Happy Deepavali

We have Monday (tomorrow) as a public holiday for Deepavali in IMU. I came back to Kuching on Friday afternoon right after my morning lectures. It is so nice to be at home again right now. I reached Kuching at 2.40pm and I had my pork chop noodles with my lover milky tea with pearls. I reinstalled my microsoft office too. For dinner, I went to Jalan Song. I miss the food there! haha Anyway, the next day, I went to eat Penang Kueh Tiaw and cha kueh for breakfast at Bormill with Gerald. He passed me stpm trial papers for my cousin who will be sitting for stpm too next month. I managed to meet up with Cheryl and Edmund too in church. Today is a Sunday and I just came back from a morning jog at friendship park. Other than that, I have been spending my time with my family and revising my lecture notes and books at home. I enjoy it here because it is so much more comfortable to be at home than kl. I have just completed and submitted my assignment online last night. It was a report on Reactions towards Illness where we had to write about the crisis theory, illness related factors, personal factors, physical factors and the coping strategies for illness. I will be going back to Kl tomorrow afternoon. It is definitely very worth it to come back for 4 days. I have to wait for another 52 days to be back in Kuching again for christmas after this. By then, it will be a study marathon break for me since my finals will be on the 31st of December.

Wei Thing's 20th birthday

Last Sunday was Wei Thing's 20th Birthday. We planned a small birthday party for her at her Vista C. First of all, we ordered a half kg chocolate cake for her. Then, we bought super duper ah lien clothes for her to wear during her birthday. Other than that, we ordered food from Domino's pizza for her birthday party too.


The chocolate cake which we ordered from the IMU's bakery


Hazel presented the birthday cake to her and asked her to make a wish.

She was very reluctant to wear the ah lien clothes. At first her housemate pretended to say that there was an insect in her room so she quickly rushed into the room with a broom. That was when she got trapped in her own room because they locked the door and they didn't let her out after that. They forced her to wear the ah lien clothes. Haha

My friends and I who are from Vista B only saw her wearing those ah lien clothes when she came out from the lift.


We ate in her living room


Wei Thing and happy looking Nicole. Haha


The birthday girl and I


A silly pose from Rachel, Hazel and Sze Ying before we left the party.

My blood group is A+

I only found out my own blood group two days ago. During that afternoon, I had to go to the lab for my basic haematology practical. All of us had to perform a finger prick using the softclix pro lancing device and then prepare a peripheral blood smear.




My blood group is A (Row 2)


I am Rhesus positive (Row 2)

After doing our blood grouping, we prepared our own blood films.

We stained the blood film using Leishman's method.


My blood film

We managed to see our own blood cells under the microscope.

My erythrocytes


My neutrophil with three lobes


My monocyte with the kidney bean nucleus


My lymphocyte


My platelets.

It was very worth it for me to prick my own finger to see my blood cells under the microscope and other than that, I found out my blood group for free. Haha

My new stethoscope

Two days ago, they distributed the stethoscopes to us. We had to attend a talk on it after that. During the talk, we were taught how to handle and take care of our stethoscopes properly. There were 10 colours to choose from for our stethoscopes. Ceil blue, black, seaform green, orange, raspberry, red etc.


Guess which colour did I take?


Raspberry

Yeah, my friends told me it was so NOT professional to take a pink stethoscope. haha Anyway, I chose my favourite colour and I like it. That's the most important thing.


My friends and I decided to gather our stethoscopes and take a picture of them. haha

7th week in IMU

This is my 7th week in IMU. 2 more weeks to go and it will be half of the semester. Haha I just came back from dinner at Sri Petaling with my friends. My friend drove us to Sweet Bean for dinner. It was raining. I had Honey BBQ and steamed chicken wantan mee. It was delicious. Having dinner and chatting with my friends after a long day is a good way to release stress. I had a tiring day. Everyone was exhausted from it. After attending lectures, we had to go for our medical museum session. We just covered the whole Musculoskeletal System for this semester. During our medical museum session, we were given many questions to do while looking at the models.

Brain session.








Muscles session

We were asked to remember and identify the different muscles.


We took one afternoon to remember the ear. All the parts labelled with numbers from external to internal ear.


Dead person's palm.

Other than memorizing names and answering questions, my friends and I fooled around in the medical museum. haha


Agnes with her big ear


Stupid pose with the ear


Eyeball

It's finally a weekend

I reached here on Monday night with Wei Thing and Nicole. I lost my keys after duplicating a set of the keys so I was hoping that all the duplicated keys could be used. To my disappointment, every key could be used except for the most important one. My room's key! I had to hang out in Nicole's room that night after reaching while waiting for the landlady's son to come to pass me the spare key. Thanks to Nicole. Luckily it didn't take him very long to come. When I finally settled down to sleep, it was already midnight. The next day, when I unpacked my suitcase, I found the original set of keys in one of the small plastic bags. Due to my greediness for food back in Kuching for one week, I was sick for the past 5 days. I had a terrible headache which lasted for many days, fever, sore throat and cough. In short, it was too much heat. I couldn't stand it anymore so I called my cousin to bring me to the doctor two days ago. Now, I am finally well and back to myself again. The lesson is do not be greedy. Lectures and PBL are tough after the Hari Raya break and this just means that I have to work very hard. Out of the five days, I had to climb 4 floors of escalators for 2 days to reach my lecture hall just because it was too early for them to on the escalators. It wasn't that bad compared to the week before my break when I had to climb them everyday. My class is at 8am every morning and if I'm lucky, I don't need to climb them. Haha Ok, I know I am just lazy but well, it is really tiring for me to climb all the way up till the 4th floor. I take it as an early morning exercise for me. haha I will be spending my weekend doing my air topic, PBL research and revision on the lecture notes. Lol

Happy 20th Birthday, Eileen!!

This post is specially for you to wish you a very happy and blessed 20th birthday!! One year older, one year wiser. Haha Enjoy celebrating your birthday with your friends there and do show me some pictures when you can yeah?

Since you are one year wiser, make sure you don't fall for my tricks anymore like you used to for the past 10 years.


One of the many tricks we played on you

Primary 4


In ITS

Form 2

Both of us and Marianne in Camp Permai


Both of us in Hilton's toilet

Form 3

One of the many sleepovers we had in your house. Disgusting Grace and I. Haha

Form 4

Chinese New Year visiting at Audrey's house


Ice Sculpture


Pei Jie's 16th birthday at Hai Pa Wang

Form 5


Your 17th Birthday at Crowne Plaza


Sports Day


Right after SPM. Sleepover at Jacintha's house.


Crazy us at Damai Beach after SPM

Now

Both of us and Grace at your house few months ago

Thanks for being such a great friend to me for 11 years including this year. =) May our friendship continue to grow and we will continue to always keep in touch. Hope to see you again next summer!! For now, we will stick to emails and skype calls. Hehe Once again, Happy 20th Birthday!!!