I have been trying to write something, anything worth posting for quite some time now - to no avail evident by my blog hiatus for about 2 months now. But then, having the time and some motivation (insert overwhelming emotions and sentiments) to write something, yay! here it is! It has been the 3rd day since we (me and pao - one of my blockmates) have become inadvertently "un-blocked". You see, there is a varicella (chicken pox) outbreak around the hospital, where two health workers have become infected with it - and the hospital is trying to quarantine the pediatric ER, wards and the nursery ICU for 14-21 days. Anyway, our immune systems were not actually so excited to do their jobs that our varicella IgG titers were nowhere around the expected levels for us to be cleared. Thus, in the efforts of the administration and the hospital infection control unit, to control the outbreak, we were not allowed to continue and rotate into the wards with our block (hence the reference...