Polyu Education Info Day!

Info day 2008!
Some Kongfu guy trying to show the spirit of the school. It was rather funny though.


To physiotherapy Department!
World Class. Be part of it. "Touching life, making an impact"
Top course in our university. Full employment. Extreme stimulation.


Our cardiopulmonary room!
That's where I was stationed and hence all pictures were taken in here. heehee

1.Graduating student demonstrating suctioning.
2.Dr Jack Lai explaining neuro stuffs to Raymond at the spirometry station.
3.Anatony explaining postural drainage on babies! That's my station! ^^
4.Shadow explaining about Breath sounds.

Shadow and Me! ^^

1.Us with our respective models.
2.Bronchial of the lungs!
3&4. Us performing auscultation!

Shots with friends. ^^

1.KY and Grace.
2.Me and KY.
3.Me and Howah
4.Me and yr 1 Mandy.

Model of the Cardiopulmonary system!
I love models! I hope I can do one on my own. :D


Chest X-ray station.
Grace covered with blanket. :P


The Finale. ^^


This morning, I dropped by Neurolab for to finish up the drawing for my brain while Doctor He gave us a stimulating talk about the brain.
He emphasized the fact that we actually need at least 12 hours of sleep in order to repair our brain each day. However, with the invention of light, all humans have been getting sleep deficient! Moreover, with the advancement of new technologies, we continues to have an increase in lifespan despite the unknown damage we are causing our brain. This actually explains for the increase of the number of neurological problems arising in recent decades. The signs and symptoms can include a bad memory and loss of reflexes when we are old. Yet, humans have always thought that it is a normal sign for aging. If damage is done to the cortex, Dr He mentioned that it could still be fine as we could still survive without some motor and sensory function, however, if damage is done to the limbic system; we could fall into medical conditions like depression that could actually affect our survival on Earth.

So sleep more! Be nice to our neurons in our brains! ^^
:D
Another masterpiece of mine!
Horizontal view of Section 5 of the brain.

Memories are actually stored between synapses in the cortex.

This week at school.

During Musculoskeletal class on Thursday.

Carina's artwork on Joey Lumbar Back!
A wrong presentation of the surface anatomy of lumbar spinous process. haha. It was rubbed off my our teacher immediately after a good laugh. :D

Our teacher, Nicola, wrote this on Chung Fung's back after individual teaching!
Beckham's tatoo when he was in HK! haha.

Me being manipulated by Yoyo.
See Yoyo(behind) is preparing to crack my spine!


During Cardiopulmonary classes on Wednesday.

It was also a day that I looked at almost over 50 Chest X-rays. It took Professor AJ over 1.5 hours to get through everything. We were all bombarded. Oxygen therapy required. :P

Me doing percussion on a baby.

Sharon explaining on the procedures.
Classmates all holding onto our dear babies. ^^



Yoyo treat!
Congrats on your scholarship. ^^


P.S. Plus intensive kick boxing class and intriguing Magic class at night.

As for now, I ended my weekdays by studying the auditory and vestibular system and the procedures for suctioning. Time for bed. Cheers.

A really good video on SUCTIONING!

Jason Chan 陳柏宇 - I Miss You

誰會為愛人 不惜一切　
而我或太傻　愛你願放棄一切
朋友亦叫我控制　
說放膽愛別失勢　
我不想給歪理來蒙蔽
容我愛你深不見底


#I Miss You 感動你　這份愛　太神奇
真心來溶化你　誰要勉強假裝愛理不理
我只想 保護你　發誓要　你歡喜
不必刻意　無需構思　
坦率對著你說一句　I Miss You #

Baby I Miss You

誰可使我 超出估計　
如今腦海裡 有涉及你的一切
朋友亦叫我控制　
說放膽愛別失勢　
我不想給歪理來蒙蔽
容我愛你深不見底

Repeat #

Oh Baby, One day I'll walk away
How can I face this lonely day
Deep in my heart ,I pray everyday
We can last , till the end of days


Repeat #

Baby I Miss You
I Miss You


^^ Click here for the MV version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GfIbg5Hcxc

Swimming Gala 2008!

My Bronze medal for swimming competition this year!
The winning teams got hold of people from HK swim teams which made it quite unbeatable for us! It was real cool that we managed the 2nd runner up placing. ^^


XueMin Hallmates here to support us!!! ^^ ^^

Receiving the prize...:)


After 4 nights of trainings, it had finally come to end today. It was really shocking to meet real strong opponents (members of the HK swim team), yet, it was a whole new experience. This time, I swam with a posture that was so different from that of the past 16 years. Although our team got little disheartened due to the unexpected, we were still happy with what we have gotten. Cheers.

Finally, I am settling down. No more high level of stress till exam periods next month. I gotten to catch up with my work that has piled up over the week. I can stop worrying that my menstruation would come during important events. I can resume my stretching regime, stone for a while and catch up with some sleep.

Today marks another new start for my new school year. I got to stop dreaming in class and response more to my teachers. Train up my muscle and pass my Pilates foundation course in 1.5 months time. Finish my assignments before it comes crashing with my mid-term exams and Daddy's arrival. I got to focus. The irritating time table is making me hard to focus. I got to find a way to do it.

Tonight is also the last night in 2008 that I would be saying Good night to someone in the appropriate time zone. All the best to the new school year ahead!^^

Time seems to pass so quickly for some things and so slowly for some other things. Maybe, that just makes our journey to Earth real interesting.

P.S. Dunno why my heart feels totally weird today. It's missing sth that I dunno what. Or is it PMS I am getting? It's the 29th day of my cycle. :P

This week at school!

Huge spider appear in lecture
A spider of a hand size with long slender leg was crawling around during neuro lecture, creating a huge chaos. What a scene!

Yoyo treated me with Black pepper beef baked bread!
*direct translation from chinese* :) The bread was too dry though.


PT Diagnosis & Management of Cardiopulmonary Diagnosis!
Joe, Danny and me on the incentive spirometers.

Incentive spirometers encourage sustained voluntary inspiration to a maximal inspiratory volume with an open glottis. The design allows the ball in the 1st chamber to be raised by the top by an inspiratory flow of not less than 300mls/sec. 2nd chamber --600mls/sec. 3rd chamber --1200mls/sec.
Remember that holding the ball up is more important than the number of balls raised!

Yoyo on the Inspiratory Muscle Trainer


Me on a Nebuliser!
Notice my face is getting red! I know why too, it is not supposed to be the effect of the mask!


Mad people from SAO doing some fake singing!
It was so funny.

Mid-Autumn Festival Holiday

Lighted Rabbit on My hostel window!
Last year, I played rabbit lantern with Elaine on Mid-Autumn Festival, this year I decided to make a bear for new roomie but she wanted a rabbit! So here it is!

Shots of the happy us
It has just past mid-night. Sometimes, we can just enhance our life by creating fun out of it. Cheers to Mid-Autumn. It's time we remember those we miss in a land far far away.


Pretty girls plus cutie bunny.
What a nice combination! :P


3 Big Bunny! ^^ ^^ ^^

When the lights are on! That's us!


Young and old cousins.

1.Kevin asking me to teach him White Black Chess! He tried to cover his face in this shot but to no avail. heehee.
2.Kevin playing on memory game.
3.Cousin Will with new baby and Kevin!
4.New anxious Daddy holding the yawning child. ^^

Close up on new baby boy. ^^
Gotta be an Aunt now! :D


That night! Strawberry 冰皮月饼!!!
It was so yummy! Thanks Auntie Bonnie who bought it specially for me. ^^


That ended Mid-Autumn Festival great. But it kind of make me miss home once again.

靜夜思 李白
床前明月光，疑是地上霜。
舉頭望明月，低頭思故鄉。
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Clinical Neurology & Neuroscience

Neuro Lab today.

1.Me with brain matters
2.Me looking at neurons and brain cells under the microscope.
3.Classmates engrossing in drawing the human brain. Brains of cadavers can be noted on the top left on this pic. Gotta to explore them next class! ^^
4.A simple model of a typical neurons.

Human head with brain dig out by insane PT students.

Me with Jimmy at Y 1444.
Jimmy has brought me through my Year 1 Anatomy. I should thanks him a lot for teaching me the origin and insertion of every single pieces of muscle in our body. I have gotten an A+ grade for you! :D

I really like dear Jimmy.
His arm is broken! SOB! What a big scarify! You are my hero!

My 1st detailed brain drawn in class today!
The small brain model accompanied with it was bought at HK Space Museum last year; it actually took me quite some time to fix it! The unimaginable complexity of our brain.


The current HK weather!
My brother once said that HK was not a place for humans to live in. I have to agree it today or even for the past few days. I wanted to go to the park today but look at the weather condition! The following pics are taken from the window of my hostel.

Hand - Splinting & other assistive devices class

PT Diagnosis and Management of Musculoskeletal Function Dysfunction
Making of the boxing gloves!
Boxing gloves is often used to provide firm and even compression to all parts of the hand, usually immediately after surgey or in case of acute trauma, where the hand is in acute swelling.

1.Hand should be placed in Intrinsic Plus Position. (Wrist extended,MCP flexed, IP extended)
2.Gauze or cotton ball is put between the fingers and thumb.
3.A big lump of cotton to be inserted into the palm for support.
4.Wrap with 1st layer of bandage (non-elastic), making sure it crosses the 1st web-space as shown! ^^

Making of boxing gloves II

My Masterpiece on Yoyo!
1st ever Boxing Gloves made in my life.

YoYo!
I told her to show the power of my gloves!


Resting Splint for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome patients
In hospital, these splints are usually made by the Occupational therapists but our school is teaching us to prepare us for setting up our own clinic! :)

The pictures are quite explanatory ya!
1-2.Design the splint on paper and then trace out the paper pattern onto the orthoplast sheet.
3-4.Preheat the orthoplast sheet to 72-77 Degree Celsius before cutting!

To speed up our process, we actually turn the temperature up to 200 degree celsius, steam filled the room and my partner distorted the shape of my plastic. I made one really nice one though! ^^

Finally...
After much hard work! Me acting Ultraman in the splint! ^^



Gift to my favourite teacher -Sharon!
Happy Belated teacher's day! I really didn't know that 10th of September is Teacher's Day in HK!

Recent thoughts.

I gotta fix my mind before I know what to write.

It was just yesterday that I gotta know something I wasn't supposed to know. Or did God make it something I was supposed to know? Life is such a miracle.

Often, we fail to trust our hearts cuz it just seems so insecure. We get so confused and bluffed. Our minds wander and we question ourselves. In the end, we create a set of theories we choose to believe in and shut ourselves to advices given to us. Only after much persuasion that we could once again open up ourselves and try to believe the truth, to once again trust our hearts. Yet, we still question ourselves due to the many uncertainties that can happen in life; afraid of the many disappointments that we might face and worrying about many things that might not even happen. The frustration of our minds is that it gives us a lot of illusion about ourselves that would, in one way of another, hinder our progress. At times like this, we need to have words of confirmation and encouragement to move on; words from the right person --- the one that can continue to stimulate us to move on throughout our path.

My family and CCA had taught me well to have the courage and confident to face all odds in life. Yet, I was recently reprimanded by my brother for my lacking in confidence in one aspect in my life. I admit I am and I do not want to explain the reason for it. I am not as courageous as I am before due to undesirable experiences.

Someone out there might be lacking the confident just like me; should I hold on to that someone dearly such that we can build that confidence we are lacking together. It might be uneasy due to the many consequences we have in life but some things in life got to have a start. Don't they? If that lost soul comes knocking on my door, I would like to hold on to it throughout my life, for we know, we need each other very very much. Life is never complete with the lacking of confident in that very aspect of our life.

Good night. Sweet dreams. ^^Good night. Sweet dreams.
P.S. We should learn not to fall asleep in front of the computer. I just did it 3 hours ago.:p

Happy Birthday GRACE!

Though I am really really exhausted now, I really got to blog about today. I had never gotten so tired and happy after my trip to Europe. It has really been long since I chatted so excitedly with my friends, made lots of jokes and be myself without any worries in mind. It was quite some day. Happy Birthday, Grace! I was too very happy making you happy. ^^

This morning, I was supposedly to meet Auntie Bonnie and cousins at Olympic City 02 but ended up in some wrong bus-stop due to some reasons. Luckily, after much walking in the blazing hot sun, I was able to find the bus back to my destination. I ate my 4th consecutive meal of Dim Sum and managed to pay the bill before 12pm (cuz it costs less)! We went voting afterward! It's 立法會選舉投票日!!!


Here is a pic of me after voting!


Went watching 花樣男子 with Karen & Sharon!
The show was so so sweet!!!


In the evening, we went to Central, HK to celebrate Grace Birthday!

Here is Grace & her bf KY & the Sushi cake!!!
Kichi Jyu Japanese Restaurant!
---The restaurant actually dimmed all the lights and said birthday wishes before sending up the cakes before her eyes! ^^

The Sushi cake close-up!
The first salty cake that I saw in my life! And well, the cake kept playing music and we got so helpless shutting it down. haha.


Me eating loads and loads of food!
Plates after plates!!! It was so darn nice! Gosh!


Everybody getting happy! HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRACE!!! :D:D:D:D:D


A little present I bought for myself for the starting of a new school year.
Soooo cute! It's gonna be my motivation I guess.