Sunday, November 22, 2009

Just to prove this is not a fail blog

HEY GUYS TOMMOROW IS THE PRAC EXAM AM I WORRIED NOT AT ALL HAVE I STUDIED NOT ONE BIT SHOULD I BE WRITING THIS YES I SHOULD BUT I COULD HAVE AT LEAST WAITED A SINGLE DAY UNTIL THE PRAC EXAM IS OVER....

PARTY AT MY PLACE TOMMOROW GUYTH ANYONE CAN COME BUT ONLY IF YOU SATISFY ALL OF THESE CRITERIA:

- YOU ARE WELL-MANNERED, FRIENDLY, AND POLITE
- YOU DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN RECREATIONAL DRUGS, SMOKING OF TOBACCO, OR EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
- YOU DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN VIOLENCE, VANDALISM, GRAFFITI, OR OTHER SUCH TOMFOOLERY
- YOU RESPECT OTHER CULTURES, AND THE PROPERTY OF OTHER PEOPLE
- YOU DO NOT MAKE EXCESSIVE NOISE OR MESS WHEN PARTYING, AND IF YOU DO, ARE THE FIRST TO MAKE EFFORTS TOWARDS UNDOING SAID MESS
- YOU DO NOT CONSUME ALCOHOL TO THE POINT OF INEBRIATION, YOU ARE ALWAYS AND CONSTANTLY REMINDING OTHERS THAT THE GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDS 2 STANDARD DRINKS IN THE FIRST HOUR, AND 1 STANDARD DRINK EVERY FOLLOWING HOUR
- YOU HAVE A CULTURED UPBRINGING, BEING RESPECTFUL, HONOURABLE, AND DECENT IN NATURE, AND NOT AT ALL A HOOLIGAN, A SCALLYWAG, A TOMFOOLERER, OR A BAD SPORT

IF ANY OF THESE POINTS ARE DISREGARDED AT ANY POINT IN TIME WHILST ON THE PARK RESIDENCE, YOU WILL RECEIVE COUNTLESS WARNINGS AND A KIND AND NON-THREATENING, NON-VIOLENT PASSAGE THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR.

This post is dedicated to Demi Mei Gray's mother Margaret Wendy Gray.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

BGDB

ok results are out, so this will be a quick summary of academic life. the comments for the assignments seemed a lil condescending =P or maybe it was just me...

flat Ps for every criteria for both group and individual assignments. there were various bits a pieces that were off, but i guess the main thing for me was that i needed to add more to my part, rather than worrying about the word limit so much so early. i thort it would save time for later, which it did, but there wasnt enough depth in our report so i might as well leave everything in, and hope someone else can help me out next time to re-word it to make it more concise. also our reflection was kinda shotty, but that was mainly because we rushed it and forgot to read the assignment properly =P so that can be changed pretty easily next time.

individual made me realise that i cannot pull off the smart-ass style of assignmenting. i got shut down in a few parts for putting in the wrong information, believing that it was a super complicated way of explaining a relatively simple concept xP never again! lol. if i didnt freak out so much over the last week or so of the assignment, then i probably wouldnt have gotten a beat down, but oh well... still got solid marks for it =]

ive resigned to the fact that it is impossible for me to get a P+ in any assignments... i just cant do it. i either forget something, or i cant articulate it properly so it comes across very retardedly. oh well... hopefully il get better as we go on, but im not holding my breath =P and im not going for honours mostly because of the inordinate amount of effort required to be put into these assignments. sure theyre interesting, but theyre a bloody pain in the ass. il just keep concentrating on the tests since theres a greater sense of accomplishment =]

ok thats it. bye

BGDB:
86.341269841269835
-why are there so many decimal places? it just seems unnecessary considering it was 1 test =P

Friday, July 3, 2009

Today

Well, i crashed my car yesterday. I was coming home from work, and i was on the phone and going at 40km/h on burwood road when... bang. Yeah.

You could understand that i was a bit depressed today, but i had dinner with Joseph Park, Joseph Kim, and Joshua 'Chinese' Kim today, it was pretty good. Had some korean bbq, one or two bottles of soju (lol) and finished with some K.

All in all, it's been a rollercoaster of emotion for me the following few days, and i'm still enjoying the holidays. Thinking about organising a fishing trip/picnic at either Shell Harbour or Stanwell Tops.. anyone got any good fishing spots that are less than 3 hour drive from Sydney?

Have a good one!

Friday, June 26, 2009

Success

Before the party, everyone was talking about how awesomely drunk they were going to get, and how "if i don't boot by the end of the night, that's a failure".

Yeah, end of sesh party was decent.. but not GREAT.

I woke up at 3 in the arvo.. and am sort of hungover, probably because i succeeded. Yeah that's right, i chucked at strathfield, i'm a champion.

Currently trying to find a way to crash the USyd Law Informal Party, but with not much success.

PS - my heart goes out to jake who lost his wallet on the day he finished. by the looks of it, it's up in port macquarie somewhere, but let's just hope for a miracle (recall the scrubs episode when Carla's pregnant, and Turk forgets her bag, and then a dog carries it to him)

End of Session =]

im currently in mild rage mode, but more on that later xP

end of BGD cycle B!! hopefully =P the test was actually pretty hectic, mainly because i didnt know what was relevant, and what wasnt... so i pretty much brain dumped on most of the short answer questions. EXCEPT stupid depression xP like wtf?! i had to make up random questions to ask the sussed lil year 12 student =\ i would have thought that concerns clinical skills and communication more than what we've actually learnt.. but oh well... i probably should have done the prac more thoroughly... lesson learnt for subsequent TPs =]

multiple choice wasnt that bad... but i probably made some stupid mistakes. I didnt get the chance to check my answers properly. oh well... its over =] i cbb ranting on about it anymore in this blog. dont really see the point =P

omg it was such a relief finishing the exam tho... once we were out, the sense of relief was superb! considering the amount of effort i put into the bloody course, it was a big deal for me xP time for a self-plug xD about... there were about 1050 downloads of my notes, which equates to about... 150 people per week. i must say its a pretty decent number considering theres about 550 people in the cohort =] the support by the people was muchly appreciated on my part =] thanks guys!

anyway, i went home after the exam. not straight after. i chilled at unibar for a while. then i jetted home and ended up staying home for about an hr n half before having to head off again to get to jess's place for pres xP funny funny times =]

we ended up getting to bungalo 8 at about... 8:30? which was an hr after the start time, but the place was still half-empty.. lol we thort we were excessively late, but apparently not! anyway... i eventually got sloshed spending a good 70 bux on drinks on top of pres... also getting a few shouts off people =D thanks guys! all adding up to about.. 15 drinks? respectable considering i hadnt had a drink in 2 months =P

anyway, im too tired to epic rage, so all il say is that im sick of chasing, like fucking seriously. i dont have enough effort to spare to continue, so ive given up! =] if u know me well enough, ull know what im talking about (actually u dont need to know me that well, its quite blatantly obvious xP)

im out. bye.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

EXAM!! ahhhh!! only one week away... the dreaded EoC which is worth 100%. dreaded for all first years only of course, 2nd years already know what to expect. us lil ones are plain and simply shitting and pissing ourselves, which is very odd considering those two go against the sympathetic nervous system in a fight or flight situation =P *sigh* med is really engulfing my life now xD

today ive decided to take the night off because we finished our course work for the session!! yay!! no more extra shit to learn =] win! but the amount of stuff we already have is... =\ lose! oh well.. we finished off on a relatively good note today... female sexuality ;) but then the other boring dude did the male sexuality lecture... if only he was as eccentric as Ute and the other lady.. could have been a classic. oh well... the female one was very awkward, but very informative if u know what i mean ;) from this experience, i must say that all doctors MUST be incredibly good at sex considering they all should know the best ways to stimulate the opposite sex.

we learnt... that females also have erectile tissue, testosterone is the hormone which increases sex drive in both sexes, there IS such thing as female orgasmic fluid AND the most important of all... where the G-spot is.. lol! but for all the self-conscious guys out there... 30% of women cannot have an orgasm with their partner, but 85% of those can by themselves... which is very odd. so it may not be your fault... but probably is =P also... the inner 2/3 of the vagina is anesthetic so theres no point in investing in giant dildos xP

well thats all that i will share for now.. trying to remember all the other good stuff. oh well.. im out =] bye bye

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

At home...

I quit facebook. Until the 25th of June, i will endeavor to not use the words 'face' and 'book' in my vocabulary, and will probably rage if someone links me a funny photo on facebook. But lo and behold, the human condition of perseverance is strong in me - eliminating facebook as my primary source of procrastination has lead me to make an unnecessary blog post.. FML

So yeah, i'm at home right now writing up notes on the effects of GH, Sex steroids, Thyroid hormones, Insulin, and Adrenocorticols on growth. I am aware i am severely behind, but at least my assignment and project are done. I missed today's physiology/anatomy of reproductive growth lectures because i slept in FML. Hung, can you give me notes?

I will now get back to my studies.. but i'll start a list of the funniest words i have encountered in med:

- Gubernaculum
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Dilate (to live long)
- Benign (what happens when you're older than 8 but younger than 10)

The following have been reported to have been written on patients' medical charts by doctors:

- CNS/QNS (Central Nervous System / Quantity Not Sufficient)
- Code Yellow (A patient who has lost control of bladder)
- O-sign (A patient who is very sick and lying with his mouth open)
- Q-sign (A patient who is very, very sick and lying with his mouth open, tongue hanging out)
- FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition)
- FLK (Funny Looking Kid - Abnormal neonate upon general inspection)
- TTFO (Told To Fuck Off - can be To Take Fluids Orally)

Monday, June 8, 2009

Quick Update

i just dl a massive collection of Cascada remixes, and im trying to pick out which ones are the crap ones to take out of my playlist atm, so while im doing that i thort id finally post again =] *its a really good collection with about 75 remixes for any dance-music enthusiasts*

anyway, this is our hand-in assessment week. group project deadline tomorrow, individual assignment due next monday. everything is pretty much under control for me, but things keep popping up with my indiv >< had to change things like 6 diff times because i missed the fine print in the damn assignment =_= but i must thank nitin for his help =] thanks pharlap! =D

the long weekend was pretty fail =P wanted to get more proper study done, but all i could get was the GIT. hopefully it wont leak out over the next couple weeks, but thats where study groups come in handy =] i hate having to suffer an extra 2 weeks of work in the semester compared to everyone else =_= the amount of crap we're going to learn within these two weeks is probably going to add another 40 pages to my already extensive notes >< ah well... gotta tough it out. and the single exam we have is going to be bloody intense. 100% for the course! bahhh... hopefully i do well. oh well, nothing i can do besides give it my best shot.

i forget what i posted last time, and what i wanted to post in between, but nothing interesting has really happened since my last one. i cant wait til holidays tho, finally get some partying action going on. since the start of the TP ive been nerding it up hardcore =_= better bloody pay off =P anyway, il end it with... GO FEDERER!! =]
bye bye

and good luck to practically everyone else in uni life with their end of session/semester exams! dont party too hard until i finish too xP

Monday, June 1, 2009

Mid-lecture update

I am in a lecture now
the lecturer is hot.

Not.

Not.

Not.

Actually today in the morning i was rubbing my eyes vigorously and one of my contact lenses fell out.. so my eye is all red and i can't see shit.

She might be hot..

She's not.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

It's tough being a med student

It sure is tough when you have Larsen's Human Embryology open in front of you and the only thing that you've been doing in the past 20 minutes is reading the same paragraph over and over again.

It sure is tough when you decide that you'll stretch your limbs and take a breather or maybe have a smoke outside and then come back and turn on your TURBO-MODE.

It sure is tough when you sit down at your desk after your smoke and then realise you're studying has meant that you couldn't go out with your mate, and so you go on facebook to see what else everyone is doing and what events are on.

It sure is tough when you look at your event invitations and you see the guestlist and you know how facebook shows you the display pics of like 6-7 people that are attending and they all happen to be going to a mad event that you decided not to go to so you can catch up on some ion transfer and nutritional demands of children.

It sure is tough when all 6-7 of them are hot girls.

It sure is tough when you look outside and - WTF OHSHIT - it's already dark, and you realise that you've been on facebook for a good 2-3 hours.. but that's ok because i now have a new Bejeweled high score.

It sure is tough when you finally decide to read Larsen's Human Embryology... and you're back at that stupid paragraph that you read over and over again. Right where you left it.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Binge Nerding

Otherwise known as cramming, binge-nerding happens when a student comes to the sudden realisation that the amount of study they have previously undertaken is severely below the standard at which they would expect to perform, and is often associated with late night consumption of caffeine, abstinence from fun activities, and general anti social behaviour.

I WISH I COULD BINGE NERD.

The readers who have been with this blog for a longer time probably know that my aim in BGD was to have everything under control, making daily notes and shit like that... well it's been two weeks and i'm fucking screwed. Every friday night i think to myself, 'in the next three days i'll get everything under control', and look what has happened - twice. I get a high score in Bejeweled, i go out to integration party, havana, and a fucking 18th in castle hill... oh man.

I need to get my HSC mojo back on. I wish i was Hung.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Finally Posting Again =]

med is fun =] everything seems to be going quite well concerning med =P other matters are not of blogging concern xP the stuff that we're learning now is pretty interesting, concerning the development of infants. stuff about cognitive development is cool, i can now blame my parents for my hate of certain foods because it was their fault for not introducing them to me when i was starting out on solid foods!

anyway, all the work isnt THAT much of a problem yet, but i think im going to struggle this week coz its a bit hectic.

We had our first proper hospital session last week =D i was anticipating awesomeness... but i didnt get it =[ i wanted to see patients!!! but noooo.. our tutor was like.. whats the point??? u dont know anything xP which is very true, but still!! its like a rite of passage for us! and he denied us of the experience! =[ oh well, we'll push the patient seeing on him next time =]

nothing much else has happened concerning the academic aspect of uni...

MED REVUE!! was quite funny... it was like team america funny xP so offensive but hilarious at times... other times it was a bit awkward =P good old racist jokes... from the people i talked to, we agreed that the catholic people copped the most xP ahh... def watching next year's rendition. everyone else should too!

INTEGRATION PARTY!! was pretty good =] when med people party, they party hard =] decent turn-out considering underaged people and non-drinkers, but the bar tab was a farce!! seriously!! one drink each?? boooooo!! and i used it on a coke n vodka =[ big mistake because they were going for about 4 bux each, but my next drink was a cok and malibu... absolutely beautiful drink... which cost me 8 bux.. during happy hour... if only i had noticed they had malibu before =_= far out!! =[

well.. i spent quite a large amount of money on drinks xP massive regret because i didnt get drunk xP incredibly hard to do so nowadays =[ nothing embarassing as a result, but a few stories that came from the night which i will disclose to people at avi's, if not then strike up a convo with me sometime later and i will =]

anyway, im off... bye bye

Monday, May 11, 2009

Histology

Histology is the study of cells and tissue on a microscopic level. It's like microscopic anatomy.

Only today did I realise that it is possibly the only subject where you will hear someone mutter 'that's what she said' every two or three minutes.

"I've been at it for 5 hours..."

"I'm looking for the small, wrinkled ones."

"I can't find it, it's too small!"

"Here's a whole bunch of them, see these big blobs, all surrounding that tiny little blob in the middle."

Ok that last one doesn't really work, but it reminded me of gang rape.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Once upon a time, i was a single cell.

It's true, my name was zygote.

The first day of BGD has passed, and my lord what a hectic day it has been. From 9 in the morning til 5 in the arvo, all i've been learning about is how gastrulation occurs in the embryonic stage. I'm not complaining though, it's easy enough to grasp once you sit down and think it through.

Anyway, i'm writing up my notes for it at the moment, so i guess i'll just say my day was really shit since i have a cold, my parents aren't home (for the next month - who's going to cook me dinner and iron my shirts?), and my haircut is fucking toolesque.

Back to the zona pelucida.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Dragon Spawn

This is what i learnt today in senior first aid - one of the methods of treating anaphylactic shock.

If the sperm of a dragon, a unicorn, a centaur, and a tyrannosaurus rex were to somehow FUSE to produce a single offspring, that offspring would be composed of a raw substance only commercially obtainable by harvesting the glands of 69 of these mutant offspring and distilling the glands into a pure form of liquid in a mixer made of a titanium-adamantium-awesomium alloy. This liquid fury would then be pressurized into a single atom by the Large Hadron Collider and then launched into deep outer space to absorb the energy of an exploding star, by which it would have barely sufficient energy to be turned back into a liquid essence, which is then captured by aerospace experts and placed into EpiPens.


These EpiPens give the user a 0.3 mg boost of adrenaline - otherwise known as dragon-spawn, superhuman juice (Hulk Potion), or the Philosopher's Stone - which enables him or her to ascend into the transient state where demigods reign, and are able to party all night and feel like they have popped three pingers without the associated feelings of coming down, munting and scat.

Today the point was raised that the reason for Ryan 'Korean Elvis' Kwen being in the zone every hour, every day, every week was that he has somehow managed to get his hands on an inestimable stash of EpiPens.

I want in. I want an EpiPens before a hard night out on the town.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Time to join the big boys

This post is dedicated to Preetpaul Uppal, possibly the best/worst wingman i know. He's a paradoxical wingman.

For the first hour or two at a club on a friday night, my friend prego pumped me full of $5 jager bombs and endless pep-talk about how easy it is for an ethnic pair (harold and kumar) to pick up white chicks at soho.. fucking epic fail.

Anyway yeah, this is a shoutout to you, bro. Even though we didn't get any white chicks, i half succeeded, and you will forever be remembered as the wingman who made me choose bros before hoes.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah, so we're about 3-4 days out from the start of BGD (Beginnings, Growth, and Development) and i'm feeling pretty pumped. The other day, i bumped into a primary school friend who, upon hearing that i was a med student at UNSW, laughed for like 10 seconds then asked: "no... but seriously". This fresh start to the medicine course (that counts) is a way for me to prove that i'm not as dumb as i am awesome - and trust me, i am awesome.

Here are my goals for this teaching period:
- P+'s, with room for a single P
- Get the name of that hot korean second year
- Not go clubbing (unless it's free entry... oy my gahh i have like $22 in my account.)

Here are my goals for the rest of the course:
- Honours list
- A reputation as "the incredibly smart but incredibly awesome guy"
- A white chick (not realistic)

Ciao!

Monday, April 27, 2009

End of Foundations =[

This is definitely not a time to celebrate =P the course that doesnt count is over!! =[ very gay

Our timetable for the next course came out today... i have an incredibly shit one... like seriously, it is beyond atrocious. NO DAYS OFF!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! they havnt included the lectures yet, but when they do.. ='[ the amount of time we spend at uni is quite consistent tho, its around 18-20 hrs a week. like 6 hrs more than what we're used to =_= GAY! and every second day i have during the week is a 2 hr day =_= and 4 hour breaks come every fortnight or so for me.. bahhh!! i need a laptop, itl make life easier to do work during breaks. oh well.. hopefully its true that college A gets a better timetable next semester, if we dont.. im going to rage like a lil mofo on crack... seriously >=[ we dont evn go to the hospitals this teaching period!! very disappointing, but we have more clinical sessions, which i suppose is a decent substitute considering we still dont know anything yet.

urgh, anyway... we join the second years next week. i dont know if its a good thing or a bad thing yet. hopefully i hav a cool group, otherwise im definitely changing for next semester. hopefully theyre so insecure about our work quality that theyll pretty much do everything =D

The amount of effort i put into foundations did actually pay off, because now i know how hard i need to work to pass and how much more work i need to do to actually do very well. i put about.. 60% of my total effort capacity into the course so many improvements to come, but i dont think i need to go nuts until about 3rd or 4th year coz my view is that u need a good record over the last few years of ur course so that when employers look at it, they can see that u didnt fluke the last year or 2, there will be a sustained effort and they should accept u =] so for the next year or 2 i suppose il aim for consistent Ps (or a credit average) =] years 3-6 would have much more interesting stuff anyway so it wont be that hard to add the extra effort.

anyway, first aid course on thursday and friday.. i wish i had renewed my one from year 9.. would have given me a 6-day weekend =_= dammit... oh well.. thats all for foundations =] i was going to talk about my assessments and what not, but i cbb... nothing wrong with them, everything fit the criteria to get Ps for everything. getting a P+ seems incredibly annoying to do. oh well, im out =] il post again when uni life starts getting shit =P

oh! and i also would like to mention... AHAHAHAHAHAHA NEW ORLEANS SUCK!! hahahaha who loses by 58 points in a playoff game???? like seriously?? AND at home!! man.. the crowd would have been giving shit to their own team... ahahahaha!! gw denver =D utter humiliation!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

First Clinical Session! Sorry Lorraine!! and the others in the crew!! xP

Finally back after a long absence. This will be the first of a series over the next couple of days =]

Anyway, I'll start with this morning when I was madly fretting about making sure I looked proper for our clinical session and ended up running a little late. I was running around the house looking for various items, and seemed to leave the house just in time to catch my train. When mum drove off from the station after dropping me off, I immediately realised that I had forgotten to bring the apparently crucial immunisation record card. The guy at the Office of the Dean said that SWS would be quite strict about it and I should make sure that I brought it... but stupid me I didnt xP so at this point I was shitting myself, freaking out and trying to think of what to do. So that was when I asked the greatest person in the world, Lorraine xP, if we could swing by my place before we went to pick up my card. The awesomest person that she is, she agreed =] and I was very relieved =].

Then I got to uni apparently looking spiffy xP and not awkward like Josh =P. Anyway, we then headed off to Arthur St, to do the introductory clinical skills session. This wasn't very eventful, just learnt about the different aspects of disease and illness. Never thought about it in that sort of light before. Well, after this was the epic trip xP.

Ok, so it started at the maccas down at Kingsford where we all met up at like 11:15 before heading off in Lorraine's car. I shouted her a bit of lunch for the effort she was going through for me =] I still owe her so much more xP anyway, it was me, rola, jia qi, jim n lorraine in the car and we set off. Now, I only knew the way to my place from the M4 or the M7, and according to the map we had, the most direct way to the M4 was via Anzac then Cleveland, then onto parramatta road. Parramatta road was an absolute bitch to get through because of traffic. I thought this entire trip would take about 40 mins or so to my house... but anyway, we eventually got to the M4 and we kept going all the way to wallgrove. Swung by my place and by that time, it was about 12:40 xP almost an hr n a half since we left uni =_=

Anyway, it was like a toilet break pretty much, I was busting to go xP Rola and Lorraine had some face time with Hooch, the most crazy dog they will ever meet xP It did Rola's hate of dogs any justice =P I still love Hooch tho =] anyway, we then headed off after a quick stop, onto the M7 then down to elizabeth drive n then all the way to liverpool hospital, with a minor detour looking for parking spaces. Then we all showed up about 25 mins late to the tiny classroom xP our entrance was very noticable =P. So we're just listening to the people talk through the guidelines n whatnot... signed a few forms... n then went on the tour of certain wards. We went through the trauma ward with a patient that had a massive motor collision that was in the news i think, and they had police and a detective there too to get a statement. pretty intense. At this point I felt like a proper med student.. finally!! =] then we went to the cardiology ward and just looked at how the system worked. Then we were done!! after about 2 hrs... and oh yes... as u may hav noticed... WE DIDNT NEED THE DAMN CARD!!

URGH!! i was so pissed =_= made me even more guilty for wasting everyone, especially Lorraine's time n effort!! baaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh... If by chance u heard about this blog and are reading this.. i must say sorry again lorraine!! xP urgh.. i feel so bad =_= and then wen i got home via trains, it was about 5 o'clock?? i went on facebook and discovered that it took Lorraine 35 mins to get home from liverpool... she lives in north sydney... i was like. :O wtf?! n apparently it would have taken 20 mins max from uni via the M5 =_= baaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!! at that point i felt like total shit xP I am forever in debt to Lorraine xP sorry again!! ahhhhhhh!! gay gay gay... well im off to feel more guilty xP

I know this was meant to be short prego but i couldnt help it xP

Sunday, April 12, 2009

The Mid-Sem Break

The midsem break is a piece of shit for foundations kids.

There are two kinds of students: those who will study during the break or at least try to catch up or revise on what has been learnt in the past 8 weeks (IT'S FOUNDATIONS GUYS!), and those who will get irate when asked by others how much they study and respond with

IT'S FOUNDATIONS GUYS

It'd be great if Hung could post his two cents on this, because i for one am of the latter category, while he is one of the rare few who goes home every day and unscrupulously records his lecture and prac notes into a concise summarised form, and then downloads the next day's lecture notes and previews the coming lectures. I'm not complaining - he's the one that saved me and a few hundred others a few hundred times during the HSC. But cmon man,

IT'S FOUNDATIONS GUYS

I am seriously thankful that i got into med. I truly am. But I have also asked second and third years whether or not it is worthwhile going through foundations junk so as to get a supposed 'edge' over our studies in BGD and AE. I deadset asked them: "Is Foundations really a bludge where we meet people and do gayrevue or do i have to study a bit?" Guess what they say to me, and everyone else who asks them the same thing:

IT'S FOUNDATIONS GUYS

The other day, i got told off - yes, literally told off - by a third year for caring too much about my Foundations group project.

True story. Enjoy your midsem break folksss

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

An uneventful week

...not.

I know it's been a while since the weekend, but I'd just like to dedicate this post to Preetpaul "Prego" Uppal, whose epic 18th birthday party 50 or so students attended last saturday night. Beer was chugged, slurpees were slurped, and the jumping castle was, surprisingly, only used for jumping - given that there were a fair few white chicks and guys there.

I'd like to start my recount of events in chronological order. On the saturday afternoon before prego's party, a monumental event occurred in my life. It's something that you wouldn't expect of a medicine student, but it still happened, and i think it's changed me for the better. For those of you who know, don't go around telling the world, and for everyone else who doesn't - tough titties.

The night of the party was pretty good - a 45 minute drive listening to hard dance and trance was pretty shit, except for when i changed lanes and almost killed the guy behind me. Oh well. The party was good, and you know what they say, 'What happens at prego's stays at prego's.' (Nothing huge happened)

The crux of this post is what happened in the few hours afterwards. I left prego's house with a sober mind, praying that i wouldn't register 0.00001 BAC if i was RBT'ed, and went to the Namkoong household for a night of much needed rest.

What happened was i changed Jason's display picture and status to something a bit naughty - but al in the name of fun and games. I understand his anger, but you should understand MY ANGER when i woke up to find i had a face full of soap and the fucking love of my life - my car - was moved up the street. You have to understand - JASON DOESN'T HAVE HIS EFFING LICENSE, and i have already crashed my car twice. My Dad would've owned me.

Well there you have it, i cooled down after a few games of Left4Dead, and now i'm just thinking of ways to get back at jason. Any suggestions?

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Prego's Party... Thanks man!

Thanks Prego, his family and associates for the party!! pretty hectic night with multiple chunderers. I didnt get smashed!! hahaha... thats pretty much a first for any of our old school parties. I suppose the responsible side of me is becoming more prominent again, but i do still appreciate witnessing sloshed people go do their thing bahahaha. oh prego, weenie and indy... the ones that had the maddest time of us all! lol! although indy was probably the only one feeling some regret =P

anyway, yeh this is just a thank you post =] it was quite a good night.

Thanks again mate!

Friday, March 27, 2009

A relaxed state...

Ok, so yesterday i handed in that huge assignment that everyone's been bitching about - the individual medical heroes assignment (i did mine on Thomas Peel Dunhill - for obvious reasons). It feels good, so so so good - like the feeling you get when you fall over and land on dog poo and mud and everything about yourself feels dirty and then you go home and have a 20 minute shower with dettol antibacterial scrub...

But yeah, i must say the past few days have been quite intense! A true rollercoaster ride of stress, brainpower (particularly steep lows on this one), and liver function.

Tuesday night, we had the KMSA dinner at kabow, some nice korean food, beer, soju, and somek (soju+beer - god koreans are alcos). Nothing flash, just getting hosed down fob-style at a restuarant, topped off with some medical games. Oh, medical games? you say - how can there be such thing as a medical game when medicine is such a sordid proffession? Basically, it was getting shitfaced first years to pronounce long ass medical terms. However, it is physically impossible for me to get drunk, so i slipped up on purpose and downed a free beer yay! A wholesome dinner was then made complete afterwards by watching josh make a fool of himself at karaoke. He sang Candy by H.O.T, that's how bad it was, and robert and i went pretty hardout on some Aerosmith and some Celine Dion. Hells yeah. Anyway, a good night - met some new faces, old ones, and found another med student that smokes! How epic is that.

Wednesday night, the prodigiously liver damaging pubcrawl. I had my reservations at first - none of my korean mates except Mina were going, and i knew that my assignment was due the next day. (I was missing a refleciton statement, not cool.) In the end, i hauled ass to Circular Quay, went straight into the Argyle Bar dressed in my fawesome labcoat, had a quick fuck (you know, the drink?^^), then shouted at the top of my lungs, GO UNSW. Big mistake - i didn't know until then that uSyd were having their pubcrawl at that bar at that time. I would've gotten bottled if not for a hasty exit to my home crowd. Anyway, i don't remember much, all i remember is that somehow i ended up back at Mina's place to play a few rounds of drunk pool, and that i finished my reflection statement at 5AM, 4 hours before it was due. Epic night.
Also, i found another med student who smokes - making it a grand total of 4 out of 1500. That i know of. And getting bigger.

PS - I got some feedback (from a person i have never met in my life) that they have read this blog. Thank you Jenny or Jennifer (sorry nuna)! Anyway, feel free to comment or even become a follower if you want, Hung and I will feel a lot better knowing we aren't talking to ourselves. If you do, i just might get that warm fuzzy feeling inside - the one you get when you see that industrie ad on the back of a bus with Miranda Kerr and Tattooed Guy!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

I'm not procrastinating... =]

Haha, yes I am almost fully back to nerd mode, but its not such a bad thing seeing as tho I have been relaxing for the past couple of days while pretty much everyone else has been up til midnight or even later trying to get their assessments done. LOL! and apparently my topic was hard, but it wasn't THAT bad, bits of really random stuff about chemical synaptic transmissions and IPSP and EPSP which I still don't get but whatever, it doesnt count =] and if anyone has asked for my help for anything, ever... u cannot bag me out for being such a nerd because u benefited from it at some point or other!!

anyway, this is one of the boring ones because we have a portfolio draft we hafta do pretty soon.

So, we had a presentation last week about immunisation. my key learning issue was the government regulations associated with the immunisation of medical students. basically, if we do not get immunised, and someone catches a disease from us BECAUSE we're not immunised, we could get financially bitch-slapped in the face and also front up to criminal prosecution. most of the people i did my presentation to already did the immunisation stuff so it wasnt such a big deal, but still... if one of us got sued, it would be soooo bad, especially seeing as though we havnt even made any money yet!

anyway, the presentation went alrite i suppose. Everyone preceeding me had very brief notes about their topic, and were just talking about it while referring to slides, or not. they were quite pro, while i had typed out my presentation, because i was too lazy to really delve into it properly xP but i had gone over it a few times so i could just randomly talk aoout bits n pieces without referring to my sheet. BUT i did go about a min and a half over time.. which wasnt so bad, but the tutor asked for my time n told me to watch it next time... while... other people who went over by up to 3 mins!!! weren't asked for their time, and they didnt realise it. so it mite hav been good for me actually, oh well =P

no one marked harshly... oh yeh, it was peer-evaluated so people in ur classed marked u on how well u perfomed. Everyone was too nice to each other and didnt really criticise much, unless it was something glaringly obvious, which is kinda gay, but considering the lack of effort most people put it i guess it didnt matter. everyone was still in the non-making-enemies stage =P

uhh, next is this project every unsw med student is getting done at varying levels of effort xP i did Sir John Carew Eccles, who was a neurophysiologist researching the mechanisms behind the transmission of nerve signals across nerve cells =] the topic was interesting, but i had no idea what they were going on about for half the time and that made it sooooooo bloody boring. and searching for the info was a bit weird, because i didnt know what to include n what not, but as long as i get good feedback from the marker (not really sure who marks these) i should be ok for next time. its so much easier for me to write up a report about something rather than writing an essay. essays are a pain in the ass. gotta be able to make up bs but i cant do that well =P il develop it to a degree eventually to get me out of tight situations later.

anyway, thats about it for the work side. not much has been happening lately, im still counting down the days til my first weekday off ever!! =D next wednesday =D and i cant freaking go to pubcrawl coz of work =_= work is sooo bloody boring now, coz its just basic maths over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... farrrrrrrrrrrk. hopefully im getting a pay rise this week, bump it up to $20 an hr xD which is a lot i suppose, but i only work 2 hrs a week =P and if i did private tutoring i could earn more... but that takes too much effort and i feel dodgy about exploiting people for a service which hasnt been proven yet xP

oh and i keep spending my money wayyyy to retardedly. i spent bloody $30 on monday on food and drinks =_= never buy a jug of beer from the unibar... its not cheaper!! and it may evn be more expensive =P coz each jug fits about 4 proper glasses for 14 bux, which is the same amount as buy 4 separate beers, BUT there is also the possibility of major spillage, so its a rip-off. and i also discovered that beer is not something i would drink purely for appreciation... tastes quite chat. alki just generally isnt very appealing anymore, unless its celebratory xP

well i better get back to doing nothing!! haha.. actually im making lecture notes =P and yes it will come in handy evntually. anyway bye bye.

OMG MY PHONE'S SPEAKERS IS DEAD!! AHHH!!! BLOODY HELL!

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Procrastination

It has begun - the thing that every dew-faced high school graduate intends to avoid in uni at all costs. We all start uni with the thought that because we faced so many trials during the HSC and came out alive, we couldn't possibly devolve back to old habits that weighed us down during high school. Well, it's back.

Procrastination.

Some people compare it to an addictive drug that consumes time, money, marks, and life - but ironically it is the absence of discipline that is so enjoyable. We'd all rather be having a nap, stalking our friends on facebook, or chatting up girls on msn than starting that dreaded assignment or presentation. I have friends that have learnt to master these urges, simply with the mindset that they'll get everything done and then play hard afterwards.

IT'S NOT THAT FUCKING EASY! It's the dreaded "Ok, i'll start in 10 minutes" that gets everyone fucked in the head. There is an infinite number of "10 more minutes", while there is a finite period until your assignment is due. Logically speaking, procrastination is perhaps the only thing that smart but lazy uni students should have to worry about.

As is implied in this post, i do have an assignment due in a couple of days. Yes, i am on facebook. Yes, i am chatting up girls on msn. Yes, i'm posting on this blog so that i don't have to start my assignment. Why do i do it? Because it feels so god damn good.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Med Camp 09

What can i say? Only in the words of that ridiculously accented John Flynn Scholarship announcer can i express what i felt on the 3 days and 2 nights at Narrabeen.

"Maximum Awesome."

Far out, did i have a good time. First day, i was feeling a bit rebellious and not being enthusiastic about the lame ice-breaker activities and crap. Friendly chinese kids came up to me and asked me what my name was and how i was, and i just gave them that condescending stare (you know, the korean one?) and made them feel bad. Oh fucking lord i feel so awful, in retrospect, i wish i was a nicer guy from the start. Yeah, after a dinner of decent food (decent for camp food, i didn't get pellet poo this camp) i started to feel a lot better and friendlier. My sated appetite blocked my ego and i started to mingle - even with that short asian girl who wears supre and school socks with sneakers.

And the nights.

How good is it to just chill with a group of friends at camp at night? An all-korean group gathered around 8 bottles of soju, some gronk brought korean pepper squid, and played a passionate game of mafia. Fucking Daniel Park, i'll never forget how you're such a Mafia-hater.
It was pretty shit how i got such bad rep for kicking out the randoms that came in - i think i'm pretty much known as the 'korean kid who kicked out the non-koreans'. Here's the truth: i kicked the randoms out because they were being noisy during a heated mafia game, not because they weren't korean. Farrrrrrr out. Such bad rep

Second night: the Toga Party. I hear macq law has some shitty bogan themed party, but our togas just ripped them apart! I honestly didn't think much of the toga party before coming to camp - but seeing as people were getting pretty into it in the hour before the party made me think. Basically, my awesome levels were maxed out that night: i used two bedsheets, a belt, and a very long leaf to make the most awesome toga in under 15 minutes. Yes, i deserve a fricking medal. Pictures were taken in abundance by one Jenny Namkoong, who has yet to upload them to facebook, so i'm waiting for those!
Yeah - a huge night, after which the drinks that we raided from other rooms were consumed, and i was conked out faster than an abo after a maccas voucher.

Pretty uneventful third day, and we went home on a busride filled with robert and my awesome singing. I don't wanna miss a thing.

Well, medcamp overall was fucking great. I swear i want to go again every year, but too bad since i can only be first year once in my life (OR MAYBE.........)

But i guess there's the pubcrawl, and other uni parties and shit! And now that i met the lovely miss Mina Chung, the koreans (K-Fort forever) have a place to recuperate after long nights of boozing and partying.

Monday, March 16, 2009

MedCamp 'o9

MedCamp was bloody awesome =]
insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane 2 nights!

Alrite, let's start with the Friday. We actually had 2 or 3 lectures on histology and immunology i think... bloody oath! y not just give us all the day off?? i'm sure the people that didnt go to medcamp wouldn't have minded! but yeh, they split us up so that half were on buses at 4 and the others at 5:15. i was on the first bus at 4 which stayed there til 5 anyway for some unknown reason. we were just reminiscing about drunken stories, and trying to anticipate what was going to happen over the next couple days. So much better than we thort! haha

anyway... when we got to the place, we played some icebreaker games, which were a lil weird. *Honey, if you love me, give me a smile* *Honey, I love you, but i just can't smile*... mmmkaiz... lol.. the stuff about getting to know people was ok i guess, met a few people who i talk to everytime i see them =]

then we just went to unpack n muck around for a while until trivia night! everyone was just switching rooms n what-not. joseph was such a legend driving james to the town to get us some grog xP me, josh n bob were so disorganised! but we had a good night anyway. anyway, trivia night was better than expected! pretty much because we were all quite competitive. there were general, music and random facts questions, and in true nerd-style, there was a 4u maths question. i totally did not get it xP forgotten everything!! bahhh... oh well. our trivia team name was inspired by my name!! bahahha Hung Lyka Hoars lol!! credit to adam for coming up with the final product and credit to jess for starting it off!!

yeh well.. lots of awesome things happened during the trivia night, including a massive stack during the pick-up race xP which our team won!! =D me n jd ftw!! =D and oh man.. adam was an absolute legend in like the second half of the night. he did everything!! carried the team on his back to for the overall win!! =D Hung Lyka Hoars Trivia Champs 'o9!! prizes being medrevue and medshow tickets xP which i dont actually mind coz i wanna go. being involved in them is another matter tho xP too much of a pain getting home.

anyway, following trivia night, piss-up!! hahaha, well not really. we had enough to get nicely out of it xP parties in cabins 2 and 9!! w0000t!! oh man... i had a harsh night xP i would not like to repeat the regrettable event in this blog haha... but no, not happening. josh loves telling the story tho... assface. anyway, we ended up sleeping at like 5am or something, with a 9am start. that was so harsh, but quite fair... a very good start to the camp meeting everyone while both sober and not-so-sober =P

the next day was so bad... everyone was just completely dead. and we had the Mission Inoperable on too!! ahhhh!! good memories with that which i cbb retelling atm.. but the ball and neck thing was freaking annoying!! everyone watching me try doing it kept reminding me of my retardedness xP apparently good entertainment tho, so i cant complain too much =P i blame it on my gigantic adam's apple tho and also the lop-sided jaw!!

well.. things continued on until... the Toga Party!! w00000t!! i had to borrow fatty's lavender bedsheet to make my toga... looked soo gay... but i also gayed it up evn more by wearing my pink shirt underneath xP should have had a good look at myself before i went out with it all on =P but anyway... i went in!! and it was bloody great!! everyone was already starting out when i came in... luckily i came in when i did, because the chick-drinks were running out fast! and the alternative was quite shitty beer, but i have come to appreciate it now =P all cruisers were gone in like 30 mins =P bloody med people xD but of course... there was a motherload of beer left =D that made our nights so awesome =] me josh n bob had like 11 each at the party n another 3 after the party as well xP a total of 20 or so standard drinks!! and of course we were quite gone xD but yeh.. good memories... vague but still good =P which il share if u find me!

anyway, i better get back to work =P spent like an hr on this! n its still incomplete! il finish it off later.. bye

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Too much work...

This blog seems so lifeless, but it did come in handy today in my SGS. We had to do a piece of reflective writing about the first week of the program and it came pretty easily to me, though i don't know if I produced it in the correct format. I'll find out eventually.

Anyway, I'm drowning in the work load =_=. Presentation due on Tuesday, which I'm just about to start, group project work planned to be completed and discussed on Monday, Independent research project in about 2 weeks, and then the actual group presentation in about 3 or 4 weeks. Bloody oath! And on top of that, I'm making lecture notes and what not as we go! I wish I had days off, but no! Our collegium's first day off is on April 1st, which is pretty much after all the turmoil of assessments. I know it doesn't count and all, but I'd rather give it a crack now than go into assessments later having no idea where to start.

Medcamp starting tomorrow is killing my time, so it better be worth it plus the money. If I don't have a good time, then I'm going to rage at someone for wasting precious time. Yes, I am almost back to nerd-mode, but I do want to relax a bit compared to last year. I can't take another year of that working mentality, I pretty much burnt out just before the HSC! Luckily I did enough to pull me through.

I don't have a toga/bedsheet for the Toga Party on Saturday night. I heard a lot of people don't dress up, and I'm hoping the rumors are true because I cannot be stuffed bringing a bedsheet and a motherload of safety pins. Please let there be at least 40% of other people with my mindset. Or else im just going to rack a bedsheet from the place for the night =P.

Well, that's it, there wasn't much to reflect on this week. I better get to my presentation now. Bye.

The line gets longer and longer..

And so it does. It's ironic that taking an 'express' bus from central to UNSW is actually the most time consuming way to get there. For those of you who don't go to central, you would literally drop your jaw if you see this line in the morning - it's even longer than my longest appendage. Quite frankly, i'm getting sick of it - every morning i wake up 5 minutes earlier than the day before so i can beat these idiotic UNSWers, but it seems that everyone seems to think like i do. I keep turning up late to me SGS, and then get that stare from my facilitator: "oh, he's late again. i'll be making a note of that." Well screw you, you just hate me 'coz i ain't rural'.
But we all know the saying: "when life gives you aids, make lemonaids", so i guess it's good in a way that i don't have to swipe my travelten since there's such a stampede to get on the buses.
End rant!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Adenine=Thymine/Uracil, Cytosine=Guanine

Today's lecture on Cell Biology was actually quite humbling.
Everything we do, how we do it, and why we do it is governed by our encoding. How we look, how we feel, how we laugh and cry and rage is all encoded in our bodies in the languange of DNA - Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Obviously, the mere act of communication in written and spoken form is quite complex, and uses 26 letters - all of which can be used to make a combination of over 200,000 words. And that's just so we can talk.
DNA must therefore be the most complex mother-fucking language out there, but guess what? It only has 4 letters in its language, in continuing the language analogy. 4 basic blocks, Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guosine.
How hectic is that.
Everything that every living creature and micro-organism can do is planned by these 4 building blocks. I know right, wtf? I don't need some fat frizzy haired lady leading a lecture to tell me how short of a miracle this is, but it gets even better.
A=T, C=G. One can only pair up with the other, and what astounded me the most was DNA replication - the process by which a double helix strand of DNA splits apart, and creates two daughter strands which are identical, this being possible only because one building block on the parent strand can only have one other possible pair.
Anyway, that's my nerd rant for today. There is a lot more that i could share with you, but there probably is no-one reading this and even if there were, you want to hear a bit more than boring crap about DNA right? So we go onto RNA! (Ribonucleic Acid)

Haha i'm just joking. Here is my day - a morning scenario group meet where i got a free muffin from Simren, who i think felt a compelling need to advance her brown-nosing from dominating class discussion to baking wheaten goods for the class, (jokes - they were delish), and where we started our first scenario. Immunisation!
The most boring and poorly-acted video in the history of UNSW was what aided us in a particularly debatable issue: the necessity of immunisation/vaccination of medical students. I'm looking forward to it, and i guess i better get started on my part of the "group effort", but i just cbf right now and dota is calling for me.
After an hour break, the lectures on cell bio. These were good. Very good.
After that, an extended chillout session at the uni bar playing - and losing - pool to Josh Kim, who i will never truly understand when it comes to winning pool under peoples' noses.
Yes josh, you will get your cheeseburger as promised. You north korean bastard.

Bye!

Monday, March 9, 2009

Unmotivated

Jinsoo is losing motivation, and fast.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Thanks Rachel!

Nothing in my day today that hasn't been said by Hung! I'll just reiterate, the microbio lectures were shit boring, about as entertaining as watching grass grow. A special shout-out to Lawrence Oh, who just didn't have great luck today. There were two lectures, one on arthritis in the AGEING and one on bacteria that produces CHEESE. Oh my lord i had a good laugh today.
This post is for the bit of fun that i had today! I got home after basketball and found a package for me on the dining table. A package from the beautiful Rachel Kim, and i sort of guessed what was inside ha ha ha.
For all who don't know Rachel, she's not the brightest tool in the shed, and after finding out that i got into med, she went out of her way to buy me a stethoscope for christmas. Lucky for her, she instead got me a KALEIDOSCOPE, which is about $345 cheaper than a stethoscope.
But yeah, heaps of kudos to her for figuring out how to send packages through mail, and thanks for making the end of my chat day bearable!
PS - Good luck with your P's test Rachel you freak. (Beautiful freak!)

First Proper Post

My first individual post! w000t
It's the end of the first week!! =] Med has been a bit bland during the first week, but I suppose it's because I get bored if I don't know what's going on. All the tutes and lectures sift through so much info so quickly, I generally tune out after I get lost. It's not so bad for lectures because they generally upload podcasts of the lecture and also the powerpoints associated with the slide, but it's still a pain. Even Pharlap (Nitin) got bored 20 mins into a 2 hour lecture on microbiology. At least I had a bit of eye candy to keep me going xP.

Anyway, to start, our first anatomy lecture on Monday was incredibly bad first time round, but when I went over the stuff again, it seemed pretty good. Did stuff on bone structure, musculature and joints, which would have taken about a term to learn in high school. I really need to get my textbooks soon to make things easier, but I haven't had much time and the book shop only opens for like 3 hrs each weekday because it's run by students i think. Our anatomy prac was pretty good. The cadavers didn't look real to me because of all the preservation chemicals so it didn't freak me out too much. A few guys got light-headed because our tutor held up the diaphragm and started waving it about to show how flappy it is which I must admit was quite gross. But other than that, it was an.. interesting experience =P.

I'm not particularly fond of scenario groups, because we don't learn anything interesting. It's mainly about teamwork and communication, encompassed in a whole lot of work for projects and assessments, which is quite annoying. It could be so much better if we didn't have to do such boring stuff. We've already been given like 3 assignments to do =_= sucks balls. Jinsoo already went through them in his post so I won't bother. We're relating the model to multiple sclerosis though. It'll be interesting getting into that.

Theres not much else that's note-worthy. I suppose the histology lecture was alright, some neat things. The info and resources tute was worse than what I had imagined from what people were telling me before I did it. Bloody oath. The random lectures on the disciplines of medicine and the cultures and traditions, were alrite in parts but its hard to concentrate in them, but thats like any other lecture. Microscopy was a little bland too, it was just looking at slides which they had prepared in comps. I hope I start getting into a groove once I get my textbooks, which I really hope is on Monday during my 5 hour break =_=.

Ok now on to general uni life. I have seen 2 super hot asians that I don't know on the way home. One on Tuesday arvo and one on Thursday. The girl on Tuesday got onto the same carriage as me but at Redfern, so I think she goes to Usyd, because she dressed like a uni student. Not quite sure which year tho, but daaaaayam she was so pretty. I separate hotness from prettiness by the idea that hotness contains an air of sluzza while prettiness is purely innocent. And I must reiterate, man was she pretty. AND she got off at Blacktown!! I was like '... BS!' I should have talked to her, but I didn't realise she was standing behind me on the packed train, until a fair way into the trip, so it would have been weird if I suddenly started talking to her. Luckily I get off at the same time this Tuesday, so I'm hoping I'll bump into her again =D.

Now on to Thursday girl. She was HOT! Hot like that girl from smallville... Kristen Kreuk?? She seemed really high maintenance though, but wowwww lol! And she sat in front of me on the bus to Central from UNSW!! But she was on the phone most of the trip, so no opening xP I probably would have gotten shut down anyway lol. Oh well, one day I'll get my shot =P

Well, that's it for my first post =D most of it was boring work stuff and I know I'm going to look at the last 2 paragraphs and think I was an incredible douche when I have to re-read this stuff lol. But I hope it helped u kill time =P Bye Bye.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Today's lesson in Microbiology: How to wash your hands.

Today i celebrate a very special day.
Yes thank you, thank you, it was the first day that i wasn't late to class. I walked into my SG room and fell down the stairs. Smooth, i know.
Basically went through our assessments.. in our first course, we have three:
1. Individual Assignment on a hero of medicine, i think i might do Joseph Lister, since he's got both a combover and a mutton-chop beard, making him the total hero of good looks. Plus, he was a surgeon, so that makes it alright to do a report on him.
2. A Group Project on an issue in medicine, within a group of 5 people. My group is pretty cool, since we have the only wranger in our class. We are destined for greatness. We'll probably do our project on the inadequacy of emergency resources in the ER of hospitals, like how that lady bled to death in the waiting room of an emergency ward! Creepy, but not as creepy as my facilitator's attraction to Will.
3. A Written Exam, which is like the HSC all over again, shock horror. No more need be said
So yeah, 4 hours later, (had another shitty 4 hour break which was made worse by people coming back from the beach and talking about how mad it was), i walk into my first biomedical practical, expecting slime and bile and blood and stool samples, and what do they teach us?
Wait for it, utter letdown -
- how to wash our hands.
Oh yes, it's a lot to take in, but i seriously learnt how to wash my hands. Also, i'm apparently not very good at it, since we coated our hands with some UV-fluorescent fluid to see if we got it all off when we washed. I sucked, i had all this gunk under my nails and shit - but so did everyone else. We all gave each other that look: "you got into medicine but don't know how to wash your hands?"
Anyway, home time, had a smoke, and i think i'm coming down with a cold.. but nothing a good dose of vitamin C and Gray's Anatomy can't fix. Note to self - buy Gray's anatomy for students.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

I see dead people!

Ok so it's my third day into the course, and everything's been pretty decent.. albeit boring. I've had lectures, scenario group meets, tutorials, library tours and they've been from around three to five on a scale of 1-10 in terms of interest and excitement.
So yeah, today i had a practical on anatomy..
..and saw a fucking cadaver. Did you hear that click? That's the sound of the interest meter sparking up to 11/10.
Yeah - there were three abdominal section cadavers, two with intact digestive system organs and one with everything. There was a mad upper-body specimen, but it had half a head so it was like pretty surreal, because it was like looking at me the whole time, i'm convinced of it. Many of my friends had had this prac already, and the funniest thing i heard from everyone was that they walked out of the lesson feeling hungry. I mean, wtf, we aren't cannibals guys? But they were so right. I got on the bus home feeling like i could've gone for a rack of ribs at Hurricanes. What i also found pretty strange was how the anatomy facilitator kept on talking about the cadavers as bits of meat. I sort of raised my eyebrows at comments like "Oh this is a great cut" and "This one looks really fresh". I deadset expected him to start licking his lips and take a bite. The whole prac was pretty cool, the most notable con being the staaank of formaldehyde. (formaldehyde is used in the preservation and fixation of the cadaver and specimens)
Anyway, my group and i thought this whole experience was hectic, but there is always that one party pooper in the group, isn't there? We had a fainter,who will remain unnamed yet forever remembered, and even though everyone was nice about it, people still gave him/her shit about it afterwards. I chose the higher path and didn't mention anything. Actually, i did do a few awesome fainting expressions and one mad sick burn on him/her, but that's over.
Ok so all in all, quite an exciting 2 hours! HOWEVER, the four hour break in the leadup to the prac was a killer, i think i walked up and down the campus with a mate about 100 times. It was a chat day i think!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

First Post for the next 6 years!

First post woo!
Ok, for the first few weeks i think the only people that will read this are hung and i, so this note is for any curious adventurer that finds this blog.
This is a shared blog between Jinsoo Park and Hung Diep, who are two first year medicine students in 2009 at UNSW! Hopefully this blog will accompany us through our medical education, and i pray that it won't become abandoned for whatever reason in the future, even after the excitement of a new blog has worn off.
My name is Jinsoo 'jinpoo' Park, and i was born on the 19th of April, 1991. I am NOT 18 yet.
That's all you need to know! Tell your friends about this blog!
First and foremost, this is the blog of a pair of medical students, not a bunch of girls who need to vent their emotional frustration!
See you soon! :)
Hey, this is Hung 'Ho Chi' Diep. I was born on October 2nd, 1990 in Blacktown. This blog is mainly for us to post stuff about our med program so that we can feed off it when it comes to our portfolio essay, so don't expect it to be overly interesting, well for my part at least. I'll be doing this probably once or twice a week depending on if I have time and yeah, enjoy =].
I on the other hand will post erratically, maybe like 20 times in a week, and no times for the following week, it all depends on if i have something on my mind, like a fucking hectic anatomy class tommorow (FUCKING YAY) and that hot chick that sits at the front of the lecture (I SHOTGUN, fuck off lawrence and daniel)