hopefully,



thanks to ziqiang who sent me this.

upset

seriously i don't know what's wrong with me. i need to stop thinking about it and stop letting it affect my morale. i'm really tired of crying but i just cannot help it. i need strength. i need to be stronger.

i felt so horrible during this weekend and i cannot believe that i actually went to shop on friday and went for the sushi party at oony's place on sat and attended jas's 21st today. i totally had no mood to go anywhere. just wanted to stay at home and do nothing.

i hope i'm really feeling better after shu yi talked so much sense into me. i felt bad that she had to worry about me when she herself wasn't feeling too good. love her so much.

tmr's monday. damn it. i just dread it. totally.

=(

damn sad. i feel so stupid.

teeth are exciting (:

yes i totally have no motivation to study/read my notes. have been staring at my berkovitz text for quite a while before realising that maybe i should just stick to reading my notes cause i just can't bear to highlight the text [the book is damn ex - i think its worth 2 months of groceries]. have to read my notes and get as much details as possible into my head before tmr's pract. i'm getting quite sick of practical - yes its just drawing, drawing and drawing. we trace OPGs, draw teeth, skulls, jaws etc. sometimes we just get so bored that we give the skulls names. they are real skulls btw. but last week's pract was quite fun though - we stared and poked at our partner's mouth. [and the thing was tricia and i had a subway double choc cookie just before pract. lol]. oh there's infection control (clinic) this thurs. so we have to wear formal clothes. ahh so sian. okay i really miss wearing shorts to sch when i was in engin. the dressing is just so cui. haha but here i can't wear shorts - cause its cold and everyone dresses v nicely.

today we just had our second round of TB skin test. oh my. we just keep having jabs, skin tests etc such that everyone is getting used to it already. my bruise from the previous blood test only disappeared recently after 2 weeks [the bruise was v big and scary - according to the doc, some blood leaked out so it looked badly bruised. =/ ].

i need to watch tv and listen to yes933! i miss my hongkong dramas, taiwan entertainment shows, mtv etc. but somehow i'm not bored here even though i'm lacking all those. i'm thankful for that. but nevertheless, i still miss watching my shows! shall not complain cause i still have my jay's dvds and vcds to keep me company. they really help lots :)

i miss playing the piano like crazy.

hmm i need to get back to reading my notes. cannot believe i've only read about the maxillary permanent incisors, there's like so much more. i'm telling myself, teeth are exciting. i love teeth (:

gloomy

today is really v gloomy. rained (almost) the whole day. okay the wind's scarily strong (strong until i could feel my windows vibrate =x ]. supposed to go st kilda beach today with the muoss pple but tricia and i thought maybe we should be good and stay at home and do some studying. anyway the weather forecast said it would rain today. sighhh. there's just so much things to study. its never-ending. everything just keeps accumulating. i can't seem to finish reading the notes.. =s

went for the monthly pub night organised by the dent society last night. super bored. plus drinks weren't on tab so many of us didn't drink [unlike the previous pub crawl where beer was on tab and everyone drank as if they were drinking water]. then we had potluck at my place! quite cool cause everyone cooked something special =D

today i tried to study hard [though i'm really unproductive cause i watched jay's concert dvd for quite long] so tmr i'll reward myself by going richmond with esper and tricia to shop :). tmr will be cold! 19deg max. hopefully the wind won't be strong or it'll spoil my mood to shop.

:)

(shall update now while waiting for my family to come online and skype with me).

i just treated myself to v delicious gelato ice-cream at lygon st =D tricia and i cooked a rather simple meal today for dinner [rice and fish soup] and then we thought we should go out and have some ice-cream since we were sort of craving for it. and eating ice-cream in the cold is really damn shiok. btw, the weather here is really getting v cold.. thanks to the wind. i was shivering quite badly that i couldn't even sms.
we called a couple of pple to join us cause we thought it wasn't safe for two of us to walk along lygon when its getting quite late. its quite easy to get pple to accompany cause everyone's staying nearby :) so larrisa and amy went with us to the famous gelato place. the gelato is damn nice! and its cheap too. v worth it! :)

i'm so looking forward to many things... (but definitely not sch). yup, i'm gg shopping tmr with tricia, larissa and probably su ann and parmesh at brunswick st. zi qiang recommended us to go there and shop. okay zi qiang's really nice, brought tricia and me out for dinner yesterday and dinner was damn good. really. we had thai food at this place called longrain at little bourke st. the soft shell crab, poached chicken and tofu (it was the nicest tofu and sscrab that i've tasted, i swear). it was an ATAS meal with like each dish costing more than $30. and the thing is, zi qiang treated us. okay la, we felt v paiseh. we went for some car ride and then fetched joel [his housemate] and went for coffee tgt [omg he treated us again]. [oh and i must mention that he bought like super nice swiss baked bread for us when we ran out of bread!] and he said he'll plan some trip to the choco factory [owned by his friend, like omg] then we'll go there for free chocs. i'm looking forward to it so much!

i feel kind of lucky that i have nice friends around that i feel really v well-taken care of :) really appreciate that cause it makes a big difference to my life in melb. i guess that's why i'm kind of enjoying my life in melb :)

sch's pretty horrible though. but i'll try to hang on. okay i love myself for being so positive and optimistic =D

melbourne :)

HELLO EVERYBODY!

okay i'm so busy that i really have no time to update since i arrived in melb. and i've got so so much things to say.

i really want to thank all my friends and family/relatives for sending me off at the airport on feb 16th! all wishes received with love!

(hopefully i don't miss out anyone)
all my dearies:
*S01 girls (jo, qy, jm, kc, qn+derrick+wei yi (thanks for the pretty jigzaw photo. i placed it on my bedside table!)
*cellobass (yuting, kahyan, audrey, du qian, joson)
*pamella and cheng - cheng! i love the jay chou thingy u gave to me!
*shirlyn, val and kai yin - i almost cried when i saw shirlyn cause i thought she'll be in army!
*abigail and lihui
*shu yi, teng jin, john, chong ren, sean (the calender that u guys made r really awesome! messages r also v touching, esp shu yi's!)
*esper
*family and relatives!

<3


okay now about my life in melbourne...

everything's fine here! surprisingly i'm not homesick yet (as in miss being in singapore). well i guess its really the case that u'll miss home when u face problems (that's normally the case right? its hard to miss home when u r having fun..)... and it happened to me last week. its really v depressing. but i'm glad everything's over already. thank god :)
i love melb lots for its cool weather. though it can get really erratic. sometimes it'll be really cold in the morning, then in the afternoon, it'll be warm (but i feel its still much better than singapore cause i don't perspire at all over here). winds can be pretty strong (like 60km/h... but its not that strong in the city la). oh and its easy to get around melb (but definitely not cheap).. quite difficult to get lost. lots of things to shop. can get nice stuff at reasonable prices.

i simply love where i'm staying now. its spacious and i like the layout. i've got a good view - its facing the campus. and the thing is, its v convenient. just 2 mins walk to the dent hospital. but its around a 10 mins walk to the medical building where i have to go for IBS lectures. have quite a couple of friends staying at the same place so it can get quite fun when we eat our cooked meals tgt.

tricia and i prepare almost all our meals... we have lots of groceries stocked up by our mums before they went back to singapore. and quite surprisingly our meals r really nice! hahaha we cook really good food ok! beef steaks (marinated with wine), wedges, shephard's pie, potato salad, fried rice, chicken rice with stewed chicken etc. we r totally impressed with ourselves! lol. and we get to watch sunset everyday from our dining place :) how romantic right.

orientation was ok.. not exactly fun. there's a no. of pub events so there's lots of drinking. so much for promising my mum and sis that i won't drink here. lol. but its really safe with seniors around (i think). but it seems like the dent pple r alcoholics, esp the seniors. some are really quite crazy, cannot imagine them as dentists next time. hmm, there's lots of chinese faces in my course, but lots of them are locals (ABCs). quite a handful of koreans this year. more than singaporeans. there's really not a lot of pple in dent. so everyone sort of know everyone :)

got to go though i've got lots more to say. will do it soon hopefully. take care everyone, all of u are missed!