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!