:)

THANK GOD for patients who are very understanding :)

i really feel bad for always having to call patients to reschedule appts =(

today wasn't a very productive day. because half of the time, i was just planning the new zealand trip for the winter break. the trip is going to be costly =S am considering to resume work at that old place, but i'm not sure if i can handle the workload (but to be honest, i'm not utilising time wisely when i'm at home.) so maybe i should start working (provided that place has work for me).

watched This Means War yesterday and it was really funny. LOLL, haven't had a good laugh for a long time.

on the way back home, friend mentioned that i'm overly-optimistic after some random conversation about going to church. and i agree that i am, cause i know myself that i'm trying very hard not to be unhappy over trivial things (like what i always do in the past). i've changed, to a stronger person :)

on a saturday morning,

i'm feeling good,

cause I skyped with my family for 3+ hours last night (cause i couldn't sleep!) and I didn't have to set my alarm and able to wake up naturally this morning, knowing that the past four weeks of intensive period are finally over (or more imptly the endo test is over, but fyi i didn't do as well as i wanted, cause i managed my time really poorly).

nothing much to worry at the moment, though some of my patients are giving me a bit of headache in terms of planning their treatment (and praying hard that i can get a pt booked in next week morning session).

planning my holidays during winter (80% chances that i'm not going back to sg then - haha this keeps changing though). its kind of my last winter to travel around since 5th year winter is going to be filled with rotations and other stuff.

:)

eat, eat, eat

omg i simply can't describe how much food i've been eating over the holidays since i came back to sg. i've eaten several buffets (just had one at Holiday Inn last night which was alright, nothing fantastic, but nevertheless the spread was good), a whole lot of meat over the christmas season (had all the different kinds of meat over every single meal during the past weekend), and what scares me the most, my sugar intake. but fortunately, i'm trying to go to the gym every other day. i need to exercise longer during each gym session cause i'm certain that my intake of calories far exceed my output.

i've met up with most of my close friends and they've certainly made my day <3 Thank God for every single one of them :)

there's just so many things that i need/want to do:
1) do as much spring cleaning as possible
2) organise my macbook/external hard disk - i just hate doing all the IT stuff.
3) read up/ revise dental-related stuff - simply can't bring myself to do it but i'll try; and cause we have to collect extracted teeth for our endo pre clinics the coming sem, i've to clean up lots of extracted teeth so that's sufficiently clean for me to handle them without gloves. it was so damn gross. a couple of teeth would have been alright, but i'm talking about a bottle full of close-to-rotten carious teeth. =x
4) think about my resolutions for 2012 - never really thought that i'll be doing this; i've never done it before cause maybe i thought it wouldn't matter that much since it should be pretty much the same every year or maybe i was just pure lazy.
5) exercise MORE and more importantly, eat LESS.


i'll start with items 1 and 2 tomorrow. hopefully i'll be getting down to doing them.

good night!

hello spring!

just got home from work and the house just feels so empty cause mummy flew back to sg already =( missing her.

i've been so mean to her (the usual me =/) and i swear i know that i'm mean but just can't help it sometimes. i hate myself for being so selfish and grumpy and not knowing how to treasure those around me. i suck i know =(

but but, i did have a great time with mummy (uploaded some pics on fb)! we ate super a lot of good food (both outside and home-cooked). mummy's cooking just rocks ttm. AND WE SHOPPED LIKE CRAZY. hahah i must say, "like daughter, like mother!" i bought so much stuff cause its like the end-of-season sales. damn awesome shopping. i felt so guilty for spending so much money, buying stuff that i can completely live without it. but i told myself i'm earning money, so that's fine. its so bad. =x

i need to try to study some stuff cause i've neglected my work like crazy. mum's here, lots of birthday celebrations (a big one for my good friend coming up after cairns trip), work, cairns trip coming up etc etc. i really want to get onto the groove of studying hard core again. flying to cairns on thurs for a week (super long =x) and so i'm only left with tonight and weds. tmr i'm going to the dent hospital to collect my denture framework for my pt and then meet jin to get some photos of him for printing for friend's birthday. OMG DAMN BUSY =(


i don't know how to describe the situation i'm in now. busy but yet i don't feel like anything is being done. feeling so unaccomplished.
i just need a day to sit down and flip through my notes without any distractions. but its really difficult with thousand and one things going on. maybe after the spring break it'll be better (it better be)!

i hope cairns trip is going to be enjoyable and everything's going to go smoothly. =D

week 4 of uni

wow its week 4 already. been slacking so much that i really wonder if i did any concrete studying during the past 3 weeks of uni. and i guess the answer is no, sadly.

and i really shouldn't be updating my blog now since i have to prepare for my perio presentation tmr =/ i have to read and familiarize myself with the 16 pages of content that su and i have written. i foresee myself dozing off in front of my lappy soon. ya i seriously don't know why i've been so tired these few weeks =( i sleep more than usual. i blame the weather.

awww mummy's coming on the 31st and i can somehow sense her excitement about coming to melb. she kept asking what i want her to cook when she's here. so sweet right (i love my mummy ttm!)

and yes, i found a part-time (or rather, casual) job. teehee. i went for training last week and i felt a bit stressed by the job cause its fast-moving environment but the people are nice and i really hope i would be able to work with my friend (she's really awesome). i just checked the roster for this week and guess what, i'm only working 2 hours this week. LOLL, i want to work at least 4 hours! but i really don't dare to negotiate with the supervisor cause i'm a newbie. and i think i need to work more often to get used to the job. but ya, maybe it's also good that i have more time for my work (that's provided i really make use of my remaining time to study).

Ahhh i can't decide if i should go cairns with my dent friends during the mid-sem break in sept! the whole trip will cost about A$800 to A$1000 depending on the activities that we'll be doing. i think i might just snorkel/dive etc. definitely not sky-diving. totally not mentally prepared for it. i thought if i'll be working more often then chances of me going is pretty high. but looking at my working hours now, i think i should carefully consider going to cairns.
i know i eventually want to visit cairns and probably sky-dive, maybe when the flight is cheaper or something? i really don't know!! =//

i skyped with pam yesterday and i really miss her company here in melb. i really hope she'll be back in melb to visit soon!

holidays

been so busy, running here and there to do lots of random stuff. yea, but it feels good that u are busy over things over than academic-related stuff. we are doing a video for our friend's birthday cause we can't be there in msia to celebrate her birthday. getting the guys to contribute a recording of their personal messages is really quite difficult. yea but gerard and justin did a really funny job. loll. i ROFL-ed every time i watch it.
someone actually said that he didn't want to do it cause it was embarrassing and i was super pissed with him. haha but in the end he sent the video over in the evening. and that made me feel touched. loll. guys ah guys.

yayy i'm going tassie after sydney with mitch and his friend and hopefully my friend can come along too. haven't been to tassie so i'm kind of looking forward. i'm not sure if i should go to gold coast the week before uni starts =/ i'm not the amusement park kind of person and i'm already going to spend quite a bit on the two trips + shopping in melb. but its also provided that there's friends to join me for the goldie trip.

been looking at some of my friends' grad trip / exchange photos on fb. ahh damn pretty. now i'm considering to get a DSLR.

i springcleaned my house yesterday before my friends came over to film the video. so satisfied with myself :)

waiting for pam to call me (she's back from cairns) before we'll go out for a meal tgt (:

cold~

its 7am now and i'm shivering!! the weather has been freaking cold the past few days. so difficult to study or to even sit still in front on my study table, resisting the temptation to snuggle under my warm fleece. i guess that's why i keep falling asleep early (thanks to studying on the bed =//). and i keep drinking loads of hot water at night to make myself warm (bet that made my face looking swollen in the morning).

and the weather forecast says there's "local hail and thunder" today. sigh sigh.

my exam timetable came out on monday. super not looking forward to it. got two weeks (freaking long) of study break before my lst paper. 4 papers over a period of 2 weeks thereafter. the whole studying thing is going to last 4 weeks. I'll going to be drained like crazy :( and i'm definitely going to lose my steam studying during that 2 weeks of study break. at least give me 1 paper during the 1st week of exam and end the whole process earlier. now i don't feel the urgency to chiong my revision since i feel that i have ample time (and hopefully that's true).

so many things unsettled/undecided. should i go for the prize ceremony (will have to skip my occlusion preclinic and the last pharm lecture of the sem and pam has to skip her tutorial to accompany me)? the stupid dental school alwaysz spoil my plans by rescheduling sessions =/. and i haven't book my air ticket to new zealand after exams (need to arrange some stuff first) =( hopefully the cheaper fares will stay the way they are. and should i work during my winter break after my new zealand trip or travel to other places? quite tempted to work though. haha can earn extra money to shop during the end of financial year sale. :D

not having a lot of luck with patients the past week. sian. patients can't make it for my wed perio session so i have to squeeze them into my fri gp session (meaning i have to do perio during gp when i have other stuff to do) and i hardly have any gp sessions left before it's exams and holidays. won't see them till 2 months later. hope their carious lesions don't progress or it'll be beyond my ability to treat them and have to refer to senior/specialist. seeing a new patient today and she's coming late :( guess i can't do much today again.

realised i keep sighing these few days. very loudly. hahha.

okay, time to go to uni.