OMG IM SO INSANELY HAPPY RIGHT NOW I'M PRACTICALLY PRANCING AROUND MY ROOM (OR RATHER WAS)!!!

I TOPPED MY COHORT FOR THEME 1 WRITTEN PAPER!!!!!!!!

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

I HAVE NEVER TOPPED A COHORT BEFORE!

AND PLUS THIS IS MED SCHOOL!

MY 4 ROUNDS OF REVISION PAID OFF SIA!!

though i need to put more effort into my theme 2-5 and applied exam because my final mark dropped from 85.17 to 78%.

whoops!

my pencil case is like gone (forever) i think. i'll just treat it as charity. since the people here ARE actually quite poor, with most of them on bursaries, sships etc. like they are on youth allowance and stuff. >< and you thought they were rich. pens here are really expensive so i'll just take it that i donated my entire pencil case (oh man) of stationery, thumbdrive (thank god there's nothing inappropriate), post-its.

pfft.

anyway, madam3 butterfly was alright i guess. the thing was that it was an opera (duh) and they sung it in english! :S i was like "HUH WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SINGING?!" like 40% of the time. and its not just us (because we're asians). even the austral1an couple next to me were like whispering and asking each other if they understood. hahaha! seriously if it were in italian and they had subs, i think that would be much easier to understand. but overall it wasn't that bad i guess. like you could still tell what was going on and stuff.

pasar malam 2 on friday was good i guess. but this time round i did more cleaning up than selling. which i really didnt mind. it was really messy outside and i was quite happy to be inside just staring at them (slacking) when i was done with the cleaning. hahaha.

these few weeks are going to be insane.. AGM, singapore night, presentation etc. so glad i've already done my (k1ds and fam1ly prog) on wed! my family (mother) was really nice! though we didnt really agree with her not wanting to br3astfeed but we werent there to give advice so we just nodded and like uhhuh.

argh i hate voice recorded operators so badly! they take down wrong msgs and cause me so much trouble!!!

i'm going to watch madame butterfly tonight! :) so i shall study till dinner and then hopefully complete more topics so i wont feel so guilty! argh if only tonight wasnt the only night left!

i think i lost my pencil case!!!!!! OMFG!

*HELP!!!*

ARGHHH THIS IS SOO EFFING TERRIBLE!!!

GOSH I HATE THIS!

end of week 1! ok i survived.. hahah! with like >25 hrs a week.. its almost like hell! but i guess once we get used to it, it wouldnt be as bad. this week's timetable has me travelling between clinical school and back to uni (sometimes within 40min!) so that just means that i will have to go figure out the bus system (hopefully there's a bus!) or like hitch a ride or something. grr. i dont mind walking provided there's time but since there isnt.. oh man.. rush rush rush!

weather's getting colder.. but i guess it IS winter after all. but having said that, it doesnt mean that it is THAT cold that i cannot take it anymore. i've got a heater that is still below half the max, an electric blanket and heaps of winter clothing + thermals etc. so i definitely can last through winter. some LTs are so warm that we have to remove our coats and just have the lecture in teeshirts.

was j3ss' birthday yest so we went to mure5 for dinner! i think its cheaper than fi5h fr3nzy.. was heaps crowded man! the ice cream was like yummilicious! old english toffee, macademia nut, honeycomb! we shared of course.. was like *faints* after i finished my dinner. went back soon after and did some studying.. some of them went to i5o which i really really dont like that much. wads so great about clubbing? going once or twice is alright but going there every now and then is crazy. argh not my cup of tea.

so yes i've just finished my mindmaps for week 1! yay so proud of myself man.. really hope i can survive this hectic semester with all its reports, assignments, reflective pieces, presentations etc. wait, i will be able to do it!! YES! :)) its always like this. you think you're going to die when you look at what's ahead but once its over, everything just doesnt seem that bad anymore.

right?

its thursday! just had lunch and now im in my room trying to study anatomy of thigh and gluteal for my dissection pract in like 2.5h time. saw the cadavers yesterday. wasnt quite what i had expected. i was actually afraid to touch them at first! i think the dissected head on my cadaver is actually less daunting than the ones that are untouched. makes it all too real. like their hair, nose, eyelashes, facial features etc. the large cadaver near my table scares me a little because i keep thinking that he will start moving all of a sudden. when i stand at the end with his head and look right down to his body, i can see his expression and somehow i just start imagining how he would have been if he were alive. its just this body. maybe because it is not as wrinkled or leather-like like the others. just freaks me out a little. the bodies are just too pale, too hard and too real. (of course they're real.)

guess when we're dissecting we wouldnt really be looking at the entire body but rather just the thigh (this time round) so the other parts would be covered up and out of sight. thank god my cadaver doesnt have nail polish. that would be freaky.

went to clinical school earlier and had lectures on surface anatomy and intro to history taking as well as how to conduct an examination for musculoskeletal problems.

1. inspect
2. palpate
3. move
4. others

so yes those are the things we have to do for our OSCE that will be coming right up.. >< i think this semester is going to be a really busy one. with pasar malam next friday again and singapore night coming up on national day. there will be AGM and committee retreat too! so i've gotta be on top of my game if i'm going to be able to complete my work AND handle all these extra things. was actually made emce3 for singapore night but with my workload, i really dont think i have the time to prepare and rehearse the speech etc with jer3my! told sal3h after the meeting and he said we'll discuss it next week. seriously its not that i simply dont want to do but there are a few reasons that contribute to my decision.

1. no nicenice appropriate clothes to wear (HAH excuses)
2. presentation the day before
3. test the next week
4. 9-5 pm timetable almost everyday

see so it is almost impossible for me to handle all of that at once! i dont want to fail man! my kids and family programme (KFP) grouping is out! thank god i think the people in my group are people who can work and people whom i already know! :)) AND they are nice wonderful peeps too! so yes, let's hope that we can work together happily throughout the entire course of the programme (1.5yrs)!

just claimed back money from med1bank too! yay! so at least i didnt have to pay a cent for the blood test, consultations etc. its weird how they reimburse you differently everytime? i think it depends on the category they key the information into.. hmm..

ok shall head back to my butt muscles (gluteal) and then prepare to go back to school for fractures lecture and dissection!!

today's the last day of hols! its back to school tmr! :( timetable's horrible. oh well and i guess it can only get worse.. ><

im back in tassie! the flight wasn't as bad the one back. it went by really quickly.. :) loitered in melbourne for a while. slept while waiting for the domestic flight. *yawns* was really tired cos didnt really sleep on the plane. watched billy elliot and 21.. 21 is nice! but it was a little draggy after a while (maybe because i was sleepy).

ate lemon fish, potato salad, bread, lemonade for dinner. had magnum ice cream for dessert too! then i had cadbury hot chocolate with marshmallow!

breakfast was pain au chocolate which i didnt eat cos i wasnt hungry. had some lemon biscuit which i dabaoed. had orange juice and fruits too.

didnt have anything on the jetstar flight because it was budget so you had to buy the stuff. zzz. cheapo. so i just slept until they told us we were descending liao.. :)) it was a good sleep because i had the entire row to myself! so i put my legs onto the other two seats and slept.

managed to unpack (phew!) after lugging my 28kg luggage up the stairs.. unpacked my hand luggage, slept, lunch, unpacked a little more, slept, unpacked all. so yes! i was done by 5+pm.. hehe!

okok i think i shall go sleep liao. tired man. played taboo just now in the HCR. quite funny.. the game started getting a bit racist for some words.. hahahah!!!

results are out today! guess im quite alright with it. 78%. 2 marks away from HD. :( but second highest that i know so far which is great! the other person got 79% but she's a repeat student (so thats another matter).

had mala hotpot at uncle's house just now. YUMMY! it wasnt too hot so it was manageable. didnt stuff myself like i normally would though i still think i ate quite a lot. had haagen daaz ice cream after dinner. heavenly! cookies and cream... mmhmm..

shall go sleep soon. tired man.

oh right! i went for threading today! it wasnt as painful as i thought it would be but it was shiok! damn high after it! went to rup1ni's.. $18 for the entire face.. nicenice! they shape your eyebrows too.. :))

so i have successfully completed my scuba open water diving cert! YAY! it was really fun! its something that you have to try before you die. the underwater world is a world of its own - a world reserved for the selected few.

day 1: reached jaime3's shop at 6.45pm. supposed to meet at 7 but she was caught in a jam so we only left at about 7.45pm. seriously the jam at woodlands was NOT funny. it was disgusting. only crossed woodlands at about 10pm! it wasnt the inefficiency but the traffic police directing the traffic at the crossroad! somehow our lane just didnt move AT ALL for like 30min? was getting a little pekchek at it not moving but then all was well in the end. after crossing the msian customs, we stopped at the petrol kiosk near the big jusco for a break and waited for the other van to come along. just slacked and had a short chitchat with the other divers too. after they arrived, we set off for m3rsing! only arrived at m3rsing at about 12-1am. sat around again waiting for the boat. because it was low tide, we had to take a smaller boat before transferring to the bigger boat. this took quite a while as there were many groups at the jetty. after X min, we finally got onto the bigger boat and i just slept all the way till we reached dayang at about 4.45am. the boat was quite cold cos i was sitting right in front of the aircon! but jaim3 passed me her jacket so all was good. :)) quickly went to the chalet and KO-ed immediately.

Day 2: woke up at 8.45am to breakfast and quickly started our first dive at 10+am. it was scary to jump into the open sea for the first time but we quickly got used to it. thankfully the water wasnt very cold. just 27deg. did a few skills underwater and then we surfaced. returned to shore for lunch and prepared for second dive! same thing, two more skills and we started to fin around. it was fun! only problem was that i couldnt really stay near the bottom of the sea and kept going upwards. hahaha. returned for tea and we played volleyball while jaim3 and d3s brought the other group out to snorkel. seriously i think we all sucked big time at volley except a1nah cos she was a volleyballer. went for our third and last dive for the day at 5+ and we just finned around looking at stuff. hahaha it was really cool man! came back for dinner which was yummy! lamb chop, satay, fruit cocktail etc. :) logged our dives and then we went to sleep at about 10+ cos we were really really tired...

Day 3: woke up at 7 for our first dive! went down to 18m! saw a hell lotta stuff man.. was really nice! saw clownfishes, sea cucumbers, starfishes, sea slugs, trigger fish etc. went back for breakfast and then went for our last dive! this was really like a play play dive cos we just finned around and started taking pics! a bit weird to not be able to smile cos once u have the regulator in your mouth.. hehe.. left shortly after lunch. was a loonnng boat ride back to mersing man. we were attempting to tan ourselves on the front of the boat but it got a little too hot to tahan so we went back to the top deck and just slept. i slept on the boat on the floor cos the chairs were being cooked by the sun. zzz. ate ramly burger (yummy!) at the roadside stall at mersing. basically the rest of the trip was uneventful until we reached singapore customs! w3ndy was behind me in the queue and i managed to cross the access passport thing without a glitch. unfortunately, she got stuck at the fingerprint station. and apparently after her, the entire system crashed. HAHAH! so we had to wait a loonng time for her to come out. didnt know the details cos we went downstairs already. this is called karma man! cos she was still saying that the msian customs officer is crosseyed and she was trying not to laugh! evil!! hehehe..

so yes. im a scuba diver now! :) funfunfun!

how can anyone stand someone like that? seriously. argh. i'll go mad man.

anyway! going out with ruth and pam later! YAY! so fun! don't really know what we're going to do though but we'll figure out when we get here. hahah!

shall go pack my scuba diving bag now. :)