DALY = YLL + YLD
my DALY is slowly piling up due to the insufferable hours of mumbo-jumboing Health Practice and all the incorrigible new terms i have to stuff down my throat and pray that they will remain in my brain come HP D-day.

and i can just reiterate the reasons for my increasing YLL:
- the many hours gluing my butt to the bloody chair
- the many hours spent squinting at the bloody small text on the lecture notes
- the many hours my brain spent trying to make sense of "systematic review"
- the many hours spent not exercising (hah! that's a good one!! lols)
- the many hours my shoulders are hunched up (i can feel my supraspinatus getting out of shape already)
- the many hours not sleeping and staying awake for bloody HP

HP = bane of my life
but
HP = hurdle requirement
so
HP = die-die must pass subject (which i probably will die trying)

Mel's suggestion:
go google epidemiology terminology and read it for fun... not for the faint hearted.



update: lols, i just realised what a whiny little girl i am.