awww....

This boys is so cute...met him at HKSS, his only 18 but soo cute lol. Does this make me a creepy old lady?! The following is the sms that he sent me regarding the HKSS after party at Mooseheads:

I will go to the party tonight? I sincerely invite us. This will be my third. I would not drink alcohol, perhaps, dry beers. Therefore, I will not be drink, I can protect you if you are in danger. Please feel free and come. That will be fun :)

for some reason I feel likes its gonna be me protecting him lol

oh young international boys!

Clinical Skills

So this is what I've learnt so far from going to The Canberra Hospital (TCH) sessions each Thursday.

Clinical skills part 1:

Communication, always something thats handy to have between a patient and doctor.

To cure sometimes, relieve often, comfort always!

Clinical skills part 2:

Someone presenting with chest pains means they have a pulmonary embolism. This is, for lack of a better word, bad, bad, bad, very very bad. Make sure they don't leave the clinic without seeing a proper doctor, ie. someone other than me!

Wash hands ALWAYS! Before seeing a patient, wash, greeting patient and thinking about doing anything related with physical contact, wash, make the physical contact, wash, before leaving the patients room, wash, writing up the patient notes, wash, contemplating about seeing another patient, wash, and the cycle continues.

This is madness!

I still can't believe I'm studying Medicine!

geez~

To you

It has been a wonderful 3 years. You had made lectures bearable, even exciting. Thank you for being as beautiful as you were in times when I needed you the most. All the smiles you brought me will not be forgotten. But, fare thee well, this means goodbye~

So Domestic -___-

The rest of O-week was fun. Involving Trivia, Speed-dating, AMA drinks and to finish it all off...Kareoke at a gaybar. CUBE, the one and only gaybar in Canberra lol. After an eventful week, I needed some me time to clear my head and get into the study zone, seeing as lectures had indeed started. Nothing too intense at the moment, just alot of introductions to biomedicine subjects, like cell bio, immuno, micro etc. etc. etc. On Saturday morning I had a nice free pancake breakfast held in the Davey lodge common room. It was nice to have freeeee food...oh...and meeting new people of course. Met some nice people who invited me to a little bible study that night at a house out in the suburbs. The night was pretty good and I met some more nice people (free dinner by the lovely Korean couple who owned the house at which the study was taking place). Next morning I went back to the house to do a little bit of church which was nice. Guess what they had there...a piano and a guitar. My fingers were so itchy by the end of the service...I was like...'umm...can I play the guitar...and....the piano' lol. Went back to Justin for the afternoon but as I was trying to get back to some study I could hear all these noises outside. Turns out there was a dragon dance happening on the street to celebrate Chinese New Year. I quickly grabbed the closest person nearby, Jeff, who from now will be known as 'the bro', and we ran down to see the festivities. Alas, what a lonely dragon! Just the one dragon/lion by its lonesome doing the usual prancing around to the beat of the drum. I loved the loud drums though, it brought back memories of asia :D It really did feeeel like New Years!!! But there was an appalling LACK of asians.

Sunday night I went out for dinner in Civic aka. Canberra city, but its still too small to be called a city so they call it Civic here, with some other med kids. It was a really really lovely dinner with everyone to celebrate New Years and Valentines day. I had a really great time and the food was good too. I'm realizing that any night that I don't have to cook is a good night lol. but then again I rather enjoying cooking. Last night I made combination fried Hokkien noodles, which I asked 'the bro' to be my guinea pig and test for me. Turns out it was a success! Thankfully both of us didn't get sick after eating it. Today, lectures don't start till 2 so I have some time to do stuff. Went out for my very first morning run (lets see how long this lasts), vaccummed some more and went to a floor meeting at the lodge to meet some of the other residents. Good morning, but sounds like I've been slacking off way too much already, really should revise those intros hahaha.

So its Lawn Bowls

One thing that I've learnt from the end of day 2 is that Canberrarians love to lawn bowl, that is the rolling of balls on grass type, and not the beloved 10-pin that I so love (I'm gonna miss you QV strike)! Day 2 also started with some lectures, we had one on well being and learning how to look after ourselves, heard some rural info, some tips on learning skills (mainly that stress is good, but then again its not, but then again you want it to be pumped for study, but not too much so that freak out and go sweaty...so the point was??). Last but now least, some lady from the Australian Defence Force came and tried to convince us to join the army. I really do wonder what it would be like to be a medical officer in the army...interesting yes...am I game....HELL NO!

The day ended pretty early, so I managed to go back to Justin and give him a nice clean. I've been meaning to vacuum the floor last week, but every time I've gone down to reception, someone else has already booked the little sucker!! Luckily, I got hold of it and boy was I excited. I've never been excited about vacuum before kekeke.

Around 6ish me and some other friends made our way down to the Lawn Bowls centre, where we would spend our 2nd night of socialising! What better way to do this then to play balls!! It was only after attempting to play Lawn Balls today that I now appreciate the skill that those old ladies and old men have when they play, its not an easy sport, let me tell you, especially if you're starving. The pizza finally came. It was a great night, stayed till 8ish and did the 20 minute walk back to Justin. Met some pretty interesting people, all were very very lovely though and we had a few laughs. I'm glad we have this O-week. I never thought I'd be enthusiastic enough to want to participate, but when you get in there and let loose and play along, you really do have fun :D These people that I'm meeting now are going to be my support for the next 4 years, in the absence of all my dearly beloveds in Melbourne, I guess these new people will have to do.

My first day in 3 years

Monday was my very first day of Med school, well, first day of orientation that is. Thank goodness they weren't that cruel, they haven't thrown us into the deep end...yet. We started with the Welcome address from the Dean, I'm assuming his like the big boss man, he told us that ANU is like the bestest uni ever and thanked us for choosing it. I'm thinking to myself, awww Melb uni you failed me this year *sigh*. Then the vice Dean, just the boss man this time, welcomed us as well and gave us an overview of what our 4 years of Med at ANU would be like.

The whole cohort was then split up into their PBL groups (I'm PBL 6...the awesomest group of them all :D). The rest of the day consisted of checking passports, immunisation forms and the like, and filling out form after form of agreements and other stuff, don't actually quite remember what the forms were about. Then came the time for student card photos. YIKES! Apparently these are going to haunt us for the next 4 years, mine turned out blurry with a big head :O But what made me most proud was that underneath the photo in big fat bolded letters was written the words MEDICAL STUDENT...wow it hit me, I really have made it *quiet cheer*. Setting an email account and opening up MedOnline was next, and yes like Melb uni they have opted to used Macs again! something which I'll never understand. If I open a Uni, oh its going to be Microsoft all the waaaaaaay~

So by about 5 all the formalities were done and it was time for the 'bonding' between students to begin! First up was a scavenger hunt, items included, picture of a human pyrimid, man in a bikini, a lego piece, a hula hoop and a full cup of coffee from a Turkish cafe...I must say I haven't been scavenger hunting for a long time, but I sure was dead tired after that.

Later all the PBL groups went down to the pub which was a bloody 15 minute walk away (MY POOR LEGS, theres no such thing as public transport, only private aka. my legs). The points were added up only to find out we were 6 beers away from winning the prize (stupid second years who run O-week gave a bizillion extra points for every beer that was purchased for them). Who would have though the first day of Medical school would be this tiring.

All in all a very good day, met some seemingly nice people, but you never kno, as Jeff so kindly pointed out, everyone is on their best behaviour this week, I wonder how they all turn out in second week lol.