"Sweet" November

- happy (belated) birthday, joon heng! :)

- today is the 1st of november. shit.

- thanks (?) to everyone who INCESSANTLY congratulated teongrhen and i for being matched to the same partner medical school. no, really, we appreciate the gesture. confession #1: we had already anticipated (and looked forward to) going to different universities. but since our God was dead strong about sending us to the same place, to the same place we will go!
confession #2: my jump for joy upon opening the envelope was actually for proving that i have the gift of prophecy (or "a mere lucky guess" if you must insist. *rolls eyes*) after having recurrent thoughts about going to manchester way before the matching results were out. teongrhen, edwina, pei, joonheng, weilin & sarahyuen all bear witness to this. lol. but seriously, halfway in the shower... i heard MANCHESTER! when i woke up some mornings... i heard MANCHESTER! halfway studying... MANCHESTER! in lectures... MANCHESTER! and manchester wasn't even my first choice okay.

- i don't like man utd.

- it's funny how i used to despise pathology with all my heart. right now i don't know why i did.

- it's funny how Dr HA managed to instill an undying love for anatomy within me in semester 3. but thanks to the musculoskeletal & nervous systems that love is now lost in a faraway land.

- yesterday was our last CSU physical examination session in imu. one more history taking session, a mock osce, the real osce... and that is it!

- i found out that it is simply impossible to have fundoscopy and the babinski reflex test done on me because 1) my eyes are extremely sensitive to the light from the ophthalmoscope, 2) my eyes are too small anyway and 3) the babinski test IS SO FREAKING TICKLISH i just cannot allow the end of a tendon hammer, or any object for that matter, near the soles of my feet! (sorry teongrhen)

- i had bell's palsy when i was 9! come, ask me about facial nerve injury and its signs & symptoms!!!

- i can't go home until post-eos5! hate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i guess since i'm going to spend 8 months at home doing absolutely nothing while i wait to go to clinical school makes it seem okay.

- anybody with interesting names for our batch convo mag (preferably something medically-related), please let michelle know asap.

- i am (still and forever) craving for bisou cupcakes.

Intuition

looks like i really am going to Manchester after all - just like i've speculated right after handing in our matching forms. i'm scary, i tell you.

damn, so expensive lah haiyo.
i really really wanted Southampton or Liverpool, but Manchester was one of my top choices so i'm contented.
and i shall go where my God wants me to go. He leads and i follow. :)
besides, guess who else is coming with me? heeeeeeeeeheeeeeee.
(Lau Teong Rhen, in case you didn't know. and yes it's fate - we didn't register for marriage to get into the same Uni ok *does 360° eyeroll*. plus i think it's funny that he got his 3rd choice and i got my 4th.)
mother's reaction upon hearing the news: "why you must get one of the most expensive schools?!" (hallo as if i can help it.)
father: "wah manchester ah? their football very good wan hor?"
*does another 360° eyeroll*
also going to Manchester: Massssy and Niha! i don't know if there are others...
all the way uppppppppp in Dundee: Mich! Merv! Ben! Huiling!
the lone soul in Galway: Adrian! hahaha.
nearby in Nottingham: Edwina!
at the southern end of the hemisphere: Red in Adelaide! Tracy in Auckland!
....
so this is it, then. all we have to do is to pass EoS 5 and we're off to our respective clinical schools.
all the best M206! let's have 100% passes so that all of us can go to where we're destined to go.
:)

Tick Tock (edited)

hello hello. just a short post to let my faithful readers (the 2 or at the most, 3 of you) know that i am still alive and well. for my dear batchmates who haven't been keeping count (or are still in denial), we are slightly more than 2 months away from our finals. *dum dum dummmm* *thunder&lightning*. i've been very scared but i still find myself being stuck in first gear. how do i gear UP? coffee doesn't work. neither does sleeping >8 hours a day. or attempting to camp in the library daily. yet it seems like all i've been doing is bury my head in books & lecture notes. that or watching little britain. seriously have you watched little britain? it is the funniest show ever. retarded and vulgar, yes, but very hilarious. TR said i'm obsessed but he has watched just as many episodes as i have. what obsessed shit.

(super) belated birthday shout-outs to Ben, Mervin and Michelle!

THANKS Ben for you-know-what :)

pajamamerv

mich's bday at putrajaya. i know, so lame hor.

(kidding la. putrajaya is beautiful! the buildings are magnificent... except for the two humongous BUAT KERJA signs at the palace of justice. freaking ugly, those signs. and they also show that our judges have to constantly be reminded to buat kerja - how unpleasant.)

ok la please don't emo... here is your face.

edit October 23:

"it's Britney Kwan, bitch!"

Happy Birthday!