PictuREs...

Nao and Bo came to our house on the day I came back from camp... and Nao cut my hair... and I am in my pyjamas!!! ah...



Me and Prisy contemplating the really spicy but super yummy chicken with melted cheese dish at the new korean place we went to in strathfield...

GuiLTy...

Felt very guilty this week... cos i 'pon' classes... felt more guilty now than when i 'pon' during jc days... shit...
watched infernal affairs that day, the whole 3 series... so confusing and complicated... at the end of the third one, i am still like' what?', still got alot of questions unanswered... but it was overall quite a good movie, unlike the Initial D... watched halfway and I already felt like sleeping, which I did... and then yesterday went swimming at Lane Cove, and then went to eastwood... bought the twin effect dvd and watched it with prisy... the first one was funny but the second one... we were like huh?... what's the connection between the first and second one? no vampires in the show also... at the dvd shop, also saw the chinese show, Qian Nu YOu Hun... wanted to buy it, but i know that if i bought it... I won't be able to study...

thurs... went to the city with amelia and karen to sing karaoke... yay... now they have this sing for 3 hours for 10 dollars and get a free drink policy... after that, met up with karen's mum... apparently her mum is in the macau rotary club and a group of them from the rotary club are here for a week to promote macau... she was surprised when i told her that i know about rotary clubs and singapore also have one... and that I was from interact club in jc... although everyone knows that the interact club is also known as the slacker's club in nj... never really did much also... just did alot of community service...

this week... worked almost everyday except tues and sun... sian ah... i am starting to get so sick of my workplace... like I dun mind if i am actually being a cashier, but bcos it's very quiet at night, i am more like a cleaner... clean this, clean that, make sure that everything is clean, no food scraps or onion skin or rice grains... blah blah blah... and i noe that they purposely dun want me to work on sundays, cos you will get higher pay per hour if u work on sundays... they prefer to get the younger pple to work so that they dun have to pay them as much...

Wk 11...

last fri... both prisy and me went to macquarie shopping centre after dropping michelle at work and oh my god, we spent the whole day there... can u imagine?? we went shopping at first of course, i bought a dress, and this was the first dress i owned... bought it from tree of life, which is this indian store, selling all the indian stuff like necklace, bracelets, clothes, etc... they even have the indian smell...

ate pretzels with prisy... yum yum, and after that, shop some more and after lunch we went to borders, sat there and started reading my In Death series... i am collecting the whole series, so when i go back, i will go look for the next 2 books... I read Origin in death while prisy read survivor in death... i was saying to her that the newer books were not as interesting as the previous ones... the storyline has become more serious and not that funny anymore... so the two of us sat there and read till like 4pm... and then go back to epping to pick michelle up again... did not even go back home...

sat worked in the morning, and prisy and me went to castle towers to shop... again... actually she wanted to go look at the cosmetic store there after she read this magazine on make-up and got some 'enlightenment'... auntie and uncle came back home that night... and they brought back alot of snacks for us... yay... they brought famous amos cookies (which the three of us are crazy abt), the calbee hot and spicy potato chips, nuts and of course, my 3-in-1 milo, which i cannot live without... the three of us were so excited and the cupboard was full of snacks until we had to put them all into the garage... keep them for 'emergencies'...

yesterday, was our HO presentation... stayed up till late that monday night to finish the presentation... i was so tired, cos i also had to work that day, so by the time i got back home, it was already 1030pm... okay, we actually had to do a role play cos the presentation was actually supposed to be a case conference... so karen and amelia thought of using the hello kitty toys as the members in the conference... our tutor and the class were so amused by us... they were like, where did u guys get those toys???... apparently, the hello kitty phenomenon was an ' asian' thing... still remembered the fightings and long queues in mcdonald's when the stupid ugly cats came out... these pple are nuts...
i personally feel that out of the 3 groups that presented that day, ours was the briefest... the information we had were very brief, and the other 2 groups one were all quite detailed... anyway, now that the presentataion is over, we also have to do the portfolio due in wk 14...
viva for COP is coming again... still have not started learning my manual muscle testing and ROM tests... and my splint... i am so screwed...

BoRinG stUff...

today's blog will be a short one, i hope...
nothing much happened during the weekend, except that i was working on both sat and sun, resulting in me not doing any studying and assignments... if u are wondering abt what happened to the evil woman, she STILL has not quit yet or be fired, which i have no idea why, bcos i know that alot of pple really hate her... she has taken to complaining to me recently, and i'm like thinking, pls stop talking to me, i dun want to hear anything coming out from you... but of course, i will not say that, i just nod and agree to whatever she says... still harbouring the hope that she will be fired or she will quit soon...

uni... been making splints for COP these few weeks... not that easy to make though... as my lecturer said, it's just like cooking or sewing, it's either u can do it or you can't... and we have to make one for the viva... next week is our HO presentation already, and we haven't even finish doing one-third of what we have to do... good luck to our group... i hate to do things last minute, but somehow, i always end up doing that... and i start to panic cos the deadline is getting nearer, and i dun do the stuff well...

WhAt a WeeK...

last tues prisy suggested that I join her friends to strathfield to eat at the korean place ceci... when we arrived there, it was closed, i was really disappointed, i was looking forward to eating there... so we went to the other side of the station and found this other korean place, i dun really noe the name cos it's in korean... the place was really nice though, very cosy and we initially decided to dare ourselves to try this special spicy chicken dish... even the waiter also said it was really spicy, and then when our dish came, we realised that it wasn't what we wanted... the waiter heard wrongly and gave us this chicken with melted cheese dish... i must say that the waiter did the right thing... cos all of us liked it although it was also very spicy... we were like saying if this dish is that spicy already, can u imagine what the one that we originally wanted would be like?!... and the one that we had was really good... it was like chicken on top the plate of melted cheese, and underneath the cheese, was a layer of potato and crispy bread... yum yum...
after that, prisy's friend, xueting, treated us to icecream bought from woolies, it's the caramel drumstick, and it was nice... tues was a fruitful day for us, we tried 2 new things, the korean place and the caramel icecream...

fri was neuroscience mid semester exam, i thought it was not that difficult, as compared to the sample paper that i tried doing... should be okay... assignments are starting to pile up, it's always neverending...
final exam timetable came out already... 21-25 nov... better start studying already... i have to keep telling myself that from now on... time really passes... i have been in sydney for almost a year already... seems like yesterday, i was at changi leaving to come here... sigh...

yesterday... worked until 4pm and after that, went with prisy to her colleague, Lauren's, house party... ate till i was so full, shouldn't have eaten the shephard's pie at home... and i also drank alcohol... that was a first for me... till now, i have only drank wine but yesterday, i drank something green called midori?? it was yucky... maybe bcos i am a first-timer... prisy was even better... she drank that, and tequila and cowboy... whatever that is... i was told that tequila is actually a really disgusting drink, that's why pple drink it down in a shot... i had fun yesterday, although i was quite tired after work... we ate, sang songs and danced in Lauren's living room, her colleagues were really funny and young-at -heart though... most of them are like mothers with kids already, but they still act like teenagers, dancing and singing along to the songs, which btw, most were songs which i have never heard of before...

FaRewELL...

Farewell, our dear Birdie...
yes, our cute little cockatail died yesterday at approx. 8am... all of us are really upset about it, especially uncle, cos he was the one who spent the most time with the bird...

events that led up to his death: birdie flew away AGAIN when uncle brought him out into the garden on mon... so we all had to knock on neighbours' doors and look for him... history repeating itself... and then at night when we came home from uni, uncle told us that birdie flew into one of our neighbour's house and they brought him to a vet, bcos they have 2 cats and the cats were attacking birdie... but according to uncle, birdie did not seem hurt when uncle went to the vet's to fetch him home... and then when uncle brought him out of the cage, we realised that he did not look okay and he was not his usual self... he was just like sitting there letting us pat him and he was really quiet... he did not even look like the birdie we had... prisy even suggested that we bring him to a vet the next day, to see if he has any internal injury or something... we all thought that he was just traumatised by the cats and he would be alright after a few days, just like the previous time he flew away...
and then the next day, when i woke up and went downstairs, michelle told me that birdie had died and uncle buried him already... i was like 'what???'... didn't even get to say goodbye or see him for the last time... and it was raining outside also...
it was a sad day...

HolE in My poCkEt...

i am getting reaLLY bad at blogging... had to wait till monday then I can come to school to blog...
anyway, michelle came back from singapore last week, bearing my favourite essential peanut butter and calbee hot and spicy potatao chips... i cannot live without my peanut butter, and mum even bought a super jumbo-sized one... it was the biggest bottle of peanut butter i have ever seen... can last me till dec and then when i go back, can buy some more...haha...

last fri... it was like a shopping spree for me... my pocket now has a huge hole, and i still owe auntie and michelle money... have to wait till i get my pay then can pay them back... i dunno what the hell i bought... no wait, actually i noe... i bought 2 blouses, a bag for prisy as her bdae present and 2 blouses for pong... this was bcos michelle had a 40% discount voucher for espirit so the three of us went to the espirit shop at macquarie that fri to see whether there were any nice clothes... and then after that, we went to hornsby again to shop, crap... i feel so guilt afterwards, cos i have never spent so much money in a day before and i am not even a shopping fanatic...

sat and sun was a slacking weekend again for me... did not study for my neuroscience exam this fri as i have planned, instead was watching movies with prisy... i did alright for my anatomy exam, which was not too difficult, maybe bcos i have already learnt the stuff before...

okay, i was thinking about this matter since last week already, but i was still undecided abt whether i should write it in my blog... i have since decided to write it, if it offends anyone, whatever...
the thing is... i dun really feel comfortable sometimes about lending my notes to pple, especially when an exam is coming and i need them to study rite, but then if i dun lend it to them, pple will think, why this person so selfish?, etc... and they won't friend me anymore... oh man, do i sound childish?! but that's what i really think when this kind of thing happens... so everytime i feel really hard not to say no to them, i noe it's not their fault, but sometimes, i do need my notes to study... and sometimes, even my assignments also... i mean, the assignments are what i spend my time researching for information and these pple just take and copy, it's just really unfair... there's no way i can tell them no, even in a nice way...
and then yesterday, we already agreed to meet up at someone's house to discuss our HO project, and then one hour before we were supposed to meet up, one of them called and told me that she suddenly have something on and have to cancel the meeting, so okay, and then i found out that the reason was bcos she went out to watch a movie, not bcos she had something really impt to attend to...
i was so pissed... i dun think i want to do another project with them again, if this happened the next time...

1sT CliNicAl plAceMeNt...

one week of uni break just flashed by... came back from camp on fri and slacked the entire weekend and on mon...

camp was more good than bad, i think... it was quite fun... but taking care of 5 kids, aged 11-14 was definitely not easy... especially when 2 of the kids dun want to participate in any of the activities, and kept ignoring my instructions... the lessons that i've learnt were that, next time, bring games to play, and something to read to occupy myself... there was so much free time in between activities, ohmigod, and i didn't bring a book to read or something to entertain myself and the kids... in the end, we all sat down and watched tv... the first 2 days of camp was shitty, cos it was raining the whole time... the kids were getting restless, and they had nothing to do...
one good thing abt the camp was that the accomodations and food was good, we had our own tv and toilet, and the six of us shared a room... the food was okay also, except that we had the same thing for every single meal... i ate pasta till i am so sick of it now...

i got to go canoeing and archery, which was fun, cos i haven't had the chance to do archery till now... btw, i sucked at it though... none of my arrows hit the target, all of them landed on the floor... missed abseiling though, cos i was on crafts duty that day... i would have liked to try that...
i was really lucky to have met good supervisors on this placement though... cos having a horrible supervisor could ruin your entire practical experience... they were all really nice and took good care of us...

did i mention that the camp was for kids with juvenile arthritis? it's really sad to see them like that though... most of the kids looked fine physically, and only two of the kids there were in wheelchairs... but all of them were smiling and having fun... and they had to take alot of medications and injections before mealtimes... it was really heart-wrenching to see them like this, and some of them are still so young... i think the youngest was only 8 yrs old...
one of the things that my supervisor said during the camp really touched me... she said that although these kids have been through much more than what most adults in their lifetime have gone through, they still wake up and face everyday with a smiling face... and that's really true, most of them truly enjoyed themselves during the camp and that's probably why they kept coming back to the camp each year, so that they can do the activities without having to feel the fear of being rejected or their friends laughing at them...

we also went to Luna Park on wed... and i am NOT going back there ever again... i hate to go on the rollercoasters and the things that spin you ard... but i had no choice cos i have to look after the kids... and oh man... i almost cried when i sat the stupid thing that spins you ard... it was really bad... i screamed the entire time it was moving and also when i was on the rollercoaster... i preferred 'tamer' games like the bumper cars and the ferris wheel, which we didn't get a chance to go on... i put my foot down on the one that went upside down though... definitely not me...

the kids these days are really daring... i felt so old standing next to them... and they already start putting makeup, they brought like hair rollers and straighteners with them... and i'm like... how old are these kids??... i dun even noe how to put them on myself...

that was abt it i guess, i think all the OT students on this placement enjoyed it though... i wouldn't mind going back again... if i get well-behaved kids...

oh and i wish to mention that when i was Luna Park... i saw the racing horse game, and it reminded me of the NJ carnival, and I had a really memorable time then... nj also brought in that game and i played and won myself a nice teddy bear... siti, sumin, and sharon, u guys probably are not reading this, but i will never forget the fun times we spent all our money playing the stupid 'uncle ringo' game in nj... :) that was probably one of my happiest moments in njc...