A new year and back on track

I’ve been looking forward to this year for over a year now where 2^nd year was over and I get to see patients!  Last year was a delay in graduating but not a complete waste of time.  I did get to go clinic a lot and got to know many second years and also my fellow repeaters!  It was much easier last year I thought which makes me think that 3^rd year is easy…if I were repeating.  I will have to work as hard as both years combined to be on top of things I think.

So the holidays were not as memorable as others partially due to them being cut short and me missing out on the end of the holidays which are usually the best L However duty calls and I have returned to queensland a month early in prepapration for seeing patients and the imminent chair shortage.

So the first week I was back we had a series of lectures and the second week I was back we did a few of the first appointments on each other and familiarised ourselves with the computer system and where things were located.

I talked to the new people found out who failed from last year and chatted to a lot of people throughout the weeks.  Its been quite a good 2 weeks I think and hopefully it only gets better from here perhaps its time to let go of games completely and get right into study…I’ll give games a couple more weeks before cold turkey…deleting games and things which remind me of games such as skype…I think I will leave dota there.

Bit of stuff happening at home, mum is going uni, brother is going for gamsat and pharmacy stuff sister is in her final year of high school! Its going to be a busy year all year. I will be ready!!

The little things in life

 I haven’t blogged in a while but I feel as though a lot of little things make everyday different.  For example 2 weeks ago I thought of blogging about one single thing I saw in the day but rather I decided against it and thought I would blog when I saw a few things.  Starting 2 weeks ago, I came to a realisation which actually made me smile when I saw it and again when I thought about it.  Everyday that I walked to the dental school I would walk past a church.  Perhaps once a month I would walk past the church and there would be a wedding.  Being part even the tiniest part (being a walkerby) of a couple’s happiest day of their life made me smile.  Of course walking to the dental school is no easy nor enjoyable task, going uphill for about 5 minutes doesn’t make anybody happy ;p

Last week there were pretty major renovations where a few tradespeople came in and removed all the floors and replaced it with laminate.  Now laminate looks like wood but its like really condensed cardboard and the top there is a sheet that makes it looks like wood ;p quite ingenious.  A small thing I noticed was that the laminate would last 25 years! So that thing sheet impersonating wood would last 25 years! That’s amazing!!!

I guess I never really thought about it but the group skype conversation and whataspp conversation is a small thing that makes me feel connected to my high school friends.  Any time I want to talk to someone about something, voice an opinoion or whatever I can jump on there and there will probably be someone on provided it isn’t 2 am ;p.  I had the most fun in swotvac the other day.  Leon changed his name to Thomas Tran so I retaliated by changing mine to leon kiriaev.  This prompted ben and Thang to change their names and we just insulted each other for a good half hour J  After a while we stopped not because it stopped being fun but because we eeded to study or do something else.  It was however the most I had laughed in a long long time.

The final thing I wanted to share was getting small presents unexpectedly J So during the holidays Joyce had posted on facebook a question ‘what is my favourite dental material?’ I guessed correctly and got an unexpected present which made me smile J who doesn’t like free chocolate hahaha

Well this summer holiday should be quite enjoyable even though I only have 2 months, it is the first and last months which are always fun and the middle one is quite stagnant ;p lets hope it stays that way since there IS NO MIDDLE MONTH J

I am also looking forward to next year where I’ll get to know the third year students better and get right back into dentistry, I actually plan to do bit of study while in Sydney, reading microbiology handout that walsh made and some immunology.  Even though I do understand a lot I feel that there is still a gap in my knowledge that I need to fill before I start next year.  I will also be looking at Robbin’s pathology which should be a good bedtime story…even though its about diseases and such :P

passed the year and been going out a few times a week. home is lonelier than I remember. Everyone has their own life now and its quite independent of me which is saddening but at the same time I'm glad.  It gives me motivation to find my own way!

Holidays and I want more

So I havn't posted since before the september holidays.

First off I went to west end on the tuesday and got quite a nice meal for a very low price got ice cream and go the core component of my costume for ann's 21st :) I was looking for ward to it (and it didn't disappoint)

So fast forward to the holidays.  The party was on saturday and I was basically cleaned up my room on the day got on a plane, jumped on a train and went there, all up about 5 hours of travel that is commitment...it is much less that if i had decided to drive..and i don't have a car ;p  So the party was pretty much a huge meet up for high scool peers some of whom I haven't seen for a few years so it was quite nice

I think the party was great because pretty much everyone came in costume, met a couple of new people, had good food, tried new drinks, had a pinyata, got a prize for 3rd best dressed, lots of joking and generally having a great time!

I got a ride with Helene on the way home and she told me that the car was about 9 months old...but still had the new car smell..amazing!

So the next day I don't remember being too interesting, mainly catching upw ith family and helping around the house :)

The day after mum took me out to lunch and i remember how good the food is in sydney but apparently there is some good food in brisbane which is quite cheap (more on the gold coast as aunty veronica told me a couple of weeks ago) The next couple of days were quite boring, just chopping down banana tree, mowing the lawn and backyard, blowing leaves around etc

Wednesday was a bit fo a family get together and we got crab at a resturant ^^ it was quite nice from memory but dad says that they cooked it wrong...it was so so much better than any crab i had in brisbane though :P

The next day I would like to call the day of 3 dinners.  First off I decided to go to UNSW because I have barely been there or looked around the place or anything.  I figured I would bump into enough people so I told about 7 or 8 poeple I was coming.  I caught the train with hanson to UNSW and he had to go to class so I walked around for about 5 minutes orientating myself finding a map and lisa texted.  I met up with her at the law library and we went to roundhouse for lunch (woke at 8 30 caught 9 30 train, got to uni at 11 lunch at 11 30) insane it takes 3 hours from waking up to getting to where i want to be at uni...uq takes 45 minutes form waking up to being where i want to be, so much difference.

From there lisa had a class so i decided to go exploring around, it was about 10 minutes before ben called me after his test and i met up with him. we were determined to go find people but didn't find tony or leon. we went into a staff only part and when we heard the door open we quickly left nad spoke broken mandarin as we went ;p After this, we managed to bump into minh chau and michael.  from there we went to roundbhuose again and got wedges.

Ann decided to skip a lecture and join us for an hour(she invited me to gold class yay), hanson came by after his tutes and tram even dropping by for a quick hello before heading off with her law buddies for a presentation.

so I had 1.5 lunches and a breakfast so far.  At about 3pm hanson suggested a macca's run and we went to the bus stop and kind of abandoned the idea of a macca's run in favour of going home.  On the bus Ben was being sly and checked out a girl and said in our broken mandarin, not bad. I was trying to contain my laughter because she could probably understnad mandarin ;p

Getting home took about 2 hours because there was little delay etc, got picked up from the station etc. So we decided on skype that we would go for dinner and drinks (lemon lime bitters yeahhhhh) At 6pm when i had planned to go for dinner, there was only 1 other person up for it in the skype conversation so it didn't happen.  I had dinner at home and jumped back on skype and the conversation was raging with dinner options :P  I called up a few people and we had a group of 6 and went to a steakhouse.  I had the worse calamari in my life it was crumvbed and tasted like bread....i understand why it is a STEAKhouse now :P  That was my second dinner.  After that we went our separate ways and it was about 9 30 at this stage, i dropped off a few people home and went to allen's house as we had arranged for pizza.

I went in and got him and we walked tot he pizza place.  It was quite empty as you can imagine at 10 30 pm we ordered our pizzas and ate while catching up, not too much had changed in the last couple of months aside from allen reaching president of the unibuds association :)

he also planned to pick me up from my place and drive to uni! that saved me about an hour of travelling :)  we got to uni and he hung out with me for about half an hour before he went to class (since he was late already he decided to skip a lecture-i make people skip lectures ;p). I met up with hanson and minh chau after exploring for a while and they took me to another on campus resturant called the white house based on the colour scheme of the house ;p

we got wedges adn they gave us free pizza yayayayayya, also i had some cider.  Afterward I went exploring again and went to the abs buiilding where i met david and allen. we chatted and decided to go grab lunch.  david however was pulled away from other friends he had promised to have lunch with earlier and I lisa didn't want to join allena dn i and would rather we joined her, wasn't going to happen ;p

we decided on going to a thai place and the pad thai (signature dish) was missing the sauce.  I didn't realise because I hadn't had it before but that made sense afterwards ;p  After that we went for ice cream at passionflower and they only cahrge another dollar to put the ice cream in a waffle basket ^^ I saw allen's nibuds assocaition place and he left me after that.  I continued to explore the uni fro about an hour and jumped into a few lecture theatres to check out if they were better...some were some weren't (newer ones were way cool)  I met up with tony and ben to go for dinner with ann and tram. chun texted me back and we joined us for dinner yay!

we met outside the movie cinema before heading off to din thai fung. didn't have time for a long drawn out meal so had the yum cha style meal and it was quite deleicious :) I had wanted to go there since dental convention and it happened yayyy!!

Afterwards we went to the movie and got our tickets and headed up to the gold class section, it was a completely different atmosphere gosh I felt sophisticated but certainly didn't look it :P

the movie was quite good but the novelty and the seats and tables and completely different atmosphere i felt was worth it, made the movie ruby sparks a nicer experience.

went to a board game place and had a tonne of fun we oprdered some igloo thing and there was ice cie cream some strawberry sauce and fruit. it was quite nice before thw hole thing melted ;p we played jenga and i had a blast!! at about 10pm though we had to go home as ann and tram had concerned parents ;p

when we walked out it was the first time I had seen rain in about 3 months and i didn't like it ;p.

The last day was saturday and I helped dad out with some guttering nad laundry spin thing problems and we got everything done yay! bought concrete, guttering downpipes and stuff for christmas time when i come back :)

i woke up and got a text from jetstar delaying my flgiht by an hour.  it didn't matter just had to tell aunty sisana dna duncle mark.  the plane hourney was quite interesting because the guy netx to me was talking tot he guy diagonal from me and they converstaion was interesting :) yay to no boring flight ^^

brisbane airport has changed a bit so getting picked up was annoying but id di get picked up in the end.  my room was as i left it and it has taken a while to get used to brisbane again...i'm not even sure i'm used to it yet even after 4 exams ;p there is only 2 assessments left in the semseter before the final!

In brisbane, ben helen and i went to sunnybank for lunch once and afterwards we went to a dessert place which was quite nice :) Jenny's birthday was a sleepover, elaine came and grabbed blankets and pillows form me :P

had mooncakes, and aunty susan is getting much better now, she has more energy and gets tired slower which is excellent!!

so we have a presentation tomorrow and it is impromtu so i am procrastinating of course :)

Looking after myself

This last 4 days has been quite different.  On monday afternoon aunty susan couldn't get out of bed and was admitted to hospital.

on monday there wasn't much to note i got sushi for lunch and realised i don't like sushi as much as i used to. it was ok but i think i used to like it much more because the flavours were new. they were still asian but new. then i went to japan where the flavours are so much better :P

tuesday had exam, got a few M&M's for fnishing early. For some reason this block exam doesn't stress me anymore, quite sure i did well. had a pie and wedges for lunch, quite good actually. sat at wordsmith and chatted to ram, anastasia, charlie, jeremy, benson and hiroshi :P

wednesday - brought in pasta i made day before, actually struggled in preclinic farrrrr. gotta stop being cocky but the good news is everyone else struggled...if you can interpret that as good news :P. helped sonya in pros clinic and that actually took the full 3 hours. that was surprising didn't think that happened ;p she was the last one out.

on thursday i went in and helped chris first and his 3 hours appointment was done in 1.5 hours :P helped sonya for the next 1.5 hours and her patient came in early hehehe but it was a lovely restoration in the end so it was a good ending.

I had subway one day do not remember which one...it was quite forgettable probably on thursday

today i was invited to a birthday and it was quite nice, talked to a few second years, had a nice meal and got free cupcake! it was good as well :P

anyway that's it for this week, been quite eventful to be honest, unlike last week where nothing happened at all :P

Cake are synonymous with birthdays

Its been a while since I last posted and a few things have popped up, nothing that major.  Firstly Uni, today had a competency test, so easy this time around haha :)

father's day gave dad a call, much shorter than calling mum ;p It looks like things are going well at home :)

found out i have to vote today which is not a nice surprise, I will have to call them and confirm what I have to do...

anyway, yesterday went to Grance to give sonya card and present! It was really quite amusing writing Elaine and Jenny's birthday Wishes for them hahahahaha

today ran around to get cake and then get card to dental school before doing competency

had cake and went to lecture, boooooooring lecture :P

tomorrow should be somewhat hectic :P gotta call electoral commison

atm, I'm calling jetstar and it is taking a while

When you don't know what's going on, just make comments that are always right :)

With every big bold statement like that there has to be a story right?  So, today while I was in clinic 5, Dr Smith asked cameron what the setting time for AHplus...or was it ADplus I don't remember the material.  Anyway cameron said not long at all which is quite true for most chemically set dental materials where there are 2 setting times.  However this was just plain wrong and Dr Smith made it very obvious haha! the answer was 24 hours which is actually a long time :P 

the other trigger for that statement is from a youtube video I saw where a guy hired bodyguards, 'papparazzi', photographers and dressed up like a celebrity.  This prompted a lot of people wanting a photo and when asked by teh cameraman whether they knew who he was they just said oh latest spiderman movie, if they listened to his music, they heard his FIRST single and it was good :P 

On a more personal level, i do this all the time :) No recent examples come to mind but generally when trying to break into a coversation or i zoned out it happens :D  I don't know but I have been having afternoon naps and gosh they are satisfying...especailly when you dose for 2 hours :P

Lets get serious

There haven't been any of the usual wake up calls - failing a test, failing a subject, repeating or anything which has really prompted this sudden call to study.  I suppose it has been since I failed but nevertheless, I will learn everything!

The last couple of weeks have been very enjoyable :) Happy hour was quite good, getting free/very cheap drinks is always good hahaha friends manning the counter ftw!! nice chatting and catching up :)

Emma's housewarming was quite fun as well but I had a bit to drink so I stayed over.  The apartment was very spectacular especially at dawn when i was awoken from the sunlight :P

Ekka holiday was really really fun!  We baked a cheesecake went shopping and had yummy food :)  The process of making the cheesecake took much longer than anticipated with elaine and sonya wanting to taste all the ingredients before they had been mixed hhahaa cream cheese and processed tim tams do sure taste good :P  Had pasta, cheesecake, strawberries dipped in dark chocolate, waffles and biscuits :) did not manage to get the cards done but oh well.  I want to go shopping for artsy stuff because that is always fun!

Dental dinner was also fun!  Even thought it was a bit pricey the photographers were much better :) the 'photobooth' was excellent!  Videos were much more relatable and in general a nice night!  There were a few highlights I though, one was the golf course, hitting about 25 gold balls into the driving range was good :)  sore arm the next day though, a good experience.  Another was getting my revenge on David from first year, lets just leave it at that :P

So that was a few days ago.  I had a rough night sleep so today I was quite tired, had some coffee, that stuff keeps you awake doesn't it haha.

I've been reading notes for one of the 2 really hard subjects next year, hope I can finish them ^^ a brief browse anyway!

Mum might be going to uni! how exciting, she mgiht graduate at the same time as me hahaha and before jennifer :P