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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

photo splodge part I

hooray! the exams are over! =) the intensive torture of information feeding that had been the mainstay for the past 3-4 months is finally drawing to an end! no more mindless memorising of drugs and weird terms for the sake of memorising them, even if you're not completely sure what the hell u're spouting, for now at least. finally time to take a breather! =)

unfortunately, there's still 2 weeks of school immediately following our CAs. its been extremely hard to focus in lectures, and the 4 lectures-a-day of neuroscience and bacteriology has just been whizzing by in a blur of things, im not sure if ive gained anything from sitting in that freezingly cold LT for the past 2 days. my brain's just too tired and retaliating by refusing to absorb or focus. i. need. a. break. really. badly. which thankfully comes in the form of a free day tomorrow! =)

so here are photos from the past 2 weeks or so, which have been extremely trying. they consisted mostly of trying very hard to concentrate in lectures, study pathology and pharmacology, and having to deal with the immense mental stress of having a shitload of relatives in the house. they came in a stream, one group after the other. my house was noisy with all their chatter and this constant buzz of mental stress with all that noise and extra people just kept draining me out. i attempted to escape from that mental torture by staying out first in school, then at smu with shiyun. but that just became too much after awhile too.

so i felt that i probably didnt do as well for the recent patho and pharmaco (esp patho cos i just couldnt seem to focus in the 45min duration of the paper) as i hoped to. did alright for the previous 4 papers too. at least i passed, but i still feel that i waste too much of my time studying extra things and not doing as well as other people who study smart.

so anyway, the stress and torture both scholastically and privately for the past week or so have ended, and i can properly enjoy now. for awhile, till i begin trying to plow through the work that has accumulated during this exam study period.

i rambled on and on. lets cut to the chase. photos here:

granny's 87th birthday. i love her =) she's so cute and sweet, not to mention she has been there taking care of me since i was born, and living with us. im just so glad and thankful that she's still healthy and strong.

bean's birthday, which was the day we all wore red to celebrate her growing one year older! =) lots more pictures of this on her blog!

the following crapload of photos are from the post exam lunch at sun and moon at wheelock with bean, me, marcus, wrong joel, zhenjin, jerry, liwei, and william! liyana and mirri were there too, but sun and moon wasnt halal unfortunately.

joel and his cheesecake! he's been asking about the green tea tiramisu "with a lot of green powder" picture on my blog in a previous post since forever, so he was really excited to try this cheesecake that came in a birdcage. haha.

bean and the snowman beanie she got from joshua and kahheng for her birthday!

zhenjin and jerry - they look almost like brothers with their matching outfits for the day =P

good times, with a car ride with old guys talking incessantly about cars (which i just totally went zzzzz in =P) and funny bean with her continuing tirade of how pigs are cute. this lunch was followed by an attempted ktv session when a few of us met up with baorong, ibrahim, eugene, zhimin and velda later, but that fell through. went to do my eyebrows after that anyway hehe.

more post exam photos to come - @ awfully choc, MORE east coast prawn mee and ecp etc =)

lin~*
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