Tuesday, 05 January 2010

  • Currently
    Psychology: An Introduction (8th Edition) w/CD
    By Benjamin B. Lahey
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    first week back..

    Tomorrow, I would have officially finished 1/10 semesters of my MBBS program at CUCMS! Technically I finished it last week, but it's only official once you've sat for the last exam. This is so awesome, when I joined, I never expected to survive a few weeks even, and my parents were all open with me switching courses if I ever had to (not that I had planned on keeping that as an option,really).
    Lets see, so far I've completed:

    Introductory to Medical Physiology
    Molecular Basis of Medical Biochemistry and Nutrition
    General Pathology
    Behavioral Sciences (as of tomorrow)
    General Anatomy (still a few more lessons to go,and I'll be done!)
    Clinical/Health Experience and Training( CHET )
    English For Specific Purpose 1 ( in my case its Mandarin 1, as of Thursday)
    Pengajian Malaysia
    Personal And Professional Development 1


    As for next semester, I'll have to sit through:

    Medical Microbiology & Immunology
    General Pharmacology
    Cardiovascular System
    Musculoskeletal System
    Endocrinology
    English For Specific Purposes 2 (Mandarin 2??)



    Its only the first week of 2010 and I've got finals tomorrow, assignments to hand in, Basketball finals (omg).

    But on the bright side, I got through drama audition, though most probably I'll just join the choir, but it's still something to color the grey pages of my second semester,which is supposedly going to be very challenging.

    I wonder how second, third, fourth and fifth year is gonna be like..

Monday, 21 December 2009

  • :)

    When dark clouds fill your skies
    Hiding sunshine from your eyes
    Say His name, see His form, hold on
    Hold on, Sai Ram
    Say His name, see His form, hold on

    When things are getting rough
    And you feel enough’s enough
    Say His name, see His form, hold on
    Hold on, Sai Ram
    Say His name, see His form, hold on

    When life seems so unfair
    And no one seems to care
    Say His name, see His form, hold on
    Hold on, Sai Ram
    Say His name, see His form, hold on

    Keep a smile and say I can
    Love and serve your fellowman
    Say His name, see His form, hold on
    Hold on, Sai Ram
    Say His name, see His form, hold on

    030

Thursday, 17 December 2009

  • Currently
    The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction
    By Fiona Bowie
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    Eat away!

    My eating habits are seriously off. Like WAY off.
    There was a time in school when I could go without eating a few meals a day surviving just on water and not feeling the want of food at all.
    I was never tempted by KitKat bars and Oreos (ice cream was always an exception). And during exam times, I would never eat my meals till I was done with whatever I was doing. Which probably explained how I lost tonnes of weight during PMR and SPM.

    However, since starting at TAR college, that will power sort of got pulverised. All the ice-creams and Mamee Monsters I had at TAR, the only person who probably would've beaten me in that feat was my brother. And now at CJ, I eat like all the time. In class, in the car, on the bus, at home, at the sports club though never at the bathroom,haha.

    Besides, when you go shopping, all the nice clothes on sale will always be of the smallest size.ALWAYS. And that used to motivate me last time not to pig out so much. But now I just narrow my eyes at the mannequins and walk over to the clothes for fat people. Lol, the exaggeration.

    But seriously, the food thingy is getting out of hand. Yesterday, when I woke up at 3 am to study for the Behavioral Sciences assessment, this is what I had to keep me awake.

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    Double sandwich, at 3am!

    And later we reached the exam hall at 8 am, only to learn that it had been postponed to 8.30. I then decided that the perfect breakfast would be ice-cream. For breakfast.

    What was I thinking??

    Well actually I know what i was thinking.

    At that time I was just ecstatic about it, until I bit off a huge chunk and accidentally swallowed it whole. As it was really quite a big chunk, it was just stuck at my throat, freezing my senses off and almost paralysing my larynx.

    OK exaggerating again.

    But it WAS quite bad. I was just rooted on the spot choking, gasping and flailing my arms. To think that I already have a phobia of swalling pills and capsules coz I always have had the perception that it was going to get stuck in my throat.
    And I was going to die of suffocation.

    Talk about classical conditioning, I think the next time I come across an ice-cream I might just start gasping.


    Shame.

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Saturday, 28 November 2009

  • Currently
    The Secret
    By Rhonda Byrne
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    Rubik’s Cube test

    Amazing article I found while I was perusing the old newspapers at home..........

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    I came up with a theory. The hypothesis is this: the faster a boyfriend solves the Rubik’s Cube, the lousier a boyfriend he will be. Oh yes, God is fair. When He bestows His creation with high IQ, he would spare the EQ for someone else.

    He beats me in Sudoku big time, traps me in Checkers and Chess and he always explains to me many things that I don’t know. He’s qualified for Mensa. He is fluent in more than a few languages.

    He can juggle eight balls. He comes out with original one-liners in every conversation. He can balance himself on a unicycle. And… ‘I love you’ is golded because you know he doesn’t say it to many girls because he generally thinks girls are annoying.

    Great. But most things come with a BUT. He is incapable of doing other simple things-- like sensing that you’re angry at him, not at the weather. And if he miraculously does, he’s at a loss because, gee, maths is so much easier to understand than girls.

    My friend and I were chatting and it was almost funny how similar both of our boyfriends are and how frustrated they made us. They admit that they are clueless about girls and so we must tell if anything is wrong.

    No, crossing your arms and pouting your lips would not do the trick. If you want the message to be send across clearly, you must pronounce these words slowly and clearly “I am angry at you”

    Also, it is necessary to explain why because chances are, he doesn’t know. And it better be a plausible reason (in his eyes) or he’ll ask in return, “You’re angry at me just because ________?” Ugh. How can they not know if they should ask any question at all, the question should only be “How can I make it better?” *smacks forehead*

    And no, I am not being a difficult girlfriend. *defensive*

    Okay, the problem with me is I don’t get angry. I just cease to care. But the problem now is, I am angry but I also want to care. Or do I? Gee. I’m so confused.

    Maybe I got angry one time too many. I don’t think I want ever feel this way again. It’s so helpless and unproductive.

    Oh. I bought a Rubik’s Cube at the flea market, just in case.

    Who says you can’t test whether a boy is perfect for a boyfriend?

    -Sara Khong-


Monday, 16 November 2009

  • Currently
    Climb
    By Miley Cyrus
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    All The Crappy Things

    Have you ever sat in front of the lappie and then realised you've forgotten what you wanted to blog about? Hate it when that happens.

    On another note, I've officially started Pathology and sadly I was made group leader of my group M20. This brings extra privileges such as staying up until 3 a.m. waiting for every donkey to hand in their lab report and making fifty calls to the pms-y mentor before our reflection sessions. Joy

    And to make things, if possible worse Lord Eczema (who usually can be compared to Hades when it comes to skin) has made its comeback.

    p.s: yeah tabby, I can't stop listening to Party in the USA either and I can hear it blarring from my housemates ipods as well -_-;;

Saturday, 31 October 2009

  • Prayer of Surrender


    Why get agitated? Let Me take care of all your business. I shall be the one who will think about them. I am waiting for nothing else than your surrender to Me, and then you do not have to worry any more about anything. Say farewell to all fears and discouragement. You demonstrate that you do not trust Me. On the contrary, you must rely blindly on Me.

    To surrender means: To turn your thoughts away from troubles, to turn them away from difficulties you encounter and from all your problems. Leave everything into My hands saying "Lord, Thy will be done. Thou think of it." That is to say: "Lord I thank you for you have taken everything in your hands, and you will resolve this for my highest good."

    Remember that thinking of the consequences of a thing is contrary to surrender. That is to say, when you worry that a situation has not had the desired outcome, you thus demonstrate that you do not believe in My love for you. You will prove that you do not consider your life to be under My control and that nothing escapes Me.

    Never think: How is this to end?... What is going to happen? If you give into this temptation, you demonstrate that you do not trust Me. Do you want Me to deal with it...yes or no? Then you must stop being anxious about it! I shall guide you only if you completely surrender to Me and when I must lead you into a different path than the one that you expect, I carry you in My arms.

    What seriously upsets you is your reasoning, your worrying, your obsession, your will to provide for yourselves at any price. I can do so many things when the being, as much in his material necessities as in his spritual ones, turns to Me saying: "You think of it." then he closes his eyes and rests quietly. You will receive a lot but only when your prayer will rely fully upon Me. You pray to Me when in pain so that I intervene, but in the way you desire it. You do not rely on Me, but you want Me to adjust your requests.

    Don't behave like sick ones who ask a treatment to the doctor, all the time suggesting it to him. Do not do that; but rather, even in sad circumstances, say: "Lord I praise and thank You for this problem, for this necessity. I pray You to arrange things as You please for this terrestrial and temporal life. You know very well what is best for me."

    Sometimes you feel that disasters increase instead of diminish. Do not get agitated. Close your eyes and tell me with faith: "Thy will be done. You think of it." And when you speak thus, I accomplish a miracle when necessary. I only think of it when you trust me totally. I always think of you, but I can only help you completely when you rely fully on Me.

    —Sathya Sai Baba

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

  • OMG,mishaps

     

    Today when we got back from our biochemistry class, this sight met us..

     

     

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    Apparently the last person who left the house didn't lock up at all. When we saw the grill open and the door ajar, everyone was just rooted at the spot taking in what we saw, and then there was this mad rush to get through the door to check whether anyone had been inside and stolen anything.

    Thank God nothing was gone and the house was intact. It was probably the scariest thing ever coz most of us just leave our laptops on the desk or on our beds.And how we could've forgotten to close the door is probably because no one really knows who leaves the house when, even though we all are heading for the same class coz we all car pool with people from different houses.

     

    And on another note, I managed to melt another tupperware, this time one of my mum's favourite ones.

    Oh she's going to be so mad.

    I've already decided that the microwave oven hates me; and yes I hate it too. Because I have never ever lived with one before, I randomly set the timer when i use it and that has resulted in two melted plastic tupperwares.And in yesterday's case it involved burnt cake as well. I have no idea why I was trying to heat up the cake but it left the acrid smell all over the house, and my housemates were NOT pleased at all,haha.

     

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    That's a bit of cake stuck to the melted plastic

     

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

  • Currently
    Ocean Eyes
    By Owl City
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    Started Biochemistry this week. So far it has been an absolute nightmare because there so many names to remember; from enzymes to drugs and cycles.

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    Glycolytic cycle  and Gluconeogenesis..(don't ask)

     

     But lectures on its own are quite fun because Dr. Noraini is rather entertaining as she keeps relating her experiences while practicing.

    Tomorrow will be our very first clinical visit! Well technically last week was the first but as we visited the Malaysian Federation of Deaf People, it doesn't really count (BO-ring, as we just walked around the office,we did meet a few deaf people though who communicated through sign language )

     

     


     

    Mansfield Park (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Jane Austen

    I bought Mansfield Park today- out of peer pressure. Though I haven't gotten past the cover yet thanks to all the assignments yet to be done.

     

     

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    The girl who put all the pressure, Najah. Actually she was just reading it until we started glorifying Jane Austen (as usual) so I had this gila desire to read it too.Haha yeah right,admist all the workload that would just be suicide.

     

    I realised how weird it was for most of mt housemates to loathe cats because usually Malays seemed to adore them..Hmm I guess you can never generalise..

     

     

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    The cat Atiqah (my first ever friend at CUCMS) and I encountered while jogging. Hehe not camera shy eh?

     

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    The look that says " I don't eat chocolate muffins you dumbo"

     

     

    And now to finish another long essay.Groan

     

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    • Name: Shalini
    • Metro: Kuala Lumpur
    • Birthday: 5/19/1990
    • Gender: Female
    • Member Since: 4/27/2004

About Me

  • Shalini enjoys blogging,reading,writing and YES sleeping.She does not aprreciate being reprimanded for no particular reasons (which happens all the time) and likes to live life according to her own frequency. Her views and principles take a huge turn very often though she denies all claims of being influenced easily. Sha loves being alone,yet hanging out with her friends and family(the extended ones too:) ).She's a weird type who looks forward to rainy mornings but not her birthdays.She likes partying,swimming,boating(anything that involves water).

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