=)

I'm happy. Very very happy.

-jmah

To be conventional or to break the mold...

Closer to confusion...

Again, this is going to be a really random short-ish post.

Today was first clinical skills and I had a clinical consultation skills session.... FAILED SO HARD. ZOMGOSH. Got fully pwned by this tutor/lecturer dude. ZOMGOSH. ZOMGOSH. Yeah. I only had 2 minutes of actual history taking....when it's expected to go for around 9ish, with a limit of 10min. PSH. Everything about me was corrected, my posture, my speech, where I sat, the questions I asked... EVERYTHING. RAWR. I was under so much pressure, I just blanked by the end. >_<;; Fail.

Blah.

-jmah

Getting closer and closer with no idea where I'm going.

REALLY? MAYBE? YES?

Wooooah.

Hi.

Random blog. =)

For no reason.

Back to assignment.

Bye.

-jmah

This is a first.

LOCKED OUT ON MY 3RD DAY.

So this is what happened.

In the morning, I woke up at 7:15, got up 7:20 to eat, take a shower, brush my teeth and bum till my 8am lecture. I was skyping with a friend until around...7:55 and decide to leave for class...I make it there at 7:59 and there are a couple of other people there who are about to walk in.... They try and they are told to leave?! WHAT THE HECK. NOT EVEN LATE. OMGOSH. *sigh* So yeah, I got locked out of my like...2nd or 3rd real lecture. UGH. 8am's how I detest you right now.

Oh well. Today has been a generally good day other than that...just chilled with friends and tried studying the lecture notes instead during the lecture time, but ended up facebooking/youtubing. We're going boxing at 5! Whee. So I'ma try and nap for like...30 min then get up and get ready. =)

-jmah

Med school??

Omgosh. It still hasn't sunk in that I'm a med student. I will wait until prac and see.... maybe it won't hit me until I graduate, assuming that I will, of course.

It's actually really good. Pretty fun. Not too hard on the workload (yet?), but it's really cool. Yesterday was an intro lecture in Scientific Basis for Medicine (SBM) and some other admin stuff. Today was TB screening part 1 and Clinical Skills (CS) intro. The two other themes of the program is Personal and Professional Development (PPD) aaand...um... Health and Society (HS).

Today we two CS lectures, one which was like and overview thing and the other actually about doctor-patient relationship and stuff. The 3 things that I got out of that lecture is:
1) Med school teaches to you be good liars.
2) Never cry in front of your patient.
3) Never disclose personal information to your patient.

Whoo. Med school is cool. XD Depending on my group, I'ma get to see simulated patients (SPs, I know a lot of acronyms...) and actually take a history. Whoo!

Thursday is gonna be a really good day. No classes! Haha. Who would've thought, yeh? I have my second part of TB screening and a doctor's appointment, but apart from that no lectures, no tutes, no labs, nothing. Whoo.

Haha and today during out CS intro lecture, me and a friend were skype video calling each other... when we were sitting next to each other and I had to try SO hard to keep from laughing. But one of the lecturer's kept looking at us and I think we might be in the "bad" books. Eek, but we'll see. He's actually a really cool lecturer, who is gonna teach us to lie. =)That's right folks. Doctors are trained liars. (Not necessarily liars, but are trained to.)

Anyways. Off to study like a good little boy and then I'm going out for dindin. Whee. I should exercise too. I'm so lazy and unfit. Ugh. I'ma thinking of doing boxing classes with some friends or swimming at the pool between classes. =)

This blog was all over the place. Oh well. I'll try to stick to a topic next time. =\

But for now... stay cool and in school. ;)

-jmah

Sydney wrap-up, Bond O-week, Med camp and stuff

Whoo. This is gonna be quick... 8am start tomorrow =(

Wrapping everything up in Sydney was sad. *sigh* but it was really great meeting such awesome people and getting to spend time with them and learning little bits and pieces are uni as well.

Bond o-week has been okay. Quick run through of my time here:
TUESDAY: Night time arrival, hour late pick up, arrived in the room past 12 only with the help of like 3 different people throughout the night, knocked out.
WEDNESDAY: Woke up, showered, bummed around, cleaned and unpacked, organized enrollment stuff, hung out in Amy's (a friend's friend, whose also doing med), ate nachos, watched TV, went to trivia/comedy night.
THURSDAY: First day of real orientation! Met more people. Mock Problem-based learning (PBL) with our PBL groups to get to know each other and figure out how PBL works. Went out for dindin with the rents.
FRIDAY: Day two of med orientation. More PBL and also signed up for insurance as a med student. WHOO. Free of charge. With 4 different providers. Got freebies. SCORE. Had dindin with the rents.

This weekend was med camp and it was pretty cool getting to know people. I feel like I've sorta settled with a group of friends already, but it's a little bit clique-ish and I'm hoping that I won't get too comfortable in that. But it was really cool at med camp, 'cause there are 4 of us from Melbourne and we had a like massive weird/funny/serious deep and meaningful in the night. The day was okay, nothing special. Getting bossed around by 2nd and 3rd years and doing random activities. Haha. There was a bit of drama last night as well, but I think everything turned out okay. No one's holding grudges, no one's hurt, so it's all good.

Today, we came back from camp, spent the rest of the day with the rents and now I'm about to sleep to be able to get up for my 8am class. By the way, I like like...2 minute walk from the lecture theater. No probs there. Haha.

BACK TO SCHOOL! Whoo.

Big news, small news and interesting things...

Let us begin with interesting things.

Well today in bible study, I realized a couple of things. DIDJU KNOW THAT THE PARTING OF THE RED SEA HAPPENED IN THE NIGHT???? Yeah, I thought that was amazing in itself. Because imagine: you're freaking out 'cause 1) you just left the only life you knew... being a slave 2) you're following a freaking cloud/fire pillar?! 3) Egyptian army on your tail.... 4) cloud/fire pillar leads you to be sandwiched between the Red Sea and a desert...not to mention an enemy army 5) cloud/fire pillar thing blocks your view of the Egyptians, but you can probably still hear them and their weapons ready to kill you! 6) during the night, the water parts as Moses lifts his hand and staff after God's command... this also means because it's dark, you probably can't exactly see what is happening 7) in a massive crowd of Israelites, you make your way INTO this passage created in the water... YET YOU CAN'T EXACTLY SEE IT VERY WELL! 8) Egyptians are STILL on your tail 9) you're walking in this passage and suddenly chaos and confusion hits the Egyptian army and it's still dark... so you just hear babies crying, women crying, people shuffling along, the water on either side of you and chariots falling apart behind you with the clanking of weaponry and war cries of bloodthirsty Egyptians 10) you reach the other end and by daybreak, you see the water return, only to the cries and screams of the confused Egyptian army.

SCARY SHIT, RIGHT? I would be scared shitless. Honestly, I would totally be fearing God at that point. And I'd be so drained... BTW, this is all from Exodus 14ish. =) Read it. And imagine you're an Israelite. Scary scary scary. Anyways, that was just a random thought. It's good to compare God in the OT and the NT because I think there are more similarities than people usually make it out to be. OT God isn't all that harsh compared to NT God when it's probably because of the Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. And a very obvious constant is God's promised salvation and His rescue. Also a parallel between Christians (post-Jesus believers, if I may) and the Israelites is that we both forget the promises of God.

I found this especially true the other day, when I had found out I had got the BIG NEWS. I was thinking when was the last time I could pinpoint what God has done in my life? Well... I really can't pick out a time. Sure, I could say when I became a Christian or something (somewhat) generic, but really I can't pinpoint anything. But this BIG NEWS. I won't forget. I won't. I can't. It's life-determining. MASSIVE. So yes. It's sad that it's really easy to forget the miracles that God does, but I think it's good to journal these things or to share them or to write them down somewhere so that we don't forget.

This also relates to the passage I was talking about before... 'cause despite God's wrath on the Egyptians before (plagues and stuff) and God freeing His people... they still doubted when the Egyptian army was hot on their trail... ALSO WHEN THEY WERE FOLLOWING A PILLAR OF CLOUD/FIRE. HOW COULD YOU DOUBT IN THAT SITUATION? Habituation. Desensitization towards God working in our lives. YES. FIGHT IT. =)

But yes. That was interesting. Now onto small news.

I've realized that movies can really affect me. For example, The Interpreter really made me want to focus on languages. And today I watched Proof, I quite liked it, and it makes me want to study math for fun. D= I know. It's crazy. But cool. I actually do. Hahah.

OKAY. BIG NEWS. If you haven't heard already...

I got offered a place at Bond University to study Medicine. Whoo. Yeah. But honestly, it's only by God's grace. Any of you who knows my high school results (i.e. ENTER and UMAT score) would know the validity of that statement. And if you DON'T know my ENTER or UMAT score, it is either because you, like me, don't care too much and don't remember, or that I never told you because it didn't matter between us, you never asked or if our relationship seems really superficial and all you do is ask about my ENTER, I probably didn't tell you because of that fact.

Everything has worked out really well so far with Bond as well, so my discontinuation from USyd was fast and painless and my enrollment and confirmation for a place AND accommodation at Bond was really easy to sort out, so I really do feel that God has His hand on this decision.

I'm flying up on Tuesday night to make orientation on Thursday and Friday, then it's off to med-camp for the weekend, hopefully. Whoo. A friend gave me an awesome idea for a costume (the theme is medical emergency/I need medical attention)... I'ma try to get/make an eyeball and an eyepatch...and walk around with an eyeball on a fork. =) And cover one side of my face with fake blood. and shirt. WHOO. Hahaha. Yeaaaahhhh... let's see if I can pull this one off, yer?

-jmah

Yet another day...

Another day of waiting. They said that they will let me know by tomorrow lunch time. So until then...

I think there's a reason for this. But it is quite the embarrassing, but if we talk in person, I'll tell you. XD I'd rather not post it up here for ALL THE (quite small population, but anywhos) WORLD to see.

In the meantime, I have to get an essay done by tomorrow. *sigh* Word count: 0.

I really dislike coffee AND I don't think that caffeine really keeps me up... I think it could be a placebo effect... the first time I had to pull an all-nighter, coffee (supposedly) kept me up reasonably (til like 5? but that was like...2 cups of coffee and like... 2 or 3 glasses of berocca.... cannot be good for me), but last week I tried again. I knocked right out (one glass of conc. coffee.). >_< Stupid. Hopefully tonight shall be productive. =) And tomorrow, when I get the call, I'll be too drained to know whats actually happening! YAY!

Good night and farewell. If any one of you sees me on facebook from here on in, please slap me. kthxbai.

-jmah

Till Tuesday... Tomorrow.

So I have to wait for tomorrow to come when I get the call. *sigh*

In other news, uni has been pretty crap.

And again in other news, I have like.... 50+ gigs of dramas to get through now =)

I'm starting with the Taiwanese ones, cuz at least I can work out the meaning through the audio and the Chinese subs. Whereas the Japanese ones are harder to understand, 'cause I'm not fluent in Japanese... obviously. And the subs are in Chinese. So it's hard to keep up with both. >_<

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Van, I hope I make you proud. XD