CA is coming....

Continuous assesment... is on next week...

getting a little tensed up

everywhr can c fellow batch mates studying

in room, house, library, study area

basically us batch 14 are colonizing places like library and study areas for this 2 weeks

as we see some rare faces appear (like me lor)

at ths comfortably air conditioned places (our rooms aren't)

neways...

praying that i'll pass for this first assesment

as i'm not even as half prepared as my other friends are

i admit i've been slacking a lot

and a bit last minute

though that's no excuse for not performing well

sighh


time to sleep for today...

tmr really must concentrate on studying

n not let my mind drift off to random stuffz!!

Before attempting to read the following, please note that 'cadaver' means dead bodies, especially intended for dissection

For the past week, my lecture hours are sorta like this:
monday 8am-4pm (2 hours blanked=free!!)
tuesday 8am-5pm (3 hours blanked)
wednesday 8am-11am (no msian studies, hehe!)
thursday 8am-12pm (1hour of msian studies in between again)
friday 10am-3pm (1hr for lunch)

well, at least that's for the past week. I can't imagine when EVERYTHING like tutorials and labs are ALL on for the week which means:
monday 8am-4pm
tuesday 8am-5pm
wednesday 8am-5pm
thursday 8am-4pm
friday 8am-3pm

IN COMPARISON, imu is SO RELAXING MAN!!!!

wide eyed enough now??? the terror~~~ the terror~~~ aaaa~~~~~
like going to work liddat wan.... o.O

Subjects taken at the moment include physiology, world religions, biochemistry, microbiology, anthropology, epidemiology, ENGLISH for general academic purposes (cis!! cis!!), anatomy/histology, and that's basically it!
PHEW!!!!

well, it has yet been another generally uneventful week, excluding the weekend of course.

We had histology lecture and then practical after that on thursday. As me and my siao fren were too incompetent to make full use of the ONE HOUR (ONLY you know!!) time, we got hold of one of the lecturers and enquired more about viewing the slides at other hours. just to make sure we can do it and how we go about it lah.

And so, happily and merrily, on friday, after class, n after jo going to ibs, n after me n ttx-the library, we reached the medic building again at around 340. Thus, beginning our quest for further knowledge!! (chill lah, please bear with me for a while)

When we 'obtained contact' with the lab assistant, he was ever so kind n helpful (i'm not being sarcastic here) and got us the slides without much fuss so we could dissect all the info we can get get from the slides asap. So off we were to the anatomy dissection hall to observe the slides lor.

Upon entering the 'discussion place' or whatever it is called lah, an array of colours belonging to cadavers caught our eye!! and we were like oomphing and aaahing over our new discovery, i mean what are the chances of stumbling across em when we wanna 'revise' histology kan?? we've only had one encounter with them during the introduction to anatomy lecture! so can't blame our 'enthusiasm'??

But still, we resisted the urge and temptation to 'fondle' and 'caress' quite well, and went on with what we were SUPPOSED to do-TENGOK SLIDES! So, ttx had her turn first, since she was unwell the day before and basically was blur and not within herself.

Then, the lab assistant (for anatomy and not the histology one as before) dropped in to get to know us, then once he mentioned the word GO (albeit in a different, not that direct phrase as this), me n jo fast fast rush beside the place where the cadaver parts are placed and touch here and there lor (with bare hands, mind you). Suddenly, after talking about some of the body parts, Mr. J dug up the inner organs of the male cadaver to show us its spleen i think?? well, i forgot which but then we also dared to get messy lor after he did that (and after we requested for permission lar, haha) so see here n thr, poke here n there, feeling the texture, toughness, blah blah blah blah and other boring stuffz.

Oh ya, i also had the chance to see the cross section of a female upper body too. With which me n jo puzzled upon which organ was intended for which structure/function- more specifically near the pelvic part. ahaha... mainly cos i thought that the ovary didn't look like the ovary and etcetera lah. Mr J clarified my doubts as soon as i asked though. hehe. He's so helpful to us students wan, wah v good lah, i like, (actually almost all the staff here like that wan lor) we are definitely lucky to have these ppl man...

Note: this is an edited and modified version. Incident regarding little visit by other batch mates were omitted to facilitate a shorter and pleasant story.


A change of topic!!

I had my first visit to central square, sg petani on saturday, after replacement classes for raya. :)
Twas actually nothing to be so excited about. It's something like the not yet expanded days of bintang plaza, only worse. Very chap n messy lor the place, at the slight bit of stairs leading up to the bowling area, the sight that beholds you is- cigarrete butts on the ground and a whole bunch of hooligan looking malays sitting there too.
(i don't really have a thing against malays, cos i love afiq n sitia n izzaidin n khalid n syeeda n ain n all the gang last time lar, n some of the girls that let me have a chair during one of the meal times. so you see, i'm okay with malays man!)

Oh yeah it was kinda of a culture shock being there cos it's predominantly indian ethinicity you see in aimst and the chinese, second. THE POINT IS, it's messy bcos of the ppl that messed up the place, the lots placing being a bit too crowded for me, the narrow walkway, dizzyingly complicated locations of elevators and stairs, ppl everywhere due to it being a public holiday, lousy air conditioning system and er, that's basically it gua??

Things i do like about it: watson's and guardian is there!! there a great chinese eatery called mr. choo's!! me, jess n hs were totally stuffing food down our throats for AUTHENTIC FIT FOR HUMAN FOOD!! and we kept to the 'now THIS is food fit for humans' phrase everytime a dish is served. hahaa! that's how bad we think about aimst food. which is edible, but not entirely enjoyable everytime. we'll survive, n for me, get fat!
oh and there's secret recipe and another place called 'meteor rain' in chinese that i have yet to check out. (mana tau kan the secret recipe here is lousy bah, haha!!)

SO BEHOLD, the FATTER karen, coming back to miri for cny!!! muahahaha!
(which is absolutely due to the oily food in campus okayyyy, serious!!!)

Bah, it's so late already, and yet tmr early morn got cell group! oh gosh, i forgot to talk about the amazing service i had on friday night!!! sien. nvm lah, the most important thing about is: AWESOME! not exactly like acts lah, but something like it?? :)
i duno but i feel at home (or at least for now lah)
will continue to observe and check out other places.



Until next time~~
:)

Toodlelooos~~~~

Absolutely refreshing air from Cameron Highlands

This is a delayed post. :P

i never knew smelling the smell of tea in the air that is due to live trees that provide the tea leaves was possible... i mean... so strong wor the scent?? until i reached this plantation...
eensy weensy flowers amongst the tea leaves
breathtaking view man...
this is my uncle colin... muahahaha
and this is his lil gurl....

didn't manage to get a real nice proper pic of the pretty lady in front who's his life companion tho

FLOWERS!!!

THIS IS MY FAV PIC!!! LOOKIE AT THE BEE~~

buzz buzz~~~

it would do no justice if i didn't put up the national flower-hibiscus/bunga rayalain kaler punya bunga raya

many many round bunga of different kaler~
duno wad kind of bunga is this actually. haha
view from the top (well almost lah)
pink hibiscus
white hibiscus at night... CONTRA kan?? heheheh

wahh.... bunga kubis oso got so many kaler wan man....
teeny weeny tomatoes n dried dried fruits
strawberries found EVERYWHR....

ambik sepuluh paket, rm12. nyaman-nya~

ok~ balik sudah!!

Driving back dy...........

----i wan the cold cold air of cameron highlands again!! boohoohooo----

Birds also likey me

Partly uric acid.

Source: birdey birdey flying around the cafeteria

Of flies and insects

Insects like to commit suicide in my presence

Proof:

Suicide number 1: During early morning cup of milo. TWO flies sharing the tomb of one

Suicide number 2

Suicide number 2: original deathbed

Miri-changes??

I went to Miri City Fan this evening with my 2 sisters, Audrey and Annie.

Lo and behold, we stumbled into a mini mat rempit gathering a few minutes after we were there!!

They started their lil 'gathering' at the the pathways around the middle of the square-ish stage thingie!!

One by one, vroom vroom into the PARK with MOTORCYCLES!!

hello, people?? it's a park! it's meant for recreational activities not meant to involve motorcycles that plague our lungs with carcinogens!!

How has miri changed?? Or maybe it's just that i never realized their EXISTENCE?

the other one encounter i had with them was when i was out at the saberkas night market

on another unrelated note, flying in less than 12 hours!! and not even half finished my packing.......

Biting Frenzy

I've always been plagued by mosquitoes back home in Miri. Especially the first few days/2weeks that i'm back.


It's almost like a ritual! A not very good one of course, as those bite numbers can reach more than 10 in just ONE limb. so that's 40 for my hands n legs, plus some on my neck/face other parts etc......

Look at the hutan behind that fence.

No wonder my house=breeding ground for mosquitoes

Boulevard Miri's Smart Ice??

Today, kena tarik by chua yy go out whole day! Actually it was supposed to be a 'date' between him and his studentS one... who knows??

"Karen, will u PLS PLS go out with me. i don't want to do alone. "
"I DON'T WANT!" x100 times

another day out with cyy, geoffrey bd, eric
"pls la... go la....." x many many times
"if gbd go, karen will go"
"if eric go, gbd oso go"
eric:"see first"

in the end: karen, geoffrey, cyy go. eric lesap.... =.="

aft watch movie n eat kfc, went to boulevard miri's "skating rink"

amazingly mind bogglingly terribly frank punya opinion: nv coming back hr to play man!!

Boulevard's so called 'ice skating' rink is like this
charges: for 45 minutes, rm5 on weekdays, rm7 on weekends/hols
the 'foot apparel': smtg like roller blades, minus the brakes, plus the centre part of the wheels touching the ground got this strip thingy duno for wad lah
the 'ice': supposedly called smart ice. low maintenance one. anyway da point is, it doesn't feel like skating on ice!! more like rollerblading on REALLY smooth surface

wad lahhh ice skating... put on da newspaper so big i tot was real ice skating.... mana tahu is 'smart ice skating'

=.="

really i'm nv going back leh. go back pyramid ice skate better

Teaching?

For those who have yet known, I'm currently temp-ing (being a temporary teacher) at SMK Chung Hua Miri, and have been doing so for the last 2 months actually. Just wanted to share some interesting info that i've gathered...

As I usually sit in for absent teachers that have either gone on sick leave/course etc, I had the oppurtunity to go to various classes, from reform to form 6 (some of them are like my age??), from A classes to K and L classes, but have not certainly covered ALL though.

In general, the upper form science stream students are generally not THAT 'kepo' about all the particulars of the teachers that come in for a brief stint. Even the most talkative of students, mostly keep to their own gang. Do note that even science stream students can be quite challenging to handle sometimes when they get over the teacher's head.
On the other hand, the upper form art stream and lower form students take quite a lot of interest of any new teacher that they might come across and will do their best in the interrogation session. Questions can range for the most basic background info to outrageous ones that I'm thinking twice about talking about it.
Oh well, the only reason i can think about their 'attitudes' lower form peeps and arts stream playful students are still much more in their 'carefree' days in comparison to the upper form science stream peeps...

How I miss being THAT carefree... or am i not now?? hmmm.... No idea...
Oh ya, many students very 'kurang ajar' nowdays y'know.... Sigh... Kids nowadays... But of course there some exceptions that i've come across and i happen to like them okay....

oh yes, another thing. Lousy class don't mean all of 'em are lousy students. A few are actually quite good natured/willing to help/listen/make an effort in their studies. AT LEAST they do something with their life!! Not like those who are actually really smart, BUT..... *shakes head*
Those who just waste their life are the most hutang pukul one... It's not as if they're stupid. And even if they REALLY suck in studies... attitude baik sikit lah.... eesh bah...


hmm... i just realized this is so outta topic.

:P