HAPPY CNY!

HAPPY CNY EVERYBODY! may all of us have an awesome year ahead!

i have so many things to update on this blog.. after all, my two months summer hols is ending real soon (flying back earlier than planned) and i'm glad to say that my hols have been very fufilling because i managed to accomplish everything i wanted/planned to do. cheers :)

my hols started on a good note with a temp job that i (was pretty lucky) found online. working in a hotel was definitely a pleasant experience. nice colleagues and bosses, meals provided, lots of freedom, managable work. and the best thing was that they were comfortable with me working for 1 month, which meant that i could just spend my other month doing things that i want to do.

and so, my second month was about attachment with NUS dentistry (it was rewarding!), hong kong trip, more meet-up sessions with friends, spring cleaning, bringing Jin (korean friend) around Sg etccc.

hong kong trip was AWESOME to the max! love the fact that i was travelling with my sis and everything was well-planned. =D yes, we just ate, shopped, ate, shopped ... ...

meet-up sessions were kind of difficult to plan, cause everyone's so busy with uni/internships/preparation for exchange.. thanks friends for accomodating my schedule! at least we managed to catch up on quite a bit of stuff!

Jin was in Singapore for the past 5 days and bringing him around was such a torture. hahaa no la, not because of him, but rather, the super bad weather (!!!) and the lack of places to bring him around. but at least now there's RWS/USS and MBS in Sg. But Jin's just amazing. he eats everything and anything, tries to fit into the sg culture, agrees with any plans that we have for him, and does not complain about anything. =D yes, a super guai tourist (except for the fact that he keeps imitating me)!

CNY was pretty normal this year. haha the same questions, as usual, "which year are u in uni?",
"how many more years before you grad?", "when are u going back to Melb?", "How's uni?" blah blah blah.
having a bad cough now so i can't really indulge in all the cny goodies. booo, i want my bak kwa and pineapple tarts. had to see a doc just now to get stronger antibiotics. 24-hour doctors are suckers - $75 for consultation and medication.

good news and bad news.
good news first, THANK GOD that i'm managed to change my flight back to melb to the 5th of feb! so i won't be missing my 9am preclinics on the first day of sch. PHEW.

bad news, i'm not prepared (emotionally and physically) to go back earlier. just started to sink into the CNY mood and i haven't started packing. i have loads of stuff to bring back.
I need to arrange a new appt for the collection of keys for my new apartment and the connection of my utitilies. and i'm in the process of getting all these done. pray that everything will go smoothly.

this sem's timetable is simply crazy.
8am-5pm. starting clinics this sem. pray for nice and good patients. (:

bye singapore again - not sure when i'm flying back the next time, most probably end of the year? whatever it is, see u guys then! =D

love,
leona

1.1.11

2010 wasn't a very smooth year for me and some of those around me but it was filled with so much love from my family and friends, I must say. And at least it ended on a happy note. all is well and good :)

May 2011 be an awesome year for all!
Happy new year!

:'(

thoughts

met this guy who's a final year dentistry student from perth today. he's really interesting and it felt kind of good to be talking to someone who knows stuff that u know. and i realised that i'm enjoying (even more now) conversing with locals (australians). either they are interesting people or asians/singaporeans are just boring people.

now that i'm back home, i thought i would be able to enjoy life and not think of anything. but i don't know why, once again, i've been thinking about a lot of things that's making me v worried + confused. would really appreciate people around me to not make me more worried + confused about things. like sometimes, maybe just leave me alone? i don't know what to do to make myself feel better. :( and i'm really bad at dealing with relationships (with family and friends).. sighh.

pray.

holiday plans

i will be doing lots of dental-related stuff here in sg during this summer break. and somehow i'm not looking forward cause i really want a break from all things that are related to uni. i just feel kind of forced (by circumstances) to participate. but I guess these are opportunities that I shouldn't miss. i don't want to look back and regret and say shit, why didn't i go for it.


going do some check-ups for maids this saturday at a friend's mum's clinic. feeling lazy to read up on history taking and examination, oral hygiene instructions, radiography etc etc etc . i'm just back for less than a week and i have to look through those notes AGAIN.

and i'm going for an attachment with nus dentistry for a week in january. hopefully the rest of my friends would have already started their sem then we can do meet-ups!

thinking if i should do a temp job (already applied and got a couple of offers) not related to dent.. maybe i should, instead of bumming around and spending lots of $$. =/

post-exams

exams ended on a really bad note. :'( ahh shall not talk about it. its over and all i can do is to pray hard that things will turn out fine somehow.

went karaoke at night after dinner and sang till 3am (: LOLL the guys were so funny that they made me laugh so hard. i guess everyone really needed to unwind v badly after exams.

had to pack and move my stuff to pam's and oony's place after exams because i'm moving out of my current place. SO DAMN TIRING. packing almost killed me. had only 3 hours of sleep for the last two days cause there's just too many things to pack. totally shocked at the amount of stuff that accumulated over 2 years. i think i had 15 boxes/bags of stuff. but had two friends to help with the moving. awww the guys were really sweet can. but i seriously feel so bad that they had to carry so many things in the rain and gerard's car got damaged (though not serious) :(

the weather's so nice today (: going to safeway and vic market to buy some stuff to bring back home. and going DFO south wharf to shop later. life's good after exams (:

clinical exam is overrrr

it went pretty okay. but i really really hope to do better than to just pass. our demonstrators are very strict with the marking so its just going to be difficult to predict the marks =(

next is neuroscience. ouchhh. studying neuroscience just kills my brain cells. one by one.

=(