Saturday, October 27, 2007

Shit...

When a shit thing happened in your life, nothing seems to excite you for long. At times when you are busy or engaged in fun activities, you might be withdrawn from that shit feeling for a moment or two, but when you are settled down, you thought of it always. It looms you, especially when you think it’s caused by your very own action. It haunts you. It lingers on your mind. That’s the reason I called it ‘shit’. Shit enough for my brother to say, “You are seriously 1x asshole.”
Maybe, things never go as soothing as I want it to be. Inexperience, laziness and assumption are killers that make our life screw up in a way that you could never imagine.
Well, to some, this shit thing might seem super unimportant; I am not diagnosed with cancer, neither have I failed some major exam, cheated by some guy, set a house on fire or go bankrupt due to gambling. Basically, I have just booked a plane that crashed with my exam. Yet, it’s not that simple, there is a whole story to tell. I don’t feel so shit for such a minute problem.
3 weeks before today, Mummy asked me to start to book tickets to return to Singapore during my Christmas holiday. I thought it was a little early but did as followed as she was definitely more experienced than me about plane bookings. I booked through a travel agent as I haven’t got my VISA card ready due to another stupid reason. (I thought it was unnecessary and hence procrastinated my application.) Everything was actually settled within a week, Mummy transferred money to me and I transferred it to the Four Season Agent HangSeng’s Bank Account. Yet, I thought that after I had transferred the money, my booking for the e-ticket would immediately be processed. In real fact, I need to contact the agent personally to confirm the air ticket. At the time of my realization, the agent told me that the plane on the 21th Dec (original booking date) was fully booked and asked me whether I can change it to 20th Dec. I replied with no worried as I thought that exams end on the 18th Dec (as printed on the exam timetable).
This week, my Anatomy teacher told me that Anatomy Lab is also on the 20th Dec and will be commencing at nine am. My flight is at 11am. Shit.
That’s the shit thing I am still thinking about. The agent fooled me that 21th Dec is fully booked, there are still seats available online! What the… …

Happy things.
Learnt rock n roll this Thursday with a super funny parthner.
Went to Aberdeen Centre for outdoor classroom. Did a Berg Balance test on the elderly and did exercises with them.
Got an A+ for Anatomy mid-term test and passed my Traditional Chinese Medicine!
Last lesson for aerobic dance; dance steps were jumpy and energetic. Love it.

Hope that I can successfully changed my tickets this coming morning.
Luckily, this shit things never built up to more shitty things.
God bless.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

juz thoughts @ the middle of the night.

Time flies before I realized that I have been back for almost 2 months. Nothing seems to have changed. To me, maybe, life without Mummy and Daddy wasn’t as comfortable as ever, the feeling of staying alone isn’t that bad either. Maybe, it’s basically because I’m still not alone. I have millions of support from my family, relatives, professors and even friends locally and abroad. Each played a different role in keeping me wholesome, unique, secure and safe. First, I am still not financially independent; Daddy is providing me more than enough money for my daily life and my school fees are all paid for without any unnecessary worries. Technology has enabled me to keep in contact with all my beloved family members in Singapore and the US. I am seriously blessed by this lovely family that never ever runs out of topics to discuss about. Daddy is getting cuter by each day and Mummy is able to make life happier and busier. No worries for them. Secondly, random chats with friends make me happy. We thought back about old times and complaint on common topics like how our JC teachers fooled us that university students have a better life than JC students. Teachers are all friendly and approachable. We have tea sessions which make us bond like close friends.
Here, I am given the opportunities to try out lots of activities, from dancing to being be an on-field physiotherapy. Many things actually make me happy. Tests and exams might seem trivial to me for a moment or two when I think about life. In the middle of the night, it might be more meaningful blogging or sleeping rather than studying about how neurons in our body actually work. It’s how you think that affect your emotion, how you want your life to go, how you balance your life that makes you who you are. Right? I have gone all the way Tuen Man today to support for our basketball team; at first when I was called, I felt that it was such a waste of time. Yet, after the match and after they won and after I see their smiles on their faces and how they approach us; I felt happy, contented. Life is that simple, isn’t it?
Today morning was my Generic Examination which consisted of 90 questions, so far, I knew I have got 4 wrong due to ‘low MQ’. I have read the answer somewhere and basically forgot about it. I will never ever forget that oropharynx is made up of stratified squamous epithelial and not pseudostratified squamous epithelial.

Life is simple. Live through it.

All universities students have their own struggle, I am struggling with Anatomy, Brother is struggling to get into some programme at Harvard and friends are struggling with lab reports. Who is not busy?

All adults have their own troubles. Getting a job, getting a house, a wife,children,pension… … or even universal suffrage.

My 5 years old cousin is going for lots of interview to fight for a place in primary school. Life is easy?

We just try to obtain fun in life without forgetting our responsibility.

Uncle Dennis and Gordon bought me an Ipod Touch for my commencement as an university student. Thanks a lot. Add to my list of motivation to work hard.
Everyone I know rocks. They fulfill my life.

3 tests coming. It's the sleeping time. 2.25am.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

updates

Being in a different place interacting with many different people seriously widened my horizon on things. People of different genres often have criticisms about eachother. They tend to find fault among themselves and make eachother into a joke in order to find entertainment in themselves. Yet, that's life. We need the elements of joy, melancholy and frustration all at the same time in order to make our life perfect.
Many often asked me the differences between Singapore and HK's educational system. Do I study even harder in Singapore compared to Hong Kong? I always tell them, primary school system in Singapore is definitely much slacker, seldom could one see children with piles of homework stacking up; they are always running around freely on standard foot-ball size fields. I couldn't make a comparision with universities because I wasn't in there before. So? I basically can't answer their question. Yet, comparing Physiotherapy course across 3 countries, including Singapore, Chiangmai and Hong Kong; the pace in HK is indeed much more intense. Despite that, students here are really active in extra-curriculum activities; which is often conducted at night.

The following is a slight comparison between HK and SG's modules for Semester One in Physiotherapy.

1) We have our own set of bones for Anatomy to bring home and Anatomy lab is opened for three nights for cadavers' exploration. There are quiz questions for us to complete. This greatly induces independent learning. Seniors are often stationed in those open labs to solve your question. Clinical Anatomy books and altas are there provided in the lab and bookstand are stituated on top of each of the 10 cadavers. This enabled us to read the text and locate the parts while exploring the bodies.

2) For Prinicipal of Practice in PT, notes are really well-organised; it states all the thing you need to prepare for each lessons. In just 3 weeks, we finished the MMT(muscle manual testing) and measurement of the ROM (range of motion) for the lower limb and moving on to the usage of equipments for excercises like the reciprocal pulley and sling. We were already exposed to the clinical assesment form and had a role play on how you go about assessing a patient. For example, how you can finish the MMT and ROM test without moving the patient into a different position each time. Moreover, our teacher likes to criticize the method in our Clarkson book and stimulate us in thinking of better ways in assessing the patients. Recently, we were told to go home and practise drawing different movements during stickman (there is a standard guide for stickman too!) so that we can draw it fast for patients when it comes to exercise perscription in clinicals.

3)For Movement Science (like Biomechanics and Kinesiology), we were exposed to all different kinds of equipments that are used in research to teach us about body movement. Things include the strain gauge and piezoelectric technology that used to view our ground reaction force in the study of human walking, the VICON machine to measure movement of the joints and the EquiTest system that test on our sensory organisation.

4) Con-currently, we have a subject called Generic Anatomy where we are given a whole general picture of Anatomy. Therefore, in some sense, we already have an idea of the structure of the whole body and hence you could find me studying the skull bones when I am actually doing on the lower limbs in Functional Anatomy.

5) As for Physiology, we have been touching on the nervous system for 3 consecutive weeks. hmm... More to go.

6) For my elective, I have chosen Traditional Chinese Medicine and Technology in China and is now struggling to understand things like Acupuncture Meridian that doesn't even exist in Anatomy. It's real interesting though. Just hope that I can get through the test next next week.

Lately, I have been attending the gym almost every mid-night. Well, I basically love the feeling of being healthy. It produces the hormone endorphins, remember? ^^

Aerobic dance started this Wednesday and it was seriously fun. It gave me the opportunity to jump about, unlike social dance that need me to control the movement, I felt a sense of freedom. At the end, there are cooling down exercises that lengthens my muscles. Bravo. Maybe, this shows that I am not at all graceful. (or everyone already knows that? haha.)The teacher looks werid with muscles and a big golden-framed spectacles but he is good in teaching. So, who cares?

This saturday was also the commercement of my Korean class. And the teacher was seriously funny and hence induced me to become funny too. I kept turning out with non-sensible answers that the teacher came forward to shake his hand with me. There are never wrong answers in a language class he said. Well, many of things he said actually stimulate me to think a lot. He told us that students shouldn't copy down notes because one will feel relief that he or she had everything down and your brain will not try to remember it. And that he despises American culture cause they do not even have a language of their own; their language originated from Rome. With a typical Korean look with squash eyes and muscular body, his humour and thinking added on to his charm. I am going to miss his lesson due to Anatomy make-up. Arr.

Tests are starting next week and I might be able to blog no more. Many activities had started and my nights are all occupied. Here is my schedule, just in case you couldn't find me. (Specially to Mummy,Daddy,Uncle Gordon and Aunt Bonnie who is always concerned about my whereabout)

Monday: Lesson Time (0830-1730)
Anatomy Lab (1800-2100)

Tuesday:Lesson Time (1330-1430)
STAR (Sport Training and Rehab) Gym Duty (1830-2100 :alternate Tue)

Wednesday:Lesson Time (1830- 1430)
Aerobic Dance (1900- 2030)

Thursday:First Aid class (1300-1600)
Social dance (2030-2130)

Friday:Lesson Time (0830-1730)
STAR (attached to Basketball) (19:30-21:30)

Yestersday was Polyu Info day. Repeated the same thing for thousand of times. Many who were very interested in our course was shocked by our intake score. Work hard and join us yea! Physio is fun! It's actually not that hard to get in.

Song of the week.


Artist: Richard Marx and Donna Lewis
Song: At the Beginning

Life is a road
And I want to keep going
Love is a river
I wanna keep flowing
Life is a road
Now and forever
Wonderful journey

GOGOGOGOGOGOOGOGOGOGOGO! Strive in Life!
Have Resilience in everything you do and started out with!!!
Love is all around.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

《Everyone is No.1》for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

By AndyLau


Motivation!!!


The following are songs that can touch my heart and that I have been listening to day and night. ^^
Is your taste same as mine?

Everytime we touch
By Cascada

Think of you
By Tata Young

十分.愛
By 鄧麗欣 方力申