Great Ocean Road

Easter Break i now coming to an end...I have no idea what I;ve done so far~! seriously! lol...not productive at all! But the hightlight of it would definitely be my first day trip EVER!!! ( since I came to Melbourne...)

We left home at 8ish on Thursday and reached Geelong at 9:30am...not too bad! That was quicker than we expected. TO be honest, I didn't really had a clue of where we were heading exactly...I thought we were going to take the ferry and then drive back from mornington...oh well~ sometimes you dont; have to be fully planned to have fun =] Afetr visiting the information center there, we decided to drive onto the Great Ocean Road...[look at photos from above] ..Long day and it was a 600km drive in a day...Thanks mel! for giving us direction to the gas station in Geelong!! Was a great day out!

Oh...please let me enjoy my last day of holiday...or maybe I shall do something more productive!!! like...catching on some of my lectures...-.-"

Wisdom teeth?

I've always said I am not smart enough to have wisdom teeth!
Now I would say I am not smart enough for the teeth to grow painlessly and normally...

My tooth is hurting...or maybe its my gum...I can't tell anymore =S

Yeah and I skipped my last lecture...way too cold in the lecture hall and there's no way I could stand it!

Can't they just fix the stupid air con?
Basically when it is hot outside it would be bloody freezing in the lecture...
When it is icy cold outside then it would be a boiling inside the hall...
Too extreme!

Gota catch up on the Protein lecture that I missed tonight!
So sleepy already~!
Plus I never seem to understand anything about the protein lectures...

I want my weekend!
Seems like it is the only thing I am looking forward to!

Study VS Beach

2nd week of uni...
I've had enough...
Trying to catch up on lectures,
but they just make me sleepy and tired...

Loss of appetite for i-duno-how-many-days,
Cold for 3 days...
Current medications include: Paracetamol, Chlorpheniramine, Pseudoephedrine ( alternatively Phenylephrine)
Common Side effects experiencing: Chlorpheniramine(sedating antihistamine)-drowiness *yawn*

Maybe they should have an ancillary label number 1b: This medicine may cause drowsiness and may increase boredom in lectures. If affected, do not study or think; just sleep your head off.

I want my weekend ...

Stuff yet to be done:
1>catch up on i-duno-wt-it-is-all-about lecture PAC 2171...Say hello to GPCR and cAMP...RTKs and Ras....
2>catch up on M@P bbq
3>catch up on i-duno-what lectures
4>iron my shirt if i remember..or maybe i will iron it when i want to wear it...
5>Get a 250GB harddrive that can plug diretly into my brain so i don't need to worry about memorising things =S
6>fix myself if i remember

Went to St kilda with my vcp girls today!
Finally could get away from study for a while...
Summer is gone already right?
So no more tanning for me!

New start...or back to routine?

It has been a while since I last updated my blog.

Holiday had been okok...back to parents, went to Europe for trip...I had been longing to come back to Melbourne...and here i am, with 2nd year Pharmacy started...

First day of uni, 830am lecture...it was too tiring...

Everything seems to be...slightly different...
Wasn't a really great feeling,
so not used to it...

From holiday back to uni...
From sleeping in everyday to waking up at 6am...
From spending time mucking around and not worrying about work, to now with all these work staring to stack up....

I miss holiday...every bits and pieces of it....

I am not ready for it yet,
if..and only if...i have more time...

Don't Worry Be Happy

Exams? What exams?
oh.....E..X...A..M..S!

I had been studying Pharmacy Practise for the whole day, yet I don't know what had went into my brain. There are so much to stuff in: Psychology, Ethics, Organisations, Medicine In Profile, Probabilities, Statistic, Pharmacoepidemiology and research method, dispensing skills, patients care problm solving,rural pharmacy,compliance issue...Can you believe there are so much in just ONE subject?!

Its amazed how a person's brain can stuff in SO many stuff.

I am not panicking now yet...still in me "lalala don't worry" mood.
This semster had been so weird for me, I dont; know what I;ve learnt and now they said its exam time! Feeling so unprepared.

Jia You everyone! We can make it through, alive. We are getting there and it will be over soon!

EXAMS T^T DIE HARD

Monday 27/10 : Pharmacy Practise ...is gay...
Wednesday 29/10: Pharmaceutical Chemistry ...is a bi*ch...
Friday 31/10: Medicinal Chemistry ...is screwed...
Then.....
Monday 10/11 : Physiology...is UNTOUCHED...

I duno how I am gona survive this semester...T^T how am i gona survive exams le?
so hard...especially those chemistry...i need to get 70%+....now its just a dream =[

One exam is goingo costme AUD 750 again!
Or maybe would say the total AUD 3000 is like action potential...It a "all or none event"
Sorry mammy and daddy =[

As usual, I get sick before exams; kinda annoying but I am used to it...
What annoyed me most is that Panadol is just dodgy =/
So sick of food all of a sudden, dont want to eat...infront of me now is this bowl of green leaves, tomato n kiwi...yet i can't finish it...Food makes me wanna vomit....omg -.-"""

Working from 5pm - 9pm today...maybe I should get neuofen instead...

Last Day of UNI !!!..for me=P

I can't believe it is the last day of sem 2 for me already...End of year 1 pharmacy course, with exams ahead in 3 weeks' time. Today i finish at 3ish and so I decided to go MC and bumped around. Vallygirl is always my regular 'point of interest'...I've picked a top and a dress randomly and here're some snapshots =]



But since my pharmacy paid me AUD200 less this week (and last week...We got paid fortnightly)...I decided to save some $$ and not do any shopping today...and since I have too many dress and tops...I really should leave my wardrobe a breathing spot.

It had been a cheerful day today...and I realised the cherry blossom outside my house finally got little fruits! Look!

I still remember how beautiful the flowers look, but sadly their lives are always so short; only last for a few days... The fruit...from my memory last year, was sour. I always had to fight with the birds to get a perfect little cherry =S Even thought the fruit of cherry blossom might not taste as nice as other fruits that are being sold from the supermarket; it is natural, a gift from nature. Its the beauty of nature...the smell of lives and the taste of growth. I just love it. I never really notice the skinny-weird-looking-tree outside my house that I walk pass everyday would be so beautiful.

There are a lot of things or people that you might come across from time to time; they might be something or someone you see everyday,,,so often that they might seem so insignificant and ordinary; but if you do pay attention to these little things around you, and appreciate their existance,you would realise there are more to your lives and the things around you. Everything is unique; and everyone, everything here are doing their very best to make a difference in yours, and their own lives...

Can't wait for the cherries this year!

Oh by the way, I visited my friend's blog just now and foudn one of my favourite song.."I'm already there"...I used to listen to the Westlife version, but this video really touched me...I would like to share with all of you here. And of course, thx for squeeishhie's blog! Enjoy!

Tired day...

Haven't been sleeping well lately...why? I don't know. But it seems that this is slowly burning me out. Today is wednesday already! Middle of the week. 2 more days of uni to go and i will be done for this semester...as for me, it;s just one mroe day coz i decide not to attend the friday's lectures.

We had our last physiology prac today..which is a dissecting prac. Some people seem to find it interesting and fun; but to me...its my first animal prac EVER in my life... I am sorta against, the whoel process of animal testing. Yes, human being is 'supreme' in this world compare to other living creatures, but does that mean we can violate the basic rights of other species? The concept of "they are breed to do this" just sounds pathetic and cruel. But, yes .."You eat meat anyway" and from another point of view, that this is necessary (?!)... lets say if we need to do a testing of a new drug on its toxicity in living species, would we want to use a living human to do it for us? At the end of the day we want the best solution for our patients.But...it's just a bit selfish. I don't which side I am really on because it IS a very controversial topic. I guess i am more on the against side?

So there we were, walkin into the lab n we saw sleeping mice lying on the bench. We picked a white one further down after hestiating for a while. Later we foudn that the whiteones are males and grey ones are females. Me and my other 2 close friends were in a team...one of them had 2 mice at home atm. Before the prac she was fully excited: "Don;t Worry! I will cut it =D!!" ...but once she saw those poor little creature on the bench...she said "oh no..I am not cutting it!" [ Yeh, girls like to change their mind quickly! ] I had a moment I thought I wanted to cry, it's just...sad. So in the end we gave this job to our 'experienced' teammate. So there she was, pickin up the skin with the foreceps and cutting open the tummy..all the way up to the chest...then open at the legs...then GROSS! all its guts n stuff were clearly seem...intestine,,liver,,urinogential system,,blood vessels....and we had to pick and dragand pull around its guts to find the organs we were meant to examine. After the prac were over, all these poor opened mice were thrown together in a small plastic basket, and thats the end of their lives....thats what they're "lived for".

I truly feel sorry for him, and thankful at the same time.

Switching to a better topic...did anyone of you find me in the last kindergarten photo by the way=P here's a closer look:

Got any clues?

C'on, have a guess and leave a comment here! I will tell u guys the answer on...lt's see...Sunday=]

Back to uni....finally -.-

MONDAY AGAIN.... after sleeping in until 11:30am each day in my holiday last week...It is absolutely a pain in the bottom# (maintaining so-called "professionalism" here) having to wake up that early for my 10am lecture!!

20 minutes getting ready including brushing my teeth, wash my face, stuffed in my one and only contact lens (for those who is shocked..yeh, i only need one contact lens coz my other eye is perfectly ok...almost perfect=P) ...getting dressed, preparing lunch/breaky as usual, and girly things before a normal girl would walk out of her room....there i was....walking in the bloody rain to the bloody bus stop....in the bloody cold weather...sorry...no more professionalism here. I mean..isn't something called "global warming" going on now? or basically it just stuffed up all weathers. Sometimes I do wish there is a direct-express-bus from my front door to 381 Royal Pde. It took me less than 10 min to walk to my high school n now it is taking me nearly 1.5 hours to get to uni...

Today's lecture was...."as usual"

Summary of what I've learnt and remembered in today's 4 lectures are as followed:

10am-11am ( Medicinal Chemistry ) : " The lecturer brought 2 yellow ballon, one got "+" written on it and the other got a "-" on it! and he got this girly purple glove which he on for some reasons...oh and he had that annoying penicillin module which seems unbreakable..."
11am-12noon (Pharmaceutical Chemistry ): "cake...filtrate cake...cake in the filter...c..ak..e -.-""
1pm-2m (Pharmacy Practise): "Risk ratio = sth/sth...Absolute ratio = sth/sth...NNT =1/sth...what is p value again?...oh and pressing the "GO" on the keypad will give nice sparkling light..."
2pm-3pm ( Medicinal Chemistry ): "a new drug...for HIV...lecturer's fd...she works at CSL!"

HOW's THAT?!

Another long day with 2 pracs tomorrow! Wish me luck!