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 =(

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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 :)