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oh yea... CAs are the week after next! i'm half excited and half worried. worried cos there's really a lot to study. it's totally not like jc where u get to go through the study materials a couple of times to build confidence before the exam... now it's like exams are only a week away and i've still got loads of half read notes, chapters and untouched tutorials. gah! but the good news is... the CAs are just mcqs, except for a small portion of our physiology paper! haha.. that's why i'm so excited! mcq exam! the last time i had something like that was for my SAT2 and i fared pretty well although i wasn't very prepared... hopefully the same will happen this time.

tv shows are getting better! there's Lost, House, One Tree Hill (that juz finale-d), CSI and more... gosh. I can't wait for the exams to be over.... then i'll juz devour all the pixels from the screen hours on end, without any guilt whatsoever.

Christmas is coming! I want christmas.... It's like the fire that's keeping me burning at this very one-tracked stage in my life. the festivities shall be my finish line cheer squad.=)

oh ya and before i close this entry, i juz wanna announce that i think my chinese i really horrible. it's deteriorated to the stage where it's difficult for me to hold a simple conversation in mandarin. this stark realisation came during this week's physician development programme when we had to meet patients and try to build some PR skills. yup... i ended up listening and just responding by nodding instead of contributing input to the conversation. plus it's a real bane when patients throw out medical disorders in chinese, esp for a person like me who can't even tell you wad the liver is the mandarin tongue (dun worry i juz learnt it ;). i'm really going to suffer next time if i don't do something soon.

k now.... i shall be off... let's just hope everything falls in place.

for one, my family's leaving for phuket tomorrow. and i'm gonna be home alone! this is like a double blow cos on one hand i'm missing out on a great trip and on the other, i'll be so lonely here in singapore! bah! ): so why am i not going then? well, i figured that if i did go, then those few days of relaxation will cause me to spiral into a more hectic episode than what i'm already in for...

on this coming monday, i'm supposed to give a talk to some guys from a catholic organization on how to prepare for their exams and stuff... i think some of them are even gonna be taking their As in a few weeks time. quite stressful cos i don't really know what message i wanna bring across to them. study more? or don't get too stressed up over exams and results? i hope to find them a balance, but then i'm afraid the message will just fizz out in me not providing them a straightforward direction. this is difficult. hope it turns out fine.

then i'm also joining my faculty's catholic xmas caroling group. sounds fun, but haha... the practices are really tough. and it's especially so for a person like me who has neither any idea how to read music scores or sing using his diaphragm. and to complicate things even more, i've been classified as a bass (singer with the lowest voice). HAHA! nuts... but really the problem lies in bass singer's singing in a melody that's totally out of tune with the actual christmas carols that we know. i know it sounds really nice when we combine all the diff pitches, but seriously as an individual... i'm really finding it hard to change the way i sing how my favourite carols are meant to be sang.

also, the week after will be my driving test. 11 nov. GAH! i'm in for it man... i've only got three lessons left and i've not even done my final evaluation. i think it'll take more than a miracle to land a driver's license in my hands on that date, but i'll try my best. be steady, be safe! haha.... i'll haf to keep repeating that to myself... i don't really think i'm a safe driver.... i've actually cultivated the negative habit not checking blindspots before turning.. i'm doomed!(:

ok and not to mention that my table's currently cluttered with notes, books and more pieces of paper than you'll every find in a paper mill. it's really scary how much i've already learnt and probably forgotten, but even scarier to realise that i've gotta cram them into my almost saturated brain again before 29nov for my first CA exam. help!

okay... maybe i'm just making life seem really bad. yea i guess i am. i've really got lots to cheer about too. i've got a really nice bunch of friends in school, a comfortable bed to sleep in, a pretty yellow highlighter to highlight my notes with.... oops... back to square one. yup.... christmas is coming! haha... now that's brought a smile to my face!

Take for example yesterday. yup, fridays are meant to be our anatomy days where we go to the anatomy hall to examine and learn from dissected cadavers. and before that, it would always be a formality to have a pre-lab lecture to briefly introduce to us what we would be seeing during the practical itself. and last friday's one was on the thorax and heart. to be honest, i know i didn't exactly study the chapter in depth before the lesson itself, but my goodness... the rate at which the pre-lab lesson went and also coupled by the amount of facts bombarded during the pract was amazing... in a scary sense. i was quite sure the lecturer's mouse click speed could rival those of my eye movements (which are supposed to be very fast already).

anyway, i'm not blaming the lecturers at all or anything like that. i'm sure they're excellent at what they do and that's why they're doing it. in fact i'm not blaming anyone or anything. it's just that the course really has a lot for us to know... and not really just know, but know, understand and remember! yes... that's how it's supposed to be.. and i'm feeling the pains of it.

but still, i'm quite happy. at least this is better than having nothing to study. and as what one of the lecturer's said,"that's why doctors are paid so much." right. but i would rather say "that's why medicine's so interesting and fascinating!" there's really a whole cornucopia of information to amass and it's constantly growing with more research and tests going on. it's mad, but fun... and wholly beneficial. great.... for the betterment of mankind and also my thirst to know more.... but i digress.

yup. life as a med student's really starting to pick up now. lotsa commitments to the books... of which i made myself. still have yet to fulfill any of them though. maybe soon. but ah well, you can't really extrapolate when you don't even have a starting point, can you? haha...if u get wad i mean. ;)

okies... sorry for the long blogging hiatus. but don't worry, i'll always be around. :)

For the past few weeks i have been an avid reader of a blog by this doctor who goes by the moniker of Dr BL Og. apparently it is very popular, and i've enjoyed reading it greatly. as as much as it was fun to read, it was also very much enlightening. from explaining the hierarchy of the medical personnel in hospitals through anecdotes to giving excellent advice on hitching or getting hitched while working as a doc, his blog has taught me a lot. but unfortunately due to some new ruling being drawn up by Singhealth (it's in today's Sunday Times), he has had to terminate this wonderfully entertaining blog. It truly is a pity that an innocently light-hearted blog has to suffer at the expense of other very inconsiderate and insensitive (many of whom are also racist) bloggers. i only wish singhealth could have drawn up a more discriminatory policy. spare the innocent!

anyway, an even more grave consequence of this would be more of a personal one. as i take a peek down this life of mine, it inevitably (unless i fail my exams or worse) leads me to a medical profession too. which also means that i'll be a 'member' of singhealth, somewhat. which then means that my blog, as Dr BL Og's, would be in deep sh*t too. this is terrible...

nevertheless, i shall prevail and not stop blogging until i'm forced to. seriously hoping for some intervention of sorts... maybe another change in policy during the next five years... or even a petition to stop this crazy singhealth nonsense. i mean doesn't an organisation like singhealth have bigger problems on their hands... like thinking of how to better administer healthcare to save more lives! why burden themselves with nitty gritty stuff like blogging. (shit i hope they don't read this...)

yup. wadever the case, i really have no say in these sort of things. and i'm not really going to put my own butt on the line by kickstarting a bloggers rebellion or anything like that. i'll just hope and pray that things go as they are meant to be... for my sake and everyone who like me derives pleasure from sharing a bit of our lives online.

yup.. so glad school's reopening. i can be productive once again. i really think (in retrospect) that i learn a lot from the lectures. although at that point while it seems like that wizened professor is just blabbering nonsense, some stuff still does get into my head..subconsciously. and it helps greatly when i relook the notes at my own time because those bits of information just help link everything up nicely, like a jigsaw puzzle. so haha...the point i'm actually making is that school's really the best place to learn... we can't have too many holidays.

however, i think i've made good my holiday. throughout the week, i've been watching a lot of great shows... like csi, lost, and in a few minutes, i shall be catching this new one called House soon. supposedly a very witty and interesting medical drama. haha... just down my lane! hehe... yea... and that's partially why i'm rushing this entry... can't really think of much to say for once.

oh yea... i guess i should talk about my fitness. haha... well then again there's nothing much to talk about anyway. I've hardly been exercising lately. see the hierarchy goes as such... family/personal stuff, studying, blogging and then exercising.... so haha... as u can see i've not been blogging much... so the trend just trickles down for the rest. shoots. i'd better get back in shape soon. my swimming competition's next saturday!

craps.... okay... i concede... nothing to blog about and my show's gonna start in like half a minute. let's resolve this in a win-win situation by ending this blog right here. sorry for having make you read this load of crap... i juz needed to type it so that i can start working out.(:

Right... next week's a HOLIDAY for me! omigawsh! haha... i didn't realise there was one only until last week. it was stated on my timetable, but i guess the fact that it was soo soon just slipped my mind completely! anyway, i'm not complaining at all! this means i can sleep more, catch up on my work, playy and watch my tv shows! bliss... it's so delightfully timely!

work is kinda picking up now... just had my first test (formative assessment) last thursday. didn't really have much time to study for it so i ended up flipping through the scanty and unmuggably organised notes only... thankfully i still passed so here's a mini-hurray to me! but ya... i guess it was ok cos i already had some prior knowledge on those topics from jc... but come next FA i think i should really not be sooo complacent anymore. looking at all the metabolism and dna stuff makes me wanna catabolise myself! gah!

next tuesday's my pbl at kkh. hehe...of all places! i've never been to that new building before, so i suppose it'd be an eye-opener of sorts. who knows... i might even get posted there durng my clinicals or housemanship term. exciting!

and on wednesday, there's this tentative og outing at ecp. nice to have an outdoors outing for once. too many "let's meet at city hall mrt station at....". let's give the air-con a break guys! ecp is cheap fun! and there's just so much to do... like cycling, blading, frisbee.... hey! u even get to shed some calories here. Gosh... this is the perfect outing-to-be. haha... i hope everything turns out as i foresee.

ohoh... i just bought a few funky cool shirts. billabong, quiksilver, vans, reef etc... all original (in case u were wondering). and they weren't like sold at over-the-roof prices otherwise i wouldn't haf gotten them ya.. gd prices... even better quality! I'm happy! i've got new 'school uniform'!

yupyup... it's a great week ahead! i'm looking forward to it like a toto-hopeful to the million dollar jackpot... except that i know mine's definitely gonna materialise. YAY! =) *SMILE*

this happy feeling i believe is an aftereffect of yesterday and also the previous few days. yea... i went for hwachong's maf celebrations last evening and i found it extremely enjoyable! everyone there was having soo much fun... me included! i think fun, joy, happiness and all these really nice feelings are contagious! like how you feel like just smiling when you see someone else smile. it's great! the whole world should just smile.

anyway, there were lots of great entertainment at maf.... the performances were not bad... though very chinese oriented. dragon dance. wushu. chinese dance. you get the picture.... but still, being a self-professed chinese-phobic, i found myself laughing to and clapping for the shows. it's really rare that these sort of things happen. yup. says quite a bit already..

but what i thot was even better were the singing and mass dances. haha... again it was mostly chinese, but thankfully there was hanyupingying.... so that i could sing along. they probably knew i was coming. hehe. mass dancing was also quite fantastic. not because i was neatly grooving to the beat, but because i was having lots of fun with those around me... just getting tangled up in the really aerobics-like moves. fantastic ambience!

it truly is a pity rj never has these sort of events. i feel that it does wonders in building school spirit among the student body. but then again, i suppose rj has it's own sort of fun-stuff... like ora day heh. my thanks to bean for the invitation and hildee for being my tour guide! you guys are truly great products of a great school!

okay... now don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to put rj down k. that has never been my intention. i'm really proud of rj and proud to be part of it! RAFFLES ROCKS! okay... settled. =p

happy happy... back to mugging... i mean learning! should get used to not saying mugging anymore. it's taboo. it's outta my life! I'm a learner! LIFE LONG LEARNING!!! haha... too much smec for me i think. yucks! but good motivation to study la.. HAPPY!!! bye!

Of the many things, the most immediate and i guess minor of checkpoints in this path to my 'satisfying nirvana' would be to obtain my driving license. Yes yes. I've already booked my test date. It's on the 11th of november. A nice lucky date! So I've effectively got about two months plus to get myself test-ready. So far, I've only completed module two...it's now on to the circuit! Get ready world, this might just be the next Schumacher in the making! Haha!!! Vroooooom!

Apart from that, I've also resolved to not be a mugger, but instead study for the love of learning more. I know it sounds like the same thing but it's not. It's really all about semantics. A mugger is someone who devotes himself (or herself... i know lotsa female muggers) to learning something excessively well for the sake of doing well in examinations and tests. It's all syllabus based. That's not my style though. I'm going to try to read up as much as possible - for the unadulterated thirst to know more. Therefore as a means of easing myself into this new learning attitude i shall try to read most of my medical books no matter how irrelevant they are to the exams. Yup. Call me crazy... but you can't call me a mugger based on my definition. :)

In terms of staying healthy, I've also got a vague plan in mind. I shall try to play some sports like tennis, badminton, table-tennis and whatever else I can play at least twice a week. All work and no play makes one dull, and I can't agree more. Shall make it a point to keep fit. After all, I'll need to have some defined muscles to study surface anatomy on myself.... otherwise everything will be covered by layers upon layers of subcutaneous fat! Yucks!

And perhaps the most unstructured and haphazardly plotted path would be that of my relationships. Things happen so unexpectedly that it's almost impossible (if not impossible) to predict. I don't know... seriously. This path is sooo tough to walk. It's as if I'm blind. Hmmm...*thinks hard*....*thinks harder*... I suppose in this case it's best to just have an idea of what I want at the end of it and just walk with the wind... ie go with the flow. Am I getting too profound here?

Alrite... sorry for suddenly sounding so weird. I think that's exactly why I need a direction... otherwise I'd just veer off wildly ever so weirdly. But just in case you're wondering, this is not the full picture. I will make further improvements to this road map to ultimate satisfaction by adding short cuts, new alleys or blockades here and there.

So well let's not procrastinate any longer... Hai-ho... On we go...!!

Anyway, thankfully my og pals weren't as absent-minded as I was... so I do have a couple of the photos with me inside, after downloading them from our mutually beneficial yahoo groups. Phewf! It's been a god-send that yahoogrps. Keeps us in contact and yea... it's also the perfect place to share photos! Here's a nice pic of the OG.... that's almost all of us... just minus my counsellor who was super busy last nite... and the aforementioned jap bimbos who also so happen to be my ogls. :)

And the rest of the photos here are what I've gotten from my dear gorgeous green (in both sense of the word) bean (bottom left picture) and daniel yap (who is third from the right in the top og photo). Bean... Dun smack me k! Yup... Thanks for your contributions guys.... I believe there're still many out there ya... *hint hint*

(Left: Again... the flower appears to be stuck onto me... this time it's in my EAR!!! Haha... Nice pic wif the guys!)

Ok ok... I'm raving and ranting endlessly already. The party was great and so was the company. I had a good time and I sure hope everyone else did too!

(If you're reading this and still have unshared photos wif you, pls pls pls upload them asap k. thanks a gadzillion!)

It was nice seeing a healthy portion of the class showing up. Considering most of the guys are serving NS, I didn't think many would turn up. Anyway we had a great time talking about the good old RI days where we stripped so-and-so (haha if you're reading this, you know who you are), had water fights in the lab, organized impromptu real-life CS, shot a paper bullet at Mr Desmond Tan (our physics teacher). Haha... it was hilarious! Those were the days huh.

Everyone's really moving on already. Of the bunch of us, there were DSTA, DBS and etc scholars. Right.... and not to mention Mr Safos, General Lee-to-be. Sheesh... I'm really happy, proud and slightly amazed at how the class has turned out to be. Never imagined the unruly bunch of distilled water bottle squirters could turn out so well. Hmmm... maybe we've not see the last of this miracle yet! Who knows?

Life's quite remarkable ain't it? And as I gawk at how wonderful it is, I half-feel like choking with this anatomy book right in front of me. It's wonderfully tough to fully understand. The body is a whole mess of bones, muscles, nerves, blood vessels, fat, skin, organs and so on. Maybe not a total mess cos somehow if you study it closer it seems kind of organised.

I sometimes wonder why God didn't just make us as one big blob of say... very viscous fluid. Like just enough to maintain our human form. It would also be mobile and controlled by a brain that's composed of just an electrical node like the SA node in the heart that lets us move when we want to. That'd be nice and really simple to study... it'll probably save a year in med school. *slurp* I'm drooling at the thought already!

But unfortunately, God had other ideas I suppose. And I don't think I can or should blame him either. It's this nomenclature of the human body that makes physicians physicians. Imagine if the body was soooo idiotically simple to study and everyone could not only name each muscle but even state its function, innervations, nutrient supply and stuff like that... then why in the world would the world need a professional like the one I intend to become?! Yea.. I suppose God had that all planned heh. Sneaky one there!

Alright... I guess I have to play to the plan. Better get started with this anatomy stuff before I become obsolete! I'm literally gonna know the back of my hand like the back of my hand!

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