Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Scrubs!

Rome said...
Your blog's fascinating, I love it! This is coming from a Senior musician in high school planning on doing a pre-med track. What school do you go to?

Thank you for the kind words. I would rather not publically disclose the school I attend for privacy reasons, but feel free to contact me by email if you would like to talk more about this music major/pre-med combination. I am just getting started with it, but I think/hope it will work out. I tried to find a contact email, but your profile is private. :)

Last night, I watched the third and fourth episodes of Scrubs Season 8, and I have to say that I am glad that the show seems to be getting back on track. Scrubs has been one of my favorite shows for some time now, and I was pretty disappointed with the first two episodes of the new season. Has anyone noticed that major characters are missing from each of the episodes so far (except the first one)? The second episode only featured J.D. and Turk; I am not even sure if Elliot, Dr. Cox, etc even appear.. I am sure this saves money, but it's kind of weird to have entire episodes without major characters.

I know that medical shows are incredibly unrealistic and contribute to false impressions about the medical environment, but there is just something about Scrubs that appeals to me. One doctor that I spoke to actually told me that Scrubs was semi-realistic, not in terms of its situations and the drama, but because humor was pretty much the only way to reconcile the truly sad nature of hospitals. Doctors and hospital staff have to do all that they can to get by without becoming lost in the emotional rollercoaster that it must be to treat sick people that could suddenly die.

Although the medical field seems like such a depressing field, there is something magical about it. It is science in action -- our ability to use our discoveries to enhance our lives. And that, is something that I'd like to be a part of.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

A New Year

It is now the year of 2009. It is hard to believe that I have lived on this Earth for 18+ years now. When people say that time flies by, they really mean it. It's such a paradox to think that in the moment, life can seem to move by slowly, but then, when looking back upon a period of time, it seems to have gone by so much faster. What a weird phenomenon.

Today, Palm announced their new smartphone -- the Palm Pre. Bluntly, the phone looks awesome! For a company that was doing quite poorly before, this phone is definitely a step in a the right direction. I have never been a big fan of Windows Mobile, and I don't feel like paying the monthly fee for a Blackberry, which pretty much leaves Palm (I don't have AT&T). The Palm Pre basically looks like an iPhone with a slide-out keyboard. It has multi-touch just like the iPhone, and based on the videos I have seen, it is nice and fast. The phone even has an accelerator (detecting when the user rotates the phone) that seems to work REALLY well. Essentially, it has all the features of the iPhone. It even does this crazy cordless charging thing when you just place it on this circular thing. It should be released sometime in the first half of this year (according to the press release), and I am really looking forward to playing with it in store or maybe even buying it for myself. :)

I go back to school in a few days. The days of complete relaxation are ending soon.