Vampy's Weblog - Life of a Medical Officer

Finally, the letter confirming my registration as a doctor arrived after taking a tortuous route through the hospital.

It's rather an anti-climax if you ask me... Where's the balloons and confetti? I have been waiting for this letter so that my visa can proceed further and I'm glad it's finally here... Hopefully my visa will get approved before Christmas although I'm highly doubtful of it due to closures of offices during the next 2 weeks in Australia...

I'm enjoying my holiday or what is left of it... It has been quite some time since I could properly enjoy my holiday without thinking about exams and assignments.

How did I spent my final day as a medical student? I went for my morning ward rounds as usual and trying to hand over the list of things that needs to be done back to my registrar and resident. Bade my final farewell to them before proceeding to the de-briefing session which is more of an excuse to have coffee and cake. (Not that I'm complaining... Bring on the coffee!)

Went to have lunch with one of my classmate, bitching about doctors that we have come across over the years and contemplate our future as intern. Went home to do some last minute packing before heading down to the city to meet other classmates for dinner and drinks. Went to a mexican place which serves passable mexican dishes but the cocktails were pretty good. Went back to my classmates home to have champagne as sown in the pics below. For larger size photos and other pics click on the thumbnails.

- More champagne
- Celebrating our final moments as medical students

Okay, I just spend 3 frustrating days trying to get my mails directed to a different address. For whatever reason that is beyond my understanding, I'm unable to redirect mail to an address that I had used previously before. The address is a bona fide address that my clinical school uses for external agencies to send mails to them which I had at one stage use to get mails and my mails were being delivered to that address. Imagine I surprise when I tried 3 days ago to try and direct my mail to that same address while I'm away, I was told that it is not possible.

WHY?! That post office delivers mail to that address daily! So I spent the past 3 days arguing with them and finally I got one of the people who works in my clinical school to accompany me to the post office and still the guy insist I cannot direct mails to that address. So the way out is for me to sent to the PO box of the hospital and then get the secretaries of the school to sort the mail out such that they can direct to mail to the clinical school! I fail to see the logic of why every other piece of my mails in the past can be sent to that address and now that I want to redierct my mails to that same address I can't! Where's the logic?

Stupidity of postal service has no boundaries!