Back in Uni

I've just started my 6th semester... which means i passed my professional exam 2 =)

I did do quite badly as expected and i'm at a loss at how to improve myself.

So been trying to be hardworking this 1st 3 days. i clerked 2 patients and spoke to 2 more.

I'm doing a geriatrics posting for this 3 weeks. Whoever said minor postings were a walk in the park has gotta be kidding me.

There're TONS of presentations lined up for us... plus one case write-up.

Okay... let's see...

This friday : presentation of stroke case
Next Tuesday : Individual presentation (i'm doing something like "creating an elderly-friendly enviroment at home")
Next wednesday : Random case presentation
Thursday after next : Presentation of nutritional survey and planning a retirement village.


Oh, tmr we'll be visiting an old folks home =)

then we have to submit a report... seriously...what's with this module...so much work =(

Anyway, so far i'm really enjoying geriatrics (minus the assignments part) cos the lecturers are a really funny bunch. They lecture without notes or slides and successfully transition from one topic to another and cover everything seamlessly. Plus, they've got this sense of humour. I really like them geriatric lecturers.

Okay, going to sleep.

10 things If I pass...

I can hardly wait for the exam to be over~!!

When that happens and if I survive unscathed... i want to:

1. Get ready for CNY - need to shop for clothes and work on my psycho-killer-like hair

2. Call certain ppl and meet up

3. Make plans for Macau/HK =)

4. Go to the movies... there're usually movies i want to watch during exams.

5. Read sappy mindless love novels (strong emphasis on "mindless")

6. Practice my guitar and thicken the skin on my left fingertips and also get used to playing with fake nails

7. Work out and get my ideal fitness-freak body wahaha (yea rite...) but i DO wanna go more karate classes and get all the highscores on WiiFit =)

8. Join a 1st aid course
(ppl...don't expect a doctor on the scene to be of much help...1st aiders are more useful...not really either...make that an ambulance which gets there quickly... also unlikely to happen rite... ppl, you're all doomed... so do NOT collapse on a sidewalk) so saying, maybe i should take up a religious course instead.

9. Attend a boring talk ONCE. with obvious emphasis on "ONCE".

10. Jump off a tall building. (literally and figuratively speaking)

Sadly, neither of the above will happen if i fail my exam this coming tuesday. Ironically, i'll only get to jump off a tall building if i pass. Even though it'll probably be something i really want to do if i were to fail.

Man... i really want to pass. So badly i can taste it. It tastes a bit metallic.

i really should go study. COME ONNNNNNNNN...CONCENTRATEEEEEEE
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Presenting...

...THe MARBLE COW!!!

About 2 weeks ago, after watching Ang Jolie's "Wanted" where the hero googles his name and comes up with nothing, i googled mine.

About a year back i did the same, and i got linked to a friend's blog who mentioned me in one of her posts.

but this time, a shockerrrr... there was a direct link from googling my full name to my hustle blog =0 and my blog does not even mention myself at all. heh i blame this on daniel for linking my full name with my blog

So blablabla... and voila!!! A new blog add is formed.

I initially wanted to put marble eggs, but i tot that it sounded a little insinuating and besides, i didn't really have any good reason to wanna insinuate things like that. Sooo cow it is...

Let me see if i can come up with a valid excuse for calling this a marble cow.

Marble isssss...

nevermind, the name just cropped up when it did. that's all.

As of now, i only told the bf of the change of blog name. and the bum forgot it and i'm not telling him again. It's not that hard to remember is it?

Anyway, life is a wee bit depressing now. I'm supposed to be studying the CVS system in a clinical way but i'm a little demotivated and just plain LAZY

i think i need my ears cleaned. i can't hear stuff very well.

All the murmurs and 3rd heart sounds and stuff... WTH... =(

and and and.. i can't feel an enlarged liver if a life depended on it... (which will be the case in future)

and and and... i can't answer questions posed by lecturers like how some other ppl can. This for some reason makes me sad...hahaha

Coming home always makes me happy tho. Eating yummy food makes me happy. Buying stuff makes me happy. Getting stuff makes me happy. most of all... it's the ppl at home that make me happy. I'm actually happy when i think about it.

I mean, is it even a valid reason to be sad if i can't tell the lecturer how we can clinically differentiate between a severe aortic stenosis and one that's not so severe? I say NOT!!
The answer btw, is a slow, rising pulse, a narrowed pulse pressure, and a heaving apex beat. Sheesh....

It is a valid reason to be sad that i cannot hear in the same patient, his two heart murmurs, one being pan-systolic and one being ejection systolic? i say NOT!! They sounded pretty much the same. had i not been informed beforehand, i wouldn't have been able to imagine one being longer than the other. yes, imagine. If you told me it was the same, it would've been to me. But it's not, cos you told me. Sheesh...

I need to study harder. period.

u know, i love medicine.

Cytoarchitectonics

Hi, i'm Yuen and i'm into CYTOARCHITECTONICS

Cool word of the day =)



(btw, i'm half dead in uni studying for finals - MS and CNS now... don't think i can finish in time!!!!!!!!!!! ijfjdioaf;jmdscafdapresspanicbuttonjfdksamjfxidoa)

Illusion-of-truth effect

This is kinda scary... apparently, if we hear a certain statement often enough, we'll start believing it. That's the illusion-of-truth effect.

Even if we believed it false at 1st, the next time you hear it, u mite think it's true =O


Do you know what this means? Warning: It means i can start planting strange but false ideas in ur heads by mentioning it a couple of times here and verbally. (omg!! application finally!)

Which means rite, the brain is a funny thing which isn't all that more reliable than the supposed 'heart'. oh well...

Went to the awesomest place today. "Loji rawatan kumbahan Indah Water Konsortium in Putrajaya"

Here is the 'shit' water that comes from ur toilet and kitchen and stuff.

Basically, they bubble air tru it to break up the shit particles and to "empower" the bacteria to digest the biological crap in it.

THen the clear effluent will flow out and into the riverssssss...

Btw, in singapore, the effluent is made into drinking water. Recycle...that's wat u do

This whole week, we have a module called "Services, client and community" which means we go around visit places apparently for educational purposes.

Yesterday went to NIOSH (national institute of occupational safety and health), quite boring la that one.

Tmr will go see a chiropractor. I wiki-ed it and discovered that it's treatment is based on spinal subluxation (!!!@@??!?@) Tho now they call it, spinal modification or adjustment =)

Hope it'll be interesting.

Uh huh,

I'm still alive.





Pretty busy in uni nowadays, was put in charge of the performances for the upcoming (looming) 10th Medical Dinner of UPM. So have been attending dance practices till 12 am every nite.





and now i have to meet the vice dean cos apparently either/or/and:

1. the modern dance last year was too ...'modern' for the VIPs liking.
2. the modern dance was deemed inappropriate for a formal dinner.

No worries at all. I have always enjoyed meeting vice deans. They're fun to chat with. Esp about modern dances. For formal dinners.

I seriously need to drag my butt up to study. Test on monday (endo) and on wednesday (repro).





Um...wat else... i still sleep in class. Speaking of which, i think i may have a mild case of hypothyroidism. I sleep in class a LOT and have cold intolerence. i'm prob gaining weight as well.





My proof that i'm doing endocrine this sem.





A week back, i think my guardian angel either took a break, or an MC or somthing cos i kept injuring myself.





Slipped down the stairs, bruising myself all over the place, banging my head on fire extinguishers. I was concerned u know... but i think the angel's back on the job. I hope.

YES!!!i got a router for use in uni. therefore, i shall be reconnected to the outside world pretty soon.

Isn't he a cutie? I can officially be addressed as Auntie Yuen now. hmmm...ugh.

But Sean here is so cuteeeee... only a few hours old in the pic i think. He's got super a lot of hair for a neonate/newborn/babybaby and weighs 7 pounds!! He's a big guy for sure. Took him 3 hours to get out here =)

I want to see baby Sean!! (btw, the kid's in Canada)

i just...

want to go to sleep and forget all about studying.

cos even when i don't do anything, time will still pass, and by this time tomorrow... the 2nd package exam will be over... i look forward to that. even though the exam most likely will go horribly.

and Then, i can start cramming for the next paper. ugh...

It's crazy for us to cram three systems in 2 and a half days.

i'm already in reject mode. new stuff don't go in. old stuff...is no where to be found. Where could it have gone....helloooo??? are you there???

yah, i'm close to a state of panic.

an interesting experience, you know. you should try it sometime...

i'm like, totally stuck. can't go forwards or backwards.

and i'm lost. i have no idea what i'm supposed to do now.

i think i'm sooo not cut out for medicine.

Come on... i need to pass this exam.

just 3 more days....

3 long days. but 3. sheesh...

~_~.

screwed...

It's currently hitting 4am, i'm wide awake and this has nothing to do with coffee.

i'm running on anxiety.

i've to finish 3 systems, CVS, RS and US by monday morning, complete with anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology.

Yah, that's about 30 lectures for each system. Meaning, i've to finish ,hmmmm about 45 lectures in the next two days. yay!

Today's microbe and parasite exam was so bad, i don't know why i bothered studying it the last couple of days. I'm praying to pass. This is the 2nd time i'm praying to pass. The 1st time i did it, i failed, and it's for the same subject!! yea, i hate microbes and parasites. like, totally.

Had trouble sleeping last nite, cos the dumb scientific names of today's exam kept popping up in my head.

it's like, okay, time to slee... *Clonorchis sinensis*...... what the heck is that again? Forget it, time to slee... *Rickettsia tsutsugamushi*..... annoying. i swear this is my bed monster/boogeyman/whatchamacallit.

Well, you get me.

Ewww...

did you know....

that there's as much bacteria in your mouth as there is in your colon?

also, the mouth houses more bacteria than ur armpits... hmmm, that means rite, ppl will be better off kissing armpits.

hahaha

i'm bored

isn't that obvious?

ps: ayjk!! pls invite me ya, yuen86@yahoo.com

that's funny...

It would seem that UPM admin has barred all site whose website URL ends with : blogspot.com

Haha..but i can still log in and post stuff. obviously =)

So if the initial idea was to stop students from spreading propaganda or rumours that our PM's KO-ed...hmmm...i don't know, they'd prob wanna stop us from logging into blogger too.

But i shouldn't give them any more ideas. Or encourage the wacky inspirations they've already come up with by themselves.

also, whenever i try to log into a blogger blog, i get redirected, to what seems to be the UPM official website. I can't seem to get that url tho.

It's annoying la. i feel spied on...

but but but...we can msn , youtube and use friendster. and pretty much all the other blogging services ~_~"

so the point is?

like i said, upm is weird...

Blurnessss...

I barely know what's going on in class nowadays. And i can't differentiate two of the subjects i'm taking now... They seem the same to me... all greek. seriously

It doesn't help that the lectures aren't exactly very pro-understandingly organised... I keep losing the connection between the slides. I dun like parasites...

On another note, i saw dead people yesterday... There were a whole bunch of cadavers in the Dissection Hall, some full body some just the upper torso. It wasn't scary at all. They were all so preserved and plasticky that i had to remind myself that they were once living and breathing ppl.

WIll post a pic soon..the wireless from my room is very weak and slow

But the formalin Did get to me, was tearing and sniffling like crazy initially. and now i've got a cold. ~_~

If u had ever wanted to study at hogwarts. U know, all that magic spells stuff, i recommend you take up medicine. Or maybe just parasitology... then u can also start chanting stuff like "entamoeba histolytica" and pretend that by saying that, ur cursing someone with dysentry and diarrhoea. =)

Yes, i'm bored of studying so now i'm mock-cursing all my coursemates with all forms of protozoa and conditions. i never said i was nice.