i'll be going to new town later. finally getting that blasted presentation done. sometimes the tasks are so easy while this one is really hard. we have to interview like the emergency services/police search and rescue, paramedic and ER doctor/registrar.. wahlau eh its like who the hell will be able to get these people to interview?!

well. me! :)

asked dr chr1stine cliff0rd to help us contact some people and she passed my contact down to t3rry br0wn, ER doc, who then passed my info down to this other doc who's a sen1or medical 3ducator! and we're in luck considering they are having a course on 3mergency medicine so they will all be there!!!! omg so exciting! so we'll be going down later. hope they will allow us to video them or else it is going to be a looonnng week for me since we'll have to role play it then.. DAMMIT.

apart from that.. life's good i guess.. got 27/30 for MCQ FA again.. hahaha hopefully i did well for SAQ but we still dont know the grades for that and also for T2-4 SAQ..

shall go back to my skin. sunday's the day to do everything yet i've that dumb interview thing. argh i hope we wont take too long cos i really really really want to study! another MCQ SA on 7th may!!! noo....

its anzac day tmr so that means its a holiday for us!! :)

most unfortunately we aren't going to port @rthur because there aren't enough people who can make it on saturday.. but em1ly is going to get us all tgt to arrange a time where most people can make it.. hopefully i wouldnt be too bogged down by work to actually go and see it!

just watched "not another teen movie" and its sooo DUMB! seriously. argh pretty wonderful waste of time but i guess i finally understand stuff that christin@ is talking about so yeah. international night's coming up on 10th may which is sooo exciting! everything sounds really fun and i can't wait for it to happen.. dont worry.. the camera will definitely be on standby!! :) and that includes those of others as well so i have to be picture perfect or at least ready.. hehe.. not that there aren't already MANY extremely unglam photos in sinhui's camera. omg they are BAD. i've basically run out of facial expressions for the no of time she points the camera at me..

next week is going to be exciting as well! we've got the pasar malam thing coming up on friday where SSS will be selling char kway teow, prata, fishballs, satay, muah chee, bandung, cupcorn, teh tarik etc.. hungry? ok u people really shouldnt be feeling hungry since the people who read this blog are mostly in singapore and i dont think the people in tassie have actually found this blog. so yup! i'm in charge of selling fishballs and satay and i think sinhui is going to help me! :) christina is selling prata i think.. wahahaha!

i've got a reflective piece due on friday and its about death and dying in the medical context. sounded rather interesting but now that i've started it, i think its really about serious stuff. not just any other laughing matter but it really made me think about my perspective on death and dying. our treatment of dying patients, the respect and dignity that we have to preserve even in death, the communication skills required to break such horrible news etc. its an art and im really grateful that we're gonna be taught these things as these are things that have become so uncommon that we're not able to express our grief effectively. as a result, many doctors end up sounding really cold and unfeeling though thats just their way of hiding their sorrow.

there's also case task presentation on friday.. see everything's on friday so friday is a really big thing for me!!! hope i'll survive! yes i will and i must! :) super michelle will rise up to the occasion!

this long weekend is going to be filled with the following programmes.

Friday:

1. chronic inflammation [done]
   
2. regeneration and healing
3. microbio (staph and strep) [done]
   
4. vaccination [done]
   
5. mechanisms of drug delivery [done]
   

Saturday:

1. reflective piece
2. view pathology slides [done]
   
3. gram bacteria
4. innate immune
5. specific immune
6. Skin layers [done]
   
7. Skin structures [done]
   

so yes its a saturday again and its the end of week 7.. was just looking at the schedule.. semester officially ends on like 30th may followed by one week of swot-vac and its the exams and then its home sweet home!!!!! :))

just another 7 more weeks to go.. yay! its not that school's boring (its fun!!) but i just miss all the singapore food, friends etc.. hehe.. to be able to eat cheap cheap food that cost only S$2-3 and not A$10-15 each.. >< was talking to ruth and she was like "marche buffet very ex.. $30.." then im like "everything is cheap to me when i go back considering food here is damn ex"

two FAs on monday.. theme 1 (aka all the science stuff) mcq and saq.. hopefully i can get high distinction again! have to pray harder.. there's so much to do.. there's reflective piece, FAs, OSCE, SAs etc.. >< i dont think i'll actually get a week of 'rest' so i'll just have to continue mugging till the end of sem and exams.. jiayou jiayou!!

i just hope my wonderful neighbour will keep quiet so i can study. yup.

btw i rearranged my table AGAIN. now its back to what it was because im bored of the other arrangement and i need space in my room!

omg im so happy!! i got 25/30 for my summative mcq!!!!! :)

highest so far among all the singaporeans.. hehe.. but i think im like 12th in the cohort.. yay! so that means i got high distinction since >80% is HD and i got 83.33333333%

yippee~!!!! damn happy la. only got 24/30 for my formative.. could have been 27 too but nvm.. forgot that stupid skeletal system protects the heart and lungs and that i should have put lesion instead of infection as to the ulceration on the leg. geh kiang.. tot ulcer = infection.. dammit.. hahahah! but nvm i still got my HD so i'm over the moon!!!

pray harder and may all my wishes come true!!

yay my most hated week so far is over!!! :) happy like shit man.. wahahah!

went to the gym after that.. cycled, did some weights, rowed etc.. then went for power bar.. omg i tot i was gonna die!!! i really regretted doing the leg presses and rowing during that 1 hr man.. hahaha i tot my hands/arms were gonna fall off! but it was actually quite good in the sense that my arms are actually sore and i think i did work those triceps and biceps that are hidden somewhere.. haha..

there's pilates tmr but that will depend on whether i can actually feel my arms tmr.. hehe.. dinner was quite interesting cos i couldnt move my left arm so i ate with one arm instead.. ><

so yeah now i just have to study more (not today!!) for the upcoming test in about a week's time.. more like 10 days.. argh this is sad.. :(

next week is my most hated week so far. 4 tests with 3 on the same day. oh well luckily outta 4 tests, 3 are formative so that meanst that they arent counted in the final grade at the end of semester.

elvin3 got his new car which is great because now we get to go out without having to walk. :) 32oI BMW.. shiok sia.. haha.. AU$25k i think.. >< second hand which is cheap if u compare to singapore but if u compare to the other 'lok' cars that the people here buy, its freaking expensive. tin9 bought hers for like AU$750.. which is the 'lokkest' that u can get. no power steering etc. HAHA. his gf will be coming in bout 2 weeks time. so cool la.. she's flying j3tstar all the way and return cost her like $900+.. thats damn cheap la!! but then again its J3tstar and that ride wouldnt be too comfortable from sg to melb..

life's been just rather monotonous apart from the usual gossiping during dinner. its just go to school, study, eat, talk, study, sleep. which in actual fact i quite like because its something that i am good at. which is kind of sad but yeah i do like studying. :) maybe thats why im doing med and not fine art or something like that. too abstract for me. just give me the facts and i'll digest and tell u all about it.. hahah!

im just really amazed at how music can change your mood, evoke emotions etc. the barage of memories that just floods back when u listen to some songs. it might just have been some song that you were discussing with your friend and all of a sudden you start missing them so so much. its not that the friends here are not nice etc but i just miss my old friends a little. the familiarity and the nonsense we used to do together. (im still doing nonsense now but thats another story) maybe its the culture that im in. i miss being in an asian country. i miss being the majority. i dont like sticking out like a thorn. im happiest in my room alone or at meals with all the other singaporeans/asians. just speaking singlish and being just singaporean. aussie's nice just if u ignore the fact that its not very safe to go out at night due to horrible drunkards who turn racist and throw weird stuff like eggs at you and call u stupid names. makes everyone rather exasperated at times though there isnt much u can do. the 'best' thing that happens would be when they just assume we're japanese and start shouting/saying "konnichiwaaaaa!" from their cars or even when they pass you on the streets when u're shopping. its really irritating at times.

pam's entry kinda got me thinking a little. how often will u actually have a double coincidence of want? plus what marcu5 said about girls should not fall for a guy before a guy actually starts wooing her. ><><

in the meantime i'll just stick to my books and pray harder. :))