Hi everybody! I haven't posted in a while, so I'll type this incident up before it slipped through my mind. The med school has this annual 'sports day', where basically we meet and have some fun sports. This year there will be the usual tug-of-war, 'iron man' and 'iron woman' challenge, dunking ppl into tanks, 'Extreme Tunnel Ball', 'Extreme Sack Races', 'Extreme Seven a Side Soccer' (that's what it says) and even a jumping castle, and a live band! However, the highlight is the run to the...

Hello, again. It's been quite a while since I typed. Med school life is picking up. Got faculty LOs to take care of. Now I'll try to recall the events I think shaped the past week. This will be the last week I'll be by myself, alone in this apartment before my new house mate moves in. Quite cool, him, paying his part of the rent eventhough he hasn't moved in yet, and in advance. I'll give highlights of what happened this past few days: Welcome Back Keg aftermath: Some people still come...

Friday night is Keg night, or more specifically, the welcome back keg, for us med students and also to welcome our wide-eyed first years.I decided to go there late, as it was still too hot outside. I left the house at 6.30pm. At the time, it still felt quite hot, but by the time I reached to Student Union Complex, it already felt quite cool. There, I met my former PBL tutor, I'll call her ex-tutor. She was waiting for another of her former PBL group to come as arranged, but he didn't turn up....

PBL time! I was the first to present my PBL today. Mine was about sputum samples and hemoptysis. I mentioned how to describe the spit and what it all meant. He didn't interupt me, saving his tough questions at the end, unlike some of my other PBL mates, where he actually interrupted them halfway, such that they didn't get to finish their presentation. Buck up, he implied. Instead of a list, categorize systematically. Organize. Ask why and how is it clinically relevant? Which is the most comm...

!st Feb 2005 Finally paid the car rego and CTP insurance, which is compulsory down here in Oz. The only hurdle now is to get the car transferred to my name. Which can't happen until I can get hold of an authorization letter or when the owner (soon to be previous) returns to Brisbane to clear up some of his matters. That will be March! Long time to wait. My trial drive was to get familiar with the layout of the road to PA hospital, at the same time getting used to driving an automatic tr...

Finally, I have found some time to write! Today is Friday, and class start at 7:15 am! Fortunately for today only. What happened after my last post? Well... The mechanic came to fix the car. The battery was flat, so it was replaced. Has to be started once a week, run the engine for half an hour. I won't be able to drive it on the road yet. Have to settle some matters concerning the car first. I took it for a spin. It is tough, adapting my driving style from manual, which I drove at home, t...

Hello, again. First, I would babble about the minor issues surrounding my life, then I'll delve into the gist of this blog, that of a 2nd year med student in UQ med school in Oz. Met my cousin and her family while I was doing some grocery shopping at Coles. What a surprise! They haven't moved in yet, probably will do so at the end of the month. I also seem to have some probs with the car that I'm going to buy. It won't start. the battery is as flat as a pancake. Gonna have to call a mechan...

Drat. Woke up late yesterday, prob cuz of the long flight. Turned out I forgot my favourite nescafe cup and one of my pants. Oh well. Thenn went over toChinatown to get some chickenwings. Chickenwings are as cheap as they can get here in Brisbane. I'm in the middle of a depression right now. Returning home after 2 and a half years, then flying back to my 2nd home 3 months later. Looking back, time didn't pass by quickly, time seemed to pass by excruciatingly slowly during my 4 week elective....

Left Brunei for Brisbane today, I type this entry having arrived back at my place. I still haven't finished packing, and it's nearly 1 am. Halfway thru unpacking my clothes. The excess luggage for Brunei is BND$38!! That's daylight robbery! Do not use Royal Brunei Airlines. Had to leave a bag full of foodstuffs behind. At least that would mean that i would breeze past customs with the least hassle (which happened). Had some rough turbulence when the plane flew through some storm clouds. That ...

Ah, finally it worked! Weird it didn't work back home in Brunei...cos of restricted freedom of speech there? But it worked in Brisbane! Huzzah! Thank you for the people of Joeuser for making it so. Fortunately, I've just started on Blogger...what to do? I'll try to update both on my ponderings and wanderings...