another little minion: May 2010

OMG it's almost the end of semester! Everyone else starts SWOT-VAC today while we poor medical students still have one more week of lectures to go. argh. This is horrible because the lectures are winding down - instead it is becoming more intense! Pui!

Anyway, I've finally finished the primary care project which was a competition of sorts and guess what? WE WON!! So now I've got a $50 voucher for the co-op bookshop which I have no idea what to do with it. Might sell it to some other person and get it for cash instead! We'll see how it goes. Can't say that I didn't expect to win but actually winning it was quite a surprise because we weren't really aiming for it. LOL!

We came up with a research plan about the gluten-free, casein-free diet in improving core autistic behaviours in autism spectrum disorder as compared to usual therapy alone. Was pretty interesting because we gave out gluten-free, casein-free, SUGAR-free cupcakes at the end of our presentation! Hehe! So fun!

So now that the project is over, we've got to do a reflective piece which is a pain in the arse because they've changed the format from previous reflective pieces and honestly, what's there to reflect on about DOING a project?? HMM. It's due on Tues. Bleah this weekend would be spent writing that.

And thankfully I passed my diabetic case history!! Which means I wouldn't have to worry too much next rotation about passing my CAT and case history because I've already completed my requirements! Woots! That's really good news to me. Must thank St3ph for the 2 case histories we had to refer to. =)

OH has anyone been to the PIXAR exhibition?? I was thinking of going there when I'm back! Any good?

i just realised how infrequently i've been updating my blog to the point that i almost forgot that i have a blog. eeks!

heaps have been happening but i just can't be bothered to blog about them but i'm sure in 5 years time, i would regret not having said something on this back then just because my brain would have forgotten it (as usual. i've got terrible memory for things like this).

so what's been happening?

1st May: International Night at Jane

I didn't have a new costume this year so I was asking my angmoh friends if they have any ethnic costumes since they have so many costume parties etc! And jenn7 happened to have some! She had the cheerleader (US), the poofy dress that i wore in the end (oktoberfest beer girl? jap maid cafe?) and a kimono but because christ1na and another girl were wearing yukatas so it probably didn't look too special i suppose. so that is why i went with the crazy poofy dress. seriously, if not because i'm in australia and things are crazy and people go all out, i would never be caught dead in that in singapore! HAHA!

ended up being one of the finalist for the best dressed competition! LOL! there wasn't a final winner but it was just fun to go up and stage and have to say something about it. best part of it was that i couldn't even decide what i was trying to be! this other girl turned up in a cosplay costume and that's how we found out she's actually a cosplayer!! and she said her friends made it for her. OMG it actually looked soooo good that we thought she bought it!

had a rather awesome post-event dance floor in the table tennis room. =) relatively better music than usual. HAHA! that's good enough. whoops!

3rd May-14th May: Rural GP Placement

I was one of the lucky 2 people to be sent off to Flinders Island for my placement! Which means that I had to travel up to Launceston and catch a plane over! It was a 40min ride and it was so exciting sitting in one of those mini plane with 1 propellers on each wing! We were so excited about it all! Heard all the wonderful reviews about the doctors and the place and we couldn't wait to explore it!

Sat in with the GPs and took BP, wt all day and it was so fun listening to the pt's history and then coming up with a initial diagnosis which was the same as the doctors! like loin-groin pain and you think of renal! hahaha! it was nice to be in a GP setting where you see pts that you've known for a long while.

the food at the hospital was GOOD. For only $2.40, you get like fish and chips, beef stew, meat loaf, chicken curry, beef lasagna etc! We basically ate all day at the hospital. We would have brekkie at 8.30, morning tea (yummilicious sandwiches) at ~11am, lunch at 1pm, arvo tea (choc cake/ginger slice/scones etc) at ~3pm, dinner at 6pm, sometimes supper at 8pm. LOL! how's that for being greedy?

thankfully we went for a roadtrip of sorts on the weekend so we had a look at the various beautiful beaches all over and went for a 3h bushwalk on Sunday! we were just commenting on how we did our week's recommended exercise in a day! 30minx5days = 150min and we bushwalked for almost 3h! haha! there are more photos on facebook!

oh and i forgot to mention that steph and i were cycling along the road after class one day because our GP strained her back and cancelled all her afternoon appointments! it was so funny because while we were cycling, all the drivers would wave at us as they would wave another driver but i couldn't take my hand off the handle bars so i just sorta flicked my hand up. i love flinders people! they're so friendly! anyway, we were cycling along when we passed this farm with sheep and the sheep starting running away from us. i went 'mehhhhhhhh~' and then ALL THE SHEEP STOPPED RUNNING AND LOOKED AT ME!!! OMG! it was soo funny! we couldn't stop laughing and then steph 'mehhhh~' too later on at another bunch of sheep! i think i might have moo-ed at some cows but they didn't react. :(

too bad it was low tide when we got the bluff beach because it was sooo pretty when we saw it the last time we were there doing a home visit. but we got to walk along the beach and were looking for nautilus shells because they were apparently washing up! couldn't find any! it looked something like the one below but it had brown bumps along the outer edge of it where the 'crests' of the lines were.

we went scottish dancing on thursday night because ALL medical students who come to Flinders have to join them as a 'tradition'. HAHA! it was fun because we didn't know how to move and we were being a hindrance to our partners instead! Might upload some videos on facebook as evidence! LOL!

It was more like a holiday because although we had to do our diabetic case history, we had 2 weeks there and we only interviewed our patient on the friday of the 1st week and had road trip over the weekend which meant that we spent the 1st week not really doing much! Watched the entire BBC series of P&P (its nice! i want a copy of it! anyone has it??), season 2 of charmed (damn corny), wild child, the guardian, the hangover, princess and the frog (PAM! i actually watched it! and i wasn't as bad as i thought it would have been!), accepted etc. can't rmb what i watched over the course of 2 weeks.

we had other procrastination ideas such as making onion rings because we had excess onions and for some reason there was a huge container of cornflour in the house so we just tried! not too bad! fried some bananas too! yum yum! it was fun! =)

flew over to cape barren on the second thursday as well! went to visit to the community health centre and then went crystal fossicking! no idea if the stones i picked up are worthy of anything or just plain rocks. some people can find killicrankie diamonds (killicrankie is the name of a place on Flinders Island). but its like 2 pieces after fossicking all day with proper tools. i would rather find the shells to be honest. sat in the co-pilot seat on the flight back and it made me want to be a pilot again! some day some day. its so cool being able to listen to what goes on between the control tower and the pilot! and looking at all the various knobs, buttons etc