NOt tiLL jAn...

it's finally confirmed... i will be doing the placement in dec till jan... and i have to pay for changing the dates... sigh... well i guess it can't be helped... hopefully this placement will be worth it...

went to the city to meet up with melissa and suet ming... well... melissa still the same... and i haven't seen suet ming since nyp... but she is still the same as i remembered... what a coindence that we both know melissa... we went to eat at my fav spicy beef place and after that, brought them to walk along george street... they were saying how the transport is very expensive here so they did not want to catch a train to other places... so we just walked around the city... then took a monorail... and who knew it would be so crowded... we waited for two monorails before deciding to get onto one and we still had to stand... and it went so fast... melissa and i were saying shouldn't monorails be slower so that people can enjoy the views?? suet ming almost fell... and then we went to lindt cafe and i got to drink the iced chocolate... cos they did not accept eftpos for purchases under 1o bucks, i almost could not drink my iced choc... thank god i had some spare coins in my other purse... sat and talked for awhile... glad to hear that people who were in the same class as me in nyp were doing well... and alot of them went to melbourne and perth to do the degree conversion... i really think we should have a class gathering for the OTs of class 2007...

LAtEr...

the first week of holiday was quite boring... went to uni to finish up the ethics proposal and worked on the article... then went to amelia's house, ate pizza and watched movies... and she lent me a few hongkong shows to watch... went to ikea to get a bookshelf... i actually quite like it... now i have a proper plpace to put all my barang barang instead of putting them in boxes... however, it is still not enought to store all my stuff... i seriously have too much stuff... and uni placement coordinator called yesterday... i got selected for the placement in macquarie hospital... so i will not be going back to singapore till jan... well... i am alittle upset but i want to get the placement over and done with so i will not have to worry abt it next year...

WHaT shOuLd I do?

the monday after exams... starting to feel bored already... i could think of many things to do... but it's so hot that i dun feel like stepping out of the house to do anything... and at the end of the day, i just felt like i wasted an entire day...

the gathering last thursday at my place was fun... and i hoped everyone had fun as well... ate the korean ricecakes that anna so kindly volunteered to cook and the fried rice that joanne's dad cooked... and then watched movies and just chill out... after that, jessica and the rest stayed over at my place, and they started their movie marathon, not wanting to sleep for the entire night... i wanted to join them, but i was so sleepy already... in the end, they continued watching and i went to bed... and when i came down the next morning, found them sleeping in front of the tv... haha should have taken a picture of them... it was a nice way to round up the year...

now, i still have the ethics proposal to hand in and the ottp article to finish... went to mel's house last friday to do the article and anna did not show up for like an hour... we were supposed to meet at 10 but when it was 11, she still did not show up, we started calling her mobile, her house, even tried the library, and they did not allow us to make a PA call for her... i was starting to get worried... in the end, she showed up at ard 1130... what happened was yochi decided to change the venue and smsed anna to tell her... but anna did not check her phone so she went to library and waited for 2hours and the silly girl forgot her phone... and she decided to try mel's house when none of us showed up in the library... she was really upset when she saw us at mel's house... i felt so bad...

and now, got an email from the placement coordinator that they have a mental health placement coming up in dec-jan... and i really want to do it cos if i can get the placement over and done with, i dun have to worry abt it next year and can concentrate on the honours project... but then i have to change my flight and i dunno if i have to pay or not... and family back home would not be too happy...

THe eND...

Finally!!! year 3 semester 2 exams are over!!! this semester was the shittiest so far... tomorrow is the ottp presentation and after that, instead of being able to properly enjoy our well-deserved holidays, we have to work on the journal article still... and the funny thing was... after the exam today, there was no sense of relief that the exams are finally over... maybe bcos i know i did not study hard enough for the exams... and so the worry begins for the day when the results come out... but for now, i am going to enjoy myself first... starting from tomorrow, we are gathering at our house for the end-of year cum early christmas 'party'... hopefully, everything goes well and everyone enjoys themselves...

yup, the COP exam still sucked even though i studied so hard for it... this semester's exam is just getting better and better... i hate this!!!

It's RAininG AgAiN...

today is the first exam... maladaptive... and the research proposal is also due today... felt really relieved when i finished and handed in the proposal... it is taking up so much time... and maladaptive today was not good at all... i think i did not study properly cos i know i have so many mistakes in the mcq section... hopefully my presentation will help pull my marks up... i have a really bad feeling about maladaptive, human occupations and COP assignments...

auntie and uncle left for singapore last week... wished that i am the one going back as well, not stuck here cramming for the exams... watched bridge to terabithia on saturday with prisy and michelle... the movie was definitely not what i imagined it to be... i thought it was a fantasy movie like narnia... but it turned completely out of what i expected... and it was seriously storming that night as well... could hear the rain pounding on the roof and lightning and thunder... and it is really rare for the weather here to hear thunder and see lightning... and these few days are going to be really cold and raining... almost like winter... haha... i am in my fleecy as i am typing this...

this coming thursday is cognitive exam... no mcqs and all short answer questions... oh man... no chance to tikkam even... either you know or you dun... i am going to work harder for this and applied physiology... cos maladaptive really sucked...

STuvAC...

Stuvac week... almost coming to an end... this semester's stuvac has got to be the most boring and worst ones... have been going to uni almost everyday... assignments and group project stuff... and next week is the start of the exams... three papers this time, two next week and one the following week... this whole weekend will be spent cramming for the stupid maladaptive exam... which is totally ridiculous cos how are we supposed to memorise the whole freaking textbook??!!

bought a sunshade for my car... and the funny thing is... i bought a blue one but when uncle helped me to insert the sticky thing on, he put it on the silver side... so the blue side is facing the inside... haha...

and on the weekend, amelia lent me this hongkong series which was 40 episodes long... and guess what... once i started the show... i couldn't stop so stayed up till like 4am on both sat and sun nights... shit man... this is all amelia's fault...

ExHauSteD...

These past 2 weeks have got to be one of the worst weeks ever... HO and COP were really difficult, and OTTP was also taking up alot of time cos we are going to the school to present next tuesday... and today, got back the presentation marks for HO and it was not good... i really hope the report will be better and hopefully pull me up to a credit at least...

and it has also been raining these past few days... and bcos the garage was damaged, bcos of the incident, auris had to be parked outside in the rain... and it rained so heavily today... i had to go to surry hills for the meeting with our industry parter and it was not funny at all... i hate rainy days...

the next few weeks leading up to the exams are going to be worse, although i think it's already really bad at the moment... this semester really sucks...

attended the fourth year honours students presentations today... one of the students who presented had the same supervisor as me and during the presentation, i was thinking to myself, some of the things that she mentioned sounded familiar, cos apparently our supervisor has been telling us to use the same studies... but I dun want my research to be similar to someone else's work... i want it to be different and unique... isn't that the whole point of doing honours?? and also one of the guest speakers was this really experienced OT who I worked with before when I was on pract at Westmead Hospital... what she talked about was really inspiring... she spoke about her experiences and how she became what she is now... and I realised that I want to be someone like her... although I dun really like doing research work, but I know that I am better at research than at clinical work... so if an opportunity comes in future allowing me to do both research work and clinical work, I will grab it with both hands...

WHerE's mY HOLidAY??

These few weeks before stuvac was really stressful... HO assignment was due, the presentation did not go too well cos the questions that she asked made me realise that I was not specific enough in the report... COP assignment is not going well... cos apparently he said that we have to find the assessments and complete them based on what we see in the film... and that there are other conditions that the character was suffering from... research proposal due date was postponed till the monday of exams... so good and bad...
anyway, in summary, this whole semester sucked!!!

Went to watch movie with prisy... resident evil 3... we both thought it was not as scary as the first one... i totally agree... as prisy said, maybe cos i did not expect the show to be so scary for the first one... i still vividly remembered going to watch it with Fran and Joanne from SAJC... it was soo scary... my legs were shaking when i tried to stand after the movie ended... anyway, went to visit the school to sit in on one of their class... it brought back memories of me learning coordinates and gradients and intervals... i already forgot half of the stuff that the teacher was teaching... it was really bad... and becos the school was for immigrants, it was really different from schools that i have seen... the kids were speaking in non-english half the time and the teacher was trying to teach them maths in english...

and finally, i am not going to korea anymore... argghh... I NEED A HOLIDAY!!!

STrEsseD oUT...

these past few days have been very stressful... assignments are all due in the coming weeks and i am so confused as well... it has come to a point where i can be doing one thing and the next minute, i have no idea which assignment I am actually researching for... and I dun even know what I am doing half the time... and this semester, I think I have read more journals than I have ever read in my entire life... read until my eyes cross... and exams are coming next month... and this semester, i have 3 exams but heaps of assignments...

basically that's it... just assignments and more assignments... dun really feel like blogging as well but i thought oh well just write something cos my blog has not been updated for awhile...
and oh yeah, will be going back to singapore in dec and possibly going to korea for a week... looking forward to the holidays... i really need a break!!!

OFF tO tHe beAch...

Last friday, it was joanne's birthday, so she decided to celebrate her bithday at manly beach... when i got there, the place was packed... it was so crowded that i think the whole world is there and all of them are going to manly... the queue for the tickets were so long... and the ferry was full, so we had to wait for the next one...

when we finally got there... we went to buy our food and found a place to sit near the beach... i ate fish and chips... which wasn't very nice... and cos i was not planning to go play in the water, i was wearing a skirt... but anna's son justin also came that day and he was pestering anna to go into the water... so in the end, i went with him... it was beautiful... the beach was nice and the water was really cool... and the day was really nice as well... it was hot but windy... and then the rest came to join us at the beach... stayed there for awhile... then we headed back to circular quay... the ferry ride back was horrible, cos halfway through, the ferry lost an engine and the ferry was rocking all the way back... felt really nauseous... when we arrived, i got a headache already... then we headed to the lindt cafe at darling harbour... ordered my fav milk iced chocolate... oh it was soo good... i felt better immediately...

after that, we decided to head home... and i went to pitt st to get prisy's gift voucher... after that, yochi and i caught a train back... and i took the train to eastwood to wait for prisy and the rest cos we are having dinner for prisy's birthday... we finally decided on a korean place after walking back and forth still undecided on which place to try... was a korean place called minto... the food was not bad, but i still preferred the one at ceci's...

worked through the weekend... but this weekend was a long weekend cos monday was labour day... so even though i had work at night and there are like 4 assignments due... i decided to go with prisy and michelle to the beach... this time to bondi... it was so hot and the beach was packed as well... stayed there for awhile and i think after spending so much time in the sun on both friday and monday, i got tanned... but only on my arms... my legs are still 'pasty-looking'... damn it... tried the fried ice cream that they were selling at one of the shops and it sucked... yuck...

UNmoTivAtEd...

it's already day 4 of the one week break... nothing much except went to surry hills with yochi and the rest to meet our industry partner for OTTP, and then after met up with amelia and karen for dinner and karaoke... and as usual, they were late, and poor andrea had to hang around market city, and i forgot to bring my jacket... ate my fav spicy beef and karen had her mussel soup thing... went to try kmix instead of the usual big echo... i still prefer big echo, cos the seats at kmix are very dodgy... anyway, the only good thing was they had the 'que yang' song... big echo dun have... sang till ard 1030pm and amelia gave karen a lift home, and wanted to give me a lift but i said no... i dun want her to travel all the way to dural and back cos it was quite late already...

stayed at home on tuesday, trying to finish the HO assignment... went to eat lunch with prisy and mahsa, but at the same time it was to film the thing for HO again... did not go too well, i really hate doing this... like it's hard cos i felt like i was hindering their work and they thought i was a joke... the person-in-charge was so condescending towards me... it was so not funny... anyway, i really dun care already i will just use what i have... sometimes this is what i hate about this course... having to go out and do stuff...

anway, prisy and i watched galaxy quest that night... it was really funny, in a 'simple' kind of way... watching it allowed me to destress cos it was so stupid funny... and something else made me angry that day... was supposed to go somewhere and spend the night... but they told me at the last minute that they wanted to finish their stuff, and i even had my stuff packed... well, dun think i am going to do it next time... and it was not until i called then i found out... thanks guys...

drove to uni using the silverwater road yesterday... followed the directions that uncle gave and got to uni without getting lost... spent the whole day doing research for the assignment... and my interview for qualitative... really dun feel like doing the assignments... i am so not motivated...

LOsT...

The day I got lost... it was one scary experience... i was driving to uni using the silverwater route... and somehow, i was driving along when I realised that i am not supposed to be where i was, cos the surroundings did not look familiar, that's when i went oh shit... i had no idea where i was and so, i just drove blindly, decided to turn into a small street so that i could pull over and call uncle... but the street that i pulled into had no parking and so i panicked and just drove up onto someone else's driveway and stopped... and i nearly hit someone as well while changing lanes cos i did not know where i was going... i was so scared... almost wanted to cry... called uncle and it was no use cos i did not know where i was... in the end, i got out and asked for directions from this guy who was coming out of his car... he told me how to get back onto silverwater road... so i followed his directions but did not see the bridge that he was telling about, instead i saw a sign that said eastwood so i thought ok, let's just go to eastwood and hopefully end up at epping, which was a place i am familiar with... and then somehow, i ended up on silverwater road and got to uni... thank god... it was really scary... it was an experience i never want to have again in the near future...

next week is the mid semester break... which really is not much of a break, with HO, COP, qualitative, honours stuff and OTTP to complete during that short period of one week... so unless i stay at home every day and have no life, i definitely will not be able to do all those stuff...

WeEk 9...

Last thursday, went to the city for karaoke with prisy, michelle and her high school friend who came to visit from singapore... we initially wanted to eat something nice at darling harbour but by the time we met up with michelle and sharon, it was so late already... so we ended up eating dessert at Lindt's... their iced milk chocolate drink is the best... after that... we went for three hours of karaoke and i was surprised that even though it was a thursday, the place was quite crowded and it was so late as well... luckily we called earlier to book a room... and so we sang till 12 midnight, and i was so sleepy... and we got home only at 1am...


bought my why why love dvd at eastwood... haha... cannot wait already... i quite liked the show even though the ending was not too good... other than that, nothing exciting happened... uni assignments are piling up and next week's the one week mid semester break... the HO assignment is killing me... it's like due in 3 weeks time and i still dunno who I can do the workplace assessment on...

went to watch the bourne ultimatum with prisy at castle towers... the movie was not bad, except i think bcos we sat too near too the screen, we had to look up and the cameraman filming was really shaky the entire movie, and as a result, i got such a bad headache and i felt like throwing up throughout the movie... in the middle of the movie, it got so bad that prisy and I moved to the seats at the back... I felt better but the nausea was still there and when i got home, prisy forced me to eat two panadol and i went straight to bed... slept for an hour and when michelle came to wake me... i felt much better, had a shower and ate cake cos it was auntie's birthday... btw we saw the trailer for resident evil 3... it looked good man... but scary... bourne ultimatum was good but still preferred the first one...

FiRSt tiMe...

I finally drove the car by myself last Tuesday... drove from our house to yochi's house... i was quite scared at first cos i have not driven by myself ever... but it turned out alright... parked along the street at uni... and one day at uni was enough to make the car dirty and dusty all over... yuck...

michelle's friend came over to visit from singapore... and we had a nice dinner last night, she bought wine for us and it was really nice... after that, we watched the holiday... the show is really nice and funny... did not have high expectations but it turned out to be better than i expected... really funny though... and prisy and michelle kept going on and on the whole time about how cute jude law was...

today drove to uni as well... and bcos we finished late today, when I dropped yochi at her house, i was reversing out of her driveway when the car went over the kerb and hit the kerb... i had a really bad scare... and yochi and i were like trying to look to see if anything was damaged but it was so dark, we could not see anything... but I could feel the front part coming out... i was so worried the whole way home... when i got home, uncle told me that the front plastic part of the car came out but somehow, uncle managed to fix it... thank god... Auris is only 7 days old, he can't have any damage so early...

AuRiS...

yesterday was the apec public holiday... in the morning, prisy and I drove around the estate and she taught me how to park... it was really difficult as I simply could not visualise which direction I should turn the wheel... and after I drove with uncle auntie and prisy to uni via the other silverwater route... tried to do a parallel parking at uni but it was super difficult so I think I would rather not risk it and just pay money to park inside uni... after that, we stopped by strathfield to have lunch at ceci's... then went to rhodes ikea and ohmigod... there were so many people, it's like as if the whole of sydney decided to come to ikea... it was so crowded... went to look for my bookshelf... but did not find a suitable one in the end... then we stopped by macquarie shopping centre... the only thing that was not good yesterday was that it was raining the whole day and my poor Auris is wet and dirty...

when we got home... uncle showed me how to give Auris a clean and I cleaned the floormats... definitely hard work to have a car... but i did not regret getting this car... it's been a really good car... hopefully the weather becomes better otherwise I will have to keep cleaning the car...

A drEAm cOmE tRuE...

Today is quite a momentous occasion for me... cos 6 september is the day i finally got my car... i really really like it... it's definitely my dream car... but i have to say that getting a car is not an easy feat... i have definitely learnt a lesson from this and with owning a car, comes great responsibilty and my pocket has a huge gaping hole... all my hard earned savings these past 3 years have been spent on the car... and i am still only paying not even half of what the car cost...
now i have to learn how to park with this car and i have decided that I am going to call my car Auris... i actually found out that this name was the model name for this car model in the other parts of the world but australia apparently bought the rights to keep the model name as corolla... so from now onwards, Auris and I will have to get to know each other and build up our trust in each other...

And finally, a very big thank you to uncle, auntie, prisy and michelle... and papa, mum and pong... without all of you, i would not have gotten this far... and if you asked at the beginning at the year if i would envision myself owning a car, i would not have even dreamed/thought of it...

RAndOm raMbLiNgs...

did not go to uni today... to stay home and study for the applied physiology lecture tomorrow... sian man... stoning almost half the time, and studying for this really can put me to sleep... dun even know what is going on and i am just sort of memorising the stuff without really understanding it...

watched fantastic four rise of the silver surfer last saturday... it was alright, i thought the first one was better though, and what's up with jessica alba's blond hairstyle?? was watching ocean's 13 but my eyes were really closing so went to sleep after the first 15 minutes of the show... haha when pong was here, when we were watching charlie and the chocolate factory, i slept through half the show too...

this year, zhen zhen and the rest gave me a chocolate drink set and amelia and karen got me a chocolate factory... i think they noticed that i love chocolates haha... i guess this year was better then the previous years cos i have more people celebrating with me... and prisy's family treated me to meat and wine co... and it was really expensive... and pong exchanged her nice sony ericsson phone with me... haha...

drove home from uni yesterday with amelia... now i just have to familiarise myself with the route to uni and be confident enough to drive by myself... and i am counting down to the day when I finally can drive my car... quite excited actually...

VisiT fRoM siNgApoRE...

it has been a week since my dad and sis came and went... although they only came to visit for a week, i was really glad that they came and i had a great time... brought them to lots of places and ate alot... the only thing that i dun like was that i had to go to uni and could not spend more time with them... we went to manly, to karaoke, to paramatta, and ate all my fav foods... and of course not forgetting my birthday lunch last friday... at auburn rsl again... remember we went there the first year i came over and it was also my birthday lunch... the food there was quite nice and all of us got to sit and talk at the long table... buffet-style... the only troublesome thing abt the rsl is that you have to be a member to get in and they dun accept student ID... really annoying...

anyway, another momentous moment that happened over last weekend was... i bought a car... finally... have not gotten the car but i still cannot believe that i bought a car... and it's the 2007 toyota corolla, dark blue colour... it's going to be so awesome... but buying a car was really not an easy thing for me... dun really want to go into details here, but just want to say that i have learnt a lesson from the whole experience... you have to really know what you want and what you are getting so that you dun get cheated by the car dealer... on the flipside, having a car brings other problems as well... hopefully everything will work out okay...

and last thursday i had the maladaptive presentation... which i thought went okay except maybe we should have evaluated the treatment options more instead of just listing them... next week is applied physiology exam and the HO assignment is really giving me a headache... where am I going to find people for me to do on?

3 MOrE daYS To GO...

Have been watching quite a few shows, movies actually these few days... saw Happily never after, the cartoon and it was quite funny actually... like they were turning all the fairytales upside down... and then i also saw Die hard 4... have never seen a die hard movie at all before... but the latest one was quite action-packed and was quite a good show... although bruce willis never seem to die even when he fell from a moving car or when there were explosions... and maggie Q was in the movie... she's really pretty i think... she has been in a few big budget hollywood movies... which is really good... and then i saw the movie Next with Nicolas Cage... it's alright, not as interesting as National Treasure... and the ending was quite anti-climatic... also saw The Illusionist with Edward Norton... it was alright, although the ending was quite clever... the movie was quite slow moving though...

and on saturday, went to look at toyota and hyundai cars... did not get to go on test drives... going to wait for papa to come and go test drive with me... the salesman that we spoke to at pennant hills toyota was so rude... he probably figured that we were not really serious in buying a car from him on that day... i think i will either get the yaris or the corolla... cos all the people i talked to advised me that toyota is the most reliable brand, and the parts are cheaper as well...

and then yesterday, stayed up till 3am to finish watching why why love... apparently the vcd is out in singapore and this really kind person uploaded it onto veoh... i was so disappointed with the way the show went in the last 2 episodes... spoilers ahead...

it went from a funny and cute show to a sad one... cos he got some strange illness and was going to die... and bcos he did not want to make jiadi upset, he decided to give her up and pretended to be mean to her and offered her to his brother... very melodramatic... i just don't understand why all the taiwanese shows all started out to be really good and the producers had to ruin the whole show with shitty endings... anyway, now i dun have to wait every week to watch the show... haha... mike he is still so cute... rainie as well...