ROFL

My aunt, remembering my status as a medical student, lovingly sent me this email with following tagline:

Prevention of prolapsed spondolysis (pinching of the nerves) - Good way to exercise your neck!

:)) Happy exercising!

Cute, no?

AAAAAAARGH 4 DAYS TO EOS.

(but that also means holiiiiddaaaaaayyyysssss~ )

Tuck Lam got me “exam music” lolz. Even if it isn’t what I’d normally listen to when studying, when it comes in the form of Gackt’s album 0079-0088 and Miyavi’s album AzN Pride This iz the Japanese Kabuki Rock, WHO CAN RESIST?? (Thanks!!! :3 I know how much they would’ve costed, and it was really nice of you to get them for me because I LOVE THEM SO MUCH… So really, this is huuge. )

When I saw Gackt’s album, I was all like,”DROOL”, but when I opened the CD booklet, I flipped and flipped for juicy shots of him only to be rewarded by ONE droolworthy photo on the very last page of the booklet…. D: WHY PUT PICTURES OF GUNDAM INSTEAD OF MY LOVEEEE GACKT-SAMAAAA?? I wanted more pictures of him even though it was a compilation for Gundam… Oh well! Even though I already had the songs *coughBITORRENTcough*, a physical copy was nice.

As for MYV-sama, he was as narcissistic and gorgeous as ever, plastering his beautiful face all over the booklet. LOVED his eye makeup. I wasn’t too keen on the first 3 tracks, but they got better as it went along. <3 I really liked “Wake Up Honey”. His songs are difficult for me to find, because I don’t always keep up with him as much as my first love, Gackt-sama. Miyavi’s style is so unique… AND he’s so pretty!

DON’T ASK ME TO REVIEW THEM BECAUSE I’LL BE BIASED AND GIVE THEM BOTH A 10/10. xx

Happy Deepavali!

Happy Deepavali to all who celebrate it!

Went for my first Deepavali open house (in a very, very long time) at… Ashvini’s! I feel so “uncultured” with regards to Malaysian culture; I’ve forgotten a lot of customs and stuff, so I have to slowly immerse myself into the jumble of colors and smells and tastes.

She’s got a really beautiful house with lots and lots and lots of old-school photos, heh. Got to see her adorable babyface, and her room, where her pet mouse Bono pooped twice on my hand. D: Also, Sandeep & Anushya were there–so the three of us got to hear about her adventures in Dublin & read some of her published works! Well, well, Ash… And you hid this amazing side of you (or rather, were not very outspoken about it) too modestly, I gotta say. I really enjoyed reading her short story about “A Typical Malaysian Day”.

HOWEVER! What I want to rant about is how good the mutton dish was. <33333 Her grandmother cooked the entire spread that we had for lunch, and wow, was it ever amazing. Of course, me being the wuss I am, couldn’t really take so much curry, but I endeavoured to try everything and didn’t regret it. :)) It was a nice afternoon, and a lovely break from the EOS prep.

D: I’m SO not gonna lose weight at this rate.., I just had a lovely, rich lunch at Ash’s open house, there are Secret Recipe cakes waiting for me in the fridge, and I’m stuffing myself with bananas and grapes while I study…

If I happen to go clubbing after EOS, it won’t be dancing, it’ll be bouncing with my fat.

:/

TOO MUCH GOOD FOOD. Come on, cortisol, speed up that lipolysis.

Activity keeps me going!

Mummy commented on something she’d noticed about me a while back. My drifting thoughts waylaid this little observation of hers today while I was thinking about all the things I have lined up to do in the coming months.

I don’t give myself breathers. True breathers, at least.

I don’t allow myself a period of non-activity, a period where I can sink into a vegetative state of sleep, eat, and self-satisfying lonesome activities (such as hermitizing and clearing my anime backlog, playing RO and transcending all my characters, having official camwhoring sessions, CLEANING MY ROOM ahem, and the list goes on…).

Instead, I allow myself to be sucked into various activities such as Christmas-related performances with The Canticle Singers (same group with which I performed in A Grand Night For Singing in July this year @ Istana Budaya), church-related Christmas activities, cell group-related Christmas activities, random singing gigs, design work for the upcoming ME&DT 1/09 orientation, design work for the upcoming IMU ball, other singing stuff…

I relish the busyness, but I wonder if I should make myself take breaks from time to time. Make myself not take on activities so that I can just spend time with friends and chill. Not run around in a haze of activity all the time and have regular breakdowns because of time constraints etc etc.

Ah well. Can’t wait for EOS to be over! I’ve been putting on SO MUCH WEIGHT while studying & snacking. Studying at home is baaaad, because the kitchen’s just down the hall…

I feel the cosplay urge.

I wanna look like this:

D: I need to exerciseee.

It sucks to be female when…

…you get your period. D: Another bout of mood swings, cramps, bloating, and backaches. Fun, fun, fun. Plus, you get to study the mechanics of your period for your exam. If only oocyte production was a voluntary process! Then after you get married to your genetically-blessed hunk, you can command yourself to ovulate and TADAH, egg pops out, you have some under-the-blanket fun, and you get your cute mini-person. None of this failed fertilization & death of endometrial layer crap…

BUT ANYWAY.

To fight the menstrual blues today, I had Leeph, my birthday octopus, to keep me all happy. Apparently she made a lot of people happily content as well! x3 Alex, Lois, Korwoi, Elvyna, Kyan & Kelvin alllllll hugged/played with Leeph-chan. Sadly, I don’t have pictures of her being stuck to the medical museum glass wall, or pictures of her stuck onto random people’s heads…

Why “Leeph”? Well, cuz Jo & Jon gave her to me, and she’s named after their last names, Lee and Phang. Cute leh? :)))

I love Leeph-chan. Leeph just sounds cooler than “Pheel”. (You’re right, Jon.)

So, here are some random photos! :) Because I felt like injecting some color.

Black sheep tie & Kyan! So cuteee.

Dea-chan & her roti jala @ Teapot Cafe, SS2.

My study attempt @ Starbucks Assunta Hospital, with green tea latte.

MAMMA MIA!

Here we go again~ My my, HOW CAN I RESIST YA? <3

I finally got to see it today, and I LOVED it. Mummy wanted to watch it too, so I went with her. I love love love love ABBA songs, and so to get the chance to watch how Mamma Mia! incorporated the songs as a musical was highly entertaining. I would have sung to every single song, but seeing as how we were in a theatre, I restrained myself!!! Pierce Brosnan’s singing was funny, but my FAVORITE bit was the final couple. The moment he said “I’m a writer. A looooone wolf.” I BURST OUT LAUGHING!! I KNEW those two would end up together. Sophie has a pretty, ethereal voice. Meryl Streep is pretty good. Donna & the Dynamos were classic!!

Man, what would I give to be in a musical… SO MUCH FUN.

I’ll be getting the movie OST, and it won’t be coming off of my playlist for a long, long time. :)))))

A pity Sky wasn’t that good looking (at least to me), and his attempt to emoface while singing to Sophie came off half-baked and awkward…

THE GROUP DANCES KILLED ME WITH LAUGHTER!!! <3 I wonder why spontaneous group dancing doesn’t occur more often in real life, heh. Everyone would be a lot happier and take themselves (and life) less seriously. Such a feel-good movie!

So, I loved Mamma Mia!, and CAN’T WAIT TO CATCH THE MUSICAL which is coming to (gasp) Istana Budaya in December!!! Well, HELLO musical. <3

….heh heh. Back to reality now: my EOS2 is arriving in full force on the 3rd and 4th of November… SO! I should really get back to studying. Sem 1 stuff isn’t too bad, just that it’ll take a while to recall everything. T_T;

ALSOOOOO: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SEXY BEST FRIEND, RACHEL CHONG PEI MIN!!! <333 You’re inducted into pseudo-adulthood now–the wonderful world of twenty. The baby of the broken dolls, the tomodachi girls. Hope you have a WONDERFUL day!!!!

The 17th.

Look at the date!

It would have been 4 years.

Not feeling regretful, just reflective and thoughtful.

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[RANT]

HOLY CRAP. Speaking of ADDICTIVE songs, the one song I haven’t been able to GET OUT OF MY HEAD since I heard it at Jo Ann’s is the Stand Up 2 Cancer charity song, Just Stand Up, performed by a diva-studded ensemble (with a few musical anomalies within, but whatever).

I would really like to have this song performed in IMU or somewhere, or even just do it together with people for fun, and I can already think of a couple of people who would have fun practicing and pretending to be divaaaas. :) Find your inner diva and sing for a good cause. How many of you are interested in trying this for fun after EOS? Comment, I command you! (and you don’t have to be female to want to sing it)

…………

OH I CAN DREAM.

SO BADLY DO I WISH FOR A MUSICAL CAREER but nooo.

It’s ok. I’m doing medicine for a reason, and I must never lose sight of that.

REGARDLESS OF HOW TEMPTING THE OTHER SIDE IS.

D:

GOOD NIGHT CRUEL WORLD.

To Your Glory

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

– 2 Timothy 1:7

Lord, my heart is TRULY overflowing with thanksgiving. If not for all the prayers, obedience, serving, and all the uplifting YOU have administered to me throughout this preparation time, I do not believe I would have achieved what I desired.

I give you all the glory for anything I may achieve, because truly, without YOU I am nothing. YOU stretched time for me. YOU stretched my mind for me! YOU held me fast throughout all the complaining and late nights and tea and bananas and grapes, throughout all the last-minute referencing and sourcing for texts, throughout all the loneliness of a table lamp and a dark room.

I thank YOU for the wonderful, WONDERFUL supportive and loving parents You have blessed me with, who minister YOUR LOVE to me day in and day out, giving me that measure of grace and leeway when I get grumpy and short-tempered with them. (Dear mum and dad, thanks for all the late-night fruit runs to feed my studying cravings!! And the chicken soup, and the vegetable soup, and most of all for the prayers.)

And Lord, I definitely want to thank you for friends. For the church and cell, who have surrounded me with love, prayers, and blessings from day one. For the CF, even though I am a super-irregular attendee, who care for us and pray for us. For the jokes and laughs in the library the night before the exam. For all the love, y’all.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Lord, I am really not kidding. :)) I’m really happy. And I want to pray Lord, that you will do the same for all my batchmates, because we’ve worked so hard for all this, and now face the next obstacle: EOS 2.

BUT!

We claim Your promise, Lord, that nothing is impossible with YOU!! (Luke 1:37 paraphrased)

Amen. <3

Let’s do our best for EOS2, MEDT!! Even if you didn’t do as well as you expected, fix your gaze directly before you, and move forward, because we’re all going be together when we RETURN AS 2nd YEAR STUDENTS!!!! Ganbatte and God bless, guys!

Work-related Injuries

I tripped and fell onto my notes file–you know, the big filing ones with the metal rings that need a lever to open and close them?

My contusion. (ooooh, medical jargon)

Memories of Pathology Lab sessions...

Isn’t it prettyyyy? This looked like normal skin 3 days ago, albeit with a little oedema.

OKAY, 3 more days of this madness, and then another 17 days to go to pseudo-freedom.

LET’S GO, BRAIN. WE CAN DO THIS.

Cuz it’s youuuuuu, and meeeee, and all of the people with nothing (else) to doooo, and nothing to looooseee~

Encouragement

In lieu of my upcoming and FASTFASTFAST approaching Summative 2 & EOS2 exam, I changed my MSN status message recently, from:

“I am busy until 4th November. Please don’t talk to me.”

To:

“I am busy until 4th November. Please encourage me…”.

I then discovered there are two breeds of encouragers. :)

One sounds like a personal cheerleader, making you feel like you’re on top of the world, motivating you to chug on (or mug on) even though it’s corny as hell and probably isn’t half true. Go me.

And then you have the other kind, which just has to remind you of the other side of the coin…

….PH3412!! >_<

Time for Microbio (again) and Pharmaco (again).

Siggggggh.

(Thanks, you two.)

Studying moments

Because studying at home or at uni gets boring (or noisy), I’ve taken to trying new places for a change of atmosphere. Previously, Starbucks was the place for summative 1 cramming. But now…

A while ago, because I had to go to KLCC to meet up with my cousin (who came back from a working stint in the UK), I discovered Kinokuniya’s Coffee Club Xpress. The in-house coffee outlet is situated on the upper floor of the bookstore, and during the daytime affords a nice, bright, airy atmosphere. It’s fairly quiet, depending on whether you miss the lunch crowd or not. Prices are cheaper than those of Coffeebean and Starbucks, and it’s a cute little place.

Antimicrobial therapy @ Coffee Club Xpress, Kinokuniya

I had a mixed-berry tea (can’t remember what it was called). Isn’t the mug cute? :)

My teeeeeaa. xx

Recently, I’ve been patronizing good ol’ Coffeebean @ Jaya One, Section 17. That place is really developing… Quite a number of people hang out there, and I don’t feel like I’m in PJ whenever I’m inside that area. Anyway, that Coffeebean outlet is quite quiet, as it is situated near the back of the place–it’s not in the center of things like the adjacent Starbucks. The staff are very friendly, too. :) Tonight I went with Rae, since we both had work to do and I hadn’t seen her in ages!

Rae & vanilla latte.

Me & Chai tea latte.

Proof she worked hard at her report!

Proof I studied.

…but who am I kidding? :)) Here’s what we reaaaalllyyy did.

Truth.

SO maybe we weren’t as efficient as we should have been, but it sure beats studying alone. :B (which can get boring as hell)

All power to studying with friends at nice places. With coffee or tea (or meeeee) handy.

5 days left to summative 2! All the best, my dear batchmates. We can do this. <3

Also, no prizes for guessing who, but I couldn’t resist. :)))

That pillow must smell GREAT.

Oh, med student life. xx

In the Eye of the Storm

…that which we call Summative 2 & EOS, Jo & I decided to pamper ourselves.

Parking spot & camwhoring op.

Yes, while our industrious batchmates mug and mug and study, we went to The Gardens, Mid Valley for our dinner and leisure time… Such good students we are, LOL.

We answered the calling we received from the heavenly dishes of Sushi Zanmai, only envisioning the happy happy salmon all ready to swim into our tummies. <3 Won’t tell you how much the bill came up to, haha. Needless to say, we were pretty darn full. I had a belt on, and I had to remove it… =x

Our meal... or what was left of it.

Jo’s random moment came when she decided to rearrange the salmon sushi set into what looked like a face.

Smiley salmon!

Don’t care la!!! The lumpyness will disappear when I get really serious towards EOS.

Then I followed Jo to Marketplace by Cold Storage so she could buy chicken and some light groceries. It was there that we decided to go and get some ice cream from…

Baskin Robbins! Yum. The flavors we bought were Citrus Twist and Raspberry Cheesecake. Tasty. It came with two chocolate wafer rolls and two cookies.

Happiness is in a BR cup.

After obtaining our ice cream, we almost adjourned to Starbucks for a nightcap, since it was just directly opposite… But we decided to settle down in BR for the rest of the night. Had a good, unwinding time just laughing and catching up (and procrastinating).

Now, it’s back to the good ol’ books…

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:) Someone was nice enough to keep me company in lecture today when Jo & Jon weren’t around. He sat through two horribly boring community medicine lectures.

Joo Hor!! I’ll never forget the look on your face when you saw us, hahaha. Manlo too.

And I’m on the design team for the ME1/09 & DT1/09 orientation committee! Faye and Rudy are working with me, too. It’ll be fun being able to have a hand in design once again. Apart from singing all the time, this is the one other thing I love to do. It’ll be a fun time for all once EOS is over. I’m glad I can get involved this way–hopefully we’ll be able to organize a great orientation which’ll be different from the past efforts, and setting a higher standard than the rest in all aspects.

Slug.

I feel like a fat, white, beached seal that does nothing but eat, sleep, and study.

Guh.

I can’t wait for Summative and EOS to roll around so I can finally get them over and done with…

I’ll be happy if I just pass.

Starry eyes and dreams of beyond

Recently, I’ve been addicted to this one song by the Jonas Brothers, entitled Out of this World. It’s about how the singer found this amazing girl from outer space, who dropped into his arms when she ran into a star. How cute is that? :)

I wanna be that amazing to someone, someday. To have a song written about me. The song by the JoBros may be fictional, but hey–mine will be real. ;)

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The car stereo blaring Atomic Kitten’s Nothing in the World as you show me what the new bass can do. Me, with the large, teenage eyes, taking it all in as I looked at the more mature, older, you.

Lying on your bedroom floor–the wood lino–and listening to Regina Spektor’s Samson as the cool winter air made us drowsy. Falling asleep in your room to the scent of sandalwood incense. Swapping pillows at the dorm entrance. Listening to you theorize when you’re tipsy. Running my fingers through your hair. You running your fingers through my hair.

I loved you.

Joe Jonas

I. Love. You.

Can’t get enough of his voice. Can’t get enough of his eyes. CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF HIM!

/fangirls. /swoons. /dreeeeeeams.

So what if he’s a year younger? <3 He don’t look it, and neither do I.

I’m gonna become a famous singer, duet with him, make him fall in love with me, and be his forever. Yeaaaahhhh.

Oh, Joe Jonas. Why don’t you exist just a little closer to where I live?