1st month :)

woke up this morning after having a nightmare about me not answering two whole osce questions. it was scary cause it felt really real. i don't know why, but i've been kind of stressed the last week (yes, stressed during my holidays). i blame it on my GP clinical exam which is coming up soon at the end of august. still finding a suitable pt for my exam (which is considered last minute) and i really pray hard that this pt that i'm going to screen at the end of July is going to be a suitable one.

it seems like time passed really fast since i came back from my new zealand trip. and i seriously can't sort of recall what i have been doing since i came back. and its like only a week more of holidays before sem 2 (the scariest sem in the whole dental course) starts. time to get some work done, i suppose. but its the holidays :(

k's been really encouraging and spending time with him makes me feel less stressed (or maybe even more, since he's smart and knows his stuff whereas its the opposite for me :( ). and the one month (like what he said), passed really fast for us.
my family's reaction is really funny when i broke the news to them. and my mum's just so nice and understanding towards everything. she's the most awesome mum. love her ttm!

and i really don't know what to do at the end of the year (to go or not to go) :( but i know God has plans for me.
so leona, just breathe in and out, and trust in the Lord :)

after exams

YES EXAMS ARE OVERRRR. THANK GOD for bringing me through this whole period of stress/uncertainty/homesickness etc etc.

like what i expected, i don't feel excited about being done with exams. just have the finally-i-don't-have-to-study feeling.

went out with parmesh and su for shopping before we met the rest for dinner at this greek restaurant called Aspro Ble. service was awesome, with the owner explaining to us what the dishes on the menu meant and serving us complimentary salad and wine. he's so nice and warm so we ended up giving quite a bit of tips. and the food was good too. but the menu was pretty limited in choices though.
we then went to sit down at TenRen (this chinese tea place) to talk for a bit. was super tired and really tempted to go home but thought that it would be nice to stay and chat for a bit since yc, justin and jin were flying off the next day. so we stayed till super late and it was scary (since its a friday night) walking on the streets when we headed home. some drivers were simply crazy.

sigh i feel so emo now that exams are over. why, i also don't know.
maybe i miss home and should have gone home. pam is in cairns now and i'm already missing her. i don't look forward to going sydney next thurs too. (somehow i'm hoping that the volcanic ash thing will be back and our flight will be cancelled. very very bad of me to be having that thought.)

plans for the weekend. do housework (very urgent! haha) and shopping tomorrow with parmesh before she flies back. and i'm going gym at su's place on sunday. i'm going to start watching secret garden (korean drama) and probably finish it before going to sydney. i hope this sounds exciting enough.

3.16am. time to sleep and wake up to the mess that's in my apt.

goodnight world. tomorrow will be a better day!

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.

EASTER HOLIDAYS (:

i've been wanting to do a post at the start of easter holidays, but then i just couldn't complete one full post on thurs and yesterday cause there are simply too much stuff going on.
if i want to prepare for my presentations, do some revision (i doubt this'll ever be achieved), prepare for grampians trip, go and eat the food that i've been craving for, cook and bake good stuff for myself and friends, meet up with friends that i haven't met since i came back, do housework regularly, watch my shows regularly, exercise (not very possible too) -- all these during my ONE WEEK of easter break!? haha no way.
there's just too little time to do everything.

how come i feel more busy than last easter when i spent almost the whole of the easter break in sydney. now i'm only going to spend 3 days in grampians and i have more days to accomplish other stuff.

FOOD. yea this is something that i've been indulging myself so much into that i've gained terribly lots of weight (i didn't weigh myself, but i can sense it somehow). :( will be trekking in grampians, so i reckon that's some form of exercise?

i love my cooking! haha i've been spending more time cooking and i think my cooking skills have improved. hehe. spend most of my time looking at recipes when i'm online and i'm just so so tempted to try out so many of them. FOOD IS REALLY LOVE (:


aglio olio (which i cooked for a potluck early this semester).


carrot cake! love it.


aww i've got more photos of food to upload but blogger is being just uncooperative.

making something like belachan chicken for michelle's housewarming tonight and chocolate easter eggs for sophie's birthday tomorrow. so many potlucks this sem and i'm running out of ideas already =S

happy easter everyone!

(shall continue with my ortho and perio presentations. what a mood spoiler =/ )