havent updated in a rather long time. like a proper post. thats like over 2 weeks ago i think. whoops!

anyway, 2007 is coming to an end but its not time for the usual post as yet so just hang on till i actually get around to writing that rather long and thoughtful post.

this weeks been rather bz though now that i think back, i can't rmb what i've been bz with. oh rite. korean drama! hahaha! 60 hrs of my life is going to just vanish just because i've plonked myself down in front of the box just watching the song of the prince aka seodongyo aka shu3 tong2 yao2 (yam boy song). its rather dachangjin-ish since its by the same producers but i'm not really complaining. 20 cds in all. down to the last 6! and mind you, they are dvds so thats bout 3hrs and tada! you arrive at 60 hrs!

boy my math is good. wahaha.

had class outing on sunday which i went late as i couldnt wake up in time to reach ecp at 10. ok i stirred to msg big boss that i'm going to meet them after lunch so i kinda woke up but fell straight back to sleep. met @mi at parkway b4 going over to macs to look for them. found yf, bri@n nguy3n, @sik, how@n, der3n, jingyu@n. almost killed them when someone suggested going back to parkway. thank god they didn't and we so kindly spared their lives. headed down to k@tong shopping centre to p00l. @mi's not too bad for someone who doesn't really know how to play. :) as for me, its more like just try and hit in as many as possible but it takes loads of luck and deep concentration to apply the physics in it. der3n and yf left before dinner but our dear jessi3 foo joined us! yay!! :) thanks girl for your christmas card! so sweet of you..

ate LJS at TM b4 they decided to come to my house to play mahjong. plus stayover. wahaha! so it was big boss aka jy, hw and @mi. whoa all of them have an A in their names! played mahjong, piano, com, ps2 etc. stayed up till bout 4am b4 @mi and i couldn't take it anymore. so we all went to sleep and guess wad? the guys couldnt wake up lor! they only woke up cos we drew the curtains back and it was alr 11+am. so we headed down to eastpoint after breakfast (at like 12..?) for lunch! walked around eastpoint and jy concluded that its sadder than AMK hub. wahah! oh well, guess it only serves our basic needs. :P

ok i shall go back to my korean movie again. :)

404 Moment

DOCTORS have always used a tribal vocabulary to communicate between themselves, but now their secret lingo is been enriched by the electronic media and urban slang.

Paul Keeley, a consultant in the department of palliative medicine at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland wrote to the weekly British Medical Journal a sample of new words that British doctors use among themselves.

They include:

Disco biscuits: The clubbers' drug ecstasy. As in: "The man in cubicle three looks like he's taken one too many disco biscuits.''

Hasselhoff: Term for any patient who shows up in the emergency room with an injury for which there is a bizarre explanation. Source: Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff, who hit his head on a chandelier while shaving. The broken glass severed four tendons and and an artery in his right arm.

Agnostication: A substitute for prognostication. Term used to the describe the usually vain attempt to answer the question: "How long have I got, doc?''

Blamestorming: Apportioning of blame after the wrong leg or kidney is removed or some other particularly egregious foul-up happens.

404 moment: The point in a doctor's ward round when medical records cannot be located. Comes from internet error message, "404 - document not found.''

Testiculation: Description of a gesture typically used by hospital consultant "when holding forth on subject on which he or she has little knowledge". Gesture is of an upturned hand with outstretched fingers pointed upwards, clutching an invisible pair of testicles.

Other slang used by doctors, according to past letters to the BMJ, include UBI (for "Unexplained Beer Injury''), PAFO ("Pissed And Fell Over'') and Code Brown, or a faecal incontinence emergency.

CTD means "Circling The Drain'', GPO signifies "Good for Parts Only'' and "Rule of Five'' means that if more than five of the patient's orifices are obscured by tubing, he has no chance.

A patient who is "giving the O-sign'' is very sick, lying with his mouth open. This is followed by the "Q-sign'' - when the tongue hangs out of the mouth - when the patient becomes terminal.

As for genetic quirks or inbreeding, FLK means "Funny Looking Kid'' and NFN signifies "Normal For Norfolk,'' a rural English county.

General practitioners may use LOBNH ("Lights On But Nobody Home'') or the impressively bogus Oligoneuronal to mean someone who is thick.

But they also have a somewhat poetic option: "Pumpkin positive'' refers to the idea that a person's brain is so tiny that a penlight shone into their mouth will make their empty head gleam like a Halloween pumpkin.

HADY MIRZA IS THE FIRST ASIAN IDOL!!

WOOHOOOO!!

ROCK ON SINGAPORE!! :)

heyhey! that rhyme is real ok! :( why hasn't anyone heard the full version.

but anyway.. i've got proof that i'm correct! wahahah!

its raining, its pouring, the old man is snoring..
he went to bed and knocked his head,
and couldnt get up in the morning!

so tragic! i mean i never really realised how tragic this is until i dawned on me that he died! ok maybe he didnt. perhaps like a coma but i think its more exciting if he died!

i just love the nights. so quiet, cool and peaceful. with no one around to bother me. its a good time for reflection and sorting out messed up thoughts. :) the mornings just have too much light which spoils the whole atmosphere.

was just thinking bout time the other day. it seems that time is just something relative. daylight saving and stuff. like who's the one who says that today is monday, tomorrow is tues etc? i mean, i can just say that tomorrow is sunday and not tuesday and if everyone followed suit, would we have just moved ahead in time, and skipped tues - sat?

like how its 13hrs behind in ontario and how someone might be just started the day while you're already ending it. how we just adjusted our time by 30min so as to make things easier for us between msia and stuff. so time is indeed a very relative thing.

time waits for no man. but if every man waits for time, time will wait for man.

Have you heard of Ah Beng applying to a medical school to become a
doctor? Needless to say he never made it. Do you know why? These are the
answers he wrote in his entrance exam:

Antibody - against everyone

Artery - The study of the paintings.

Bacteria - back door to a cafeteria.

Caesarean section - a district in Rome.

Cardiology - advance study of poker playing.

Cat scan - searching for lost kitty.

Chronic - neck of a crow.

Coma - punctuation mark.

Cortisone - area around local court.

Cyst - short for sister.

Diagnosis - person with slanted nose.

Dilate - the late British Princess Diana.

Dislocation - in this place.

Duodenum - couple in blue jeans.

Enema - not a friend.

Fake labour - pretending to work.

Genes - blue denim.

Hernia - she is close by.

Impotent - distinguished/well known.

Labour pain - hurt at work.

Lactose - people without toes.

Lymph - walk unsteadily.

Microbes - small dressing gown.

Obesity - city of Obe.

Pacemaker - winner of Nobel peace prize.

Proteins - in favour of teens.

Pulse - grain.

Pus - small cat.

Red blood count - Dracula.

Secretion - hiding anything.

Tablet - small table.

Ultrasound - radical noise.

Urine - opposite of you're out.

Varicose - very close

swimming again later! :) i realised i'll be swimming like a minimum of 2x a week.. but they happen to be two consecutive days of friday and saturday. that's if my bro doesn't play badminton on monday. if not it will be three times! and if we decide to go play somewhere else, maybe even more!

anyway, my uncle and family just came back from china and they bought loads of stuff for me! ok we actually asked them to help us buy boots and leggings but they ended up buying more!

so here it goes!

1. long boots
2. shorter boots
3. jacket
4. 2 pairs of black leggings/stockings
5. 1 pair of slightly higher than normal socks
6. 1 beanie
7. 1 scarf
8. chocolate!
9. roast duck

ok the last two were presents.. i have a feeling my aunt didn't charge me for the long boots but anyway that entire list [i hope i covered everything!] cost me........... SGD$135! mind you, those boots were made of leather! the leggings even had a layer of wool inside, the beanie was from tommy hilfinger and the scarf was love! :)

michelle is a very happy girl today!

and i think i'm going to have to tuition my little cousin math. p6 next yr. shouldnt be a problem provided she has a LONGER attention span. we'll see how it goes. must wait for her to buy books first. how can anyone not score in math? i mean that kind of math is easy! A level/uni math is the difficult one.. ><

anyway my mum and aunt would be going to tassie with me! yayness! mum will leave after bout a week but my aunt is thinking of staying longer to look after me. wahahaha! 75 more days to go!

50 laps today! hopefully i wont ache tmr. ><

so sleepy.. *yawns*

yay its 20 laps today! wasnt really bent on swimming a lot too since the wave pool, slides and lazy river were beckoning.. :)

but the downside is that we ate KFC after that! like OMG everything's down the drain!!! ><

grey's on later! yay!

swam 40 laps yest! so proud of myself. wahahaha!

seriously the most i've ever gone is 20? but i guess after the 20th lap its just keeping up the momentum. no more horrible struggles of getting through the laps and stuff. just kick off and swim till the other end and back and its already 2 laps! would have continued till maybe 50 if not for the fact that the pool was closing at 930 and it was already 9 and i had to wash up.

read that if you swim, you actually tend to put on weight because the cool water lowers your body temp so much that you actually end up hungry and eat more! soo.. in order not for me to gorge myself thereafter, i ate an apple! yay! gives me my fibre and vits and fills me up too.. though that swiss roll in the other bag was rather tempting.. ok it was VERY tempting but hey i managed to resist the urge of munching on that sugar-laden piece of confectionery. =D

bro wants to swim today because yest he played badminton while i swam so if the weather permits, maybe i shall!

right but then i'm once again reminded by the fact that i couldnt sleep well last night because my shoulder was mildly aching and i couldnt sleep in my usual position of my arm under my head! >< had to sleep in anatomical position.. HAHAHA! nvm i shall go swimming and ache more tmr.

so its a sunday already. the week just zooms past in a flash. soon everyone would have finished their exams and it will be play time! :)

just preparing notes on biochem and physio rite now since i really have nothing to do at the moment which should be a wonderful thing but i think time is really wasted in my hands. if only i could give it away or store time till a later date. nothing beats saving for a rainy day!

i really hope it will stop raining so frequently. though i love the rain but it makes me feel very lazy. :( as if im not lazy enough alr. argh.

i wanna swim swim swim! monday? argh lets just hope it doesnt rain and i can wake up early in the morning. wahahahha!

life's been really boring. seriously. all i do now is wake up, eat, watch tv, read, sleep, eat, watch tv, play com, sleep.

wad a life. seriously.

thanx to the following people who remembered!

1. brian nguyen
2. ami
3. jessie
4. monic
5. yong guan
6. jeremy
7. sheralyn
8. siying
9. joey
10. deborah wong
11. ruth
12. michong
13. vicky
14. wenny
15. sheeyin
16. sean
17. yinjia
18. qi'en
19. lao vincent
20. germaine
21. chin guan
22. vanessa too
23. lyndsey
    

sleepy now. went to jurong point and bought some dresses/shirts/pants for formal dinners and clinicals. just love this fashion. its like soo nice and easy to buy stuff because they are affordable and i can try and try and try and no one will say a thing. at least not aloud. :P but yeah you get the idea. summore its nov means i get 20% discount since its my bdae mth! being a member has its perks i guess.. wahahaha!

i just realised its less than 100 days till i fly off. about 96 days left according to my facebook countdown. time's really ticking by and i haven seem to have accomplished anything this year. this year has just gone by in a flash. its already near my birthday. 1 yr ago, we were having our A levels right now, mugging hard at our books, forgetting wads day and wads night. it was chem mcq. 3 years ago, we were mugging hard for O levels. it was geog and physics. 7 years ago, my birthday was the last day of school. i still rmb when i was so happy my age finally had 2 digits. and now that decade has almost gone by. isnt it just so surreal when you look back and you realise that everyone around you has aged, grown older, matured, settled down etc?

life's ever-changing. sometimes i hope i can rmb my earlier memories but i cant. cant really rmb anything before p4. which is a real pity i think. all my memories from then have been inputted by friends of mine. its only after they tell me that i vaguely recall such an incident though some really slip by mind totally. i do not rmb my kindergarten friends at all except nat and pei han (i think). i can rmb some of my p1-2 classmates but not the events that happened. generally i get the idea but not specific events that happened btwn others and i.

its amazing how when you finally manage to link up with long lost friends that you realise how far we've come today. since the days in kindergarten, who would have thought that we would become doctors, engineers, business people, lawyers etc. no one would have guessed this much. life's just insane. hopefully when i look back when im old and stuff, i can still rmb the things that happened to me. i dont want to lose my memory. at least let them be somewhere at the back of my mind and not totally erased. let there be something i can relate to my grandchildren in future.

life's just a big fat joke, ain't it?

second last day here. now in my room waiting for 104 tut later. i'll def miss this place a lot. esp my room! my frenz!

time really flies even when u're enjoying yourself. these past 4 mths have been wonderful.. with its own ups and downs but hey.. we've survived sem 1 tgt! :)

the first time i moved into my room, i had this huge box of stuff.. really huge.. cant believe i actually brought so much to hall.. hahaha.. its my home.. spend more time here than at home.. the times i've spent doing hw at the table, eating at the tabele, snoring at the table.. the toilet auntie who washes the toilet at like 930 and causes me to not be able to use it when i wake up on thursday at 930..

the weekly clothes washings on tues/wed because of the long break after the labs ended.. the nights in the study room.. the clan dinners and stuff.. just chilling out in someone else's room like xu3min, youxi@ng.. (oh gosh it thinks its an email add!) the long marketing hours we spent tgt.. the tears (not literally) we shared as we pulled through and achieved A/A+ for our journal and plan.. :) we really just rock too much..

and yinjia!!! thanks for being my 'twin'! :) i'll definitely miss you loads loads!

scary lightning!

yummy yummy dinner yest! :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

How to get a full day off from school in VJ

that was a lot of pictures yesterday!

now for some words.. haha..

the macarons were sooo yummy.. one of the mktg groups presented their plan and it was bout dessert delivery.. ><>< color="#ff9900">fri too! omg so many things gg on.. monkey.. gorilla.. chimpanzee!
monkey.. gorilla.. chimpanzee..
monkey.. gorilla.. monkey.. gorilla.. MONKEY.. gorilla.. chimpanzee!