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Thursday, August 25, 2005

medical school is daunting.

everyone rushes to mug after lectures. despite sleeping at 3am last night going through my upper limb tutorial on joints, i still am confused about all the muscles, innervations, bones, muscle insertions and origins, movements etc. prof voon is a darling to go through stuff with us in extra supplementary lectures, even though my tummy was rumbling all throughout his insights on how to study joints today... maybe prof gopal will enlighten me tomorrow. haha...

well actually everything isnt very hard to understand. the stuff we study is, well to me, manageable. its just the sheer volume of it that is immensely daunting. talked to the m2 jianyang (did i get his name right??) during break today, and he was guiding me on how to study anatomy... which sounded okay i guess... but when you get down to it, well i hope it'll be better.

i wonder how my life would have been different if i had chosen to go to imperial instead.. well for one i'd still be slacking right now instead of plowing through stacks of anatomy, physio, histo and biochem textbooks every single day. but its not really time to regret my actions.

spent lunch at subway at holland v with fiona and candice, and miriam as well (who happened along and joined us there heh). over my favourite veggie delite with extra cheese, we were totally ranting how crazy the whole pace was, and well other stresses in life too.. it feels like As all over again, just that now i'm grasping in new ground... new learning methods to adopt, new habits, and living on my own in my cosy (claustrophobic) little pgp room.

other than the work, i've made friends who are such gems... my og ppl like bean, cel, zhen, sheryl, esther, hilda, weiming, liwei, zhenjin (mac convert!!!!), tengsoon, yingxian etcetcetc, other random people like candice, miriam, dennis, and loads of others... well they just make the whole thing rosier larh... makes it easier to trudge to class every day... haha and today just as i was walking back for the extra lectures the dean's office sprung on us, had an impromptu arm wrestling session with yingen which was REALLY funny hahaha...

now, as fiona, candice, miriam and the rest of med fac are undoubtedly doing, i shall attempt to relieve my stress by studying. over lunch, we've concluded that this is probably the best way to relieve some of the pressure suffocating us...

upper limb.. here i come!

lin~*
8:23 pm