I dun wanna study :)

Hello i am here to blog because i am extremely reluctant to look at my immuno notes on B cells. Haha. Right now I'm having a sore throat and have been blowing into tissues the whole day 'cause I ate a lot of biscuits yesterday. I found out that having lots of chocolate before my period came helps a lot with the cramps, I barely felt anything! And so I was gloating over the fact I didn't become 'heaty' despite having such unhealthy food. This must be my retribution :( Sorry body, shall not torture you with the unhealthy snacks anymore.

I had internship at tong chai in the morning today. Was in one of the acupuncture rooms. This time we didn't have to poke ourselves phew! It was the first time i saw a case of rheumatoid arthritis. I talked to her and ask her how did it come about. She said nobody could find out how it happened, and described how the joints got progressively more inflammed throughout the years and now the hands and feet are deformed already. There were a lot of patients complaining of pain in knee joints, guess its a pretty common problem amongst old people. Right now there's no effective treatment for arthritis, i really hope someone discovers it soon so people suffering from it can lead a better life!

I'm gonna go to that sale in expo later, hopefully i can find pretty shoes and stuff to buy! :)

Finally went to the XLB buffet! :)

Finally recess week has arrived and i only have 4 days left to prepare myself for my tcm finals. Argh. I shall not start complaining about it. I want to talk about my internship at tong chai! I've only been there twice, and i've learnt so much already. It is very different from the stuff we learn in books - real patients have complications like hypertension, diabetes, mental illness, tumours that the doctor has to take care of in addition to the main illness that the patient is suffering from. Very often the patients turn to tcm only when western medicine cannot help much. So we get to see medical reports, x-rays, western medicine etc and it's amazing to see how much the doctor knows about them. I also got to experience acupuncture for the first time in my life - not done by the doctor, but by my fellow classmate! haha. how scary is that! And its really fascinating that i feel the numbness only when the needle hits the acupoint and no where else! I'm still nursing a blue-black from that session, seems like a vessel was hit :(

Now i'm very inspired to study hard and be a good doctor like my lecturers and the doctors! I shall mug now!

I haven't updated for so long, it's alr past CNY! haha. Been really busy with my TCM module as well as the additional dance practices for the item we're doing at NUS concert. We had our mid-terms alr, which turned out to be horrendous, because there were so many names of formulae that are so similar but serve different functions and I couldn't recall which was which exactly. Not that I didn't expect it so be so, the exam was just too rushed. Need to study harder, as always.

I started my first internship last week, it was kinda like a pre-course before going to tong chai next week. It was a lot of fun! We did role-playing so we can learn how to ask questions and write a nice report. It was very funny when the 'patient' was played by a guy and we had to ask about 'her' discharge ahaha. Colour and smell and texture, very detailed!

Cute little hamster at yixin's house. They have like, over 60 hamsters. More now i think. They reproduce indiscriminately.

Life moves forward so fast, i'm glad there's still something that hasn't changed. Yixin still comes to accompany me after his work every alternate day, and  the main reason why i'm happy is...he buys GONG CHA back for me! Ahaha! I'm a happy girl~

dance camp

Very quick update before i chiong off to school! Just back from a 2 days dance camp. It was tiring, i was hungry most of the time, my muscles ached like never before, but it was imba-ly inspiring. I was very touched by how all the instructors gave us sincere advices on how to improve ourselves to bring the entire dance scene in singapore to a higher level. Very inspired by both our seniors and juniors alike, by how the seniors are still at the guan yin niang niang level as always, and the juniors for not giving up even when the seniors left the dance.

Okay here's a song we did at the camp that i found very depressing. HAHA okay its meant to be an emo piece la. Do listen!

Happy date :)

on Monday Yixin and I went to east coast park to cycle. we reached there unexpectedly early, and got our bikes at 1045am. met Joseph who was working at the rollerblade store there, and it seems he's doing very well - his previous transaction was over a thousand dollars! it was such good weather, we had fun enjoying the breeze at the jetty, taking jump shots at the pretty hibiscus garden, and just taking in the sunlight as we rode.



see the pretty white clouds!



and cos we had so much time (it's buy 1hr free 2hrs on weekdays) we cycled to the more ulu parts of ecp. found a big carl's jnr and a fitness corner. I made Yixin do his pull ups so he handed me his ring to keep. then when I wanted to return him his ring, he didn't receive it properly and it dropped and rolled right into a drain! he had a mini tantrum about it-.- he tried to lift the grate but it looked like it was sealed tight. so we got some branches and tried to hook the ring out. some ang moh came over and asked what happened, then he went to pick up another crooked branch for us. he watched as Yixin balanced the ring precariously at the tip of the branch, and seemed to be quite amused as he said "good skill!" haha. after a while we still couldn't get it out, and he said "are you sure this thing doesn't open" and he tried and tah dah! it opened! (this shows angmoh is stronger than Yixin) we hurriedly got the ring out and cycled away. too paiseh to hang around la.
and all was good until all of a sudden, it rained. heavily. we wanted to try and make it to the bicycle store, but the rain was simply too big and I couldn't see properly. we had no choice but to stop at a nearby pavilion, along with other stranded people. sure didn't feel good standing there just watching the gloomy weather.








when the rain got a little smaller I decided we should hold our umbrella and cycle to the shop, like what others were doing. i was getting ready to Chiong when I heard Yixin shout behind me - he fell off his bike. Haiyo. turns out he can't cycle with only one hand. so the two of us (me with umbrella and him without) made it to the bicycle store and returned the bikes. then we had to hunt for a shower and 7-11 to buy plasters for Yixin.



he's always the one falling down! anyway after that we went to sakae at citylink to have the teatime buffet! didn't expect the journey from east coast to town to be so short. after the very full meal we decided to go watch gulliver at marina square.



and I saw this awesome poster of jay and had to take a photo with it! can't wait for green hornet to be released :) oh yea I was talking about gulliver. I think it's the funny way the small people speak and act that makes the show really entertaining.

okay cruise report coming up soon!

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it's 2011!

All taken by steffie! Except for the top right one which was requested by her.

I finally did some exercise! went to play badminton with yixin on new year's eve. Very little people were playing that day, probably preparing for countdown heh. Later at midnight when fireworks erupted everywhere, i was in the toilet washing my face -.- So i came out for a while to watch the tv and said "wahh it's 2011". for some reason i didn't feel too excited about the new year, it just felt like any other day. to me, life just keeps moving forward, so many things not done, so many more things to start on.

Yesterday for dinner my mum wanted to go to sunshine place and eat mixed vegetable rice, but dad and i didn't like the idea. So dad started driving and then the rain came. It was so heavy! lot 1 carpark was full, so on and on he drove on the highway until the rain stopped and we ended up having steamboat at tian wai tian in serangoon! all thanks to the rain :)

Cute proposal

Yixin with my cardigan tied around him! heh. a bit gay hor.


Anyway the day after coming back to singapore I went to school early in the morning for ureca. We started on some simple stuff like extraction and learnt a little about the mass spectrometry machine. The computer settings looked so complicated, i'm glad they didn't allow undergraduates to operate the machine. Quite sure if I did it, something would mess up somewhere. The results were also nothing like what we learnt in H3 chem, there was a lot of 'noise' that made it really hard to look at the peaks properly. Apparently you can run MS in certain modes to make sure the peaks look better or to detect a wider range of peaks. So cool right. Had a hard time learning how to prepare the sample for MS too, we had to 'spot' the samples onto tiny circles that are so closely packed together on a metal plate. My pipetting skills are so gonna improve after this.

Today i had ureca too, and we learnt how a HPLC (High performance liquid chromatography) works. I learnt the theory in H3, but when it comes to the actual machine there are tubes everywhere and looks really complicated. Once again, computer settings are the worst, but i suppose we'll get used to it over time. Then we had a lab meeting where we listened to one of the lab members present her work. Fought so hard to keep my eyes open! I was so hungry by the end of it all, but we were called to talk to our prof right after the talk. By the time he stopped, it was already 330pm :( Was so hungry i gobbled down my teriyaki chicken bento. Lucky for me, the auntie gave me larger servings than usual, though i think it's cos of the holidays. Didn't do much after the very late lunch.

Went to meet up with shiyun they all for weishi's birthday! really long time no see. Wanted to go for kbox, but not all of us were keen, so we went to the esplanade area to chit chat. Not long after we reached jacq was approached by some people asking us to present a rose to a girl! Turns out the boyfriend was gonna propose to her. How sweet right! So we all lined up and kinda marched into the restaurant (in a single file) and gave the girl the roses. Then the boyfriend appeared and went down on his knee and held out a ring! Aww. For a moment i thought the girl was gonna reject the proposal cos she hesitated for so long. But it succeeded anyway, and i felt very happy, like i've done a good deed. Heh. Yixin thinks this is rather cowardly for some reason, and says the guy should be confident enough to handle it on his own without the help of strangers. I still think the idea quite romantic though. After that we had ice cream at MOF and chit chatted. It felt nice, to laugh and talk about random topics. *thinks chimpanzee and frog* Gatherings like this always make me miss the good old '72 times :)

No lab stuff tmr, I mean today, I must go exercise already!