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Rachel Lim
10 November 2009 @ 10:43 pm
Alright i finally have some time to slack tonight.
Actually not really, cos i'm kinda behind in physiology and biochemistry!!

Anyway today was my first Anatomy spot exam. And it's takes up quite a huge percentage of the total mark for the year. After all that stressing over it about going to london the weekend before and having so much to memorise, it didnt turn out all that bad! Thank God for seeing me through! Got stuck at some questions about clinical problems and the muscles involved but on the whole, i can safely say 'can pass!' Stuff tested today were the upper limb and pectoral region. So glad it's out of the way and over with! 
We almost didnt go to london because of this by the way. Happy that we didnt change our minds about going cos i had a great time :)
Check out the pictures on facebook! It was rather drama on the way back, we woke up late and almost missed the coach to the airport, Mavis who didnt stay with us woke up even later and missed the bus altogether (so she took another one), she then got stuck at the bag checking counter, and we almost missed the plane because of this, and we ran all the way to the gate amazing race style. Horrible man, that feeling of running to catch your plane! But we arrived back safe and sound!

On a random note, I hate myself for always dozing off too easily. Its probably due to a lack of sleep but why cant i stay awake like others can? Even Eanna just told me yesterday that i'm always falling asleep in class. And i dont sit with him at all. So it is that obvious. :/ crap
Shall just try to sleep more then. Have no idea why i drag myself to bed and then have to drag myself out of it. Totally doesnt make sense. I am too full of inertia.
 
 

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Rachel Lim
04 November 2009 @ 11:38 pm
 Hi everyone, 
So sorry for being so lousy with the updating!
Well now, the only reason i ever come here to type something into this space is whenever i have 

1. Something to complain about
2. Big news to report

In case you're thinking that it is about the physiology action potential stuff and synapses thing again, it isn't! I now understand everything (i think) so thanks wuyue and deb for trying to explain it!

Well its like this, due to the discovery of cheap ryanair tix at 10euro, we booked a flight to london for the weekend :D
This weekend's a long one due to med-day which we being horrible impulsive cheap plane ticket buyers are totally disregarding. Med Day's a day where the med students do stuff all day to raise funds for some organisations. The year in charge is year 4 so the rest of us basically have to turn up to support the fund raising. 

Which we will next year. Heh. 

Doing some packing now which is quite a bother cos i still have school tmr so i have to bring the huge bag along. Will also be having a tutorial lesson at a doctor's clinic in the afternoon for human development and behavioral sciences. This tutorial will precede the family visit i soon have to do. Visit to a family with a new baby! Can't wait to play with the baby. :)
After the lesson which ends at 5ish we'll be catching the aircoach to the airport. 
Cant't wait to see what london is like! My friends know london well so theyll be bringing me around. Will take pics to share!
Oh, and my shopping budget is 150pounds btw, food inclusive. Accommodation will be free cos im staying at my friend's sister's place. 
Alright back to packing! Hope everyone's well and all the best to liyun for the A's!!!!!!! Hope she sees this.

Btw, the weather's getting worse. If its not wind its rain. And the wind drives me (and my hair) crazy. It chills you to the bone! And its not even winter yet. I really enjoy the cold, its refreshing and sometimes comfortable, when you're in a big coat and boots, but the WIND!!! Ultimate suckiest thing ever. The other day while walking to church it battered and bashed my poor new umbrella. My hair gets all tangled as well so i dont even know why i bother to comb it when leaving the house. Just something i have to get used to i guess. If singapore had one quarter of this wind it would be soo shiok. 

Oh, and one last thing. I did a humongous mountain of laundry today! And nothing got discoloured like how the second wash went (my white towel turned pink). Also washed the bedsheets and duvet and pillow covers and changed them. Now my bedsheets are forever friends which i so love because they came from home.

47 days till home! 47 days till i get to see everyone i love again, and eat all the things i miss so much.


 
 
Rachel Lim
20 October 2009 @ 10:59 pm
 I hate Physiology! It is driving me nuts. I just cannot understand action potential.
But Anatomy, i like! Had lab today and it was soo much fun as usual. I identifed the forearm muscles and can safely say that i know 80% of them already(:
Sorry guys for the lack of updates but i've been really really busy. 
I have had loads of fun too in addition to studies. Went to the Oktoberfest celebration and a Brazilian night thing on sat night!
Will post pictures when i can but not now. 
There's a physiology lab test tmr so i shouldnt even be typing this.
But i just had to complain about action potentials and the stupid sodium potassium pump. Will someone who can explain this to me please do so?
 
 
Current Mood: frustrated
 
 
Rachel Lim
10 October 2009 @ 05:39 pm
 Note to self:

Do not attempt to study on the bed, no matter how warm and inviting it looks.

 
 
Current Mood: awake
 
 

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Rachel Lim
21 September 2009 @ 10:15 pm
Hi everyone!
I am finally blogging. I know i havent kept my promise to blog here often but i'll try to cram as much as i can here right now alright.
After spending an amazing week with my parents (hope you've seen them on facebook!) it was a painful goodbye for me when they had to leave on saturday. It hurt so much you cant imagine it. Or maybe it's just me. But i have to say i love them so much. All that they did for me while they were here. They helped me get everything settled. Took care of my every need and right now it's just learning to survive on my own. The minute they left it hurt so bad i sobbed for a good 15minutes then i tried to distract myself from the loneliness by doing unpacking and tidying the room. Slowly but surely, the room is starting to become 'home' to me. Its like my safe haven away from everything. 
Pictures of the (already messy) room! 

  
 
  

Messy already! Even though its just the 3rd day but the cupboard's empty though. Oh and the annoying thing is my toilet flush spoilt so i need to wait for the mechanics to come tmr morning to fix it.


Anyway even though i mentioned that the room's my safe haven from everything it doesnt mean that i've been secluding myself from everyone. By God's Grace, i got an apartment with 2 other asians. One Singaporean and one Malaysian who're doing Medicine too. So far i've been hanging out with the Malaysian girl called Yun-ni and it's been great fun getting groceries together and cooking stuff. Today we went to Tesco and bought broccoli, mushrooms, garlic and apples, etc. Then we went back to make fried rice! Some pictures:

 
 

Presenting the masterpiece!



It was yummy! Glad that i have someone else who has the same tastes in food was me. So i wont be alone while cooking. And thats a big difference. Being alone and cooking with someone else.

Anyway i'm kinda lazy to type all the recent happenings out so i shall copy and paste from an email i sent to a few people. Cos its really the ame thing that i wanna share with you all. Hahaa please dont mind that!

It's about how God blessed me these two days by the way.

On sunday which was yesterday i was thinking of looking for a church to go to but i still didnt know who were Christian here and didnt dare to ask. A singaporean senior of mine whom i already met up with in singapore asked if i wanted to come to his house where many malaysians and singaporean medicine and dentistry students usually hung out. So i asked yun-ni to come along and it was really good meeting them. One of them (malaysian) was really nice. She's called Andrea. She studied medicine at trinity and is now working here. Yun-ni asked me along and we had a wonderful time and a good meal. It was so amazing because this lady is a Christian and although she was from malaysia half her life was spent in singapore so she could relate and talk to me. I wasnt supposed to be at the dinner but God made it such that i could go and it was so wonderful and comforting to find a senior who really loves dublin and is so settled here. And the best part is although she is malaysian she could relate to me because she studied in singapore. We had a wonderful(very ex) Jap meal which she insisted on paying for and some very nice icecream. Green tea! Then she brought us to see her church and showed us where another chinese church is. We also went into this pub for fun to listen to traditional irish music. It was very nice, people just sit down and listen to the live music. We bought half a pint of Guinness cos i wanted to try it! Hahah it wasnt too bad. Not as bitter as i heard it to be. We shared half a pint and then she sent us home. Will upload pictures when she sends it to us.

Yun-ni and i are thinking of going to her church this sunday. Very happy to have found such people here. And more so that it was so unexpected. Because i wasnt supposed to be at the dinner in the first place!

Today was an ok day. We went to school to attend an orientation talk and i almost fell asleep. The highlight was probably the buying of groceries and cooking! Also in school they had the societies out promoting their clubs. And i've joined a few so far, gotten freebies and am thinking of joining this thing called capoeira! Go google it. And also thinking abt joining some pilates class. But wont have much time to do all that also since school and lectures will be starting and i dont know how hectic it will be. Shall see how it goes!

Ok thats it for now shall update more when i can. I miss everyone so so so much. Sometimes when im alone i get these pangs of homesickness. More so when i skype with my family. That day when i saw my ahma on skype i cried. She told me to study hard and take care and eat well. But i am comforted that it can only get better not worse as i adjust and adapt slowly. 

Hope everyone's good and well. Take care people! (:
 
 
Current Mood: calm