midterms are over!

yippee. so relieved that midterms are over. i only had 2 midterms and they didn't take up too much of a proportion of the final grade so maybe its not that crucial that i do extremely well for it.. but nevertheless, i tried my best for the studying bit.

but but,today's pathology test sucks big time. its mcq (my "best" friend =x ). i was stunned at the first question and then the questions after that. so damn tricky! i had to make a choice between 2 answers for many questions. and this is like the worse ever thing that can happen during mcq. u know what i mean. but yea, i hope i made clever guesses. everyone found the test difficult apparently which is surprising to me cause i thought i was the only one struggling).

just Thank God that everything's over.

celebrated yuky's birthday at this restaurant-bar and we headed to this dessert place for hot taro milk tea. felt really relaxed.
its 1.30am now but i'm just going to watch my taiwanese variety shows to reward myself after all the hard work.

having awesome plans ahead (: tmr will be groceries shopping, going to post office to collect my parcel and then off to gym at parmesh's apartment and i'll cook dinner for her (: good friday will be yum cha with pam + sze ling. and then i'll probably bake something over the weekend (having the urge to bake). and then get ready for grampians trip.

can't really shelve my studying though. got presentations and work to catch up on.

jiayouuu (:

restless

i' m feeling so restless preparing for my pathology test tomorrow.
and also distracted by so many things. like, deciding whether i should go canoeing in grampians. feeling pressurised by the guys to decide by tonight. but i kind of made up my mind that i'm not going (for an obvious reason, and its definitely not that i don't trust the guys' canoeing skills). sighh, stop thinking about it.

i can't wait for path test to be over tmr! its my free-er week with no perio clinic and ortho seminar so i'll be really free. will be in the easter holiday mood after tmr's test. but okay, maybe i shouldn't think so far yet, cause i might be emo-ing over my path test. really really hope that it goes smoothly.

siannn

my patient nosh-ed (no show) today =( sigh. i don't really get noshes (its sort of my 1st time, unlike some of my other coursemates who are not so lucky). and now i understand how it feels to have your 3 hour clinical session wasted. and i had so much planned out for him today. i won't get to see him until 3 weeks later cause its Easter and i've got other patients booked in after that. he's my most 'interesting' patient as of now as there are a lot of problems (pretty urgent) to be solved and i really hope that he'll come for his appointments.

having some trouble deciding if i should join certain activities with my dent friends in Grampians (where we r headed for our easter getaway). cause i don't want to tire myself during my easter but then again its going to be an experience.

weekends again! i hate weekends =(

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i feel that i'm so selfish. why do i always just care about myself and not others around me?

i'm glad you found someone cause i know i don't deserve you.

week 7 of uni

my first full upper denture:

(photo is not focused =/)

jie says the gums look high. loll it wouldn't look high in a patient's mouth and it will provide lip support as well.
it was difficult to start a denture from scratch. have to set up the teeth and create the "feel" of a real dentition. though its not perfect, i guess its something for me to be proud of :) and i feel kind of relieved that this full denture thing is over. next up is partial denture!

yea btw i got my test results back. ahhh quite disappointed, but i'll be contented with it. after all, what's more important than to be contented with life?

life's never perfect, right?

ahhh (again), i can't believe i missed a good opportunity this afternoon. nothing too serious, but it could have changed my life.

time to study, study, study!

some things that i realised..

#1 i really dislike doing scaling and root debridement on patients. last time (before i started clinic) i thought it was easy (like its one of the easiest dental procedure). but no, cause your indirect vision thru the mirror is (totally) obscured by the water coming out of the EMS scaler. and i'm afraid of going subgingival which will cause the gums to bleed though i know that it SHOULD bleed. even my healthy gums bleed when my dentist do scaling on me. what more about my patients with poor oral hygiene, right? i really should learn to be more daring.

#2 went out with my dent friends for dinner after clinic at some jap restaurant and had a long dinner (which is usual for our group). and then we headed back to the common room in my apt building when we discussed about our easter trip to Grampians.
somehow i feel that i've been spending too much time with them. not that i have many other friends outside dent that i should have time set aside for them, but i just want to have more time to myself (yes, myself AGAIN). but i don't know why i'm complaining when they are already complaining that they are seeing less of me (cause i don't go to every dinner outing though i'm trying to).

i just need to have some balance in my life. i realised that i can't study the whole day or slack the whole day or see the same people the whole day. i'll get tired and sian.

#3 talking to my family/friends in sg really takes up a lot of time. its easier said than done to just talk for a few minutes (maximum 30 mins?). cause there's so much to talk about (its two sided, my family have lots to tell me too). i really wish i had more time for my family/friends or have the ability to multi-task. as for friends, i really want to be there for my good friends who are having tough and stressful times in uni. they are always there for me, so i really want to do the same as well.

i'm not someone who really procastinates, or waste time. i get down to doing what i need to do but i don't seem to have enough time. sighhhh. and, you can only manage your time when u have time to manage right.(lol am i even making sense?)
i guess all i can do now is take things one step at a time.

one of my good friend's mum is diagnosed with cancer. life's just so vulnerable. her mum's really kind, i always remember how nice she is to me when i was in cedar. stay strong dear, will keep u and family in prayer (:

studying is no fun :(

I really want to stop studying NOW after studying almost continuously since morning. But I still have one more chapter to go for today:((

Pharmacology is so confusing :(

Daylight savings end tmr. Yayness to one more hour of sleep and two hours time difference (instead of three) between Sg and Melb :)