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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
hee hee!
post exams!!!
one more mth till more shit comes!
haha.. and i finally got my camera!! (courtesy of wenkien - whom, incidentally comments that u can really find out anything abt me from my blog. bleah)
shall put my new cam to good good use =) and thus, here are some photos from today! =P haha...
the camera from its packaging!!
haha candid shots of wenkien n me aft we opened the box.
and of wenkien's tigger. the adorable white tiger =)
zhen, sheryl, hilda and me on the train to orchard! hehe shopping!!!
the boyfriend and me! hehe finally in orchard =) whoosh!
went to pepper lunch for his dinner!
if u dunno what this no. means. haha TOO BAD. =P
nice sizzling beef and chicken pepper lunch set. it was really really really really yummy hehe. i've never tried pepper lunch b4, din eat today either cos i decided to go hme and have dinner. but yes, i snuck a few bites and it was really good =) but hms strange how ppl will pay like $15 to cook their own food haha...
ok me pretending to finish all the food. yeah yeah...
went scarf shopping aft that! i need a scarf for my spain/holland trip next week! hehe... think im gg to get this one.
ok as u can see we basically went trigger happy and took lots of pics. din post all of them. hehe... met zhenjin n jerry at pepper lunch where they had dinner whilst waiting for their respective gfs. (i think bfs are so long suffering, hehe.. poor thigns awww), and andrew and enming were on the mrt with us girls too! hehe...
so aft that i kept the camera safe. hehe in this nice white leather pouch i got for it! =) =) =)
gosh cant believe CAs are over! CB was alright. physio and anat werent so alright, but think i'll pass la. good enuff for me. =) yeps. gg to really enjoy this break. shuen's finally back frm aust! yay! yeps! more stuff to do! haha lots of other plans too like gg pedi w cel, dinner w yun, fiona and the gals, shopping w mummy, research n prepping up for the trip. really hope the stupid FRS doesnt load too much work onto us hahaha... im in too much of a holiday moood alr. hehehe...
lin~*
10:12 pm
Sunday, November 27, 2005
wah ultra slack. last night after dinner couldnt study at all. look at the paper nothing gg in. ended up doing crap the whole night. this morning, after crispy prata breakfast at thomson, lay on the bed with mummy reading mags and chit chatting. now then im starting to re pick up the books. im so so so freaking screwed.
was chatting w my cousin frm msia, who's doing medicine year 1 there too. she told me how they've havent started anatomy yet, and so far in abt the same time frame, they've just done all that we've done in biochem, and like a little bit of physio. WTH!!!!!. i feel cheated haha. since young, she's always been ultra mugger. more mugger than me, so that's saying alot. (she used to top the village she was frm all the time, with perfect scores and whatnot) and she's been saying that she's been really qt free since she entered med school. SIGHS. SIGHS SIGHS. but well i suppose there IS supposedly a difference in the quality of doctors produced there and here in nus med. so i suppose i shldnt complain. owells.
lin~*
1:16 pm
Saturday, November 26, 2005
OMG IM SO EXCITED!!!
lawrence went to sim lim today to get some harddisk cable... and i asked him to just simply check out the canon ixus 55 prices there.. hehe.. whereupon he called me in the afternoon (in the midst of resp mechanics) to tell me how he found a shop that wld sell it at $550!!! wow! cos usually the places sell it at $699! gosh. so i was like YESS! pls get! haha.. but then the guy said oh no more promo sets, if want have to get the display pc and whatnot. so messy. lots of messy discussions and endless phonecalls later, managed to get the camera, a 512mb card and a card reader for $630 (gst inclusive). then got another camera batt at $32 or so. gosh i consider it a pretty good deal larhs. I FINALLY GOT ME AN IXUS! haha...
the only problem now, is that its with my darling, who has happily taken a few photos with it alr.. haha.. and i'll only get it on tues night earliest?!? so sad. haha... owells $660 poorer. but i need the cam before i head to spain in 2wks time! haha im so excited abt that too! going to amsterdam for 2 days, then barcelona and madrid! gosh. a long 2wks basking in the nice wintery cold of europe. away from here... with not a worry.. post exams. i'm too excited of what's going to come in just 4more stupid days.
everyone's mugging. i cant find anyone to chat with. im losing my motivation to mug. and im supremely bored. bleah. i sleep early nowadays, when i read i jsut read. i dunno what goes in. sian la. ling told us on fri that he'd be proud of us if we simply pass the CA. i shudder at the thought of what's to come.
fatfatfat!! haha too tired and stressed frm mugging to like make sure i dun snack. low resistance level. bleah. been putting on weight. but owells, hopefully will lose it after exams anyhow hehe what with all the shopping post exams, walking ard in spain and holland that i forsee. lets hope so. hahaha... but i realise that i might have a pretty high metab rate, cos just wout snacking, and doing my usual runs or swims, i'll end up losing wt alr. so no snacking hehe...
oh and on thurs, lawrence n i took a 2hr run!!! haha.. i think it was more like 3hr for him. but yeah... cos he ran to pgp, i met him halfway, we ran to rachel's hse, she wasnt in, then ran to dover mrt, to buona vista mrt, then back to pgp... then he ran home. didnt feel the fatigue at first, was act high after the run. but when i hit the bed to read my respri notes, i totally konked out. haha... owells.
lin~*
9:18 pm
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
whee! am in pbl now! saus is talking about sudden onsets of abdominal pain. beebam is next to me saying im zai for blogging in the middle of pbl and wells, the rest of us are just mucking through, hoping that this can end soon and we can all go and mug for CAs happily ever after. BLAH.
mm harry potter was alright i suppose. nice effects, wld have been nice if they didnt cut everything off just as it reached the climax. like i was totally wowed by the quidditch world cup, but they cut it just as the match began. thought that somehow i wld be able to see some real zai action, and well u'd have thought that with all the effort that went into making the set for that, they'd have wanted it to have more screen time.
the rest of the movie was good... but it kinda reminded me of one of my gp summaries in jc, where u just simply put tog the mainpts, heck whether its coherent, and hope that ur para doesnt exceed the required no. of words (usually 130).
ok brief hiatus from blogging to check for pictures of intestinal air-fluid levels. bleah. interestingness =)
and wells, managed to go karaoke and lots of nice dinners over the wkend cos my aunt and her family were here. fun! but limited mugging. hehe.. owells. really think im gg to screw this CAs up. sighs. today ling was so disappointed with us =( haha... cos like i cldnt rem lots and lots of thorax stuff hahaha... ladidum.
anyways still can look forward to lots of play post CAs:
1. 1 year anniversary!!! =)=)=)
2. kbox!!!
3. read STIFF.
4. go spain!!! =)
5. buy stuff like jeans, lip balm, camera b4 spain!
6. decide whether to cut hair
7. meet up w lots of frens =)
8. no more stress. sleep lots yay!
haha yeah. k blog later la. conscience starting to make me feel guilty for blogging here. hehe.
lin~*
3:22 pm
Thursday, November 17, 2005
couldnt sleep last night. i was too hungry to sleep, too tired to mug. in the end i did both anw... drank a can of minestrone and cuddled up under the sheets with snell. dozed off on and off reading abt the axilla. got startled into consciousness at about 5ish when it started to storm and storm. super scary. lightning flashing all over the place and i kept jumping with each clap of thunder. being alone in pgp isnt that great. cos even though i know that right next door there's like ppl everywhere, i feel like i'm the only one alive sometimes. haha...
had a bowl of century egg porridge this morning from the aircon food court downstairs to calm my harried senses, that was really quite nice. and abit of biscuits post resp lect that was a total waste of time, only to vomit the stuff back up just now. BLEAH. sucks man. first syncope, then reverse peristalsis. BWEAH.
ohwells. harry potter to look forward to this wkend! with sweet popcorn and wonderful company (mum, dad, and my darling!) mum finally promised not to order mixed popcorn, cos we just end up deciding that the salty ones suck, and sifting through the whole bucket for the sweet ones anw, and lawrence has to eat all the salty ones because in the name of hospitality, my parents will give him all the rest anw (poor thing...*pats*) hahaha... yay finally a chance to like have a life in this stupid prep for 3 mcq papers tt everyone's totally overreacting over. including me.
and my auntie frm penang and her family are in my hse right right now! wish i was back home.. haha... enjoying the creature comforts and great company. owells. exams in 12days time. bleah.
lin~*
12:18 pm
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
pdp today was pretty fun =) A/P Cheong toally wowed us with his ability to ask "open" questions that would enable the patients to open up to him and tell him stuff... haha the bunch of us tried, and with some assistance frm prof, well managed to find out some pretty interesting clinical stuff from the patients, like abt lupus and diabetes, and dialysis... and when they talk abt living with these conditions for like 30years, i really feel lucky that im not suffering frm any right now... this lady was super optimistic abt her whole condition despite it being really qt pitiful. owells.
oh yeah and i fainted for the first time today too. in the middle of interviewing the optimistic strong old lady bleah. was standin there talking to her, then prof and jerry cut in with some qns and stuff the prof wanted to tell us. then for me, i started feeling giddy and nauseous... the world started to disappear in a wave of static before my eyes.. then like frm colour to greyscale to that "ghost" effect on tv where u only see shadows... and then black out... but all the time i think my eyes were open just that i prob looked like i zoned out... then i totally cldnt hear, like someone clamped sthg over my ears, and my legs felt wobbly and i was like shaking abit... grabbed the table behind me, and the person beside me (i think it was jianping)...then huising and jerry (who were opp me across frm the bed) suddenly interrupted the prof and said "huilin are u ok".. haha then the prof made me sit down. bleah. super paiseh. interview the patient scully become the patient. apparently i was super pale or sthg, but the colour returned.
bleah. low blood volume, plus low blood pressure, lack of O2 to the brain. resulting in syncope.
pdp was interesting. hehe... like trying to learn to think on ur feet whilst talking to the patient is really no mean feat. u can't ever lose the connection w ur patient or u're gone. bleah. haha..
and it was damn mean can... we were walking ard in our "formal" attire. guys wearing shirt and ties, girls, well just more formal. then some m3/4s walked by and said audibly "see those monkeys everywhere today". like huh... werent they once m1s excited abt their first hospital visit in the capacity of a medical student??? sighs. lack of empathy. fail communication. *beep*
lin~*
5:56 pm
Monday, November 14, 2005
bleah so tired and zonked out. cldnt muster the energy to mug. slept all the way yest frm 5 till dinner, and then again when i came back to pgp after dinner. till 7. wanted to wake like sometime in between to mug, but did practically nothing. like just one chapt of pH&buffers. ohwells haha and now i wake up im just int he process of unpacking my pgp stuff for the week. bleah. terrible dream last night too... shall blog more abt it later. gotta run for lect now.
lin~*
7:33 am
Sunday, November 13, 2005
whee nice wonderful breakfast!!! haha mummy made toast bread, with bratwurst sausage, purnia (my new maid) cooked wonderful sunnyside up eggs!! and there was baked beans too!!! washed down with a wonderfully aromatic marks&spencer camomile tea sweetened with french honey ahhhhh.. *in bliss*
and last night, went for french at sebastian's with the family... had this red wine beef stew with mash potatoes and chocolate turnover w strawberry sorbet for dessert!!! so good...
and in the afternoon, went to china sq to try hakka "tea rice" which was pretty tasty, and i had my all time fave from my abn-amro days - MR TEH TARIK!!! i made that huge cup of teh-ping last 5hrs hehe.. so nice!!! stumbled upon this nice hokkien/cantonese traditional kuey shop around there too! haha they have wonderful kuehs. im in seventh heaven. hahaha...
the night before that, purnia cooked so nice food! yam and chicken in some brown sauce thing, steam fish, soup, lots of veggies.. and specially made chrysenthenum drink (that's less sweetened - just the way i like it) for me too! whee =)
being at home is so wonderful, lots of good food and i tend to eat alot alot haha... in the wkdays i barely even eat cos im sick of nus/pgp food liaos bleah hahaha...
now im craving for a choc cake (i hear lana cake, and awfully choc are vv nice, but havent tried b4 =( )
whee.
foodie!!!
lin~*
11:48 am
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
i want to post photos! i want!!! but no camera =( or at least my camera is lousy and my wonderful and infallible powerbook can't detect the camera. ok im not THAT biased towards my powerbook against the camera, cos my home pc can't read the camera too. HAH.
so nice to be able to create pictorial blogs of all the funny silly random stuff that happens throughout the day... i love hanging out with the bunch, hehe... too bad too bad. got no time RIGHT now to go look/buy a camera too, cos of CAs. gah dying here. so much work to cover, so little time. and i can't believe anat is gg to test right up to the material they cover the friday just before CAs. major BLEAH. i hope physio goes easy on us tho... and biochem, lets not even get started on that.
ok just ate a whole HUMONGOUS chunk of old jamaica choc...nice combi of rum and raisin with dark choc. haha i seem to do everything in excess. vv nice =) but now i desperately need to run bleah hahaha...
nuh canteen fishball noodles uncle loves me hahaha... gave me like 50% more noodles than he gave liwei or bean or em... totally cldnt finish at lunch today man... so funny... thank goodness for hungry (greedy) guys who finish ur food for u, else i'll be guilty of wasting food. hehe.
ok back to protein digestion, and if im lucky i get to run tonight b4 sleeping. YEAH. else i'll pon git lect (for the 3rd day in a row) to go run early tmr morning. haha... =P can't believe i'm actually starting to pon lects now. but i really wldnt, the lecturer is nice, except i totally did not gain anything from all the GIT lects that i went for.. and i went for 5 of them. but time is tight now, and since i spend so much time poring over berne&levy ANYWAY, shld just study from the txtbook. what a shame, i usually like to go for lects. bleah.
(wonders if prof KDR reads this)
lin~*
8:46 pm
teabags are interesting stuff....
when u take them out of the packet, they're like new and crisp. and they smell nice =) then when u put one into a cup, and pour hot water over it, it just poofs up and floats up in the water! haha =P then u can see all the little tealeaves inside the bag floating around, diseminating their colour and flavour to the hot water around it as it brews. by and by, the teabag gradually sinks to the bottom of the cup. when there's no more water left, they turn cold and soggy (and are apparently a great at-home formula for eyebags - place 2 cold teabags on ur eyes and relax for like 15mins or sthg). when u pick them up to throw away, they're heavy and cold and drippy...
ok im getting wonky. BLEAH.
lin~*
5:11 pm
oh gosh oh gosh, CAs are in 20days time!! haha i'd know, cos i installed a countdown widget in my powerbook hahaha.. bleah. so much more to study!!! i barely started *runs around in a panic*, and like yesterday, even though i decided not to go for classes and stayed back to study properly the whole day, i only did like a little bit, because GIT takes SO LONG to go through! sighs. ohwells.
*tired*
newfound love for southpark hehehe.. BUTTERS is SO CUTE! ok im gushing.
hmms. no one to talk to online now. i need to read thru alot b4 anat tutorial later. bleah. my notes are terribly disorganised. and i want to run, but my ankles and shin are giving way. hurts now, and almost sprained my ankle when i ran with lawrence on monday night. definitely strained my ligaments when i slipped on the pavement, but thank god no sprain. gah.
btw, munchie monkey does a wonderful hot brownie with ice cream and hot hershey's fudge sauce. gah speaking of that, i want choc now =( haha but its 6am and i need to study, and i dont have some in my stash. so... hahaha. bleah.
just realised what what i typed was a whole load of incoherent ramblings.
oh yes, bean, i love you. had a wonderful lunch with u yest, and we shld definitely do that more often. hahaha. yay =)
gah i want to run later, but my legs are giving way and my frens are pangsehing me. =( bleah...
lin~*
6:05 am
Saturday, November 05, 2005
oh gosh im awake at this hour. on a friday night. no. saturday morning =P hehe... my nocturnal hours have started to become weird. maybe i ate too much supper so i cant fall asleep. HMMS. finally its friday, in the week of alternate school days. staying at home with all its creature comforts (access to the fridge, unlimited wardrobe, someone to clean up after you, food placed on the table during meals so tt i dun have to go asearchin for food...) is really wonderful, and well staying at home, i dont feel so alone. nice. hehe...
this week was the week of the 7k run too =) ran with zhenjin and liwei on wednesday after class... at a sweltering 3pm in the afternoon BLEAH. but didnt feel it larh, cos when u have good company, u dun feel the heat so much - bullshit. still damn hot. the trees helped shield heat. hehe. then ran today with lawrence after sch and mug too. hmms. feeling abit fitter. but hehe... =P my route goes thru the windy south buona vista rd, thru the housing estate, down pasir panjang rd, linking to west coast highway, turn right at clementi rd, enter nus thru the bus terminal after passing fongseng. haha that and all the other variations associated with it. =)
today was the week of sitting with celene and bean, who're the best. =) havent felt this comfortable with being in my own skin and around other ppl in med in awhile, and these babes just make it better, and are so fun to be with =) and marcus who saves seat for me (cos he comes like damn early???) and the rest of us too, cos this wk ive been walking into the LT abt 10-15mins later than my usual time. heh thanks marc.
had lunch w prof koh dow rhoon today. purely unintentional, was in nuh staff canteen with chiara and dennis when he decided to join us haha. i wonder if he's gg to read this post, because, amazingly, he reads student blogs. haha i wonder how he comes across them. but yes - prof, im not one of those vocal ppl who instigate the noise in the LT - that's why i sit in front, cos ppl there just talk lesser - im the one who's either too sleepy to stay awake, or being a muggertoad busy copying notes (i think - i hope). so erm blogging medical students dont equal noisy vocal students. they could also mean bored medical student typing to update friends overseas abt her life, or just simply bored medical student exploring the avenue of blogging because its the thing to do now, and its just fun. that's for me anw.
but anw take home msg frm lunch: as proud medical students, we must take charge of ourselves, and hold ourselves with dignity and repect. we must respect our lecturers too (and dont come in when u're late), and we should help to keep our class quiet during lectures - i.e. if you really want to listen, and ppl around u are buzzing away distractingly, don't be like me and simply passively move down to the front of the LT, but tell those ppl to keep quiet, because its disturbing you. then we'll all make nus lt28 a happier, quieter place during lectures every morning.
there. prof, i helped u to spread ur message =)
contrary to what the "slightly" older generation believe, blogs arent really a way for me to air my views. i have no views (tho that can be considered a view). i just type for fun. i dont care who reads them. my friends probably do - some of them anw...and well i suppose random members of the public. i probably derive more pleasure from reading my own blog than do others - yes narcissistic me... and i find reading blogs interesting, because it reminds me that in this isolated world of ME, there're other people leading separate, divergent, different lives too. and i find that THAT makes for a great daily read. my dad's constantly amazed at how i can even put my thoughts online, on the WORLD WIDE DOMAIN. for the world to see. *shrugs* not that anyone wld really care to know what i'm thinking anw. im far from the singaporean blogger who injects profanities into every parag, and spouts singlish, hokkien, whatever "chapalang" language all over the place. haha cos no one but my frens reads this languishing blog anw haha..
ohwells. the AM rambles.
wondering if i shld be gg to pulau ubin with my old council friends for cycling... whilst reading resp in berne & levy now... seems like great fun and great company, but i do want to head down to harvey norman to check out their sale ( i so do want to replace my currently pok camera), and i desperately need to start studying for the impending CAs. 3weeks!!! *runs around in a panic*
decisions, decisions, decisions. bleargh.
maybe i shld just sleep now.
lin~*
4:51 am
