rach said something really cool today (some would say lame, but wth. anything that can make me laugh is welcomed during this period.)

she was all, " Jasper very "mai4 yu2" for not wanting to share his smooth-face secret with us"

and Kim went, "mai4 yu2?? as in sell fish??"

and then we all went, "ohhhhhh...."

geddit? mai4 yu2 = sell fish= selfish??
"mai4 yu2" being the mandarin equivalent of selling fish for the chinese-illiterate.
lols.
just had to blog this one up.

that and rach's (again!!) "see you, alligator" good-byes.

Quote of the day: "There's always a dotted line to whatever you need to learn in medicine."
-Christen Barras-

darn it, i hate it when lecturers are right.
that and the 2nd mnemonic that you need to remember the 1st mnemonic.

my wish list changes often but at the top of the list, occupying permenant headspace would be the ability to absorb knowledge through power of osmosis...
i don't mind if i have to read the other half when the concentration gradient is no more. at least i still would have some info retained in my brain.
sad that this would never ever happen.
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the cadever next to mine has a knee joint replacement. so instead of just pink and white cartilage, it was all shiny metal at the ends of the bone and a white plastic-ey meniscus in between.
wasn't what i expected prosthetic knee joints to be.

and dissection pracs really puts me off food sometimes.
the dissection lab smells of lap cheong eating it would remind me of that.
the fats on the cadever's body looked like nasi kunyit to me. so that's off the menu for while. (the cadever today was really fatty and my hand came out from the cadever all slick and shiny with fats. *shudders*)
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the boy just had his hair cut yesterday. so now he looks like a boy, a much smaller boy. lols.

me loves Sweeney Todd and me is obsessed with the soundtrack right now.
lovely lovely songs!! ~~sigh~~
Tim Burton is a genius.

and quote of the day:
Gluteus maximus is used on exertion, climbing up the stairs. When this lecture ends, you can see gluteus maximus walking up the steps. -Jenny Hayes

lols.

i'm pretty sure i have OCD.
or maybe i've just been watching Friends a tad much last few months and am channeling Monica (which is btw my favourite character, next to Chandler).

i need my bed to be made the exact way before i start studying.
i need the kitchen clean and sparkly right after dinner.
i need the fridge to have the same layers with the right foods on it.
i need my desk to be cleared of clutter at least 2 feet around me.
i need my throw pillows to be in the exact same positions where i left them.

or maybe i'm just a somewhat neat freak.

of brothers and cousins

one thing great about doing anatomy is that you get to use cool names, cool latin names.

eg how can you not grin when you hear "gluteus maximus"?

and "phalange" just reminds me of Phobe aka Regina Phalange...

"Rachel, you have to get off the plane now. It has no phalange"....

that scene is always a classic with me.

but then again, me and anatomy have a love-hate relationship.

unlike biochem, which is a total disaster of a relationship, totally dysfunctional with it being the dominant, OCD party.

so this week being my brother's 18th, just got to make a big deal of the occasion i guess. just gotta celebrate the whole-turning-legal-and-possibility-of-getting-jailed thing.

being the nice sister that I am (contrary to the above meanie picture), I decided that a BBQ party will be just dandy for him. and being the nice sister I am, I morphed into David Tutera (ohhh, how I MISS that show!!! blah~~~ digressing) and got the stuff going with some helper muscle of course (eg my little baby cousin and of course, the boy). one cannot lug back 6kg of meat on one's own, especially if one is a small-sized, puny-muscled, 20-year-old female.

and thanks to PheyYee and Jacq who helped run the BBQ!!

we uni students, feel so ooollldddd compared to the Trinity-ians.

the guys could resist posing with the soccer ball candles that I was excited to find in this party supply store. a random shot... a really, really random shot. how can you not look at the above picture and not grin??!!the boys enjoying their cakes and leaving me just the crumbs.
then the rest of the night was just spent at the arcade and taking pictures.

p.s. i love my camera!! yay-ness... thanks to my lovely parents!!

of retribution and karma

first it was Cyclone Nargis in Burma.
then today it's the earthquake in Western China.
one does wonder, out of utter indifference of course, whether it was retribution for the the recent actions.

but one thing for sure that can be said is China will definitely handle this crisis better than the military junta in Burma.
the latter sure is one hard-headed block of wood with no feelings whatsoever.
it's just ridiculous for the people to suffer for their brand of "self-efficiency".

the world has gone mad, is all I can say.


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on a more frivolous note, i went shopping for my brother's presents and i bought something for myself and it's like the first purchase that i made since coming back. (suddenly, in my mind's eye, i see myself as a frugal nun!! lols) and it's a freaking pair of fingerless gloves. only 8 bucks!! and i needed the gloves as it's freezing so it's like a necessity buy, not even an impulse buy. anatomy can do such drastic impact on my buying impulses, i tell you. *smirks self-righteously*

of doing right and the fake girlfriend

Lars Lindstrom: How'd you know?
Gus: How'd I know what?
Lars Lindstrom: That you were a man
Gus: Well, it's not like you're one thing or the other, okay? There's still a kid inside but you grow up when you decide to do right, okay, and not what's right for you, what's right for everybody, even when it hurts.
Lars Lindstrom: Okay, like what?
Gus: Like, you know, like, you don't jerk people around, you know, and you don't cheat on your woman, and you take care of your family, you know, and you admit when you're wrong, or you try to, anyways. That's all I can think of, you know - it sound like it's easy and for some reason it's not.

Lars And The Real Girl was an awesome film. you would think that you can't cry at a film that involves a sex doll as a fake girlfriend.
but i did. just a teensy bit.
because Biance "reached out from her wheelchair and touched us all".... lol.

note to self: must get Nova membership sooooon...

of Desree and Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet has always been one of my favourite epic love story ever.
Cheesy as that may be, I don't care. I grew up reading Shakespeare and this particular one is just close to my heart.
Not something I can relate to, but heck, the words have always been bee-yoo-tiful and I tear up every single time, even though I don't exactly condone the whole-suicide-without-your-love affair and Romeo's flights of fancies that change by the minute.

But, you just have to adore the intensity of the "star-crossed"lovers going about with their love lives. Nothing can divert them from their love affairs.

Cue Desree's Kissing You from Romeo+Juliet (again, my favourite song for the nights)

Pride can stand a thousand trials
The strong will never fall
But watching stars without you
My soul cries

Heaving heart is full of pain
Oooh, oooh, the aching '
Cause I'm kissing you, oooh
I'm kissing you, oooh

Touch me deep, pure and true
Give to me forever
'Cause I'm kissing you, oooh
I'm kissing you, oooh Where are you now

Where are you now
'Cause I'm kissing you
I'm kissing you, oooh