This has been an awfully cold and wet weekend, but fortunately Santa provided me with an NBA season starting this afternoon. Throw in a bunch of hours spent playing Counter-Strike Source, browsing Android-related forums, submitting code snippets… and its been yet another uneventful break. In all honesty, I’d much rather take a rain check on […]

Nothing eventful at all this birthday – another long but rewarding day at Texas Children’s Hospital. Scrubbed into a five hour total colectomy followed up by an open gastrostomy. Straightforward cases… but I’ve never felt so tired from just standing in one place.

So I was in Dallas last weekend for one of my good friend’s wedding and received a $75 fine in the mail for “running a red light at an intersection.” I’ve been driving in the Texas Medical Center long enough to know that stopping, yielding to pedestrians, etc. is a routine habit before making rights […]

May 1st will be remembered by many across the world as a day of celebration, and for many of the 9/11 victims’ families and friends, a day of closure. Osama bin Laden’s death brings up many interesting points – how could he be sheltered so close to a top-notch Pakistani military training base without being found? […]

Since I don’t foresee myself having time to work on this site’s framework too much during clinics, I went ahead and made some small tweaks (most of which won’t be visible to the front-end user): combining a few CSS sprite images, throwing some CSS3 shading onto the page, adjusting some text sizes and scalability, and […]

This birthday was pretty uneventful. I spent most of the day watching football. I’m so proud of the Texans for winning the incredible game against the Redskins, but even more ecstatic that the Cowboys are starting 0-2. Looking forward to the Saints’ game against the 49ers tomorrow! With exams around the corner, I tried to […]

During the Q & A portion of a med/tech presentation I gave yesterday, I was asked why I pursued medicine if information technology (IT) seems to account for most of my hobbies and interests.

I distinctly remember the first week of school when the course directors had a “did you know one of your classmates _______” session. Did you know one of your classmates invented _______, or worked for ______, or volunteered as a ______? I watched so many people go up in front of the class and receive […]

Well it’s another New Year’s Eve spent at home except this time I’m jumping between Counter-Strike Source and First Aid USMLE Step I. In retrospect, 2009 was an incredibly unusual year because of the amount of free time I had. Once school started, I quickly become occupied with trying to get back into the swing […]

So between watching King James and company destroy the Lakers in Los Angeles, reading some First Aid, and watching Rain Man for the millionth time (in honor of the late Kim Peek), Christmas was pretty uneventful. In fact, with each passing year, holidays seem to mean less and less. Many of my classmates finally had […]