it, a cast of your own hand!
Made a few new friends who helped us with the procedure as well.
From left to right: Than 1, Fai, yours truly, Nura, Than 2 & Ping
FAI DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT I'M 18!!!!!
After that, we had lunch with the lecturers and one of them brought us on a tour around the school.
HYDROTHERAPY!
And we joined the senior PT students for their lecture on... was it about the lungs? Cause if I'm not mistaken, I heard the lecturer say, "CO2.... O2.... Haemoglobin..."
I wasn't paying that much attention firstly because I was seated right at the back and the students sitting in front of me were VERY TALL. Secondly, I was on the verge of dozing off (poor Tami and Tham couldn't close their eyes eventhough they were tired cause they were made to sit RIGHT IN FRONT of the lecturer!). And lastly, the lecture was in Thai! Yeah, the slides were in English but... too tired to read lah!
I appreciate NYP's lecture theatre so much more now!
Next up, we joined a tutorial on Pediatrics! Yay! FINALLY!
The dolls that students used to practise on; it has joints!!
This li'l fella was kind enough to share his notes with Tami and I. And he also let me play with his doll. I don't know his name but, thanks!!
Their classroom.
Lecturer doing a demonstration
Students with their notes and dolls
See, guys can be gentle too. They're gonna be great dads in the future... I hope!
A very tiring day for me, Nura and Pauline... look at our faces!!!
But then again, we still had energy to chill at the International centre's coffee place after that.
Ice Boom Caramel; the one and only drink I've had at Wawee. IT'S GOOD!
Came back to my room and decided to take a picture of the view from the window
Can see the mountains!!!
HAHAHAHA! Here's our closet!
We went to the Night Bazaar that evening and shopped all the way from 7pm to 12 midnight! No pictures of that place because my hands were full and I was feeling all hot and flustered, so no mood to go on snapping away. I bet we made numerous enemies... cause we kept bargaining and bargaining NON-STOP! Especially Tham and Tami!!! The bag was selling for 3000 baht, but they bargain until 1000 baht! Imagine how long they took to finally get the bag. And yes, they were the last ones to report back to Starbucks!
Shadow stepped, body touched, soul crashed at 12:03 pm.
