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