eat, eat, eat

omg i simply can't describe how much food i've been eating over the holidays since i came back to sg. i've eaten several buffets (just had one at Holiday Inn last night which was alright, nothing fantastic, but nevertheless the spread was good), a whole lot of meat over the christmas season (had all the different kinds of meat over every single meal during the past weekend), and what scares me the most, my sugar intake. but fortunately, i'm trying to go to the gym every other day. i need to exercise longer during each gym session cause i'm certain that my intake of calories far exceed my output.

i've met up with most of my close friends and they've certainly made my day <3 Thank God for every single one of them :)

there's just so many things that i need/want to do:
1) do as much spring cleaning as possible
2) organise my macbook/external hard disk - i just hate doing all the IT stuff.
3) read up/ revise dental-related stuff - simply can't bring myself to do it but i'll try; and cause we have to collect extracted teeth for our endo pre clinics the coming sem, i've to clean up lots of extracted teeth so that's sufficiently clean for me to handle them without gloves. it was so damn gross. a couple of teeth would have been alright, but i'm talking about a bottle full of close-to-rotten carious teeth. =x
4) think about my resolutions for 2012 - never really thought that i'll be doing this; i've never done it before cause maybe i thought it wouldn't matter that much since it should be pretty much the same every year or maybe i was just pure lazy.
5) exercise MORE and more importantly, eat LESS.


i'll start with items 1 and 2 tomorrow. hopefully i'll be getting down to doing them.

good night!

merry xmas :)

christmas this year was filled with so much love from family and friends :)

exactly one more month to my return to melb. fourth year's going to be exciting but stressful ttm. till then, it's going to be more eating, watching dramas and slacking :)

EOX

(EOX = end of exams)

2.24am.

lying on my bed, watching a (rather) new taiwan drama - in time with you. was asking su what drama is nice to watch and she said she's watching this one at the moment. i've heard of it and so i started to watch it. and... it's really good :) hehe and i've only watched like 1 episode of it, and i'm already addicted to it :)

life after exam is no doubt boring/sian. but i rather come home feeling sian than force myself to sit down and read those notes.

feeling relieved that exams ended. viva yesterday (which was monday, but i felt like i ended exams days ago, i dun know why) was alright. 15 mins of oral exam didn't seem too difficult after all. not trying to say its easy (cause nothing can be easy in dentistry), its just easier/less scary than what we expected. or it could be that we over-stressed/frightened ourselves, cause after all it's our first ever viva voce. there's more to come in 4th and 5th years. btw the 5th years have completed their exams 2 weeks ago and they are graduating officially in early dec. omg damn envious.

just talked to jie on the phone for an hour. and i really really can't wait to go home. excited :)

its 3.32am and i reckon that i should sleep already so that i can wake up before 10am tomorrow to use my off-peak internet to watch the show :) oh and i woke up at 6.05am today (tues) - on the first day after exams. just can't sleep in.

good night (morning).

take one step at a time

tomorrow is my last written paper. next mon i've got viva voce (oral exam).

don't think too much, just concentrate on tomorrow's paper first.

and don't lose steam. FOCUS.

rem pros pract exam..

..is tomorrow.

pray for steady hands and a clear mind :)

all i want to say is that..

i'm stressed, stressed, stressed

exam sorrows

last two days were so bad. so so bad. in terms of my productivity. i actually slept at 10pm for the past two nights (saturday and sunday night). maybe its because i needed to catch up with my sleep (after sleeping only 6 hours in total for 2 consecutive nights). i really hope that's the case, and not because my brain's repelling the notes and putting me to sleep.

i always feel like crying (and i do actually tear) whenever i go to church during exam period. cause going to church reminds me of my mum who always praying for me whenever i go through tough and stressful times. and it makes me miss her presence so much. =(

i remember my mum being with me during my first year's final exam and she was REALLY by my side. she stayed in my apartment most of the time (the only times she went out were to buy groceries). she just read the newspaper to occupy herself when i was studying. i've got to admit that it was rather distracting, but the feeling of having someone to be there physically beside u is so reassuring. whenever she prayed for me when she was with me, it felt so encouraging. and i guess that's why that semester i got the award for dent materials.

sigh, now that i'm in this exam shit again, i really want my mum to be here and to tell me, "its okay, just do your best."

i know i'll still eventually pull through this even if i'm alone but it's going to be tough.

i'll have to be braver.

just to side-track a little, someone went to church on sunday and i was thinking to myself at the start of the service if he would be there (cause he don't usually go and only went once to our church). and he really went. it was really quite a surprise and it made me really quite happy :) i'm beginning to change my impression of him.

okay back to study. i've got to press on.

pray.

last day of 3rd year dent

it just feels so... unreal. yep, unreal that i've completed 3rd year (unofficially though, cause there's still exams).

my last GP clinical session kind of suck. what a way to end 3rd year. i feel so lousy. and i can't blame anyone cause it's my fault. why do i always make mistakes that i shouldn't have. i feel dumb. sighhh.

i slept only 3 hours last night and the night before. thanks to trying to memorise stuff + distractions etc. i need to focus and not waste time.

Thank you God for pulling me through the whole 3rd year. Please grant me strength for the coming exams, to be productive and free from distractions and study smartly and able to answer the questions to the best of my ability. Amen.

:)

it's 3+ am already...

...and i'm just done with the transferring of notes for surgery. kind of done with printing all my notes and transferring stuff. but then i haven't studied/memorised these recent notes. i don't think they will be coming out for exams anyways (i hope?!)

not exactly sleepy but i have to get up at 7+am for a lecture at 8am later. better sleep soon i guess.

random stuff...

-just now at 2 am someone triggered the building's fire alarm. the fire engine came but apparently they couldn't find the reason for the triggering of the alarm.

-keep thinking of what happened yesterday and i still get goosebumps. omggg. i'm quite disturbed by it.

-my right shoulder hurts (for no apparent reason?!) ever since i returned to my apt after the fire alarm incident just now. hope it gets better somehow when i wake up later.

-listening to hitoradio online. love the music at this time :)

-not sure if i'm on the right track for revision for exams. u know what i mean, like when u r studying but then u'll think if u should be studying other stuff first or if u r missing out on anything impt. =(

thank God for the past few days when i was more productive.

i'll keep praying :)

good night(morning) world.

=x

my jaw dropped with i received the text. omg.

this is so so freaking scary.

but su told me not to read too much into it. i will (try).

i should just concentrate on studying.

starting to feel the stress.

yes its the time of the year again =/ got my exam timetable. exams are in less than a month's time. kind of like the arrangement of the exam dates. at least we don't end on the last day of the exam period. that sucks ttm.


kind of glad that the stress has kicked in. it's a wake-up call for me to focus on studying.


because God has said, 'never will I leave you, never will i forsake you" (Hebrews 13:5)
:)

cairns is awesome fun :)

need to rush my CDH assignment =/ will try to update about cairns when i have the time and mood :D

*thanks jo for your comment on the previous post :D can't wait to catch up with u girls when i'm back. x

hello spring!

just got home from work and the house just feels so empty cause mummy flew back to sg already =( missing her.

i've been so mean to her (the usual me =/) and i swear i know that i'm mean but just can't help it sometimes. i hate myself for being so selfish and grumpy and not knowing how to treasure those around me. i suck i know =(

but but, i did have a great time with mummy (uploaded some pics on fb)! we ate super a lot of good food (both outside and home-cooked). mummy's cooking just rocks ttm. AND WE SHOPPED LIKE CRAZY. hahah i must say, "like daughter, like mother!" i bought so much stuff cause its like the end-of-season sales. damn awesome shopping. i felt so guilty for spending so much money, buying stuff that i can completely live without it. but i told myself i'm earning money, so that's fine. its so bad. =x

i need to try to study some stuff cause i've neglected my work like crazy. mum's here, lots of birthday celebrations (a big one for my good friend coming up after cairns trip), work, cairns trip coming up etc etc. i really want to get onto the groove of studying hard core again. flying to cairns on thurs for a week (super long =x) and so i'm only left with tonight and weds. tmr i'm going to the dent hospital to collect my denture framework for my pt and then meet jin to get some photos of him for printing for friend's birthday. OMG DAMN BUSY =(


i don't know how to describe the situation i'm in now. busy but yet i don't feel like anything is being done. feeling so unaccomplished.
i just need a day to sit down and flip through my notes without any distractions. but its really difficult with thousand and one things going on. maybe after the spring break it'll be better (it better be)!

i hope cairns trip is going to be enjoyable and everything's going to go smoothly. =D

pray

praying hard that u'll be fine.

have things changed

had my oral med mid-sem (mcq) this morning. it was an online test which we did in the comp lab and the results came out after u've completed the test. well, i passed but it wasn't a good grade at all. it was a tricky test but i wouldn't use that as an excuse for not doing well. i felt disappointed when i saw my mark. and that was because i've studied quite a bit for this test. after all, i haven't been studying much ever since this sem started as compared to previous sems and i can say for all the time that i've spent studying, all was spent on oral med. i totally hecked dental pract (ortho, rem pros, perio, community dental health) and surgery. i did guess a couple of the questions and was just crossing my fingers that i guessed those questions correctly (if not all, at least some). but apparently i wasn't too lucky today. =(
my disappointment kind of went away quite quickly. which is kind of unlike my previous self. knowing myself very well, i always brood over unhappy stuff. and i realised that the test was 20% of the overall grade for this subject, only after the test. the previous me would always check out the percentage before i even start studying for the test so that i'll be able to 'frighten' (or rather stress) myself to study harder. i always have high expectations of myself. and 20% is definitely a great deal to me. yea it is still a great deal to me now, but somehow i'll be able to convince myself that its alright, there's still the 80% that i'll be able to catch up on. and to make myself feel even better, i'll remind myself about how bad it was in first year first sem when i struggled like crazy with the bio med subject. i studied like crazy and only managed to 'just pass' my tests. and everyone else was scoring (getting near full marks). i really felt so stupid at that time. yea and finally i managed to somehow miraculously get an 80 overall which is an H1 grade. I felt damn awesome.
so whenever i don't do well for a test now, i'll think about how 'cham' things were with bio med and i actually survived and did better than my other peers who had an initial advantage (cause they did bio before). nothing can be worse than that right. yea so now it seems like i look at things in a more positive manner - if i want to put things in a nicer way. but in the not-so-nice way, i'm actually taking things too easy. i feel like i've lost my 上进心, which is so bad. life's indeed happier now but i'm not sure if that's going to be good in the long term. hate to imagine that my results will just be getting worse and i will still be okay with it. so scary huh. I must do something about it. but then again, i'm trying to make myself feel depressed over lousy results and then cry over split milk. would that do me good? i really don't know. all i know is that i want to do well and make my parents proud of me.

i know i've said this umpteen times but i just feel so so blessed to have such an awesome family. i was hesitating so much about going to cairns but my parents and sis were like so supportive of me to go despite of the high costs. i know they just want me to enjoy myself. and my laptop crashed on me last week and they were encouraging me to get a new lappy asap and mum said "make sure u get a good one, its okay if its more expensive". awww things like this really make me feel so touched. and because mum's coming to melb soon, my family have prepared lots of stuff to bring over for me (clothes, food and whatever not). i saw stuff on the blogshop that i wanted to buy and i told jie and she bought it for me so quickly. Jie's bringing me to bangkok for a shopping spree in dec when i'm back for holidays. i really have the best sister. love her ttm <3 <3 <3
i feel like my family always putting me in top priority, and i'm like not doing my part for the family. to them, i just have to study hard (but they are definitely not stressing me out, cause mummy says i just have to pass cause she knows its tough) and do my best. and here i am, not even doing well enough to meet my expectations. i'm just so disappointed in myself.

sigh i feel like blogging about him, but yea i think this post is emo enough and somehow now, 'he' doesn't seem that important as compared to other more important things like my family. i shouldn't be worrying about that too much right?

week 4 of uni

wow its week 4 already. been slacking so much that i really wonder if i did any concrete studying during the past 3 weeks of uni. and i guess the answer is no, sadly.

and i really shouldn't be updating my blog now since i have to prepare for my perio presentation tmr =/ i have to read and familiarize myself with the 16 pages of content that su and i have written. i foresee myself dozing off in front of my lappy soon. ya i seriously don't know why i've been so tired these few weeks =( i sleep more than usual. i blame the weather.

awww mummy's coming on the 31st and i can somehow sense her excitement about coming to melb. she kept asking what i want her to cook when she's here. so sweet right (i love my mummy ttm!)

and yes, i found a part-time (or rather, casual) job. teehee. i went for training last week and i felt a bit stressed by the job cause its fast-moving environment but the people are nice and i really hope i would be able to work with my friend (she's really awesome). i just checked the roster for this week and guess what, i'm only working 2 hours this week. LOLL, i want to work at least 4 hours! but i really don't dare to negotiate with the supervisor cause i'm a newbie. and i think i need to work more often to get used to the job. but ya, maybe it's also good that i have more time for my work (that's provided i really make use of my remaining time to study).

Ahhh i can't decide if i should go cairns with my dent friends during the mid-sem break in sept! the whole trip will cost about A$800 to A$1000 depending on the activities that we'll be doing. i think i might just snorkel/dive etc. definitely not sky-diving. totally not mentally prepared for it. i thought if i'll be working more often then chances of me going is pretty high. but looking at my working hours now, i think i should carefully consider going to cairns.
i know i eventually want to visit cairns and probably sky-dive, maybe when the flight is cheaper or something? i really don't know!! =//

i skyped with pam yesterday and i really miss her company here in melb. i really hope she'll be back in melb to visit soon!

horrible day at the clinic =(

its 2.30 am now. feeling so shagged after a long day - 8am lecture, afternoon lecture and GP clinic session, meet-up with cousin and friends who came to melb for holiday. shagged but yet i just feel like i have to blog about my GP session today. it was eventful - in the negative sense. planned to rush out as many restorations as i can (i have to do four on this patient). i did the one that was giving him the biggest prob but it took much longer than i expected. and so, i only managed to do one. i really feel very very bad to this pt =( and getting very very worried about the progress of this impt pt. a bit hard to explain here why he is impt and i shall not go into the details since i should not be discussing about any specific patient's case here.

AND GUESS WHAT. another of my pt came in today when he is supposed to come in next fri. omg a DOUBLE-BOOKED appt. sucks ttm. i was pretty sure i told him NEXT FRI and the date but apparently there's some miscommunication. MR X was really nice about it, though i bet he was feeling unhappy inside (i mean who in the world would feel good about having to make a wasted trip down to the hospital and having plans disrupted just to come down for a dental appt). i felt really bad and kept apologizing. but luckily he didn't scold me. i bet if its other patients, they would have scolded the student like crazy. thank God for that.

yea and i was so unhappy with my demo (supervisor). (loll okay i doubt he'll ever read this but i still won't go into the specifics).

JIAYOUS LEONA! u have to press on even though its really tough.

22ND BIRTHDAY :D

had a lovely birthday :DDD

i should have posted about my birthday earlier cause now i'm really very lazy to do a proper post on it.

yea basically, my friends gave me a surprise (thanks to my dearest su and parmesh who tricked me) the day before my birthday. i have to admit that i didn't suspect anything until just before the surprise. cause the girls said they were going to celebrate my birthday on the actual day and so i didn't thought it would be the day before. love the surprise party (with good food!), presents, cards etc. for those who gave me personal presents/cards, i really appreciate your thoughts. u guys are just so sweet <3

skyped with my family for like 3+ hours on my birthday and i definitely felt the love from them. :DD

was telling parmesh/su that i don't really feel like celebrating my bday (esp now that i'm not young anymore), maybe just with closer friends (like a mini celebration). its more personal and it makes me feel more comfortable/less awkward (if u know what i mean). but yeaa just want to say a BIG THANKS to those around me, making me feel loved and cherished! xx

my 22nd birthday resolution:


THANK GOD for making my life so amazing. :DDD

happy day

i feel happy today even though,
i've been slacking too much and wasting my time (not doing anything useful since uni started); and
i got woken up by parmesh's calls yesterday and this morning which kinda shocked me (and i really don't like getting shocks in the morning); and
i went to uni today even though its my official free day (still can't believe that my group is so lucky to have every thurs off).

YEA, but still happy,because,
its my MUMMY'S BIRTHDAY today! and i called her just now to wish her and she was happy + excited from receiving my birthday wishes (so cute right) and i'm happy whenever mummy's happy; and
i kind of enjoyed assisting parmesh today in the clinic (actually glad that i went to assist her. i'll be wasting my time at home anyways and i get to meet my friends in the clinic and chat with them. loll); and
i can watch city hunter (with ENG SUBS) tonight. second last episode though. i'll miss lee min ho! hahaha

life's good when u feel good. =D but but, i need to start being disciplined (study more and eat less!).

yea and i'm so not looking forward to celebrating my birthday with friends. i don't like to celebrate with a big group of friends. prefer small groups' celebration and like to celebrate with my family the most. mummy said when she come to melb in late aug, she'll celebrate with me a super belated one. awww she's the best :D but yea its alright, not that i really want my birthday to be celebrated. i seriously don't mind just staying at home and do what i like to do.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YT! :D

just want to say how wonderful u are as a friend :) always there for me when i'm feeling lousy, home-sick etc.

things hasn't been going too smooth for u, but yea, u know u can overcome all these.



just keep believing,



and keep smiling (:



i'll cook/bake whatever u want to eat when i'm back in sg at the end of the year, so look forward to that. in the meantime, just eat more and healthily :D



once again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!


love u lots :D

holidays #6 - say hello to year 3 sem 2

before i forget,
here's the bread and butter pudding that i made. first attempt at making and it was really quite a success. loll doesn't look that appetizing tho.


what it looks like inside:



had a crazy last day of holiday today. long story and i'm simply too lazy to get into the details. but yea, just a lot of rushing from places to places after church with some crazy friends. loll.

jasmine arrived in melb today and i got my stuff (including the loupes that i ordered) from her. big thanks to her for helping me to bring over some stuff from sg).




yes this thing called loupes is freaking expensive (S$1,700) but it is also because i got the 'branded' one and with the Oakley frame. HAI. but my rationale is that i'm going to use it throughout my course+career (hopefully) so i guess its worth it to get the more expensive one.
i'm going to try to start using the loupes on my patients within these few weeks and see how it goes.

i've been trying to read up on rem pros notes since last monday and its really a TORTURE. studying during holidays never work out (at least, for me).
tomorrow i'll just be taking history + oral exam + impression for my rem pros patient so i won't need that much of new technical knowledge. haven't met this patient before but he sounds okay (rather friendly) on the phone. mr xx, pleaseee be nice to me.

timetable this sem is really slack (but the subjects are definitely not easy). loll i actually have my thurs off officially. BUT, i kind of have to assist parmesh in her clinical session though its definitely not a must. sighh, how awesome it is to get a day off but oh wells, i'll just take it as an opportunity to learn from my peers.

haven't got back all our results and i'm getting very scared. but yea, i always believe that God has a plan for us and i'll accept whatever He gives to me :)

holidays #5 - one more week of hols

omg just one more week to uni reopening. SIGH.

felt like i haven't slacked enough. i've got lots of things - big/small; important/unimportant; urgent/not urgent - to do and i'm trying to do them diligently one step at a time.

i've been watching city hunter (already caught up with what's showing in korea now and waiting for this week's episodes to be uploaded). loll i've been really desperate for internet cause i've been using too much that its running low and so i had to use my iphone to watch and head over to friends' houses to watch. this is really bad i know.

there's more dramas that i want to watch but i highly doubt that there's time and internet allowance for me to do so :( kind of abandoned my taiwanese variety shows for kdramas this holiday. kdramas are really really addictive.

besides watching dramas diligently, i've been cleaning my apt and doing laundry almost every day. don't ask me why, but housework and laundry seems never-ending or maybe cause i feel like i've got time, so i decided to maintain the cleanliness of my apt which is not exactly that necessary. just see how i survived through the past sem with once-every-two weeks of thorough housework and the place still seemed reasonably clean.

i should really get down to doing some more serious/important/meaningful stuff. like, revising prosthodontics (in exactly a week's time, i'll have to start my pros treatment for my pt), calling all my patients to arrange for appts/reviews etc, check out the books that i'll need for the coming sem (which i might have to go to lib at uni - it just sucks to go back to uni during holidays =/ ), EXERCISING, meeting up with friends that i'm supposed to meet up during the hols, looking for a part-time job (getting so lazy to do so) ETC ETC.

lazy ttm.

holidays #4 - food is love

i made baked eggs this morning for brunch :) really easy to make and its yum!
:) i added tomatoes and cheese below the eggs.


this was the baked oreo cheesecake that we made at maria's place yesterday. i somewhat prefer the non-baked one.


some random dish that i created. stir-fried beef (with prawns and broccoli) in wonton skin


next up will be bread and butter pudding this weekend (hopefully i really get down to doing it).

holidays #3 - secret garden :)

i've finished watching secret garden yesterday! awwww, hyun bin is sweet ttm. i liked him in other shows but he is just so cute in this show! :) hahaha.
started watching city hunter (another k drama) and i'm not yet addicted to it, probably cause the cast is not that attractive (loll), except maybe lee min ho.
have to start pacing myself or else i'll have no more internet left when uni starts. =/

i feel so lazy and comfortable lying on my bed, staring at my laptop, finding websites to surf and watching dramas. i kind of like this kind of lifestyle (staying at home and not going out). holidays ftw! :)

tomorrow i'll be hanging out at maria's house where we'll be baking :) i should really be disciplined and stop indulging in food (finished a whole tray of white choco tim tams in an hour yesterday. ohgosh.) but its uncontrollable and i swear i really feel hungry sometimes.

friday night i'll be watching fireworks at docklands (some winter event that only takes place during july) with su and tricia. i'm trying to curb my urge to go out and shop cause i think i've shopped enough and its really time to save money =/

i'm quite happy with my life now :)

sydney

holidays #2

went to sydney from 30jun - 4jul. we flew by tiger and omg, received the news when we were in sydney that tiger got grounded by the aviation dept. so stupid. yea and we spent half a day in sydney searching for options to go back to melb. i had to go back on time (that is 4 july, if not the latest 5th) cause i was flying to tassie on the 6 jul (and thank God this time i was taking jetstar). flights were expensive so we decided to go by rail (bus was the cheapest but we reckon train would be safer). 11 hours overnight train ride wasn't that bad after all. had to unpack my sydney stuff and pack my stuff for tassie on the 7th. spent half a day watching secret garden. only started watching then and i'm so addicted to the drama. i love hyun bin!! hahaa. yea i was so glued to my laptop that i didn't feel like going to tassie anymore.

sydney trip was okay (more fun than i expected). surprised at myself for remembering how to get around. my sense of direction is really not bad (or i guess getting around sydney is not that difficult). haha
mostly went to places that i've been before but i really don't mind cause they are really nice places that are worth going more than once. went to some places for the first time - manly beach, chat thai (oh man i love the food there) and whale watching. and i shopped quite a bit =/ need to start saving money now!

tassie is a lovely place, but the cold weather kind of made the whole trip less enjoyable. i brought sufficient warm clothings but i still shivered like crazy. the weather was bad. rained everyday =/ and we actually trekked at cradle mountain in the heavy rain in the thick snow for an hour or so. amazed at how i managed to do that. but the scenary was just breathtaking. everything was just covered with snow (kind of reminded me of one of the scene in the kdrama snow queen).

quite relieved to be back in melb after 10 days of travelling. went to maria's friend, jason's house to cook mee siam for them and we had a lazy sunday afternoon tgt, playing wii and just sitting around. jason's apt is really nice (facing crown) but his rent is just so ex. wish i was staying in such a beautiful apt though.

i get so irritated and easily pissed these few days. i don't know why, but i just cannot stand people who say lame things and think they are funny when it is not funny at all. somebody irritated me in person (multiple times) a few days ago and i really feel like asking him to shut up (but obviously i didn't). and another person sent me a text that pissed me off so much that i replied in a very unfriendly tone, and he sensed it so he replied saying that he was 'just joking'. whatever, seriously. and another person pissed me off on fb and i really feel like scolding him on fb but then again, i didn't cause things will become quite awkward i reckon. sigh i know they are doing it unintentionally but still, i'm just uncomfortable with it =/

i must learn to calm down and not get offended so easily.

going to cook something special for dinner - having a mini pot luck with su and tricia. hopefully it'll turn out nice :)

holidays

been so busy, running here and there to do lots of random stuff. yea, but it feels good that u are busy over things over than academic-related stuff. we are doing a video for our friend's birthday cause we can't be there in msia to celebrate her birthday. getting the guys to contribute a recording of their personal messages is really quite difficult. yea but gerard and justin did a really funny job. loll. i ROFL-ed every time i watch it.
someone actually said that he didn't want to do it cause it was embarrassing and i was super pissed with him. haha but in the end he sent the video over in the evening. and that made me feel touched. loll. guys ah guys.

yayy i'm going tassie after sydney with mitch and his friend and hopefully my friend can come along too. haven't been to tassie so i'm kind of looking forward. i'm not sure if i should go to gold coast the week before uni starts =/ i'm not the amusement park kind of person and i'm already going to spend quite a bit on the two trips + shopping in melb. but its also provided that there's friends to join me for the goldie trip.

been looking at some of my friends' grad trip / exchange photos on fb. ahh damn pretty. now i'm considering to get a DSLR.

i springcleaned my house yesterday before my friends came over to film the video. so satisfied with myself :)

waiting for pam to call me (she's back from cairns) before we'll go out for a meal tgt (:

after exams

YES EXAMS ARE OVERRRR. THANK GOD for bringing me through this whole period of stress/uncertainty/homesickness etc etc.

like what i expected, i don't feel excited about being done with exams. just have the finally-i-don't-have-to-study feeling.

went out with parmesh and su for shopping before we met the rest for dinner at this greek restaurant called Aspro Ble. service was awesome, with the owner explaining to us what the dishes on the menu meant and serving us complimentary salad and wine. he's so nice and warm so we ended up giving quite a bit of tips. and the food was good too. but the menu was pretty limited in choices though.
we then went to sit down at TenRen (this chinese tea place) to talk for a bit. was super tired and really tempted to go home but thought that it would be nice to stay and chat for a bit since yc, justin and jin were flying off the next day. so we stayed till super late and it was scary (since its a friday night) walking on the streets when we headed home. some drivers were simply crazy.

sigh i feel so emo now that exams are over. why, i also don't know.
maybe i miss home and should have gone home. pam is in cairns now and i'm already missing her. i don't look forward to going sydney next thurs too. (somehow i'm hoping that the volcanic ash thing will be back and our flight will be cancelled. very very bad of me to be having that thought.)

plans for the weekend. do housework (very urgent! haha) and shopping tomorrow with parmesh before she flies back. and i'm going gym at su's place on sunday. i'm going to start watching secret garden (korean drama) and probably finish it before going to sydney. i hope this sounds exciting enough.

3.16am. time to sleep and wake up to the mess that's in my apt.

goodnight world. tomorrow will be a better day!

last paperrr

3 more hours to the start of my last paper. totally not in the mood to study. i think i'm kind of prepared (or rather i just want to get over and done with it)? just pray for no mental blocks later during the exam.
path is such a self-study subject. the notes are just pictures and u'll have to read up in order to have something to study. so i guess how well we do for this paper depends on how much we read and whether we read the correct stuff.
i really miss being spoon-fed.

i have a feeling that i won't feel damn excited/relieved that exams r over later when it finally ends. maybe cause this whole thing has been dragging and dragging for such a long time that i'm just mentally drained to feel anything. and another reason could be that i'm not going back to sg this winter break. going back home always brings excitement, at least more excitement than staying here. also haven't got much plans for this hol.

cheer myself on,

almost there but not there yet

med paper was erm.. okay.
BUT, it was a choose-5-out-of-8 essay questions kind of paper. and i sort of had a (very) difficult time choosing my 5th question to do. and guess what. i think i made the wrong choice. cause halfway through, i felt as if i was a bit bullshitting along. hopefully the lecturer is lenient and thinks that i make some sense. and i really really pray that my other 4 questions can make it.

next paper (and FINAL ONE (FINALLY)!) is this friday. pathology part II.

i've been updating about my exam papers and it sounds like i'm taking so many subjects right. but actually everything adds up to 100% (they call it Oral Health Sciences 3 to put it really nicely from their point of view) even though each of them are different subjects. med, path and pharm. all are crazily hardcore subjects (we study like shit for each and every one of them) but they are only worth 30%, 30% and 40%. so not worth it. seriouslyy.
its not like we can put in 30% or 40% of effort for each of them.

this friday's paper is worth 18% of OSH 3. sounds little but still have to chiong if i don't want to screw the whole OHS grade up.
(but i'm taking a break tonight first. really need a rest la)

this morning was just so stressful. that's why i don't like afternoon papers. u feel like u have to study once through again in the morning cause u don't want to be slacking away just before your paper. and i barely finished my 2nd round of revision at 1pm and my paper starts at 2pm.

after dinner, i went over to pam's place to borrow a plaster cause i cut my finger yet again. and we chatted for pretty long (what we always do whenever we go over to each other's unit). her last paper is this wed, then she's headed to cairns and then back to melb for a few days before heading back to sg for good.
sigh. i'll miss her so badly.
i rely so much on her. i'm just so scared that i'll feel lost next sem without her around.

yesterday when i was cramming for med, i remembered that it was tw's golden melody awards on saturday so i went to check who won what. and ya, jay chou won two big awards. good on him. haha. i'm seriously weird. stressing over my exams and at the same time can be bothered over such things. but these are good distractions, aren't they.

last paper, go go go!

persevere

i hope i can stay up late tonight to study as much of med as i can.

after tomorrow, it'll be better, i reckon.

(i just ate my 4th instant noodles during this exam period. feel like puking.)

oh and,

Happy Fathers' Day, Daddy!
love u <3

why

i really don't know what's wrong with me.

:(

first written paper

pharm paper was okay and i think i managed my time relatively well but i kept having to squeeze information out of my brain during the exam. i missed out 2-3 points but i'm glad i remember most.
(mummy always tell me to not expect too much and be contented with whatever state i'm in.)

almost went crazy memorising all the content. it was that bad.

having a headache now but i have to study for tmr's morning pathology pract.

JIA YOU!

so screwed

:'(

couldn't pack my amalgam restoration properly.
had some deficiency and excess on the same resin incisal corner restoration.
how bad is that for a pract exam. :(

but at least i had something to hand up (if i want to make myself feel a tweeny bit better).
imagine if i had decided to remove my restoration and re-do at the last minute but had no time. that's the worst ever that can happen.

feeling so so down :'(

haven't spoke to mummy for almost 5 days cause i can't bring myself to call her. i'll just break down (as it always happen during exams).

what should i do :(

:'(

I need a hug from my Jie/mummy/daddy badly :(

another (depressing) day of studying

加油!!

emo

suddenly feel scared for my cons (pract) exams and my written papers.

suddenly miss home (esp my mummy) so much.

:'(

last day of year 3 sem 1

okay, not officially halfway through the course cause there's still exams, but we are nearly there right? :)

many of my friends have already embarked on their grad trip and i'm really happy for them that they have graduated. not feeling sour that i still have such a long way to go (actually not that long cause time will fly) cause i'm really enjoying what i'm studying and i'm glad i made it this far already. Praise God for everything :)

coming up is swot vac (study break). dreading it totally :( been so slack this sem.. didn't make much notes as compared to previous semesters (cause i think the lecture notes are kind of sufficient?). yea but still, i feel kind of inadequate. have to admit that i'm not as driven as before. :(

hopefully i won't do too badly this sem. seriously, who doesn't want to do well?

another unproductive day

fullstop.

lazy and slack =(

yep that pretty much summed up my week. sigh. this is probably like the slackest i've ever been since year 1. i did some work, but its not sufficient (i think).

the cold weather is making me lazy. de-motivated to do anything, except maybe cooking and baking. i need to stop eating so much :( i bought so much groceries from vic mart just now and i've been looking at recipes online to see what i can whip up. such a waste of time right.

my patient yesterday made me feel good. she's so nice and sweet (if only all patients were like her) and said things like "your injection was good because i didn't feel dizzy which i felt last time when i had an injection". haha but really, i'm sure its not that the previous student/dentist was lousy or anything (since its more of the patient's anatomy that plays a part in a successful LA) . but it still made me feel good (:

cold~

its 7am now and i'm shivering!! the weather has been freaking cold the past few days. so difficult to study or to even sit still in front on my study table, resisting the temptation to snuggle under my warm fleece. i guess that's why i keep falling asleep early (thanks to studying on the bed =//). and i keep drinking loads of hot water at night to make myself warm (bet that made my face looking swollen in the morning).

and the weather forecast says there's "local hail and thunder" today. sigh sigh.

my exam timetable came out on monday. super not looking forward to it. got two weeks (freaking long) of study break before my lst paper. 4 papers over a period of 2 weeks thereafter. the whole studying thing is going to last 4 weeks. I'll going to be drained like crazy :( and i'm definitely going to lose my steam studying during that 2 weeks of study break. at least give me 1 paper during the 1st week of exam and end the whole process earlier. now i don't feel the urgency to chiong my revision since i feel that i have ample time (and hopefully that's true).

so many things unsettled/undecided. should i go for the prize ceremony (will have to skip my occlusion preclinic and the last pharm lecture of the sem and pam has to skip her tutorial to accompany me)? the stupid dental school alwaysz spoil my plans by rescheduling sessions =/. and i haven't book my air ticket to new zealand after exams (need to arrange some stuff first) =( hopefully the cheaper fares will stay the way they are. and should i work during my winter break after my new zealand trip or travel to other places? quite tempted to work though. haha can earn extra money to shop during the end of financial year sale. :D

not having a lot of luck with patients the past week. sian. patients can't make it for my wed perio session so i have to squeeze them into my fri gp session (meaning i have to do perio during gp when i have other stuff to do) and i hardly have any gp sessions left before it's exams and holidays. won't see them till 2 months later. hope their carious lesions don't progress or it'll be beyond my ability to treat them and have to refer to senior/specialist. seeing a new patient today and she's coming late :( guess i can't do much today again.

realised i keep sighing these few days. very loudly. hahha.

okay, time to go to uni.

=D

feeling super tired after a full day in uni today but i have to prepare for my presentations for tomorrow and wednesday. hope everything goes fine!

received a good news today and i was very surprised when i heard it!

God is indeed faithful. Thank God for everything!

back from grampians

the grampians trip was really enjoyable! it was my first time driving out of melbourne and for such a long time (it was a 3-4 hours drive to grampians). the drive to there was managable, but returning back to melb wasn't a very pleasant experience. but thank God that we are all safe (:

i simply love the company we had! haha, a lot of funny things happened during the trip, especially in the car, but i guess now we know each other better =D

the pple in our car (:


i can't bring myself to do any work now that i'm back in melb. sian to the max :( i just stare at my notes for hours without absorbing anything. i need rest (slept very little during the trip, and i'm having muscle aches after trekking). i just feel like slacking the rest of my easter away (which is just one more day, that's tomorrow) and then chiong when sch reopens. afterall, studying just that little bit more, wouldn't make a big difference right.
oh man, and i'm stuck at my presentations =// especially perio. i just have that bit more to go, but i don't know how to go about it. sighh.

dreading that first week of uni but kind of look forward to it as well. going to be my busiest week ever (i've got everything - all preclinics, clinics, seminars, re-scheduled sessions etc etc). but i guess i need uni to re-open so i won't feel guilty for slacking during holidays. it will be 4 more weeks to end of semester and then exams. ouch, this is so scary.

oh before i forget, i've got an AWESOME NEWS EVER. Cedar Handbell Ensemble got our first GWH for SYF this year =D thanks jia hui for this fab news! and we are the only sch that achieved GWH. this is just amazing, isn't it? feeling very proud as an alumni =D

EASTER HOLIDAYS (:

i've been wanting to do a post at the start of easter holidays, but then i just couldn't complete one full post on thurs and yesterday cause there are simply too much stuff going on.
if i want to prepare for my presentations, do some revision (i doubt this'll ever be achieved), prepare for grampians trip, go and eat the food that i've been craving for, cook and bake good stuff for myself and friends, meet up with friends that i haven't met since i came back, do housework regularly, watch my shows regularly, exercise (not very possible too) -- all these during my ONE WEEK of easter break!? haha no way.
there's just too little time to do everything.

how come i feel more busy than last easter when i spent almost the whole of the easter break in sydney. now i'm only going to spend 3 days in grampians and i have more days to accomplish other stuff.

FOOD. yea this is something that i've been indulging myself so much into that i've gained terribly lots of weight (i didn't weigh myself, but i can sense it somehow). :( will be trekking in grampians, so i reckon that's some form of exercise?

i love my cooking! haha i've been spending more time cooking and i think my cooking skills have improved. hehe. spend most of my time looking at recipes when i'm online and i'm just so so tempted to try out so many of them. FOOD IS REALLY LOVE (:


aglio olio (which i cooked for a potluck early this semester).


carrot cake! love it.


aww i've got more photos of food to upload but blogger is being just uncooperative.

making something like belachan chicken for michelle's housewarming tonight and chocolate easter eggs for sophie's birthday tomorrow. so many potlucks this sem and i'm running out of ideas already =S

happy easter everyone!

(shall continue with my ortho and perio presentations. what a mood spoiler =/ )

midterms are over!

yippee. so relieved that midterms are over. i only had 2 midterms and they didn't take up too much of a proportion of the final grade so maybe its not that crucial that i do extremely well for it.. but nevertheless, i tried my best for the studying bit.

but but,today's pathology test sucks big time. its mcq (my "best" friend =x ). i was stunned at the first question and then the questions after that. so damn tricky! i had to make a choice between 2 answers for many questions. and this is like the worse ever thing that can happen during mcq. u know what i mean. but yea, i hope i made clever guesses. everyone found the test difficult apparently which is surprising to me cause i thought i was the only one struggling).

just Thank God that everything's over.

celebrated yuky's birthday at this restaurant-bar and we headed to this dessert place for hot taro milk tea. felt really relaxed.
its 1.30am now but i'm just going to watch my taiwanese variety shows to reward myself after all the hard work.

having awesome plans ahead (: tmr will be groceries shopping, going to post office to collect my parcel and then off to gym at parmesh's apartment and i'll cook dinner for her (: good friday will be yum cha with pam + sze ling. and then i'll probably bake something over the weekend (having the urge to bake). and then get ready for grampians trip.

can't really shelve my studying though. got presentations and work to catch up on.

jiayouuu (:

restless

i' m feeling so restless preparing for my pathology test tomorrow.
and also distracted by so many things. like, deciding whether i should go canoeing in grampians. feeling pressurised by the guys to decide by tonight. but i kind of made up my mind that i'm not going (for an obvious reason, and its definitely not that i don't trust the guys' canoeing skills). sighh, stop thinking about it.

i can't wait for path test to be over tmr! its my free-er week with no perio clinic and ortho seminar so i'll be really free. will be in the easter holiday mood after tmr's test. but okay, maybe i shouldn't think so far yet, cause i might be emo-ing over my path test. really really hope that it goes smoothly.

siannn

my patient nosh-ed (no show) today =( sigh. i don't really get noshes (its sort of my 1st time, unlike some of my other coursemates who are not so lucky). and now i understand how it feels to have your 3 hour clinical session wasted. and i had so much planned out for him today. i won't get to see him until 3 weeks later cause its Easter and i've got other patients booked in after that. he's my most 'interesting' patient as of now as there are a lot of problems (pretty urgent) to be solved and i really hope that he'll come for his appointments.

having some trouble deciding if i should join certain activities with my dent friends in Grampians (where we r headed for our easter getaway). cause i don't want to tire myself during my easter but then again its going to be an experience.

weekends again! i hate weekends =(

.

i feel that i'm so selfish. why do i always just care about myself and not others around me?

i'm glad you found someone cause i know i don't deserve you.

week 7 of uni

my first full upper denture:

(photo is not focused =/)

jie says the gums look high. loll it wouldn't look high in a patient's mouth and it will provide lip support as well.
it was difficult to start a denture from scratch. have to set up the teeth and create the "feel" of a real dentition. though its not perfect, i guess its something for me to be proud of :) and i feel kind of relieved that this full denture thing is over. next up is partial denture!

yea btw i got my test results back. ahhh quite disappointed, but i'll be contented with it. after all, what's more important than to be contented with life?

life's never perfect, right?

ahhh (again), i can't believe i missed a good opportunity this afternoon. nothing too serious, but it could have changed my life.

time to study, study, study!

some things that i realised..

#1 i really dislike doing scaling and root debridement on patients. last time (before i started clinic) i thought it was easy (like its one of the easiest dental procedure). but no, cause your indirect vision thru the mirror is (totally) obscured by the water coming out of the EMS scaler. and i'm afraid of going subgingival which will cause the gums to bleed though i know that it SHOULD bleed. even my healthy gums bleed when my dentist do scaling on me. what more about my patients with poor oral hygiene, right? i really should learn to be more daring.

#2 went out with my dent friends for dinner after clinic at some jap restaurant and had a long dinner (which is usual for our group). and then we headed back to the common room in my apt building when we discussed about our easter trip to Grampians.
somehow i feel that i've been spending too much time with them. not that i have many other friends outside dent that i should have time set aside for them, but i just want to have more time to myself (yes, myself AGAIN). but i don't know why i'm complaining when they are already complaining that they are seeing less of me (cause i don't go to every dinner outing though i'm trying to).

i just need to have some balance in my life. i realised that i can't study the whole day or slack the whole day or see the same people the whole day. i'll get tired and sian.

#3 talking to my family/friends in sg really takes up a lot of time. its easier said than done to just talk for a few minutes (maximum 30 mins?). cause there's so much to talk about (its two sided, my family have lots to tell me too). i really wish i had more time for my family/friends or have the ability to multi-task. as for friends, i really want to be there for my good friends who are having tough and stressful times in uni. they are always there for me, so i really want to do the same as well.

i'm not someone who really procastinates, or waste time. i get down to doing what i need to do but i don't seem to have enough time. sighhhh. and, you can only manage your time when u have time to manage right.(lol am i even making sense?)
i guess all i can do now is take things one step at a time.

one of my good friend's mum is diagnosed with cancer. life's just so vulnerable. her mum's really kind, i always remember how nice she is to me when i was in cedar. stay strong dear, will keep u and family in prayer (:

studying is no fun :(

I really want to stop studying NOW after studying almost continuously since morning. But I still have one more chapter to go for today:((

Pharmacology is so confusing :(

Daylight savings end tmr. Yayness to one more hour of sleep and two hours time difference (instead of three) between Sg and Melb :)

love my daddy

this is my daddy's last week in melb before he heads back to Sg. *sighhh* i know i'm going to miss him plenty, even though i've been really mean to him many times during this trip. =(
stress is getting the better of me, that i can't control how i treat those around me. (oh and i realised that i DO clench my teeth when i'm sleeping recently. it is definitely THE sign of stress. =// i need to make an occlusal splint for myself soon)


i'm already used to having Dad in my apartment, waiting for me to come home and cook my meals. such a nice, warm feeling.


sometimes u know that you shouldn't take things for granted, but u still do. =(

its going to be friday again =//

cons preclinic (i don't like u!) + gp clinic (another new patient). ahh so tiringgg.
this is so me, complaining that i'm tired even before it starts.

week 6 of uni

ended clinic at 5 sharp, surprisingly. it was total craziness cause i had to rush out a restoration on tooth 28 for my patient (and i had to take 2 radiographs as well). and that tooth was damn difficult to work on. hard to access with the handpieces, can't see cause its right at the back, plus lots of saliva pooling over that area. it was my first occlusal restoration on a real patient and i wanted to do it properly. but, it was just so tough. my demonstrator was really encouraging though i bet she could tell that i was disoriented. but i guess the final result was alright after all that struggling. i'll improve with experience, i hope (:

(oh and i did my first LA injection on a real patient as well! wheee. okay i know this is lame, but its a historic moment for me right??)

i was having lunch with my 2 closest dental friends this afternoon and we were saying how stress makes us super grumpy. and we are particularly grumpy towards our parents. like when we talk to them over the phone, we'll just sound very pissed even though they didn't piss us off. we just can't help it.. it just comes out of us like that (if u get what i mean). this is so sad :( i really need to learn how to control my emotions better and stop being so self-centred.

life

trust me, the grass is not always greener on the other side.

week 5 of 3rd year

getting really busy with assignments/preparation for clinics/readings for lectures to be done. and as expected, i'm having less free time to slack and chill as the stress is building up. going to yarra valley and healesville for a weekend getaway with my dad ( who is arriving in melb this sat). hopefully everything (preclinic and clinic) will go smoothly on friday so that i can take my mind off work and enjoy myself during the weekend.

clinics are getting more exciting as cases get more interesting and as we progress into treatment planning and the actual treatment process itself.

LEONA, YOU CAN DO IT! :D

Psalm 56:3-4 3

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid.

brand new week (sem)!

i guess i'll HAVE to feel better since it has already been 2 days since friday.

just get over it, okay?


i'm waiting for pam to arrive and we'll probably head to our favourite brunch place after she put down her luggages (:

the uni semester starts formally tomorrow. our first week of seeing patients.
let it be a good start!

have a good week ahead everyone!

=(

the past 3 weeks had been rather a breeze and i really like that kind of life. but it just had to end on a bad note.

YOU made me feel so horrible, as if i really wanted it to happen. BUT NO, i tried very hard and it just didn't work out. you were simply so sarcastic (every sentence you said was trying to imply something negative). it won't hurt you to be just a little encouraging, right? give me a chance to move on, and I'll promise that I'll be better.

i simply don't know if you are trying to play some reverse psychology game with me. like you think the harsher you treat me, the more i'll prove you wrong? if that's the case, i really really hope that i'll be able to prove you wrong.

but for now, because of you, i'll losing faith (or rather lost faith) in myself and feel so useless.

=(

my new home

this is my bed (: as u can see, i don't get a nice view outside my window cause i'm living on the lower floor, but still, i love the fact that there's a lot of sunlight. ahh i love watching tv and using my laptop on my bed. feels very shiok. thanks to the guys for setting up wireless in my place!
i'll probably post photos of my mini living room and kitchen some other day when my study table and kitchen are neater.


made birthday cards for jasmine and amy! can't really do much scrapbooking here in aust cause i don't have my materials with me. and i don't have much time anyways.





more photos the next time!

uni

just came back from 6 hours of rem pros preclinic (with an hour of lecture in between). and i feel as if i just fought a war.

i'm just so tired, taking impressions with that damn material called zinc oxide eugenol (ZOE). the smell of all the materials is just so bad and i can't believe i actually inhaled all those fumes throughout that 6 hours.

the first 3 weeks of uni are supposed to be intensive, cause the timetable says so. but its kind of relaxing in the sense that we are having very little lectures and lots of preclinical and clinical sessions. so, we don't have to do much after our day ends. just rest (:

but but, there are also extremely boring seminars that really drain me totally.

oh btw, i kind of settled down in my new place already and i'm loving my new life. living alone is way cooler than i thought (:

thanks to my friends who helped me move my stuff, and thanks to cheney and jin for helping me so much with my internet. u guys are awesome (:

since its monday,

(from a friend's Tumbler)

have a great week everyone! (:

be strong, my friend

my friend's going through a very hard time :( really hope she'll be strong!

will pray for u and your family! take care dear.

(:

HAPPY CNY!

HAPPY CNY EVERYBODY! may all of us have an awesome year ahead!

i have so many things to update on this blog.. after all, my two months summer hols is ending real soon (flying back earlier than planned) and i'm glad to say that my hols have been very fufilling because i managed to accomplish everything i wanted/planned to do. cheers :)

my hols started on a good note with a temp job that i (was pretty lucky) found online. working in a hotel was definitely a pleasant experience. nice colleagues and bosses, meals provided, lots of freedom, managable work. and the best thing was that they were comfortable with me working for 1 month, which meant that i could just spend my other month doing things that i want to do.

and so, my second month was about attachment with NUS dentistry (it was rewarding!), hong kong trip, more meet-up sessions with friends, spring cleaning, bringing Jin (korean friend) around Sg etccc.

hong kong trip was AWESOME to the max! love the fact that i was travelling with my sis and everything was well-planned. =D yes, we just ate, shopped, ate, shopped ... ...

meet-up sessions were kind of difficult to plan, cause everyone's so busy with uni/internships/preparation for exchange.. thanks friends for accomodating my schedule! at least we managed to catch up on quite a bit of stuff!

Jin was in Singapore for the past 5 days and bringing him around was such a torture. hahaa no la, not because of him, but rather, the super bad weather (!!!) and the lack of places to bring him around. but at least now there's RWS/USS and MBS in Sg. But Jin's just amazing. he eats everything and anything, tries to fit into the sg culture, agrees with any plans that we have for him, and does not complain about anything. =D yes, a super guai tourist (except for the fact that he keeps imitating me)!

CNY was pretty normal this year. haha the same questions, as usual, "which year are u in uni?",
"how many more years before you grad?", "when are u going back to Melb?", "How's uni?" blah blah blah.
having a bad cough now so i can't really indulge in all the cny goodies. booo, i want my bak kwa and pineapple tarts. had to see a doc just now to get stronger antibiotics. 24-hour doctors are suckers - $75 for consultation and medication.

good news and bad news.
good news first, THANK GOD that i'm managed to change my flight back to melb to the 5th of feb! so i won't be missing my 9am preclinics on the first day of sch. PHEW.

bad news, i'm not prepared (emotionally and physically) to go back earlier. just started to sink into the CNY mood and i haven't started packing. i have loads of stuff to bring back.
I need to arrange a new appt for the collection of keys for my new apartment and the connection of my utitilies. and i'm in the process of getting all these done. pray that everything will go smoothly.

this sem's timetable is simply crazy.
8am-5pm. starting clinics this sem. pray for nice and good patients. (:

bye singapore again - not sure when i'm flying back the next time, most probably end of the year? whatever it is, see u guys then! =D

love,
leona

1.1.11

2010 wasn't a very smooth year for me and some of those around me but it was filled with so much love from my family and friends, I must say. And at least it ended on a happy note. all is well and good :)

May 2011 be an awesome year for all!
Happy new year!