distracted

yup blogging to take a break from studying. i need a miracle to pass!

anyway,
glasgow was as my dad described it.(he spend a year there doing his scottish higher leaving cert) grey and gloomy. morning, afternoon no difference still grey and gloomy. day 2 and we were already feeling slightly depressed! how do the glasgowians survive??

but of course with good company all these were overlooked. :D

it was lovely! more of a relaxed setting than the fast paced one in belfast. couldve spend more time at kevingrove art museum tho. now that i think of it, i kinda miss the hostel and its retro vibe. i hate the beds tho. so terribly hard.

that week was the most hectic week ever! BRIEF RECAP.

tuesday we attended evelyn's carolling thing. omg shes so amazing on the piano. wednesday spent time decorating the christmas tree for pmc farewell. thursday, pmc farewell itself, was a volunteer to serve food to the vips. am happy to report it was a thundering success mainly because i didnt trip or drop a steaming plate of food on anyone :D the whole team did well. everything went smoothly and everyone, i can safely say, thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

was even pulled into an irish dance! omg i didnt know what was i doing, my partner, a lady who i was serving, grabbed me by the hand and pulled me to the dance floor once Dr McGarvey called for participants! just mimicking all her steps and failing miserably. good fun.

a bunch of seniors sang 'leaving on a jet plane' they tweaked the lyrics abit.it was sooo sad i almost cried. and its not even my farewell! im sure when its my turn to leave ild be losing gallons of tears.

went home that night and had to cram for cardsigning which after a few hours i just went 'AH SCREW IT' and went to bed.

friday, alarm went off , kinda threw it across the room. late for class, cardsigning at 2pm and i got kelly! someone you never ever want to get for cardsigning. he has a great reputation for asking the most 'amazing' qns. was 1st up, asked me EXACTLY what i didnt want to be asked. the details of the uterus's lymphatics which i only know a general view of. yup, its so my day!

drilled me summore. in the end,
'you get a B+, you're very near an A'

wow, that really helps. only one guy managed to scrape an A off him. salutations.

rushed home, got to the tourism centre, changed our euros to pounds and then did the mcq test. it was so.freakin.hard.period. did laundry and packed for glasgow and slept at 3am. left dublin and touched down preswick airport at about noon.

came back on monday night. trouble at the airport. sooo frustrating! but thats another story to tell another time.

its not that glasgow's terrible. but as we were walking through grafton street with the lights up for christmas at midnight dragging our luggage bags to the dorm, we realised, dublin really is home.

yeah, dublins not all that but its funny how in just two short months, it has captured our hearts. baile atha cliath, its good to be back. :)

SIGH!

pictures of belfast-giant's causeway-derry is up on facebook. :)

arghhh cant take anymore anatomy facts of the abs anymoree! been procrastinating all weekend, i feel so damn guilty and its 1048pm. and i dont remember how i persuaded myself to come online and here i am blogging! and im using too many ands. oh well since im at it might as well rant in full glory.

4 days to friday, the final cardsigning of the sem! need to learn lowerlimb-abs-pelvic!on the same day, theres an online mcq test on whatever we have learnt so far which for me is nada. exams are in a month and im supposed to have covered at least half the material!! pmc farewell dinner on thurs which im helping to decorate..OMG!!

positive note: will be spending the weekend+ monday at glasgow after this hectic week so im quite looking forward to it.

hmm i think i should start camping at the library. without my laptop (stupid facebook) and surround myself with books. maybe info would get into my brain by osmosis. =.=' thank god the hbs assignment is out of the way. its 15% of finals so pleaase let it be good. ive seen sample qns on hbs which is OMG.wth.is. going.on inducing, its thinking skills over again!! well, at least no math..

people generally know how to study as in they know what works for them/ having certain study habits which effectively helped them over the years. like making certain types of notes or getting up earlier to study and stuff.y'noe the study patterns. BUT I DONT! all i do is cram during the last week and have lots and lots of luck which is running out. and prayer. but if dont do my part its not like God will want to do His! oh woe is me. yup i brought this on myself. ah please please please if i pass 1st sem i will read through my notes everynight!! no, REALLY! ok this wont work.

its not that im not interested in what im studying, i am. if i took it one day at a time instead of leaving it off to the last minute where it doesnt matter if i liked it or not i just have to get the facts in. and that is NOT fun. i never learn, do i?

okayyy back to my gray's anatomy for students with online access and interactive extras(studentconsult.com). yes, i stared at the cover so many times while willing myself to study that i can memorise it. as if 'name your anatomy book- 10 marks' would ever come out in exams. :P

ah..glasgoww!!!! i mean, er, abdomen!!

weekend getaway

jasmine is going on vay-kay tomorrow!!

ahhh so excited!

hopefully when i get back i would be filled with some supernaturalpower thingy and start studying like mad for the exams. been focusing only on anatomy thanks to the cardsignings so i gotta work doubly hard for the rest :(

of course this is easier said than done and you dont need to be a fortune teller to predict what my next couple of posts would be about since exams are looming. and im so sure i would be making resolutions on how i would be preparing early for the NEXT exams(if there would be a next one). yeah ive been doing that for the last..how many years? and it still has remained just that; a resolution. :(

oh well, i just want to pass!!

anyway back to the happy forget about studying im on vacation part, 8 of us are going to belfast! we organised it ourselves, booked the rooms, bought the tickets, changed our euros to pounds and getting ready for the super freakin cold weather that would definately hit us. :D

i havent packed yet and my room looks like its just been hit by tornadoes :D :D haha okay i sound abit demented now. but yayyyy! will post up pics if nothing goes wrong eg, FORGOT TO BRING CAMERA OH NO!!!

if you follow my blog you would note that cameras and i dont really have a mutual understanding. soo let me tell you of a recent incident to bring the 'OMG-jasmine-should-never-be-entrusted-with-a-camera' up to a full notch. on our trip to the guinness storehouse (its a kinda like a museum on guinness. i loved it btw, they really made good use of technology and blending in old and new), i happily whipped out my camera, mentally patting myself on the back for BRINGING it and within seconds it DIED...AGAIN! and i thought i charged it recently when it was weeks ago =.=' hohoho so clever.

hope the trip goes well. will update as soon as i can :D

:(

AUGHH!!

i cant believe how last minute i can be.

wheeeeee

i guess its normal when its your 1st time doing something and anxiety, doubts and fear builds up.but you have NO IDEA how freaked out i was for the 1st cardsigning of my life.

yeah that was what i had today. it was scary being shot questions at with everyone in the team watching you. and who better to test our knowledge than PROF FARRELL. the guy who encouraged the slaughtering of malaysians =.="

and i would spare you the endless details to say,

i got an A!!

omg im so happy!!!

PRAISE THE LORD!!

:D

i dont think the fear of cardsignings would ever go away eventho we would be having it once every two weeks. means the next one is pretttyyyy soon but wadever think about that later :P

im just so glad i aced the 1st one. pray this continues.

pictures!

ignore the poser-ness of it. this is taken in my room in kuching. this is how i look then.
i like my hair.

few weeks later,still in kch, hair getting longer but still presentable.

and then, it grew alot thicker and i didnt like how i look, as if im wearing a wig :(

so before i left for ireland, i trimmed it. my regular hairdresser was unavailable and since it was last minute (story of my life), i went to another salon.

and i hate how it looks now!(taken in my apartment, ireland) i feel like my head is twice the size as it should be.

i feel like susie derkins. oh well. it will grow.

okayy. enough about me :P

trinity college. taken on the day we 1st landed. and after taking this pic my camera died! great. notice the pretty blue sky. it doesnt last here.

see? all grey and misty. view right out of my window. thats st stephen's green shopping mall. so convenient :D

the rest of the pictures were taken while on my way to another mall in dublin 1.
sorry if its abit blur and little,
was in a hurry to get there since it was cold and the sky was threatening to cry giant tears


along grafton street.flowers! i like!


so empty! usually its packed with people and performers but i was early.

they played good
i snapped this while crossing the road. not bad eh :D

like my heart :P

this pic turned out surprisingly bright and sunshiny. dont let it fool you!

the sun here is useless in radiating heat.

trinity college. the outside of it. notice the brown door? once u go in, its acres of land stretching out with different buildings like the 1st one ive shown you. very beautiful. it feels more like a museum and park kinda place instead of a uni.i mean you can see groups of tourists are brought around and stuff.

bank of ireland. back entrance. front is grander but i had to be at the other far side of the road to take a full view pic with all its statues. next time :)

as you can see, this shot is has a bit of darkish tint but still okay.anything after this shot is destroyed by the blackening sky.very gloomy. like the one below.

or the rest blurry (most of the pics are taken on the move, didnt really stopped much to actually take a proper shot)

my vow;

i MUST fill my camera with beautiful shots of the place to make up for all the mis-opportunes! ah serves me right for being so lazy when the weather was so good.

as bugs bunny would say,' thaaaattts all folks!' :D

loves

To whom it may concern

i choose to ignore hints, not because i'm oblivious.

i do it to avoid addressing the issue.

and you, of all people, should know better.