Fresh Grad in Biomed Science
The very "international" international student with identity crisis
Always mistaken as a Malaysian
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Adelaide, South Australia
Glasgow, Scotland UK
☻to finsih with 1st class honours
☻to get a larger GB smaller size hdd
☻to learn driving within 2009
☻to backpack the entire Oz once
☻to travel to North America in the next 2 years
☻to get a gd job by 2010
☻.to have many more fun gatherings with friends br> ☻to get a good place to stay comfortabily this 2009
☻to have good health
☻to save enough money that I can buy a house before 28? (okey, just some place i own, so i dun have to move like nomads)
☻to stay happy with dear and dear with me =)
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Oh well, i just studied it during my miserable christmas... getting so stressed up, having insomia and almost giving up on studying...
After 10 days of chionging. i did 5 topics (i spotted) and out of 8 qns that came out, only 2 is super confident (basically only spotted 2... ) 失败！never did my spotting become so lousy. nevermind... luckily i was a mugger in Adelaide... banging on my ~LaSt~ semster's knowledge, I Crapped! (last sem was 2007 sem 1.. lol) I LOVE ADELAIDE!!! if not for wad they teach there, i can't slack so much and travel so much here instead and still standing in quite good ground in Glasgow.
So what happened during the exam... I WAS THE ONLY BIOMED STUDENT THAT WENT FOR THE EXAM... (1 out of 3, somemore i am an exchange..) lol..... and the EXAM WAS 5% OUT OF 15%.... if i know i wont even bother to study like exam... okey tis still and exam but... the level of stress would have been lower and it would not be that detrimental to my health! coz I start seeing fine lines on my forehead after the exam and i am AGING... okey i am such a freak like many of my friends said and i am obivously worrying too much.
During the test, the first essay was not well planned even tho it was my favourite topic and i did quite alot of work on that... but its the first exam so i am not quite use to writing under exam condition - after like half a year of no-mugging. So well 2nd qn was quite gd. Feel gd. subsequent 3rd and 4th qn i was doing a lot of choosing and then trying to crap things out for classifying the 20 a.a. (can u imagine u are doing SUCH qns when are u already a 3rd year - okey i din score for that one at all but still its dun seems to be the things for 3rd year) anway. and the last qn that i choose was a total mistake.. Genetics... and i din even touch Genetic engineering, Gene cloning those chapter... Bang totally on that DNA workshop which we had early last year. And i DIN FINISH THE QN coz i was just dragging time and trying to write that in last 15 mins.
Does these seems quite bad for the exam? i din think much. But more or less know i will pass. That's all i cared for back then.
Today i saw the paper. Jus as expected. I will give u a break down on my score: (qn are numbered in the order i described them above)
Qn1: A4 (excpeted an A2 actually or there about - but loss mark prob due to bad planning)
Qn 2: A2 ( i love ethanol metabolic pathway... so there u go)
Qn 3: C1 ( this is the 20 a.a. classification qn - i din study that... only did that last year when lynn roger keep asking in class ... write things base on vague memory)
Qn 4: D1 ( i wrote half an essay... did until the getting the Gene of Interest only, din even write more then that... Marker's comment: "SO U RUN OUT OF TIME? NOT ENOUGH SUBSTANCE". When i see it i was like.."yea man... i make it such that i hve no time to write for it... lol coz i dun quite remember ... haha)
Meeting with the coorindators was okey. They tell me that i am getting a B2 overall - 2nd class honours eqivalent.. so i was alright with that... Explained abit of how come i am getting these grades and tell them how i feel about the exam and my expectation. They have no opinion so it was fine. I said: since i am an exchange and i not gg to study the way i did in Adelaide because then it would be pointless to come all the way and i am suppose to go back and promote Glasgow uni... so i am quite happy with what i get as long as u guys are happy with my grades.. lol... I also told them that it was obvious that i was spotting qn and lack preparation, but yea " i will start studying now..." Angela Watt laught... lol.. but i was fine with that ...
COZ I REALLY HAVE TO BE CONSISTENT THIS SEM... as i am gg away to somewhere and having so many gatherings / social events with people... so its only wise to do things consistent and picking up my momentum, preparing myself for Adelaide. So TatA i am off to finally study my pharmacology.
Feel so gd typing here. It frees my mind sometimes. I love med sch lib also. too bad i am not a med student.
7:53 PM
I tot Adelaide was crazy enough, Glasgow even more li hai...
Morning on the way the uni (getting to the botanic garden) it sort of rained / hailed... v mild... then it started pouring (my feet totally wet... bad choice of shoes... actually no choice coz my converse shoe got a hole at the bottom!!! >.<~ and i can't run on heels - okey i did that today) then fine... when i reach University Ave, THE SUN is OUT. damn... u see blue sky.... _._
Then after lecture it was still bright tho getting abit cloudy... decided to try out the med sch lib for my phamacology textbook. Gd luck and settled down to study... its just about 10 mins after i settled (10.30am - lecture ended at 10am) the sky became super dark, like to stomry weather in singapore... and it SNOWED!!!! wad on earth right... snowed for about 30 mins at least... lol... then sunshine again. no rain and quite alrite til about just afternoon. the Pour again....
Okey bascially the cycles then repeats without the snowing part or else i din see it... coz i was hiding in my room online and checking out air tix and stuff already...
Oh! another interesting thing yesterday. On my way home, just outside my block there I saw a Fox! its rare to see them coming out during day and it was staring at me.. I went near it, it moved backwards and hide in the bush; i moved away and it came out.. lol... so i took some pics with my hp... posting up soon.. paiseh for low quality pics first.. my hp not zai and i dun bring camera to uni =x
At nite went to Burn's nite celebration at Bute Hall in the Uni... that's another thing.
It was such a buzy day for the wrong things... i have not study (only that 1 plus hour of pharmacology) and not even researched for my essay cAMP which due next weds....
UK ar.... i dunno wad to say.
I only got to sleep about 2am.... coz went back home wanted to sleep ended up chatting with Alana - she is my travel advisor and great to have met her during this exchange! chat chat chat she tell me about flights and i got totally freak out and stress coz dunno where to flight and what to book...
*GD news* i booked the flight with ryanair from glasgow to frankfurt with £11!!! *grin* lol it was just one day and the price dropped £14.. heng i din go and buy on weds... Paradie was just fred up coz she dunno how i managed that all the time.
Did I tell u guys that i went to london on a 2Pence tix and totally transport fees from city centre to city centre (London - Glasgow) return was only £12.02? hohoho! i am one stingy traveller.
Anyway then i chatted with my mom and asked alot of my friends opinion to check in luaggage or not.. tell u! air tix price rises and drop even faster then stock market! see air tix make me more stress then seeing stock i guess (have no stock yet but will try investment when i grad) coz its 24/7 and people all over the world are booking it. stock market still got time limit... =.="
So the conclusion for now is that... i eyed 2 tix for vienna to paris and paris to glasgow... but then i haven book it... will be dicussing with Alex *finger cross that she would be my travel buddy* hopefully today or so.. and then book tmr. So at least settle all the tix stuff then can do essay first THEN start checking out hostels and buying bus tix for cross countries: Dresden to Prague, Prague to Vienna.
I guess this is when i realise the gd of being international. and be Exchanged.
7:24 PM
Sunday, January 20, 2008
my feb and jan plan is almost fixed, i got a day off on the 7th of Feb which is the 1st day of CNY. so probably decided to do some city tours, 3 venues: Glasgow city itself ( honestly i have not been around at all - shame to say), Edinburgh - been there once with the wrong group of people... din get to see much, or Aberdeen... which is quite far away but the tix on that day is cheap! its 2 pounds for returns... coz its a weekday... still deciding =s coz dunno if i would have alot of course work and just decide to stay home or sth....
anyway, there comes march. i die die wan to be in france for my bday, writing postcards on the effel tower and sending them off with that chop on it.. especially because IT's my birthday! die die must go there. So there comes in the problem... how to get there. by ending the trip in France or go abit futher to amdsterdam? I dun have that much of time also, coz i nid to get back asap to prepare for my next exam, sad to say i hate the way they do things... make me can't enjoy my hols at all.
Sandy and Nic both commented that i should have go to Stonehench, Bath, Oxford and Cambridge that time when i was in london for a week. But seriously i was alone and i dun feel like gg so far away all alone. I have to admit that i won't dare to do it, coz i feel i am not as strong as i was anymore. At least its a fact that i can't out run anymore. So... dear also said he wanted to go stonehench next time, may be i will bring him to these city as well, after all u really dun nid that much of time in london itself. 1 week, it already made me a londoner. Magical huh.
So ... looked like the ending point is France. so how to go about it to do the trip?
First, i wanted to go these places:
-Amsterdam
-Germany (Berlin, Dresden, Munich)
-Prague
-Vennia (These 2 die die wan to go... coz missed that choir trip in jc.. a life time regrets)
-Paris (For bday!)
AND this place
-Riga ( happens to popped out because my German friend wanted to go there, it suppose to be v beautiful and cheap! coz its eastern european country.)
-probably Luxembourg also? i dunno depending on time, $$ and flight... i have no idea how to get back to glasgow....
But then alot of people highly recommended Amsterdam!!!! argh... and air tix to amsterdam is even more ex then that to Riga!
so.. its seems like the starting point would be like this:
Riga / Amsterdam --> Germany (coz my friend nid to go home) --> Prague --> Vennia --> Germany (munich) --> Paris / Amsterdam / Luxembourg....
coz luxembourg seems interesting to me.... =(
okey i know wad u guys are thinking. too Ambitious. Way too Ambitious... well this is just rough plans to wat i wanted... i dun have to go all at one shot.. coz... i am gg a max of 12 days... yea... 12 days only... not any more than that...
At first i only think of gg 4 countries, so each 3 days average (+/-) lah...
Germany, France, Chezh, Austria... its all seems okey,
but the prob is no cheap tix to these places. i dunno how to go round it... haix i hate this...
the there we found Riga... but do u think its gd idea to go from riga on train all the way to erm, germany? i think probably i will end up in Prague first...? hm now i have checked out the interrail map, u can't take train from Riga down to Prague, the only way si to fly... arh.. i dunno which country is gd ... hm... i think i would actually do this. dun go riga, but get a tix to Amsterdam some how, or germany, or even prague, and then with interrail tix, it should save quite a sum for country hopping.
hm.,.. i will update this after i have much more thoughts...
shit.. i am not studying again... i suppose to study genetics ... exam on tuesday... i think i really want to die for it liao... =.= van... wake up your idea... haix....
6:38 AM
Saturday, January 19, 2008
that was the feeling i had. for that moment.
I teared, fiercely as if i have lost my love.
Or was it the distance torn it apart.
All these fragile and lovable things,
were meant to be crushed
like fireflies, beautiful for a moment in its lifetime.
I am fine, just feel like writing things.
if u realise, its the 18th. 2 years and 9 months.
3:57 AM
Friday, January 04, 2008
31st Dec'07: almost got killed by a car if not for James who held me back
1st jan'08: friend drove me home on the wrong side of the road, luckily she realised it after i repeated to her "you are on the wrong side of the road" twice. She is really tired okey so dun blame her. But it was really quite an experience - seeing the head lights of other car coming towrads u... [ head on ]
- i slept the best that night for my entire hols and wake 13.45. very gd sleep and gd day to sleep
2nd jan'08: cynthia's bday but nid to study, din go out with friends for celebration. Rosie had friend over for dinner and newcomer [new housemate] came - Paradies from Canada.
3rd jan'08: too stress for doing laundry and grossery as Paradies said she wants to walk around. So wake up by the 2 in the kitchen toking, and decided to go tesco with her and did laundry after that. extremely tired and stone infront of the com. the only thing that kept me gg was other people's blog. I am such a kpo and really bored. seeing people blog, i also wants to blog. then sabotage my studies - like now -.-"
- also asked tree how much is her housing
.:Santa came Finally and my wishes - 2 of them were granted:.
1st jan'08: friend drove me home on the wrong side of the road, luckily she realised it after i repeated to her "you are on the wrong side of the road" twice. She is really tired okey so dun blame her. But it was really quite an experience - seeing the head lights of other car coming towrads u... [ head on ]
- i slept the best that night for my entire hols and wake 13.45. very gd sleep and gd day to sleep
2nd jan'08: cynthia's bday but nid to study, din go out with friends for celebration. Rosie had friend over for dinner and newcomer [new housemate] came - Paradies from Canada.
3rd jan'08: too stress for doing laundry and grossery as Paradies said she wants to walk around. So wake up by the 2 in the kitchen toking, and decided to go tesco with her and did laundry after that. extremely tired and stone infront of the com. the only thing that kept me gg was other people's blog. I am such a kpo and really bored. seeing people blog, i also wants to blog. then sabotage my studies - like now -.-"
- also asked tree how much is her housing
.:Santa came Finally and my wishes - 2 of them were granted:.
-1st: My belated CHRISTMAS TREE!!! i met the postman outside my door when coming back from Tesco with Paradies. I have got a letter from Singapore! it's from dear... card as usual - hey i am not complain okey, i know i did said "huh, card again ar" last time, but i still like to recieve them! how dare u lie to me... even on paper =( some more bluff me until so kan xin... u know i trust every single words of u. Then stupid me after reading the letter and u telling me its a lie i still dun get it and feel sorry for u okey. *pinch hard!* yea... u ultimate point of this complaint letter was wanting me to come home. I know it well and was happy that u expressed it to me directly. I feel being wanted =) and finally I have a place where people would want me to return to. [i know u guys - many of u guys - will never understand how it feels being a VERY 'international' student / person.... but yea.. its not easy even tho it give u the convenience to zoom around the globe.]
-2nd: IT SNOWED IN GLASGOW!!! HEAVILY RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY EYES!!! it lasted for about an hour or so at least. it was beautiful, made u feel like u are in the snow flakes globe =D I was overjoyed, frantically taking pics - which failed... oh well, sorry friends, no nice pics... will still put up in facebook and here... i will edit this post later for the pics...
-then, i lost half a container of my toothpaste to the sink - for being clumsy...
-dark rings and insomia-ed... there come the cycle again... i think it will only end it after i have my exam and get the report done... i know i am damn slacker... killing myself away
4th jan'o8: woken up first by Paradies' voice - i think she was toking about 5+am... then around 8.50 by Rosie's door banging experience... hm... finally wake about 9.30 went to kitchen and noted some difference. I wonder if Fenella or Sura is back.. one of them should be back by now just dunno who is that... coz Fenella's luandry rack has clothes on, and Sura's bottled detergent was opened and her knife was being shifted to the microwave. [yesh, now u know how i observe others]
- tree tells me that she is not gg on an exchange: standard arian reaction "WHAT?!" i tot she wanted to go, as badly as i wanted. Upon further questioning, she told me some problem popped up. I guess its either the course or finances, more towards the latter? I dunno. anyway, i hope that she is not disappointed.
FRIENDS : please help me look out for houses around MAY - JUNE period even tho i know u guys would be tight packed by 3rd year ... PLEASE >.<~ coz i wont be back til July. =(
luckily tree tells me now, i haven book airtix yet. but would be coming back around 15th or 16th July because i won be back from europe yet... =s
so now what? i have not touch genetics, reading a blog of the person who doesn't study and complained her results was not gd and how she cried etc.. her life, made me feel like 'trying' out her life? oh crap. impossible for a person like me? but i know people have great expectation on me. Friends said that dun worry u will always do well as u do. but then for the fact that i did not work hard at all, how miracles can happen? If i should know that I wouldn't do well i would have gone for tour for new year and came back then panicked. lol. at least i know i did sth in exchange for my grades. Yes. Exchange.
okey, i think i will concentrate more as i feel slightly better.
6:29 PM
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
actually wanted to blog quite abit de.. but then now i am really really tired.. just wana say here: HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS!!!
luckily went to potluck if not i will be sulking and dead... luckly meet some people and it was a gd game there too!!! yea! i love guss here hahahaha ok nite nite... will blog again soon.
10:42 AM