You don't need to know why mosquitoes transmit Malaria

m3rd day of school was filled with some sparks of humour. Prof Su cracked so much jokes in lecture that I'm pretty sure not only myself fall in love with him. That mosquitoes on the title is what he said. Parasitolgy is an interesting subject. You won't need to know the philsophy of it. It's science and all you need to know is mosquitoes transmit Malaria. Stop there and don't ask why. Basically, all you need to do is just to know what and how. Right. That makes Parasitology something interesting already. At least when we don't need to know about the pathogenesis.

Parasitology is not a subject you can fail easily. Even though you decided to fail the subject, you still won't be able to, because somehow you will eventually get the right parasites. And the whole class was laughing off, I'm certainly sure everyone woke up from the sleep from the previous DPHS lecture. And there's something he said that got to me. Medicine is like the noblest proffesion out there. And I mean it is. It's like when you're a patient and you were lying on the bed in the hospital, it's not the nurses or the free food that you were looking forward to, (or is it THE "NURSES" LOL) but it's the doctor that you were waiting for. When a doctor came in and tell you "You're okay, nothing's wrong with you, you will be out in no time" and you will be like AAAHHHH...and he continued Or if y0u're the doctor and you could go like "I know you, there's a patient with the exact symptoms like you two days ago" and the patient would ask what happened to the previous patient and you would say "he DIED" in such a humorous tone that the whole lecture hall was filled with laughter. And somehow he touches on the pathogenic flagellates Giardia lamblia, where one of the symptoms of this parasites would be lethargic and weight loss, and he said we could keep slim by just taking a cyst of that flagellates. Should you have any problem with your weight, you could always come to my department and ask for this cyst. We could give it to you and you take it with some water. Soon enough you can eat all you want without worrying getting fat. HAHA.

And somehow he came to telling us we would be doing some stool for parasitology practicals. Oily stool, watery stool, chunky stool, bulky stool, all types of smelly tools that you could never imagine. EWWWW. Yup, you heard that. We would need to examine stools for parasites such as Entamoeba histolytica for the next couple of months. This is actually very amazing. Amebas are the ones you can see pseudopodias moving out slowly (and he started to stretch out his hands like he's so amazed), and there's the flagellates with flagella, I mean what else does they have right? And of course there's the ciliates, whenever they move you see the waves on the culture... so beautiful... Right, if only I could get myself over with the gross facts that I am actually mending people's tool. And Prof Su continued with more jokes on stool. I never understand why we get only tiny bit of stool to examine. I mean I can understand why people are stingy with money. If I ask you for you for money, you can be stingy. If I ask you for (forgot what it was) you could be stingy. Same goes for energy, you can be stingy with energy. But stool man, I asked for your stool, and you only give me this tiny bit. Come on! It's your stool, it's useless already! How funny with someone can really make decent stool-jokes without making other people vomit. LOL

Prof Su had so much to tell I can't simply blog it all out. Even if I wanted to, it's going to take more than an hour for you to finish reading this post. :-) Either way, it sure is a good day. The day hasn't really gone deep, but it's good so far and it's getting better. I'm pretty sure I will be enjoying today as much as I enjoyed last weekend.