i have been sleeping at 430 for the past 2 days, and i'm still up stupid o'clock (stupid o'clock... i like that phrase. haha) on a monday night. rawhhhh pbl :(

i HATE the brain.

on the other hand, we're going to watch chicago the musical tmr! but not before i get through the INSANELY busy day which consists of a patho signup at MRI for cytology, an anat pract, and pbl. RETARDED pbl. why would anyone want to know so much about how you maintain your balance anyway. i mean, i get it, we need to know it... but ugh *pukes. doesn't seem like such a bright spot anymore, does it?

oh well. preston on wednesday. free on thursday, which i will probably use to complete my pbl. and stupid med stats. and friday... friday, we start a new case.

see, insane isn't it?

oh well, friday and saturday we are having housewarming for the hulme hall folks and sssm respectively. should be fun. we are going to have takoyaki (courtesy of ryo, the jap dude) and red bean soup and stufff.

i can't decide whether i like being so busy or not. but that's for another day. right now, i'm being incoherent, and it's a sign that i should go back to pbl... at least i don't really have to do any deep analysis.

in school we are doing ENT now (ear, nose and throat). it's really quite interesting to see how our special senses work and develop, and you just BEGIN to start appreciating how amazing our bodies are. there are a crazy number of types of cells that do a crazy number of different things just simply so we can see, hear or taste, etc. and how they work seamlessly with each other so we can complete basic functions, which really don't seem that basic after you learn about their mechanisms.

as for the singapore society, we have a really huge project on our hands now: organise a dinner and dance in 24 days. is that impossible or what -.- well, somehow or another, we are going to make it happen. it has to. our swansong. go out with a bang. not only that, we also have to organise the nottingham games, which, speaking from the sports secretary's point of view, is seemingly impossible, because NO ONE is paying me on time, save those really conscientious ones. which is like. one o.o rahhh. PLUS, weekly sports. which is really irritating me because i can't get a good slot during which i have no lessons, so most of the time i rush down to the sports centre halfway through the hour, when really, i should be there for the whole time.

the new pbl group is alright i guess. my clinical partner is a really

nice person, and i really enjoy working with him. he's so on the ball. i should learn to be like him.

on the cooking front, it's really been very good. been eating pretty well. food pictures coming up soon. when i have some time to upload them. haha. it's really been on the go non stop since i got here. barely have time to complete my work.

recently i've been thinking. how amazing it is to have the huge range of personalities we have in the world, and how it's so rare to be able to find a friend who understands you so well, a housemate who shares so many of your own values, and a partner who compliments you so well. i am so thankful that i am one of the lucky ones who have all three. i shall stop myself before i go on with an emmy award winner type thank you speech. but really, my musings go way further than that. shall elaborate if i have the time (again).

and back to the mundane things my mind has been dwelling on: retail therapy on wednesday after pbl!!! :D :D :D frankly, i've had enough of the freaking ear o.o i was telling chop, my housemate (it's a nickname) that i would be happy even with a pen or file. whatever. as long as i get out of the STUPID library and am able to do something else than stick my head in a book.

i really love this picture btw, it's sooooo darn cuteeee :D for those who find this picture horrible, i apologise for the doctor style morbidity and sense of humour/what's cute.

instructions from the practical manual: "...inject the solutions intradermally at positions well spaced over the forearm. this route of injection should raise a blister. if there is no blister, you have probably injected too deeply. repeat the injection at a different site. next, draw a line around the margin of each blister and label them. carry out the tests by applying 6 pinpricks within the blister areas using the sterile lancet provided. count the number of pinpricks felt as pain (not pressure). record the time when at least 5 of the 6 pinpricks are first felt as pain. work out the duration of anesthesia..."

so looking forward to it.

okay. other than that, i can't really describe anything else because i'm toooo tired to do so. after a full day at school, we had to meet the landlord (who didn't come and didn't tell us he wasn't coming till we called him 15 min after the appointed time - typical british efficiency), buy sheets and disinfectant etc move, clean the whole house and unpack. zzz. now my eyes are literally drifting close and i'm making more typing errors than should be permitted. update another day (:

well, i'm now back in manchester (and currently homeless, staying at a friend's place), and lessons have started, and should be doing my truckloads of work, but am instead blogging. work, is of course, as usual, last priority (which is bad). but first, let me update you on my life for the past few weeks... just the major things...

you mei's birthday was (: it was great to see all the classmates again after such a long time. cindy, liyana, ashley, weilun, kokboon, roger, andy, justin, and even shaun were there. we got you mei some baking apparatus for her gift... hope you like it, you mei (:

comex was on, as i'm sure many of you guys know. and for quite a while now, i've needed a new laptop, and was deciding between a vaio and a mac. so, being the usual me, i deliberated till the last hour of the last day of the last it show before i had to come back to manchester to get my new macbook pro 13"! heehee (: so now, i am a proud new owner of a shiny new macbook pro 13"! hahaha. there was a hiccup on the way to my now smooth operation of this lovely machine. when i turned on my laptop for the first time, i found the snow leopard cd in the box as well, so i thought i had to install it myself. little did i know that it was already installed. so, the first time it attempted to restart, my laptop failed to start up because of some stupid thing i did (this is one of the reasons i got a mac. who'd expect that i couldn't even do something so simple correctly -.-) it was already 3 am by the time i realised my laptop was not going to start up and i couldn't call the service centre so i turned to ashley for help who didn't know what to do (i guess that's why he wanted me to get a mac - so that it would be perfectly justified for him to say "i don't know" when i asked for help. heehee. just kidding). and then, i panicked. lucky thing ashley was there to calm me down (: thankewwwsss! so the following day, i called the service centre, and i finally rectified my problem and now i am loving the mac (:

the day i was supposed to leave was a huge rush. literally. the whole day was a rush. rush to wake up, rush to bishan to get my stuff like contact lens solution, shoes, etc, rush back for lunch, rush to pack (that was ONE BIG RUSH - i hadn't packed anything before hand. lucky thing i am used to this sort of thing -.-), rush to ashley's house, rush home to shower and get my stuff, then rush to cindy's party (more on that in a while), rush to eat, rush to cut cake, rush to take photo, then rush to the airport and rush to check in. the only time i wasn't rushing was when it was time to say goodbye to singapore. my parents had gone to jb, so it was just ash and me and i really have to thank ashley for helping me out to the airport and stuff. THANK YOU (: it was also cindy's 21st. everyone's having their 21st parties.. and the theme this time was purple and/or hat. in the day, i rushed (last minute, as usual) to get all my stuff before leaving for manchester, including a purple dress thingy. again, i met up with all the classmates, and it was really fun.

oh well.. now i'm back in manchester, and it's house hunting time. school's started, so i've got lotsa work. and it's a bit tricky juggling work and house hunting, but i should be fine.

so i leave you here now. hopefully you get your fill of my life for the next few days while i look for a place.