2007 – A year that meant so much to me is going to come to an end. It’s a year of change, a year which I have truly grown and matured. I wish time can stay still for a moment or two, long enough for me to reflect on this meaningful year of my life.
I started off this year as a
Volunteer at Tan Tock Seng Hospital Employed as a Physiotherapist assistant at the outpatient department Receiving satisfactory grades for my A levels Entering NYP Physiotherapy Touched and feel the first cadaver of my life Joined a school tour to Chiangmai University Knew my first Thailand friend Moving to Hong Kong Entering Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Physiotherapy Lived alone for 4 whole months Learned aerobic, social dance, jazz dance, yogalates Learned the Korean language Won my first swimming medal Moving on to be an on-field sport physiotherapist Did taping on my first athlete named Vincent Had my craziest examinations ever Took a flight all by myself Travelled to Penang with my lovely family Knew loads of great friends and professors!
That ended 2007.
In the new year 2008, I'm moving on to the 20th year of my life. Lots of wishes in my heart! Hope they will come true; hope that yours will come true too! Penang Trip Part 1
Finally, I met up with my secondary school clique! Although we didn't manage to get a place at Settler's cafe; we had a great feast at Aston Specialists before we went crazy at the Christmas Tree in front of Parkway Parade. Life is never boring with great friends around; especially friends that grew up with you; friends that know you so well! Merry Belated Christmas!
Stayed at home and surfed the net on Christmas Day. Watched X'mas videos and felt really great! People around the world enjoy X'mas so so much!
At night, my brother and I cooked our SPECIAL X'MAS MEAL! Success! Served with red wine. x1000 niCe!
Me making the Mashed Potato! Brother cooking the mushroom to make the white sauce for spagetti! ^^
The traumatizing, exhausting, arduous week has finally come to an end. Life has never been so difficult as a student in my past 19 years of life. The expectation was just simply exorbitant. Our department should have expected us to be an extraordinary being or have expected us not to do very well. 4 exams in a row seem normal to a student who has already survived through his or her A levels exams. Yet, my experience now is so different from the past. Study break and tips are non-existence. The contents of the subjects are unimaginably extreme. How could our seniors have survived this great wave in seminar one? The difference lies in the one addition subject for us – Generic Anatomy (a compilation of things that one has to study in medicine school.)! This might be a factor that put us into a higher level of exhaustion and lead us to a point of collapse. Our accumulated tiredness throughout the months, adding on the stress this few weeks, our bodies have seriously reached a point of fatigue.
Yet, I am still in front of desk, reading through my textbook that is of 1209 pages; trying to memorize muscles, nerves, arteries, veins, fascia, joints that are of such great importance for us. The day to return home seems so near and yet so far.
Life recently has been sickening. My brain has not been concentrating for the past hours; I have been thinking a lot of things. Things that can get me out of this miserable week: to celebrate and get crazy with friends, to stroll on the beach with my family, swimming in Penang with my brother, to find a guy for me to love and lean on. Daddy said that I should blog when I am bored, when I am down; so here I am writing this, to get myself out of frustration. I am actually studying Functional Anatomy now, something that I enjoyed extremely; but now seems to be the wrong time. I simply need a break, a really long break, long enough to get myself out of the traumatized state.
Back to study. Do concentrate. I can’t afford to not do well for the subject I like. Am I expecting too much out of myself?
P.S. Broke my recording of sleeping time before exams. Stayed up for the night for Generic Anatomy Exam.(slept for 1.5 hrs)
One of my classmates noticed that there are tips for other departments taking the same subject; they decided to hold a referendum on the exam. Here is the details! :D
Somethings to destress during exam period. Everyone is studying so hard. 5 more exams to come. Jia you!
Exam Timetable
Tue: PPTP(prinicple of physio practice) theory pp Wed: Physiology Written exam (40 MCQ + 4 essays) Thurs: PPTP practical exam (Ambulation, transfer, MMT/ROM/ex of UL and trunk) Fri: Generic Anatomy (100 MCQ + 100 fill in the blanks) Nxt Tue: Functional Anatomy (MCQ + 5 problem based essay qns) Nxt Thurs: Functional Anatomy Lab Exam (100 Qns) Nxt Friday:Back to Tanah Merah Kechil.:D
Great stress! Huge amount of energy, brain power, determination and resilience needed. The worst is yet to come.
This is sooo cute!!! I learnt how to draw Doraemon since I was Primary 6!!!! It's like one of my symbol!
Another version of the word F**K! Soo fun! Well, it can use for easy learning of English!
Last lesson of PPTP, ending with the trunk! We have finally learnt the exercises, ROM, MMT of the whole body! Practical exam on Thurs!!! :P. Everyone is so not paying attention. I feel that Shirley should be more strict like Dora. Student, afterall, needs some control. :D
I wanna go sing now!!!!!
The following are the keywords for the chapter on Nervous System for Generic Anatomy. Understand and know how to spell them all. There are 13 more chapters to go. PT students, JIA YOU lo!
The Nervous System
1) Locomotion, conduction, reflexes (involuntary) 2) Medullary cone:S1-S2 3) Cauda equine: L5-S2 4) Denticulate ligament 5) Ventral, dorsal, lateral horn, central canal, gray commissure 6) Ventral, dorsal, lateral column (funiculi) 7) Dorsal root ganglion: somtosensory neuron 8) Ascending tract: 9) Dorsal column: Cuneate fasisculus, Gracile fasisculus; 10) Ventral,Dorsal spinocerebellar tracts; 11) Anterolateral system: spinothalamic tract, spinovesticular tract 12) Descending tract: 13) Lateral, ventral corticospinal tract 14) Lateral, medial reticulospinal tract 15) Lateral, medial vestibulospinal tract 16) Nerves - endoneurium –perineurium- epineurium 17) 31 pairs of spinal nerves 18) Proximal branches: dorsal, ventral roots 19) Distal branches: dorsal, ventral ramus; meningeal branches 20) Ventral rami branches/ anastomoses: Cervical, brachial, lumbar, sacral, coccygeal plexus 21) Reflex arch: 22) Somatic receptors- afferent n. fibres-integrating centre- efferent n. fibres- skeletal muscle 23) Paraplegia 24) Quadriplegia 25) Hemiplegia 26) Cerebrum: longitudinal fissure; frontal, parietal, occipital lobe; Central,lateral sulcus; gyri; cerebellar hemisphere 27) Insula – corresponding function? 28) Rostral/ caudal 29) Brainstem 30) Gray matter: Superficial, cortex, nuclei, dendrites, synapse, neurons cell bodies 31) White matter: Deep, bundles of axons(tract), myelinated 32) Periosteal, meningeal layer; dural sinus: tranverse, superior sagittal sinus; falx cerebri, tectorium cerebelli, falx cerebelli; arachnoid matter, pia matter 33) Basal nuclei – motor learning- deep n lateral to the thalamus 34) Brain centres : (Can Pass Gp) Caudate nucleus, Putamen, Globus pallidus 35) Limbic system: Cingulate gyrus, Amygdala, Hippocampus – emotion, learning, gratification,aversion 36) Post central gyrus: Primary somesthetic area 37) Pre central gyrus: primary motor area 38) Central lateralization: Diff function on each hemisphere; categorical hemisphere; representational hemisphere 39) Brainstem: Diencephalon- midbrain- pons- medulla oblongata 40) Diencephalon- thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus 41) Cerebellum: white matter (arbor vitae), vermis, gyri(folia), purkinjie fibres(balance), deep nuclei, superior/inferior cerebellar peduncles 42) Alzheimer disease: memory loss, degenerate of the celebral gyrus, hippocampus 43) Parkinson’s disease: paralysis agitans, loss of motor function, degenerative substantia nigra (dopamine releasing cell) 44) Visceral reflex- detect- stretch, damage tissue, temperature, blood chemicals, internal stimuli 45) Autonomic reflex arc: Baroreceptors- through glossopharyngeal n. to medulla oblongata- vagus transmit s to the ganglion of hear – decrease heart rate etc. 46) Neural pathway of ANS: preganglionic neuron ( soma in brainstem, spinal cord), postganglionic neuron (soma in the ganglion to target cells) 47) Nerves exiting ganglia: spinal nerve route- sympathetic nerve root- splanchnic n. root (pass sympathetic & collateral ganglion)
P.S. HAPPY BRITHDAY BROTHER GOAT!!!!!!
Hope you find your dream girl soon!!! GPA 4.0! See you soon! :D JIA YOU FOR EXAMS n PROJECTS!
Hahahahahaha! This song is the song you sang during your A STAR ceremony! I thought of you nodding your head on the stage. hahahaha.
My Jazz Dance teacher combining all the dance steps she taught us the previous lessons! Perfect moves.I can't really do the last few parts smoothly though! You can find me in background too! Yesterday was the last lesson. SOB!
Cleared Movement Science (biomechanics) and Science and Technology and environment in China (electives) Exams today! Yea!
Bought a jacket for myself.
Last lesson of Yogalates too.
Semester coming to an end soon. Gonna miss it alots. Yet, I can't wait to return to Singapore! 16 more days! 6 more exams to conquer! Jia you la, everybody!
