Today, I received in the evening mail (okay, okay, we only have the evening mail on campus as the uni office sorts it out after "an post" does) my first package from home! Before this I've had correspondence from Irish banks, reward card points, et cetera et cetera, not to mention one from elseiver science which publishes Gray's Anatomy. You see, I am currently reviewing their other publication "McMinn's Human Anatomy - 5th ed." for my anatomy professors (this being forced on this unhappy med student by methods of cadaveric examination).
All this dry talk about dissections (related to cadavers, hence the sudden firing of a memory neuron) reminds me about my first dissection class. In my (laughable) KDU lab coat, I was standing by the cadaver when we were told to begin. I stripped my (still unnamed) body and was just about to pick up a scalpel and happily take out a pound of flesh for the venetian merchant (dad will have to point out any mistakes in this allusion 'cos he did this for his Eng Lit before he became a doctor and dad) when up came this tall lanky joel gohy feller who spoke, with scalpel in hand,
"do i cut right here?"
me: yes
"here?"
me: that's about right
(josen, for that's his name, proceeds to make an incision on the midline)
"am i deep enough?"
me: let me see... yes you are
[josen's necrophilic already?!]
only later did i realise that he thought i was the demonstrator! what a bloody lark med sch is sometimes. mostly though, it's a fucking bore.
Oh, yes, where was I? Ah, about the package I received, this will help illustrate the nature of my postal parcel:
dear mum and dad,
good news! i received the parcel!
5x fuimicil strips
2x clarinase strips
2x zyrtec strips
3x curry powder
1x pepper pack (not sealed properly)
1x dessicant
1x nice x.o. box
4x rubber bands
3x plastic bags
1x bubble wrap
1x brown wrapping paper
2x RM2
belimbing stamps
1x 40
sen rambutan stamp
1x RM10
kuini stamp
rather expensive to send the package over @ RM12.40!!!
if i had known that you would be sending it like this, i would have asked you to incld my beatles cd-rom in the package as it wouldn't have added more than 5g.
thanks a lot dr. and mrs.
*censored*!
love,
*censored*
TR€€ AFIR€
This tree on campus is a-burning...
...with love in the form of cotton candy clouds.
When Irish Winds Are Blowing...
...sure 'tisnt a morn in Spring.
Ancient Heritage
a couple mooning on penang hill, c. 1960
source: local newspaper archive
"H&W" c. 1850
source: re-framed unrestored daguerreotype
from nickito's archives, 2005
note: early photography actually did return
ultra-sharp and detailed images
as any search on the net will show
See husband and wife tree-couple over here!
The rest of my flickr photos are accessible via this sentence (yep! click it!)
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