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!
Friday, March 27, 2009
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!
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.
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.
"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
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.
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!
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!
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
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!)
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.
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.
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!
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)
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)
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