I haven't been updating much at all. Haven't felt the need to. After a while everything seems so mundane when actually it probably isn't really.
Anyway, we celebrated mooncake festival for the 1st time this year! Had my CTA programme (Well Women's Check) session in the evening so we only celebrated at 9+pm because they all waited for me to come back! So sweet! Chri5tina bought mooncakes from W1ng & Co so we had baked mooncakes while Tes5a made proper tang yuans this time! She failed miserably back in 1st semester because she bought korean glutinous rice flour which didn't work at all! Turned out tasting more like mantou soaked in syrup. XD So we all brought our cups of green tea onto the lawn, played with sparklers, had mooncake and camwhored as usual. It felt nice. I'm going to miss this crazy bunch of people so much. Travi5 passed me part of his snowskin mooncake the next day because I wanted it. OMG so niceee. *faints* I'm a very satisfied girl.
Back to the CTA programme, we basically pretend to be doctors and we have these role players who allow us to poke/prode/examine them intimately. We have to take a history, perform breast examination, abdominal exam, speculum exam and bimanual exam on them. It was so scary at first because we didn't know what to expect and practice with the mannequins didn't help much because it was so different from the real thing! I kept hitting the cervix with the speculum on the models which freaked me out because I kept thinking that I would do the same thing! Thankfully the ladies were really really nice and as they had to do amongst themselves as part of the training, they know how nervous we are and are super nice about it. They tell us what not to do, or if it's hurting and if we can't find the cervix, they will tell us to try again etc. Just such a wonderful experience. At least now when I'm in clinical practice I wouldn't be as afraid of doing it. I know they have plans to implement a male version (think DRE etc) so that would be cool if we get to do it too! Besides the wonderful learning experience, all these ladies prepared dinner for us too! It was a mini picnic in the clinic! Had awesome cakes, sandwiches, fruits, cheese, nuts etc. I love Australia because everyone's so happy and willing to help!
We celebrated Hari Raya too! The Malaysian society organised a potluck/buffet thing so we just went up for free food! Hehe! Apparently sponsored by UMNO hobart. 0.o seriously. UMNO in hobart?! HMM. Whatever. Doesn't bother/concern me as long as I get free food. HAHAHA. The food was asian (duh) but ran out pretty quickly. =( Most of the curry didn't have meat left. Pfft. Went up Mt Wellington with yeesha7, zaide3, and ka1 aun after that! Super impromptu and random! Probably only time when I would actually look presentable up the mountain! Usually wrapped up like a ball!
L-R: Zaide3, me, Yeesha7 (future housemate next yr)
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Now you know what I mean?
Alright. I shall leave you with this now. Will update more soon (which means when I'm procrastinating study). ^^
