it's time, it's time, it's time!

It's time, it's time, it's time! What time is it??

It's 21.20 on a Saturday night, lonely at home, TV turned on. Not exactly alone, my parents are in their room, my sisters are doing their thing, whatever it is.

Well that's not exactly what I was talking about. Haha.

Time to get on going with assignments, of course, what else? I've got Learning & Communication Skills Mid-Term Exam, which is actually making a portfolio, quizzes to look up to every Friday and have this target to get a bit of head start of the week's topic every Sunday night. Up until now, I don't know where the problem is, but every time I read something Sunday night, it's not useful. I mean, it's just wasn't the "right one" to discuss during Monday's PBL as well as Wednesday's and Friday's. Like what I read wasn't that important. Sometimes I am almost a little desperate about what I've been studying because I do spend time to read articles from AccessMed and from ebooks as well, but it seems that what I read wasn't "needed". But a few of my friends say that "Nothing that you read is not useful, maybe it's just not the right time to be useful". I hope so >.< but the question is, when? Or is it that what I read is a bit too detailed and that it's unnecessary or required for us as general practitioner? Argghhh, just need a definite answer, maybe.

Besides assignments, qiuzzes and that sort of stuff, recently I am so so so into these three songs:

Inside Your Heaven - Carrie Underwood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbBT8SNJYxw)

Angels Brought Me Here - Guy Sebastian (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CekiNIMRyA)

On My Way Here - Clay Aiken (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yr22hPdSeI)

And well.. Celine Dion's To Love You More (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3yJL4bbrnU) should be counted as well then.

Oh my my, I heart those 4 songs! I actually like Carrie's and Clay's like a few years ago when it was "hot", but then I didn't know the title and who sang the song. But about two days ago, I was playing all Carrie's songs in my laptop and then I heard this familiar melody and I used to like and it turned out to be "Inside Your Heaven". As with Clay Aiken's, I simply like the dramatic melody. The third song, Angels Brought Me Here, nice lyrics, that's all I'm able to say :)

Of all these four songs, I think I like them because of their dramatic melody because I used to like Kelly Clarkson's Anytime. Comparing these five songs, all of these have one in common in my opinion, dramatic melody. What I mean by "dramatic melody" is that these songs' melody has a clear climax (which is mostly the reff) and then the anticlimax, and the melody also goes up and then down and then sometimes up and down again.

During the last few days, I listen to these 3 songs maybe more than five times in one day that my youngest sister a while ago said "Cie, can you please play another song??". She even remembers some of the lyrics of "Inside Your Heaven" because I played it over and over again from my laptop.

Assignments still attentively await for me while I'm still fiddling with my laptop because I just need some time to relax and just to entertain myself with whatever it is (you can see that I'm just trying to make up reasons not to finish off my work haha).

Anyways, hopefully I will write again soon :)

another block, shall study more

A few things has been going on lately. Another new block has begun (Genitourinary Block) for a week now, three days ago was my mom's birthday (and I failed to surprise her for the second time T.T) and I have been updating fkuph08's website since last night up to this morning.

 

I was quite pissed that I failed to surprise mom. I mean it was because the waiter in the restaurant, where we had mom's birthday dinner, didn't show up with the "small cakes" that I bought on time. According to the plan, he was supposed to show up with those small cakes on his hands when mom was paying the bill. Instead, it was when mom was outside the restaurant on her way to the parking lot, when he came with those cakes and holding a lighter (candles wasn't lit yet). My dad had to catch her up and bring her back to the restaurant. My auntie (mami) was kind of pissed as well, both towards the waiter and me because when we were ordering food, she chatted with me in YM, telling me that it's better to surprise mom that very moment. It wasn't exactly my fault, though, because I didn't get that message in my ebuddy. But well, mom did try to comfort me by saying "Ya udah, kita foto dulu deh. Thank you ya" and I know she said that simply to comfort me. We did took several pictures, both with mami and my two gu2s (autie from my dad). And yes, she did blow the two mini candles that the restaurant gave me :)

 

Happy birthday, mom ^^

 

Although LOs for the next day quite "haunted" me during the birthday dinner, I did have fun, of course because of unagi and other reasons as well.

 

Speaking of LOs, I kind of regretted that I didn't study on Monday and Tuesday nights, which is why I didn't talk so much on Wednesday. Fortunately, I did manage to read some kidney physiology on sunday night so I was able to say a few things although it was beyond Dr. Darwin's expectation (I think). I planned to finish off kidney physiology by the end of Friday (yesterday), but didn't. Instead, I was updating fkuph08's website and continued with writing a new case report for Clinical Exposure until around 3 or so in the morning (diagnosis stage was still empty). Did some "refreshing" then was off to bed at around 3.30. Woke up a bit late in the morning and continued with the case report up until this afternoon at around 3pm or so, ate my late lunch for a while and was then off to rest. When I woke up at around 6.15pm, my family was home except for my youngest sister who was attending her friend's birthday. Did some song-downloading and had my dinner although my stomach still seemed full.

 

So that's basically what's going on with life and the story goes....

writes again

Morning! After a long break, I think it's time for me to write something ^^ actually a friend of mine "kinda" reminded me that I didn't write for quite a long time.

So, it's now my fourth semester in Faculty of Medicine University of Pelita Harapan and I've been doing quite okay both academically and with friendship. Last semester's examination results have been announced around two weeks ago. Some were surprised, some were satisfied, some were just happy and some were just "without any expression". Mine were.. well, not as expected, but it's quite okay though.

During Christmas break, I went to Surabaya to meet my grandma, uncle and family, and my grandma's cousins. It was great to meet them after all these time :) I planned to stay in Surabaya until 7th January, but my friend offered me to go to Bali together with three of our friends on the 4th. Two of my friends and I did arrange the accomodations and soon we were off to Bali and were back on the 7th. Okay, now back to the present.

I've been quite struggling with the new block, Gastroenterology (it's basically studying about the digestive systems and all the organs involved). The schedule is a bit unusual because up until last block we had at least one lecture everyday, but during this block we have like three labs and only about 2 lectures in a week. It's as if we purely learn by ourselves with only a little bit of "guidance" from college board. Yes, we do still have PBL classes to trigger us to self-learning, but still, lectures are important as well.

It's the end of the 4th week and still have another week to go (next week's topic is on pancreas). I just hope that the next block's schedule is way better than this block's and have more lectures so that we are "guided" more because I feel I didn't learn as much as I'm able to.

Okay, I guess quite enough about college.

CHINESE NEW YEAR IS COMING VERY SOON! Next week, precisely. Soo excited to greet family members with "kiong hie kiong hie" or "gong xi fa cai, shen ti jian kang, wan shi ru yi, da jia ping an, yong yuan xing fu", not because of the red envelopes, though. Okay, I'm a bit hypocrite. Fine, of course I'm waiting for all those red envelopes, with piled paper money :) Oh by the way, Chinese New Year this year is celebrated together with Valentine's Day! It's not a big deal for me, though, because I don't think I have something special for Valentine's Day.

Then four days after, I'll be celebrating my mother's birthday together with my friend's birthday as well. Two years ago, if I'm not mistaken, my mother's birthday was celebrated together with Chinese New Year. Well maybe some day, I'll be able to celebrate my birthday together with Chinese New Year? Maybe :)

Soo I guess I'll be waiting for 12 days for both Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day while struggling with Gastroenterology block. Exams are after the next block, Kidney if I'm not mistaken. It'll be like Musculoskeletal and Cardiology exam, which were during the same week. This means: STUDY HARDER, I hope so. It's just quite hard for me to "climb the stairs". It's a bit of my fault though because I wasn't focused and wasn't studying hard enough during my first year especially the second semester, which was meant to be my "foundation" for my course in Faculty of Medicine. I regret that a couple of times. Argghhh, I hope I'm able to catch up and study harder, and hopefully the results will be satisfying.