So much for the hype of Christmas. Now I see things from my dad's point fo view. Growing, we used to wonder if dad was so stiff that rather than get into the groove of Xmas and catch some fun, all he ever wanted to do on those days was to just ...................SLEEP!
But now I am older and wiser. having spent this Xmas on my own........or most part of it cos I was on call yesterday Christmas day (patching up lacerated scalps), all I wanted to do was just catch up on some much needed rest. i''ll be the first to admit it- it's been quite a stressful year!
So much for all the reports I intended to get done and the outstanding data on my September project. Well next time I suppose.................
On good thing I discovered about this time was Wikipedia. Truly mindboggling to know that there isn't nothing in the world you cannot find out about.
It would not be entirely true to create the impression of achieving little this Xmas. after all I was able to finally get that daunting task of cleaning up the post-renovation mess. so now the house is spick and span (not gonna enjoy it much now I am rounding up youthservice), i finally got to cook again....Yipay (bye bye to mama-puts Hehehhe:)) , now I can get to work to strangling my nemesis: procrastination...............

It really is tough being a doctor in an underdeveloped country as Nigeria. Not only do you have to spend so many years in the limbo that is the typical medical school, swotting away frozen in time while the rest of the world moved on; you afterwards come into the harsh reality of the fact that it is a really tough world where the appellation "dr" merely brings huge social expectations without actually equipping you financially to meet them.
As i sat in the examination hall today for the primary examination in Community Health for the West African College of Physicians, at Ibadan, Nigeria; i reflected that of the over two hundred doctors who sat huddled in that room, probably none was really interested in the exam for any reason other than the fact that it offered the only hope for a job which offered any thing more than the $400 average monthly salary of a doctor.
I wondered also how of my brilliant colleagues relished the prospect of a lifetime of continuous study, exams, ........... I certainly don't though I happen to favour continuous self development which ought to be quite diversified and not the claustrophobic locked in alternative that medicine offers.