today all the Malay students came into class
dressed in their nice baju kurungs and
the guys with gold sarongs and baju Melayus.
i asked them what were their plans,
and they're going from open house
to open house tonight eating! ):

such fun lar!

plus one of the Malay guys intro-ed
me to his Irish guy who's Muslim.
i was *really* surprised!
he fasts and everything as well.
wow huh?

today i had a ClinicalRelevance class
which was all about pediatrics+ prenatal surgery
(which Addison specializes in!)
and it was really a whole slideshow of gore.

pictures after pictures of deformed fetuses
and these babies with genetic defects
were flashed and it was pretty scary.
these were real photos of dead children
and they showed us the process of doing
post-mortem procedure to find out how
they died and cut up parts of their body
to get specimen for slides.

i have a morbid fascination for these things,
it grosses me out really badly but
then again, i can't tear my eyes off these images.
but it was really gruesome.

like u could see all these babies where
the umbilical cord strangled them
and resulted in all the blood accumulating
in the head, causing the head to be all bloody
but the rest of the body pale white.
and babies with genetic defects....
well that's just really sad.

it's one thing to see photos on a screen,
but i think when i see these in real life
i'd totally freak out.

wouldn't you?