Friday, February 18, 2011

Just did the MBTI test again! And i THINK i'm the same as I was 8 years ago! ESTJ! although i cannot find a previous blog post that might have had my previous result. Meh. It honestly sounds like me and it was pretty funny because Rob1n was saying how i can do any specialty, except maybe psychiatry! and i agree with her because i'm struggling with psych at the moment! i have no idea what all the salient points are, how to assess the MSE accurately, even just the appearance! =S I don't pick up cues like body language etc well. I'm more of a facts person. So i pay attention to what he's saying and not how he looks. which i guess causes me to lose like 50% of the info that i can gather. 

i made dan do a quick one and he was the exact opposite to me! INFP! we were reading the descriptions and i was like 'you've got something against my TJ personality' because it keeps mentioning things like 
One real problem area for the INFP is their intensive dislike of conflict and criticism. The INFP is quick to find a personal angle in any critical comment, whether or not anything personal was intended. They will tend to take any sort of criticism as a personal attack on their character, and will usually become irrational and emotional in such situations. This can be a real problem for INFPs who are involved with persons who have Thinking and Judging preferences. "TJ"s relate to others with a objective, decisive attitude that frequently shows an opinion on the topic of conversation. If the opinion is negative, the TJ's attitude may be threatening to the INFP, who will tend to respond emotionally to the negativity and be vaguely but emphatically convinced that the negativity is somehow the INFP's fault.
 anyway, it's friday tmr which is goooodddddd... i love the weekends. thats the thing i look forward to on mondays. haha! plus its a public holiday in launceston next wed cos of the launceston cup! =) and i've got no class on tues till 7-9pm CBL. but i've gotta be on the wards. but still.. ;) 

off-topic: watched black swan (as you all alr know) and green hornet. omg green hornet is SUCH A WASTE OF MONEY! i guess it's a good laugh but it's pretty lame. not sure why ja7 chou agreed to act in it. but hey, his english wasn't too bad. watched the mythbuster green hornet special after that and realised that most of the stunts wouldnt work. =( guess it is hollywood after all. 

it's so sad. there's nothing to do on the weekends. no salamanca to rock up to, you've gotta pay parking in town, been to the gorge 3 times already. there's a sunday market at evandale but apparently you've gotta pay to get in too. -.- lame. pay pay pay. so what do we do on weekends? wash laundry, watch movie, study, cook. then prepare for the next week of uni. probably should go to wing&co and get ourselves some nice asian stuff. 

anyway! last weekend was REALLY COOL! festivale (food/wine fest) was on so we headed down to have a taste/eat/gorge/binge ourselves out there. had crayfish wood-fired pizza (of which we couldnt taste the crayfish AT ALL), van diemen's beer, olliebollens (dutch doughnuts), salt&pepper calamari, fish&chips, angus steak sandwich, mexican platter of ribs, nachos, chicken wraps etc, nutgrove rum&raisin ice cream and rosti. yumyum. 




and then on sunday, dan came up and then we met up with one of the new singaporeans studying in launceston and went around launceston! =) headed up to the gorge again and walked around. it was a beautiful day = good weather, lovely people.



headed to the museum after to have a look. it was basically a mini science centre + train museum. it was pretty interesting. maybe i should go to the one with the dinosaurs etc one day. wanna go to MONA too! but that's all the way in hobart. damn. why must everything interesting happen in hobart when im gone! like how they opened a burger got soul there on sandy bay! ugh.


after that, we headed to the tamar island for a while. saw black swans (hah!) but it was like a boardwalk thing. there was a bbq pit halfway along the walk. guess it would be a quiet and pretty. 

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

i feel like my body is falling apart. my back hurts (old issue) and my elbow started hurting again today (old issue). not sure what i did this time around for my elbow to hurt. =S didn't lift anything heavy so it should be alright. seems fine now but it was giving me problems this afternoon. sigh. 22 yrs and counting. someone quick do some regenerative medicine research so that i can have some spare parts in years to come!

anyway, i might be doing some research at the hospital! gonna meet with the research lady next week. so exciting! =) i think i'm developing an interest in O&G so might explore the idea of some O&G research projects which is good i guess. at least now there's something to look forward to. haha! although O&G is my last rotation this semester so we'll see if i think the same way after it. =)

Thursday, February 03, 2011

just a week in and i'm tired but happy

so here i am, lying in bed, on the first thursday of the new academic year, feeling REALLY tired already. although i haven't been doing much clinical stuff because of the rotation i'm on atm. but everything's been VERY organised unlike Hobart which is aweeesome. you have no idea (well actually you probably do) how irritating it can be when the admin stuffs up.

i've seen 2 psych assessments and they have been a real eye-opener for me - how some people buy so much into their delusions that that becomes their reality. or how an intelligent person can do things that seem ridiculous to us. but i guess that is the beauty of psychiatry. to find out what's going on in their heads.

apart from uni which is really tiring because we start mostly at 8am and i usually stay in school till about 6 to use my computer/study etc. then we'll head back home (yay 300m away) and cook dinner! which has been spaghetti, jap curry, tomyum soup & fried egg etc. although i think we prob need to go grocery shopping and stock up on a week's worth of food. got enough meat (minced beef to be exact) to last us till tmr. then we are going to go vego! LOL! unless we go buy meattttt. ok we got 3 more eggs i think but thats NOT meat.

i think most of you would have seen photos of my house on facebook so shan't post them here lest someone attacks/burglars my house! HAHA! Well most people who read my blog are friends so they would have me on facebook. yay!

talking about facebook, i think i MIGHT change my profile name to something else. something difficult to find so that it is difficult to find me unless i tell you my profile name/email address. keeps it away from unwanted eyes. might do a friend cull too. but i'm debating about that. i guess it's nice to keep everyone on my list. who knows, maybe 5-10yrs down the road, i might need someone's help! would be nice to say 'heyy rmb me?' hahaha! what's your thought on that?

PS. i actually had to do a blog post as homework on our e-portfolio gateway. so can't believe i posted there before updating my own blog! =S