a long..

its been a long week, with long sleepless nights staring at the ceiling wishing i had even a few stars to count.. uni dragged on as usual, with lectures going for longer and pharmacology tutorials getting longer and more tedious. its a saturday night now and already it feels as though the weekend is ending soon...

jus looking forward to the mid semester break. hopefully get some time away from it all on my own.. catch up on work.. jus head off to nowhere in the middle of the night.. till then.. its the usual life i guess..

sleepless in perth

apparently, 30% of medical students have what is known as "psychological morbidity". we were told this in a lecture today highlighting the importance of the PPD program (professional and personal development program). we have to in 4 weeks, select our area of interest and the faculty would choose an mentor for us for the next 4 years..

i know i will def stay away from orthopedics.. and probs paed as well.. so the thing is whether to really put emergency and whether to include surgery... :S mehs, i have 4 weeks to decide.. so yeah.

on a totally different topic, perth has gotten exciting suddenly. i have a wedding to attend which i realised i have not rsvp'ed to. that and i have no tux for the dinnner event.. ><" there are also surprise events for friends and me being home alone during the mid semester break. not that that is particular exciting... bt yeah.. well.. the car is all to me.. so :D of late have not been sleeping particularly well, it is funny how like my friend pointed out that i am not tired at all after work.. not that that has anything to do with my drinking 3 cups of coffee. :P no.. really its not.. coffee was in the afternoon.. but yeah. even though i study and work and what else not. i am never ever tired enough to sleep when i hit the pillow.. so have been listening to music waiting for it to put me to sleep... which works.. until some loud hit plays at 2 am in the morning and wakes u up ><" sigh. i really shud tidy my playlist. haha. anyways off to i lecture now.. catching up on work i did not do over the weekend.. kinda took time off for work and jus to unwind. which is cool. apart from the major guilt now that i realise i am more behind then usual ><" sigh..

itunes playlist

20th March - drive in the dark

a while ago, i would have round it weird, waking up so early before the sun is even up, but am kinda used to it now so thats cool. alarm usually goes off at 6 but i end up waking at 5 anyway, and for you guys who think that thats some ominous sign of brain damage, it is not. i am functioning fine, despite all the head trauma i have had in the past.

so yeah, with staff meeting at 7 am. i got up at 5.30 as usual, ahead of schedule. so i lay in bed staring at the ceiling with my ipod still playing in my ear from the night before.. wishing it was raining, wishing that i never had to get out of bed, wishing things were somehow different, that i'd have less on my mind..

amidst all that i dozed off again, only to wake at 6.30 with a "OH SHIT I AM GONNA BE LATE". so i rushed out of bed, brushed my teeth, washed my hair and jumped into the car and took off.

the drive was short, but nice. the sun was not quite up yet, so with my headlights on, highbeams when still on the small streets, and my ipod playing through the 7 speaker bose, i gave the car a nice warming up, and the car gave in to me. with not many cars on the road, it seemed like the road belonged to me, if not for the fact that the road was a tad wet, it made perfect condition to run free and far. in second, the car screamed at 80 km/h near the redline, and i put it into third, watching the revs dip and rising again with a steady foot.. in the end, i settled for 140km/h before i hit the brakes when i got to the cafe.

the meeting was as usual. ordered my comfort drink coffee with 2 sugars, and bacon and eggs for breakfast. there was talk about changing stock lines and pushing for more scripts on file, however, what was alarming was that there seems to be an increasing number of hold ups and robberies of pharmacies in the area, so much so that we were each given a short briefing of what to do in the event of one. apparently there was a pharmacy that got robbed twice. :S

drive home was not as satisfying, which might be due to the crowded roads, but nevertheless i had my time along pearson on the way back.. picked my brother up and dropped in skol and headed down there myself..

afternoon time after lessons was great, bummed and slept at abi's place along with a few friends. the idea was to go get our pharm tute done, but due to various problems, i.e. the server was not configured for out of uni access, we were unable to get it done. hence, yeah spent it watching british sitcoms and sleeping. wei hao and david had a go on tap tap on my ipod which was rather funny to watch. imagine two guys bent over a small black device tapping away. haha

dinner was steamboat with wei hao, david, lishya, joyce, my brother, kah yong and the simpsons. it was fun and the food was great. thanks guys.

headed home after, dad insisted on picking me up instead of leaving me with the car.. but mehs. does not matter.. and slept early that night.. ipod in my ears.. the last song i remembred listening to was "delicate-damien rice"

one last day before uni

driving is therapeutic, i went out this morning to sent my brother to his friends place cause there went "pain"balling. then i drove back.. had to vacuum the house and then brought mum and sis out for lunch before uni starts, otherwise i would have no chance to do that anymore..

so yeah lunch was at lotus peranakan vegetarian restaurant, had a nasi lemak and root beer float with vanilla ice cream. turned out that they did not have vanilla ice cream and gave me raspberry ripple.. which kinda destroyed the whole desert.. :S

so then mum left for ktv with a family and asked me along, but i kinda was not in the mood so i left for wei hao's place. he jus knocked off work i popped by and chucked my mum's shopping in the fridge lest the hot sun kills it when its in the car. helped get kah yong's wireless up and running.. and kinda drooled all over his godly computer.. apart from the graphics card.. everything else is crazily good. then wei hao had to go, so i dropped by hui's place to say hi since she just moved in.. liong was at home as well. haha two dents studying hard at home on a sunday really puts me to shame..

but yeah had a nice chat with hui, then took her out for a ride to kings park.. where it was crazily crowded.. cos there was some concert on.. but eventually found half hr parking with a huge DO NOT PARK ILLEGALLY SIGN on it.. took a walk round the front bit of kings park and saw a lot of weddings going on. which is interesting.. since the weather was like YAY hot and heaps of pple are in tuxedo's and what not. according to hui, apparently its the flowers blooming that makes people wanna get married at this time of the year.. nvm the hot weather.. :S

the view from kings park was great, at this time of the year, it was fantastic, clear skies and wad not.. made me feel a lot better.. which was good. dropped hui off at her place and headed off to fecth my brother as i was running late.. thanks for hanging out and chatting.. sorry for taking up yur study time :P

had a nice drive alone by myself with the car.. and it was nice.. stretched it on semi auto. jus hearing the engine revs go off and speed climbing.. its thereupeutic, it really is, pity i cant do that too often and that there are actually speed limits and other cars on the road.. but yeah.. it was graet to jus be in the car alone..






so yeah here i am bloggin at night, less than 12 hours before university begins.. its been a difficult week for me.. but thankfully, was kept busy at work and what not's with friends. thanks guys. am really tired from everything.. i guess for the first time in weeks.. i am soo tired that i can get a decent night's rest.....

all the best for uni 2009 guys

my parents are at it again 2

and i pulled a back muscle. :( :(

leftovers...

just got back from work a while back.. ok fine.. 3 hours back, but i was too lazy to blog till now. work was alright, kinda slow moving and dreary though. had to do the leftover bits from yesterday's stock take, looking for lost stock and missing stock and stuff that jus would not fit anywhere. it was a tedious job, but it also means that i did not have to pack websters today.. which is a good thing, since i was not exactly the most alert today i actually went off for lunch before the dispensary order got disabled, which was good, because otherwise would mean i'd not get lunch untill 3 as usual.

when the dispensary order came, i was even happier, cause there was only one box of meds to fill out today. but.... then again, it was because there was an electrical fault with the supplier, which meant that some poor soul on monday would have to do 1 and a half days worth of deliveries. :(

so lunch was a foot long meatball sub and red bull, the former which i struggled to finish.. and it took me 15 mintues to go through the queue at subway, chiefly because the counter dude was new.. so he took a while to figure that i wanted red bull with lunch..

got home, had leftovers from lunch and what not's for dinner, which was fine.. cause i was not hungry, even though i did eat a bit more than usual, probably due to boredom more than anything else. but yeah. found out sister went to log off my msn when i was away, and i lost all my convo's, some of which were actually important.. so i had to look through my common contacts and check through history to find out who spoke to me over the last 10 hours or so..

oh.. and i did not get a shift for work tomorrow :( which means i'd be stuck at home..

so yeah, might go turn in soon, for some reason, turns out that i am more tired than expected... almos dozed off at dinner table.. but i am wide awake now.. weird eh.. :S


"sometimes i wish i could ... ..." save you - simple plan

another long walk...

so the plan for today was to wake at 5 am, be at work by 6. finish work by 1230, get picked up by ashley and go for lunch.

BUT, i have learnt that plans are made to fail. so, i woke up late at 5.30, out of the house by 5.45am. if one thing good happened, i was on time for work. so began the stock take, it was going well, too well indeed to be true, such that at 10.30am, the pda's we were meant to be using died on us, ALL FOUR OF THEM, so we stoned for 45 mins, eating lunch and drinking coffee that was bought for us by our boss. it got boring, so i went to index and check the scripts that were collected over the last 3 days..

at 11.30, we resumed our stock taking spree, and i got stumped trying to count the individual bandages cause they were out of their packaging. there were 10 types of them, and some of them had like 100+ to be counted. so i took half an hour for that, and the rest was done quickly so i got off at 12.30.

called ashley, but cause she was moving house till late last night, she kinda overslept, so i had to make my way down to uni by myself.. workmate offered to fetch me halfway there, but it was pointless cause there was still a lot of work left to be done after stock take.

so i had a long walk along pearson street to the bus stop, walked by the lake hoping to see a snake or something, but there was nothing to be seen, apart from the usual ducks and swans. would have taken pictures if not for my dead'ed phone (curse you, thai sim card). my mind was all over the place again, about things no point mentioning, and also half wanting to see a tiger snake, half not wanting to get bitten by one if i do see one, day dreaming about the car, and then reminiscing the time i almost spun out at a round about when it was raining :S .

40 minutes later, i arrived at the bus stop jus in time for a ride to uni, met up with ash and her housemates for lunch, then to iga to grocery shop with them, after which met up with des and cheryl. had a nice chat all the way to 6 pm before i left home on the bus and stopped being the lightbulb.

surprisingly.. i am not tired at all... jus wondering how long this "high" will last, and if it will last me through work tomorrow. am looking forward to it though, cause now that stocktake is done.. its gonna be so much easier to get things done.


"when you are dreaming with a broken heart,
waking up is the hardest part"

and my parents are at it again

:(

if all english classes were like my brother's..

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a bus ride, a lunch, an afternoon and a walk home

woke up late, and i did not run. then i missed the right bus. i got nagged at in the morning. then i had to drive off to school to pass my brother his formal attire for photo taking. then i rushed back and then rushed off to bus, but i was late already, so who cares.

bus ride was the usual, staring out the window, mind wondering off somewhere else, anywhere else but the bus ride itself. i was thinking about the 6am start at work tomorrow, whether i should organize a get together with the gang on sunday before university starts, and if lunch tomorrow with ashley would still be on since she now has to go pick me up from work. my mind was also on a few other things, but i guess at this point, there is no point talking about them. oh, and song of the day is "Dreaming With a Broken Heart - John Mayer". lacking sleep as usual, for i was talking to me brother last night about stuff, he ended up falling asleep early and me staying awake alone again till the wee hours of the morning.

bummed at wei hao's place before he came back. met kah yong and saw the madness which he has to somehow compress and fit into his room. honestly, international students have too much baggage for their own good. heard some not so good news from kah yong, sorry to hear man, but if u need help, jus let me know eh. no promises except that i will try to help.

abi turned up a while later, intent of getting her car battery connected to the rest of the car again. after the mini drama of finding the spanner, we found it and reconnected the batt. and what do you know, the car works. the engine started. even the doors openned.

wei hao showed eventually and hustled us all to lunch at big bowl noodles. then headed back home as wei hao had to work. saw abi's new place, and it was nice and cosy, and her walk-in wardrobe could probably fit a smart car in it :P . hint hint nudge nudge abi, get a second car.

then abi dropped me at jon's place where we played rock band for the whole afternoon. it was good fun, but hard difficult fun cos i was having obvious problems with the drums and the leg bits. but it was fun.. took my mind off things, off many things indeed for a while. then it was time to go, i got dropped at the bus stop and jon headed to jandakot to meet his uncle and i took the bus home..

from the bus stop was a nice 1.3 km walk home.. the walk was nice if not for the sun, wished it were cooler and then i would have went running.. but no it was not. and once again, my mind wondered, there werent even nice cars going by to keep me on the road..

so yeah, here i am bloggin about all this.. without any rhyme or reason.. i guess i'd have to sleep soon.. since i'd have to wake before 5.. and get to work by 6.. oh.. and i jus remembered that i did not buy my red bull for tomorrow. i am so dead.

"Do I have to fall asleep with roses in my hand,
and would you get them if I did,
no you won't, cause you're gone" - Dreaming with a broken heart