spawn & respawn

I sat quietly today, as an audience to a much veteran crowd, discussing about how our population is dwindling and all those-2012-end-of-the world talk, and how rare to see pregnant ladies nowadays. Skeptical. The statistics stated otherwise - at least in SP.

And an auntie went on saying...

Last time hor... one family hor... so many children...
Now hor... only 3 also consider many liao...
Last time hor... one house got many people...
Now hor... one fella hor... got many house...

I kept my silence. After all, their amount of bridge-crossing does trump my experience of road-walking.

But then, suddenly a thought crossed my mind.
Yes, I always have all those funny amusing (sometimes fairly idiotic) thoughts, which come to me like an epileptic fit.

There was this house officer who was always missing in duty, and taking so-called indicated 'emergency leave', that even twisted my HOD's arm. An EL my HOD just couldn't refuse. His 'emergencies' mostly involved certain relative - mainly his grandfathers, who was believed to be dead more than 5 times. Twice in my department, once in another, and twice again in the next.

In a small hospy like mine, the MOs do sit down and go through certain vital stats like how extended some family of HO can be and all the mysterious (and probably cool) re-spawns of that certain family member.

grateful to: Dr. M for letting me actually toast the ectopic in a fully-hands-on supervised lap salpingectomy.

P.S. since i started twinning in facebook. no one seems to come to blog anymore =( huhu.