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oh no...time really flies when u have nothing to do. today is the last day of my 1 week holiday. have to go back to the busy student life again tmr. waking up before the sun rise is just annoying especially when i usually sleep so early in the morning around 2 or 3am. anyway...life goes on! have to slowly get used to the life. i will be starting at 830 every morning from tmr. meaning i have to wake up at 7 to get ready. guess it's not tat bad after all.

now i'm looking forward to the holiday in june as i'll be goin back home!! my flight is on 9th june from christchurch - singapore - kuching and back from kuching on 28th june. at least there is sth to look forward to and not too far away. just another 7 weeks. and sban ppl comin over for a visit. there r 7 of them coming..so will be thinking where to bring them to. mostly just food ya :D such as... Klang bak kut teh...especially for hau chun!! haha...this photo is taken in kch so i'm sure u'll feel like home when u come over :))

just another random thought: sometimes no matter how close u get to know someone, if they didnt wan to tell u sth, it is just impossible for u to guess wad r they thinking. we r just human and we can read other's mind...u'll never know wad they wan and whether u did sth wrong to them or not. so sometimes it's just good to speak everything out, at least ppl know wad u r thinking, but not keepin everything to urself and making urself feel miserable. and at the same time, we dun live to make other ppl happy, we just cant think for others all the time when we make a decision lo. just know tat we r doin the right thing...tat's all!

My birthday this year was a great one just like any other years! Thanks God for His blessing for the previous year and everything that He has given to me. No grand celebration this year, but it is another memorable one for me as this is my 2nd birthday in Chch.

Thanks the Asian group ppl for the birthday surprise and birthday cake. thanks Andrew for such a creative birthday present.

Thanks Hendrick for the early surprise tat arrived few days before my birthday. thanks for the liverpool away euro jersey..i really like it...but next time dun spend so much money la. and also the wristband.

Thanks 14 Gloucester ppl for the birthday card and the wishes. thanks for the hand make card from Nee yi.

Thanks to Jason and Danielle for the cardcase and David and Josephine for the t shirt. although din know u guys for a very long time, thanks for the frenship and great to know u guys.

Got a parcel today from Gordon today...thanks for that eh, i'll make the green hot/cold pad to good use . like the tie and the card from you too...but why call me Ju Shi la? tak faham -.-"

Thanks Sze Siew and Kexin for ur cards and the converse polo T. appreciate it a lot and also ur hard work in making that card Kexin.

also thanks Chris and Christine, Hau Chun for the birthday card and wishes.

not forgetting everyone else who sent SMS or called me all the way from UK, Malaysia and Australia...really appreciate every single one of it. U guys brighten my day...

The list goes on, just wanna tell u guys that everyone of u means so much to me and i really appreciate our frienship..once again, THANKS for everything that u guys have done to me :)

after spending a week in haematology department, i get a week of holiday before i go back to psych attachment again. the holiday started with Grace and June's house warming on friday night.



after that everyone played a board game called cranium before the party ended at 11pm. more photos from John's picasa

and yes..that's my birthday last saturday!! decided to join the church camp on that day. was deciding btw attending the camp on my birthday or miss that to have some sort of celebration in the town. decided to go for the camp at last as i'm not tat keen on celebrating birthday anyway and also celebrate my new journey with God by attending the church camp :P the church camp was awesome at living springs, with nice view and environment. the ppl are nice and it's fun to get to go for a camp with some ppl tat i dun even know but get closer during the camp. lots of worship and sermons during the camp and also games...had lots of fun there. but at the same time it's really tiring cos been sleepin late at nite and woke up early during the camp.



more photos will be up when i get them from my frens...din take lots of photo by myself as there r couple of SLC camera around ! camp ended on tuesday. come back to the city...spending most of the time sleeping! finally recovered from sleep deprivation

finished my elective in haematology!! and 1 week holiday following tat. to start the holiday, i'm heading for a camp called LIVING SPRINGS which is organised by the church from tmr to the next tuesday!! (12 April - 15 April) see u guys again soon :D

today's my 2nd day of a week attachment in Haematology department which is mainly based at the health lab where they haf their outpatient clinic and also bone marrow transplant unit as the ward for the department. felt welcoming in the department as everyone acknowledge our existence there in the department. it was an interesting experience for me so far, as i get to see sth tat i've never seen before and learn sth other than the normal rotation we have. Haematology = study of blood.

for yest, i followed a registrar who was in charged of bone marrow biopsy. so i get to observe and assist in a few bone marrow biopsy taken from the patients both aspiration and trephine where a piece of bone taken out from the pelvic bone and also aspiration from the sternum. the patients didnt seem to be in too much pain as i expected...guess the LA was really working for them and i get to feel the bone using the needle and "drill" the bone with the equipment.

and this morning i spent the whole morning in the lab seeing how the blood tests being done and also do some of them by myself. they got a funky machine just last year which help to do most of the haematology tests by itself which is totally automated and efficient. it also make a blood film by itself. how cool is tat?

tmr will be hard for me as i have to be there in the ward at 645am which means i have to wake up at 530am n get ready to walk to hospital. so early...even before the champion league matches started. but i get the afternoon off after tat. so guess it's not too bad.

I'm enjoying haematology!! got a lil surprise yest!! :D thx!

陈:说我该怎么说我该怎么做
说与不说做与不做都是错
刘:错不只你一个至少还有我
你是什么终究是什么
陈:谁要别人为我设定的生活
谁会懦弱在别人胯底下作客
刘:面对我的右却是你的左喔
也许你的对却是我的错
陈:想说为何需要假装沉默喔
难道虚伪不是大奸大恶
刘:说我该说就说我该做就做
你我同在血腥淋淋的生活
陈:活已没有快乐失去了轮廊
连反抗也有一点笨拙
刘:别说救火的人也会被火灼
所谓解脱是放不下执着不去躲
刘:面对我的右却是你的左喔
也许你的对却是我的错
陈:想说为何需要假装沉默喔
难道虚伪不是大奸
刘:大恶 是错但听听我说
陈:别说 刘:别说
陈:别说 刘:别说
陈:就给我是我喔
合:兄弟一场从来不分你我喔
手足一双从来不分右左
朋友从来不用一份承诺
却也依然真心为我
刘:就你一个
陈:就你一个
合:就你一个

addicted to this song recently. can ask froggy if u do not believe. i've been playing this song every single day n every single time i on my laptop. this is the only song in my playlist for these few days...meaning the song keep on repeating all the time. haha!

watched the movie brothers by Andy Lau recently. well, nothing new about the plot and the cast, normal police against gangster story...but right after the movie finished..just felt different from other movie especially it ends with saying: brothers may seems to be going against each other, but they are still brothers inside their heart.


friends do not need a promise to be true heartedly towards each other. That's what a friendship is :)

til today I still dun understand why ppl have april fool on the 1st day of April when April is such a great month! anyway...why do we need a day to tell lie to everyone arround us n they are not allowed to get mad bcos of tat? tat's just mean....

anyway, been attached to psychiatry hospital for 3 weeks now. but most of the time i've been away from the hospital for tutorial and teaching. din get to spend much time in the hospital with the team itself. for these 2 days, i've had full days with the team but sad to say tat it wasnt productive for me either. my team onli haf 6 patients whereas the other teams all have 20++ patients. and since i'm in the team with psychosis patient, i din get the chance to actually talk and take history from them. was suppose to do a case this afternoon but the patient refused cos he is tired...according to him while lying under the sun. well...everything in tat hospital is just unpredictable. not liking the psych run so far but actually is more interested in psychology compare to psychiatry. dun like how they just wan the patient to take medication but din spend much time talkin to the patient. but yea...guess tat's one of the way to get them better as well.

after this week will be having a week of "elective". we were asked to write down 5 choices of the department or specialist tat we wan to follow for the week and they will assign us with the doctors according to tat. my choices are:
1. haematology
2. emergency medicine
3. ENT
4. Plastic surgery
5. Opthalmology
not sure which 1 i'll get yet. but guess they all will be quite interesting...hopefully!!

after tat we will be having a week of holiday. planning to join the church camp as well as a trip down to lake tekapo. 3 hours drive south from Christchurch. heard it is a really nice place. cant wait for travelling again...then back to psych again..will be attached to emergency psychiatry for 2 weeks before my osce n end of the run.

Events/places I must visit for at least once:
1. Military tattoo in Edinburgh
2. Rainforest music festival in Kuching
3. University of Otago main campus -_-"
4. 3rd world countries
5. Rescue team!!