Sunday, October 12, 2008
Yes, I'm back from Vancouver already! Which is extremely saddening. I'd say it's not so much that I miss the place, but the idea of being away with a group of friends and traveling about. It's very much different from holidays with the family because when I'm holidaying with the family, I don't really have to care much about the itinerary. We wake up late, laze about, go wherever daddy and mummy says to go to. But, with friends, it's a whole different issue! We can plan where and what we want to do and see..we have to find our own way about and read a map! All in all, we have to be independent. :)Well, it's already the beginning of third week of school! Time really flies.. so far, clinics have been very relaxing. Maybe I've been 'UBC-nized', I find myself not so much in a rush anymore. I take my own time to do things in clinic, and really try to do things to the best of my ability instead of rushing to finish first. Which is good, because then you really put the patient first. Actually school on a whole is more relaxing, maybe it's the subjects that we have this year or something because I find that I suddenly have less labwork and more time to study! I guess that this is probably just temporary, because how can dental school ever be relaxing?? Haha.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
It's just 2 more weeks to the Vancouver-Seattle-Victoria trip! =D I probably won't be able to sleep properly on this day 2 weeks down. Just talking about it with Jingting last night got me all excited. I've started to pack already, especially since I'll be extremely busy with UROP the weekend before I leave, and it's really a chore to decide what to wear!Well, school has been busy, of course. OS posting is over! Which is quite sad really because I really enjoyed it! :) It's something different from the other clinics I guess, and there weren't so much admin work and stuff to do. Just go there, get the patient folder, gown up, set up the equipment, extract, clean up and post-op instructions! There's the adrenaline in just gowning up. Haha. One doctor said I can be an OMS surgeon in the future! =D But seriously, I have no idea why he said such a thing because I still couldn't use a Coupland properly after so many extractions.
Anyhow, due to many factors, I can't issue the denture to my patient anymore! It's so saddening. =( I hope nothing else goes wrong - like no warpage of his mucosa! HAHA. Okay, I should really get back to studying for my another two tests - RP and Endo (AGAIN).
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
It's been a long time since I've updated. Well, school has been very busy, as usual. There were exciting moments such as doing a pulpectomy and getting ready to face Dr T, which turned out to be not so bad afterall. But the preparation for meeting Dr T during clinics has really taken a toll on me, with all the late nights spent reading up and watching videos. I'm starting to fall sick already! :lThen there's all the 'super sian' moments such as doing a record block, special tray, doing another ProV, and studying for Oral Patho and Endo tests etc. Thankfully, there's all the miscellaneous events to keep my 'social life' active (HAH) such as meeting the juniors at barbeque night (which turned out to be pretty eventful!), mini line dinner as well as the Neon Green Elevator gig at B&J.
But of course, there are always things to anticipate for! There's the soon-to-come exciting moments such as the teeth set up and issue of denture to Uncle Johnny! :) As well as the extractions and LA ops that are to come. And of course, the Vancouver-Seattle-Victoria trip! =D Whee! We really can't wait for that trip, and have already started a countdown to that day! In fact, I seriously feel like packing now. It's probably the only thing that pulls me through school.
Ok, till the next update! (which will probably be when I'm preparing to go to Vancouver!! =DDD)
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
CSS FOC: Abel! 
4Faith 21st Birthday! =) 
Dental girls: domestic goddesses. HAHAHA. 
Yan's 21st birthday at B&J Dempsey! 
09/04 class gathering at vivocity.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
I just came back from CSS camp last night and I have to say that I don't regret going once again. For last year and this, I always had this apprehension of going because I'm not a regular CSS attender and hence don't really know anyone/not really close to anyone there except for Olivia and a few others. But eventually, I always end up grateful that I went and become very spiritually recharged. :)This year, I was in the group Abel which consisted of Agnes and Ferdi (the facils), Olivia, Maria and Marian (the befrienders), Mario the crasher (haha) and last but not least, Christopher, Sean, Laura, Janis and Majella (the freshies). We weren't as enthu as my previous OG, we were super slack - last to arrive for the games, didn't even finish the campus games because we went to BTC. But, we somehow managed to come out tops for our campus games! In fact we were ALL very surprised, which was quite funny. We were saying that if we get like bottom 3, must say "NO DEAL!". But we ended up getting first! =D
As like the year before, Recon night made me feel spiritually recharged. But this time was different from last year's, maybe perhaps it's because I've become more distant from God during this past year, hence my emotions. Many many thanks to Justin and Joyce for being there for me during recon night.. I don't think I'll ever forget it. :) The camp as a whole made me think a lot about the things that have happened to me recently, and I realised that perhaps God is right, and what that has happened is indeed for my own good. The only bad thing is that we realised it a bit too late. But I guess, better late than never.
Anyway, will upload the photos as soon as I get it out from my SD HC card, which is such a bother considering that it is supposedly better than a normal SD card. GR.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
I've been having gastric for the past two days already. Today's the third, but it wasn't so bad fortunately. Actually I'm not even sure if it's gastric, but according to mummy it is. It's just a permanent nauseating feeling plus occasional pain in my stomach. Really bleh.On another note, school's ending soon! =D I seriously can't wait! I'm just so tired nowadays, I even almost fell asleep on the way back just now. My gosh, I could barely keep my eyes open in the car. Okay, think I'm going to take a nap now. zzz.
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
We celebrated Mama's birthday at Grand Shanghai last night. The ambience was really nice, with the dim lights and girl in a qipao singing on stage, plus plush sofas all around. The dinner wasn't that bad, but extremely expensive, especially the drinks. :l And the place where Bel and I were sitting was freezing cold..Anyway, the dinner turned out okay, nothing unusual happened. Brought Sarah out for a walk halfway, she's so heavy nowadays my arm ached from carrying her! I couldn't even hold the chopsticks for a while after that. But she refused to get down and walk about outside. I guessing it's because she was scared? She's even more adorable now! When her mother asked her to show her teeth, she actually smiled and showed her central incisors! SO CUTE! I guess she didn't really know what we were asking her to do because after she smiled that goofy cute smile, she stuck out her tongue. hahaha.
After the dinner, the cousins headed to Winebar only to find out that it was full, so we changed to Clarke Quay which was also similarly full. But we managed to find some pizza place that could sit all 12 of us and had some drinks. We played some personality tests which turned out to be pretty accurate. I realised I've really been so sheltered, didn't know half the places my cousins were talking about. Haha. I really must try to be a rebel like Bel more often.
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