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Sunday, February 26, 2006

Back from Philip Island

Back from the depths of boredom of the Medicine Transition Camp at the Philip Island Adventure Resort. We were supposed to familiarise ourselves with changes in the learning and examination procedures from high skool to Uni.

It appears it was a little beyond my expectation on the amount of self directed learning we have to do. Well have Patient Centred Learning, similar to NUS PBLs, probably just that we need to analyse the patients more in-depth even in the psychological, legal, social aspect, basically a very very broad spectrum of issues involving the cause of the illness. Then PBLs apparently will only be implemented later in our course, Yr 3 onwards, with less guidance from tutors. Basically I still dun know the difference btwn PCL and PBL other than the amount of guidance…

Then we also have Objective Structured Clinical Examination OSCE. Well I knew the existence of it but never expected to come in contact wif it so early. Well at least OSCEs are still not part of Yr 1 exams yet. But there’s a mock OSCE which is 0% for this year’s score…

Well enuff said on Stardies… We had some fun… in the midst of all the boring and constant breathing of ‘teamwork’ in your ear. There was the Giant Swing (which was a new excitement to me), Flying Fox (which is too common in Singapore). Then there was Foosball i.e. table soccer. We actually had to present some skit for the night. But the Singaporean guys just didn’t give a damn and we played foosball throughout. The foosball room was just beside the hall and we actually had so much fun and made so much noise that a guy actually came in to tell us to quieten down.

Met this F*** bas****. His name is Nathaniel. I dun give a damn if his name is spelt wrongly. He’s a yr3 Singaporean med student in Monash. But I hate him. It takes a lot for me to dislike someone, but I totally hate this guy to the core. Wanna stab him till … till whateva… Let me describe him: He looks decent. At first, he sounds Australian. Then he sees our Singaporean group and shows us for a sentence that he can speak in Singaporean accent then continues his Australian accent as though he wants to desperately hide it.

Then he makes it a big deal that he hasn’t done NS unlike ALL the guys at the table and that he will become a big F*** MO unlike us. We’ll that definitely pissed us off. So both Jeremy and I being carefully sarcastic, gave him a prompt good bye and good nite. Then he gave the screwed up comment that we seriously neeed to work on our interpersonal skills. Like I would even want to have anything to do wif this piece of… If the words he spoke do not seem so condescending, it was the air of his imaginary throne which seats him above us Singaporeans who actually are proud enough to speak how we originally sound like. This ACS Barker piece of …. Better not let me see him in Singapore. I shocked John at how much this guy irritated me, he knew me for 16 yrs and probably never seen me so worked up over a guy.

Back to a more cheerier mood, go look at the album of the first meal I cooked with John. It doesn’t look that good. But wat do u expect! We only had mess tins and my frying pan big enough for an egg only…

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

My First Post

Haven't time to examine how to change the layout yet. But i guess i'm starting blogging at last. For those who wonder where i am now, i am in Roberts Hall, Monash Uni, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. So my uni’s approx 20km from Melb city.

Currently it's hall orientation. Having fantabulous fun.

Yest, went to the beach to get a good walk and get more irradiation for skin cancer. (haven't touched my SPF30 sun block yet) But at least i got my Ray Bans to keep the cataract away... Our O-week committee actually, drove us back to hall. And 3 of us each bought one HP PSC1410. bcos we bought together, the price dropped from the original $86 to $76. Then we got a stack of paper at $2 instead of $4.50 haha, the wonders of economics…

Today, had yum cha (my first Chinese meal in Aussie if u dun count my indomee tt John and I cooked) tim sum in a hong konger restaurant at $5 (bcos it is subsidized). They call it tim sim here, like I told many, my conclusion is that the first hong konger immigrant couldn’t spell… Then after, we went for Melbourne city for scavenger hunt. It was amazing, and prob the only time we’ll make a fool of ourselves and have fun unrestrained… and almost breaking the laws… have a look at the pics… I’ll prob miss today…

Basically the concept is u are given a list of tasks and items to get. From getting an extra small condom to having a dip in the pool, or trying to get the public into a sex toy shop called Club X. I proposed with 2 other guys to a stranger, when she was sitting down with her boyfriend… Then we even got a policeman on duty to draw a chalk outline of my teammate on the ground.

As I am now typing this, my hall is having a toga party. i.e. wear a toga made using bed sheets like the Romans do and club wif retro music that’s quite off. Had loads of fun, but drinks were limited to beer and erm… beer. Well at least it’s free flow and free. Wonder how I’m gonna sleep tonight, the music is like vibrating the floor and the bed…

Tmr it’s Chelsea-Barcelona, starting to watch soccer again. And dun ask me who I support. I support the team tt I can wake up on time to watch… Transitional camp for Medicine fac coming on Fri…