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. :)

im not sure what i have been doing for the past 1+ week. practically nothing i guess. apart from going shopping and out with am1 and j3ssie, i have been staying at home and watching movies, reading books and surfing the net. now i know why i got myself a job after As. boredom can KILL.

sometimes i wonder how anyone can be so spendthrift as to dine at restaurants whenever they go out. i mean yes restaurant food may be much nicer, with better presentation and ambiance and going there once in a while can be a real treat but to go there almost every time can be a real burden on the pocket man!

my limit so far is prob like $20+/person. things like sush1 tei or se0ul garden etc. its crazy to eat top grade things when our pockets dont really allow it. even if we are rich (or not). its not good to spend like that too man. its alright during the honeymoon period but if this is going to be lifelong, whoaa good luck!

went shopping at far 3ast the other day. saw all the poor boyfriends being bored to death by the girlfriends who seem oblivious to the fact that their boyfriends are bored to death. there was this guy who was carrying a sudoku book along and doing it outside the shop while waiting for her. i think that's really dumb man. in this instance, i think the guy is more like a slave/servant than the boyfriend. after all, he would probably have to carry all her shopping bags after that too. please, carry your own bags unless they are really too heavy/many for you then you SHARE. not dump everything onto him!

but yes, we reached a consensus that we probably wouldn't drag our future boyfriends shopping unless its just for fun and not like really wanting to buy something that takes forever to choose. grocery shopping or shopping with a list in mind is fine i guess. chop chop and be done with it. but then again, i'm not sure if these boyfriends mind it. maybe they don't. haha.

life's full of surprises. even unexpected ones. things that will throw you off your balance. life's too fragile. for all you know, you might die/be killed the next moment. life's dangerous. why am i emoing here?

answer: my uni prof just died unexpectedly. link

some of you might wonder "so what?" but it is a great deal when it is something unexpected. plus it sounded like murder. but even the police doesn't know how he died. i bet he must have said the darnest things with his famous 'sexy' voice. damn it means that i wouldnt be able to count the number of 'actually' that he says! apparently he used to pepper his sentences with it to the extent that people started counting! wanted to do it next sem but i guess there's no more.

he was extremely friendly and entertaining at times. the first time i met him was during commencement dinner and he was the chaplain. he ended dinner with grace and said "may god protect and watch over us as we prepare for rest..." which was ironic considering it was a saturday night and its obvious that most of them weren't going to rest so we all couldnt help but giggle. he was the sort of lecturer who would be really sarcastic and animated as he tried to make ethics really interesting.

despite all his physical disabilities and illnesses, he tried to come to class, even if he had to sit in a wheelchair and not use his walking stick. he picked on students and 'terrorised' them with negative examples. his jokes were filled with sexual innuendos which were hilarious. but i loved the one he did about disabilities and resource allocation. he was trying to pretend to be a disabled baby so he went "waaa.. waa.. waa.. DOWN SYNDROME! waa.. waa.." as compared to "waa.. waa.. National Swimmer! waa.. waa.. waaa..." cant really remember wad he said for the second part but it was hilarious!!

but now he's gone.

just one/two weeks before exams, he came by to jane to help someone with their work so he sat at our table for dinner. j3ss told him that i am one of his students and he started to ask me whether i had studied for t2-5. and obviously i hadnt. unfortunately. but he asked me how do patients express their autonomy and luckily i knew it was through informed consent. then he asked how do you achieve that. so its like telling them what they will be undergoing, covers the procedure, the surgeon etc. christin@'s answer was classic. "ask them?!" hahah and he was like "yes thats's essentially wad you have to do...." HAHAH he gave us tips on the exams and stuff like that but throughout dinner he was really engaging and fun!

but yes he's now gone.

who's going to teach us next semester now? i still remember writing on his SETL that he should revise his slides cos they seems a little outdated. >< like the cases didnt match wad we were doing that week. he was supposed to try and get people in the middle of the LT to participate cos he asked if i sat at the back and i was like no i sit in the middle. its weird isnt it. how life plays such horrid tricks on you.

he was still telling us about how his daughter played truant in school and they had to go down and look for her after the police found her somewhere. he also told us how he has experienced breakthrough pain due to his illnesses. he tells us about his wife and stuff like that. you see him as a person and not a lecturer. someone with real problems and a life. not someone you see once a week for a lecture.

was just sitting at the same table with him on international night too. he was still asking me all about food in singapore and stuff like that. the best part was during the quiz. it was funny how micha3l, his wife and my prof were trying to answer the qns so diligently. the interaction we had among us is probably something you'll never find in singapore. there were no barriers to communication and it really felt like home.

the funniest thing that i can rmb would be an1ta telling him that p@trick went to an adult shop! HAHA that was cos she didnt know that he was the chaplain! damn funny la! my prof was like "p@trick.. i didnt know..." with the smirk on his face. :P p@trick is a postgrad student who was the previous dean of l@w at a msian uni. but it was out of curiosity and not that he needed anything. :)) but yeah we joked about it and laughed it all off.

how would you want people to remember you when you pass away? do you regret not saying anything? he asked me how i found his lessons and i just laughed. its weird. how would you feel if you knew that those lessons were going to be the last that you ever had? how would you feel if you knew that that was going to be your last meal, words, call, email, blog post, car ride, person you see, thoughts?

its scary isnt it? the uncertainty of death. yet its as certain as the sun rising from the east. maybe its better for him to die. i hope he died peacefully. i hope he's up in heaven enjoying a painless eternal life. may you rest in peace sir.

food i've eaten!

1. kway chap
2. beef noodle
3. minced pork noodle dry and soup
   
4. chicken rice
5. rojak
6. popiah
7. tau suan
8. korean pork hotplate
9. kimchi soup
10. roti prata
11. nasi briyani
12. laksa
13. mee jiang kueh
14. carrot cake
15. tutu cake
16. avocado milkshake
17. shui jing bao
18. soon kueh
19. macs fries and ice cream
20. sambal kangkong
21. nasi lemak
22. fish soup + rice
23. kaya toast
24. char kway teow
25. hokkein mee
26. sugar cane juice
27. curry fish head
28. sambal stingray
29. mala hotpot
30. chendol
31. cheng ting
32. bubur titam
33. fried wanton
34. soy bean milk
35. chin chow
36. tau huay
37. nonya zhang

isnt a lot la. still got a lot a lot more that i want to eat!

1. pig organ soup
2. indian rojak
3. ban mian
4. nasi padang
5. sambal sotong
6. fish head steamboat
7. coffee porkribs
8. bak kut teh
9. sweet sour pork
10. hot plate tofu
11. ...
12. ...
13. ...
    

things to do when i get home

1. eat all the yummy hawker food!
2. go to sakura
3. go for threading with sinhui
4. scuba diving!
5. go out with pam and ruth
6. go out with s13 peeps
   
7. sushi buffet with yj and ness
8. cut my hair!
9. shopping!
10. visit rgs
11. mala huoguo!
12. visit relatives
13. go swimming
14. go out with random friends!
15. watch all my movies and shows!
16. idp pre-departure briefing
17. go cycling/roller blading
18. drive!
19. play ps2
20. update my computer
21. go popular!
22. go daiso!
23. play mahjong!
24. eat bbq!
25. relax and not think about school for the next 3 weeks!
    

went up to mt wellington! omg it was sooo cold! heard from emm@ that there was snow up there so we rushed up and YES there was snow! aka patches of ice on top. hehe even though it was quite zzz but it was still snow i suppose! cos its not going to snow in hobart unless something freaky happens. considering its supposed to be cold now but its not.

the road up was so long and windy. at some points if u turned around and looked behind the car, you would think that something will just pop out and scare the wits outta you! its like the evil forest in snow white!

reached the top and at first r7an was like "aiyah not cold at all. dont need jacket." next moment you know, he's clammouring into the car reaching for his jacket and because it wasnt warm enough, he kept sitting in the car.. hahah! the view on the way up was splendid! the shots we took didnt do them justice at all so we gave up after a while. the stars were magical man. u wouldnt see that in singapore. they were so bright and clear and it was AWESOME! but it was too cold to linger too long. christin@ and i were alright except for my nose which wasnt covered but the others were a little underdressed. HAHAHA. my cheeks were like damn cold and then when u touch, its like damn smooth cos very cold. :P

the picture of us holding up the 'snow/ice" was really funny. cos sinhu1 and i had gloves but chri5 didnt so he was using his bare hands. and christin@ took a while to take the photo. poor chri5' fingers were going to fall off! its bad enough without gloves. he still had to hold an ice block! HAHAH! after we took the shot he threw the block down and was like "wahlau ehh damn cold la! my fingers....." :))

but yes it was one hell of a great experience! we were saying we'll go up again in july (which is even colder!) and see if there's more snow or wadsoever up there!! yay~!

IT'S AWAKE!!!!! OMG OMG OMG!

thank goodness! that was a BAD scare!

i think my laptop just died on me! it refuses to turn itself on! which is terribly disgusting considering i need my laptop badly now since i need to access that pathology cd and virtual microscopy! :( i really hope it will wake up by the time i get back to it again.

so now im stuck in the library trying to copy the pathology cd onto a thumbdrive so that it wouldnt be so noisy. i hate how cd-roms are so noisy when they are reading something. and i dont like how it lags and whirls when you load something. argh. irritating. so yes i am being anal bout this but i cant stand laggy things! even worse since my com is now kaputt.

just realised how dependent i am on my laptop. i think w/o it (aka now) i will just shrivel up and die from lack of social activity. just realised how ironic that statement is but surfing facebook, browsing blogs, updating blogs, chatting on msn are actually a social activities themselves. look how times have changed. being overseas before meant long waits for letters and expensive phone calls but now its just msn/facebook/email etc

technology can be such a pain when my laptop dies! ok im just ranting. i am soooo pissed off! i cant believe it can die just like that! it was alright last nite before i packed them into the bag so that i can bring it to the reading room. but to my horror, it didnt turn on! HORRIBLE!!!! argh im at my wits ends man.. luckily i am going back soon. bring that laptop back and see wads wrong with it.. zzz.. kabish!

two papers down and one more to go! its great how this exams are going. i mean i'm not sure if i'll do like really really well but at least it feels good. :) even A levels didnt feel this good to me.. hahah! but i'll have to wait till july to see how i've fared.

went to ball and chain yesterday! it was good! did you know that there is something even rarer than rare? its called blue! omg its like "marked and warmed through" EWW its almost like eating it off a cow! like *munch munch* wanted to eat ice cream at mur3s but by the time we walked there, they were closed.. zz.. oh well.. it was only 9pm but its aussie so yup..















went to woolies after that.. bought mushroom soup in a cup! just add water! just had one this morning.. yummy! it has like croutons in them as well.. gonna start looking at the cd later after lunch. hungryyyy and i keep thinking that today's saturday when its friday!

came back and slacked in my room with sinhu1, christin@ and chri5. watched 40 yo virgin and painted our nails. damn funny la! hahah















really excited to go home! have to go down for pre-departure briefing on sat at orchard hotel. its gonna be interesting! seeing all the potential juniors and stuff.. wahahaha.. :) cant believe in less than a week's time i'll be in singapore enjoying all my yummy food!

can i eat roti prata once i land? ming fa mian also can! HAHA! then can fit one more meal in.. :P damn cool can!

180min

50 mcq

20 short answer qns

150 marks

it was a freaking marathon la!!!!! my hands were about to cramp but luckily i didnt need to go to the toilet halfway through. 3lvine got stuck in the toilet cos he didnt know how to come out. HAHAH! damn funny sia.

shall rest for a while before starting on the others. yupyup! its gonna be a mad race till thursday! since i only have tues and thurs to cover them all.. i really hope it wont be like today's cos i wont have enough things to write about. i think. soo yes i SHALL study them and actually hopefully do well for it!!! hahahah!

dinner time! :) yayness~!

alrightey! exams officially start tmr at 1pm aussie time. 11am singapore time. NOOO..

actually im really really sick of studying already. cant wait for it to be over then i dont have to touch that mindmap book again.. HAHAHA then can concentrate on ethics, communication and community health for the next two days. yippee!

i really do hope i do well man. after all the studying i have done. zzz. would be damn sad if i dont. but passing will be enough to satisfy me. though getting a distinction/high distinction would really make my day. just hope i dont make stupid careless slap-my-face mistakes can liao. that will be the worst thing that can happen. i rather not know something than get something really easy wrong. i suppose most people are like that?

i should just look through my notes once more before the exam tmr. i'm still not feeling the stress yet. probably will start feeling it once im outside the venue which is the unibar. >< weird place rite? guess utas doesnt really have many BIGBIGBIG places for us to take exams and the unibar is the next best after the activities centre which still isnt very big.

feels really weird to take an exam after i havent taken one in like 1.5yrs. apart from driving which i almost had a nervous breakdown before it. but thats another story. HAHHA. maybe im not stressed because i know i will definitely pass the paper. and after all, all i need to do to graduate with this degree is to pass the papers for the next 5 yrs! isnt that easy? :) yeah boy.. hahah! plus i did well for the two SA MCQs (HD avg) and OSCE so thats like 8% out of my 10%. hope i got full marks for OSCE So that makes it another 5%! or at least a 4-4.5% yay! thats good..

okok shall go study. tmr's the big day! shall sleep early today! YIPPEE~!!! i am actually rather happy. just get it over and done with man. damn sian liao. HAH.

its swot vac now! really sian liao. argh exams faster end then can go home!!!

grr. and i'm going to grow fat with all the supper that they're feeding us plus the other meals. zzz. just finished going through 07 paper with christin@ and 3lvine. so shall do 06 paper after dinner and then hopefully can go through tmr. its FRIDAY TMR! omg time flies man.. this sucks! hahahha!

shall do some t2-5 tmr morning. yup! need to read man. cannot fail that paper and do damn well for t1! HAHA that would be disastrous! jiayou jiayou! i need motivation!!!!

i'm going to study till 2.30 and then go to eastlands where kmart, woolies,bw etc are and see if i can get a shelf for my tv. hmm. if i cant i suppose i'll just rearrange my stuff to accomodate it. HAHA.

so shh! dnd! intensive mugging ahead. :)

im trying not to explode because of 'bonia' aka h@ndbag

its really irritating. like she was the one who wanted to cheong everything cos portfolio's due tmr and we have to put in our stuff..

then she's the one who sends her stuff late and summore can tell me that its hard to sit down and do work.. nvm then she sent me her references but she forgot to attach them.. so i sent out the previous copy w/o hers first in case i didnt get them in time..

she called me and then i told her that i didnt receive so she sent again.. then i put them in and sent out the final one.. then she HAD to send her references to everyone and say things like "you all can put them in or wadeva.."

then she decided to put them in HERSELF and email everyone like she did all the work when i ALREADY sent out the final presentation.. which will be the same as what she has!

basically she just made it sound as if i didnt want to put her refs in. >< wadeva. who cares. i put them in and if u insist on sending them out to everyone again... by all means do that.. after all YOU were the one who missed the deadline and said that its cos it was hard to actually do work.. YOU were the one who forgot to attach the stuff and make me actually still worry about blardy presentation when i should be able to study instead!

ok enough ranting. she just pisses the hell outta me.

was really tired today. took a short nap at 5.30 and almost missed dinner! woke up at 6.20 and wondered why christin@ didnt call me.. anw i woke up and was about to open my door when christin@ knocked on my door! she was like "you're here ar???? i was wondering where did you go? i called you like umpteen times and no one answered.. knocked on your door and you didnt reply.." im like "HUH REALLY AR!" oh well *hugs* she thought i was with ashl3y before davin@ was like "ashl3y's taking the 6.10 bus..." so my dear christina came up to my room again even after she took her food!!! :)) <3 she's so sweet la! thought i fainted or sth.. HAHA! but yeah..

had microbio pract today! omg my hands are so filthy la! we had that UVA lamp thing with the showntell cream.. >< *faints* im never eating with my hand again! (ya rite. i just ate biscuits.) we took throat and nasal swaps and plated them onto BA plates. btw christin@'s tonsils are like "HUH WHERE ARE THEY???" and her mouth cannot open big one.. :S a bit difficult to take sample but apparently mine are like big and easy to swap. hehe.. was wondering..what will you do if you had to take NPA but that poor bloke's nose is full of stuff???? EWW.. >< isnt it kinda gross? like "erm could you go to the toilet to empty/dig your nose first? i cant exactly see properly.." HAHAHAH!!

so then we did gram staining as well! stained S. aureus! so niceeee! though personally i think E. coli was much more fun and pretty cos it was gram -ve and bacilli so they were like pink rods! as compared to my purple spheres. hahaha.. but oil immersion is so cool! like during patho practs 100x is like SHIT and impossible to see anything but with oil.. WHOAAAAA so clear! nice man.. :) i like microbio practs.. and we were supposed to take a midstream urine sample to practice at home but i just koped the container and now its sitting on my shelf. hahaha so mafan la to take a proper one. clean this clean that etc. im sure people actually do that. just pee and collect! so easy.. hahah!