shiver shiver shiver

brrr... either its getting really cold or im falling sick. they are the only two reasons i can think of that explains why i feel chilled to the bones after my shower despite having 3 layers of clothing on.. Temperature check. 17deg. Thats not too bad. Guess it must be option two then.

Have started taking double dose of vit c as well as trying to turn in early.. but my sleeping hours are very much dependent on the pple living around me. so im at their mercy.mm.. came back really early today at 1pm, and quickly took a short nap while the house is nice and quiet. hee. Smart move indeed. Cos doors and kitchen cabinets started their symphony as the rest made their way home at 3-ish and prepared snacks/tea/dinner.
Haiz.

Received a surprise phonecall in the afternoon and it cheered up my blue thursday.. :)

Had the strong urge to go grocery shopping just now.. hee. there are a couple of items on sale this week and am super tempted to buy. the problem is, they are all snacks. :p on any other days, i wud have subcumbed to temptation and grabbed the whole lot. but am already falling sick... shouldnt buy them right? cos i know i definitely will not be able to resist them if they are staring at me from across the room.. plus i really have alot of food in the house.. proper food in fact. proud of me right?? lol..its probably bcos im so busy eating all my snacks that im neglecting the proper food loh.. :p WAIT before you scold me.. i do eat proper food k.. just that i eat the snacks on top of proper food also... *stares at bulging tummy*
Haiz.

(2 packets of Red Rock potato chips for $5...my favourite brand of chips!! should i buy should i buy??? )

Nvm. i will work hard at reducing the tummy when i get back in dec. Now i just want to get through this course.. and if eating snacks make me happy, i shall not deprive myself of that little pleasure. :)
suddenly, i realise that there are probably alot of things that i wanna eat when i get back in dec... hahaha. :)

i wan to eat mummy's porridge.. :((

woohoo!

Survived journal club today! One down, 4 more to go.. (1 assignment, 1 proposal, 2 presentations).. so so many things on the to-do-to-hand-up-to-present list.. and still got clinics on top of all that...no wonder for every single health ailment that i face, the top hypothosis is always....... *drum roll*............ STRESS.

Woke up with my right eye feeling "injured". feels like a capillary has burst except that its not, cos i dont have bloodshot eyes..sometimes its really a pain to be a medical personnel.. you need to be medically correct even when you feel like crap and just want to vent...vent also must vent correctly loh.. or if not ur frens will correct you anyway... lol. so the diagnosis is enlarged capillaries probably from increased pressure (somewhere).

Yes its definitely the stress. (Everywhere)

anyway absolutely joyous that the tedious, dreadful, annoying journal club is OVERRRRR!!!! Plus, we have got a packet of supreme cheese nachos and a packet of forest fruit lollies left over from just now...hehehe.. Hmm still got to attend 5 other journal clubs (one every tuesday) BUT. others are presenting... hehehe..

okay better prepare for my clinics tmr.. only at page 2..of pages 100+++++...
:((((

blur me

i find this so ridiculously funny that i cant resist blogging about it.
Was highlighting some important points on the article i was reading and when i wanted to cap my highlighter (cos wanted to jot some stuff down onto my notes), i cant seem to find the cap! So i put down my highlighter and article on the table and started a thorough strip search of my bed (and even under my bed) but it seemed to have just disappeared into thin air..
Resigned, i went back to the table to pick up my article and highlighter and guess what? The cap miraculously found its own way back to the highlighter! hahaha... have u managed to solve the mystery of the missing cap???? Scroll down if you are still puzzled by the mystery..
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I was biting on the cap while reading the article and had subconsciously capped it back when i placed it and the article down on the table..

LOL.

fuming mad

i am so so so angry now.....i wanna just yelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!
ARGH!!!

too busy

the time really flies when you are juggling one million things at a time..and that includes the weekend as well unfortunately..

i have this presentation on tues which the gals and i have been working really hard on.. a huge chunk of it is on appraising research articles as well as statistical analysis. but on top of all these, we still need to think about how to facilitate the discussion amongst the entire class which i think is pretty difficult..given the fact that i know how much the entire class hates stats and ebp (evidence based practice) Come to think of it, im also starting to feel some hatred bubbling inside me whenever i see "EBP" on my timetable..am so so glad next sem we are not going to have ebp again.. phew.

oh and did i mention, last night i had the best sleep in days.. have only been clocking 4-5 hours per night for the past one week.. :( but i changed my bedsheets yest and woke up feeling great with the nice crisp smell of new bedsheets filling my nostrils.. i really love the smell of fresh clean sheets.. :)))

clinics is going to start this week.. abit nervous... apparently the school clinic supervisors are quite strict.. i need to be confident. cos i think one very good reason why the angmohs always do better as us is the the way they can just smoke their way through... i dont wish to smoke my way..dunno means dunno.. but need to be confident..must try!!

Random thoughts

Spent the entire afternoon in the library preparing for my coming journal club presentation (next tues!!)..think its a waste of time but what to do?? this unit alone stands for 25 credits (1/4 of my semester's credits) and the presentation itself is worth about 30-35% of the unit..so bo bian.. just try to do my best in it given the super short notice we have about being scheduled the first to present. :((( Want to be unhappy and pout also dont have time to form the pout loh..
Just.have.to.do.it.Pronto.

I do have a plan though. I shall buy lots of snacks for the class..that should distract them.
But.
there is a component in the marking scheme about facilitation of discussion and group interaction. hmmm...Wont do much good if everyone is busy eating and doing no talking.
Damn it.

Saw the plunging necklines and cleavages flashed at the Star Award yest. Fann wong is still so hot. and fair. She is nearing 40, can you believe it??? Ann kok's dress is abit tasteless, in my opinion. Feels like the dress has slipped a notch..going from classy to slutty.

Getting back my results for my pract exam tmr... nervous!!!! i hope i passed. please please please. think i will be crushed..totally.. given the amount of effort i had put in..
please please please..
some divine intervention wouldnt hurt. :p

Received a notice in the letterbox today. Have a registered mail waiting for me at the post office. Wierd. i wonder who it is from..have already received the cheque from HR on thurs for my reimbursement so it cant be them...unless there is some mistake in the comp system..lol. very very unlucky but hey, a gal has got to have hopes right? :p

feeling down

im overwhelmed by a strong wave of homesickness...

Officially 2 months

Its been exactly two months since i first stepped onto Perth's soil. Wow, cant believe how time flies. I am sure the next 7 months is going to pass exactly the same way - lightning quick.
The days here are definitely not a drag.. if anything, its going by too fast for my liking. because the faster im done here, the earlier i have to go back to "face the music"..
Its crazy how many assignments and readings i have got lined up..and i have become extremely absent minded i discover to my horror today! I actually forgot a planned dinner at home with my housemate and a few of my classmates. It was only when i heard their voices, then i realised that we were supposed to have dinner together!! so so terrible..and my housemate very gently reminded me that we also have another dinner date with the rest of the housemates tmr... better not forget that!

been reading about the volcano eruption in iceland.. hope jie is not affected there..

hmm...i have been trying to limit myself to 1 cup of coffee/tea a day bcos it seemed like a second cup in the afternoon tends to keep me up at night.. BUT its so hard!! so so so tempted to brew a second cup in the afternoon esp with the weather turning cold and all that.. mum suggested milo but i cant seem to make mine taste as good as those sold outside.. so i dun wan. Reject. I thought milk tea is not really tea..but according to mummy, its still tea and for someone like me who rarely drinks tea (i only picked up the habit when i came here) to suddenly have 2 cuppa everyday..it will keep my system running overdrive..haiyo so ma fun!! cant drink hot chocolate also, cos with the amount of solid chocolate im already eating daily, i run a very high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. :<<

feeling so sleepy...

Gone like the wind

Remember the huge tub of freshly made pineapple tarts my housemate gave me???

12 April 2010 Sunday

17 April 2010 Saturday

17 April 2010 Saturday

I blame my pract exam. It was meant to last much longer than this... :X

And to be very honest, i kept the last one there solely for the purpose of taking photos. It will disappear very soon... hee

i survived pract exam!!

woohoo! i survived yest!! almost thought my heart might just jump out of the thoracic cavity during the exam cos it was just beating sooooooo quickly..

okay. let me do a quick recap of wat happened yest.

Couldnt slp at night, only managed to fall aslp at 1plus, and kept waking up throughout the night with random thoughts of back, neck, nerve reflexes, SIJ, myotomes...
Couldnt fall back to sleep after 5am.. literally felt like a walking zombie.
so drank coffee to zap myself awake and keep warm..
Study study study..ate half a tub of pineapples and some chocies to keep myself sane..(good excuse rite?? :p)
Left the house at 1030am (exam at 11am), decided to leave all my notes at home and walk to school with a peaceful mind (haha like real!! mind was running everywhere!! :P)

Exam started. 5 stations. 7 mins each. 2 parts to every question. No time to breathe, think or make mistakes.
Literally collapsed onto a chair when i finished the last qn. My legs just cudnt hold me up anymore..

Incredible experience... Cant believe i will have to do this again in June.. this time prob with more stations and much much heavier weightage on my overall marks.. *faints*

Most scary part of the pract: when tutor asked "do you rem in the SIJ lecture, he mentioned 2 theories....." and i honestly dont rem anything. *blank stare back*

Most hilarious part: when the tutor told me to slow down...Then i asked if i could proceed on to the next part of the qn, and he said "hang on a second, let me finish writing this..." (i assessed faster than he could write...haha..)

Most scary part2: when the tutor just stood there and watched and said nothing during the entire time i was at the station...

I. Am. So. Glad. Its. Over.

stressed!!!!

having practical exam tomorrow!! was feeling pretty zen out over the weekend and last few days but dunno why.. today i can just feel the anxiety creeping up onto me.. and the whole afternoon, i was feeling extremely nauseous...
i dun wan to be stressed but im stressed!! wat to do?!??!?
:((((((

crazy crazy day

today is such a crazy day! finished class at 12pm, then rushed down to the city to Priceline to get the cream for my mum.. Wanted to get a dozen tubs, but guess wat? the store only had two!! TWO pathetic tubs in their entire store... wah lau..but the store manager was kind enough to help me call the 2 stores in the city fringe and managed to locate another 9 tubs for me (7 in one and 2 in another store). they dun do internal store delivery so i have to go down to the stores personally... :(( doesnt help when the stores are like in opp directions to each other.. so i walked and walked and walked... took me another hour to locate all 9 tubs. :((

and finally handed over all 11 tubs to my fren who will be bringing them over to my mum.. phew.

then i came home.. and went grocery shopping (again) at coles and bought (haha, i dun think i have ever left coles emptyhanded before even when i entered the store with nothing in mind to buy... so auntie!!! :p)
- two packets of 2min microwave easy meals (sweet n sour chicken with rice, curry chicken with rice)
- 1 huge chunk of cheese
- 1 packet of plain table crackers (to go with the cheese)
- 2 cans of turkey ham (for sandwich)

my lager is already bursting with food.. lol. i think i am buying faster than wat im eating (chocolates excluded).. and wait, lemme count.. i think i have used up this month's grocery $$!!! okay time to stop!!!

erm..i must confess.. ive been naughty today.. :(( ate 4 pineapple tarts instead of 3 today. :p

greedy greedy

heehee..no prizes for guessing where this piece of pineapple tart is going.. the same place the previous 2 went earlier... heehee.. :p

yum yum!

my housemate packs a mean tart! tried to ask her for the recipe but apparently its family recipe (mum opens a bakery) so cannot give to outsiders.. :( BUT...she promised to make more for me when she goes back in july. :)))))

Tmr i shall try her mooncake! should i attack the traditional one first or the snowskin one?? or both???? :p

omg omg!!

Omg omg omg!! im so excited that i have to post this right now.. my malaysian housemate just passed me some homemade goodies!!
1 tub of pineapple tarts and 2 mooncakes!!!
i cant believe my eyes!!! i was just whining to my mum the other day about my cravings for pineapple tarts and whether can they ship some over to me.. (on top of other food of cos.. ba chang included. :p) and now i have a tub staring right at me from my desk! All to myself... mwahahaha... okay, going to ration max 3 per day. heeeee....... my housemate is so nice!!! shall cook fish for her tmr! :)

yummy pineapple tarts!!!

mooncakes - 1 snow skin, 1 traditional

my comfort food!!!

im feeling so blessed! :)

7 ways to eat a chocolate chip cookie

1) nibble away at the edges, slowly working your way to the centre
2) dip it in hot chocolate/coffee/milk tea/milo for 10seconds and bite off the softened part
3) apply a thin layer of nutella over it
4) lick off all the chocolate chips first
5) put it inside your lunch sandwich - gives a crunchy taste to ur soft bread & sandwich filing!
6) soak the entire cookie in coffee and drink it melted
7) eat the entire cookie in one mouthful!

relaxing sunday

quiet quiet morning today is.. 2 housemates have stayed over at their's bfs' and are not back yet.. 1 has gone out to the city to do some shopping.. 2 are still soundly asleep. yes, still soundly asleep at 12.45pm... :) both had a late night yest, chatting and playing dice with frens at the balcony till wee hours this morning.. luckily they did not wake me up from my sleep..mm now where was i? oh yes.. so that leaves me, the only person awake in the house. Have been up since 7am.. didnt do work as planned although i did manage to clean the kitchen - stove, oven, microwave (its house inspection tmr) and made myself a hearty breakfast while waiting for the cleaning solution to blast the grease away.. hee.

if only this quiet will last. i dun mind staying at home at day if it is always this quiet. :)

was in a horrid horrid mood yest. had a lousy sleep, interrupted many times by neighbours and doors banging. argh. felt like nothing cud possibly go right when i got up in the morn. Didnt even feel like welcoming the return of my housemate when she came back from malaysia yest. It was that bad. :( and it lasted till my nice long bath in the evening.. the hot water sort of calmed my nerves and eased the tension in my neck n shoulders... and as i breathed in the warm vapour, i cud feel my whole body relaxing..i even felt good enough after that to apply some masque for my hair. lol. cannot neglect my dark tresses, can i? Esp since i intend to keep it long.. so better give some TLC to my mane.. opps hair i mean. :p but i seriously dunno how much to apply..its not stated in the instructions.. only said to apply on washed and towel-dried hair, esp at the ends. hmm.. so only can agar-agar estimate. enough to feel that got apply something, but not till it looks oily... lol.

my frens have been asking me to go shopping with them.. but i didnt go. not bcos ive nothing to buy (okay thats one of the reason too) but i dun have the shopping mood leh... not even for window shopping.. funny rite? in sg, i wud like to go out and look at wat the shops have to offer, even though i may not wan to buy anything..and i dun go out as often as i wud like, only bcos work makes me so tired that most weekends, i just wanna stay at home and recharge. So why am i not interested to shop here? I stay at home not bcos i have no where else to go..or no $$ to go out.. but i actually want to stay at home..i actually feel happy in my room.. haha. i think im crazy. maybe im turning into a recluse?? haha.. nah i still have this thing about fridays..although the feeling is not as strong over here.. :)

can feel the monday blues slowly creeping into my room le...

keep out!

Dreamy is in a grouchy mood today. Will bite.
Advised to stay away.

forcefully kept awake

its close to 1am and i wonder why im still awake.. afterall i have been dozing on my notes since 11pm...

well the cause of my insommnia is just outside my window.. literally. A bunch of annoying neighbours have decided to stay up the night chatting and laughing... and im just a small price of their happiness.. arghh..

nvm..think happy thoughts dreamy.. i had yummy korean food for dinner today! followed by honey laced popcorn n yoghurt ice cream which, we reasoned, were necessary to take the sting off from the spiciness..hee. and for the first time, i had rice and popcorn both cooked by microwave...i always thought microwaved popcorn wud not be as tasty as those in the cinemas.. but boy was i wrong! alright, i wouldnt say its better than the cinemas ones, but its good enough for me to reach back into the bowl for more.. :p now i know wat to buy for stay-in-sat-late-night-movies when im back in sg! :)

okay my toilet mate just went to the toilet and i can hear everything she is doing.. hmm.. which means, she can prob hear everything that im doing in the morn too! erhhh ..
okay sidetracked..

sighh,..can they just shut up and go to sleep.. or bring their chat somewhere else.. sigh..

bak gua

The fragrance of the bbq meat.. the rough texture of the meat and the oily after-taste lingering in the mouth... oOoohh heavenly!!

the objects of my affection

fren gave me 2 pieces and boy was i jumping over the roof!! had one just now.. was so so tempted to gobble up the 2nd one, but managed to restrain myself... got to save it for another day, i keep reminding myself.

tiring day today.. got to go to freemantle hospital tmr to do research project. Bad part about it is the distance.. it takes me an hr & half to travel there, and another hr & half to travel back. :( Good thing about it is that i get to eat fish n chips with the gals when we are done! :) i think we are also going to indulge in some rum n raisin ice cream from BaskinNRobins...Jindee has been psycho-ing us since last wk after eating it with her bf..lol. Apparently its super yummy, super heavenly and comes in ang-moh size too!! hee..

craving for ba-chang... :(

Happy birthday my dear frens!! :)

oppz

i forgot to mention.....
i finally got my wireless mouse to work!!! YIPPEEEE!! :)
no more sustained wrist flexion (except on writing)..
YAY!! :)

okay..now left with 10mins to read notes.. :p

this and that

Assignment is almost completed..have not done vetting through yet..but i think i can leave tat for later.. got to catch up with my readings and prep for coming exam. Already i am behind my timetable..although i must say, this is the closest i have ever followed a timetable set by myself since sec sch days.. Have nv failed to create a revision timetable for myself but have also nv succeeded in following the timetable since sec3. sometimes i also dunno do for wat. but it makes me feel organised. haha. even though im not. :p

just sent a list of my set objectives n achievements for 2009 to my in-charge so tat she can attach to my PPA form. (PPA stands for personal performance appraisal..i think :p) wonder wat grade will i get for the 2009. im hoping i have done enough to be worthy of a grade 2, but some of my frens tell me that when u are away for TL (training leave), u automatically get a grade 3. Personally, i think thats unfair because that shld be the grade u get for the following yr's PPA (which appraises the year that u are away) and not the year which u put in so much blood n sweat.. but who am i to say? if i can get a grade 2, i shld just thank my lucky stars.. but if not..guess i will buy Boost - strawberry squeeze drink and sayang myself for a day. okay maybe 2 days.. :)

*keeping fingers crossed*

alright i shall spend the next 20mins reading the hip notes (which i shld have read 2 days ago) before going to bed..and if you are reading this..sweet dreams and good night to you too! :)

Homemade lemon honey

guess wat?? i successfully made my own lemon honey drink!! ran out of strepsils yest and no shops were open due to easter holidays..tried everything - warm water, cold water, milk tea, coffee, fresh milk (milk is a really bad idea when it comes to sore throat.. make the throat feel even worse! :( ) but couldnt get relief... then suddenly i wished for lemon honey..the drink i always order when i sing K.. hahah.. then i realised why not? I have pure honey and lemons in my fridge.. so boiled some water and mix here mix there..and VIOLA~! dreamy's freshly squeezed and stirred homemade lemon honey drink.

and it tasted quite good too.. :p

sunday night fever

Listening to "Celebration" by Madonna (feat Akon) in the quiet of my room and bobbing my head to the beat of the music is probably the closest i can get to clubbing here i think..

how sad.

yet so economical.

If i just close my eyes and picture blinding disco lights in my mind, i can almost fool myself into thinking im out partying the night away..

its also helps to have a playlist full of dance tracks..hee.. black eyed peas and shakira for instance..

*bobs head bobs bobs head*

Lazy sunday

Decided to give myself a break today.. did not practice nor do any work.. also took a 2 hr nap in the afternoon..and i even ate kit kat to make it more complete. :) felt guilty like hell but what the heck. its better to give the body a day break than to have a week of illness when school reopens..i rationalised to myself.

and.. i did something terrible. Twice.
but the funny thing is, it doesnt feel wrong to me. Its just that i know its wrong. hmm..

i dont know which is worse. The fact that i dont think its wrong, or that i done it twice?

Read so much news today from so many sources that i feel like im back in sg again. So Mrs Lim Hwee Hua thinks we shld have more female politicians? I think her argument about not having a quota for male/female politicians is pretty good. Assuming that most politicians have fairly high egos of themselves, im sure they wudnt like the idea, no matter how remote it may be, of being selected into parliament to fill in a gap caused by the quota rule.

And im absolutely stunned by the news of the almost-sale of a penthouse in Strathmore Avenue for a staggering sum of $950,000!!! Apparently the sale didnt go through because the buyer cudnt get a bank loan for that amount. Good on you, sg banks. This sort of insane behaviour should not be encouraged! Guess my wish to stay in queenstown area is going the same way as my wish to stay in marine parade...down the toilet bowl. Judging from the way hdb resale prices are skyrocketing, the only places i will be able to afford to stay in are perhaps sengkang, woodlands, sembawang, or maybe even pulau ubin or batam..

hmm.. since i have time, maybe i shld google "ways to gently nudge boss for a pay raise"...

Rise and shine

Clocked in 6 hours of sleep..tried to will myself back into lalaland but mind is defiant. Checked throat - still sore and painful to swallow. Strepsils is officially my new best friend. should have bought the throat numbing type instead of the lemon flavoured.. oh well, better than nothing..we shldnt complain about our best frens rite? :)

headache is almost gone. not sure if its bcos i avoided the afternoon sun yest or the powerful effects of 2 hr power nap in the afternoon.. hmm.. watever it is, i shld just do both again today.

today is saturday. i miss waking up and starting my morning with a good read of the STraits Times followed by the delicious beehoon my mum buys for me every sat. What i had instead, was soggy cereal + bananas + milk. My only gripe is that the cereal turns soggy quicker than i can finish saying "Soggy".... :S Haha. think i shld just dip the cereal into a glass of milk instead of pouring my milk onto the cereal.

mental countdown to end of break - AHHHHH!!! only one week left!! :(
mental coundown to list of work - not even 30% done! T_T

happy easter to all.. pls do say a little prayer for me if u have the time. i will need all the divine help i can get for my coming pract exam.. :) thank you!!

time to go to school for practice..

Not so good friday

Woke up with a sore throat.

Dragged myself to school.

Practice practice practice.

Whole body aching.

Kitchen is like dumpster again.

Mood not so good.

Lousy time for a bug invasion..

:(