I bought lamb kidneys for 5 bucks.
and they shall be our dinner tonight.
can't wait to experiment. yay.
I think I shall put in diced tomatoes, mushrooms, green pepper and onions into it.
oooh and bacon too.

and I have a spot in AMSA's convention this year.
together with Pheyyee, we will rock Brissie and paint it pink!

of talc and exams

we had breast exam tutorials this afternoon, complete with fake boobs with lumps in them and real, live human beings to practice on.
interesting, no?
must mark this day down.
another milestone in med career down and plenty more to go.
breast exam, check!




p.s. the fake boob with the lumps was a surprise. didn't expect the med school to pull out such a teaching aid. for one, it sure didn't feel like a real breast, it felt all rubbery and weird-feeling. and another thing was my tutor whipped out Home Brand Talcum Powder and proceeded to give the fake boobs a dusting down. so the whole breast was covered in white powder which looked way weird. and then this guy in my tutorial went oh-so-cluelessly, "so we need to put talc on the patient's breasts too?" lols.

of would-be-legendary stuff

Sushi is coming to Melbourne!!! *dances a jig maniacally*
I miss my sister-from-another-mother and her coming is like a dream come true for me.
so it's all good.
suddenly, Sem 5 is shaping up to be a great semester.
too bad she's can't be here to celebrate our 21st birthdays together.
if she did come during Easter break, then it's like sweet, sweet icing with a juicy cherry on top of a wonderfully-creamy cake.
but I'll take what I can get and I will savor it.

"it'll be legen-wait for it-dary!!"
- Barney from How I Met Your Mother-

woohoo... I'm on cloud eleven right now.

overdue overdue overdue overdue overdue family post.

happy belated birthday, daddy! shall be back in a blink of an eye and then you can bring me for my beloved meepok. and we can sit around the dining table again and you can tell your chilhood stories of catching frogs to sell for lab experiments etc. and we can have our spontaneous Sunday road trips again through Johor again and you can give your cut-out newspaper articles personally to me. lols. but in the meantime, I miss you loads and you can get my portion of hugs and kisses from mum. xoxo, nut *squared*

and

happy early birthday, mum! you totally got the best friend/confidante/mum part down pat. 21 years of loving and caring, 'nuff said. missing you loads, xoxo.

of that smudge in the sky

oooh, I saw a wedding proposal in skywriting that day in Melbourne for all to see.
"Jo, marry me?"
too bad the pilot was kinda amateur-ish that he took so long to write the words that the "Jo" word was almost smudged away by winds.
by the time the question mark was drawn, it read "*smudge smudge* marry me?". lols
poor guy/girl/wedding proposer (since Jo is kinda an androgynous name and females actually do the proposing nowadays) must be thinking, "And I spent that amount of moolah for a proposal like that??!!"
and since you can't exactly make out the "Jo" word, any Tom, Dick, Harry of a boyfriend about to propose to his girl at that moment can just point to the skywriting and said, "babe, I did that for you. Marry me, *insert name of girlfriend here*?"lols.

I sure hope the guy/girl/weddinh proposer who commisioned the skywriting got his/her money back. lols.

of ageing

I totally can feel the effects of ageing on my body.
last night was BengSze's sweet 21st. (the boy said that there's going to be a helluva 21st parties that I will be attending this year! then only silly me realized that)
and as usual, as per Albert House tradition, nothing started on time and everything will start with a few unscehduled surprises (like Beng walking into a roomful of us who were unaware).
so the shindig only started around 10 plus and lasted till the wee hours of the MORNING.
and as I was standing there with Janice, watching the girls proceed their way through jugs of alcohol and music, I started to feel weary.

yes, I started to feel tired at 11plus. lols.
wow, so now 12 is my bedtime.
and I used to be able to stay up for the whole of the Meddies' Movie Marathon.
geez, I feel my bones creaking already.
whoop-de-doo.


p.s. but I staill had fun at Beng's smashing 21st. happy sweet 21st, girl!! we love you and outrageousness loads and loads. xoxo

of birthdays and Jason Mraz

I have tickets to Jason Mraz's rocking show.
this almost makes up for missing The Script. almost.
I'm still pissed about missing The Script LAST YEAR in concert at Hi-Fi.
but still, Jason Mraz is too cool for school. (I will take lots and lots of pictures for Pheyyee!! lols)
and I will be going with my brother and Janice, one of my fave girls.

and I'm kinda late with these but better late than never, yes?
so happy belated birthdays to Kim and Pheyyee and Shze Yi!

Kim: Happy sweet sweet sweet 21st, babe. Thanks for being in our lives. The last 2 years have been an absolute rollercoaster of Flare dances, Union House lunches, dinners out and plenty of bonding over our plight that is of College Square Swanston St. Couldn't imagine the pre-clinical years without you, and we'll still be stuck to the hip like Siamese twins during AMS, and hopefully when the time comes, we'll still be clinic buddies. To dancing through life together, cheers. xoxo

Pheyyee: To the peptidoglycan layer to my gram negative bacteria, happy sweet 20th, girl. lols. (I hope you'll appreciate the microbe reference: I don't think I would've survived without you by my side) You shall always be immortalised as the cake goddess bearing sweet libations to our weary/hungry souls. Again, without your PBL muffins, we would have been a few pounds lighter. But we are all well-fed little children, thanks to you. lols. But, joke-ey things aside, you totally rock our existence in Melbourne to the very core. Things would be very miserable (and dull) down under without your smile and bursts of laughter. To sweet muffins and sugar highs, cheers. xoxo

Shze Yi: happy sweet 21st, girl! I think I shall KISS for this one, because I think you know how much you mean to me. You being so far away, definitely changed our friendship. We are, after all, miles and miles and oceans and oceans apart. But I still miss you loads, after 3 years. and I love you loads. And fingers crossed, I'll visit you one day and we can stroll down Broadway one day, yes? To high school years of innocence and uni years of maturity, cheers. xoxo


and on a sad note, Mum's leaving tomorrow.=<

my apartment is all prettiness with the comfy lounge and my cosy little nook by the side.
microb is surprisingly interesting.
my internet is up and working, like a dedicated drone bee (??).
i am schticking to my healthy healthy plan, come rain come shine.
the peeps are wonderful, needless to say.
we haven't had any huge bust-ups, me and my brother.
and I just went for lacrosse sessions!

so life's good so far.

except maybe I want a dog.
a big nice dog.
i miss my German Shepherds at home.
so I want a huge huge huge one here.
like a Husky or a German Shepherd or a Lab or a Retriever.
I would so bring it for walkies and feed it treats and groom it till it shines.
and it would just lay on my legs and go to sleep with me.